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A federal judge in Houston will hear arguments Thursday about the legality of DACA, the program that grants temporary legal status to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
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A federal judge in Houston will hear arguments Thursday about the legality of DACA, the program that grants temporary legal status to immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
Copyright 2023 KERA | 2023-06-01T09:48:16+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2023-06-01/arguments-over-the-legality-of-daca-will-be-heard-in-a-federal-court-in-texas |
XIAMEN, China, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Contemporary Good Design Award 2022 (CGD 2022) announced 188 winning works recently, including 22 entries that garnered the Gold Winners distinction and two Best Smart Product winners. Award winners included leading global brands and emerging Chinese designers, with some of the most interesting entries coming from the intelligent products, pet lifestyle and healthcare segments etc.
Organized by Red Dot, Contemporary Good Design Award (CGD) aims to select good designs for contemporary society and aspires to provide the highest quality of package to its winners. The Exhibition of Winners CGD Award 2022 will be showcased at the recently opened Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen in mid-2023.
Building a bridge to help outstanding designs toward the national market and the international stage
CGD 2022 received entries worthy of further consideration from 12 countries and regions, including Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the US, demonstrating a significant improvement in the engagement of participants worldwide as well as in the overall quality of entries. The winning works came from the intelligent technology, human-computer interaction, new materials, life aesthetics, pet economy and other industry segments.
Each and every good design deserves to be respected. In line with the goal of creating one of the leading Chinese design awards and innovation platforms with an international reputation and market promotion opportunities, CGD continues to provide winners with compelling benefits, one of the most important of which to entrants is the ability to match companies and designers with production, promotion and marketing channels. The award committee is committed to connecting competitive ideas from China with design resources worldwide as part of the mission to assist good designers in finding a home for their products in both the Chinese and international markets.
Red Dot founder and CEO, Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, said, "I am proud to say that the CGD is becoming one of the most important independent design awards in China. With the competition, we are looking for more interesting and innovative designs every year."
The role of design in social responsibility: a driver behind innovations in contemporary lifestyles
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the biggest influences of lifestyle changes, giving rise to reflection on how important it is to become aware of and take steps to care for our own health, to reflect on the nature of life itself, and to protect mankind's and nature's most vulnerable groups. Good design accelerates the adoption of a new lifestyle and can be highly innovative in enhancing daily productivity. The winning works at CGD 2022 include several designs that highlight the importance of health and wellness, that call on everyone to pay more attention to the quality of one's life and that act as a driver to boost social development.
At the annual Design Trend Forum held during CGD 2022, Cai Jun, a professor from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, presented an analysis of the trends that were reflected in the entries submitted to CGD. He also shared his insights into the trends attributable respectively to technology-powered improvements to the quality of life, a more humanistic approach to life itself, care for life, and ecological sustainability.
Professor He Renke, dean of the School of Design, Hunan University, shared his opinions on the theme of Design and Social Responsibility. He said that a good design should contribute to the sustainability of human life, and that design ideas should gradually transition from being purely human-centered to a focus on the environmental sustainability of the planet.
Technology-enabled innovations empowers design
With the constant evolution in technology as we enter a new era, intelligent designs have become an important part of people's daily lives and can be seen in every industry segment as the internet, big data and artificial intelligence reshape the way people produce and consume.
Taking all of these new approaches into account, at CGD 2022, participants were allowed to place their entries in the new Smart Product meta-category. The All-new BMW 7 Series and Blues Smart Panels won the Best Smart Product title, with another 10 products receiving the Smart Product accolade, including the smart food preparation solution i-Kitchen3.0 Smart kitchen and the HPRT GT1 intelligent printer.
These winning works demonstrate how design and technology are integrated into various dimensions of production, life, and ecology. Technology-enabled design innovation will rebuild new networks and relationships between people and ecology, people and healthcare, and people and technology across fields and species.
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SOURCE Red Dot Design Museum Xiamen | 2022-12-27T00:56:35+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/12/26/design-empowered-future-driven-contemporary-good-design-award-2022-announces-188-winning-works/ |
DETROIT (AP) — Honda is recalling a half-million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because the front seat belts may not latch properly.
The recall covers some of the the automaker’s top-selling models including the 2017 through 2020 CR-V, the 2018 and 2019 Accord, the 2018 through 2020 Odyssey and the 2019 Insight. Also included is the Acura RDX from the 2019 and 2020 model years.
Honda says in documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators that the surface coating on the channel for the buckle can deteriorate over time. The release button can shrink against the channel at lower temperatures, increasing friction and stopping the buckle from latching.
If the buckle doesn’t latch, a driver or passenger may not be restrained in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
Honda says it has no reports of injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will replace the front seat belt buckle release buttons or the buckle assemblies if needed. Owners will be notified by letter starting April 17. | 2023-03-15T18:12:58+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/honda-recalling-500000-vehicles-to-fix-seat-belt-problem/ |
As I bid adieu to warm weather, it’s time to switch to creams and lotions to manage my super-dry skin during the winter months. But this year, I won’t be lathering up with cold-weather products I’ve never truly loved. Instead, I’m infusing some summer into my winter skin care routine — and I’m loving it.
Sol de Janeiro taps into the joy and sunshine of Brazilian summers with luscious products featuring rich ingredients and intoxicating scents. I’ve used a few of the brand’s best-selling products, and each one makes me feel like I’m soaking up the sun, even when there’s snow on the horizon — or on my driveway.
Here are the top three Sol de Janeiro products that I plan on using all winter long.
What is Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream?
The Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, arguably the brand’s most popular product, is an ultrarich cream packed with antioxidants and nourishing ingredients. The whipped, buttery texture is luxurious, yet it absorbs quickly into my skin. It works particularly well on notoriously dry areas, including my elbows and dry, cracking hands from hand sanitizer use. Its scent, however, is by far the best feature, with bright, nutty notes with tropical floral undertones.
Where to buy Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream
You can pick up Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream at Amazon and Sephora. The standard 8.1-ounce tub is $45, while the 2.5-ounce tub is $20. The jumbo tub, which is 500mL, is available at Sephora for $79.
What is Sol de Janeiro Coco Cabana Cream?
Sol de Janeiro’s Coco Cabana Cream is a deep moisturizer infused with oils to smooth and soften even the most dehydrated skin, like mine. It delivers a pampered feeling with a “plush” texture that glides across skin easily and absorbs well, especially on larger areas like arms and thighs. The fragrance, although light, lingers and is evocative; the memorable scent features a blend of coconut cream, toasted praline and orchid reminiscent of pleasant summer perfumes.
Where to buy Sol de Janeiro Coco Cabana Cream
The Sol de Janeiro Coco Cabana Cream is available at Amazon and Sephora. The 8.1-ounce jar costs $45, and the 2.5-ounce jar is $20.
What is Sol de Janeiro Brazilian 4 Play Moisturizing Shower Cream-Gel?
The Brazilian 4 Play Shower Cream-Gel has a spa-quality to it, namely with its luxurious lather and bold scent with full-bodied pistachio and salted caramel notes. It’s infused with coconut and Açai oils as well as fatty acids, which made my dry skin softer, smoother and more hydrated. Because the formula is also sulfate-free, it is far less drying and irritating than others I’ve tried. And while the shower gel-cream is gentle enough for sensitive skin, it still delivers deep-cleaning action.
Where to buy Sol de Janeiro Brazilian 4 Play Moisturizing Shower Cream-Gel
The Sol de Janeiro Brazilian 4 Play Moisturizing Shower Cream-Gel is sold at Sephora. It costs $25 for the standard 13-ounce bottle and $49 for the 33.1-ounce pump-top bottle. The travel-friendly 3-ounce bottle retails for $10.
Other Sol de Janeiro products worth considering
Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Crush Cheirosa ‘62 Hair & Body Fragrance Mist
The Cheirosa ‘62 fragrance has a warm, sun-kissed scent with gourmand base notes. Spray it on your body or hair to bring summer with you everywhere you go.
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Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Body Scrub
This gentle exfoliator moisturizes as it buffs away dry skin with tiny sugar crystals and crushed cupuaçu seeds. It leaves skin with a warm, beach-ready glow.
Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Kiss Cupuaçu Lip Butter
Sol de Janeiro’s nourishing lip butter keeps lips soft and smooth with nourishing oils. The antioxidant-rich formula also protects delicate lips from UV damage.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
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By The Associated Press | 2023-01-27T20:36:50+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/winning-numbers-drawn-in-pick-3-midday-game-17746693.php |
PeopleReady Skilled Trades dedicates May as Respect the Craft Month, highlighting and recognizing the vital contributions of tradespeople.
TACOMA, Wash., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The skilled trades industry continues to experience a high demand for workers, despite a cooling job market over the past few months. There have been more than 770,000 unique skilled trades job postings from nearly 95,000 employers since the beginning of 2023, according to a recent analysis by PeopleReady Skilled Trades, a specialized division of PeopleReady.
Demand for many skilled trade jobs has seen double-digit growth in demand over the past three months, including carpenters (+23%), stonemasons (+45%) and construction laborers (+18%).
With nearly 200,000 job openings last month alone, skilled trades employers need to be creative in their recruitment and retention strategies to remain competitive. One strategy PeopleReady Skilled Trades employs is a year-round employee recognition program, called Respect the Craft, that aims to instill a sense of belonging and pride within their workforce.
"While we Respect the Craft throughout the year, we dedicate the month of May to recognize our extraordinary skilled labor and tradespeople across the country," said Jill Quinn, executive leader of PeopleReady Skilled Trades. "Tradespeople keep our communities running smoothly, and it's our privilege to shine the spotlight on their vital contributions."
PeopleReady Skilled Trades designated May as Respect the Craft Month, an annual celebration to show appreciation for tradespeople with contests, rewards and recognition. This year, the company invited skilled workers to showcase their talent and passion for their craft through stories about the reasons they love working in the skilled trades. Some examples include:
- "I like working in the skilled trades because no matter where you are from, what color your skin is, what size you are, if you are poor or well to do, female or male, or even if you made some mistakes in the past... if you apply yourself and have good work ethic, you can earn a decent wage to support your family. I'm now giving the next group of journeymen electricians the knowledge and tricks to be successful in the trade." - Bill, Journeyman Electrician
- "I get to travel and meet different people from different backgrounds and walks of life... You run across these same people and they become family." - Sabrina, Millwright
- "My favorite part about working in the skilled trades is knowing that each skill I have learned gives me the taste of freedom and independence. My great great grandfather on my mother's side came over from Mexico...to Tucson, where he built a house all on his very own. I have and am learning the different skills to do the same... A big thank you to all the trades that worked together to build something that will last generations." - Raoul, Plumber/Electrician
The company's Respect the Craft loyalty program is an ongoing initiative for tradespeople to earn incentives and rewards while being celebrated for their dedication to these essential careers.
From helper and apprentice to master-level opportunities across a variety of trades, PeopleReady Skilled Trades connects tradespeople and work throughout the U.S. Find and apply for jobs at skilled.peopleready.com/job or learn more about the Respect the Craft loyalty program at skilled.peopleready.com/respect-the-craft.
About PeopleReady Skilled Trades
PeopleReady Skilled Trades is a specialized division of PeopleReady, a TrueBlue company (NYSE: TBI). Since 1987, this specialized division has connected tradespeople and work across a wide range of trades, including carpentry, electrical, plumbing, welding, solar installations and more. Whether customers need a single tradesperson or require a coordinated effort to dispatch trades workers across multiple projects, PeopleReady Skilled Trades ensures they have the right people with the right tools, on-site and on time. Learn more at skilled.peopleready.com.
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SOURCE PeopleReady Skilled Trades | 2023-05-24T18:48:04+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2023/05/24/skilled-labor-scarcity-continues-peopleready-skilled-trades-supports-celebrates-careers-trades/ |
Sep 11 L 21-44 Kansas City 63,697 Sep 18 W 29-23 at Las Vegas 61,707-x Sep 25 L 12-20 L.A. Rams 63,243 Oct 02 W 26-16 at Carolina 69,810 Oct 09 L 17-20 Philadelphia 63,919 Oct 16 L 9-19 at Seattle 68,867 Oct 20 W 42-34 New Orleans 63,290 Oct 30 L 26-34 at Minnesota 66,742 Nov 06 L 21-31 Seattle 63,982 Nov 13 W 27-17 at L.A. Rams 71,752 Nov 21 L 10-38 San Francisco 78,427 Nov 27 L 24-25 L.A. Chargers 63,628 Dec 12 L 13-27 New England 63,251 Dec 18 L 15-24 at Denver 75,179 Dec 25 L 16-19 Tampa Bay 63,393-x Jan 01 L 19-20 at Atlanta 69,269 Jan 08 at San Francisco ___ ATLANTA FALCONSWON 6, LOST 10 Sep 11 L 26-27 New Orleans 70,078 Sep 18 L 27-31 at L.A. Rams 71,802 Sep 25 W 27-23 at Seattle 68,773 Oct 02 W 23-20 Cleveland 69,435 Oct 09 L 15-21 at Tampa Bay 68,299 Oct 16 W 28-14 San Francisco 69,813 Oct 23 L 17-35 at Cincinnati 66,158 Oct 30 W 37-34 Carolina 68,996-x Nov 06 L 17-20 L.A. Chargers 69,299 Nov 10 L 15-25 at Carolina 72,029 Nov 20 W 27-24 Chicago 69,757 Nov 27 L 13-19 at Washington 53,864 Dec 04 L 16-19 Pittsburgh 70,325 Dec 18 L 18-21 at New Orleans 70,041 Dec 24 L 9-17 at Baltimore 70,467 Jan 01 W 20-19 Arizona 69,269 Jan 08 Tampa Bay ___ CAROLINA PANTHERSWON 6, LOST 10 Sep 11 L 24-26 Cleveland 72,205 Sep 18 L 16-19 at N.Y. Giants 73,843 Sep 25 W 22-14 New Orleans 70,496 Oct 02 L 16-26 Arizona 69,810 Oct 09 L 15-37 San Francisco 72,321 Oct 16 L 10-24 at L.A. Rams 71,482 Oct 23 W 21-3 Tampa Bay 71,941 Oct 30 L 34-37 at Atlanta 68,996-x Nov 06 L 21-42 at Cincinnati 66,160 Nov 10 W 25-15 Atlanta 72,029 Nov 20 L 3-13 at Baltimore 70,677 Nov 27 W 23-10 Denver 70,644 Dec 11 W 30-24 at Seattle 68,672 Dec 18 L 16-24 Pittsburgh 73,548 Dec 24 W 37-23 Detroit 69,173 Jan 01 L 24-30 at Tampa Bay 69,298 Jan 08 at New Orleans ___ CHICAGO BEARSWON 3, LOST 13 Sep 11 W 19-10 San Francisco 62,159 Sep 18 L 10-27 at Green Bay 78,350 Sep 25 W 23-20 Houston 60,592 Oct 02 L 12-20 at N.Y. Giants 74,044 Oct 09 L 22-29 at Minnesota 66,929 Oct 13 L 7-12 Washington 61,873 Oct 24 W 33-14 at New England 65,878 Oct 30 L 29-49 at Dallas 93,767 Nov 06 L 32-35 Miami 62,377 Nov 13 L 30-31 Detroit 61,817 Nov 20 L 24-27 at Atlanta 69,757 Nov 27 L 10-31 at N.Y. Jets 77,963 Dec 04 L 19-28 Green Bay 61,233 Dec 18 L 20-25 Philadelphia 48,423 Dec 24 L 13-35 Buffalo 59,929 Jan 01 L 10-41 at Detroit 66,169 Jan 08 Minnesota ___ DALLAS COWBOYSWON 12, LOST 4 Sep 11 L 3-19 Tampa Bay 93,797 Sep 18 W 20-17 Cincinnati 92,944 Sep 26 W 23-16 at N.Y. Giants 79,445 Oct 02 W 25-10 Washington 92,946 Oct 09 W 22-10 at L.A. Rams 74,154 Oct 16 L 17-26 at Philadelphia 69,879 Oct 23 W 24-6 Detroit 93,487 Oct 30 W 49-29 Chicago 93,767 Nov 13 L 28-31 at Green Bay 78,433-x Nov 20 W 40-3 at Minnesota 65,304 Nov 24 W 28-20 N.Y. Giants 93,568 Dec 04 W 54-19 Indianapolis 93,086 Dec 11 W 27-23 Houston 93,843 Dec 18 L 34-40 at Jacksonville 69,050-x Dec 24 W 40-34 Philadelphia 93,754 Dec 29 W 27-13 at Tennessee 69,292 Jan 08 at Washington ___ DETROIT LIONSWON 8, LOST 8 Sep 11 L 35-38 Philadelphia 64,537 Sep 18 W 36-27 Washington 57,687 Sep 25 L 24-28 at Minnesota 66,638 Oct 02 L 45-48 Seattle 63,920 Oct 09 L 0-29 at New England 65,878 Oct 23 L 6-24 at Dallas 93,487 Oct 30 L 27-31 Miami 61,447 Nov 06 W 15-9 Green Bay 63,379 Nov 13 W 31-30 at Chicago 61,817 Nov 20 W 31-18 at N.Y. Giants 76,267 Nov 24 L 25-28 Buffalo 66,553 Dec 04 W 40-14 Jacksonville 60,743 Dec 11 W 34-23 Minnesota 66,374 Dec 18 W 20-17 at N.Y. Jets 75,076 Dec 24 L 23-37 at Carolina 69,173 Jan 01 W 41-10 Chicago 66,169 Jan 08 at Green Bay ___ GREEN BAY PACKERSWON 8, LOST 8 Sep 11 L 7-23 at Minnesota 66,959 Sep 18 W 27-10 Chicago 78,350 Sep 25 W 14-12 at Tampa Bay Oct 02 W 27-24 New England 78,317-x Oct 09 L 22-27 N.Y. Giants 61,024 Oct 16 L 10-27 N.Y. Jets 78,343 Oct 23 L 21-23 at Washington 60,427 Oct 30 L 17-27 at Buffalo 70,863 Nov 06 L 9-15 at Detroit 63,379 Nov 13 W 31-28 Dallas 78,433-x Nov 17 L 17-27 Tennessee 77,506 Nov 27 L 33-40 at Philadelphia 69,879 Dec 04 W 28-19 at Chicago 61,233 Dec 19 W 24-12 L.A. Rams 77,269 Dec 25 W 26-20 at Miami 66,328 Jan 01 W 41-17 Minnesota 78,190 Jan 08 Detroit ___ LOS ANGELES RAMSWON 5, LOST 11 Sep 08 L 10-31 Buffalo 73,846 Sep 18 W 31-27 Atlanta 71,802 Sep 25 W 20-12 at Arizona 63,243 Oct 03 L 9-24 at San Francisco 71,597 Oct 09 L 10-22 Dallas 74,154 Oct 16 W 24-10 Carolina 71,482 Oct 30 L 14-31 San Francisco 73,505 Nov 06 L 13-16 at Tampa Bay 69,019 Nov 13 L 17-27 Arizona 71,752 Nov 20 L 20-27 at New Orleans 70,025 Nov 27 L 10-26 at Kansas City 73,557 Dec 04 L 23-27 Seattle 71,802 Dec 08 W 17-16 Las Vegas 74,738 Dec 19 L 12-24 at Green Bay 77,269 Dec 25 W 51-14 Denver 71,525 Jan 01 L 10-31 at L.A. Chargers 70,240 Jan 08 at Seattle ___ MINNESOTA VIKINGSWON 12, LOST 4 Sep 11 W 23-7 Green Bay 66,959 Sep 19 L 7-24 at Philadelphia 69,879 Sep 25 W 28-24 Detroit 66,638 Oct 02 W 28-25 at New Orleans 60,639 Oct 09 W 29-22 Chicago 66,929 Oct 16 W 24-16 at Miami 66,100 Oct 30 W 34-26 Arizona 66,742 Nov 06 W 20-17 at Washington 58,651 Nov 13 W 33-30 at Buffalo 70,844-x Nov 20 L 3-40 Dallas 65,304 Nov 24 W 33-26 New England 66,918 Dec 04 W 27-22 N.Y. Jets 66,973 Dec 11 L 23-34 at Detroit 66,374 Dec 17 W 39-36 Indianapolis 66,801-x Dec 24 W 27-24 N.Y. Giants 66,919 Jan 01 L 17-41 at Green Bay 78,190 Jan 08 at Chicago ___ NEW ORLEANS SAINTSWON 7, LOST 9 Sep 11 W 27-26 at Atlanta 70,078 Sep 18 L 10-20 Tampa Bay 70,400 Sep 25 L 14-22 at Carolina 70,496 Oct 02 L 25-28 Minnesota 60,639 Oct 09 W 39-32 Seattle 70,003 Oct 16 L 26-30 Cincinnati 70,004 Oct 20 L 34-42 at Arizona 63,290 Oct 30 W 24-0 Las Vegas 70,009 Nov 07 L 13-27 Baltimore 70,010 Nov 13 L 10-20 at Pittsburgh 66,544 Nov 20 W 27-20 L.A. Rams 70,025 Nov 27 L 0-13 at San Francisco 71,275 Dec 05 L 16-17 at Tampa Bay 68,709 Dec 18 W 21-18 Atlanta 70,041 Dec 24 W 17-10 at Cleveland 67,431 Jan 01 W 20-10 at Philadelphia 69,796 Jan 08 Carolina ___ NEW YORK GIANTSWON 9, LOST 6, TIES 1 Sep 11 W 21-20 at Tennessee 67,805 Sep 18 W 19-16 Carolina 73,843 Sep 26 L 16-23 Dallas 79,445 Oct 02 W 20-12 Chicago 74,044 Oct 09 W 27-22 at Green Bay 61,024 Oct 16 W 24-20 Baltimore 78,019 Oct 23 W 23-17 at Jacksonville 65,664 Oct 30 L 13-27 at Seattle 68,921 Nov 13 W 24-16 Houston 71,615 Nov 20 L 18-31 Detroit 76,267 Nov 24 L 20-28 at Dallas 93,568 Dec 04 T 20-20 Washington 76,128-x Dec 11 L 22-48 Philadelphia 81,506 Dec 18 W 20-12 at Washington Dec 24 L 24-27 at Minnesota 66,919 Jan 01 W 38-10 Indianapolis 77,399 Jan 08 at Philadelphia ___ PHILADELPHIA EAGLESWON 13, LOST 3 Sep 11 W 38-35 at Detroit 64,537 Sep 19 W 24-7 Minnesota 69,879 Sep 25 W 24-8 at Washington 64,426 Oct 02 W 29-21 Jacksonville 69,879 Oct 09 W 20-17 at Arizona 63,919 Oct 16 W 26-17 Dallas 69,879 Oct 30 W 35-13 Pittsburgh 69,879 Nov 03 W 29-17 at Houston 68,831 Nov 14 L 21-32 Washington 69,879 Nov 20 W 17-16 at Indianapolis 66,241 Nov 27 W 40-33 Green Bay 69,879 Dec 04 W 35-10 Tennessee 69,879 Dec 11 W 48-22 at N.Y. Giants 81,506 Dec 18 W 25-20 at Chicago 48,423 Dec 24 L 34-40 at Dallas 93,754 Jan 01 L 10-20 New Orleans 69,796 Jan 08 N.Y. Giants ___ SAN FRANCISCO 49ERSWON 12, LOST 4 Sep 11 L 10-19 at Chicago 62,159 Sep 18 W 27-7 Seattle 71,597 Sep 25 L 10-11 at Denver 77,021 Oct 03 W 24-9 L.A. Rams 71,597 Oct 09 W 37-15 at Carolina 72,321 Oct 16 L 14-28 at Atlanta 69,813 Oct 23 L 23-44 Kansas City 71,746 Oct 30 W 31-14 at L.A. Rams 73,505 Nov 13 W 22-16 L.A. Chargers 71,709 Nov 21 W 38-10 at Arizona 78,427 Nov 27 W 13-0 New Orleans 71,275 Dec 04 W 33-17 Miami 71,732 Dec 11 W 35-7 Tampa Bay 71,725 Dec 15 W 21-13 at Seattle 68,957 Dec 24 W 37-20 Washington 71,642 Jan 01 W 37-34 at Las Vegas 62,367-x Jan 08 Arizona ___ SEATTLE SEAHAWKSWON 8, LOST 8 Sep 12 W 17-16 Denver 68,965 Sep 18 L 7-27 at San Francisco 71,597 Sep 25 L 23-27 Atlanta 68,773 Oct 02 W 48-45 at Detroit 63,920 Oct 09 L 32-39 at New Orleans 70,003 Oct 16 W 19-9 Arizona 68,867 Oct 23 W 37-23 at L.A. Chargers 70,240 Oct 30 W 27-13 N.Y. Giants 68,921 Nov 06 W 31-21 at Arizona 63,982 Nov 13 L 16-21 at Tampa Bay 69,811 Nov 27 L 34-40 Las Vegas 68,849-x Dec 04 W 27-23 at L.A. Rams 71,802 Dec 11 L 24-30 Carolina 68,672 Dec 15 L 13-21 San Francisco 68,957 Dec 24 L 10-24 at Kansas City 73,331 Jan 01 W 23-6 N.Y. Jets 68,827 Jan 08 L.A. Rams ___ TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERSWON 8, LOST 8 Sep 11 W 19-3 at Dallas 93,797 Sep 18 W 20-10 at New Orleans 70,400 Sep 25 L 12-14 Green Bay Oct 02 L 31-41 Kansas City 68,348 Oct 09 W 21-15 Atlanta 68,299 Oct 16 L 18-20 at Pittsburgh 67,307 Oct 23 L 3-21 at Carolina 71,941 Oct 27 L 22-27 Baltimore 68,912 Nov 06 W 16-13 L.A. Rams 69,019 Nov 13 W 21-16 Seattle 69,811 Nov 27 L 17-23 at Cleveland 67,431-x Dec 05 W 17-16 New Orleans 68,709 Dec 11 L 7-35 at San Francisco 71,725 Dec 18 L 23-34 Cincinnati 69,305 Dec 25 W 19-16 at Arizona 63,393-x Jan 01 W 30-24 Carolina 69,298 Jan 08 at Atlanta ___ WASHINGTON COMMANDERSWON 7, LOST 8, TIES 1 Sep 11 W 28-22 Jacksonville 58,192 Sep 18 L 27-36 at Detroit 57,687 Sep 25 L 8-24 Philadelphia 64,426 Oct 02 L 10-25 at Dallas 92,946 Oct 09 L 17-21 Tennessee 51,836 Oct 13 W 12-7 at Chicago 61,873 Oct 23 W 23-21 Green Bay 60,427 Oct 30 W 17-16 at Indianapolis 65,515 Nov 06 L 17-20 Minnesota 58,651 Nov 14 W 32-21 at Philadelphia 69,879 Nov 20 W 23-10 at Houston 65,865 Nov 27 W 19-13 Atlanta 53,864 Dec 04 T 20-20 at N.Y. Giants 76,128-x Dec 18 L 12-20 N.Y. Giants Dec 24 L 20-37 at San Francisco 71,642 Jan 01 L 10-24 Cleveland 50,827 Jan 08 Dallas ___ | 2023-01-06T16:50:29+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/NFC-Team-by-Team-Results-17699070.php |
Special counsel John Durham, who investigated potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, defended his report in an often-contentious congressional hearing Wednesday.
The hearing, in effect, served as a stage for the proxy battle being fought between parties over claims of politicization.
Republican lawmakers claim Durham's report supports what they believe is the political weaponization of the federal government, specifically the FBI. Democrats, on the other hand, cast Durham's investigation as fruitless and a rehashing of talking points by former President Donald Trump.
Durham repeatedly pushed back on assertions that politics motivated the investigation.
"My colleagues and I carried out our work in good faith, with integrity, and in the spirit of following the facts wherever they lead, without fear or favor," he said. "At no time and in no sense did we act with a purpose to further partisan political ends. To the extent that somebody suggests otherwise — that's simply untrue and offensive."
What Durham found in his report
Durham was tapped by then-Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to look into the genesis of the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign. The probe culminated in a 300-plus page report that was released in May.
The report referred to the FBI's basis for starting its investigation as "seriously flawed," and said agents showed confirmation bias in their approach to the probe into Trump's 2016 campaign.
In 2019, the Justice Department inspector general reported serious errors with the FBI's application to wiretap former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, and the FBI says it has taken corrective steps since.
Durham's report was sharply critical of the bureau, but it did not refute the underlying findings of what would later become special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
While the Mueller investigation did not find evidence of a "conspiracy" between the Trump campaign and Russia, it did find Russia interfered, tried to help the Trump campaign, and established multiple contacts with some Trump campaign officials and advisers.
Durham told lawmakers Wednesday his own report's findings are "sobering," and he claimed the FBI used a stricter standard when approaching alleged election interference with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
How lawmakers used the hearing
Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, slammed the Russia investigation and Trump's recent indictment over classified documents — claiming they were both politically motivated.
"Nothing has changed and frankly they're never going to stop," Jordan said Wednesday. "Seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough, but what's more frightening, any one of us could be next."
For their part, Democrats heaped criticism on Durham about his nearly four-year investigation, which yielded three prosecutions, resulting in two acquittals and one conviction.
New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the committee, accused Durham of prolonging the investigation to "keep Donald Trump's talking points in the news."
"Republicans have planned this hearing and constructed an entire false narrative around this work of special counsel Durham, in an effort to distract from the former president's legal troubles and mislead the American public," Nadler said. "The Durham report is by itself a deeply flawed vessel. After four years, thousands of employee hours and more than $6.5 million in taxpayer dollars, special counsel Durham failed to uncover any wrongdoing that Justice Department Inspector General Horowitz had not already found in 2019."
Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen told Durham his "reputation will be damaged, as everybody's reputation who gets involved with Donald Trump is damaged."
"There's no good dealing with him because you will end up on the bottom of a pyre," Cohen said.
Durham tersely responded: "My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect, and my family, and my lord — and I'm perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-22T14:50:04+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-politics/npr-politics/2023-06-21/trump-era-special-counsel-defends-his-report-on-russia-probe-against-democrats-jabs |
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one Afghan civilian in a rare attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.
The blast went off at the entrance to the embassy’s consular section, where Afghans were waiting for news about their visas, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and the state news agency RIA Novosti. A Russian diplomat had emerged from the building to call out the names of candidates for visas when the explosion occurred, the agency said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility late Monday, saying a militant wearing an explosive belt blew up at the embassy entrance.
It was the latest in a series of bombings and other attacks since the Taliban seized power a year ago, deposing a Western-backed government and capping their 20-year insurgency.
Monday’s bombing, however, appeared to the first to target a foreign diplomatic mission in Kabul since the Taliban takeover. The campaign of attacks has largely targeted Taliban positions or mosques of minority groups, particularly Shiites. They have largely been blamed on the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan, which opposes the Taliban and harbors a virulent hatred of Shiites, considering them heretics.
It was not immediately clear why militants targeted the Russian Embassy in particular.
The Russian mission is one of only a couple of international missions still operating and performing consular services in Kabul — and the only European one. Most nations closed their embassies when the Taliban captured Kabul in August 2021 as the U.S. and NATO withdrew their troops. No country has recognized the Taliban government.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the explosion “a terrorist act, absolutely unacceptable.”
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the embassy enhanced its security after the attack and additional Taliban authorities, including intelligence agents, were brought in.
“Let’s hope that the organizers of this terrorist act and its perpetrators will be punished,” Lavrov said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said an unknown militant set off an explosive device right outside the consular section’s entrance. It said two members of the diplomatic mission were killed, “and there are also casualties among Afghan citizens.”
Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said at least one Afghan civilian was killed and 10 others wounded.
Zadran said security forces saw and shot the suicide bomber before he could get closer to the crowd outside the embassy. It was not immediately clear if the attacker was able to set off the blast before being shot, or if the gunfire detonated the explosives.
Attacks on embassies were rare even during the two-decade war between the Taliban and the Western-backed government. In 2017, the Taliban set off a massive truck bomb in a district where many government buildings and embassies were located, killing more than 90 Afghans and heavily damaging the nearby German Embassy. In 2015, a Taliban car bomb went off by the Spanish Embassy, killing a security guard.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in late June that Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan take part in running the country.
Although Moscow has designated the Taliban as a terrorist group, the Taliban have representation in Russia and a delegation attended the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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Litvinova reported from Tallinn, Estonia. | 2022-09-05T20:44:21+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-blast-outside-russian-embassy-in-kabul-casualties-reported/ |
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s Parliament is reviewing its files involving Qatar to see if any pressure was exerted on lawmakers, the assembly’s president said Thursday as a corruption scandal rocked the EU’s only directly elected institution.
Parliament President Roberta Metsola said the work under review includes an agreement to allow Qataris with biometric passports to have short visa-free stays in the EU. On Monday, the agreement was “sent back to committee for a full investigation,” she said.
Metsola said questions also have surfaced about a separate EU-Qatar air agreement on which the European Parliament must be consulted. Talks have started with the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, to assess whether the accord should be suspended.
The agreement, signed in October 2021, would allow all EU airlines to operate direct flights to Qatar from any airport in the 27-nation bloc and give Qatari airlines the same access to European capitals. EU member countries have yet to approve it.
Metsola vowed that this would not be all. “We will look into everything. We will look into any undue pressure and any undue influence that we see that takes place,” she told reporters after talks with EU leaders in Brussels.
Belgian prosecutors have charged four people with corruption, participation in a criminal group and money laundering on suspicion of trying buy political favors at the parliament with money or gifts.
They include a former vice president of the European Parliament and her partner. Greek lawmaker Eva Kaili remains in custody awaiting a hearing on Dec. 22 and whose term in office was terminated by lawmakers this week. Her partner, Francesco Giorgi, who is a parliamentary advisor.
The heads of two charity groups have were charged. Pier Antonio Panzeri, head of the Fight Impunity campaign group and a former member of the EU parliament, and Niccolo Figa-Talamanca, secretary-general of another non-governmental organization, No Peace Without Justice.
Metsola promised sweeping reforms in coming months to crack down on corruption and influence peddling at the assembly.
Referring to the institution's transparency register, she said: “yesterday, an NGO called No Peace Without Justice, which is allegedly connected to this investigation that is ongoing, which had 11 persons accredited on it, was suspended.” | 2022-12-15T14:35:10+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/EU-Parliament-chief-says-lawmakers-are-reviewing-17655902.php |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The number of people who died in connection with Kenya’s doomsday cult has crossed the 400 mark as detectives exhumed 12 more bodies on Monday believed to be followers of a pastor who ordered them to fast to death in order to meet Jesus.
Pastor Paul Mackenzie, who is linked to the cult based in a forested area in Malindi, coastal Kenya, is in police custody, along with 36 other suspects. All have yet to be charged.
Coast Regional Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha on Monday said the number of those who died has risen to 403, with 95 people rescued.
Last month, some suspects and people rescued started a hunger strike in prison and at the rescue center, prompting the prosecutor to take them to court for attempting to kill themselves. Most of them agreed to resume eating, but one suspect died in custody.
Some 613 people have so far been reported missing to Kenya Red Cross officers stationed in Malindi town. Detectives are still finding mass graves.
Onyancha said 253 of the 403 bodies had undergone DNA matching. Pathologists had earlier said most of the bodies were decomposed.
Mackenzie moved to the forested area in 2019 after his church was closed over his preaching, which included asking children not to go to school.
He was previously arrested and released on bond over the disappearance of children.
A judicial commission of inquiry formed by President William Ruto to establish what happened and who was liable was quashed by a court order after opposition leader Raila Odinga filed a petition against it.
The president had said what transpired in Malindi was “akin to terrorism” and vowed to crack down on “those using religion to advance their heinous acts”. | 2023-07-19T12:14:28+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/ap-kenya-doomsday-cult-deaths-top-400-as-detectives-exhume-12-more-bodies-with-the-pastor-in-custody/ |
First Alert Forecast: A pleasant weekend is in store for us! Mostly sunny conditions with a spot rain chance Sunday! Warmer conditions return next week!
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Good Morning!
We are seeing some light fog this morning to start things off, but for the most part, we are experiencing a nice morning on this Saturday! Temperatures to start this morning are in the low to mid-60s
Saturday and Sunday look to be quiet for us and primarily sunny conditions across the viewing area. Highs range between the upper 80s and low 90s this weekend. mostly sunny to partly sunny skies. a small rain chance is possible on Sunday. Lows this weekend fall to the upper 60s.
Monday, mostly sunny skies for conditions and Highs continuing in the low 90s with Lows falling to the low 70s.
Tuesday holds about the same conditions as Monday, with temperatures a tad warmer, Highs reaching into the mid-90s with Lows falling to the low 70s.
Wednesday and Thursday, partly to mostly sunny skies. Highs in the mid-90s with Lows falling to the mid-70s. Thursday does hold a small rain chance for us in the area!
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With Only 290 Bottles Produced, the Limited Allocation of Glen Grant Bottles Valued at More Than $68,000 are Expected to Sell Out Quickly
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CaskX, a pioneer and market leader in the sale of barreled bourbon investments, announced today that it is selling a limited allocation of 72-year-old single malt Scotch-Whisky from Scotland-based Gordon & MacPhail as a perk to its investor customer base. Recorded as one of the top 5 oldest whiskies globally, each 700ml bottle of the single malt Scotch-Whisky Glen Grant range was distilled in 1948 at the Milton Distillery and matured in an American oak ex-Sherry cask and is valued at more than $68,000 (USD) and includes 5 years storage and insurance. The company anticipates that it will quickly sell out of its limited allocation. Any remaining bottles will be offered and sold to potential investors of its bourbon casks, which the firm acquires from southern distilleries including Jackson Purchase and Kentucky Artisan Distillery.
Rare single malt whisky bottles are among the most prized and highly desirable investment opportunities in the world today. At a Bonham's auction in Hong Kong earlier in 2022 a bottle of Glen Grant 72 fetched more than $100,000 (USD). CaskX has managed to secure a limited allocation of bottles from Gordon & MacPhail to offer to select collectors and investors. These bottles are typically only sold at auction and rarely seen for sale otherwise. Bottled at 56.2% ABV, the whisky is packaged in a Dartington Crystal decanter that features a design to represent the age of the cask and is inspired by a tree's annual growth rings. When it comes to flavor, this whisky offers a multitude of unique notes that set it apart from any other that has come before. On the nose, the whisky has aromas of Christmas cake moistened with oloroso Sherry, with a slightly burnt base. On the palate, drinkers will find 'a sweet taste at the start and a tannic, dry kick to finish with a surprising punch of spice, whispers of espresso and deep dark chocolate.'
"With only 290 bottles produced of the Gordon & MacPhails' 72 Glen Grant single malt Scotch-Whisky we are absolutely sure this will be one of the best perks afforded to our loyal customer base that are also connoisseurs of spirits from all parts of the world," said Jeremy Kasler, CEO and founder of CaskX. "Our expectation is that our limited allocation of the 72 year-old bottles will be quickly sold out once offered to our customers and potential investors, with plans for an event later in the year to celebrate."
CaskX begins by working with clients to build a portfolio of barrels, also known as casks, based on the investor's desired objectives. By selecting barrels from specific regions, distilleries, and vintages an investor can achieve the right combination that manages risk, offers the desired holding period, and is projected to achieve target returns. Upon purchasing a suitable portfolio, investors receive certificates for each of the barrels which prove their ownership rights and can be used to transfer the barrels in the event of a future sale. All barrel investments are then stored at a government-regulated warehousing facility at either the distillery or a third-party storage provider until the barrels are either bottled or sold to another party. Investments are also fully insured to protect investors from an unforeseen disaster or loss. By investing in whiskey barrels investors can help the industry grow by providing cash flow to distilleries in advance of the whiskey being of adequate age for release as bottles.
Founded in 2020 by entrepreneur and long-time businessman Jeremy Kasler, CaskX is a global firm that specializes in building investment portfolios of barreled bourbon and scotch for investors around the world. Capitalizing on the underserved market niche of alternative investing in the barreled spirits market, CaskX works directly with distilleries to purchase and store their barrels, connecting those offerings with accredited investors who purchase a portfolio of barreled spirits to hold for future resale or bottling. The company maintains offices in Australia, Hong Kong, and the United States. More details about the firm can be found at www.caskx.com.
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Mariners vs. Tigers: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Andy Ibanez and the Detroit Tigers hit the field against Jarred Kelenic and the Seattle Mariners at Comerica Park on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
The Mariners are favored in this one, at -185, while the underdog Tigers have +150 odds to win. An 8.5-run total has been set in this contest.
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Mariners vs. Tigers Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, May 14, 2023
- Time: 1:40 PM ET
- TV: BSDET
- Location: Detroit, Michigan
- Venue: Comerica Park
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- In nine games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Mariners have a record of 6-3.
- In their last 10 games with a total, the Mariners and their opponents are 4-6-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- The Mariners did not cover its most recent game with a spread.
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Mariners Betting Records & Stats
- The Mariners have been the moneyline favorite 27 total times this season. They've gone 15-12 in those games.
- Seattle has a 5-1 record (winning 83.3% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -185 or shorter.
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Mariners a 64.9% chance to win.
- Seattle has had an over/under set by bookmakers 39 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 18 of those games (18-20-1).
- The Mariners have a 1-2-0 record against the spread this season.
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Ben Burtt has lived in a galaxy far, far away from the very start.
"I first came out here with a gang led by George Lucas in 1978," Burtt said.
He was hired by George Lucas to record sounds for a movie called "Star Wars." His job was to find the sounds for ships, creatures and lightsabers.
"I was very fortunate to arrive on the scene in sound at a time when a revolution took place," Burtt said. "From a creative standpoint, there was more of a demand for — especially with special effects movies — demand for new material, not just a recycling of sound libraries from the past."
Burtt became a legendary sound designer who makes an appearance the new Disney+ documentary series, "Light & Magic." The six episodes highlight the groundbreaking visual effects in "Star Wars" and many other films.
"Light & Magic” director Larry Kasdan, who also co-wrote “The Empire Strikes Back” and a Han Solo spinoff, says a film just isn’t the same without good sound.
"That's always been the easiest experiment you can do in movies is turn off the sound," Kasdan said. "Suddenly it's just, 'Oh that's an interesting image, but I don't see what got me so excited.' Then you start adding back the sound, and you say, 'Oh, that’s it.'"
Skywalker Ranch is the secluded filmmaker's retreat George Lucas built near San Francisco after the success of "Star Wars." There, Burtt and his team found the perfect place to record a huge library of iconic movie sounds.
"When George Lucas first bought the ranch, this was an empty valley here," Burtt said while walking the grounds. "We had a shooting range right in this area where we are where we did all the guns for 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'" There's a nice redwood forest on that ridge there, and we used to go up in there because of the acoustics were really nice. We even did Luke running through the swamps of Dagobah, jumping, running along with Yoda on his back."
Burtt says that's the magic of sound: You can record it anywhere as long as you get the right kind.
He is now the winner of multiple Academy Awards.
"In a way, whatever [Industrial Light & Magic] does, however spectacular, the illusion is not complete until sound is added," Burtt said. "You always feel like you're part of the ILM team, in a sense. You're part of the film making team, giving a final touch to the illusions."
Burtt has upheld a legendary career, creating old-school sounds that are still helping shape the future of visual effects.
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Creates the very first end-to-end coworking solution for flex operators and owners
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Yardi® suite of coworking and flex space tools expands today with the launch of CoworkingCafe.com and the acquisition of CoworkingMag.com. Operators of coworking and flex space can take advantage of Yardi's market leading lead generation, as well as a new feature to allow real-time bookings for conference rooms and private offices. When combined with Yardi Kube for coworking operations and accounting, Yardi has the very first end-to-end coworking solution for flex operators and owners.
CoworkingCafe: For Operators & Occupiers
CoworkingCafe.com publishes coworking and flex locations across the country, including real-time availability, amenities and packages, photographs, floor plans and even 360-degree videos. The sleek design offers a seamless experience for researching and booking workspaces, all in one app. From an extensive selection of top coworking brands, users can book and pay for a desk, office, meeting room or a complete office package in just a few clicks. CoworkingCafe.com joins the five existing Yardi commercial listing platforms, CommercialCafe, CommercialSearch, PropertyShark, 42Floors, and Point2, all of which now show coworking availability alongside traditional commercial listings. Together, these sites attract 2 million monthly visits and generate 300,000 high quality leads per year.
Coworking operators can now manage inventory, marketing collateral, availability and pricing from a centralized dashboard, while workspaces are marketed across the entire listings network. Yardi Kube clients have the added advantage of managing marketing collateral and availability natively, along with operations, accounting, customer contracts, communications, data and Wi-Fi – a single, connected, end-to-end solution.
"With the launch of CoworkingCafe, we are excited to help consumers find and book office space, while helping operators increase revenue," said Rob Teel, senior vice president at Yardi.
CoworkingMag Joins the Team
Yardi also announces its recent acquisition of CoworkingMag.com, the go-to source for coworking news and trends. CoworkingMag consistently ranks among the top results for coworking-related searches for locations in the U.S. This addition enhances the power of the Yardi listings network and boosts both visibility and leads for all coworking clients.
"The acquisition of CoworkingMag accelerates our efforts with its strong online presence and our Kube clients benefit from an expanded audience for their availabilities," Teel added. "Together, these products provide unmatched value both to consumers and operators."
The Complete Coworking Platform: Yardi Kube
Yardi Kube is the most powerful coworking management software on the market, bringing automation, flexibility, and ease to workspace management. The all-in-one platform handles everything from listing and booking coworking spaces — complete with mobile app — to day-to-day operations management and even automates the sales process from lead generation to proposal and execution. For more information about how CoworkingCafe and Yardi Kube streamline operations and increase revenue, contact us/book a demo today.
About Yardi
Yardi® develops and supports industry-leading investment and property management software for all types and sizes of real estate companies. With 8,000 employees, Yardi is working with clients globally to drive significant innovation in the real estate industry. For more information on how Yardi is Energized for Tomorrow, visit yardi.com.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VistaPath, the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-based, data-driven pathology processing platforms, today announced that it has secured $4 million in seed funding led by Moxxie Ventures with participation from NextGen Venture Partners and First Star Ventures. With this latest round, VistaPath will further advance its mission to modernize pathology labs, delivering faster, more accurate diagnoses that lead to optimal patient care.
"We're excited to be working with investors who share our desire to impact the lives and clinical outcomes of patients. This funding will support full-scale development and delivery of our innovative products, as well as the expansion of our operational and technical capabilities—allowing us to better serve the clinical and life science markets," says Timothy Spong, CEO of VistaPath.
VistaPath's Sentinel is a first-of-its-kind pathology processing platform designed to seamlessly deliver a range of solutions for critical lab processes. The company's first application, released in 2021, is a tissue grossing platform that automates the process of receiving, assessing, and processing tissue samples. The platform uses a high-quality video system combined with AI to assess specimens and create a gross report 93% faster than human technicians with 43% more accuracy. Additional applications are slated to be released later this year.
"Pathology is the study of disease and connects every aspect of patient care. We believe that advances in computer vision and AI can bring great improvements to the pathology industry and ultimately lead to better outcomes for patients. We believe the team at VistaPath is building a best-in-class product for pathology labs and are proud to lead this investment round", says Alex Roetter, General Partner at Moxxie Ventures.
VistaPath is modernizing pathology labs using computer vision and artificial intelligence. They provide clients with significant quality, workflow, and strategic benefits with the overall goal of delivering improved results for pathologists, clinicians, and patients. The Sentinel is the company's first product. Learn more at vistapathbio.com.
Moxxie Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on backing exceptional founders who make life and work better. Moxxie is based in San Francisco, CA and Boulder, CO. Learn more at moxxie.vc.
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EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a gymnasium demanding reassurances after toxic chemicals spilled and burned in a huge plume over their homes and businesses.
“I have three grandbabies,” said Kathy Dyke, who came with hundreds of her neighbors to a meeting Wednesday where representatives of Norfolk Southern were conspicuously absent. “Are they going to grow up here in five years and have cancer? So those are all factors that play on my mind.”
State officials insisted yet again that testing shows the air is safe to breathe around East Palestine, near the Pennsylvania state line. They promised air and water monitoring would continue.
With the community in the national spotlight, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan prepared to visit Thursday to assess the ongoing response and hear from impacted residents.
Those attending Wednesday’s informational session, originally billed as a town hall meeting, had many questions over health hazards, and they demanded more transparency from railroad operator Norfolk Southern, which did not attend, citing safety concerns for its staff.
“They just danced around the questions a lot,” said Danielle Deal, who lives a few miles from the derailment site. “Norfolk needed to be here.”
In a statement, Norfolk Southern said it didn’t attend alongside local, state and federal officials because of a “growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event.”
Deal called that a “copout” and noted the seriousness of the incident.
Deal and her two children left home to stay with her mother, 13 miles away “and we could still see the mushroom cloud, plain as day,” she said.
Nearly two weeks after the derailment, people in the area have many concerns about the huge plumes of smoke they saw, persisting odors, risks to pets and wild animals, potential effects on drinking water and what’s happening with the cleanup.
Even as school resumed and trains were rolling again, people were worried.
“Why are they being hush-hush?” Dyke said of the railroad. “They’re not out here supporting, they’re not out here answering questions. For three days we didn’t even know what was on the train.”
The people living in and around East Palestine said they want assistance figuring out how to get the financial help the railroad has offered to hundreds of families who evacuated. Beyond that, they want to know whether the railroad will be held responsible.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost advised Norfolk Southern on Wednesday that his office is considering legal action against the rail operator.
“The pollution, which continues to contaminate the area around East Palestine, created a nuisance, damage to natural resources and caused environmental harm,” Yost said in a letter to the company.
The state’s Environmental Protection Agency said the latest tests show five wells supplying the village’s drinking water are free from contaminants, but recommends testing private water wells that are closer to the surface.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates spilled contaminants affected more than 7 miles (11.2 kilometers) of streams and killed some 3,500 fish, mostly small ones such as minnows and darters.
There have been anecdotal reports that pets or livestock have been sickened. No related animal deaths have been confirmed, state officials said, but that confirmation would require necropsies and lab work to determine the connection to the incident.
Norfolk Southern announced Tuesday that it is creating a $1 million fund to help the community of some 4,700 people while continuing remediation work, including removing spilled contaminants from the ground and streams and monitoring air quality.
It also will expand how many residents can be reimbursed for their evacuation costs, covering the entire village and surrounding area.
“We will be judged by our actions,” Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw said in a statement that the company is “cleaning up the site in an environmentally responsible way.”
No one was injured when about 50 cars derailed in a fiery, mangled mess on the outskirts of East Palestine on Feb. 3. As fears grew about a potential explosion, officials seeking to avoid an uncontrolled blast had the area evacuated and opted to release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke billowing into the sky again.
A mechanical issue with a rail car axle is suspected to be the cause of the derailment, and the National Transportation Safety Board said it has video appearing to show a wheel bearing overheating just beforehand. The NTSB said it expects its preliminary report in about two weeks.
Misinformation and exaggerations spread online, and state and federal officials have repeatedly offered assurances that air monitoring hasn’t detected any remaining concerns. Even low levels of contaminants that aren’t considered hazardous can create lingering odors or symptoms such as headaches, Ohio’s health director said Tuesday.
Precautions also are being taken to ensure contaminants that reached the Ohio River don’t make it into drinking water. | 2023-02-16T22:01:52+00:00 | 9and10news.com | https://www.9and10news.com/2023/02/16/epa-chief-to-hear-from-ohio-villagers-over-toxic-train-spill/ |
NEWARK, N.J. — Veteran forward Erik Haula passed up a chance to enter free agency next month to remain in New Jersey after signing a three-year, $9.45 million contract with the Devils on Friday.
It was Haula’s first season with New Jersey after being acquired in a trade that sent Pavel Zacha to Boston last summer. Haula played in various situations, including penalty killing and taking faceoffs.
“When I traded for Erik, we talked about how he was the type of player that we needed to help us continue to move the group forward,” general manager Tom Fitzgerald said. “At the end of the season, he told me how much he wanted to be a part of what we are building here in New Jersey, and I’m glad we could quickly get a deal done that gives him a place to lay down roots with his family.”
From Finland, Haula spent his first four seasons in Minnesota, and also had stops in Vegas, Carolina, Florida and Nashville. Overall, he has 126 goals and 281 points in 614 career NHL games.
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — With a cheerful “soy Marcos” – “I’m Mark,” in Spanish – Bishop Mark Seitz introduced himself to migrants eating soup in the shelter on the grounds of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, less than two miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
The migration crisis roiling the borderlands is literally in the backyard of the new chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee, a ministry started a century ago. Seitz will be the first border bishop to serve in this role in at least two decades; he says it will allow him to bring “a new energy to this work from someone who sees it pretty much every day.”
“Immigrants have had the experience of leaving everything that helped them to feel at home and secure in this life behind, and to depend utterly on God as they journey,” Seitz told The Associated Press a few days before Christmas. “They have so much to teach us about how God will accompany us on our journey.”
In the simple shelter that day, 65 migrants, mostly Nicaraguans, rested after being released by U.S. immigration authorities. Volunteers helped families make arrangements to reach sponsors across the United States – from new clothing to plane tickets to shampoo packets small enough to carry past airport security.
El Paso’s role in the migration crisis will be highlighted on Sunday when it will be Joe Biden’s destination on his first trip to the southern border as president.
On both sides of the border, faith-based organizations have historically done most of the work caring for migrants. Their efforts are particularly visible when unprecedented numbers of new arrivals overwhelm local and federal authorities in cities like El Paso, leaving thousands in the streets.
The Catholic Church often leads these humanitarian efforts. Ministering to migrants and refugees has been a priority for Pope Francis, who in December referred to the Virgin of Guadalupe, much-beloved among Latin American faithful, as “in the middle of the caravans who seek freedoms walking to the north.”
The Vatican, Catholic nonprofits and bishops’ conferences across the world collaborate to advocate at all political levels “for just and humane policies,” said Bill Canny, who leads the USCCB’s Department of Migration and Refugee Services.
Border bishops like Seitz are “critically important” to that mission because they provide “a real-time perspective,” Canny added.
The political advocacy of U.S. bishops stems from their mission to care for the most vulnerable, said Steven Millies, a professor at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. However, Millies said the USCCB tends to be most visible in its anti-abortion fight and other “culture wars,” getting entangled in partisan divisions that can undermine its advocacy for other causes.
To Seitz, who was chairman-elect of the migration committee for a year before starting his three-year term in November, a stronger and nuanced Catholic response to migration “can be something that brings the church to life.”
“I think most people would be surprised, and I hope pleasantly surprised, to see the degree of unanimity among the bishops on this question of immigration,” Seitz said. “So many of the bishops have come up to me and expressed … a concern about how we need to do better to welcome (migrants).”
A Milwaukee native who served as bishop of El Paso for the past decade — which saw three U.S. administrations struggle to manage surges of arrivals of families from Central America and beyond — Seitz knows the challenges first-hand.
As he spoke to the AP, he was notified the Supreme Court had issued a stay for pandemic-era restrictions on asylum-seekers.
Seitz had been working with churches and civil authorities “for a scenario in which higher numbers may be coming across than we’ve ever seen” if restrictions were lifted as expected on Dec. 21 – but the stay offered no relief.
“These are, by definition, not the kind of people who can make an application and wait five years to be able to cross,” Seitz said. “And we’re not even asking those questions right now with Title 42. We don’t ask, why did you come? We simply say, turn around and go back somewhere. And we’re sending them into some of the more unstable and dangerous places in the world.”
Places like Ciudad Juarez, a sprawling metropolis just across the border from El Paso, where thousands of migrants were made to wait for their U.S. asylum appointments during the Trump administration and more have been waiting out Title 42 recently, amid organized crime cartels that routinely prey on them.
Seitz created a relief fund that donated hundreds of thousands of dollars, notably for food and medicine, to shelters there. This fall, it helped open a medical clinic in Juarez’s largest migrant shelter, said Dylan Corbett, director of Hope Border Institute, which manages the clinic.
“It’s really hard, because patterns and policies are constantly evolving,” Corbett said. “We’re in an acute situation at the border.”
Even with Title 42 in place, U.S. officials apprehended and released more than 50,000 asylum-seekers in El Paso from the beginning of October, said the Rev. Michael Gallagher, a Jesuit priest and attorney.
“Bishop Seitz urged parishes to open up empty spaces” like halls as temporary shelters, Gallagher added. His downtown church, Sacred Heart, has been hosting nearly 200 migrants nightly in the gym.
“As people who have been called by Jesus and the Gospel to serve … this sounds like it’s right up our alley,” Seitz explained.
His ministry extends beyond sheltering. For more than a year, he’s been celebrating Mass at a federal shelter for unaccompanied minor migrants and he wears on his right wrist friendship bracelets woven by some of them.
He’s just added a new one, from a mid-December trip to Guatemala to learn from grassroots organizations what pushes so many people on their dangerous northward journey.
That’s an area where Seitz believes the bishops’ conference can make an impact, providing guidance on how the United States can facilitate stability and job creation in origin countries.
Another priority for Seitz focuses on the church’s role in building better understanding between Americans far beyond the borderlands and new immigrants.
“Why do we tend to look at them and say, ‘I think they’re probably criminals,’ instead of to look at them and say, ‘I think they’re probably people in need’?” Seitz said, adding that he also sees a need for “a more orderly process for people to be able to cross.”
His advice starts small – encouraging the faithful to attend Spanish-language Masses, which are increasingly common across the country, and meet migrant churchgoers.
“In that simple act, you will be accomplishing a lot more than you could imagine to help us to welcome and integrate the people who are joining our communities,” Seitz said.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP)Jonathan Cisse had 24 points in Incarnate Word’s 85-76 victory over Our Lady of the Lake on Tuesday night.
Cisse was 8 of 12 shooting, including 5 for 6 from distance, and went 3 for 4 from the line for the Cardinals (2-3). Trey Miller scored 21 points, going 9 of 13 and 3 of 4 from the free throw line. Charlie Yoder recorded 16 points and shot 3 of 6 from the field and 9 for 12 from the line.
Tommie Law finished with 15 points for the Saints (0-1). Our Lady of the Lake also got 11 points and six rebounds from Sacade Kasamba. Daniel Helterhoff also put up 11 points.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas death row inmate whose case clarified the role of spiritual advisers in death chambers nationwide is scheduled for execution Wednesday, despite efforts by a district attorney to stop his lethal injection.
John Henry Ramirez, 38, was sentenced to death for killing 46-year-old Pablo Castro, a convenience store clerk, in 2004. Prosecutors said Castro was taking the trash out from the store in Corpus Christi when Ramirez robbed him of $1.25 and stabbed him 29 times.
Castro’s killing took place during a series of robberies; Ramirez and two women had been stealing money following a three-day drug binge. Ramirez fled to Mexico but was arrested 3½ years later.
Ramirez challenged state prison rules that prevented his pastor from touching him and praying aloud during his execution, saying his religious freedom was being violated. That challenge led to his execution being delayed as well as the executions of others.
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Ramirez, saying states must accommodate the wishes of death row inmates who want to have their faith leaders pray and touch them during their executions.
On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously declined to commute Ramirez’s death sentence to a lesser penalty. According to his attorney, Ramirez has exhausted all possible appeals and no final request to the U.S. Supreme Court is planned.
The lead prosecutor at Ramirez’s trial in 2008, Mark Skurka, said it was unfair that Ramirez would have someone praying over him as he dies when Castro didn’t have the same opportunity.
“It has been a long time coming, but Pablo Castro will probably finally get the justice that his family has sought for so long, despite the legal delays,” said Skurka, who later served as Nueces County district attorney before retiring.
Ramirez’s attorney, Seth Kretzer, said while he feels empathy for Castro’s family, his client’s challenge was about protecting religious freedoms for all. Ramirez was not asking for something new but something that has been part of jurisprudence throughout history, Kretzer said. He said even Nazi war criminals were provided ministers before their executions after World War II.
“That was not a reflection on some favor we were doing for the Nazis,” Kretzer said. “Providing religious administration at the time of death is a reflection of the relative moral strength of the captors.”
Kretzer said Ramirez’s spiritual adviser, Dana Moore, will also be able to hold a Bible in the death chamber, which hadn’t been allowed before.
Ramirez’s case took another turn in April when current Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez asked a judge to withdraw the death warrant and delay the execution, saying it had been requested by mistake. Gonzalez said he considers the death penalty “unethical.”
During a nearly 20-minute Facebook live video, Gonzalez said he believes the death penalty is one of the “many things wrong with our justice system.” Gonzalez said he would not seek the death penalty while he remains in office.
He did not return a phone call or email seeking comment.
Also in April, four of Castro’s children filed a motion asking that Ramirez’s execution order be left in place.
“I want my father to finally have his justice as well as the peace to finally move on with my life and let this nightmare be over,” Fernando Castro, one of his sons, said in the motion.
In June, a judge declined Gonzalez’ request to withdraw Wednesday’s execution date. Last month, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined to even consider the request.
If Ramirez is executed, he would be the third inmate put to death this year in Texas and the 11th in the U.S.
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(NewsNation) — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are developing a nasal spray that can prevent and treat COVID-19, with early data showing it could be a game changer in the fight against the virus.
While the vaccines developed have largely targeted the spike protein on the outside of the virus, the nasal spray focuses on the heart of the virus instead. Data from the first sets of tests show the spray appears to work against all current variants and future variants.
Professor Anders Naar, one of the lead researchers, explained that’s because the spray targets the virus’ RNA in an attempt to block the virus from duplicating in human cells.
“The virus is basically like a trojan horse,” Naar said Sunday on “NewsNation Prime.” “It injects RNA into a cell … and turns into its personal copy machine.”
The science behind the nasal spray works to incapacitate that copy machine.
The hope, Naar said, is that a nasal spray can make major headway in COVID-19 prevention efforts because it is easy to manufacture, ship and store. Unlike vaccines that have to be stored at cold temperatures, a nasal spray would be able to survive at room temperature.
“You can basically get this to people where there is no refrigeration or freezing capacity,” Naar said.
It might also appeal to the vaccine-hesitant population because of its easy application.
Tests have been conducted on mice and hamsters, and no adverse effects have been identified, Naar said. The next phase of research is animal trials and then human trials.
“We’re probably a year or two away from actually having this deployed if everything goes well,” Naar said.
The most ambitious timeline would be deployment by fall 2023. In order to achieve that, Naar said they need funding and “we need some muscle behind it, if you will, some people putting their shoulder to the effort, like big pharma or big biotech … the [Food and Drug Administration] has to be on-board, ideally the U.S. government.”
Testing has also shown that the spray can also reduce symptoms for those already infected with the coronavirus. For Naar and his fellow researchers, they say it could be a game changer “if everything pans out the way we envision.”
One doctor following the developments is Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.
“On paper, it seems great. I’m very excited about it moving onto the next level,” Chin-Hong said. “I’m very hopeful about it, in terms of it not being spike-protein dependent, portable and easy-to-scale globally and being easy to administer. Not having human studies yet gives me some pause, but if I were an investor, I’d want to invest in it. It checks all the boxes, except how it performs in humans, that remains to be seen.” | 2022-08-15T17:53:33+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/covid-19-nasal-spray-could-be-game-changer-researcher-says/ |
OSBI searching for missing Cyril three-year-old
CYRIL, Okla. (KXII) - The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is assisting Cyril police and other law enforcement in the search for a missing three-year-old from Cyril.
Athena Brownfield was reported missing around 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon from 225 W. Nebraska.
Cyril police asked for assistance from the OSBI with the search.
A command post has been established at Family Life Church in Cyril.
Please do not self-deploy to the scene. If you want to volunteer to help with the search, please come to the command post and ask for the OSBI.
Cyril police, Caddo County Sheriff’s Office and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol are assisting with the search.
If you have any information about Athena’s whereabouts, contact the OSBI tipline at (800) 522-8017 or email tips@osbi.ok.gov.
This is an active and ongoing investigation. More information will be released as it is available.
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AUSTIN, Texas and DALLAS, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BeatBox, The World's Tastiest Party Punch, has formalized partnerships with two market leading Texas-based professional sports teams:
- Dallas Mavericks: Professional NBA Team owned by Mark Cuban, notable investor in BeatBox
- Dallas Stars: Professional NHL Team
These multi-year deals, spanning through 2024, will encompass comprehensive in-market marketing efforts, suite night giveaways to give back to the fans, and BeatBox will now be sold inside American Airlines Center through Levy Restaurants.
A large part of BeatBox's continued success stems from their original opportunity to pitch on Shark Tank in 2014. During the episode, Cuban invested $1M for 33% equity in the company - making it one of the largest investments in Shark Tank history. The episode was recently acknowledged as the #13 best episodes ever on Shark Tank, to date 1.
"We're excited about our multi-year partnership with BeatBox," said Dallas Stars President and CEO Brad Alberts. "Having a variety of drink options is important to us, and we're looking forward to seeing their beverages available to our passionate fans attending games at American Airlines Center."
The latest news also falls on the heels of the company's announcement regarding their involvement with Oklahoma State University Athletics as their newly-appointed Official Party Punch of Record.
"We are beyond excited to announce our multi-year partnerships with the Dallas Mavs and Stars. The Mavs and Stars are two incredible teams with amazing fans who are core BeatBox consumers," states Zech Francis, VP of Global Marketing for BeatBox. Francis continues, "Ever since Mark Cuban invested in us on Shark Tank years ago, it's been a dream to be in the hands of sports fans at AAC, and we're excited that dream is now a reality."
BeatBox, one of the fastest growing RTD brands of 2022, is currently available in more than 45,000 retail locations. The brand is the fastest growing alcoholic beverage brand on social media and has reached over 6 million customers at festivals and events to date in 2022.
About BeatBox Beverages:
United through a love of music and inspired by the entrepreneurial spirit of Austin, Texas, the founders of BeatBox Beverages set out to create something that could help everyone #PartyBetter. One year later, they made Shark Tank, walking away with the biggest investment the show had made at that time, $1million from Mark Cuban. Later adding on a team of industry veterans from InBev, MillerCoors, Deep Eddy, and Tito's Handmade Vodka, to name a few – who know how to develop, launch, and quickly grow authentic brands. Boasting a roster of investors including Mark Cuban, Rob Dyrdek as well as DJs Party Favor, Louis The Child, Good Times Ahead, and many others. BeatBox Beverages' reputation is secured as a company that creates products that drive incremental profit in high-growth categories with specific expertise in the Millennial and Gen Z target.
ABOUT THE DALLAS MAVERICKS:
The Dallas Mavericks are a first-class global sports and entertainment organization providing memorable experiences for fans worldwide. The Mavs compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Western Conference and play at American Airlines Center under the direction of Coach Jason Kidd, General Manager Nico Harrison, CEO Cynt Marshall and Governor Mark Cuban. Since the inaugural season in 1980- 81, the Mavs have won four division titles, two conference championships and one NBA championship in 2011. In addition to on-court success, the Mavs are committed to making a difference in North Texas through community programs and the Mavs Foundation. For more information on Dallas Mavericks players, staff, stats and tickets, visit mavs.com.
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1Hodges, Chris. "25 Best Shark Tank Episodes Ranked." Looper.com. Looper, August 16, 2022. https://www.looper.com/881934/best-shark-tank-episodes-ranked/.
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SHREVEPORT, LA. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Louisiana State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Shreveport on Monday.
Dispatch records show over 19 units on the scene of a welfare call on Old River Circle and E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop. The LSP says two officers arrived and, after an altercation, shots were fired at a subject.
The subject was taken to Ochsner LSU University Health Shreveport with at least one gunshot wound, where he was later pronounced deceased.
Officials say no officers were injured during the incident.
The Shreveport Police Department contacted the LSP to take over the investigation. The LSP says their investigators are working diligently to process the crime scene. Body and dash cam footage is still being reviewed.
Officials say once further information is learned about this investigation the LSP will release it to the public.
This is a developing story, we will continue to update as we receive more information.
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TX Marine Warnings and Forecast for Monday, September 19, 2022
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MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT
Marine Weather Statement
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
908 AM CDT Mon Sep 19 2022
...SHOWERS OVER THE WATERS...
The areas affected include...
Coastal waters from Baffin Bay to Port Mansfield TX out 20 NM...
Coastal waters from Port Mansfield TX to the Rio Grande River out
20 NM...
Laguna Madre From 5 nm North Of Port Mansfield To Baffin Bay TX...
Laguna Madre From The Arroyo Colorado To 5 NM North Of Port
Mansfield TX...
Laguna Madre From the Port Of Brownsville to the Arroyo
Colorado...
At 906 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated showers, capable of producing
very heavy rainfall, poor visibility and winds to around 20 knots.
These showers were located along a line extending from 18 nm
southeast of Riviera Beach to near Boca Chica Beach, moving
northwest at 10 knots.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Mariners can expect gusty winds to around 20 knots, locally higher
waves, lightning strikes, and heavy downpours. Boaters should seek
safe harbor immediately until these storms pass.
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Road closed in Amory until further notice starting Tuesday
AMORY, Miss. (WCBI) – There’s a storm-related road closing in Amory for Tuesday.
Highway 25 from the Highway 6 intersection and points north to the city limits will be closed Tuesday.
Utility poles and lines will be taken down and put back in place.
Traffic will be diverted onto Mt. Zion Road from Smithville and Highway 6 from Main Street.
You will not be able to access Highway 25 North in the city until the crews are done.
No timeline has been set on when the road will reopen.
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One of the largest shopping periods of the year is approaching.
The question is: Will you find the best Black Friday deals online on Thanksgiving night, or should you test your luck in store on Friday morning?
Olivia Anderson, like a lot of shoppers these days, plans to do her Black Friday shopping from home.
"I think it's better to go online because you can easily see all the prices and then you can easily see all the sales that are going on," said Anderson.
But Tanya Laginas says she still likes the in-store experience.
"Just to see what everybody's going after, just to be a part of the excitement," she said.
The problem is that Black Friday is so spread out this year, so if you find what looks like a great deal in store, you still may want to check the online price along with the in-store price, before you buy.
Where are the best deals?
You can no longer shop in-store on Thanksgiving night like before. Now, most stores don't open till 5 or 6 a.m. on Friday morning.
But, both experts said most of the deals are identical.
Julie Ramhold of Deal News.com said "the only real incentive to shop in store, is just to get your items sooner," and not have to wait for delivery.
Smart shopping expert Trae Bodge agrees, saying the prices will be the same, although you might have a greater selection online.
"Because of space restrictions within a brick-and-mortar store," she said, "retailers can't show literally everything they have, but they can show that merchandise online."
Bodge says the best way to guarantee a deal is to do your research in advance. By Thanksgiving morning, you should be able to see all the sales over the next 48 hours.
Meantime, for more expensive items, like electronics, Ramhold says think outside the box, such as shopping at office supply stores, that sometimes have lower prices.
"It's not like Staples would jump to mind if you're thinking 'hey, I need the latest Echo device' but they carry them," Ramhold said.
What to buy and not buy on Friday
As far as what to buy on Back Friday, Ramhold and Bodge say you will find great deals on:
- Electronics.
- Small kitchen appliances.
- Beauty products.
But they suggest you may want to hold off on:
- Winter clothing (on sale closer to Christmas).
- Exercise equipment (on sale in January).
- Toys (marked down in mid December).
Either way, shop around, because there is no single store that has the lowest price on everything.
Tanya Laginas said "I do a lot in store still, but I do online as well."
That way you don't waste your money.
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Which green coffee bean supplement is best?
Green coffee beans are just unroasted coffee beans, and they have many of the same benefits you get from a good cup of coffee. Some green coffee bean supplements add extra ingredients for even more benefits. They also come in a variety of forms so you can choose what’s easiest for you to take.
The best green coffee bean supplement is the NatureWise Green Coffee Bean Extract. It’s decaffeinated to level out the energy and is gluten free and vegan friendly.
What to know before you buy a green coffee bean supplement
Forms
Green coffee bean supplements typically come in three forms.
- Capsules are the most common, as they tend to be easier to swallow, and the capsules dissolve quickly for faster absorption. They can be on the large side though, a problem for those who struggle to swallow pills. You can always pull the capsules apart, but you would be better off buying a powder at that point.
- Tablets are made by pressing powder into a solid form. They can be even more difficult to swallow than capsules for some people. You can crush them back into powder form if necessary, but once again, it would be best to buy a powder instead.
- Powders come in large bags, preferably with a measured scoop included, and are perfect for adding to your preferred morning drink. You’re likely to taste it though, even if you don’t add much.
Dosage
Green coffee bean supplements come in a variety of dosages, from as little as 200 milligrams to as much as 800 milligrams per serving with many recommending you take more than one dose per day. Another frequent recommendation is to take your dose 30 to 60 minutes before a meal.
You should always ask your doctor before starting a green coffee bean supplement regime, but failing that, start with the lowest possible dose and work your way up until you see a positive effect without experiencing side effects.
Quantity
On top of the question of dosage is the question of how many doses a bottle or bag may contain. Some bottles can contain as few as two weeks’ worth, while others can have a month or more.
Always check the number of doses included against the price before purchasing anything.
What to look for in a quality green coffee bean supplement
Organic
An organic green coffee bean supplement contains no pesticides, insecticides or any other harmful artificial ingredients that may have been used on the beans as they grew. Make sure that the organic claim is certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Caffeine
Coffee beans, roasted or still green, contain caffeine. That’s a driving factor behind their place in many people’s morning routine. Just like cups of coffee, green coffee bean supplements can be decaffeinated.
This gives you a choice: You can choose caffeinated supplements to help boost your energy or decaffeinated supplements if you dislike how caffeine makes you feel.
Chlorogenic acid
This ingredient, natural to green coffee beans but removed by the roasting process, is what aids in weight loss. The best green coffee bean supplements will have a 45% to 50% chlorogenic acid concentration.
How much you can expect to spend on a green coffee bean supplement
They can cost as little as $10 or as much as $30. Price typically matches how much supplement is included. Some brands also charge more for the name.
Green coffee bean supplement FAQ
Are green coffee bean supplements safe?
A. Generally yes, though there are some situations where it may be unsafe to take. The biggest concern is if you’re taking blood thinners, as green coffee bean supplements can exacerbate this effect. Always check with your doctor before you start a supplement regimen.
Do green coffee bean supplements have side effects?
A. They may, though like with any supplement or medication, not everyone will experience them. The most common side effects come from the caffeine natural in coffee beans, such as anxiety, jitters and digestive issues like diarrhea or constipation. Other possible side effects may include dehydration or headaches.
What’s the best green coffee bean supplement to buy?
Top green coffee bean supplement
NatureWise Green Coffee Bean Extract
What you need to know: This supplement has a closer eye on weight loss than others.
What you’ll love: It’s decaffeinated to have roughly the same caffeine per dose as a cup of decaffeinated coffee, and its chlorogenic acid concentration is 50%. You only take one pill twice a day, and there are 60 pills (one month’s worth of doses).
What you should consider: It still has enough caffeine to make those sensitive to it a little jittery. Some consumers still struggled with weight loss while taking it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and iHerb
Top green coffee bean supplement for the money
Nature Berg Nature’s Craft Pure Green Coffee Bean Extract
What you need to know: This offers a wide variety of benefits for a good cost.
What you’ll love: It isn’t decaffeinated, so it’s perfect for providing the boost of energy you’re used to with your morning cup of coffee. It also helps to regulate your appetite in addition to promoting weight loss and boosting your metabolism. It can even improve your skin health.
What you should consider: Some customers struggled to swallow the larger-than-average pills. Others had problems with crashing a few hours after taking a pill.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Microingredients Pure Green Coffee Bean Extract
What you need to know: This bag of powder is perfect for mixing into your morning smoothie or protein shake.
What you’ll love: It’s completely organic as well as gluten-free and vegan-friendly, and the packaging is environmentally responsible. It uses a much lower dosage than many other supplements, making it perfect for those trying it for the first time. A measuring scoop is in the bag.
What you should consider: Some purchases didn’t experience the energy boost they were hoping for. It adds a coffee flavor to whatever you mix it with.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Don Henthorn becomes chairman emeritus, Jeff Kritzer promoted to president and CEO
SANTA PAULA, Calif., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BendPak, Inc., a global manufacturer and marketer of vehicle service equipment and specialty consumer products, announces changes to its executive team effective August 3. President Don Henthorn, who has led the company since establishing it in 1965, will take on a more limited role in its daily operations as chairman emeritus. Jeff Kritzer will be promoted from executive vice president to succeed Henthorn as president and CEO. At the same time, Rudy Diaz will step up from vice president of information technology to executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO). Jim Fornear moves from financial controller to chief financial officer (CFO). Rounding out the leadership team, Javier Arias continues in the critical role of vice president of operations.
Henthorn will be active in an advisory capacity to ensure a seamless transition of leadership and will serve as a business mentor who will share his experience and wisdom.
"All of us at BendPak are grateful for Don's continued service to the company and his solid contributions to our success. We look forward to his ongoing guidance and direction during this transitionary period," Kritzer said. "Since 1965, his leadership, mentoring style, and embodiment of our company values and traditions have helped establish our winning culture. We have some very big shoes to fill, but through his mentorship and shaping of our company's work ethic and culture, we believe our market dominance will continue."
Kritzer has held many roles over the 40 years he has worked at BendPak, including national sales manager, president of sales, and senior vice president of marketing. For the last three years as executive vice president, he has applied his experience to help grow BendPak's multi-faceted brands and divisions. He has managed aggressive product development and engineering initiatives, enhanced supply chain and transportation efficiencies, increased distribution channels, and developed marketing strategies that have helped transform BendPak into a lifestyle brand. In addition to his work for BendPak, Kritzer also serves the industry as an active member of the Automotive Lift Institute (ALI) where he is chairman of the board of directors.
"I am excited for Jeff to assume the president's role as part of our long-term succession plan," Henthorn said. "Jeff has been a driving force in the success of our company in the 40 years since he joined our organization. He is widely respected by our team for his hard work, integrity, and straightforward style, and with his continued leadership, he will be a superb steward of our culture. I am confident that with Jeff and the rest of the executive team in place, BendPak is well-positioned to continue delivering on our brand promise to better serve our customers around the world."
Diaz joined BendPak as vice president of information technology (IT) in June 2011. As executive vice president and COO, he will continue to enhance information technologies such as cloud computing and big data analytics to help streamline processes and increase productivity, while improving cybersecurity protections and security upgrades to reduce corporate risk. His COO role includes responsibilities across various departments, including human resources, operations, and office administration.
Diaz has more than 30 years of experience in information technology and security. Prior to joining BendPak, he held a senior IT leadership position with American Tire Distributors (ATD), one of the largest independent tire distributors in North America. He also enjoyed a nearly two-decade tenure with Am-Pac Tire Distributors/Tire Pros, a nationwide wholesale distributor based in Simi Valley, California.
Fornear has served as financial controller since joining BendPak in November 2019. As CFO, he will be instrumental in managing the company's budgeting and forecasting processes, financial strategies, profitability, and risk management.
Fornear began crafting his finance skills as a public accountant with a mid-size CPA firm in Southern California before joining John Deere, where he demonstrated leadership abilities in the manufacturing sector, delivering problem-solving and cost-effective management strategies.
"These exciting leadership changes follow a multi-year succession planning process," said Henthorn. "Managing BendPak and its many divisions and brands to ensure long-term growth requires a thoughtful and orderly succession-planning process. The board of directors and management have worked hard to identify and prepare our new generation of leaders to ensure continuity and, more importantly, to maintain and build upon our culture and core values."
Learn more at bendpak.com/blog/leadership-change/ or call (805) 933-9970.
BendPak Inc. car lifts, wheel service equipment, evaporative air coolers and other products are sold under the trademarked brands BendPak®, Ranger®, Autostacker®, QuickJack®, Cool Boss®, GrandPrix®, JackPak®, MaxJax® and Dannmar®.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams will begin her 24th appearance at the tournament against 2019 semifinalist Elina Svitolina, while Friday’s draw put two-time titlist Andy Murray up against wild-card entry Ryan Peniston in an all-British first-round matchup.
Williams, who is 43 and has played just five matches this season, and Svitolina, who returned to the tour in April after taking time off to have a baby, both were given wild cards by the All England Club.
Whoever wins that contest could face No. 28 seed Elise Mertens in the second round, followed perhaps by a matchup against No. 7 Coco Gauff, the American who was just 15 when she began her Grand Slam career by eliminating Williams at Wimbledon in 2019.
Williams won Wimbledon in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2008, to go along with two U.S. Open trophies.
Audible gasps filled the All England Club’s main interview room where the draw was being conducted when Murray — who has twice undergone hip surgery since winning Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016 — was drawn to face a fellow British player, and again moments later when the winner of that match was slated to take on either No. 5 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, twice a major finalist, or 2020 U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem.
Murray’s initial title at Wimbledon made him the first British man in 77 years to earn the singles title there.
Play at the year’s third Grand Slam tournament begins Monday, when No. 2 seed Novak Djokovic will open his bid for a fifth consecutive championship — and eighth overall — at the All England Club against Pedro Cachin, a 67th-ranked Argentine making his Wimbledon debut. Djokovic, who is halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam after winning the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June, is also seeking his 24th major title, which would set the record for most by a man or woman in the Open era.
The potential men’s quarterfinals are No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz vs. No. 6 Holger Rune, and No. 3 Daniil Medvedev vs. Tsitsipas on the top half of the bracket, and Djokovic vs. No. 7 Andrey Rublev, and No. 4 Casper Ruud vs. No. 8 Jannik Sinner on the bottom half.
The player Djokovic beat in last year’s final at Wimbledon, No. 30 seed Nick Kyrgios, will face David Goffin on Monday. Goffin is a two-time quarterfinalist at the All England Club who has been ranked as high as No. 7. Kyrgios could play Rublev in the third round and Djokovic in the quarterfinals.
Possible women’s quarterfinals are No. 1 Iga Swiatek vs. Gauff, and No. 4 Jessica Pegula vs. No. 5 Caroline Garcia on the top half, and No. 3 Elena Rybakina vs. No. 6 Ons Jabeur, and No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka vs. No. 8 Maria Sakkari on the bottom half.
Rybakina-Jabeur would be a rematch of last year’s final, won by Rybakina. She will begin her title defense against American opponent Shelby Rogers.
Swiatek — who withdrew from a tune-up event on grass in Germany on Friday, citing a fever and possible food poisoning — was drawn to open on Monday against Zhu Lin, who is ranked 33rd this week but owns a 1-4 career mark at Wimbledon.
Gauff meets 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin in the first round.
Alcaraz’s first match will be Tuesday against French veteran Jeremy Chardy.
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AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-07-01T02:09:17+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/sports-news/ap-venus-williams-will-begin-her-24th-wimbledon-appearance-against-elina-svitolina/ |
‘She is always happy’: World War II veteran celebrates 102nd birthday on St. Patrick’s Day
RED BLUFF, Calif. (KRCR) - A World War II veteran had two reasons to celebrate this St. Patrick’s Day.
Hannah Engel joined the Marines on the day 81 years ago, and on Friday, she turned 102.
Engel was born in 1921 and she celebrated her 102nd birthday with her friends and staff at Lassen House Senior Living in California.
“I think everybody in this place was there,” Engel said.
According to Engel, she joined the Marines at 21 years old. She met her husband there and married him after six weeks of dating.
She said the two stayed together for 51 years and have five children - four boys and one girl, Judy Armstrong, who came from Georgia to celebrate her mother’s birthday.
“She’s so aware of everything around her, everything that’s going on, and she’s always happy,” Armstrong said.
Engel also shared her secret to living as long as she has.
“Just being thankful for being here. I had a wonderful mother and father and then a wonderful husband. So, I’ve been very, very fortunate all my life,” Engel said.
Armstrong said she will be returning to California in October for her 55th high school reunion, and her mother said she plans on being there, too.
“In October, we’ll make plans for turning 103,” Engel said.
Copyright 2023 KRCR via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-18T18:43:30+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/03/18/she-is-always-happy-world-war-ii-veteran-celebrates-102nd-birthday-st-patricks-day/ |
WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
648 PM EDT Tue Aug 2 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Litchfield County through 700 PM EDT...
At 647 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Wolcott, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph, pea size hail, and heavy rain.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible. Heavy rains could cause flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Thomaston, Terryville, Oakville, Woodbury Center, Watertown,
Plymouth, Allentown, Minortown, Pequabuck, Reynolds Bridge, Hancock,
Tolles, Plymouth Green, Delano Field and Terryville Station.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 4168 7318 4170 7300 4164 7298 4163 7301
4163 7302 4161 7302 4161 7306 4159 7306
4159 7308 4157 7309 4156 7316 4152 7316
4151 7320 4152 7320
TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 262DEG 19KT 4161 7303
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Windham and
Providence Counties through 745 PM EDT...
At 651 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Eastford, or 9 miles northeast of Mansfield, moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
IMPACT...Strong winds could cause minor damage such as downed
branches.
Providence, Cranston, Woonsocket, Cumberland, North Providence, West
Warwick, Johnston, Plainfield, Smithfield, Lincoln, Killingly,
Burrillville, North Smithfield, Scituate, Glocester, Putnam,
Thompson, Brooklyn, Woodstock and Foster.
Get indoors when you hear thunder. Do not resume outdoor activities
until at least 30 minutes after the storm has passed.
LAT...LON 4179 7216 4192 7216 4199 7145 4174 7145
4173 7146 4173 7158
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 270DEG 22KT 4187 7208
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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Three new foams available to see at Showroom C-1578
MT. AIRY, N.C., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Independent foam producer, NCFI Polyurethanes will showcase their CoolRest® line of performance bedding foams at the upcoming Las Vegas Furniture and Bedding Market, July 24-28, 2022.
"This CoolRest® launch is the latest in our commitment to provide our customers with solutions that perform and add value to their products," said Chris Bradley, Executive Vice President for the company. "Through much hard work, along with listening to our customer's needs, our team has created a trio foams that provide unmatched performance in mattress applications."
The CoolRest® Hybrid combines the properties of memory and high resilience foams, providing pressure relief without sinking. It can be used as either a comfort layer or a transition layer. CoolRest® Breeze is a super soft, high airflow foam designed to give pressure relief and maximum cooling properties. It too can be used as either a comfort layer or a transition layer. Finally, CoolRest® Bounce is a latex like polyurethane with super high resiliency- in excess of 65%. This foam is ideally suited for a transition or support layer where goal is to keep the sleeper on top of the comfort layer. All three foams are CertiPUR-US® certified.
About NCFI Polyurethanes®- A division of Barnhardt Manufacturing Company, NCFI was organized in 1964 by research chemist Dr. H. W. "Ace" Bradley and Charlotte-based Barnhardt Manufacturing Company. NCFI quickly became a leader in the manufacturing of flexible polyurethane foam for the bedding and furniture industries. In 1966, they moved into their current campus which has been expanded eight times to its current 500,000 square feet. The Mt. Airy bedding location provides both private label and direct to consumer solutions. NCFI has additional manufacturing plants in Houston, TX, Columbus, MS, Tupelo, MS and Dalton GA. More information about the company can be found HERE.
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XI'AN, CHINA, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- From November 14 to 17, Tianlong's newly-launched smart PCR lab solution will showcase at Medica 2022 in Dusseldorf, Germany. The innovative smart PCR lab solution from Tianlong can maximize resources by making the best use of people, space, and equipment, and empower the PCR laboratory with high productivity and high efficiency.
How can we empower PCR lab?
Different from traditional PCR laboratories relying on manual and paper-based recording, Tianlong smart lab system can keep track of all the samples, and monitor the experiment status in real time, thus realizing rapid traceability of abnormal test results. Professionals have an unprecedented view of everything that is happening in the lab.
Paperless recording removes manual, error-prone workflows. The fully automatic instrument can improve lab efficiency and standardize the process. With the innovative smart laboratory system and interconnected automatic devices, nucleic acid testing efficiency in the lab can be greatly enhanced and data integrity can be ensured.
The increased connectivity and automation allow labs to work more efficiently, leading to higher-quality data with less human labor and less human error. In the smart PCR lab, human labor can decrease by 75% and testing capability can increase by 160% in an 8-hour shift when compared with a traditional PCR lab. Tianlong smart lab solution is perfect for massive testing due to its high efficiency.
Up to now, Tianlong smart lab solution has been applied in many hospitals such as Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing Tsinghua Changgeng Hospital in China mainland as well as some public health laboratory in Hong Kong, which has greatly empowered those labs with maximum efficiency.
About Tianlong
Tianlong is an innovative high-tech company specializing in molecular diagnostic products in China. Since its foundation in 1997, Tianlong has devoted itself to providing integrated PCR lab solutions for professionals worldwide. We have a wide range of products covering from devices to reagents, including nucleic acid extractors, Real-time PCR systems, All-in-one molecular diagnosis systems, sample processing systems, liquid handling systems, and 300 kinds of compatible reagents. With NMPA, CE, and FDA marks, our products have been exported to more than 100 countries and regions worldwide and have greatly helped the prevention and control of epidemics such as COVID-19, SARS, avian influenza, Ebola, Zika, and African swine fever.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — American Vanguard Corp. (AVD) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $1.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Newport Beach, California-based company said it had net income of 7 cents.
The agricultural products company posted revenue of $124.9 million in the period.
American Vanguard shares have declined 15% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $18.48, a fall of 10% in the last 12 months.
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BEIJING (AP) — The twice-a-decade congress of China’s ruling Communist Party is a tightly choreographed event. So when former Chinese President Hu Jintao was guided off stage without explanation Saturday — as the world’s media looked on — questions spilled forth.
The speculation ran from a health crisis to an attempted protest by the 79-year-old former leader, or a political purge by current President Xi Jinping. Xi has previously gone after retired officials on corruption charges, though never one as high-ranking as Hu.
China’s tightly controlled state media didn’t report the incident, but the official Xinhua News Agency tweeted in English several hours later — as speculation raged overseas — that Hu was in poor health and needed to rest.
Major party events can be trying: Former top leader Hu Yaobang died of a heart attack during a meeting at the age of 73, setting off the student-led pro-democracy movement that led to Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
Hu, who has reportedly been in poor health, appeared confused during the incident, although not in obvious distress. While an attendant held his arm, he shuffled off stage right, speaking briefly with Xi and patting Premier Li Keqiang on the shoulder. Throughout the process, most of the other delegates stared silently ahead.
The Xinhua tweet, while believable, didn’t satisfy skeptics, and the truth may never be definitively known.
The idea that it may have been more than a health issue stemmed from Hu’s somewhat ambiguous relationship with Xi, who succeeded him as party leader in 2012. Xi is the hard-driving son of a Communist elder, while the mild-mannered Hu hails from a family of tea merchants and trained as an engineer.
Hu had favored his protege, Li, as his successor. Li, who belonged to Hu’s Communist Youth League faction, instead got the No. 2 spot in the party hierarchy.
On Saturday, in a sign of a further consolidation of Xi’s power, the party congress removed Li from the leadership, dropping him from the party’s 205-member Central Committee. Li and two others who had also been appointed under Hu and were dropped from the committee are expected to go into retirement.
Hu left the meeting at the hulking Great Hall of the People not long after the election of the new Central Committee, and more than two hours after the session had started.
The spectacle was, in the words of longtime China watcher Bill Bishop, “humiliating.”
The “image of Hu Jintao being led out is a perfect symbol of Xi’s absolute decimation of the ‘Communist Youth League’ faction,” Bishop wrote in his newsletter.
Another member of the same faction, Hu Chunhua, was denied a spot on the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee in a leadership shuffle at the end of the congress, despite being an early favorite. Hu Chunhua didn’t even make it onto the 24-member Politburo one rung below.
Xi has been steering China into what the party calls a “new era,” away from the legacy of former leader Deng Xiaoping, who launched China on its economic rise with market-oriented reforms — and also selected Hu as a future leader.
It was Deng who put Hu on the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee — from which China’s leaders come — at the relatively tender age of 49.
Xi has broken with tradition by declining to consult with senior party officials such as Hu, or defer to their factional concerns, analysts say.
Hu attended the congress as a specially invited delegate, as is customary for senior retired officials. He was seated onstage next to Xi, in the front row with party leaders.
Whether he was able to take part in discussions isn’t known — it’s part of the secrecy that surrounds party events. Since stepping down from the presidency in 2013, he has rarely been seen in public, drawing additional attention to his sudden departure at the congress. | 2022-10-23T19:42:18+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/ap-questions-swirl-after-chinas-former-leader-hu-leaves-event/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the Supreme Court ruling striking down race-based admissions in higher education, but it was the three justices who make the court the most diverse in its 233-year history who marked the stark, embittered battle lines over affirmative action.
It was a moment heavy with history and emotion. Clarence Thomas, the longest serving justice and the court’s second Black justice, read a concurring opinion from the bench, pointedly rejecting the validity of using race as the basis for preferential consideration. He was followed by Sonia Sotomayor, its first Latina, whose dissenting opinion took aim at Thomas. Then came Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s first Black woman, whose written dissent was its own biting, metaphor-laden rebuke.
The mood in the courtroom Thursday was somber, with most of the justices sitting expressionless, taking occasional sips of water. Both Jackson and Sotomayor looked straight ahead as Roberts read the majority opinion and Thomas his concurrence.
Thomas, who has opposed race-based measures that have come to the court since his confirmation in 1991, focused on how the practice had negatively impacted Asian Americans to the advantage of Black students.
“Although it’s not my practice to announce my separate opinions from the bench, the race-based discrimination against Asian Americans in these cases compels me to do so today,” Thomas said.
He said later that “The Constitution continues to embody a simple truth: Two discriminatory wrongs cannot make a right.”
Thomas said the nation’s racial problems cannot be solved by “affirmative action or some other conception of equity. Racialism simply cannot be undone by different or more racialism.”
Thursday’s court ruling, he said, “makes clear that, in the future, universities wishing to discriminate based on race in admissions must articulate and justify a compelling and measurable state interest based on concrete evidence. Given the strictures set out by the court, I highly doubt any will be able to do so.”
Thomas has consistently opposed affirmative action in his career, but until Thursday, had most often been on the losing side of the court’s decision.
While his view won, he was not unscathed.
Thomas and Sotomayor sit next to each other as the senior and third-most-senior associate justices. Both come from humble beginnings and have spoken openly about how affirmative action played a role in their admissions to college and law school.
Any semblance of a shared journey, however, was not in evidence. When Sotomayor read her dissent, the tension was palpable in the ornate, staid chamber with the sculpted marble panels portraying Justice, Wisdom and Truth and a variety of historic figures, from Moses to Mohammad, peering down from above.
While she criticized the majority opinion and said it was rolling back “decades of precedent and momentous progress” she saved her most visible ire for Thomas’ opinion.
“Justice Thomas offers an ‘originalist defense of the colorblind Constitution,’ but his historical analysis leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Constitution is not, in fact, colorblind.”
She later criticized Thomas for using race when it suits him and said his arguments played to racial tropes.
“Justice Thomas, for his part, offers a multitude of arguments for why race-conscious college admissions policies supposedly ‘burden’ racial minorities. None of them has any merit,” she said. “He first renews his argument that the use of race in holistic admissions leads to the ‘inevitable underperformance’ by Black and Latino students at elite universities ‘because they are less academically prepared than the white and Asian students with whom they must compete.’ ”
Jackson, who recused herself from the case involving Harvard because she had been an advisory board member there, called the decision “truly a tragedy for us all.”
The 6-3 decision had been foretold since before Jackson was elevated to the court in 2022 with twin cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina heading for rulings. The court had grown more conservative during President Donald Trump’s administration, particularly after the death of the liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her replacement in 2020 by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
“With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat,” Jackson wrote. “But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
She said the court had “detached itself from this country’s actual past and present experiences.”
In her footnotes, Jackson said Thomas “demonstrates an obsession with race consciousness that far outstrips my or UNC’s holistic understanding that race can be a factor that affects applicants’ unique life experiences.” She added that the takeaway is that “those who demand that no one think about race (a classic pink-elephant paradox) refuse to see, much less solve for, the elephant in the room—the race-linked disparities that continue to impede achievement of our great Nation’s full potential.”
Although legal barriers are gone, race still matters, she said. “The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism.” | 2023-06-30T03:53:51+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/politics/ap-in-the-supreme-court-chamber-the-subject-was-race-the-mood-was-somber-the-criticism-harsh/ |
As outlined in the article in Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline on Nov. 20 (“End of the line”), Dec. 28 will be the last trip operated by Conestoga Tours, ending the legacy of a Lancaster company that has roots back to 1899.
As the “last man standing” of this historic company, I would like to publicly thank several groups that enabled Conestoga Tours to exist and thrive for over 120 years.
I had the honor to work with a fantastic staff and support system during my 47 years with Conestoga Tours. This includes drivers, cleaners, mechanics, sales, reservationists, tour coordinators, tour escorts and accounting staff.
As any owner of a family-owned business understands, a business is only as strong as its employees. Conestoga Tours had many fabulous ones, and I will always be filled with gratitude for their years of dedicated service.
I would also like to recognize my business partner and brother-in-law, Darrell Gerke, for his critical part in our company’s success. With Darrell’s expertise in the maintenance side of the business and his ability to recruit excellent drivers, coupled with my abilities in marketing and sales, we made a formidable team.
Finally, I would like to say thank you and goodbye to the literally millions of customers who have ridden on one of our charter buses or have taken our tours during the past decades. Your expressions of gratitude for our service have made my impending retirement easier to handle.
It has been a fabulous ride.
Tom Meredith
President, Conestoga Tours | 2022-12-25T10:14:32+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/conestoga-tours-bids-farewell-letter/article_aa167546-816d-11ed-9297-47d0e74472c4.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipation for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers has been growing all year.
For months, Colleen Hoover’s millions of fans on TikTok, Instagram and elsewhere have been talking up and posting early excerpts from her novel “It Starts With Us.” By summer, the author’s sequel to her bestselling “It Ends With Us” had already reached the top 10 Amazon.com. It might have climbed higher but for competition from other Hoover novels, including “Ugly Love,” “Verity” and, of course, “It Ends With Us,” the dramatic tale of a love triangle and a woman’s endurance of domestic abuse that young TikTok users have embraced and helped make Hoover the country’s most popular fiction writer.
Hoover’s extraordinary run on bestseller lists, from Amazon.com to The New York Times, has been Beatle-esque for much of 2022, with four or more books likely to appear in the top 10 at a given moment. “It Starts With Us” had been so eagerly desired by her admirers — CoHorts, some call themselves — that she broke a personal rule: Don’t let “outside influences” determine her next book.
People are also reading…
“I never allowed myself to entertain a sequel, but with the amount of people emailing me every day and tagging me in an online petition to write about (those characters), their story began to build in my head in the same way my other books begin,” she told The Associated Press in a recent email. “Eventually I craved telling this story as much as I did my other stories, so I owe the readers a big thank you for the nudging.”
Hoover’s new book should help extend what has been another solid year for the industry. Booksellers are looking forward to a mix of commercial favorites such as Hoover, Anthony Horowitz, Beverly Jenkins and Veronica Roth alongside what Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt calls a “really strong” lineup of literary releases, including novels by Ian McEwan and Kate Atkinson.
The fall also will feature new fiction from Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and Pulitzer Prize-winners Elizabeth Strout and Andrew Sean Greer. Celeste Ng’s “Our Missing Hearts” is her first novel since “Little Fires Everywhere.” Story collections are expected from George Saunders, Andrea Barrett and Ling Ma, along with novels by Percival Everett, Barbara Kingsolver, Kevin Wilson, N.K. Jemisin, Lydia Millet and Yiyun Li.
Joe Concha’s “Come On, Man!: The Truth About Joe Biden’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Presidency” is the most colorfully named of the latest round of books attacking an incumbent president — a long and profitable publishing tradition. But the most high-profile works of political reporting dwell on Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, among them “Confidence Man,” by The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, and “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017–2021,” by Peter Baker of the Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker.
Michelle Obama’s “The Light We Carry” is her first entirely new book since her worldwide bestseller from 2018, “Becoming.” Benjamin Netanyahu’s “Bibi” is the first memoir by the former Israeli Prime Minister, while American politicians with new books include Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke.
Celebrity books include Bono’s “Surrender,” Matthew Perry’s “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” and Geena Davis’ “Dying of Politeness.” Bob Dylan reflects upon an art form he helped reinvent in “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” while the title of Jan Wenner’s memoir invokes the Dylan classic that helped inspire the name of the magazine he founded, “Like a Rolling Stone.”
History books will cover the famous and the overlooked. Among the former are Pulitzer-winner Jon Meacham’s “And There Was Light,” the latest entry into the canon of Abraham Lincoln scholarship, and Pulitzer-winner Stacy Schiff’s biography of Samuel Adams, “The Revolutionary.” Fred Kaplan, who focused on Lincoln’s prose in “Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer,” now assesses Thomas Jefferson in “His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer.”
Releases highlighting those less remembered include Kevin Hazzard’s “American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics,” and Katie Hickman’s “Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West.” With the overturning last summer of Roe v. Wade, Laura Kaplan’s “The Story of Jane” is a timely reissue of her 1995 book about the underground abortion counseling service founded in Chicago in 1969, four years before the Supreme Court’s historic Roe ruling.
Bruce Henderson’s “Bridge to the Sun” centers on the recruitment of Japanese-Americans, some of whom had been in internment camps, to assist in U.S. intelligence gathering during World War II.
“It was really hard to research because many of them had been working on top secret projects, and, even after they had been discharged, were reminded that they were under the National Security Act and that military secrets had to be kept,” Henderson says. “We had to do a lot of digging and contact families and see what the veterans had left behind. Of the six guys that I follow in my book, only one was still alive.” | 2022-08-25T15:42:50+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/fall-books-a-broad-mix-of-literary-and-commercial-favorites/article_10a1c8de-4b07-5ba1-b153-30e6bb0fa1c8.html |
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Urological Association (AUA) today announced the 14 inaugural members of the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Committee. The Committee members will begin their terms on November 1, 2022.
Led by Larissa Bresler, MD, DABMA, chair of the D&I Committee and chief diversity officer, the D&I Committee will be tasked with advising the AUA Board of Directors on shaping and executing diversity initiatives in accord with the recommendations of the AUA's Diversity & Inclusion Task Force. The Committee will be responsible for identifying and advising the AUA's Board of Directors on potential solutions to meet diversity gaps within the AUA organizational programs; collaborating with AUA Program Councils on the implementation of diversity initiatives and methods to recruit, support and retain diverse AUA leaders and volunteers.
"The D&I Committee members are an impressive group of urologists—all of whom have experience and understanding of diversity and inclusion initiatives," said AUA President Edward M. Messing, MD. "The Board and I look forward to working with them and we are confident they will help AUA advance D&I initiatives in the urologic community and advance our efforts in closing health disparities in communities historically excluded by medicine."
Congratulations to the following D&I Committee members:
- Denise Asafu-Adeji, MD, MPH, Director of Male Reproductive Medicine and Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology and the Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- Gregory Broderick, MD, Professor of Urology, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine; Program Director, Urology Residency, Mayo Clinic Florida
- Pamela Coleman, MD, FACS, FPMRS, Associate Professor of Urology, Department of Surgery, OBGYN, Howard University School of Medicine; Interim Chief of Urology, Howard University Hospital
- Gabriela Gonzalez, MD, Urology Resident Physician, University of California, Davis
- Tomas Griebling, MD, MPH, FACS, FGSA, AGSF, John P. Wolf 33rd Degree Masonic Distinguished Professor Urology, Department of Urology, Faculty Associate, The Landon Center on Aging, The University of Kansas School of Medicine
- Nathan Grunewald, MD, FACS, Chief Medical Innovation Officer and Urology Medical Director, Sauk Prairie Healthcare
- Lourdes Guerrios, MD, Urology Attending, Urology Section, Surgery Department, Introductory Research Program Co-Director, VA Caribbean Healthcare System; Research Program Director, Puerto Rico Trauma Center; Assistant Professor, Surgery Department, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
- Justin Han, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology, Hofstra-Northwell Zucker School of Medicine; Director of Male Reconstructive Urology, Smith Institute for Urology, Northwell Health; Chair for Quality in the Department of Urology, North Shore University Hospital
- Linda McIntire, MD, Urologist, MyMichigan Health
- Miguel Pineda, MD, Director of Male Sexual Dysfunction and Urologic Prosthetics, State Island University Hospital – Northwell Health
- Michelle Jo Semins, MD, Professor, West Virginia University School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Urology, West Virginia University Wheeling Hospital
- Gjanje Smith-Mathis, MD, MPH, Staff Urologist, WakeMed Health and Hospitals
- Simone Thavaseelan, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery/Urology and Program Director of the Urology Residency, Brown University; Chief, Section of Urology, Providence VA Medical Center
- Vijaya Vemulakonda, JD, MD, Professor of Pediatric Urology, Director of Research and Residency Program Director, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
"I am thrilled for the opportunity to work with these esteemed members of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee to shape D&I priorities for the AUA," said Dr. Bresler. "My hope is that this team, alongside the whole AUA membership, can help us build a vibrant and diverse community."
The Committee will have representation from all eight sections of the AUA as well as a diversity of gender, race, sexual orientation, practice type and specialty which will provide the diversity of thought that is necessary to move D&I initiatives forward.
Learn about the AUA's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and read more about each of the D&I Committee members at AUAnet.org/diversity-equity-and-inclusion.
About the American Urological Association: Founded in 1902 and headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, the American Urological Association is a leading advocate for the specialty of urology and has nearly 24,000 members throughout the world. The AUA is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community as it pursues its mission of fostering the highest standards of urologic care through education, research and the formulation of health policy.
Media Contact:
Rachel Butch, Manager, Corporate Communications and Media Relations
410-689-4033, rbutch@AUAnet.org
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For the drive home in Tulsa: Partly cloudy. Low 78F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph. The forecast is showing a hot day in Tulsa Thursday. Temperatures are projected to be a sizzling hot day tomorrow with temperatures reaching a high of 97, though luckily it will feel much cooler at . A 74-degree low is forecasted. Expect periods of sun and clouds. The UV index Thursday is high. The sun's rays will be intense. Stay in the shade as much as possible. Wear sunglasses, a hat and sunscreen when in sunlight. The Tulsa area should see a light breeze, with forecast showing winds from the south, clocking in at 9 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Stay in the know. Visit tulsaworld.com for local news and weather.
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A woman has been arrested for robbing $35 at a local Stripes, according to Laredo police.
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Vela was further identified as the suspect after she was picked during a photo lineup, according to court documents. | 2023-02-08T20:11:52+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/local/article/i-gun-woman-robbed-35-local-stripes-17771607.php |
- The Ballpark Series at Fenway and Oracle Park features the only professional pickleball events in Boston and San Francisco in 2023
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NAPLES, Fla., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pickle4America™ (Pickle4™), a rapidly emerging organization dedicated to building the best ecosystem in the sport of pickleball through iconic events and a robust digital community, today announced an enhanced fan and player experience for its inaugural 2023 Ballpark Series, including the Professional Showcase Exhibition.
Professional Showcase Exhibition
The Professional Showcase Exhibition will feature incredible matches in singles and doubles with top-ranked professional players in Boston and a top-world-ranked all-women exhibition in San Francisco. The action will take place in two sessions at each event – including Friday night under the ballpark lights and early Sunday afternoon – and is open to fans and spectators at Fenway (purchase tickets here) and Oracle Park (purchase tickets here). Players renting courts who are already on-site can attend the Professional Showcase Exhibition for free.
- Fenway in Boston: The first event in the inaugural Ballpark Series will also be the only time fans in Boston can watch professional pickleball players at an event in 2023. Highlighting the July 14 and July 16 women's lineup are the reigning 2023 US Open Pickleball Championships ("US Open") Women's Doubles champions, Simone Jardim and Parris Todd, top-ranked player from the Professional Pickleball Association ("PPA") Tour, Jorja Johnson and Association of Pickleball Players ("APP") tour member Milan Rane.
On the men's side, top-ranked PPA Tour player, JW Johnson, is joined by Andrei Daescu, reigning 2023 US Open Men's Doubles champion, Hunter Johnson, reigning 2023 US Open Men's Singles champion and Rob Nunnery currently on the APP Tour.
All of their matches will play under the backdrop of the famed Green Monster. Tickets for all days including the Friday and Sunday Pro Showcase Exhibitions at Fenway may now be purchased here.
- Oracle Park in San Francisco: The following weekend, the Pickle4 Ballpark Series delivers the only time fans in San Francisco can watch professional pickleball players in an event in 2023. The Pro Showcase Exhibition features an incredible all-women's lineup headlined by number one ranked women's player in the world, Anna Leigh Waters (member of PPA), and joined by top-ranked PPA Tour competitors Anna Bright, Lea Jansen and Meghan Dizon. Simone Jardim and Parris Todd, reigning 2023 US Open Women's Doubles champions, also join at Oracle Park in San Francisco on July 21 and 23 to comprise a historical and elite women's lineup.
Tickets for all days including the Friday and Sunday Pro Showcase Exhibition at Oracle Park may now be purchased here.
Pickleball fans and players unite at iconic ballparks
The Ballpark Series brings together pickleball amateurs, fans, and professionals all in some of the most iconic ballparks in America.
"We received overwhelming interest from pickleball amateurs across America since we announced the Ballpark Series last month, which is why we are excited to unveil several new updates to enhance the overall player and fan experience," said Mike Dee, Chairman of Pickle4. "This event series is about bringing the pickleball community together, and I am excited that giving fans access to these top professionals will reignite even more passion among pickleball players from coast to coast."
Pickleball fans can now purchase tickets to the Professional Showcase Exhibition by visiting Pickle4.com or going directly to RedSox.com/pickleball and SFGiants.com/pickleball. Several ways to watch and experience the event are available – from cheering on your friends and family during the day, to watching some of the world's top pickleball professionals on center stage.
The Ballpark Series will also feature amateur tournaments as well as open play, which will take place on the field alongside two of the most scenic pickleball showcase courts ever constructed. Amateur players can still sign up to compete in Oracle Park.
Ballpark Series coming to TV
As part of this latest round of updates, Pickle4 also announced a deal with CBS Sports. The new deal includes nine hours of total live programming on CBS Sports Network, with programming on both Friday and Sunday for consecutive weekends.
Coverage for the Ballpark Series at Fenway begins on Friday, July 14, with live programming from 7-9 PM, ET, and continues on Sunday, July 16 from 1-4 PM, ET.
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In addition, Pickle4 also announced major partnerships with the United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism and Franklin Sports that both feature unique elements.
As part of their partnership, Pickle4 and the United States Virgin Islands Department of Tourism will collaborate to expand the tournament series to the Caribbean.
"The USVI is excited to partner with Pickle4America on this year's Ballpark Series, which puts the sport center stage at some of the country's most iconic sports facilities," explains Joseph Boschulte, U.S. Virgin Islands Commissioner of Tourism. "The expansive growth of pickleball makes this an ideal time to join in and expand the sport into the Caribbean by way of our destination."
Franklin Sports' sponsorship includes providing Red Sox and Giants team-branded paddles for all open play athletes in the respective cities. In addition, Franklin Sports will be the Official pickleball of the Ballpark Series amateur competition & Professional Showcase Exhibition.
For more information, visit pickle4.com.
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The California Highway Patrol escorted traffic on Interstate 5 over Tejon Pass between Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley after an overnight closure due to the weather conditions.
Preliminary overnight lows included 14 degrees (-10 Celsius) at locations in the San Bernardino and San Jacinto mountains east of Los Angeles and 30 degrees (-1.11 C) at Oceanside Municipal Airport on the San Diego County coast.
The National Weather Service said the cold airmass will remain into Thursday but offshore winds will bring some warming. | 2023-02-15T15:48:42+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/cold-airmass-brings-big-chill-to-california-17785910.php |
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Tuesday Night: Scattered showers/storms, breezy. Low: 67° | 2023-04-03T22:33:07+00:00 | wthitv.com | https://www.wthitv.com/weather/forecast/monday-night-increasing-clouds-isolated-showers-low-57/article_0bab55da-d266-11ed-b39b-b7201451031b.html |
HARLEM, N.Y. (WPIX) — Police arrested a 64-year-old man on Monday, decades after a mother and her daughter were strangled to death inside a Harlem apartment.
Larry Atkinson was arrested on murder charges in connection with the 1994 deaths of Sarah Roberts, 57, and Sharon Roberts, 27, officials said. The arrest was made using DNA evidence.
The women were found unconscious and unresponsive inside the bedroom of the apartment on Feb. 20, 1994, police said. The Medical Examiner’s office determined they’d both been strangled.
A home attendant found their bodies, WPIX reported in 1994. The door was unlocked when the attendant arrived, and there were no signs of forced entry.
The mother suffered from emphysema, police said at the time. The daughter had a woolen stocking wrapped around her neck when her body was found.
Atkinson had been dating the home attendant who found the bodies, sources told WPIX. The home attendant was not considered a suspect at the time and was cleared.
Decades later, cold case detectives once again ran DNA found at the crime scene through national databases and determined it was a match to Atkinson.
Atkinson is an ex-convict with 13 prior arrests. He was convicted five times and served time under different aliases, according to state records.
He had been living at a home in Manhattan, New York, where he was arrested Monday. He told police he wasn’t feeling well and was taken to a hospital after his arrest.
Atkinson is charged with two counts of murder and will be arraigned as soon as medically possible. | 2023-01-24T16:49:36+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/man-arrested-in-1994-strangulation-deaths-of-a-nyc-mother-daughter/ |
- Operating the 'Seoul: City of Green Technology and Smart Transportation' Vision Themed Seoul Pavilion at 'CES', next year from January 5thto 8th.
- Biggest scale yet with Seoul Tech Pavilion, KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion joined by over 60 major Korean companies and startups
- First technology exhibition in the main exhibition hall operated by a country (city) and not an enterprise … Raising the stature of Seoul as a tech hub
- KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion composed of 3 partnered institutions and 4 universities… 50 startups selected and given general support
SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Seoul Metropolitan Government will operate a 'Seoul Tech Pavilion' at 'CES (Consumer Electronic Show) 2023', the world's biggest IT expo which will be held for four days next year from January 5th (Thurs) to 8th(Sun).
They will also operate the 'KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion', which will feature over 50 startups, simultaneously for the first time.
CES is the world's biggest tech expo held every January at Las Vegas, US. It is a cutting-edge technology show where major global companies, like Samsung and Google, announce their visions for the company's future and startups from various countries showcase the innovative technology they developed to the global market.
Seoul is a city that was ranked 10th in global startup ecosystems by the Global Ecosystem Report 2022 published by Startup Genome, a global startup ecosystem evaluation institution. It is evaluated as a city possessing outstanding startup infrastructure.
In this upcoming CES, the 'Seoul Tech Pavilion' will be implementing innovative technology related to 'mobility' and 'ESG' at the main exhibition hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC).
This is the first time a pavilion operated by a country (city) will be displayed at the main exhibition hall, which is usually an exhibition space for companies leading the global tech industry, such as Samsung or Microsoft.
As such, the number of attending companies and the space for the exhibition will be expanded. The 'Seoul Tech Pavilion' in the main exhibition hall (LVCC) is 165㎡and will be attended by 12 open innovation startups and major Korean companies. The 'KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion' will be composed of 50 outstanding Korean startups over 473㎡at Eureka Park, the exhibition hall for countries and startups.
As the Seoul Tech Pavilion is a platform to introduce the cutting-edge technology of innovative major companies and startups of Seoul to the global market and propose a vision of Seoul evolving with technology, it will be operated with a Theme Zone "which implements a vision towards the future and experiential elements, and a Tech Zone, which displays the innovative technologies of major companies and startups partnered with.
In particular, a massive 3D screen (7M * 3M) will be installed in the Theme Zone, which will display immersive4D and 3D videos that show the vision for the future of Seoul. UAM, drones, self-driving cars, and eco-friendly technology are proposed using anamorphic technology, along with the future industries of Seoul evolving with technology will be showcased with impact. In addition, through a partnership with Caliverse, an immersive metaverse-based K-Content experience booth will be operated to provide visitors with various sights.
Through CES 2023, the city of Seoul aims to propose the future image of Seoul as a tech hub under the vision of 'Seoul: City of Green Technology and Smart Transportation' and simultaneously support the global expansion of outstanding startups.
The main themes of the Seoul Pavilion in CES 2023, which are 'Mobility' and 'ESG', are key fields for achieving Seoul's policy vision and have been proposed for 'Seoul Vision 2030' as the strategic goals of 'Seoul: City of Green Technology and Smart Transportation'. The city of Seoul is taking active measures, such as establishing a new urban air mobility (UAM) system and preparing measures to implement carbon neutrality (Net Zero).
Accordingly, Seoul Business Agency(SBA), the government-contributed institution of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, SBA plans to showcase the Seoul Tech Pavilion's innovative technology in the fields of 'Mobility and ESG' through open innovation in connection with major companies. An open innovation program (the 6th Seoul Innovation Challenge) will be held with four major Korean companies to jointly discover six startups possessing innovative technology in related fields and support expansion into the global market through technical collaboration, commercialization support, as well as joint CES exhibitions.
The 'Seoul Innovation Challenge' is a project to support the research and development (R&D) of technology in startups possessing innovative technology in new industries. SBA entered partnerships with Lotte Chemical and S-Oil, which are focusing on the eco-friendly energy business, and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and HANCOM InSPACE, which are leaders in the urban air mobility (UAM) business and selected 6 outstanding startups that fit the technical tasks presented by each company.
Earlier, SBA established a system of cooperation with the Seoul Digital Foundation and the Korea Institute of Startup &Entrepreneurship Development under the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, for the composition and operation of the KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion. Through the Seoul City-Ministry of SMEs and Startups Joint Pavilion, which was formed for the first time at CES through the conclusion of a trilateral agreement, the selection of outstanding startups will be expanded to 50 companies, and systematically integrated services will be provided.
The exhibition areas for the outstanding startups selected by the KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion are mobility, bio/healthcare, ESG, manufacturing and data. The Joint Pavilion is expected to draw more attention in Eureka Park with the scale of integration and expansion compared to the previous year.
The selected companies will receive one-stop integrated services, from pre-consulting for CES, on-site exhibition and interpretation, IR presentations, and follow-up management. In particular, consulting training was conducted in order to receive the Innovation Award given to companies possessing innovative technology and aesthetic design at the CES. With this, 17 companies succeeded in winning the CES 2023 Innovation Award.
In addition, SBA signed separate partnerships with the business groups of 4 universities (Kyunghee, Kookmin, Sogang, Chung-ang) and the Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development to give effective support for the exhibition. 50 university student supporters were also selected for close local support for the 50 exhibiting companies in the KOSTARTUP Joint Pavilion.
The selected university students are set to be matched 1:1 with startups in their desired fields and taught about their corresponding companies in advance to improve their understanding of these companies. In addition to preparation for the exhibition and on-site interpretation, these measures are also expected to support the companies' business communication.
Hyunwoo Kim, the CEO of the Seoul Business Agency (SBA), said that "While we plan to propose a future vision of Seoul evolving with technology with the world's biggest IT expo, CES, as the stage, we also plan to actively support the expansion of innovative startups, which lead Seoul's startup ecosystem, into global markets."
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A fully electric version of the Genesis GV70 compact crossover goes on sale shortly as a 2023 model, and on Thursday Genesis announced the price will start at $66,975. A better equipped Prestige grade starts at $73,775. Both figures include an $1,125 destination charge.
The electric GV70, known as the Electrified GV70, was first shown at the 2021 Guangzhou auto show. The U.S. version is built at Hyundai Motor Group’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama, making it the first Genesis vehicle to be built stateside, as well as the first eligible for EV tax credits.
The sole powertrain is a dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup delivering a combined 429 hp, or enough for 0-60 mph acceleration in around 4.5 seconds. There’s also just one battery, a 77.4-kwh unit that on the WLTP cycle used overseas results in a 283-mile range estimate. Expect a lower estimate when measured using the stricter EPA cycle. The battery is also capable of bidirectional charging as standard.
The price is steep for a compact crossover but the Electrified GV70 is well-equipped, even in base form. Standard features include 20-inch wheels, a panoramic sunroof, leather upholstery, heated and cooled front seats, a power tailgate, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless charging for smartphones, and a full suite of safety features including a surround-view camera system and automatic park assist. A 14.5-inch screen serves as the infotainment hub, though the standard instrument cluster sticks with analog gauges flanking an 8.0-inch screen.
Upgrading to the Prestige grade swaps in a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, as well as nappa leather upholstery, a microfiber suede headliner, a head-up display, a heated steering wheel, heated second-row seats, and a Lexicon premium audio system.
The Electrified GV70 is the third Genesis EV to go on sale. The others include the smaller GV60 compact crossover and the Electrified G80 mid-size sedan. The GV60 is priced just below $60,000, while the Electrified G80 starts a little above $80,000. Both are built in South Korea so they miss out on EV tax credits.
Genesis hasn’t said whether it plans to limit availability of the Electrified GV70 to select states, like it does with its other EVs.
Starting from 2025, Genesis will only introduce EVs on its way to having a fully electric lineup by 2030. It’s all part of the automaker’s goal to become carbon neutral across its operations by 2035.
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George leads Clippers over Rockets 109-101 with Leonard out
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON (AP) — Paul George scored 28 points, Marcus Morris added 21 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Houston Rockets 109-101 on Wednesday night.
It was the Clippers’ second win in a row over Houston following a 95-93 victory on Monday that snapped a four-game skid.
“It was a good win for us,” Los Angeles coach Tyronn Lue said. “I knew they were going to come in and play hard. They’re an improved basketball team.”
Los Angeles was without Kawhi Leonard, who did not make the road trip because of stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee. It’s the fifth straight game he’s missed, and his time off will stretch to six games Friday when the team visits San Antonio.
Lue said he doesn’t love how the team has played with Leonard out and that it’s on him to help the players adjust to the forward’s absence. He added that they’ve looked better in the last two games than they did in the first few games Leonard missed.
“Since the two OKC games we have made a good emphasis on attacking,” Lue said. “If we keep playing that way, we can get better.”
Alperen Sengun had 26 points and 13 rebounds and Jalen Green scored 22 points for the Rockets, who have dropped five straight since their only win this season.
The game featured the return of John Wall, who spent the last two seasons in Houston, but sat out all last season with the Rockets unable to find a trade destination for the veteran.
He had a highlight-reel play when he dribbled into the lane and made a behind-the-back pass to Moses Brown, who finished with a dunk for the first points of the fourth quarter.
The Clippers had a seven-point lead before using a 7-2 run, with four points and an assist by George, to make it 105-93 with 3 minutes to go. Reggie Jackson got a steal at the end of that run and found George, who dished to Morris for a 3-pointer that capped the run.
The Rockets scored the next six points, but George made two free throws with about a minute left to make it 107-99.
Neither team could get its offense going in the fourth quarter and they had combined for just seven points when a 3-pointer by Kevin Porter Jr. cut the lead to 90-85 with about eight minutes to go.
The Clippers raced out to a 23-5 lead, but the Rockets soon got going and cut the lead to 56-53 by halftime.
“Spotting them at the first timeout 25 and then you’re climbing back all the way to tie it up and then you’ve got to be borderline perfect after that,” Rockets coach Stephen Silas said. “That’s a tough way to start a game.”
A dunk by rookie Tari Eason got the Rockets within one with about 2 minutes left in the third. But the Clippers scored the last six points of the quarter, with four by Norman Powell, to lead 86-79 entering the fourth.
TIP-INS
Clippers: Leonard, who missed all last season recovering from a torn right ACL, played in two of the team’s first three games before he began having trouble with his knee. It’s unclear if he’ll return when the Clippers host Utah on Sunday.. … Nicolas Batum fouled out with about a minute left.
Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate missed a second straight game with a sore right ankle. … Porter had 22 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. … Houston made just 11 of 38 3-pointers. … Sengun fouled out late in the fourth quarter.
BROWN’S BIG GAME
Lue raved about the play of Brown, who had 13 points and six rebounds off the bench.
“Moses came in and did a great job,” Lue said. “He really won the game for us just with his energy and the way he played.”
UP NEXT
Clippers: Visit the Spurs Friday night.
Rockets: Start a four-game road trip at Minnesota Saturday night.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Black coaches joined Brian Flores on Thursday in his lawsuit alleging racist hiring practices by the NFL toward coaches and general managers.
The updated lawsuit in Manhattan federal court added coaches Steve Wilks and Ray Horton.
Wilks alleges he was discriminated against by the Arizona Cardinals in 2018 and Horton claims he was subjected to discriminatory treatment when he interviewed for the Tennessee Titans head coach position in January 2016.
The rewritten lawsuit from Flores also criticized the NFL for its response to the lawsuit he brought against it and its teams several weeks ago.
In a release from the lawsuit’s attorneys, Wilks said he hoped the lawsuit would help bring racial equality to the league.
“When Coach Flores filed this action, I knew I owed it to myself, and to all Black NFL coaches and aspiring coaches, to stand with him,” he said. “This lawsuit has shed further important light on a problem that we all know exists, but that too few are willing to confront. Black coaches and candidates should have exactly the same ability to become employed, and remain employed, as white coaches and candidates.”
Horton said he was “devastated and humiliated” when he learned that his interview with the Titans was a sham.
“By joining this case, I am hoping to turn that experience into a positive and make lasting change and create true equal opportunity in the future,” he said.
The NFL declined to comment Thursday. Messages sent to the Arizona Cardinals and the Tennessee Titans for comment were not immediately returned.
Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Feb. 1 after he was fired as the Miami Dolphins coach in January after leading the Dolphins to a 24-25 record over three years. They went 9-8 in their second straight winning season, but failed to make the playoffs during his tenure.
He has since been hired as an assistant coach by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner contributed to this story. | 2022-04-07T20:15:24+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/2-more-black-coaches-sue-nfl-alleging-racial-discrimination/ |
Maxine Metzler, 89, formerly of Buhl, died Feb. 1, 2022, at Lincoln Court Assisted Living in Idaho Falls. 2022. An open house will be from 2 to 4 p.m. May 29, 2022, at The Sage Center on 8th in Buhl. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation in Maxine’s name to the Buhl Public Library, 215 Broadway Avenue N, Buhl, ID 83316. Cards and correspondence can be sent to Cindy Monson at 5450 Denning Avenue, Iona ID, 83427.
Alene Barbara Harding, 97 of Providence, Utah, died May 18, 2022, at Cache Valley Assisted Living. Funeral arrangements are under the care of White-Reynolds Funeral Chapel.
Ronald J. Hatfield, 68, of Jerome died May 17, 2022, at a local care facility. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
Carl G. Yager, 48, of Jerome died May 18, 2022, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
Cynthia Sue Braden, 71, a resident of Clayton, Idaho, died Thursday, May 19, 2022 at her daughter’s home in Wendell. Funeral arrangements are pending under the care and direction of Demaray Funeral Service—Wendell Chapel.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An attack by the al-Shabab extremist group on a military facility north of Somalia’s capital on Tuesday killed five soldiers, officials said. Somali troops repelled the assault, killing 21 al-Shabab fighters.
The group has claimed responsibility for the attack at the Hawaadley military facility in Xawaadley village in the Middle Shabelle region, 75 kilometers (about 45 miles) north of Mogadishu.
Somalia’s Chief of Defense Forces Gen. Odawa Yusuf Rage said that the attackers were “repulsed by the brave Somali soldiers who were on high alert.”
A senior military official, Col. Abshir Shataqey, was among those killed in the attack, Rage said.
Abdi Hassan, a soldier who was at the military camp, told The Associated Press that 12 soldiers were wounded. He said that the military had prior intelligence about the attackers, including their vehicle license plates.
Hassan said the morning attack started with a suicide car bombing at the camp’s entrance, and then two other suicide bombs exploded within the camp before a gunbattle ensued.
Somalia’s government is leading what is being described as the most significant offensive against al-Shabab in more than a decade.
The group has over the years held back the nation’s recovery from decades of conflict by carrying out brazen attacks in Mogadishu, and elsewhere. | 2023-01-18T01:23:06+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-5-somali-troops-die-in-attack-21-al-shabab-fighters-killed/ |
Bald eagle sickened by rat poison dies
Published: Mar. 2, 2023 at 10:04 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
BARNSTABLE, Mass. (CNN) – A bald eagle sickened by rat poison has died in Massachusetts, just days after rescuers captured it and tried to nurse it back to health.
The eagle, a female, was named MK.
MK hatched in Waltham in 2016 and had a lot of fans among people who frequented the Mystic River watershed, and some of the visitors noticed she was acting strangely.
A wildlife rescue crew was finally able to capture her Monday, but apparently, it was too late to save her life.
Judging from MK’s symptoms, it appears she ate at least one rodent that had consumed rat poison.
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Anton G. Hajjar re-elected to serve as vice chairman
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During today's meeting of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, Roman Martinez IV was unanimously re-elected by his fellow Governors to continue to serve as chairman of the Board of Governors. The Governors also unanimously re-elected Anton G. Hajjar to continue to serve as vice chairman.
Martinez has served on the Board of Governors since August 2019, following his confirmation by the U.S. Senate to serve the remainder of a seven-year term that expires Dec. 8, 2024. On Jan. 12, 2022, Martinez was elected to serve as the 25th chairman of the Board. Previously, he was elected to serve as vice chairman of the Board on Feb. 9, 2021. He has chaired the Board's Audit and Finance Committee since Oct. 3, 2019 and has served on the Election Mail Committee since Feb. 1, 2022.
Hajjar has served on the Board of Governors since May 2021, following his confirmation by the U.S. Senate to serve the remainder of a seven-year term that expires on Dec. 8, 2023. On Jan. 12, 2022, Hajjar was elected to serve as the Board's vice chairman. He currently serves on the Board's Compensation and Governance and Operations Committees.
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The 2023 Mexico Open At Vidanta Odds & Preview: Stephan Jaeger
The Mexico Open at Vidanta is in progress, and after the second round Stephan Jaeger is in 19th place at -6.
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Stephan Jaeger Insights
- Over his last 16 rounds, Jaeger has shot below par on eight occasions, while also shooting one bogey-free round and 10 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has finished with the best score of the day in one of his last 16 rounds, while scoring among the top five in two rounds and the top 10 on three occasions.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Jaeger has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on seven occasions.
- In his past five events, Jaeger has finished in the top 20 twice.
- He has made the cut in four of his past five appearances.
- In his past five appearances, Jaeger has posted a score better than average in three of them.
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Mexico Open at Vidanta Insights and Stats
- In Jaeger's past two appearances at this event, he has finished among the top 20 all two times, and his average finish has been 17th.
- Jaeger made the cut in each of his last two attempts at this event.
- Jaeger finished 19th on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- The par-71 course measures 7,456 yards this week, 161 yards longer than the average Tour stop during the past 12 months.
- The courses that Jaeger has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,247 yards, while Vidanta Vallarta will be 7,456 yards this week.
Jaeger's Last Time Out
- Jaeger was above average on the eight par-3 holes at the RBC Heritage, averaging 2.88 strokes to finish in the 80th percentile of competitors.
- He averaged 4.09 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 22) at the RBC Heritage, which placed him in the 22nd percentile among all competitors.
- Jaeger shot better than only 1% of the competitors at the RBC Heritage on the tournament's six par-5 holes, averaging 5.17 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.63.
- Jaeger recorded a birdie or better on two of eight par-3s at the RBC Heritage, better than the field average of 1.5.
- On the eight par-3s at the RBC Heritage, Jaeger had one bogey or worse (the other golfers averaged 2.0).
- Jaeger had fewer birdies or better (three) than the tournament average of 6.2 on the 22 par-4s at the RBC Heritage.
- At that most recent competition, Jaeger's performance on the 22 par-4s included a bogey or worse five times (the field's average was worse, at 5.1).
- Jaeger ended the RBC Heritage carding a birdie or better on one par-5 hole, while the field averaged 3.8 on the six par-5s.
- On the six par-5s at the RBC Heritage, Jaeger had more bogeys or worse (two) than the field average (0.7).
Mexico Open at Vidanta Time and Date Info
- Date: April 27-30, 2023
- Course: Vidanta Vallarta
- Location: Vallarta, Mexico
- Par: 71 / 7,456 yards
- Jaeger Odds to Win: +9000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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COLUMBUS, Miss., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BankFirst Capital Corporation (OTCQX: BFCC) ("BankFirst" or the "Company"), parent company of BankFirst Financial Services, Macon, Mississippi (the "Bank"), reported net income of $6.2 million, or $1.15 per share, for the second quarter of 2023, compared to net income of $7.1 million, or $1.33 per share, for the first quarter of 2023, and compared to net income of $6.1 million, or $1.14 per share, for the second quarter of 2022.
Second Quarter 2023 Highlights:
- Net income totaled $6.2 million, or $1.15 per share, in the second quarter of 2023 compared to $6.1 million, or $1.14 per share, in the second quarter of 2022.
- Net interest income increased 50% to $22.7 million in the second quarter of 2023 from $15.1 million in the second quarter of 2022.
- Total assets increased 22% to $2.7 billion at June 30, 2023 from $2.2 billion at June 30, 2022.
- Total loans increased 42% to $1.7 billion at June 30, 2023 from $1.2 billion at June 30, 2022.
- Total deposits increased 25% to $2.2 billion at June 30, 2023 from $1.8 billion at June 30, 2022.
- Available liquidity sources totaled approximately $1.1 billion as of June 30, 2023.
- There were no brokered deposits as of June 30, 2023.
- Federal funds purchased totaled $3.3 million as of June 30, 2023.
- Nonperforming assets, excluding restructured loans, improved to 0.44% of total assets at June 30, 2023 from 0.58% June 30, 2022.
Recent Developments
On April 10, 2023, the Bank and Mechanics Bank were each named a recipient of a grant award under the Community Development Financial Institution ("CDFI") Equitable Recovery Program (the "ERP"). The Bank was awarded $6.2 million and Mechanics Bank was awarded $4.9 million, which will be received by the Bank as the successor entity in the Bank's acquisition of Mechanics Bank on January 1, 2023. The ERP grants may be received in the third quarter of 2023 and may be used to support lending to small businesses and microenterprises, community facilities, affordable housing, commercial real estate and intermediary lending to non-profits and CDFIs, as well as used for financial services, development services to support borrowers, and operational support.
The Bank is currently preparing for an upcoming conversion of its core data processing system where the Bank will convert from Jack Henry CIF 20/20 to Jack Henry SilverLake. This core conversion is scheduled to occur over the weekend of August 11, 2023 through August 12, 2023 and should be completed prior to the start of business on August 14, 2023.
CEO Commentary
Moak Griffin, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the Bank, stated, "We are pleased to report another strong quarter of earnings, particularly in light of the uncertainty and headwinds in the current environment. We are proud of our consistent results during the ongoing period of rising market interest rates, persistent inflation in the U.S., and a more challenging overall economy. Despite these challenges, our credit quality remains solid and our liquidity and capital positions are strong."
Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Total assets were $2.7 billion at June 30, 2023, compared to $2.7 billion at March 31, 2023 and $2.2 billion at June 30, 2022, an increase of 22% from the prior year. The increase in total assets since June 30, 2022 was primarily due to organic loan and deposit growth during the period, our acquisition of Tate Financial Corporation and Sycamore Bank effective on October 1, 2022, and our acquisition of Mechanics and Mechanics Bank effective on January 1, 2023. Total loans outstanding, net of the allowance for credit losses, as of June 30, 2023 totaled $1.7 billion, compared to $1.7 billion as of March 31, 2023 and $1.2 billion as of June 30, 2022, an increase 42% from the prior year.
Total deposits as of June 30, 2023 were $2.2 billion, compared to $2.3 billion as of March 31, 2023 and $1.8 billion as of June 30, 2022, an increase of 25% from the prior year. Non-interest-bearing deposits decreased to $592.7 million as of June 30, 2023, compared to $618.2 million as of March 31, 2023, a decrease of 4%, and compared to $541.5 million as of June 30, 2022, an increase of 9%. Non-interest-bearing deposits represented 27% of total deposits as of June 30, 2023. While the Bank has seen a decrease in non-interest-bearing deposits since the beginning of 2023, management believes the average balance has been steady over the past 60 days. The Company's consolidated cost of funds as of June 30, 2023 was 1.03%, compared to 0.69% as of March 31, 2023 and 0.34% as of June 30, 2022. The increase in the Company's consolidated cost of funds during the second quarter of 2023 compared to the prior periods was primarily due to the overall increase in market interest rates for deposits across the Bank's market areas and competition from bank and non-bank alternatives. Bank-only cost of funds as of June 30, 2023 was 0.79%, compared to 0.50% as of March 31, 2023 and 0.20% as of June 30, 2022.
The ratio of loans to deposits was 78% as of June 30, 2023, compared to 77% as of March 31, 2023 and 69% as of June 30, 2022.
Net interest income was $22.7 million for the second quarter of 2023, compared to $23.5 million for the first quarter of 2023, a decrease of 3%, and compared to $15.1 million for the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 50%. Net interest margin was 3.82% in the second quarter of 2023, a decrease from 4.20% in the first quarter of 2023 and an increase from 3.60% in the second quarter of 2022. Yield on earning assets was 4.83% during the second quarter of 2023, compared to 4.63% during the first quarter of 2023 and 3.81% during the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 20 basis points and an increase of 102 basis points, respectively.
Noninterest income was $6.1 million for the second quarter of 2023, compared to $5.5 million for the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 12%, and compared to $5.0 million for the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 24%. Mortgage banking revenue was $739 thousand in the second quarter of 2023, an increase of $187 thousand from $552 thousand in the first quarter of 2023, or 34%, and a decrease of $1 thousand from $740 thousand in the second quarter of 2022, or 0.14%. The increase in mortgage banking revenue during the second quarter of 2023 compared to the first quarter of 2023 was primarily due to increased demand in the residential mortgage market as a result of seasonality. During the second quarter of 2023, the Bank retained $1.8 million of the $31.9 million in secondary market mortgages originated to hold in-house, compared to $36.9 million secondary market loans originated during the second quarter of 2022, of which $2.9 million were held in-house.
Noninterest expense was $20.5 million for the second quarter of 2023, compared to $19.5 million for the first quarter of 2023 and $11.9 million for the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 5% and 72%, respectively. While non-interest expense has increased over the respective periods, a portion is attributable to one-time expenses related to the Bank's forthcoming core conversion and recent acquisitions. Core conversion expenses were $323 thousand for the second quarter of 2023 compared to $154 thousand for the first quarter of 2023. Acquisition-related expenses were $173 thousand for the second quarter of 2023 compared to $289 thousand for the first quarter of 2023.
As of June 30, 2023, tangible book value per share was $16.78. According to OTCQX, there were 536 trades of the Company's shares of common stock during the second quarter of 2023 for a total of 116,582 shares and for a total price of $4,337,482. The closing price of the Company's common stock quoted on OTCQX on June 30, 2023 was $35.50 per share. Based on this closing share price, the Company's market capitalization was $191.5 million as of June 30, 2023.
Credit Quality
The Company recorded a provision for credit losses of $375 thousand during the second quarter of 2023, compared to $375 thousand for the first quarter of 2023 and $150 thousand for the second quarter of 2022. While the provision for credit losses in the second quarter 2023 was consistent with the provision for credit losses in the first quarter of 2023 to adequately fund the reserve due to organic growth in the Company's loan portfolio, the Company continues to closely monitor the increasing economic uncertainty, especially in the commercial real estate market.
Net loan charge-offs in the second quarter of 2023 were $333 thousand, compared to net loan charge-offs of $168 thousand in the first quarter of 2023 and $2.1 million in the second quarter of 2022. Non-performing assets, excluding restructured loans, to total assets were 0.44% for the second quarter of 2023, a decrease of 3 basis points compared to 0.47% for the first quarter of 2023, and a decrease of 14 basis points compared to 0.58% for the second quarter of 2022. Annualized net charge-offs to average loans for the second quarter of 2023 were 0.02%, compared to annualized net charge-offs of 0.01% and 0.17% for the first quarter of 2023 and the second quarter of 2022, respectively.
As of June 30, 2023, the allowance for credit losses equaled $23.2 million, compared to $23.2 million as of March 31, 2023 and $13.9 million as of June 30, 2022. Allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total loans was 1.33% at June 30, 2023, compared to 1.35% at March 31, 2023 and 1.13% at June 30, 2022. Allowance for credit losses as a percentage of nonperforming loans was 200.0% at June 30, 2023, compared to 184.0% at March 31, 2023 and 110.6% at June 30, 2022.
The Company continues to closely monitor credit quality in light of the recent events in the banking industry, including the recent bank failures, and a continued worsening of forecasted economic conditions due to the rising interest rate environment and persistent high inflation levels in the United States and our market areas. Accordingly, additional provisions for credit losses may be necessary in future periods.
Liquidity and Capital Position
Recent events in other parts of the banking industry have brought additional focus on investment securities portfolios, interest rate risk, liquidity management and capital. As a result, we are providing additional information on our liquidity and capital position at June 30, 2023 to help illustrate the more traditional and stable nature of our banking model compared to other financial institutions who have recently experienced liquidity and capital challenges.
Liquidity – We have a limited reliance on wholesale funding. We currently have no brokered deposits and currently have the capacity to borrow up to approximately $823.6 million from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, $15.2 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ("FRB") Discount Window and an estimated additional $55.0 million in funding through several relationships with correspondent banks. We have not applied for the Bank Term Funding Program ("BTFP") of the FRB, but management continues to consider establishing an account with the FRB under the BTFP to further expand and diversify our funding capacity.
Capital – The Company and the Bank have opted into the Community Bank Leverage Ratio ("CBLR") framework and, at June 30, 2023, the Company's consolidated leverage ratio amounted to 11.92% and the Bank's bank-only leverage ratio amounted to 9.95%. These levels exceeded the minimum regulatory levels necessary to be deemed "well-capitalized" under the CBLR framework. Included in shareholders' equity at June 30, 2023 was an unrealized loss in accumulated other comprehensive income of $14.1 million related to the unrealized loss in the Company's investment securities portfolio primarily due to the significant increases in market interest rates since March 2022. The composition of the Bank's investment securities portfolio includes $276.9 million, or 45.04%, classified as available-for-sale while $337.9 million, or 54.96%, of the Bank's investment securities portfolio is classified as held to maturity, at June 30, 2023. All investments in our investment securities portfolio are expected to mature at par value.
Our investment securities portfolio made up 23.11% of our total assets at June 30, 2023 compared to 23.72% and 27.33% at March 31, 2023 and June 30, 2022, respectively.
ABOUT BANKFIRST CAPITAL CORPORATION
BankFirst Capital Corporation (OTCQX: BFCC) is a registered bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Mississippi with approximately $2.7 billion in total assets as of June 30, 2023. BankFirst Financial Services, the Company's wholly-owned banking subsidiary, was founded in 1888 and is locally owned, controlled, and operated. The Bank is headquartered in Macon, Mississippi, and operates additional branch offices in Coldwater, Columbus, Flowood, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Independence, Jackson, Louin, Madison, Newton, Oxford, Senatobia, Southaven, Starkville, Tupelo, Water Valley, and West Point, Mississippi; and Addison, Aliceville, Arley, Bear Creek, Carrollton, Curry, Double Springs, Fayette, Gordo, Haleyville, Northport, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Bank also operates three loan production offices in Biloxi and Brookhaven, Mississippi, and in Birmingham, Alabama. BankFirst offers a wide variety of services for businesses and consumers. The Bank also offers internet banking, no-fee ATM access, checking, CD, and money market accounts, merchant services, mortgage loans, remote deposit capture, and more. For more information, visit www.BankFirstfs.com.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This press release contains, among other things, certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, without limitation, statements regarding certain of the Company's goals and expectations with respect to future events that are subject to various risks and uncertainties, and statements preceded by, followed by, or that include the words "may," "will," "could," "should," "expect," "plan," "project," "intend," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "pursuant," "target," "continue," and similar expressions. These statements are based upon the current belief and expectations of the Company's management team and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on various factors (many of which are beyond the Company's control). Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's projections, forecasts, estimates and expectations include, but are not limited to: adverse changes in the overall national economy as well as adverse economic conditions in our specific market areas, potential recession in the United States and our market areas, the impacts related to or resulting from recent bank failures and any continuation of the recent uncertainty in the banking industry, including the associated impact to the Company and other financial institutions of any regulatory changes or other mitigation efforts taken by government agencies in response thereto, increased competition for deposits and related changes in deposit customer behavior, fluctuations in market rates of interest and loan and deposit pricing, the persistence of the inflationary environment in the United States and our market areas, the uncertain impacts of ongoing quantitative tightening and current and future monetary policies of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, effects of declines in housing prices in the United States and our market areas, increases in unemployment rates in the United States and our market areas, declines in commercial real estate prices, uncertainty regarding United States fiscal debt and budget matters, severe weather, natural disasters, acts of war or terrorism or other external events, regulatory considerations, our ability to recognize the expected benefits and synergies of our completed acquisitions, our ability to successfully complete the upcoming conversion of the Bank's core data processing systems, our ability to successfully complete the conversion of the core data processing systems of Mechanics Bank into the core data processing system of the Bank, the maintenance and development of well-established and valued client relationships and referral source relationships, acquisition or loss of key production personnel, changes in tax laws, and current or future litigation, regulatory examinations or other legal and/or regulatory actions. These forward-looking statements are based on current information and/or management's good faith belief as to future events. Although the Company believes that the assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Therefore, the Company can give no assurance that the results contemplated in the forward-looking statements will be realized. Due to these and other possible uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. The inclusion of this forward-looking information should not be construed as a representation by the Company or any person that the future events, plans or expectations contemplated by the Company will be achieved. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements above. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release. The Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events that occur after the date the forward-looking statements are made, except as required by law. All forward-looking statements, express or implied, included in the press release are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
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The Company maintains an Internet web site at www.BankFirstfs.com/about/investor-relations. The Company makes available, free of charge, on its web site the Company's annual reports, quarterly earnings reports, and other press releases. In addition, the OTC Markets Group maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding the Company (at www.otcmarkets.com/stock/BFCC/overview).
The Company routinely posts important information for investors on its web site (under www.BankFirstfs.com and, more specifically, under the Investor Relations tab at www.BankFirstfs.com/about/investor-relations). The Company intends to use its web site as a means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under the OTC Markets Group OTCQX Rules for U.S. Banks. Accordingly, investors should monitor the Company's web site, in addition to following the Company's press releases, OTC filings, public conference calls, presentations and webcasts.
The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, the Company's web site is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this press release.
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BENSALEM, Pa., May 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Embark Technology, Inc. f/k/a Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II ("Embark" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: EMBK).
Class Period: January 12, 2021 – January 5, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: May 31, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Embark investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) the Company had performed inadequate due diligence into Legacy Embark; (2) Legacy Embark and the Company following the Business Combination held no patents and an insignificant amount of test trucks; (3) accordingly, the Company had overstated its operational and technological capabilities; (4) as a result of all the foregoing, the Company had overstated the business and financial prospects of the Company post-Business Combination; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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Today’s Birthday (04/24/23). Grow in mind, body and spirit this year. Reliable social connections deepen shared support systems. Springtime planning and preparation wins big prizes. Navigating summer transitions in partnership energizes autumn fitness and health. Abandon limitations for new personal possibilities next winter. Private contemplation reveals valuable ideas.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Capture creative ideas onto paper, film and files. Disciplined efforts produce satisfying results. Refine messaging with family and friends. Discuss love, romance, passion and beauty. | 2023-04-22T04:18:53+00:00 | cadillacnews.com | https://www.cadillacnews.com/horoscopes/article_4fb8d82e-e067-11ed-9077-07ce7d1c2fb8.html |
Dream vs. Sun: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - June 15
Published: Jun. 15, 2023 at 11:36 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
The Connecticut Sun (8-2) go head to head with the Atlanta Dream (3-5) at 7:00 PM ET on Thursday, June 15, 2023. The matchup airs on Prime Video, NBCS-BOS, and BSSO.
In this article, you can take a look at the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Dream vs. Sun matchup.
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Dream vs. Sun Game Info
- Game Day: Thursday, June 15, 2023
- Game Time: 7:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: Prime Video, NBCS-BOS, and BSSO
- Location: Uncasville, Connecticut
- Arena: Mohegan Sun Arena
Dream vs. Sun Odds, Spread, Over/Under
See the odds, spread and over/under for this WNBA matchup listed on individual sportsbooks.
Dream vs. Sun Betting Trends
- The Sun have won four games against the spread this season, while failing to cover five times.
- The Dream have covered four times in games with a spread this year.
- Connecticut has covered the spread once this season (1-2 ATS) when playing as at least 7.5-point favorites.
- Atlanta has been an underdog by 7.5 points or more two times this year, and covered the spread both times.
- The Sun and their opponents have combined to hit the over six out of times this season.
- Dream games have hit the over four out of times this season.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks’ three-month search for a general manager ended with a barrier-breaking hire as the team made longtime NHL forward Mike Grier the first Black GM in league history.
“It means a lot to me,” Grier said at his introductory news conference Tuesday. “It’s not something I take lightly. I realize there’s a responsibility that comes with the territory. But I’m up for it. How I carry myself and how this organization carries himself, I think we’ll do well and hopefully we’ll leave a footprint and open some doors for people to follow.”
Grier fills the spot that opened when Doug Wilson stepped away for health reasons on April 7. Wilson had taken a leave of absence in November with Joe Will serving in the interim role since then.
Team President Jonathan Becher said Grier emerged from a pool of dozens of candidates because of his experience as a player, scout, coach and executive over the last few decades and his commitment to building a winning culture in San Jose.
But he acknowledged the history-making nature of the hire as well.
“I hope you do serve as an inspiration to lots of people and that I hope you’re the first and certainly not the last,” Becher told Grier.
Grier spent three of his 14 seasons in the NHL with the Sharks from 2006-09. He retired in 2011 after playing 1,060 career games, and has spent time as a scout in Chicago, an assistant coach in New Jersey and most recently the hockey operations advisor for the New York Rangers, where he was given many of the responsibilities of an assistant general manager.
The hire comes less than a week after Will announced that head coach Bob Boughner and three of his assistants wouldn’t return next season. Will said he made the move two months after the season ended to give the new general manager a clean slate.
Grier has a tough task in San Jose in trying to rebuild a team that has missed the playoffs for three straight seasons for the first time in franchise history.
Grier will have to get to work quickly, dealing with the draft Thursday and Friday, the start of free agency next week and the need to hire a coaching staff and build up the front office.
Grier said the draft and free agency are the immediate priorities as well as trying to create more salary cap flexibility if possible before he turns to the coaching search.
“I just think that’s a challenge to try to get everything in order as quickly as possible, but still doing it the right way and being thorough,” he said. “It’s all a challenge but everything I’m looking forward to.”
Grier said he’s not interested in tearing the team down and doing a complete rebuild but acknowledged taking one step back to move forward may be necessary.
San Jose has many high-priced veterans on the roster and could look to either trade defensemen Brent Burns or Erik Karlsson or buy out defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic to create more flexibility.
“It’s definitely a balance,” Grier said. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself and be the kid in a candy store and be like ‘I can go get this. I can go get that.’ We’ve got to stay patient and stick with the vision that we believe in and not rush things. I think we’ll set a path and stay the course and not rush anything and get ahead of ourselves and end up digging a hole that we can’t get out of in the future.”
Grier comes from a family of successful sports executives. His brother, Chris, serves as general manager of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, and his father, Bobby, served as a longtime coach and front office executive for the New England Patriots and Houston Texans.
Grier said he’s been preparing for this new role since he was about 10 years old in discussions he had with his brother and father.
“Growing up we talked about the challenges of building rosters and things like that at dinner,” he said. “I would want to talk football, they would want to talk hockey. I lean on them a lot. They get a different perspective because of the sports, but I definitely lean on them a lot and trust their input.”
The NHL has been stressing diversity with several women also getting opportunities in front office positions and on coaching staffs.
The Arizona Coyotes announced Tuesday that Kelsey Koelzer and Kori Cheverie will serve as coaches under head coach André Tourigny during the team’s development program next week.
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LOS ANGELES, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixty-six percent of Americans believe the worst part of the shopping experience is going through the return process, according to a survey commissioned by Slickdeals, the only shopping platform powered by millions of avid shoppers.
The survey of 2,000 U.S. adults, commissioned by Slickdeals and conducted by OnePoll, found that 67% hate returning items they previously purchased, and two in three claim it's the worst part of the entire shopping experience.
Over half (58%) revealed they would be willing to do "nearly anything" to avoid returning the items they bought.
For 43%, returning things in person is worse than doing so online. The most hated parts of in-person returns are having the person in front of them escalate the situation (39%), getting managers involved in their returns (32%) and having to travel to the store (32%).
Meanwhile, 29% think returning items online is more difficult. The most hated parts of online returns are paying for shipping (42%), having the item lost or not arrive at its destination (39%) and traveling to the post office (37%).
Fifty-two percent have changed their shopping habits so they don't have to deal with the return process at all.
The study also revealed the top products respondents believe should be returned and those that are not worth the return hassle. Phones (38%), clothing (38%) and TVs (37%) are the top items worth returning. However, shoppers ranked intimates (25%), groceries (25%) and clothing accessories (24%) as items that are not worth returning.
If they plan on returning an item, 48% of respondents said they don't put it back in its original packaging.
The worst items to put back into their original packaging are computers (35%), TVs (29%), home improvement products (27%), headphones (27%) and furniture (26%).
"Inevitably we all make purchases that don't work out for us. Luckily, many retailers have improved return policies to create a more pleasant return experience," said Louie Patterson, personal finance manager for Slickdeals. "Shoppers can do their part by understanding return policies before they buy. Always check return shipping cost, any restocking fees and return windows before you buy."
Results also found that people would rather give things they bought away (50%), keep them as a backup (36%) or resell them (29%), instead of returning them.
If they end up returning items, 46% of respondents said they prefer having a cash back option or a complete refund. Fifty-six percent also said they'd prefer returning to the store they bought an item from instead of going to a different location.
The average person also claimed many return policies are too short — and that they should ideally be 30 days long.
"A good way to mitigate the need for returns, particularly on those larger products like TVs and electronics, is to do your research ahead of time. Our community of shoppers helping shoppers is a great way to discover the products that will best suit your needs and at the best prices," Patterson added.
TOP 5 ITEMS ALWAYS WORTH RETURNING
Phones - 38%
Clothing - 38%
TVs - 37%
Computers - 37%
Clothing accessories - 31%
TOP 5 ITEMS NEVER WORTH RETURNING
Intimates - 25%
Groceries - 25%
Clothing accessories - 24%
Beverages - 23%
Phones - 22%
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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament on Thursday after an opposition lawmaker threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti while he was speaking about government measures to defuse tensions with ethnic Serbs in the country’s north.
Kosovo opposition parties have criticized Kurti’s policies in the north that have strained relations with key Western allies.
The United States and the European Union have pressured Kurti to help calm the situation after violence broke out in May after police-backed ethnic Albanian mayors took office following an election that the ethnic Serb majority in the area had widely boycotted.
Dozens of people were injured in clashes between local Serbs and Kosovo police and NATO-led peacekeepers, fueling fears of a conflict similar to the one in 1998-99 that killed more than 10,000 people.
On Wednesday, Kurti announced he would reduce the number of special police officers stationed outside four municipal buildings in ethnic Serb-majority areas in northern Kosovo, and hold new mayoral elections in each of the towns.
A number of special police forces has withdrawn from the municipal buildings. The move angered the opposition, who argued that Kurti “experimented” for months and jeopardized Kosovo’s international position only to back down later.
Lawmaker Mergim Lushtaku from the Democratic Party of Kosovo approached Kurti while he was speaking and threw water at him, triggering the brawl. Earlier, Kurti’s deputy Besnik Beslimi had torn up a drawing mocking Kurti that the opposition had given the prime minister.
Local media said Kurti was escorted out of the assembly hall during the chaos.
Kurti has said he was applying law and order in northern Kosovo with the deployment of police and new ethnic Albanian mayors. The U.S. and the EU had urged him to keep the mayors in different locations away from the north until the situation is resolved.
When the parliament session resumed after four hours, the opposition prevented governing lawmakers from taking the floor and held up mocking posters of Kurti and another lawmaker. Another brief scuffling followed, quickly halted by security guards.
Kosovo’s parliament sessions have often been disrupted. When Kurti’s Self-Determination Movement party was in the opposition, its lawmakers used tear gas and other violent acts to disrupt sessions about a border deal with Montenegro and an association for the ethnic Serb-dominated areas.
Kosovo is a former province in Serbia whose 2008 declaration of independence Belgrade does not recognize. Most ethnic Serbs in Kosovo also have refused to acknowledge Kosovo’s statehood, which is backed by the U.S. and most EU nations but not Russia and China.
Serbia had heightened army combat readiness and threatened a military intervention in response to tensions in the north, which borders Serbia. Belgrade pulled out of Kosovo in 1999 after NATO bombed the country to stop the onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists.
The EU has told both countries they must reach a solution to their dispute through an EU-mediated dialogue in order to join the bloc.
Western officials have stepped up efforts to bring the two sides closer together, fearing further instability in Europe as the war continues in Ukraine. NATO has sent additional troops to its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo to boost security.
U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Jeff Hovenier said “violence is never an acceptable means to express disagreement” and urged Kosovar lawmakers to resolve their differences “through discourse — a fundamental purpose of any democracy’s legislature.” | 2023-07-14T20:45:51+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national/ap-international/ap-brawl-erupts-in-kosovos-parliament-during-prime-ministers-speech-on-defusing-tensions-with-serbs/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Friday started requiring COVID-19 tests for all passengers arriving from China as an emergency measure against surging infections there as the Asian island country faces its own rising case numbers and record-level deaths.
Japan reported a record 420 new coronavirus deaths on Thursday, one day after reaching an earlier single-day record of 415 deaths, according to the Health Ministry.
The numbers are higher than the daily deaths at the peak of an earlier wave in August, when they exceeded 300. Experts say the reason for the latest increase is unclear but could be linked to worsening chronic illnesses among older patients.
Japan on Friday put into effect tightened border measures it announced earlier in the week: The antigen test that was already conducted on entrants suspected of having COVID-19 is now mandatory for all people arriving from mainland China. Those who test positive will be quarantined for up to seven days at designated facilities and their samples will be used for genome analysis.
The measures began ahead of the New Year’s holidays marked by travel and parties. Direct flights between China and Japan will be limited to four major Japanese airports for now, government officials said.
Flights from Hong Kong and Macao will be allowed to land at three other airports — New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, Naha Airport in Okinawa and Fukuoka Airport — provided there are no passengers who have been to mainland China within seven days prior to the flight.
Hong Kong authorities called the restrictions “unreasonable” and requested Japanese authorities to withdraw them. Prior to adding the three airports for flights from Hong Kong and Macao, authorities said that 60,000 travelers and some 250 flights would be affected between December and January.
Hong Kong tour operators are scrambling to rearrange flights for their customers to minimize losses. Steve Huen Kwok-chuen, executive director of travel agency EGL Tours, said his company was forced to cancel some tours after Japan initially decided to limit flights from Hong Kong to land at just four Japanese airports. After Thursday’s policy change, his staffers tried to call the customers who were in the canceled tours back but could not get all of them back.
About 500 customers who had planned a trip to Japan between late December and early January were lost, Huen said.
“After enduring for three years, we thought there would be some silver lining,” he said. “But the restrictions made us suffer some business losses.”
Japan earlier this year stopped requiring COVID-19 tests for entrants who had at least three shots — part of the country’s careful easing of measures after virtually closing its borders to foreign tourists for about two years. This year’s holiday season is the first without virus restrictions other than recommendations for mask wearing and testing.
The country is now reporting about 200,000 known daily cases.
At a meeting earlier this week, experts cautioned that the rapid spread of influenza this winter also has the potential to add pressure to medical systems.
China recently reversed its anti-virus controls that kept the country in isolation for nearly three years and announced this week plans to reissue passports and visas for overseas trips. This could send many Chinese abroad for the Lunar New Year holiday in January, raising concerns about possible virus spread.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Friday said China continues to monitor the virus mutations and share information, and stressed the importance of science-based approach.
“We hope Japan can view China’s COVID situation and adjustment to our response policy in a correct and objective manner and take science-based and proportionate measures to ensure normal cross-border exchange between the two peoples,” he said.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said the body needs more information on the severity of the outbreak in China.
“In the absence of comprehensive information from China, it is understandable that countries around the world are acting in ways that they believe may protect their populations,” he said Friday on Twitter. “In order to make a comprehensive risk assessment of the COVID-19 situation on the ground in China, WHO needs more detailed information.”
India, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan have also responded to the Chinese wave of infections by requiring virus tests for visitors from China. The United States said Wednesday it would require testing of all travelers from China beginning Jan. 5.
South Korea on Friday announced that it will also require travelers from China to show negative PCR test results within 48 hours or rapid antigen tests within 24 hours of their departures, beginning Jan. 5.
Effective Monday, all visitors from China will also be required to take PCR tests within a day of arriving in South Korea, said Jee Youngmee, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. South Korea will also restrict the number of flights from China and restrict short-term visas for Chinese nationals, except for those visiting for diplomatic, essential business or humanitarian reasons, at least until the end of February.
Thailand authorities said they were considering requiring a negative virus test and other restrictions on travelers from China.
China had stopped issuing visas to foreigners and passports to its own people at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.
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Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Kanis Leung and Zen Soo in Hong Kong contributed to this report. | 2022-12-30T13:32:00+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/health/ap-japan-tests-all-china-arrivals-for-covid-amid-surging-cases/ |
Black Americans' housing wealth has made strides, but remains well below that of the typical U.S. household
- The gap between the value of the typical Black-owned home and the typical U.S. home is the smallest it's been in the past two decades.
- The typical Black-owned home is worth 14.8% less than the typical home overall.
- Among Black homeowners, Black women saw the largest recent increase in homeownership rates.
SEATTLE, Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Homes owned by Black families appreciated more than any others since the start of the pandemic, with the typical Black homeowner gaining nearly $84,000 in equity. Black Americans also made slight gains in homeownership rates, despite disproportionate job and income loss.
The gap between the typical Black-owned home's value and the value of the typical U.S. home is now the smallest it's been in more than two decades, according to a new analysis of data from Zillow and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.
"These gains are extremely important in terms of increasing wealth among the Black community, as homeowners of color are more likely to have the bulk of their household wealth tied up in their homes," said Nicole Bachaud, senior economist at Zillow. "Due to years of redlining and other forms of systemic discrimination, housing disparities between Black and white families persist. Policies and interventions like expanding access to credit, building more affordable homes and finding new approaches to mitigate appraisal bias are keys to achieving housing equity."
From February 2020 to January 2023,1 Black homeowners saw their home values increase 42.5%, compared to 38.5% for U.S. home values overall, and 37.8% for white-owned home values. Hispanic- and Asian-owned home values increased by 38.3% and 37%, respectively.
Home value appreciation among Black homeowners has outpaced all other races since 2014, and that trend accelerated at the start of the pandemic, further shrinking the home value gap. In February 2020, the typical Black-owned home was worth 17.3% less than the typical home overall. By January 2023, that gap closed to 14.8%, which is the closest Black-owned home values have been to overall values since at least the year 2000.
Among the 50 largest metros in the country, that home value gap has shrunk the most in Detroit — by 9 percentage points — since February 2020. Kansas City, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Louisville, among other markets, also saw large improvements, with the gap closing by more than 5 percentage points in that time.
Homeownership
In 2021, the latest available data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 44% of Black households owned their homes, compared with 73.3% of white households — a gap of more than 29 points.
According to the most recent U.S Census Bureau data, Black homeownership increased 2 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, compared to 1.3% for the nation at large. Black women ages 45–54 and 75 and older saw the largest increase among Black homeowners during the pandemic, with 2.9 percentage points of growth. Black men ages 35–44 saw a 2.5 percentage-point jump in homeownership rate over that period, the second-largest increase in the group.
Still, for many Black Americans, barriers to accessing homeownership abound. Many markets with the highest appreciation in Black home values also have the highest mortgage denial rates for Black applicants, meaning the markets where Black homeowners have the best chance of improving their household wealth and gaining equity with homeowners overall are markets where it's most difficult for Black mortgage applicants to actually become homeowners.
Pandemic-era Changes in Black Americans' Housing Wealth
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1 Based on the Zillow Home Value Index
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Qua Grant had 18 points and Sam Houston beat Arlington Baptist 107-26 on Tuesday night.
Grant added five rebounds and three steals for the Bearkats (10-2). Lamar Wilkerson shot 6 for 8, including 4 for 6 from beyond the arc to add 16 points. Ronald Mitchell Jr. shot 4 for 7 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points.
Chad Jackson led the Patriots in scoring, finishing with eight points and two steals. Arlington Baptist also got seven points from Da’vione Stafford. Daylen Minor also recorded five points.
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'The conduct of the Defendants shocks the conscience of a decent society'.
BUCKSPORT, Maine, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Asad Khaqan, owner of the former Fountain Inn (a.k.a Spring Fountain Motel) located on Route 1 in Bucksport, Maine, today announced that he has filed a federal lawsuit against the Town of Bucksport and its representatives. The complaint, setting forth numerous violations of Khaqan's civil, equal protection, and due process rights, as well as intentional interference with contractual relations and harassment, was filed on April 7 in the U.S. District Court in Bangor.
Khaqan, a hospitality entrepreneur known for his work with nonprofits, purchased the property on March 30, 2018. As the lawsuit alleges, things took a negative turn shortly after Khaqan took over the business. Bucksport's current CEO, Luke Chiavelli, acting on behalf of the town, embarked on what Khaqan describes as an aggressive campaign to shut down the former establishment.
"The code enforcement officer demonstrated a refusal to work with us," says Khaqan. "He aggressively pursued inspections and alleged violations, most of which were cosmetic or small electrical or plumbing issues, while failing to even follow up on inspections of similar businesses operating in Bucksport. He also presented photos to the town council which failed to display the numerous remedial measures that were carried out and made false statements of alleged progress at the property despite having been in touch with our contractor."
Khaqan alleges the town took issue with the cultural background of his property managers and let a couple of racially driven incidents slide without any formal investigation. As outlined in the lawsuit, the situation escalated when a number of families who could not afford traditional housing sought long-term refuge at the former establishment. The town denied Khaqan a permanent license to operate as a commercial motel but made every move to push the tenants out. In one alleged instance, the CEO intervened and had some state-funded rental payments stopped. When some occupants became problematic, the town hid behind the absence of an innkeeper's license and refused police assistance, leaving the property and staff vulnerable and deeming problems as justifiable cause for shutting the property down.
"Various members of our staff expressed that they felt unsafe around some of the occupants and intimidated by town officials," says Khaqan. "They were scared to check on rooms and perform basic cleaning services. Some of the rooms were repeatedly vandalized by occupants. In several incidents, occupants called the town and reported the self-inflicted damages as unaddressed repairs. They removed smoke detectors and refused to let our contractors enter their living spaces to fix the damages, giving the CEO yet another way to assess violations. This spread via word-of-mouth to other problematic occupants, who were looking for a way to live rent free. Staff would call the local police department for help and the CEO would show up with his camera. It became a vicious cycle that we largely had no control over."
Despite these issues, when a number of families found themselves unable to pay for their occupancy during the COVID-19 pandemic, Khaqan forgave their balances for multiple months and did not open eviction proceedings.
The town council officially designated the former motel as a "dangerous building" in April 2021. With that designation, the town forced occupants to vacate within 48 hours and gave Khaqan only 90 days to address the alleged violations. After the order, Khaqan hired an independent civil engineering firm to analyze the buildings. They found the structures to be intact with no danger of collapsing. Khaqan alleges that the CEO tried to influence the firm to change their statement, which they refused. The property was listed for sale in April 2022, and although there was a potential buyer, the town declined to lift the dangerous building order and the sale fell through.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Faced with a surge in COVID-19 cases, the state of Chihuahua is again mandating the use of face masks.
The state Health Council on Thursday voted to require the use of masks both indoors and outside, and to reduce occupancy in at least some businesses by 80 percent. The mandate is to go into effect next Monday; details of the restrictions were to be outlined on Friday.
Dr. Leticia Ruiz, head of preventive health services, said coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and fatalities have been going up in the past four weeks.
“It’s important to slow down the increase. We have had six deaths, when we had been going entire weeks without deaths,” Ruiz said in a teleconference Thursday. She said the state has recorded 2,980 new infections in the past week, with 529 reported in Juarez, and urged residents to vaccinate if they have not done so.
Chihuahua news media reported the Health Council made its decision after projections showed new COVID-19 cases could reach 12,000 to 13,000 in the next two weeks if nothing is done. Council members said strict prevention protocols would be enforced at “mass attendance” events, something that was no longer being done.
In El Paso, the COVID-19 health alert remained high on Thursday, with 498 new cases reported and 85 people hospitalized.
Thor Salayandia, president of the Juarez Chamber of Industry, issued a statement calling for business occupancy not to be restricted. “Even if you close businesses, people have parties and go to concerts, which is most of the contagion takes place, as well as in government offices,” he said. “We have spent two years going from (health condition) red to yellow, to light green and back to red. We urge the government not to restrict economic activity.” | 2022-07-15T01:36:28+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/border-report-tour/juarez-again-to-require-face-masks-due-to-covid-19-spike/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – After election night, voters are flagging questions about the voter verification process here in Oklahoma.
KFOR went on the hunt to answer some common questions that have come into the newsroom since final ballots were cast and counted, including the ballot verification process and why the state still allows straight party voting.
Preliminary, unofficial 2022 General Election results showed about 1.155 million ballots scanned, while more than 480,000 voters marked “straight party” – meaning they chose a party’s entire slate of candidates with a single ballot mark instead of having to pick each individual candidate.
Oklahoma is just one of just six states that still allows the practice, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), though some believe it discourages voters from paying attention to races down the ballot and question its relevance.
Secretary of the State Election Board Paul Ziriax said the practice has a long tradition in Oklahoma and is required by law.
“The reason you have straight party voting is that’s what the law requires [and it offers] convenience for voters who know which party they wish to vote for,” he said.
Additionally, some voters have expressed concern about the Oklahoma Voter Portal, which is a tool for Oklahomans to follow their ballots.
Voters may see two green checks to signal that their votes were sent in and received; however, some may also see the words ‘”in progress” and believe their vote may not have been counted.
According to the State Election Board, the OK Voter Portal is an information tool, only.
“The OK voter portal is informational only it doesn’t count ballots, it doesn’t scan ballots,” said Ziriax.
“[It is] not counting your ballot, not counting your vote, that has already been done, that has already been tabulated and posted on our website,” he added.
Instead, the portal will indicate whether an absentee ballot was counted after the election, once all data has been entered, manually by election officials, according to Ziriax.
“It’s just to provide information to voters and what the voter is seeing there on the voter portal is that the data entry on absentee ballots is not completed for that county [but] every single absentee ballot that was eligible to be counted has already been counted.”
Likewise, a gray dot indicating “in progress” means that the information has not yet been entered into the portal.
“If you don’t see it tonight, check tomorrow night. But it’ll be there; there are thousands and thousands of these that have to be entered manually,” he continued.
Accordingly, a county election board has to manually enter the reason for rejection (if applicable) into the portal. Once data entry is complete, the county can activate its information so that it is visible in the portal.
“On the State Election Board website, those are unofficial results and until county election boards have canvased, the results ensured their correctness and then voted to certify the results as being true and correct. Those continue to be unofficial, so certification means that those results have been canvased and confirmed and that the results are official,” he said.
In other words, all of the county’s absentee ballot information is activated at one time. It can’t be activated until all data entry is complete.
The OK State Election Board said voters can scroll down to the bottom of the the absentee voting page on their website for “standard” absentee ballots to see a screenshot example of what the portal looks like once the data has been entered.
Officials will meet Friday to certify county election results; state and federal races will be certified next Tuesday. | 2022-11-11T14:03:13+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/local/theyve-been-counted-state-election-board-answers-voter-questions/ |
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Acquisition provides additional machine learning, fact-checking and data science expertise to help brands avoid and measure misinformation across global platforms
LOS ANGELES, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zefr, the global leader in brand suitability across walled gardens, announced today the acquisition of Adverif.ai, an Israeli-based AI company focused on identifying and defunding misinformation at scale. Adverif.ai's AI-driven approach to misinformation is based on the world's first fact-checking engine, which applies custom integrations with over 50 fact-checking organizations around the world to train dynamic machine learning algorithms to identify, label, and measure misinformation at rapid speed.
The acquisition continues Zefr's commitment to being the leading global technology company for targeting and measuring brand suitability across high velocity environments. AdVerif.ai's Israel-based team of data scientists and engineers, led by founder/CEO Or Levi, will join Zefr's technology organization and be based out of Tel Aviv.
"Defunding misinformation is critical for brands, and it requires investment in technology solutions to ensure accuracy and scalability," said Chris Murphy, SVP of Global Business Development, Zefr. "After diligencing the industry for a year, it became clear that Adverif.ai's AI and tech-led approach was uniquely equipped to bring a scalable, unbiased and data-driven lens to the topic and seamlessly integrate with our existing platform, Cognition AI."
The integration of Adverif.ai's technology will enable Zefr's customers to further measure and target content based on their brand suitability standards – with enhanced capabilities on the misinformation category, which has traditionally been one of the most challenging for marketers.
"I'm encouraged by Zefr's acquisition of Adverif.ai, as UM believes the role of media responsibility – inclusive of defunding misinformation – is critical," said Joshua Lowcock, Global head of Brand Safety and Chief Digital Officer, UM. "Considering Zefr's role in providing a verification product for the Facebook feed later this year, I'm pleased to see their investing in technical solutions for the challenges ahead."
In June 2022, the Global Alliance of Responsible Media announced that misinformation would be the 12th category of its brand safety and brand suitability framework, reinforcing its importance to the future ad-supported media.
"Misinformation is one of the most difficult of harmful content categories for the advertising industry and regulators to address, and the consequences of inappropriately addressing are troubling. We're excited to see Zefr making this investment, as we start to implement our shared work on misinformation in this space. In our work on misinformation, we've identified scale and human oversight as critical barriers for the industry to overcome," said Rob Rakowiitz, Initiative Lead, Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM). " We see Zefr's move aligned with our insight and our shared goal to effectively demonetize misinformation."
The acquisition comes on the heels of Zefr's announcement as a global brand safety and brand suitability measurement partner on TikTok, as well as the selection by Meta to build a brand suitability verification product for the Facebook Feed. With additional high velocity platforms being onboarded, this acquisition will help marketers get more accurate and transparent insights on the misinformation category.
"We are delighted to join Zefr's mission and bring best-in-class technology solutions to scale brand suitability across the world's largest platforms," said Or Levi, founder and CEO of Adverif.ai. "Our technology is designed to deliver advertisers accurate and transparent data on misinformation, and we look forward to realizing Adverif.ai's full potential as part of Zefr".
Zefr is the global leader in brand suitability targeting and measurement across walled garden environments. Zefr's products put brands in control of their content adjacency on scaled platforms including YouTube, Meta and TikTok, based on brand and industry standards like the Global Alliance of Responsible Media (GARM) framework. Rather than rely on keywords, Zefr leverages a patented Cognition AI technology to offer brands and agencies more accurate and transparent targeting and measurement solutions on scaled platforms. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with offices in New York, Chicago, London, Spain, and Dubai. For more information, go to: http://zefr.com.
AdVerif.ai is a global leader in disinformation defense. Leveraging deep semantic content understanding AI and powered by fact-checking data from more than 50 IFCN-certified organizations around the globe, AdVerif.ai technology empowers advertisers and ad platforms to identify and combat misinformation at scale. It is certified by the Trustworthy Accountability Group / Brand Safety Institute. AdVerif.ai is an alumnus of the Microsoft AI for Good program and has been recognized by CB insights among Global Game Changers: startups with potential to transform society and economy for the better.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man wanted by security officials in Saudi Arabia killed himself with an explosive belt to avoid arrest, wounding four others in the blast, the kingdom said Friday.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency, citing the Saudi State Security Presidency, identified the dead man as Abdullah bin Zayed al-Shehri.
The report said as security forces moved in on him Wednesday in the Saudi city of Jeddah, al-Shehri detonated the bomb belt. The report identified the wounded as a Pakistani national and three security officials.
The report offered no details on al-Shehri's background, nor if he belonged to any known extremist group.
The kingdom has battled al-Qaida and Islamic State militants. | 2022-08-12T12:37:20+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Saudi-Arabia-says-wanted-man-blows-himself-up-17369065.php |
BILLINGS, Mont. – A judge ruled Friday that the U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Montana came after environmentalists sued the U.S. Forest Service dropping the red slurry material into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.
Government officials say chemical fire retardant is sometimes crucial to slowing the advance of dangerous blazes. Wildfires across North America have grown bigger and more destructive over the past two decades as climate change warms the planet.
Christensen said halting the use of fire retardant would “conceivably result in greater harm from wildfires — including to human life and property and to the environment.”
More than 200 loads of retardant got into waterways over the past decade. Federal officials say those situations usually occurred by mistake and in less than 1% of the thousands of loads annually.
A coalition that includes Paradise, California — where a 2018 blaze killed 85 people and destroyed the town — had said a court ruling that stopped the use of retardant would have put lives, homes and forests at risk.
“This case was very personal for us,” Paradise Mayor Greg Bolin said. “Our brave firefighters need every tool in the toolbox to protect human lives and property against wildfires, and today’s ruling ensures we have a fighting chance this fire season.”
State and local agencies often depend heavily on the U.S. Forest Service to help fight fires, many of which originate or include federal land.
The Oregon-based group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argued in its lawsuit filed last year that the Forest Service was disregarding the Clean Water Act by continuing to use retardant without taking adequate precautions to protect streams and rivers.
The judge said the ruling was limited to 10 western states where the members of the group alleged they had suffered harm due to pollution into waterways that they use.
After the lawsuit was filed the Forest Service applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for a permit that would allow it to continue using retardant without breaking the law. That process could take years. Christensen ordered federal officials to report every six months on their progress.
Experts say climate change, people moving into fire-prone areas, and overgrown forests are creating more catastrophic megafires that are harder to fight.
More than 100 million gallons (378 million liters) of fire retardant were used during the past decade, according to the Department of Agriculture. It’s made up of water and other ingredients including fertilizers or salts that can be harmful to fish, frogs, crustaceans and other aquatic animals.
A government study found misapplied retardant could adversely affect dozens of imperiled species, including crawfish, spotted owls and fish such as shiners and suckers.
Health risks to firefighters or other people who come into contact with fire retardant are considered low, according to a 2021 risk assessment.
Forest Service officials said they are trying to come into compliance with the law by getting a pollution permit but that could take years.
As the 2023 fire season gets underway, California Forestry Association President Matt Dias said the prospect of not having fire retardant available to a federal agency that plays a key role on many blazes was “terrifying.”
Many areas of the Western U.S. experienced heavy snowfalls this past winter, and as a result fire dangers are lower than in recent years across much of the region. | 2023-05-26T17:30:23+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/national/2023/05/26/judge-says-fire-retardant-drops-are-polluting-streams-but-allows-use-to-continue/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for INBS, VERB, GNS, MARA, and RIVN.
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Nick Cannon is opening up about his new pediatric cancer foundation created in honor of his son, Zen, who died of brain cancer in December.
"I'm a true believer in turning your pain into purpose," Cannon told ET exclusively while at the Los Angeles stop of his Wild n Out rap battle tour. "To know how much joy that he brought our family, I just wanted to spread that light."
Cannon announced the Zen's Light Foundation alongside his son's mother, Alyssa Scott, on Friday, one day after what would have been Zen's first birthday. Its mission "is to foster global excellence in hope, grief-care, and pediatric healthcare for families and children in need."
Cannon hopes the foundation will help lessen the pain for families in situations like his.
"I feel like hopefully the foundation's work will be able to help other families going through similar situations," he said. "Even the research for pediatric cancer, so people don't have to go through this. I was like, 'This is a perfect opportunity. We can take what we’ve gone through and spread the light.'"
Cannon and Scott attended "a beautiful lighting ceremony to honor the life of an Angel" on Friday to commemorate the Foundation's beginning. They also thanked the Children's Hospital of Orange County on Instagram for helping them pull off the inaugural event.
"Can't wait for next year where our Lighting Gala will continue [to] grow to help find a cure for pediatric [c]ancer, further research and help console more families during difficult times," Cannon wrote.
RELATED CONTENT: | 2022-06-29T02:53:23+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/nick-cannon-says-hes-turning-pain-into-purpose-following-son-zens-death-talks-new-foundation-exclusive/603-ccd3097d-4505-4181-a24e-8b744e9c6e88 |
People who live along the Russian River in Northern California are evacuating in anticipation of flooding. The region is weathering its fifth major storm since Christmas and is bracing for a sixth.
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People who live along the Russian River in Northern California are evacuating in anticipation of flooding. The region is weathering its fifth major storm since Christmas and is bracing for a sixth.
Copyright 2023 KQED | 2023-01-10T11:02:16+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2023-01-10/most-californians-are-on-alert-as-a-streak-of-brutal-weather-continues |
It’s officially fall, which means cooler temps, changing leaves and looking forward to all of the Hallmark Christmas movies you’ll be watching soon. The network has announced its 2022 Countdown to Christmas schedule, and the heartwarming, family-friendly programming will begin on Friday, Oct. 21.
Hallmark Christmas movies will be shown around the clock on Hallmark and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. In addition, subscribers to the Hallmark Movies Now streaming service will have access to more than 150 Christmas movies, with new content added every week.
We’ve got the complete rundown, with some films sure to become new favorites. So mark your calendar and ensure you have everything you need to cozy up on the couch because, as they say in this promo video, it’s going to be “sweater than ever.”
Beginning Friday, Oct. 21, a new holiday flick will premiere on the Hallmark Channel every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m EST. You can also enjoy a new Christmas movie every Saturday at 10 p.m. EST on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
Some of the Hallmark Christmas movies you can look forward to include:
- “Noel Next Door” kicks off the Countdown to Christmas movie schedule. Starring Natalie Hall as a hard-working single mom who exchanges words with her seemingly-grouchy neighbor, played by Corey Sevier. At first, she thinks he’s trying to ruin Christmas, but discovers she might have misunderstood him. This film premiers on Friday, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m. EST.
- “A Holiday Spectacular,” set in 1958, stars Ginna Claire Mason as Maggie, who puts her wedding plans on hold and sneaks off to New York City to dance in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. The movie also features Ann-Margret, Eve Plumb, Derek Klena and the Radio City Rockettes. This film premiers on Sunday, November 27 at 8 p.m. EST.
- “The Holiday Sitter,” starring Jonathan Bennett and George Krissa, is the first Hallmark Christmas movie with an LGBTQ couple as the focus. Workaholic Sam is babysitting for his sister and brother-in-law, who are traveling out of town. Feeling overwhelmed, he turns to their handsome neighbor Jason for help. This film premiers on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. EST.
- “Hanukkah on Rye” celebrates the Festival of Lights. Starring Jeremy Jordan, Yael Grobglas and Lisa Loeb, this flick finds rival deli owners paired up by a matchmaker. But, can their romance overcome their competition? This film premiers on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. EST.
Prepare to enjoy stars of previous Hallmark Christmas movies, such as Lacey Chabert, Tyler Hynes, Jodie Sweetin, Alison Sweeney and Luke Macfarlane. Other familiar faces appearing include Beau Bridges, Marlo Thomas, Jack Wagner, Holly Robinson Peete and Marilu Henner.
Check out this list of new movies you can catch during Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. In addition, the Hallmark Miracles of Christmas movie guide provides a list of all the new flicks coming to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
You can find the complete list of the new Hallmark Christmas movies on the official website or download the printable holiday movie guide.
Alternatively, you can download the Hallmark Channel Movie Checklist app or widget for the complete list of every Hallmark Christmas movie, old and new. The app can even add reminders to your phone’s calendar so you won’t miss a thing.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-09-23T21:27:31+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/the-hallmark-christmas-movie-schedule-for-2022-is-officially-here |
Man drowns in home in Vermont’s 1st recorded flooding death
(AP) - A man who died as a result of a drowning accident in his home is Vermont’s first death related to recent storms and historic flooding, the state’s emergency management agency said.
Stephen Davoll, 63, of Barre, died on Wednesday, said Mark Bosma, spokesperson for Vermont Emergency Management.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner investigated the death, in cooperation with local police, Bosma said in a news release late Thursday afternoon. He said Vermonters are urged to continue to take extra care as they return to their homes and repair damage.
“The loss of a Vermonter is always painful, but it is particularly so this week,” Vermont U.S. Sen. Peter Welch said in statement.
It was the second flood-related death stemming from a storm system and epic flooding in the Northeast this week. The first was in New York — a woman whose body was found after she was swept away in Fort Montgomery, a small Hudson River community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of New York City.
More rain came through the region Thursday evening. There were no reports of any flash flooding from the storm, the emergency management agency said. A tornado warning was issued for parts of the state and Vermont. There were high winds, but no confirmation of a tornado and no major damage reports.
As floodwaters receded, the good news was that there were no new rescue missions, dams were holding up and more roads reopened. The bad news was that the storms aren’t over. More rain was expected Friday, Sunday, and into next week.
“The period we are more concerned about is Sunday because that could be more widespread and heavier, but not nearly on the scale of what we saw earlier in the week,” National Weather Service meteorologist Seth Kutikoff said.
Gov. Phil Scott said it’s important for Vermonters to be vigilant, and that includes not going into the water.
“We’ve seen many pictures on social media of kids swimming in floodwaters. This is not typical rainwater — it’s filled with chemicals, oil, waste, and more. It’s simply not safe,” he said.
Other New England states to the south were also drying out, including Connecticut, where officials warned boaters and others about dangerous debris in the Connecticut River, including large trees. A dock with several boats attached was washed away in Glastonbury, just south of Hartford, and was seen floating down the river a few towns away.
In Vermont, communities were cleaning up from the floods that were more destructive in some places than 2011′s Tropical Storm Irene and regarded as the worst natural disaster since the 1927 floods, which killed dozens of people and caused widespread destruction.
Transportation officials were moving equipment to areas that were considered more flood-prone to prepare for more storms as they continued to evaluate damage, including to rail lines. Amtrak and other railroad service has been suspended.
Scott submitted a request for a major disaster declaration to President Joe Biden. “It’s separate from, and in addition to, the federal emergency declaration the president already signed” on Tuesday, he said. If approved, the declaration would provide federal support for recovering communities.
In Vermont’s small state capital of Montpelier, where the swollen Winooski River had flooded downtown, the elevator at City Hall was damaged, making the building inaccessible, spokesperson Evelyn Prim said.
“Cleanup from the hazardous floodwater damage in City Hall is expected to take several months. Because of this, City Hall will be closing until further notice,” she said.
Offers of help poured in, including free pet food from an animal shelter in Morrisville and a donation collection for water and nonperishable food items at the University of Vermont. A Vermont Main Street Flood Relief Fund was set up to help small businesses and the Vermont Community Foundation established a fund to help longer-term efforts for people and communities. An annual concert, the Do Good Fest in Montpelier, will be livestreamed and act as a fundraiser.
“One of the defining truths about Vermont is that Vermonters look out for one another,” said Dan Smith, the foundation’s CEO. “We saw it during the pandemic; we saw it during Tropical Storm Irene.”
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McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press reporters Lisa Rathke in Marshfield, Vermont, David Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, and Michael Casey in Boston contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-14T11:11:45+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/07/14/man-drowns-home-vermonts-1st-recorded-flooding-death/ |
MIAMI (WSVN) - The Miami Police Department is asking for the public’s help in searching for a missing 12-year-old girl.
According to detectives, Isabela V. Zea was last seen in a Wynwood neighborhood on Sunday.
She stands at 4 feet, 5 inches and weighs 100 pounds. She has light brown eyes, and black hair and was last seen wearing a black shirt with a white Jordan logo on the front, black sweatpants, black socks, and black shoes.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is urged to call 305-603-6300 or 305-579-6111.
Copyright 2023 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | 2023-05-22T12:41:35+00:00 | wsvn.com | https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/miami-pd-searching-for-missing-12-year-old-giril/ |
STOCKHOLM, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Paligo, a leading provider of software enabling customers to manage componentized technical documentation and knowledge assets, announced that it will receive a strategic growth investment from GRO. Existing investor Alfvén & Didrikson ("A&D") will also follow on its investment into Paligo. GRO becomes a minority investor in the company and through this investment, Paligo will accelerate its product vision, organizational expansion and international growth.
Paligo provides a cloud-based Component Content Management System ("CCMS") that allows customers to author, manage, translate and publish technical documentation and knowledge assets such as policies, procedures, and customer support information, with a focus on the software, manufacturing, finance and insurance, and healthcare verticals.
Paligo benefits from structural advantages in its architecture and deployment to set industry benchmark time-to-value for customers, scalability, omni-channel publishing capabilities, collaboration and workflow offerings, and UI/UX usability. As a fast-growing company, Paligo supports enterprise and mid-market customers globally from its offices in Sweden, Ireland and the United States.
Since its foundation in 2015 as a cloud-native provider of CCMS software, Paligo has developed market-leading capabilities for its customers to structure complex information through its user-friendly interface and efficient scalability. The company has experienced rapid growth since inception and GRO and A&D are partnering with Paligo at an important inflection point, as the management team expands the product vision, organizational setup and global presence by embarking on an exciting operational excellence path, positioning the company for a sustainable growth journey ahead.
Anders Svensson, Co-Founder and CEO of Paligo, says: "Paligo has been a game changer from day one for companies wanting to modernize how they work with technical documentation and knowledge management in a collaborative SaaS platform. Managing complex content across multiple product lines, versions and channels is an ever increasing pain point for enterprises. Paligo allows them to easily reuse structured content from a single source of truth and provide their end users with consistent high-quality content where they need it, when they need it. We couldn't be more excited to take the next steps in revolutionizing documentation and content management together with Alfvén & Didrikson and our new partners GRO."
Lars Lunde, Partner at GRO, comments: "We see strong growth in the software market for management of technical documentation and knowledge assets, in particular the cloud-based segment. Paligo has established a category-defining position globally and is poised for continued rapid expansion. The company garners best-in-class customer feedback and we are excited to support Paligo as it embarks on the next stage of growth. We look forward to leveraging GRO's operational and software expertise and working closely together with Paligo to capitalize on this market opportunity."
Ken Liebkind, Partner at Alfvén & Didrikson, adds: "With a robust product and clear focus on delivering value to customers, Paligo has built a solid and rapidly growing customer base globally. Having worked closely with the team since our initial investment in 2020, we are thrilled to continue our partnership with Paligo and delighted to welcome GRO."
About Paligo
Paligo is an end-to-end modern cloud-based CCMS (Component Content Management System) for authoring, managing, translating, and publishing technical documentation and knowledge assets. Founded in 2015, the company has over 100 employees serving 450+ enterprise and mid-market customers around the world from its offices in Sweden, Ireland and the United States.
For more information about Paligo please visit www.paligo.net and www.linkedin.com/company/paligo
About GRO
GRO is a leading Northern European private equity firm with an exclusive focus on mature B2B software and tech enabled companies with strong growth prospects. GRO serves as an active owner developing portfolio companies with a view to create long-term value. The partners behind GRO have been investors in more than 25 technology and software related companies, and GRO has approximately EUR 1bn in AUM.
For more information about GRO please visit www.grocapital.dk and www.linkedin.com/company/gro-capital
About Alfvén & Didrikson
Alfvén & Didrikson is an active and long-term backer of passionate entrepreneurs and ambitious teams. Since 2010, the Alfvén & Didrikson team has made investments in fast growing European companies such as Trustly, Quinyx, Acast, Mentimeter, Tellent and Airmee.
For more information about Alfvén & Didrikson please visit www.alfvendidrikson.com and www.linkedin.com/company/alfvendidrikson
Paligo
Anders Svensson, Co-Founder & CEO
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COLLINS, Elhanon "El"
Elhanon Collins "El" was born on April 3, 1935, near Hazard, Kentucky. He passed on January 22, 2023. He was the son of Galley and Olive Collins of Hazard, Kentucky. He is survived by his wife of 61 years Mary S. Collins (Caldwell) of Lancaster, Ohio, daughter Phyllis J. McCrory (Tony), son Alan E. Collins (Tammy), daughter Carolyn C. Collins; grandchildren Kelsey Wolfenbarger (Matt Sonick), Emily Samano (Ashor), Alex McCrory, Evan Lyons, Molly McCrory, Jack McCrory, Mary Lyons, Connor Lyons, and great-granddaughter Vivienne Samano; his sister Betty Jo Holliday and nephews Douglas Holliday and Douglas Collins. He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers Douglas Collins and James Collins.
El served in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1956. He graduated from Eastern Kentucky University and played on the golf team from 1957 to 1961. El became a PGA of America member (Life Member) in 1964 and was the head golf professional at Reid Memorial Golf Course in Springfield, Ohio, from 1964 to 1999. He returned as an assistant golf professional from 2017 to 2023. El was the President of the Southern Ohio Section of the PGA from 1978 to 1979, Southern Ohio PGA Golf Professional of the Year in 1982, received the Southern Ohio PGA Professional Development Award in 1983, and a PGA National Board member and National Junior Chairman from 1984 to 1986. He was elected to the Southern Ohio PGA Hall of Fame in 1998 and received the Southern Ohio PGA Legacy Award in 2006.
El's playing highlights include the 1967 PGA Championship at Columbine Country Club and the 1986 Senior US Open at Scioto Country Club. He won the Miami Valley Match Play five (5) times and was runner-up at least that many times. He was runner-up in the 1977 Ohio Open and won the Southern Ohio Section Championship in 1986. He finished 6th in the National Qualifier for the Senior PGA Tour in the fall of 1986 and was an exempt Senior Tour Player in 1987. He played in Senior Tour events over the next decade.
El was devoted to his family, a successful businessman, and an inventor. His contributions to the game of golf and his community are the countless people that worked with and for him. He was loyal to the Clark Shawnee Local School District and served as a school board member from 1978 to 1985. He was a member of the St. Andrew's Masonic Lodge 619. Throughout his lifetime, El was also devoted to junior golf; he created the Springfield News-Sun golf clinic in Clark County that introduced thousands of kids to the game of golf. It was always his goal to help someone get started or get to the next level, especially kids. He was still doing that every day of his life, and the impact of those interactions will be seen and felt for many years past his lifetime.
The family will receive friends at LITTLETON & RUE FUNERAL HOME, 830 N. Limestone St., Springfield, Ohio, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2023. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Southern Ohio PGA Junior Foundation at Southern Ohio PGA Golf Foundation, 66 S Central Ave., Fairborn, Ohio 45324. www.southernohiojuniorgolf.com. To view El's memorial video and leave online condolences, please visit www.littletonandrue.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to shape the midterm elections not as a verdict on his time in office, but rather on the contrast between Democrats and Republicans on American democracy.
“We’ll have our difference of opinion. And that’s how it’s supposed to be,” Biden said in remarks days before the Nov. 8 elections. “But there is something else at stake: democracy itself.”
The election results reveal both the potential and the problems with Biden’s argument for motivating voters. In states such as Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania, voters could look at their ballots and see a clear contrast between Democrats and Republican candidates who falsely claimed the 2020 presidential race was rigged.
And yet, the notion of democracy is open to interpretation, one that encompasses feelings about one’s own identity, political rivals, the news media and broader social changes. Democrats held the Senate, while Republicans won control of the House Wednesday.
Biden’s message resonated with many Democratic voters, AP VoteCast shows, and maybe even helped Democrats to defy gravity in key states in the midterms, which historically have resulted in major losses for the party that holds the White House.
But the nationwide survey of more than 90,000 voters also shows many Republicans similarly considered the future of democracy to be their motivating factor this year, and Democratic candidates didn’t exclusively win the democracy vote.
Overall, VoteCast reveals Democratic voters were much more likely than Republicans to call the future of democracy their “single most important” factor in voting, with more than half of Democrats saying so. Still, about a third of Republicans identified democracy as their top consideration.
Across the country, Democratic congressional candidates won roughly 6 in 10 voters who said the future of democracy was their “single most important” factor, while about 4 in 10 backed Republican candidates.
That gap appears to have been critical in some of the most competitive races for U.S. Senate and governor this year, setting up a stronger than expected performance by Democrats.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats John Fetterman and Josh Shapiro appeared to outperform Democratic House candidates nationwide, earning about two-thirds of the “democracy vote.”
Shapiro bested for governor Republican Doug Mastriano, who commissioned buses for people to attend the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. Fetterman flipped an open Senate seat against Republican Mehmet Oz, who won a rough GOP primary in large part because of former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
Biden made Pennsylvania the epicenter of his midterms push, going there 11 times this year, more than any state other than his home of Delaware.
The president gave a Sept. 1 speech in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall where he said “equality and democracy were under assault.” He said the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters “put a dagger to the throat of our democracy” by trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
Also getting about two-thirds of the “democracy vote” were Democrats Mark Kelly and Katie Hobbs in Arizona. Running for governor, Hobbs beat Republican Kari Lake, a former local TV news anchor who embraced Trump’s denial that he lost his reelection bid two years ago.
Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters had language on his website that claimed the 2020 election was stolen, but he removed it after winning the primary and lost to the incumbent Kelly.
In Michigan, too, where Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer outpaced Republican Tudor Dixon by about two to one among those who considered democracy their chief consideration.
The democratic issue also dovetailed with the Supreme Court decisions that overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the issue to the states. In his speeches about democracy, Biden specifically cited abortion bans as a policy goal of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
Michigan had a ballot issue to preserve access to abortions. About 3 in 4 voters called the Roe reversal an important factor in their vote. Of that group, two-thirds supported Whitmer.
But in other battleground states where Republican candidates edged out Democrats and in solidly red states the democracy vote wasn’t as clearly a Democratic vote. GOP candidates were able to draw about even with — or even edge ahead of — Democratic ones among those voters who said democracy was their top consideration.
In red-state Kansas, where Republican Sen. Jerry Moran and Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly both won reelection bids, the democracy vote responded differently to the two candidates. In the Senate race, voters who singularly prioritized democracy slightly preferred Moran over his Democratic challenger Mark Holland. But Kelly won about 6 in 10 of them in the governor’s race.
Meanwhile, Republicans had a strong showing in both Florida and in Texas, and VoteCast shows they earned
more of the democracy vote than GOP congressional candidates nationwide. Close to half of voters who said the future of democracy was their top factor voted for Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida, and for Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas.
In Ohio, democracy voters clearly favored Gov. Mike DeWine, who won his reelection by a wider margin than JD Vance, the Republican winner in the race for Senate. In the Senate race, those who said democracy was their chief consideration went for the Democratic candidate, Rep. Tim Ryan.
Candidates on both sides of the aisle earned the backing of these voters because Republicans and Democrats have very different things in mind when they said the future of the nation’s democracy was their single most important factor.
Compared with other Republicans and with democracy Democrats, democracy Republicans nationwide were especially likely to be “angry” with the way the federal government is working and to say their vote was intended to express support for Trump; about half of democracy Republicans said each.
About 7 in 10 democracy Republicans identify as supporters of the MAGA, movement, and about as many said Biden was not legitimately elected president in 2020. About half said they were not confident that midterm votes would be counted accurately.
Meanwhile, about two-thirds of democracy Democrats said the Supreme Court overturning Roe made them “angry,” more than the percentage of other Democrats or democracy Republicans who said that.
About three-quarters of democracy Democrats said they meant their vote as an expression of opposition to Trump; about 6 in 10 said their vote was intended to support Biden.
Many Democratic voters didn’t let their reservations about Biden keep them from supporting the president’s party, a sign that the issues at stake might have mattered as much as who was in the White House.
Just 43% of voters approved of Biden’s leadership, while 57% disapproved. Among voters who backed Democratic House candidates, 18% disapproved of the president.
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SÃO PAULO, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL and B3: GOLL4), Brazil's largest domestic airline, announces today preliminary air traffic figures for the month of December 2022, compared to the same period in 2021.
Highlights:
- GOL's total supply (ASK) increased 21.1%. Total seats increased 16.5% and the number of departures increased by 16.4%. GOL's total demand (RPK) increased by 15.2% and the load factor was 77.9%.
- GOL's domestic supply (ASK) increased 10.0% and demand (RPK) increased by 5.6%. GOL's domestic load factor was 78.7%. The volume of departures increased by 11.5% and seats increased by 11.7%.
- GOL's international supply (ASK) was 465 million, the demand (RPK) was 332 million and international load factor was 71.4%.
December/22 Preliminary Traffic Figures:
* Source: Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) and the Company for the current month.
(1) Preliminary Figures
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GOL is the largest airline in Brazil, leader in the corporate and leisure segments. Since founded in 2001, the Company has the lowest unit cost in Latin America, thus democratizing air transportation. The Company has alliances with American Airlines and Air FranceKLM and makes available several codeshares and interline agreements available to Customers, bringing more convenience and simple connections to any place served by these partnerships. With the purpose of "Being the First for All", GOL offers the best travel experience to its passengers, including: the largest number of seats and more space between seats; the greatest platform with internet, movies and live TV; and the best frequent-flyer program, SMILES. In cargo transportation, GOLLOG delivers orders to different regions in Brazil and abroad. The Company has a team of 14,000 highly qualified aviation professionals focused on Safety, GOL's #1 value, and operates a standardized fleet of 145 Boeing 737 aircraft. The Company's shares are traded on the NYSE (GOL) and the B3 (GOLL4). For further information, go to www.voegol.com.br/ri.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-2-5
(four, two, five)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
4-2-5
(four, two, five) | 2023-01-19T04:38:36+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17727079.php |
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Police say a set of remains found last month belong to a woman missing since 2017.
At a press conference Tuesday morning, police announced the remains belong to Amy Hambrick, 29, who was last seen in November 2017. She was supposed to meet up at a friend’s house in North Jackson, but her family said she never made it.
Her remains were found Aug. 26 in a wooded area of the East Side off of Thorn Hill.
Chief of Detectives Capt. Jason Simon said at the press conference the remains were found by a woman who was looking for her missing dog in the woods. They were wrapped in a cloth that was then taken to the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office.
At the coroner’s office, the bones were assembled by Dr. Loren Lease of the anthropology department at Youngstown State University.
After the skeleton was assembled, forensic dentists were able to identify Hambrick based on her jawbone and dental records, Simon said.
Simon said because of the condition of the remains, the cause of death will be listed as undetermined. He added the case is actively under investigation.
“Someone knows what happened,” Simon said.
Although investigators know the bones had been in the woods for some time, there was no way to tell by their condition how long they had been in that location or even how long it has been since Hambrick died, Simon said.
Detectives will be interviewing and reinterviewing people and other tests will be done on the remains to see if more evidence can be found, Simon said.
Hambrick was last seen in November 2017 in North Jackson. Since her disappearance, the department has used interviews, cadaver searching dogs and warrants on electronic devices to try and find her, but they were all to no avail.
Family members were active in trying to find out what happened to her. She leaves behind a daughter.
There were three family members at the press conference but after officials were done speaking, Mayor Jamael Tito Brown ushered them out so they would not have to answer questions from the media. Simon said in a statement the family had asked for privacy.
The discovery of Hambrick pares the list of long-term missing person cases the department is working to 14. Simon urged anyone who may have information on any of those cases to contact police. | 2022-09-13T23:37:05+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/top-stories/youngstown-police-identify-bones-found-as-those-of-missing-woman/ |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gabriel Vilardi scored the shootout winner and had a goal and an assist in regulation in the Los Angeles Kings' 4-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
Matt Roy had two third-period goals and Cal Petersen made 31 saves in regulation and overtime and denied all three Nashville attempts in the shootout to help extend the Kings' winning streak to three.
“It’s not often we’re talking about Matt scoring two to tie the game in the third period but he has that ability,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “He’s got tremendous legs and he’s strong. He went to the net.”
Cody Glass, Filip Forsberg and Tanner Jeannot scored for Nashville and Juuse Saros made 32 saves. After winning a pair of season-opening games against the San Jose Sharks in Prague, the Predators have dropped three in a row.
“What did we take, nine penalties tonight and six of the nine were in the offensive zone or the neutral zone, undisciplined stick penalties,” Nashville coach John Hynes said. “That's not going to put you in a position to be able to have success.”
Roy sent it to overtime, scoring with 2:08 remaining in the third.
“The fourth man up in the rush is a good look offensively, but there comes a responsibility, you can’t just jump up whenever you want,” Roy said. “You’ve got to pick your spots and be responsible defensively.”
Jeannot scored with 30 seconds remaining in the second, converting the rebound of his initial wraparound attempt, giving Nashville a 3-1 lead.
“I thought we were playing pretty well,” Forsberg said. “Obviously in the third period, we got way too passive and just kind of handed the game over to them.”
FIRST GOAL IN GOLD
Glass scored for the first with the Predators. Acquired from Vegas as part of a three-team trade in July 2021, Glass skated in eight games with Nashville last season and did not score. He has dressed in four of five games so far this season. His last NHL goal was March 17, 2021, with Vegas.
IAFALLO OUT
Los Angeles forward Alex Iafallo was placed on injured reserve Tuesday because of a lower-body injury sustained late in an overtime victory in Detroit on Monday night.
WHAT’S NEXT
Kings: At Pittsburgh on Thursday night.
Predators: At Columbus on Thursday night.
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Project Christmas Card: Woman sets out to make father's final Christmas special
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A woman has rallied hundreds of strangers to help her father celebrate what will likely be his final Christmas.
Thomas McCarthy, 94, lives in Canonsburg and has Alzheimer's disease. According to his daughter, Kerry, her father's disease is quickly winning the fight.
That's why she created the "Project Christmas Card."
A few weeks ago, Kerry put out a call on Facebook for Christmas cards so that she could plaster her father's room with the messages and bring him joy. The message was shared over and over again across several different social media platforms.
Since then, she has received more than 300 cards from people all across the United States.
"The response from all across the country has truly touched me in so many ways," Kerry said. "I was looking for a way to make my dad's final Christmas extra special, and it has snowballed into something bigger for us all."
Each card is entirely unique, Kerry said, and some people have poured their hearts out in their notes.
One child from Tennessee even sent her father a handmade ornament for his tree.
"Each comment from folks who have participated feels like a huge warm hug," Kerry said. "The kindness of so many strangers has truly blessed my dad and I this year."
The local post office and McCarthy's nurses were also moved by the project as cards poured in.
Kerry said she cannot thank those who have participated enough.
If you would like to send a card, Kerry requests they go to this address:
Thomas McCarthy
PO Box 59
Monessen, PA 15062 | 2022-12-27T01:55:34+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/project-christmas-card-woman-sets-out-to-make-fathers-final-christmas-special/42340959 |
Fox News on Tuesday briefly cut away from live continuous coverage of former President Trump’s speech announcing his candidacy for president in 2024, while MSNBC gave the speech no live screen time.
The network, which has shied away from covering Trump rallies and other events featuring him live since he left the White House, carried Trump’s remarks for longer than any of the three major cable channels before it broke away.
After Fox cut away, host Sean Hannity, a noted pro-Trump commentator and close personal friend of the former president, took analysis from a number of conservative pundits, including Mike Huckabee, Pete Hegseth and Leo Terrell.
After several minutes of analysis and pro-Trump commentary, the network eventually rejoined his speech from Mar-a-Lago as he concluded his remarks.
CNN also carried Trump’s remarks live but cut away after about 20 minutes to offer analysis from a political panel and fact-checks of the various claims Trump made during his speech on issues ranging from energy to the results of the midterm elections.
MSNBC did not carry Trump’s remarks live at all, instead opting to host a number of leading journalists to talk about the former president’s expected announcement.
Fox’s live coverage of Trump’s speech is notable, given signs of a shift away from the former president at the network for months and the criticism he has faced from a number of other conservative media entities owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch’s outlets have also heaped praise on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in the wake of last week’s midterm elections, which have raised questions about who Fox News and other conservative media heavyweights might support in 2024.
—Updated at 10:35 p.m. | 2022-11-16T05:14:09+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/hill-politics/fox-news-cuts-away-from-trump-2024-presidential-announcement-speech/ |
DES PLAINES, Ill., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Americaneagle.com, a global digital agency and Sitecore Platinum partner, is thrilled to announce that it has received the Sitecore Partnering Excellence Award, which is designed to showcase top-performing Sitecore partners that have excelled in delivering customers exceptional digital experiences utilizing Sitecore solutions.
Open to all Sitecore partners globally, winners are chosen based on their commitment to customer value creation, exponential growth, and knowledge, expertise, and track record to ensure a customer achieves successful outcomes. The award recognizes partners that meet Sitecore's key performance indicators, which include in-depth knowledge and commitment to sales.
"It is an honor to be recognized as one of Sitecore's top partners in the world," said Anthony Svanascini, President of Americaneagle.com. "This achievement is another example of our shared commitment with Sitecore and to provide customers with unsurpassed digital experiences."
With a relationship spanning more than a decade, Americaneagle.com has completed over 1000 Sitecore project implementations, earned 65 Sitecore certifications, three Specializations, and 30 Americaneagle.com experts have been named a Sitecore MVP in the last five years.
"Our formula is simple: Sitecore + great partnerships = customer success." said Owen Taraniuk, SVP Global Partners at Sitecore. "When you add solution partners, like Americaneagle.com, to this formula, the magic really happens. They have certified technical resources, specialized domain expertise, and the proven track record of delivering amazing outcomes that bring our mutual customers' digital ambitions to life."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke Tuesday as a growing number of migrants from crisis-gripped Venezuela arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Biden administration announced last week that it would accept up to 24,000 Venezuelan migrants at U.S. airports. Mexico, meanwhile, has agreed to take back Venezuelans who come to the U.S. illegally over land.
But at the same time, Biden is restricting Venezuelan travel into the U.S. with the help of a Trump-era rule known as Title 42, which suspends rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The White House said in a statement that the leaders discussed “joint migration management efforts, including actions to reduce the number of individuals who unlawfully cross the U.S.-Mexico border and to expand legal pathways as an alternative to irregular migration.”
López Obrador said on Twitter following the call that Biden confirmed that he will travel to Mexico for a North America leaders summit, a face-to-face meeting that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is also expected to attend. A date has yet to be set for the meeting. The three leaders met last year in Washington, reviving the tradition that had been put on hold during President Donald Trump’s administration.
Earlier Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the two administrations were “working through plans for the next North Americans leaders’ summit.”
“We had a cordial conversation with President Joe Biden about immigration, security and cooperation on development,” López Obrador said in the social media posting.
Mexico’s foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, added that it was “a very close and affectionate conversation.”
Under the restrictions, the Biden administration is barring Venezuelans who walk or swim across the border. Any Venezuelan who illegally enters Mexico or Panama is also ineligible to come to the U.S. under the offer.
The use of Tittle 42 by the Biden White House comes after the Democratic administration had rejected many of Trump’s policies aimed at keeping out migrants. The Biden administration had even brokered a deal to send the Venezuelans to Mexico, which already had agreed to accept migrants expelled under Title 42 if they are from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador.
All the while, Justice Department lawyers continue to appeal a court decision that has kept Title 42 in place. They oppose Republican attorneys general from more than 20 states who have argued that Title 42 is “the only safety valve preventing this Administration’s already disastrous border control policies from descending into an unmitigated catastrophe.”
In August, Venezuelans surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border after Mexicans.
An estimated 6.8 million Venezuelans have fled their country since the economy tanked in 2014, mostly to Latin America and Caribbean countries. But the U.S. economy’s relative strength since the COVID-19 pandemic has caused Venezuelan migrants to look north. Also, U.S. policies and strained relations with the Venezuelan government make it extremely difficult to send them home.
The White House said Biden and López Obrador also discussed joint efforts to combat the trafficking of fentanyl and efforts to prosecute gun traffickers. Gun legislation passed by Congress earlier this year gives the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives new authorities to combat firearms trafficking along the U.S. borders.
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Stevenson reported from Mexico City. | 2022-10-19T08:22:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-biden-mexicos-l%C3%B3pez-obrador-discuss-immigration-summit/ |
Lightning strike caused 2-alarm fire at Maryland condominium; 26 residents displaced
Heavy flames were seen coming from the roof, which later collapsed into the third floor. The collapse caused portions of the other floors to collapse into each other.
BEL AIR, Md. - A two-alarm fire that burned a condominium in Harford County, Maryland, was caused by a lightning strike, fire officials said.
Firefighters were called to the Taylor Ridge condominiums on Sheridan Place in Bel Air Monday around 9:30 p.m. for a report of a fire as strong thunderstorms moved across the area.
Heavy flames were seen coming from the roof, which later collapsed into the third floor. The collapse caused portions of the other floors to collapse into each other. The first floor also sustained extensive water damage. Multiple departments were called in before the fire was placed under control.
Investigators confirmed lightning struck the roof of the building, which immediately ignited the roof and attic. Residents reported hearing lightning strike the building and smelled smoke minutes later.
LIGHTNING CAUSED NEARLY $1 BILLION IN INSURANCE CLAIMS IN 2022
Everyone was able to escape the blaze. Officials say one person declined transport but later drove themselves to the hospital. Two cats were reported missing.
Officials say the fire displaced 26 residents. Harford County Disaster Assistance is assisting those displaced. | 2023-06-27T18:29:22+00:00 | foxweather.com | https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/lightning-strike-maryland-condo |
Elehuris Montero Player Prop Bets: Rockies vs. Padres - April 2
Published: Apr. 2, 2023 at 9:25 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
After going 0-for-4 in his most recent game, Elehuris Montero and the Colorado Rockies take on the San Diego Padres (who will hand the ball to Seth Lugo) at 4:10 PM ET on Sunday.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-4) against the Padres.
Elehuris Montero Game Info & Props vs. the Padres
- Game Day: Sunday, April 2, 2023
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
- Stadium: PETCO Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on fuboTV!
- Padres Starter: Seth Lugo
- TV Channel: BSSD
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -128)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +625)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +260)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +220)
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Elehuris Montero At The Plate (2022)
- Montero hit .233 with 14 doubles, a triple, six home runs and eight walks.
- In 56.6% of his 53 games last season, Montero picked up a hit. He also had 11 multi-hit games in 2022.
- In five of 53 games last year, he hit a home run (9.4%). He went deep in 3.2% of his trips to the plate in 2022.
- Montero picked up an RBI in 13 of 53 games last year, with multiple RBIs in four of them. He drove in three or more runs in one game.
- In 18 of 53 games last year (34.0%) he scored, and in three of those games (5.7%) he scored two or more runs.
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Elehuris Montero Home/Away Batting Splits (2022)
Padres Pitching Rankings (2022)
- The pitching staff for the Padres had a collective 9.1 K/9 last season, the fifth-best in MLB.
- The Padres had the 11th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.82).
- Padres pitchers combined to surrender 173 total home runs last year (1.1 per game). That ranked 17th in baseball.
- Lugo starts for the first time this season for the Padres.
- The 33-year-old right-hander came out of the bullpen and threw scoreless two-thirds of an inning when he last appeared Sunday, Oct. 9 against the San Diego Padres.
- Last season he compiled a 3-2 record, a 3.60 ERA and a 1.169 WHIP over his 62 games.
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TAMPA, Fla., July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smart Meter, continues to lead the way in remote blood glucose monitoring (RBGM) because of its superior cellular-enabled iGlucose meter, robust data and ease of use that facilitates better care management. As summer travel season hits its peak, the Centers for Disease Control has some important tips to ensure you manage your diabetes while away from home.
Here are a few of the key essentials if you are traveling by air to your destination:
- Put your diabetes supplies in a carry-on bag (insulin could get too cold in your checked luggage). Think about bringing a smaller bag to have at your seat for insulin, glucose tablets, and snacks.
- Pack twice as much medicine as you think you'll need. Carry medicines in the original pharmacy bottles or ask your pharmacist to print out extra labels you can attach to plastic bags.
- Be sure to pack healthy snacks, like fruit, raw veggies, and nuts.
When you are traveling by vehicle to your destination, you should:
- Find healthy food options like:
- Fruit, nuts, sandwiches, yogurt
- Salads with chicken or fish (skip the dried fruit and croutons)
- Eggs and omelets
- Burgers with a lettuce wrap instead of a bun
- Fajitas (skip the tortillas and rice)
- Stop and get out of the car or walk up and down the aisle of the plane or train every hour or two to prevent blood clots (people with diabetes are at higher risk).
- Set an alarm on your phone for taking medicine if you're traveling across time zones
Once you reach your destination:
- Your blood sugar may be out of your target range at first, but your body should adjust in a few days. Check your blood sugar often and treat highs or lows as instructed by your doctor or diabetes educator.
- If you're going to be more active than usual, check your blood sugar before and after and adjust food and activity as needed.
One of the most important aspects of managing Type 2 diabetes is for the patient to test their blood glucose level, usually twice a day. This could be more for some patients, depending on the care plan from their physician.
In an article in Healthline, Lisa Harris, CDE, RN at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago said that many patients with type 2 diabetes would likely benefit from testing more frequently. "Testing your blood sugar can be extremely informative for people when they're trying to prevent the need for further medication, like insulin," Harris said. "Even if they're only taking metformin, seeing for themselves how certain types of foods affect their blood sugar can have the biggest impact on motivating them to make changes in their diet."
In addition, when traveling, healthy eating tends to become more difficult to regularly sustain. People will usually eat out more and have less time to plan healthy meals or have fewer healthy options from which to choose. There's also less time to ensure proper nutrition and exercise which is important for managing diabetes.
"For people with diabetes, having their blood glucose readings sent to a provider is even more important when they travel because their diet might not be as healthy, eating times and patterns may shift, and other metabolic stressors related to traveling," said Dr. Bill Lewis, a leading telehealth consultant. "The iGlucose is the perfect traveling companion for people with diabetes so their test results are still being transmitted seamlessly to their provider."
Many of today's devices for at-home remote patient monitoring (RPM) rely on Bluetooth® technology or Wi-fi paired to an app on a smartphone. These connections especially low-energy Bluetooth, can fail and may not reliably or securely deliver health data to providers.
The iGlucose from Smart Meter has proprietary cellular technology that utilizes the fast and secure 4/5G AT&T IoT network for reliable transmissions every time. With the cellular-enabled iGlucose®, the measurement is sent immediately to the patient's provider with no extra steps required by the patient.
Now serving more than 100,000 patients, Smart Meter is the leading supplier of cellular-enabled virtual care technologies that include the iGlucose®, iBloodPressure®, iPulseOx®, iScale®, and SmartRPM™ cloud platform, as well as data, and services. Smart Meter's remote patient monitoring solutions are recognized as the standard for the RPM industry and are regarded for their high patient retention and satisfaction. The unique combination of reliable health data, patient-friendly devices, and platform integrations enable and enhance RPM, CCM, Employee Wellness, Population Health, and Telehealth programs for more than 300 RPM distribution partners across the United States. For more information, visit SmartMeterRPM.com
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The Senate on Thursday passed the annual defense authorization bill, sending the $858 billion measure to President Biden’s desk for signature just before the year-end deadline.
The measure, formally known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority, 83-11.
It provides $45 billion more for defense than called for in Biden’s budget, including allocating $817 billion to the Department of Defense and $30 billion to the Department of Energy.
Thursday’s vote caps weeks of wrangling over floor timing and controversial policy changes, such as language demanded by conservative Republicans to end the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which has been in place since August of 2021.
It marks the 61st year in a row that Congress has passed the defense bill on time, a notable achievement given the legislative gridlock that has reigned on Capitol Hill in recent years.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) cheered the passage of the bill after months of negotiation, calling it “the most significant vote of the year.”
“I’ve said it before and I’m not the only one saying it — the world is a more dangerous place than I’ve ever seen before in my lifetime,” he said.
The bill is named after retiring Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services panel.
The Biden administration earlier this week criticized the vaccine mandate repeal as “a mistake” but the president is still expected to sign the legislation when it reaches his desk.
Senators approved the legislation after voting down an amendment sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to enact permitting reform for energy projects and another sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) to require the military to rehire and provide back-pay to service members forced out of work because of vaccine non-compliance.
Both amendments needed 60 votes to pass.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) asked for a vote on his amendment to cap fees charged by trial lawyers in cases representing Marines who became ill because of water contamination at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
He later withdrew it because he expected it to fail but pledged to work with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on a compromise before the end of the year.
Conservatives won a major victory by successfully pressing Democrats to accept language ending the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
“I am so pleased that the NDAA language reflects what we have sought to do,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who pushed for the repeal.
She hailed it as a “major win” and noted that every service branch has struggled to meet their recruiting goals this year. More than 8,400 active-duty service members have been pushed out of the military for not getting COVID-19 shots, Blackburn said.
Passage of the defense bill is a victory for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who identified it as a top priority in the lame-duck session.
“I’ve spent all week discussing ways this legislation will help our armed forces and national security professionals, safeguard our homeland and keep adversaries like Russia on their back feet,” McConnell said Thursday ahead of the bill’s passage.
“The NDAA is only a first step toward the investments, modernization and stronger strategies that we need to compete and to win against rivals who don’t wish us well, but it is a crucial first step.”
McConnell and other Republicans criticized Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) for waiting so late in the year to bring the bill to the floor.
“Republicans spent months urging the Democratic majority not to neglect this year’s National Defense Authorization Act; not to leave our Armed Forces to the last minute. Five months ago, I called on our colleagues to process the defense bill as soon as possible.”
The Senate passage comes exactly a week after the House passed the bill, which lays out how the Defense Department allocates hundreds of billions of dollars toward weapons programs and provides a 4.6 percent raise in service members’ salaries.
It authorizes $163 billion for procurement, compared to the $144 billion requested in Biden’s budget; $139 billion for research and development, compared to the $130 billion requested by Biden; and $279 billion for operation and maintenance, compared to the $271 billion requested by Biden.
In addition, it authorizes $211 for personnel and health, roughly the same that Biden requested; $19 billion for military construction and $30 billion for defense related nuclear programs.
The bill includes intended military aid to other countries, such as $10 billion to Taiwan through 2027 and another $800 million in security assistance for Ukraine.
It allocates $6 billion for the European Deterrence Initiative, a program initiated in 2014 after Russia’s annexation of Crimea to increase the readiness of U.S. forces in Europe to deter further aggression.
It reforms the Uniform Code of Military Justice to give the special trial counsel jurisdiction over sexual harassment offenses and requires investigators outside the immediate chain of command to investigate harassment complaints.
Republicans defeated two policy riders that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wanted to add to the defense bill, Manchin’s permitting reform proposal and the SAFE Banking Act, which would prohibit federal regulators from penalizing financial institutions that work with legitimate cannabis-related businesses.
McConnell said last week that attempts to add those provisions were “obstructing” passage of the defense bill and dismissed the proposals as “a grab bag of miscellaneous pet priorities.”
Other Republicans criticized Manchin’s permitting reform bill from taking power away from Public Utility Commissioners by giving authority to federal regulators to pick the sites of electric transmission lines.
Passage of the NDAA leaves the omnibus spending package as the last remaining item of must-pass legislation to finish before the Christmas break and the end of the 117th Congress.
McConnell on Tuesday set a deadline of Dec. 22 to finish the omnibus and said he would support a stop-gap spending measure punting spending decision into 2023 if it’s not done by then. | 2022-12-16T02:37:50+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/senate-sends-858-billion-defense-bill-to-bidens-desk/ |
‘I’m speechless’: Organization remodels home for 2 brothers who lost their parents
KATY, Texas (KPRC) – Two brothers in Texas who lost their parents and grandparents have a roof over their heads thanks to volunteers.
The last few years have been tough for 22-year-old Jaylan Gray and 12-year-old Julian after both of their parents and their grandfather died.
Gray said he had promised his mother he would take care of Julian.
“[I] try my best to keep him in check, make sure he doesn’t get in trouble, and make sure he’s loved,” Gray said.
The brothers’ previous home had been severely damaged in 2017 by Hurricane Harvey and then again in the 2021 freeze.
“At one point, I was just done with the house. I was ready to sell it at one point. It was too much weight on my shoulders. I couldn’t do it,” Gray said.
Disaster rebuild organization Katy Responds and countless volunteers stepped in to help the two.
Executive Director Ron Peters said the organization remodeled it in three months.
“There’s just no way they could’ve lived in it and probably would’ve never fixed it,” Peters said.
The home was also furnished by Lakewood Church, a megachurch located in Houston.
Gray and Julian got a tour of their newly renovated home on Friday.
“I love it,” Gray said. “I’m speechless, way more than we asked for. Completely grateful.”
Peters said that the organization’s mission is to help provide people with a safe place to live and not have to worry about their home.
“This is what we do. It’s hard work. It’s non-profit work, but it’s why we do it, is for those guys,” he said.
Gray and Julian are now ready to start a new chapter in their lives.
“It makes me so happy to see that there’s good people. I just like the way we’ve been treated. I didn’t think anything good would happen,” Julian said.
Katy Responds was created in 2018 and has worked on about 160 homes.
To learn more about the organization and donate, visit katyresponds.org.
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Research reveals women who fish are happier and healthier
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) – Women who fish are happier and healthier, according to new research from Take Me Fishing™, a national brand from the non-profit Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF).
The research, a first to take a deep dive into female attitudes and behaviors around fishing, is driving a new integrated marketing campaign that shines a light on the life-changing benefits of fishing and boating and helps women to "Find Your Best Self on the Water."
The research, conducted in partnership with global market research firm IPSOS, consisted of a survey of active and lapsed female and non-anglers to better understand the benefits, behaviors, and barriers they experience.
Key highlights from the study include:
Among women who fish, one in four say it improves their mood, brings them peace, and helps them manage their mental health and long-term stress.
Women who fish have greater perseverance and are more likely to say that setbacks do not discourage them.
Almost half of women who fish say that fishing teaches them patience and helps to develop their confidence.
Women who fish have higher self-esteem and a clear mind (mindfulness).
Seventy-five percent of women who fish do not feel well-represented in marketing and advertising.
"Fishing and boating has a profound impact on a woman's life," said Rachel Piacenza, senior director of marketing at RBFF. "Our research shows this and our newest campaign is going a long way to accurately and inclusively depict this key audience, ideally inspiring more females to feel comfortable trying this life-enhancing activity."
Despite record levels of female participation in fishing, almost half of female anglers do not feel respected by the broader angling community with more than one in three feeling stereotyped. Lack of representation is intimidating and prohibitive for at least one in every four female anglers, and women of color tend to agree even more with this statement.
Take Me Fishing's 2023 campaign aims to confront these barriers and inspire women everywhere to challenge themselves to try something new to help them find their best self while supporting a more inclusive fishing and boating environment.
A women-led team conceived and developed the "Find Your Best Self on the Water" campaign. In addition to the research findings, the campaign includes 60- and 30-second ads, public service announcements, print, digital, and social media extensions, integrated media partnerships, influencer partnerships, and earned media activations.
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MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Tuesday, July 25
If you're looking for Tuesday's probable pitchers, you've come to the right place. Keep reading to find a breakdown of the day's expected starting pitchers, which features a showdown between George Kirby and the Mariners versus Pablo Lopez and the Twins.
Read on to find the probable pitcher matchups for every game on the docket for July 25.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Orioles at Phillies Probable Pitchers
The Baltimore Orioles will send Kyle Gibson (9-6) to the mound as they face the Phillies, who will counter with Taijuan Walker (11-4) when the clubs play on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Orioles at Phillies
- PHI Odds to Win: -120
- BAL Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Angels at Tigers Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Angels will send Griffin Canning (6-4) to the mound as they face the Tigers, who will give the start to Eduardo Rodriguez (6-5) for the matchup between the clubs Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Angels at Tigers
- DET Odds to Win: -125
- LAA Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Marlins at Rays Probable Pitchers
The Miami Marlins will send Edward Cabrera (5-5) to the mound as they face the Rays, who will give the start to Tyler Glasnow (3-3) for the matchup between the teams on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Marlins at Rays
- TB Odds to Win: -200
- MIA Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Mets at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The New York Mets will send Justin Verlander (4-5) to the mound as they face the Yankees, who will look to Domingo German (5-6) when the teams meet on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Mets at Yankees
- NYM Odds to Win: -115
- NYY Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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- Streaming: TBS (regional restrictions may apply)
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Rockies at Nationals Probable Pitchers
The Colorado Rockies will send Austin Gomber (8-8) to the hill as they take on the Nationals, who will look to Trevor Williams (5-5) when the teams play Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Rockies at Nationals
- WSH Odds to Win: -130
- COL Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Royals at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Kansas City Royals will send Zack Greinke (1-10) to the mound as they take on the Guardians, who will counter with Aaron Civale (3-2) when the teams play Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Royals at Guardians
- CLE Odds to Win: -210
- KC Odds to Win: +170
- Total: 8.5 runs
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- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
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Braves at Red Sox Probable Pitchers
The Atlanta Braves will send Charlie Morton (10-7) to the hill as they play the Red Sox, who will hand the ball to Brayan Bello (7-6) when the clubs meet Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Braves at Red Sox
- ATL Odds to Win: -145
- BOS Odds to Win: +120
- Total: 10 runs
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Mariners at Twins Probable Pitchers
The Seattle Mariners will send Kirby (9-8) to the bump as they take on the Twins, who will hand the ball to Lopez (5-6) for the game between the clubs Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Mariners at Twins
- MIN Odds to Win: -120
- SEA Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Reds at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Andrew Abbott (5-2) to the hill as they face the Brewers, who will give the start to Corbin Burnes (9-5) when the clubs face off Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Brewers
- MIL Odds to Win: -150
- CIN Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 8 runs
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Rangers at Astros Probable Pitchers
The Texas Rangers will send Cody Bradford (2-1) to the bump as they play the Astros, who will look to J.P. France (5-3) for the matchup between the teams on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Rangers at Astros
- HOU Odds to Win: -135
- TEX Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 9 runs
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Cubs at White Sox Probable Pitchers
The Chicago Cubs will send Kyle Hendricks (3-4) to the hill as they face the White Sox, who will look to Michael Kopech (4-8) when the teams meet Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Cubs at White Sox
- CHC Odds to Win: -115
- CHW Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Cardinals at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Steven Matz (1-7) to the mound as they face the Diamondbacks, who will look to Merrill Kelly (9-4) for the matchup between the clubs Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Cardinals at Diamondbacks
- ARI Odds to Win: -125
- STL Odds to Win: +105
- Total: 9 runs
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Pirates at Padres Probable Pitchers
The Pittsburgh Pirates will send Rich Hill (7-9) to the hill as they play the Padres, who will look to Blake Snell (6-8) when the teams face off on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Pirates at Padres
- SD Odds to Win: -275
- PIT Odds to Win: +220
- Total: 8 runs
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Athletics at Giants Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send Ken Waldichuk (2-6) to the mound as they play the Giants, who will counter with Alex Cobb (6-3) when the teams meet on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Athletics at Giants
- SF Odds to Win: -275
- OAK Odds to Win: +220
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Blue Jays at Dodgers Probable Pitchers
The Toronto Blue Jays will send Chris Bassitt (10-5) to the mound as they play the Dodgers, who will counter with Julio Urias (7-6) when the teams meet on Tuesday.
Vegas Odds for Blue Jays at Dodgers
- LAD Odds to Win: -135
- TOR Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 9 runs
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Despite economic concerns, Americans are eager to travel, reporting an increased interest in RV travel and the desire to discover new places with family and friends
AUSTIN, Texas and AKRON, Ohio, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, RVshare, the largest community for RV owners and renters, reveals findings from the 2023 Travel Trend Report, indicating another blockbuster year for travel, as 88 percent of survey respondents report they plan to travel as much or more in 2023 compared to last year.
According to the new research conducted by Wakefield Research, 99 percent[1] of Americans are planning leisure travel in 2023, with 51 percent planning more than last year, despite fluctuating economic conditions. Interest in RV travel is also on the rise, as 61 percent report planning to take a road trip or vacation in an RV in 2023, a 13 percent increase from 2022. According to these findings, RV travel has not only increased in popularity amongst outdoor travel enthusiasts, but is seeing a strong increase in interest amidst the general population when it comes to travel planning. Half of survey respondents claimed an RV or motorhome is among their top accommodation preferences, citing benefits that other accommodation options may not provide - including a kitchen (61%), less pressure to arrive and depart at a specific time (60%), and the ability to add spur of the moment detours and stops (60%) to leisure trips.
Additionally, work flexibility continues to evolve. The Travel Trends Report indicates remote work flexibility has become a permanent factor affecting lifestyle and travel decisions for many Americans. Especially of the Millennial and Gen-X survey respondents, who nearly all reported being able to work remotely, and admitted to being interested in sneaking in a vacation without calling off work when their schedules allow. This shift continues to impact how and when people travel, as well as who they share it with.
"As the travel industry continues to rapidly evolve, we focused our research on uncovering deeper insights into travelers' preferences, concerns and desires for the year ahead," said RVshare's CEO Jon Gray. "Our findings prove that RV travel is sharply trending forward as more Americans express not only a desire but a preference for this method of travel, particularly for spur of the moment discovery and group travel. Between the flexibility, convenience, and affordability RV travel offers in today's economic conditions, we are thrilled to see RVing enter the top three accommodation preferences for the majority of Americans."
Despite the economic uncertainty that the future holds, Wakefield's research highlights that travelers are more eager to travel than ever before. In fact, 88 percent of Americans are planning to travel as much or more in 2023 compared to the prior year. While inflation concerns loom, survey results reveal that only 2 percent of travelers are likely to cancel their travel plans because of it. Instead, consumers will be taking precautions and measures to still travel while reducing costs.
- 57 percent would look to cook some of their own meals instead of dining out while traveling.
- 49 percent would travel during the offseason.
- 43 percent would partake in fewer fee-based activities while on vacation.
As Americans look to book more leisure travel in 2023 compared to 2022, RV interest has continued to grow with 62 percent of travelers likely to consider renting an RV for a trip in the future. RV enthusiasts span age demographics as well, with millennials being the most interested age group as three-quarters of respondents aged 26-41 plan to take an RV trip in 2023.
- Half of those surveyed report that an RV or motorhome are among their top three accommodations preferences.
- Parents are among the most interested with 81 percent likely to consider renting an RV for a trip in the future.
- Three-quarters (75 percent) of millennials, the most interested age group in RV travel, plan on taking a road trip or vacation in an RV in 2023 followed by Gen X (65 percent) and Gen Z (58 percent).
RV travel offers a level of comfort, flexibility, and savings - with fewer headaches - compared to other forms of travel, which many Americans find desirable. Nearly 3 in 5 (59 percent) highlight the ability to change their itineraries and schedules as a significant benefit to traveling by RV. Others focused on cost-related benefits, such as predictability in terms of travel costs and the elimination of fees for traveling with additional or extensive luggage. Other benefits of RV travel that survey respondents value highly include:
- 52 percent noted no fees for bringing extra luggage.
- 47 percent say it allows them to budget around predictable travel costs.
- 47 percent noted the benefit of avoiding loud and unruly passengers.
- 44 percent reported that they appreciate fewer delays while on vacation.
Remote employees are leaning into a newly-flexible work culture by taking work with them on the road. Nearly all remote-friendly employees surveyed admitted to the desire to sneak in a vacation without calling off work - when travel accommodations would allow. This kind of travel - coined "Hush Trips" - allows for employees to continue their work uninterrupted while on the go, without revealing or disclosing their location to bosses and coworkers.
Overall, 56 percent of all working adults say that they're very or extremely likely to book a "hush trip" in 2023. Among that group, 36 percent of Gen X and 36 percent of millennials, of whom nearly all claim to have remote jobs, have already planned a hush trip in 2023.
A factor that can deter first-time RV renters, who account for one third of bookings on RVshare, is a lack of experience in having physically driven an RV before. To negate this concern, RVshare provides the option for RV delivery - a method of travel which continues to increase in popularity. According to RVshare's own insights, RV rentals that include delivery continue to increase substantially year over year, up 48 percent since 2021, and up 150 percent since 2020. Nearly half of RV rentals from the platform were delivered in 2022[2].
The 2023 Travel Trend Report found:
- 79 percent of respondents say that the delivery option would make them more likely to consider an RV trip.
- Especially helpful for those traveling with children, 71 percent of parents say they're much more likely to consider an RV trip if the RV is delivered to their destination.
Following two years of upheaval and unpredictability in the travel space, the Travel Trend Report surveyed for the types of travel Americans are looking forward to most in the next year. The research finds that Americans are evenly split between plans to finally make "bucket list" trips a reality (50%) and plans to keep things simple after the travel frustrations of the past year (50%).
Trends also seem to be evolving beyond the types of trips made popular during the pandemic, as the survey found that while interest in relaxing and unwinding remains high at 59%, there is a clear 12 point decline over last year. Similarly, the importance of spending quality time with family experienced a 7 point drop to 50%, as did interest in enjoying nature and wildlife (47%). The importance of enjoying peace and quiet (49%) and catching up with friends (34%) are on par with last year. Additional findings include:
- 49 percent are planning annual trips with family or friends.
- 48 percent are planning laid-back trips focused on relaxation.
- 44 percent are planning local trips.
- 30 percent are planning international trips.
- 29 percent are planning big trips to bucket list destinations.
- 28 percent are planning cross-country road trips.
As Americans' interest in RV travel increases, Wakefield research reveals that travelers are seeking to experience RVs in new ways - beyond the typical road trip. According to RVshare insights, 20 percent of rentals are booked for event purposes like tailgating, auto and aviation shows, music festivals and more.
- 63 percent say they're very or 100 percent likely to stay in an RV for multi day festivals, a 10 percent increase from 2022.
- 52 percent say the same for tailgating events, a 10 percent increase from 2022.
- 68 percent for trips to National Parks, a 6 percent jump from 2022.
- And 55 percent would book an RV rental for hobby events.
The full 2023 Travel Trend Report is viewable here. For additional information about RVshare, visit rvshare.com.
RVshare is the largest online community for RV renters and owners with a diverse selection of vehicles for rent across the US, ranging from luxury motorhomes to cozy camper vans. On RVshare you'll find vehicles that can accommodate any outdoor adventure, whether it's a weekend of camping or a cross-country tour of national parks. Hit the road yourself or plan for a campsite delivery to experience the unbridled freedom of RV travel. With more than 3 million nights of sleeping under the stars booked, families and groups can experience a one-of-a-kind trip and create memories that will last a lifetime. For more information, visit rvshare.com, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @rvshare.
- Survey conducted by Wakefield Research among 1,000 US adults ages 18+ who have taken a vacation in the past 24 months. 60% of survey respondents currently own an RV or have been on an RV vacation in the past. The survey was fielded between September 16th and September 25th, 2022.
- RVshare 2022 Internal Data
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