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For the first time in 20 years, the Bach Society of Dayton is ushering in the holidays under new leadership.
The troupe’s 2022-2023 season, continuing Sunday, Dec. 4 with “Sweet Sounds of the Holidays,” is overseen by David Crean, who was appointed as music director in July. The all-volunteer chorus known for performing major choral works with orchestra had been led by John Neely since its founding in 2002.
Crean, a New York native who grew up on Long Island, is a conductor, teacher, recitalist, church musician, and radio personality. As an organist, he has concertized throughout the United States and completed two concert tours of Australia, where he gave several Australian premieres and performed on historic organs. Other recent highlights include the Poulenc organ concerto with the Bach Society of Dayton, recitals at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and St. Thomas Fifth Ave., and several programs for American Guild of Organists (AGO) chapters.
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“I’ve always wanted to conduct a larger choir that had the capacity to do big, multi-group works with a good orchestra,” said Crean, 38. “Our orchestra includes Dayton Philharmonic musicians, which makes a huge difference. Our singers really appreciate singing with high level professionals. I’ve directed choirs throughout my professional career, mainly in churches and occasionally at universities, but I never had one that had the capacity to do the kind of music that the Bach Society of Dayton does. This is the kind of group I’ve always wanted to lead for as long as I can remember. We’re off to a good start this season and I’m excited about where we’re going to go together.”
Crean has taught organ, harpsichord and theory at Wright State University since 2014. From 2013 to 2017 he was University Organist and Director of Chapel Music at Wittenberg University, and has held adjunct positions at Juilliard and The University of Iowa. He also serves as dean of the Dayton chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He also received his D.M.A. from The Juilliard School, where he was the 2014 recipient of the Richard F. French Doctoral Prize for outstanding research in a dissertation. He also holds degrees from Oberlin College/Conservatory and The University of Iowa.
Since February 2017, he has been the midday host at Discover Classical WDPR, Dayton’s only full-time classical radio station. As music director, he also plans music for nearly 70 hours of weekly live broadcast and manages a library of nearly 10,000 recordings. An active church musician since age 15, he currently serves as organist and music director at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Dayton, where he directs the adult choir and leads worship from the 1989 C.B. Fisk Organ.
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Looking ahead to future seasons, Crean isn’t anticipating major adjustments in programming but desires to take the troupe out of its traditional confines.
“Musically, I don’t envision making huge changes as far as repertoire or the kinds of concerts we do,” he said. “I would also like to see us attract some younger singers, particularly college age and singers in their 20s or 30s. But one thing I would love to see us do is to become more involved in other parts of the Dayton community. We are very much centered in the nexus of Beavercreek, Centerville and Kettering, and I would love to see us perform more, particularly in north and west Dayton. We could do some really excellent things.”
In particular, his goal of cultural and diversity expansion includes Trotwood.
“We’re looking at putting together a concert in Trotwood in an upcoming season, which would be a great thing for us to do,” he said. “It’s not only the right thing to do, I think it’s important for our long-term viability to attract audiences from a broader spectrum of the population and a wider geographical area. Our home base will probably remain at Seventh-Day Adventist Church, which is the perfect performance space with great acoustics and parking, but my hope is to do shorter, one-off concerts in different parts of the community.”
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Sunday’s concert will include festive holiday tunes featuring guests such as Kettering Children’s Choir Chorale and the Kettering Advent Ringers.
“The main challenge of the holiday concert is to do the music people want to hear but in newer, more novel ways,” said Crean. “We don’t want to do the same concert every single year so we try to find a balance between novelty and familiarity. It’ll be quite a variety of music.”
HOW TO GO
What: Bach Society of Dayton presents “Sweet Sounds of the Holidays”
When: Sunday; 7:30 p.m.
Where: Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 3939 Stonebridge Rd., Kettering
Cost: $15-$25; Free admission for children 12 and under
Tickets or more info: 937-294-2224 or bachsocietyofdayton.org
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Rich Hill guaranteed $8M as part of contract with Pirates
Left-hander Rich Hill is guaranteed $8 million in his one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hill would get a $325,000 bonus for winning a Cy Young Award, $150,000 for finishing second in the voting and $100,000 for third as part of the agreement announced Jan. 5.
He would get $50,000 for making the All-Star team or earning World Series MVP and $25,000 apiece for a Gold Glove or League Championship Series MVP.
A Boston native who turns 43 in March, Hill went 8-7 with a 4.27 ERA in 26 starts for Boston last year. Hill made his big league debut with the Chicago Cubs in 2005. Pittsburgh will be his 12th major league team.
The 6-foot-5 left-hander, known for his curveball, is 82-59 with a 3.85 ERA in 350 career appearances, including 221 starts.
Hill joins a growing list of new faces with the Pirates. Carlos Santana, a first baseman and designated hitter, signed with the team in free agency, and first baseman Ji-Man Choi was acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay. Catcher Austin Hedges and right-hander Vince Velasquez also agreed to contracts as free agents.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Edward Siebert’s journey with “The Pope’s Exorcist,” a film about arguably the most famous exorcist in the Catholic Church, began with an adventuresome visit to Milan about six years ago.
The Jesuit priest recalls sitting at a restaurant sipping wine and mulling the costly airline ticket he had purchased a day earlier. He also worried about the deal he had just closed with the Society of St. Paul to purchase the rights to the life story of the Rev. Gabriele Amorth — the late Pauline priest known as “the James Bond of exorcists.”
Siebert, who teaches film at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and runs the college’s film production company, had no motion picture credits to his name and wondered at the time: “What have I gone and done?”
Today, he heaves a sigh of relief as a version of Amorth’s life unfurls on the big screen as “The Pope’s Exorcist,” starring Oscar-winner Russell Crowe in the titular role. It opens in U.S. theaters Friday.
Amorth was appointed chief exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in 1986 and remained there until 2016, when he died at age 91. In those three decades, Amorth claimed to have conducted over 60,000 exorcisms. The first of his books, “An Exorcist Tells His Story,” came out in 1990 and was an instant bestseller, translated into 30 languages. That same year, Amorth, who named “The Exorcist” as his favorite film, founded the International Association of Exorcists.
Siebert, one of the film’s executive producers, says he was an unlikely candidate to take on this project. But Michael Patrick Kaczmarek, a New Mexico-based filmmaker he had worked with previously, convinced him of the power of Amorth’s stories, he said.
Kaczmarek, one of the film’s producers, said he reached out to Amorth through his religious order’s publishing company in 2015 and was told by their executives that many had tried to secure film and television rights to the exorcist’s books, “but they were always denied.” But Kaczmarek’s persistence paid off.
“Through the use of translators, I sent Father Amorth detailed correspondence where I assured him of my religious devotion and sincere desire to respect his exorcism ministry,” Kaczmarek said, adding that his partnership with Siebert helped convince Amorth of his intent to preserve the story’s religious integrity.
Siebert said Amorth’s stories initially “frightened him,” but he was touched by the priest’s faith and determination to help people.
Amorth said 98% of the people who came to him needed a psychiatrist, not an exorcist, a detail Crowe’s Amorth clarifies in the film. When a cardinal asks him about the remaining 2%, he says: “Ah, the other 2% — this is something that has confounded all of science and all of medicine for a very long time.” He adds after a dramatic pause: “I call it evil.”
Like Siebert, Crowe has said during various media interviews that he is no horror movie fan, preferring “to sleep deeply at night.” But he said Amorth’s character fascinated him; he read the priest’s first two books and spoke with people who had watched him perform exorcisms. Crowe said two aspects of Amorth’s character hooked him — his “unshakable purity of faith and his wicked sense of humor.”
In the 2017 documentary “The Devil and Father Amorth,” the priest — before beginning an exorcism — can be seen thumbing his nose in the direction of the woman said to have been possessed. It was a gesture he made before each exorcism to let the demon know he wasn’t afraid.
In the “The Pope’s Exorcist,” set in 1987, Crowe’s Amorth heads to Spain with his apprentice, a younger priest, tasked with investigating a young boy’s possession. There he uncovers a “centuries-old conspiracy” that the Vatican has tried to cover up in a plot that appears to channel The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and numerous buddy-cop movies.
Crowe and the film’s creators have taken liberal creative license with Amorth’s character and his stories. Crowe looks nothing like the priest, who was bald-headed, bespectacled and clean-shaven. On screen, Crowe knocks back double espressos and rides a Lambretta scooter through Rome, his cassock billowing in the breeze to the music of Faith No More. His scooter has a Ferrari sticker — a nod to Amorth’s hometown, Modena, where the luxury automaker is based.
Amorth’s convoluted road to the priesthood included fighting as a partisan in World War II, getting a law degree and working as a journalist. He didn’t become an exorcist until he was 61. He was no stranger to controversy, claiming Hitler and Stalin were possessed, that pedophile cults operated within the Vatican, and that yoga and Harry Potter were gateways to the demonic.
Amorth’s work as an exorcist has influenced and inspired many in the Catholic Church who came after him, said Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, a psychologist and exorcist in the Archdiocese of Washington who has over 76,000 followers on an Instagram account he started six months ago. Rossetti says there is an increasing and renewed appetite for information about demonic possession and exorcism.
“All of us owe a debt of gratitude to Father Amorth,” Rossetti said. “He kept this ministry alive when the church and society had pretty much ignored it.”
Though exorcism was a recurring part of Jesus Christ’s ministry, Catholic seminarians and priests are not being trained to do it, he said, adding that films like “The Exorcist” have raised awareness about the phenomenon of demonic possessions. Rossetti, like Amorth, maintains that “demonic influences” have increased amid declining faith, a surge in sinning and the practice of occult.
Exorcism when practiced correctly is “an act of healing and faith,” Rossetti said, adding that he has witnessed “darkness and evil” in 15 years as an exorcist.
“Demons do manifest in a session and the exorcist faces an incredibly evil visage that no human can mimic,” he said. “Things do fly across the room. Demons engage in antics like immature 12-year-olds trying to scare you.”
But with faith and God on his side, this has always been a “joyful ministry,” Rossetti said.
The International Association of Exorcists posted a statement on its website criticizing “The Pope’s Exorcist” based on the trailer. The association called it “a show aimed at arousing strong and unhealthy emotions, thanks to a gloomy scenography, with sound effects … to arouse only anxiety, restlessness and fear in the spectator.”
Joseph Laycock, associate professor of religious studies at Texas State University, said that despite protests from religious circles after the release of such films or television shows, “exorcists do benefit from media even when their portrayal is sensationalized.”
Laycock’s latest book, “The Exorcist Effect,” looks into the demand the 1973 film created for exorcism; he says the film had a role in shifting the Catholic Church’s attitude toward the practice. He describes Amorth as “the single most important priest in the revival of exorcism” after “The Exorcist” and predicts the rising interest in exorcism will continue.
“The kind of Christianity we had in America during the mid-20th century, emphasizing ethics over the supernatural, was an anomaly,” Laycock said. “Most of Christian history has emphasized the supernatural and spiritual warfare. This is Christianity returning to its supernatural roots.”
Siebert, who worked for nearly eight years to bring Amorth’s story to the big screen, says “The Pope’s Exorcist” has not changed his views about horror films or exorcism; both give him the chills. But it warms his heart to see a priest shown in a positive light after so many films and TV shows have vilified or belittled them.
“It’s good to see a priest talking about prayer, forgiveness, God’s love, and on top of all that, vanquishing demons,” he said. “It feels good to finally see a priest as a hero.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through 2015 will be canceled after federal officials found that the school greatly exaggerated the job prospects of its graduates, the Biden administration announced Tuesday.
The action will automatically erase $1.5 billion in federal student debt for 79,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct college, according to the Education Department.
It adds to the administration’s mounting effort to cancel federal loans for students who were defrauded by their colleges — more than $14 billion has been erased so far — and it follows President Joe Biden’s sweeping plan to cancel at least $10,000 in student debt for millions of Americans.
The Westwood College cancellation applies to all students who attended the chain from Jan. 1, 2002, through Nov. 17, 2015, when the college stopped enrolling new students before its 2016 closure. Students will not need to apply for the relief.
With help from attorneys general in Colorado and Illinois, federal officials found that the college routinely misled prospective students about their chances of getting good jobs after graduating.
In its marketing materials, the chain advertised employment rates and salary outcomes that were “grossly inflated,” the Education Department found. It also promised to help graduates pay their bills if they couldn’t find jobs within six months after graduating — a pledge officials say wasn’t kept.
In Illinois, the chain’s criminal justice programs told students they could expect law enforcement jobs in agencies including the Illinois State Police, but Westwood never had the accreditation needed to meet employment requirements for the state, authorities found.
“Westwood operated on a culture of false promises, lies, and manipulation in order to profit off student debt that burdened borrowers long after Westwood closed,” said James Kvaal, under secretary of education.
Kvaal said the administration is ramping up efforts to protect students and to “ensure that executives who commit such harm never work at institutions that receive federal financial aid again.”
Before its closure, Westwood operated 15 campuses in California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois and Virginia, along with online programs.
A group of students and civil rights organizations sued the Education Department in May demanding debt cancellation for Westwood students in Illinois based on findings of fraud there. It followed a settlement between the college and Illinois that erased institutional loans but not federal debt.
“It never should have taken this long — or litigation — for the Department of Education to do the right thing, but we are thrilled that the department has finally discharged the loans of defrauded Westwood College students,” said Dan Zibel, chief counsel at National Student Legal Defense Network, one of the groups behind the suit.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called it a victory for students but said more must be done “to crack down on for-profit colleges that lie and lead Illinoisans into mountains of student debt without a viable degree or career path.”
The cancellation is being granted through a federal rule known as borrower defense, which provides federal student debt cancellation to borrowers whose colleges misled them or defrauded them in other ways. The rule has mostly been used to erase debt used to attend for-profit colleges.
In similar actions, the Biden administration also moved to cancel nearly $6 billion for former students of Corinthian Colleges and nearly $4 billion for former students of ITT Technical institute.
After months of intense pressure for broader student debt cancellation, Biden last week unveiled a plan to forgive $10,000 in federal student debt for all borrowers with incomes less than $125,000 a year or $250,000 per household. Those who received a federal Pell Grant to attend college are eligible for an additional $10,000 in cancellation.
The plan, which is almost certain to be challenged in court, applies to federal student loans that were paid out before July 1 of this year. It applies to loans used to attend undergraduate and graduate programs.
Most borrowers will need to apply for cancellation through an application that the Education Department is expected to create by early October. Early applicants could see their student debt canceled before the start of next year, when a federal pause on student debt payments is set to expire.
The White House estimates the cancellation will cost $240 billion over the next 10 years, but outside analysts say it could be much higher. Official cost projections from the federal government are expected in coming weeks.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Fox Corp. chief executive Lachlan Murdoch is suing Australian news website Crikey in a Sydney court for defamation over an opinion piece about last year’s storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s son filed a statement of claim in the Federal Court on Tuesday, a day after Crikey publisher Private Media’s chairman Eric Beecher and managing editor Peter Fray put their names to an ad in The New York Times inviting Lachlan Murdoch to sue.
“We await your writ so that we can test this important issue of freedom of public interest journalism in a courtroom,” the two media executives said in an open letter to Lachlan Murdoch, which was also published in Australia’s The Canberra Times newspaper on Tuesday.
Murdoch is suing Private Media, a private company, Fray, who is also the website’s editor-in-chief, and Crikey’s political editor, Bernard Keane.
Murdoch claims he was defamed by Keane’s column about the U.S. congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection which Crikey published on June 29 under the headlines: “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator.”
U.S. cable news giant Fox News is accused in suits filed in the U.S. of airing false claims linking two election technology companies, Dominion and Smartmatic, to a conspiracy to steal votes from former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, won by President Joe Biden.
Crikey said it welcomed the Murdoch action. “Crikey will not be silenced,” the statement published Wednesday said.
Lachlan Murdoch’s office confirmed the defamation proceedings had been filed but declined to make further comment.
Private Media chief executive Will Hayward said in a statement: “We are determined to fight for the integrity and importance of diverse, independent media in Australian democracy.”
No court hearing date has yet been set. Murdoch has not proposed a monetary sum should he win damages in court.
Crikey removed the contentious article from its website when it received a letter from Murdoch’s lawyers a day after the article was published. After further letters were exchanged between lawyers, Crikey published the article again last week.
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In Boston, we’re proud of our “eds and meds”-driven innovation. Metro Boston has more universities per capita than any other region in the world. Given that colleges and universities claim to advance innovation for the public good, one might assume their density here would place us among the most healthy, equitable, socially just urban areas. Instead, Boston consistently ranks as one of the most unequal, segregated cities in the country, with extreme disparities in health, wealth, and climate vulnerability.
Could our institutions of higher education be doing more with their abundant resources to promote a better future for all? As concerned academics, we see huge opportunity for colleges and universities to help build a more just, equitable, and climate-resilient society. We think a commitment to climate justice would provide the necessary framework.
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Climate justice confronts the urgency of the climate crisis by prioritizing transformative social and economic changes to promote equity and redistribute resources. It recognizes that those who are least responsible for climate change have the fewest resources to face its impacts and that most climate policies so far — like Massachusetts’ solar incentives that have subsidized renewable energy for single-family homes in the suburbs — have disproportionately benefited privileged, wealthy, whiter communities. Rather than focusing narrowly on technologies to “fix” the climate, climate justice prioritizes adaptive investments in what all communities need for healthy lives: access to housing, food, health care, good jobs, transportation, and education. This includes investments that will end our reliance on fossil fuels, in order not only to reduce carbon emissions but to reduce the pollution and other health burdens afflicting low-income households.
Because climate justice prioritizes society’s most vulnerable — and disrupts the systems that are concentrating wealth and power among elites — a commitment to climate justice would entail major shifts in higher education. It would change what is taught and researched on campuses and how universities are governed and financed.
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Despite the renewed commitments to social and racial justice on campuses in 2020, talk hasn’t translated into transformative action. The links between racism and climate injustice are not typically taught outside environmental studies courses. Rather than gearing students toward individual financial success, a climate justice commitment would reorient all degree programs toward impact for the public good. Colleges and universities committed to climate justice could ensure that all students — no matter their major — gain practical experience in civic responsibility and learn to understand growing vulnerabilities.
Beyond preparing students to advance climate justice, schools can demonstrate leadership by committing to nonexploitative jobs, accessible to those from historically marginalized communities, that provide a living wage and equal benefits for all campus workers, including food service, custodial, administrative, and instructional staff. Universities could also commit to energy innovations that end fossil fuel reliance on campus and beyond — and invest in renewable projects with and for local communities.
Climate justice also demands investments in social innovations that strengthen community access to health care and sustain long-term collaborative relationships. For example, community health initiatives could connect university resources and students to medically underserved neighbors. Universities could scale up sustainable local or fair-trade procurement policies, strengthen community-supported agriculture, and better support worker unions. Higher ed also could help pioneer cooperative business models, community-owned infrastructure, and non-extractive finance — including zero-interest loans for local low-income families to buy efficient, renewable-powered homes.
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A commitment to climate justice would change higher education governance. Endowments can be divested from fossil fuel corporations. Fossil fuel influence on boards of trustees and research funding can be eliminated.
Boston and Cambridge universities’ endowments totaled more than $90 billion in 2021, according to data compiled by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. This institutional wealth and its returns are typically kept on campus — invested in a school’s infrastructure, faculty, and students. But rather than becoming ever-more-distant islands of privilege as local climate vulnerabilities get worse, schools should invest more of this money in community initiatives like providing shade and cooling in urban areas, reducing food and water insecurity, and innovating housing policy to reduce displacement from gentrification.
Although some smaller schools are struggling financially, prosperous universities have become centers of resource aggregation. Through investments, real estate, tax breaks, and public funding, many large universities accumulate financial and physical capital at the expense of their surrounding neighborhoods. By displacing local families and increasing housing costs, expanding campuses are devastating some communities. Universities focused on financial success concentrate wealth and power for themselves and corporate partners, but that prosperity is not trickling into local disadvantaged communities. Boston-area universities could reverse this pattern by committing to climate justice and investing in their communities accordingly.
In the Boston area, schools have particularly exciting opportunities to engage with municipal and state climate justice initiatives. As part of her Green New Deal plan, Mayor Michelle Wu aims to make integrated investments in health, housing, green jobs, education, and transportation. With a state legislature and likely next governor committed to climate and equity, Massachusetts will be well placed to lead on climate justice. It’s an ideal moment for academic institutions to join in with their resources.
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Boston University, Harvard, and MIT have strong presidential-level support for integrated university-wide climate action. Northeastern is updating its climate action plan with a climate justice lens. UMass Boston hosts the Northeast Climate Justice Research Collaborative. Harvard just accepted a gift for a new climate and sustainability institute, and BU and Harvard have committed to divesting from fossil fuels. Each of these institutions, however, continues to accept fossil fuel research funding, expand its land holdings by pushing out neighbors, and promote primarily technological “solutions” rather than urgently needed social and economic transformations.
Without transformational action, we will continue to face worsening inequities that raise vulnerabilities to increasingly harmful climate impacts. But universities are uniquely positioned to catalyze a more equitable, healthy future. Climate justice is an opportunity, not a cost, for academic institutions. As many question the high price tag on higher education, now is the time for our institutions to demonstrate their value to society.
Alaina D. Boyle is a PhD student at the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern. Jennie C. Stephens is professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern and the author of “Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE: MTD) today announced second quarter results for 2022. Provided below are the highlights:
- Reported sales increased 6% compared with the prior year. In local currency, sales increased 10% in the quarter as currency reduced sales growth by 4%.
- Net earnings per diluted share as reported (EPS) were $9.29, compared with $7.85 in the prior-year period. Adjusted EPS was $9.39, an increase of 16% over the prior-year amount of $8.10. Adjusted EPS is a non-GAAP measure, and a reconciliation to EPS is included on the last page of the attached schedules.
Second Quarter Results
Patrick Kaltenbach, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We reported strong second quarter results as our team executed very well on our growth strategies and successfully navigated global supply chain challenges. Sales growth in our Laboratory and Core Industrial businesses was robust. We are particularly pleased with our very good growth in China. Excellent sales growth combined with good margin improvement drove very strong growth in EPS despite adverse foreign currency."
GAAP Results
EPS in the quarter was $9.29, compared with the prior-year amount of $7.85.
Compared with the prior year, total reported sales increased 6% to $978.4 million. By region, reported sales increased 11% in the Americas, decreased 7% in Europe and increased 10% in Asia/Rest of World. Earnings before taxes amounted to $256.7 million, compared with $230.4 million in the prior year.
Non-GAAP Results
Adjusted EPS was $9.39, an increase of 16% over the prior-year amount of $8.10.
Compared with the prior year, total sales in local currency increased 10% as currency reduced sales growth by 4%. By region, local currency sales increased 12% in the Americas, 4% in Europe and 14% in Asia/Rest of World. Adjusted Operating Profit amounted to $285.4 million, a 12% increase from the prior-year amount of $255.3 million.
Adjusted EPS and Adjusted Operating Profit are non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are provided in the attached schedules.
Six Month Results
GAAP Results
EPS was $16.84, compared with the prior-year amount of $14.17.
Compared with the prior year, total reported sales increased 9% to $1,876.2 million. By region, reported sales increased 14% in the Americas, decreased 2% in Europe and increased 12% in Asia/Rest of World. Earnings before taxes amounted to $469.7 million, compared with $415.8 million in the prior year.
Non-GAAP Results
Adjusted EPS was $17.25, an increase of 18% over the prior-year amount of $14.66.
Compared with the prior year, total sales in local currency increased 12% as currency reduced sales growth by 3%. By region, local currency sales increased 14% in the Americas, 7% in Europe and 15% in Asia/Rest of World. Adjusted Operating Profit amounted to $526.7 million, a 13% increase from the prior-year amount of $465.9 million.
Adjusted EPS and Adjusted Operating Profit are non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP measures are provided in the attached schedules.
Outlook
The Company stated that forecasting continues to be challenging. Management cautions that market conditions are dynamic and changes to the business environment can happen quickly. There is uncertainty in the economic environment today including challenges in the global supply chain, inflationary pressures, unfavorable foreign currency, and the potential impacts of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. The estimates include uncertainty and management acknowledges that market conditions are subject to change.
The Company said that based on its assessment of market conditions today, management anticipates local currency sales growth in 2022 will be between 9% and 10%. This sales growth is expected to result in Adjusted EPS in the range of $38.85 to $39.05, which represents a growth rate of 14% to 15%. This compares with previous local currency sales guidance of approximately 8% and Adjusted EPS guidance of $38.20 to $38.50. Management notes that current foreign exchange rates represent a greater headwind to Adjusted EPS in the second half of 2022 compared with previous guidance.
Based on today's assessment of market conditions, management anticipates local currency sales growth for the third quarter of 2022 will be approximately 8%, and Adjusted EPS is forecasted to be $9.75 to $9.85, a growth rate of 12% to 13%. Included in the third quarter guidance is an estimated 6% headwind to Adjusted EPS growth due to adverse currency.
While the Company has provided an outlook for local currency sales growth and Adjusted EPS, it has not provided an outlook for reported sales growth or EPS as it would require an estimate of currency exchange fluctuations and non-recurring items, which are not yet known.
Conclusion
Kaltenbach concluded, "Our culture of agility and focused execution have allowed us to capitalize on favorable market demand and navigate challenging supply chain and inflationary conditions. We will continue to leverage our best-in-class Spinnaker sales and marketing initiatives and excellent product portfolio to identify and target profitable growth opportunities. Our sales growth combined with our margin initiatives will continue to drive margin expansion and robust earnings growth in 2022 and beyond."
Other Matters
The Company will host a conference call to discuss its quarterly results tomorrow morning (Friday, July 29) at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time. To hear a live webcast or replay of the call, visit the investor relations page on the Company's website at www.mt.com/investors. The presentation referenced in the conference call will be located on the website prior to the call.
METTLER TOLEDO (NYSE: MTD) is a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services. We have strong leadership positions in all of our businesses and believe we hold global number-one market positions in most of them. We are recognized as an innovation leader and our solutions are critical in key R&D, quality control and manufacturing processes for customers in a wide range of industries including life sciences, food and chemicals. Our sales and service network is one of the most extensive in the industry. Our products are sold in more than 140 countries and we have a direct presence in approximately 40 countries. With proven growth strategies and a focus on execution, we have achieved a long-term track record of strong financial performance. For more information, please visit www.mt.com.
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(NEXSTAR) – Yet another record-setting lottery jackpot is up for grabs – this time, an estimated $613 million Powerball jackpot.
The jackpot has been building since late November, Powerball officials said Monday. If a ticket matches all six numbers drawn Monday night, seen below, they would land the ninth-largest jackpot in Powerball history.
Here are the winning numbers for Monday, January 30: 1, 4, 12, 36, 49, and Powerball 5. The Power Play was 2x.
Ahead of the drawing, lottery officials estimated the jackpot had a cash value of $329 million.
If there is no winner following Monday’s drawing, the Powerball jackpot has the potential to become the eighth-largest in the game’s history. The 10 largest jackpots in Powerball history are:
- $2.04 billion – Nov. 7, 2022; California
- $1.586 billion – Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, and Tennessee
- $768.4 million – March 27, 2019; Wisconsin
- $758.7 million – Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts
- $731.1 million – Jan. 20, 2021; Maryland
- $699.8 million – Oct. 4, 2021; California
- $687.8 million – Oct. 27, 2018; Iowa and New York
- $632.6 million – Jan. 5, 2022; California and Wisconsin
- Est. $613 Million – Jan. 30, 2023
- $590.5 million – May 18, 2013; Florida
The most recent record-setting Powerball jackpot – worth $2.04 billion – was hit in early November. It currently holds the record as the largest national lottery jackpot in the world, according to Powerball officials. While we know the winning ticket was sold in California, it’s unclear if the ticketholder has claimed their prize.
Even with a winner Monday, the Powerball jackpot would be only the second-largest lottery prize won this month. A ticket in Maine matched all six winning numbers for the record-setting $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot on Jan. 13. We don’t yet know the winner of that jackpot either, and we may never actually know.
Regardless of whether someone matches all six winning Powerball numbers Monday night, the next drawing will be held at 10:59 p.m. ET Wednesday. Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | 2023-01-31T05:18:04+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/powerball-here-are-mondays-winning-numbers-for-estimated-613m-jackpot/ |
Portland was the only place Christine Sinclair ever wanted to play.
When the National Women’s Soccer League launched in 2013, it was natural that Sinclair would gravitate to the Portland Thorns; she won a pair of NCAA titles at the University of Portland and she had a home in the Rose City.
Eleven seasons later, Sinclair is still rooted in Oregon.
“I’ve been very fortunate. When the NWSL formed, I made it clear to the people in power that Portland was the only city I was going to play in,” she said. “It’s my home and it will be my home forever. Being part of this organization through the ups and the downs, it’s been one of the great honors of my career.”
Sinclair is one of The Originals, the players who helped launch the league and are still with their same teams. The list also includes Tori Huster of the Washington Spirit and three players on OL Reign: Megan Rapinoe, Jess Fishlock and Lauren Barnes.
The longevity with a single team is in itself unusual in professional sports and now for college players due to the active transfer portal. But what makes it even more unique is that, at least in the early days, pay was paltry,
Salaries in the league’s first season ranged from just $6,000 a season to $30,000 for the elite players. Megan Rapinoe was paid in the early days by U.S. Soccer and Christine Sinclair was paid by Canada Soccer in an arrangement that allowed the league to have national-team players on NWSL rosters without the expense of those salaries.
Today, the average NWSL salary is $54,000, and players have a union and a collective bargaining agreement, which was adopted last year. The league became independent of U.S. Soccer in 2020.
“If I thought I was gonna still be here 11 years ago, I would probably say no,” Barnes said. “The way the league started off, there’s been huge improvements. There’s definitely a life and an opportunity to make this a lifestyle and a job — the last probably three to five years or so. So that’s really promising for the next generations to come and it’s been really fun to be a part of that and build that.”
There were two other attempts at women’s pro leagues in the United States. The first, the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), was founded after the U.S. women won the World Cup in 1999 and lasted just three seasons, from 2001-2003. The second, Women’s Professional Soccer, folded in 2012 after two seasons.
Barnes, who played at UCLA, also played in the WPS. She was named the NWSL’s Defender of the Year in 2016.
Fishlock, who also plays for the Welsh national team, scored in the Reign’s second match in 2013. During her tenure in Seattle, she also played on loan to clubs around the world, including Frankfurt in Germany and French powerhouse Lyon, the Reign’s parent club.
“I’m not surprised that the league is not only still here, but in my opinion it is just about to thrive. It’s about to go. Foot on the pedal, it’s going,” Fishlock said. “I’m not surprised by that because there were such big steps at the beginning to really make sure that this league didn’t fail. And it was a real slow burner on that front and you look back now and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I cannot believe that this is where we were.’ But we’re where we are now because we started so cautiously and so carefully because of the history of all the other leagues that have been here.”
While the league has steadily grown in its 11 seasons, there were periods of turbulence. In 2021 the NWSL was rocked by abuse and misconduct scandals that shook women’s soccer. Both U.S. Soccer and the NWSL commissioned investigations and now safeguards are being implemented leaguewide.
Looking forward, the NWSL and its 12 teams have big seasons ahead, and the Women’s World Cup this summer in Australia and New Zealand should bring new interest to the league and its many international players.
Sinclair is optimistic.
“I think from the onset, remember year one, you could see the potential. They started small, they started realistic, and slowly built,” she said. “Then I think after year two and year three, there’s no doubt that and this league’s going to be going on forever now. It’s only going to grow.”
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Mary Ann Rose, 89, formerly of Hood River, Ore., passed away peacefully on Aug. 24, 2022. She was born to the late Carl and Meroah Troeger on Aug. 15, 1933, in Colorado Springs, Colo. Mary graduated from South High School in Denver, Colo., in 1951 and then received a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from Colorado State University in 1955. She completed her dietetic internship at Oklahoma State University.
She met Don Rose while attending college and they were married in Denver in 1956. Mary worked in Denver, San Antonio, and Portland, Ore., to help Don get through medical school. They then moved to La Grande, Ore., in 1966, where they resided for around 30 years and raised their family. She worked as a large quantity cook at Eastern Oregon University for many years. After her retirement, they moved to Hood River, Ore., to enjoy all that the area had to offer. They lived there for 27 years. She loved Hood River and the energetic culture it offered!
Mary is survived by her husband of 65 years, Don, and their four children, Leisa Baker of Spokane, Wash., Coleen Janzen of Spokane, Shelly Stucky of Fruita, Colo., and Mark Rose of Fruita. She is also survived by 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, with one more on the way. A sister, Ann Dempsey, of Del Mar, Calif., and her son and daughter, also remain.
Mary was an extremely hard worker. When she retired from Eastern Oregon University, they had to hire three people to replace her! She displayed that character trait in all aspects of her life. She was a very selfless, grateful, and humble person who always focused on others. One of her many gifts was her ability to encourage others so they believed they were able to do what she knew they could do. She felt every person had value and worth. Even up to the end of her life, her focus and questions were always about what others were doing.
She was a Christian and had Jesus as her Lord and Savior. Her faith was very important to her and gave her great strength, especially in her last days. We want to greatly thank her caregiver, Jennifer Greenwood, for her love, care, and spunk she gave to our mom in her last year.
She will be greatly missed by many.
A memorial service for family and close friends will be held at Touchmark on South Hill in Spokane on Sept. 1 at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to Hope Medical Clinic, 1942 12th St., Hood River, OR 97031, or hopemedicalclinic.org. | 2022-08-30T10:45:26+00:00 | columbiagorgenews.com | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/obituaries/obituary-mary-rose/article_c6c89f6a-27af-11ed-900f-4b4cf67252e3.html |
229, Josh Jacobs, LAS at SEA 11/27 (OT) (33 att., 2 TD)
219, Derrick Henry, TEN at HOU 10/30 (32 att., 2 TD)
178, Justin Fields, CHI vs. MIA 11/6 (15 att., 1 TD)
173, Austin Ekeler, LAC at CLE 10/9 (16 att., 1 TD)
172, Rhamondre Stevenson, NE at LAS 12/18 (19 att., 1 TD)
167, Kenneth Walker III, SEA at LAC 10/23 (23 att., 2 TD)
164, Saquon Barkley, NYG at TEN 9/11 (18 att., 1 TD)
161, Rhamondre Stevenson, NE vs. DET 10/9 (25 att., 0 TD)
161, Jonathan Taylor, IND at HOU 9/11 (OT) (31 att., 1 TD)
157, Jalen Hurts, PHI vs. GB 11/27 (17 att., 0 TD)
157, Khalil Herbert, CHI vs. HOU 9/25 (20 att., 2 TD)
156, Travis Etienne Jr., JAC vs. DEN 10/30 (24 att., 1 TD)
154, Josh Jacobs, LAS at KC 10/10 (21 att., 1 TD)
153, Joe Mixon, CIN vs. CAR 11/6 (22 att., 4 TD)
152, Saquon Barkley, NYG vs. HOU 11/13 (35 att., 1 TD)
151, Rashaad Penny, SEA at DET 10/2 (17 att., 2 TD)
147, Justin Fields, CHI vs. DET 11/13 (13 att., 2 TD)
147, Jonathan Taylor, IND at LAS 11/13 (22 att., 1 TD)
146, Saquon Barkley, NYG vs. CHI 10/2 (31 att., 0 TD)
144, D'Andre Swift, DET vs. PHI 9/11 (15 att., 1 TD)
144, Miles Sanders, PHI at NYG 12/11 (17 att., 2 TD)
144, Josh Jacobs, LAS vs. LAC 12/4 (26 att., 1 TD)
144, Josh Jacobs, LAS vs. DEN 10/2 (28 att., 2 TD)
143, Josh Jacobs, LAS vs. HOU 10/23 (20 att., 3 TD)
143, Aaron Jones, GB at BUF 10/30 (20 att., 0 TD)
143, Miles Sanders, PHI vs. GB 11/27 (21 att., 2 TD)
141, Cordarrelle Patterson, ATL at SEA 9/25 (17 att., 1 TD)
141, Nick Chubb, CLE at CAR 9/11 (22 att., 0 TD)
139, Tyler Allgeier, ATL at NO 12/18 (17 att., 1 TD)
139, Dameon Pierce, HOU vs. PHI 11/3 (27 att., 0 TD)
138, Aaron Jones, GB vs. DAL 11/13 (OT) (24 att., 1 TD)
136, Raheem Mostert, MIA at BUF 12/17 (17 att., 0 TD)
134, Nick Chubb, CLE vs. LAC 10/9 (17 att., 2 TD)
134, Miles Sanders, PHI vs. JAC 10/2 (27 att., 2 TD)
132, Aaron Jones, GB vs. CHI 9/18 (15 att., 1 TD)
131, Tony Pollard, DAL vs. CHI 10/30 (14 att., 3 TD)
131, Dameon Pierce, HOU vs. LAC 10/2 (14 att., 1 TD)
130, Latavius Murray, DEN vs. ARI 12/18 (24 att., 1 TD)
130, D'Onta Foreman, CAR vs. ATL 11/10 (31 att., 1 TD)
128, Derrick Henry, TEN vs. IND 10/23 (30 att., 0 TD)
127, Leonard Fournette, TB at DAL 9/11 (21 att., 0 TD)
125, J.K. Dobbins, BAL at CLE 12/17 (13 att., 0 TD)
122, David Montgomery, CHI at GB 9/18 (15 att., 0 TD)
121, Derrick Henry, TEN vs. JAC 12/11 (17 att., 1 TD)
120, J.K. Dobbins, BAL at PIT 12/11 (15 att., 1 TD)
120, Jeff Wilson Jr., SF at CAR 10/9 (17 att., 1 TD)
120, Cordarrelle Patterson, ATL vs. NO 9/11 (22 att., 1 TD)
120, James Conner, ARI vs. LAC 11/27 (25 att., 0 TD)
119, Lamar Jackson, BAL vs. MIA 9/18 (9 att., 1 TD)
119, Kenyan Drake, BAL at NYG 10/16 (10 att., 1 TD)
119, Christian McCaffrey, SF vs. TB 12/11 (14 att., 1 TD)
119, Dalvin Cook, MIN at BUF 11/13 (OT) (14 att., 1 TD)
119, Jeff Wilson Jr., MIA vs. CLE 11/13 (17 att., 1 TD)
118, D'Onta Foreman, CAR vs. TB 10/23 (15 att., 0 TD)
118, Nick Chubb, CLE at ATL 10/2 (19 att., 1 TD)
118, D'Onta Foreman, CAR at ATL 10/30 (OT) (26 att., 3 TD)
116, Breece Hall, NYJ at GB 10/16 (20 att., 1 TD)
116, Nick Chubb, CLE vs. TB 11/27 (OT) (26 att., 1 TD)
115, Derrick Henry, TEN at KC 11/6 (OT) (17 att., 2 TD)
115, Tony Pollard, DAL at GB 11/13 (OT) (22 att., 1 TD)
114, Travis Etienne Jr., JAC vs. NYG 10/23 (14 att., 1 TD)
114, Derrick Henry, TEN at IND 10/2 (22 att., 1 TD)
113, Raheem Mostert, MIA at NYJ 10/9 (18 att., 1 TD)
113, Nick Chubb, CLE vs. PIT 9/22 (23 att., 1 TD)
113, D'Onta Foreman, CAR vs. DEN 11/27 (24 att., 0 TD)
112, Taysom Hill, NO vs. SEA 10/9 (9 att., 3 TD)
111, Dalvin Cook, MIN vs. ARI 10/30 (20 att., 1 TD)
110, Aaron Jones, GB vs. NE 10/2 (OT) (16 att., 0 TD)
110, Saquon Barkley, NYG at JAC 10/23 (24 att., 0 TD)
109, Josh Jacobs, LAS at DEN 11/20 (OT) (24 att., 0 TD)
109, Kenneth Walker III, SEA at ARI 11/6 (26 att., 2 TD)
109, Travis Etienne Jr., JAC vs. LAS 11/6 (28 att., 2 TD)
108, Jamaal Williams, DET vs. SEA 10/2 (19 att., 2 TD)
108, Christian McCaffrey, CAR vs. NO 9/25 (25 att., 0 TD)
108, Christian McCaffrey, SF at SEA 12/15 (26 att., 1 TD)
107, Daniel Jones, NYG at JAC 10/23 (11 att., 1 TD)
107, Lamar Jackson, BAL at NE 9/25 (11 att., 1 TD)
107, Isiah Pacheco, KC at LAC 11/20 (15 att., 0 TD)
106, Samaje Perine, CIN vs. KC 12/4 (21 att., 0 TD)
105, Tony Pollard, DAL at NYG 9/26 (13 att., 0 TD)
105, Brian Robinson, WAS vs. ATL 11/27 (18 att., 0 TD)
105, Rachaad White, TB vs. SEA 11/13 (22 att., 0 TD)
104, Derrick Henry, TEN at LAC 12/18 (21 att., 1 TD)
103, Travis Etienne Jr., JAC vs. DAL 12/18 (OT) (19 att., 0 TD)
103, Alvin Kamara, NO vs. SEA 10/9 (23 att., 0 TD)
102, Christian McCaffrey, CAR at NYG 9/18 (15 att., 0 TD)
102, Derrick Henry, TEN at WAS 10/9 (28 att., 2 TD)
101, Nick Chubb, CLE vs. CIN 10/31 (23 att., 2 TD)
100, Kyler Murray, ARI at SEA 10/16 (10 att., 0 TD)
100, James Robinson, JAC at LAC 9/25 (17 att., 1 TD) | 2022-12-24T15:30:23+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/NFL-Top-Performers-Rushing-17675726.php |
TORONTO, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Nerds On Site Inc. (CSE: NERD) ("NERD" or the "Company"), a Cyber Security and mobile IT solutions company servicing the small and medium enterprise (SME) marketplace in Canada and the USA, is pleased to announce the completion of the due diligence audit of an acquisition target and the launch of NOS National Partners – a central corporate services team.
In preparing for the next phase of their business evolution, Nerds On Site (NERDs) recently completed a lengthy due diligence audit of a private USA company. This firm provides contract technology services to state and local governments across several American states. Commenting on this process and what it means for NERDs future, CEO, Charlie Regan explains, "Both our leadership teams have become quite well acquainted during this 30 plus month process, and our cultures are remarkably similar and aligned. The combined talent and services synergies on the cyber security, managed security services and expanded government contract opportunities are substantial and game changing for NERDs."
The parties intend to move to the next step of negotiating a definitive agreement. There is no certainty that we will be able to close this transaction.
This FY23 (year-end May 31), NERDs introduced a new centralized corporate team dedicated to managing multi-location and hard-to-define projects for organizations throughout Canada and the United States. Named NOS National Projects, it provides end-to-end project management services for organizations requiring on-site technical support and services at multiple locations across the US and/or Canada. NOS National Projects team process provides a centralized project management team that handles scope discovery, project setup, workflow creation, a network of subcontractors throughout North America, technician communications, problem resolution and final report delivery on a wide range of projects such Clients require. Since inception the NOS National Partner team has completed a wide range of projects throughout both countries for Clients in the law, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and entertainment industries, to name a few.
A leading provider of cyber security and IT services to SME and corporate Clients in North America.
Established in 1995 and serving Clients across the USA and Canada for decades, Nerds On Site stands out as one of the most highly regarded and reputable IT service organizations of its kind. The NERDs team is a collegial network of cyber security and technology experts and strategic partners across North America. Their ability to liberate Clients with technology solutions that optimize organizations and exceed expectations are the stand-out results Nerds On Site regularly delivers as Client testimonials reflect - (reviews.nerdsonsite.com).
Certain information set forth in this material may contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding future financial position, business strategy, use of proceeds, corporate vision, proposed acquisitions, partnerships, joint-ventures and strategic alliances and co-operations, budgets, cost and plans and objectives of or involving the Company. Such forward-looking information reflects management's current beliefs and is based on information currently available to management. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "predicts", "intends", "targets", "aims", "anticipates" or "believes" or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases or may be identified by statements to the effect that certain actions "may", "could", "should", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. A number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause the actual results or performance to materially differ from any future results or performance expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the control of the Company including, but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions and dependence upon regulatory approvals. Readers are cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements. The Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by securities laws.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Pig heart transplanted into patient was infected with pig virus, health officials say
A pig heart, transplanted earlier this year into a human patient who died two months later, was infected with a pig virus, according to the surgeon who performed the procedure.
The virus that was found during testing is called porcine cytomegalovirus (pCMV) and mostly infects pigs but it has been found in humans, according to SwineHealth.org. Despite this, it is still unknown whether or not human cells can even be infected by pCMV
It is unclear whether or not the virus caused the patient’s death or if it was due to the patient’s advanced state of heart failure before the transplant, according to a statement from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The patient’s death is still under investigation.
Dr. Bartley Griffith performed the first-of-its-kind heart transplant in January 2022 and all seemed well post-operation.
The pig heart was functioning and the Maryland hospital issued periodic updates that the recipient, David Bennett Sr. Bennett seemed to be slowly recovering. In February, the hospital released video of Bennett watching the Super Bowl from his hospital bed while working with his physical therapist.
Sadly, on March 8, Bennett died. Doctors were unable to give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun deteriorating several days earlier. He was 57 years old.
"We are devastated by the loss of Mr. Bennett. He proved to be a brave and noble patient who fought all the way to the end," Griffith said in a statement.
Bennett survived significantly longer with the gene-edited pig heart than one of the last milestones in xenotransplantation — when Baby Fae, a dying California infant, lived 21 days with a baboon’s heart in 1984.
Shortage of donors
The need for another source of organs is huge. More than 41,000 transplants were performed in the U.S. last year, a record — including about 3,800 heart transplants. But more than 106,000 people remain on the national waiting list as thousands die every year before getting an organ and thousands more never even get added to the list.
"The organ shortage is in fact an unmitigated crisis and we’ve never had a real solution to it," said Dr. Jayme Locke of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who leads a team that will begin a clinical trial of pig kidney transplants this year.
What is xenotransplantation?
A photo of David Bennett Sr.‘s pig heart transplant procedure underway. (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
Animal-to-human transplants are called xenotransplantation. They have been attempted without success for decades because people’s immune systems almost instantly attack the foreign tissue. But scientists now have new techniques to edit pig genes so their organs are more human-like.
The recent string of pig experiments in the past year "is a big step forward," said Dr. David Kaczorowski of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Moving on to first-stage trials in potentially dozens of people is "becoming more and more feasible."
A heart transplant surgeon, Kaczorowski has done experiments testing pig organs in non-human primates that helped pave the way but "there are only things we can learn by transplanting them into humans."
Pigs have long been used in human medicine, including pig skin grafts and implantation of pig heart valves. But transplanting entire organs is much more complex than using highly processed tissue.
Future of xenotransplantation
Scientists still have a lot to learn about how long pig organs survive and how best to genetically alter them, cautioned Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health, who led that center’s kidney experiments last fall.
"I think different organs will require different genetic modifications," he said in an email to the Associated Press.
For UAB’s most recent pig kidney transplant experiment, it teamed with Revivicor, the subsidiary of United Therapeutics that also provided organs for Bennett’s heart transplant and another kidney experiment in New York. Company scientists made 10 genetic changes to the pigs, knocking out some genes that trigger a human immune attack and make the animals’ organs grow too large — and adding some human genes so the organs look less foreign to people’s immune systems.
Researchers must also address practical questions such as how to minimize time spent getting pig organs to their destination. UAB housed altered pigs in a germ-free facility in Birmingham complete with an operating room-like space to remove the organs and ready them for transplant.
Organ rejection, infections and other complications are risks for any transplant recipient. Experts hope the Maryland team quickly publishes in a medical journal exactly how Bennett’s body responded to the pig heart.
From Bennett’s experience, "we have gained invaluable insights learning that the genetically modified pig heart can function well within the human body while the immune system is adequately suppressed," said Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the Maryland university’s animal-to-human transplant program.
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The U.S. on Thursday expressed deep concern over Russia’s detention of an American journalist for The Wall Street Journal, issuing a condemnation of what it calls the Kremlin’s attempts to intimidate and stifle free speech.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed in a statement the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, an American citizen and reporter for the Wall Street Journal. It was the first such detention of an American journalist over allegations of spying since the Cold War, according to the Journal.
“In the strongest possible terms, we condemn the Kremlin’s continued attempts to intimidate, repress, and punish journalists and civil society voices,” Blinken said.
Blinken did not confirm reports of Gershkovich’s detention specifically, which the newspaper has confirmed.
The White House also condemned the detention, saying in a statement that the administration had spoken to Gershkovich’s employer and his family.
“The targeting of American citizens by the Russian government is unacceptable. We condemn the detention of Mr. Gershkovich in the strongest terms,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. “We also condemn the Russian government’s continued targeting and repression of journalists and freedom of the press.”
The U.S. had issued travel alerts earlier to warn American citizens over the risk of detention and arrest in Russia, given the rock-bottom relations between Washington and Moscow over Russia’s war against Ukraine.
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told the reporters that the U.S. Embassy in Moscow has engaged the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and they are seeking consulate access to Gershkovich.
Gershkovich’s arrest was reported by the Wall Street Journal early Wednesday morning, citing a statement from Russia’s main security agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), that it had detained Gershkovich for espionage.
The FSB reportedly said Gershkovich was “acting on the instructions of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.”
Still, the FSB said that Gershkovich is accredited to work as a journalist in Russia by the country’s foreign ministry.
The Journal “vehemently” denied the allegations and called for the release of Gershkovich, who is reporting on Russia for the paper’s Moscow bureau.
“We stand in solidarity with Evan and his family,” the Journal said.
Gershkovich’s detention raises the possibility that Russia is seeking to pressure the U.S. with a political hostage, although Kirby told reporters that it was too early to tell the motivations on the arrest — and in particular if it was an act of retaliation.
In December, the U.S. released convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in an exchange for Brittney Griner, an American professional basketball player whose arrest was condemned by the U.S. as unjust.
The U.S. has also categorized as unjust the imprisonment of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. marine who was arrested and convicted on charges of espionage. Russia refused to release Whelan alongside Griner arguing the espionage charges made his release of a higher-value.
David Whelan, Paul’s brother, said in a statement that “our family is sorry to hear that another American family will have to experience the same trauma that we have had to endure for the past 1,553 days.”
President Biden and lawmakers have sought to find new ways of imposing costs on foreign governments’ unjust detaining of Americans abroad and expand resources dedicated to pushing for the release of Americans determined to be imprisoned as political hostages.
David Whelan, in his statement, said that despite these efforts, “We don’t have much to show for those good intentions.”
“Whatever it takes, I hope the U.S. government moves quickly and decisively so that Paul and Mr. Gershkovich are able to return to their families and loved ones soon. If these cases truly are the highest priority for the U.S. government, I’m confident that will happen,” David said in the statement.
Updated at 1:49 p.m. | 2023-03-30T18:16:51+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/us-condemns-russias-detention-of-wall-street-journal-reporter/ |
NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ActionIQ, the leader in customer experience (CX) solutions, today announced that it will host a webinar "Strategies for Efficient & Profitable CX in an Uncertain Economy" to explore how brands can cut costs and maximize value of existing customers as consumer demand slows.
"As market conditions change rapidly and the economy grows increasingly more unpredictable, it's more critical than ever to maintain an agile, adaptable approach to delivering customer experiences," said Justin DeBrabant, Senior Vice President of Product at ActionIQ. "Complex, brittle and outdated architectures can leave businesses inflexible and slow to differentiate, while composable technologies and solid CX strategies can help brands drive incremental revenue while controlling costs."
WHO: Speakers will include
- Justin DeBrabant, Senior Vice President of Product, ActionIQ
- Greg Shelly, Vice President of Enterprise Digital Marketing, Canadian Tire
- Chris O'Brien, Vice President of Digital Marketing Technology, M&T Bank
WHAT: A webinar discussion led by ActionIQ, which will also include a Q&A session.
WHEN: July 13, 2022, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM ET
WHERE: For more information and to register for the webinar, please visit the event page here.
AIQ brings order to CX chaos. Our Customer Experience Hub empowers everyone to be a CX champion by giving business teams the freedom to explore and action on customer data while helping technical teams extend and enhance existing technology investments to manage data governance, costs and performance. Enterprise brands such as Autodesk, M&T Bank, The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, Hertz and many more use our CX Hub to drive growth through extraordinary customer experiences. Learn more at actioniq.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy surprisingly accelerated to a 2.4% annual growth rate from April through June, showing continued resilience in the face of steadily higher interest rates resulting from the Federal Reserve’s 16-month-long fight to bring down inflation.
Thursday’s estimate from the Commerce Department indicated that the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — picked up from the 2% growth rate in the January-March quarter. Last quarter’s expansion was well above the 1.5% annual rate that economists had forecast.
Driving last quarter’s growth was a burst of business investment, which surged at a 5.7% annual pace, the fastest rate since late 2021. Companies plowed more money into factories and equipment. Increased spending by state and local governments also helped fuel the economy’s expansion in the April-June quarter.
Consumer spending, the heart of the nation’s economy, was also solid last quarter, though it slowed to a 1.6% annual rate from a robust 4.2% pace in the first quarter of the year.
Investment in housing, though, fell, weakened by the weight of higher mortgage rates.
“This is a strong report, confirming that this economy continues to largely shrug off the Fed’s aggressive rate increases and tightening credit conditions,’’ said Olu Sonola, head of U.S. economics at Fitch Ratings. “The bottom line is that the U.S. economy is still growing above trend, and the Fed will be wondering if they need to do more to slow this economy.”
In fighting inflation, which last year hit a four-decade high, the Fed has raised its benchmark rate 11 times since March 2022, most recently on Wednesday. The resulting higher costs for a broad range of loans — from mortgages and credit cards to auto loans and business borrowing — have taken a toll on growth.
Still, they have yet to tip the United States into a widely forecast recession. Optimism has been growing that a recession isn’t coming after all, that the Fed can engineer a so-called “soft-landing” — slowing the economy enough to bring inflation down to its 2% annual target without wrecking an expansion of surprising durability.
This week, the International Monetary Fund upgraded its forecast for U.S. economic growth for all of 2023 to 1.8%. Though that would be down from 2.1% growth for 2022, it marked an increase from the 1.6% growth that the IMF had predicted for 2023 back in April.
At a news conference Wednesday after the Fed announced its latest quarter-point rate hike, Chair Jerome Powell revealed that the central bank’s staff economists no longer foresee a recession in the United States. In April, the minutes of the central bank’s March meeting had revealed that the Fed’s staff economists envisioned a “mild” recession later this year.
In his remarks, Powell noted that the economy has proved resilient despite the Fed’s rapid rate hikes. And he said he still thinks a soft landing remains possible.
By any measure, the American job market has shown itself to be remarkably strong. At 3.6% in June, the unemployment rate hovers just above a five-decade low. A surge in retirements after COVID-19 hit in early 2020 has contributed to a shortage of workers across the country, forcing many companies to raise wages to attract or keep staffers.
Higher pay and job security are giving Americans the confidence and financial wherewithal to keep shopping. Indeed, consumer spending, which drives about 70% of economic activity, rose at a 4.2% annual rate from January through March, the fastest quarterly pace in nearly two years. Americans have kept spending — crowding airplanes, traveling overseas and flocking to concerts and movie theaters.
And the Conference Board, a business research group, reported Tuesday that Americans this month are in their sunniest mood in two years, based on the board’s reading of consumer confidence.
Indeed, many consumers are finally enjoying some relief from spiking prices: Year-over-year inflation, which peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, has eased consistently ever since. Inflation-adjusted hourly pay rose 1.4% in June from a year earlier, the sharpest such gain since early 2021.
“Inflation is easing, moving in the right direction,” said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. ”In other words, the Fed is achieving what it wants without causing damage to the economy, so they don’t need to push too hard from this point on.”
Still, Farooqi suggested, the surprisingly healthy GDP report makes it somewhat more likely that the Fed will raise rates again because the economy appears to be “much stronger” than what the central bank would like to see. With stronger growth comes a greater likelihood of high inflation.
At the same time, the risk remains that the weight of ever-higher interest rates will eventually slow borrowing so much — for homes, cars, renovations, business expansions and other costly expenses — as to pull the economy into recession.
Among the economy’s weakest links has been the housing market. In June, sales of previously occupied homes sank to their slowest pace since January. The problem is that a near-historic low number of homes for sale and higher mortgage rates kept many would-be homebuyers on the sidelines. Sales fell 19% compared with June 2022 and were down 23% through the first half of the year. | 2023-07-27T15:21:25+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/ap-us-economy-grew-at-a-faster-2-4-rate-in-april-june-quarter-despite-fed-rate-hikes/ |
MLB Games Tonight: How to Watch on TV, Streaming & Odds - Tuesday, May 2
Today's MLB schedule has plenty of exciting matchups on the docket. Among those contests is the Pittsburgh Pirates taking on the Tampa Bay Rays.
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How to Watch Today's MLB Games
The Tampa Bay Rays (23-6) host the Pittsburgh Pirates (20-9)
The Pirates will look to pick up a road win at Tropicana Field versus the Rays on Tuesday at 6:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- TB Key Player: Randy Arozarena (.327 AVG, 7 HR, 28 RBI)
- PIT Key Player: Bryan Reynolds (.320 AVG, 5 HR, 23 RBI)
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The Miami Marlins (16-13) play the Atlanta Braves (19-10)
The Braves will look to pick up a road win at LoanDepot park versus the Marlins on Tuesday at 6:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- MIA Key Player: Luis Arraez (.438 AVG, 1 HR, 11 RBI)
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.363 AVG, 5 HR, 15 RBI)
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The Detroit Tigers (10-17) play the New York Mets (16-13)
The Mets will hit the field at Comerica Park against the Tigers on Tuesday at 6:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- DET Key Player: Nick Maton (.159 AVG, 4 HR, 13 RBI)
- NYM Key Player: Pete Alonso (.248 AVG, 11 HR, 28 RBI)
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The Washington Nationals (10-18) take on the Chicago Cubs (15-13)
The Cubs will hit the field at Nationals Park versus the Nationals on Tuesday at 7:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- WSH Key Player: Luis Garcia (.235 AVG, 2 HR, 13 RBI)
- CHC Key Player: Nico Hoerner (.323 AVG, 2 HR, 17 RBI)
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The New York Yankees (15-15) host the Cleveland Guardians (14-15)
The Guardians hope to get a road victory at Yankee Stadium against the Yankees on Tuesday at 7:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- NYY Key Player: Gleyber Torres (.245 AVG, 4 HR, 10 RBI)
- CLE Key Player: José Ramírez (.279 AVG, 3 HR, 17 RBI)
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The Chicago White Sox (8-21) host the Minnesota Twins (17-12)
The Twins will take to the field at Guaranteed Rate Field versus the White Sox on Tuesday at 7:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- CHW Key Player: Andrew Vaughn (.255 AVG, 3 HR, 20 RBI)
- MIN Key Player: Byron Buxton (.258 AVG, 7 HR, 17 RBI)
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The Boston Red Sox (16-14) face the Toronto Blue Jays (18-11)
The Blue Jays hope to get a road victory at Fenway Park against the Red Sox on Tuesday at 7:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- BOS Key Player: Alex Verdugo (.311 AVG, 5 HR, 18 RBI)
- TOR Key Player: Bo Bichette (.344 AVG, 7 HR, 21 RBI)
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The Kansas City Royals (7-22) host the Baltimore Orioles (19-9)
The Orioles will hit the field at Kauffman Stadium versus the Royals on Tuesday at 7:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- KC Key Player: Vinnie Pasquantino (.279 AVG, 5 HR, 10 RBI)
- BAL Key Player: Jorge Mateo (.347 AVG, 6 HR, 17 RBI)
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The St. Louis Cardinals (10-19) take on the Los Angeles Angels (15-14)
The Angels will take to the field at Busch Stadium versus the Cardinals on Tuesday at 7:45 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- STL Key Player: Paul Goldschmidt (.306 AVG, 4 HR, 14 RBI)
- LAA Key Player: Shohei Ohtani (.294 AVG, 7 HR, 18 RBI)
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The Texas Rangers (17-11) face the Arizona Diamondbacks (16-13)
The Diamondbacks will take to the field at Globe Life Field versus the Rangers on Tuesday at 8:05 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- TEX Key Player: Marcus Semien (.268 AVG, 5 HR, 23 RBI)
- ARI Key Player: Corbin Carroll (.320 AVG, 4 HR, 9 RBI)
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The Houston Astros (16-13) take on the San Francisco Giants (11-17)
The Giants will take to the field at Minute Maid Park versus the Astros on Tuesday at 8:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: SportsNet SW
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- HOU Key Player: Kyle Tucker (.277 AVG, 5 HR, 20 RBI)
- SF Key Player: Thairo Estrada (.333 AVG, 4 HR, 10 RBI)
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The Colorado Rockies (9-20) play the Milwaukee Brewers (18-10)
The Brewers will look to pick up a road win at Coors Field versus the Rockies on Tuesday at 8:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: SportsNet RM
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 8:40 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- COL Key Player: Charlie Blackmon (.276 AVG, 2 HR, 8 RBI)
- MIL Key Player: Rowdy Tellez (.247 AVG, 8 HR, 20 RBI)
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The San Diego Padres (16-14) face the Cincinnati Reds (12-17)
The Reds hope to get a road victory at PETCO Park versus the Padres on Tuesday at 9:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 9:40 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- SD Key Player: Xander Bogaerts (.304 AVG, 6 HR, 13 RBI)
- CIN Key Player: Jonathan India (.276 AVG, 1 HR, 11 RBI)
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The Oakland Athletics (6-23) play the Seattle Mariners (12-16)
The Mariners will look to pick up a road win at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum versus the Athletics on Tuesday at 9:40 PM ET.
How to Watch
Hitters to Watch
- OAK Key Player: Brent Rooker (.353 AVG, 9 HR, 22 RBI)
- SEA Key Player: Jarred Kelenic (.308 AVG, 7 HR, 14 RBI)
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The Los Angeles Dodgers (16-13) play the Philadelphia Phillies (15-14)
The Phillies will hit the field at Dodger Stadium versus the Dodgers on Tuesday at 10:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 10:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- LAD Key Player: Max Muncy (.238 AVG, 11 HR, 22 RBI)
- PHI Key Player: Nicholas Castellanos (.319 AVG, 4 HR, 19 RBI)
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A version of this article was originally published in The Daily Brief, our Maine politics newsletter. Sign up here for daily news and insight from politics editor Michael Shepherd.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is a skilled political operator.
His state remains only a tick to the right of Democratic-controlled Maine, where Republicans have looked longingly across the border for years at the Granite State as a limited-government utopia in part because of the absence of an income tax.
New Hampshire remains a swing state, but Sununu makes it look easy there. So why does his presidential flirtation seem so uphill? The waning role of old-school New England Republicanism in national politics has something to do with it.
Cutting both ways: Sununu’s approval rating, as measured by Morning Consult, was 59 percent in the last quarter of 2022. With a similar share of votes, he cruised to reelection even as a Democratic senator held her seat. While that was down from his landslide margin two years earlier, it was about as easy as you can have it in a contested state.
The son of a former governor turned White House chief of staff unceremoniously turned down entreaties from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, to run for that chamber last year, deriding the “gridlock and politics” of Washington in a 2021 speech.
This does not mean that Sununu lacks ambition. He is now kicking the tires on a presidential run, doing frequent TV hits in which he predicts former President Donald Trump will not be the 2024 nominee. He is also prompting pieces from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal mulling whether a Republican who is supportive of basic abortion rights could win the nod.
“Probably not” seems to be the answer. Sununu was rated as his state’s most popular politician in a February poll from the University of New Hampshire. But a month earlier, he was barely registering in presidential polling, sitting at 4 percent and in fourth place. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis led at 42 percent, a spot above Trump at 30 percent.
Defining himself: This has led Sununu to say DeSantis would win New Hampshire and Florida if the primaries were now. Remarks like that do not seem to bode well for a run, but he is still answering questions on going for the White House.
He has downplayed the importance of his personal views on abortion, noting that changes passed under him limit abortions past 24 weeks and that last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision repealing federal abortion rights leaves the matter to the states.
“Not that it’s not an important issue, but folks are going to really have to define themselves as to where they are,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Another moderate Republican, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, declined a run this week. Only Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are the major Republicans running now. Some others including Sen. Susan Collins, a centrist Trump skeptic, are talking up Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who is conservative but could appeal to some moderates.
It works here, but: Both Collins and Sununu have shown that moderate Republicans still have currency here. She won a heavily nationalized 2020 campaign in a Maine that is moving to the left. She won in large part due to keeping margins close in the Portland suburbs where arch-conservative former Gov. Paul LePage lost big in 2022.
Collins’ position toward the middle of her chamber makes her a player in national politics, but there are fewer colleagues with her orientation now. She is the last Republican senator in the region now and there are no Republicans from there in the House. In Massachusetts, a Democrat walked into the governor’s mansion last year after Republicans followed up moderate Gov. Charlie Baker with a conservative nominee who had no chance of winning.
Both Collins and Sununu have maintained ties to the rest of the party. For example, both backed LePage in his 2022 run and he dinged Maine’s income tax after a big lottery jackpot was won here. But the unique parts of Sununu’s appeal make his presidential flirtation feel like one of the last rides in national electoral politics for the New England brand of moderate Republicanism.
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Today (Sunday): Plenty of bright sunshine today, but it will feel much cooler compared with Saturday. The lighter jackets may be needed if you’re heading out to enjoy the outdoors. From morning lows in the upper 30s to mid-40s, we can expect daytime highs to reach about 55 to 60. Winds remain breezy from the northwest during the morning hours, gusting around 30 mph, but then taper during the afternoon. Confidence: High
Tonight: A dry and mostly clear night. It’s a bit chilly, though, with lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. Areas of patchy frost are possible, especially west of the city. Confidence: High
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Tomorrow (Monday): A glorious spring day awaits. Take the lunch break outdoors with sunny skies and afternoon highs in the upper 60s to mid-70s. Hard to beat that for early April. Still a bit of a breeze as winds from the south gust near 25 mph at times. Confidence: Medium-High
Tomorrow night: Dry conditions remain overnight with partly cloudy skies. Temperatures hold above average with lows in the 50s. Confidence: Medium-High
A look ahead
Tuesday looks like partly sunny skies and even warmer with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Partly to mostly cloudy Tuesday night with warm lows in the 60s. Confidence: Medium-High
Mostly cloudy skies build in for Wednesday, with shower chances increasing during the afternoon into evening as low pressure approaches from the west. Should be another warm one with highs in the upper 70s to mid-80s. That’s about 15 to 20 degrees above average. Confidence: Low-Medium | 2023-04-02T10:12:39+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/04/02/dc-area-forecast-sunny-cooler-sunday/ |
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Republican legislative candidate who traveled to Washington for former President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally was arrested Friday and charged with federal crimes for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot, officials said.
Matthew Brackley, 39, of Waldoboro, Maine, entered the the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and asked for the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office before shouting, “Let’s go,” according to prosecutors.
He was arrested on felony charges including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and civil disorder, along with several misdemeanors. He made his initial court appearance on Friday.
It was not clear if Brackley had a lawyer, and he did not immediately respond to an email request for comment.
Brackley tried unsuccessfully to unseat Democratic state Sen. Eloise Vitelli of Arrowsic last year. His campaign website described him as a Maine Maritime Academy graduate whose approach would be to have “respectful, thoughtful conversations on the issues.”
At the Capitol, prosecutors said, Brackley led a group that pushed through police officers several times before ultimately being dispersed by chemical spray and exiting.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack.
Approximately 100 of them have been convicted by juries or judges after trials, and more than 600 have pleaded guilty.
Over 570 riot defendants have been sentenced, with more than half receiving prison terms ranging from three days to 18 years. | 2023-07-22T07:35:54+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/07/21/a-former-republican-legislative-candidate-has-been-charged-for-his-role-in-the-us-capitol-riot/ |
- Second quarter 2022 net loss of $91.8 million, adjusted EBITDA of $50.5 million and cash flow available for distributions ("Distributable Cash Flow" or "DCF") of $25.6 million
- Adjusted EBITDA was impacted by approximately $3.6 million of estimated weather-related interruptions in the Rockies segment, maintenance activities and wells temporarily shut-in behind the Northeast segment and deal costs incurred during the quarter
- Sold the Lane Gathering and Processing System in the Delaware Basin and assigned the associated take-or-pay firm capacity on Double E to a Subsidiary of Matador Resources Company for $75 million in cash
- Reduced total debt by $82 million, increasing available liquidity to approximately $255 million
- Expect to be at the high-end of previously announced 2022 Adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $205 million to $220 million
- Current producer development plans include at least 200 new well connections in 2023 behind our systems, which we expect to result in at least 10% year-over-year Adjusted EBITDA growth
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) ("Summit", "SMLP" or the "Partnership") announced today its financial and operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, including a net loss of $91.8 million, adjusted EBITDA of $50.5 million and DCF of $25.6 million. SMLP also recognized an impairment of $84.5 million related to the sale of its Lane Gathering and Processing System in the Delaware Basin. Operated natural gas throughput from wholly owned assets averaged 1,200 million cubic feet per day ("MMcf/d") and liquids throughput averaged 54 thousand barrels per day ("Mbbl/d"). Total quarterly natural gas gathering volume throughput, including SMLP's proportionate share from OGC and Double E, decreased 32 MMcf/d relative to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to approximately 55 MMcf/d of reductions resulting from maintenance activities and wells temporarily shut-in behind the Northeast segment, partially offset by nearly 70% volume growth behind Double E. Natural gas volumes benefited from 8 new wells brought online behind our wholly owned systems and 6 new wells brought online behind our Ohio Gathering joint venture during the quarter. Second quarter 2022 liquids volume decreased by 11 Mbbl/d, or 16.9% relative to the first quarter of 2022 primarily due to severe winter weather in North Dakota and no new wells brought online during the quarter.
Heath Deneke, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, commented, "Summit's second quarter 2022 financial and operating results were ahead of internal expectations, despite approximately $3.6 million of unexpected weather, maintenance and deal costs, which was driven by continued strong performance from recent wells turned in line and lower than anticipated operating expenses for the quarter. I'd like to thank our team up in North Dakota for the significant effort made to get our systems back online safely and quickly. Based on year-to-date financial results and the timing and performance of recent well connections in 2022, we believe we will trend toward the high end of our previously announced Adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $205 to $220 million. We continue to see strong momentum behind our systems throughout the second half of the 2022 and into 2023 which we believe positions SMLP for strong growth in 2023."
"Based on recent customer development plans, permitting and rig activity, and commodity price expectations of over $80 per barrel of crude oil and over $5 per MMBtu of natural gas in 2023, we currently expect to connect at least 200 wells to our systems in 2023. While this remains below pre-pandemic average well connections of approximately 260 wells per year, this would be a 80% increase from the average wells connected to the system in 2021 and 2022. We are seeing positive momentum in virtually all our operating segments. In the Northeast, along with increasing activity, we are optimistic about the potential impact of Ascent Resources, LLC's recently announced acquisition of ~26,800 net acres in the Utica that is dedicated to our wholly owned SMU system. In the Piceance, we continue to work with our customers on a multi-year development program that would bring approximately 200 wells online over the next couple years. We expect the first batch of approximately 15 to 20 wells to come online beginning in Q2 2023 and continue thereafter. We believe this activity will offset natural production declines and result in modest volume growth longer-term in the Piceance. In the Barnett, we are currently working with our customers on a development program that includes over 30 new wells in 2023. The outperformance of recent well results and increased level of activity in 2023 would drive meaningful volume growth behind that segment. In the Williston, we expect to be at the higher end of our previously announced 45 – 65 well connections in 2022 and based on recent customer conversations we believe there could be comparable levels of well connections in 2023. This level of activity would drive meaningful liquids volume growth behind the system over the next several quarters. While it's still too early to formally provide 2023 guidance, we believe this level of well connection activity and continued contracted EBITDA growth behind our Double E joint venture to generate at least 10% year-over-year Adjusted EBITDA growth in 2023. We are excited about the potential impact of this growth on our business and balance sheet and will continue to provide updates throughout the year as our customer's plans further develop."
"We also achieved another key milestone during the quarter with the sale of our Lane Gathering & Processing System to a wholly owned subsidiary of Matador Resources Company ("Matador") for a cash sale price of $75 million and the assumption of an additional 60 MMcf/d take-or-pay firm capacity behind Double E. The transaction reduced our total leverage ratio by ~0.3x and increased our total liquidity to $255 million as of June 30, 2022. The transaction also expands Double E's commercial relationship with Matador, a significant acreage holder owning nearly 125,000 net acres in Eddy and Lea Counties in southeastern New Mexico. Matador now has two gas processing complexes connected to the Double E system, Matador's interest in San Mateo Midstream, LLC's 460 MMcf/d Black River Processing Plant Complex and the 60 MMcf/d Lane G&P System acquired from us. Additionally, as the availability of pipeline takeaway capacity out of New Mexico continues to tighten with current levels of drilling activity, we are in active dialogue with multiple new shippers to fill up the remaining unsubscribed firm capacity in Double E and potentially further expand the pipeline's capacity to over 2.0 Bcf per day."
Second Quarter 2022 Business Highlights
In the second quarter of 2022, SMLP's average daily natural gas throughput for its wholly owned operated systems decreased by 106 MMcf/d to 1,200 MMcf/d, and liquids volumes decreased by 11 Mbb/d to 54 Mbbl/d, relative to the first quarter of 2022. Ohio Gathering Company natural gas throughput decreased 36 MMcf/d to 562 MMcf/d and generated $7.5 million of adjusted EBITDA net to SMLP for the second quarter of 2022. Double E Pipeline gross volumes transported increased 127 MMcf/d to 314 MMcf/d and generated $3.9 million of adjusted EBITDA net to SMLP for the second quarter of 2022. SMLP's customers are currently operating eight drilling rigs on acreage behind SMLP's gathering systems and have approximately 48 wells that have been drilled and are expected to be turned in line later this year.
Natural gas price driven segments:
- Natural gas price driven segments had combined quarterly segment adjusted EBITDA of $41.2 million and combined capital expenditures of $4.6 million in the second quarter of 2022.
- Northeast segment adjusted EBITDA of $18.6 million decreased by $1.5 million from the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to a 14.7% decrease in volume on our wholly owned systems and a 6.1% decrease in volume at our Ohio Gathering Company ("OGC") joint venture. The volume decline was primarily driven by approximately 45 MMcf/d of maintenance related downtime upstream of our TPL-7 connection, approximately 9 MMcf/d of volume temporarily shut-in behind our wholly-owned SMU system and approximately 6 MMcf/d (8/8ths) of volume temporarily shut-in behind our OGC joint venture while customers were completing near-by wells, and natural production declines, partially offset by 6 new condensate wells that came online behind our OGC joint venture. We estimate that the maintenance related downtime and frac-protect activities impacted segment adjusted EBITDA by approximately $0.9 million, net to SMLP, during the quarter. The maintenance and frac-protect activities subsided beginning in July, we connected 4 new wells behind our wholly-owned SMU system in late July 2022 that are producing over 100 MMcf/d, and 9 new wells were recently connected behind our OGC joint venture that are expected to producer over 180 MMcf/d. We believe these activities will serve as a volume catalyst for the Northeast segment beginning in the third quarter of 2022.
- Piceance segment adjusted EBITDA of $15.4 million was generally in line with the first quarter of 2022. Volume throughput was flat with the prior quarter, primarily due to natural production declines, offset by volume from a new 9-well pad that was turned-in-line in October 2021. No new wells were connected during the quarter. We expect 17 permitted wells to be turned-in-line by one of our anchor customers in the fourth quarter of 2022.
- Barnett segment adjusted EBITDA of $7.2 million decreased by $2.0 million relative to the first quarter of 2022 primarily due to a $3.0 million increase in operating expenses resulting from commercial settlements that reduced operating expenses in prior periods, partially offset by a 1.5% increase in volume throughput. There were 4 new wells connected to the system at the end of April 2022 that achieved peak volumes of approximately 27 MMcf/d during the quarter. There were also 4 new wells that came online in late July and we expect an additional 4 wells in the fourth quarter of 2022 that are currently being drilled.
Oil price driven segments
- Oil price driven segments generated $18.7 million of combined segment adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2022 and had combined capital expenditures of $1.2 million.
- Permian segment adjusted EBITDA of $4.8 million increased $0.7 million relative to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to a $0.8 million increase in proportionate EBITDA from our Double E joint venture. The second quarter financial results include the Lane Gathering and Processing System, which we sold on June 30, 2022. Volumes on the Lane Gathering and Processing System were flat relative to the first quarter of 2022. Double E gross volume throughput averaged 314 MMcf/d during the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 127 MMcf/d, or approximately 70% growth relative to the first quarter of 2022. There are currently over 100 rigs running in Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico, which we believe will be a catalyst for additional volumes and long-term take-or-pay contracts behind our Double E joint venture.
- Rockies segment adjusted EBITDA of $13.9 million decreased $1.9 million relative to the first quarter of 2022, primarily due to an 11 Mbbl/d, or 16.9% decrease in liquids volumes because of significant weather-related interruptions during the quarter. Liquids volumes were completely shut-in across the system from April 23rd through early-May and ramped back up to normal production in late-May. We estimate that the winter storm reduced liquids volumes by approximately 11 Mbbl/d, accounting for nearly all the sequential volume decline, and impacted gross margin by approximately $1.7 million during the quarter. There were 4 new wells connected behind our gas gathering systems and no new wells connected behind our liquids system during the quarter. There are currently 4 rigs running with over 35 DUCs behind the system and over 25 wells expected to come online in the third quarter of 2022.
The following table presents average daily throughput by reportable segment for the periods indicated:
The following table presents adjusted EBITDA by reportable segment for the periods indicated:
Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures totaled $6.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, inclusive of maintenance capital expenditures of $1.9 million. Capital expenditures in the second quarter of 2022 were primarily related to growth projects to connect new pad sites in our Northeast and Rockies segments.
Capital & Liquidity
As of June 30, 2022, SMLP had $151 million drawn under its $400 million ABL Revolver and $243.1 million of borrowing availability, after accounting for $5.9 million of issued, but undrawn letters of credit. As of June 30, 2022, SMLP's gross availability based on the borrowing base calculation in the credit agreement was $584 million, which is $184 million greater than the $400 million of lender commitments to the ABL Revolver. As of June 30, 2022 SMLP was in compliance with all financial covenants, including interest coverage of 2.7x relative to a minimum interest coverage covenant of 2.0x and first lien leverage ratio of 0.6x relative to a maximum first lien leverage ratio of 2.5x. As of June 30, 2022, SMLP reported a total leverage ratio of 5.08x.
As of June 30, 2022, the Permian Transmission Credit Facility balance was $157.8 million, a reduction of $2.2 million relative to the December 31, 2021 balance of $160.0 million due to scheduled mandatory amortization. The Permian Transmission Term Loan remains non-recourse to SMLP.
MVC Shortfall Payments
SMLP billed its customers $7.8 million in the second quarter of 2022 related to MVC shortfalls. For those customers that do not have MVC shortfall credit banking mechanisms in their gathering agreements, the MVC shortfall payments are accounted for as gathering revenue in the period in which they are earned. In the second quarter of 2022, SMLP recognized $10.1 million of gathering revenue associated with MVC shortfall payments. SMLP had no adjustments to MVC shortfall payments in the second quarter of 2022. SMLP's MVC shortfall payment mechanisms contributed $10.1 million of total adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2022.
Quarterly Distribution
The board of directors of SMLP's general partner continued to suspend cash distributions payable on its common units and on its 9.50% Series A fixed-to-floating rate cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units (the "Series A Preferred Units") for the period ended June 30, 2022. Unpaid distributions on the Series A Preferred Units will continue to accumulate.
Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Call Information
SMLP will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Friday, August 5, 2022, to discuss its quarterly operating and financial results. Interested parties may participate in the call by dialing 404-400-0571 or toll-free 866-374-5140 and entering the PIN 91939799#. The conference call, live webcast and archive of the call can be accessed through the Investors section of SMLP's website at www.summitmidstream.com.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
We report financial results in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"). We also present adjusted EBITDA and Distributable Cash Flow, non-GAAP financial measures.
Adjusted EBITDA
We define adjusted EBITDA as net income or loss, plus interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, our proportional adjusted EBITDA for equity method investees, adjustments related to MVC shortfall payments, adjustments related to capital reimbursement activity, unit-based and noncash compensation, impairments, items of income or loss that we characterize as unrepresentative of our ongoing operations and other noncash expenses or losses, income tax benefit, income (loss) from equity method investees and other noncash income or gains. Because adjusted EBITDA may be defined differently by other entities in our industry, our definition of this non-GAAP financial measure may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other entities, thereby diminishing its utility.
Management uses adjusted EBITDA in making financial, operating and planning decisions and in evaluating our financial performance. Furthermore, management believes that adjusted EBITDA may provide external users of our financial statements, such as investors, commercial banks, research analysts and others, with additional meaningful comparisons between current results and results of prior periods as they are expected to be reflective of our core ongoing business.
Adjusted EBITDA is used as a supplemental financial measure to assess:
- the ability of our assets to generate cash sufficient to make future potential cash distributions and support our indebtedness;
- the financial performance of our assets without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis;
- our operating performance and return on capital as compared to those of other entities in the midstream energy sector, without regard to financing or capital structure;
- the attractiveness of capital projects and acquisitions and the overall rates of return on alternative investment opportunities; and
- the financial performance of our assets without regard to (i) income or loss from equity method investees, (ii) the impact of the timing of minimum volume commitments shortfall payments under our gathering agreements or (iii) the timing of impairments or other income or expense items that we characterize as unrepresentative of our ongoing operations.
Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool and investors should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. For example:
- certain items excluded from adjusted EBITDA are significant components in understanding and assessing an entity's financial performance, such as an entity's cost of capital and tax structure;
- adjusted EBITDA does not reflect our cash expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments;
- adjusted EBITDA does not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; and
- although depreciation and amortization are noncash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and adjusted EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements.
We compensate for the limitations of adjusted EBITDA as an analytical tool by reviewing the comparable GAAP financial measures, understanding the differences between the financial measures and incorporating these data points into our decision-making process.
Distributable Cash Flow
We define Distributable Cash Flow as adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, less cash interest paid, cash paid for taxes, net interest expense accrued and paid on the senior notes, and maintenance capital expenditures.
We do not provide the GAAP financial measures of net income or loss or net cash provided by operating activities on a forward-looking basis because we are unable to predict, without unreasonable effort, certain components thereof including, but not limited to, (i) income or loss from equity method investees and (ii) asset impairments. These items are inherently uncertain and depend on various factors, many of which are beyond our control. As such, any associated estimate and its impact on our GAAP performance and cash flow measures could vary materially based on a variety of acceptable management assumptions.
About Summit Midstream Partners, LP
SMLP is a value-driven limited partnership focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets that are strategically located in the core producing areas of unconventional resource basins, primarily shale formations, in the continental United States. SMLP provides natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering, processing and transportation services pursuant to primarily long-term, fee-based agreements with customers and counterparties in six unconventional resource basins: (i) the Appalachian Basin, which includes the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in Ohio and West Virginia; (ii) the Williston Basin, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations in North Dakota; (iii) the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; (iv) the Permian Basin, which includes the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp formations in New Mexico; (v) the Fort Worth Basin, which includes the Barnett Shale formation in Texas; and (vi) the Piceance Basin, which includes the Mesaverde formation as well as the Mancos and Niobrara shale formations in Colorado. SMLP has an equity method investment in Double E Pipeline, LLC, which provides interstate natural gas transportation service from multiple receipt points in the Delaware Basin to various delivery points in and around the Waha Hub in Texas. SMLP also has an equity method investment in Ohio Gathering, which operates extensive natural gas gathering and condensate stabilization infrastructure in the Utica Shale in Ohio. SMLP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes certain statements concerning expectations for the future that are forward-looking within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may project, indicate or imply future results, events, performance or achievements and may contain the words "expect," "intend," "plan," "anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "will be," "will continue," "will likely result," and similar expressions, or future conditional verbs such as "may," "will," "should," "would," and "could." In addition, any statement concerning future financial performance (including future revenues, earnings or growth rates), ongoing business strategies and possible actions taken by us or our subsidiaries are also forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements also contain known and unknown risks and uncertainties (many of which are difficult to predict and beyond management's control) that may cause SMLP's actual results in future periods to differ materially from anticipated or projected results. An extensive list of specific material risks and uncertainties affecting SMLP is contained in its 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 28, 2022, as amended and updated from time to time. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date of this press release and SMLP undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or events.
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A man who accepted a $2,000 bribe to smuggle a cell phone into the Dauphin County Prison while he was employed there as a correctional officer will serve up to a year in prison, prosecutors said.
Addie I. Reid, 27, of Harrisburg, accepted the bribe from an undercover investigator carrying out a sting operation in the fall of 2019, according to the Department of Justice. The investigator pretended to be a family member of an incarcerated person who wanted to smuggle a phone into the jail for them.
Investigators arrested Reid after he accepted the cash, prosecutors said.
Reid was indicted on bribery charges in July 2020, and pleaded guilty in April 2022. He faced up to five years in prison, probation and a fine.
The FBI and the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office investigated the case.
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Updated June 27, 2023 at 6:42 PM ET
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday repudiated the most extreme form of a controversial legal theory that, if adopted, would have radically reshaped the way elections are conducted, giving state legislatures virtually unchecked power to decide election rules.
By a 6-to-3 vote, the court rejected the so-called Independent State Legislature theory advanced by the Republican-dominated North Carolina state legislature. Writing for the court majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the U.S. Constitution does not, as the lawmakers had claimed, insulate their actions from review by the state courts. To the contrary, he said, state legislative power is constrained by the federal and state constitutions, as well as ordinary state laws.
At the same time, however, Roberts said that in overseeing election provisions, state courts "do not have free rein" to exceed "the ordinary bounds of judicial review."
How to know when courts do exceed that power? The court majority didn't say, leaving for another day the task of articulating a standard for determining when federal courts may tell a state court that it has gone too far in interpreting state law.
Joining Roberts in the majority were conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and the court's three liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the dissent, saying first that the case presented no live controversy anymore since a subsequent state supreme court decision had thrown out the original ruling. Justice Samuel Alito joined that part of the dissent only. But Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the second part of the Thomas dissent, which disputed the majority's conclusion on the merits of the case.
Specifically at issue in the case was a decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court holding that the state legislature had violated state constitutional provisions barring partisan gerrymanders. As a result, the state court ultimately drew new congressional district lines for the 2020 election, and the GOP-dominated state legislature appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawmakers contended that the federal Constitution's provision delegating to state legislatures the power to set the "times, places and manner" of elections means that only the state legislature can make election rules, not courts, and regardless of state constitutional provisions.
Election experts disagreed on the effect of the ruling
NYU law professor Richard Pildes called it "highly significant" that the court rejected the extreme view of the ISL theory. But he said that "at the same time, [the court] endorsed a weaker version of this independent state legislature doctrine, and this is going to sort of hang over the 2024 election."
UCLA law professor Richard Hasen went further, noting that Tuesday's decision gives the federal courts a lot of new power over state courts.
"They've preserved for themselves the right to be the ultimate arbiter of whether state courts have gone too far," he said. The decision "harkens back" to Bush v. Gore in the 2000 election, when Chief Justice William Rehnquist and two other conservative justices "took the view that the Florida state court went too far when it ordered a partial recount of votes." Tuesday's ruling "vindicates the Rehnquist concurrence" of 23 years ago because instead of three votes for the Rehnquist proposition, there are now six justices who have embraced it, Hasen said. "I think that was the price that the liberal justices paid to get an opinion that rejected the most extreme version of this theory," he added.
Hasen predicts it won't be just the Supreme Court that gets these election cases. You can easily imagine election losers running to friendly lower-court judges, hoping for a second bite at the apple, he says. "I think it's going to create mischief," he said. "This is a time bomb waiting to explode."
But others disagree.
"I think there's going to be a lot of litigation," said University of Iowa law professor Derek Muller. "But I question how successful that litigation will be. I think there's a very low likelihood of success."
Others saw the decision as a clear defeat for the Independent State Legislature theory. The decision "was a resounding, reverberating victory for American democracy," said J. Michael Luttig, a former federal judge with decidedly conservative views who worked on the brief for Common Cause opposing the ISL theory.
"This is a very forceful repudiation of the premises of the independent state legislature idea," said University of Illinois law school dean Vikram Amar, who was among a group of liberal and conservative scholars who filed a brief in the case. "What this case does is it reaffirms the flexibility that states have to confer power in different institutions in a way that deals with the challenges confronted by modern democracy," he said.
Legacy of Bush v. Gore
Indeed, Chief Justice Roberts, in his opinion for the court, went out of his way to reaffirm a decision that he dissented from eight years ago, a decision that allows states to deal with the problem of partisan gerrymandering by creating independent redistricting commissions.
That said, there were lots of loose threads still hanging after Thursday's ruling. The Roberts opinion pointed to Chief Justice William Rehnquist's concurring opinion in Bush v. Gore, as well as the dissenters' different different views in the case. In the end, though, Roberts said: "We do not adopt these or any other test by which we can measure" state court interpretations of state election laws. We hold only that state courts may not transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review."
In a separate concurring opinion for himself only, Justice Kavanaugh said that he saw little difference between the Rehnquist concurrence in Bush v. Gore and the opinion written by the dissenters in the case. Both, he said "convey essentially the same point." When federal courts review a state court's interpretation of state law, federal courts "should be deferential, but deference is not abdication."
And finally, while technically affirming the judgement of the North Carolina Supreme Court, the justices declined to say if the state court was right in its original decision. That decision was overturned earlier this year after Republicans retook control of the state supreme court.
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The ads are everywhere — as are the inflated claims: Special shampoos and treatments, sometimes costing thousands of dollars, will make hair grow. But many dermatologists who specialize in hair loss say that most of these products do not work.
“There is an endless array of useless hair-growth remedies,” often at “significant cost,” said Dr. Brett King, a dermatologist at Yale School of Medicine. Yet, he added, “because people are desperate, such hair growth remedies continue to abound.”
But there is a cheap treatment, he and other dermatologists say, costing pennies a day, that restores hair in many patients. It is minoxidil, an old and well-known hair-loss treatment drug used in a very different way. Rather than being applied directly to the scalp, it is being prescribed in very low-dose pills.
Although a growing group of dermatologists is offering low-dose minoxidil pills, the treatment remains relatively unknown to most patients and many doctors. It has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for this purpose and so is prescribed off-label — a common practice in dermatology.
“I call us the off-label bandits — a title I am proud to bear,” said Dr. Adam Friedman, professor and chair of dermatology at George Washington University. He explained that dermatologists have been trained to understand how medicines work, which allows them to try drugs off-label. In dermatology, it is often clear if a treatment is helping. Does a rash fade or not?
Dr. Robert Swerlick, professor and chair of the dermatology department at Emory University School of Medicine, agreed.
“I tell people most things we do are off-label because there is nothing on-label,” he said. He provided a long list of conditions, including skin pigment disorders, skin inflammatory disorders and relentless itching, for which the standard treatments are off-label.
Minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, a lotion or foam that is rubbed on the scalp, was first approved for men in 1988, then women in 1992, and it is now generic. The medicine’s use as a hair-growth treatment was discovered by accident decades ago. High-dose minoxidil pills were being used to treat high blood pressure, but patients often noticed that the pills prompted hair growth all over their bodies. So its manufacturer developed a minoxidil lotion — eventually named Rogaine — and got it approved to grow hair on balding heads.
But dermatologists say the lotion or foam is not particularly effective for some patients, perhaps because they stop taking it. It has to get on the scalp itself — and hair gets in the way. Many, especially women, stop using it because they dislike leaving the sticky substance in their hair.
Johnson and Johnson, the current owner of Rogaine, did not respond to requests for comment.
Others find it simply does not work for them. Minoxidil has to be converted to an active form by sulfotransferase enzymes that may or may not be present in sufficient quantities in hair roots. When the drug is taken orally, it is automatically converted to an active form.
But that was not the reason the low-dose pills were discovered. Instead, the discovery occurred also by accident 20 years ago.
Dr. Rodney Sinclair, a professor of dermatology at the University of Melbourne in Australia, had a patient with female pattern baldness. The hair on top of her head had thinned, and she hated the way it looked. Unlike what happened with most of his patients, Rogaine worked for her, but she developed an allergic rash on her scalp from the drug. Yet, if she stopped taking it, her hair would thin again.
“So I was stuck,” Sinclair said. “The patient was very motivated, and the one thing we knew was that if a patient has an allergy to a topically applied medicine, one way to desensitize is to give very low doses orally.”
To do that, Sinclair tried cutting minoxidil pills into quarters. To his surprise, the low dose made her hair grow but did not affect her blood pressure, the original purpose of the higher-dose drug.
He subsequently lowered the dose more and more until he got down to effective doses of one-fortieth of a pill and began routinely prescribing the drug. That first patient still takes it.
At a meeting in Miami in 2015, Sinclair reported that low doses of minoxidil prompted hair growth in 100 successive women.
He published those results in 2017, noting that rigorous studies were needed, in which some patients would be randomly assigned to take minoxidil and others a sugar pill. But that has not happened. He said he has now treated more than 10,000 patients.
Recently, a rising number of hair-loss dermatologists have been giving the low-dose pills to patients with male and female pattern hair loss, a normal occurrence with age.
“It is just starting to see a surge in popularity,” said Dr. Crystal Aguh, a dermatologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. “More and more at conferences, we are sharing our success stories.”
Doctors who do not specialize in hair loss, she added, “would not be familiar with oral minoxidil,” except as a rarely used treatment for high blood pressure that comes with a black-box warning that it can cause heart problems. But, she and others say, the warning is for much higher doses.
If hair loss is too severe, minoxidil will not help, Aguh said. “It will not work, for example, if a man is mostly bald, with a shiny scalp. There is nothing to restore.” She added that the ideal patient is not completely bald but has lost enough hair that even a casual observer would notice.
Without a rigorous trial leading to FDA approval, though, the use of minoxidil pills for hair loss remains off-label. And, dermatologists say, it is likely to remain so.
“Oral minoxidil costs pennies a day,” King said. “There is no incentive to spend tens of millions of dollars to test it in a clinical trial. That study truly is never, ever going to be done.” | 2022-08-19T04:43:17+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/an-old-medicine-grows-new-hair-for-pennies-a-day-doctors-say/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Mercury's usage-based insurance app could save customers up to 40% on auto insurance and comes with a virtual driving coach
LOS ANGELES, July 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Mercury Insurance announced that the company has made its usage-based insurance app, MercuryGO, available to drivers in Virginia to help improve driving skills and traffic safety. The app acts as a virtual driving coach, providing skill scores that give real-time feedback about driving behavior. Mercury auto insurance policyholders who enroll to use the app immediately receive a 5% participation discount and teen drivers will receive up to a 10% discount. Then, when MercuryGO customers renew their policies, they could receive a discount of up to 40%, depending upon their driving score.
"Mercury Insurance wants to leverage technology to make driving safer, and we also want to reward drivers for being cautious behind the wheel," said Mercury Insurance Director of Product Management Mike Dawdy. "MercuryGO is an intuitive and easy-to-use app that helps you stay safe in the driver's seat and it puts money back in your bank account."
The Virginia Department of Transportation reports there were 967 motor vehicle traffic fatalities and 161 injuries a day on Virginia roadways in 2021.
The MercuryGO app generates a driving skill score, which is calculated based on categories that are closely correlated with car crashes: excessive speeding, hard braking, distracted driving (i.e., phone motion and screen interaction), and road type.
Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), Mercury's technology partner, is the world's largest smartphone telematics provider, winning multiple awards. CMT is the pioneer of: usage-based insurance with smartphones (in 2012); the measurement of phone distraction (2013); behavior-based insurance (2014); and real-time crash alerts with roadside assistance (2015).
"Mercury Insurance is utilizing the DriveWell platform to help drivers reduce distracted driving, speeding, and hard braking by keeping them engaged and providing timely feedback," said Ryan McMahon, CMT's Vice President of Insurance and Government Affairs. "MercuryGO will help make Virginia roads safer and has the potential to reduce the number of car collisions, injuries and fatalities."
CMT's research shows that 37% of all car trips in the U.S. in 2019 involved significant driver phone distraction; between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., that figure rises to 41% of all U.S. car trips. MercuryGO will help solve that problem by using technology that has reduced distracted driving by 29%, speeding by 45%, and hard braking by 17%.
MercuryGO provides useful in-app tips to help users become safer drivers. Added benefits include:
- A sharing option for families, which allows all participating drivers to see who is the safest.
- The ability for parents to receive real-time feedback about their teen's driving behavior, including when, where and how fast they're traveling.
- Licensed teen drivers, 18 years and younger, who are registered for MercuryGO will instantly receive a 10% participation discount on auto insurance.
- The opportunity to earn up to a 40% discount at renewal.
"It's important to remember that driving is a privilege and one that shouldn't be taken lightly," said Dawdy. "Drivers of all skill levels can benefit from the MercuryGO, while also putting money back in their pockets."
Currently, MercuryGO is available to Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Texas drivers. Visit www.mercuryinsurance.com/GO or contact a local Mercury Insurance agent to enroll.
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Mercury Insurance (NYSE: MCY) is a multiple-line insurance carrier predominantly offering personal auto, homeowners, renters and commercial insurance through a network of independent agents in Arizona, California, Illinois, Georgia, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, as well as auto insurance in Florida. Mercury writes other lines of insurance in various states, including business owners and business auto, landlord, home-sharing, ride-hailing and mechanical protection insurance.
Since 1962, Mercury has provided customers with tremendous value for their insurance dollar by pairing ultracompetitive rates with excellent customer service. Mercury has earned "A" ratings from A.M. Best and Fitch, as well as ranking highest in the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Insurance Digital Experience StudySM and four consecutive "Best Auto Insurance Company" awards from Insure.com. For more information visit www.MercuryInsurance.com or follow the company on Twitter or Facebook.
CMT's mission is to make the world's roads and drivers safer. Since its first product launch in 2012 that pioneered mobile usage-based insurance, CMT has become the world's leading telematics and analytics provider for insurers, rideshares, and fleets. CMT's DriveWell platform uses mobile sensing and behavioral science to measure driving risk and incentivize safer driving, while its Claim Studio reduces the claims cycle time with real-time crash detection, crash reconstruction, and damage assessment using telematics and artificial intelligence. CMT has over 50 active programs with insurers and other partners, improving safety for millions of drivers every day around the world. Started based on research at MIT, CMT is headquartered in Cambridge MA. To learn more, visit www.cmtelematics.com and follow CMT on Twitter @cmtelematics.
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GUANGZHOU, China (AP) _ Fanhua Inc. (FANH) on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings of $4.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Guangzhou, China-based company said it had profit of 9 cents.
The insurance company posted revenue of $105 million in the period.
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Passenger gives birth on 12-hour overnight flight
An Emirates flight from Tokyo Narita to Dubai International on Jan. 19 touched down with an extra traveler on board, after a passenger gave birth in the air.
The new arrival made their appearance on the 12-hour overnight Flight EK 319, which landed on schedule despite the medical emergency, the airline confirmed to CNN.
The passenger and baby were assisted by Emirates cabin crew, who all receive medical response training so they can handle situations such as baby deliveries or heart attacks.
Emirates told CNN that the parent and infant "were in stable condition and, upon arrival in Dubai, were met by local medical staff. The health and safety of our crew and passengers is of paramount importance."
Births on board planes are relatively rare. Emirates' policy when it comes to pregnant travelers is similar to that of many other commercial airlines: Travelers can fly up to their seventh month of pregnancy unless they have any medical complications or concerns.
Passengers who are 29 weeks pregnant or more need to bring a medical certificate or a letter signed by their doctor or midwife, and no one is allowed to fly after the 32nd week of a multiple pregnancy or the 36th week of a single pregnancy.
Video: Woman gives birth to baby mid-flight
Last May, a woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy in a lavatory on board a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Colorado, with assistance from a flight attendant. And in January 2022, a woman went into labor six hours into a flight between Accra, Ghana, and Washington Dulles International Airport. Her child was delivered safely on the floor of the cabin in the space provided by the emergency exits.
There can be silver linings to this medical emergency no parent plans for. In 2016, a baby boy was awarded a lifetime of free flights on Buraq Air after his mother gave birth while on board the airline. | 2023-01-25T19:06:50+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/passenger-gives-birth-on-emirates-flight/42659560 |
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced Monday that repairs to the Mahantango Creek covered bridge in Susquehanna Township, Juniata County, and the implementation of a detour associated with those repairs have been postponed until Aug. 1. PennDOT said it delayed the start of work because it has yet to receive some materials needed for timber repairs, a press release said.
Once the materials arrive and PennDOT closes the bridge, drivers will follow a detour using Route 3001 (Covered Bridge Road), Route 3016 (Pine Swamp Road), Route 104 and Route 3002 (Oriental Road). The detour will be in place for the project’s duration once implemented. Motorists familiar with the area may choose alternate routes.
Overall work includes timber repairs, removal and resetting of stone masonry facing, and miscellaneous construction. Jay Fulkroad and Sons, Inc. of McAlisterville, PA, is the contractor on this $359,000 project. All work is weather and schedule dependent.
The Mahantango Creek covered bridge is 65 feet long and carries an average of 874 vehicles daily. It suffered damage in a 2021 crash that PennDOT repaired using temporary means.
PennDOT reminds drivers to use caution in work zones, follow official detour signs, obey posted speed limits, and always buckle up.
Motorists are encouraged to “Know Before They Go” by checking conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.
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I-80 lane closures continue for another week around Delaware Water Gap | 2022-07-18T19:12:06+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/07/central-pa-covered-bridge-closure-rescheduled-for-aug-1.html |
An off-Broadway revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, co-starring Lancaster County native Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe of “Harry Potter” fame, will start previews on Broadway in September, and tickets will be available starting later this week.
“Merrily We Roll Along,” which had a recent limited run in fall of 2022 at the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop, will start preview performances on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at the Hudson Theatre, 141 W. 44th St., New York, the producers announced in a news release.
The Broadway production reunites the three off-Broadway stars — Groff, Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, portraying Franklin Shepard, Charley Kringas and Mary Flynn, respectively. In reverse chronological order, the musical tells the story of the relationship of three creative friends and how their friendship evolved — and soured — over a 20-year period.
The production, the musical’s first-ever revival on Broadway, will have a limited run of 18 weeks, according to the news release. The show’s opening night has not been announced.
Pre-sale tickets for those signing up on the show’s website start Thursday, March 23, and sales for the general public begin Friday, March 24.
For information, visit the show’s website at merrilyonbroadway.com or the Hudson Theatre website at thehudsonbroadway.com.
The Hudson Theatre has just under 1,000 seats.
Though the show was a Broadway flop for composer Sondheim and book writer George Furth when it premiered in 1981, the recent off-Broadway revival garnered positive reviews from the critics.
Maria Friedman, who won Britain’s Olivier Award for helming the 2013 “Merrily...” revival in London’s West End, will direct the Broadway iteration of the show as she did the off-Broadway version.
Groff grew up in Ronks, graduated from Conestoga Valley High School and performed in local theater productions before getting a starring role in “Spring Awakening” on Broadway in 2006. He earned a Tony Award nomination for that role, and Tony and Emmy nominations for playing King George III in Broadway’s “Hamilton,” which was filmed for streaming on Disney+.
On the big screen, Groff recently starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller “Knock at the Cabin,” and appeared in “The Matrix Resurrections.” He’s known for voicing Kristoff in the Disney “Frozen” animated films, starring in Netflix’s “Mindhunter” and HBO’s “Looking,” and playing a recurring role on Fox’s “Glee.”
Groff, who will turn 38 on Sunday, also starred as Seymour off-Broadway in "Little Shop of Horrors" in 2019. | 2023-03-20T10:10:17+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/broadway-theater-fall-preview-date-set-for-sondheim-show-starring-jonathan-groff-tickets-available-this/article_4a6491b2-c4fe-11ed-976e-373cd31fc151.html |
MEXICO CITY — Mexican Navy inspectors have intercepted 11,520 tequila bottles bound for export that actually contained nearly 10 tons of concentrated liquid meth, the Navy said Monday.
Photos of the seizure show a sniffer dog alerting inspectors to cardboard boxes of glass bottles full of a brownish liquid, consistent with the color of “añejo” or aged tequila. The labels on the bottles were not visible.
Mexico is the world’s only producer of authentic tequila. While there have not been any reported instances of such bottles reaching consumers, ingesting the mixture would be immensely dangerous.
Mexico’s Tequila Regulatory Council, a trade and certification group, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether anything similar had occurred before.
Mexico has become a major producer of meth, and drug smugglers frequently are stopped at the border with liquid meth in their windshield washer fluid or other containers in their cars.
The liquid meth is usually recovered by the smugglers and taken to specialized facilities where the water is extracted and then returned to its usually crystal form. | 2023-04-24T22:58:55+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/24/mexico-meth-tequila-drug-smuggling/af23b9ea-e2d9-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html |
Man going fishing finds stolen Jeep from 1990 buried under water
WICHITA, Kan. - John Mounce of Wichita, Kansas, was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing over the Memorial Day weekend, and the water did not disappoint.
While using sonar equipment to find the best spot to cast his reel at Cheney Lake, he found a Jeep buried underwater.
Turned out the Jeep was stolen more than 30 years ago and is now a part of a criminal investigation.
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"I was scanning around looking for structure to fish for crappie and something showed up on my side view," he told FOX Television Stations. "I circled back and dropped my Garmin live scope on it and knew immediately it was a Jeep!"
Video and pictures of the Jeep showed the vehicle completely worn and rusted.
"I caught the crappie off of the jeep then called the authorities," he added.
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office told Mounce the Jeep was stolen in 1990, but they didn't provide any more details.
"I was shocked and kind of excited at what I'd found," he continued.
Mounce said the Jeep is now with authorities, and the Wichita Police Department is also investigating. Mounce said authorities have attempted to contact the vehicle's owner, but they haven't publicly revealed the owner's name.
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Since then, Mounce's discovery has gained national attention.
"I am completely shocked with how much attention this has caught across the world and media," he explained.
FOX Television Stations has reached out to the Wichita Police Department for comment.
This story was reported from Los Angeles. | 2023-06-07T19:07:15+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/man-going-fishing-finds-stolen-jeep-from-1990-under-water |
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Initiated by China Energy Engineering Group Co Ltd, the New Energy, New Infrastructure, New Industry Alliance and Shanghai Green Low Carbon City Industry Alliance were set up in the city on Monday to further step up the green and low carbon transition in the country, the company said on Tuesday.
The alliance, consisting of 242 new energy related companies, social organizations and research institutes, will come up with an innovation and cooperation platform to better seize new opportunities for the development of green and low-carbon industries, said the company, one of the world's largest advanced energy engineering conglomerates.
Song Hailiang, chairman of the company, also known as Energy China, said the platform will further facilitate the company in the development of green and low-carbon economy, digital economy and sharing economy.
In addition to domestic cooperation, the company has also been strengthening its technical cooperation with partners worldwide while actively exploring diversified cooperation methods.
Song said the company will accelerate its investment in solar, wind and hydropower in economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, considering the tremendous potential the clean energy market has for years to come.
The company currently sees its business spread across more than 140 countries and regions, with a contract value signed with economies participating in the BRI exceeding 500 billion yuan ($71.8 billion) in the past five years.
Energy China has seen its presence expanding on the global stage in the past few years with its high-quality projects, including the Nestor Kirchner-Jorge Cepernic hydropower plant in Argentina, the Tengger Reservoir 60-megawatt floating solar project in Singapore, the Sao Lourenco water supply project in Brazil and the Umm Al Quwain independent water project in the United Arab Emirates.
During the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE), the company had also signed purchase agreements with a record total contract worth $1.34 billion, up 43.6 percent compared with the previous expo, it said.
Purchase agreements, inked with companies including General Electric, cover photovoltaic power plant products, gas turbines and generators as well as design and consulting services, it said.
This is the fifth year the company has participated in the CIIE, with an accumulated purchase amount reaching up to $3 billion, it said.
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Judge blocks US health care law mandate on preventive care
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation’s health law Thursday in a decision that opponents say could jeopardize preventive screenings for millions of Americans.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor comes more than four years after he ruled that the health care law, sometimes called “Obamacare,” was unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court later overturned that decision.
His latest ruling is likely to start another lengthy court battle: O’Connor blocked the requirement that most insurers cover some preventive care such as cancer screenings, siding with plaintiffs who include a conservative activist in Texas and a Christian dentist who opposed mandatory coverage for contraception and an HIV prevention treatment on religious grounds.
O’Connor wrote in his opinion that recommendations for preventive care by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were “unlawful.”
The Biden administration had told the court that the outcome of the case “could create extraordinary upheaval in the United States’ public health system.” It is likely to appeal.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the ruling.
In September, O’Connor ruled that required coverage of the HIV prevention treatment known as PrEP, which is a pill taken daily to prevent infection, violated the plaintiffs’ religious beliefs. That decision also undercut the broader system that determines which preventive drugs are covered in the U.S., ruling that a federal task force that recommends coverage of preventive treatments is unconstitutional.
Employers’ religious objections have been a sticking point in past challenges to former President Barack Obama’s health care law, including over contraception.
The Biden administration and more than 20 states, mostly controlled by Democrats, had urged O’Connor against a sweeping ruling that would do away with the preventive care coverage requirement entirely.
“Over the last decade, millions of Americans have relied on the preventive services provisions to obtain no-cost preventive care, improving not only their own health and welfare, but public health outcomes more broadly,” the states argued in a court filing.
The lawsuit is among the attempts by conservatives to chip away at the Affordable Care Act — or wipe it out entirely — since it was signed into law in 2010. The attorney who filed the suit was an architect of the Texas abortion law that was the nation’s strictest before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June and allowed states to ban the procedure.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-30T17:16:46+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/03/30/judge-blocks-us-health-care-law-mandate-preventive-care/ |
Each new school year comes with a new set of challenges and things for kids to be worried about, but experts saying preparing your kids the right way for the upcoming year can make a big impact.
Lauren Starnes is an early education expert with the Goddard School. Her first set of advice for parents trying to ease kids back into the school year is to talk to them.
"Part of any transition is demystifying the unknown," Starnes said.
Entering a new school or grade is especially nerve-wracking. Starnes says to remember that young children lack an understanding of time. Her advice? Instead of telling kids exactly when school begins or ends, use the order of events. Say things like, "In the morning we'll get dressed, we'll have breakfast, then you'll go to school."
"Remind the child and prepare them for when the parents will exit and when the child will return back to the family, it gives them an order of what to expect," Starnes added.
Laura's next set of recommendations has to do with routines. A week before school starts she says to set your kid's alarms for the same time they'll be waking up on at the first day of school. Then, get dressed, grab lunches and practice your family's morning drop-off routine.
"It's important to talk through that to alleviate any element of surprise," Starnes added.
Ben Warren, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor says families should use the end of summer as a time to start prioritizing sleeping schedules.
"Sleep is imperative to allow for growth spurts and their ever-changing minds," Warren noted. | 2022-08-22T23:46:48+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/tips-for-parents-students-as-new-school-year-begins |
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A Truist branch bank was robbed Monday morning in southern Greensboro. | 2023-01-28T08:07:48+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/3-bedroom-home-in-greensboro---279-900/article_90a60840-07aa-5e79-bc31-f58e9ee30494.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Jill Biden will host a roundtable Monday on breast and cervical cancer, part of the administration’s “moonshot” effort to reduce deaths from cancer, the White House said.
The event is one of many being launched by the American Cancer Society. Singer Mary J. Blige, an advocate for cancer screening, will participate in the roundtable with Biden.
President Joe Biden announced in February his goal of halving cancer deaths in the next 25 years. The issue is personal for Biden, whose son Beau Biden died in 2015 of brain cancer. Biden launched the cancer moonshot the following year when serving as then-President Barack Obama’s vice president. | 2022-10-21T21:43:08+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/political-news/ap-first-lady-to-host-roundtable-on-breast-and-cervical-cancer/ |
Officials: 6 mutilated cows found dead with tongues cut out
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Six mutilated cows were found dead on different properties along a Texas highway spanning three counties, authorities announced this week.
While investigating the death of a 6-year-old cow, five other similar occurrences were reported along the area near College Station spanning Madison, Brazos and Robertson counties, Madison County Sheriff’s officials said Wednesday in a Facebook post. Similar mutilations have been reported around the U.S. and efforts to coordinate between agencies were underway, the sheriff’s office said.
The 6-year-old cow was found with a “straight, clean cut, with apparent precision” removing the hide around one side of the animal’s mouth, authorities said. The tongue was also removed, with no blood spill. Ranchers reported no predators or birds had scavenged the remains, the Sheriff’s office said.
The cows were found in similar conditions, but in two instances, additional external organs were taken, the Sheriff’s office said.
Each cow was mutilated in a different location and there were no signs of struggle, the grass was undisturbed and there were no footprints or tire tracks discovered around the deceased cows, according to the post.
The cause of death of all six cows remains unknown.
Madison County Sheriff officials did not respond on Sunday to a request for comment.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-23T19:05:27+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2023/04/23/officials-6-mutilated-cows-found-dead-with-tongues-cut-out/ |
Updated March 31, 2023 at 8:11 AM ET
Louisiana State is back in the women's Final Four for the first time in 15 years. For Iowa, it's been three decades. And Virginia Tech is here for the first time ever.
Before last weekend, the NCAA Division I women's college basketball tournament already was marked by historic parity. Now it has its first Final Four in 38 years to feature none of the sport's longtime Goliaths — Tennessee, Stanford and UConn.
The only familiar face in this year's Final Four is the defending champions, South Carolina, who breezed to victory in last year's tournament and were this year's #1 overall seed. Yet even the Gamecocks are relative newcomers to tournament glory: They made their first-ever Final Four appearance only eight years ago.
The women's tournament long has been dogged by less parity than the men's event, which is famous for its upsets and Cinderella runs — see their 2023 Final Four, which includes surprising Florida Atlantic and none of the top 12 teams.
The fresh lineup for the women's final weekend is an opportunity to celebrate the women's game more widely, said South Carolina coach Dawn Staley ahead of Monday night's game.
"This is a new history that we're venturing into, because there are so many great players and parity in our league that we need to start documenting," she said.
The Gamecocks, led by star forward Aliyah Boston, face a formidable semifinal opponent in No. 2 Iowa. In their last game, the Hawkeyes' buzzsaw guard Caitlin Clark notched 41 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists in the first-ever 40-point triple-double in the NCAA tournament — women's or men's.
Clark's stellar play has propelled Iowa to its first Final Four since 1993. "When I came here, I said I wanted to take this program to the Final Four, and all you gotta do is dream," Clark said after Iowa's 97-83 Elite Eight victory over Louisville. "Then all you gotta do is believe and work your butt off to get there."
The other top seed, Virginia Tech, hasn't lost a game since January. Their opponent, 3-seed Louisiana State, will hope to match the lowest seed ever to win the women's tournament. That's been done by only two teams before: North Carolina in 1994 and Tennessee in 1997.
Friday's lineup
No. 3 LSU vs. No. 1 Virginia Tech at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN
No. 2 Iowa vs. No. 1 South Carolina at 9:00 p.m. ET on ESPN
Additional reporting by NPR's Tom Goldman. contributed to this story
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-07T22:06:42+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/npr-headlines/npr-headlines/2023-03-28/the-ncaa-womens-final-four-has-both-fresh-faces-and-the-defending-champs |
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll says both safety Jamal Adams and linebacker Jordyn Brooks are hopeful of being ready for training camp this summer.
However the team will be cautious with the progress of both coming back from major injuries.
Carroll said Wednesday that both are progressing in their recovery from significant injuries suffered last season. Brooks tore his ACL late in the season while Adams suffered a torn quadriceps tendon in the season opener.
Carroll said that while it may be overly optimistic, both are trying to be ready sometime during training camp.
“Very optimistic on their sides and they’re really thinking they’re going to make it so we’re holding good thoughts,” Carroll said.
Both players are expected to have checkups with Seattle’s medical staff in the next couple of weeks.
Brooks had started every game the past two seasons before getting hurt in Week 17 last season against the New York Jets. Brooks’ injury, combined with Cody Barton leaving in free agency, left Seattle without both its starting linebackers and led to the signing of Devin Bush and the return of Bobby Wagner this offseason.
Adams was injured in Week 1 against Denver, continuing a run of bad luck with significant injuries. Adams seems the more likely to be ready in the summer, and while Brooks may be optimistic, a more realistic timeline would have him returning sometime around midseason.
“There’s some optimism that it could happen. We’ll be conservative through that timeframe to make sure that we don’t screw it up by hurrying them along,” Carroll said. “I’m wide open to they think they can do it, let’s see what happens.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
Recall Summary
Name of Product: Blue Ridge utility knives
Hazard: The recalled utility knife can become unlocked and the blade can protrude only while in the original packaging, posing a laceration hazard.
Remedy: Repair
Consumers should immediately and carefully inspect the packaging containing the Blue Ridge Utility Knife to determine whether the blade tip is protruding through the package. Carefully remove the knife from the packaging, avoiding the blade tip, and discard the packaging. To apply the repair, secure the knife by retracting and locking the knife in the closed position. Once the knife is removed from the packaging, the knife can be used in typical fashion.
Consumer Contact:
Positec toll-free at 855-516-3557 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, email at utilitykniferecall@blueridgetools.com or online at www.blueridgetools.com/utilitykniferecall or www.blueridgetools.com and click on "Recall" at the bottom of the page for more information.
Recall Details
Units: About 36,250
Description:
This recall involves the Blue Ridge Utility Knife with a six-inch retractable blade. Model number BR922OU is printed on the back of the package. The knife is silver in color with the Blue Ridge logo printed on it. The packaging is blue and teal with an orange-and-white mountain logo at the top.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received two reports of the blade protruding in the original packaging, both resulting in laceration injuries.
Sold At: Exclusively at Target stores nationwide and online at www.target.com from August 2022 through February 2023 for about $5.
Manufactured by: Positec USA Inc., of Charlotte, North Carolina
Manufactured in: China
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About Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge tools provides weekend warriors, and serious do-it yourselfers, a complete line of quality, affordable hand tools, power tools and accessories. From screwdrivers and tape measures to cordless drills and leaf blowers, Blue Ridge tools and accessories are available in major retailers and online in the US and Canada.
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IRVING, Texas, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) has released its 2022 Sustainability Progress Report, which provides a detailed overview of the company's progress against key environmental, social and governance objectives throughout 2022.
"As a growing family of brands and businesses we are committed to continuing our strong focus on sustainability and continually seek ways to maximize resources and help move the world toward a more circular economy," said Randall C. Stuewe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Our Sustainability Progress Report outlines how our unique size and scale allow Darling Ingredients to enable entire industries to be less wasteful and more sustainable, demonstrating that sustainability is core to who we are and what we do."
Notable 2022 achievements include:
- Decreased global water intensity by 20%, achieving our 2025 goal three years early.
- Improved global emissions intensity by more than 8%, per unit of raw material processed, compared to 2020, marking strong progress alongside business growth.
- Met our renewable fuels production goal, producing more than 780 gallons of renewable diesel at Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), our joint venture.
- Opened a new renewable diesel plant at DGD, to expand total annual production capacity to approximately 1.2 billion gallons of renewable diesel.
- Doubled our renewable energy production in Europe through acquisition and expansion of biodigestation capacity.
The report also describes steps taken to enable future sustainability success, including completing the company's first-ever double materiality assessment and adding new leadership to help define near- and long-term sustainability strategy, set targets and enable change throughout global operations. Also contained in the report is a full Scope 3 inventory, an important step on following through on the company's commitment to setting science-based climate targets and validating them with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
About Darling Ingredients
Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) is the largest publicly traded company turning edible by-products and food waste into sustainable products and a leading producer of renewable energy. Recognized as a sustainability leader, the company operates more than 260 facilities in over 15 countries and repurposes approximately 15% of the world's meat industry waste streams into value-added products, such as green energy, renewable diesel, collagen, fertilizer, animal proteins and meals, and pet food ingredients. To learn more, visit darlingii.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators have yet to name a suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a home near campus last month. But would-be armchair detectives and internet sleuths have come up with several of their own, the conclusions often based on conjecture and rumor.
Online forums with thousands of members are full of people speculating about possible motives, doxxing the victims’ friends and acquaintances and even outright labeling some people as murderers.
“People are going down these rabbit holes, and they’re hyperfocusing on one individual and attacking that individual,” said Tauna Davis, an Idaho State Police trooper who is helping the Moscow Police Department handle the influx of media interview requests. “You’re attacking, most likely, an innocent person.”
Relatively few details have been released about the homicides, which have left the small college town shaken and grieving for Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The four were friends and all members of the university’s Greek system.
The killings have drawn worldwide attention, especially among true crime aficionados. That’s likely because so few facts are known about the case, said Julie Wiest, a sociology professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and an expert on extreme violence in media.
“Usually by now, there’s more facts that have been released by law enforcement, so I could see that ramping up the sort of digging and almost grasping at straws by people,” Wiest said. “It’s not that typical, except in high-profile cold cases, where you might see people digging in that way.”
Many of the online sleuths are likely well-intended, she said — perhaps driven by a desire to avoid similar crimes, hoping to bring justice or just seeking a little fame within the true crime fandom.
But they may not realize the harm wild speculation can cause, and today’s theories will likely still exist online years from now, forever linking innocent people to a brutal crime.
“People should maybe think about knowing what they post is in writing forever, and maybe also remembering that there are real people here. The families of the victims should also be considered,” Wiest said. “You can speculate while talking with your friends in your living room, but once you put it on the internet — even if it’s just a one-off thought that popped into your head — it’s there now and it’s not going away.”
The victims and their friends are young enough that much of their lives has been documented online, providing a wealth of material for web sleuths to mine. Photos and rumors once shared with a small circle are now being widely disseminated, exposing the subjects to harassment.
Some sleuths suggested one person’s photo of a successful hunting trip was evidence of nefarious leanings. They may have been unaware that hunting is a common pastime for many Idaho families and that fixed-blade knives are a basic tool for anyone who field-dresses wild game.
Others chased rumors posted to a wholly anonymous online message forum best known as a source of hoaxes, scandals and misinformation. Those rumors criticized and published personal information about various people in the Moscow area, suggesting they should be suspects.
Some even examined obituaries of other University of Idaho students who have died in the past few years in an attempt to tie them to the homicide victims, though none of the other deaths were the result of foul play. At least one grieving family member went online to ask people to stop trying to link his child’s death to the case and to respect the family’s privacy.
All the rumor and wild conjecture aside, there can be some benefit to crowdsourced investigation.
“More heads are better than one, and it’s possible that people on the internet know something that police don’t,” said Christopher Slobogin, a law professor at Vanderbilt University.
Police are welcoming tips but urging people to stay focused on the information released by the police department, not guesses and rumors. Last week they asked the public for help tracking down a white sedan that was seen in the area around the time of the killings.
The internet forums and community members went to work, and Moscow police announced Thursday that investigators were now sorting through 22,000 registered 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantras that matched their search criteria. The department thanked tipsters for their help providing additional information about the vehicle.
It’s law enforcement’s job to follow up on those leads, Slobogin noted.
“We don’t want vigilantes out there trying to take the law into their own hands,” he said.
Robbie Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Moscow Police Department, said the attention and speculation has been “awful” for the people at the center of it.
“None of these people did anything wrong. Nothing,” she said. “We all have our LinkedIns, or Facebook pages, and this could really happen to anyone associated with some sort of crime. I have a lot of sympathy for them.”
Johnson declined to talk about the nature of the harassment for fear of fanning the flames.
“The speculations, the rumors, the accusations — anything you put on that fire will just make it burn hotter, so I don’t want to add any more to that,” she said.
The police department announced earlier this month that it would bring charges against harassers if necessary.
In a video statement, Capt. Roger Lanier said some people in the community have received death threats and the effect is a revictimization of people who have suffered “terrible trauma.”
He added that the rumors and harassment can be disheartening, but investigators are driven to solve the case.
“We make progress every day, every hour,” Johnson said, “and that is what keeps you feeling confident and going — knowing that the investigation is going somewhere.” | 2022-12-16T22:27:06+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-idaho-students-unsolved-deaths-prompt-rumors-harassment/ |
Collaboration helps reduce corporate carbon footprint by empowering employees to take sustainable actions
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Allant Group LLC, a data-driven journey orchestration solution provider, and a VntCap Technologies LLC company, in an effort to help reduce our corporate carbon footprint, is pleased to announce its collaboration with Evertreen.com.
Evertreen's technological advancements contribute to the wellbeing of our planet by sponsoring tree-planting across the world. They offer the only platform that allows users to plant real trees online and transparently track them via satellite. This allows sponsors to directly see the impact of the efforts they are funding. Evertreen's tree planting efforts drive global reforestation efforts, raise awareness about the importance of ecosystem restoration, and support several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As part of its corporate initiative to promote environmental sustainability, Allant is kicking off its Social Responsibility Program with its partnership with Evertreen and a commitment of funding the planting of 1,000 trees worldwide in 2023. This initiative will offset Co2 pollution, work towards alleviating poverty, improve water quality, and enrich the air we breathe.
"This partnership with a trailblazer like Evertreen represents a significant step forward by recognizing our social responsibilities in our sustainability journey," said Michael D. Fisher, CEO at Allant Group. "We are proud to do our part to raise awareness, engage our internal community, and promote a positive impact on the environment for our people, planet, and business."
Evertreen oversees the planting of trees directly by local farmers, which not only promotes environmental benefits, but also promotes social and economic benefits by offering stable employment for regional communities involved in the projects.
We encourage everyone to join us in our efforts to create a sustainable future for all. For more information on Evertreen, go to: www.evertreen.com and follow on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
About Allant Group
Allant Group is a data-driven audience orchestration engine that powers the solutions behind successful customer journeys. We give organizations a competitive advantage by leveraging data, analytics, customer experience management, martech integration, and strategic consulting services to deliver individualized and nurturing lifecycle experiences that create a stronger relationship between brand and customer. Allant is a privately held company headquartered in the Chicago area. For more information, visit https://www.allantgroup.com/.
About VntCap Technologies, LLC
VntCap Technologies, LLC provides its subsidiary companies with a unique blend of viewpoints and experiences that deliver comprehensive guidance and oversight to its leadership teams. Unlike other investment firms that seek quicker financial returns from their investments, VntCap actively operates the companies within its investment portfolio for longer periods of time to achieve maximum valuation. Founded by a group of entrepreneurs from a cross-section of industries, the varied background of its members is what continues to create value in subsidiary companies such as Allant Group. For more information about VntCap Technologies, LLC visit http://www.vntcaptech.com/.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Carter Graham's three-run double capped a six-run sixth inning and top-seeded Stanford flexed its muscles late in an 18-10 victory over California in the second round of pool play at the Pac-12 Tournament on Wednesday night.
The Cardinal (38-14) trailed 5-2 before scoring 16 runs over the final four innings.
Rodney Green Jr. had a sacrifice fly in the first inning and scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the fifth to help the Golden Bears (24-28) build a 5-2 lead.
Stanford opened the floodgates with a six-run eighth and then scored four more times in the ninth.
Malcolm Moore had four hits with an RBI and three runs scored for the Cardinal. Alberto Rios collected three hits, scoring four times and driving in a pair. Braden Montgomery and Rios hit back-to-back home runs in the ninth. Montgomery's was a two-run shot.
Caleb Lomavita hit a three-run homer in the eighth for Cal.
Brandt Pancer (2-0) came in and got the final two outs of the fifth inning and then benefited from the Cardinal's six-run sixth to get the win.
Reliever Robert Aivazian (0-4) took the loss for the Golden Bears. Aivazian pitched 3 2/3 innings, allowing five runs — two earned — on three hits and three walks.
Stanford will close out pool play against No. 6 seed Oregon in Thursday's nightcap, while No. 9 seed Cal is eliminated after a first-round 3-2 loss to the Ducks.
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AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2023-05-25T07:30:10+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/top-seeded-stanford-powers-way-to-18-10-win-over-18118177.php |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 41 points, Jerami Grant made a driving layup with three seconds left, and the unbeaten Portland Trail Blazers kept the Los Angeles Lakers winless under new coach Darvin Ham with a 106-104 victory Sunday.
Portland trailed 102-95 with 1:56 to play, but ended the game on an 11-2 run and won it when LeBron James missed a 17-footer at the buzzer.
Lillard carried the Blazers for long stretches, scoring 12 points in the final 5:06 before Grant finished it. After missing the final 47 games last season with injuries, Lillard has scored 41 points in Portland’s second and third games of the new season. He also continued his longtime domination of the Lakers, improving his career average of 28 points per game.
“Obviously, Dame is back and he’s pretty much putting the league on notice,” Portland coach Chauncey Billups said.
Patrick Beverley, James and Russell Westbrook all missed shots for LA down the stretch. After Anfernee Simons hit a leaning layup over Anthony Davis with 36 seconds left to trim Portland’s deficit to 102-101, Westbrook curiously shot and missed a 15-footer with 27 seconds to play and about 16 seconds left on the shot clock, capping his 4-for-15 day from the field.
Lillard then drilled his sixth 3-pointer, but James drove straight through the paint for an uncontested tying dunk with 7.7 seconds to go.
Grant, who finished with 16 points, drove and scored the tiebreaking bucket. James had a decent look at the basket on the final play, but couldn’t connect.
“We all trusted the next guy to do their job,” Lillard said. “We were able to get stops, not turn the ball over and hit our shots.”
James had 31 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, while Davis finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots for the Lakers (0-3).
“We were getting some of the same shots (down the stretch) we were getting (earlier),” James said. “Just didn’t make them. (Westbrook) got some good looks and wasn’t able to knock them down. Defensively, we couldn’t get multiple stops in a row. And Dame was Dame down the stretch.”
Lonnie Walker scored 15 points and Westbrook had 10 for Los Angeles. Westbrook said he took his remarkably early jumper in the final minute as a 2-for-1 to make sure the Lakers would get the final possession.
Westbrook sat out for 11 straight clock minutes until returning down the stretch, and the Blazers repeatedly guarded him with 7-foot Jusuf Nurkic, who was instructed to lay off the 2017 NBA MVP in a probable bid to force Westbrook to beat them. Westbrook missed both of his fourth-quarter shots.
The Clippers also defended Westbrook with a center on Thursday night, hurting the Lakers’ offensive spacing.
TIP-INS
Trail Blazers: Simons went 5 for 17 from the field. … Former Lakers F Josh Hart had 16 rebounds.
Lakers: Troy Brown Jr. scored four points in 22 minutes in his debut with Los Angeles, which signed the Las Vegas native in July.
ANOTHER 20
James scored at least 20 points for the 1,134th time in his 20-year career, tying Karl Malone for the most 20-point games in NBA history. James has scored at least 10 points in 1,099 consecutive games since January 2007, and he remains on track to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the top scorer in league history this winter.
NO 3, BUT D
The Lakers missed 17 of their first 18 3-point attempts, continuing their anomalously poor start to the season from distance. Los Angeles finished 6 for 33 on 3-pointers against Portland, falling to 25 for 118 (21.2%) this season.
UP NEXT
Trail Blazers: Host Nuggets on Monday.
Lakers: At Nuggets on Wednesday.
___ More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-24T19:16:26+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-lillard-grant-lead-blazers-late-rally-past-lakers-106-104/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison.
Jesse Osborne’s lawyer asked Judge Lawton McIntosh on Monday to reconsider his sentence so Osborne, now 21, could have some hope of freedom in his 50s or 60s.
Attorney Frank Eppes said the judge didn’t fully consider a psychologist’s report that Osborne’s lashed out because of abuse and can be rehabilitated.
“Give Jesse some hope to live with,” Eppes said at a televised court hearing.
Osborne himself asked for a chance at life outside a prison cell, apologizing to the family of 6-year-old Jacob Hall who he killed and everyone at the school that day.
“I would just like to say sorry to every single one of them. Because my evil actions hurt their lives,” Osborne said. “I’m just going to try to better myself in the Department of Corrections the rest of my life.
But the teacher whose class was having recess, the parent of a wounded child, the father of the student celebrating his birthday, the superintendent who saw the bloodstained class rug and the school principal all said at Monday’s hearing at the Anderson County Courthouse that they don’t want to ever see Osborne out of prison.
Principal Denise Fredericks recognized Osborne as he paced outside Townville Elementary School with a backpack full of ammunition for 12 minutes after his gun jammed before police arrived to arrest him. Osborne had been a student there for seven years.
“I do wish Jesse a life where he can wake up, breathe, eat, work, be productive — but not outside the walls of a prison,” Fredericks said. “In my opinion, his current sentence is still so, so much more merciful than the sentence he gave to Jacob and our school family.”
Prosecutors said Hall’s family didn’t wish to speak in court but want Osborne to never be released from prison.
Osborne is serving two life sentences after pleading guilty. Before opening fire at the school on Sept. 28, 2016, he shot and killed his father while he slept in a recliner, kissed his rabbit and other pets goodbye, then stole his dad’s truck and drove to his former elementary school, according to Osborne’s confession.
Osborne crashed his truck into the school fence and fired at the first-grade class celebrating a classmate’s birthday at recess. Hall bled to death from a gunshot to his leg. Two other students and a teacher suffered minor injuries.
Uneaten cupcakes with the Batman logo could still be seen on the ground inside police tape hours after the shooting.
“My son hates his birthday now,” father Jeff Bernard told the judge.
Prosecutors said Osborne wanted to kill dozens but he was carrying the wrong ammunition and his gun jammed after every shot.
“He didn’t stop because he wanted to. The gun jammed. Thank God the gun jammed,” Fredericks said.
Osborne’s lawyer said a video call he had open to a group chat with people who knew his plan showed him sobbing, upset and ready to give up after the first shots.
Osborne is asking the judge to consider a supplemental report from a psychologist that disagrees with prosecution experts who testified at Osborne’s original sentencing that he is a dangerous and pathological liar with no remorse.
Osborne’s brain was still developing in his teens. The psychiatrists cited by the defense said he has shown guilt and grief and responded to treatment during the nearly seven years since his arrest on school grounds.
Osborne’s lawyer suggested a 30-year minimum sentence for the two counts of murder, followed by 15 years for shooting at the other children and then lifetime monitoring by GPS after he is released from prison with one review after 10 years.
McIntosh asked for a detailed report from the defense expert in the next month and told prosecutors they would have at least 10 days to respond.
A number of students never returned to the school after the shooting. Some haven’t returned to any school. A popped balloon ended a school dance in tears. Recess is still filled with anxiety, said teacher Meghan Hollingsworth, whose class was celebrating the birthday that day. Her child was in kindergarten just down the hall.
“The screams of children having fun sends a panic through me as I look to see who is screaming and see if they are OK,” she said.
She asked the judge to think about a sign in her first-grade classroom and uphold his life sentence handed down more than three years ago,
“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choices,” it reads. | 2023-05-23T14:02:50+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/as-sc-school-shooter-seeks-mercy-teacher-principal-want-him-in-prison-for-life/ |
Randall Robinson, a human rights activist and lawyer known for his advocacy against South African apartheid and for Haitian democracy, died Friday at age 81. He died in St. Kitts, the Caribbean island where he spent the last two decades of his life, of aspiration pneumonia.
"He was an incredible father," said Khalea Ross Robinson, his daughter, who confirmed his death to NPR on Sunday. "He did a lot on behalf of people he hadn't even met."
Robinson was one of the leaders of the Free South Africa Movement, which began in the 1980s and pushed to end apartheid. He "led a range of foreign policy campaigns in his life-long advocacy in defense of democracy and justice in Africa and the Caribbean," a press release from Robinson's family says.
Robinson founded the Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica in 1977 to promote "diversity and equity in the foreign policy arena and justice for the African World" including the African diaspora, according to the group's mission statement. He served as the president of the organization until 2001.
During his time at TransAfrica, he organized a sit-in at the South African embassy to lobby against apartheid and went on a 27-day hunger strike to pressure the U.S. government to reinstate the democratically elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, among many other actions. He was also a leading voice advocating for reparations for Black Americans.
He was born in Richmond, Va., in 1941, and attributed his activism later in life to his experiences of segregation.
"The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable," he said in a 2005 interview with The Progressive Magazine. He said joining the social justice movement was "salvaging. We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths."
Before founding TransAfrica and becoming known for his political activism, he earned a J.D. at Harvard Law School and worked as a civil rights attorney in Boston. He served as a professor of human rights law at Penn State University and wrote several books.
In 2001, Robinson left the United States to settle in St. Kitts in the Caribbean, with his wife, Hazel Ross-Robinson. In one of his books, he explains that he left the U.S. for a place that he considered more peaceful and hospitable to Black people.
"I never believed my place was necessarily physically in America," he told NPR in 2004. "I am as much a Nigerian, a Haitian, a South African, a Kittitian, a Jamaican as I am an American. There shouldn't be these partitions between the people of the Black world. I have lived that and I have committed myself to that in everything that I've done throughout my life."
A funeral service will be held in St. Kitts in April, and a memorial service will be held in Washington, D.C., in May, according to the family.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-03-27T00:19:08+00:00 | upr.org | https://www.upr.org/npr-news/2023-03-26/randall-robinson-human-rights-activist-and-lawyer-has-died-at-81 |
AUSTIN - So much has changed at Texas since Aug. 28, 2021, the day coach Steve Sarkisian declared then-redshirt freshman Hudson Card the winner of the Longhorns’ quarterback contest.
Card only held onto the gig for a couple games, relinquishing starting status to Casey Thompson following an ill-fated trip to Arkansas in Week 2. He played sparingly the rest of the way, even with Thompson hampered by an injured throwing hand.
Then, one-time Texas commit Quinn Ewers decided to transfer into the Longhorns’ program in December after a few months at Ohio State. Sarkisian also signed four-star recruit Maalik Murphy that month, fresh off a state title with Junipero Serra (Calif.). And Thompson orchestrated his own exit via transfer portal to Nebraska a few weeks later.
All that noise has, at times, made Card seem like the forgotten man at Texas. But the Lake Travis product was a high-profile recruit himself not long ago. And despite what much of the outside world believes (or desires), Card hasn’t waved the white flag.
The battle between Card and Ewers remains tight three weeks out from the Longhorns’ home season opener against Louisiana-Monroe. That might surprise those who expected the Southlake Carroll product to stake claim to the job once he landed in Austin, but Ewers should just now be entering his freshman year at college, while Card has both age and experience on his side.
“I'm really enjoying it,” Sarkisian said of the competition. “I'm enjoying it because both these guys are working their tails off. Both of them are really coachable and trying to do what we're asking them to do. Both of them are making some really nice plays. Whether it's quick game, whether it's audibles, whether it's intermediate throws, whether it's down-the-field throws. And I think they're both playing with a lot of confidence. So that part's fun.”
Last season’s numbers don’t paint a flattering portrait of Card.
Of the 16 Big 12 quarterbacks who played at least 100 snaps in 2021, Card ranked last in Pro Football Focus' offensive rating metric. Only West Virginia's Garrett Greene and Kansas State's Will Howard produced worse passing grades.
Some of Card’s problems stemmed from iffy offensive line play and a lack of consistent receivers outside freshman superstar Xavier Worthy. Texas struggled to counteract blitzes, and Card never excelled going off-script despite his athleticism and arm strength.
Throughout this offseason, Card has worked to address the shortcomings that cost him the starting job. Texas also brought in additional playmakers at receiver and added some potential game-changers to solidify the offensive line.
That doesn’t mean Card is going to beat out Ewers when Sarkisian announces a winner. But he’s played well enough to present Texas’ second-year head coach with another difficult decision.
“I do think both guys have really good arm talent,” offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Kyle Flood said. “I think Hudson has the advantage now of kind of having a full year in the system. You know, Quinn got here in January. He didn't quite have that. So he's got a little bit of an advantage from that standpoint. But I thought Quinn did a good job of catching up on the system and kind of acclimating himself to the system.
“We’re really excited about both guys. And again, I know nobody likes to hear that outside of a football program when you start talking about having two guys that you really think can help you win football games. But I do believe we have that and I think that's exciting for our program.”
Sarkisian hasn’t been involved with too many offseason quarterback competitions in his coaching career.
But deciding between Matt Leinart or Matt Cassel at USC was a tough task. So was picking the winner of last year’s long duel between Card and Thompson.
And this year’s contest has been as hard-fought as either of those previous battles.
“What makes it hard is when it's herky-jerky,” Sarkisian said following Monday’s practice. “You know, one day it's good, one day it's not great. This feels really good because it's a very positive feel about it. I think they both have a pretty good understanding of what we're doing. They're not perfect and like I said, it’s Day 5, I don't expect them to be perfect.”
Texas hosted its first preseason scrimmage Saturday afternoon
Afterwards, one team source told Horns247 Card “probably” played better, another indication Ewers still has work to do to be this team’s Week 1 starter. Both took sacks, both threw at least one interception, both made impressive throws and led scoring drives.
Sarkisian doesn’t want to wait as long as he did last year to announce the winner. But with Card and Ewers playing at a similar level, coming to a decision could take longer than he expected.
Twitter: @NRmoyle | 2022-08-13T23:56:13+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/sports/longhorns/article/Hudson-Card-still-pushing-Quinn-Ewers-in-Texas-17371929.php |
Plan calls for AT&T Fiber to help bridge digital divide through awards from Indiana's Next Level Connections Broadband Grant Program
INDIANAPOLIS, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The state of Indiana and AT&T* are collaborating on a plan to bring a state-of-the-art fiber network to nearly 6,100 homes, businesses and farms in parts of nine Indiana counties. The $13 million project is contingent upon a final contract between the state of Indiana and AT&T.
The plan calls for AT&T to build fiber networks in parts of the following counties:
- Bartholomew
- Clinton
- Grant
- Hendricks
- Johnson
- Lawrence
- Montgomery
- Morgan
- Putnam
Extensive design and engineering work will begin immediately following the execution of a final agreement between AT&T and the state.
"It's tremendous seeing how our Next Level Connections efforts are helping Hoosier families and business owners obtain access to high-speed, quality broadband," said Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch, who also serves as Indiana's Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. "This project would bring fiber-based internet to thousands who couldn't get it before, and we're grateful for AT&T's plans for these communities."
AT&T has extensive experience deploying fiber-optics across Indiana. In fact, hundreds of thousands of locations in the state have access to AT&T Fiber today. AT&T is also currently working with both Vanderburgh County and the City of Boonville to bring AT&T Fiber to those communities through public-private partnerships.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to go on the offensive against Republicans, saying in effect that their policies would add $3 trillion to the national debt.
Ahead of Biden’s remarks to union workers Wednesday in Lanham, Maryland, the White House issued a fact sheet that questions the GOP’s sincerity on deficit reduction.
The White House is charging the GOP with hypocrisy for favoring tax policies that could push the accumulated $31.4 trillion national debt higher. Yet Biden also wants to preserve some of the same tax cuts as Republicans so long as the approach is “fiscally responsible.”
The speech is the latest evolution in a political and economic debate that will play out over several months. Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy need to reach a deal mid-summer on raising the government’s legal borrowing authority or else the government could lack the funds to pay its bills and default.
McCarthy, R-Calif., says they should agree on a path toward balancing the budget, posting on Twitter last Friday: “No more blank checks for runaway government spending.”
The president detailed a recent exchange with the GOP speaker in a speech Tuesday in Washington to county government officials. He told them that McCarthy “made it real clear to me what he wants to do. He says he’s not going to raise any taxes at all on anybody. He just wants to cut programs.”
The president said that Republican lawmakers should present their budget plan to the public, just as the White House intends to do on March 9.
“I believe we could be fiscally responsible without risking — threatening to send our country into chaos,” Biden said Tuesday of debt limit talks.
But the actual path of the national debt could hinge on the upcoming expiration of individual tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law in 2017. Extending those tax cuts would in theory raise the national debt, as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office based its projections on them lapsing after 2025. The CBO will release an updated budget outlook on Wednesday.
The White House fact sheet said Republicans would increase the debt by $2.7 trillion by prolonging those tax cuts, in addition to cutting a corporate minimum tax established by Biden and other policies that would add to the debt.
The White House noted that the extension of the Trump-era tax overhaul would give a $175,000 tax cut to families with incomes over $4 million. The size of that tax cut is roughly double the median U.S. household income.
But the same White House fact sheet adds that Biden would like to preserve some of the same tax cuts as Republicans, just not those that benefit the wealthy. Biden pledged during the 2020 campaign to not raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000, so letting the tax cuts expire could be viewed as a tax hike on the middle class.
The Tax Policy Center, a think tank, estimated when the law was passed that 53% of taxpayers would see their IRS bills increase in 2027 after the cuts expire. About 70% of those solidly in the middle class — the middle 40% to 60% of all taxpayers — would owe more.
The fact sheet previewing the speech said the president is committed to a “fiscally responsible approach to continuing current tax policies” for people earning less than $400,000. Until Biden issues his budget, it’s not entirely clear what that could mean for the national debt, though he promised in last week’s State of the Union address to cut deficits by $2 trillion.
That leaves Republicans and Democrats theoretically in agreement on keeping taxes low for most people, while leaders in both parties have pledged no cuts to Social Security or Medicare.
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said that lawmakers should consider everything if the goal is deficit reduction.
“If we truly want to address our fiscal situation — as we should — policymakers should put all their cards on the table, abandon their demagoguing, and come together for the good of the American people,” she said in a statement. | 2023-02-15T12:16:36+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/politics/election/ap-white-house-gop-plans-would-drive-deficits-up-3-trillion/ |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards across New York's Times Square, city authorities are posting new signs proclaiming the bustling crossroads a “Gun Free Zone.”
The sprawling Manhattan tourist attraction is one of scores of “sensitive” places — including parks, churches and theaters — that will be off limits for guns under a sweeping new state law going into effect Thursday. The measure, passed after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June expanded gun rights, also sets stringent standards for issuing concealed carry permits.
New York is among a half-dozen states that had key provisions of its gun laws invalidated by the high court because of a requirement for applicants to prove they had “proper cause” for a permit. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday that she and her fellow Democrats in the state Legislature took action the next week because the ruling “destroyed the ability for a governor to be able to protect her citizens from people who carry concealed weapons anywhere they choose.”
The quickly adopted law, however, has led to confusion and court challenges from gun owners who say it improperly limits their constitutional rights.
“They seem to be designed less towards addressing gun violence and more towards simply preventing people from getting guns — even if those people are law-abiding, upstanding citizens, who according to the Supreme Court have the rights to have them,” said Jonathan Corbett, a Brooklyn attorney and permit applicant who is one of several people challenging the law in court.
Under the law, applicants for a concealed carry permit will have to complete 16 hours of classroom training and two hours of live-fire exercises. Ordinary citizens would be prohibited from bringing guns to schools, churches, subways, theaters and amusement parks — among other places deemed “sensitive” by authorities.
Applicants also will have to provide a list of social media accounts for the past three years as part of a “character and conduct” review. The requirement was added because shooters have sometimes dropped hints of violence online before they opened fire on people.
Sheriffs in some upstate counties said the additional work for their investigators could add to existing backlogs in processing applications.
In Rochester, Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said it currently takes two to four hours to perform a pistol permit background check on a “clean” candidate. He estimate the new law will add another one to three hours for each permit. The county has about 600 pending pistol permits.
“It’s going to slow everything down just a bit more,” he said.
In the Mohawk Valley, Fulton County Sheriff Richard C. Giardino had questions on how the digital sleuthing would proceed.
“It says three years worth of your social media. We’re not going to print out three years of social media posts by everybody. If you look at my Facebook, I send out six or 10 things a day,” said the sheriff, a former district attorney and judge.
The list of prohibited spaces for carrying guns has drawn criticism from advocates who say it's so extensive it will make it difficult for people with permits to move about in public. People carrying a gun could go into private business only with permission, such as a sign posted on the window.
Giardino has already started giving out signs to local businesses saying people can carry legal firearms on the premises. Jennifer Elson, who owns the Let’s Twist Again Diner in Amsterdam, said she put up the sheriff’s sign, along with one of her own reading in part “per our governor, we have to post this nonsense. If you are a law abiding citizen who obtained a legal permit to carry, you are welcome here.”
“I feel pretty strongly that everybody’s constitutional rights should be protected,” she said.
But in Times Square, visited by about 50 million tourists annually, and many less crowded places carrying a gun will be illegal starting Thursday.
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said Tuesday she looked forward to seeing authorities move to “protect New Yorkers and visitors who frequent Times Square.”
One lawsuit challenging provisions of the law argued the rules make it hard for license holders to leave home without violating the law. A federal judge is expected to rule soon on a motion challenging multiple provisions of the law, which was filed on behalf of a Schenectady resident who holds a license to carry.
The Supreme Court ruling also led to a flurry of legislation in California to tighten rules on gun ownership, including a new law that could hold gun dealers and manufacturers responsible for any harm caused by anyone they have “reasonable cause to believe is at substantial risk” of using a gun illegally.
Earlier this month, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a measure that would require gun permit applicants to undergo personal interviews with a licensing authority.
New Jersey required people to get training before receiving a permit and would require new residents to register guns brought in from out of state.
Hawaii, which has the nation’s lowest number of gun deaths, is still weighing its options. Since the Supreme Court's ruling, the state has only granted one new gun permit.
While New York does not keep statewide data on pistol permit applications, there are reports of long lines at county clerks' office and other evidence of a surge in applications before the law takes effect.
In the Mohawk Valley, Pine Tree Rifle Club President Paul Catucci said interest in the club's volunteer-run safety courses “blew right up” late this summer.
“I had to turn hundreds of them away,” he said.
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Maysoon Khan 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 under-covered issues. Follow Maysoon Khan on Twitter.
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Hill and Khan contributed from Albany, New York. | 2022-08-30T18:52:39+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/New-York-to-restrict-gun-carrying-after-Supreme-17407912.php |
SINGAPORE, Feb. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Minderoo Foundation's groundbreaking Plastic Waste Makers Index (PWMI) 2023 shows the planet's plastic pollution problem is worsening, and new estimates of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions from single-use plastics demonstrate how single-use plastics producers also contribute to the climate crisis.
The report's key findings reveal:
- Despite rising consumer awareness, corporate attention, and regulation, there is more single-use plastic waste than ever before – an additional 6 million metric tons (equivalent to almost 1 kg per person on the planet) generated in 2021 compared to 2019 – still almost entirely made from fossil fuels.
- Single-use plastic is not only a pollution crisis but a climate one. Lifecycle greenhouse gas (Scope 1, 2 and 3) emissions from single-use plastics in 2021 were equivalent to the total emissions of the United Kingdom (450 million metric tons CO₂e).
- Recycling is failing to scale fast enough and remains a marginal activity for the plastics sector – from 2019 to 2021, growth in single-use plastics made from fossil fuels was 15 times that from recycled plastics.
- Within the petrochemical industry, two outliers are firmly committed to recycling and producing recycled polymers at scale: Taiwan's Far Eastern New Century and Thailand's Indorama Ventures.
The Plastic Waste Makers Index 2023 brings the benchmark up to date with data to the end of 2021 (the first edition covered 2019). It discovered that the global population used 139 MMT (million metric tons) of single-use plastic in 2021, up from 133 MMT in 2019.
The composition of the top 100 petrochemical companies with the largest plastic waste footprint is strikingly similar to the first PWMI.
Dr Andrew Forrest AO, Chairman of Minderoo Foundation, said: "The fossil-fuel giants aren't tackling the problem of plastics – it's the opposite, they're making even more of a product that threatens our people and planet.
"We need a fundamentally different approach that turns the tap off on new plastic production. We need a 'polymer premium' on every kilogram of plastic polymer made from fossil fuel. We need financial incentives that encourage re-use and recycling and the build of new, critical infrastructure.
"If you're investing in polymer producers right now when there isn't a polymer premium in place, then your hands are covered in the blood of the destruction of nature."
Among the report's key recommendations is a stark call for investors and financial institutions to use engagement, proxy voting and divestment strategies to pressure petrochemical companies building new fossil fuel-based polymer production facilities.
"This comprehensive report provides a useful benchmark for embarking on plastic and climate-related research and shareholder engagement efforts," said Casey Clark, President and Chief Investment Officer of Rockefeller Asset Management. "Investors, regulatory bodies, and civil society have emphasised the need to reduce plastic consumption, increase waste management efforts, and transition to 'circular' modes of living. Even with that backdrop, the global intake of raw virgin materials and single-use plastics continues to rise."
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MANHATTAN (PIX11) — The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade descended on Sixth Avenue on Thursday.
Like every other year, it lived up to the hype. It was a time to enjoy, a time to make new friends, and a time to give thanks.
Security was tight with extra NYPD officers at the ready. They weren’t just protecting the parade, the NYPD marching band also took part in the festivities.
The parade featured 16 giant balloons, 28 floats, 40 novelty and heritage inflatables, 12 marching bands, 700 clowns, 10 performance groups, a host of celebrity guests and the one and only Santa Claus.
With a mostly clear sky a light breeze, it was ideal weather conditions for these giant balloons. There were old favorites and new balloons too, inclding Striker the U.S. Soccer Star, executing an iconic bicycle kick in celebration of the FIFA World Cup, and Bluey, the Australian cattle pup making her parade debut. But it was a Snoopy that got really got kids excited.
This annual tradition dates back almost a century, attracting 3 million spectators, according to organizers.
It’s a perfect time to share in that magnificent feeling and enjoy the holidays. | 2022-11-24T23:21:54+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/balloons-float-through-nyc-for-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-7-0-5, FIREBALL: 1
(six, seven, zero, five; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
6-7-0-5, FIREBALL: 1
(six, seven, zero, five; FIREBALL: one) | 2022-10-07T23:54:55+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17494973.php |
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (WDAF) – Wednesday is “Moving day” for the Kansas City Chiefs. The team is packing up for training camp, which starts in a couple of weeks.
The moving staff started moving equipment to St. Joseph Wednesday and will be unloading for three days.
They have brought nine semi-trucks full of almost anything you can imagine to prepare for a multi-week training camp.
It is only a 70-minute drive to get from GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium to Missouri Western State University. Even with the camp being just over an hour away, no detail is overlooked to make sure the players and coaches have everything they need the moment they arrive.
The director of equipment for the Chiefs, Allen Wright, has been with the team for 41 seasons and said the scale they operate at is unlike anything he ever could have imagined when he started.
This is the 13th training camp held at Missouri Western State University for the Chiefs.
Open practices are scheduled to begin on Sunday, July 23. The final day will be Thursday, August 17.
All training camp practices will be free of charge to the public unless otherwise noted below or online. Training camp tickets must be reserved in advance, beginning Wednesday, June 22, at 10 a.m. You can buy your tickets on chiefs.com.
Tickets to each session will be limited to six tickets per practice because of the high demand.
Fans will also have the chance to buy Chiefs Tailgate Suites in the North Endzone for groups of 10 or more. The option is new this year.
Missouri Western will charge a $5 parking fee per vehicle per day, with the exception of the two exclusive Chiefs Season Ticket Member days when parking is free. Fans are required to pre-purchase parking, and that can be done during the ticket-buying process. | 2023-07-12T17:41:07+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/kansas-city-chiefs-pack-up-for-training-camp-in-st-joseph/ |
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Ohio (WDTN) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) is issuing a warning after residents have received fraudulent calls.
According to a release, residents have received phone calls from a caller identifying himself as “Sergeant Doug Reed” with the MCSO or an employee within the offices in the Montgomery County Court Division. The receiver of the call is told they have failed to appear in court or there was a legal matter against the resident that needed discussed, which is false.
The caller has been known to clone and spoof phone numbers to appear legitimate when it appears on the Caller ID. Demanding payment from the resident, creating a fake case number and threatening warrants and arrests have been known to be discussed by the scammers to residents.
Montgomery County Sheriff Rob Streck says, “These scammers can be very convincing and while in hindsight it may be easy to blame the victims, please keep in mind that these ruthless scammers are very successful at targeting people from all walks of life and age groups.”
“The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office NEVER calls residents and threatens arrest for unpaid
fines, warrants, missed court dates, etc.,” the release says. “Residents who may receive calls such as these should hang up and report it to their local police department.” | 2022-10-26T23:32:04+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/fraudulent-scam-calls-targeting-residents-in-montgomery-county/ |
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian prosecutors on Wednesday were carrying out forensic searches of mobile phones and laptops as they look for further evidence in the case of social media personality Andrew Tate, who is detained in the country on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, an official said.
Tate, 36, a dual British-U.S. citizen who has nearly 5 million followers on Twitter, was initially detained in late December in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, along with his brother, Tristan, and two Romanian women.
Both the Tates appeared on Wednesday, in handcuffs as they were escorted by law enforcement officials from a police van to the offices of DIICOT, Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, in Bucharest.
Ramona Bolla, a DIICOT spokesperson, confirmed to The Associated Press that the forensic searches of the digital devices are taking place Wednesday, in order to obtain further evidence in the case.
Responding to a journalist’s question as he arrived at the DIICOT offices, Andrew Tate was heard saying that “the case file is completely empty” and that “there is no justice in Romania.” His brother, Tristan, was also heard saying: “…for my money, that is why I am in jail, I have money that they were going to steal.”
Both the Tates will remain in detention until late February after a judge on Friday granted prosecutors a request to extend for a second time their detention by 30 days. It is not clear whether the Tates have appealed Friday’s ruling.
Andrew Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has reportedly lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
After the Tates and the two women were arrested in December, DIICOT said in a statement that it had identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and were sexually exploited by the members of the alleged crime group.
The agency said victims were lured with pretenses of love, and later intimidated, kept under surveillance and subjected to other control tactics while being coerced into engaging in pornographic acts for substantial financial gains.
A post appeared late Tuesday on Andrew Tate’s Twitter account that read: “My case is a political operation designed to degrade my influence. Throughout history, unjust imprisonment has been used to silence empowering people. The game hasn’t changed.”
Earlier in January, Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest where they towed away a fleet of luxury cars that included a blue Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Porsche. They reported seizing assets worth an estimated $3.9 million.
Prosecutors have said that if they can prove the owners gained money through illicit activities such as human trafficking, the assets would be used to cover the expenses of the investigation and to compensate victims. Tate also unsuccessfully appealed the asset seizure.
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McGrath reported from Sighisoara, Romania. | 2023-01-25T20:23:30+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-romanian-prosecutors-search-devices-in-andrew-tate-case/ |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Republican race for Maryland governor in Tuesday’s primary election pits a candidate backed by outgoing Gov. Larry Hogan against a rival endorsed by Donald Trump.
It’s an early showdown on Hogan’s home turf as he weighs a 2024 White House bid, potentially against the former president.
On the Democratic side, the crowded candidate field includes the former head of the national Democratic Party, a bestselling author, the current state comptroller and a former U.S. education secretary.
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen is facing a primary challenge as he seeks a second term following a stroke. In the U.S. House, Maryland has one open seat after the incumbent decided to seek a different office.
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GOVERNOR
Democrats are eager to win back the governor’s office. Hogan is a rare two-term Republican governor in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1.
The Democratic primary for governor is shaping up as a competitive three-way race among former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who previously served as chair of the Democratic National Committee; author Wes Moore, who held a virtual fundraiser with Oprah Winfrey; and state Comptroller Peter Franchot, who had wide margins of victory in his four terms as state tax collector.
Voters are casting ballots with the potential for history to be made in November: Moore or former U.S. Education Secretary John King could become the state’s first Black governor, and Perez could become the first Latino chief executive in the state.
For the GOP, Kelly Schulz is running as Hogan’s hand-picked successor to carry on his legacy. Schulz served as a labor secretary in Hogan’s administration and later as the head of the state’s commerce department. She is a former state legislator from Frederick County.
Schulz, the only woman in the field, would be Maryland’s first female governor if she were to win in November. She contends she is the only Republican in the primary who could tap into Hogan’s unusual political success in a heavily Democratic state.
She is running against Dan Cox, a state legislator who has been endorsed by Trump. Early in the pandemic, Cox sued over Hogan’s stay-at-home orders and regulations, saying they were unconstitutional. The lawsuit was later dismissed by a judge, who said that Hogan had a duty as governor to protect public health.
Cox also filed a resolution of impeachment against Hogan, accusing him of violating the rights of residents by issuing orders that were “restrictive and protracted” during the pandemic. Lawmakers rejected the effort.
He helped organize busloads of protesters to go to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection. Cox has said he didn’t march to the Capitol afterward, and he condemned the violence.
U.S. SENATE
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, is seeking his second term. He first won election to the chamber in 2016, replacing retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who was then the longest-serving woman in congressional history.
Van Hollen suffered a minor stroke in May but said doctors had told him there would be no long-term effects or damage. He said he experienced lightheadedness and acute neck pain while delivering a speech and sought medical care once he returned home.
Van Hollen has just one challenger in his Democratic primary: Michelle Smith, a Freedom of Information Act policy analyst with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Van Hollen previously served seven terms in the U.S. House.
Ten Republicans are seeking the GOP nomination, including Chris Chaffee, who ran unsuccessfully against U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer in 2014.
Van Hollen, who is expected to win his primary, would be a strong favorite in November. Maryland has not had a Republican U.S. senator in the last 35 years.
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The state has eight congressional districts but only one open seat this cycle.
Democratic Rep. Anthony Brown, who has represented Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, is stepping down after three terms to run for attorney general. Former Rep. Donna Edwards, who held the seat from 2008 to 2017, is running to get her job back representing the Black-majority district in the suburbs of the nation’s capital. She will face former county prosecutor Glenn Ivey.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Viad Corp. (VVI) on Thursday reported a loss of $20.9 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company said it had a loss of $1.10. Losses, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $1.15 per share.
The trade show company posted revenue of $260.8 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in June, Viad said it expects revenue in the range of $289 million to $313 million.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The 6th Annual Dakota Classic got underway with 33 legion baseball teams competing across 7 different pools in the Sioux Falls area.
That included in the Harrisburg pool, where host Post 45 took on Brookings Post 74. Harrisburg would grab an early 1-0 lead on a Lincoln Carlson leadoff home run in the bottom of the 1st.
They’d extend that lead to 2 on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 3rd. But Brookings would answer back in their ensuing at bat with a pair of runs to tie the game up at 2.
But Harrisburg had a response in the home frame, plating 3 runs to take a 5-2 lead, and that would be your final.
Then Lennox took on Aberdeen in pool play. The Smittys would strike first in the bottom of the 2nd, plating 4 runs total to take a 4-0 lead.
Lennox would answer its ensuing at-bat with as Brandon Otte’s single scored a run to make it 4-1, but that’s all they’d get.
Aberdeen pitcher Brock Martin was stellar. He struck out the first 6 batters he faced, and had 8 K’s through 3 innings of work. He finished the game with 12 strikeouts as Aberdeen picked up the 9-1 win.
Friday’s Dakota Classic Scores
Renner Pool
Renner 5, Watertown 0
Omaha Central 5, Renner 2
Omaha Central 6, Creighton Prep 5
Creighton Prep 4, Kindred, ND 3
Harrisburg Pool
Harrisburg 5, Brookings 2
Harrisburg 12, St. Peter, MN 6
St. Peter, MN 5, Brookings 3
Gretna, NE 9, Blue Springs 0
Sioux Falls East Pool
Sioux Falls East 11, Omaha Gross 1
Columbus, NE 8, Sioux Falls East 0
Columbus, NE 7, Omaha Gross 4
Orono, MN 8, Pierre 0
Sioux Falls West Pool
Sioux Falls West 8, Worthington, MN 5
Sioux Falls West 6, Ralston, NE 5
Worthington, MN 8, Ralston, NE 5
Brandon Pool
Brandon Valley 8, Sioux Falls Christian 0
Brandon Valley 5, Rosemount, MN 4
Rosemount, MN 12, East Grand Forks 0
Augustana Pool
Shakopee, MN 7, Yankton 4
Viroqua, WI 6, Yankton 3
Lincoln Pius X 11, Viroqua, WI 7
Lennox Pool
Lennox 9, Sioux Falls Post 15 5
Aberdeen Smittys 14, Sioux Falls Post 15 0
Aberdeen Smittys 9, Lennox 1
Lincoln North Star 8, Crookston, MN 0 | 2022-06-18T04:35:05+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/dakota-classic-day-1-highlights-results/ |
Rapper Cardi B pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors on Thursday in a New York courtroom.
The charges stem from a 2018 fight at a New York City strip club in Queens.
The Grammy Award-winning artist, whose legal name is Belcalis Almanzar, copped to the charges, which include third-degree assault and second-degree reckless endangerment, the Queens district attorney's office said.
As Reuters reported, she was sentenced to 15 days of community service.
According to Vulture, if the rapper completes the court-ordered community service, she will receive a conditional discharge, meaning the charges will be dismissed.
If she does not complete the 15 days of community service she could face 15 days in jail, prosecutors confirmed. | 2022-09-16T00:47:11+00:00 | denver7.com | https://www.denver7.com/news/national/rapper-cardi-b-pleads-guilty-to-charges-after-new-york-strip-club-fight |
(NEXSTAR) — Space is, of course, full of asteroids and comets. Those that orbit in our solar system are known as near-Earth objects, or NEOs. Some may pose a future risk to Earth, but NASA is prepared to protect us, and you’ll be able to see proof of that Monday.
First, it’s important to understand NEOs. They’re defined as objects that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit, and most are larger than a small football stadium. Six years ago, NASA started the Planetary Defense Coordination Office to find NEOs, warn of their close approaches, coordinate an action plan, and mitigate any potential impacts.
On Monday, the PDCO will make its first-ever attempt to change the path of an asteroid using a kinetic impact during the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
DART’s target is the near-Earth binary asteroid system Didymos, which is home to two asteroids: the 2,560-foot diameter Didymos and a smaller moonlet asteroid that orbits Didymos, 530-foot diameter Dimorphos. While neither poses a threat to Earth, DART will collide with Dimorphos and, if the mission is successful, will change its orbit in the Didymos system.
The autonomous DART spacecraft, “roughly the size of a small car,” was built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. It has one instrument aboard — the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation, or DRACO — that will guide it toward its target, Dimorphos, with the help of Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real Time Navigation, or Smart Nav.
A ride-along CubeSat, LICIACube, will separate from the spacecraft moments before impact to record DART’s collision with Dimorphos.
Dimorphos is expected to be pushed closer to Didymos after DART’s impact, making its orbit smaller.
NASA hopes to be able to measure how much Didymos’ orbit changes using telescopes back on Earth. The data will be able to help NASA better prepare for an asteroid that could “pose an impact or hazard to Earth,” if that ever becomes a reality.
NASA will be streaming live coverage of DART colliding with Dimorphos on its social media accounts — Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — starting at 6 p.m. ET on September 26. Impact is expected at 7:14 p.m. ET. More details can be found here.
The spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last November. | 2022-09-25T19:40:48+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/nasa-is-going-to-fire-a-spacecraft-at-an-asteroid-to-change-its-course-how-to-watch/ |
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A Cyprus court sentenced a British man to two years in prison for killing his wife in their retirement home to spare her the pain from her illness, but prison authorities freed him Monday because of time he already had spent behind bars.
Defense lawyer Nicoletta Charalambidou told The Associated Press that Cyprus Prisons Department authorities tabulated the time 76-year-old David Hunter had spent in custody since the December, 2021, killing and decided to release him immediately.
The court had earlier this month convicted Hunter of manslaughter after accepting testimony that his decision to suffocate his wife Janice was a made on the spur of the moment because he could no longer stand seeing her weeping in pain from a type of blood cancer she feared would develop into full-blown leukemia.
State prosecutor Andreas Hadjikyrou told the AP that the court took into account that Hunter, 76, acted “out of love” to save his wife. She was suffering from a blood ailment when he closed her mouth and nose with his hands as she sat in a recliner in their Paphos home.
It also took into consideration Hunter’s advanced age and that he had no previous criminal record.
Justice Abroad, a group that defends Britons facing legal troubles in foreign countries, welcomed word of Hunter's early release.
“This has been a tragic case and difficult for all of those involved with it, but today’s decision was the right one and allows David and his family to grieve together,” said Michael Polak from Justice Abroad.
Hunter had faced a charge of premeditated murder, but the court found in its July 21 ruling that the prosecution didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was premeditation in his actions.
The court had accepted witness testimony that Janice feared her blood ailment would develop into full-blown leukemia and had repeatedly pleaded with her husband to take her life because she didn’t want to share the fate of her sister, who died of the disease.
Hunter attempted to take his own life by consuming a large amount of pills after suffocating his wife, but medical staff saved his life.
The court cited expert testimony that Janice Hunter suffered from myelodysplastic syndrome, a type of blood cancer which “to a large degree” — as much as 45% — could turn into leukemia, although there was no proof that she had indeed developed the disease because no definitive tests were conducted.
But the court said both husband and wife believed that Janice would develop it because of her sister’s fate.
David Hunter’s earlier assurances to Janice that he would help her fulfill her wish to end her life and not suffer anymore didn’t indicate any premeditation, the court said.
Hadjikyrou said defense lawyers had rejected a plea deal in December 2022 for the defendant to plead guilty to manslaughter because they insisted the facts of the case include an agreement Hunter and his wife allegedly made for him to take her life. He said the court didn’t accept that such an agreement had indeed been made.
Charalambidou said it was the Cypriot attorney-general who scrapped the plea deal because he wouldn't accept as fact that Janice had repeatedly asked her husband to take her life.
Hadjikyrou said the Cyprus attorney-general has 10 days to decide whether to appeal the sentence. | 2023-07-31T19:54:13+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/cyprus-authorities-free-british-man-despite-a-2-year-prison-sentence-for-killing-his-ailing-wife/LGZDLGIYSJAPBFDR6JUMMXOBNI/ |
Which track hurdle is best?
Hurdling can be one of the most challenging track and field events to do well. It combines jumping and sprinting in one race. It requires precise techniques and a repeatable stride to have success. Training with a high-quality track hurdle gives you a better chance to be in top technical form for a race.
The Champion Sports Adjustable-Height Training Hurdle is the best. It’s a versatile choice that lets you get the most out of your training regimen.
What to know before you buy a track hurdle
Competition hurdles
A competition hurdle consists of the highest-quality materials. It uses a design that matches the requirements for an official hurdle from World Athletics, which oversees track and field rules.
Competition hurdles are adjustable in height to match the requirements of each race. Many hurdlers use them for specific types of training. However, they have a much higher cost than training hurdles.
Training hurdles
Training hurdles can have a wide range of designs, letting athletes and coaches determine the exact type of training technique they want to use.
Many training hurdles weigh less than an official competition hurdle. Should a hurdler hit them in training, they shouldn’t provide much resistance, helping the hurdler stay upright. For safety, some training hurdles pop apart when a hurdler makes contact with them.
Speed hurdles
Speed hurdles are extremely low in height, sometimes as low as 6 inches. They teach hurdlers to use quick footwork and to stretch their hips to step, hop, jump or swing their legs over the hurdles. Some hurdlers like using speed hurdles as a warmup before moving to training or competition hurdles.
Some speed hurdles are adjustable in height, letting athletes set up different types of training sessions.
What to look for in a quality track hurdle
Adjustable height
For most hurdlers, it’s important to have hurdles with an adjustable height. They let athletes use different training techniques and prepare for different kinds of races.
Additionally, multiple athletes can use an adjustable-height hurdle. For instance, novice hurdlers may have to train with a shorter hurdle than a more experienced hurdler needs.
Materials
Because hurdlers bump into and knock over hurdles regularly during training sessions, hurdles must consist of durable materials.
Competition hurdles nearly always use a metal frame with a wooden cross board. An adjustable-height system should use metal pins or buttons that stand up to repeated adjustments and uses. This hurdle can crash to the ground hundreds of times without showing wear and tear.
To keep the price lower than a competition hurdle, training hurdles may substitute a plastic in the frame, such as polyvinyl chloride, known as PVC. These materials are durable, but less durable than metal and wood.
Color
Competition hurdles use a white cross board with a silver or black metal frame. However, when you are using training hurdles, you might be in the grass, on the track or somewhere else. Consequently, such hurdles often use bright yellows, oranges or reds in the frame to make sure everyone sees them, especially when you set them at a low height.
How much you can expect to spend on a track hurdle
Training-style hurdles cost $10-$75 per hurdle, while speed hurdles may cost $2-$10 each. Competition-level track hurdles should cost $150-$500 apiece.
Track hurdle FAQ
Does hitting hurdles make you run slower?
A. Official hurdles are weighted, and slow runners a little bit if they strike them. The amount of momentum lost depends on how hard you hit the hurdle. Training hurdles help you learn to avoid clipping hurdles and slowing you down.
How do I train with adjustable hurdles?
A. Some coaches use a shorter hurdle height than appears in races to help you learn to maintain your speed. Some use a taller height to help you learn to avoid striking the hurdles during a race.
How do speed-training hurdles help you?
A. Speed-training hurdles can help you improve your foot speed and explosiveness, improving your speed when sprinting between the hurdles. They also help create explosiveness in your leg muscles for attacking the hurdles.
What’s the best track hurdle to buy?
Top track hurdle
Champion Sports Adjustable-Height Training Hurdle
What you need to know: This training hurdle gives track athletes 11 height settings, so they can work on the precise techniques they need.
What you’ll love: The steel legs and plastic cross board provide excellent durability. You can pick among training height settings between 6 and 42 inches. When a hurdler hits the cross board, the entire hurdle collapses for safety.
What you should consider: The cross board almost collapses too easily after contact, which may feel strange to an experienced hurdler.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top track hurdle for the money
Trademark Innovations Speed Training
What you need to know: Speed training can be great for hurdlers as they try to develop quick feet, and these 6-inch hurdles are the ideal training height.
What you’ll love: With five hurdles in the set, you can work on footwork drills in succession. Select among any of the four colors of hurdles to create specific training areas. They stack into each other when it’s time to store them.
What you should consider: These are plastic speed hurdles, so they may not stand up well to having people step on them.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: These training hurdles work well for at-home workouts for younger track athletes, as they have a lightweight design.
What you’ll love: This kit ships with three adjustable hurdles, so athletes can set up a row of hurdles. You can select among six heights between 21 and 36 inches. They stack together to simplify storage.
What you should consider: These hurdles use PVC tubing on top, rather than a cross board, so they don’t look much like competition hurdles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hypar, the world's first cloud-based design automation platform for buildings, is announcing a $5.5 million Series A round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures with participation from Building Ventures. With support for every phase of project realization, Hypar delivers the world's building expertise to realize better buildings and help teams make better decisions, faster.
"BIM has been a buzzword in the construction industry for decades now," says Alice Leung, VP of Platform & Product Strategy at Brick & Mortar Ventures. "There have been challenges in its adoption and Hypar is here to change that - it's a step change in how we are designing and generating 3D assets."
Hypar's founders, Ian Keough and Anthony Hauck, have decades of experience in creating digital building solutions. Ian developed goBIM, the first BIM visualization application for iOS, which was later acquired by Vela Systems. He then invented Dynamo, a widely popular visual programming language for Revit.
After twenty years in architectural and construction practice, Anthony Hauck held positions at Autodesk as the AEC Director of Product Management and Director of Product Strategy for Autodesk's AEC Generative Design Group, where, with Ian, he led the team that created Generative Design for Revit.
After leaving Autodesk in late 2017, and through conversations with hundreds of design and construction firms, Keough and Hauck recognized a need for access to repeatable, scalable building expertise.
"For centuries, buildings have started on a blank page, as if no one had ever built anything before," says co-founder Anthony Hauck. "We automate best practices so that projects don't have to start from scratch."
Adds co-founder Ian Keough, "For too long, we've had fragile automation workflows in AEC strung together with various softwares. Hypar provides the platform to deliver scalable building expertise to support the industry's transition toward buildings as a product. On Hypar anyone, anywhere, can build collaborative applications leveraging the world's building expertise."
Allen Preger, Partner at Building Ventures, notes that, "From the outset, Ian and Anthony's mission has been clear: to build the industry's first open-source and cloud-native generative design platform. And now dozens of leading designers, builders, and suppliers use the platform to productize their building configuration and construction offerings. Having recruited an all-star team of engineers and cultivated a global network of computational designers to the growing Hypar community, Hypar is now poised for its next phase of growth."
Bas Nolta, Global Manager Engineering Services Platform at Aliaxis, adds that, "Aliaxis believes the Hypar platform is the future of collaborative design and engineering, where highly automated processes complement human experiences towards a better and faster design."
In addition to the main platform, the team has launched a space planning app built on Hypar that reduces time spent on commercial test fits by 90%. "After evaluating many other AEC platforms, we worked with Hypar because we saw it had the most potential to accelerate our workplace planning business," says Jayanth Gopal, Director at Adrianse. "As the Hypar team helps us develop our custom workplace application, we're looking to apply Hypar to our healthcare and data center businesses."
"Quickly visualizing design options is just the beginning," adds Hauck. "By offering rapid feedback on design performance, our customers will be able to arrive at critical decisions ahead of their competition."
"With so much to change in the building industry, we're delighted to continue our partnership with the Building Ventures team, and to welcome Brick & Mortar Ventures on board as investors," concludes Ian. "Both firms bring critical industry insights that support Hypar's vision of better buildings, faster."
The new funding will be used to expand platform features, product lines, and go-to-market teams.
About Hypar
Hypar is the world's first cloud-based design automation platform that enables building teams to rapidly create building design, construction, and product systems. With support for every phase of project realization, Hypar delivers the world's building expertise to realize better buildings and help teams make better decisions, faster. Learn more about the product and sign up for a free account at hypar.io.
About Brick & Mortar Ventures
Brick & Mortar Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on the Built World. Founded by Darren Bechtel, the firm invests in emerging companies developing innovative software and hardware solutions for the industries of architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management. Notable past investments of the firm and its General Partner include Seed round participation in PlanGrid, BuildingConnected, BuildZoom, and Rhumbix, as well as early-stage investments in FieldWire and Levelset (formerly Zlien). Brick & Mortar Ventures is based in San Francisco, CA.
About Building Ventures
Building Ventures is the venture capital firm dedicated to supporting early-stage startups reshaping the way we design, build, operate, and experience our built environment. Learn more about the team and our portfolio companies at https://buildingventures.com/.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A United Nations conference warned Friday that measures needed to protect the world’s oceans are lagging and urged countries to accelerate their implementation.
More than 6,000 senior officials, scientists and activists from more than 120 countries attended a five-day U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
A declaration published on the final day said delegates were “deeply alarmed by the global emergency facing the ocean,” whose sustainability is “critical” for the planet.
The declaration said that “action is not advancing at the speed or scale required to meet our goals.”
“Greater ambition is required at all levels to address the dire state of the ocean,” it concluded.
The oceans are under threat from global warming, pollution, acidification and other problems.
A key step is a new international agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, also known as the Treaty of the High Seas.
That treaty aims to establish a comprehensive legal framework for the high seas, which cover some 70% of the earth’s surface and provide food and livelihoods for billions of people.
After 10 years of talks, however, negotiating countries still haven’t clinched a deal, frustrating activists. A fifth round of talks is scheduled for August in New York.
Greenpeace said words were not enough.
Laura Meller from the environmental group’s Protect the Oceans campaign, said that “if declarations could save the oceans they wouldn’t be on the brink of collapse.”
The crunch will come at next month’s talks, when governments aim to finalize the global ocean treaty that, at a minimum, seeks to ensure the protection of 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.
“Anything less than that is just not enough,” Meller said.
French President Emmanuel Macron and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attended part of the conference.
Guterres blamed the “egoism” of some countries for the failure to strike a global oceans agreement so far.
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WASHINGTON — The midterm election is less than eight weeks away, with control of Congress on the line.
That impacts everything from health care to your taxes in the years to come.
In this politically-charged environment, it also impacts various congressional investigations — from the former president to the current president's son.
DEMOCRATS AND INVESTIGATIONS
If Democrats can maintain control of Congress, the status quo will very much remain.
For months, Democratic leaders have promised to inquire into the profits of the oil and gas industry and airlines and canceled flights.
Of course, of all the possible investigations that Congress could conduct, Democrats have clarified for years that former President Donald Trump is their primary focus.
If Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats keep control of the House, the January 6th congressional investigation is poised to continue and potentially expand to include classified documents.
Democrats earlier this month on the House Oversight Committee, for example, obtained the financial records of Mr. Trump for the very first time after years of inquiries.
REPUBLICANS AND INVESTIGATIONS
However, if Congress flips to Republican control — as is currently predicted by many pollsters with the House of Representatives — the political investigations in our country will change.
For instance, that January 6th committee could shut down entirely or its focus be altered by putting close friends of Mr. Trump on it.
The committee could start to look at the FBI and why a raid at Mar-a-lago was ordered last month.
In recent weeks, Republican leaders in the House have also signaled other inquires they plan on creating.
Take, for instance, Hunter Biden, the president's son.
Republicans have said they would like to look into his past financial ties and business practices.
Dr. Anthony Fauci could face scrutiny, too, even though he is set to retire before the end of the year.
Any investigation would likely focus on his rationale for Covid lockdowns.
Other investigations are expected to include tech companies like Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.
Republicans have concerns over what is getting censored online.
House Republicans recently wrote to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg telling him that "big tech-implemented censorship suppresses freedom of speech." | 2022-09-15T22:23:49+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national-politics/congressional-investigations-could-change-drastically-if-congress-changes-hands-this-election |
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The US job market remains robust, but is showing signs of cooling
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By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business
The fever hasn’t broken yet for America’s employment market, but the temperature is coming down.
The economy added 263,000 jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, slightly more than economists had estimated.
While still robust, the headline number marks the second consecutive month of falling totals. That, coupled with job openings showing some sharp declines, points to a labor market slowdown — an outcome the Federal Reserve is seeking as it battles decades-high inflation.
“The job market is slowing gracefully, moderating jobs and wage growth smoothly as the Federal Reserve searches for signs of cooling inflation,” Daniel Zhao, senior economist for Glassdoor, said in a statement. “The job market is doing its part for a soft landing, keeping job gains positive and moderating wage gains.”
Still, one area of concern for the Fed is labor force participation, said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. Getting a larger share of people into the workforce can help bring down wage growth, one of several factors Fed officials fear could keep inflation high. The September report showed that labor force participation rate ticked down to 62.3% from 62.4% the month before.
“There was hope that the reopening of schools would have been a great moment for a restart” for many of the people who left the labor force during the pandemic, Pollak told CNN Business. “We may not see some of the people who left come back.”
The unemployment rate for September fell back to its half-century low of 3.5% from 3.7%, a result of the decline in the number of people looking for work.
“The Federal Reserve looks at this and other job market data, along with still hot inflation pressures, and will continue to believe it needs to boost interest rates,” Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst with Bankrate, said in a statement.
“That appears to be a certainty for the upcoming meeting in early November. The magnitude of future rate hikes will become clearer as we get closer to the final two [policymaking] meetings of the year,” he said.
The Fed meets November 1-2 to discuss monetary policy and is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point for an unprecedented fourth time in a row.
Friday’s job report likely won’t sway the Fed from that plan, said Andrew Patterson, senior international economist with Vanguard. What could, however, move the needle will be the findings from the inflation data due next week, he said.
The BLS on Wednesday and Thursday will release the latest Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index reports, respectively.
“Next week, if there’s another miss to the upside, that’s starting to be a big concern,” he said.
Approaching normal
For the past two years, the labor market has been on a tear, recovering quickly from the massive drop-off of more than 20 million jobs at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. The resurgence has come in leaps and bounds: US employers added an average of 562,000 jobs per month last year and 420,000 jobs per month this year.
However, that pace is unsustainable, said Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. If monthly job gains edge down to 200,000 or around 150,000, that would likely sit better with the Fed, he said.
During pre-pandemic times, the average monthly job gain was below 200,000, BLS data shows.
It might not be reasonable, however, to assume that certain industries will ultimately return to pre-pandemic employment levels, he noted.
The pandemic forced restaurants to incorporate online ordering, pick-up and delivery on a greater scale, and customers became more comfortable in using those services, he said. Hotels haven’t bounced back fully, but neither has business travel, he said, adding that the rise of Zoom and competitors like Airbnb could continue to result in more muted demand for hotel stays.
“I think what we’re likely seeing is a permanent shift,” he said.
In addition, while private sector employment returned to pre-pandemic levels earlier this year, public sector employment remains nearly 600,000 jobs, or 2.6%, below levels seen in February 2020, BLS data shows.
‘Tale of two job markets’
The recovery remains uneven, and it’s growing more complex as the labor market starts to feel the influence of the Fed’s series of supersized rate hikes, Pollak said.
“I think we’re starting to see the economy turn into a tale of two job markets,” she said.
Employment is surging back in several industries hit hard during the pandemic, including health care, food services and the arts — but industries that are more sensitive to interest rates, such as finance, residential construction and car dealerships, are showing declines, Pollak said.
While declines in these sectors are anticipated during a period of high interest rates, what could be a troubling sign are net job losses in crucial support industries such as local education, child care and trucking, said Russell Weaver, an economic geographer with Cornell University’s ILR School.
From August to September, local public education jobs fell by 22,000; day care services employment fell by 2,000 jobs; and truck transportation fell by 11,000 jobs, according to BLS data. While those declines are small, they are moving in the opposite direction at a critical time.
“Those and a few other sectors have large ripple effects,” Weaver said, noting ongoing supply chain concerns and the ability for people to have reliable education and child care services so that they can return to the workforce. “That can certainly impact [parents’] long-term and future economic and work prospects.”
The Fed, in its latest projections, anticipates that the unemployment rate could climb to 4.4% next year as part of the central bank’s efforts to bring down inflation. But while a broader slowdown could result in economic “pain” (the Fed’s own projections mean that around 1.2 million more people would lose their job), businesses remain in hiring mode. Job openings outpace job seekers on a 1.7 to 1 ratio, the BLS’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for August showed.
That’s true in Charlotte, North Carolina, where mixed-income residential developer Laurel Street hasn’t taken any available jobs off the table.
“We’re not sensing that a recession is imminent,” said Dionne Nelson, Laurel Street’s chief executive officer and founder. “We’re still very busy. We are still hiring. Our markets are still very active.”
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A sandstorm blanketed parts of the Middle East on Monday, including Iraq, Syria and Iran, sending people to hospitals and disrupting flights in some places.
It was the latest in a series of unprecedented nearly back-to-back sandstorms this year that have bewildered residents and raised alarm among experts and officials, who blame climate change and poor governmental regulations.
From Riyadh to Tehran, bright orange skies and a thick veil of grit signaled yet another stormy day Monday. Sandstorms are typical in late spring and summer, spurred by seasonal winds. But this year they have occurred nearly every week in Iraq since March.
Iraqi authorities declared the day a national holiday, urging government workers and residents to stay home in anticipation of the 10th storm to hit the country in the last two months. The Health Ministry stockpiled cannisters of oxygen at facilities in hard-hit areas, according to a statement.
The storms have sent thousands to hospitals and resulted in at least one death in Iraq and three in Syria’s east.
“Its a region-wide issue but each country has a different degree of vulnerability and weakness,” said Jaafar Jotheri, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Al-Qadisiyah in Baghdad.
In Syria, medical departments were put on alert as the sandstorm hit the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq, Syrian state TV said. Earlier this month, a similar storm in the region left at least three people dead and hundreds were hospitalized with breathing problems.
Dr. Bashar Shouaybi, head of the Health Ministry’s office in Deir el-Zour, told state TV that hospitals were prepared and ambulances were on standby. He said they have acquired an additional 850 oxygen tanks and medicine needed to deal with patients who have asthma.
Severe sandstorms have also blanketed parts of Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia this month.
For the second time this month, Kuwait International Airport suspended all flights Monday because of the dust. Video showed largely empty streets with poor visibility.
Saudi Arabia’s meteorological association reported that visibility would drop to zero on the roads in Riyadh, the capital, this week. Officials warned drivers to go slowly. Emergency rooms in the city were flooded with 1,285 patients this month complaining they couldn’t breathe properly.
Iran last week shut down schools and government offices in the capital of Tehran over a sandstorm that swept the country. It hit hardest in the nation’s southwest desert region of Khuzestan, where over 800 people sought treatment for breathing difficulties. Dozens of flights out of western Iran were canceled or delayed.
Blame over the dust storms and heavy air pollution has mounted, with a prominent environmental expert telling local media that climate change, drought and government mismanagement of water resources are responsible for the increase in sandstorms. Iran has drained its wetlands for farming — a common practice known to produce dust in the region.
Alireza Shariat, the head of an association of Iranian water engineers, told Iran’s semiofficial ILNA news agency last month that he expected extensive dust storms to become an “annual springtime phenomenon” in a way Iran has never seen before.
In Iraq, desertification exacerbated by record-low rainfall is adding to the intensity of storms, said Jotheri, the geoarchaeologist. In a low-lying country with plenty of desert regions, the impact is almost double, he said.
“Because of 17 years of mismanagement of water and urbanization, Iraq lost more than two thirds of its green cover,” he said. “That is why Iraqis are complaining more than their neighbors about the sandstorms in their areas.”
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Associated Press writers Isabel DeBre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed.
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Follow AP’s coverage of climate change at https://apnews.com/hub/climate | 2022-05-24T18:16:49+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-science/more-hardship-as-new-sandstorm-engulfs-parts-of-middle-east/ |
Deputies find missing teenager in Laurens County
Published: Jul. 20, 2023 at 12:14 AM EDT|Updated: 36 minutes ago
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office said deputies have found a runaway teenager.
Deputies said he was last seen near Bow Knot Lane in Gray Court early Wednesday morning.
The Sheriff’s Office announced he was found safely on Sunday, July 23.
Copyright 2023 WHNS. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-23T17:43:42+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/07/20/deputies-find-missing-teenager-laurens-county/ |
Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles on Ukrainian cities late Wednesday night, killing at least six people and taking out critical infrastructure across 10 regions, local authorities said.
The attack knocked out power across parts of Ukraine, including at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station. Ukrainian grid operator Ukrenergo said the facility was connected back to the power grid by midday Thursday.
But this isn't the first time the Russian-occupied plant has been forced to run on emergency generators. Experts say that after six emergency shutdowns at Zaporizhzhia, the plant is still teetering on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe.
Here's a breakdown of where things stand.
First, a quick refresher on why Zaporizhzhia is so important
Zaporizhzhia is located in southern Ukraine and serves as Europe's largest nuclear power plant. Running at full capacity, the plant is capable of producing 6,000 megawatts of electricity.
Russian forces captured Zaporizhzhia a year ago this month, but a war-weary, under-staffed Ukrainian team continues to man its controls.
Shelling has damaged the plant at least six times since then, temporarily cutting off the four high-voltage power lines that connect Zaporizhzhia to Ukraine's energy grid.
The power lines are essential to the plant's safety and cooling systems — the longer the plant goes without power, the higher the chance of a possible nuclear meltdown.
The plant does have the ability to generate its own electricity, but, as a former Zaporizhzhia engineer told NPR's Geoff Brumfield, that's not a sustainable long-term solution. Oftentimes the plant will switch to diesel-powered emergency generators, but those too have limitations based on fuel quantity.
And on top of all this: Kremlin troops appear to be slowly draining the reservoir that is the source of water that's pumped through the plant's core to keep temperatures down.
So the specter of a possible nuclear meltdown hangs over every minute of the war.
The latest shutdown came as negotiations over the plant hit a dead end
Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said Wednesday night's attacks on Zaporizhzhia came at a notable inflection point.
Galuschenko says he's been trying to negotiate with Russian leaders in order to de-militarize the plant, and in a nationally televised address this weekend, he told Ukrainians those talks had reached a dead end.
"The situation was brought to a standstill. Our position, which we voice at all international platforms, is that any negotiations on ZNPP should be based on: first, demilitarization of the plant," he said. "But in response to this, we received [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's null and void decree that ZNPP is 'federal' property."
He said he believes the Kremline's ultimate goal is to leave Zaporizhzhia "inoperable" after de-occupation, diminishing Ukraine's status as a European energy hub.
U.N. watchdog sends an urgent warning: "One day our luck will run out"
Russia has said that it's trying to connect Zaporizhzhia to its own power grid. But Ukrainian officials are reportedly skeptical that such a connection would even be possible given that it would require a high-voltage power line from the plant to Russia.
Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, said he was "astonished at the complacency" of the U.N. as Zaporizhzhia was forced to operate in emergency mode for a sixth time.
"What are we doing to prevent this happening?" he told the International Atomic Energy Agency's board in an urgent update. "Each time we are rolling a dice. And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out."
Grossi has long said that safeguarding Ukraine's nuclear sites should be the IAEA's "top priority." The agency has sent teams into Ukraine to actively monitor Zaporizhzhia and last month released a 52-page report outlining potential safeguards.
The top recommendation is the creation of a safe zone around Zaporizhzhia, an idea that Kremlin leaders agreed to discuss with the IAEA last month.
Worst case scenario: Could Zaporizhzhia be the next Chernobyl?
If all negotiating attempts fail, a disaster at Zaporizhzhia would be major, but likely not as damaging as the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl or 2011 breakdown at Fukushima.
Steven Nesbit, a nuclear engineer and member of the American Nuclear Society's rapid response taskforce, told NPR there are two main reasons.
First, some of the reactors at Zaporizhzhia have been shut down for a while, helping to cool down the fuel.
Second, Zaporizhzhia's reactors are more modern in design, surrounded by three- to four-foot walls of reinforced concrete that could help hold in radioactive material.
But, understandably, Nesbit and other nuclear experts say it's not worth testing out those theories.
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Federal prosecutors from San Diego secured an indictment June 2 against Keith Kaneshiro, 72, and Dennis Mitsunaga, 78, president and CEO of Mitsunaga & Associates, or MAI, and a prolific Hawaii political donor. Read more
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The federal indictment of Honolulu’s former Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro and prominent businessman Dennis Mitsunaga on conspiracy charges is a strong signal to candidates and donors to follow the law and not cut deals in exchange for support, according to criminal and political analysts.
Kaneshiro, who served as city prosecutor from 1988 to 1996 and again from 2010 to 2018 before he went on paid leave, was arrested by FBI agents Friday morning at his Waialae apartment. Mitsunaga was also arrested Friday at his home.
Federal prosecutors from San Diego secured an indictment June 2 against Kaneshiro, 72, and Mitsunaga, 78, president and CEO of Mitsunaga & Associates, or MAI, and a prolific Hawaii political donor. Also indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, federal program bribery and conspiracy to violate rights were Terri Ann Otani, 66, MAI corporate secretary and office manager; Aaron Shunichi Fujii, 64, MAI’s executive vice president and chief operating officer; and Chad Michael McDonald, 50, MAI senior vice president.
Otani was arrested Thursday evening, and the others were arrested by FBI agents Friday. Mitsunaga, Kaneshiro, Otani, Fujii and McDonald all entered pleas of not guilty Friday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Wes Reber Porter. Attorneys for each defendant, the defendants and assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Wheat, who is prosecuting the case for the government, declined comment Friday.
The indictment was made public Friday.
They were each released on $50,000 bond and their trial is scheduled for Aug. 16.
In 2018, Kaneshiro received a target letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, informing him that he was under investigation in an ongoing corruption probe that already has resulted in the indictment and conviction of former Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, former Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha; and the indictments of former city Managing Director Roy Amemiya, former city Corporation Counsel Donna Leong and former Honolulu Police Commission Chair Max Sword.
Kaneshiro was on paid leave for two years until leadership of his office turned over in the 2020 election.
“This indictment alleges a Honolulu businessman and others paid $50,000 in campaign contributions to Honolulu’s former Prosecuting Attorney to prosecute a former employee,” said U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman of the Southern District of California, in a news release. “Public officials must conduct their affairs honestly and with integrity. The Department of Justice will work to hold accountable anyone who betrays that duty through the influence of bribes.”
Grossman thanked the FBI’s Honolulu Division and the prosecution team, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Wheat, for their work.
“The citizens of Hawaii deserve a government free of corruption,” said Special Agent in Charge Steven Merrill, of the FBI’s Honolulu Division, in a news release. “Corruption erodes the public trust and the FBI is committed to ensuring that people cannot buy prosecutions in the State of Hawaii. Thanks to U.S. Attorney Grossman and the prosecution team for their teamwork and commitment to justice.”
In addition to Kaneshiro, Mitsunaga and his family, friends, employees and subcontractors have been longtime political bundlers in Hawaii, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaign coffers of candidates for County Council, mayor, the state Legislature, lieutenant governor and governor over the past 16 years, according to state campaign contribution records.
In political bundling, small individual campaign contributions, often from employees or associates, are funneled to a particular candidate.
Mitsunaga’s hui has been a significant fundraiser for state and county leaders, including former Gov. Ben Cayetano, former Gov. Neil Abercrombie, former Honolulu Mayor Jeremy Harris, former Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Gov. David Ige.
Mitsunaga famously took a private polygraph test in 2004 to help clear his name after a city prosecutor suggested he was a target in a campaign finance probe of Harris. He was never charged with a crime.
Since 1980, Mitsunaga & Associates Inc. has operated as a “full service architecture and engineering firm that provides planning, project Management, architectural, civil engineering, structural engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, and construction management services,” according to the company’s website. The company has done hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of work for state and county governments.
The firm’s website lists public-sector clients that include every county government in Hawaii, the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Air Force and nine state departments. Among the state entities that Mitsunaga has executed contracts for are the departments of Transportation, Education, Hawaiian Home Lands and Defense; the Hawaii Public Housing Authority; and the Hawaii Community Development Authority.
Colin Moore, chair of the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser the allegations against Kaneshiro and Mitsunaga outlined in the indictment are “going to make many donors and candidates far more cautious.”
“Bundling is common and legal, but the ultimate purpose of this practice is to circumvent individual campaign contribution limits. It’s a way for well-connected people to deliver large contributions to candidates, often with the hope that they will receive priority access or special consideration if the candidate is elected,” said Moore. “The quid pro quo arrangement that is alleged in the indictment obviously goes well beyond that, but the line between developing a favorable relationship with a candidate and a straight bribe can get fuzzy. This is particularly true if the donor frequently interacts with the candidate in his or her official capacity. Yet it’s very hard to prove that there is a quid pro quo arrangement, so the risk of getting caught has generally been very low.”
The indictment unsealed Friday focuses on the plight of a former MAI employee, Laurel Mau, who sued the company after she was let go in November 2011. Mitsunaga and his employees allegedly contested Mau’s attempts to secure unemployment benefits from the state. After a year a Circuit Court judge ruled Mau was eligible to receive the benefits.
In the August 2012 lawsuit, Mau accused MAI of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. In October 2012, Mitsunaga met with Kaneshiro, whom he supported politically, “to attempt to persuade Kaneshiro to investigate and prosecute” Mau for allegedly working “side jobs” while on company time, according to the indictment.
Following the meeting, Mitsunaga, Otani, Fujii and McDonald and other Mitsunaga family members and employees donated about $45,000 to Kaneshiro’s campaign, federal prosecutors say. “Prior to first contributions in October 2012, the MAI donors had no known contributions to Kaneshiro,” according to the indictment.
In July 2014 a federal judge overseeing Mau’s lawsuit and several counterclaims by Mitsunaga & Associates found no liability other than a “breach of loyalty” claim against Mau for which she awarded the firm $1.
Kaneshiro prosecuted Mau for four counts of theft at the firm’s request in December 2014, according to criminal justice sources and state court records. When one deputy prosecutor suggested to Kaneshiro that there was not enough evidence to prosecute Mau, Kaneshiro allegedly reassigned the case to another prosecutor, who moved forward with charging Mau, according to the indictment.
In July 2017 those charges against the employee were dismissed with prejudice, meaning the charges could not be refiled. Kaneshiro indicated he wanted to appeal the ruling but ultimately did not, according to the indictment.
On Oct. 4, 2012, Mitsunaga’s attorney, listed in the indictment as an “unindicted co-conspirator” met with Kaneshiro and his executive assistant for “the purpose of attempting to persuade Kaneshiro to investigate and prosecute” Mau.
On Oct. 18. 2012, Mitsunaga’s attorney emailed Kaneshiro’s executive assistant a message that read, in part, “I am currently working on assembling all of the information requested by Mr. Kaneshiro at our meeting, including but not limited to evidence in support of the complaint filed with police” alleging that Mau stole from MAI, according to the indictment.
A week later Kaneshiro’s campaign received $4,000 each in contributions from Mitsunaga; his wife, Chan; and a business partner of Mitsunaga’s identified in the indictment “G.O.” Fujii gave $1,000 and Mitsunaga’s attorney donated $250, according to the indictment. On Oct. 29, 2012, Kaneshiro’s executive assistant emailed Otani, writing, “Keith would like to speak to Dennis. … How can we arrange this?”
Otani told the assistant to have Kaneshiro call Mitsunaga’s mobile phone, which he did, in a call that lasted one minute and eight seconds, according to federal court documents. On Jan. 22, 2013, Mitsunaga’s lawyer sent a letter to Kaneshiro titled “L.J.M. Criminal charges.”
Two days later Kaneshiro and Mitsunaga allegedly met for lunch to “further discuss the investigation and prosecution” of Mau.
On Jan. 28, 2013, Mitsunaga’s lawyer sent an email to Kaneshiro’s assistant that read, in part, “We are so glad you and Mr. Kaneshiro could join us for lunch. … I completely agree … it is amazing how Mr. Kaneshiro and Mr. Mitsunaga are so much alike. They are both incredible individuals with so many accomplishments and are such an inspiration to those around them.”
That same day, Mitsunaga and his wife each gave Kaneshiro’s campaign $4,000, and Otani, who is related to Mitsunaga, gave $2,000.
In October 2014, Otani and McDonald allegedly submitted sworn declarations to city prosecutors in connection with Mau’s prosecution that included “material omissions of fact” and “material misstatements and omissions.”
Ken Lawson, a faculty specialist at the William S. Richardson School of Law and co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project, said the indictment sends a message that “nobody is above the law.” He said the allegations suggest that Mitsunaga and Kaneshiro operated with “no fear.”
“‘We’re going to meet for lunch,’ and then everybody is donating to the campaign fund. No one cared about a paper trail. This was done in plain sight. ‘If you pay enough (to support me) as prosecutor, I will file charges that I know are not real and jeopardize someone’s liberty,’” said Lawson. “If you look at it (the allegations in the indictment), it’s eerily similar to what Katherine Kealoha and Louis Kealoha did. This lady (Mau) was suing the firm for civil rights violations, and in retaliation they trumped up charges against her. To me it’s similar to what the Kealohas did when the uncle sued Katherine and Louis. The lengths that these individuals are willing to go in exchange for political payoff and political payback … it’s scary.” | 2022-06-18T11:02:22+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/18/hawaii-news/fbi-agents-arrest-former-honolulu-prosecutor-keith-kaneshiro-2/ |
(NewsNation) — The four years between when Rogelio Madera Cervantes went missing after he left Jalisco, Mexico and the identification of his remains were a “nightmare” for his family.
After he went missing, his family searched for him along the U.S.-Mexico border, checking detention centers and morgues in Tijuana and Nogales, Arizona, but to no avail.
Somewhere along his journey across the border, he was separated from the group he was traveling with, and died in the desert near Yuma, Arizona.
“It’s one thing to lose someone who dies along the U.S.-Mexico border… that is a traumatic experience,” said Jason De León, executive director of The Colibrí Center for Human Rights, a non-profit based in Tuscon, Arizona. “But I think it’s 10 times worse to not know what has happened to that loved one. To not know whether or not they’re dead or alive.”
When his remains were found in the desert about three years later, the Colibrí Center helped make an identification for his family through DNA testing.
The Colibrí Center’s work began in 2006 and by 2017, it began compiling DNA samples it collected into a database they can use to compare against a separate database of unidentified remains, which are collected and maintained by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner.
Workers collect the DNA themselves, sometimes traveling internationally to places like Honduras to find family members willing to offer a comparative sample.
The process can take years.
Cervantes’ family lost contact with him in July 2013 after he set out with a “coyote,” another term for a human smuggler, in Arizona.
They later learned Cervantes wasn’t well during the trip and couldn’t keep up with the group, said Mayra Ibarra, who is married to Cervantes’ nephew.
“(The coyote) said that he left him in (a Native American) reservation or community in Yuma, Arizona,” Ibarra said.
Then in 2015, Ibarra heard about Colibrí Center for Human Rights during a Univision news report. She was put in touch with a “gentle girl” whom Ibarra said immediately relieved some of her anxiety.
“My heart told me that they would help us,” Ibarra said. “It was a long process but we were always in touch.”
Colibrí’s services are free to families of missing persons but come at a cost for the non-profit, which operates on donations and public funding.
There was pain and grief when Cervantes’ sister received the phone call confirming the DNA match, but it was tempered with the relief of closure.
After so long, the family was relieved to have him back. All those years, “They hoped to find him, dead or alive,” Ibarra said.
Closing a case is bittersweet, but De León considers it a win. Altogether, Colibrí has made 261 identifications for families that would otherwise be left in the dark.
But it’s a challenging process, and those 200-plus cases represent only about 6% of all the missing person reports the center has received — reports that span 14 countries and 43 U.S. states.
It can be a sobering statistic considering the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office is in possession of about 1,192 unidentified remains.
But De León knows the families behind those numbers and is driven by their stories.
“There’s nobody else doing this,” De León said. “If we were to shut the doors, there’s no longer a phone number to call, no longer someone to manage to case manage.”
The consulate of each country is responsible for arranging deceased migrants’ repatriation, and the specifics of those practices vary.
For the families of people who lost their lives crossing the border, DNA is often the most promising tool for identification. Desert conditions can be brutal, leading to quickly deteriorating remains, but it’s a deterrent for those willing to navigate their way through miles of hot, oppressive climate.
“The entire Sonoran Desert is just one giant graveyard,” De León said.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has set up rescue beacons and placards, which allow migrants to call for help and easily identify their location.
“Smuggling organizations are abandoning migrants in remote and dangerous areas, leading to a rise in the number of rescues but also tragically a rise in the number of deaths,” a CBP spokesperson said.
Border Patrol recorded a record number of migrant deaths in the fiscal year 2021 — about 600. Border agents helped rescue about 13,000 others.
For those that don’t make it, CBP has some measures in place such as its Missing Migrant Program, which also works to match remains with DNA.
But a recent review by the Government Accountability Office found that Border Patrol’s reports of migrant deaths were inconsistent and recommended better coordination with outside agencies. CBP agreed to those recommendations and has already begun initiating them, according to the report.
The Colibrí Center’s work is possible in part because of its partnership with the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office. But that level of cooperation isn’t guaranteed across the country and isn’t common along the border, according to the non-profit.
Colibrí takes reports of missing people elsewhere, including Texas, California, New Mexico, and Mexico.
“Right now there’s over 1,500 unidentified sets of remains from Arizona,” De León said. “And that only includes people that had been found.” | 2023-03-09T00:13:12+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/when-people-die-crossing-the-border-this-group-ids-them/ |
NEW YORK — The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is scheduled to consider other matters next week before taking a previously scheduled two-week hiatus, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. That means a vote on whether or not to indict the former president likely wouldn't come until late April at the earliest.
The break, which was scheduled in advance when the panel was convened in January, coincides with Passover, Easter and spring break for the New York City public school system.
The person who confirmed the grand jury’s schedule was not authorized to speak publicly about secretive grand jury proceedings and did so on condition of anonymity. A message left with the district attorney’s office was not immediately returned.
The grand jury has been meeting regularly Monday and Wednesday afternoons. It met Monday and a longtime Trump friend and potential key witness in the investigation was seen leaving the building where the grand jury has been meeting. The grand jury was not scheduled to meet Wednesday.
News earlier this month that Trump had been invited to appear before the grand jury fueled widespread speculation that an indictment would soon be forthcoming. Trump himself added to that anticipation with a post on his social media platform saying that he expected to be arrested soon, though his representatives later said that they had not received any such indication from prosecutors.
But the district attorney's office has made no public statements on the timing of any possible indictments, continuing its work in secret over the last two weeks. On March 20, the grand jury heard from a witness favorable to Trump.
People familiar with how grand jury processes typically unfold cautioned that the schedule could change and that prosecutors could still ask jurors to consider charges or vote on an indictment on one of the days they’re expected to meet on other matters.
Few people — Manhattan District Alvin Bragg and the prosecutors in charge of the grand jury investigation — know precisely how the grand jury investigation is proceeding and at what pace. They control when witnesses are called to testify and will be the ones deciding whether, and when, to seek an indictment.
Since Trump’s March 18 post, authorities ratcheted up security, deploying additional police officers, lining the streets around the courthouse with barricades and dispatching bomb-sniffing dogs.
They’ve also had to respond to myriad threats, including bomb and death threats, a suspicious powder scare and a protester who was arrested Tuesday after witnesses say she pulling a knife on passersby outside the courthouse. | 2023-03-29T19:03:23+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-grand-jury-pre-planned-hiatus-from-case/507-972e8141-9c97-4fd2-b7d7-12cf5997b920 |
STONECREST, Ga., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A protest will be held on Monday, August 22nd at 3120 Stonecrest Blvd., in opposition to IDI Logistics' proposed 2 million square foot warehouse. Residents and supporters for the preservation of natural resources, clean air, soil, and water denounce another corporate industry that will add more pollution to the area.
Malaika Wells President and CEO of SCC stated, "The Stonecrest Citizens Coalition supports concerned and civically engaged citizens in Stonecrest. I we believe that this event will spark increased dialogue between the City of Stonecrest and its citizens, and inspire the administration to craft development guidelines that center citizen voice and protect our environment and natural resources."
African Americans, Latino, Hispanic, rural, and disenfranchised people reside in locations which are continuously inundated with corporate entities spreading toxic emissions from diesel trucks. Diesel trucks are the largest transportation polluters on the road according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Communities of color are located alongside highways and are subjected to elevated levels of pollution," according to Lee Culpepper, a concerned resident of the area.
Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment President Renee Cail states, "The protest will inform the community about toxic emissions from diesel trucks such as carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is driving climate change." Emissions from trucks such as nitrogen dioxide are linked to lung cancer, heart disease and premature death according to the E.P.A.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mortgage rates continue to jump, home sales slump and credit cards and auto loans increase. Savings rates are slightly juicier, though.
As the Federal Reserve steadily increases interest rates, many economists say they fear that a recession remains inevitable in the coming months — and with it, job losses that could cause hardship for households already hurt worst by inflation.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised its key short-term rate by three-quarters of a point for a fourth straight time, even as its previous rate increases are being felt by households at all income levels. It was the Fed’s sixth rate hike this year.
The Fed’s latest move raised its benchmark rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, the highest level in 14 years. Its steady rate increases have already made it increasingly costly for consumers and businesses to borrow — for homes, autos and other purchases. And more hikes are almost surely coming.
Here’s what to know:
HOW DOES RAISING INTEREST RATES REDUCE INFLATION?
If one definition of inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods,” then by making it more expensive to borrow money, the Fed hopes to reduce the amount of money in circulation, eventually lowering prices.
WHICH CONSUMERS ARE MOST AFFECTED?
Anyone borrowing money to make a large purchase, such as a home, car, or large appliance, will take a hit, according to Scott Hoyt, an analyst with Moody’s Analytics.
“The new rate pretty dramatically increases your monthly payments and your cost,” he said. “It also affects consumers who have a lot of credit card debt — that will hit right away.”
That said, Hoyt noted that household debt payments, as a proportion of income, remain relatively low, though they have risen lately. So even as borrowing rates steadily rise, many households might not feel a much heavier debt burden immediately.
“I’m not sure interest rates are top of mind for most consumers right now,” Hoyt said. “They seem more worried about groceries and what’s going on at the gas pump. Rates can be something tricky for consumers to wrap their minds around.”
HOW WILL THIS AFFECT CREDIT CARD RATES?
Even before the Fed’s latest decision, credit card borrowing rates have reached their highest level since 1996, according to Bankrate.com, and these will likely continue to rise.
And with inflation raging, there are signs that Americans are increasingly relying on credit cards to help maintain their spending. Total credit card balances have topped $900 billion, according to the Federal Reserve, a record high, though that amount isn’t adjusted for inflation.
John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult, a survey research firm, said its polling suggests that more Americans are spending down the savings they accumulated during the pandemic and are using credit instead. Eventually, rising rates could make it harder for those households to pay off their debts.
Those who don’t qualify for low-rate credit cards because of weak credit scores are already paying significantly higher interest on their balances, and they’ll continue to.
As rates have risen, zero percent loans marketed as “Buy Now, Pay Later” have also become popular with consumers. Yet longer-term loans of more than four payments that these companies offer are subject to the same increased borrowing rates as credit cards.
For people who have home equity lines of credit or other variable-interest debt, rates will increase by roughly the same amount as the Fed hike, usually within one or two billing cycles. That’s because those rates are based in part on banks’ prime rate, which follows the Fed’s.
WHAT IF I WANT TO BUY A CAR?
Since the Federal Reserve began increasing rates in March, the average new vehicle loan has gone up nearly 2 percentage points, from 4.5% to 6.3% in October, according to the Edmunds.com auto site. Used vehicle loans are up 1.5% to 9.6%. For both new and used, loan lengths have gotten slightly longer to just over 70 months on average.
Key, though, is the monthly payment, on which most people base their automobile purchases. Edmunds says that since March it’s up $46 to $703 for new vehicles. The payment is up $21 per month for used vehicles to $564.
Edmunds Director of Insights Ivan Drury says the increased payments probably won’t make much of a difference in buying habits, but they’re hitting totals that could stop people from buying. “Now that we’re past $700 per month (on new vehicles) people will drop out of the market,” he said.
HOW ARE SAVERS AFFECTED?
The rising returns on high-yield savings accounts and certificates of deposit (CDs) have put them at levels not seen since 2009, which means households may want to boost savings wherever possible. You can also now earn more on bonds and other fixed-income investments.
Though savings, CDs, and money market accounts don’t typically track the Fed’s changes, online banks and others that offer high-yield savings accounts can be exceptions. These institutions typically compete aggressively for depositors. (The catch: They sometimes require significantly high deposits.)
In general, banks tend to capitalize on a higher-rate environment to boost their profits by imposing higher rates on borrowers, without necessarily offering juicer rates to savers.
WILL THIS AFFECT RENTS? HOME OWNERSHIP?
Last week, the average fixed mortgage rate topped 7%, its highest point in 14 years, meaning that rates on home loans are about twice as expensive as they were a year ago.
Mortgage rates don’t always move perfectly in tandem with the Fed increase, instead tracking the expected yield on the 10-year Treasury note. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note has reached 4%, its highest level since 2011.
Sales of existing homes have declined for eight straight months as borrowing costs have become too high a hurdle for many Americans already paying more for food, gas and other necessities.
WILL IT BE EASIER TO FIND A HOUSE IF I’M STILL LOOKING TO BUY?
If you’re financially able to proceed with a home purchase, you’re likely to have more options than at any time in the past year.
HOW HAVE THE RATE HIKES INFLUENCED CRYPTO?
Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have dropped in value since the Fed began raising rates. So have many previously high-valued technology stocks. Bitcoin has plunged from a peak of about $68,000 to under $20,000.
Higher rates mean that safe assets like Treasuries have become more attractive to investors because their yields have increased. That makes risky assets like technology stocks and cryptocurrencies less attractive, in turn.
Still, bitcoin continues to suffer from problems separate from economic policy. Two major crypto firms have failed, shaking the confidence of crypto investors.
WHAT’S PROMPTING THE RATE INCREASES?
The short answer: Inflation. Over the past year, inflation has clocked in at a painful 8.2%. So-called core prices, which exclude food and energy, also rose faster than expected.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned last month that, “our responsibility to deliver price stability is unconditional” — a remark widely interpreted to mean the Fed will fight inflation with rate increases even if it leads to deep job losses or a recession.
The goal is to slow consumer spending, thereby reducing demand for homes, cars and other goods and services, eventually cooling the economy and lowering prices.
Powell has acknowledged that aggressively raising interest rates would “bring some pain.”
WHAT ABOUT MY JOB?
Some economists argue that widespread layoffs will be necessary to slow rising prices. One argument is that a tight labor market is fueling wage growth and higher inflation. In August, the economy gained 315,000 jobs. There are roughly two job openings advertised for every unemployed worker.
“Job openings continue to exceed job hires, indicating employers are still struggling to fill vacancies,” said Odeta Kushi, an economist with First American.
WILL THIS AFFECT STUDENT LOANS?
Borrowers who take out new private student loans should prepare to pay more as as rates increase. The current range for federal loans is between about 5% and 7.5%.
That said, payments on federal student loans are suspended with zero interest until Dec. 31 as part of an emergency measure put in place early in the pandemic. President Joe Biden has also announced some loan forgiveness, of up to $10,000 for most borrowers, and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.
IS THERE A CHANCE THE RATE HIKES WILL BE REVERSED?
Stock prices rose in August based on hopes that the Fed would reverse course. But it looks increasingly unlikely that rates will come down anytime soon. Economists expect Fed officials to signal additional increases in 2023, possibly to nearly 5%.
WILL THERE BE A RECESSION?
Short-term rates at these levels will make a recession likelier by increasing the cost of mortgages, car loans, and business loans. While the Fed hopes that higher borrowing costs will slow growth by cooling the hot job market and capping wage growth, the risk is that the Fed could weaken the economy, causing a recession that would produce significant job losses.
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AP Business Writers Christopher Rugaber in Washington, Tom Krisher in Detroit and Damian Troise and Ken Sweet in New York contributed to this report.
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DOHA, Qatar — Something different is happening at the 2022 World Cup. Teams are playing longer. A lot longer.
A typical soccer game is 90-minutes of regulation with two 45-minute halves. Unlike basketball or football, the referee keeps the time on the field and can add time for stoppages like injuries, substitutions and celebrations after goals.
In World Cups of the past, a referee might tack on three or four minutes to a half. But this World Cup is different. During Monday's England-Iran game, the referee added 15 minutes to the first half (largely because of an injury to the Iranian goalkeeper) and then another 14-minutes to the second half.
The Netherlands-Senegal game got 11 extra minutes in the second half, according to official match statistics. In the U.S.-Wales match, the referee added 11 minutes at the end of the game. Argentina-Saudi Arabia played 14 minutes beyond regulation in their second half.
There's a reason for these changes. FIFA, the international governing body of soccer, wants to make sure that every minute of competition should be played on the field and not be lost because of a delay.
"The World Cup is the most important tournament on earth," said Pierluigi Collina, chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee during a news conference in Doha.
He said the 129 match officials working the 64 games of the World Cup have been given a simple message: "We recommended our referees to be very accurate in calculating the time to be added at the end of each half to compensate to time lost due to a specific kind of incident."
This includes, Collina said, adding time for injury treatment, substitutions, penalty kicks, red cards and, particularly, lengthy celebrations after goals.
"Imagine in a half there are two, three goals scored. So it's easy to lose three, four, five minutes, only for a goal celebration. This time has to be considered and compensated at the end."
Collina said they did the same thing in Russia four years ago at the last World Cup. But the stoppage times added in Qatar so far are indeed more — leading to games lasting longer and excitement to the very end.
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JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
In the ever-growing universe of partisan issues dividing the current Congress, the matter of committee assignments has reentered the chat. Today, on a party-line vote, Republicans ousted Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the House foreign affairs panel, but not before she made defiant remarks to the chamber.
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ILHAN OMAR: My leadership and voice will not be diminished if I am not on this committee for one term. My voice will get louder and stronger, and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been.
SUMMERS: It comes after Omar made and then apologized for controversial remarks and after two Republican members were kicked off of committees back when Democrats were in charge of the House.
NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grisales is here with more. Hey there.
CLAUDIA GRISALES, BYLINE: Hey, Juana.
SUMMERS: So, Claudia, I've heard this was a pretty passionate debate on the House floor. How did Democrats defend Congresswoman Omar?
GRISALES: They said this was revenge for booting Republicans off committees when they were in charge of the chamber. And yes, with every Democratic speaker, the emotional temperature raised in the chamber, including with Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib. She was being gaveled out during her remarks.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The gentlewoman's time has expired.
RASHIDA TLAIB: To Congresswoman Omar, (crying) I am so sorry, sis...
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The gentlewoman's time has expired.
TLAIB: ...That our country is failing you today through this chamber. You belong on that committee.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The gentlewoman is no longer recognized, and...
GRISALES: So there's a little bit of crosstalk there, but she's saying there that Omar should be on this committee, that the country is failing her today through this chamber and that she's sorry. And this is a move by Republicans, tied to Omar's 2019 tweets on Israel that she later apologized for. And Omar, for her part, said if anyone would be surprised that she's somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy or that she's seen as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced. And she said, quote, "when you push power, power pushes back," and that representation matters.
SUMMERS: OK. So that was the Democratic argument. But what about Republicans? What have their arguments been for removing Omar from this committee?
GRISALES: Right. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, despite Omar's apology, he and other Republicans have said these remarks were anti-Semitic and that should have ended her role on this particular committee.
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KEVIN MCCARTHY: We're not removing her from other committees. We just do not believe, when it comes to foreign affairs - especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make.
GRISALES: And so right now, he says he's in talks with the Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, as well to form a bipartisan group of members to address a code of conduct - requirements that could be installed for this and future sessions of Congress. But we should note, House Republicans have also blocked Democrats Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell for another set of reasons from the House Intelligence Committee.
SUMMERS: And Claudia, how do Republicans reconcile what's happened here with allowing their own members who have made controversial remarks who are now sitting on House panels?
GRISALES: Yes. Democrats had kicked Georgia's Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona's Paul Gosar off all committees when they were in charge of the chamber. Some would argue they were already punished for their remarks, losing roles on all of their committees. But McCarthy was asked specifically about Taylor Greene. This week, she made controversial remarks concerning Ashli Babbitt. This was a woman who was killed during the January 6 attack on the Capitol. She called it murder. McCarthy differed with that claim and said a police officer was doing his job that day.
In response to another question about Taylor Greene, he said, is she on foreign affairs or the Intelligence Committee? - and that he made his case that she is not. And he also reiterated Omar and other Democrats were blocked from specific committees but they can serve on other panels.
SUMMERS: NPR's Claudia Grisales, thank you so much.
GRISALES: Thank you much. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2023-02-20T18:32:28+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/national-politics/national-politics/2023-02-02/minnesota-rep-ilhan-omar-is-ousted-from-the-house-foreign-affairs-committee |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
9-1-5-2, FIREBALL:
(nine, one, five, two; FIREBALL: zero)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
9-1-5-2, FIREBALL:
(nine, one, five, two; FIREBALL: zero) | 2022-10-28T00:10:51+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Evening-game-17540034.php |
We wrap up our fall season at Pettingill’s Fruit Farm on Utah’s famous fruit way in Willard! Join Emma Parkhurst and learn how climate and other obstacles affect local growers and the harvest plus more cooking demos from Blackstone.
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HELENA — March 31 is “International Transgender Day of Visibility,” and advocates held a rally in Helena to mark the day.
Around 100 people gathered in the Montana State Capitol rotunda to highlight the state’s transgender, non-binary and two-spirit communities. Speakers at the rally protested a series of bills advancing in the Legislature that they called “attacks” against those Montanans.
“We deserve freedom, rights and protections, not because we are some mystical and magical beings, but because we are human beings,” said Keegan Medrano, policy director for the ACLU of Montana.
Attendees held signs against bills like Senate Bill 99, which would prohibit gender-affirming procedures for minors, and Senate Bill 458, which would codify a biological definition of sex in state law.
Afterwards, those in attendance spent several minutes in a “lie-in.” They lay on the floor, while singing, “My body is my own; I am in control.”
“Taking up that space with our bodies to really remind people in this building and beyond that we are not going to stop taking up space, we’re not going to stop existing,” said Izzy Milch, senior advocacy manager for Forward Montana. | 2023-04-01T02:57:16+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/68th-session/advocates-hold-trans-day-of-visibility-rally-at-montana-state-capitol |
Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who played the villainous British governor in “RRR,” an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome,” has died. He was 58.
Representatives for Stevenson told The Associated Press that he died Sunday but had no other details to share on Monday.
Stevenson was born in Lisburn in 1964. After attending the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and years of working in British television, he made his film debut in Paul Greengrass’s 1998 film “The Theory of Flight.” In 2004, he appeared in Antoine Fuqua’s “King Arthur” as a knight of the round table and several years later played the lead in the pre-Disney Marvel adaptation “Punisher: War Zone."
Though “Punisher” was not the best-reviewed film, he'd get another taste of Marvel in the first three "Thor” films, in which he played Volstagg. Other prominent film roles included the “Divergent” trilogy, “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” and “The Transporter: Refueled.”
A looming presence at 6-foot-4, Stevenson, who played his share of soldiers past and present, once said in an interview, “I guess I'm an old warrior at heart.”
On the small screen, he was the roguish Titus Pullo in “Rome,” a role that really got his career going in the United States and got him a SAG card, at the age of 44. The popular series ran from 2005 to 2007.
“That was one of the major years of my life,” Stevenson said in an interview. “It made me sit down in my own skin and say, just do the job. The job’s enough.”
In the Variety review of “Rome,” Brian Lowery wrote that “the imposing Stevenson certainly stands out as a brawling, whoring and none-too-bright warrior — a force of nature who, despite his excesses, somehow keeps landing on his feet."
He was Blackbeard in the Starz series “Black Sails," Commander Jack Swinburne in the German television series “Das Boot," and Othere on “Vikings.”
Stevenson also did voice work in “Star Wars Rebels” and “The Clone Wars,” as Gar Saxon, and has a role in the upcoming Star Wars live-action series “Ahsoka," in which he plays a bad guy, Baylan Skoll. The eight-episode season is expected on Disney+ in August.
In an interview with Backstage in 2020, Stevenson said his acting idols were, “The likes of Lee Marvin (and) Gene Hackman.”
“Never a bad performance, and brave and fearless within that caliber,” Stevenson said. “It was never the young, hot leading man; it was men who I could identify with.”
Stevenson has three sons with Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Caraccia, who he met while working on “Rome.” | 2023-05-22T19:06:32+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2023/05/22/irish-actor-ray-stevenson-of-rome-and-thor-movies-dies-at-58/ |
Colts pick Northwestern RB Evan Hull in fifth round of NFL Draft. 5 things to know.
Evan Hull was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL Draft with the 176th overall pick.
Hull, a running back from Northwestern, adds depth to the Indianapolis backfield that is led by Jonathan Taylor. The 22-year-old from Minnesota is 5-10 and 209 pounds. This is what you should know:
Evan Hull ran for a lot of yards in high school
Hull attended Maple Grove High School in Minnesota and was a workhorse for the football team. In just two years, Hull ran for over 4,000 yards (1,915 as a senior and 2,177 as a junior). In those two seasons, he scored 38 rushing touchdowns.
He was also a four-time letterwinner in wrestling.
Evan Hull at Northwestern
In four seasons at Northwestern, Hull ran for 2,417 yards and 18 touchdowns. Hull's junior year in 2021 was his most productive with 196 rushing attempts for 1,009 yards and seven touchdowns.
Evan Hull at NFL Combine
∎ 4.47 seconds in the 40-yard dash
∎ 1.53 seconds in 10-yard split
∎ 37 inches in vertical jump
∎ 10 feet, 3 inches in broad jump
Doyel:Colts QB Anthony Richardson, 20, will bring a support system of family to Indy
Evan Hull NFL Draft profile
From NFL.com: Compact, muscular runner with below-average explosiveness but decent downhill power. Hull’s lack of suddenness and foot quickness to quickly get in and out of cuts allows defenders to track him down. He needs to play with as much downhill movement as possible, so he will need a quality offensive line in front of him to succeed. He’s a very capable route-runner and pass-catcher but he needs to improve in pass protection for consideration as a third-down option. Hull might need the perfect team fit to stick around on a roster long-term. | 2023-04-29T20:46:50+00:00 | indystar.com | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/nfl/colts/2023/04/29/colts-northwesterns-evan-hull-picked-in-fifth-round-what-to-know/70166729007/ |
Impact "much bigger than a single project"
WAYNESBORO, Ga., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bechtel, the engineering, procurement, and construction company brought in to complete construction on new Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia, today issued the following statement from Brendan Bechtel, Bechtel Chairman and CEO, marking the start of commercial operations for Unit 3:
"We are extremely proud of Bechtel's part in achieving this milestone. Our team has been 100 percent committed to Vogtle's completion since being brought in to finish the project.
"Today's start of commercial operations for Vogtle Unit 3 gives the Southeast a major new source of clean, reliable, carbon-free baseload energy. And, as the first new nuclear unit built in the U.S. in more than 30 years, it helps put America back on the map as a leader in the global nuclear industry.
"Bechtel has supported the design and construction of 150 nuclear plants worldwide. We know firsthand how Vogtle Units 3 and 4 go a long way in restoring America's muscle memory in nuclear construction, including the workforce and domestic supply chains required to build America's largest nuclear power plant. Vogtle Unit 3 comes online at a pivotal time when energy security concerns and the need to cut carbon emissions are driving growth in the world's nuclear fleet.
"Plant Vogtle will generate more carbon-free electricity yearly than any other energy facility currently operating in the country. Its completion reinforces that the United States is the responsible partner of choice for new nuclear energy around the world, and maintains U.S. interests in ensuring strong safety, security, and non-proliferation standards. This is why Vogtle's impact is much bigger than a single project.
"Thank you to the thousands of skilled craft professionals, union partners, engineers, project managers, procurement experts, suppliers, subcontractors, and everyone who made this day possible. And thank you to Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear for the opportunity to bring this project over the finish line. We look forward to doing the same with Unit 4 in the coming months."
Background
In 2017, Bechtel was brought in by Georgia Power and Southern Nuclear to take over construction of Vogtle Units 3 and 4, bringing extensive experience supporting the design and construction of 150 nuclear plants worldwide. Vogtle Units 3 and 4 are the first Westinghouse AP1000 units to ever be built in the U.S.
Bechtel has completed more than 76,000 megawatts of new nuclear generation capacity and has designed, built, or performed engineering and/or construction services on more than 80% of nuclear plants in the United States. Today, the company leads efforts in designing and constructing advanced nuclear plants, critical to global efforts to achieve net zero carbon emissions.
Bechtel partnered with North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) to build Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4. At peak, Bechtel and NABTU had a combined 9,000 workers on site.
About Bechtel
Bechtel is a trusted engineering, construction, and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of our people and our relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, we align our capabilities to our customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, we have helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Bechtel serves the Energy; Infrastructure; Manufacturing & Technology; Mining & Metals; and Nuclear, Security & Environmental markets. Our services span from initial planning and investment through start-up and operations. www.bechtel.com
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Prime Day is a great time to score some of the most sought-after products at significant savings. This year, Prime Day will be on July 11 and 12, and while Amazon sells a nearly infinite variety of products, electronics feature heavily at its yearly midsummer sale. In particular, you’ll find a large number of previously released laptops on sale.
While it’s impossible to accurately predict every single laptop deal we’ll see in July, past events give a good indication of what kinds of products Prime Day 2023 will feature. We’ve included some of our favorites, such as the Apple 2022 MacBook Pro, which we tested and love for its elite performance, durable build and impressive battery life.
We’ve also rounded up the best early deals of Prime Day, so keep your eyes peeled as we approach the big sale.
The deals below were updated on June 22, 2023, at 12 pm EST.
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ANKARA – Annual inflation in Turkey slightly eased in November for the first time in more than a year, according to official figures released on Monday, although it remains close to 24-year highs.
Consumer prices for the year rose by 84.39% in November, down from 85.51% recorded in October, the Turkish Statistical Institute announced. The monthly inflation rate was 2.88% in November, compared with 3.51% in the previous month.
It is the first time that annual inflation has eased since May 2021.
“As we have previously stated through various media, we have left the peak in inflation behind us and entered a downward trend — unless there is an unexpected global development,” Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati tweeted on Monday.
While the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have stoked inflation around the world, economists believe that inflation in Turkey was additionally fueled by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s belief that high borrowing costs lead to higher prices. Traditional economic thinking says that raising rates helps rein in inflation.
Turkey’s central bank has slashed interest rates by 5 percentage points since August, down to 9% despite high inflation that has deepened a cost-of-living crisis in the country. In contrast, central banks around the world have been raising rates to fight soaring inflation.
Erdogan has said his model — which prioritizes growth, investments, employment and exports — is expected to yield results in the new year.
The sharpest increases in annual prices were in the transportation sector, at 107%, followed by food and non-alcoholic drinks prices at 102.55%, according to official data.
Some experts have questioned the state institutes’ figures and the Inflation Research Group, which is made up of independent economists, said on Monday that Turkey’s true inflation rate for November is 170.7%. | 2022-12-05T12:51:55+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/business/2022/12/05/turkish-inflation-eases-for-1st-time-in-more-than-a-year/ |
Updated July 10, 2022 at 4:34 PM ET
CHASIV YAR, Ukraine — Dozens of Ukrainian emergency workers labored Sunday to pull people out of the rubble after a Russian rocket attack smashed into apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 15 people. More than 20 people were believed still trapped.
The strike late Saturday destroyed three buildings in a residential quarter of the town of Chasiv Yar, inhabited mostly by people who work in nearby factories.
On Sunday evening, rescuers were able to remove enough of the bricks and concrete to retrieve a man who had been trapped for almost 24 hours. Rescuers laid him on a stretcher and he was quickly taken to a hospital.
Ukraine's Emergency Services said the latest rescue brought to six the number of people dug out of the rubble. Earlier in the day, they made contact with three others still trapped alive beneath the ruins.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region that includes Chasiv Yar, said an estimated 24 people were believed still trapped, including a 9-year-old child.
Cranes and excavators worked alongside rescue teams to clear away the ruins of one building, its walls completely shorn off by the impact of the strike. The thud of artillery on the nearby front line resonated just a few miles away, making some workers flinch and others run for cover.
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Valerii, who gave only his first name, was desperately waiting to hear news of his sister and 9-year-old nephew, who lived in the collapsed building and had not answered his calls since Saturday night.
"Now I'm waiting for a miracle" he said, as he stood before the ruins and started to pray, hands clasped together tightly.
"We do not have good expectations, but I am avoiding such thoughts," he said.
Kyrylenko said the town of about 12,000 was hit by Uragan rockets that are fired from truck-borne systems. Chasiv Yar is 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Kramatorsk, a city that is a major target of Russian forces as they grind westward.
However, later Sunday, Viacheslav Boitsov, deputy chief of emergency service in the Donetsk Region, told the Associated Press that four shells hit the neighborhood and they were likely Iskander missiles.
Residents said they heard at least three explosions and that many people were badly wounded in the blasts. A group of neighbors sat Sunday in a courtyard quietly discussing who was wounded and who was still missing.
"There was an explosion, all the windows blew out and I was thrown to the ground," said 45-year-old Oksana, who gave only her first name. She was in her third-floor apartment when the missiles struck.
"My kitchen walls and balcony have completely vanished," she added, struggling to hold back tears. "I called my children to tell them I was alive."
At least one resident plans to stay in the neighborhood
Irina Shulimova, a 59-year-old retiree, recalled the terror. "We didn't hear any incoming sound, we just felt the impact. I ran to hide in the corridor with my dogs. Everyone I knew started calling me to find out what had happened. I was shaking like a leaf," she said.
Front doors and balconies were torn apart in the blast, and heaps of twisted metal and bricks lay on the ground. Crushed summer cherries were smeared on shattered window panes.
A 30-year-old technology worker named Oleksandr said his mother was among those injured in the explosion.
"Thank God I wasn't injured, it was a miracle," he said, touching the crucifix around his neck.
Although the home he shares with his mother is now shattered, he said he doesn't plan to leave the neighborhood.
"I only have enough money to support myself for another month. Lots of people are fed up already of refugees coming from the east — no one will feed or support us there. It's better to stay," said Oleksandr, who declined to give his surname.
Another resident who gave only his first name, Dima, had lived for more than 20 years on the ground floor of one of the buildings that was hollowed out in the attack. He walked back and forth across the rubble.
"As you can see, my home is lost," he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the Russians of intentionally targeting civilians.
"Anyone who orders such strikes, everyone who carries them out in ordinary cities, in residential areas, kills absolutely consciously," he said in an address to Ukrainians on Sunday night. "After such hits, they won't be able to say that they didn't know or didn't understand something."
Saturday's attack was just the latest in a series of strikes against civilian areas in the east, even as Russia repeatedly claims it is only hitting targets of military value.
This isn't the first strike to hit civilian buildings
Twenty-one people were killed earlier this month when an apartment building and recreation area came under rocket fire in the southern Odesa region. Another at least 19 people died when a Russian missile hit a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk in late June.
There was no comment about the Chasiv Yar attack at a Russian Defense Ministry briefing on Sunday.
The Donetsk region is one of two provinces along with Luhansk that make up the Donbas region, where separatist rebels have fought Ukrainian forces since 2014. Last week, Russia captured the city of Lysychansk, the last major stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in Luhansk.
Russian forces are raising "true hell" in the Donbas, despite assessments they were taking an operational pause, Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai said Saturday.
After the seizure of Lysychansk, some analysts predicted that Moscow's troops likely would take some time to rearm and regroup.
But "so far there has been no operational pause announced by the enemy. He is still attacking and shelling our lands with the same intensity as before," Haidai said.
He later said Ukrainian forces had destroyed some ammunition depots and barracks used by the Russians.
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Parents among 3 arrested after teen boy’s abandoned body found wrapped in blanket
KINGMAN, Ariz. (KPHO/Gray News) - Two parents were arrested along with another man on Thursday in Arizona after police said a 16-year-old boy was found dead.
According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, the teen’s parents, Amber-Leah Valentine and Jon Imes, called deputies on Feb. 25 and told them their son had run away from home and that they had seen him the day before.
Several days later, deputies were called out to an area near Anson Smith and Indian Canyon Road in Kingman for the report of a teenage boy’s body found wrapped in a blanket behind a stone wall.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they said they didn’t know the remains belonged to the missing-16-year-old.
Officials told KPHO that the road sees a lot of traffic, so it would be strange to leave a body near it.
The sheriff’s office said they were called by Valentine last Thursday to report that she had just freed her 14-year-old daughter from captivity by her roommates 34-year-old Richard Pounds and 39-year-old Shioban Gujda.
Investigators said Valentine and her daughter were taken to a hospital where the mother confessed that she and Imes had disposed of their son’s body behind the wall. Officers said she knew he was dead when the couple reported him missing.
Imes and Valentine were later arrested on various charges which included abandonment and concealing a dead body.
When investigators spoke with the 14-year-old daughter, she reportedly told them that Pounds had shot her in the eye with a BB gun. Deputies said she reported additional abuse that had happened to her while living in the house.
“Any call that we get that involves a child of any age is extremely disturbing,” Anita Mortensen, with the Mohave Sheriff’s Office, said. “Our deputies, our detectives, they are fathers, they’re mothers. They have their own kids and going to calls like this is always extremely disturbing that someone could do something or be in the same home as something like this that is happening to their own children.”
Pounds was arrested and booked for felony child abuse and aggravated assault. Gujda was questioned and released. An autopsy was conducted on the 16-year-old’s body, with the results pending.
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PARTNERS WITH REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT AND OPERATIONS FIRM T30 CAPITAL
Strategic Partnership will Target Senior Bridge Lending Opportunities Along Northeast Corridor with "Open Door Sourcing" for MWBE Sponsors
NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- T30 Capital LLC ("T30") today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC ("Blueprint") to scale its commercial real estate lending activities and increase its social impact. Blueprint is a $1.4 billion registered investment advisor focused on fund and direct investments in alternative credit. T30 is a vertically integrated, multi-strategy institutional real estate investment and operations platform.
T30 and Blueprint will identify and execute $5-50 million senior bridge and construction loans for a range of property types – including multifamily, mixed-use, hotel and industrial – along the Northeast Corridor and commit to "open door sourcing" to increase lending to minority- and women-owned business enterprise ("MWBE") sponsors. T30 and Blueprint will leverage their collective investment experience and deep network of industry relationships to scale T30's lending capacity and provide borrowing opportunities for MWBE sponsors, who have traditionally faced funding challenges in the commercial real estate industry. Together, they will seek to expand the pipeline of loan opportunities from $750 million to $2.5 billion.
Margaret Grossman, Managing Partner and President of T30, said, "Blueprint is well-recognized for supporting capital access to and growth of MWBE sponsors, and we are pleased to join forces with a team whose values align with our own. We expect that the net result of our combined efforts will be access to a significant volume of niche and differentiated deal flow that delivers attractive yield and solid downside protection."
Jacob Walthour Jr., Chief Executive Officer of Blueprint, added, "We are excited to establish this relationship with T30 at this pivotal point in their evolution. Together, we will create compelling opportunities for investors while providing MWBE-led real estate projects with access to capital and accelerating the growth of T30's lending platform. There is a triple-bottom line to this endeavor, and we look forward to a long-term partnership."
A woman-led firm, T30 is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of real estate underwriting, law, and structured finance professionals that boasts 50 years of combined experience developing creative loan structures and adding value through operational and strategic assistance for borrowers. T30's debt platform, formerly known as Fort Amsterdam Capital ("FAC"), is led by the firm's Managing Partners Ms. Grossman, David Schwartz, and Jeremy Salzberg, who, through FAC and the firm's predecessor affiliate, have deployed approximately $1.5 billion of capital through more than 250 real estate transactions across debt and equity, including 40 credit deals through the previous FAC Funds I and II.
Mr. Schwartz concluded, "We have worked thoughtfully and strategically to grow our team, expertise and platform so that we are best positioned to take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves in the market. We see a compelling opportunity to build on our core competencies in middle market CRE direct lending, particularly today, in light of recent volatility in equity and fixed income markets, and are pleased to partner with Blueprint to increase our footprint."
About T30 Capital LLC
T30 Capital a vertically integrated, multi-strategy institutional real estate investment and operations platform led by Managing Partners David Schwartz, Margaret Grossman and Jeremy Salzberg. Since 2009, T30 and its predecessor entities have deployed approximately $1.5 billion of capital through more than 250 debt and equity transactions on behalf of its institutional and high net worth investors. For more information, please visit: https://www.t30capital.com/.
About Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC
Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC is an independent, privately held alternative investment firm focused sourcing and managing fund and direct investments in private credit and other alternative lending strategies including niche direct lending, specialty finance, royalties and advances, real asset related investments and distressed debt strategies. The firm is registered with Securities and Exchange Commission and advises on $1.4 billion of assets. For more information, please visit: https://blueprintllc.com/
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SEATTLE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington Poison Center (WAPC) is pleased to announce the hiring of Dr. Sasha Kaiser, MD as its Associate Medical Director. In this role, Dr. Kaiser will provide medical oversight to WAPC's call center specialists in poison information, ensuring the WAPC continues its provision of high-quality poisoning treatment advice and consultations. Dr. Kaiser will also support clinical education and outreach at the local, state, and national level for healthcare providers, as well as the WAPC's toxicology training programs for emergency medicine physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and EMTs.
"The Washington Poison Center is happy to welcome Dr. Kaiser after her extensive training," comments Dr. Scott Phillips, Medical Director of the WAPC. "Dr. Kaiser's addition to the Center allows us to provide greater outreach and support to the medical community."
With this position, Dr. Kaiser is returning to her Washington roots. After growing up on Camano Island, Dr. Kaiser moved to Spokane to work as a pharmacy technician and attend nursing school. She then moved to Florida to pursue a career as a physician, attending the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Kaiser completed her Emergency Medicine Residency in 2020 at Denver Health, and is board certified in Emergency Medicine. She now returns to Washington following the completion of her medical toxicology fellowship at Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety. Dr. Kaiser began her role at the WAPC on July 18, 2022.
Dr. Kaiser has authored numerous manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and has lectured on topics in medical toxicology and emergency medicine to pharmacists, medical students, residents, and hospital organizations. Her research includes acetaminophen poisoning, focusing on genetic and patient susceptibility factors. Dr. Kaiser additionally completed the American College of Medical Toxicology Fellows in Industry Rotation, which focused on product development and regulation for safety.
Meet Dr. Kaiser on August 5 at 12:00pm in a livestream on the WAPC's YouTube channel and Facebook page.
About the WAPC: The Washington Poison Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit mandated by Washington State to deliver poison and drug exposure-related medical advice and education to community members, first responders, and healthcare providers. WAPC provides medical advice through a 24/7/365 free telephone line staffed by specially trained pharmacists, nurses, and physician medical toxicologists. WAPC also provides free programs to educate local communities on poison safety, prevention, and harm reduction.
Media contact: mryuk@wapc.org
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two former Black Democratic lawmakers who were expelled by Republican colleagues in Tennessee say they want to be reappointed, then elected back to their seats, following their ouster for a protest on the House floor urging passage of gun-control measures in the wake of a deadly school shooting.
Nashville’s metro council is likely to reappoint Justin Jones to the seat during a specially called Monday meeting. Mickell Lowery, the chairman of the Shelby County Commission, said in a statement Sunday that the panel will consider at a meeting Wednesday whether to reappoint Justin Pearson, who is from Memphis, to his seat.
Lowery said he understands the need to respond to those who “transgressed the rules” of the state House of Representatives.
“However, I believe the expulsion of State Representative Justin Pearson was conducted in a hasty manner without consideration of other corrective action methods. I also believe that the ramifications for our great State are still yet to be seen,” he said.
Both former lawmakers told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that they want to return to their positions as lawmakers. Special elections for the seats, which have yet to be set, will follow in the coming months.
The expulsions have made Tennessee a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy. The former lawmakers have quickly drawn prominent supporters. President Joe Biden spoke with them and Vice President Kamala Harris visited them in Nashville.
“You know, we will continue to fight for our constituents,” Jones said. “And one thing I just want to say … is that this attack against us is hurting all people in our state. You know, even though it is disproportionately impacting Black and Brown communities, this is hurting poor white people. Their attack on democracy hurts all of us.”
In separate votes on Thursday, the GOP supermajority expelled Jones and Pearson, a move leaving about 140,000 voters in primarily Black districts in Nashville and Memphis with no representation in the House.
Pearson and Jones were expelled in retaliation for their role in the protest the week before, which unfolded in the aftermath of a school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, including three young students and three adults working at the school. The shooter was killed by police.
A third Democrat, Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, was spared expulsion by a one-vote margin. Johnson is white, spurring outcry at the differing outcomes for the two young, Black lawmakers. Republican lawmakers who split their votes have cited Johnson’s points on the floor that her role in the protest was lesser — she didn’t speak into the megaphone, for example.
Johnson has also suggested race was likely a factor on why Jones and Pearson were ousted but not her, telling reporters it “might have to do with the color of our skin.”
Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton said that’s a “false narrative.”
“It’s unfortunate, she’s trying to put political racism in this, which there was nothing on this,” Sexton told Fox News on Friday.
GOP leaders said the expulsion actions — used only a handful times since the Civil War — were necessary to avoid setting a precedent that lawmakers’ disruptions of House proceedings through protest would be tolerated.
Pearson said the statehouse has been a “toxic work environment.” He noted the scrutiny he received for wearing a black dashiki — a tunic-like garment that originated in west Africa — for session, rather than a suit and tie.
“It’s about us not belonging in the institution because they are afraid of the changes that are happening in our society, and the voices that are being elevated,” Pearson said on Meet the Press. | 2023-04-10T08:27:59+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/expelled-tennessee-lawmakers-both-seeking-seats-again/ |
China’s response to Pelosi visit a sign of future intentions
BANGKOK (AP) — China’s response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was anything but subtle — dispatching warships and military aircraft to all sides of the self-governing island democracy, and firing ballistic missiles into the waters nearby.
The dust has still not settled, with Taiwan this week conducting drills of its own and Beijing announcing it has more maneuvers planned, but experts say a lot can already be gleaned from what China has done, and has not done, so far. China will also be drawing lessons on its own military capabilities from the exercises, which more closely resembled what an actual strike on the island claimed by Beijing as its own territory would look like, and from the American and Taiwanese response.
During the nearly weeklong maneuvers that followed Pelosi’s early August visit, China sailed ships and flew aircraft regularly across the median line in the Taiwan Strait, claiming the de facto boundary did not exist, fired missiles over Taiwan itself, and challenged established norms by firing missiles into Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
“I think we are in for a risky period of testing boundaries and finding out who can achieve escalatory dominance across the diplomatic, military and economic domains,” said David Chen, an analyst with CENTRA Technology, a U.S.-based consulting firm.
Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years, and her visit came at a particularly sensitive time, as Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to seek a third five-year term as leader of the ruling Communist Party later this year.
Under Xi, China has been increasingly forceful in declaring that Taiwan must be brought under its control — by force if necessary — and U.S. military officials have said that Beijing may seek a military solution within the next few years.
Tensions were already high, with China conducting regular military flights near Taiwan and the U.S. routinely sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait to emphasize they are international waters.
China accuses the U.S. of encouraging the island’s independence through the sale of weapons and engagement between U.S. politicians and the island’s government.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying called Pelosi’s visit a “serious provocation” and accused Washington of breaking the status quo and “interfering in China’s internal affairs.”
“China is not the old China of 120 years ago, and we are not Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan — we will not allow any foreign force to bully, suppress or enslave us,” she told reporters in Beijing. “Whoever wants to do so will be on a collision course with the Great Wall of steel forged by the 1.4 billion Chinese people.”
The U.S. continues to insist it has not deviated from its “one-China” policy, recognizing the government in Beijing while allowing for informal relations and defense ties with Taipei.
China held off on its maneuvers until Pelosi had left Taiwan, and turned back its forces before they approached Taiwan’s coast or territorial airspace, which showed a “modicum of restraint,” Chen said. But, he noted, another congressional visit following Pelosi’s triggered the announcement of more exercises.
“We are likely entering a period of regular military demonstrations in and around China’s maritime domain,” he said.
“The Chinese Communist Party is also quite capable in creating cross-domain responses, as has been seen in the cyber realm. Beyond that, we could see escalatory moves in space, in the South China Sea, Africa, the Indian Ocean, or the South Pacific.”
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said the scale and coordination of the exercises suggested China was looking past Taiwan toward establishing dominance in the western Pacific. That would include controlling the East and South China Seas via the Taiwan Strait, and having the capability to impose a blockade to prevent the U.S. and its allies from coming to the aid of Taiwan in the event of an attack.
Short of an armed conflict, a blockade of the Taiwan Strait — a significant thoroughfare for global trade — could have major implications for international supply chains at a time when the world is already facing disruptions.
In particular, Taiwan is a crucial provider of computer chips for the global economy.
Though ostensibly a reaction to Pelosi’s visit, it is clear China’s exercises had been long planned, said Mareike Ohlberg, a senior fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund think tank.
“I do think they were looking for an opportunity to escalate,” she said. “This is not something you prep after the announcement (of the visit) and then pull off that quickly and that easily.”
The U.S. held back throughout the maneuvers, keeping an aircraft carrier group and two amphibious assault ships at sail in the region, but not close to the island. Taiwan avoided any active countermeasures.
Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs, said this week that the U.S. was taking a “calm and resolute” long-view approach that would include continued transits of the Taiwan Strait, supporting Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities, and otherwise deepening ties with the island.
To that end, the U.S. announced Thursday that it was opening talks with Taiwan on a wide-ranging trade agreement.
Campbell said Washington sees China’s actions as “part of an intensified pressure campaign against Taiwan, which has not ended.”
“We expect it to continue to unfold in the coming weeks and months,” he said.
The U.S. Department of Defense has acknowledged China’s increasingly capable military, saying it has become a true rival and has already surpassed the American military in some areas, including shipbuilding, and now has the world’s largest navy.
The reserved American response to the recent exercises seemed calculated to avoid any accidental confrontation that could have escalated the situation, but could also feed China’s confidence, Ohlberg said.
“The base of China’s thinking is that the U.S. is in decline and that China is on the rise, and I guess the response would have been seen in Beijing as confirming that thinking,” she said.
The U.S. and China came perhaps the closest to blows in 1996, when China, irked by what it saw as increasing American support for Taiwan, fired missiles into the waters some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Taiwan’s coast ahead of Taiwan’s first popular presidential election.
The U.S. responded with its own show of force, sending two aircraft carrier groups to the region. At the time, China had no aircraft carriers and little means to threaten the American ships, and it backed down.
China subsequently embarked on a massive modernization of its military and the recent exercises demonstrate a “quantum leap” of improvement from 1996, showing a joint command and control coordination not seen before, Chen said.
Before being confident enough to launch an actual invasion of Taiwan, however, the Chinese military still needs to do more to assure the country’s political leadership it would be successful, he said.
“These latest exercises are probably part of proving that capability, but more needs to be hammered out before they could be confident in conducting a full-scale Taiwan amphibious invasion,” he said. “They’ve only demonstrated the maritime blockade and air control parts of that campaign, without opposition.”
Following the visit, China released an updated “white paper” on Taiwan outlining how it envisioned an eventual annexation of the island would look.
It said it would follow the “one country, two systems” format applied in Hong Kong, which critics say has been undermined by a sweeping national security law that asserts Beijing’s control over speech and political participation. The concept has been thoroughly rejected in Taiwanese public opinion polls in which respondents have overwhelmingly favored their current de facto independence.
Tellingly, the new white paper discarded a pledge in its previous iteration not to send troops or government officials to an annexed Taiwan.
China has refused all contact with Taiwan’s government since shortly after the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. Tsai was overwhelmingly reelected in 2020.
China’s bellicose response to Pelosi’s visit may have the unintended effect of strengthening the DPP in midterm elections later this year, said Huang Kwei-bo, vice dean of the College of International Affairs at Taiwan’s National Chengchi University.
Ideally, it would be in Taiwan’s best interest if both sides backed off and found “reasoned ways” to settle differences, he said.
“There’s an old saying that when two big elephants fight, the ant and the grass suffer,” he said.
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AP journalist Johnson Lai in Taipei, Taiwan, contributed to this story.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE American: UEC, the "Company" or "UEC") is pleased to provide an update on its holdings of common shares of UEX Corporation ("UEX"). The Company has acquired 6,844,000 UEX common shares through the facilities of the TSX at an average cost of C$0.3601 per UEX common share. When added to the 11,627,907 UEX common shares acquired by private placement on June 22, 2022 at a price of C$0.43 per share (the "Private Placement"), UEC now holds a total of 18,471,907 UEX common shares (approximately 3.32% of the shares currently outstanding).
On June 13, 2022, UEC announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with UEX pursuant to which it is to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of UEX in an all-share transaction by way of statutory plan of arrangement (the "Transaction"). The Private Placement was completed in connection with the Transaction. In announcing the closing of the Private Placement, UEC announced its intention to acquire additional UEX common shares by making purchases through the facilities of the TSX.
These additional UEX common shares are being held by UEC for investment purposes and in furtherance of the Transaction. UEC may, from to time, dependent on market or other conditions, and subject to applicable securities laws, either increase or decrease its beneficial ownership in the common shares of UEX. UEC will continue to provide periodic updates in respect of any UEX common share purchases made.
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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SOURCE Uranium Energy Corp | 2022-06-30T21:53:17+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/06/30/uranium-energy-corp-provides-update-uex-holdings/ |
Chicago police said an officer was shot Monday evening in the Englewood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.
The officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was transported from the scene in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue to University of Chicago Medical Center, according to a tweet by the Chicago Police Department shortly before 8 p.m.
No additional details were immediately available. Police were planning a news conference Monday night near the intersection of South Cottage Grove Avenue and East 57th Street, at the northwest corner of the hospital. | 2023-07-25T02:15:16+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-chicago-police-officer-shot-englewood-20230725-iazlkyev5ratfkdyl5nfat6xy4-story.html |
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