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Huber, Addo help Augustana rush past Upper Iowa
A pair of 100-yard rushers led the Augustana Vikings over Upper Iowa 31-14 on Saturday in Fayette, Iowa.
Isaiah Huber and David Addo combined for 237 yards on the ground and three touchdowns to push Augustana to 5-1 in 2022. Upper Iowa falls to 0-6.
In addition, Grayson Diepenbrock became the program’s sack king as he sacked the UIU quarterback twice, pushing his career to 23.5 sacks to surpass Craig Bosch’s 23.
Diepenbrock’s first sack of the game set up the Vikings’ first touchdown. Diepenbrock ran through the offensive line, untouched, to get to Marcus Orr and created a strip sack. That set the Vikings' offense up inside the Peacock five-yard line.
Kyle Graham took the handoff and went towards the right pylon for the game’s first score.
Upper Iowa tied the game at seven on a 19-yard touchdown pass from the UIU running back on a trick play.
On the ensuing drive, the Vikings answered back with a 6-play, 71-yard drive concluding with an Addo 7-yard touchdown. Addo used power football to push himself through the line and reach the end zone.
The 14-7 score would hold for halftime thanks to an interception by Eli Weber, his third of the season. Weber hauled in the pass with just seconds remaining in the first half inside Viking territory.
Augustana utilized a misplay by Upper Iowa to score its third touchdown of the contest. A 38-yard Drew Jurgens punt was muffed by the returner and quickly recovered by JayVian Farr at the UIU seven-yard line. One play later, Addo was again in the end zone for the 21-7 score.
In the early minutes of the fourth quarter, Ben Limburg split the uprights on a 33-yard field goal to boost the Vikings’ lead to 24-7.
Huber concluded the game with 136 yards rushing on nine attempts, a 15.1 yards per carry average, and a touchdown. Addo ended with 101 yards and two touchdowns.
In all, Augustana rattled off 376 yards of offense while holding Upper Iowa to 200 yards even and just 10 yards rushing. As has been the norm in 2022, T.J. Liggett led the team with eight tackles. TJ Murray found himself with five tackles and a pass breakup.
However, the story of the defense was Diepenbrock as his two sacks totaled a loss of 26 Peacock yards. He now has eight sacks in 2022, tying the single-season program record, while his 23.5 sacks over 39 career contests are a program record for a career.
Augustana is back home inside Kirkeby-Over Stadium on Saturday for Viking Days. | 2022-10-09T04:48:24+00:00 | argusleader.com | https://www.argusleader.com/story/sports/college/augustana-university/2022/10/09/isaiah-huber-david-addo-help-augustana-rush-past-upper-iowa/69536119007/ |
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Senate lawmakers on Thursday that his agency has been conducting offensive cyber operations against state and non-state cyber actors.
Wray said offensive operations are one of many tactics the agency employs to counter various cyber threats.
“Offense is a critical part of our overall effort to push back against cyber adversaries,” Wray said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in which he was testifying.
Wray was responding to a question from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who wanted to know whether the agency has sufficient offensive measures to push back against cyber threats and whether it should do more of it.
“It strikes me that the only effective way to stop the attacks that come from a cyber nature is to attack back; that the best defense is a good offense,” Romney said as he was asking the question.
Wray was joined by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Christine Abizaid, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, to discuss threats to the homeland.
Although Wray did not provide specifics into the type of cyber offensive operations the agency has conducted, he did say that the department engages in other types of activities, including conducting counterintelligence operations, targeting adversaries’ infrastructure, disrupting malicious cryptocurrency schemes, and indicting cyber criminals.
In September, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment of three Iranian nationals alleged to have hacked hundreds of computer systems of organizations in the U.S. and around the world.
DOJ officials accused the Iranian nationals of exfiltrating data from the organizations’ computer systems and attempting to extort money from them by either threatening to release the stolen data or keeping the data encrypted unless the hackers were paid.
The DOJ has also indicted Russian and Chinese hackers for similar charges.
Other U.S. agencies have also said that they’ve engaged in cyber offensive operations against nation-state threat actors.
In June, Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of U.S. Cyber Command, publicly confirmed for the first time that the U.S. had helped Ukraine on the offensive side.
“We’ve conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum: offensive, defensive, [and] information operations,” Nakasone said during an interview with Sky News, a British television news channel.
At the hearing, Wray said that by going after cyber actors, their infrastructure and illicit funds at the same time, the agency is able to “degrade and disrupt their effectiveness.”
However, he warned that deterring nation-state threat actors from continuing to engage in illegal cyber activity is much more difficult than disrupting their operations.
“We’re not going to deter the Chinese or the Russians from spying, but we can make it hellishly difficult for them to do it,” Wray said.
“And that’s what we’re after now [which] is imposing risks and consequences on the adversaries to hit them where it hurts [and] to make it harder and harder for them to really come after us with cyber means,” he added. | 2022-11-18T00:38:41+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/wray-tells-lawmakers-that-fbi-conducts-cyber-offensive-operations/ |
When my wife and I opened Cypress Grove Brewing in 2019, we did so with two goals. We wanted to help foster a sense of community in Assumption, our farming town of just over 1,000 residents, which had seen little meaningful investment in past decades. We also wanted to find a combination of fun and rewarding work in our retirement years.
In the years since opening our brewery and taproom on the site of our cattle farm, we’ve learned several important lessons spanning technology to marketing and operations. We want to share those with our fellow small business owners in hopes we can grow our Assumption community together.
1. Think local. From local food trucks to local vendors and local music, promoting area small businesses helps us attract new customers and foster a sense of community pride in our business. When we can’t partner with local businesses, we ask them for recommendations.
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2. Get smart on tech. We’re in our 60s, so we’re not the most tech savvy couple on the planet. But when we started the brewery, we knew we needed to advertise. We learned how to use Facebook ads to reach our surrounding community in a direct and cost-efficient way. Facebook is the primary platform we use to advertise our business.
3. Stay authentic. We don’t try to be something we’re not. We’re cattle farmers who want to have fun in retirement, and we’ve tailored our operations to meet those goals. We’re open one or two days a week, and we run our business like a family reunion, with lawn chairs and board games and great conversation.
There’s nothing better than someone coming to the brewery as a customer and leaving as a friend. Together, let’s support our small businesses, spur investment, and grow our community in Assumption.
Phil Corzine, Assumption | 2022-10-14T03:26:42+00:00 | herald-review.com | https://herald-review.com/opinion/letters/letter-tips-for-new-small-businesses/article_43488226-48ad-11ed-a910-37470efb19a6.html |
Georgia and TCU faced off tonight in the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship game in Los Angeles. The Bulldogs went into this game as No. 1 and that is where they will stay after defeating the Horned Frogs by an overwhelming 65-7. It wasn’t much of a showdown with the Dawgs scoring at nearly every possession and staying in total control throughout the game.
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West Fraser Issues Statement
Published: Jul. 19, 2022 at 12:37 PM CDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
VANCOUVER, BC, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. ("West Fraser" or the "Company") (TSX and NYSE: WFG) today issued the following statement:
The Company is aware of recent market and media speculation. Although the Company has previously met with Kronospan, an existing shareholder, and CVC Capital Partners, the Company has not received a proposal and there are no ongoing discussions regarding the terms of any transaction. The Company is focused on executing on its business strategy to create shareholder value.
About West Fraser
West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the Company produces lumber, engineered wood products (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, and particleboard), pulp, newsprint, wood chips, other residuals, and renewable energy. West Fraser's products are used in home construction, repair and remodelling, industrial applications, papers, tissue, and box materials.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains certain statements and information that do not relate to historical matters and constitute forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Canadian securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements") and may include statements and information relating to expectations of West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (the "Company") regarding the Company's strategy, plans, goals, objectives, expectations and future operating performance; statements regarding any proposal or any proposed transaction involving the Company (there can be no assurance that any proposal comes forward to the Company, and even if it does, there is no assurance that any transaction would close); and statements regarding the Company's expectations regarding the other matters set forth in this release. You may identify these and other forward-looking statements by the use of words such as "may", "plans", "anticipates", "believes", "should", "estimates", "targets", "expects", "intends", "potential" or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Forward-looking statements represent the Company's views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any subsequent date. Forward-looking statements do not purport to be predictions of future events or results and there can be no assurance that they will prove to be accurate.
By their nature, these forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, inherent risks and uncertainties, both general and specific, which contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, and other forward- looking statements will not occur. In addition, actual outcomes and results of these statements will depend on a number of factors including those matters described under "Risks and Uncertainties" in our 2021 MD&A, as updated by the disclosures in our Q1 2022 MD&A, as well as in our public filings with securities regulatory authorities and may differ materially from those anticipated or projected. Reference should be made to the other factors discussed in public filings with securities regulatory authorities for more information on these potential risks and uncertainties. Shareholders may obtain copies of the Company's filings and other publicly filed documents without charge from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or from SEDAR's website at www.sedar.com.
Readers should exercise caution in relying upon forward-looking statements and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, to reflect subsequent events or circumstances except as required by applicable securities laws.
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DENVER (KDVR) — Denver’s weather will turn chilly and wet into Wednesday, helping with high fire danger conditions in place across eastern Colorado throughout Tuesday.
Weather tonight: Breezy in mountains, foothills
Tuesday night’s temperatures will fall into the upper 30s in Denver, with partly cloudy skies.
There will be less wind in the lower elevations and breezy conditions in the mountains and foothills.
Weather tomorrow: Rain, snow chances
Temperatures will cool to the 50s on Wednesday with a cold front pushing through. There will be light rain showers in the afternoon. Showers change over to snow Wednesday evening as temperatures get cold enough.
The showers will be spotty, so not every area will see precipitation or accumulating snowfall.
By late Wednesday night, snowfall totals will be less than an inch across the Denver metro area and roads will be wet. There could be up to 2 inches of snow on the Palmer Divide and into the foothills, but most places won’t see road impacts.
Looking ahead: Dry weekend
Thursday will be dry with temperatures in the low 50s. Friday will stay in the 50s with a 20% chance for rain and snow showers.
Sunshine and dry weather will return Saturday and Sunday, with highs climbing back to the 60s by Sunday afternoon. Rain chances will return to the forecast next week. | 2023-04-19T00:50:23+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/weather/weather-forecast/denver-weather-rain-snow-chances-on-wednesday/ |
Golden State coach Steve Kerr went into last season uncertain if his club would be good enough to contend for another NBA championship.
He got his answer. He’s getting another ring.
And now, the Warriors will try to do it all again.
The NBA’s 77th season starts Tuesday night, the opening doubleheader — Philadelphia at Eastern Conference champion Boston, then the Los Angeles Lakers at the Warriors — wasting no time in putting title contenders on display. Commissioner Adam Silver will be in San Francisco for Golden State’s ring night as the Warriors begin their quest for what would be a fifth championship in nine seasons.
“We’re back in it,” Kerr said. “But there’s a lot of teams that are right in it, and the league is super competitive. I think the West has gotten even stronger. There’s a lot of competition out there. And so, we’re one of the teams that is in the mix and that’s exciting. But we have to start over. It doesn’t just automatically happen from one year to the next, so we’ve got a lot of work.”
There is no shortage of contenders for the Warriors to fend off and no shortage of teams that made big moves with hopes of being the last team standing this season. Minnesota traded with Utah for Rudy Gobert and Cleveland traded with Utah for Donovan Mitchell; the Timberwolves and Cavaliers are trying to reach the league’s upper echelon, and the Jazz are starting on a new path after a few years of being good but nowhere near good enough.
“There’s a very high level of competition this year,” Gobert said. “I think a lot of teams got better.”
Some teams might have gotten better by not doing something. Kevin Durant asked for a trade out of Brooklyn; cooler heads prevailed, and Durant remained with the Nets, who also should have Kyrie Irving — whose decision not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 means he’ll be tested often but won’t keep him off the floor — for many more games this season than the 29 he was limited to last season. And Ben Simmons, who didn’t play at all last season, will be out there with Durant and Irving as well.
Durant’s reason for asking for a trade was simple: “I was more so worried about how we’re approaching every day as a basketball team,” he said. Those concerns were addressed, and in Brooklyn he stayed, with the Nets expected to joust with Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Miami and probably others in a very deep Eastern Conference.
“A lot of teams have a legitimate shot," said Hall of Famer Chris Mullin, now a television analyst for the Warriors. “I think that's really good for the league. A lot of teams have two and three stars, and if they get their chemistry right, they stay healthy, they figure out the right kind of basketball to complement their talent, then there are a lot of teams with legitimate aspirations."
LeBron James enters this season 1,325 points behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the NBA’s all-time scoring lead, and the Lakers — if they can stay healthy — figure to be much better than the 33-49 record they posted last year. The Los Angeles Clippers have Kawhi Leonard back after a year off with a knee injury, just as the Denver Nuggets get Jamal Murray back from knee rehabilitation to join forces again with two-time reigning MVP Nikola Jokic. Phoenix has a core that has won more games than any team in the NBA over the last two regular seasons, though it enters this season with its franchise for sale as a result of owner Robert Sarver's conduct.
All those clubs, and a few others, plan on contending.
“Hopefully, we can take another step,” Leonard said. “That’s all I can hope for.”
The Celtics and Warriors took more steps than anyone last season, getting to the finals.
And then, they took steps back.
Golden State’s preseason was turned on its head when Warriors forward Draymond Green punched guard Jordan Poole during a practice session, a story that got immeasurably worse when video of the incident was leaked to TMZ. Green was fined by the Warriors, took a few days away from the team, then returned last week.
That all came a few weeks after the Celtics suspended coach Ime Udoka until June 30 after an investigation found he broke multiple team rules and was involved in an improper relationship with a female member of the organization.
Udoka, a feel-good story after going to the finals in his first year as a head coach, is being replaced by 34-year-old Joe Mazzulla for this season as the Celtics chase an 18th championship, one that would break a tie with the Lakers for the most in NBA history.
“The great thing about this organization, the players that we have, and the season last year is we have a formula for what we know we need to do in order to get better every single day and get back to where we want to get to,” Mazzulla said. “As much as we can focus on that, we’ll be in good shape.”
There will be surprises. There will be injuries, probably some trades, maybe some firings along the way and presumably even some tanking — whether teams call it that or not — with hopes of enhancing their odds of winning the lottery and being able to draft French teenage phenom Victor Wembanyama next June.
Other teams, like the Warriors, also are thinking about June. Not for the draft, but because that’s when a champion will be crowned.
“We are on hopefully another nine-month journey,” said Warriors guard Stephen Curry, the reigning NBA Finals MVP. “And it’s exciting. We’re blessed to play this game at the highest level and understand that we still have an opportunity to win a couple more championships.” | 2022-10-17T21:03:54+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/sports/professional/basketball/nba/nba-22-23-warriors-out-to-defend-amid-tons-of-contenders/article_8076983a-4e58-11ed-b7d2-3710aa2a85a9.html |
Just like a human toddler, the giant panda cub at the National Zoo is reaching his milestones.
Xiao Qi Ji is coming “of the age to ‘move’ away from his mother and go live on his own,” Pamela Baker-Masson, a spokeswoman for the zoo, wrote in an email. “He will transition to the new yard,” Baker-Masson said, and keepers will watch the pandas for “cues as to when the ‘separation’ has taken place.”
Xiao Qi Ji went into the new area with his mother and showed “no hesitation” in exploring the space, keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute said in a statement last week.
Keepers watched Xiao Qi Ji’s behavior closely to make sure he wasn’t intimidated and still ate, slept and played comfortably. The young panda left his scent, ran, climbed trees, and checked out the waterfalls, views and new smells.
His mother sat happily nearby, munching on bamboo. Sometimes, Xiao Qi Ji stopped exploring and ate near his mother. Other times, he rested close to her as she ate, or the two played together. Xiao Qi Ji also figured out that he can “interact with his keepers through the glass when they are on their way” to the nearby red panda exhibit, zookeepers said.
Xiao Qi Ji was born in August 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, becoming the first giant panda cub in five years at the D.C. zoo. At the time of his birth, mom Mei Xiang was 22 years old, making her the oldest giant panda to give birth in the United States.
Mei Xiang had previously had pregnancy issues, including five false pregnancies during a five-year period after giving birth in 2005. In 2012, she was artificially inseminated after unsuccessful natural breeding with Tian Tian and became the first giant panda in the country to give birth after the use of frozen semen, experts said. But that 2012 cub died six days later.
Xiao Qi Ji’s name, Mandarin Chinese for “little miracle,” was chosen in a public naming contest several months after his 2020 birth. The name reflects the “extraordinary circumstances under which he was born” and celebrated “the collaboration between colleagues who strive to conserve this species,” zoo officials said at the time.
China owns and leases all giant pandas in U.S. zoos.
Pandas have long had a big following at the National Zoo, which this year celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the arrival of its first giant pandas. All three of its current giant pandas — Xiao Qi Ji, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian — are set to go to China at the end of 2023.
One of Mei Xiang’s cubs, the wildly popular Tai Shan, was flown to China in 2010, as part of a breeding program. Another, Bei Bei, departed in 2019.
As Xiao Qi Ji becomes more acclimated to his new area, keepers said, the zoo will have more flexibility to move all three pandas around.
Keepers said they expect it will take more time in the new space before Xiao Qi Ji finds his favorite spot to hang out in, as giant pandas usually do. For now, experts said Xiao Qi Ji is showing all the normal behaviors of enjoying his new space as he wanders independently from his indoor space to his new outdoor area.
Still, zookeepers said they have no plans to separate Xiao Qi Ji from his mom immediately. In the wild and in zoos, most panda cubs are weaned between 18 months and 2 years of age. | 2022-12-30T10:18:14+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/12/30/panda-cub-national-zoo-dc/ |
SEOUL – A passenger opened an emergency exit door during a South Korean flight Friday, causing air to gust inside the cabin before the plane landed safely, airline and government officials said.
Some people aboard the Asiana Airlines Airbus A321 aircraft tried to stop the person from opening the door but it was eventually opened partially, the Transport Ministry said.
The plane with 194 people was heading to the southeastern city of Daegu from the southern island of Jeju. The flight is normally about an hour, and details of the incident, including how long the door was open, were under investigation, according to Asiana Airlines.
Video footage apparently taken by a person on board that was posted on social media show some passengers' hair being whipped by the air blowing into the cabin through the open door.
Police detained the unidentified person who opened the door, the airline said. Their motive wasn't immediately known.
The passengers included teenage athletes who plan to attend track and field competitions in Ulsan, another southeastern city.
The incident terrified some passengers but no one was injured, though some passengers were assessed at a hospital, Asiana and Transport Ministry officials said. | 2023-05-26T08:21:30+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/world/2023/05/26/south-korean-passenger-plane-flies-with-open-door-lands-safely/ |
SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kandao is excited to announce the launch of the Meeting Ultra, a 360 conferencing device with two attached tiltable touchscreens to enable users to have conference meetings anywhre, anytime, any way they like. The Kandao Meeting Ultra won the CES 2023 Best of Innovation award for its innovative design of an all-inclusive conference device.
This new iteration in our hybrid meeting conference series builds upon our previous award-winning Meeting Pro. Just like previous models, Meeting Ultra features two lenses for panoramic video capture, omnidirectional mics that pick up audio up to 18 feet, HiFi speakers, and a built-in Android operating system, so that the device can plug right into any monitor and functions as a stand-alone video conferencing terminal. Smart-tracking AI algorithm allows the device to merge audio and video inputs to always focus on active speakers in any meeting.
Most important in this new iteration is the increase in video quality to 4K 30FPS and two tiltable touchscreen displays to enable users to view remote participants and easily log in to conferencing platforms directly from the device. With the addition of two displays, users no longer need to turn their heads towards external monitors, thus showing remote participants the side of their faces, a common challenge of 360 conference devices. Users can look directly at the camera and displays, so their faces will always be in the frame for remote participants.
The outer body of the Kandao Meeting Ultra includes two HDMI OUT ports to support up to two external display screens and an HDMI IN port to share the screen from a computer directly onto the two attached displays. There is also an ethernet port for wired connectivity, 3 USB A ports to connect the keyboard and mouse, an USB C port for peripherals (additional camera, microphone, or speakers), and an SD card slot for recording meetings.
Additional connectivity options include a 5G hot spot, a wifi network, or LAN to truly allow users to have conference meetings anywhere. Kandao devices are compatible with all major video conferencing platforms, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, and Cisco Webex.
The device is designed to be flexible to the business user's needs. It can either be permanently situated in the middle of the room to quickly set up for conference calls, or it can be carried from one office to a client site. This is perfect for panoramic broadcasting from conference rooms, single-person presentations, huddle room discussions, board meetings, and on-the-ground meetings for emergency response teams.
Kandao believes the Meeting Ultra offers unrivaled portability and flexibility for business users. As the world transitions to hybrid meetings, conference rooms must be upgraded, and employees must be equipped with new tools that enable the immersive experience of in-person meetings, even from the most remote locations.
About Company
Kandao is a VR research and hardware startup focused on creating next-generation imaging products, enriching the human life experience. Driven by the development of hardware and software, Kandao is a pioneer in VR technology, Ultra-HD video cameras, and video conferencing cameras. Founded in 2016, it is the first Chinese company honored by the CES Best of Innovation award in the digital imaging category, and the first company to have its 12K 3D VR camera used to live-stream in 8K VR.
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President Biden will designate a new national monument to honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955. The monument will also pay tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Copyright 2023 Gulf States Newsroom
President Biden will designate a new national monument to honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955. The monument will also pay tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Copyright 2023 Gulf States Newsroom | 2023-07-25T11:07:46+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-07-25/biden-to-designate-a-national-monument-honoring-emmett-till-and-his-mother |
There are a lot of questions about the case against former President Donald Trump. He pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 felony charges. He’s accused of covering up payment to an adult film actress to conceal an alleged affair and influence the 2016 election.
Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Jerry Goldfeder, an election lawyer who is the director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project. He’s special counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. He has represented elected officials and candidates in past election cases.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-04-05T17:23:22+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/2023-04-05/the-charges-against-trump-explained |
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term as he sought Thursday to dispel notions that it is partisan, even after conservatives brought about the end of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief program.
“The court is an institution of law. It’s an institution of law not of politics, not of partisanship,” Kavanaugh said at a judicial conference in Minnesota, in the first public remarks by a justice since the court recessed for the summer late last month.
The Supreme Court has been reshaped by the three justices nominated by President Donald Trump, including Kavanaugh. Although Kavanaugh sided with the conservative majorities in the affirmative action and student loan rulings, as well as last summer’s ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion, he was also part of the mixed conservative and liberal majorities this term that backed Black voters in Alabama and preserved a federal law aimed at keeping Native American children with Native families.
And the term was marked by other notable surprises, rejecting conservative positions in a North Carolina redistricting case that could have reshaped elections across the country, while backing the Biden administration in a fight over deportation priorities.
“We have lived up, in my estimation, to deciding cases based on law and not based on partisan affiliation and partisanship,” Kavanaugh said. “We don’t caucus in separate rooms. We don’t meet separately. We’re not sitting on different sides of the aisle at an oral argument. … We work as a group of nine.”
Speaking to an audience of judges, attorneys and court personnel from the 8th Circuit, which stretches from Minnesota and the Dakotas south to Arkansas, Kavanaugh said he didn’t fully appreciate until he joined the court how much time the nine justices spend alone with each other.
He estimated that they eat lunch together around 65 times a year.
“And the rule at lunch is you can’t talk about work,” he said. “It’s a good rule. … It builds relationships and friendships and then when we have tough cases — and we only really have tough cases — you have a reservoir of good will toward each of the other people.”
Kavanaugh said he was warmly welcomed in his first term in 2018 by then-Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, who were part of the court’s liberal wing. He also praised his working relationships with the two newest justices, conservative Amy Coney Barrett and liberal Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Kavanaugh, who was the justice most often in the majority this term in divided cases, said the Supreme Court hears 60 to 70 cases a term and that only a relative few might get most of the attention. But he said there are lots of 9-0 decisions, and there can also be a lot of 7-2 and 6-3 decisions.
“All sorts of different lineups,” he said. “And so I might be working with Sonia Sotomayor on the Andy Warhol case, while we disagree on a case on the competition clause. We’re not going to let our relationship where we’re working together on one suffer just because we disagree on the other. And that’s going on with all nine of us on a daily basis.”
Kavanaugh only briefly mentioned the ethics issues that have dogged some justices — including conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and the liberal Sotomayor — and potentially undermined public confidence in the court. He noted that Chief Justice John Roberts said in May that the justices were continuing to work on that as a group.
“That’s accurate,” he said. “I’m not going to add anything to what the chief justice has said on that topic.”
Roberts offered no specifics at the time, and the justices have not adopted an ethics code.
Kavanaugh said people getting upset when the high court makes difficult decisions comes with the territory. He said the best the justices can do is try to be consistent, clearly explain their reasoning, and try to show that they actually are working as a team of nine on difficult cases instead of caucusing on a partisan basis.
“You shouldn’t be in this line of work if you don’t like criticism,” he said. “Because you’re going to get it. And you’re going to get a lot of it.” | 2023-07-14T21:07:43+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national/ap-justice-kavanaugh-seeks-to-dispel-the-notion-that-the-supreme-court-is-partisan/ |
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Austria said Thursday that a police firearms instructor is being investigated for accidentally shooting dead a fellow officer during a training exercise.
Prosecutors in the southern city of Graz said the 39-year-old instructor had handed practice weapons to the officers, but forgotten that he was still carrying his own service firearm.
Intending to show the group that one them was standing in a dangerous position, the instructor drew his gun and shot the 27-year-old officer in the back at close range, wounding him fatally.
Christian Kroschl, a spokesman for the prosecutors office, said there was no doubt the incident Wednesday had been an accident.
The instructor is now being investigated on suspicion of grossly negligent killing, he said. | 2022-09-16T13:16:14+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/ap-firearms-instructor-accidentally-shoots-dead-fellow-officer/ |
Buffalo will begin employing frequent revaluations so that property values are closer to 100%, Mayor Byron W. Brown has vowed.
The net effect is that property tax increases and the use of nonrecurring revenue would be less of a necessity to balance future city budgets, though Brown is adamant that that would not be his motivation for reassessing properties more often.
"It has nothing to do with that at all," the mayor said in a telephone interview last week. "It's just a matter of equity so people are paying their fair share based on the value of their home."
Council members cut about $2 million from Mayor Byron W. Brown’s suggested spending plan. ShotSpotters are out. So are increases to user fees. And property tax hikes are lower than originally proposed.
In a meeting with The Buffalo News Editorial Board on May 13, Brown defended his proposed 5% residential property tax increase – which the Common Council trimmed a week later – in his $568 million spending plan for the 2022-23 fiscal year. Overall, including commercial property, Brown had proposed hiking taxes by 4.5%, a figure the Council cut to 3.5% when it approved a budget on May 20.
Brown had characterized his tax increase proposal as modest. The mayor noted that, without the additional revenue from the tax increase and nonrecurring revenue sources – such as the multimillions in federal stimulus funds and casino revenue – he would have had to cut proposed increases in youth employment programs, public safety and public works projects even though they are priorities for many city residents.
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"As we go forward, we want to phase out the use of any one-shots," Brown said then. "The one-shots were used in last year's budget, this year's budget and the next year's budget because of the impact of the pandemic."
Raising taxes this year, Brown argued before the Council slashed $2 million from his plan, would allow revenue from the nonrecurring sources to compound and, by the third and fourth years of his unprecedented fifth term in office, provide even more revenue for the city to move away from one-shot budget-balancing measures.
In amending the mayor's proposal, the Council cut a $250,000 expenditure for ShotSpotter technology in the Buffalo Police Department after residents, advocates and community leaders criticized the plan. ShotSpotters use audio sensors to register the sound of gunfire and determine where it came from, all within a minute before alerting police. Critics, however, have questioned its accuracy.
The Council also eliminated Brown's proposed 4% increase in the recycling and user fee.
"The city has not relied on property tax increases for most of the time that I've been in office. We've either held the line on property taxes or cut the property tax rate," said Brown.
"What this would do is just give people a sense of the accurate value of their home," Brown added in regard to pursuing more regular revaluations.
The mayor said he had not pursued more frequent reassessments in the past "because our plan was to reduce the tax burden in the City of Buffalo."
The aim, he said, was to reduce property taxes to make the city more attractive for residential and commercial investment.
"When I came into office in 2006, there were some surrounding municipalities that we had a higher tax rate than. There were other upstate cities that we had a higher tax rate than. Now we have the lowest tax rate of most major upstate cities, and a lower tax rate than our largest neighboring suburban municipalities," Brown said.
The mayor added that the current demand for more city services encouraged him to propose an increase in the tax levy, which is the amount collected in taxes.
Before the Council and the mayor's financial team negotiated a cut in the tax increase that Brown initially proposed, the mayor said the increase in the levy would not have had a significant impact on the taxes most homeowners are already paying.
"We think it makes sense now to raise the tax levy after the census numbers have come in showing that we are a city of over 278,000 people. So we wanted to spread the tax burden over more residents in the City of Buffalo," Brown said on May 13.
Brown said that for 70% of homeowners in the city, the tax increase is less than $50.
Brown said the biggest increase would have been borne mostly by some of the city's wealthiest homeowners in the Delaware and a portion of the Niagara Council districts, who could expect to see increases of over $100.
"We think, even in those cases, it would still be modest," he said.
Brown noted that this is his 17th budget proposal, and some have questioned why he has not raised taxes incrementally over the years.
"I will say that, first of all, Council members have never raised that question before," the mayor said.
Brown, who had raised taxes only once in the last 16 years, said that he has been clear with his budget management team about tax policy since he was first elected.
"We wanted to lower the tax rate or hold the line on the tax rate to make Buffalo more attractive to residential and commercial investment. We've been able to accomplish that," he said.
Brown noted that both the current residential and commercial property tax rates are less than half what they were when he first took office in the 2005-06 fiscal year. The residential tax rate was $20.95 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, while the commercial rate was $37.41 per $1,000.
The current residential rate is $9.88 per $1,000, and the current commercial property tax rate is $17.21.
The new residential tax rate for 2022-23 is set for $10.27 per $1,000, and the commercial rate is set at $18.17.
"For 14 years in Buffalo, people's tax rate either stayed the same or went down at a time when every other bill that they paid went up," said Brown.
Brown said the last citywide revaluation was in 2019, and took effect in 2020. | 2022-05-29T18:28:31+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/buffalo-mayor-plans-on-regular-property-revaluations-in-the-future/article_d90b1b5c-d2f6-11ec-9b00-f31e6a449bcd.html |
NORWALK, Conn., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Terex Corporation (NYSE: TEX) will host a conference call to review its second quarter 2022 financial results on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. John L. Garrison, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Julie Beck, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will host the call.
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GRAPHIC: Florida man arrested for animal cruelty after dragging dog with truck
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) - Florida authorities have arrested a man for animal cruelty after a witness spotted him dragging a dog with his truck.
According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the witness reported seeing a driver, later identified as Lisandro Arellano, dragging a white bulldog with his truck on Oct. 9.
The sheriff’s office said the witness told deputies that they caught the driver’s attention, believing it was an honest mistake, but the suspect stopped his vehicle, picked the dog up, and threw it in the bed of his truck before he continued driving.
Detectives said they were able to locate Arellano, and he agreed to turn the French bulldog mix named Blanco over to animal control.
According to authorities, Lisandro carried Blanco in his truck inhumanely. He failed to act to the injuries Blanco sustained from him dragging her by the neck with his truck as her body scraped along the roadway. Furthermore, Lisandro unnecessarily allowed Blanco to suffer in pain repeatedly.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said it was grateful for the witness to let deputies know of the “heinous act.”
Lisandro was arrested and charged with aggravated animal cruelty and cruelty towards animals.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-26T01:36:21+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2022/10/26/graphic-florida-man-arrested-animal-cruelty-after-dragging-dog-with-truck/ |
Although Bangor’s property tax rate for 2024 is expected to drop, residents will likely see a nearly 10 percent increase in their tax bills because of climbing property values.
City councilors have discussed and revised the city’s spending plan since April, and they settled on a $123.2 million budget in their most recent proposal, which includes city and school expenses. The overall budget is 5.1 percent higher than last year’s, and councilors are expected to vote on it Monday night.
The city’s tax rate will fall from its current $20.40 to $19.15 for every $1,000 of property value. A Bangor home valued at $200,000 would pay $3,830 in property taxes.
While the proposed tax rate would be Bangor’s lowest since 2010, the city doesn’t want to mislead its residents when they receive a tax bill that is 9.9 percent higher, Finance Director David Little said. That increase is driven by the swelling sale prices of homes that are outpacing commercial properties, meaning homeowners absorb a bigger portion of the bill, he said.
“The taxable assessed value, between last year and this year, increased by $324 million,” he said. “That’s the driving factor that allows a lower mill rate, which helped mitigate the overall increase in the tax bill, but couldn’t eliminate all of the increase.”
On average, housing values in Bangor rose from 16 to 17 percent, and figures come from the city’s assessing department, which tracks sales and market trends, Little said. The budget proposes that a citywide revaluation be done.
Considering Bangor’s current tax rate, which is $20.40, a home valued at $200,000 received a $4,080 tax bill. Next year, a $200,000 home may be valued at $234,000, so the new $19.15 tax rate would result in a $4,481 tax bill.
Bangor’s proposed overall budget includes $66.49 million in city expenses, a 3.9 percent increase from last year, and $56.74 million in school expenses, a 6.5 percent increase. The Bangor School Committee approved its budget in early April.
On the city’s side, increases are primarily due to inflation, which has resulted in growing bills for electricity and utilities, Little said. Payroll and insurance increases also factored into the budget.
In mid-June, the projected tax rate was $19.10 for every $1,000 of property value, but it rose slightly after councilors agreed to make two changes. That includes switching a part-time public works position to full-time, which is estimated to cost around $35,000, Little said.
That employee will work with asset management software that Bangor purchased last year, which will map out a plan for plowing and scheduling sewer repairs, among other tasks. It’s intended to help the city run more efficiently as well as save money in the long term, he said.
The other cost added to the budget was $110,000 for a new park ranger program, where workers would patrol the waterfront and parks throughout the city seven days a week, Little said. The idea is to expand the city’s presence, keep areas clean and safe, and engage the public, potentially at the Bangor City Forest, he said.
Little highlighted that pending legislation, LD 1664, would increase reimbursement for general assistance from the state from 70 to 90 percent. If the bill passes and is signed by Gov. Janet Mills, it would mean an influx of revenue for the city — an estimated $360,000 — which would lower the average increase in the tax bill for the residential taxpayer to about 9.2 percent.
Little pointed out that building a budget during unprecedented times is challenging, and city officials and councilors looked at every number they could.
“We want people to know that we don’t just do all of this [budgeting] in one afternoon,” he said, and encouraged public feedback at Monday’s meeting. “There are limits to what we can cut without impacting the services that we provide to the citizens.” | 2023-06-25T16:06:18+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/25/news/bangor/bangor-property-tax-proposed-budget-joam40zk0w/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Although Lonnie Walker began the season as a starter for the Los Angeles Lakers, he got injured and slipped all the way out of their rotation after they transformed their roster at the trade deadline.
Walker didn’t sulk or complain. He cheered from the bench. Worked even harder in practice. Waited for his chance to shine.
And when it arrived, the unsung pro with inextinguishable confidence outshot Stephen Curry in the fourth quarter of a playoff win that put his Lakers on the brink of an unlikely trip to the Western Conference finals.
“(It’s) the greatest feeling you could ever imagine,” Walker said with a smile. “As a kid, this is something I’ve been dreaming of.”
Walker scored all of his 15 points in a phenomenal fourth quarter, and the Lakers rallied late to take a 3-1 second-round series lead with a 104-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.
LeBron James scored 27 points and Anthony Davis had 23 points and 15 rebounds for the seventh-seeded Lakers, who moved one win away from knocking off the champions with their eighth consecutive home victory since March.
Los Angeles overcame Curry’s third career postseason triple-double down the stretch largely because of Walker, who has made a seismic impact in returning to the Lakers’ rotation in this series. He went 6 for 9 in the fourth quarter, starting with a 3-pointer on the opening possession of the period to cut Golden State’s lead to four points.
After sitting out Game 1, Walker contributed nine points in Game 2 and 12 more in Game 3. His emergence in this series is a shocker to most, but not to Walker or his teammates.
“I’m a scorer mentality first,” Walker said. “I’ve got a lot of confidence in myself. I know what I’m capable of, and after a lot of sacrifice and a lot of time in the gym, the fruition finally came today.”
Walker eventually hit the go-ahead jumper with 1:53 to play. Curry’s layup with 1:05 left trimmed the Lakers’ lead to one point, but Curry missed a long jumper and a 3-point attempt on Golden State’s next possession before Walker made two free throws with 15 seconds left, and Los Angeles got one last defensive stop to seal it.
“We don’t win this game tonight without Lonnie Walker, that’s for sure,” James said. “As hard as this game was, it’s going to be even harder. We understand that. We know that.”
Game 5 is Wednesday night in San Francisco.
Curry had 31 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists in his 13th career triple-double for the sixth-seeded Warriors, who will have to overcome a 3-1 series deficit for only the second time in franchise history to continue their NBA title defense. Golden State also did it in the 2016 Western Conference finals.
“It feels like what it is: (a) 3-1 (deficit). You go home, take care of business, get a win, and the momentum is right back in your favor,” coach Steve Kerr said. “That’s all it is. … The Lakers did a great job of holding serve here, so now we’ve got to go back and get a win at home and flip the momentum.”
The Warriors led by 12 late in the third quarter, but the Lakers chased down the champs and finished them with Walker leading the way in front of even James and Davis, who hugged Walker after the buzzer.
“The kid is a beautiful kid,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. “He fell out of the rotation through no fault of his own, but he remained professional. He remained high-spirited, positive, and really kept working on his game every day, especially in these playoffs. When your mind is in the right place, your body follows.”
Gary Payton II scored a season-high 15 points in his first start of the season for Golden State, but Klay Thompson had his second straight quiet game in Los Angeles, scoring nine points in 41 minutes. Andrew Wiggins added 17 points for the Warriors, who made just 25 combined 3-pointers in their two games in Los Angeles after making 21 apiece in the first two games in San Francisco.
“We’re still positive,” Payton said. “We know we have them down the line. We’ve just got to make one more run late, and you just create that space and opportunity.”
Kerr switched to a three-guard starting lineup to affect the Los Angeles defense that held the Warriors to 97 points in Game 3, and the changes largely worked: Davis, who blocked 11 shots in the first three games, wasn’t able to protect the rim with the same ferocity when his defensive matchups required him to go out to the perimeter, and the Warriors capitalized with 52 points in the paint.
The Lakers compensated: They made all 20 of their free throws, and Austin Reaves added 21 points.
But they won with a gritty, timely effort by Walker, who picked up the Lakers’ slack when D’Angelo Russell scored just four points on 1-for-10 shooting after a strong performance in Game 3.
Curry secured the 13th triple-double of his career early in the fourth quarter, but he missed nine of 10 3-point attempts spanning three quarters. The most prolific 3-point shooter in NBA history finished 3 for 14 from distance.
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Warriors: Payton’s only previous NBA start this season was for Portland on Feb. 8. He started two playoff games for Golden State last year before signing a three-year deal in the summer with the Trail Blazers, who traded him back to the Warriors in February. … Kevon Looney started Game 1 against Los Angeles, while JaMychal Green started Game 2 and Game 3.
Lakers: After blocking 19 shots in the series’ first three games, LA’s only block in Game 4 was James’ swooping swat of Curry’s layup attempt in the fourth quarter. … Jack Nicholson returned to his courtside seats for the second time in their last three home games. The Lakers’ 86-year-old superfan headlined another celebrity-studded crowd including Chris Pratt, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, Dave Chappelle, Dustin Hoffman, Kim Kardashian, Colin Jost and Flea. ___ AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-09T19:03:25+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/lakers-rally-past-warriors-104-101-take-3-1-series-lead/ |
(NewsNation) — A classmate who knew the alleged Idaho killer said Bryan Kohberger’s behavior changed noticeably in the days after the deaths of the four college students.
In an exclusive, 22-minute interview with NewsNation, graduate student Benjamin Roberts said he remembered Kohberger as typically being stressed and exhausted.
“I did notice he was showing up to class a little late sometimes, he always had a coffee in hand, he always seemed to be just perpetually exhausted,” said Roberts, who was also a graduate student studying criminal justice at Washington State University.
Police on Friday arrested 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger in Pennsylvania in connection with the November deaths of four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death in a rental house near campus.
Kohberger was getting his Ph.D. in criminal justice at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, which is about a 15-minute drive from Moscow, where the killings happened.
“Bryan seemed like he was on the knife’s edge between exhaustion and worn out and at the time it was extremely difficult to tell which was which,” Roberts said.
However, after the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, Roberts said Kohberger became chattier and more social.
“He did seem to get a little chattier going into the later parts of the term,” Roberts said.
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Roberts said the kind of stress and exhaustion he typically saw in Kohberger can be typical for grad students. It didn’t raise any red flags because he said Kohberger didn’t appear to be falling apart in other ways.
The WSU campus in Pullman, Washington is just a 15-minute drive from Moscow, Idaho and Roberts said he and others made the short drive between the communities for many reasons. Authorities seized a computer and other evidence from Kohberger’s apartment on Friday after his arrest.
Overall, Roberts described Kohberger as awkward. He said he was the kind of person who wanted to make sure everyone knew he was the smartest person in the room.
“He had to make absolutely sure you knew he was smart, he had this intellectual capacity,” Roberts said.
Roberts doesn’t recall Kohberger talking specifically about the Idaho case.
Roberts said he pulled back from Kohberger then, too busy with his own workload for more socializing. He said it’s been unnerving to have a crime like that committed so close to his school and to have someone he was in class with being the alleged killer.
“There’s something heavy about that,” he said.
Kohberger’s family released a statement Sunday, urging the public to accept his presumption of innocence.
In the statement, Jason Allen LaBar, chief public defender and counsel for Kohberger says the family has “fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.”
Kohberger won’t fight his extradition to Idaho, according to his public defender, who also said Kohberger is “eager to be exonerated of these charges.” | 2023-01-03T19:42:18+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/classmate-accused-idaho-killer-got-chatty-after-students-deaths/ |
80-year-old builds massive 400-piece nativity scene that’s 50 years in the making
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) – An 80-year-old man in Rhode Island has created an elaborate nativity scene nearly 50 years in the making.
Eugenio “Geno” Milano’s home features a larger-than-life handmade nativity scene that you have to see to believe.
“I’m happy making people happy because I got a lot of people coming around and they enjoyed it,” Milano said.
Being raised as a proud Italian Catholic, he started his prosperous project in 1975. It’s a tradition left behind by his father.
“Growing up, we never had a Christmas tree in our house. We always had this nativity scene,” Milano’s daughter Cinzia Pereira said.
Initially, the nativity scene was contained in a room on the third floor of his house.
Now, it has moved to the entire first floor and outside, where he used his hands to build a customized Christmas creation consisting of more than 400 figures.
“Every year it’s different – he changes it up,” Pereira explained.
Milano starts in October putting decorations in their place – no detail too small, right down to the green grass.
“It’s just something he is so proud of and proud to keep that tradition going,” Pereira said.
Milano said knowing his dad would be impressed with the display is the best gift he could receive this holiday season.
Copyright 2022 WJAR via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-22T21:22:29+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/12/22/80-year-old-builds-massive-400-piece-nativity-scene-thats-50-years-making/ |
NASCAR suspends Bubba Wallace 1 race for Las Vegas fracas
(AP) - Bubba Wallace received a one race suspension from NASCAR after an investigation determined he deliberately spun reigning Cup champion Kyle Larson at Las Vegas in a “dangerous act” of retaliation before confronting him afterward.
Wallace had a shoving match with Larson after Sunday’s incident at Las Vegas and also pushed away a NASCAR official. The suspension handed down Tuesday falls under NASCAR’s behavioral policy, and technically could cover most of Wallace’s actions at Las Vegas.
But Steve O’Donnell, the executive in charge of competition and racing operations, said the penalties were for Wallace’s dangerous and deliberate retaliation against Larson, not the fracas a few moments later.
“When we look at how that incident occurred, in our minds, (it was) really a dangerous act that we thought was intentional and put other competitors at risk,” O’Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
Still, Wallace’s suspension for this Sunday’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway is a rare step: Wallace is the first Cup Series driver to be suspended for an on-track incident since Matt Kenseth was parked for two races in 2015 for an incident at Martinsville.
23XI Racing, which is owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan, did not immediately announce a replacement driver for Wallace at Homestead, though John Hunter Nemechek was a possibility.
Larson, who had been eliminated from the playoffs a week earlier, and Wallace, who did not qualify to race for the Cup title, clashed on Lap 94 at Las Vegas. Larson attempted a three-wide pass and Kevin Harvick in the middle dropped out of the bunch. Larson slid up the track toward Wallace, who did not lift off the gas to give Larson any room. Larson then shoved Wallace’s Toyota into the wall.
Wallace had led 29 laps in a car he believed capable of winning and he reacted by following Larson’s car down to the apron, where he seemed to deliberately hook him in the rear corner as retaliation. That sent Larson spinning into the path of Christopher Bell, a title contender who is part of the Toyota camp with Wallace.
The crash ended Bell’s race and dropped him to last in the eight-driver playoff standings.
Wallace, meanwhile, climbed from his car and marched on the track toward Larson. Wallace was shouting before he even got to Larson and immediately began to shove the smaller driver.
Larson tried to turn away from him and several times lifted his arms to block Wallace’s shoves, but Wallace got in multiple shots before a NASCAR safety worker separated the two.
Wallace on Monday night apologized “for my actions” in a social media post he titled “Reflection.” He apologized specifically to NASCAR and its fans, but also Bell, Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota for “putting them in a situation in the Playoffs that they do not deserve.”
His post did not address wrecking Larson — Wallace had claimed his steering broke when he hit the wall — or apologize specifically to the champion.
“I compete with immense passion, and with passion at times comes frustration,” Wallace wrote. “Upon reflecting, I should have represented our partners and core team values better than I did by letting my frustrations follow me outside of the car. You live and learn, and I intend to learn from this.”
Wallace, the only Black driver at the top level of NASCAR, has shown clear progress this season under heavy scrutiny. The incident has been sharply criticized by some of his fellow drivers, who have called for safety improvements to NASCAR’s new Next Gen car after recent injuries.
Joey Logano, winner of Sunday’s race and the first driver locked into the championship-deciding finale, said Wallace’s “retaliation is not OK.”
“If he spun (Larson) into the infield, maybe it’s a little better,” Logano said on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “But right-rear hooking someone in the dogleg is not OK. I don’t think anyone realizes how bad that could have been. That could have been the end of Kyle Larson’s career. That to me was what was on the line. Or, his life.”
Logano said Larson was actually fortunate to have ricocheted into Bell and not directly into the wall.
“(Larson) might have flush-hit that thing in the side. And then game over. There’s no room for that. You can’t do that,” Logano said. “I don’t like using cars for a weapon. If you’re that mad, just get out and fight him.”
NASCAR also announced that the crew chief for Kyle Busch, Ben Beshore, along with two pit crew members have been suspended for the next four races after a wheel came off during the Las Vegas race.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-18T23:08:26+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/10/18/nascar-suspends-bubba-wallace-1-race-las-vegas-fracas/ |
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US outlines plan for long-term baby formula imports
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Friday unveiled their plan to allow foreign baby formula manufacturers to stay on the market long term, an effort to diversify the nation’s tightly concentrated industry and prevent future shortages.
The Food and Drug Administration said recent entrants to the U.S. market will have until October 2025 to make sure their formulas comply with federal standards for nutrition, labeling and manufacturing. The agency noted that some companies should be able to meet those requirements sooner.
The U.S. has been forced to turn to foreign manufacturers to boost formula supplies since February, when FDA inspectors temporarily shuttered the nation’s largest domestic formula factory due to bacterial contamination.
In May, the FDA eased federal import regulations and President Joe Biden authorized the airlift of millions of pounds of powdered formula from overseas. Together those actions have brought the equivalent of 300 million bottles of formula into the country, according to the FDA.
“Manufacturers from around the world have demonstrated their commitment to helping bolster U.S. supply and, in turn, we are committed to continuing these flexibilities for their products to safely remain on the market,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
The policy allowing importation was set to expire in November, but the FDA said it would be extended to January, after which companies can ask to stay on the market longer.
For decades, the U.S. formula industry has been dominated by a handful of companies with domestic production facilities, excluding similar products from Europe, Australia and Latin America. The U.S. system evolved to prioritize safety and low pricing, favoring a few large players.
Foreign formula companies seeking to remain in the U.S. must meet specific thresholds for 30 nutrients and undergo manufacturing inspections by FDA staff, among other steps.
Earlier this month the FDA formally acknowledged several shortcomings in its response to the shortage, including outdated information technology systems and inadequate training among its food facility inspectors.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-30T16:42:30+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/09/30/us-outlines-plan-long-term-baby-formula-imports/ |
By ZEKE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida doctors will be able to directly order COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 from the federal government, the White House said Friday, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state would not order and distribute the shots in the state.
The state was the only jurisdiction in the nation to decline to place advance orders for the pediatric shots, which received authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on Friday. Final authorization from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected in the coming days, clearing the way for the last remaining unvaccinated age group to obtain shots.
The White House has been sharply critical of DeSantis’ position but in a statement Friday it welcomed the news that he was permitting individual doctors to order vaccines for their patients. While doctors in Florida won’t be able to access a statewide stockpile immediately after final authorization comes through, the state health department says doctors could get the shots within several days or a week.
“We have begun shipping vaccines to children’s hospitals and pediatricians in every state in the country except Florida,” said White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. “The governor’s failure comes at a price to parents and families of Florida.”
The jabs will be available quickly at pharmacies and community health centers, which can preorder them directly from the federal government, Jha said. But children’s hospitals, clinics and individual doctors’ offices will be at a disadvantage to other states that allowed their doctors to preorder, he said.
Jha took a swipe at DeSantis, who has frequently said he is defending parental rights in healthcare and educational decisions, saying, “This administration trusts parents.”
“We know there are parents across America of kids under 5 who’ve been waiting a very long time, and for many of them, this delay introduced by the actions of the governor and the Department of Health, I think is unconscionable,” he said. “I don’t think it helps and I think for parents who’ve been waiting, who have made the choice, it is incumbent on us to make sure that they are able to exercise on that choice.”
DeSantis at the Thursday news conference minimized the delays and defended the state’s refusal to order the vaccines.
“Doctors can get it. Hospitals can get it. But there’s not going to be any state programs that are going to be trying to get COVID jabs to infants and toddlers and newborns. That’s not where we’re gonna be utilizing our resources.”
Federal officials believe most parents of young children plan to get their kids vaccinated at their pediatrician’s office, rather than pharmacies or hospitals, and criticized DeSantis for slowing access to the shots.
“Even though Governor DeSantis reversed course and is now ordering vaccines, we will pull every lever to get pediatricians across Florida vaccines as quickly as possible,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. ”This is an encouraging first step, and we urge the state to order vaccines for its state and local health departments, so that all Florida parents have the opportunity to get their children vaccinated.”
Officials said that DeSantis’ decision not to pre-order shots means there’s no stockpile ready to go to be pushed out to the state’s children’s hospitals or doctors on Day 1 of availability.
Florida health department spokesman Jeremy Redfern said the Florida online portal for ordering vaccines from the federal government, Florida SHOTS, has always been available to hospitals, clinics and small doctor’s offices.
However, under CDC rules, providers can order vaccines only once an Emergency Use Authorization has been issued, Redfern said. Jha disputed that, saying that doctors’ offices outside of Florida have been able to place pre-orders for shots for two weeks.
State health departments, on the other hand, have been able to pre-order vaccines in anticipation of an EUA, and this is what Florida has declined to do. That means the state won’t have an already existing stockpile of the vaccines to push out to children’s hospitals for use on Day 1 of authorization. However, any provider can order shots and get them with days or a week, according the state health department.
“Florida SHOTS will allow individual providers to order shots the way they always have,” Redfern said. “The Florida health department is not going to be the federal government’s storage unit for their giant pile of vaccines.”
While DeSantis said the state had plenty of supply for vaccines, officials cautioned that shots approved for under-5 kids contain specialized instructions and syringes appropriate for that age group, and that vaccines labeled for older kids shouldn’t be used for the youngest cohort. Pfizer’s pediatric vaccine for younger kids has a smaller dosage than for older ones.
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ARTOBER
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Santa Barbara, Calif. – With the upcoming cultural season being one of the largest and most diverse in recent years, the Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara wanted to create a place for people to easily browse all the happenings. In collaboration with VOICE Magazine, we launched the promotional campaign ARTOBER – a month long celebration of arts, music, theatre and design. From the launch of highly-anticipated seasons from Opera Santa Barbara, UCSB Arts & Lectures, and Ensemble Theatre Company, to concerts by award-winning musicians and art shows, locals of all ages and interests can partake.
Saturday, October 1st sees three major events kick off the season of culture: The American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara’s (AIA) ArchitecTours; Opera Santa Barbara’s TOSCA at Granada Theatre; Benise – Spanish Night at Lobero Theatre.
The first week of October will also see the 1st Thursday Art Walk hosting an illustrious line up of venues featuring attractions such as art openings, live music, artist’s receptions, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. It truly is a special 1st Thursday as UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) presents Ukraine Fest from 5 – 8 PM, a free cultural celebration featuring craft displays, short music and dance performances, a custom “sunflower” cocktail at The Good Lion and more. Bandura musician Siuzanna Iglidan who appeared alongside John Legend during the 2022 Grammy Awards will enliven the street with a free performance. Ukraine Fest takes place on the 1200 block of State Street in front of the Granada Theatre and is presented in conjunction with DakhaBrakha’s performance at said theater, get your tickets here!
Participating Organizations:
AIA ArchictecTours, Arlington Theatre, Metopolitan Theatre, UCSB Arts and Lectures, Ensemble Theatre Company, Granada Theatre, Lobero Theatre, Paseo Nuevo, Pianos on State, Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 1st Thursday Art Walk, Downtown Santa Barbara.
Upcoming Events:
Saturday, October, 1 AIA Architect Tours
For Tickets and More info
https://aiasb.com/architectours-2022/
Saturday, Oct 1, 6 PM
TOSCA, Opera Santa Barbara at the Granada Theater
Set in Rome around 1850. The great diva has it all: beauty, talent, friends in high places, love, and an unshakeable faith in God. She lives a charmed life, blissfully unaware of the dystopia that surrounds her. All that will change in one harrowing day and night, in Puccini’s nail-biting melodrama.
https://ticketing.granadasb.org/17049
Saturday, October 1, 7:30 PM
Spanish Guitar Entertainment presents Benise – Spanish Nights; Lobero Theatre
The Emmy award winning show returns with a new production Spanish Nights – Featuring the passion and grace of Flamenco combined with fiery Spanish guitar. Backed by a stage full of musicians and elaborately choreographed dancers, Benise takes the audience on a musical journey through Spanish Flamenco, Cuban Salsa, Brazilian Samba, Parisian Waltz, exotic drumming, and more! Tickets: https://www.lobero.org/events/benise-spanish-nights/
October 4-23. All day
Pianos on State, Presenting Sponsor Santa Barbara Bowl
Pianos are back on State Street to play and enjoy free of charge. Pianos on State has been spontaneously reintroducing music and art into people’s everyday lives since 2009! Learn more about all of the artists that painted this year’s pianos and where all of the pianos are located on State Street at the link below. https://www.downtownsb.org/events/artober/pianos-on-state
Thursday, October 6, 5-8 PM
Free: 1st Thursday ArtWalk is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday of each month, participating galleries and venues offer free access to visual and performing arts in a fun and social environment. Venues feature attractions such as art openings, live music, artists’ receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. To see the October line up visit: https://www.downtownsb.org/events/1st-thursday
Thursday, October 6, 5 – 8 PM
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Ukraine Fest
in front of the Granada Theatre before the DakhaBrakha concert at 8 p.m.
https://www.downtownsb.org/events/artober/arts-and-lectures
Thursday, October 6, 8 PM
UCSB Arts and Lectures DakhaBrakha Concert
An evening of Ukrainian culture featuring DakhaBrakha. From Kyiv, DakhaBrakha creates a world of unexpected new music, weaving ancient folk melodies into a subversive musical tapestry that embraces indie rock, pop, hip hop, the avant-garde and traditional instrumentation from around the world. Prepare yourself for a sonic feast that celebrates the spirit and determination of Ukraine.
https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/events-tickets/events/22-23/dakhabrakha/
Friday, October 7, 8 PM
An Evening with The Wallflowers
EARL MINNIS PRESENTS at the Lobero Theatre
The Wallflowers have held their ground as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands – continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. Exit Wounds, the group’s latest studio offering, finds the GRAMMYâ Award winning band’s signature sound intact, even as Jakob Dylan surrounds himself with a fresh cast of musicians. Tickets: https://www.lobero.org/events/the-wallflowers-2/
Saturday, October 8, 8 PM
Swing Out, Granada Theatre; Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures;
“A sweeping ride through contemporary swing dance… Captivating… Extraordinary.”
Tickets; https://ticketing.granadasb.org/17438
October 6-23
Carmen Jones; Ensemble Theatre Company
Oscar Hammerstein adapted this beloved opera into an African-American Broadway musical. The classic story of the bewitching Carmen is set in 1943 at a parachute factory, with all of Bizet’s famous music. Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Music by Georges Bizet, Directed by Jonathan Fox, Tickets; https://www.downtownsb.org/events/artober/ensemble-theatre-company
Sunday, October 9, 7 PM
Prince Royce; Arlington Theatre;
Tickets: https://www.axs.com/events/430481/prince-royce-tickets?q=The+Arlington
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8 PM
Nebula Dance Lab presents Humanity at the Lobero Theatre
Inspired by the short story “The Child’s Story” by Charles Dickens, Humanity is an exploration of living one’s truth, being present, and celebrating our differences. Choreography by Chloe Roberts, under the direction of Devyn Duex, with special guest performances.
Tickets: https://www.lobero.org/events/nebula-dance-lab-humanity/
To learn more and see the more than 30 events in as part of Downtown Santa Barbara’s ART-OBER line up visit: https://www.downtownsb.org/events/artober
HALLOWEEN
Thursday, October 27, 5-9 PM
Rock the Block, Harvest Block Party on the 800 Block of State Street
Live Music, Dance Flash mobs, Halloween Costumed Pug Procession, Community Costume Contest. Grab your dinner at a local restaurant and eat communally a this fun community event. Free and open to the public. More details coming soon at www.downtownsb.org
Saturday, October 29, 3-6 PM
Downtown Safe Trick or Treat
Come Downtown to celebrate Halloween with trick-or-treating business to business, with your family. Grab a map of all trick or treating locations, the week before Halloween at the link below. https://www.downtownsb.org/events/halloween
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MANKATO, Minn. – The man who supplied the drugs in a fatal overdose in southern Minnesota is heading to prison for several years.
Myles Daniel Hickman, 27 of Mankato, was sentenced Wednesday to six years and two months in state prison, with credit for 394 days already served. Law enforcement says Hickman will have to serve at least two-thirds of his sentence behind bars.
Hickman pleaded guilty to third-degree murder for the death of Jesse Barnhart, 31.
The Minnesota River Valley Drug Task Force says Hickman sold heroin containing fentanyl to Barnhart, which caused his death on May 26, 2021.
Hickman was arrested in August 2021 and pleaded guilty in August 2022. | 2022-09-22T01:15:10+00:00 | kimt.com | https://www.kimt.com/news/prison-sentence-for-southern-minnesota-overdose-death/article_3784ceee-39fe-11ed-8286-7b8112bc0eb9.html |
Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and civil court over “flagrant” violations of campaign law, according to his lawyer.
At heart is a series of anonymous mailers aimed at boosting his rival for the nomination, state Rep. Ron Hanks. Election law requires disclosure of who or what group pays for election-related materials.
With ballots already delivered for the race, and being voted, the campaign is seeking a short-term halt to the tactic, with long-term hope “to punish the misconduct here,” attorney Brent Owen said in an interview with the Denver Post. Owen called the tactics “egregious and reprehensible.”
“Time is certainly of the essence in that it’s incredibly unfair,” Owen said. “The campaign finance laws particularly carve out this short window as time that it’s particularly important to have these disclosures so that voters can evaluate some of the material and know who it’s coming from.”
The most recent mailer includes a badge falsely claiming that the Colorado Republican Party endorsed Hanks in the primary. Parties do not endorse in primary elections. It led to a rebuke by Colorado GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown, who called the mailers “verifiably false and malicious” and “criminal.” The state party would also be taking action, though in the statement she didn’t specify what that would be.
It is illegal in Colorado to knowingly or recklessly try to sway voters with false information, though that law is rarely enforced.
Burton Brown tied the mailers to Democrats, though there’s no conclusive public evidence of that. The mailers are tied to a Des Moines, Iowa,-based printing shop Christian Edwards Print. It has predominately — though not exclusively — worked with Democratic campaigns in recent years, according to federal campaign finance records.
In a phone call with the Denver Post, a person at the company said they do not disclose who pays for its services before hanging up.
O’Dea’s campaign also tied the mailers to a broader progressive effort they accuse of meddling in the primary.
“The goal here is to make sure that the Republican Party loses in the general election — not to participate in good faith in the Republican Primary,” the FEC complaint states.
The anonymous mailers started appearing around the same time a super PAC called Democratic Colorado began running television ads warning Hanks is “too conservative for Colorado,” while people are voting in the primary for the conservative party. The group’s spokesperson said at the time their goal is to keep Republicans from winning the senate seat and said the anonymous mailers were not associated with the super PAC.
Since it is not clear who is responsible for the anonymous mailers, Owen filed the suit against John Doe with the hope the courts will compel discovery to root out the originator. He’s not aware of other efforts to uncover these types of shadow campaigns, even though they’re not unique. These legal battles can be expensive in terms of money and time — the latter of special import in the final stretch of an election.
The lawsuit notes the potential harm to O’Dea’s campaign, with voters being targeted with the mailers while filling out their ballots.
“It’s a dangerous trend in politics, for people to game the campaign finance laws in a way that will give them a short-term advantage, without respecting what that might do to our institutions,” Owen said. | 2022-06-18T06:25:22+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/06/16/colorado-gop-candidate-joe-odea-sues-over-pro-ron-hanks-mailers/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou were partners-in-crime on stage in “Sweeney Todd” and crime busters in episodes of TV’s “Murder, She Wrote.”
The actors were also friends and admirers, staying in touch after becoming the toasts of Broadway and Tony Award winners in 1979 for Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical.
They made a point of speaking on their birthdays — Oct. 16 for Lansbury, Sept. 30 for Cariou — and on each anniversary of the play’s opening night, Cariou said Wednesday, a day after Lansbury, 96, died in her Los Angeles home.
“She was a great artist,” Cariou said. “I know she’s with Peter (Shaw) now, her husband, who I think she missed terribly. She said to me on her last birthday, a year ago, ‘It’s just silly being this old.'”
Cariou played the title character in the macabre “Sweeney Todd,” a London barber who dispatches customers with a razor and turns their bodies over to Lansbury’s Mrs. Lovett, a baker who repurposes them for meat pies.
The play won eight Tonys, including best musical and actress and actor. It was Lansbury’s fourth best musical actress award in 13 years, to be followed by a 2009 award for “Blithe Spirt” and a lifetime achievement award at the Tonys in June.
“There is no one with whom I’d rather run a cutthroat business with,” Cariou said in accepting the award for Lansbury.
In the interview with The Associated Press, he recalled the concerns they shared about taking on “Sweeney Todd,” which he described as a “pretty bizarre piece.”
“We were both a little trepidatious about it. We found out pretty early on that we had to be very careful or it could go over the top pretty easily and become farcical,” Cariou said. “We were very proud of the fact that we were able to do it for a year and not go over the top.”
“We made it our business to get to know one another,” he said, lunching together during rehearsal so we could “establish some kind of shorthand and get to know one another better, just as people.”
“We had a wonderful time doing it together,” he said. “We were really proud of what we did, and really grateful for it.”
They also had “great fun” on her hit mystery series “Murder, She Wrote,” in which Lansbury starred as writer-amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher. The Canadian-born Cariou appeared in seven episodes, airing between 1985 and 1992, in the recurring role of former British intelligence agent Michael Hagarty.
As talented and admired as she was, he said, she was never demanding. The British native did expect tea (preferred type: Yorkshire Gold) and never coffee during set breaks, Cariou recalled.
Lansbury was a remarkable talent, he said, but it was “very easy to be with her.” | 2022-10-13T13:43:24+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-lansburys-sweeney-todd-co-star-reflects-on-great-artist/ |
MADRID (AP) — Police in Spain detonated a suspicious envelope discovered at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spanish officials said Thursday, a day after a similar package sent to the Ukrainian Embassy ignited upon opening and injured an employee.
“We can confirm a suspicious package was received at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, and are aware of reports of other packages sent to other locations throughout Spain,” the American embassy said in a response to an Associated Press inquiry.
“We are grateful to Spanish law enforcement for their assistance with this matter,” it added.
Authorities cordoned off a wide area around the embassy, located in the center of Spain's capital.
The action followed police reporting that multiple explosive letters were sent in Spain over the past two days. Police said they were delivered to Spain’s Defense Ministry, a European Union satellite center located at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base outside Madrid and to an arms factory in northeastern Spain that makes grenades sent to Ukraine.
Spanish authorities have yet to determine who was responsible for the letters or link them to the war in Ukraine.
Authorities said a bomb squad also destroyed an explosive device that was dispatched by regular post to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Nov. 24.
The Russian Embassy in Madrid on Thursday condemned the letter bombs, saying in a tweet that “any threat or terrorist attack, especially those directed at diplomatic missions, are totally condemnable.”
The package sent to the Ukrainian Embassy was addressed to the country's ambassador to Spain. The employee handling it was slightly injured when it burst into flames.
Spain’s National Court is investigating the incident as a terrorist act.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba ordered stepped-up security at all of Ukraine's foreign embassies abroad and asked his Spanish counterpart for a fast investigation.
An initial assessment indicated the first five packages were likely sent from within Spain, Secretary of State for Security Rafael Pérez said. Police said all but one of the letter bombs were disposed of.
Pérez said the one intact explosive device was from the air base and that it and its packaging would be part of the investigation.
Officials said that package wassent to the director of the European Union Satellite Center. The center, known as SatCen, is an EU geospatial intelligence body, and and its missions include monitoring Ukraine.
The Defense Ministry package was addressed to Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles, Pérez said. Spain has contributed both military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion.
Robles was visiting Ukraine on Thursday to support its defense effort with another aid package. Authorities did not provide details about the aid, saying they did not want to give away sensitive information to Russia's forces.
Robles said the disturbing discoveries of recent days would have no effect on Spain’s full backing of Ukraine.
“The police are investigating these packages, but let one thing be perfectly clear,” she said in Spanish. “None of these packages or any other violent act will change the clear and firm support that Spain and other NATO and EU countries have for Ukraine.”
The arms factory targeted is located in the northeastern city of Zaragoza. The parcel was addressed to the factory's director.
A government official in Zaragoza said that both the arms factory and Ukrainian Embassy packages had the same email address listed as the sender. No further details were given.
The sending of small explosive devices in postal parcels is not uncommon in many countries. They were a common occurrence for many years in Spain, especially during the most active years of the now-defunct armed Basque group ETA.
Pérez said security was increased at public buildings following the discovery of the package sent to Spain's prime minister. The move now has been extended to embassies, which already had extra security measures in place after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
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Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona, Spain contributed to this report.
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Everything at Naoe is done with care, from the soy sauce that's made at the chef/owner Kevin Cory's family's shoyu brewery in Japan to the sake, which is a family recipe imported from the town of Kanazawa. Cory and manager Wendy Maharlika host ten weekly seatings in the intimate Brickell dining room, where guests are encouraged to dress casually to enjoy the meal. Service starts with a bento box of treasures before the sushi, barbecue, and even a special ice cream is brought out over the next two hours. This is a place to appreciate the zen and the art of sushi, which has led to Naoe's Forbes Five-Star Travel Guide rating and AAA Five-Diamond award. But it isn't cheap: dinner costs $280 per person (before beverages, tax, and gratuity), making it the logical first suggestion when someone else is picking up the check. | 2023-06-20T17:46:19+00:00 | miaminewtimes.com | https://www.miaminewtimes.com/best-of/2023/eat-and-drink/best-restaurant-when-someone-else-is-paying-17199469 |
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — They held their on-ice embrace a for a few extra moments this time, kneeling in an end pose moments after a near-flawless short program.
Overwhelming favorite and reigning world champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier scored a personal-best of 81.96 on Thursday for a commanding lead in the first day of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
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The pair took the ice in sparkling silver costumes for their much-anticipated nationals return after missing the event a year ago when Frazier tested positive for COVID-19. This time, they delivered an awe-inspiring routine to Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" from Stranger Things.
Their score Thursday was three points higher than they'd done before and also less than three points shy of the world-record 84.41 set by Sui Wenjing and Han Cong at last year's Beijing Olympics.
Knierim and Frazier led second-place tandem Emily Chan and Spencer Howe by more than 15 points after the short program with the pairs free skate set for Saturday at SAP Center.
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Knierim and Frazier never got a chance to defend their national title a year ago at the event in Nashville, Tennessee, after Frazier's positive test the night before competition began forced the pair to withdraw. They then had to petition for a spot on the Olympic team for Beijing.
There, the duo helped the Americans capture a silver medal in the team event and placed sixth in pairs. The twosome also earned silver in the Grand Prix final last month.
Chan and Howe are expected to be the next-best pair in San Jose behind Knierim and Frazier, who partnered after Knierim’s husband, Chris, retired from skating in 2020.
While Chan fell on their side-by-side triple toeloops at SAP Center, the degree of difficulty with the technical content in their routine earned them a higher score from the judges for a 66.86 — less than point off their international personal-best earned at Skate Canada 2022.
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Ellie Kam and Danny O'Shea were third with a 65.75 after the short program competing in their first season together.
In fourth place at 63.45, Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez performed an elegant skate to “Maria” from West Side Story. They were the 2021 junior bronze medalists and finished sixth at nationals last year in their senior debut as a pair.
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Several more days of triple-digit heat on the way
Upper-level high pressure centered to the west of the ArkLaTex is moving this way and will soon settle over our area bringing several more days of triple-digit heat. The ridge will weaken this weekend allowing more normal temperatures and rain to return.
Temperatures get a little hotter: Despite a few leftover scattered storms that developed over the northeastern part of the ArkLaTex late last night. We have seen enough sunshine Tuesday to warm temperatures into the upper 90s to near 100 degrees. Combine that heat with the high humidity and heat index values have soared to near 110. Chances are that it will get a little hotter over the next few days as the upper ridge eventually moves over our area. Wednesday will begin with lows in the upper 70s to low 80s. Daytime highs Wednesday afternoon will likely meet or beat 100 over most of the area. The heat index will likely meet or beat 110. This heat will likely stick around into the weekend until the ridge finally begins to break down.
Lots of sun and no rain: The upper-level ridge’s presence over our area will put a big cap on any chances of rain for the next several days. Futurecast shows that we will see a mostly clear sky over the area Tuesday night. Expect lots of sunshine Wednesday with a few clouds mixed in. We will stay mostly clear Wednesday night and should once again see a mostly sunny sky Thursday. This dry weather pattern could continue through most of the weekend with only a small chance of rain Sunday.
A break from the heat is on the horizon: It still appears likely that the ridge will weaken by the end of the weekend enough to allow the chance for a few scattered storms to return to our weather picture starting Sunday. Any rain Sunday will be very isolated. The bigger story could be that temperatures will ease. Highs should dip into the mid to upper 90s Sunday and eventually fall into the low to middle 90s by the middle of next week. Overnight lows will ease from near 80 to the low to middle 70s. We shouldsee a small increase in the chance of rain as we go through next week. While we will have a chance of rain pretty much every day next week, amounts should be somewhat limited.
Get daily forecasts and exclusive severe weather details on storms as they approach your area by downloading the Your Weather Authority app now available in the App Store and Google Play | 2023-06-27T19:10:23+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/weather/june-27th-shreveport-texarkana-weather-forecast-pm-update/ |
What's in the new climate and health care law?
President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and legislation he signed Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea.
Approved by the divided Congress, the bill brings the biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. Also in the legislation is a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients as well as a new 15% corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share.
And billions will be left over to pay down federal deficits.
All told, the Democrats' “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package, an election year turnaround after loftier versions collapsed, will touch countless American lives and secure longtime party goals.
Democrats alone supported the package, as Republicans lined up against it. Republicans deride the 730-page bill as big government overreach and point particular criticism at its $80 billion investment in the IRS to hire new employees and go after tax scofflaws.
Voters will be left to sort it out in the November elections, when control of Congress will be decided.
Not as robust as Biden's initial ideas to rebuild America's public infrastructure and family support systems, here's what's in the estimated $740 billion package — made up of $440 billion in new spending and $300 billion toward easing deficits.
Lower prescription drug costs
Launching a long-sought goal, the bill would allow the Medicare program to negotiate some prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, saving the federal government some $288 billion over the 10-year budget window.
The result is expected to lower costs for older adults on medications, including a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for older adults buying prescriptions from pharmacies.
The revenue raised would also be used to provide free vaccinations for seniors, who now are among the few not guaranteed free access, according to a summary document.
Seniors would also have insulin prices capped at $35 a month.
Help paying for health insurance
The bill would extend the subsidies provided during the COVID-19 pandemic to help some Americans who buy health insurance on their own.
Under earlier pandemic relief, the extra help was set to expire this year. But the bill would allow the assistance to keep going for three more years, lowering insurance premiums for some 13 million people who are purchasing their own health care policies through the Affordable Care Act.
Biggest U.S. investment "by far" in climate change
The bill would infuse nearly $375 billion over the decade in climate change-fighting strategies that Democrats believe could put the country on a path to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, and “would represent the single biggest climate investment in U.S. history, by far.”
For consumers, that means tax rebates to buy electric vehicles — $4,000 for used vehicle purchase and up to $7,500 for new ones, eligible to households with incomes of $300,000 or less for couples, or single people with income of $150,000 or less.
Not all electric vehicles will fully qualify for the tax credits, thanks to requirements that component parts be manufactured and assembled in the U.S. And pricier cars costing more than $55,000 and SUVs and trucks priced above $80,000 are excluded.
There's also tax breaks for consumers to go green. One is a 10-year consumer tax credit for renewable energy investments in wind and solar.
For businesses, the bill has $60 billion for a clean energy manufacturing tax credit and $30 billion for a production tax credit for wind and solar, seen as ways to boost and support the industries that can help curb the country's dependence on fossil fuels.
The bill also gives tax credits for nuclear power and carbon capture technology that oil companies such as Exxon Mobil have invested millions of dollars to advance.
The bill would impose a new fee on excess methane emissions from oil and gas drilling while giving fossil fuel companies access to more leases on federal lands and waters.
A late addition pushed by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and other Democrats in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado would designate $4 billion to combat a mega-drought in the West, including conservation efforts in the Colorado River Basin, which nearly 40 million Americans rely on for drinking water.
How to pay for all of this?
One of the biggest revenue-raisers in the bill is a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits.
It's a way to clamp down on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some that end up paying no taxes at all.
The new corporate minimum tax would kick in after the 2022 tax year and raise more than $258 billion over the decade.
There will also be a new 1% excise tax imposed on stock buybacks, raising some $74 billion over the decade.
Savings from allowing Medicare’s negotiations with the drug companies is expected to bring in $288 billion over 10 years, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill sticks with Biden’s original pledge not to raise taxes on families or businesses making less than $400,000 a year.
Yet money is also raised by boosting the IRS to go after tax cheats. The bill proposes an $80 billion investment in taxpayer services, enforcement and modernization, which is projected to raise $203 billion in new revenue — a net gain of $124 billion over the decade.
Sinema was instrumental in doing away with other tax proposals and shaping the final plan.
Extra money to pay down deficits
With some $740 billion in new revenue and around $440 billion in new investments, the bill promises to put the difference of about $300 billion toward deficit reduction.
Federal deficits spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic when federal spending soared and tax revenues fell as the nation's economy churned through shutdowns, closed offices and other massive changes.
The nation has seen deficits rise and fall in recent years. But overall federal budgeting is on an unsustainable path, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which recently put out a new report on long-term projections.
What's left behind?
The package, nowhere near the sweeping Build Back Better program Biden once envisioned, remains a sizable undertaking and, along with COVID-19 relief and the GOP 2017 tax cuts, is among the more substantial bills from Congress in years.
While Congress did pass and Biden signed into law a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill for highways, broadband and other investments that was part of the White House's initial vision, the Democrats' other big priorities have slipped away.
Gone, for now, are plans for free pre-kindergarten and community college, as well as the nation's first paid family leave program that would have provided up to $4,000 a month for births, deaths and other pivotal needs. Also allowed to expire is the enhanced child care credit that was providing $300 a month during the pandemic.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report. | 2022-08-17T21:54:30+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/whats-in-the-new-climate-and-health-care-law/40923399 |
PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clínica Esperanza/Hope Clinic ("CEHC") announces today that the clinic will be the first federally funded "Test to Treat" site in the state of Rhode Island and the nation.
Located in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, CEHC is a free medical clinic serving the unmet healthcare and health education needs of a predominantly immigrant, uninsured, Spanish-speaking population. The clinic already offers COVID-19 testing and vaccination and clinic staff have recorded high COVID-19 positivity rates (27%) over the past 12 months. Positivity rates at the clinic have been consistently higher than other sites in Rhode Island throughout the pandemic.
First announced in March 2022, Test to Treat is a federal program to give patients access to life-saving treatments for COVID-19. Test to Treat sites will provide oral antiviral medications such as Pfizer's Paxlovid to individuals that test positive for COVID-19.
On CEHC's selection as the first FEMA "Test to Treat" site, Volunteer Medical Director Dr. Annie De Groot, fondly known as "Dr. Annie" around the clinic, said, "We are ready to provide Paxlovid to individuals who test positive at the new Test to Treat site [and] we will continue to provide vaccines and boosters for those who test negative."
CEHC staff are grateful to the Biden Administration, the RIDOH, RI EMA, and the State of Rhode Island for their support and willingness to focus on the hardest hit communities for the Test to Treat effort that will be lifesaving for our community.
The CEHC Test to Treat site is located at the Neighborhood Health Station at 85 Eagle St. in Providence and will provide Paxlovid to those who test positive for COVID-19 in addition to telemedicine visits with our providers.
Test to Treat services are offered six days a week, and individuals are welcome to walk in without an appointment.
Test to Treat Hours of Operation
Monday: 1-8pm
Tuesday: 9am-2pm
Wednesday: 9am-2pm
Thursday: 1-8pm
Friday: 10am-4pm
About Clínica Esperanza/Hope Clinic
Clínica Esperanza provides linguistically-appropriate, culturally-attuned medical care to uninsured adults living in Rhode Island. Since 2010, CEHC has served more than 10,000 patients, 80% of whom are Spanish-speaking, through various clinics and health education programs. Free healthcare is provided by a team of multi-lingual volunteers and core staff. CEHC believes healthcare is a human right.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The owners of the historic Englewood Depot building are facing a lawsuit for not following through on restorations promised when they bought the building nine years ago.
That's according to the lawsuit filed by the City of Englewood on Monday.
Tom and Patti Parson bought the building, located near West Dartmouth Avenue and South Santa Fe Drive, in 2013 for $30,000, a release from the city says. They intended to turn the building into a letterpress museum.
As part of the deal, the lawsuit says, the Parsons had agreed to restore and update the building. In exchange, the city agreed to a "greatly reduced" purchase price for the depot.
According to the city, this was "because the Parsons' proposal dovetailed with the city’s goal to restore the centrally located historic building while creating a community museum and gathering place."
Since the purchase of the building, the Parsons have run into several unanticipated issues that slowed the progress of the restoration, according to a letter from the nonprofit Englewood Depot, Inc. to the city. The letter says that despite the slow pace, "there is a purpose and value in step-by-step deliberate development." The letter also says a timeframe for the completion of the renovations was never included in the contract.
Pictures posted on the Letterpress Depot's website show periodic construction updates, including the installation of an electrical pole at the end of September.
However, the city said they have found 21 promised improvements that have not yet been completed. These include:
- Making multiple upgrades for ADA accessibility.
- Connecting electrical, water and sewer, and gas lines.
- Adding a heating system and water heater.
- Adding additional restrooms.
- Installing fire-resistant ceiling materials.
- Correcting drainage issues.
The Parsons have also violated city code by hosting events without getting a certificate of occupancy or meeting building and fire codes, the city said.
“Filing suit was certainly a last resort, but the city and its citizens deserve the community space they were promised,” Englewood Mayor Othoniel Sierra said in a release. “We’ve worked diligently to negotiate a proposal that would be equitable to both parties. But unfortunately, those efforts failed so we were required to seek court intervention.”
Tom Parson said in an email on Monday that they "strongly disagree" with the accusations from the city and that there are numerous false claims in the lawsuit.
He said the Englewood Depot, Inc. board would be meeting Monday night to discuss the lawsuit.
The Englewood Depot was built in 1915 as a train depot for the Santa Fe Railroad, according to History Colorado. It was originally located closer to the train tracks, but was moved to its current location in 1994 by the City of Englewood. The building is on the National and State Historic Register.
SUGGESTED VIDEOS: Colorado Guide | 2022-10-04T02:34:17+00:00 | 9news.com | https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/englewood-depot-lawsuit/73-a32ac37b-f2c5-48cb-ab9a-e8032e1195d4 |
Katy Perry serves as a new guest on the upcoming season of The Walk In, where she will show off her denim tribute to Britney Spears.
By that, we mean Katy’s version of the denim-on-denim ensemble Britney wore to the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards with then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake. The “Daisies” singer honored the look for the 2014 VMAs, and nearly a decade later, she refuses to let it go.
The Amazon Music series, hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race star Mo Heart, is all about exploring music artists’ closets and rifling through their most iconic looks. A sneak peek of Katy’s forthcoming episode was shared on YouTube.
When it came time to dish about the denim outfit, Katy launched into story mode about how she approached rapper Riff Raff to pull off the VMA look.
“We both wore matching Versace that actually pays homage to Justin and Britney,” the Grammy nominee disclosed. “That moment Britney gave us was the moment, and I wanted to pay my respects.”
Katy also revealed something surprising about herself while showing off the tiny tailored waist of the denim suit: she struggled with her body image. “I have spent so much time thinking I was fat. Wasting time thinking I was fat, years ago,” she confessed. “I was never fat.”
In a teachable moment, she told her female fans, “You are not fat!”
Katy also will revisit some of her best tour looks and the outfits she wore when she took over the Super Bowl halftime show in 2015. As for how her old wardrobe continues to stay in mint condition, the singer revealed they are stored in a special warehouse “where we have everything hung in garment bags.”
Season 3 of The Walk In premieres October 3 on Amazon Music.
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Transit police on Wednesday released surveillance images of a man in connection with the purported “recovery” of a gold chain that belonged to a man killed May 30 when he he fell under an MBTA trolley as it left North Station shortly after midnight.
“The victim’s gold chain was ‘recovered’ from the platform,” said MBTA Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan in a statement. “The family desperately would like the item returned. As I’m sure you can imagine this chain also has strong sentimental value to those who loved the victim.”
Sullivan had said previously that the man was trying to catch a Green Line train bound for Medford/Tufts around 12:18 a.m., but the doors closed before he could get on board.
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As the train was leaving the station, the man “proceeded in the direction of the moving trolley and kicked the side,” of the train, Sullivan said last month in a statement. “At this point the male lost his balance and fell under the trolley as it was in motion.”
On Wednesday, the T tweeted out video and still images of a man they’re hoping to locate in connection with the victim’s missing gold chain.
“Transit Police Detectives are seeking the identity of the person depicted within relating to a ‘recovered’ property incident,” the agency tweeted Wednesday. “5/30 at 12:25AM North Station the victim’s property was “recovered” after a tragic accident. Pls call TPD Detectives at 617-222-1050 w/any info.”
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The man, whose name wasn’t released, suffered catastrophic injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, Sullivan said.
“On behalf of the entire MBTA organization we express our most sincere condolences to family, friends and loved ones of the decedent,” Sullivan said previously.
Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. | 2023-06-07T19:52:52+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/07/metro/person-takes-gold-chain-belonging-man-who-died-when-he-fell-under-green-line-trolley-family-would-like-it-returned/ |
A Seattle Mariners fan decided to help make Jesse Winker's day while he was still at Angel Stadium Sunday.
Winker was ejected from Sunday's ballgame after he was hit by a pitch and progressed to get involved in a brawl on the field.
A woman on Twitter who goes by Sofie decided to order a pizza and have it delivered to Winker at the park after he was ejected from the game.
Her order quickly caught attention on Twitter as her delivery driver, Simranjeet, made his way through Angel Stadium traffic and delivered the pizza.
Jesse Winker confirmed through an Instagram message that he received the pizza.
Simranjeet was tipped by Sofie as well as by fans on Twitter for his determination to complete impossible the delivery. | 2022-06-27T06:48:38+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/sports/mariners-fan-cheers-up-jesse-winker-with-pizza |
CLEVELAND (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Ohio Lottery's "Pick 5 Evening" game were:
6-5-4-6-6
(six, five, four, six, six)
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s newest president, Dina Boluarte, swore in her Cabinet on Saturday just three days after becoming the country’s first female head of state and asked each minister to pledge not to be corrupt while in office.
The 17 ministers picked by Boluarte, who on Wednesday was elevated from vice president to replace the ousted Pedro Castillo as the country’s leader, will be key to further inflaming or calming a South American country experiencing a seemingly endemic political crisis.
Boluarte presented her centrist government amid demonstrations across Peru calling for her resignation and the scheduling of general elections to replace her and Congress.
She asked each of the nine men and eight women to swear or promise to perform their duties “loyally and faithfully without committing acts of corruption.” All Cabinet members knelt before her and wore red-and-white sashes tied around their waists. A large crucifix was placed in front of most Cabinet members when they responded to Boluarte’s question.
Fluent in Spanish and Quechua, Boluarte was elected as vice president on the presidential ticket that brought the center-left Castillo to power last year. She was minister of development and social inclusion during the 17-month administration of Castillo, a rural schoolteacher with no previous political experience.
Boluarte, 60, replaced Castillo after he stunned the country by ordering the dissolution of Congress, which in turn dismissed him for “permanent moral incapacity.” He was arrested on charges of rebellion. His failed move against the opposition-led Congress came hours before lawmakers were set to start a third impeachment attempt against him.
She addressed the nation after Saturday’s ceremony and promised Peruvians a government open to dialogue. She said her team will work for the country’s economic reactivation and social justice and walk “the path of progress.”
“I want to assure you that I have worked hard to form a ministerial Cabinet for unity and democratic consolidation (and) that is at the level of what the country requires,” Boluarte said. “… The national unity government will be for all Peruvians.”
Castillo cycled through more than 70 Cabinet members during his administration. Some of them have been accused of wrongdoing.
Boluarte has said she should be allowed to hold the office for the remaining 3 1/2 years of his term. But protesters are demanding new elections. Some of those demonstrating in favor of Castillo have called her a “traitor.”
Boluarte’s Cabinet includes lawyers Pedro Angulo, an anti-corruption prosecutor who was named prime minister, and Alberto Otárola, who will serve as minister of defense, a job he held a decade ago. She also swore in Alex Contreras and Ana Gervasi as ministers of economy and foreign affairs, respectively. They both previously served as deputy ministers in those agencies.
She is yet to appoint ministers of labor and transportation.
On Saturday, people protesting Castillo’s detention broke the windows of a police station in a community in the Andes as they tried to storm into the building, according to state media, which showed footage from inside the facility. A state news channel reported that protesters briefly detained two police officers.
Some people were injured in the demonstration by about 3,000 people in Andahuaylas. Anthony Gutiérrez, director of a local hospital, told The Associated Press that 16 people were being treated for concussions, with one of them in serious condition.
Andahuaylas is a remote city in the Andes, where a rebellion against then-President Alejandro Toledo took place in 2005.
Former army Maj. Antauro Humala was sentenced to 19 years in prison in connection with the uprising. Humala, the brother of former President Ollanta Humala, called on Boluarte to hold early elections.
“With the departure of Pedro Castillo, if the right believes that the crisis has been solved, they are totally wrong. It has done nothing but worsen and enter a chapter to another degree,” Antauro Humala told reporters Saturday in Lima. “Here, the only thing that can lower the social pressure is the announcement of the advancenment of elections.”
Meanwhile, several highways were still blocked by protesters calling for the closure of Congress, the resignation of Boluarte and new elections. In Lima, about a 1,000 Castillo supporters gathered to call for his release.
“Congress has given us a kick and has mocked the popular vote,” said protester Mauro Sánchez in Lima, where police have used tear gas to end demonstrations that began Wednesday. “Let’s take to the streets, let’s not let ourselves be governed by this mafia-like congress.”
Peru has had six presidents in the last six years, including three in a single week in 2020 when Congress flexed its impeachment powers.
The power struggle in the country has continued as the Andes and its thousands of small farms struggle to survive the worst drought in a half-century. Without rain, farmers can’t plant potatoes, and the dying grass can no longer sustain herds of sheep, alpacas, vicuñas and llamas.
The government also confirmed that in the past week, Peru has seen a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections. The country has recorded about 4.3 million infections and 217,000 deaths since the pandemic began.
Boluarte lacks support in Congress. Like Castillo, she was kicked out in January of the far-left party with which the pair was elected as president and vice president.
Omar Coronel, political science professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, said an important variable for Boluarte’s government will be her ability to manage the waves of discontent and generate a coalition in Congress that can sustain her but that at the same time “is not aberrational for the left.”
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Associated Press writer Franklin Briceño contributed to this report. | 2022-12-11T03:18:01+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-perus-president-asks-cabinet-to-take-anti-corruption-pledge/ |
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- Dodge "Last Call" performance festival set for March 20, 2023, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, will introduce final 2023 Dodge "Last Call" special-edition model and also highlight Dodge brand's drive toward an electrified future
- Event marks the end of one era — the last of the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger in their current HEMI®-engine-powered forms — and the birth of a new Dodge era of electrified muscle
- Seventh and final Dodge 2023 "Last Call" commemorative edition model will be a last-of-its-kind Dodge special-edition vehicle
- Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept, the brand's future vision of electrified muscle, will be on display in Las Vegas
- Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept represents a giant step forward on the performance brand's road to an electrified future, reimagining what a muscle car can be
- Dodge "Last Call" event will also feature a day of drag racing, Dodge Thrill Rides, a Dodge car show, celebrity appearances and more
- Event will be open to the public, with enthusiasts able to watch the "Last Call" special-edition reveal via Livestream at DodgeGarage.com
- Additional details on the Dodge "Last Call" celebration in Las Vegas will be shared at a later date on Dodge.com and DodgeGarage.com.
- Information on the 24-month Dodge Never Lift campaign available at DodgeGarage.com
Dodge is honoring the end of an era while celebrating the birth of another with the announcement today of a Dodge "Last Call" performance festival that will play host to the worldwide reveal of the brand's final 2023 "Last Call" special-edition model while also shining a spotlight on the Dodge brand's future of electrified muscle, the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept. The Dodge "Last Call" event will rumble into Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 20, 2023.
The event will unleash the seventh and final Dodge 2023 "Last Call" commemorative edition model — a last-of-its-kind Dodge special-edition vehicle. Six Dodge "Last Call" models have already been introduced: the Dodge Challenger Shakedown, Dodge Charger Super Bee, Dodge Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger, Dodge Charger King Daytona and Dodge Challenger Black Ghost. The Dodge "Last Call" vehicles commemorate the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger, which are coming to an end in their current HEMI®-engine-powered forms at the end of 2023.
The Dodge "Last Call" event in Las Vegas will also hail the beginning stages of a new, electrified chapter for the brand — the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept, the brand's future vision of electrified muscle, will be on display in Las Vegas. The Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept represents a giant step forward on the performance brand's road to an electrified future, offering a perception-shattering concept that reimagines what a muscle car can be.
"The Dodge 'Last Call' event will be a celebration of Dodge performance," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis. "While the 'Last Call' special-edition model we will reveal at Las Vegas and the electrified Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept represent different performance eras for our brand, both are linked by a commitment to delivering the Brotherhood of Muscle a vehicle that drives like a Dodge, looks like a Dodge and sounds like a Dodge. No matter the era, Dodge will always be about muscle, attitude and performance, and that's what this event will celebrate."
The Dodge brand's performance festival will also feature drag racing on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Dodge Thrill Rides, a Dodge car show, celebrity appearances, a post-event afterglow and more. The reveal event will be open to the public, and enthusiasts will also be able to view the event via Livestream at DodgeGarage.com.
Additional details on the Dodge "Last Call" event will be shared at a later date on Dodge.com and DodgeGarage.com.
Information on the brand's Never Lift plan, which provides a 24-month road map to Dodge's performance future, is also available at DodgeGarage.com.
Dodge//SRT
For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their influence continues today as Dodge shifts into high gear with a lineup that delivers unrivaled performance in each of the segments where they compete.
Dodge drives forward as a pure performance brand, offering SRT Hellcat versions of the Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and Dodge Durango, as well as an R/T plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of the all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet, representing the brand's first-ever electrified performance vehicle. Dodge delivers the drag-strip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock; the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world; and the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, the most powerful SUV ever; and best-in-class standard performance in the compact utility vehicle segment with the Dodge Hornet. Combined, these four muscle vehicles make Dodge the industry's most powerful brand, offering more horsepower than any other American brand across its entire lineup.
In 2022, the Dodge brand ranked No. 1 in the J.D. Power APEAL Study (mass market), making it the only domestic brand ever to do so three years in a row. In 2020, Dodge was named the "#1 Brand in Initial Quality," making it the first domestic brand ever to rank No. 1 in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS).
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Derek John Mellum, 40, passed away on April 10, at his home in Billings, MT after a three-year battle with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer.
Derek was born in Grand Forks, ND on June 5, 1981, to John and Deb Mellum. After high school, he moved to Montana to explore a new land. He spent his time in the great outdoors as often as possible and was known to be an avid hunter and fisherman. He continued his career working with his father building homes and most recently, due to his passion for classic cars, he took a job at Auto Auction of Montana in Billings where he was employed as long as his body allowed.
Derek was a loyal friend and remained best friends with the same group of men since high school, despite being disbursed around the country, their bond remained for decades. His friend group expanded in Montana where he developed many steadfast friendships as well. Of note, Derek was also known to be quite fond of his pet cat, Cleo, who comforted him with snuggles and companionship through his last breath.
Derek met the love of his life, Abbigail "Abby" Mellum whom he married on November 26, 2019. Derek fondly referred to Abby as his gift from God, his Angel, as she stood by him faithfully caring for him as they navigated their collective fight against his disease.
Throughout the course of his illness, Derek developed a deepened faith in God which gave him unending faith and resilience. This faith carried him fearlessly and peacefully as he transitioned into his new home in heaven.
Derek leaves behind his wife, Abbigail Mellum; stepchildren: Hannah, Parker, and Carter Stevenson; parents John Mellum and Deb (Elston) Mellum; sisters: Jennifer Mellum (Nora and Quinn Thompson), Nikki (Chris) Jones-Mellum (Kaitlin Makarim, Kennedy Mellum-Jones), and Jill Mellum (Tristan Moeller); uncles Gary Deziel, David Deziel, Terry Elston, Kevin Elston; and aunts Jodi Elston, Dorthy Elston, and Judee Reierson.
Derek's funeral will be held on Saturday, April 23, at 10 a.m. in Billings, MT at Dahl Funeral Chapel, 10 Yellowstone Ave. Burial to follow at the family's private property. | 2022-04-21T06:01:52+00:00 | billingsgazette.com | https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/derek-john-mellum/article_3602653f-615d-53b5-9cfa-34edcf982ada.html |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), an influencer-based social media firm and digital talent management agency, announced that they have finalized a brand promotional deal with American model and WWE Hall of Famer, Torrie Wilson. During her career she became one of the faces of the WWE Divas, which some consider the height of women's wrestling in the company. Wilson has appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine and also has a large social media following, boasting 1M+ followers on Instagram. She is currently a web-based fitness instructor and blogger.
"Always a pleasure to work with Torrie and her representatives" said Julia Salmon, Sales Agent at The Reiman Agency. "Excited for more to come."
CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
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First Republic up in air as regulators juggle bank’s fate
Regulators continued their search for a solution to First Republic Bank’s woes over the weekend before stock markets were set to open Monday. San Francisco-based First Republic has struggled since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March, as investors and depositors have grown increasingly worried that the bank may not survive as an independent entity for much longer. Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs president who served as President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation “would prefer to sell the bank in its entirety than in pieces.” | 2023-04-30T23:03:24+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/04/30/first-republic-up-in-air-as-regulators-juggle-banks-fate/ |
Mark Hall Named New CFO, Effective January 1, 2023
SMITHFIELD, Va., Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Smithfield Foods today announced that Chief Financial Officer Glenn Nunziata will leave the company at the end of the year. The company named Mark Hall, currently Smithfield's executive vice president, finance, as its new CFO, effective January 1, 2023.
"We are grateful to Glenn for his invaluable contributions to Smithfield as CFO over the last seven years," said Shane Smith, Smithfield's president and CEO. "During Glenn's tenure, we have become a better company, achieving new levels of operational excellence and a strengthened balance sheet while growing organically and through acquisitions to become a world-class protein company. We thank Glenn and wish him all the best in his next chapter."
"Serving Smithfield for seven years as CFO and for 10 years during my previous role with Ernst & Young has been the highlight of my career," said Nunziata. "The future is bright for the company, and I am thankful for the opportunity to have worked alongside so many talented people committed to a worthy mission to produce good food the right way. I plan to take some time to consider the next phase of my career."
Mark Hall brings 25 years of food industry financial experience to his new role as Smithfield's CFO. Hall joined Smithfield in 2014 as vice president, finance, for the John Morrell Food Group. In 2015, he was promoted to vice president of finance for Smithfield's combined Packaged Meats businesses. In 2019, he was promoted to senior vice president, finance, overseeing financial operations for Smithfield's Fresh Pork and Packaged Meats businesses. He assumed his current position as executive vice president, finance, in late 2020. He began his career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen, LLP and worked in equity research for Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. Prior to joining Smithfield, he held finance positions of increasing responsibility with The Quaker Oats Company and McCain Foods USA.
"Mark is well prepared for his new role and brings a depth of experience, including serving for the last eight years in senior leadership positions on Smithfield's finance team," added Smith. "We are fortunate to have a deep bench and look forward to a seamless transition of responsibilities over the next few weeks."
Hall will oversee finance, accounting, treasury, tax, risk management and serve as principal accounting officer in his new Smithfield role.
About Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia, since 1936, Smithfield Foods, Inc. is an American food company with agricultural roots and a global reach. With more than 60,000 jobs globally, we are dedicated to producing "Good food. Responsibly.®" and serve as one of the world's leading vertically integrated protein companies. We have pioneered sustainability standards for more than two decades, including our industry-leading commitments to become carbon negative in our U.S. company-owned operations and reduce GHG emissions 30% across our entire U.S. value chain by 2030. We believe in the power of protein to end food insecurity and have donated hundreds of millions of food servings to our communities. Smithfield boasts a portfolio of high-quality iconic brands, such as Smithfield®, Eckrich® and Nathan's Famous®, among many others. For more information, visit www.smithfieldfoods.com, and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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(The Hill) – Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) declined to concede governor race to Democrat Katie Hobbs Thursday, raising concerns about the election process.
The Associated Press and other outlets projected that Hobbs won the race on Monday. But Lake indicated she is assembling a legal team that is “collecting evidence and data” pertaining to the electoral process.
“Rest assured, I have assembled the best and brightest legal team and we are exploring every avenue to correct the many wrongs that have been done this past week,” Lake said in a video address posted Thursday morning. “I’m doing everything in my power to right these wrongs.”
On multiple occasions, Lake, a Trump-backed candidate, sidestepped questions about whether she would accept the results of her election.
Since Election Day, Lake has called election officials “incompetent,” and shortly after Hobbs was projected as the winner, Lake tweeted: “Arizonans know BS when they see it.”
Lake on Thursday pointed to printing malfunctions in Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county that includes Phoenix, calling it “unforgivable” and claiming voters were disenfranchised.
Seventy of the county’s 223 voting centers early on Election Day used printers that churned out ballots with ink that was too light for tabulation machines to read, election officials said.
Voters could wait in line until the issue was fixed, cast a ballot at another vote center or deposit their original ballot in a separate, secure box that was sent to the county’s central facility for tabulation.
County election officials have repeatedly pushed back on Lake’s allegations, saying no one was denied an opportunity to vote and indicated the issue impacted less than 7 percent of Election Day ballots.
The Lake campaign and Republican groups called for an extension of in-person voting on Election Day in the county just before polls closed, but a state judge rejected the motion, saying he had seen no evidence that a voter was unable to cast a ballot.
“The good news is election administration has built in redundancies — backup plans when things don’t go as planned,” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates (D) and Vice Chairman Clint Hickman (R) said in a joint statement last week.
“This enables all valid votes to count even if technology, on occasion, fails,” the statement continued. “Voters impacted by the printer issue had several ways to cast their ballot yesterday, including dropping their completed ballot into a secure box (door 3) on site. Those ballots will be verified as legitimate and then tabulated.”
Some of Lake’s claims were also endorsed by former President Trump, who formally entered the 2024 presidential contest on Tuesday. Lake endorsed Trump in the race.
Lake on Thursday also attacked Hobbs, who serves as Arizona’s secretary of state, for declining to recuse herself from this year’s election proceedings.
Hobbs’s office oversees the certification of elections, while counties handle ballots and submit their tabulations to the office.
Allie Bones, Hobbs’s deputy, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday that the office will never touch ballots from the election.
But Bones added that Hobbs will fulfill a “ministerial act” of signing paperwork signing off on the statewide canvass alongside the signatures of the state’s Republican governor and attorney general. | 2022-11-18T00:05:33+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/kari-lake-declines-to-concede-says-shes-assembling-legal-team/ |
The Heritage Foundation is having a midlife transformation.
At the age of 50, the conservative think tank is rethinking itself and testing whether it’s possible for the conservative Washington institution to get edgy.
Heritage has long been at the center of what some on the anti-establishment right have disparagingly dubbed “Conservatism Inc.” — the network of wonks, consultants, and commentators who make up establishment conservative thought that drives Republican policy and politics.
But now, it is turning back the dial on its once-hawkish foreign policy and entertaining ideas that challenge strict adherence to free-market economics, putting itself at the forefront of crafting a standard of right-wing thought and style that echoes “New Right” post-Trump populism.
At the crux of that transition has been Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, who joined the organization in 2021 by way of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation.
In an interview with The Hill, Roberts said one of his goals is to “disabuse people of that notion” that Heritage is part of “Conservatism Inc.”
But the think tank is not abandoning its Reagan-era roots.
“We’re actually honoring our past, we’re honoring all my predecessors,” Roberts said in an interview with The Hill. “We’re going to build on your foundation by recognizing the present-day policy and political challenges are different — in some respects, very different — than what Heritage had to confront as recently as 10 years ago.”
One of the first major recent shifts in the Heritage ecosystem came with its advocacy arm, Heritage Action, opposing a $40 billion Ukraine funding package last year — a notable shift from the organization’s hawkish tendencies like supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq two decades ago.
While Roberts said that there is “still an expansive interventionist foreign policy mindset that has to change” in Washington, and the Heritage Foundation is advocating a “third way” that is “neither interventionist or isolationist.”
“We love America. We believe in Reagan’s peace through strength. We believe that in the right situation, America’s power should be explicit and dominant and overwhelming, but that we simply can’t afford the level of adventurousness that the neoconservatives, in particular, have been supporting,” Roberts said.
Another move that raised eyebrows was a report released last month that examined how those on the right are “rethinking the relationship between freight free enterprise and the common good,” raising eyebrows and alarm among free-market fundamentalists in the Washington libertarian and conservative space.
“The free market is the outgrowth of even higher goods, like the institution of the nuclear family, like a healthy civil society,” Roberts said. “You’re never going to have a free market — which we don’t have today, I mean, we have a managed economy — if you don’t first have those other things.”
“Heritage is trying to remind conservatives that the free market is not an altar. The free market is a good,” Roberts said.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a prominent conservative voice, has also shifted his tone on the think tank.
Carlson had criticized the Heritage Foundation on his show after its most recent former president, Kay Coles James — the first Black person or woman to lead the organization — wrote a 2020 op-ed on racism as mass demonstrations broke out over the killing of George Floyd.
James wrote that “racism in America is a fatal wound” and wondered “How many times will protests have to occur?” Carlson accused James and other conservative leaders of “joining the left’s chorus.”
But last month, Carlson, who started his career at the Heritage Foundation’s now-defunct “Policy Review,” was the keynote speaker at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th-anniversary gala. He gushed over Roberts for breaking with a society where the government and key institutions are “all run by weak people.”
“To see someone who’s not a weak leader at the helm of Heritage just thrilled me, so I wanted to come for that reason,” Carlson said.
Some anonymously sourced reports suggested Carlson’s religious themes in his Heritage Foundation speech upset Fox Corp owner Rupert Murdoch, contributing to his abrupt firing just days later. Roberts said at the dinner — and reiterated after news of Carlson’s ouster — that there was “always a job” for Carlson at Heritage.
Roberts is also embracing a more confrontational style at Heritage. In introducing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) at the 50th-anniversary summit, Roberts praised his “radical candor — something we love at Heritage.”
But the conservative think tank is not shifting its stances on every traditional conservative position of the past few decades. It remains steadfast in opposition to abortion, an issue that has challenged Republicans politically since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
“We’re not going to stop working on this issue until there’s zero abortions in America,” Roberts said.
And Roberts said that he thinks the organization’s “biggest shift” has been in increasing the amount of time and resources it puts in on state-level action on issues, like school choice policies, and pushing back on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment scoring policies.
Roberts summed up the Heritage Foundation’s changes in his opening remarks at its anniversary summit last month.
“Decades of frustration and failure have shown us that the old Washington red team of free marketers, neoconservatives, and evangelicals alone is simply not enough,” Roberts said.
“It’s not enough for conservatives to hold power. We have to wield it.” | 2023-05-02T10:48:54+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/hitting-50-heritage-foundation-looks-to-move-past-conservatism-inc/ |
NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stroock is expanding its Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice with a team from Luskin, Stern & Eisler, a Chambers-ranked boutique firm focused on restructuring and bankruptcy. The attorneys will be based in Stroock's New York office.
The team includes partners Richard Stern, Matthew O'Donnell, Alex Talesnick, and Stephan Hornung, senior counsel Michael Luskin, and associate Genna Grossman. Richard Stern will join Stroock partner Jeffrey Lowenthal as Co-Chair of Stroock's Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group.
"A key goal has been the acquisition of additional restructuring and bankruptcy firepower that represents banks and financial institutions, positioning us to serve a strategically important sector ahead of the widely anticipated acceleration of the restructuring cycle," said Alan M. Klinger, Stroock Co-Managing Partner. "Importantly, each of these attorneys is substantively strong and has the personality to foster relationships within the firm, support business development efforts and attract and retain top partners and associates. This is a great match, and we are terrifically excited to welcome the group to Stroock."
The team is well-known for providing top-quality representation to financial institutions in restructurings, bankruptcy matters, creditors' rights litigation, and financing transactions in the United States, as well as in cross-border matters spanning Latin America, Canada, and Europe. The practice represents more than 20 leading financial institutions as well as Fortune 500 companies, Chapter 11 trustees and court-appointed examiners.
Stroock's current Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice has extensive experience representing sophisticated financial institutions as well as creditors, equity holders and new money investors and lenders in complex bankruptcy matters. The team is also one of the few groups that advises on the interplay between insolvency and commodities and derivatives matters. Encompassing tax, debt finance and litigation practitioners, the team devises creative solutions to transition distressed companies into recovery and deploys targeted and high-impact litigation strategies, often involving ground-breaking areas of the law, to help clients with multidimensional negotiations.
"Stroock's long history and reputation for excellence in restructuring is well known to our team," Richard Stern said. "Stroock understands the nature of restructuring practice and knows how to cultivate it. And the firm's strong and cohesive culture will foster the continued success that we've enjoyed as a boutique. Opportunities abound to collaborate with current practice partners as well as partners from across the firm to provide our clients the full range of legal services as well as to lend our expertise to Stroock's institutional relationships."
About the Attorneys
Richard Stern has practiced bankruptcy law for over 35 years. He regularly represents financial institutions in out-of-court workouts, restructurings, bankruptcy proceedings and lending transactions with an emphasis on complex financial restructurings and has been appointed as a fiduciary in several bankruptcy matters. His recent focus has been assisting lenders with unique issues in workouts and insolvencies in the energy, travel, healthcare, retail, and hedge fund industries.
Michael Luskin focuses on bankruptcy and other litigation, enforcing a creditor's rights under the Bankruptcy Code or defending a creditor against "lender liability," fraudulent conveyance or preference claims brought by a creditors' committee or bankruptcy trustee. He also has substantial experience representing creditors in loan restructurings and out-of-court workouts and representing trustees and examiners in cases presenting complex litigation issues.
Matthew O'Donnell represents financial institutions in all types of loan restructurings, out-of-court workouts, bankruptcy proceedings and lending transactions including domestic and cross-border commodity financing transactions, asset-based loans, leveraged financing transactions, aircraft and other equipment financings.
Alex Talesnick represents financial institutions in out-of-court workouts, restructurings, and bankruptcy proceedings and on asset-based and leveraged financing transactions. Alex regularly advises agents, lenders, and hedge providers on complex financial restructurings, and has substantial experience in all aspects of bankruptcy proceedings.
Stephan E. Hornung represents financial institutions and other creditors in commercial litigation in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy courts, across the country.
Genna Grossman represents financial institutions in many types of finance transactions including asset-based loans, real estate financing, leveraged transactions, loan restructurings, workouts and bankruptcy proceedings.
About Stroock
Stroock provides strategic transactional, regulatory, and litigation advice to advance the business objectives of leading financial institutions, multinational corporations, and entrepreneurial businesses in the U.S. and globally. With a rich history dating back over 145 years, the firm has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, D.C. For more, visit www.stroock.com.
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PARIS (AP) — Two years ago at the French Open, Barbora Krejcikova arrived relatively unknown and relatively unaccomplished — and left with championships in both singles and doubles, something no woman had done at Roland Garros in more than 20 years.
A year ago at the French Open, Krejcikova came in after three months off because of an elbow injury and her title defense in singles ended with a first-round loss, only the third ever by the previous year’s champion in more than a half-century of the Open era.
And then her title defense in doubles ended before that event began thanks to a positive test for COVID-19, which hit her so hard she didn’t get out of bed for four days.
As Krejcikova prepared to return to action in Paris on Tuesday, facing Lesia Tsurenko at Court 7, this much was clear in her mind: She does not want to dwell on what happened in Paris either of the past two years.
“It all happened, but I’m definitely not thinking about it anymore,” Krejcikova said in an interview with The Associated Press. “What happened last year, happened last year. What happened two years ago, happened two years ago. Now I’m living in the present and I’m here.”
That she would want to forget her 2022 trip to Paris, pretend it never happened, both because of the quick defeat and because of the illness? That makes sense. That’s absolutely relatable.
That she would harbor a similar sentiment about 2021, when she produced the most triumphant two weeks of her professional life? Hmmm.
When that question was put to the 27-year-old from the Czech Republic, she reconsidered. OK, there are some good vibes that come back and she is willing to enjoy.
“Definitely every time I come here, and every time I step into this stadium, I always smile, because I feel really good here,” she said with a grin.
“What happened two years ago? I just never actually thought this could happen. As a little kid, you have this dream: You see players playing the big tournaments and they’re winning them, and you’re thinking, ‘Maybe one day? Or maybe not? Should I go to school? Should I not?’ And then it actually came true. Out of nowhere. Unexpected,” Krejcikova said. “It’s very nice that I can say that I’m a Grand Slam champion.”
She rose as high as No. 2 in the WTA rankings and is currently 13th. While the names on everyone’s lips as the elite of women’s tennis this season are Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina, Krejcikova considers herself someone not to be forgotten.
“I feel,” she said, “that I’m part of the players that are really close to them.”
Krejcikova proved that at a hard-court tournament in Dubai in February, when she took the title by beating the top three women in the rankings — No. 1 Swiatek, No. 2 Sabalenka and No. 3 Jessica Pegula — along with another Top 10 opponent, Daria Kasatkina, and another Grand Slam champion, two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova.
That provided a boost of confidence.
But only briefly.
And the way she described that week-in, week-out tour life offers some insight into why she might be a tad conflicted about focusing too much on what happened in 2021 and 2022 at the French Open.
“The next week, you play another tournament, and the week in Dubai is already in the past. It’s not like you have a lot of time to actually celebrate it and actually enjoy it and feel good about it, because the next week you can lose,” Krejcikova said with a sigh. “Then you feel more bitter than sweet, because it just goes on every single week. You don’t have time to process what happened. It just goes on and on. We’re like robots — next one and next one and next one. It’s a constant battle of positive and negative emotions.”
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AP Tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-30T14:31:57+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/sports/ap-2-years-after-french-open-title-1-year-after-1st-round-loss-covid-krejcikova-aims-to-forget/ |
Trump arrested? Putin jailed? Fake AI images spread online
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump getting gang-tackled by riot-gear-clad New York City police officers. Russian President Vladimir Putin in prison grays behind the bars of a dimly lit concrete cell.
The highly detailed, sensational images have inundated Twitter and other platforms in recent days, amid news that Trump faces possible criminal charges and the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Putin.
But neither visual is remotely real. The images — and scores of variations littering social media — were produced using increasingly sophisticated and widely accessible image generators powered by artificial intelligence.
Misinformation experts warn the images are harbingers of a new reality: waves of fake photos and videos flooding social media after major news events and further muddying fact and fiction at crucial times for society.
“It does add noise during crisis events. It also increases the cynicism level,” said Jevin West, a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle who focuses on the spread of misinformation. “You start to lose trust in the system and the information that you are getting.”
While the ability to manipulate photos and create fake images isn’t new, AI image generator tools by Midjourney, DALL-E and others are easier to use. They can quickly generate realistic images — complete with detailed backgrounds — on a mass scale with little more than a simple text prompt from users.
Some of the recent images have been driven by this month’s release of a new version of Midjourney’s text-to-image synthesis model, which can, among other things, now produce convincing images mimicking the style of news agency photos.
In one widely-circulating Twitter thread, Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, a Netherlands-based investigative journalism collective, used the latest version of the tool to conjure up scores of dramatic images of Trump’s fictional arrest.
The visuals, which have been shared and liked tens of thousands of times, showed a crowd of uniformed officers grabbing the Republican billionaire and violently pulling him down onto the pavement.
Higgins, who was also behind a set of images of Putin being arrested, put on trial and then imprisoned, says he posted the images with no ill intent. He even stated clearly in his Twitter thread that the images were AI-generated.
Still, the images were enough to get him locked out of the Midjourney server, according to Higgins. The San Francisco-based independent research lab didn’t respond to emails seeking comment.
“The Trump arrest image was really just casually showing both how good and bad Midjourney was at rendering real scenes,” Higgins wrote in an email. “The images started to form a sort of narrative as I plugged in prompts to Midjourney, so I strung them along into a narrative, and decided to finish off the story.”
He pointed out the images are far from perfect: in some, Trump is seen, oddly, wearing a police utility belt. In others, faces and hands are clearly distorted.
But it’s not enough that users like Higgins clearly state in their posts that the images are AI-generated and solely for entertainment, says Shirin Anlen, media technologist at Witness, a New York-based human rights organization that focuses on visual evidence.
Too often, the visuals are quickly reshared by others without that crucial context, she said. Indeed, an Instagram post sharing some of Higgins’ images of Trump as if they were genuine garnered more than 79,000 likes.
“You’re just seeing an image, and once you see something, you cannot unsee it,” Anlen said.
In another recent example, social media users shared a synthetic image supposedly capturing Putin kneeling and kissing the hand of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The image, which circulated as the Russian president welcomed Xi to the Kremlin this week, quickly became a crude meme.
It’s not clear who created created the image or what tool they used, but some clues gave the forgery away. The heads and shoes of the two leaders were slightly distorted, for example, and the room’s interior didn’t match the room where the actual meeting took place.
With synthetic images becoming increasingly difficult to discern from the real thing, the best way to combat visual misinformation is better public awareness and education, experts say.
“It’s just becoming so easy and it’s so cheap to make these images that we should do whatever we can to make the public aware of how good this technology has gotten,” West said.
Higgins suggests social media companies could focus on developing technology to detect AI-generated images and integrate that into their platforms.
Twitter has a policy banning “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media” with the potential to deceive or harm. Annotations from Community Notes, Twitter’s crowd-sourced fact checking project, were attached to some tweets to include the context that the Trump images were AI-generated.
When reached for comment Thursday, the company emailed back only an automated response.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, declined to comment. Some of the fabricated Trump images were labeled as either “false” or “missing context” through its third-party fact-checking program, of which the AP is a participant.
Arthur Holland Michel, a fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York who is focused on emerging technologies, said he worries the world isn’t ready for the impending deluge.
He wonders how deepfakes involving ordinary people — harmful fake pictures of an ex-partner or a colleague, for example — will be regulated.
“From a policy perspective, I’m not sure we’re prepared to deal with this scale of disinformation at every level of society,” Michel wrote in an email. “My sense is that it’s going to take an as-yet-unimagined technical breakthrough to definitively put a stop to this.”
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Associated Press reporter David Klepper in Washington contributed to this story.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-23T19:51:11+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/03/23/trump-arrested-putin-jailed-fake-ai-images-spread-online/ |
Zink plans to focus presidency on IT integration and improving the connection between healthcare and public health
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association of State and Territorial Officials (ASTHO) announced today that Anne Zink, MD, will now serve as president for the association. Zink also holds the position of chief medical officer for the Alaska Department of Health (ADOH). She takes the reins from Nirav D. Shah, MD, JD, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who has held the position since January 2021. Zink is the 80th president on the organization's 80th anniversary year.
Zink plans to focus her presidency on improving health information systems to empower the public, healthcare providers, and the public health workforce with the tools and information they need to promote individual and population health.
"First and foremost, I am dedicated to the health of the people we serve," says ASTHO President Anne Zink, MD. "It is a tremendous honor to lead as ASTHO's president and promote their mission of advancing the public's health and well-being though the collaboration of our members, staff, the public, and policy makers not only during public health emergencies, but every day. As a practicing emergency medicine physician who had the honor of serving our state through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear we must do everything to ensure our systems put the people we serve at the center of all our work, and our tremendous public health and healthcare workforces deserve the basic tools, data, and funding to do the jobs they have been called to do."
Dr. Zink's 16 years of experience in emergency medicine made her acutely aware of the consequences public policy has on the health of the individual, which motivated her to embrace the opportunity to work in public health. Prior to her role at ADOH, she worked at the Mat -Su Regional Medical Center, where she served as the emergency department medical director (2010-2018) and on the Board of Trustees (2012-2018). In addition, she helped create the High -Utilizer Mat -Su (HUMS) program, which aims to improve patient health and cost savings for some of the state's most vulnerable patients.
She led state and federal policy changes, including work on information sharing, addressing the opioid epidemic, addressing workplace violence, and mental healthcare. In her time as Alaska's chief medical officer, she has been recognized locally and nationally as a collaborative leader for her partnership with Alaska's federally recognized tribes, industry partners, schools, municipalities, and healthcare.
"Dr. Zink has been a wonderful resource to ASTHO and its members and partners in her role as ASTHO's president-elect and we look forward to her term as president," says Michael Fraser, PhD, ASTHO CEO. "She has been an incredible leader in Alaska throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. She impresses all of us with her optimistic outlook and calm demeanor in crisis situations. Her background as an emergency physician will serve her well, especially as we head into fall flu season and we continue to navigate COVID-19 and monkeypox."
Dr. Zink grew up in Denver, received her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine after being a Watson Fellow and completed her residency at the University of Utah. She first fell in love with Alaska while instructing for the National Outdoor Leadership School where mornings start with a run in the mountains and evenings end among the northern nights. She stayed because of the people and medicine, where collaboration comes first and the connection between physical, mental, and environmental health are an integral part of all health work.
Other newly elected ASTHO leaders include Steven J. Stack, MD, MBA, president-elect and Scott Harris, MD, MPH, secretary-treasurer.
Learn more about Dr. Zink in a new Q & A here.
ASTHO is the national nonprofit organization representing the public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States, and Washington, D.C., as well as the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy and to ensuring excellence in public health practice.
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SOURCE Association of State and Territorial Health Officials | 2022-09-13T22:35:37+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/13/anne-zink-md-chief-medical-officer-alaska-department-health-announced-asthos-80th-president/ |
A Connecticut man has been convicted of murder in the stray-bullet killing of the mother of a two-time Olympian rifle shooter from Puerto Rico.
A jury found Franklin Robinson, 40, guilty Friday in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi. The 56-year-old was in her sewing and crafts room in Waterbury when a bullet flew through a wall and hit her in the head on April 9, 2022.
Martinez Antongiorgi’s daughter, Yarimar Mercado Martinez, competed for the family’s native Puerto Rico at the 2016 and pandemic-delayed 2020 Games. The athlete was in Brazil for a competition when her mother was killed.
A message seeking comment was sent to her Saturday. At the time of her mother’s death, she anguished in social media posts that she “couldn’t even say goodbye.”
“Why you? Why this way? You were just sitting in your little house sewing, as you always did,” she wrote.
According to trial testimony, a jealous Robinson was gunning for a man who had said hello to Robinson’s girlfriend on an earlier day. After quarreling with the man and some of his friends, Robinson lined up a couple of people he knew to help him go after the man.
The three shot up a car parked on Martinez Antongiorgi’s street, thinking the man was inside it, according to testimony. Another bystander was wounded but survived.
Robinson didn’t fire the fatal bullet, but he was charged with murder under legal principles that apply to conspirators. Prosecutors portrayed him as leading a deadly scheme by targeting the intended victim and recruiting help.
His defense questioned the credibility of a key witness: Robinson’s now-former girlfriend, Emily Dyer.
“The case boiled down to whether or not the jury believed Emily Dyer, and it is clear that they did,” one of Robinson’s attorneys, attorneys Donald Meehan, told the Republican American of Waterbury.
Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney Don Therkildsen said Martinez Antongiorgi and her family “were able to receive justice,” crediting police.
Robinson faces sentencing Nov. 1.
Martinez Antongiorgi and her husband of over 30 years, John Luis Mercado, moved to Waterbury from Puerto Rico a few years after the U.S. territory endured 2017’s devastating Hurricane Maria. At the time of her death, they had set a date to renew their wedding vows, their daughter wrote at the time. | 2023-07-23T13:39:56+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/ap-man-convicted-in-stray-bullet-killing-of-puerto-rican-olympians-mom-in-her-connecticut-home/ |
TX San Angelo TX Zone Forecast for Tuesday, October 11, 2022
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Zone Forecast Product for Texas
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
TXZ127-122030-
Taylor-
Including the city of Abilene
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs around 90.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Isolated thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the upper 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ072-122030-
Tom Green-
Including the cities of Carlsbad, San Angelo, and Wall
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with isolated thunderstorms. A chance of
showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon.
Cooler with highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Isolated thunderstorms in the evening. Mostly
cloudy with a chance of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ140-122030-
Brown-
Including the cities of Brownwood and Indian Creek
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Cooler with highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ054-122030-
Nolan-
Including the city of Sweetwater
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely with isolated thunderstorms. Cooler with
highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ169-122030-
Kimble-
Including the cities of Cleo, Junction, London, Roosevelt,
Segovia, and Telegraph
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
lower 60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with isolated thunderstorms in the
evening, then a chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ154-122030-
McCulloch-
Including the cities of Brady, Fife, Lohn, Rochelle, and Voca
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ098-122030-
Haskell-
Including the cities of Irby and Haskell
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Not as cool with lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 50.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ099-122030-
Throckmorton-
Including the cities of Throckmorton and Woodson
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the lower
60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the lower 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs around 70.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows around 50. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ049-122030-
Fisher-
Including the cities of Rotan and Roby
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming south after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs around 90.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Highs in the
upper 60s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ113-122030-
Jones-
Including the cities of Stamford, Stith, Anson, Funston, Truby,
Tuxedo, and Hamlin
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph, becoming southwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
of showers. Highs in the upper 60s. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ114-122030-
Shackelford-
Including the city of Albany
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast after midnight.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Not as cool with lows in the mid
60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Much cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ128-122030-
Callahan-
Including the cities of Clyde, Eula, Dudley, Baird,
and Cross Plains
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the lower 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds
around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Isolated thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the
morning. Cooler with highs in the mid 70s. Chance of rain
60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the mid 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the
evening. Lows around 50. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ064-122030-
Sterling-
Including the cities of Broome and Sterling City
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Lows in the mid 50s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely
in the afternoon. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s. Chance of
rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ065-122030-
Coke-
Including the cities of Robert Lee, Sanco, Silver, Bronte,
and Tennyson
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 15 to 20 mph,
becoming north 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.SUNDAY...Showers likely with isolated thunderstorms. Cooler with
highs around 80. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ066-122030-
Runnels-
Including the cities of Ballinger, Benoit, Hatchel, Rowena,
Crews, Winters, and Pumphrey
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear, cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the
lower 60s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with isolated thunderstorms. A chance of
showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon.
Cooler with highs around 80. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ139-122030-
Coleman-
Including the cities of Coleman, Echo, Fisk, Valera, Voss,
and Trickham
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Cooler with highs around 80. Chance of rain
50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ071-122030-
Irion-
Including the cities of Barnhart, Arden, Mertzon, and Sherwood
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming north this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the mid 50s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ073-122030-
Concho-
Including the cities of Eden, Live Oak, and Lowake
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 15 to
20 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Cooler with lows in the mid 50s. North
winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly
cloudy with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after
midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Highs around 70. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ155-122030-
San Saba-
Including the cities of Chappel, Cherokee, Harkeyville,
and San Saba
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds
5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the lower 90s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy
with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ076-122030-
Crockett-
Including the city of Ozona
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming northwest 10 to 15 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Isolated thunderstorms in the evening. Showers
likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely. Cooler with highs in the upper 60s.
Chance of rain 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly
sunny. A 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ077-122030-
Schleicher-
Including the city of Eldorado
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Showers likely with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the upper 50s.
Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Cooler with
highs in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the mid 60s.
$$
TXZ168-122030-
Menard-
Including the cities of Erna, Fort Mckavett, Hext, and Menard
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs around 90.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows in the
upper 50s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance
of showers. Highs around 70. Lows in the lower 50s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ170-122030-
Mason-
Including the cities of Fredonia, Katemcy, Koockville,
Loyal Valley, Mason, Pontotoc, and Streeter
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph, becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. North winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming east 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming
partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
mid 60s. Highs in the lower 90s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers
with isolated thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows around
60. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Cooler with highs in the lower 70s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the mid 50s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers.
Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
TXZ078-122030-
Sutton-
Including the city of Sonora
325 AM CDT Wed Oct 12 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph,
becoming northwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower
60s. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. Chance of
rain 20 percent.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of showers with isolated
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Isolated thunderstorms in the evening. Showers
likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY...Showers likely, mainly in the morning. Cooler with
highs in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 60 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of
showers. Lows in the lower 50s. Highs in the upper 60s.
$$
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LIFELINE in need of O+, O- blood donations
JACKSON, Tenn. — LIFELINE Blood Services is in critical need of O+ and O- blood donations.
“Our blood supply has reached critically low levels,” said Melinda Reid, Marketing Manager with LIFELINE. “We have a local patient that has depleted our supply. With type O being the foundation of the blood supply, it is imperative that we be able to build our supply back to a safe level.”
LIFELINE says that West Tennessee requires an average of 500 units of blood each week to meet the needs of the community.
“We are begging people of O+ and O- to come in and donate as soon as possible,” Reid said. “We need people to respond now. Personal disasters are going on in people’s lives every day and many of these require blood transfusions. Please donate blood now!”
You can donate at the Jackson location at 183 Sterling Farms Drive, which is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
You can also donate at the Dyersburg Center at 1130 Highway 51 Bypass Suite 19 & 20, which is across from Lowe’s.
Their hours are Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
To speak with someone about donating blood, call 731.427.4431 with the extension 0.
Find more local news here. | 2022-05-19T21:18:24+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/05/19/lifeline-in-need-of-o-o-blood-donations/ |
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It has been more than two months since youth softball coach Alonso Luna Jr. suffered a stroke in the middle of a tournament. For weeks he was in a coma, but now Luna is awake and talking again and is aiming to make a full recovery.
ValleyCentral sat down with Luna and his family who have been by his side during this long road recovery.
“We were told he wasn’t going to be able to talk or walk and look at him now, he’s talking, he’s saying full sentences,” said Joanna Lozoya, Coach Luna’s sister.
Since suffering from the stroke back in February, Luna has undergone eight surgeries. Lozoya said it’s a miracle to see how much her brother’s condition has improved. But Luna’s family believes there is a reason behind his improvement.
“That’s what they say is what has been pushing him through his family and the support of everybody else,” Lozoya said. “His teammates reach out and talk to him as well, and they are doing so much for him.”
Joel Gonzalez is one of Luna’s fellow coaches, Gonzalez tells ValleyCentral he remembers the freighting day Luna was rushed to the hospital. But it’s not just valley softball teams coming to Luna’s support.
“We got scared leaving him there and laying on the floor the first thing we did was try to get him some help. Pick him up and put him on the ambulance and after that just worried,” Gonzalez said. “We have teams from out of town calling to ask to know about him to know his story. “
While there is still a long road to recovery, Coach Luna knows he’ll be back on the field.
“We’re feeling this out and we are feeling each other along the way,” Luna said.
Another softball tournament will be held on May 21- 22 to raise more money for medical expenses. More information can be found below. | 2022-05-06T13:37:27+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/softball-coach-making-a-recovery-after-stroke/ |
JACKSON, Wyo., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prime Movers Lab, an investor in breakthrough scientific startups working to revolutionize the world's most important industries and transform billions of lives, announced that serial entrepreneur Bill Gross will be the keynote speaker at its 3rd Annual Breakthrough Science Summit on Thursday, October 27th. The event will bring together some of the leading investors, public policy experts and researchers from across the breakthrough science ecosystem to share their vision for a better future. To learn more about the summit and register, click here.
Gross started Idealab, one of the first and longest-running technology incubators, in 1996. At Idealab, he has created more than 175 companies, with more than 50 successful IPOs and acquisitions, and created more than 10,000 jobs. Today, Gross is pioneering breakthrough science companies to mitigate climate change, including Prime Movers Lab portfolio companies Heliogen (NYSE: HLGN), Energy Vault (NYSE: NRGV), and CarbonCapture Inc. Gross is CEO of Heliogen, a renewable energy technology company utilizing concentrated sunlight and thermal storage to decarbonize industry.
"Prime Movers Lab's Breakthrough Science Summit has become a premier gathering for leading minds in science and technology every fall to come together and solve humanity's most pressing problems," said Prime Movers Lab Founder and General Partner Dakin Sloss. "Bill is one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs of the last forty years and extremely knowledgeable about the relationship of scientific research, government policy, startups, and venture capital and how to make all of these sectors work better together to advance humanity."
Additional speakers at the summit will include:
- Eli Dourado – Eli Dourado is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. He focuses on the hard technology and innovation needed to drive large increases in economic growth—speeding up infrastructure deployment, eliminating barriers to entrepreneurs, and getting the most out of federal technology research programs. His popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other outlets.
- Ramez Naam – Ramez is the Managing Partner of PlanetaryVC, a climate tech venture fund. He is a computer scientist, author, and clean energy expert. Ramez served as the Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University; authored 5 books about the future, including the award-winning Nexus science-fiction trilogy; drove investments in a number of clean energy companies including ESS Inc, EnergyX, and other deeptech energy and climate startups; and spent 13 years at Microsoft where he played leadership roles on products and services that have touched the lives of billions.
- Alec Stapp – Alec is the co-founder and co-CEO of the Institute for Progress. Previously, Alec was the director of technology policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, a research fellow at the International Center for Law and Economics, a technology policy fellow at the Niskanen Center, and a graduate research fellow at the Mercatus Center. Alec's work has been published in the MIT Technology Review, Politico, National Review, and Salon.
- Jason Crawford – Jason is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. He writes and speaks about the history and philosophy of progress, especially in technology and industry. Previously, he was the co-founder & CEO of Fieldbook, a hybrid spreadsheet database. He has also been an engineering manager at Flexport, Amazon and Groupon.
- Ben Reinhardt – Ben is working to enable scientific breakthroughs by creating a private advanced research projects agency. He also hosts the Idea Machines Podcast where he has long-form conversations with experts in different innovation systems. Previously, he was an entrepreneur in residence (EIR) at Entrepreneur First in Singapore where he helped ambitious people build teams and companies. Before that, he was an EIR at Susa Ventures.
- Amy Kruse – Amy is a General Partner at Prime Movers Lab where she leads the firm's life sciences investments. She serves on the boards of portfolio companies Paradromics, Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, Cognixion and Attune Neurosciences. Previously, Amy was the Chief Scientific Officer at Optios and a government civilian program manager at DARPA where she created and oversaw the agency's first performance-oriented neuroscience programs, with a combined budget of over $300M.
- Gaetano Crupi – Gaetano is a Partner for Prime Movers Lab where he invests in early-stage and growth-stage companies. His areas of interest include energy transition, agriculture, transportation and infrastructure. Gaetano currently serves on the boards of portfolio companies Mycoworks, Atom Computing, Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, Oceanix and Bandit. Gaetano is a three-time entrepreneur and brings his experience building companies to evaluate opportunities and supports portfolio CEOs in scaling world-changing companies.
- Liza Reed – Liza is the research manager for electricity transmission at the Niskanen Center and a Prime Movers Lab Research Fellow. She is an expert in High Voltage Direct Current, electricity transmission, and technology innovation. Before joining the Niskanen Center, she worked on energy funding at the Great Lakes Energy Institute at Case Western Reserve University, wireless communication technology development at inmobly, and business analysis at Capital One Finance.
The summit will take a deep dive into Prime Movers Lab's Breakthrough Science Roadmap, which features predictions for the future of energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture, and human augmentation. Panelists will outline how breakthroughs in energy storage, fusion energy, space travel, biotechnology, and neurotechnology will transform these industries between now and 2050.
Register for the event here.
About Prime Movers Lab
Prime Movers Lab invests in breakthrough scientific startups founded by Prime Movers, the inventors who transform billions of lives. We invest in companies reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture and human augmentation. Portfolio investments span in-space transportation, industrial solar heat, ag tech, brain upgrades, nano-structured materials, wafer slicing, prosthetics, 3D printing, mobility, longevity and AI. For more information, please visit https://www.primemoverslab.com.
Contact: Gavin Mathis, 406-539-7277, gavin@primemoverslab.com
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: APYX) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investors who purchased the Company's securities between May 12, 2021 and March 11, 2022, inclusive (the ''Class Period''), are encouraged to contact the firm before August 5, 2022.
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
We also encourage you to contact Brian Schall of the Schall Law Firm, 2049 Century Park East, Suite 2460, Los Angeles, CA 90067, at 310-301-3335, to discuss your rights free of charge. You can also reach us through the firm's website at www.schallfirm.com, or by email at bschall@schallfirm.com.
The class, in this case, has not yet been certified, and until certification occurs, you are not represented by an attorney. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member.
According to the Complaint, the Company made false and misleading statements to the market. Apyx's Advanced Energy products were frequently used for off-label indications, representing a significant portion of its sales. These off-label uses led to an increase in the number of adverse event reports filed by the Company. This was likely to lead to regulatory scrutiny. Based on these facts, the Company's public statements were false and materially misleading throughout the class period. When the market learned the truth about Apyx, investors suffered damages.
Join the case to recover your losses.
The Schall Law Firm represents investors around the world and specializes in securities class action lawsuits and shareholder rights litigation.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and rules of ethics.
CONTACT:
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Brian Schall, Esq.,
www.schallfirm.com
Office: 310-301-3335
info@schallfirm.com
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BEIJING, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NaaS Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: NAAS) ("NaaS" or the "Company") today announced that Newlinks Technology Limited ("Newlinks"), the controlling shareholder who holds about 73.82% issued and outstanding shares of the Company, has agreed not to sell or transfer any ADSs, ordinary shares or similar securities (the "Restricted Securities") for a period of 180-day lock-up period beginning on June 5, 2023, subject to certain customary exceptions, as a demonstration of confidence in the long term value of the Company. The foregoing restrictions shall not apply to transactions by Newlinks whereby the unit price of the Restricted Securities involved equals or is equivalent to US$15.00 per ADS or above, representing a market value of about US$3.3 billion or above.
About NaaS Technology Inc.
NaaS Technology Inc. is the first U.S. listed EV charging service company in China. The Company is a subsidiary of Newlinks Technology Limited, a leading energy digitalization group in China. The Company provides one-stop EV charging solutions to charging stations comprising online EV charging, offline EV charging and innovative and other solutions, supporting every stage of the station lifecycle. As of March 31, 2023, NaaS had connected over 575,000 chargers covering 55,000 charging stations. In the first quarter of 2023, charging volume transacted through the Company's network reached 1,023 GWh and gross transaction value reached RMB990.5 million. On June 13, 2022, the American depositary shares of the Company started trading on Nasdaq under the stock code NAAS.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains statements of a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will," "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates" and similar statements. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the Company and the industry. All information provided in this press release is as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it cannot assure you that its expectations will turn out to be correct, and investors are cautioned that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: NaaS' goals and strategies; its future business development, financial conditions and results of operations; its ability to continuously develop new technology, services and products and keep up with changes in the industries in which it operates; growth of China's EV charging industry and EV charging service industry and NaaS' future business development; demand for and market acceptance of NaaS' products and services; NaaS' ability to protect and enforce its intellectual property rights; NaaS' ability to attract and retain qualified executives and personnel; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of government and other measures taken in relation thereto; U.S.-China trade war and its effect on NaaS' operation, fluctuations of the RMB exchange rate, and NaaS' ability to obtain adequate financing for its planned capital expenditure requirements; NaaS' relationships with end-users, customers, suppliers and other business partners; competition in the industry; relevant government policies and regulations related to the industry; and fluctuations in general economic and business conditions in China and globally. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in NaaS' filings with the SEC.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
Investor Relations
NaaS Technology Inc.
E-mail: ir@enaas.com
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SOURCE NaaS Technology Inc. | 2023-06-05T13:51:36+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/06/05/naas-technology-inc-announces-signing-lock-up-agreement-with-certain-shareholders/ |
Steam rises from buildings and industry as the temperature dropped to 4 degrees in Billings breaking the record of 9 degrees set in 1986. Not only is this a record low temperature, it's also the latest in the season it has been this cold. The previous record of 0 degrees set on April 5, 1936.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at West Point, lauded graduating cadets Saturday for their noble sacrifice in serving their country, but noted they were entering an “unsettled world” because of Russian aggression and the rising threats from China.
“The world has drastically changed,” Harris told the roughly 950 graduating cadets. She referred to the global pandemic that took millions of lives, as well as the fraught shifts in global politics in Europe and in Asia.
“It is clear you graduate into an increasingly unsettled world where longstanding principles are at risk,” she said.
As the U.S. ended two decades of war in Afghanistan, the longest in the country’s history, the vice president said, Russia soon launched the first major ground war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Ukraine.
“At the same time, autocrats have become bolder, the threat of terrorism persists, and an accelerating climate crisis continues to disrupt lives and livelihoods,” she added.
She advised cadets to be wary of China, as it rapidly modernizes its military and muscles for control over parts of the high seas, ostensibly referring to the brewing disputes over the South China Sea.
She spoke about the country’s military might and its need to innovate, including the adoption of new technology to change how wars are fought — even using artificial intelligence to predict enemy movements and to guide autonomous vehicles.
Harris made no mention about the ongoing skirmishing in Washington, where the White House and congressional Republicans are trying to avert a debt crisis.
Harris’ visit is her first to the U.S. Army academy. Commencement speakers at the country’s military academies are usually delivered by the president, vice president or high-ranking military official — which until Harris’ election meant speakers have always been men.
Harris was joined at the commencement by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth, who in 2021 became the first woman to hold the military service’s top civilian post.
Harris, the first woman to serve as the country’s vice president, noted the 75th anniversary of 1948’s Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, which gave women the right to serve as permanent members of the military. It was also 75 years ago when President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order banning segregation in the Armed Forces.
However, her address was delivered to an institution that has made slow progress diversifying its ranks in the four decades since the first class of female cadets graduated.
Today, about one quarter of the student body are women. Only a few dozen graduates each year are Black women, like Harris, though the number has ticked up in recent years. The academy didn’t admit women until 1976 and had its first female graduates in 1980.
Upon graduation, the cadets will be commissioned as Army second lieutenants.
West Point dates to 1802. Since then, the college has educated future military leaders including Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gen. George Patton and Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
While Harris visited West Point, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Manhattan, President Joe Biden heads to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday to address graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III addressed the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on Friday.
Last year, Harris addressed graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. | 2023-05-28T17:39:52+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-vp-harris-praises-cadets-sacrifice-in-west-points-1st-commencement-speech-by-a-woman/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Investigators have been busy as they investigate another shooting in southwest Oklahoma City.
Around 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, emergency crews were called to a reported shooting at an apartment complex near S.W. 39th and Pennsylvania Ave.
Officials say the victim was shot in the stomach and rushed to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
So far, police have not released information about a suspect. | 2023-01-30T13:41:31+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/local/one-injured-in-shooting-at-oklahoma-city-apartment/ |
BEIJING, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese President Xi Jinping met a number of foreign leaders - including some from US allies and major developing economies - on the first day of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Bali, Indonesia, fully underscoring the strategic and guiding role of head-of-state diplomacy and implications of Chinese diplomacy following the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as the world expects China-proposed solutions and its wisdom in handling issues of concern amid growing geopolitical uncertainties.
Xi met French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Senegalese President Macky Sall, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez on Tuesday on the sidelines of the G20, which Chinese experts said reflects China's multi-faceted diplomacy and its growing influence in handling international affairs.
It was also the first time the top Chinese leader had such intensive in-person meetings with foreign leaders overseas since the COVID-19 outbreak, which shows China is widely welcomed and expected on the global stage with its major-country diplomacy being put under the spotlight at the crucial multilateral event.
During the meeting with French President Macron, Xi stressed that the two sides need to make top-level planning for the bilateral relations with a view toward the future, respect each other's core interests and major concerns, deepen practical cooperation, and work for continued progress in traditional areas of cooperation while actively tapping into green energy, scientific and technological innovation and other areas for cooperation potential.
Xi said China hopes France will encourage the EU to stay committed to an independent and positive China policy. China stands ready to work with France to support Indonesia in hosting a successful G20 Bali summit, step up communication and coordination on issues including climate response and biodiversity conservation, jointly uphold true multilateralism.
The Chinese president also expressed the hope for pushing forward China-Europe relations during his meeting with Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Xi said that China hopes the Netherlands will play a constructive role in safeguarding multilateralism, pushing forward European openness and cooperation and playing an active role in stable and sound China-Europe ties.
During the meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez, Xi said China hopes to enhance coordination with Spain under G20 and other multilateral platforms and jointly tackle challenges including the climate change, energy and food crisis. He also hopes that Spain will play an active role in boosting China-EU relations.
Those meetings send a clear message that it is hoped that China-Europe relations will be stabilized by overcoming growing challenges, and the two sides should adhere to strategic independence and respect each other, Cui Hongjian, director of the Department of European Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
"China's insistence on the noninterference principle and rejecting being driven by different ideologies echo Europe's strategic autonomy strategy pushed by France, and EU members are expected to play a more constructive role in China-EU relations," Cui said.
Major-country diplomacy
During the meeting with Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia, with whom China's ties have deteriorated sharply in recent years, Xi emphasized the importance of candid communication to narrow the divergences, saying that the two countries have no major conflict of interest but highly complementary economies and common aspirations of safeguarding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter.
When talking with South Korean President Yoon, Xi said that China and South Korea should accelerate bilateral free trade agreement negotiations, deepen cooperation in high-tech manufacturing, big data and green economy and jointly safeguard the international free trade system and global supply chains. China also opposes politicizing economic activities or generalizing the security issue.
However, such a busy head-of-state diplomacy shows that some of the China-proposed ideas and principles for international relations are being more welcomed and accepted by countries around the world, including the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, as well as China-proposed idea of building a community of a shared future for mankind.
Behind this global spotlight is the trend of China-proposed diplomatic principles winning hearts and minds in an extremely uncertain and unstable world, foreign and Chinese experts said.
China as a world power today builds an international relationship system based on the perspective of multilateralism; the value embodied in multilateralism that China offers is common development, Veronika S. Saraswati, China Study Unit Convener at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Indonesia, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
In contrast to the perspective of unilateralism that eliminates other countries, China emphasizes respect for other countries as well as fair partnership because no country can stand alone. Definitely, this principle is "a candle in the dark" amid world uncertainty and an international economic recession, Saraswati said. "There is great hope in the light that China brings to the world."
She further noted that China places other countries as partners to develop together, building respectful and non-dominative economic partnerships being a major force in China's foreign policy principles.
The in-person interaction between Chinese and US leaders, on the sidelines of G20 was the first of its kind since the COVID-19 outbreak, Wang Yiwei, director of the Institute of International Affairs at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times on Tuesday.
The Chinese President expounded on China's position on the Ukraine crisis. During his meeting with Macron, Xi made the point that China's position on the matter is clear and consistent: China stands for cease-fire, cessation of the conflict and peace talks. The international community should create conditions for this to happen. China will also continue to work in its way to play a constructive role.
During the meetings with South African President Ramaphosa and Argentinian President Fernandez, he emphasized deepening cooperation under multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS and advancing the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative by expanding cooperation in sectors such as agriculture, energy and infrastructure, as well as on climate change.
"It reflects what our multi-faceted diplomacy is: We won't draw a line based on different ideologies and we will take actions to fulfill our promises to the international community," Cui said. "It doesn't matter if it's about post-epidemic recovery or the Ukraine crisis, more countries are realizing that China is playing an active and constructive role."
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Timeline of the National Basketball Association’s scoring record progression, focusing on LeBron James and his pursuit of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the No. 1 spot on the list:
Nov. 1, 1946 — Ed Sadowski of the Toronto Huskies scores 18 points on the first night of NBA play, technically making him the league’s leading career scorer. The “record,” as would be expected, was held by nine different players in the first 16 days of what was then called the Basketball Association of America.
Dec. 19, 1946 — Joe Fulks of the Philadelphia Warriors moves into the scoring lead with 336 points. The eventual inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame would hold the record for more than five years.
March 4, 1952 — George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers has a 41-point, 36-rebound game against Philadelphia, and passes Fulks for the scoring lead with 6,942 points. Fulks would reclaim the lead 11 days later and keep it until Nov. 1, 1952, when Mikan took the scoring lead back and kept it for nearly five years.
Oct. 23, 1957 — Ed Macauley of the St. Louis Hawks pushes his career total to 10,166 points, passing Mikan. Macauley would hold the record for only 39 days.
Dec. 1, 1957 — Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals takes over as scoring leader, passing Macauley with a total of 10,391 points.
Dec. 11, 1963 — Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks starts a 796-day run as scoring leader, after finishing play that night with 18,373 points.
Feb. 14, 1966 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers passes Pettit, scoring 20,884 points to that point in his career. Chamberlain would hold the record for 6,625 days.
April 5, 1984 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers passes Chamberlain. Abdul-Jabbar finished play that day with 31,421 points, then scored nearly 7,000 more points before retiring. He would hold the record for more than 14,000 days.
Dec. 30, 1984 — LeBron James is born in Akron, Ohio.
Oct. 29, 2003 — James makes his NBA debut for the Cleveland Cavaliers, scoring 25 points in a game against the Sacramento Kings. He was 2,709th on the NBA’s career scoring list after that game.
Jan. 21, 2006 — James scores the 5,000th point of his career in a game against the Utah Jazz. He was the 634th player in NBA history to reach that many.
Feb. 27, 2008 — James scores career point No. 10,000, against the Boston Celtics. At this point, he’s 283rd on the scoring list.
Feb. 1, 2009 — James moves into 200th on the scoring list.
July 8, 2010 — James announces he is leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers and signing with the Miami Heat.
Nov. 22, 2010 — James passes Artis Gilmore (15,576) for 100th on the career scoring list.
April 10, 2012 — James passes Isiah Thomas (18,822) for 50th on the career scoring list.
June 21, 2012 — James wins his first NBA championship, helping the Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games.
June 20, 2013 — James and the Heat win a second consecutive NBA title, rallying to top the San Antonio Spurs in a seven-game finale.
March 3, 2014 — James, wearing a mask to protect a facial fracture, scores a career-best 61 points for the Heat in a win over the Charlotte Bobcats. He made 22 of 33 shots from the field. “The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball,” James said. At this point, he’s 28th on the all-time scoring list.
July 11, 2014 — Sports Illustrated publishes James’ decision to leave the Heat and return to the Cavaliers.
June 19, 2016 — James becomes a three-time NBA champion, leading the Cavaliers past the Golden State Warriors and winning a Game 7 thriller on the road.
Nov. 5, 2016 — James passes Hakeem Olajuwon (26,946) for 10th on the career scoring list.
Dec. 9, 2016 — James passes Elvin Hayes (27,311) for ninth on the career scoring list.
Dec. 17, 2016 — James passes Moses Malone (27,405) for eighth on the career scoring list.
March 30, 2017 — James passes Shaquille O’Neal (28,596) for seventh on the career scoring list.
July 1, 2018 — James announces he is leaving Cleveland again and signing with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Oct. 27, 2018 — James passes Dirk Nowitzki for sixth on the career scoring list. Nowitzki would later re-claim the No. 6 spot by passing Wilt Chamberlain.
Nov. 14, 2018 — James passes Chamberlain (31,417) for fifth on the career scoring list.
March 6, 2019 — James passes Michael Jordan (32,392) for fourth on the career scoring list.
Jan. 25, 2020 — James passes Kobe Bryant (33,643) for third on the career scoring list. Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others would perish in a helicopter crash one day later. Bryant’s last tweet would read: “ Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother #33644 ”
Oct. 11, 2020 — James wins his fourth championship, with the Lakers topping the Heat in six games at the NBA’s restart bubble inside Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida. The league finished the 2019-20 season there after play was stopped for about four months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 19, 2022 — James passes Karl Malone (36,928) for second on the career scoring list.
Feb. 7, 2023 — James passes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) for No. 1 on the scoring list, ending nearly a four-decade run for Abdul-Jabbar as the record-holder.
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CAMDEN, Maine, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gregory A. Dufour, president and chief executive officer of Camden National Corporation (NASDAQ®: CAC; "Company"), announced today that the board of directors of the Company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.42 per share, an increase of $0.02 per share, or 5%. This quarterly payout results in an annualized dividend yield of 4.10% based on the December 19, 2022 closing price of the Company's common stock at $40.95 per share as reported by NASDAQ. The dividend is payable on January 31, 2023 to shareholders of record on January 13, 2023.
"We are pleased to announce a 5% increase in our dividend to shareholders," said Dufour. "Over the past ten years, we have increased our cash dividend from $0.67 to now $1.68 per common share on an annualized basis, a 151% increase. This highlights our ability to generate long-term sustainable earnings as well as our commitment to our shareholders."
About Camden National Corporation
Camden National Corporation is the largest publicly traded bank holding company in Northern New England with $5.6 billion in assets and approximately 620 employees. Camden National Bank, its subsidiary, is a full-service community bank founded in 1875 in Camden, Maine. Dedicated to customers at every stage of their financial journey, the bank offers the latest in digital banking, complemented by personalized service with 58 banking centers, 24/7 live phone support, 66 ATMs, and additional lending offices in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. For the past three years, Camden National Bank was named a Customer Experience (CX) Leader by independent research firm, Greenwich Associates. In 2021, it received awards in two CX categories: U.S. Retail Banking and U.S. Commercial Small Business and the bank was included in the Best Places to Work in Maine, for the second year. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
Comprehensive wealth management, investment and financial planning services are delivered by Camden National Wealth Management. To learn more, visit CamdenNational.bank.
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“Written in the Stars,” a new UPtv movie premiering tonight, Sunday, June 11 at 7 p.m., stars Kimberley Crossman, David de Lautour, J. Fong, Otis Herring, Susan Brady. The film follows a skeptic magazine writer who teams up with an astrology guru for an article n a local meteor shower festival.
For romance fans who have cut the traditional cable cord and are opting for a streaming service, you can stream “Written in the Stars” live on Philo, which offers a free trial to new subscribers.
Where to find UPtv
You can find which channel Hallmark is on by using the channel finders here: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV and Dish.
For those without cable, watch with these streaming services
You can watch it on Philo, an entertainment streaming service that offers 60+ channels and a free trial.
About the movie
According to the movie’s official synopsis, “Kelsey’s magazine approves her article about a skeptic’s take on horoscopes and love. She teams up with astrology guru Carter to write about a local meteor shower festival, and through fate, they discover that love can be written in the stars.”
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Philo’s live TV subscription offers a free trial and costs $25 per month. It includes MTV and over 50 other classic TV, lifestyle and news channels. Subscribers can stream on up to three devices simultaneously, create up to 10 profiles and save unlimited live or future shows for up to one year. | 2023-06-11T14:43:43+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2023/06/how-to-watch-written-in-the-stars-movie-premiere-time-uptv-channel-free-live-stream.html |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
14-23-27-32-36
(fourteen, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-two, thirty-six)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Fantasy 5 Double Play" game were:
14-23-27-32-36
(fourteen, twenty-three, twenty-seven, thirty-two, thirty-six) | 2022-10-31T01:16:49+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Fantasy-5-Double-Play-17545584.php |
MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow has suspended sharing information about its nuclear forces with the United States.
MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow has suspended sharing information about its nuclear forces with the United States. | 2023-03-29T13:01:24+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/alert-a-senior-russian-diplomat-says-moscow-has-17866219.php |
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) will participate in the Bank of America Global Energy Conference Nov. 16-17, 2022, in Miami.
ONEOK management will participate in a fireside chat session at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (1 p.m. Central Standard Time) on Wednesday, Nov. 16.
A link to the live webcast, replay and ONEOK's latest investor materials are available at www.oneok.com.
ONEOK, Inc. (pronounced ONE-OAK) (NYSE: OKE) is a leading midstream service provider and owner of one of the nation's premier natural gas liquids (NGL) systems, connecting NGL supply in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent and Permian regions with key market centers and an extensive network of natural gas gathering, processing, storage and transportation assets.
ONEOK is a FORTUNE 500 company and is included in the S&P 500.
For information about ONEOK, visit the website: www.oneok.com.
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Future Acura electric cars will be sold online only, parent Honda said Wednesday in a press release.
“Acura will serve as the tip of the spec for digitalization at American Honda,” the release said, “with 100% of Acura EV sales taking place online, starting in 2024 with the ZDX and ZDX Type S.”
Last seen in the form of a coupe-like version of the MDX mid-size crossover that was discontinued in 2013, the ZDX will be Acura’s first EV, with the Type S performance version also planned. Pre-sales will begin in 2023 ahead of the planned 2024 start of deliveries, Acura said.
Acura has said the ZDX will feature styling cues previewed by the Precision EV concept unveiled in August 2022 during Monterey Car Week. While styled internally, the ZDX’s engineering will come via a partnership with General Motors. The Acura will draw from GM’s Ultium component set, and likely ride on the BEV3 architecture used by the Cadillac Lyriq and Chevrolet Blazer EV.
The same partnership will also see GM supply engineering for the 2024 Honda Prologue electric SUV, which is scheduled to arrive within the same timeframe as the ZDX. It appears Honda is sticking to conventional dealerships for this model, however.
Honda plans to launch EVs for both its main brand and Acura based on an in-house architecture in 2026. The automaker is developing an Ohio “EV hub” and plans to build a $3.5 billion joint venture battery plant to support North American EV production, including the new Afeela EV brand launching in partnership with Sony.
The shift to EVs has led other automakers to reevaluate how they sell cars, although most plan to retool existing franchised dealerships instead of shifting to online sales.
Ford and General Motors have asked dealerships to make significant investments to sell EVs, with Ford also requiring dealers to agree to no-haggle pricing. Two-thirds of Ford dealers have reportedly opted into EV sales, along with a lower number of Lincoln dealers from the Blue Oval’s luxury brand. GM has offered buyouts to Cadillac and Buick dealers that want to opt out of EV sales.
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- Limited-edition 2024 BMW M3 CS revealed with 543 hp | 2023-01-26T10:59:48+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/automotive/internet-brands/acura-zdx-future-evs-to-be-sold-online-only/ |
Super PACs have spent over $1 million on Wyoming’s high-profile U.S. House of Representatives race — more than doubling the previous record for the state, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. Most of that spending has been in opposition to incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) or in support of her main primary challenger, Donald Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.
Super PACs cannot directly coordinate or donate to political candidates or parties. They can, however, raise and spend unlimited funds to overtly advocate for or against candidates. While super PAC money still trails both Cheney and Hageman’s fundraising, the increased cash flow is indicative of keen interest in the race.
Super PACs are not to be confused with traditional political action committees, which have limits on how much they can raise and spend.
Technically known as independent expenditure only political committees, super PACs may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, unions and other groups. Super PACs are also relatively new to the political scene, ushered in by two 2010 court decisions, including Citizens United. Since then, Super PAC spending has steadily increased in Wyoming.
A decade ago, Super PACs spent about $46,000 in Wyoming, according to FEC records. That amount more than tripled for the next election, in 2014, when Cheney challenged incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi. Most of that money was spent in opposition to Cheney, including $155,000 by Florida-based American Principles Fund on an advertisement criticizing her support for government benefits for same-sex couples.
Super PAC spending in Wyoming shot up to $423,000 in 2018, according to FEC records. Most of that was also spent either against Cheney or in support of her opponents.
As super PAC spending increases in Wyoming, so will outside influence on elections and public policy, according to Sarah Bryner, director of research and strategy for Open Secrets. The DC-based non-profit tracks campaign finance data.
Outside groups spending millions to influence voters can shift the focus of a statewide election to national politics, according to Bryner.
“You can have a race take on a [different] dynamic,” Bryner said, “It really can change the messages that voters hear and the sort of ways that issues are prioritized in the dialogue.”
A single donor behind a super PAC, Bryner said, can single-handedly change both the conversation around an election and ultimately, the outcome.
Wyoming Values, a Georgia-based super PAC, is responsible for more than half of the super PAC spending in Wyoming for the 2022 election. The group has dropped over $560,000 on billboards and TV and radio advertisements in Wyoming. One of those ads features Donald Trump Jr. endorsing Hageman. Trump Jr. also serves as honorary chairman of Wyoming Values, according to a May press release from the super PAC. The organization did not respond to WyoFile’s request for comment.
Wyoming Values has raised $706,000 since it launched in September, according to its latest FEC filings. Most has come from Wyoming donors, including Lynn Friess who gave $300,000 in March. Friess is the widow of former Republican gubernatorial candidate and GOP mega-donor, Foster Friess.
Other donors to Wyoming Values include Ron McMurry, a prominent Casper businessman, and Dan Starks, founder of the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois. McMurry donated $100,000 in January, Starks $50,000 in December of 2021.
Another $50,000 came from Snow Goose, LLC, which is a limited liability company based in Casper, according to filings with the secretary of state’s office. Because the company uses a registered agent service, the identity of its membership is not public record. Additionally, two Florida-based LLCs donated a combined $15,000 to Wyoming Values.
Trailing Wyoming Values in spending on the race is Protect Wyoming Values, which spent over $121,000 in support of State Rep. Chuck Gray (R-Casper) who is no longer in the race.
Protect Wyoming Values raised $200,00 from a single donor — Jan Charles Gray, Chuck Gray’s father. The super PAC shuttered in March after filing for termination with the FEC. Gray suspended his federal campaign last September, and has recently filed to run for Wyoming’s secretary of state.
Priorities USA Action, the largest Democratic Party super PAC, spent money on ads featuring Hageman. In January, it spent about $9,600 on two TV ads, according to FEC filings, opposing Hageman and other Trump-endorsed congressional candidates.
While neither of the ads aired in Wyoming, according to Aneesa McMillan from Priorities USA Action, the group included Wyoming in its FEC filings because the ads featured a Wyoming candidate.
Other super PACs spending in Wyoming include House Freedom Action, Protect Freedom Political Action Committee, Club for Growth Action and America Strong PAC, INC.
Combined, they have spent more than $330,000.
The primary election is Aug. 16. | 2022-06-01T14:50:30+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/super-pacs-spend-record-1-million-in-wyo-s-u-s-house-race/article_55b97cf6-6cfe-5440-9a5b-434ac7c669ed.html |
MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) — Ashleigh Buhai surged into a five-shot lead at the Women’s British Open after shooting a 7-under 64 in the third round on Saturday.
Now she just has to find a way to finish off for her first major victory.
The South African also led this tournament in 2019 at Woburn after the second round but finished fifth, her best result at a major.
Buhai is in a much stronger position at Muirfield after a round that included eight birdies before a lone bogey on the last hole, giving her a 14-under total of 199.
Five of those birdies came on the first seven holes but perhaps the most impressive was on the par-5 17th, when she chipped in from off the green after hitting her tee shot into the rough.
It was the best round of the week despite the wind picking up to blow stronger gusts than during the first two days.
“To be able to shoot that score in those conditions, you have to be able to pat yourself on the back, so much so that I thought I was 6 under, not 7,” Buhai said. “So, I was 8 under playing the last, which I think I have to look back, is probably one of the best rounds of golf I’ve ever played.”
Hinako Shibuno of Japan (66) and second-round leader In Gee Chun of South Korea (70) were tied for second. Seven-time major winner Inbee Park and Madelene Sagstrom of Sweden were another two shots back.
Buhai has three victories on the European Tour but has never won an LPGA Tour event. But she’s never had a five-shot lead going into the final round, either.
She’s doing her best not to look too far ahead, though.
“I’m most proud of the way I just stayed focused and calm (today). That’s all I try to control. I wasn’t thinking of the outcome,” Buhai said. “I only saw a leaderboard for the first time I think when I was on 12, no, 13. And then I just said to myself, ‘OK, that’s fine, you’re in a good spot. Check back in with yourself now and concentrate on what you’re trying to do.’”
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-07T17:06:40+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/ashleigh-buhai-takes-5-shot-lead-at-womens-british-open/ |
LONDON — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Wednesday for the treatment of gay veterans, saying a previous ban on LGBTQ+ people serving in the U.K. military was “an appalling failure of the British state.”
“As today’s report makes clear, in that period many endured the most horrific sexual abuse and violence, homophobic bullying and harassment, all while bravely serving this country,” Sunak told Parliament. “Today, on behalf of the British state, I apologize.”
The report, which was carried out by a retired senior judge, compiled evidence from more than 1,000 veterans. It documented the effects of what it called “an incomprehensible policy of homophobic bigotry in our armed forces.” Some of the victims have taken their own lives, while others have attempted suicide, the report said.
Veterans’ testimonies “give shocking evidence of a culture of homophobia, and of bullying, blackmail and sexual assaults, abusive investigations into sexual orientation and sexual preference, disgraceful medical examinations, including conversion therapy,” the report said.
“The survivors have waited for at least 23 years for acknowledgment of what they have suffered, and for justice and restitution,” it added.
The report also recommended that financial compensation should be made to victims, even if litigation time limits have expired.
The ban on homosexuality was abandoned in 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of four service personnel who were investigated then discharged because of their sexuality. | 2023-07-19T13:48:13+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/19/uk-sunak-apology-lgbt-gay-veterans/8ca20584-2631-11ee-9201-826e5bb78fa1_story.html |
Glastonbury residents to speak out over proposed apartment building
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - (WFSB) – On Tuesday, Glastonbury’s Planning and Zoning Commission is holding a meeting to discuss a new apartment complex. Some residents say, they are not happy with the proposed building.
The building is set to sit on Manchester Road and Hebron Avenue. The apartment complex is going to be an affordable housing center, which has many residents upset.
“It’s kind of ridiculous to put a five-story building over there. Two-story? Fine. Obviously, the developer is trying to make a lot of money off their property. It’s just not the right way to do it,” says Jerry Lusa of Glastonbury.
The developer of the project is Richard Hayes Jr.
Residents say they like how quiet the area is and worry that this new development will bring an increase in crime.
“I imagine a lot of people are going to speak against it and I can’t imagine anybody speaking for it,” says Lusa.
The meeting starts at 7:00.
Copyright 2022 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-20T00:25:57+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/07/19/glastonbury-residents-speak-out-over-proposed-apartment-building/ |
(The Hill) – Taylor Swift fans have bad blood with Ticketmaster after the platform canceled the general sale for the pop star’s upcoming tour following a chaotic presale this week, bringing new light to an issue that supporters of antitrust reform already knew all too well.
Critics have been warning against the company’s dominance since merging with Live Nation in 2010, and the latest fiasco with Swift’s upcoming tour, which sparked outrage among her massive fan base, gave ammunition to lawmakers trying to revamp antitrust laws to pile on the pressure.
The building momentum from Swift’s fans comes as the Biden administration has pledged to take a tough stance on competition. The New York Times reported Friday that Ticketmaster is facing a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation over whether it has abused its market power.
The probe reportedly predates the sale of tickets to Swift’s tour, but the high-profile nature of the incident thrust the issue into the spotlight.
“The enormous interest in this performer and in this episode, concerning the availability of tickets to see her perform, is a big example of what we see so often in American public life — that policy change, action, often is catalyzed by a single event,” said William Kovacic, a former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman and a George Washington University law professor.
“There are all sorts of issues and matters that don’t immediately filter down to the country on a broad scale, but this does. And suddenly you have an uproar and legislators listen to that. Government agency officials listen to that,” he added.
In addition to the reported DOJ probe and pressure from Congress, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti (R), said Wednesday that he would launch an investigation into Ticketmaster after complaints that the ticket sale process for Swift’s tour “did not go smoothly.”
Ticketmaster said issues arose due to unprecedented demand for tickets for Swift’s tour, her first in five years, which follows the release of four new studio albums and two re-recordings of her earlier works.
More than 2 million tickets were sold for the tour in the first presale day on Tuesday, breaking Ticketmaster’s record for the most sold in one day, Variety reported, citing a company announcement.
On that day, the website crashed. Ticketmaster said it had sent codes to 1.5 million fans to participate in the presale, directing 2 million others to a waitlist. The company said it decided on the amount of people in each group based on its historic data on fans participating and buying tickets.
Despite the company using a system aimed at organizing the amount of customers buying tickets in the presale, fans lamented online Tuesday that the website kept crashing, and wait times for their turn to buy tickets were hours long.
On Thursday, Ticketmaster said it would cancel the general sale slated for Friday “due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand.”
Although Ticketmaster said the issues were due to the high demand, advocates for antitrust reform say that the company is the problem.
“Because they have very little competition, [Ticketmaster] doesn’t feel pressured to invest in their product at all,” said Krista Brown, a senior policy analyst at the anti-monopoly nonprofit American Economic Liberties Project.
That purported lack of competition leads to website crashes and higher prices and fees for customers, Brown said.
“They really are not afraid of losing the fan base, because the fan base doesn’t have somewhere else to turn,” Brown added.
Swift joined the chorus of pushback herself, posting an Instagram story Friday saying it’s difficult for her to “trust an outside entity” with her relationships with fans and “excruciating” to “just watch mistakes happen with no recourse.”
“I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could,” Swift said, adding that it “pisses [her] off” that even the 2.4 million people who got tickets “feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them.”
A spokesperson for Ticketmaster did not respond to a request for comment.
This is not the first time users have reported issues with Ticketmaster. Brown said “most people have a Ticketmaster horror story,” either over technical issues of tickets “disappearing” when in the checkout cart, or prices jumping due to “dynamic pricing” or “unapparent fees” attached to tickets at the end of the purchasing process.
In 2019, the DOJ found that Ticketmaster had violated provisions in the consent decree crafted at the time of the approved merger. The department entered into a new agreement with the company, extending the decree to 2025 and adjusting some of the agreement’s language.
The DOJ is now probing whether the company is complying with the new agreement as part of its inquiry, the Times reported.
“It’s unquestionable that the Ticketmaster-LiveNation merger created a monopoly, and I applaud the [Jonathan] Kanter-led Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice for their investigation,” Sacha Haworth, executive director of the Omidyar-funded Tech Oversight Project, said in a statement.
Lawmakers that have been critical of the consolidation of power among a few companies used the chaotic sale for Swift’s tour to elevate their concerns.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted a “daily reminder” on Tuesday that “Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s [sic] merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in.”
“Break them up,” she added.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), on Wednesday shared a statement on Twitter that he made back in 2009 while serving as Connecticut attorney general about investigating Ticketmaster. On Friday, he tweeted that “it’s time for DOJ to hold this bully accountable” and to either enforce the terms of the merger agreement to protect consumers or “break up this malign monopoly.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), the chairwoman of the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, sent a letter to Michael Rapino, the company’s president and CEO, on Wednesday pressing him over concerns of anticompetitive behavior.
Klobuchar has been pushing for antitrust reform, mainly for a vote on a duo of bills aimed at reining in the power of tech giants. The proposals have advanced out of the Judiciary Committee with bipartisan support, but they are not out of the woods yet, with no floor vote date confirmed.
More broadly, Klobuchar and other proponents of reforming antitrust laws argue that the DOJ and FTC do not have the resources they need to challenge behemoth companies amassing dominance in their sectors.
The swell of pushback from Swift’s fans, though, could help ramp up pressure, Brown said.
“It has kind of been an antitrust crash course for all the Taylor Swift Fans, which obviously there are many,” she said.
“Public pressure actually matters, and that’s something that often times gets overlooked.” | 2022-11-19T18:54:19+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/entertainment-news/how-a-taylor-swift-tour-thrust-antitrust-concerns-into-the-spotlight/ |
MACAO, June 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 14th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum ("IIICF" or "the Forum"), co-hosted by the China International Contractors Association and the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, commenced in Macao on June 1. As one of the most influential annual events in the global infrastructure sector, this year's forum, themed "Going Green, Digital and Smart, Financing Win-Win Cooperation", brought together more than 3,000 industry elites from 700+ institutions in more than 60 countries and regions, including 40 ministerial-level guests.
Guo Tingting, Vice Minister of Commerce of China, Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan, Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia, Ding Yanzhang, Chairman of Power Construction Corporation of China, Mike Elton Mposha, Minister of Zambia's Water Development and Sanitation, Dai Hegen, Chairman of the Board of China National Chemical Engineering Group, and Lou Qiliang, President of CRRC Corporation, delivered keynote speeches on the Forum.
The Forum featured a specialized exhibition that attracted an unprecedented number of exhibitors, surpassing previous editions. Prominent participants included China Communications Construction, China Construction Engineering, China Railway Construction, China Electric Power Construction, China Energy Engineering, CRRC Corporation, China Poly Group, Metallurgical Corporation of China, China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering and Construction, Norinco International, Genertec International, Beijing Urban Construction, Beijing Construciton Engineering, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering, Shaanxi Construction Engineering, Hunan Construction Investment Group and other world-renowned contractors, as well as Huawei, Caterpillar, XCMG, Volvo, LiuGong and many other industry-leading manufacturers, suppliers and institutions.
During the exhibition, an impressive 90% of the booths featured exhibits specially designed to highlight three crucial aspects:
- Regional connectivity, showcasing the remarkable achievements made during the ten-year development of the Belt and Road Initiative;
- Low-carbon leadership and ecology-oriented solutions: This segment focused on promoting a wide range of green and low-carbon development technologies for infrastructure projects, with exhibits that emphasized innovations in clean energy, smart cities, and environmentally friendly construction practices, including green buildings;
- Digital intelligence-driven and technology empowerment: Demonstrating the prowess and level of digital innovation, this part highlighted the capabilities of smart mobility solutions, cutting-edge engineering equipment, and advanced building materials. It effectively portrayed the strength and technological advancements of Chinese contractors to a global audience.
For more information, please visit: http://en.iiicf.org/.
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Hundreds of Google workers petition company to expand abortion protections for users, contractors
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Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers.
In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, members of the Alphabet Workers Union called on the company to stop collecting data on abortion seekers and to ensure such data isn't shared with law enforcement. The workers also demanded Google fix misleading search results that show users anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers when they are searching for clinics that perform the procedure.
The petition, which was sent to Google executives this week, comes as the tech giant has found itself under fire from lawmakers, privacy advocates and some of its own employees for its handling of sensitive abortion data and abortion clinic search results in the wake of Roe's demise. It also comes a week after news that police obtained Facebook messages between a Nebraska mother and her teenage daughter that authorities allege show evidence of an illegal self-managed medication abortion.
"Recently I read about Facebook handing over information that was used to arrest a user seeking abortion access and it became clear that tech companies are not going far enough to protect workers and users in a post-Roe America," Bambi Okugawa, a data center technician at Google and member of AWU, said in a statement Thursday. "If tech companies ... truly want to be an ally to those looking to get an abortion, they need to refuse to share [users'] information regarding abortion searches and do their due diligence to make sure false information that could make users unsafe isn't circulating the site."
The petitioners also demanded the tech giant extend all abortion benefits offered to full-time employees to contractors, including relocation support for those looking to move to states with protected abortion access and health care coverage for out-of-state abortion procedures. Google announced it would offer these benefits to employees in the immediate aftermath of the Roe v Wade decision.
Google did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
The petition builds on pressure Google has faced on the issue. In May, amid reports Roe would be overturned, dozens of Democratic lawmakers wrote to Google saying that the company's practice of collecting and storing vast troves of geolocation data from cellphones "will allow it to become a tool for far-right extremists looking to crack down on people seeking reproductive health care." A June note to Google from congressional Democrats called on Google to prevent searches for abortion clinics from returning results and ads that direct users to facilities that oppose the procedure, saying misleading search results on where to get an abortion could put women's health at risk.
In response to the outcry, Google announced in July that it would start deleting user location history for visits to abortion clinics and fertility clinics, among other destinations. Google also said it would add an option for Fitbit users to bulk delete their menstruation data. The Google-owned fitness tracker previously gave users the option to delete period-tracking data on a record-by-record basis.
But employees don't think the company is doing enough. "Google can and should do better," Alejandra Beatty, the Southwest Chapter Lead of AWU and a technical program manager at Alphabet-owned Verily, said in a statement.
To meet demands, AWU wants the company to create a dedicated abortion information task force with 50% employee representation, similar to its COVID-19 pandemic approach. | 2022-08-18T21:52:51+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/google-workers-petition-company-to-expand-abortion-protections-for-users-contractors/40934011 |
SHANGHAI, April 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hydrexia Energy Technology (China) (Hydrexia), a leading integrated hydrogen technology solution provider in China with extensive global reach, today announced that it has officially launched its pioneering Metal Hydride Trailer (MH-100T) for hydrogen storage and distribution. The rollout of the first generation of the trailer marks a major technology breakthrough that will significantly help promote hydrogen technology in the fast-growing global market.
As a first-of-its-kind innovative MHx solid-state hydrogen storage and distribution product in the industry, the newly released trailer uses magnesium-based alloy as the material for hydrogen storage. While reducing transportation cost, it significantly enhances transportation safety and distance. Key features of Metal Hydride technology include:
- Large solid-state hydrogen storage capacity (1 ton)
- High hydrogen storage density (6.4%wt)
- Low operating pressure (Under 12 bar)
- High hydrogen purity (99.999%)
- Long lifetime (3,000 cycles without performance reduction)
- Stable transport under ambient conditions (temperature & pressure)
- Zero gas losses during transportation
The new trailer effectively reduces the bottleneck of the hydrogen storage and distribution industry. It is well suited for a wide range of application scenarios including energy storage & power supply, chemical industry, metallurgical industry, and hydrogen refueling stations. The standard design of the 40-foot container on the trailer makes it easy to be distributed by road, railway, and ocean.
"The rollout of our new trailer fully reflects and draws from our years-long R&D commitment and capability. We are very excited about launching this industry enabler which, I believe, will benefit the overall hydrogen industry," says Alex Fang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Hydrexia. "Our MHx technology for hydrogen storage and distribution lays a solid foundation for the future development of the hydrogen industry. It will further solidify Hydrexia's global market position as a frontrunner," Fang continued.
As an integrated hydrogen technology solution provider, Hydrexia is committed to serving the needs of the hydrogen industry chain. To date, the company has established significant business presence in various major cities in China and international markets, with its technology solutions and products gaining increasing traction in a wide range of industry verticals.
[About Hydrexia]
Hydrexia Energy Technology is a leading integrated hydrogen technology solution provider in China with extensive global reach. The company specializes in providing technology solutions for hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and utilization. Leveraging its solid R&D capabilities and industry-leading technology, Hydrexia aims to effectively address the technology and application needs in the global hydrogen eco-system.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "This is a newly designed device that would ease the task of cutting and styling a child's hair at home" said inventor from Hesperia, CA. "I'm a hairstylist and I struggle with doing my daughters hair, so I created something that will help me style my daughters hair stress free."
EASY BREEZY would save busy parents a considerable amount of time and energy while cutting and styling their children's hair. This product could also contribute to less stress for both the parent and child, to make the experience more enjoyable. This invention would have better control and maneuverability when cutting and styling a child's hair.
The original design was submitted to the San Diego, CA sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-SDB-1635, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The chants from hundreds of fans, some of whom waited outside for hours in nearly 100-degree heat, started at the very moment Victor Wembanyama stepped out of the private plane that carried him to his new NBA home.
“Wem-V-P!”
“Wem-V-P!”
“Wem-V-P!”
And the NBA’s newest No. 1 draft pick — a star without having even played a game in the league yet — reveled in his first San Antonio moment, waving at the fans and letting them know how much he was enjoying it all.
Wembanyama arrived in San Antonio on Friday afternoon. He was a few hours behind schedule; Spurs fans had waited a long time for something like this, so a little more waiting did nothing to dampen the welcome they gave the generational talent from France who is expected to put the franchise on his back and carry it back to prominence as quickly as possible.
“This is love. This is family,” said Spurs fan Gabriela Hernandez of San Antonio, who braved the sun and extreme heat just to get a glimpse of the arrival. “This is what family does.”
Wembanyama will hold his introductory news conference in San Antonio on Saturday. He was drafted by the Spurs on Thursday night in New York, and arrived in San Antonio shortly before 4 p.m. Central time Friday.
One fan carried a sign asking Wembanyama to marry her daughter. Another man was dressed like an alien; that was the word LeBron James used last fall to describe the 7-foot-3 teen who just took his team to the French league finals. There were dozens of people in Wembanyama jerseys already, some from France, some the Spurs version.
His plane got a water-cannon salute from fire officials as it taxied to a stop, and even the police officers on motorcycles assigned to escort Wembanyama’s vehicle out of the private airport got caught up in the joy of the moment. Wembanyama stopped and shook each of their hands as he made his way to the van, even posing for pictures.
“I think it just shows the culture of San Antonio and the people here,” said Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan, who was at the draft on Thursday night and flew back Friday about a half-hour before Wembanyama arrived. “Things are very exciting. He’s a very exciting prospect. It’s going to be a lot of fun. … It shows how much love we want to show to him and that it’s a family here and that he has nothing to stress about. It’s going to be good.”
They’re hoping for great, actually.
The Spurs struck gold — as in, trophy gold — with their past No. 1 picks, a pair of centers named David Robinson and Tim Duncan. Both became San Antonio royalty, both ended up in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, and now Wembanyama will try with his size 20.5 foot to follow their massive footsteps. The Spurs haven’t won a title since 2014, haven’t won a playoff series since 2017 and haven’t even made the playoffs since 2019.
But with Wembanyama, they’re instantly the talk of the town again — maybe the talk of the league, too.
“I can’t speak for the city. I know how excited they are and how excited they were when we ended up with the first pick,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said Thursday night, shortly after the selection became official. “But the city has always had a love affair with the Spurs, so it doesn’t change no matter who we pick or what year it is.
“They’ve always been loyal, faithful fans who enjoy the Spurs and the players in return have always understood their responsibility to the city. We didn’t do anything different in preparation. We are who we are, and the city has always supported us.”
It was 98 degrees (37 Celsius) outside when the plane landed. Add in the humidity, and it felt like 108. The UV index was listed at 11, or extreme. And some of the fans waited and waited and waited for hours, some under umbrellas, one in a wheelchair, a few sharing bottles of water and other drinks they brought for the Wemby stakeout, and a few others buying cold drinks from an enterprising fan armed with a cooler and a bullhorn across the street from the air strip.
When Wembanyama arrived, nobody could hear the bullhorn anymore.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Sochan said. “I think he’s ready.”
A few moments later, Wembanyama gave San Antonio a wave. Day 1 in his new home was underway.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-24T01:32:49+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/sports/ap-sports/wembanyama-arrives-in-san-antonio-with-fans-waiting-for-hours-to-greet-him/ |
Ford CEO Jim Farley confirmed via Twitter on Tuesday that the automaker would include AM radio on all 2024 models, reversing a policy Ford previously indicated was a byproduct of EVs.
Ford removed AM radio from the Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning after data collected from the vehicles showed that fewer than 5% of customers listened to it, a spokesperson told the Associated Press, adding that “electrical interference and reducing cost and manufacturing complexity also played a role.”
However, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill in Congress calling on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to require AM radio in all new vehicles as standard equipment, Farley confirmed the return of AM radio to all Ford models.
After speaking with policy leaders about the importance of AM broadcast radio as a part of the emergency alert system, we’ve decided to include it on all 2024 @Ford & @LincolnMotorCo vehicles. For any owners of Ford EVs without AM broadcast capability, we’ll offer a software…
— Jim Farley (@jimfarley98) May 23, 2023
“After speaking with policy leaders about the importance of AM broadcast radio as a part of the emergency alert system, we’ve decided to include it on all 2024 Ford and Lincoln vehicles,” the Ford CEO tweeted. Owners of Ford EVs without AM radio compatibility can have it added via software update, he said, noting that AM radio content is also available in Ford vehicles via other methods like streaming.
In addition to the emergency-alert factor, which was cited by members of Congress supporting the bill, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) sees the potential loss of AM radio in new cars as a cultural equality issue.
“AM radio is a conduit for diversity and a gateway for equal representation,” NHMC president Brenda Victoria Castillo said in a statement published last week. “We are, therefore, in full agreement with our lawmakers in urging automakers to reconsider the removal of AM radio receivers from their vehicles.”
Volkswagen, Volvo, Polestar, and Tesla have already barreled ahead and removed terrestrial (non-data-dependent) AM radio from their vehicles. Earlier versions of the Tesla Model S had it, as did the VW e-Golf, but VW decided to remove it starting with the following generation of ID electric cars—including the ID.4 billed by the automaker as its first high-volume EV for the U.S.
Among other EV makers, Nissan has remained consistent with AM radio. Nissan Leafs have never had an issue with it, and the Nissan Ariya still has it.
It’s also possible to test for the kind of electrical interference that allegedly played a role in Ford’s decision to drop AM radio from EVs. Rimac showed us how in 2020, as it prepared its Nevera electric supercar (previously known as the C_Two) for production. Testing for electromagnetic emissions was required by European regulations, the company said at the time.
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- Cadillac confirms Escalade IQ electric SUV for late-2023 reveal | 2023-05-24T23:43:11+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/automotive/internet-brands/what-is-all-the-fuss-over-am-radio-in-evs/ |
PARIS (AP) — An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport that he long called home, officials said.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named.
Nasseri lived in the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he lacked residency papers and later by apparent choice.
Year in and year out, he slept on a red plastic bench, making friends with airport workers, showering in staff facilities, writing in his diary, reading magazines and surveying passing travelers.
Staff nicknamed him Lord Alfred, and he became a mini-celebrity among passengers.
“Eventually, I will leave the airport,” he told The Associated Press in 1999, smoking a pipe on his bench, looking frail with long thin hair, sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. “But I am still waiting for a passport or transit visa.”
Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman, a part of Iran then under British jurisdiction, to an Iranian father and a British mother. He left Iran to study in England in 1974. When he returned, he said, he was imprisoned for protesting against the shah and expelled without a passport.
He applied for political asylum in several countries in Europe. The UNHCR in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, but he said his briefcase containing the refugee certificate was stolen in a Paris train station.
French police later arrested him, but couldn’t deport him anywhere because he had no official documents. He ended up at Charles de Gaulle in August 1988 and stayed.
Further bureaucratic bungling and increasingly strict European immigration laws kept him in a legal no-man’s land for years.
When he finally received refugee papers, he described his surprise, and his insecurity, about leaving the airport. He reportedly refused to sign them, and ended up staying there several more years until he was hospitalized in 2006, and later lived in a Paris shelter.
Those who befriended him in the airport said the years of living in the windowless space took a toll on his mental state. The airport doctor in the 1990s worried about his physical and mental health, and described him as “fossilized here.” A ticket agent friend compared him to a prisoner incapable of “living on the outside.”
In the weeks before his death, Nasseri had been again living at Charles de Gaulle, the airport official said.
Nasseri’s mind-boggling tale loosely inspired 2004’s “The Terminal” starring Tom Hanks, as well as a French film, “Lost in Transit,” and an opera called “Flight.”
In “The Terminal,” Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a man who arrives at JFK airport in New York from the fictional Eastern European country of Krakozhia and discovers that an overnight political revolution has invalidated all his traveling papers. Viktor is dumped into the airport’s international lounge and told he must stay there until his status is sorted out, which drags on as unrest in Krakozhia continues.
No information was immediately available about survivors.
(Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) | 2022-11-13T18:30:18+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/man-who-inspired-the-terminal-dies-at-paris-airport/ |
Key Trump attorney departing legal team as Mar-a-Lago probe intensifies
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key lawyer for former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was leaving the legal team, a move that comes as a special counsel investigation into the retention of classified documents shows signs of being in its final stages.
Timothy Parlatore told The Associated Press that his departure had nothing to do with Trump and was not a reflection on his view of the Justice Department’s investigation, which he has long called misguided and overly aggressive. He said he believed he had served Trump well.
Other lawyers, including former Justice Department prosecutor James Trusty, are continuing to represent Trump in Washington investigations.
CNN earlier reported Parlatore’s departure.
Parlatore has long been a key member of the team representing Trump in an investigation by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith into the possession of hundreds of classified documents at the former president’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago as well as into possible efforts to obstruct that probe.
A grand jury over the last several months has heard from a broad array of witnesses close to Trump. Federal prosecutors in March questioned another of Trump’s lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran, before the grand jury after successfully piercing attorney-client privilege. Parlatore testified voluntarily in December about efforts to recover classified documents in response to government demands.
Last month, Parlatore and other lawyers for Trump issued a letter to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Turner, laying out a series of defense arguments of Trump and saying that the Justice Department should be “ordered to stand down” in its investigation.
Besides the Mar-a-Lago probe, Smith has also been investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, with former Vice President Mike Pence among the grand jury witnesses in that probe. Manhattan prosecutors charged Trump in March arising from hush-money payments made to a porn star who said he had an extramarital sexual encounter with her years earlier.
In Georgia, prosecutors in Fulton County are expected to announce in coming months the results of an investigation into attempts to subvert Trump’s election loss to President Joe Biden in that state.
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(NEXSTAR) – Residents in more than a dozen states are currently blanketed in hazy skies and poor air quality as smoke from Canadian wildfires moves through the Midwest and Northeast. For many, the worsening air is expected to stick around for at least another day.
As of Wednesday afternoon, five U.S. cities – Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. – rank among the 10 metropolitan areas with the worst air quality in the world, according to IQ Air. Toronto, Canada, had the worst air quality at 186 AQI (air quality index).
Areas in the U.S. are worse though. Decatur, Illinois, 40 miles east of Springfield, had the worst air quality in the country – 282 AQI – as of 4 p.m. ET, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow. Cities from Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin also had AQIs over 220.
Many of the Midwestern cities that have had high AQIs for much of the week are expected to see relief moving into the weekend, but for those in the East and New England, air quality is forecasted to get worse.
The National Weather Service has issued air quality warnings in 15 states as of Wednesday afternoon. In most cases, entire states are under an alert.
Residents in these states remain under air quality alerts through Thursday:
- Delaware
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Washington, D.C.
- Wisconsin
For those in the Midwest, these alerts are largely in effect through midnight Wednesday night or noon Thursday. For states to the east, like New York, alerts remain in effect through Thursday.
AirNow forecasts that even in states where alerts are set to lift before the end of the day Thursday, air quality will not be entirely back to normal. Minnesota and Wisconsin, for example, are still expected to have moderate air quality, while the air quality in Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana will likely still be unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Rain and storms expected to impact much of the Midwest into Thursday could help clear up the air there, Nexstar’s WGN reports.
The smoke is all coming from Canada, where 490 fires are burning, with 255 of them considered to be out of control. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reported Monday that 29,393 square miles of land, including forests, has burned across Canada since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 29,187 square miles, according to the National Forestry Database.
“As long as the fires are burning and the smoke is in the atmosphere it is going to be a concern not just for Canadians but Americans as well,” Environment and Climate Change Canada meteorologist Steven Flisfeder said.
While it isn’t uncommon for the U.S. to be impacted by Canadian wildfire smoke, the fires aren’t often burning as close to us as they are, WSYR’s Dave Longley tells Nexstar.
“You have to remember that many of these fires in Canada are very remote, basically in the middle of nowhere,” Longley, who has over 30 years of experience in meteorology, explains. “If there is no danger to population centers or infrastructure, they will be left alone to burn.”
The small particles in wildfire smoke can irritate the eyes, nose and throat, and can affect the heart and lungs, making it harder to breathe. Health officials say it’s important to limit outdoor activities to avoid breathing in the particles.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-06-28T23:51:22+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/16-states-dc-currently-under-poor-air-quality-alerts-heres-when-things-will-change/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The director of the Miami-Dade Police Department was in critical but stable condition following surgery in a Tampa area hospital a day after shooting himself, state law enforcement officials said Monday.
Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez, 52, was in Tampa for a law enforcement conference, officials said.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, or FDLE, is investigating the shooting with the Florida Highway Patrol.
FDLE Commissioner Mark Glass said during a news conference Monday afternoon that Tampa police had responded to a domestic dispute between Ramirez and his wife earlier Sunday at the hotel where the conference was being held. Ramirez left the hotel, and suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound after pulling over on Interstate 75 south of Tampa, Glass said.
“Law enforcement is a demanding and stressful career and occupation,” Glass said. “And Director Ramirez has dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to public service and keeping the citizens of Miami-Dade safe. Today is a tragic day in Florida.”
Ramirez is a 27-year Miami-Dade police veteran and was leading the largest law enforcement agency in the southeastern U.S. In May, he announced his intention to seek election for the newly-created role of sheriff in 2024, signaling his desire to remain the leading law enforcement official.
A spokeswoman for Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told The Associated Press that the mayor traveled to Tampa after the shooting to “support Director Ramirez and his family.” Later Monday, she said in a memo to county commissions that Deputy Director Stephanie Daniels would be filling in as interim director of the Miami-Dade Police Department.
A Tampa police report said officers were called to the downtown Marriott Waterside regarding reports of a man pointing a gun at himself outside the hotel during an argument with a woman. There was no evidence of a crime or immediate danger, the Tampa police report concluded. Ramirez was told he was free to leave.
“Our hearts are with Director Ramirez and his family,” said Tampa police Chief Lee Bercaw, in a statement urging police officers who are struggling to seek help.
Help for first responders and others include the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, and the U.S. Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which accepts calls and text messages at 988.
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This story has been updated to correct in the headline that it is the Mami-Dade police chief, not the Miami police chief. | 2023-07-24T23:33:59+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/miamis-police-chief-shot-himself-while-with-wife-state-official-says-he-survived/JVEJSY2GZFCPFJ7NFSFCEYPCNE/ |
Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, November 4, 2022
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TORNADO WATCH
TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 560
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
353 PM CDT FRI NOV 04 2022
TORNADO WATCH 560 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
TX
. TEXAS COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
ANDERSON BELL BOSQUE
CAMP CHEROKEE COLLIN
COOKE CORYELL DALLAS
DELTA DENTON ELLIS
FALLS FANNIN FRANKLIN
FREESTONE GRAYSON GREGG
HENDERSON HILL HOOD
HOPKINS HUNT JOHNSON
KAUFMAN LAMAR LEON
LIMESTONE MCLENNAN MILAM
MONTAGUE MORRIS NAVARRO
PARKER RAINS RED RIVER
ROBERTSON ROCKWALL SMITH
SOMERVELL TARRANT TITUS
UPSHUR VAN ZANDT WISE
WOOD
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Central Kaufman County in north central Texas...
Northeastern Ellis County in north central Texas...
* Until 430 PM CDT.
* At 354 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Cottonwood, or 10 miles northeast of Ennis, moving
northeast at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Cottonwood around 400 PM CDT.
Grays Prairie around 405 PM CDT.
Kaufman and Crandall around 410 PM CDT.
Talty around 415 PM CDT.
Terrell around 425 PM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Heartland, Telico, Rand, Ola, Rosser, Becker, Post Oak Bend City,
Bristol, Lawrence and Oak Grove.
This includes Interstate 20 between mile markers 490 and 500.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile
home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and
protect yourself from flying debris.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Humanity Health, the premier career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding led by Jumpstart Nova with follow-on participation from Deerfield Management, which provided the initial seed capital for the company's launch.
"Humanity Health has recognized that access to skilled, diverse leadership talent is a critical driver of growth, health equity and innovation in the healthcare sector," says Kathryne Cooper, a partner with Jumpstart Nova. "Their innovative and technology-enabled approach to addressing this need through executive recruitment, executive development and pipeline development is the most comprehensive we have seen in the market."
Humanity Health will use the new funding to expand its base of C-Suite and executive level leaders who are members in the Humanity Talent Network (HTN), a private membership community of leaders who identify as women and/or people of color. Through HTN, each member is matched with their own executive career strategist and delivered opportunities such as board positions, executive roles and investor introductions that are personalized to their expertise and preferences. Members are also invited to join Collectives, curated small group forums of subject matter experts engaging around career advancement, thought leadership, mentorship and collaboration. HTN is powered by native mobile applications developed by the company.
"We are extremely excited to have Jumpstart Nova join the Humanity Health family. It is exciting to have investors that both intimately understand the healthcare market and have a proven commitment to DEI as investors," says Ron Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Humanity Health. "Combined with Deerfield Management, we now have two of the most deeply connected and successful investors in healthcare to support our growth with capital, expertise and access."
The fundraise will also allow Humanity Health to help companies across the healthcare and life sciences industries connect with highly qualified and talented women and people of color for leadership positions.
"From the outset, we were excited by the mission of Humanity Health," says Heather Wasielewski-Lopez, Chief People Officer at Evergreen Nephrology. "Our organization has a true commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We were looking for a partner with a similar ethos that could execute at the scale and speed we needed. We found that in Humanity Health."
The Humanity Talent Network is currently accepting applications for members. Interested members can apply here. Companies interested in partnering with Humanity Health are welcome to contact the company here.
Humanity Health is building the premier career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences. Through best-in-class technology and a personalized service approach, Humanity Health unlocks career accelerating opportunities and introductions for women and people of color. The company also helps our employer partners identify, engage and recruit top diverse healthcare talent and drive more inclusive placement outcomes. For more information, please visit humanityhealth.net.
Jumpstart Nova is the first venture fund in America to invest exclusively in Black founded and led healthcare companies. Jumpstart Nova invests in seed and Series A stage companies in the areas of tech-enabled services, biotech, diagnostic devices, health IT, digital health, and consumer health & wellness. The fund is strategically backed by leading healthcare organizations in the US such as Eli Lilly and Company, HCA Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Atrium Health, Henry Ford Health System, LHC Group, Meharry Medical College, and American Hospital Association. For more information, please visit jumpstartnova.com.
Contact:
Kim Treanor Feinstein
Humanity Health
kfeinstein@humanityhealth.net
917-277-2015
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TAMPA, Fla., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MHK, a leading healthcare technology provider and part of the Hearst Health network, announced today that Polina Vaserman joined the company as the new vice president of product management. The announcement was made by Conor Bagnell, president of MHK.
As vice president of product management, Vaserman serves as a member of MHK's executive team and is responsible for the strategic vision, execution and overall success of the MHK CareProminence product portfolio. Her responsibilities include defining the product strategy, managing the product development process, and ensuring that the product continues to meet the needs of MHK customers.
"We're excited to have Polina join the MHK team," said Bagnell. "With a solid background leading the solution growth of healthcare software products used by health plans and pharmacy benefit managers, she's demonstrated unique expertise as a thought-leader and innovator. We look forward to her support of MHK's vision to simplify healthcare through technology."
Before joining MHK, Vaserman held product management leadership roles focused on strategy, innovation and customer satisfaction with health plans and PBM solution providers. With more than 15 years of combined management experience, business acumen, technical expertise and customer knowledge, she will help drive continual innovation and growth at MHK.
Vaserman earned an MBA from Northeastern University and a bachelor of computer science degree from the University of Michigan.
About MHK
MHK, part of the Hearst Health network, serves as a trusted technology partner, guiding our health plan and PBM clients to excel in compliance, improve health outcomes and deliver operational efficiencies. Starting at the point of enrollment and continuing throughout the member care journey, MHK technology brings together vital information into centralized technology trusted by top-ranking plans across the nation. Four of the top five and seven of the top ten health plans are served by MHK and forty percent of all 4-5 Star Medicare health plans utilize MHK solutions. For more information, visit mhk.com. Follow MHK on LinkedIn @MHK or Twitter @MedHOK360.
About Hearst Health
The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person's health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2GEN. Follow Hearst Health on Twitter @HearstHealth and LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.
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- Efforts All Aimed at Meeting Expanding Semiconductor-related Demand -
TOKYO, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nippon Express (Taiwan) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "NX Taiwan"), a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., became the first Japanese logistics company this past February to obtain bonded certification for its own operational warehouse in Tainan City in southern Taiwan, and on July 11 it established a new air-conditioned space to meet growing demand for semiconductors.
Logo: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img/202207123722-O1-525Ik8T9
Exterior of Tainan Warehouse:
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Inside of Tainan Warehouse:
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Demand for semiconductors has expanded due to the rapid adoption of remote work driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, and a serious shortage of in-vehicle semiconductors in Taiwan, a major semiconductor supplier for the entire world, has prompted customers in semiconductor-related industries as well as other companies to expand their factories.
The Tainan Warehouse is located about 7 km from the Tainan Science Park (part of the Southern Taiwan Science Park), home to numerous semiconductor-related companies, including the world's leading foundry companies, and offers temperature-/humidity-controlled storage and management of semiconductor production materials, manufacturing equipment maintenance parts and other products requiring high-quality storage. The ILC* bonded license acquired in February this year also allows this warehouse to be used for non-resident inventory storage and import/export.
The NX Group will continue stepping up its efforts on behalf of the semiconductor industry, positioned as a priority industry in the Group's Business Plan, and expanding its logistics functions globally to help customers develop their business activities.
Profile of facility
Name: Tainan Warehouse, Nippon Express (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.
Location: No. 85, Yongke 1st Road, Yongkang District, Tainan City
Structure: 3-story building
Total floor area: 11,800 m2, of which 3,900 m2 is currently air-conditioned. (This section is to be expanded to 9,285 m2 by the end of 2022.)
Principal equipment/functions: Raised-floor platform, 24/7 security, surveillance cameras, bonded storage, air conditioning
Business description: Warehouse receiving, inspection, sorting, palletizing, storage and delivery of goods
Nippon Express website: https://www.nipponexpress.com/
NX Group's official LinkedIn account:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nippon-express-group/
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Pockets of Light uses trash to highlight nature along the Delaware River Waterfront
Artist Julia Woodard carved flowers out of reclaimed plastic waste to draw attention to the Delaware River Waterfront’s natural environment.
A series of soft sculptures are newly installed along the Delaware River Waterfront, using post-consumer plastic to recreate natural elements of the waterfront.
Artist Julie Woodard hopes people will notice her Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Joe Pie Weed shaped out of reclaimed trash and placed in a half-dozen locations between Pier 68 to Race Street Pier — and then notice the real thing growing nearby.
The main location of Woodard’s installation “Pockets of Light” is at Cherry Street Pier, where fixed to a white shipping container is a grid of colorful coneflowers, reflecting the real thing in nearby sidewalk planters, stitched from various plastics.
“There are lids from take-out containers, pedicure flip flops, corks, and lots of broken umbrella pieces,” Woodard said. “I am a self-proclaimed ‘Doula of Discarded Things.’”
“Pockets of Light” is the latest phase of the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation’s ongoing project to bring sculptural art to the river’s edge. The waterfront arts program has brought big names in the art world to the Delaware River, like the British artist Tracey Emin, along with local artists like Woodard and her collaborator, Eric Dale, aka Eric the Puzzler, who turned “Pockets of Light” into a game. He devised simple puzzles that invite viewers to participate in a scavenger hunt along the river.
“I’m particularly excited about the way that it invites people to travel from our southernmost parks up to our northernmost parks,” said Sarah Eberle, creative director of the DRWC. “And really understand how much is going on, on the Philadelphia waterfront.”
From Cherry Street Pier, the installation continues north to Race Street Pier, where Woodard stitched white oak leaves onto a discarded blue plastic tarp. The pier park has a canopy of white oaks.
To the south stand installations at the Washington Avenue Pier and Pier 68. Each location is accompanied by a QR code, leading visitors to on online portal where a puzzle tests their observation skills from that particular location, asking them to find, for example, the name on a utility building visible across the river in New Jersey, or a wheatpaste monster by the street artist Gloopy Goblin.
The portal also offers more detailed information about the natural environment where the visitor is standing, including the names of the plants they are likely looking at, what insects are buzzing near those plants, and what impact plastic waste has made on the site.
“We’re trying to get people to learn a little bit more about the plants and their environment, to look around at the space that they are in. To notice and to reflect,” said Woodard.
“We just want people to have fun, too,” added Dale. “The piers are beautiful places to come and relax. We have provided an attractive thing to look at while you’re here, and some activities to partake in so that you can go on a little adventure.”
Enthusiastic puzzlers who devour the scavenger hunt could be eligible for prizes by completing layers of games.
This is Woodard’s first foray into public art. The collage artist always works with reclaimed materials to create wearable and framable artworks. The original idea for “Pockets of Light” came from literal pockets pulled from clothes, and pocket squares which she uses in her collages.
She expanded the idea to metaphorical pockets, where natural elements can find a foothold in an otherwise built, urban environment.
“Amidst everything that’s going on in the world and all everything that’s in the city, there is nature,” she said. “There is calm, there are opportunities for us to experience joy and experience nature.”
The elements of “Pockets of Light” will be on view until the end of September. During that time Woodard will be adding more pieces to the existing locations, and removing older pieces as they weather and decay.
“We will remove them to make sure that they do not end up in the river,” she said. “Which is exactly the opposite of our intent.”
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida backup quarterback Jalen Kitna was expected to be released from jail on $80,000 bond Thursday, a day after he was arrested on five child pornography charges.
Judge Meshon Rawls set the bond and as conditions for Kitna's release ordered him not to have any unsupervised contact with minors and not to have any internet access.
Kitna sobbed into his hands when his parents, including former NFL quarterback Jon Kitna, addressed the court during a 75-minute appearance. Jalen Kitna was at the Alachua County Jail and on a closed-circuit feed when Jon and Jennifer Kitna stepped to a podium in the courtroom and promised they would supervise their 19-year-old son back home in Burleson, Texas.
Jon Kitna tapped his feet repeatedly and held hands with Jennifer Kitna throughout their son's first court appearance. Jalen Kitna donned a green smock -- different from the striped pants and tops other inmates wear -- typically given to those being kept under close watch because of concerns about their welfare. His booking photo showed him in normal jailhouse attire.
"He's got a great family. He's got good family support. He's going to be well taken care of," one of Kitna's attorneys, Caleb Kenyon, said outside the courthouse.
The Gainesville Police Department released Kitna's arrest report Thursday, providing graphic details about the complaints filed against the now-suspended football player.
The investigation began in June with a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children into images of child pornography being shared on the social media platform Discord. The investigation led authorities to Kitna.
One of the images shared by Kitna was of a prepubescent girl being sexually abused by an adult man. The phrase "so young junior" was written on that picture, and another of a pubescent girl. Kitna told a detective he thought the pictures were legal because he found them online.
When police searched Kitna's phone, they found three more images of two nude pubescent girls in the shower, according to the report. Those three images were saved to his cellphone last December, police said. The report did not estimate the ages of the girls.
Kenyon, the attorney, argued that Kitna should be released with no monetary bond and suggested that those three images could be considered child erotica instead of child porn.
Kitna also told police he had been in other messaging groups on at least one other social media platform that distributed similar material, according to the arrest report.
Discord had previously deactivated Kitna's account because of a violation of the terms of service, police said.
"Discord has a zero-tolerance policy for child sexual abuse, which does not have a place on our platform or anywhere in society," a Discord spokesperson said in a statement released to The Associated Press. "We work relentlessly to find and remove this abhorrent content and take action including banning the users responsible and engaging with the proper authorities."
Two of the five arresting charges, which still need to be formalized by the state attorney's office, are second-degree felonies that could result in a prison term of up to 15 years and a fine of up to $10,000. The other three are third-degree felonies.
Kitna also is being represented by Gainesville attorney Ron Kozlowski as well as noted Jacksonville attorney Hank Coxe, who has a history of taking on cases involving high-profile athletes.
Kitna appeared in four games as a redshirt freshman for the Gators this season. He completed 10 of his 14 passes for 181 yards and a touchdown.
Jon Kitna played 14 seasons in the NFL with Seattle, Cincinnati, Detroit and Dallas. He started 124 games and now is a high school coach in Burleson, just south of Fort Worth.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-12-01T21:30:39+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35157399/gators-qb-jalen-kitna-post-bond-details-child-porn-case-emerge |
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Lottery.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY, LTRYW) between November 15, 2021 and July 29, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period") of the important October 18, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Lottery.com securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Lottery.com class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8285 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than October 18, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business operations and prospects. Specifically, that: (1) the Company lacked adequate internal accounting controls; (2) the Company lacked adequate internal controls over financial reporting, including but not limited to those pertaining to revenue recognition and the reporting of cash; (3) the Company was not in compliance with state and federal laws governing the sale of lottery tickets; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Lottery.com class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8285 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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NEW YORK, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominari Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: DOMH) ("Dominari" or the "Company") today provided an update on the $2 million share repurchase program (the "Share Repurchase Program") authorized by the Company's Board of Directors on December 5, 2022.
The Company reported that on March 2, 2023, the Company purchased 5000 shares of common stock at $4.2658 per share.
Additional shares may be repurchased from time to time in open market transactions, or other means in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and Rule 10b -18 of the Exchange Act. The timing, number of shares repurchased, and prices paid for the stock under this program will depend on general business and market conditions as well as corporate and regulatory limitations, including blackout period restrictions.
About Dominari Holdings Inc.
Dominari Holdings Inc. (f/k/a Aikido Pharma Inc.) until recently was focused primarily on the development of a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics and related patent technology. In September 2022, the Company agreed to acquire a registered broker-dealer and transition its primary business operations to fintech and financial services. Upon the final closing of this acquisition, the Company's fintech and financial services business will be operated through its subsidiary, Dominari Financial Inc. The Company continues to develop its therapeutics and related patent technology, as well as other ventures, through its subsidiary, Aikido Labs, LLC.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as "may," "might," "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "predict," "forecast," "project," "plan," "intend" or similar expressions, or statements regarding intent, belief, or current expectations, are forward-looking statements. While the Company believes these forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on any such forward-looking statements, which are based on information available to us on the date of this release. These forward-looking statements are based upon current estimates and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including without limitation those set forth in the Company's filings with the SEC, not limited to Risk Factors relating to its business contained therein. Thus, actual results could be materially different. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Dominari Holdings Inc. (f/k/a AIkido Pharma Inc):
Phone: 212-745-1373
Email: investorrelations@aikidopharma.com
www.aikidopharma.com
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SOURCE Dominari Holdings Inc. | 2023-03-03T15:30:08+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/03/03/dominari-holdings-provides-update-share-repurchase-program/ |
Fate of last ex-cop charged in Floyd murder lies with judge
By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A defense attorney says a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd is innocent of criminal wrongdoing and should be acquitted. But prosecutors argue Tou Thao “acted without courage and displayed no compassion” even though he could see Floyd’s life slowly ebbing away. Tuesday was the deadline for both sides to file final written arguments in the case of Thao, the last of the four former officers facing judgement in Floyd’s murder. Judge Peter Cahill has 90 days to rule on whether Thao is guilty on state charges of aiding and abetting murder and manslaughter. | 2023-02-01T18:35:04+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/02/01/correction-george-floyd-other-officers-story/ |
NEW YORK, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) announced today that it will report first quarter financial results on Thursday, May 4, 2023. The company will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. (ET) following the release of its earnings materials.
A live audio webcast will be available on Paramount's Investors homepage at ir.paramount.com beginning at 8:30 a.m. (ET) on May 4.
The conference call can also be accessed by dialing 833-470-1428 (domestic) or 929-526-1599 (international) using access code 429753. Please call five minutes in advance to ensure that you are connected prior to the call.
An audio replay of the call will be available beginning at 11:30 a.m. (ET) on May 4 in the Events, Webcasts & Annual Meetings section of Paramount's Investors homepage, and at 866-813-9403 using access code 428646.
The earnings release and any other information related to the call will be accessible on the Investors homepage of Paramount's website.
PARA-IR
About Paramount
Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media, streaming and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, Paramount's portfolio includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+ and Pluto TV. Paramount holds one of the industry's most extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution, and advertising solutions.
For more information about Paramount, please visit www.paramount.com and follow @ParamountCo on social platforms.
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SOURCE Paramount Global | 2023-04-05T01:10:25+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/04/04/paramount-global-report-first-quarter-financial-results-may-4-2023/ |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh hopes players get a cut of the money generated by an expanded College Football Playoff.
“I do believe the players should receive a revenue share from the massive TV deals that have been worked out,” Harbaugh said Monday at his weekly news conference before the eighth-ranked Wolverines host Hawaii.
The plan to expand the CFP from four teams was approved Friday, and the new-look tournament will begin as soon as 2024 and as late as 2026.
“Great,” Harbaugh said. “All for it.”
An 11-game championship bracket could be worth as much as $2 billion in media rights to the conferences that play major college football, starting in 2026. If the new format begins before the current 12-year contract with ESPN expires, the conferences could make an additional $450 million over the final two years. The current deal that ends after the 2025 season pays about $470 million per year.
CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said ESPN would get the first bid on any new playoff inventory added in 2024 and 2025. After 2025, there is no TV contract for a playoff. The plan is to take the new format to the open market and possibly involve multiple TV partners instead of just ESPN.
In the new playoff format, six of the highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large, selection-committee selections will earn a spot. The top four seeds would be conference champions, receiving byes into the second round. First-round games would be played on campuses and the rest at bowl sites.
The CFP management committee, which includes conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, are scheduled to meet Thursday in Dallas. Dates of games, host sites, available television windows and the impact on the regular-season schedule are among the topics they are expected to discuss.
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(WGN) — The rumors are true: Netflix will begin its password-sharing crackdown early next year, according to the company’s latest earnings report.
Following Netflix’s announcement last week that the company will offer a cheaper $6.99 option involving ads, they now are looking to “monetize account sharing.”
In April, Netflix reported its first loss of subscribers in more than a decade, which had a negative impact on their stock. At the time, executives blamed increased competition and password sharing.
The company said it has landed on a “thoughtful approach” and announced Tuesday that those benefiting from sharing will have the ability to transfer their profiles into their own new accounts.
Also, subscribers will have the ability to create sub-accounts “if they want to pay for family or friends.” Price points surrounding both ideas are not known at this time.
“In countries with our lower-priced ad-supported plan, we expect the profile transfer option for borrowers to be especially popular,” Netflix said.
Netflix’s upcoming ad option will be their fourth — joining its basic, standard and premium plans. | 2022-10-19T22:27:42+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/entertainment-news-news/netflix-to-begin-password-sharing-crackdown-in-early-2023/ |
RICHMOND, Ind., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Richmond Mutual Bancorporation, Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBI) (the "Company"), the parent company of First Bank Richmond, today announced that its Board of Directors (the "Board") approved a fourth stock repurchase program under which the Company may repurchase up to 1,184,649 shares or approximately 10% of its outstanding shares through open market purchases, privately-negotiated transactions, or otherwise in compliance with Rule 10b-18 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). These shares will be purchased from time to time over a twelve-month period depending upon market conditions. A total of 817,984 shares were purchased during the previous repurchase program that ended on July 7, 2022.
The Board also authorized management to enter into a trading plan with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 of the Exchange Act, to facilitate repurchases of its common stock pursuant to the above mentioned stock repurchase program (the "Rule 10b5-1 plan"). The Rule 10b5-1 plan allows the Company to repurchase shares at times when they might otherwise be prevented from doing so by securities laws or because of self-imposed trading blackout periods. Under the Rule 10b5-1 plan, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. will have the authority, subject to the prices, terms and limitations set forth in the Rule 10b5-1 plan, including compliance with Rule 10b-18 of the Exchange Act, to repurchase shares on the Company's behalf.
The actual timing, number and value of shares repurchased under the stock repurchase program will depend on a number of factors, including constraints specified in the Rule 10b5-1 plan, price, general business and market conditions, and alternative investment opportunities. The share repurchase program does not obligate the Company to acquire any specific number of shares in any period, and may be expanded, extended, modified or discontinued at any time.
Richmond Mutual Bancorporation, Inc., headquartered in Richmond, Indiana, is the holding company for First Bank Richmond, a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial and trust services within its local communities through its eight locations in Richmond, Centerville, Cambridge City and Shelbyville, Indiana, its five locations in Sidney, Piqua and Troy, Ohio and its loan production office in Columbus, Ohio.
This press release includes certain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the federal securities laws, including information regarding purchases by the Company of its common stock pursuant to any Rule 10b5-1 trading plans or otherwise. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions. The words or phrases "may," "believe," "will," "will likely result," "are expected to," "will continue," "is anticipated," "estimate," "project," "plans," "potential," or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. By their nature, forward-looking information and statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and contingencies, including changes in price and volume and the volatility of the Company's common stock; adverse developments affecting either or both of prices and trading of exchange-traded securities, including securities listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market; and unexpected or otherwise unplanned or alternative requirements with respect to the capital investments of the Company. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements or information, including those contained in this report.
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LIBERTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A soldier has been charged with soliciting a minor, according to a Piedmont Triad police department.
Liberty Police Department says that in April, detectives began an investigation into the exploitation of a child. As they investigated, they determined that an adult man was soliciting a handicapped child for sex.
According to police, the suspect agreed to pay a family member for “sexual activity” with the minor. He traveled to Liberty on May 6, police believe with the intent of engaging in the “illicit activity.”
When he arrived in Liberty, he was identified as Shuyler Grant Naves, who is a soldier assigned to Ft. Bragg.
Naves was charged with soliciting prostitution of a minor, soliciting a minor for sex by computer, soliciting a minor for sex by computer and appearing to meet, attempted statutory rape of a minor, attempted statutory sex offense of a minor, and attempted first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
He was given a $1,000,000 secured bond. | 2023-05-08T18:24:24+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/piedmont-triad/soldier-charged-after-agreeing-to-pay-family-member-of-handicapped-child-for-sexual-activity-liberty-police-say/ |
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