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TOKYO (AP) — An official in charge of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says the upcoming release of treated radioactive water into the sea more than 12 years after the reactors’ meltdown marks “a milestone,” but is still only an initial step in a daunting decades-long decommissioning process.
Junichi Matsumoto, the corporate officer in charge of treated water management for Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, which operates the Fukushima Daiichi plant, also pledged to conduct careful sampling and analysis of the water to make sure its release is safely carried out in accordance with International Atomic Energy Agency standards.
The water is being treated with what’s called an Advanced Liquid Processing System, which can reduce the amounts of more than 60 selected radionuclides to government-set releasable levels, except for tritium, which the government and TEPCO say is safe for humans if consumed in small amounts.
“The release of the ALPS-treated water into the sea is a major milestone for us, as well as for the decommissioning of the plant,” Matsumoto said in an interview with The Associated Press at TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo.
“In order to steadily advance decommissioning, the ever-growing amounts of water was a pressing issue that we could not put off, and we had a sense of crisis,” said Matsumoto, a nuclear engineering expert. “We still have to tackle far more challenging and higher-risk operations such as removal of melted debris and spent fuel” from the damaged reactors, he said.
Another task for TEPCO is combatting the damage to the reputation of Fukushima fisheries caused by the water release, he said.
A massive March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt and contaminating their cooling water, which has since leaked continuously. The water is collected, filtered and stored in around 1,000 tanks, which will reach their capacity in early 2024.
Large amounts of fatally radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the reactors. Robotic probes have provided some information about its status, but it remains largely unknown.
The government and TEPCO say the water must be removed to make room for the plant’s decommissioning, and to prevent accidental leaks from the tanks because much of the water is still contaminated and needs retreatment.
The release plan has faced strong opposition from Japanese fishing organizations, which worry about further damage to the reputation of their seafood as they struggle to recover from the accident. Groups in South Korea and China have also raised concerns, turning it into a political and diplomatic issue.
Matsumoto said the key to gaining understanding is to patiently explain the situation by providing scientific evidence.
“It is difficult, but we hope to make it as easy to understand as possible,” he said. “If we describe (the water release) in one word, it’s safe.”
“As the operator responsible for the accident, we must admit TEPCO is a company that is not fully trusted. We must keep up the effort and sincerely respond to any concern,” Matsumoto said. “It is our responsibility to demonstrate we can carry out the water release as planned, and that’s how we can regain public trust.”
The government said the release is set to start this summer but hasn’t set the date amid protests. TEPCO has obtained safety permits for all of the equipment needed for the release and is currently carrying out training so the water release team can begin work at any time, Matsumoto said.
“It’s not like just turning a faucet to run tap water,” he said.
Scientists generally agree that the environmental impact of the treated wastewater would be negligible, but some call for more attention to dozens of low-dose radionuclides that remain in it, saying data on their long-term effects on the environment and marine life are insufficient and the water requires close scrutiny.
The treated water will be diluted with massive amounts of seawater and will be released gradually over many years.
Matsumoto acknowledged that treated water that came in contact with the damaged nuclear fuel contains radionuclides such as uranium and plutonium that are not in water that is routinely released from healthy nuclear plants around the world.
He said the total concentration of radionuclides in the water meets government standards after treatment, and after dilution the wastewater will be fully safe and have a minimal environmental impact, according to the IAEA, which has provided assistance in evaluating the release plan.
Matsumoto said he has struggled to manage the massive amounts of contaminated water to keep it from escaping into the environment and safely stored at the plant since the accident.
There were instances in which plant workers had no other choice but to dump some into the sea or temporarily put it inside a basement or in temporary water tanks, Matsumoto recalled.
Now, after taking measures to minimize the seeping of rainwater and groundwater into the reactor buildings and establishing a stable water management system, the amount of contaminated water has come down to less than one-fifth of what it used to be, he said. | 2023-07-29T01:17:22+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/business/ap-fukushima-plant-official-says-the-coming-release-of-treated-water-a-milestone-for-decommissioning/ |
Ex-Guatemalan police chief convicted of US visa fraud
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Guatemalan police chief has been found guilty of lying on his U.S. immigration papers about a prior conviction for killing two political activists in his country. U.S. authorities said Monday that 82-year-old Catalino Esteban Valiente Alonzo was convicted last week of using a green card obtained by making a false statement. Prosecutors say Valiente failed to disclose on his 1997 green card application that he had been arrested for kidnapping and murder in Guatemala. They say he entered the United States with the card in 2013. Valiente is scheduled to be sentenced on May 24. His attorney declined comment. | 2023-01-31T00:39:28+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/01/30/ex-guatemalan-police-chief-convicted-of-us-visa-fraud/ |
GOP and FBI are at odds as Republicans move to stop the agency’s new headquarters after Trump probes
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might stop the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the Washington suburbs, it was more than idle thinking about an office renovation.
The nod from the Republican speaker is elevating a once-fringe proposal to upend the FBI in the aftermath of the federal indictment of Donald Trump over classified documents and the Justice Department’s prosecution of his allies, including some of the nearly 1,000 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Moving from far-right corners into the mainstream, the emerging effort to overhaul the nation’s premier law enforcement agency is rooted in increasingly forceful conservative complaints about an overly biased FBI that they claim is being weaponized against them.
“This is a pretty dramatic reversal of what the politics would have been 50 years ago,” said Beverly Gage, a historian at Yale who won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of the legendary FBI director, “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.”
The shifting attitudes among Republican members of Congress toward the FBI underscore the way Trump’s personal grievances have become legislative policy. Once the party of law and order, Republicans are now antagonists of federal law enforcement, undermining a storied institution and attacking Justice Department officials whose work is foundational to American democracy.
While political criticism of the FBI has followed the bureau since its founding with Hoover, who famously wiretapped civil rights leaders and orchestrated the infiltration of left-wing political organizations, the right-flank campaign against federal law enforcement had mostly simmered at the margins of party politics.
But the Justice Department’s indictment of Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts over storing and refusing to return classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club, and the ongoing prosecution of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol, have fueled conservative anger. The Justice Department is also investigating Trump and his allies over the effort to challenge President Joe Biden’s election in the run-up to the 2021 Capitol attack.
Conservatives criticize the federal law enforcement on multiple fronts; among them, its work with social media companies to flag potentially dangerous postings, and a COVID-era memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland directing resources to combat violence against school officials. They compare the Trump investigations with what they say was a sweetheart deal for Hunter Biden, the president’s son, who is pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax evasion after a long investigation.
“Looking at the actions of the FBI, I think the whole leadership needs to change,” McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol last month.
Fresh from a visit with law enforcement in California, McCarthy said he envisions decentralizing the FBI by spreading operations into the states.
“This idea that we’re going to build a new, big Pentagon and put all the FBI mainly in one place, I don’t think it’s a good structure,” McCarthy said Friday, panning a conservative-led proposal to relocate the FBI to Alabama.
“I’d like to see the structure of a much smaller FBI administration building, and more FBI agents out across the country, helping to keep the country safe,” he said. “To me that’s better.”
In many ways, the resistance to a robust federal law enforcement agency extends a thread that has run across American history — from the aftermath of the Civil War, when Southern states rejected federal troops for Reconstruction, to Trump’s own 2024 campaign announcement in Waco, Texas, a region known for the federal siege of a separatist compound in 1993.
“The Washington headquarters is symbolic,” said Steven G. Bradbury, a former Trump administration general counsel who is now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
Heritage is among those outside entities and advocacy organizations encouraging Congress to reimagine the FBI.
Bradbury’s “How to Fix the FBI” report outlines nearly a dozen options. One is scaling back its jurisdiction. Another is to overhaul section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, that was part of the Trump-Russia investigation over 2016 election interference and is a program some Democrats also want to limit.
“We have our finger on the pulse of what conservatives are reacting to,” said Bradbury. “The FBI needs to be rebuilt.”
Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time since Republicans took control in January, facing a long list of criticisms, complaints and accusations of bias at the bureau.
“Are you protecting the Bidens?’ asked Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
“Absolutely not,” Wray said.
At another point Wray said, “The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background.”
He is a longtime Republican who had been appointed by Trump to fill the job after Director James Comey was fired in 2017.
Wray told the lawmakers that dismantling or defunding the FBI would be disastrous for the bureau’s 38,000 employees and “hurt our great state local law enforcement partners that depend on us each day to work with them on a whole slew of challenging threats.”
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called the hearing “bizarre.”
“I didn’t think I would ever see Republicans attacking a Republican appointed by Donald Trump to lead the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, essentially saying they want to defund the FBI,” she said.
The lawmaker said it was also odd to find herself defending the federal law enforcement agency that she, too, believes needs strong oversight from Congress. But she felt Democrats had to step in to counter Republican attacks on the FBI.
“That’s their message: They want to shut down the FBI because the FBI is continuing to investigate Donald Trump,” said Jayapal. “And that is really what this is about.”
Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, submitted a proposal before the hearing that calls for “eliminating taxpayer funding for any new FBI headquarter facility.”
Jordan said in a letter to the Republican chair of the House appropriations committee that he also wants a plan for moving the FBI headquarters out of Washington, noting an existing facility in Huntsville, Alabama — a recommendation Heritage has also made.
“One of the goals we’ve set in this Congress as Republicans is to do the oversight so we can impact the appropriations process,” Jordan said in a brief interview at the Capitol, and “put limitations on how taxpayer money is spent to stop the weaponization of these agencies against the American people.”
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, which is competing with neighboring Maryland to host the new FBI headquarters, called the Republican ideas “a solution in search of a problem.”
“I think they just got a political bug against federal law enforcement agencies,” he said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-07-17T11:25:35+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/gop-and-fbi-are-at-odds-as-republicans-move-to-stop-the-agencys-new-headquarters-after-trump-probes/ |
RENO, Nevada (AP) — Jeremy Renner underwent surgery after suffering blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries in a snow plow accident in Reno, Nevada, a representative for the actor said.
A publicist for Renner said in a statement that the 51-year-old “Avengers” star is in an intensive care unit following surgery on Monday. He is reportedly in critical condition but is stable.
“Jeremy’s family would like to express their gratitude to the incredible doctors and nurses looking after him, Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue, Washoe County Sheriff, Reno City Mayor Hillary Schieve and others," the publicist's statement says. “They are also tremendously overwhelmed and appreciative of the outpouring of love and support from his fans.”
Authorities and Renner's representative haven't said how the accident occurred. The Washoe County Sheriff's Office said late Sunday that Renner had to be flown by helicopter to a hospital for treatment.
Renner was injured in an area near Mt. Rose Highway, a road linking Lake Tahoe, which straddles the Nevada-California border, and south Reno. Renner owns a home in Washoe County, which includes Reno, and told the Reno Gazette Journal in 2019 that he chose the area because Reno was the right-sized city for him, it has majestic scenery and it allowed him and his family to ski frequently.
Renner was the only person involved in Sunday's accident, and the sheriff's office said in a news release that it is investigating.
Renner plays Hawkeye, a sharp-shooting member of the superhero Avengers squad in Marvel's sprawling movie and television universe.
He is a two-time acting Oscar nominee, scoring back-to-back nods for “The Hurt Locker” and “The Town.” Renner's portrayal of a bomb disposal specialist in Iraq in 2009's “The Hurt Locker” helped turn him into a household name.
“The Avengers" in 2012 cemented him as part of Marvel's grand storytelling ambitions, with his character appearing in several sequels and getting its own Disney+ series, “Hawkeye.” | 2023-01-03T17:16:43+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/jeremy-renner-in-icu-after-undergoing-surgery-for-injuries-suffered-in-snow-plow-accident |
A federal appeals court ended Johnsons & Johnson’s attempt to sidestep lawsuits over its baby powder Monday. The company tried to use a bankruptcy filing to block the nearly 40,000 lawsuits from people alleging its baby powder contains asbestos.
But on Monday the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said no dice, dismissing Johnson & Johnson’s filing and ruling the company was not in a dire financial position.
Here & Nows’ Scott Tong talks with NPR’s chief economic correspondent Scott Horsley.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-31T18:15:58+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2023-01-31/johnson-johnsons-baby-powder-bankruptcy-filing-rejected-by-court |
(NEXSTAR) – A combination of economic uncertainty, lofty valuations and rising mortgage rates has Americans in some U.S. cities looking to relocate in droves, according to a study from real estate brokerage Redfin.
An analysis of user data revealed that pricy, coastal cities were high on the list of places residents who sought to leave over the summer, with San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York leading the top 10, respectively.
“The overall slowdown and the popularity of relocating are both due to high home prices and mortgage rates that have doubled since last year,” said Redfin Deputy Chief Economist Taylor Marr. “Six percent mortgage rates are exacerbating already-high home prices and motivating homebuyers — especially remote workers — to leave expensive areas for more affordable ones. Persistent inflation and slumping stocks are also cutting into buyers’ budgets, making relatively affordable areas even more attractive.”
People are leaving, but for where?
The study also broke down the top destination as well as the top out-of-state destination for the cities with the highest projected net outflow, based on user data.
For San Francisco residents, the top destination was Sacramento. San Franciscans ready to call the Golden State quits eyed Seattle as the top out-of-state destination.
For Angelenos, San Diego was the top destination with Las Vegas the top out-of-state destination. New York City residents targeted a new home in Philadelphia more than any other city, including in New York.
The rest of the top 10 cities most Americans are looking to leave had the same top destination and top out-of-state destination. They are, in order, Washington D.C. (Salisbury, Md.), Boston (Portland, Maine), Chicago (Los Angeles), Detroit (Cleveland), Seattle (Los Angeles), Minneapolis (Chicago) and Denver (Chicago).
Redfin says the number of buyers looking to relocate is the highest it’s been since the company started tracking migration data, but the housing market as a whole has cooled from its frenzied peak during the pandemic.
Existing home sales dipped for the seventh straight month in August, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. When compared to August of last year, the drop is a whopping 19.9%.
NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said he doesn’t see the trend changing in coming months, and maybe not for a couple of years.
“Some homeowners are unwilling to trade up or trade down after locking in historically-low mortgage rates in recent years, increasing the need for more new-home construction to boost supply,” Yun said. “The rising mortgage rate has clearly hampered the housing market.”
What are the most popular destination cities?
When it comes to the cities most-targeted by home buyers looking to relocate in July and August, rising mortgage rates and economic concerns did appear to play a role.
Eight of the 10 most popular cities have median sales prices below $500,000. Six of the 10 are located in states with no income tax.
Another pattern when it comes to the most-targeted relocation cities was the weather: nine out of 10 are known for their warm temperatures.
The study found that the top 10 cities people were looking to move to were, in order, Miami; Sacramento; San Diego; Las Vegas; Tampa, Fla.; Phoenix; Cape Coral, Fla.; North Port, Fla.; Portland, Maine; and San Antonio, Texas. | 2022-09-24T14:37:24+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/these-are-the-10-us-cities-people-want-to-leave-most-redfin/ |
Hundreds of thousands of travelers hoping to fly on Southwest Airlines this week are likely to be left in limbo a few days longer.
After cancelingroughly 13,000 flights in the last few days, the airline is planning to remain on a reduced flying schedule for a few more days, its CEO said in a statement late Tuesday.
All domestic airlines have returned to pre-storm delay and cancellation levels after being knocked off-kilter late last week by a severe winter storm. Yet Southwest Airlines, plagued by staffing shortages and an outdated scheduling system, is still paralyzed.
As of 9:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Southwest had canceled 2,508 flights for the day, accounting for 62% of its scheduled flights, according to Flight Aware.
Thursday isn't looking great either: 2,348 Southwest flights have already been taken off the departure boards.
Southwest CEO admits a system upgrade is overdue
Denver International Airport and Chicago Midway International are registering the highest number of cancellations.
But lines of passengers hoping for a rebook are snaking around Southwest ticket counters from coast to coast. Airports in Baltimore, Las Vegas, Nashville, Dallas, Phoenix and San Diego are all registering more than 80 departing flight cancellations from Southwest and other airlines.
In a video statement, the airline's CEO, Bob Jordan, said Southwest is aiming to "be back on track before next week."
"After days of trying to operate as much of our full schedule across the busy holiday weekend, we reached a decision point to significantly reduce our flying to catch up," he said.
"Clearly, we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what's happening right now."
Department of Transportation promises to hold Southwest accountable
Jordan also said he's been in touch with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about Southwest's customer service commitments.
Passengers say lack of communication from the company has been especially frustrating. Some didn't know their flight had been canceled until they happened to check the status online. Others say they waited hours to speak to a Southwest representative on the phone.
In an interview with PBS Newshour, Buttigieg described such practices as "unacceptable" and threatened to hold the airline to its own stated intentions.
"We're going to expect them to go beyond the letter of the law in terms of how they treat passengers, making sure they pay for things like hotels, ground travel expenses, meals and of course, refunds," Buttigieg said.
"I'm going to be watching very closely to make sure that they follow through."
USDOT is concerned by Southwest’s unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays & reports of lack of prompt customer service. The Department will examine whether cancellations were controllable and if Southwest is complying with its customer service plan.
— TransportationGov (@USDOT) December 27, 2022
It's not the first time the DOT has threatened to crack down on the air industry's operational shortfalls.
When thousands of flights were canceled due to staffing shortages in June, Buttigieg met with the CEOs of major domestic airlines and asked them to detail how they'd fix operations in writing.
Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association, says the blame for Southwest's meltdown should be placed on the company's reliance on tech and procedures from the '90s, when the company was half its size.
"Employees were left to their own devices. [...] They weren't given the tools to do their jobs, nor were they given the leadership to answer questions and be able to provide solutions," he told NPR's Morning Edition.
The airline industry has long been wary of regulations, saying that they ultimately put the cost burden on the customer. And Murray agrees that Southwest is better suited than, say, the DOT, to decide what needs to change.
"But these passengers have to be taken care of," Murray said. "They have lost not only time and money, but memories with their families."
Under DOT rules, canceled flights must be promptly rebooked or refunded
Congress is also watching whether the airline will compensate customers. The Senate Commerce Committee will launch an investigation, its chair said on Tuesday.
Under current DOT rules, any passenger who saw their flight canceled is entitled to a prompt cash refund for the full cost, plus any extra purchases such as bag fees or a seat assignment.
But federal refund rules are still in a gray zone when it comes to significant flight delays or related costs such as hotel rooms or ground transportation.
Democratic Sens. Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal, who've proposed clarifying such rules during previous flight snafus, issued a statement on Tuesday calling for Southwest to issue "significant monetary compensation" to customers whose holidays "have been ruined."
"Southwest is planning to issue a $428 million dividend next year — the company can afford to do right by the consumers it has harmed," they wrote.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-28T16:16:19+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2022-12-28/southwest-cancels-another-4-800-flights-as-its-reduced-schedule-continues |
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, November 19, 2022
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HIGH WIND WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
149 PM PST Sat Nov 19 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...North to northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 50
mph expected.
* WHERE...Los Angeles County Mountains.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects and
make driving difficult, especially for drivers of high profile
vehicles. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power
outages may result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
* WHAT...North to northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 45
* WHERE...Santa Clarita Valley and Southeastern Ventura County
Valleys.
vehicles. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages
may result.
* WHERE...Santa Monica Mountains.
...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
Winds have diminished below advisory levels. However, northeast
winds 15 to 25 mph with local gusts to 40 mph will continue
through this afternoon.
...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Areas of north to northeast winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts
up to 50 mph expected.
* WHERE...Ventura County Mountains.
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects such as lawn furniture.
...HARD FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 23 expected.
* WHERE...Antelope Valley.
* WHEN...From 1 AM to 8 AM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Damage to outdoor plumbing possible. Expect severe
damage to crops or sensitive vegetation, and harm to unprotected
pets or livestock.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent
freezing and possible bursting of outdoor water pipes they should
be wrapped, drained, or allowed to drip slowly. Those that have
in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above-
ground pipes to protect them from freezing.
...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected.
* WHERE...Cuyama Valley, Southern Salinas Valley and San Luis
Obispo County Interior Valleys.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other
sensitive vegetation. Extended exposure to cold can cause
hypothermia for animals and people. Vehicle windshields will be
frosted.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Plan for
extra time to defrost vehicle windshields.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man accused of intentionally setting fire to a Tennessee Planned Parenthood clinic and of firing shots later at a federal courthouse died months ago, officials announced Monday in disclosing both the man’s death and the allegations.
Federal court documents indicate that the man, Mark Thomas Reno, 64, died on Aug. 15. Yet many of the documents in his case were sealed until this week, including records showing he had been arrested in connection with the Planned Parenthood arson fire.
“The government’s investigation has revealed that (Reno) engaged in a series of violent acts of property destruction in Knoxville since early 2021,” a newly unsealed complaint stated.
The complaint states that Reno fired a shotgun at the clinic’s doors in early 2021, shattering glass and leaving holes in the reception area. Reno then set the clinic ablaze in December 2021, the document says.
The building was unoccupied during the fire but had to be closed for months to undergo an $2.2 million renovation.
Other court documents show that the FBI began surveillance of Reno in April of this year after he told an undercover agent he belonged to a group with a mission to resist actions opposed to Catholic orthodoxy. The agent was secretly recording Reno, who said that his group had “plenty of targets,” according to the documents.
Reno also told the undercover agent that he was at the U.S. Capitol riot in January 2021. The agent said authorities examined footage from the day and saw he was present but that there was no evidence he broke any laws.
By July, Reno was accused of firing at a federal building in Knoxville and damaging three windows, according to the court documents.
Court documents show that Reno had been detained since July but had been temporarily released to receive medical treatment in August. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
“The man who was arrested in this case is not the only one who holds responsibility,” said — Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, in a statement. “When politicians use hateful rhetoric against abortion providers and support extreme laws, like the total abortion ban we have in Tennessee, it shouldn’t surprise us that some people believe real-world violence is justified.”
Coffield and others have criticized Republican Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee for not condemning the attack on Planned Parenthood’s clinic. Over the summer, the governor instead condemned vandalism at a crisis pregnancy center that aims to dissuade people from getting an abortion.
Tennessee is among the several states that had enacted so-called trigger laws banning almost all abortions once the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the constitutional right to the procedure. Under the law, Planned Parenthood and other health clinics across the state have stopped providing abortions.
A spokesperson for U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee said their office would have a statement Tuesday. | 2022-11-01T11:45:50+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-authorities-suspect-in-abortion-clinic-fire-died-in-august/ |
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BJG to supply interconnect & electromechanical components to KAI's new helicopter programs.
RONKONKOMA, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BJG Electronics Group (BJG) announced today a long-term agreement with Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) to support the Korean Utility Helicopter – "KUH-1 Surion" and the Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) program with interconnect and electromechanical components.
The KUH-1 Surion is Korea's first indigenous helicopter and is being deployed for operations in Korea with the military, police, emergency medical transport, forest service, and Coast Guard. Further variants of the KUH-1 Surion have enhanced interiors suited to VIP passengers and structurally strengthened versions support an external payload including fuel tanks or weapons.
The multi-year agreement with BJG will allow KAI to minimize inventory and assure consistent quality supply as program requirements dictate. BJG has provided similar products & supply chain services to many of the world's leading aviation OEMs.
Glenn Davidson, BJG CEO commented, "BJG is honored to join KAI as a supplier to the KUH-1 Surian helicopter program. Our team is committed to meeting KAI's demanding supplier requirements and contributing to the success of this program in the coming years."
BJG Electronics Group is a value-added distributor and manufacturer of high-reliability electronic components headquartered in Ronkonkoma, NY. The company's six locations in the US are certified to ISO9001:2015 & AS9100:2016 and are committed to delivering consistent, on-time delivery with its deep inventory of assembled and component products. With 32 franchised lines, over 300,000 unique part numbers, and 125,000 sq ft of warehouse space, BJG's comprehensive product offering provides standard and engineered solutions supporting harsh environment interconnect and electromechanical requirements. BJG is an approved supplier to the world's leading defense, commercial aviation, and space OEMs. For more information, visit www.bjgelectronics.com.
Korea Aerospace Industries, LTD. (KAI) is the sole aircraft manufacturer in Korea. The company provides everything from development to support and training which includes upgrades & MRO for a wide range of fixed-wing aircraft beyond what they manufacture in Korea. Current programs in KAI's roster are KF-21 Next-Generation Fighter, FA-50 Light Combat Aircraft, KT-1 Basic Trainer, KC-100 General Aviation Aircraft, KUH Korean Utility Helicopter - Surion, LCH Light Civil Helicopter, LAH Light Armed Helicopter, UAV's, commercial aerostructures, and space programs such as Korea Multi-Purpose Satellites, CAS500 Compact Advanced Satellite, and the Korean Space Launch Vehicle.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dayne St. Clair entered the interview room, wearing a smile as bright as his orange goalkeeper’s jersey and clutching a crystal trophy after helping the MLS All-Stars beat Liga MX.
Coach Adrian Heath said slyly, “What did you win?”
“MVP,” St. Clair coolly replied, relishing the honor in his team Minnesota United’s home stadium.
Carlos Vela scored in the third minute and Raúl Ruidíaz converted a penalty kick in the 73rd minute in the Major League Soccer All-Star team’s 2-1 victory over Mexico’s Liga MX on Wednesday night.
Vela, the versatile Los Angeles FC forward who led MLS with 34 goals in 2019, headed in the early goal off a crossing pass by LAFC teammate Diego Palacios. Ruidíaz padded the lead after Carles Gil drew a penalty, sending his free shot to the lower right corner to elicit a roar from the sellout crowd of 19,797 at Allianz Field.
Kevin Álvarez scored for Liga MX with a rocket from outside the box in the 83rd minute that sailed past diving goalie Sean Johnson. That brought the thousands of Mexicans in attendance to life, and they were just as loud as the Americans, but the work done in the net by Andre Blake and St. Clair over the first two-thirds of the game paid off.
St. Clair entered in the 32nd minute to sub for Andre Blake and made four saves, including a diving stop to block a header in the 44th minute. Liga MX had a 7-2 edge in shots on target, took seven corners to one for MLS and had a 52% possession rate, so the goalkeeping
“I was definitely a little bit surprised,” St. Clair said. “Normally it’s the guys who contribute to the goals who get the award, but I’m definitely very happy.”
Minnesota United, nicknamed the Loons by the club’s ardent supporters, had Heath, St. Clair and starting midfielder Emanuel Reynoso represented on the team.
“Truly an honor to be able to have a performance like this in front of the fans that support us every week,” said St. Clair, who is tied for second in MLS with 79 saves in 22 games. “I always knew I was capable of putting forth these performances on this stage.”
This was the second edition of this format for the MLS All-Star game, setting it apart from the other major U.S.-based pro sports leagues. The MLS team beat Liga MX on penalty kicks in Los Angeles last year after a 1-1 draw in regulation. The MLS has not committed to an All-Star rematch.
The two leagues are more business partners than fierce rivals, with only one Mexican player in the starting Liga MX lineup: Fernando Beltrán. The MLS team had Vela, Javier “Chicharito” Hernández and Julián Araujo, who was born in the U.S. and has dual nationality.
But the MLS, which was formed more than 50 years after Liga MX, certainly will take another sign that it’s catching up to its southern neighbor. The Seattle Sounders became the first MLS club to defeat a Liga MX team for the CONCACAF Champions League title earlier this year when they beat Pumas UNAM.
“I’ve been in America now 13 years and this is the closest it’s ever been,” Heath said. “Every time the U.S. plays Mexico now, I’m not sure who’s going to win the game.”
Next year, the leagues will compete in an expanded Leagues Cup tournament — the first to include all 47 clubs from MLS and Liga MX. The winner will advance directly to the CONCACAF Champions League round of 16.
The timing of the showcase this year also created a bonus opportunity for the U.S. national team members to connect, with the World Cup looming in a little more than three months.
There were seven MLS All-Stars currently listed on the U.S. roster, which has yet to be finalized for Qatar: defenders Walker Zimmerman, DeAndre Yedlin and Aaron Long, forwards Jordan Morris, Paul Arriola and Jesús Ferreira and Johnson.
Zimmerman and Morris were in the starting lineup. Arriola subbed in and had an early second-half goal erased by an offside call on Brandon Vázquez, who teed up Arriola with a perfect setup in front. Vázquez, who’s second in the MLS with 14 goals, has played his way into strong consideration for the U.S. team with his breakout season for FC Cincinnati.
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More AP soccer coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-11T08:56:26+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/vela-gets-mls-all-stars-going-in-2-1-win-over-liga-mx/ |
CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures mixed Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for May was down 7.25 cents at $6.7250 a bushel; May corn gained 4.5 cents at $6.5750 a bushel; May oats was up 2 cents at $3.3775 a bushel; while May soybeans increased 1.575 cents at $15.1375 a bushel.
Beef higher and pork lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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South Florida - Tuesday July 11, 2023: The Army Corps continues to keep Lake Okeechobee sealed, postponing, for as long as they can, the risk of sending any toxic algae down either the Caloosahatchee or the St. Lucie estuaries.
However, in its most recent update on the Lake, the Corps said mother nature has given them a little more breathing room.
Col. James Booth pointed out that the heavy rains of June have fallen off a bit, and the extent of algae covering Lake Okeechobee has eased as well. “It does give us a little more flexibility if opportunities arise to bring Lake levels down, and it can reduce some of the stress in that decision, so we’re very happy to see that.”
As of Monday, the level of Lake Okeechobee stood at 14.87 feet, about two inches higher than the week before and a foot and 11 inches higher than last year at this time.
But despite the rising levels, Col. Booth said level they can continue to hold water in the Lake for another month or two. “I’m looking more towards the late august September time frame where I would have concerns that we may have to look at releases, but right now, I don’t think we’re close," he said.
Those concerns begin when the lake level reaches 16 and a half feet or so, roughly two feet from where it is now … if it comes to that, releases will become necessary. “When we start to go in that area," said Col. Booth, "we will look to maximize flows likely in all directions to get water off the Lake in that scenario.” | 2023-07-11T22:44:15+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-07-11/corps-gets-some-breathing-room-over-rising-level-of-lake-okeechobee |
InvestigateTV - Season 2; Episode 19
(InvestigateTV) — This Week on InvestigateTV: An off-duty, hired officer misusing police powers, dragging innocent people from their home without a warrant. Plus, a vulnerability at TSA checkpoints could mean more shootings at airports. Brendan Keefe reports. WHERE TO WATCH ICYMI – Watch last week’s episode.
No-Knock Raid: Underpaid law enforcement officers rely on extra jobs for private companies in their police uniforms in order to pay the bills. Sometimes their private employers ask them to use — or ignore — the law to help their businesses. This story looks at a case where an off-duty, hired officer uses police powers at the wrong house.
Airport Security: A gunman was able to reach into his bag during secondary screening, retrieve his pistol, and open fire inside Atlanta’s airport in the secure area. How did this happen? We have the body cams and surveillance video. Some airports nationwide have these barriers – others don’t.
Cigarette Butt Closes Cold Case: A gruesome murder that gripped the nation. A mourning family breathes a sigh of relief. After more than 50 years Rita Curran’s cold case is finally closed. Darren Perron has the story.
Wrongful Murder Conviction: Since 1989, more than 3,000 people have had their convictions reversed, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. Black Americans make up less than 14% of the U.S. population, but according to the registry they make up more than 50% of the listed exonerations.
Angie Ricono introduces us to two men who were wrongly imprisoned and formed a brotherhood while fighting to prove their innocence.
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2022 World Series teed up: Bryce Harper, Phillies to face Astros
Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber breaking the Bank in Philly. Yordan Alvarez launching moonshots in H-Town.
Dusty Baker trying for a most elusive win. Justin Verlander, too. A fired-up Harper and All-Stars J.T. Realmuto and Zack Wheeler, stepping onto baseball's biggest platform for the first time.
Yo! The Philadelphia Phillies, of all teams, are headed to the World Series. Against those back-for-more Houston Astros, y'all.
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A pretty tasty matchup starting Friday night at Minute Maid Park, a Fall Classic full of vibrant sights, scents and sounds.
Think cheesesteaks, hoagies and water ice vs. BBQ brisket, Tex-Mex and Blue Bell ice cream.
Note: The 2022 World Series begins on Oct. 28 on FOX.
The Phanatic and Phils fans need a late rally at Citizens Bank Park? Dial up something from "Rocky." Want to party in Houston? Sing and clap along with mascot Orbit to Moe Bandy's bouncy "Deep in the Heart of Texas" during the seventh-inning stretch.
Harper already has hit five home runs this postseason. In the signature swing of his career, his eighth-inning drive against San Diego on Sunday in Game 5 sent the Phillies into the World Series for the first time since 2009 and earned him the NL Championship Series MVP.
The Astros are 7-0 this postseason after finishing off a four-game sweep of the New York Yankees in the AL Championship Series. Alex Bregman's go-ahead single keyed a 6-5 win Sunday night.
After losing the World Series last year, Houston opened as a solid favorite to win the title this year, according to FanDuel.
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Odds are, crowd might witness a Schwar-bomb or the Chas Chomp along the way.
But no possibility of seeing a sibling rivalry. Astros reliever Phil Maton broke a finger on his pitching hand when he punched his locker after a shaky performance in the regular-season finale, an outing that included giving up a hit to his younger brother, Phils utilityman Nick Maton.
City of Brotherly Love, not so much. But a nice treat for fans in both cities: The Philadelphia Eagles, the NFL's only unbeaten team, visit the Houston Texans on the travel day between Games 5 and 6, if those are needed.
Weather won't be an issue with the retractable roof in Houston. No telling what the elements will be with the open air in Philly.
With the likes of Jose Altuve, ALCS MVP Jeremy Peña, Rhys Hoskins and Alec Bohm, this World Series is a best-of-seven matchup representing some of the game's best present and future. Plus a good piece of the past — remember, these teams have played each other nearly 600 times.
There was the thrilling 1980 NL Championship Series, when Mike Schmidt, Pete Rose, Steve Carlton and the Fightin' Phils outlasted Nolan Ryan at the Astrodome on the way to their first World Series title.
Years later, closers Brad Lidge, Billy Wagner, Mitch Williams and Ken Giles spent time with both clubs. So did future Hall of Famers Joe Morgan and Robin Roberts.
And this neat piece of history — the Phillies were the first team to ever beat Houston, back in 1962 when the expansion Colt .45s lost at Connie Mack Stadium.
Funny, the Phillies are also the most recent team to beat the Astros. Way back on Oct. 3, Philadelphia opened the final series of the regular season with a 3-0 win at Houston, with Schwarber homering twice as Aaron Nola outpitched Lance McCullers Jr.
The Astros then closed out an AL-best 106-56 record by winning the next two behind Verlander and Framber Valdez — Philadelphia still leads 297-283 in their head-to-head matchups, mostly all before Houston moved from the National League to the American League in 2013.
Houston then swept Seattle in the AL Division Series and the Yankees in the ALCS featuring its winning formula of imposing starting pitching, a dominant bullpen and a lineup full of home run hitters such as Alvarez and Kyle Tucker.
Martin Maldonado #15 of the Houston Astros celebrates with manager Dusty Baker in the locker room after defeating the New York Yankees 6-5 in game four of the American League Championship Series to advance to the World Series at Yankee Stadium on Oct
This marks the Astros' fourth trip to the World Series in six years and their only title in 2017 was tainted by an illegal sign-stealing scandal. Last season, they lost to Freddie Freeman and the underdog Atlanta Braves in six games.
At 73 and in his 25th season as a manager, Baker is looking for a crown to cap his ample resume.
"I mean, victories drive me. And I’ll get it," he said during the ALCS. "You can’t rush it before it gets here because it ain’t here yet. So you just got to put yourself in a position to do it."
Verlander, the likely AL Cy Young Award winner after bouncing back from Tommy John surgery, is hoping to improve his 0-6 mark in seven career World Series starts.
The Phillies, meanwhile, looked like a big zero this year before getting to this point in October.
Stuck at 21-29 going into June, they fired manager Joe Girardi a few days later and put the interim tag on bench coach Rob Thomson. Then suddenly, the Phillies took off.
They overcame Harper's broken thumb, sidelining the two-time NL MVP for two months, beat out Milwaukee for the final playoff spot in going 87-75, and quickly topped NL Central champion St. Louis in the wild-card round. Philadelphia eliminated defending World Series champ Atlanta in the NLDS and topped San Diego in the NLCS.
Now, with Thomson having been rewarded with a two-year contract, the Phillies are the first third-place team in baseball history to reach the World Series.
Philadelphia lost to the Yankees in its last trip this far. A year earlier in 2008, Lidge capped off his remarkable year of going 48 for 48 in save chances to close out the Phillies' second title as a team led by Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard beat Tampa Bay in five games.
Spurred by their rollicking home crowd, Harper and this bunch of Phils hope to add another banner.
Thomson is trying to join Jack McKeon (Marlins, 2003) and Bob Lemon (Yankees, 1978) as the only managers hired in midseason to win the title. To the 59-year-old Thomson, it's not such a surprise his team is in this position.
"Coming out of spring training ... we knew we had a good ballclub. We knew our bullpen was good, rotation was good, we had great offense," he said earlier in the playoffs. "We just got off to a little bit of a slow start and kind of spiraled."
"And we had ups and downs during the season, just like any other club does. But they knew that they were going to come out of it at some point and start winning again. And we did," he said. | 2022-10-24T17:58:08+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/sports/2022-world-series-bryce-harper-philadelphia-phillies-houston-astros |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Bruce Cassidy struggled so badly in his first NHL coaching job with Washington that it knocked him out of the league for more than a decade.
Cassidy coached in the junior ranks and the minors before getting a second chance with Boston. When he was fired from that job, he was out of work a grand total of a week before the Vegas Golden Knights hired him.
Less than a full calendar year since putting pen to paper with Vegas, Cassidy and the Golden Knights were on the verge of winning the Stanley Cup going into Game 5 on Tuesday night. It would be the first championship for the franchise and the veteran head coach.
“The rewarding part is seeing it all come together at the right time,” Cassidy said after Vegas beat Florida to take a 3-1 lead in the final. “Every coach in this league works hard to prepare their team, puts in a lot of time and effort, sacrifice away from your family at times, so, that’s the rewarding part. And then to get your name on the Cup is the ultimate reward.”
Almost two decades ago, when Cassidy was dumped less than a season and a half into his tenure with the Capitals, it seemed unheard of that he’d get another NHL job, let alone be on the doorstep of guiding a team to a championship. George McPhee — now Vegas’ president of hockey operations — hired Cassidy in 2002, then fired him 17 losses in 25 games into the 2003—04 season.
“Most guys go through what he went through and you’d never hear from them again,” former Capitals goaltender Olie Kolzig said in 2019.
Instead, Cassidy paid his dues, first as an assistant in Chicago, then coaching Kingston in the Ontario Hockey League. He returned to the pros as an assistant with the American Hockey League’s Providence Bruins, was promoted to head coach and got back in the NHL on Claude Julien’s staff in Boston by 2016.
“Give the guy credit: He came back from the dead,” said retired defenseman Colby Cohen, who played under Cassidy in Providence. “He grinded his way through, and he developed players. It really is impressive.”
Cassidy was a midseason replacement for Julien early in 2017 and coached the Bruins to the playoffs six seasons in a row before a first-round exit last year prompted Boston to let him go. When the Golden Knights wanted a coach with winning experience, they hired Cassidy.
“If you have a team, a veteran team that is ready for winning, I’m not sure there’s a better coach right now in hockey than him,” Cohen said. “He is good at what he does. His ability to adjust in game, and his ability to see what’s happening within a game and change on the fly or or pull a different lever — changing lines, getting a certain matchup changing the forecheck, changing neutral zone sets — if you do it, you are successful as a team.”
With their new coach, the Golden Knights won 13 of their first 15 games and finished atop the Western Conference despite goaltending injuries and other adversity that might have knocked them off course — like it did last season, prompting Peter DeBoer’s firing as coach.
“He thinks the game really well,” Vegas leading scorer Jonathan Marchessault said of Cassidy. “He kept us humble and kept us also the mindset of just one game at a time and don’t think too far and stay in the moment. I think that’s been one of the big things for us this year.”
Vegas cruised through the first two rounds of the playoffs, beating Winnipeg in five games and getting past Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Edmonton to reach the West final. That is perhaps where his best coaching of the year came the night before Game 6 against Dallas. The Golden Knights, once up 3-0, had lost two in a row and were on the brink of falling apart.
Cassidy gathered players for a meeting to crystallize for them what was at stake.
“It was kind of like, ‘All right, that’s enough, let’s close this out,’” center Chandler Stephenson recalled. “So, we had our best game of the playoffs.”
Better could be ahead given Cassidy’s ability to prepare a team for crucial situations — like locking up a Stanley Cup championship.
“That would be the ultimate reward for me is to be part of a team that won as a team and played as a team,” Cassidy said.
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AP NHL playoffs: https://apnews.com/hub/stanley-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-13T19:41:06+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/bruce-cassidy-on-verge-of-coaching-vegas-golden-knights-to-stanley-cup/ |
The leader in sports technology partners with the leader in golf ball technology to bring superior accuracy to golfers around the world
CARLSBAD, Calif. and FAIRHAVEN, Mass., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Full Swing today announced a collaboration with Titleist, the No. 1 Ball in Golf®, to deliver the highest performance of their Full Swing KIT launch monitor to date thanks to the Titleist Radar Capture Technology, the first golf balls developed specifically to enhance radar readings for limited-distance shots. This integration will improve the spin detection by requiring less ball flight to measure spin rate, benefiting, in particular, high ball speed/low spin rate scenarios.
The Full Swing KIT has been trusted by golf pros, instructors and players around the world on outdoor driving ranges for the most trusted radar-powered technology and high-resolution camera to improve their practice. With winter approaching and players headed indoors, Full Swing made sure to provide golfers with the best way to get reliable data when hitting into a net or screen using KIT, without the need for adding special markings to balls.
"As soon as we saw the Pro V1 RCT ball for the first time and the impact it could have for our players indoors around the world, we knew we had to partner with Titleist to make this happen quickly," said Ryan Dotters, CEO of Full Swing. "The increase in accuracy, particularly with spin and projected carry distance, has been amazing and we can't wait for players to enjoy the new experience."
Integrating Titleist's Radar Capture Technology provides the clearest radar imaging that results in superior accuracy when it comes to indoor spin measurement which impacts numerous data points within the Full Swing KIT.
With 16 points of data paired with high-resolution video and free virtual gameplay at a price point of $4,999, the Full Swing KIT is a portable solution for golfers around the world looking for new ways to practice and play year-round at a previously unavailable price point for players looking for Tour-level data. Thanks to Titleist's Radar Capture Technology, players and fitters around the world will have access to the highest level of precision data that is now measuring spin at the highest possible accuracy with their preferred Titleist golf ball: Pro V1, Pro V1x, Pro V1x Left Dash or AVX.
"Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x RCT golf balls combine the game's greatest combination of speed, spin, and feel with new technology from Full Swing KIT, that more consistently captures precision performance and golf ball data when used in an indoor setting," said Jeremy Stone, Vice President, Titleist Golf Ball Marketing. "Working with the Full Swing KIT team, the result of months of testing has shown a reliably strong 'signal' that enables greater spin capture that leads to improved accuracy across ball data metrics."
Full Swing customers can purchase the Titleist Pro V1, Pro V1x, Pro V1x Left Dash and AVX RCT golf balls through authorized Titleist golf shops globally, as well as here. The Full Swing KIT is available now for a suggested retail price of $4,999.99. Learn more https://www.fullswinggolf.com/kit-launch-monitor/ .
Full Swing, a proud partner of Bruin Capital, is the brand responsible for the industry-leading sports technology innovation chosen as the Official Licensed Simulator of The PGA TOUR, GOLF Channel and Topgolf Swing Suites. As the only simulator brand with patented dual-tracking technology providing unmatched real ball flight on the world's most iconic courses and across 13 dynamic sport experiences, they offer the most complete indoor experience.
The Full Swing KIT launch monitor has been tested and trusted by Tiger Woods to give golfers 16 points of club and ball data with high-resolution video included, so golfers can complement the indoor simulator experience with the most innovative launch monitor outdoors.
Among Team Full Swing's impressive roster of champions are PGA TOUR stars Tiger Woods, Jon Rahm, Titleist Brand Ambassador Jordan Spieth, the LPGA's Brooke Henderson, the NFL's Patrick Mahomes and the NBA's Steph Curry.
Head to fullswinggolf.com for the latest product offerings and news.
Titleist, Golf's Symbol of Excellence, is the game's leading performance equipment brand, having earned the overwhelming trust of tour professionals, club professionals, competitive amateurs and dedicated golfers worldwide. The Titleist golf ball embodies superior performance, innovative design and technology, precision manufacturing and unmatched quality. It is the unequivocal #1 Ball in Golf, and has been for over 70 years and still counting. Titleist also sets the standard for golf clubs through an unwavering commitment to performance, meticulous attention to detail, and as the game's preeminent golf club fitter. Titleist golf gear, comprising golf bags, headwear, travel gear, accessories and golf gloves, also delivers the performance and quality excellence promised in every product that bears the Titleist Script.
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Chang-Ken Lee showcased commitment to climate action and growing influence in the global sustainable finance landscape
TAIPEI, July 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The President of Cathay Financial Holdings (Cathay FHC) Chang-Ken Lee made history as the first representative from Taiwan to address at the prestigious Climate Investment Summit, taken place on 6/28 at London Stock Exchange. Lee's presence at the summit marked a significant milestone, effectively showcased the company's unwavering commitment to climate action and underscored its burgeoning influence in the global sustainable finance map.
Climate Investment Summit, organized by World Climate Foundation (WCF), is the globally leading event for the acceleration and deployment of investments in global climate solutions, to ensure an energy secure and sustainable future for all. This 4th edition, once again, convenes leading governments, asset owners, financial institutions, international organizations, energy companies and developers for a market-oriented approach for investments in climate and nature-based solutions.
During the closing panel, Lee opened the discussion by recounting a conversation with a local driver upon his arrival in London. It became evident that drivers encounter challenges in finding charging stations when they choose to drive electric vehicles. "The lack of infrastructure is a major concern," Lee emphasized, highlighting the need for extensive collaboration among all sectors.
Lee continued to highlight Asia's crucial role in climate investment, particularly in the financial sector, mainly due to the region's growing energy demand, vulnerability to climate change, renewable energy transition, green finance initiatives, private sector engagement, and the growing importance of international collaboration.
Throughout the summit, there is a strong emphasis on the significance of expediting collaboration across sectors and regions to accomplish climate objectives. The vulnerability of developing regions was also highlighted. It is crucial for international stakeholders to prioritize and increase financial resources for climate-friendly projects in these regions. The participation of Cathay FHC is of significance because it helps unlock economic potential, bridge the funding gap, and drive global climate action especially between Asia and the world.
"To mitigate and adapt to climate change and its threats, we need substantial financial resources and support from all stakeholders. We are delighted to partner with Cathay Financial Holdings, which brings governments, private sector entities and other stakeholders together to explore investment opportunities and mobilize funds for climate-related projects within Taiwan and beyond. This essential contribution plays a vital role in bridging the gap between the need for climate finance and the availability of funds," stated Jens Nielsen, WCF founder/CEO.
Lee further shared three primary strategies to facilitate the transition of the real economy and achieve their net-zero targets.
First of all, to expedite the transition towards a sustainable future, Cathay FHC actively rebalances the portfolio allocation by carefully phasing out investments in high-emitting companies while engaging with them.
Secondly, Cathay FHC is dedicated to promoting the advancement of clean energy and climate solutions. "As the pioneering financial institution in Taiwan, we are proud to offer financing for solar power and offshore wind farm projects. Additionally, as the largest commercial real estate owner, we collaborate with governments and tenants to provide green-leasing services, enabling SME tenants to procure renewable energy and work towards their climate goals." Lee stated.
Finally, Cathay FHC believes the potential of collaboration to make a meaningful impact. For years, Cathay FHC has been taking proactive engagement actions and actively participating in global initiatives. Lee added, "one notable example is our engagement with leading Taiwanese companies as part of the Climate Action 100+ initiative. These companies collectively account for 20% of Taiwan's total carbon emissions. Through our engagement efforts, we encourage them to commit to net-zero targets and set mid-term goals."
Government policies, interim targets, and strategic plans will offer corporations greater opportunities to foster technological advancements and innovative business models. "The transition to a low-carbon economy necessitates substantial capital, and it is imperative to recognize that we cannot drive this transformation single-handedly. Collaboration among stakeholders is essential to bring about the necessary changes in the economy and achieve our sustainability goals." Lee concluded.
In addition to CIS, Cathay FHC has scheduled to participate this year's World Biodiversity Summit alongside UNGE in New York, World Climate Summit alongside COP28 in Dubai, and has also scheduled its annual climate summit aimed at convening various sectors across Asia, taken place on 7/4 in Taipei.
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Updated February 1, 2023 at 5:53 PM ET
BERKELEY, Calif. — Longtime University of California women's swimming coach Teri McKeever was fired Tuesday following an investigation into alleged harassment, bullying and verbally abusive conduct, the school said in a statement.
McKeever led the Golden Bears to four NCAA team titles over 29 years. She coached the U.S. women's swim team at the London Olympics in 2012, the first woman to serve in that role.
Cal Director of Athletics Jim Knowlton said in a letter to team and athletic staff that an investigative report by an independent law firm detailed "numerous violations of university policies that prohibit race, national origin, and disability discrimination. ... The report also details verbally abusive conduct that is antithetical to our most important values."
Knowlton said the 482-page report substantiated many allegations of unacceptable behavior and said it was in "the best interests of our student-athletes, our swimming program and Cal Athletics as a whole" that the program part ways with McKeever.
The investigation followed a Southern California News Group probe in May that said McKeever "allegedly verbally and emotionally abused, swore at and threatened swimmers on an almost daily basis, pressured athletes to compete or train while injured or dealing with chronic illnesses or eating disorders."
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-02-01T23:30:49+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-sports/npr-sports/2023-02-01/uc-berkeley-fires-swim-coach-mckeever-over-misconduct-allegations |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A slate of gun control measures was headed Saturday to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk, after an all-night state Senate debate and early morning vote to approve the state’s most wide-ranging gun legislation since the laws that followed the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting.
Lamont, a Democrat, plans to sign the measure. He said in a statement that the legislation would “modernize our firearm safety laws in a smart and strategic way to help prevent tragedy from happening.”
Among other things, the changes would ban openly carrying firearms and prohibit selling more than three handguns within 30 days to any one person, with some exceptions for instructors and others.
Other provisions include expanding Connecticut’s current assault weapon ban to include some other similar weapons; stiffening penalties for possession of large-capacity magazines; expanding safe-storage rules to more settings; and adding some domestic violence crimes to the list of disqualifications for having a gun.
The measure passed the Senate 24-11, following a 96-51 House vote last week. Democrats control both chambers.
The measure comes as mass killings occur at a record pace in the United States.
Nearly half the states have passed legislation addressing guns or school safety this year, but the measures differ sharply depending on legislatures’ partisan makeup.
Democratic-led states have enacted new laws to restrict semiautomatic weapons and expand background checks and waiting periods to buy guns. Republican-controlled states have backed the right to carry concealed guns without permits or for trained staffers to bring guns to school.
In Connecticut, Republican lawmakers have complained that majority Democrats are punishing law-abiding gun owners, not targeting criminals who commit gun violence.
Lamont, however, maintained that “the overwhelming majority of Connecticut residents” supports the changes.
“They want to live in a community that has common-sense measures that encourage gun safety and prevent harm from impacting our neighborhoods and homes,” he said.
. | 2023-06-03T21:11:44+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/connecticut-governor-poised-to-sign-states-most-sweeping-gun-measure-since-post-sandy-hook-laws/ |
Las Vegas Raiders star tight end Darren Waller has hired new agents as he hopes to get a new contract before the start of the season.
Waller cut ties with Klutch Sports last week after less than a year with that agency and signed Wednesday with Drew Rosenhaus and Robert Bailey.
"I plan on going to work on this right away," Rosenhaus said in a text message about getting Waller a new contract.
Waller has two years remaining on the contract he signed during the 2019 season. He is owed just less than $14 million in those years with no guaranteed money and is seeking a new deal that reflects his production.
According to the website Over The Cap, Waller's average annual salary ranks 17th among all tight ends in the NFL.
Since becoming a starter in 2019, Waller ranks second in the NFL among all tight ends with 252 catches for 3,006 yards, trailing only Kansas City's Travis Kelce in both categories. He is also tied for fifth with 14 TD catches the past three years.
Waller, who turns 30 on Sept. 13, played 11 games last season when he was hampered by ankle and knee injuries. He had 55 catches for 665 yards and two TDs.
The Raiders are counting on Waller to be part of a dynamic passing attack for quarterback Derek Carr that includes All-Pro receiver Davante Adams and slot receiver Hunter Renfrow.
Waller has missed most of training camp because of an undisclosed injury. He returned to practice once on Aug. 17 but has been sidelined again since then.
The Raiders open the season on Sept. 11 against the Los Angeles Chargers. | 2022-08-31T18:10:46+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34495047/las-vegas-raiders-te-darren-waller-signs-new-agents-search-new-deal |
Gun, high-capacity magazine found at school in Connecticut, police say
HAMDEN, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A man was arrested after a gun with a high-capacity magazine was found in a closet at a school in Hamden.
Police were called to the Hamden Collaborative Learning Center just after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday because of a reported fight.
Officer Keron Bryce from the Hamden Police Department spoke with school staff, which said the incident was a physical altercation between Kahlil Davis-Yancey and a 16-year-old student.
The 18-year-old Davis-Yancey was a student at the school, the Associated Press reported.
According to school officials, the teen sustained minor injuries during the altercation.
Davis-Yancey was arrested and charged with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
Hamden police were called back to the school around 11:30 a.m. because school security found a gun in the closet of one of the classrooms.
The 9mm handgun and the magazine were placed there by Davis-Yancey, Bryce said. It’s not known what he planned to do or why he had the gun there.
They only said that he had the altercation with the student earlier in the day.
Davis-Yancey was located shortly after and was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, negligent storage of a firearm, first-degree reckless endangerment, possession of a weapon on school grounds, and illegal possession of a large-capacity magazine.
Davis-Yancey was held on a $150,000 bond.
Police said there was no threat to students or staff, but increased their presence at the school.
School resource officers also to planned meet with students and staff every day.
Copyright 2023 WFSB via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-08T17:44:14+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2023/02/08/gun-high-capacity-magazine-found-school-connecticut-police-say/ |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police have arrested a U.S. Air Force commander who works at Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada on felony sex charges.
Kevin DiFalco faces seven counts of lewdness with a child under 18, and one count of child abuse or neglect, according to Las Vegas Justice Court records.
DiFalco was commander of the 57th Operations Support Squadron and an F-16 pilot assigned to Nellis Air Force Base. Due to the allegations of personal misconduct, DiFalco has been removed from his position, according to a base spokesman.
“The 57th Wing Commander, Brig. Gen. Richard Goodman, relieved the 57th Operations Support Squadron Commander Sept. 8 due to allegations of personal misconduct,” the spokesman said. “Lt. Col. Kevin DiFalco was arrested at his off-base residence Sept. 8 and is under investigation by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, in coordination with the Air Force.”
An LVMPD spokesman said details from the case would not be released due to a juvenile being involved.
DiFalco posted bond Friday. According to court records, “probable cause existed for the defendant’s arrest. Therefore, the defendant’s biological specimen shall be submitted to the appropriate forensic laboratory for genetic marker analysis.”
On an Instagram page for Lt. Col Kevin “GATOR” DiFalco, there are more than 50 posts that appear to be on-the-job.
A caption on the most recent post on June 9 includes, “DAY 1 at 40 years old was amazing — just another day following the dream. Yesterday was a great day to celebrate my 40th with family and friends.”
A status check is set for Oct. 11.
DiFalco spoke to Nexstar’s KLAS last year about the Thunderbirds.
“The energy is always high,” he said. “Kids are screaming and yelling and jumping up and down with excitement.” | 2022-09-10T01:35:21+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/las-vegas-area-air-force-commander-accused-of-child-sex-crimes/ |
YANTAI, China, Nov.1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RemeGen Co., Ltd. ("RemeGen" or "the Company") (9995.HK, SHA: 688331), a commercial-stage biotechnology company, recently released data from the Phase II clinical study of its proprietary novel fusion protein Telitacicept for the treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Chinese patients, showing positive results.
For the multicenter, randomized, open-label Phase II clinical study, the subjects were adult patients diagnosed with myasthenia gravis (MG), who had tested positive for acetylcholine receptor antibodies, and were receiving standardized medical therapy. With a dosing cycle of once per week for 24 weeks, a total of 41 patients were recruited, where 29 of which were randomly assigned in the trial (14 assigned to the Telitacicept 160mg group and 15 in the 240mg group), and all completed the full duration. The primary efficacy endpoint of the study was the change in the Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis (QMG) test score at week 24 compared to the baseline.
The study showed a mean reduction of 7.7 points in the Telitacicept 160mg group and 9.6 points in the Telitacicept 240mg group (an improvement of 3 points in the QMG score is clinically significant, with an improvement of more than 5 points representing significant curative effects). It showed that Telitacicept can significantly improve the condition of patients and demonstrated good safety in the treatment of myasthenia gravis (MG).
"As a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative and differentiated biologics for the treatment of autoimmune, oncology and ophthalmic diseases, our vision to become a leading player in the global biopharmaceutical industry is rapidly being realized," said Dr. Jianmin Fang, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of RemeGen.
"Leveraging our strong research and development platforms, we have discovered and developed a robust pipeline of more than ten drug candidates, among which, seven are in clinical development stage targeting over twenty indications. The latest Phase II clinical study results show the use of our proprietary novel fusion protein Telitacicept in the treatment of MG in Chinese patients has the potential to profoundly address the unmet clinical needs of countless patients in China and around the globe," added Fang.
Currently, the most common treatment options for myasthenia gravis (MG) include cholinesterase inhibitors, glucocorticoids, immunosuppressants, where a large number of unmet clinical demands need to be addressed. RemeGen will continue to invest in the research and development of innovative drugs and provide solutions to the unmet clinical needs of patients suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
About RemeGen Co. Ltd.
Founded in 2008, RemeGen (9995.HK, SHA: 688331) is a leading biopharmaceutical company in China committed to providing solutions to the unmet clinical needs of patients suffering from life-threatening illnesses. RemeGen has research laboratories and offices throughout China and the United States. The company is committed to discovering, developing, and commercializing innovative and differentiated biologic drugs of significant clinical value in the key therapeutic areas of autoimmune, oncology, and ophthalmic diseases.
For more details, please visit: www.remegen.cn
About Telitacicept (RC18)
Telitacicept (RC18, Brand Name: 泰爱®) is a proprietary novel fusion protein from RemeGen to treat autoimmune diseases. It is constructed with the extracellular domain of the human transmembrane activator and calcium modulator and cyclophilin ligand interactor (TACI) receptor and the fragment crystallizable (Fc) domain of human immunoglobulin G (IgG). Telitacicept targets two cell-signaling molecules critical for B-lymphocyte development: B-cell lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) and a proliferation inducing ligand (APRIL), which allows it to effectively reduce B-cell mediated autoimmune responses that are implicated in several autoimmune diseases. It was granted conditional marketing approval by China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to treat systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in March 2021.
In September 2022, RemeGen received preliminary results from a Phase III validation study of Telitacicept for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in China, showing results consistent with earlier phase studies. The Company is now conducting Phase II or Phase III clinical trials of Telitacicept for multiple other indications in the treatment of autoimmune diseases to address a significant unmet or undermet medical need in this therapeutic area.
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These forward-looking statements are based on the existing beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, projections and understandings of the management of RemeGen with respect to future events at the time these statements are made. These statements are not a guarantee of future developments and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond RemeGen's control and are difficult to predict. Consequently, actual results may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements as a result of future changes or developments in our business, RemeGen's competitive environment and political, economic, legal and social conditions.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 2, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Shreveport has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Angelina County in eastern Texas...
Southeastern San Augustine County in eastern Texas...
West central Sabine County in eastern Texas...
* Until 300 PM CST.
* At 206 PM CST, a severe thunderstorm was located over Ebenezer,
moving north at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Pineland, Bronson and Chinaquapin.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM CST for eastern Texas.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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The 2023 Valero Texas Open Odds & Preview: Brendon Todd
Brendon Todd will take to the course at TPC San Antonio (Oaks) in San Antonio, Texas to compete in the 2023 Valero Texas Open from March 30 - April 2. It's a par-72 that spans 7,438 yards, with a purse of $8,900,000.00 on the line.
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Brendon Todd Insights
- Todd has finished below par on nine occasions, completed his day without a bogey twice and finished nine rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 16 rounds played.
- He has recorded a top-five score in two of his last 16 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day six times.
- Over his last 16 rounds, Todd has finished within three strokes of the best score of the round four times, and within five strokes of the top score of the day on seven occasions.
- In his past five appearances, Todd has finished in the top five once.
- He has made the cut in three of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five appearances, Todd has finished within three shots of the leader once and posted a score better than average twice.
Over the last year
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Valero Texas Open Insights and Stats
- In Todd's past five appearances at this tournament, he has finished among the top 10 two times, and his average finish has been 26th.
- Todd made the cut in four of his past five entries in this event.
- Todd finished eighth on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2022.
- Courses on the PGA Tour have played at an average length of 7,294 yards in the past year. This tournament will be held on a par 72 that registers at 7,438 yards, 144 yards longer than average.
- TPC San Antonio (Oaks) has had an average tournament score of -2 recently, which is higher than the Tour scoring average of -5 on all courses in the past year.
- The courses that Todd has played in the past year have had an average distance of 7,247 yards, while TPC San Antonio (Oaks) will be 7,438 yards this week.
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -7 among finishers, lower than the -2 average at this course.
Todd's Last Time Out
- Todd finished in the 44th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at THE PLAYERS Championship, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- He shot well to finish in the 87th percentile on par 4s at THE PLAYERS Championship, averaging 3.95 strokes on those 40 holes.
- Todd was better than 48% of the competitors at THE PLAYERS Championship on par-5 holes, averaging 4.69 strokes per hole in comparison to the field average of 4.67.
- Todd carded a birdie or better on one of 16 par-3s at THE PLAYERS Championship (the other competitors averaged 1.5).
- On the 16 par-3s at THE PLAYERS Championship, Todd had more bogeys or worse (three) than the field average (2.7).
- Todd's 10 birdies or better on par-4s at THE PLAYERS Championship were more than the field average of 5.1.
- In that last outing, Todd had a bogey or worse on seven of 40 par-4s (the field averaged 7.1).
- Todd finished THE PLAYERS Championship with a birdie or better on eight par-5 holes, while the field averaged 5.1 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at THE PLAYERS Championship, Todd recorded three bogeys or worse, more than the field average of 1.3.
Valero Texas Open Time and Date Info
- Date: March 30 - April 2, 2023
- Course: TPC San Antonio (Oaks)
- Location: San Antonio, Texas
- Par: 72 / 7,438 yards
- Todd Odds to Win: +4500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
229 PM PST Tue Feb 7 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST
WEDNESDAY ABOVE 3500 FEET...
* WHAT...Snow above 3500 feet. Additional snow accumulations of up
to 6 to 8 inches, with locally higher amounts above 4500 feet.
Winds gusting as high as 45 mph.
* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...Until 10 AM PST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. Patchy blowing snow
could significantly reduce visibility. Gusty winds could bring
down tree branches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1, or
by visiting online at https://tripcheck.com for Oregon or
https://wsdot.com/travel for Washington.
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Off to one of the best starts in school history, Illinois cracked The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll for the first time in 23 years on Monday.
The Illini (14-3) are ranked No. 24 in their first Top 25 appearance since Nov. 27, 2000. It’s been a remarkable turnaround under first-year coach Shauna Green. The team was 7-20 last season and just 1-13 in the Big Ten. Illinois hasn’t had a winning season since 2012-13.
“It means a lot. I understand how far we’ve come in a really short time,” said Green, who came to Illinois after a successful run coaching at Dayton. “Most of the kids weren’t alive the last time we were ranked. I was a sophomore in college.”
South Carolina remained the No. 1 team, garnering all 28 votes from a national media panel. The Gamecocks have been No. 1 for 29 consecutive weeks. They were followed in the poll by Stanford and Ohio State, which rallied to beat Illinois on Sunday.
UConn moved up one spot to fourth. The Huskies had their game against DePaul on Sunday postponed when they had only six scholarship players available because of injuries.
LSU moved up two spots to fifth. It’s the first time the Tigers have been that high since Dec. 14, 2009, when they were also fifth. LSU (16-0) is off to the best start in school history, besting the mark held by the 2002-03 team that won its first 15 games.
South Carolina, Ohio State and LSU are the only remaining unbeaten teams in the country. The Gamecocks and Tigers meet on Feb. 12 in South Carolina.
Indiana, Notre Dame, UCLA, Maryland and Utah rounded out the top 10. The Utes lost their first game of the season, falling at Colorado last Friday.
The Illini, who haven’t made the NCAA Tournament since 2003, ended a 14-game losing streak last week to Northwestern. That gave Illinois 14 wins in its first 16 games, which was the best start ever for the school. Its losses have come to Indiana, Ohio State and Delaware.
“If you would have told me in the summer we’d be up 17 at Ohio State and have a chance to win I’d tell you were crazy,” Green said. “Perspective changes really quickly. (Getting ranked) is something we got to be happy about, Be proud of it, It has to motivate us even more.”
Villanova also re-entered the poll this week coming in at No. 25. The Wildcats had a five-week run in the poll earlier this season.
St. John’s and Creighton fell out of the poll.
RISING BEARS
Baylor moved to 3-0 in the Big 12 after knocking off then-No. 17 Oklahoma and No. 21 Kansas last week. Caitlin Bickle was a big reason why, posting double-doubles in both games. The Bears moved up five spots to No. 18 in the poll this week.
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TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation.
The Tokyo High Court ruling upheld a 2019 lower court decision that also acquitted the three former top officials of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, saying that a tsunami of the size that hit the plant was unforeseeable and the executives could not be held negligent.
The case is the only criminal trial related to the nuclear accident, in which a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami hit the plant, knocking out its cooling systems and causing three reactors to melt. A large amount of radiation was released into surrounding communities and the sea, causing tens of thousands of residents to lose their homes, jobs and community ties.
The court said ex-TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 82, and two other former executives were not guilty of causing the deaths of 44 elderly patients whose already waning health deteriorated during or after forced evacuations from a local hospital and a nursing home.
The acquittal disappointed and angered dozens of Fukushima residents and their supporters who attended the ruling or rallied outside the court.
“I’m enraged by the judges who reached the decision without fully investigating the case,“ Fukushima resident Ruiko Muto told reporters, noting that the judges did not even visit the plant. “It’s unacceptable to many of the relatives of the victims and others who were affected by the disaster.”
The executives were accused of failing to anticipate the earthquake and tsunami that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on March 11, 2011, and of failing to take measures that might have saved the plant. The tsunami was as high as 17 meters (56 feet) at some locations.
Katsumata and his co-defendants — former vice presidents Sakae Muto, 72, and Ichiro Takekuro, 76 — consistently pleaded not guilty and maintained that predicting the tsunami was impossible.
The defendants had been charged by a civil prosecution panel. During their trials, prosecutors demanded five-year prison sentences for each executive, arguing that TEPCO could have prevented the disaster had the plant installed sufficient safety measures such as increasing the water tightness of the reactors before the tsunami, based on a long-term tsunami assessment provided by experts. But the court dismissed their argument as an “afterthought” and said the tsunami prediction was not reliable information.
Shozaburo Ishida, who headed the prosecution, said the ruling neglected the significance of long-term tsunami assessment data. He said the prosecution plans to study the ruling and consider appealing to the Supreme Court.
“It’s like saying there is nothing they can do to prevent another major accident. It’s so irresponsible,” said Yuichi Kaido, a lawyer representing the Fukushima residents. He said the attitude toward safety seen in the ruling could add to risks just as Japan pushes for greater use of nuclear energy.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government recently adopted a plan to maximize the number of working reactors by accelerating restarts and prolonging their operational lifespan, while developing next-generation reactors to replace those set for decommissioning, to ensure a stable energy supply and meet targets for reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.
Wednesday’s ruling follows a series of divisive court decisions in civil lawsuits. A ruling last July said the disaster could have been prevented if TEPCO had taken better safety measures and ordered top executives to pay more than 13 trillion yen ($99 billion). The Supreme Court in June, however, said the disaster was unforeseeable and dismissed compensation demands by thousands of residents. It acknowledged, however, that experts’ tsunami predictions were credible.
Prosecutors have said TEPCO was conducting a tsunami safety review following a 2007 earthquake in Niigata in northern Japan that damaged another TEPCO plant, and that the three former executives regularly participated in the process. In March 2008, a TEPCO subsidiary projected that a tsunami as high as 15.7 meters (47 feet) could hit Fukushima, prompting the company to consider building seawalls, but the executives allegedly delayed the idea to avoid additional spending.
Government and parliamentary investigations have said TEPCO’s lack of a safety culture and weak risk management, including an underestimation of tsunami risks, led to the disaster. They said TEPCO colluded with regulators to disregard tsunami protection measures.
TEPCO has said it could have been more proactive with safety measures, but that it could not have anticipated the massive tsunami that crippled the plant.
Yoshiko Furukawa, a 59-year-old evacuee from Tomioka, a town about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the plant, said, “A big question that sits in the bottom of my stomach is, do I have to suffer because I lived there and was it my fault? No, then whose responsibility is it?” | 2023-01-19T21:16:37+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/business/ap-japan-court-acquits-utility-executives-in-fukushima-disaster/ |
SAG Awards nominate 'Banshees,' 'Everything' and Zendaya
In nominations to its 29th annual awards, the Screen Actors Guild heaped honors on the casts of the anarchic indie hit "Everything Everywhere All at Once" and the Irish tragicomedy "The Banshees of Inisherin," while throwing some curve balls into the Oscar race.
The awards contenders, voted on by the Hollywood actors' guild SAG-AFTRA, were announced Wednesday on Instagram Live by Haley Lu Richardson ("The White Lotus") and Ashley Park ("Emily in Paris"). The nominees for the guild's top award, best ensemble, are: "Babylon," "The Banshees of Inisherin," "Everything Everywhere All at Once," "The Fabelmans" and "Women Talking."
The SAG Awards are considered one of the most reliable Oscar bellwethers. Seldom does a movie or performance not nominated by the screen actors end up winning at the Academy Awards. Actors make up the biggest percentage of the film academy, so their choices have the largest sway.
Missing out on a SAG ensemble nomination usually means a film's best-picture hopes are over. Last year, all the top SAG winners — the cast of "CODA," Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose — all repeated their wins at the Oscars.
That means the road ahead for either of the year's top box-office hits — "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Avatar: The Way of Water" — just got a lot harder. After striking out with the actors guild, neither is likely to win best picture. Each film picked a nod from SAG for its stunt ensemble.
Coming off their wins at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night, Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans" and Martin McDonagh's "The Banshees of Inisherin" (a co-leading five SAG nods) increasingly look like this year's frontrunners, along with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (also five SAG nominations).
The directors to those three films all landed nominations from the Directors Guild Awards on Wednesday, along with Todd Field ( "Tár") and Joseph Kosinski ("Top Gun: Maverick"). A DGA nod usually corresponds with an Oscar directing nomination. It also suggests those five films are safely in as best-picture nominees. Since the best-picture category expanded in 2009, only one DGA-nominated film hasn't also landed a best-picture nod.
After back-to-back DGA wins for Chloe Zhao ("Nomadland") and Jane Campion ("The Power of the Dog"), no female filmmakers were nominated. And, in a surprise, James Cameron ("Avatar: The Way of Water") went unnominated.
Gaining the most from the SAG Award nominations, perhaps, was Damien Chazelle's extravagant silent film era ode "Babylon" and Sarah Polley's feminist allegory "Women Talking." Before landing best-ensembled nominations (albeit no individual nods), both films had struggled to find traction this awards season.
Up for best performance by a female actor in a leading role are: Cate Blanchett ("Tár"), Viola Davis ("The Woman King"), Ana de Armas ("Blonde"), Danielle Deadwyler ("Till") and Michelle Yeoh ("Everything Everywhere All at Once").
In a crowded field, notably overlooked was Michelle Williams, who's been lauded for her performance in "The Fabelmans." Williams, a four-time nominee, has never won an Oscar. Instead, the fifth spot may have gone to de Armas, who had fallen off most lists after the Marilyn Monroe drama was poorly received.
Nominated for best performance by a male actor in a leading role are: Austin Butler ("Elvis"), Colin Farrell ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Brendan Fraser ("The Whale"), Bill Nighy ("Living") and Adam Sandler ("Hustle").
Sandler's nomination for the Netflix basketball drama "Hustle" was less expected — though he gave one of the season's best speeches as a tribute honoree at the Gotham Awards in November. Tom Cruise was shut out.
Nominated for male actor in a supporting role are: Paul Dano ("The Fabelmans"), Brendan Gleeson ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Barry Keoghan ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Eddie Redmayne ("The Good Nurse") and the category's likely favorite, Ke Huy Quan for "Everything Everywhere All at Once."
"I've loved performing ever since I was a child and that hasn't changed," Quan, the former "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" child star, said in a statement Wednesday, the morning after he won best-supporting actor at the Globes. "I feel lucky just to still be here doing this."
Up for female actors in a supporting role are: Angela Bassett ("Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"), Hong Chau ("The Whale"), Kerry Condon ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), Jamie Lee Curtis ("Everything Everywhere All at Once") and Stephanie Hsu ("Everything Everywhere All at Once").
On the TV side, nominated for best ensemble in a drama series are: "Better Call Saul," "The Crown," "Ozark," "Severance" and "The White Lotus." Up for best comedy series ensemble are the casts of "Abbott Elementary," "Barry," "The Bear," "Hacks" and "Only Murders in the Building." Julia Garner came away a double nominee, for "Ozark" and "Inventing Anna." Zendaya scored her first SAG nomination for her leading performance in "Euphoria."
After losing their longtime broadcast home on TNT and TBS, the SAG Awards on Wednesday announced a new multiyear partnership with Netflix to stream the ceremony. This year's show, to take place Feb. 26, will livestream on Netflix's YouTube page. Next year's SAG Awards will be streamed directly on Netflix. | 2023-01-11T23:04:28+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/sag-awards-nominees-2023/42465366 |
Alaska school board mandates moment of silence in district schools
PALMER, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - A school board in Alaska recently voted in favor of mandating a moment of silence during the first period of classes.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District School Board voted in favor of a new board policy in a meeting on Wednesday, KTUU reported.
Board Policy 6117 mandates a moment of silence between one to two minutes at the start of each school day. The policy was introduced by board President Ryan Ponder in August.
“The School Board finds that in the hectic society of today, too few persons are able to experience even a moment of quiet reflection before plunging headlong into the activities of daily life,” the board policy draft reads. “Young persons are particularly affected by the absence of an opportunity for a moment of quiet reflection. The School Board finds that our youth, and society as a whole, would be well served if students in schools were afforded a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day.”
The policy states that the principals would require homeroom or first period teachers in all grades districtwide to set aside at least one minute, but no more than two minutes, of silence. During this time, students are not allowed to interfere with other students’ participation, and teachers are not allowed to suggest how a student chooses to utilize that time.
The proposal received the support of the majority of the school board, passing 5-1 when put to a vote Wednesday evening.
“The policy encourages parent involvement in their student’s day and has the opportunity for parents to discuss with their students something that they can reflect on once a day for 60 seconds,” Ponder said at the meeting.
District 6 member Dwight Probasco, who vocalized his opposition to the policy when it was introduced, was the sole vote against its implementation. He believes the policy cheapens that for which moments of silence are typically reserved for.
“Usually those are for special events, like Veteran’s Day, Memorial Days, or the death of an individual,” Probasco stated to the board. “I feel ... you do something like this every day, you devalue the value of it.”
When asked by Superintendent Dr. Randy Trani when the new policy would go into effect, Ponder responded that it would be no later than the start of the second quarter of this school year, which starts at the end of October.
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NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Tensions were high Wednesday in the western Indian city of Udaipur, a day after police arrested two Muslim men accused of slitting a Hindu tailor’s throat and posting a video of it on social media, in a brutal attack representing a dramatic escalation of communal violence in a country riven by deep religious polarization.
The killing comes after months of rising tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and has raised fears it will spark increased violence.
Authorities suspended internet services in the city and surrounding Rajasthan state in an attempt to prevent the gruesome video from being shared, while rushing additional police to Udaipur and banning large gatherings in an attempt to prevent religious unrest from escalating. In New Delhi, a few dozen people associated with right-wing groups demonstrated against the killing and demanded the culprits be hanged.
In recent months, there have been a spate of attacks by Hindu nationalists on minority groups — especially Muslims — who have been targeted for everything from their food and clothing style to interfaith marriages. Muslim homes have also been demolished using bulldozers in some Indian states, in what critics call a growing pattern of “bulldozer justice” against the minority group.
The animosity worsened in May when two spokespeople from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party made speculative remarks that were seen as insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha. Both were later suspended by Modi’s party.
The tailor who was slain on Tuesday, identified as 48-year-old Kanhaiya Lal, had reportedly shared a social media post supporting one of the spokespeople who were suspended for the Prophet Muhammad remarks, according to local media.
The two men who were arrested a few hours after the attack, identified as local Udaipur residents Gos Mohammad and Riyaz Akhtari, posted a second video of themselves in the aftermath of the killing, accusing Lal of blasphemy and threatening to kill Modi in the same way, smiling as they sat on a couch, brandishing long blood-covered knives.
In the video of the attack itself, one of the assailants can be seen being measured by the tailor, while the other one films.
The man being measured then attacks Lal with a knife, stabbing at him as the tailor desperately tries to fend him off with his hands. The man filming then apparently drops his phone and joins the attack, and Lal can be heard screaming for help as he is killed.
Police later said the men slit Lal’s throat, and television reports aired footage of the tailor’s bloody body on the ground.
Despite pleas from the police, both videos were still circulating on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook a day later.
Experts worry that the latest incident could worsen India’s religious fault lines that critics say have deepened since Hindu-nationalist Modi came to power in 2014.
The divisions were exacerbated by the remarks by his party’s spokespeople about the Prophet Muhammad in May, which also led to a severe diplomatic backlash for Hindu-majority India from many Muslim-dominated countries.
“This gruesome incident could lead to escalated religious tensions across India, especially with the ruling party espousing a very strident Hindu majoritarian cause,” said Sushant Singh, a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, a public policy think tank.
“It is unlikely that this government or leadership would go out of its way to tell supporters to not get provoked, to urge for calm and peace,” he said.
Attacks on people accused of alleged blasphemy are common in neighboring Muslim-majority countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan. But in India, where religious tensions often boil over into sporadic riots and deadly protests, incidents of brutal killings of this nature are rare.
In May, a Hindu man in the southern city of Hyderabad was stabbed to death in public by his Muslim wife’s relatives. Last year, a Muslim man was beheaded by members of a vigilante group on orders of his girlfriend’s Hindu family because they didn’t approve of their interfaith marriage. In Rajasthan state in 2017, a Hindu man brutally killed a Muslim laborer and shared a video of the victim being hacked to death and then set on fire.
It was not clear whether the two alleged killers of the tailor had links to any terrorist organization, but India’s Home Ministry has dispatched a team from its anti-terror agency to Rajasthan to investigate. So far, the state police have not charged the two arrested men with terrorism.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, a key Muslim body, condemned the killing in a statement and called it “barbaric.”
“There is no room for justification of violence in Islam,” it said.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot promised a speedy investigation into Lal’s killing.
“I again appeal to all to maintain peace,” Gehlot said in a tweet. | 2022-06-29T17:32:41+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/hindu-man-killed-as-religious-tensions-boil-in-india/ |
By Laurie Dinerstein-Kurs
Who wants to talk about a taboo subject? Who is comfortable engaging in conversation on a topic most people want absolutely nothing to do with? Who finds that if they attempt to bring up this taboo subject at dinner or a party, most people will stare in horror, turn away, or tell you, “Shhhh.”
From time immemorial the very inclusion of the word death is usually replaced — usurped — with euphemisms: They “passed” — “passed” what? A stop sign? A final test? Their destination? “They are no longer with us, ”6 feet under,” “with the angels,” etc.
From impromptu conversations, I realized that those people who relied on euphemisms generally had a harder time dealing with death than those who accepted the reality of death outright.
If we find it hard to even mention death, that should be a clue as to how we would accept death when we are confronted with it.
When death comes calling, whether it arrives as expected or takes one by surprise, the reality and finality of the event is often (but, truth be told, not always) upsetting, stressful and heart-wrenching for family and friends.
For friends and family, for whom it is a painful moment, it is possible that their personal deep-seated views on death greatly influence how they react.
Yes, what we perceive, believe and expect undoubtedly plays a strong role in our reaction.
From my many years of experience as a hospice chaplain, I have been privy to the reactions of friends and family of the dying and dead. Every emotion becomes exposed then, and as a witness, I dare say the variation in the reaction is noteworthy.
Having the privilege of being with the dying has taught me much about dying. But, I also learned volumes from the visitors — friends and family. Uncontrollable shrieking vs quietly and lovingly holding hands.
I had already been a facilitator for two different community bereavement groups, but that was dealing with emotions, feelings after the death. I realized something was needed prior to death. I decided to put into action what I had thought was needed for a long time.
I had heard somewhere of a Dr. Bernard Crettaz, a Swiss sociologist who, in 2004, introduced a model of what a Death Cafe could be. As I was inspired, so was a man named Jon Underwood from the United Kingdom. While I did not act on that inspiration, fortunately, Jon did and developed 2011, the Death Cafe.
I am thrilled that I finally acted, picked up the gauntlet and opened the first Death Cafe in this locale about 10 years ago. But for sure, there are other cafés in the surrounding areas. Interestingly, some cafes have introduced other names, one such being: Death Over Dinner.
Who attends a Death Cafe? That would be anyone and everyone who would appreciate the freedom to explore the short and long of this forbidden topic. Since religion and politics are forbidden memes, we have plenty of time to explore, question, share and learn about other taboo topics.
With death, there is little to disagree on. Death is death. Death is reality. What our individual perceptions are, how we choose to interpret death is our choice. Everyone’s choice is as valid as another’s. There is no right or wrong, merely personal views.
People who attend can choose to participate in a discussion or merely lurk. Attendees come from all walks of life. I hope it is clear to all that the event is free, open to all and a safe place to share all things related to dying and death. There is no speaker and no selling of anything. That is what it is, plain and simple. This is not, however, a counseling session or support group.
Express ideas freely, confidentially and without fear of ridicule or recrimination.
As one of the facilitators of our Death Cafe, I have been encouraged by responses of having a safe place to impart ideas and express thoughts.
Maybe the most desirable and pleasant aspect of all is it’s a great reason to eat out!
Laurie Dinerstein-Kurs is a hospice chaplain and Death Cafe facilitator from East Windsor. You can find out more about Death Cafes on Facebook and Twitter.
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254-unit complex will offer high-end amenities, convenient live-work-play location and vista of the Flatrions mountain range
BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Titan Development ("Titan") and Pivot Development ("Pivot"), leading real estate development and investment firms, today hosted a groundbreaking event on The Lock at Flatirons, a new $80 million, 254-unit luxury multifamily development in the Interlocken Technology Park within the MidCities District of Broomfield, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The project, which was announced in July 2021 and began construction in December 2021, is planned for completion in the second quarter of 2024. Dwell Design is the project architect, Shaw Construction is the general contractor and FPI Management will be the operator.
The 3.3-acre complex at 460 Flatiron Blvd. is directly off the Interlocken Loop and near the Denver Boulder turnpike, an important area thoroughfare, and Broomfield's location at the midpoint between Denver and Boulder will offer residents easy access to both cities and nearby employers including Ball Corporation, Oracle, Salesforce, Uber, CenturyLink and Vail Resorts. As part of the Interlocken area, the development is within walking distance of many retail, dining and entertainment venues, and nearby are golf courses, hotels and the FlatIron Crossing shopping center. The property is located in the Boulder Valley School District, which consistently ranks among the top three of Colorado's large Front Range school districts.
The Lock at Flatirons will feature upscale fixtures, finishes and appliances in all units, a sky lounge with Flatirons view, fitness center, resort style pool and spa, bike storage and stations, a dog park and dog spa, secure access parking, technology packages throughout the property and co-working space. Smart home technology will be installed for increased resident safety. Floor plans include studio, one- two- and three-bedroom apartments. Residents will experience the amenities of urban living combined with the convenience and comfort of suburban living.
"We're excited to bring The Lock at Flatirons to Broomfield residents in conjunction with our partners at Pivot," said Josh Rogers, Senior Vice President at Titan. "The Denver area is one of the nation's fastest-growing regions for high-income renters, which when combined with the national housing shortage presents a tremendous opportunity for us to bring best-in-class apartment living to the young professionals working in the area, as well as attract residents from the greater Broomfield community."
"With the combined multifamily experience between Pivot and Titan, we know this will be a top quality Class A multifamily development," said L. Matthew Hare, President and Chief Investment Officer at Pivot Development. "The anticipation is well worth the wait for Pivot's first multifamily project in Broomfield – the market is in need of housing, and Pivot Development wants to be part of meeting that need in our Colorado communities."
The Lock at Flatirons is the first Colorado project for Pivot Development, which was founded in 2018 and focuses on the urban and suburban multifamily sector; the company has offices in Carmel, Indiana, and Greenwood Village in Colorado. Titan Development, which has offices in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Austin, Texas, has strong track records of multifamily, industrial and self-storage projects across the Southwest.
"The City of Broomfield is happy to welcome well-respected developers such as Titan and Pivot to our community," said Guyleen Castriotta, Broomfield Mayor. "The Lock at Flatirons supports one of the City's initiatives to secure a range of housing choices for current and future residents."
About Titan Development
Titan Development is a leading Southwest full-service development and real estate investment firm with proven returns, via diversified asset classes across varied geographic markets. Titan has completed more than $2.5 billion in project cost since the firm was formed in 1999. Titan Development has a wealth of real estate development experience in many asset classes including private equity fund investment and management, and has offices in Austin, TX, and Albuquerque, NM.
Titan Development recently closed its third fund, Titan Development Real Estate Fund III (TDREF III) at $122 million in May 2022, continuing its successful strategy of focusing on multifamily and industrial investing in secondary and tertiary markets. The Lock at Flatirons was funded by Titan's previous fund, TDREF II, which raised $95 million, commenced in November of 2020 and has committed 100% of the fund to 13 projects. Titan's inaugrural fund, TDREF I raised $112 million and invested in a variety of real estate asset classes.
To learn more, please visit www.titan-development.com.
Media Contacts:
Amy Calderon
Director of Marketing & Communications, Titan Development
acalderon@titan-development.com
505.998.0163
Lisa Baker
Managing Director, Lambert
lbaker@lambert.com
603.868.1967
About Pivot Development
Pivot Development is a vertically integrated real estate development and investment firm started in 2018 that focuses on urban / suburban multifamily development projects. The partners of Pivot have been involved in real estate development for a combined 60 years and Pivot has offices in Carmel, IN and Greenwood Village, CO.
The Lock at Flatirons will be Pivot Development's first Multifamily project in Colorado as the firm continues to grow their platform throughout its targeted markets.
To learn more, please visit www.pivotdevco.com.
Media Contact:
L. Matthew Hare
President and CIO, Pivot Development Company
matt.hare@pivotdevco.com
317.410.9935
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The wheels of a car have long ruled the streets, but on Sunday in Boulder, Rollerpalooza had the streets back to different kinds of wheels — bikes, roller skates and skateboards.
Rollerpalooza was held on 13th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Canyon Boulevard. The event was a celebration of all things that roll, along with food, skating workshops, a chance to win a bike lock and a chance to make new friends. Rollerpalooza kicked off Boulder’s Social Streets initiative, in which eight events along 13th Street will give the streets back to the people for more pedestrian, social and community driven events.
Margo Josephs is a consultant at Leadline Project Management, which has partnered with the city to collect input on how the community would like the streets to be used. Josephs said Leadline is collecting public input on the different kinds of uses the street could be used for.
“We will rethink how to use the streets, and more ways for people to gather and enjoy the roads,” Josephs said.
Adrienna Ambraziunas is the founder of SK8D8, a rollerskating organization in Boulder. She said she used to skate all the time as a teenager and young adult but that she stopped skating for 30 years. But she picked up skating again in 2020 and remembered how much joy it brought her. Ambraziunas said she wanted to have a meetup with other skating fans, so she created SK8D8. The organization hosts meetups, classes and various events.
SK8D8 hosted many roller dance and fancy footwork workshops throughout the event, led by Garrett Joyner. Ambraziunas said her organization meets people where they are at, all ages, abilities and walks of life. She believes everyone deserves to skate and that it is never too late to learn.
“It’s a non-intimidating environment, and it’s for everybody. We will do what we can to make you successful and feed successful,” Ambraziunas said.
The workshops had crowds of skaters joining together and learning some footwork and dancing together. Ambraziunas said the event is a great way for people to learn more about the SK8D8 community and make friends.
Joel Davis is the founder and “Chief Joyrider” at JD’s Joyrides, an e-bike touring company in Boulder. He said when he started taking his e-bike to get around more often, he found himself happier and healthier. He noted that it’s easy to learn to ride an e-bike and that the bikes are accessible to many.
“Boulder is a great town of biking,” Davis said.
Davis offers art mural tours, tours to ride up to Chautauqua, among others. E-bikes are a simple way people can cut down on their carbon emissions footprint and still be able to take the scenic route and enjoy the many sights in Boulder. Davis offered short tours at Rollerpalooza, where attendees could hop on an e-bike and ride around. He led the way up 13th Street and showed just a few of the murals featured in his mural tour.
Davis said he founded his company because he loves riding his bike around Boulder, and he wanted other people to also get to experience that same joy. | 2023-06-26T03:21:36+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/25/wheel-people-rollerpalooza-takes-over-boulder-street-for-a-day/ |
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GENEVA (AP) — The IOC approved its human rights strategy on Friday, completing a years-long process months after the Beijing Olympics brought scrutiny on how sports engage with a host nation’s record on discrimination and civil liberties.
The 50-page Olympic document guided by United Nations principles was also published one week after the outgoing U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet released a report that said China’s detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups may be a crime against humanity.
The International Olympic Committee's rights framework comes more than two years after taking recommendations in a report co-written by Bachelet’s predecessor, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Jordan.
“The framework will fundamentally shape the working practices of the IOC, the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, ensuring that human rights are respected within their respective remits,” the Olympic body said on Friday after a board meeting.
Those remits have typically limited the IOC’s ability or willingness to tackle host nations beyond specific sports issues like organizing events and preparing venues.
Ahead of the Beijing Olympics — amid scrutiny of China’s treatment of its Uyghur people, suppression of democratic rights in Hong Kong, and the c ase of tennis player Peng Shuai — IOC president Thomas Bach insisted it was a sports body and not a “world government.”
Asked on Friday about Bachelet’s report, Bach said the IOC worked with sports officials in China to “ensure all obligations within the host city contract were met.”
Bach also declined to speculate when asked what impact the rights strategy could have on picking hosts for an Olympics in 2034 or later. Sports officials in Saudi Arabia have said Olympic hosting is an “ultimate goal” for the kingdom.
“About which countries are we talking? What will be the conditions in these countries by then?” Bach replied. “This is mere speculation therefore we cannot enter into this.”
The IOC has a calmer decade ahead with Olympic hosts chosen in France, Italy, the United States and Australia after the relatively turbulent run-in to the Beijing Winter Games.
Beyond host nation politics, the IOC’s commitment to human rights also focuses on ensuring safe and inclusive sport, including for transgender athletes, and improving representation for athletes.
Athlete activist groups have long suggested the IOC consults too narrowly by favoring athletes approved by official Olympic stakeholders over more independent voices.
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More AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-09-09T19:24:31+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/IOC-publishes-rights-strategy-months-after-17430654.php |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A powerful storm over the North Sea hit northern Europe and led to dozens of train and ferry cancellations Friday in northern Denmark and southern Norway as the Danish Meteorological Institute forecast hurricane-force wind gusts.
The storm, named Otto, was set to move east over Sweden and the Baltic Sea. In Finland, authorities said there could be power outages over the weekend.
Norwegian meteorologist on duty Håkon Mjelstad told Norwegian newspaper VG that a “fairly strong” low-pressure system was behind the storm.
Ferries in southern Norway were canceled. Some 5,000 passengers will have to wait until at least Saturday to take ferries between northern Denmark and southern Norway, Danish broadcaster DR said.
“We should, of course, have avoided this, but Otto is not a normal weather type, so this does not happen very often,” Erik Brynhildsbakken, CEO of Norwegian ferry company Color Line, told Norwegian news agency NTB.
The stormy weather came at the end of a holiday week in Denmark. Operators were forced to cancel trains in large parts of the country and authorities advised against crossing bridges in lighter vehicles, including the span that links Copenhagen to the Swedish city of Malmo.
Some 280 residents of three buildings from the late 1950s that sit atop a hill in Copenhagen were evacuated as a precaution.
The “storm may reach critical wind speeds for the stability of the buildings, and therefore the residents will, of course, have to get out, ” Sanne Kjaer of non-profit housing company KAB said. KAB owns the high-rises.
Hurricane-strength gusts were measured Friday in Thorsminde, a fishing town on Denmark’s North Sea coast.
There were scattered reports in western Denmark of trees having been knocked down by the wind and objects flying around. In southern Sweden, several train lines were temporarily closed with the Swedish Transport Administration saying that “there is a risk of falling trees and other loose objects blowing over contact lines and tracks.”
A ferry line to northern Germany also was suspended with the storm skirting the north of the German Baltic Sea coast.
Storm Otto also caused disruptions in Scotland, where it produced wind gusts of up to 80 miles per hour (130 kph), and in northern England. Some flights and trains were canceled. Tens of thousands of homes in northeast England lost power. | 2023-02-17T21:26:01+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/international/ap-trains-ferries-canceled-because-of-storm-over-nordics/ |
DLC, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AARP Pennsylvania State Director Bill Johnston-Walsh released the following statement in response to the passage of the 2022-23 Pennsylvania state budget.
"On behalf of our 1.8 million members, AARP Pennsylvania appreciates the steps taken by the Governor and General Assembly to distribute American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds in the 2022-2023 state budget.
After a lifetime of hard work, Pennsylvania's seniors deserve to live with independence, security, and dignity. The availability of common-sense options will enable them to age in place in their homes and communities.
Understanding that increasing property taxes are most burdensome to residents who are older and on fixed incomes, AARP Pennsylvania advocated for the $140 million investment in the state's Property Tax Rent Rebate Program, which brings much needed relief at a time when high inflation - including the rising prices of gas, prescription drugs and food - is hitting older and disabled adults right in the pocketbook.
Additionally, the allocation of $125 million for a new Whole Home Repairs Program was also supported by AARP Pennsylvania to assist those who want to remain at home but lack the financial resources needed to pay for simple home repairs. The adoption of this program will also help Pennsylvanians make their homes more livable, and more energy efficient by fixing poorly functioning heating systems and tackling other projects that can help lower energy costs.
Lastly, the infusion of $250 million ARPA dollars to support the state's long-term care facilities -- nursing, assisted living, and personal care homes – and enhance care delivered at the bedside is critical to the health, safety and well-being of residents who depend upon the care provided by such facilities. On this point, our advocacy has been clear: residents and their families deserve to know that any licensed facility they go to will have adequate and safe staffing, and taxpayers have the right to expect value for the billions of dollars invested into long-term care.
ARPA funds did provide a historic opportunity to offer older Pennsylvanians with options to live in their homes and communities when health and financial limitations make that harder. While encouraged by these ARPA investments, we will continue advocating for Pennsylvania's decision makers to do more to expand home services, reduce service waiting lists and strengthen the paid long-term care workforce, so direct care staff can earn a living wage with benefits."
CONTACT: TJ Thiessen, (202) 374-8033, tthiessen@aarp.org
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(NBC NEWS) - President Joe Biden told “TODAY” show co-host Al Roker on Monday that he plans to run for a second term.
“I plan on running, Al, but we’re not prepared to announce it yet,” he said.
Biden, 80, has consistently stated his plans to run for re-election. In a private conversation at the White House last year, he told the Rev. Al Sharpton that he will seek a second term, the civil rights leader told his National Action Network staff in Washington, NBC News reported.
“I’m going to do it again,” Biden said last year as he posed for a photograph in the Roosevelt Room with Sharpton, according to an official from the National Action Network who recounted the MSNBC host's description. “I’m going.”
Biden's remarks come as top White House advisers are preparing to make final decisions on launching his re-election campaign, several sources familiar with the discussions told NBC News. Several considerations in the decision-making process include that no major Democratic challenger has emerged; that former President Donald Trump, who is running for the GOP nomination, has been indicted and is consuming the political spotlight; and that there's a major clash coming with congressional Republicans over spending.
Despite lackluster approval ratings, Democratic power brokers have indicated that they are all in for Biden’s re-election bid even before he has officially declared his intention to seek it.
Biden’s remarks come as he broke with progressives on some hot-button issues ahead of the expected launch of his re-election campaign, including on crime, immigration policy and the environment. However, Democrats from across the party, from progressives and moderates to leadership and rank-and-file members — have said they plan to stick with Biden heading into 2024.
Biden is the oldest U.S. president in history. If he wins re-election, he would be 86 at the end of his second term.
The 2024 presidential race loomed large over Biden’s State of the Union address in February, despite not having yet officially announced his re-election campaign. He touted his economic accomplishments and scolded Republicans in previewing the case he’s expected to make for re-election.
In his address before a divided Congress, Biden talked back as Republicans heckled him from the floor of the House of Representatives, and stressed that he wouldn’t let Republicans “take the economy hostage” over the debt ceiling. Biden also slammed “the big lie” of widespread election fraud that former President Donald Trump has pushed.
The president, however, also said that the two parties can find common ground in the wake of Republicans' taking control of the House, which includes addressing national security concerns related to China, promoting U.S. manufacturing and regulating powerful technology companies, he said. | 2023-04-10T16:23:54+00:00 | wandtv.com | https://www.wandtv.com/news/biden-tells-al-roker-i-plan-on-running/article_2fbcccf6-d7ac-11ed-b3b5-8b9a3bba89a3.html |
Leader of fast-growing operational resilience company recognized for radically reinventing supply chain risk management to protect enterprises from supply chain disruptions
ARLINGTON, Va., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of the 2022 Washington DC Tech Titan Awards and the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Interos, the operational resilience company creating the strongest and most transparent supply chains in the world, today announced that Founder & CEO Jennifer Bisceglie had been named to Inc.'s annual Female Founders list highlighting entrepreneurs with "world-changing" companies.
The sixth annual Female Founders list honors a bold group of 200 women whose innovations and ideas are shaping the world into a better place. Each year, Inc. editors review thousands of applications highlighting female founders who are challenging the status quo and tackling some of the world's biggest problems. The list features women who have overcome challenges and lifted those around them, while leading impactful organizations across the country across software, financial services, biotech, energy, retail and other sectors.
"I'm honored to join these amazing women founders whose companies lead and inspire change," said Jennifer Bisceglie. "This award is powered by our trailblazing Interos employees who are driving our vision to help enterprises achieve operational resilience in the face of supply chain shocks that cost the global economy up to $3 trillion annually. It's clear there is no defensible position for the supply chain status quo. Whether it's a sustainability and climate change focus or simply ensuring your supply chain can scale, CEOs are recognizing the strategic opportunity is in optimizing the extended ecosystem. Leading enterprises are prioritizing their investment in visibility and resiliency supply chain technologies to force transparency and trust as part of this once-in-a-generation shift."
Interos is the first and only company to help our customers move from lagging to leading indicators to manage enterprise third-party risk. By modeling the world's economy from the bottom up, Interos makes it possible to assess, detect, and remediate supplier risk at every tier of the supply chain. Interos' customers can protect their brand, revenue, and reputation as well as create new opportunities for growth that is resilient against today's unthinkable risks.
"These 200 female founders have identified solutions to difficult problems and created valuable, industry-changing companies out of them. We congratulate this year's list on their achievements and look forward to their continued success," says Inc. Editor-in-Chief Scott Omelianuk.
To see the complete list, go to: https://www.inc.com/female-founders/2023
About Inc.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning, multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels, including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion among the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
About Interos
Interos is the operational resilience company – creating the safest, strongest, and most secure supply chains in the world. Our pioneering scoring and relationship discovery technologies automate risk assessment, detection, and response. As the world's only operational resilience platform, we protect customers from regulatory violations, unethical labor, cyber-attacks, bankruptcy, catastrophe, and other supplier vulnerabilities.Interos serves a variety of commercial, government, and public sector customers around the world, from within the members of the Five Eyes nations as well as a host of Global Fortune 500 companies. www.interos.ai
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Elderly driver dies after two-vehicle crash in southeast Las Vegas Valley
Updated March 29, 2023 - 5:29 pm
An elderly man who ran a red light resulting in a crash in southeast Las Vegas died Tuesday.
The crash occurred on March 16 around 1:30 p.m. when an 81-year-old Las Vegas man driving a 2012 Toyota Highlander north on South Pecos Road ran a red light at East Hacienda Avenue, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
His vehicle struck a 2007 Hyundai Entourage that was making a left turn.
Police said the driver of the Toyota was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with injuries that were not considered life threatening. The coroner told police that the man died at the hospital on Tuesday.
The driver of the Hyundai remained at the scene and did not show signs of impairment, according to police.
Five minors were passengers in the Hyundai and two suffered claimed injuries and were taken to the hospital.
Contact David Wilson at dwilson@reviewjournal.com. Follow @davidwilson_RJ on Twitter. | 2023-03-30T00:34:37+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/elderly-driver-dies-after-two-vehicle-crash-in-southeast-las-vegas-valley-2752898/ |
Body of hiker missing since last week found, family says
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - The body of a hiker who went missing in Alaska was discovered this weekend, according to the man’s family.
Itzel Toscano, the sister of 28-year-old Juan Toscano, said her brother’s body was recovered Saturday morning after he had been missing since Tuesday after he went hiking along the Basher Trail.
“The body was recovered this morning around 8 - 9 a.m.,” Itzel Toscano wrote in a message to KTUU. “My family and I were there for 24 hours. Many of our friends and family stayed there with us as we did not want to leave him alone.”
Juan Toscano’s body had been found by family and friends at about 9 p.m. Friday. The official search had been ended by the Alaska Search and Rescue Team at 9 p.m. on Thursday, the Anchorage Police Department said in a prepared statement Saturday.
“We were out here all day since the morning by ourselves, just family and friends,” Itzel Toscano said in an interview with KTUU early Saturday morning. “I don’t know who, but they said the rescue team couldn’t be here unless we found more clues as to that he was in the area. So, we kept looking and looking and unfortunately we found him, one of his best friends walked the entire river, what no one else did. He went down there and he walked it and he found him. And so now we’re here, and I can’t help but think if things would be different if they had done that sooner. If the people who were supposed to do that did that sooner and didn’t come out here for two days.”
Anchorage police have not directly commented on the family’s concerns about the search being called off.
Police issued a statement Saturday night.
“Multiple resources were deployed during the search to include dogs, drones, ATVs, and an aerial search. Searchers did not find any sign of Toscano nor any signs of an animal attack in the area,” Anchorage police wrote in their statement.
In the statement, the Anchorage Police Department said they had received a call that Juan Toscano was dead just before 9 p.m. on Friday.
Officers were dispatched with the help of a mountain rescue group to recover the body, which was taken to the medical examiner’s officer to determine the cause of death.
Police also said there was foul play suspected in Juan Toscano’s death.
The Anchorage Police Department also said it is procedure for them to inform loved ones that a missing person has been “located” when a body has been found in order to give the family time to process the information.
The department did not comment on Juan Toscano’s concerns about the search being called off.
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The Storm Team 11 Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies on tap for the overnight with a low of 34 degrees.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WGHP) – Almost exactly a month after she filed a bill in Congress to ensure access to contraception, Rep. Kathy Manning (D-Greensboro) has received a big boost from the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA on Thursday approved the contraceptive pill Opill to be sold without a prescription, which means that a shopper of any age can pick it off the shelf in any place pharmaceuticals are sold.
Manning on June 14 had joined Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) to reintroduce the “Right to Contraception Act,” which was passed by the House in 2022 but never gained traction in the Senate.
At the time, she said she was hopeful that the FDA would approve over-the-counter contraception as an assistance to this effort, and on Thursday she said she was pleased that it happened.
“Birth control is essential health care, and there is no doubt that birth control has advanced women’s equality,” Manning, who is in her second term representing North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District, said in a statement released by her staff. “I applaud the FDA’s historic action to approve the first-ever birth control pill for over-the-counter use.
“This decision will improve women’s health, expand access to contraceptive care, and help women and girls control their bodies and futures,”
Opill, the first such pill to be approved, is manufactured by Perrigo, which is based in Ireland, and The Associated Press reported that the company won’t begin to ship the pill until early next year. The approval means there is no age restriction for purchase.
Abortion laws across the United States have tightened significantly – including most recently in North Carolina – since the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dobbs decision nearly a year ago overturned Roe v. Wade’s national right to an abortion.
As state houses have discussed those tightening windows for access to legal abortion, there have been some that discussed and adopted limitations on access to contraception.
Manning had noted comments from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that she said she sees as an open threat about whether women can obtain pills and devices that would protect them from an unwanted pregnancy.
Writing in concurrence with the Dobbs decision, Thomas had suggested that the Supreme Court needed to reconsider the right to contraception.
Manning’s bill codifying that right passed the House in July 2022 but was blocked in the Senate by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Nebraska). Markey joined Manning as a sponsor for a new effort.
“We did our job in the House,” Manning told WGHP last month. “We’re hoping he can do his job in the Senate this time so that we can protect a woman’s right to use and a medical provider’s right to provide the full range of FDA-approved birth control.”
When Manning’s HR 8373 passed the House, 228-195-2, none of the eight Republicans then representing North Carolina supported her, but eight of their colleagues did – Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Nancy Mace, Fred Upton, Anthony Gonzalez, John Katko and Brian Fitzpatrick.
But Cheney lost re-election, and Upton, Gonzalez, Katko and Kinzinger retired, and Republicans have gained a slim majority control in the House. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) replaced bill supporter Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House speaker.
Is there a path to get this bill to the House floor, given those political obstacles?
“Well, I think we do [have a path[,” Manning said in June. “When I look across the other side of the aisle, I don’t know any members of the house on the Democratic or the Republican side who have 10, 12, 15 children, that would seem to indicate that people are using birth control.
“And as people begin to experience problems getting the kind of birth control they choose, they may realize that this is an issue they need to step up to.”
Manning said when introducing her bill in 2022 that “96% of American women will use contraceptives at some point in their life. That includes women who are Democrats, women who are Republican, women who are independent and women who have no political affiliation and really don’t pay attention to politics.”
A study by the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research firm that tracks action and trends on issues related to sexual and reproductive health rights, found that at least nine states have some restriction on access to contraception, including six with limits on pharmacists’ filling prescriptions.
“As we celebrate this monumental step forward, we must recognize that Republican politicians are ramping up attacks on all forms of reproductive health care, including birth control,” Manning said Thursday. “Congress must act swiftly to pass my Right to Contraception Act and protect the right to access all FDA-approved birth control from political attacks.”
Kelly Blanchard, president of Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit group that supported the approval, told The AP on Thursday: “This is really a transformation in access to contraceptive care. Hopefully, this will help people overcome those barriers that exist now.” | 2023-07-13T22:29:06+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/fda-approval-of-over-the-counter-birth-control-earns-nc-rep-kathy-mannings-applause-amid-renewed-push-for-right-to-contraception-bill/ |
Caroline Hirsch is gearing up for the 2022 New York Comedy Festival. Tickets go on sale at noon on August 19th and features an impressive list of performers already confirmed: Wanda Sykes, Conan O’Brien, Ms. Pat, Mo Amer, J.B. Smoove.
Hirsch is also celebrating 40 years in business. Four decades ago she opened Carolines on Broadway. The club has become the place to see some of the biggest names in comedy. Many stand-up comics got their start on stage at Carolines on Broadway.
Tickets for the New York Comedy Festival are available at www.nycomedyfestival.com. | 2022-08-19T20:13:49+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/morning/caroline-hirsch-celebrates-40-years-in-business-along-with-ticket-announcement-for-the-2022-new-york-comedy-festival/ |
Cosmic hourglass captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveals birth of a star
By Katie Hunt, CNN
The cosmic chaos caused by a very young star has been captured in the latest enchanting image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
The protostar the image centers around is hidden from view in the neck of a dark, hourglass-shape cloud of gas and dust. The dark line across the middle of the neck is a protoplanetary disc — dense gas and dust that could form a planet in the future — about the size of our solar system. Light from the protostar spreads above and below this disc, according to a news release.
It has a long way to go until it becomes a full-fledged star. L1527, as the protostar and its cloud are known, is only about 100,000 years old — a relatively young celestial body compared with our sun, which is about 4.6 billion years old.
The blue and orange clouds in the image outline cavities created as material shoots away from the protostar and collides with the surrounding matter, the release noted.
The nebula’s vibrant colors are only visible in infrared light detected by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, making Webb particularly essential to revealing otherwise hidden aspects of the universe.
The blue areas are where the dust is thinnest. The thicker the layer of dust, the less blue light is able to escape, creating pockets of orange.
“Shocks and turbulence inhibit the formation of new stars, which would otherwise form throughout the cloud. As a result, the protostar dominates the space, taking much of the material for itself,” according to the news release.
The protostar doesn’t yet generate its own energy through nuclear fusion of hydrogen, an essential characteristic of stars. Its shape — a puffy clump of hot gas somewhere between 20% and 40% of the mass of our sun — is also unstable.
The image provides context for what our sun and solar system looked like in their infancy.
Webb, which first began sharing new perspectives on the universe in July, is an international partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
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Ashley Strickland contributed to this report. | 2022-11-16T21:34:26+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/national-world/cnn-world/2022/11/16/cosmic-hourglass-captured-by-the-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-birth-of-a-star/ |
DOTHAN, Ala., Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROAD) (the "Company"), a vertically integrated civil infrastructure company specializing in the construction and maintenance of roadways across five southeastern states, today announced that members of the Company's management team are scheduled to meet with investors at the Baird 2022 Global Industrial Conference on November 8 and 9, 2022. The Company's "Fire Side Chat" discussion on November 8th at 4:05 p.m. Eastern Time/3:05 p.m. Central Time will be broadcast live over the internet and can be accessed via the Company's website at http://ir.constructionpartners.net/events-and-presentations.
Construction Partners, Inc. is a vertically integrated civil infrastructure company operating across five southeastern states. Supported by its hot-mix asphalt plants, aggregate facilities and liquid asphalt terminal, the company focuses on the construction, repair and maintenance of surface infrastructure. Publicly funded projects make up the majority of its business and include local and state roadways, interstate highways, airport runways and bridges. The company also performs private sector projects that include paving and sitework for office and industrial parks, shopping centers, local businesses and residential developments. To learn more, visit www.constructionpartners.net.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyoncé has propelled herself into the highest Grammy echelon: The star singer claimed a leading nine nominations Tuesday, making her tied — with her husband Jay-Z — as the most nominated music act in the history of the awards show.
Beyoncé's “Break My Soul” reeled in record and song of the year nominations, while “Renaissance” — which ventured into the world of dancehall music — netted an album of the year nod. With Jay-Z also earning five nods this year, each spouse now holds the record for the most-ever Grammy nominations at 88 apiece.
Kendrick Lamar came away with the second-most nominations, with eight. Adele and Brandi Carlile both received seven nods. Harry Styles, Mary J. Blige, Future, DJ Khaled, The-Dream and mastering engineer Randy Merrill each picked up six.
Nearly half of this year’s leading nominees — announced by the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly and Smokey Robinson —are women and more than half are people of color, according to the recording academy. The ceremony will be held Feb. 5 in Los Angeles.
“This makes me feel very proud, but it makes me conscious of the fact that we have to maintain the work we have done,” said Harvey Mason jr., the Recording Academy’s CEO. He said there have been strides in the peer-driven voting system and increased membership, but he still believes more progress can be made.
“This year, I’m pleased with the result and work the voters did,” he continued. “We have almost 13,000 voters now. It’s really important work. I’m pleased to think they spent the time listening to the music and evaluating. I think you see by the type of nominations that they are not only going for just popular music or music that has a lot of streams. It’s just music of high quality.”
The academy added a special song for social change and five new categories including songwriter of the year, which Harvey says will further help diversify the 65th edition of the annual awards.
The non-classical songwriter category will recognize one individual who was the “most prolific” non-performing and non-producing songwriter for a body of new work during an eligibility year. It will take a different approach than song of the year, which awards the songwriters who wrote the lyrics or melodies to one song.
Harvey said implementing the songwriters category is a “significant” step forward for the music industry. Last year, a rule update allowed that any songwriter, producer, engineer or featured artist on a work nominated for album of the year could ultimately earn a nomination.
“The academy and voters are placing a high importance on the craft of songwriting,” Harvey said of the new category, in which nominees include The-Dream, Amy Allen, Nija Charles, Tobias Jesso Jr. and Laura Veltz. “Personally, as a songwriter, I’m happy to see it being a significant part of our process. We realize that songwriting is at the heart of our industry. It’s one of the building blocks for every artist’s career.”
Beyoncé, the most decorated woman in Grammy history with 28 wins, could break the late Hungarian-British conductor Georg Solti’s record for most awards won if she wins four awards. Solti, who has 31 Grammys, has held on to the record since 1997.
For the first time in Beyoncé's lauded career, she’ll be nominated in the dance category. Her seventh studio project “Renaissance” is up for best dance-electronic music album and “Break My Soul” is nominated for best dance-electronic recording. Other nominations include best R&B song for “Cuff It,” R&B performance for “Virgo’s Groove,” traditional R&B performance for “Plastic Off the Sofa” and song written for visual media for “Be Alive,” the Oscar-nominated song from the “King Richard” soundtrack.
Merrill grabbed two nominations in the record of the year category for the second straight year for his work on Adele’s “Easy on Me” and Styles’ “As It Was.” It’s also his first time being nominated three times in the same year for album of the year.
Other album of the year nominees include: Adele’s “30,” ABBA’s “Voyage,” Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti,” Mary J. Blige’s “Good Morning Gorgeous” (Deluxe), Carlile’s “In These Silent Days,” Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres,” Lamar’s “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” Lizzo’s “Special” and Styles’ “Harry’s House.”
Tracks competing with “Break My Soul” for record of the year include Styles’ “As It Was,” Doja Cat’s “Woman,” Adele’s “Easy On Me,” ABBA’s “Don’t Shut Me Down,” Blige’s “Good Morning Gorgeous,” Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit,” Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5,” Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and Carlile’s “You and Me On the Rock” featuring Lucius.
Three of Jay-Z’s nominations came through DJ Khaled’s “God Did,” a song featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, John Legend and Fridayy. The track is up for best rap performance and rap song along with song of the year, which also has Jay-Z nominated for his writing efforts on Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul.” The rapper also received a nod for album of the year for his work on his wife’s “Renaissance” album.
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A British historian, an Italian archaeologist and an American preschool teacher have never met in person, but they share a prominent pandemic bond.
Plagued by eerily similar symptoms, the three women are credited with describing, naming and helping bring long COVID into the public’s consciousness in early 2020.
Rachel Pope, of Liverpool, took to Twitter in late March 2020 to describe her bedeviling symptoms, then unnamed, after a coronavirus infection. Elisa Perego in Italy first used the term “long COVID,” in a May tweet that year. Amy Watson in Portland, Oregon, got inspiration in naming her Facebook support group from the trucker cap she’d been wearing, and “long hauler” soon became part of the pandemic lexicon.
Nearly three years into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to figure out why some people get long COVID and why a small portion — including the three women — have lasting symptoms.
Millions of people worldwide have had long COVID, reporting various symptoms including fatigue, lung problems, and brain fog and other neurological symptoms. Evidence suggests most recover substantially within a year, but recent data show that it has contributed to more than 3,500 U.S. deaths.
Here’s some of the latest evidence:
WOMEN MORE AT RISK?
Many studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that women are more likely than men to develop long COVID.
There could be biological reasons.
Women’s immune systems generally mount stronger reactions to viruses, bacteria, parasites and other germs, noted Sabra Klein, a Johns Hopkins professor who studies immunity.
Women are also much more likely than men to have autoimmune diseases, where the body mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells. Some scientists believe long COVID could result from an autoimmune response triggered by the virus.
Women’s bodies also tend to have more fat tissue and emerging research suggests the coronavirus may hide in fat after infection. Scientists also are studying whether women’s fluctuating hormone levels may increase the risks.
Another possible factor: Women are more likely than men to seek health care and often more attuned to changes in their bodies, Klein noted.
“I don’t think we should ignore that,” she said. Biology and behavior are probably both at play, Klein said.
It may thus be no coincidence that it was three women who helped shine the first light on long COVID.
Pope, 46, started chronicling what she was experiencing in March 2020: flu-like symptoms, then her lungs, heart and joints were affected. After a month she started having some “OK” days, but symptoms persisted.
She and some similarly ill colleagues connected with Perego on Twitter. “We started sort of coming together because it was literally the only place where we could do that,” Pope said. “In 2020, we would joke that we’d get together for Christmas and have a party,” Pope said. “Then obviously it went on, and I think we stopped joking.”
Watson started her virtual long haulers group that April. The others soon learned of that nickname and embraced it.
MONO VIRUS
Several studies suggest the ubiquitous Epstein-Barr virus could play a role in some cases of long COVID.
Inflammation caused by coronavirus infection can activate herpes viruses, which remain in the body after causing an acute infection, said Dr. Timothy Henrich, a virus expert at the University of California, San Francisco.
Epstein-Barr virus is among the most common of these herpes viruses: An estimated 90% of the U.S. population has been infected with it. The virus can cause mononucleosis or symptoms that may be dismissed as a cold.
Henrich is among researchers who have found immune markers signaling Epstein-Barr reactivation in the blood of long COVID patients, particularly those with fatigue.
Not all long COVID patients have these markers. But it’s possible that Epstein-Barr is causing symptoms in those who do, although scientists say more study is needed.
Some scientists also believe that Epstein-Barr triggers chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition that bears many similarities to long COVID, but that also is unproven.
OBESITY
Obesity is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 infections and scientists are trying to understand why.
Stanford University researchers are among those who have found evidence that the coronavirus can infect fat cells. In a recent study, they found the virus and signs of inflammation in fat tissue taken from people who had died from COVID.
Lab tests showed that the virus can reproduce in fat tissue. That raises the possibility that fat tissue could serve as a “reservoir,” potentially fueling long COVID.
Could removing fat tissue treat or prevent some cases of long COVID? It’s a tantalizing question, but the research is preliminary, said Dr. Catherine Blish, a Stanford infectious diseases professor and a senior author of the study.
Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center are studying leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells that can influence the body’s immune response and promote inflammation.
They plan to study whether injections of a manufactured antibody could reduce leptin levels — and in turn inflammation from coronavirus infections or long COVID.
“We have a good scientific basis together with some preliminary data to argue that we might be on the right track,” said Dr. Philipp Scherer.
DURATION
It has been estimated that about 30% of people infected with the coronavirus will develop long COVID, based on data from earlier in the pandemic.
Most people who have lingering, recurrent or new symptoms after infection will recover after about three months. Among those with symptoms at three months, about 15% will continue to have symptoms for at least nine more months, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Figuring out who’s at risk for years-long symptoms “is such a complicated question,” said Dr. Lawrence Purpura, an infectious disease expert at Columbia University.
Those with severe infections seem to be more at risk for long COVID, although it can also affect people with mild infections. Those whose infections cause severe lung damage including scarring may experience breathlessness, coughing or fatigue for more than a year. And a smaller group of patients with mild initial COVID-19 infections may develop neurologic symptoms for more than a year, including chronic fatigue and brain fog, Purpura said.
“The majority of patients will eventually recover,” he said. “It’s important for people to know that.”
It’s small consolation for the three women who helped the world recognize long COVID.
Perego, 44, developed heart, lung and neurologic problems and remains seriously ill.
She knows that scientists have learned a lot in a short time, but she says “there is a gap” between long COVID research and medical care.
“We need to translate scientific knowledge into better treatment and policy,” she said.
Watson, approaching 50, says she has “never had any kind of recovery.” She has had severe migraines, plus digestive, nerve and foot problems. Recently she developed severe anemia.
She wishes the medical community had a more organized approach to treating long COVID. Doctors say not knowing the underlying cause or causes makes that difficult.
“I just want my life back,” Watson said, “and it’s not looking like that’s all that possible.”
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Biogen closed 2022 with a better-than-expected fourth quarter, as more cost cutting helped counter sales declines for some key treatments.
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The drugmaker said Wednesday that total cost and expenses fell 17% in the quarter, and Biogen’s bottom line grew nearly 50% to $550.4 million.
Adjusted earnings totaled $4.05 per share. Total revenue slid 7% to $2.54 billion, as sales of multiple sclerosis treatments tumbled.
Analysts expected earnings of $3.48 per share on $2.44 billion in revenue, according to FactSet.
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Biogen embarked on a broad cost-cutting program last year, which included slashing most of its spending on Aduhelm. The once highly anticipated Alzheimer’s disease treatment has flopped since it debuted with strict government restrictions on who can take it.
The drug brought in only $4.8 million in sales last year. Biogen’s top-selling multiple sclerosis treatment Tysabri generated $2 billion in global sales.
Biogen Inc. made $3 billion in 2022, with adjusted earnings totaling $17.67 per share.
For 2023, the company forecasts adjusted earnings to range between $15 and $16 per share.
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Analysts forecast $15.80 per share.
Shares of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company slipped 18 cents to $288.56 in premarket trading. | 2023-02-15T15:48:02+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/drugmaker-biogen-tops-4q-forecasts-despite-sales-17785666.php |
TOKYO — Asian shares mostly fell Tuesday after a slump on Wall Street erased recent gains. U.S. futures and oil prices also declined.
The euro cost $1.0011, down from $1.0042, having dipped as low as $1.0005. The U.S. dollar inched down to 137.39 Japanese yen from 137.47 yen.
Both currencies have been trading at 20-year lows as the dollar has surged along with U.S. interest rates, which promise higher returns for investors.
The European common currency is close to dropping below parity, or one-to-one with the dollar. The last time the euro was below $1 was on July 15, 2002.
In share trading, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei dropped 1.8% to 26,336.66. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained nearly 0.1% to 6,606.30. South Korea’s Kospi slipped 1.0% to 2,317.76. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng sank 1.3% to 20,854.76, while the Shanghai Composite index shed 1% to 3,281.47 on growing concerns over COVID-19.
Adding to the pessimism, Hong Kong authorities announced they are considering implementing an electronic health code system to restrict movements of people infected with COVID-19, as well as overseas arrivals, a system similar to what’s already in place in mainland China.
The highest inflation in four decades is pushing the Federal Reserve and other central banks to hike interest rates, which puts the clamps on the economy and hurts various types of investments.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 dropped 1.2% to 3,854.43, giving up most gains from the previous week. The Dow Industrial Average dipped 0.5% to 31,173.84, while the Nasdaq composite fell 2.3% to 11,372.60.
Stocks of smaller companies were some of the biggest losers, with the Russell 2000 index down 2.1%, as worries about a possible recession continued to dog markets.
Companies this week are set to begin reporting how their profits fared during the spring. Big banks and other financial companies dominate the early part of the schedule, with JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley set for Thursday. BlackRock, Citigroup and Wells Fargo are among those reporting on Friday.
Expectations for second-quarter results seem to be low. Analysts are forecasting 4.3% growth for companies across the S&P 500, which would be the weakest since the end of 2020, according to FactSet.
Even if companies end up reporting better results than expected, which is usually the case, analysts say the heavier focus will be on what CEOs say about their profit trends for later in the year.
The roughly 19% drop for the S&P 500 this year has been due entirely to rising interest rates and changes in how much investors are willing to pay for each $1 of a company’s profit. So far, expectations for corporate profits have not come down much. If they do, that pull stocks still lower.
The recent rise of the U.S. dollar against other currencies has added another challenge to companies already contending with high inflation and potentially weakening demand, according to Michael Wilson, equity strategist at Morgan Stanley.
One euro is worth close to $1 now, down 15% from a year earlier, for example. The Japanese yen is also at a 20-year low. That means sales made in euros or yen are worth fewer dollars than before.
Beyond earnings updates, reports this week on inflation will likely dominate trading. On Wednesday, economists expect a report to show that inflation at the consumer level accelerated again last month, up to 8.8% from 8.6% in May.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude fell $2.64 to $101.45 a barrel. It lost 70 cents to $104.09 a barrel on Monday. Brent crude, the international standard for pricing, lost $2.32 to $104.78 a barrel.
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SYDNEY (AP) — Taylor Fritz took advantage of a dominant serve to beat Alexander Zverev 6-1, 6-4 as the United States moved past Germany Monday to reach the City Finals at the United Cup mixed teams event in Sydney.
Team USA will qualify from Group C to face Great Britain in Wednesday’s City Finals. Team GB have a 2-0 record in Group D after wins over Australia and Spain. The winner of the City Finals will advance to the United Cup Final Four, which begins on Friday in Sydney.
Ninth-ranked Fritz won 96 percent (26/27) of first serve points and backed that up with accurate ball-striking to beat 12th-ranked Zverev in 64 minutes.
Fritz raced to an early lead, winning the first five games of the match as he stepped into the court to finish points set up by his serve.
He kept the pressure on to beat Zverev who was playing for only the second time since June when he damaged ligaments in his right ankle during his semifinal against Rafael Nadal at the French Open.
The 25-year-old Fritz is now 3-4 in head to head meetings with Zverev and is 2-0 at the United Cup after beating Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic in his opening match.
Madison Keys followed Fritz on court and extended the United States’ lead to 2-0 with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Jule Niemeier, her second victory of the season. The match continues Tuesday when Jessica Pegula faces Laura Siegemund and Francis Tiafore meets Oscar Otte.
Keys comfortably won Monday’s clash of baseliners in just over 70 minutes, her power and pinpoint serving proving too much for the 23-year-old German.
While Keys served at 77 percent and lost just six points behind her first serve, Niemeier struggled with the rhythm of her serve and opened with three double faults to give her opponent an early break. Niemeier finished with seven double faults.
“I think overall I played really solid,” Keys said. “I just tried to make as many first serves as possible to make things as easy as a tennis match could be.”
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A man was arrested and is facing charges after police said he kicked one person into a train pit and later stabbed another person at an apartment.
Kedrian Perry Marshall, 23, of Whitman, was charged with attempted murder after MBTA Transit Police said he “violently kicked an unsuspecting” person into the pit at an MBTA stop Tuesday. WCVB reported the person kicked was a 16-year-old victim. They declined medical services and weren’t injured, police said.
“Thank God he didn’t hit the third rail or something. But you know, my kid, my son is only a 16-year-old kid that lives in South End and he goes to East Boston and he takes the train every day. And it’s a little tough because we already lost a son,” the teen’s father, Melvin Gonzalez, told the news station.
On Tuesday night, the Whitman Police Department said they believe Marshall also stabbed a 27-year-old man at an apartment on Myrtle Avenue.
The 27-year-old had multiple stab wounds on his head and upper body, police said. He was taken to the hospital but is expected to recover.
Police said they reviewed surveillance videos and photos from the area of the incident. They then shared those photos with law enforcement partners, including Boston Transit Police. They also searched the area near the apartment complex Tuesday but were unable to find Marshall.
Marshall was arrested by MBTA Transit Police on Wednesday. | 2023-03-31T12:25:18+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/03/man-kicked-teen-into-train-pit-stabbed-man-at-an-apartment-police-say.html |
NEW YORK (NewsNation) — The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning parents to remain vigilant following the largest “rainbow fentanyl” seizure to date in New York City after a woman was accused of trying to use a Lego box to hide 15,000 pills.
DEA agents said many pills were made to resemble candy or prescription oxycodone inside the children’s toy canister.
Latesha Bush, 48, of New Jersey was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees through a criminal complaint filed by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor (SNP), the DEA said. She was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday.
The single seizure removed the equivalent of 500,000 lethal doses from circulation in the Empire State, DEA Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division Frank Tarentino said. In the same reporting period, DEA seized the equivalent of over 36 million lethal doses nationally.
Meanwhile, federal agents say that’s hardly enough to cause a dent in the flow of rainbow-colored fentanyl pills now flowing into the country.
The case is part of a broader problem of Mexican cartels’ “most recent tactics to attract the public while deceiving them about the lethal drugs,” according to DEA New York Division. “The Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel are mass-producing fentanyl pills in rainbow colors to not only brand their products but use colors and dyes to mimic candy and/or legitimate prescription drugs.”
Cartels are intentionally marketing the rainbow fentanyl pills to children and teens, and communities across the country are now flooded with them.
Hiding the pills in toys is commonplace, but there’s nothing playful about the rainbow-colored drugs — a dose as small as 2 milligrams can be lethal and one pill can kill a person.
“This treacherous deception to market rainbow fentanyl-like candy — this is every parent’s worst nightmare, especially in the month of October as Halloween fast approaches,” said Frank Tarentino, special agent in charge.
The DEA issued an advisory about the pills in August. Since then, no deaths of children have been linked to the colorful fentanyl pills, but the DEA said parents need to remain alert. | 2022-10-05T17:25:15+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/15k-rainbow-fentanyl-pills-smuggled-in-lego-box-seized/ |
Tiger Woods turned down $700-$800 million offer to join Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, says CEO
Tiger Woods turned down an offer worth approximately $700-$800 million to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, according to the tour's CEO Greg Norman.
During an interview on Fox News that aired on Monday, former world No. 1 Norman was asked by Tucker Carlson if it was true that Woods was offered $700-$800 million to join the LIV Golf series.
"That number was out there before I became CEO," Norman replied. "So, that number's been out there, yes. Look, Tiger's a needle mover, right?"
"So, of course, you're going to look at the best of the best. They had originally approached Tiger before I became CEO, so, yes, that number is somewhere in that neighborhood."
Previously, Norman had told the Washington Post in June that Woods was offered huge money to participate but turned it down. Norman said the Woods proposal was "mind-blowingly enormous; we're talking about high nine digits."
The controversial tour has attracted some big names from the golfing world to leave the established PGA Tour and the DP World Tour to participate for vast sums of money.
Major winners Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen, Graeme McDowell, Charl Schwartzel and Martin Kaymer have all joined the breakaway venture, which has offered players huge money to join.
The LIV Golf series is backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) — a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia — and has pledged to award $250 million in total prize money.
However, it has led to criticism from many players, including Rory McIlroy and Woods, that players have abandoned golf's traditional set up and accepted money from a country with a dismal human rights record.
Before July's Open at St. Andrews, Scotland, Woods said he disagreed with the players who had left.
"I think that what they've done is they've turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position," the 15-time major winner said.
"Some of these players may not ever get a chance to play in major championships. That is a possibility. We don't know that for sure yet. It's up to all the major championship bodies to make that determination. But that is a possibility, that some players will never, ever get a chance to play in a major championship, never get a chance to experience this right here, walk down the fairways at Augusta National.
"But what these players are doing for guaranteed money, what is the incentive to practice? What is the incentive to go out there and earn it in the dirt? You're just getting paid a lot of money up front and playing a few events and playing 54 holes. They're playing blaring music and have all these atmospheres that are different."
Woods added: "I just don't see how that move is positive in the long term for a lot of these players, especially if the LIV organization doesn't get world-ranking points and the major championships change their criteria for entering the events.
"It would be sad to see some of these young kids never get a chance to experience it and experience what we've got a chance to experience and walk these hallowed grounds and play in these championships."
Woods even went as far to criticize Norman himself for his role in the splinter tour. "Greg has done some things that I don't think is in the best interest of our game, and we're coming back to probably the most historic and traditional place in our sport."
On Sunday, Henrik Stenson won the third event of LIV Golf's debut season at Bedminster, New Jersey.
Nearly two weeks after he was stripped of his Ryder Cup captaincy for joining the series, the 46-year-old Swede shot 11-under par at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster to win $4 million.
He accepted the trophy alongside former U.S. President Donald Trump, who was present throughout the three-day competition and who owns the course. | 2022-08-02T20:21:40+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/tiger-woods-turned-down-dollar700-dollar800-million-offer-to-join-saudi-backed-liv-golf-series/40785218 |
(WXIN) – Health officials are trying to figure out what is behind a listeria outbreak that left people sick across the country.
While a specific food item has not been identified as the source, the CDC is concerned that several recent illnesses have been reported. Here’s what we know about the status of the investigation, and what is being done to determine the source.
What is listeria?
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that can cause the serious infection of listeriosis. It can also cause common food poisoning symptoms.
The CDC says around 1,600 people get listeriosis every year, resulting in about 260 deaths. It is most likely to sicken pregnant women and their newborns, adults 65 and older, and people with weakened immune systems.
What are the symptoms of invasive listeriosis?
Invasive listeriosis happens when the bacteria spread beyond the gut to other parts of the body. Symptoms usually start within two weeks after eating food contaminated with listeria.
Symptoms in pregnant people are usually mild. However, the CDC says infection during pregnancy usually leads to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn.
Symptoms in non-pregnant people can be severe. The CDC says almost one in 20 non-pregnant people with invasive listeriosis die.
Symptoms in people who are not pregnant
- fever
- flu-like symptoms such as muscle aches and fatigue
- headache
- stiff neck
- confusion
- loss of balance
- seizures
Symptoms in people who are pregnant
- fever
- flu-like symptoms such as muscle aches and fatigue
Where have the illnesses been reported?
Illnesses connected to this outbreak are scattered across the country. Michigan has the most cases.
Of the people who have gotten sick, 10 people have been hospitalized. Sick people range in age from 47 to 88 years, with a median age of 73. 73% of those sickened are female.
When did people get sick?
The CDC says symptoms of severe illness usually start within two weeks after eating food contaminated with listeria but can start as early as the same day or as late as 70 days after. In this outbreak, illnesses have been reported as far back as July 2018.
The CDC says recent illnesses may not be reported, as it usually takes three to four weeks to determine if a sick person is part of an outbreak. The true number of people involved in this outbreak is likely higher than the reported amount, as some people recover without medical care and are not tested.
What is the source of the infections?
Health officials are still trying to determine the exact source of the infections. To do so, state and local public health officials are interviewing people to find out what foods they ate in the month before they got sick.
The CDC says public health investigators are also using a system that manages a national database of DNA fingerprints of bacteria to identify illnesses that may be part of this outbreak. This same method was used to identify the source of the Jif peanut butter salmonella outbreak.
The investigation showed that bacteria from sick people’s samples are closely related genetically. The CDC says this means people in the outbreak likely got sick from the same food.
What is being done to prevent infections?
The investigation into the infections remains ongoing as of the time of this report. Health officials are collecting different types of data to try to pin down the source of the infections.
Until health officials learn more, the CDC is advising people at higher risk for severe listeria illness to contact their healthcare provider if they have any symptoms. Healthcare providers should report any listeriosis illnesses to their health department.
If people do get sick, the CDC says they may be contacted by local or state health officials to find out what they are in the month before getting sick. They may ask for copies of receipts, shopper card numbers, or leftover food for testing. | 2023-03-14T17:04:11+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/cdc-searching-for-source-of-multi-state-listeria-outbreak/ |
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time.
These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency's Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM) call for proposals. Both payloads will be delivered to the lunar surface on future flights through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, which is one part of the agency's larger lunar exploration architecture planned for this decade.
"The two selected studies will address important scientific questions related to the Moon" said Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for exploration in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "The first will study geologic processes of early planetary bodies that are preserved on the Moon, by investigating a rare form of lunar volcanism. The second will study the effects of the Moon's low gravity and radiation environment on yeast, a model organism used to understand DNA damage response and repair."
The Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer (Lunar-VISE) investigation consists of a suite of five instruments, two of which will be mounted on a stationary lander and three mounted on a mobile rover to be provided as a service by the CLPS vendor.
Over the course of 10 Earth days (one lunar day), Lunar-VISE will explore the summit of one of the Gruithuisen Domes. These domes are suspected to have been formed by a sticky magma rich in silica, similar in composition to granite. On Earth, formations like these need oceans of liquid water and plate tectonics to form, but without these key ingredients on the Moon, lunar scientists have been left to wonder how these domes formed and evolved over time.
By analyzing the lunar regolith at the top of one of these domes, the data collected and returned by Lunar-VISE's instruments will help scientists answer fundamental open questions regarding how these formations came to be. The data also will help inform future robotic and human missions to the Moon. Dr. Kerri Donaldson Hanna of the University of Central Florida will lead this payload suite.
The second selected investigation, the Lunar Explorer Instrument for space biology Applications (LEIA) science suite, is a small CubeSat-based device. LEIA will provide biological research on the Moon – which cannot be simulated or replicated with high fidelity on the Earth or International Space Station – by delivering the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the lunar surface and studying its response to radiation and lunar gravity. S. cerevisiae is an important model of human biology, especially in the areas of genetics, cellular and molecular replication and division processes, and DNA damage response to environmental factors such as radiation. The data returned by LEIA, in conjunction with previously existing data from other biological studies, could help scientists answer a decades-old question of how partial gravity and actual deep space radiation in combination influence biological processes. Dr. Andrew Settles of NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California will lead the LEIA payload suite.
With these selections in place, NASA will work with the CLPS office at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston to issue task orders to deliver these payload suites to the Moon in the 2026 timeframe.
For these payload suites, the agency also has selected two project scientists to coordinate science activities for the selected instrument suites, including working with the payloads on landing site selection, developing concepts of operations, and archiving science data acquired during surface operations. Dr. John Karcz of NASA Ames Research Center in California will coordinate the Lunar-VISE investigation suite for delivery to the Gruithuisen Domes, and Dr. Cindy Young of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will coordinate the LEIA investigation suite for delivery.
CLPS is a key part of NASA's Artemis lunar exploration plans. The science and technology payloads sent to the Moon's surface will help lay the foundation for human missions on and around the Moon. The agency has made seven task order awards to CLPS providers for lunar deliveries between in the early 2020s with more delivery awards expected through 2028.
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Multiple times Wednesday night and into Thursday morning, Interstate 80 was closed due to crashes at the same milepost between Laramie and Cheyenne.
On Thursday at 4:45 p.m., WYDOT announced that, due to multiple crashes that left all eastbound lanes blocked, I-80 was closed at milepost 327. Then again on Thursday morning at 10:12 a.m., a crash left all eastbound lanes blocked at the same mile marker. Another crash at 10:46 a.m. left one lane blocked going west, between Buford and Laramie at milepost 328.
“It’s an area where the snow blows across the road, and it flash-freezes on the interstate,” said Wyoming Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Jeremy Beck. “The sun comes out, warms up the pavement, and as the snow is blowing across, it flash-freezes.”
Dangerous road conditions, with blowing snow and ice, are difficult to control from the summit all the way to Tree-in-the-Rock, Beck said.
“That’s where motorists usually come upon hazardous road conditions, and we have truck traffic, as well as passenger cars, that lose control,” he said.
Thursday morning, a jackknifed semi shut down the eastbound lanes on I-80. Beck said no fatalities were reported in the 48-hour period around the closures, but he could not comment on potential injuries.
“There have been days where there are so many crashes and motorists that have slid off the roadway, so they shut it down until they can get a handle and clear the crashes from the roadway,” he said.
That stretch of highway is dangerous, but not unique.
“That section of the roadway becomes slippery and slick from the snow and ice blowing across, but that’s the same in a lot of areas of Wyoming,” Beck said.
Most Wyoming residents expect delays and road closures throughout the winter, but there are methods by which the Wyoming Department of Transportation keeps specific Wyoming residents moving, on a case-by-case basis. During a rolling closure, WYDOT closes a road farther away from the storm or crash site, because a town is at capacity, which can happen during a long-duration closure. The closure will be “rolled back” to the next town to avoid stranding travelers in a location without adequate services. In those cases, Wyoming residents can apply for a code to get through the closure.
When a closure occurs due to a crash, troopers may let local-only traffic through to get home, but those decisions are often left up to the responders on scene.
“If someone lives up in the Buford or Vedauwoo areas, and the trooper knew they could get to their house without coming upon the crash, they might allow that to happen for specific folks,” Beck said.
Jordan Achs, deputy public affairs officer for WYDOT, explained that the Wyoming Travel Authorization Program (W-TAP), which began in 2010 and was updated in 2020, consists of two sub-programs: Wyoming Authorized Travel (WAT) and Rolling Closure Authorizations (RCA).
“Both allow approved drivers access to closed sections of highway when WYDOT and/or WHP deem it is safe enough to do so,” she said. “It’s not a blanket approval to always travel on closed roads, but it does help facilitate travel when feasible.”
Rolling closure access is allowed for Wyoming residents only. Along I-80, the program can help facilitate travel between places like Rawlins, Sinclair and Walcott Junction when the weather is a bigger issue farther east, at Elk Mountain and Arlington. East of Elk Mountain on I-80, access to drive during a rolling closure could help someone who works in Laramie and lives in Cheyenne.
“If the road is dry between Laramie and Cheyenne, and the problem is at Elk Mountain, someone who lives in Cheyenne and commutes to Laramie for work could be stuck, even if the problem is not in Laramie,” Achs said. “Using the program, you could get to work and go back home.”
Wyomingites who work in everything from hospitality to medical services need to travel the roads in winter.
“The road is always closed for a reason, but we do understand that people don’t always live in city limits. We were hearing people who could see their house from the gate, but it might be a mile from the physical gate. We had to put the gate somewhere, and we wanted people to stay close to facilities, hotels and towns, and not somewhere where there are no services,” Achs said.
W-TAP was created to help facilitate travel for those “people who are trying to make it home, trying to get to their livestock, especially because often that helps the other infrastructure,” Achs said. “Some of these people are working at the gas station where all these trucks are parked, or helping to deliver water and food to towns that might need it.
“We also see doctors and physicians who work in multiple towns, and trying to get them to where they need to to get medical needs tended to,” she said.
Not all requests to W-TAP are approved, although there is an appeals process. Participants are sent an authorization code that often changes, especially from storm to storm.
“There are cases, though, when it is too dangerous for anyone to travel, and we do appreciate when people take those closures seriously,” she said. | 2023-01-15T13:41:44+00:00 | wyomingnews.com | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/blowing-snow-leads-to-multiple-closures-on-i-80/article_a1b0f842-939f-11ed-be03-3b93369415ce.html |
The Denver police officer who fired into a crowd of Lower Downtown bar patrons while confronting an armed man last summer is facing a new civil rights lawsuit filed by four of the bystanders he shot and injured.
Victims Bailey Alexander, Mark Bess, Yekalo Weldehiwet and Willis Small IV filed the lawsuit Tuesday morning in Denver District Court alleging Officer Brandon Ramos recklessly opened fire on the armed man despite the large crowd standing in the direction of the officer’s shots.
“From this angle, the odds that Defendant Officer Ramos would shoot pedestrians were virtually certain,” the lawsuit filed by the Rathod Mohamedbhai law firm states.
A grand jury in January indicted Ramos on assault and reckless endangerment charges in connection with the July 17 shooting that injured six bystanders. Ramos was suspended from the police department without pay after he was indicted.
All four of the lawsuit’s plaintiffs were enjoying a night out in the popular LoDo bars district near 20th and Larimer streets. They were standing near a food truck outside the Larimer Beer Hall as bars let out for the night when the shooting occurred.
While monitoring the crowd, Denver police officers in the area followed a man they believed to be involved in a fight and who they thought might be armed. Officers confronted the man, Jordan Waddy, as he walked near the Larimer Beer Hall. When he stopped, he grabbed a handgun hidden in his waistband and threw it to the ground.
Three officers — Ramos, Kenneth Rowland and Megan Lieberson — fired at Waddy after he grabbed the gun, though police acknowledged that he grabbed the gun from the top and not the grip.
Rowland and Lieberson faced Waddy from the front and the grand jury found that none of the rounds they fired injured bystanders, according to the indictment.
But Ramos stood to Waddy’s side. Neither of his two rounds struck Waddy and instead flew into the crowd of more than 50 people gathered near the food truck, the lawsuit states.
The bullet that struck Weldehiwet shattered a bone in his arm, which required surgery to repair. The bullet that struck Alexander entered her shoulder and exited her upper right arm. Small was injured in the foot by a bullet and Bess suffered a graze wound to his chest.
Beyond physical pain, all four people now fear crowds and public settings, the lawsuit states.
“Officer Ramos’ heedless actions resulted in devastating and life-altering injuries to his victims,” the lawsuit states. “Bailey Alexander, Yekalo Weldehiwet, Willis Small IV and Mark Bess will each bear the resulting scars for the remainder of their lives.”
The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the second against Ramos in connection to the shooting. A woman allegedly shot in the leg by Ramos sued the officer in March.
Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day. | 2023-04-25T12:25:41+00:00 | denverpost.com | https://www.denverpost.com/2023/04/25/bystanders-sue-denver-police-lodo-shooting/ |
Jesse Wilson: Adoptive mother arrested in boy's death in Buckeye
BUCKEYE, Ariz. - The adoptive mother of a boy who went missing in 2016 and was later found dead in 2018 in Buckeye has been arrested, police said.
On Dec. 13, Buckeye Police announced that 54-year-old Crystal Wilson was arrested at her home in Gainesville, Georgia in connection to the death of Jesse Wilson.
Crystal Wilson was indicted by a Maricopa County Grand Jury and is accused of abandoning or concealing a body. She is awaiting extradition back to Arizona.
Buckeye Police Chief Larry Hall said at Tuesday's news conference that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Crystal Wilson with homicide, but she was the main "person of interest" all along.
"We never gave up hope that justice was going to be served," said Jesse's grandmother at the news conference.
Jesse Wilson's disappearance
Jesse Wilson was 10 years old when he disappeared from his Buckeye home during the early-morning hours of July 18, 2016.
Police treated Jesse as a runaway because Crystal Wilson initially told investigators that he suffered from "learning and developmental issues" and was taking medication for it. She said he had slipped out of his second-floor bedroom window overnight in the past.
The FBI, Buckeye police and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office personnel searched for the boy for weeks following his disappearance. Drones, U.S. Border Patrol tracking dogs and citizen volunteers also searched.
Police said partial human skeletal remains were found on March 8, 2018, about six miles from the boy's home and a subsequent search of the area uncovered additional remains. The remains were later identified as Wilson.
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office ruled that Wilson died from an undetermined cause and manner.
Police said the area where the remains were found was searched in the summer of 2016, but the area was covered by water at the time.
A new investigator was assigned to the case in 2020.
The Associated Press (AP) contributed to this report. | 2022-12-14T03:23:01+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/jesse-wilson-police-to-announce-significant-update-in-case-of-boys-remains-found-in-buckeye |
Expanded Cross-Browser Testing Capabilities Supports Customer-Centric Testing Strategies
BOSTON , Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- mabl, the SaaS leader in intelligent test automation, today announced the introduction of cross-browser testing for Microsoft Edge. The new capability enables quality teams to expand test coverage across critical user journeys and tailor their testing strategy to match the real-world needs of their customers.
The deprecation of Internet Explorer earlier this year cemented the importance of Edge support for enterprise users, particularly those in industries like insurance, banking, and enterprise software. Supporting customers in these highly advanced sectors means that quality experiences when using Edge will be imperative for many B2B software organizations. With mabl, quality teams can expand test coverage across those critical user experiences with low-code, intelligent testing.
"Microsoft Edge support in mabl allows quality teams to expand cross-browser test coverage at scale," says Gevorg Hovsepyan, Head of Product Management at mabl. "The bar for a high quality experience continues to be raised, and now mabl customers have even greater ability to to meet the needs of a broader set of users."
Cross-browser testing for Edge harnesses the same powerful suite of mabl features designed to enhance the expertise of quality teams. Coupled with other recent releases including Shadow DOM support, Intelligent Wait, and automated accessibility checks, support for Microsoft Edge further delivers on the benefits of mabl's unified platform for test automation. Whether it's testing web apps in Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Edge, mabl is unlocking comprehensive test coverage that supports high-quality user experiences.
Cross-browser testing for Microsoft Edge is now available to mabl customers in Enterprise and Growth plans as well as those in mabl's 14 day free trial.
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LOGAN COUNTY, W. Va., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- (NGA), the source for complete, customizable, and reliable Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) solutions today announced the successful delivery of the first "live" Next Generation i3 Real-Time Text (RTT) call in Logan County, West Virginia on the Verizon network.
Logan County citizens with disabilities can now access usable, easy and effective communications during an emergency. Callers will have the ability to send emergency messages on their cellular network or while using Wi-Fi calling. RTT provides both the caller and the 9-1-1 call-taker the ability to see the text "letter by letter" as it is being typed, providing conversational communication that allows for overlapping with no need to hit "send." In addition, callers in situations where a voice call is unavailable or creates more danger will also benefit from this new technology.
Citizens with disabilities don't need to purchase any special equipment. RTT is designed for carrier networks. RTT is built into most off-the-shelf devices such as smartphones, tablets and computers.
Ted Sparks, Director of Logan County Emergency Operations 911 said, "I have an employee at the center who shared his enthusiasm and excitement about the new RTT technology. His wife is deaf, and to know that this type of service is coming true was an inspiration. His wife uses messenger to communicate outside her family and having those types of features such as message delivery context and caller replying, means the world to deaf and hearing impaired family members. He shared this information with his wife and she was both excited and relieved. TTY is such antiquated technology; it is rarely used in this fast-paced world. It's great that all our citizens will get a major upgrade in services. Logan County is excited to be part of leading the way."
"NGA is devoted to ensuring disability access to 21st century and future 911 communication technology. We are proud to have partnered with Verizon to provide this much-needed enhancement to people with disabilities in Logan County," said Don Ferguson, CEO and founder of NGA.
About NGA - Next Generation Advanced: NGA is a comprehensive, adaptable, and dependable NG9-1-1 system that offers 911 Cloud services that are safe and reasonably priced everywhere in the globe. With the most recent NG9-1-1 technology available, our gradual deployment and proprietary solutions are ready to seamlessly move traditional 9-1-1 systems to the future of emergency services.
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BOULDER, Colo. — A 22-year-old man who was shot and wounded in a confrontation with Boulder Police officers in the University Hill area over the weekend faces attempted murder charges, court records show.
Zakiyy Lucas was shot in the arm and taken into custody early Sunday morning after officers responded to a disturbance call near the 1200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Police are also looking for another individual pictured below in connection to the shooting:
According to an arrest affidavit, Lucas was involved in a confrontation with two other men.
A citizen uploaded a video that showed a fight involving Lucas and two other men. According to the arrest affidavit, Lucas is on the ground being struck and kicked by the men. The fight occurred near the northeast corner of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Street.
According to a witness, during the disturbance, Lucas went to a nearby vehicle and returned to confront the others with what appeared to be a rifle.
Another bystander captured additional portions of the altercation. The video shows Lucas engaged in a verbal altercation with another man who is walking toward him at the intersection of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Street
As the two men walk across the street toward Lucas, the video shows Lucas walking backward and raising what looks like an "AR-15 style pistol toward the men and bystanders," the affidavit says.
He then fires one shot toward the men and the others in the area, the affidavit says.
The video shows a muzzle flash and the recoil in Lucas' hands. Lucas then turns and runs to the west, the affidavit says. As he does, return gunfire from an unknown source is heard in the video. The sound of gunfire is audible but is not seen in the footage, according to the affidavit.
Those shots are believed to be from officers who were nearby on an unrelated call. As they rounded a corner, they saw Lucas backing toward them and saw him fire a shot from a gun, the affidavit says.
One officer can be heard giving commands to Lucas as he ran toward the officer, the affidavit says. That officer then drew his weapon and fired about four shots.
As he ran, Lucas eventually dropped his weapon and was given additional commands. He can be heard stating "I dropped it, I dropped it." Lucas then told officers he had been struck by gunfire and then began treating his wounds, the affidavit reads.
When asked who he was shooting at, he stated, it was someone "who tried to jump my homie right quick," the affidavit says.
Lucas has a brief criminal history and was arrested in June 2022 for a similar disturbance where he was involved in a fight.
He's being held at the Boulder County Jail on a bond of $500,000 and faces attempted murder and disorderly conduct charges. He's due in court on Oct. 6.
The Critical Incident Team is investigating the use of force by the officer(s) involved. Once the investigation is completed, the District Attorney will conduct a thorough review to determine what, if any, action is appropriate under the circumstances.
SUGGESTED VIDEOS: Investigations & Crime | 2022-10-04T22:30:26+00:00 | 9news.com | https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/arrest-university-hill-shooting/73-8abbe128-89f5-401c-a1e9-0d969144a30e |
Should I get a golf or hunting rangefinder?
If you partake in one or both of these activities, you’ve probably needed to check your distance to your target. This is usually accomplished with the use of a good rangefinder. However, each activity has its own version of a rangefinder. Even if you only golf or hunt and have no intentions of ever trying the other sport, it’s still worthwhile to understand the differences and similarities between the models so you can get the best one for your needs.
What to know before you buy a golf or hunting rangefinder
Range
The most important feature of either rangefinder is how long it can see. Most low-end golf and hunting rangefinders tend to have the same maximum range: about 300 to 500 yards. Better rangefinders of either type typically stretch up to 1,000 yards, though some can offer a few hundred more.
Golf rangefinders rarely go past this range, no matter how good it is. Meanwhile, the best hunting rangefinders can see for up to 3,000 yards or more. However, these high-end hunting rangefinders can cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.
Accuracy
The other side of a rangefinder’s distance is its accuracy. Both types of rangefinders are typically the same on this point, but it’s still worthwhile to understand when shopping for one.
The best rangefinders are accurate to within a quarter of a yard, but this is uncommon. Instead, look for one that’s accurate to within either 1 or a half yard.
Keep in mind that no matter how good your rangefinder is, the further away you are from the target the more likely it is that your rangefinder will push the borders of its stated accuracy. However, depending on how good the rangefinder is, you shouldn’t need to worry about accuracy changes unless you’re more than 500 to 1,000 yards away.
Slope
The slope feature, which is a system that automatically adjusts for slope, is one of the major differences between golf and hunting rangefinders.
For golf, the feature is often ruled illegal by tournament regulations despite rangefinders usually being legal. To comply, most golf rangefinders either don’t offer the feature at all or include a way to easily and obviously disable it.
Hunting rangefinders generally always include the feature as being as close to pinpoint accurate as possible because it is literally a matter of life and death. The feature is at its most important if you’re bowhunting, as firearms have less drop — unless you’re thousands of yards away from your target, in which case it becomes extremely important again.
Design
A minor difference but a difference all the same, golf rangefinders typically sport solid colors. Black and white are common. Hunting rangefinders are typically covered in camo designs.
Cost
Golf rangefinders typically start around $50, though these have a limited range. Better models usually cost $100-$150. The best can cost up to $300.
Hunting rangefinders also typically start around $50, though better ones can cost up to $200. Models with more features and longer ranges can cost about $500. Hunting rangefinders with the best features and longest ranges can cost up to $2,000.
What are the best golf rangefinders to buy?
This has a 350-yard range to flag and a 650-total-yard range. It has six times magnification and charges via an included USB cable. It comes in black and white.
Where to buy: Amazon
Bushnell Golf Tour V5 Patriot Pack Golf Rangefinder
This has a 400-yard range to flag and a 1,300-total-yard range with six times magnification. It can attach magnetically to the side of a golf cart. It comes with a travel case.
Where to buy: Amazon and Dick’s Sporting Goods
Callaway 350TL Izzo Golf Rangefinder
This rangefinder has a 300-yard range to flag and a 1,000-total-yard range with six times magnification. It has a slope function that can easily be turned off. It can attach magnetically to a golf cart.
Where to buy: Amazon
Gogogo Sport Vpro Laser Golf Rangefinder
This model has a 250-yard range to flag and a 650-total-yard range with six times magnification. It is powered by two AAA batteries and has a one-year warranty. It comes in black or white.
Where to buy: Amazon
Peakpulse Laser Golf Rangefinder
This has a 330-yard range to flag and a 650-total-yard range with six times magnification. It can be purchased with or without a slope measuring system. It comes with a one-year warranty.
Where to buy: Amazon
Featuring a 1,000-total-yard range, this model has a slope function that can easily be disabled for tournaments. It uses vibration to confirm your selections and comes with a travel case.
Where to buy: Amazon
What are the best hunting rangefinders to buy?
Aofar HX-700N Hunting Rangefinder
This has a 700-yard range with six times magnification and two modes: range and speed. It comes with a carrying pouch, a CR2 battery, a portable rope, a carabiner, a cleaning cloth and two years of VIP support.
Where to buy: Amazon
Gogogo Sport Green Hunting Rangefinder
This model has a 1,200-yard range with six times magnification. It can be set up on a tripod. It uses a rechargeable battery and includes a USB charging cable.
Where to buy: Amazon
Tectectec ProWild Hunting Rangefinder
This rangefinder has a 540-yard range with six times magnification. It also has a speed mode to calculate a moving target’s speed. It comes with a case and a wrist strap.
Where to buy: Amazon
This comes in two models: one with a 700-yard range and one with a 1,000-yard range. Both have six times magnification and come with a lanyard and a storage bag.
Where to buy: Amazon
Featuring an 800-yard range, this model comes in bowhunting and non-bowhunting models. The bowhunting model has more options, including measuring the angle and horizontal distance. Additionally, both have a speed mode and a one-year warranty.
Where to buy: Amazon
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STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — A biracial man who says he was fending off a racist attack on a Georgia highway when he fired a gun into a pickup truck was convicted Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a 17-year-old girl in the truck’s back seat.
The trial jury spared 23-year-old Marc Wilson from a potential life prison sentence by acquitting him of felony murder, the charge prosecutors argued he deserved for killing Haley Hutcheson of Reidsville.
Defense attorneys for Wilson of Sharpsburg had insisted during the weeklong trial in Bulloch County Superior Court that he should be acquitted on all charges. They said Wilson was justified to shoot in self-defense when the pickup truck’s driver tried to run Wilson’s car off the road.
District Attorney Daphne Totten said the verdict, while not as harsh as prosecutors had sought, showed the jury rejected Wilson’s self-defense claims.
“The truth of this case is that what Marc Wilson did that night on the bypass was a crime,” Totten said. “And this family that we stand here with right now, they’ve waited a long time for justice.”
Georgia law says involuntary manslaughter can be either a felony or a misdemeanor, depending on the circumstances. Wilson’s lead attorney, Francys Johnson, said his client was convicted of a felony — punishable by one to 10 years in prison — because the judge chose not to instruct the jury on the the misdemeanor option.
“If that option had been included as we asked and insisted, this jury would have found Marc guilty of the misdemeanor version of manslaughter and Marc would be coming home,” Johnson told reporters outside the courthouse.
Instead, Superior Court Judge Ronnie Thompson ordered Wilson to be held in jail until his sentencing hearing Sept. 20. Wilson had been staying at his father’s house under house arrest before his trial.
The jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon and spent a total of roughly seven hours weighing the case before returning a verdict.
Defense attorneys acknowledged that Wilson fired the shot that killed Hutcheson on a bypass circling the southeast Georgia city of Statesboro the night of June 24, 2020. Investigators testified that three shell casings found at the scene matched the handgun Wilson surrendered to police when he turned himself in three days after the shooting.
Prosecutor Barclay Black told the jury Wilson had no legal justification for firing a handgun in traffic and could have escaped if he was being harassed by another driver. One of the bullets he fired pierced the truck’s rear window and struck Hutcheson in the head. She died after her friends rushed her to a hospital.
Prosecutors had charged Wilson with felony murder, arguing he caused Hutcheson’s death while committing another felony, aggravated assault, by firing his gun at the truck. The jury acquitted Wilson of both those charges and opted to convict him of involuntary manslaughter.
Wilson, the son of a Black father and white mother, and his white girlfriend had just picked up food from a Taco Bell about 12:30 a.m. when the pickup truck pulled alongside Wilson’s much smaller Ford Focus. Wilson told police the pickup truck tried to run his car off the road as white teenagers inside yelled racist slurs.
“Me and my girlfriend were very scared that night,” Wilson told police in a recorded interview played for the trial jury. He said that when the truck kept swerving toward his car, ”I didn’t know what else to do, so I grabbed my, uh, my piece and I shot under the vehicle.”
The driver of the pickup and two passengers who took the witness stand denied threatening or otherwise provoking Wilson. They also acknowledged that they had been drinking that night, though they denied being drunk.
One of the truck’s passengers, Luke Conley, declined to testify by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against giving self-incriminating testimony. He has been charged with misdemeanor obstruction after police said he gave investigators conflicting information about the shooting.
Emma Rigdon, Wilson’s girlfriend at the time, testified that she didn’t hear any racial slurs before the shooting. But she recalled being frightened when the pickup truck “started swerving into our lane” and forced Wilson’s car onto the shoulder of the highway. | 2022-09-01T15:27:29+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-georgia-man-guilty-of-manslaughter-in-shooting-of-teen-girl/ |
UNICEF calls for better protection for Sudan’s children trapped in ‘unrelenting nightmare’
By JACK JEFFERY
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — UNICEF says Sudan’s warring factions should better protect vulnerable children in the conflict zone, where hundreds of children have been killed and millions of young people “are trapped in an unrelenting nightmare.” The call from the United Nations children’s agency came after it announced that 330 children have been killed and 13 million are urgently need humanitarian assistance. It said that in West Darfur province, at least 14,836 children are expected to be severely malnourished. For two months, Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a violent power struggle. Doctors groups say more than 958 civilians have been killed in the fighting. The true death toll is likely much higher. | 2023-06-16T11:30:06+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/06/16/unicef-calls-for-better-protection-for-sudans-children-trapped-in-unrelenting-nightmare/ |
Updated June 1, 2023 at 10:55 PM ET
With just days to spare before the deadline for the nation to face financial default, the Senate approved compromise, bipartisan legislation to lift the debt ceiling. It cleared the chamber by a bipartisan 63-36 vote.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer celebrated an agreement by senators on Thursday to speed up consideration to send the bill to President Biden's desk.
"America can breathe a sigh of relief, a sigh of relief, because in this process, we are avoiding default," Schumer said ahead of a series of votes for the measure. "From the start, avoiding default has been our North Star."
The Senate spent much of the day trying to broker a deal among the chamber's 100 members to speed up the voting schedule. But along the way, Senate leaders maintained confidence the legislation would pass.
"I think we'll get there, but as you know, it's painful," Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters on Thursday.
Ultimately, leaders agreed to take up 11 amendments. However, Schumer warned none of the amendments could be adopted without raising the potential of default. All of them ultimately failed.
"Any change to this bill that forces us to send it back to the House would be entirely unacceptable. It would almost guarantee default," he said.
On Wednesday, the bill — the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 -- passed the House by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 314-117 vote.
The bill's opposition in the House, like in the Senate, resulted in strange bedfellows. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders have spoken out against the plan.
The plan includes new spending limits in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling for two years.
"I wanted to like this bill, I wanted to be able to vote for this bill," said Lee, who has said it falls short from addressing the national debt.
Sanders has argued the plan raises new concerns about threats to climate change. Graham had raised concerns the legislation doesn't include sufficient funding for defense and Ukraine aid.
In an unusual step during the votes, Schumer and House Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky released a joint statement noting that the legislation cannot block future emergency supplemental funding, such as additional aid to Ukraine.
"This debt ceiling deal does nothing to limit the Senate's ability to appropriate emergency supplemental funds to ensure our military capabilities are sufficient to deter China, Russia and our other adversaries," Schumer said in additional remarks on the Senate floor, "and respond to ongoing and growing national security threats including Russia's evil ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine."
The debt ceiling legislation was the result of high-stakes negotiations between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ahead of a debt default.
With his narrow control of the chamber, McCarthy saw the plan win support among majorities of both parties. And ultimately, Democrats played a larger role than Republicans in its passage: 165 Democrats joined 149 Republicans to approve the bill.
"The deal the House passed last night is a promising step toward fiscal sanity," McConnell said on the Senate floor. "But make no mistake: there is much more work to be done. The fight to reel in wasteful spending is far from over."
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RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Arkansas Tech University will host a come-and-go retirement reception for Jerry Charles Young I, campus ambassador, on Thursday, September 29.
The reception will take place from 4-6 p.m. in the Hull Building Student Union, 1306 N. El Paso Ave. in Russellville, according to a press release from the university. The public is invited.
Jerry I restored an Arkansas Tech tradition that had been lost for 76 years when he was introduced as campus ambassador on October 26, 2013. For the past nine years, he has represented the university at a variety of campus events and alumni gatherings as well as Wonder Boys and Golden Suns athletic competitions.
Now, after hundreds of appearances and thousands of photos, Jerry (I) is about to earn the spoils of retirement. He will live out his golden years on his favorite spot on the couch at home, no doubt napping and dreaming of the good times we all enjoyed together. Jerry…thank you. Thank you for loving us. Thank you for loving Arkansas Tech. It took a very good boy to bring back something that had been lost for so long. You are and will always be that very good boy.
Dr. Robin E. Bowen, ATU president
Jerry Charles Young II will take office as campus ambassador and Jerry Charles Young I will retire as of Saturday, October 1. Jerry II will receive his spiked collar symbolic of becoming campus ambassador at halftime of the ATU home football game that afternoon.
Kickoff for the game between ATU and Southern Nazarene University is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Thone Stadium at Buerkle Field in Russellville. | 2022-09-26T16:50:33+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/atu-campus-ambassador-jerry-the-bulldog-retiring/ |
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A gunman who livestreamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, was finally arrested after crashing a stolen car, police said early Thursday.
The hours-long rampage had police warning people across the city to shelter in place, locking down a baseball stadium and university campuses and suspending public bus services as frightened residents wondered where the man might strike next.
Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said four people were killed and three others were wounded in seven shootings and at least two carjackings before Ezekiel Kelly was arrested without incident at around 9 p.m.
Kelly, 19, was released early from a prison sentence for aggravated assault, court records show, raising a sore point between the city’s mayor and the county’s top prosecutor that played out before the cameras at an early Thursday news conference.
“This is no way for us to live and it is not acceptable,” said Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, who later pounded the podium as he demanded accountability. “If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive,” he said.
The first killing was at 12:56 a.m. Wednesday, and officers responded to three more crime scenes before receiving a tip at 6:12 p.m. that the suspect was livestreaming himself threatening to cause harm to citizens, Davis said.
In one clip from the video, the suspect casually speaks to the camera before opening the door to an AutoZone store and shooting someone inside with what appeared to be a pistol. That man was taken to a hospital in critical condition. In another, a man narrates himself driving — “green light, green light” — and sings “no faking.” At one point, he fires two rapid bursts of gunfire out the driver’s window while driving. Referring to police, he says he’s going to “go down to the valley, shoot it out with them in the valley.”
Three more shootings and two carjackings followed after police sent out an alert warning people to be on the lookout for an armed and dangerous man responsible for multiple shootings and reportedly recording his actions on Facebook.
Police said he killed a woman in Memphis as he took her grey Toyota SUV, which he left behind when he stole a man’s Dodge Challenger across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi.
Kelly was arrested without incident two hours after the initial police alert when he crashed the Challenger during a high speed chase, and two guns were found in the vehicle, Davis said.
As the shooter terrorized the city, buses stopped running and the Memphis Redbirds cleared the field during their minor-league baseball game. Friends and relatives frantically called and texted each other and TV stations cut into regular coverage with updates.
Police received “numerous tips” from the public during the ordeal, Davis said.
The University of Memphis sent a message to students saying a shooting had been reported near the campus. Rhodes College, which is about 4 miles away from the university, advised students on and off campus to shelter in place. Kelly was ultimately arrested in the Memphis neighborhood of Whitehaven, about 11 miles from the two campuses.
“If you do not have to be out, stay indoors until this is resolved,” Memphis police said on Twitter, before the arrest.
Police did not discuss a motive or release the identities of those who were killed or wounded. It was too early in the investigation to discuss how the suspect got the gun or guns used in the shootings, said Ali Roberts, acting assistant special agent in charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Memphis.
Memphis has been shaken by several high-profile killings in recent weeks, including the shooting of a pastor during a daylight carjacking in her driveway, the shooting of an activist during an argument over money, and the slaying of a jogger abducted during her pre-dawn run.
“I understand it feels like so much violence and evil to experience in such a short time,” Memphis City Council member Chase Carlisle said on Twitter. “We are SO much more than this.”
In February 2020, Kelly, then 17, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, using a firearm to commit a dangerous felony and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records show.
Records show he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced in April 2021 to three years. Kelly was released from prison in March, 11 months after he was sentenced, the mayor said. Given the time he spent awaiting a resolution of his charges, he likely got credit for time served and spent more than two years behind bars.
Strickland thanked legislators for closing what he called a revolving door by passing Tennessee’s “truth in sentencing” law this year. The statute, which took effect after Kelly was freed, requires serving entire sentences for various felonies, including attempted first-degree murder, vehicular homicide resulting from the driver’s intoxication and carjacking.
“From now on, three years for aggravated assault means three years,” the mayor said. “We need the courts and additional state laws to stop this revolving door and I need the public to make their voices heard by those decision makers.”
Standing beside him was Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy, a fellow Democrat who was elected in August after arguing that the sentencing law does not reduce crime nor help incarcerated people rehabilitate, and drives up Tennessee’s prison budget. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who favors criminal justice reform, allowed the measure to become law without his signature.
“I don’t want to get into a protracted policy debate tonight. I think tonight is a night for grieving and coming together and expressing concern about this horrific week that we’ve had. I can say in general what I’ve been saying all along — that repeat violent offenders require a tough response,” Mulroy said.
Mulroy then repeated his call for a holistic approach including rehabilitation as well as long sentences, so that people leave prison with the skills they need to avoid returning to lives of crime. | 2022-09-08T14:25:29+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2530654/police-arrest-memphis-man-in-livestreamed-shootings-4-dead-2.html |
(NewsNation) — Emergency medical technicians are putting out their own call for help, asking for change as many leave the profession because of its long hours, low pay and high level of stress.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, being an EMT is one of the worst-paid jobs in health care. On average, they make 30% less than other working Americans, with most making less than $37,000 a year.
“In many cases, they can walk into a fast-food restaurant right now with no experience and earn the same or more as they would in an entry-level EMS position,” Lee Alameda, president of Local 12911, a union that represents health care workers in Turlock, California, said.
Because of this, fewer EMTs are entering the profession, causing a potentially dangerous shortage. A survey conducted by the American Ambulance Association found that the turnover among paramedics and EMTs ranges from 20 to 30 percent annually, meaning there’s 100 percent turnover every four years, The Hill reported in 2021.
The survey stated that 258 emergency medical service organizations across the country saw nearly a third of the workforce leave their company after less than a year, The Hill said.
“I’m seeing systems now where job openings are north of 20%,” health care expert Todd Furniss said.
Exacerbating the problem is that some EMTs are leaving their local hospitals to do travel work for better pay. Health care providers say they can’t increase pay because Medicaid and Medicare take months to reimburse them, and often pay less than half of what EMTs are worth.
But there could be issues if this problem isn’t fixed soon.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto, Pete Alonso and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached big-money agreements on one-year contracts as 170 players avoided salary arbitration with deals Friday and 33 exchanged proposed figures with their teams.
All-Star pitcher Max Fried and the Atlanta Braves were headed toward a hearing for the second straight year, while Toronto shortstop Bo Bichette and Houston outfielder Kyle Tucker were the farthest apart from their clubs, each asking for $7.5 million while their team offered $5 million.
Seattle outfielder Teoscar Hernández, acquired in a trade from the Blue Jays, requested $16 million and was offered $14 million.
AL batting champion Luis Arraez was the only eligible Minnesota player who didn’t settle, asking for $6.1 million while the Twins offered $5 million. NL batting champion Jeff McNeil was the lone New York Mets player on track for a hearing, asking for $7.75 million while the team proposed $6.25 million.
Fried was awarded $6.85 million last year rather than Atlanta’s $6.6 million offer. This time, he asked for $15 million as the Braves offered $13.5 million.
Seven Tampa Bay players were headed toward hearings, including reliever Colin Poche. He asked for $1.3 million and was offered $1,175,000 in the smallest gap.
Three players each from Seattle and the Los Angeles Angels were on track for hearings.
Soto got a $23 million deal with San Diego, tied for the fourth-highest one-year contract among arbitration-eligible players. Shohei Ohtani set the record when the two-way star agreed last fall to a $30 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels.
Soto also trailed Mookie Betts ($27 million with Boston in 2020) and Nolan Arenado ($26 million with Colorado in 2019), and he matched Josh Donaldson’s $23 million with Toronto in 2018. Soto, who turned down a $440 million, 15-year offer from Washington last summer before he was traded to the Padres, can become a free agent following the 2024 World Series.
In addition to its deal with the star outfielder, San Diego also reached a $14.1 million, one-year agreement with Josh Hader, the largest salary for an arbitration-eligible relief pitcher.
The high-spending Mets struck a $14.5 million agreement with Alonso, who hit 40 homers and tied for the major league lead with 131 RBIs last season. The first baseman nearly doubled his $7.4 million salary.
Guerrero, runner-up in 2021 AL MVP voting, agreed to the same figure with Toronto, the first baseman increasing his salary from $7.9 million.
Left-hander Julio Urías settled with the Los Angeles Dodgers at $14.25 million, first baseman Rhys Hoskins with NL champion Philadelphia at $12 million, outfielder Ian Happ with the Chicago Cubs at $10.85 million and right-hander Brandon Woodruff with Milwaukee at $10.8 million.
Right-hander Lucas Giolito agreed with the Chicago White Sox at $10.4 million, two-time All-Star right-hander Shane Bieber with Cleveland at $10.01 million, left-hander Jordan Montgomery with St. Louis at $10 million and right-hander Walker Buehler with the Los Angeles Dodgers at $8,025,000.
Minnesota right-hander Chris Paddack, recovering from Tommy John surgery in May, was the only player agreeing to a multiyear contract. He struck a $12.5 million, three-year deal, a person familiar with the negotiations said, speaking on condition of anonymity because it was subject to a successful physical. Paddack gets $2.5 million in each of the next two seasons and $7.5 million in 2025.
For players and teams who fail to strike deals, arguments before three-person panels will be scheduled for Jan. 30 to Feb. 17 in St. Petersburg, Florida. They will be the first in-person hearings since 2020, just before the pandemic.
Teams have won the majority of decisions for three straight years and lead players 334-251 since salary arbitration started in 1974.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-14T12:27:52+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-soto-alonso-guerrero-get-big-deals-avoid-arbitration/ |
LONDON (AP) — The European economy contracted slightly at the end of last year and beginning of 2023, revised figures showed Thursday, underlining the impact of the loss of Russian natural gas and high inflation on consumer spending.
Economic output in the 20 countries that use the euro currency dropped 0.1% in both the final three months of 2022 and first three months of this year from the previous quarters, according to the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat.
That means the eurozone endured two consecutive quarters of decline, which is one definition of recession often used in political and economic discussions, dubbed a “technical” recession.
However, the economists on a panel that declares eurozone recessions use a broader set of data, including unemployment figures. And European labor markets have held up to recent economic shocks: Unemployment is at its lowest level since before the creation of the euro in 1999, hitting 6.5% in April.
The small shift in numbers doesn’t change what households already are experiencing: rising prices at the grocery store, paying more interest on their mortgages as the European Central Bank hikes rates and struggling for wages that keep up with the rising cost of living.
“Maybe before I used to buy more products I didn’t need, like potato chips for example,” Milo Taneron, a 26-year-old youth social worker, said while shopping in a Paris supermarket recently.
“Now, for certain products, I’ve been forced to buy from low-cost brands, to drop down a level to be able to buy these products,” Taneron said.
With inflation and high interest rates hitting households hard and forcing them to cut back on spending, some analysts say they expect the economy to contract further this year. But the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said this week that it expects meager growth of 0.9% in the euro area in 2023.
Bert Colijn, senior eurozone economist for ING bank, said “it’s hard to argue that this is a recessionary environment” because the decline was so small and job market is so strong.
“Overall, the eurozone economy is very much back to muddling through,” he said in a note.
In the United States, economic growth has slowed to a lackluster 1.3% annual rate from January through March, but consumer spending has risen and the job market is hot. Most economists don’t think the U.S. is headed for a recession anytime soon, and if one occurs, it’s likely further away than many of them had previously thought.
In Europe, the economic crunch came as Russia’s war in Ukraine set off an energy crisis last year. Moscow cut off most of its natural gas exports to the continent, which relied on those supplies to generate electricity, power factories and heat homes.
Energy bills spiked for households and businesses, inflation soared to record levels, and there is increased anxiety over potential rationing and blackouts. Governments and utilities were able to line up alternative supplies of liquefied natural gas from countries like the U.S. and Qatar, avoiding disastrous utility shutoffs that had been feared last year.
Energy prices have since fallen to levels seen before Russia invaded Ukraine, but persistent inflation and higher interest rates meant to combat inflation have weighed on economic growth by making credit for house purchases or business expansion more expensive.
The European Central Bank is expected to continue its series of rate increases at its June 15 meeting and keep the door open to raise further beyond that.
ECB President Christine Lagarde this week stressed the need to bring down inflation — which eased to 6.1% in May but is still triple the bank’s goal of 2% — because it is a strain on everyday people.
Her comments followed recent figures from Germany showing that Europe’s biggest economy unexpectedly shrank in the first three months of this year, marking its second quarter of contraction.
Ireland’s gross domestic product — the total output of goods and services — declined the most in the eurozone in the first quarter, falling 4.6%, followed by Lithuania dropping 2.1% and the Netherlands down 0.7%.
The Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee said there had been “no recession” in its last update, which was released March 27 and only dealt with data through the end of last year.
It said falling consumer spending was statistically offset by a large reduction in imports and that “the output growth pause contrasts with a continued, robust expansion in employment.”
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McHugh reported from Frankfurt, Germany. Sacha Bianchi contributed from Paris. | 2023-06-08T19:12:36+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/europes-economy-has-shrunk-for-households-that-are-hurting-its-just-numbers/ |
What Will Police Buy With Forfeiture Funds?
$1.48 million in seized assets will pay for everything from pole camera to ice cream freezer.
The Milwaukee Police Department has a lot of plans for how it will spend the $1.48 million received this year from the federal government’s asset forfeiture sharing program.
The money comes from property seized during arrests involving drug trafficking, child pornography, money laundering and other criminal activity. It is funded by the seizure of cash found on a drug dealer, the sale of electronics seized from those convicted of distributing child pornography and other federal crimes.
But there are plenty of items that aren’t so boring and will have an impact on how the police department operates.
In a presentation, DeSiato said the department would be buying a BOSS II scanner, a seated metal detector designed to search those in custody for weapons hidden under their clothing.
The department is also planning to use $15,000 to buy a new pole camera for the specialized investigations division in addition to other cameras. MPD is budgeting $300,000 for software, including a replacement for its early intervention program that is used for internal affairs, use of force and vehicle pursuit investigations.
A total of $30,000 would be set aside for traffic enforcement, which includes equipment for cadets and recruits, “slow down” signage, the ice cream truck freezer and MPD’s share of funding for a partnership with the Milwaukee Fire Department and Andre Lee Ellis‘ We Got This organization to buy hydroponic garden equipment for a community garden.
Other funds will be used for the city’s annual rent to house the mounted patrol at MKE Urban Stables ($100,000), National Night Out and other police district programming ($45,000) and unidentified, previously-approved items that couldn’t be purchased last year due to supply chain delays and other issues ($200,000).
“We got a couple McGruff suits this year. Hopefully they don’t show up at the same place at the same time,” said DeSiato of the crime-fighting mascot.
The seated BOSS II scanner is part of a $675,000 “equipment and supplies” category that includes new lockers at district stations, office furniture, protective equipment, the patrol boat navigation system and motor, and auto theft deterrent supplies.
“These are items we could otherwise not afford within our budget limits,” said DeSiato.
The department can’t rely on the same amount of money each year. And federal regulations, according to an MPD presentation, limit what it can be spent on. “We do a lot of vetting on the requests. A lot of the requests are denied because they fall on the ‘nice to have’ versus ‘need to have,'” said DeSiato.
With few exceptions, the funds are dispersed following a conviction. Under a 1984 federal law, the funds are shared between law enforcement entities to encourage cooperation. “Sometimes we just wake up and there is a $300,000 deposit,” said DeSiato. “We’ve historically [annually] been in the $700,000 to $900,000 range.”
The department doesn’t immediately spend the money it receives. DeSiato said MPD maintains a balance in the fund so it can react to a “pressing need” that comes up. A report submitted to the council says there is currently $2.67 million in the account.
The committee unanimously recommended approval of the necessary funds transfer to enable the spending. The full council is scheduled to vote on the measure Tuesday, July 12.
MPD also receives funds from state-level forfeitures, but at a much lesser rate. The last available report, from July 2021, shows $234,143 in an account with no expenses or deposits in the prior year.
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A Democratic strategy to move tougher gun laws through the House has hit a brick wall of GOP opposition, all but guaranteeing the hot-button issue will be relegated to the realm of campaign messaging in the Republican-led lower chamber.
Democratic leaders had launched procedural maneuvers last month designed to force votes on several gun reform measures over the objections of GOP leaders. The gambit, known as a discharge petition, is rarely successful. But supporters had hoped the effort would bear fruit this year given the growing public outcry over endemic mass shootings and the widespread popularity of proposals like expanded background checks, one of which is sponsored by a Republican.
But even that GOP lawmaker, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), has refused to endorse the petition, citing the likelihood that the background check bill would fail in the Senate. The unanimous Republican opposition has highlighted the limited powers of the House minority, the reluctance of GOP moderates to confront their leadership publicly, and the polarizing nature of the debate over guns, which remains highly partisan despite shifting attitudes outside of Congress.
It has also frustrated reform advocates on and off Capitol Hill who are furious that Republicans have refused to address gun violence even as it’s evolved to become the leading cause of death for children in the United States.
“It’s an extraordinary time, and we need extraordinary people stepping up,” Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) said. “You know there’s another mass shooting coming. So will that be the mass shooting that finally allows these guys to do what’s right?”
The Democrats’ discharge petitions attempt to compel votes on three separate gun reform bills: an assault weapons ban; expanded background checks before gun sales; and the adoption of a longer window for authorities to conduct those screenings.
But Fitzpatrick, lead sponsor of the bill to expand background checks to unlicensed parties who transfer firearms, dismissed the discharge petition as a political messaging move and said he would not sign the petition for his own bill.
“We’ve passed that bill multiple times. The background check bill, red flag laws — I voted for the assault weapons ban. But at some point, we need to start thinking about getting things done rather than sending messages across the floor of the House,” Fitzpatrick said. “I really object to that, because it’s a very intellectually dishonest way of proceeding when you don’t have any strategy to navigate 60 votes in the Senate.”
Fitzpatrick said he is working on trying to come up with compromise legislation that can get support from Republicans and pass in the Senate, but he said it is a “sensitive issue.”
“Every single time we pass this bill, everyone’s like, ‘Our work’s done.’ It’s not done. If you actually care about getting it done, go over there and figure out how to get 60 votes. If you’re not doing that, what are you doing? That’s what’s very frustrating about a lot of these games being played,” Fitzpatrick said.
Other moderate Republicans expressed skepticism as well.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) — who called Fitzpatrick one of his “best friends” — said he would “probably not” sign on to the Democratic-led effort but suggested he would look into the matter.
“I would be willing to read what Fitz has,” he later added, “so I won’t say out of hand I wouldn’t do it ‘cause I just don’t know the details of it.”
He pointed out the nuanced nature of background check legislation.
“Expanding background checks has a lot of different possibilities,” Bacon said. “I’m for upgrading our background checks ‘cause the FBI has databases. But if you’re gonna make me do a background check on my son, which was in the Democrats’ bill last cycle, that’s going too far. So it just depends what the details are.”
The House passed Fitzpatrick’s background checks bill on a bipartisan basis in the past two Congresses, when the chamber was controlled by Democrats. The Pennsylvania Republican was one of eight Republicans to vote for the bill each time, but it went nowhere in the Senate in the face of GOP opposition.
To force a bill to the floor, Democrats need a simple majority of the lower chamber — 218 lawmakers — to endorse one of their discharge petitions. All but four of the chamber’s 212 Democrats have signed on to the petition for the Fitzpatrick bill so far: Reps. Jared Golden (Maine), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Mary Sattler Peltola (Alaska) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.).
Republicans view the issue through a dramatically different lens. And a vast majority of GOP lawmakers in both chambers oppose any legislation that restricts gun sales or ownership, saying those measures trample sacrosanct rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. While Democrats are calling for tougher gun laws, House Republicans have sought to loosen them.
Indeed, the discharge petition effort arrived in June, just as House Republicans were passing legislation to repeal a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule that would require those who own firearms with a stabilizing brace, or pistol brace, to register the weapons with the agency.
GOP supporters of the bill say pistol braces are a crucial tool for allowing disabled people, including military veterans, to use firearms — an argument rejected by supporters of the ATF rule.
“It makes an assault pistol into an assault short-barreled rifle, and there’s a law — a federal law — against short-barreled rifles for a reason,” said Thompson, a Vietnam War veteran and gun owner. “The idea that this is somehow something that veterans are going to benefit from, it’s just bullshit.”
The Senate later rejected the House legislation along party lines.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who has broken with her party on several thorny issues like abortion and guns, rejected the argument that expanding background checks tramples constitutional rights.
“It’s not touching the Second Amendment by strengthening background checks,” she said.
Still, Mace had voted against the expanded background check legislation in the last Congress and has not endorsed Fitzpatrick’s bill this year. She’s focusing on another proposal, to establish a public broadcast system warning people when a mass shooting occurs in their vicinity, similar to the Justice Department’s Amber Alert system for abducted children. And she won a promise from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to vote on the bill this year — a concession that secured her vote on the Republicans’ partisan debt ceiling package in April.
“We’re just finalizing the text of the bill to make sure no one on the committee has heartburn over it,” she said. “I don’t want it to be a messaging bill, so I’m trying to make sure I dot all my i’s and cross all my t’s, so it can get through the Senate.”
Though the chances of success are slim, discharge petitions have become one of Democrats’ favorite tools to combat the House GOP majority.
As McCarthy pushed President Biden to agree to spending cuts and policy reforms as a condition of raising the debt ceiling, Democrats launched a discharge petition effort on an alternate bill to raise the debt limit without cuts. Though every Democrat in the House signed on to the bill, moderate Republicans whom they hoped to target flatly rejected it, and the House eventually passed a debt limit deal that McCarthy negotiated with Biden.
And to mark the anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision that eliminated a federal right to obtain an abortion, Democrats introduced a discharge petition for the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would ban states from restricting abortion before the point of fetal viability.
Bacon said Democratic attempts at using the historically unsuccessful procedural gambit is an example of the minority party taking advantage of the few tools available to it.
“You use every strategy that’s possible to you, and it’s one of theirs, trying to get something on the floor,” he said. | 2023-07-05T12:58:43+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/hill-politics/democrats-effort-to-force-gun-votes-fizzles-in-house/ |
Lotusland to host Sustainability Symposium to address climate change and best practices for gardening and agriculture
SANTA PAULA, Calif.— The Montecito botanical garden Lotusland is partnering with a renowned landscape designer to host a sustainability symposium Saturday.
The event is called “The Sustainability Symposium: Solutions for a Cleaner, Greener Planet.”
This 4 hour discussion will address climate change and conservation strategies through panel discussions featuring experts from botanical specialists and landscape designers to agriculture and sustainability consultants. It will be an interactive experience as audience members are encouraged to ask questions throughout the afternoon.
The Lotusland Executive Director says the goal is to provide the latest knowledge to horticulture and agriculture workers and garden enthusiasts.
For more information visit www.lotusland.org . | 2023-04-11T20:04:06+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/local-news/top-stories/2023/04/11/lotusland-to-host-sustainability-symposium-to-address-climate-change-and-best-practices-for-gardening-and-agriculture/ |
MLB Games Tonight: How to Watch on TV, Streaming & Odds - Sunday, July 23
Today's MLB schedule has plenty of quality competition on the docket. Among those contests is the Los Angeles Dodgers taking on the Texas Rangers.
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The Detroit Tigers (44-54) play the San Diego Padres (48-51)
The Padres will take to the field at Comerica Park versus the Tigers on Sunday at 12:05 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- DET Key Player: Spencer Torkelson (.226 AVG, 14 HR, 52 RBI)
- SD Key Player: Juan Soto (.268 AVG, 19 HR, 60 RBI)
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The New York Yankees (52-47) face the Kansas City Royals (28-72)
The Royals will look to pick up a road win at Yankee Stadium against the Yankees on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
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- NYY Key Player: Gleyber Torres (.264 AVG, 15 HR, 41 RBI)
- KC Key Player: Bobby Witt Jr. (.250 AVG, 16 HR, 51 RBI)
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The Washington Nationals (40-58) take on the San Francisco Giants (54-45)
The Giants will take to the field at Nationals Park versus the Nationals on Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- WSH Key Player: Lane Thomas (.290 AVG, 16 HR, 53 RBI)
- SF Key Player: LaMonte Wade Jr (.276 AVG, 9 HR, 29 RBI)
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The Tampa Bay Rays (61-41) host the Baltimore Orioles (60-38)
The Orioles will hit the field at Tropicana Field against the Rays on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
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- TB Key Player: Wander Franco (.270 AVG, 11 HR, 48 RBI)
- BAL Key Player: Adley Rutschman (.270 AVG, 13 HR, 42 RBI)
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The Cleveland Guardians (49-49) host the Philadelphia Phillies (52-46)
The Phillies will look to pick up a road win at Progressive Field against the Guardians on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- CLE Key Player: José Ramírez (.292 AVG, 14 HR, 55 RBI)
- PHI Key Player: Bryson Stott (.305 AVG, 9 HR, 36 RBI)
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The Miami Marlins (53-47) play host to the Colorado Rockies (39-59)
The Rockies will hit the field at LoanDepot park against the Marlins on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- MIA Key Player: Luis Arraez (.375 AVG, 3 HR, 47 RBI)
- COL Key Player: Ryan McMahon (.255 AVG, 15 HR, 46 RBI)
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The Cincinnati Reds (54-46) play host to the Arizona Diamondbacks (54-45)
The Diamondbacks hope to get a road victory at Great American Ball Park versus the Reds on Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- CIN Key Player: Spencer Steer (.274 AVG, 14 HR, 54 RBI)
- ARI Key Player: Corbin Carroll (.284 AVG, 20 HR, 52 RBI)
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The Minnesota Twins (52-48) play host to the Chicago White Sox (41-59)
The White Sox hope to get a road victory at Target Field versus the Twins on Sunday at 2:10 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- MIN Key Player: Carlos Correa (.232 AVG, 12 HR, 43 RBI)
- CHW Key Player: Luis Robert (.273 AVG, 28 HR, 57 RBI)
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The Milwaukee Brewers (55-44) play the Atlanta Braves (63-34)
The Braves hope to get a road victory at American Family Field against the Brewers on Sunday at 2:10 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- MIL Key Player: Christian Yelich (.283 AVG, 14 HR, 54 RBI)
- ATL Key Player: Ronald Acuña Jr. (.330 AVG, 23 HR, 58 RBI)
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The Chicago Cubs (47-51) host the St. Louis Cardinals (44-55)
The Cardinals will look to pick up a road win at Wrigley Field against the Cubs on Sunday at 2:20 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- CHC Key Player: Nico Hoerner (.276 AVG, 6 HR, 54 RBI)
- STL Key Player: Nolan Arenado (.286 AVG, 21 HR, 76 RBI)
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The Texas Rangers (58-41) take on the Los Angeles Dodgers (57-40)
The Dodgers will take to the field at Globe Life Field against the Rangers on Sunday at 2:35 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- TEX Key Player: Marcus Semien (.272 AVG, 14 HR, 60 RBI)
- LAD Key Player: Freddie Freeman (.331 AVG, 20 HR, 70 RBI)
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The Los Angeles Angels (50-49) take on the Pittsburgh Pirates (43-55)
The Pirates hope to get a road victory at Angel Stadium of Anaheim against the Angels on Sunday at 4:07 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- LAA Key Player: Shohei Ohtani (.302 AVG, 35 HR, 76 RBI)
- PIT Key Player: Bryan Reynolds (.257 AVG, 9 HR, 45 RBI)
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The Oakland Athletics (28-73) play host to the Houston Astros (55-44)
The Astros hope to get a road victory at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum versus the Athletics on Sunday at 4:07 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- OAK Key Player: Brent Rooker (.239 AVG, 16 HR, 44 RBI)
- HOU Key Player: Kyle Tucker (.302 AVG, 17 HR, 68 RBI)
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The Seattle Mariners (50-48) take on the Toronto Blue Jays (54-45)
The Blue Jays hope to get a road victory at T-Mobile Park against the Mariners on Sunday at 4:10 PM ET.
How to Watch
- TV Channel: ROOT Sports NW
- Stream Live: Fubo (regional restrictions may apply)
- Game Time: 4:10 PM ET
Hitters to Watch
- SEA Key Player: Julio Rodríguez (.245 AVG, 14 HR, 51 RBI)
- TOR Key Player: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (.272 AVG, 16 HR, 62 RBI)
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The Boston Red Sox (52-47) host the New York Mets (46-52)
The Mets will hit the field at Fenway Park versus the Red Sox on Sunday at 7:10 PM ET.
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Hitters to Watch
- BOS Key Player: Justin Turner (.286 AVG, 16 HR, 64 RBI)
- NYM Key Player: Francisco Lindor (.226 AVG, 19 HR, 61 RBI)
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As Israel-Palestinian truce holds, Gaza power plant restarts
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — With a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants holding after nearly three days of violence, Gaza’s sole power plant resumed operations. That came as Israel began reopening crossings into the territory Monday. Israel also lifted security restrictions on southern Israeli communities after the Egyptian-mediated truce took effect late Sunday. It was the worst round of violence since an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas last year. Since Friday, Israeli aircraft had pummeled targets in Gaza while the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group fired hundreds of rockets at Israel. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 44 Palestinians were killed. Islamic Jihad said 12 were militants. Israel said some of the dead were killed by misfired rockets.
Senate Democrats pass budget package, a victory for Biden
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has approved Democrats' big election-year economic package. The legislation is less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic goals. But it embodies deep-rooted party dreams of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing big corporations. Debate began Saturday and went around the clock into Sunday afternoon. Democrats had swatted down some three dozen Republican efforts to torpedo the legislation. Biden is urging swift House passage, and the House seems on track to provide final congressional approval when it returns briefly from summer recess on Friday.
China extends threatening military exercises around Taiwan
BEIJING (AP) — China says it is extending threatening military exercises surrounding Taiwan that have disrupted shipping and air traffic and substantially raised concerns about the potential for conflict. Military leaders say the exercises will include anti-submarine drills, apparently targeting U.S. support for Taiwan in the event of a potential Chinese invasion. China has said the exercises involving missile strikes, warplanes and ship movements crossing the midline of the Taiwan Strait are a response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-ruled island last week. China has ignored calls to calm the tensions, and there was no immediate indication when it would end what amounts to a blockade.
One year after Afghanistan, spy agencies pivot toward China
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year has passed since President Joe Biden ended the war in Afghanistan. Today, Biden and top national security officials speak less about counterterrorism and more about the political, economic and military threats posed by China as well as Russia. There’s been a quiet pivot within intelligence agencies, which are moving hundreds of officers to China-focused positions, including some who were previously working on terrorism. In a recent closed-door meeting with leaders of the agency’s counterterrorism center, the CIA’s No. 2 official made clear that fighting al-Qaida and other extremist groups will remain a priority, though money and resources will be shifting to focus on China.
Albuquerque police seek car in killings of 4 Muslim men
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police investigating whether the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque are connected say Sunday they need help finding a vehicle believed to be connected to the deaths. Police say the vehicle sought is a dark gray or silver, four-door Volkswagen with dark tinted windows. A Muslim man was killed Friday night in Albuquerque. Authorities are investigating whether there are connections between that killing and the ambush shooting deaths of three Muslim men over the past nine months in New Mexico’s biggest city. Authorities say they can’t say yet if the shootings were hate crimes until they have identified a suspect and can determine a motive.
Former coal town comes together in face of Kentucky floods
FLEMING-NEON, Ky. (AP) — The town of Fleming-Neon was trying to move beyond an economic disaster when a natural one knocked it back down. The former coal town was devastated by flooding that killed more than 30 in Kentucky. Fleming was founded as a company town; neighboring Neon thrived off the industry. As coal waned and people left, the towns merged. Just 500 residents remain. They're determined to build a life after coal. A new multipurpose center was set to open soon when the storm hit. Residents vow to finish it; for now, the building is a relief-distribution center. Barely a week after the storms, the barbershop has reopened. Nearby, the florist says he will soon, too. Neighbors and volunteers are coming together to help.
'We're triaging': Cops combat violent crime as ranks dwindle
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In Portland, Oregon, the police chief recently pulled detectives from cold case and assault units to backfill the homicide unit, which is overwhelmed by a spike in gun violence. In Philadelphia, the police disbanded its abandoned car unit and in Los Angeles, homeless outreach and animal cruelty teams have largely shut down. In major American cities, police departments are losing officers and can’t find enough recruits to replace them. Pandemic burnout, budget cuts and anti-police protests after George Floyd’s murder have combined to reduce police ranks and many departments are downsizing. The evolution has affected residents in ways large and small.
What to watch in Wis., 3 other states in Tuesday's primaries
The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race in Tuesday's primary elections features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence. Democrats are picking a candidate to face two-term GOP Sen. Ron Johnson for control of the closely divided chamber. Meanwhile, voters in Vermont are picking a replacement for U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, as the chamber’s longest-serving member retires. In Minnesota, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar faces a primary challenger who helped defeat a voter referendum to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety.
As summer wanes, water crisis looms for east Ukrainian city
SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — A lack of running water in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk means that residents must fill bottles by hand at public pumps throughout the city. The city's remaining population has adapted to this new way of life. But local officials warn that the coming of winter could set the stage for a humanitarian crisis. Most of the eastern Donetsk region is without gas for heating and public wells and municipal water pipes are likely to freeze in winter. The head of the city military administration in nearby Kramatorsk said that this lack of utilities would prompt people to use other means to heat and light their houses. And that raises the risk of fires.
Pfizer buying spree continues with $5.4B hematology deal
Pfizer is buying sickle cell drug maker Global Blood Therapeutics in an approximately $5.4 billion deal as it looks to accelerate growth after its revenue soared during the pandemic. Pfizer will pay $68.50 per share in cash for each GBT share. GBT is the developer of Oxbryta tablets, which directly targets the root cause of sickle cell disease. Oxbryta sales were about $195 million last year. | 2022-08-08T13:00:51+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-8-34-a-m-edt/article_5ae91f7e-6d6a-51f3-9f95-27c876fb9df1.html |
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Thousands rallied across Croatia Thursday in solidarity with a woman who was denied an abortion despite her fetus having serious health problems, and whose weeks-long ordeal has sparked public outrage.
Protests demanding a better public health system and respect of women’s right to choice were held in several cities and towns throughout the predominantly conservative and strongly Catholic nation.
Shouting “Enough!,” participants carried banners reading ”Master of my own body” or “Woman’s toughest decision is not yours,” as they vowed to “stay angry.”
“Let’s be furious and scream until the system provides the health protection we deserve!” one of the speakers told the noisy crowd in the capital Zagreb. “Changes can come only through solidarity.”
Mirela Cavajda was 20 weeks pregnant when doctors informed her that her fetus had a brain tumor and no chance of a normal life. She said doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy and advised Cavajda to seek the procedure in neighboring Slovenia instead.
The case has rekindled a years-long debate about abortion in Croatia, a member of the European Union. Under public pressure, a medical commission later approved a termination, which the health authorities said would mean an induced childbirth at this stage.
Abortions are legal and allowed after the 10th week of pregnancy if there are serious health threats to the woman or fetus but doctors often refuse to perform them. Scores of Croatian women have traveled abroad for an abortion over the years.
Cavajda said the ordeal has been very hard for her and her family.
“Why prolong the waiting, why should I keep waking up or going to bed wondering if he had died, whether I’ll get blood poisoning or not?” she said. “The worst is yet to come for me.”
The existing law that permits abortions dates back to 1978, when the country was part of the Communist-run former Yugoslavia. Croatia became an independent country in 1991, and since then increasingly influential conservative and religious groups have tried to get abortion banned. | 2022-05-13T07:16:48+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/health-watch/thousands-rally-in-croatia-after-woman-denied-abortion/ |
Natalie’s First Alert Forecast: Hazy & hot Father’s Day with coastal sprinkles
Smoke continues to hover over Eastern North Carolina through beginning of week
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - It will be a beautiful day and exactly what fathers throughout Eastern Carolina deserve!
Lots of sunshine throughout our area with the chance for some stray clouds and sprinkles particularly along the coast. High of 89F.
Clear skies will continue through Sunday night with a low of 66F.
But come Monday morning, we will see some cloud coverage your Juneteenth, Clouds will stick around throughout the day and some places inland may see a sprinkle, but there is no heavy rain potential there. High of 88F.
Something that’s important to mention is that ENC continues to be covered by smoke as a result of a combination of Canadian smoke and the Pulp Road fire in Brunswick County bringing on hazy conditions. The graphic below shows the northeastern part of our viewing area, Northern Outer Banks and parts of the Pamlico Sound experience a thin layer of smoke. More inland and central parts of our viewing area as well as the Pamlico Sound see moderate smoke (especially Greenville and surrounding areas have a strong smell of smoke). Then areas like Jacksonville down to the Crystal Coast has heavier smoke levels.
If you have any Upper Respiratory or Heart issues, you may need to monitor how much time you spend outdoors. As of now, we are seeing smoke hover over ENC today through possibly Wednesday.
With air quality concerns in place, an Air Quality Alert is in effect for Pender and Duplin Counties through midnight Sunday night. Code Orange conditions are possible in these areas.
As for the rest of Eastern NC, Code Yellow conditions are expected with most locations experiencing hazy skies for Sunday. Air temperatures will gradually warm up to the mid to upper 80s with a southerly flow around 10 to 15 mph.
Heading into next week, an area of low pressure will stick around the southeast increasing opportunities for unsettled weather to continue headed into Tuesday - Friday, as the upper low continues to supply lift and moisture to the area. Adding to this, another surface low pressure could also form along the coast headed into midweek, lingering there through the end of the period. This could locally enhance lift in those areas which may contribute to locally heavy rainfall.
TROPICS: The National Hurricane Center is tracking an area of low pressure located several hundred miles to the south of the Cape Verde Islands. Atmospheric conditions will be favorable for development over the next several days as the system tracks westward. As of 2:00 PM, there is 50% chance of this system becoming a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours, and an 80% chance over the next seven days. If the system develops, the next name on the list is Bret.
Download and check the WITN Weather App for Daily and Hourly forecasts for where you live.
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NEW YORK, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, artist-first music streaming service Audiomack announced the launch of Audiomack Punjabi, a new vertical focused on amplifying the renowned genre, introducing the music to new audiences and featuring versatile playlists highlighting the region's most popular contemporary artists.
As part of the move, Punjabi will appear alongside hip-hop, Afrobeats, Latin, Caribbean and more of the streaming service's popular genres. The newly-introduced playlists will include Punjabi Verified, 808 Pind (Village), Ishq, Party Pataka, Punjab to Canada, Punjabi Duets and more, which will be updated weekly.
Additionally, Punjabi stars such as Amrit Maan, The PropheC, Himmat Sandhu, Ezu, Jasmine Sandlas & Gur Sidhu, Karan Aujla, Himanshi Khurana and Baani Sandhu along with the late-great Sidhu Moose Wala will serve as the inaugural cover stars of Audiomack's playlists.
"We are excited to officially launch the Punjabi genre on the Audiomack platform," Audiomack co-founder and CMO David Ponte said. "These new playlists and trending section will position Punjabi artists alongside hip-hop, Afrobeats, and Latin music, rightfully giving them a share of an ever-growing pie of hungry music fans. We are confident that Audiomack's free suite of tools, including the Creator App, Supporters, and discovery solutions, will connect this growing genre with prospective fans worldwide. Our mission is to be a catalyst for the genre's international growth, much like our impact on Afrobeats' popularity in the West, for years to come and share the talents of these undeniable artists with Audiomack's users."
A breakdown of each playlist can be found below:
- Punjabi Verified: The latest addition to Audiomack's popular Verified series features the most popping Punjabi songs updated weekly.
- 808 Pind: Punjabi lyrics and vocals soaring over trap, west coast, and drill beats, this playlist features the most popular of Punjabi subgenres on Audiomack.
- ISHQ: Ishq is one of many words for Love in Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi. This playlist consists of both ballads and acoustic guitar songs about heartbreak and love. These themes are popular and this playlist has been the easiest to populate with content available on Audiomack.
- Saada Bhangra: Modern Punjabi Bhangra music was created in the late 1970's when British Indian laborers combined Western instruments with Indian folk and harvest songs. Elements of Indian instrumentation are key in this genre and while the instrumentation has been updated to be inspired by hip-hop the instruments accompanying those beats are mostly still Indian - strings, drums, etc.
- Party Pataka: Pataka means firecracker. This playlist consists of Punjabi pop songs, danceable in nature, and festive. The songs often sound like other Punjabi subgenres but with a splash of reggaeton or other global pop influences.
- Punjabi Duets: Playful, often danceable, back-and-forth duets on love and romance between Male and Female vocalists. As the voiceshare of women has decreased in Bollywood, both with solo songs and duets in decline, we've seen duets remain strong as a subgenre of Punjabi songs.
- Punjab to Canada: Featuring the most popular artists from Canada today and those singing about it from India.
- Mutirayan: Mutirayan celebrates the women of Punjabi music who have held it down since Surinder Kaur and beyond
The launch of the new vertical honors the storied history and legacy of genre that originated in India and Pakistan. For Audiomack, it's an opportunity to better serve fans across the global diaspora, educate new listeners about the Punjabi sound and highlight the region's cultural contributions across the world.
"Punjabi music has been pushing into the mainstream space like Latin and AfroBeats for a minute. It's great to see Audiomack have their ear to the ground and have the foresight to give our music the platform it deserves," Punjabi artist Jaz Dhami said. "I feel Audiomack will help close the gap between genres even further as it's not your typical streaming site. Globally, this is going to help link artists like never before."
Beyond Asia, the genre is popular amongst the massive Indian diaspora across the globe.
"We are delighted to formalize the association with Audiomack, allowing our artists and the extensive catalog of Punjabi music to reach global audiences along with the other popular genres like hip-hop, Afro Beats, Latin and many more," Believe Digital Regional Director (Believe – Artist Services, India) Shilpa Sharda said. "This collaboration will be a great addition to our existing brand relationships and an immense opportunity for our artists to build up their fan base internationally."
To learn more about the launch of Audiomack Punjabi, please visit https://audiomack.com/punjabi/trending-now and follow @AudiomackPunjab on Twitter and @audiomackpunjabi on Instagram. More information can be found here.
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SOURCE Audiomack | 2022-06-08T18:09:56+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/06/08/audiomack-launches-audiomack-punjabi-expand-cultural-reach-amp-increase-genres-international-presence/ |
Bears roaming the streets of Italy. Pumas prowling cities in California. Goats taking over towns in Wales.
How life for animals changed when humans stayed home during the pandemic
A massive study of GPS tracking data on land animals during covid closures showed they roamed farther and acted more relaxed without humans around to bother them.
“It’s obvious that we’re having an impact on animal behavior,” said Marlee Tucker, an ecologist at Radboud University in the Netherlands who led the study published in the journal Science on Thursday. What is more surprising, she added, is that even “small changes in our behavior could actually be quite beneficial” for wildlife.
The unprecedented and accidental experiment that was the coronavirus pandemic allowed the ecologists to show how perceptive other creatures are to the presence of humans — and how quickly they can alter their behavior when we aren’t bothering them.
The work, which involved 175 wildlife researchers, suggests new ways to protect wildlife now that the pandemic is over — without, that is, having to urge everyone to stay at home again.
“The most striking thing was that the responses were occurring over a very short period of time,” said Colleen Cassady St. Clair, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta who was not involved in writing the paper. “And it suggests that several species are very reactive to human activity.”
A growing body of research into the slowdown in human activity during the pandemic — a brief period scientists call the “anthropause” — shows the complex ways ecosystems responded when they were suddenly devoid of people.
Sometimes, the absence of humans was a beneficial reprieve for wildlife. At other times, the anthropause came at animals’ detriment.
Enter the anthropause
Like a lot of the best science, it began by accident.
In the years leading up to 2020, dozens of scientists around the world put tracking collars on elephants, giraffes, bears, deer, lions and other animals for their own separate research projects. At the time, none of them suspected their data would help us understand the effects of a global health crisis.
But once covid began sweeping the globe, Tucker started making calls and sending emails to researchers tracking wildlife. Having spent much of her career studying wildlife movements around humans, she and her colleagues knew the pandemic was “quite a unique opportunity.”
In total, the GPS coordinates the team gathered from 2,300 terrestrial mammals showed a wide variety of responses, but a few trends emerged.
Many animals became more adventurous during the beginning of the pandemic, traveling distances up to 73 percent longer compared to the year prior in areas with the strictest covid restrictions.
Among the biggest daredevils were brown bears in the Italian Alps. Around the city of Trento, the normally skittish carnivores raided chicken coops, pillaged garbage cans and wandered straight into the village centers during lockdowns.
“All these are very rare events,” said Andrea Corradini, an ecologist at the Edmund Mach Foundation in Italy, “yet several instances were reported over the course of two months during the lockdown.”
Pumas in California are, too, are normally leery of populated areas. But during closures in the San Francisco Bay Area, the cats inched closer to urban areas, sometimes patrolling right through them.
But just as quickly, the pumas retreated. “As soon as society opened back up again and people were back out driving and walking on the streets, they reverted right back to how they had been before,” said Chris Wilmers, a professor of wildlife conservation at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Although the tracked animals roamed longer distances, they moved less during short, one-hour timespans because fewer people were around to spook them. And with fewer cars on the roads, many animals also inched closer to normally bustling thoroughfares in search of food and other resources.
“That kind of blew my mind — that kind of insidious effect of traffic,” said Amanda Bates, a biology professor at the University of Victoria who helped coin the term anthropause. “If everyone interrupted me in the middle of my dinner every night, then I’d be much lighter.”
Letting wildlife be wild
For many species, the hiatus from humans was clearly a boon. Sea turtles in Florida, for instance, appeared to thrive after beachgoers packed up their umbrellas, other researchers have shown. The same was true for turtles on the Greek island of Zakynthos.
But ecosystems are complicated, with humans wittingly (or unwittingly) playing a role.
For instance, researchers working to protect seabirds by ridding Gough Island in the Atlantic of invasive mice had to postpone the project during the pandemic.
And the absence of tourists on the Swedish island of Stora Karlso caused a sevenfold increase in white-tailed eagles compared to the previous year. That’s good for the raptors — but bad for a type of seabird called the common murre that the eagles liked to disturb. Humans, whether they knew it or not, were helping guard the murres from bigger birds.
For St. Clair, the ill effects road traffic has on wildlife underscores the need for physical barriers — for the protection of both animals and the people that can crash into them.
“A good solution for coexistence with wildlife, especially wildlife that can inflict injuries on people, is to have quite clear segregation,” she said.
Another lesson of the covid closures: Sometimes it’s good just to give wildlife more space to be wild. That’s especially true during key survival moments, said Tucker, the lead author on the most recent paper. It may be good to close down, say, a beach or a forest during a migratory or breeding season.
“Just so that animals can do their thing in peace,” she said. “There could be certain times of the year that we just have to shift our behavior for a week or two.”
This article is part of Animalia, a column exploring the strange and fascinating world of animals and the ways in which we appreciate, imperil and depend on them. | 2023-06-08T19:52:18+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/08/covid-lockdowns-wildlife/ |
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
3-9-6-9, WB: 7
(three, nine, six, nine; WB: seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
3-9-6-9, WB: 7
(three, nine, six, nine; WB: seven) | 2022-09-28T19:05:32+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Play4-Day-game-17473244.php |
Real Madrid faces Athletic Club in a La Liga match at San Mames Barria in Bilbao, Spain, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023 (1/22/23).
Fans can watch the match for free via a trial of fuboTV or DirecTV Stream or via a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: La Liga
Who: Real Madrid vs. Athletic Club
When: Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023
Time: 3 p.m. ET
Where: San Mames Barria (Bilbao)
TV: ESPN Deportes, ESPN+
Channel finder: Verizon Fios, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DIRECTV,Dish,Hulu, fuboTV, Sling.
Live stream: fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial), ESPN+
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — With its Champions League hopes all but dashed, Barcelona knows that the Spanish league title has become a must-win to justify the club’s massive financial gamble.
Barcelona, which next plays at Real Madrid in the “clásico” on Sunday, will need a small miracle to avoid elimination from the group stage of the Champions League for the second straight year after winning only one of its four games so far. A 3-3 draw at home against Inter Milan on Wednesday left it on the verge of another unwanted ticket to the Europa League.
That was not in the plans when Barcelona mortgaged its future by selling off part of its television rights and other assets to be able to invest in new players. Club president Joan Laporta argued that the risk was worth getting the team back to winning major titles and past the painful exit of Lionel Messi.
Barcelona’s slim hopes of advancing in the Champions League hangs on winning its two remaining group matches and Inter failing to take three points against Viktoria Plzen and group winner Bayern Munich.
Robert Lewandowski, at least, has proven to be worth the money. The 34-year-old Poland striker has scored 14 goals in 12 games in all competitions since leaving Bayern; he leads the Spanish league with eight goals; and he shares the scoring lead in the Champions League with Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah with five goals each. Lewandowski’s two goals against Inter this week saved Barcelona from a loss.
“After a bad game you have to face up to reality in the best way possible, show that you can play well and win,” Lewandowski told DAZN television ahead of his first “clásico” against Real Madrid. “It is a tough moment but we know that we have the opportunity in the ‘clásico’ to go out there and win the game.”
The rival teams are tied on points at the top of the standings, with Barcelona ahead on goal difference after both have seven wins and one draw.
Laporta said Friday that failing to advance to the knockout stage of the Champions League would cost the already highly indebted club 25-35 million euros ($24-34 million) in projected revenues.
“We have to change our focus,” Laporta said. “We have to remember that the team is still coalescing. Our objective was clear from the start of the season — to win the (Spanish) league. In the Champions League we wanted to get past the group stage and see how far we could get, but it is not going well.”
Barcelona has been hard hit by injuries, especially in defense after recently losing defenders Ronald Araújo, Jules Koundé, Andreas Christensen and Héctor Bellerín.
That left Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez with only Éric García and veteran Gerard Pique as center backs against Inter. Pique, a regular starter before this season, was booed on Wednesday after he let a ball go over him that led to a goal for Inter.
The only good news is that Koundé, who can play at right back or in the center of the defense, was back in training with his teammates on Thursday.
Barcelona’s defense will have to handle a Madrid attack headed by Karim Benzema and the speedy Vinícius Júnior, who leads his team with seven goals. Benzema, Rodrygo and Federico Valverde have each chipped in with four goals.
The only starter that Carlo Ancelotti will likely be without is injured goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, meaning Andriy Lunin will play in goal.
Madrid is unbeaten in 13 games overall this season and seeking to defend both its European and Spanish titles.
The game will also feature Barcelona’s eye-catching shirts bearing the owl logo of singer Drake.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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Ryan Novozinsky may be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-01-22T18:45:06+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/01/real-madrid-vs-athletic-club-free-live-stream-12223-watch-la-liga-online-time-usa-tv-channel.html |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 26, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Seattle WA
908 AM PST Sun Dec 25 2022
...HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH TUESDAY AND RECENT SNOWMELT WILL LEAD TO
AN INCREASED THREAT OF LANDSLIDES IN WESTERN WASHINGTON...
Rainfall of one to three inches over the past 24-36 hours combined
with low elevation snowmelt has increased soil moisture to high
levels across western Washington. Heavy rainfall of two to four inches
is expected over the next few days. This amount of rain will put
extra pressure on soil instability, leading to an increased threat of
landslides.
For more information about current conditions, visit
www.weather.gov/seattle, select Hydrology, and then scroll down
for the links to the landslide information pages.
For more information on landslides, visit the website for the
Washington State Department of Natural Resources landslide
geologic hazards at: http://bit.ly/2mtA3wn
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Published: Nov. 16, 2022 at 4:30 AM MST|Updated: 2 hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Comparable sales increased 2.7 percent, on top of 12.7 percent growth last year.
Comparable sales growth was driven by 1.4 percent traffic growth and a 1.3 percent increase in average ticket.
Category performance was led by growth in frequency businesses including Beauty, Food and Beverage and Household Essentials, which offset continued softness in discretionary categories.
The Company saw unit share gains across all five core merchandising categories.
Third quarter operating margin rate of 3.9 percent improved meaningfully compared with the second quarter results, but fell far short of expectations.
In light of an increasingly challenging environment, the Company lowered its topline and bottom line expectations for the fourth quarter.
The Company announced an enterprise initiative to simplify and gain efficiencies across its business, representing an estimated cumulative savings opportunity of $2 to $3 billion over the next three years.
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) today announced its third quarter 2022 financial results, which reflected continued sales and traffic growth in an increasingly challenging environment.
The Company reported third quarter GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $1.54, down 49.3 percent from $3.04 in 2021. Third quarter Adjusted EPS1 of $1.54 decreased 49.1 percent compared with $3.03 in 2021. The attached tables provide a reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP measures. All earnings per share figures refer to diluted EPS.
"In the third quarter, our business delivered comparable sales growth of 2.7 percent, and we saw unit share gains across all of our core merchandise categories. This performance demonstrates the durability of our business model which continues to serve our guests and drive loyalty despite the challenging economic environment," said Brian Cornell, chairman and chief executive officer of Target Corporation. "In the latter weeks of the quarter, sales and profit trends softened meaningfully, with guests' shopping behavior increasingly impacted by inflation, rising interest rates and economic uncertainty. This resulted in a third quarter profit performance well below our expectations.
While we're ready to deliver exceptional value for our guests this holiday season, supported by the decisive inventory actions we took earlier this year, the rapidly evolving consumer environment means we're planning the balance of the year more conservatively. We're also taking new actions to drive efficiencies now and in the future, optimizing our operations to match the scale of our business and drive continued growth. The strides we have made in recent years to build a truly differentiated, guest-centered retail offering, punctuated by a balanced, multi-category portfolio, positions us well to navigate in any environment. Looking ahead, we remain laser-focused on delivering the best of Target to our guests, and continuing to invest in our long-term, profitable growth."
Fiscal 2022 Guidance
Based on softening sales and profit trends that emerged late in the third quarter and persisted into November, the Company believes it is prudent to plan for a wide range of sales outcomes in the fourth quarter, centered around a low-single digit decline in comparable sales, consistent with those recent trends. Similarly, the Company is now planning a wide range for its fourth quarter operating margin rate centered around 3 percent.
Enterprise Efficiency
The Company announced today it was undertaking an enterprise-wide effort to simplify and gain efficiencies across its business with a focus on reducing complexities and lowering costs while continuing to support its team. The Company believes it can save a total of $2 to $3 billion over the next three years through this work. These savings will support the company's investments in driving deeper guest engagement and long-term growth while also delivering on its profit goals. This opportunity is enabled by the rapid growth since 2019, in which Target's total revenue has grown approximately 40 percent. In light of this growth, this effort is focused on fully leveraging the scale that's been gained to best-position the Company to continue growing efficiently over time.
Operating Results
Comparable sales grew 2.7 percent in the third quarter, reflecting comparable store sales growth of 3.2 percent and comparable digital sales growth of 0.3 percent. Total revenue of $26.5 billion grew 3.4 percent compared with last year, reflecting total sales growth of 3.3 percent and a 9.5 percent increase in other revenue. Operating income was $1.0 billion in third quarter 2022, down 49.2 percent from $2.0 billion in 2021, driven primarily by a decline in the Company's gross margin rate.
Third quarter operating income margin rate was 3.9 percent in 2022, compared with 7.8 percent in 2021. Third quarter gross margin rate was 24.7 percent, compared with 28.0 percent in 2021. This year's gross margin rate reflected higher markdown rates, inventory shrink, and merchandise and freight costs, net of retail price increases, compared with last year. Additionally, gross margin rate was pressured by increased compensation and headcount in our distribution centers and the costs of managing early receipts of inventory, with a slight offset from favorable category mix. Third quarter SG&A expense rate was 19.7 percent in 2022, compared with 18.9 percent in 2021. This reflected the impact of cost inflation across multiple parts of the business, including investments in hourly team member compensation, which was partially offset by lower incentive compensation.
Interest Expense and Taxes
The Company's third quarter 2022 net interest expense was $125 million, compared with $105 million last year, reflecting higher average long-term debt and commercial paper balances.
Third quarter 2022 effective income tax rate was 21.6 percent, compared with the prior year rate of 22.1 percent, reflecting the rate impact of tax benefits on lower pre-tax earnings compared with last year.
Capital Deployment and Return on Invested Capital
The Company paid dividends of $497 million in the third quarter, compared with $440 million last year, reflecting a 20.0 percent increase in the dividend per share, partially offset by a decline in average share count.
The Company did not repurchase stock in the third quarter. As of the end of the third quarter, the Company had approximately $9.7 billion of remaining capacity under the repurchase program approved by Target's Board of Directors in August 2021.
For the trailing twelve months through third quarter 2022, after-tax return on invested capital (ROIC) was 14.6 percent, compared with 31.3 percent for the trailing twelve months through third quarter 2021. The decrease in ROIC was driven primarily by lower profitability in third quarter 2022. The tables in this release provide additional information about the Company's ROIC calculation.
Webcast Details
Target will webcast its third quarter earnings conference call at 7:00 a.m. CT today. Investors and the media are invited to listen to the meeting at Investors.Target.com (click on link under "Upcoming Events"). A replay of the webcast will be provided when available. The replay number is 1-800-391-9853.
Miscellaneous
Statements in this release regarding fourth quarter comparable sales levels and operating margin rate, and the potential benefits from the enterprise initiative to simplify and gain efficiencies across the business are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause the Company's actions to differ materially. These risk and uncertainties include difficulties and delays in identifying and achieving the potential cost savings associated with the enterprise initiative to simplify and gain efficiencies and the other risks and uncertainties described in Item 1A of the Company's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2022. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
About Target
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) serves guests at nearly 2,000 stores and at Target.com, with the purpose of helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. Since 1946, Target has given 5% of its profit to communities, which today equals millions of dollars a week. For the latest store count or more information, visit Target.com/Pressroom. For a behind-the-scenes look at Target, visit Target.com/abullseyeview or follow @TargetNews on Twitter.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc. | 2022-11-16T13:00:45+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/11/16/target-corporation-reports-third-quarter-earnings/ |
Blackhawks claim D Jarred Tinordi off waivers from Rangers
DENVER (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks have claimed defenseman Jarred Tinordi off waivers from the New York Rangers. The 30-year-old Tinordi scored a goal in seven games with New York last season. He was selected by Montreal in the first round of the 2010 draft. The Blackhawks open the regular season on Wednesday night at Colorado. | 2022-10-11T00:18:21+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/10/10/blackhawks-claim-d-jarred-tinordi-off-waivers-from-rangers/ |
Maryland sheriff charged in illegal gun rental scheme
Apr 12, 2023, 3:30 PM
A Maryland sheriff repeatedly lied to federal authorities to help a local firearms dealer illegally obtain machine guns and rent them out to his customers, forming a partnership that was profitable and politically beneficial, according to a federal grand jury indictment filed last week.
Frederick County Sheriff Charles “Chuck” Jenkins pleaded not guilty Wednesday to several charges, including conspiracy and making false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
After initially pledging to remain in office while the case proceeds, Jenkins said Wednesday he is taking a leave of absence.
“I have full confidence in the system, and I know that my innocence will prevail at the end of all of this,” Jenkins said in a statement released by the agency.
He was released pending trial on several conditions, including that he refrains from possessing a firearm or other dangerous weapons.
Federal law generally prohibits firearm dealers from importing machine guns unless they are being used as demonstration models for law enforcement agencies, which can legally purchase such weapons. But in order for dealers to use that exemption, the interested law enforcement agency must submit a letter to ATF requesting a sample of the machine gun they are considering purchasing.
According to the indictment, Jenkins wrote such letters on behalf of his co-defendant, Robert Krop, whose Frederick County business The Machine Gun Nest offered machine guns for rent. The business made over $100,000 in profits from the rentals in 2018 and 2019 alone, the indictment says.
Krop offered Jenkins political support in exchange for the favor, according to federal prosecutors.
In several letters dating back to 2015, Jenkins falsely claimed the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office wanted samples of various machine gun models, according to the indictment. The requests were approved, allowing Krop’s business to obtain the weapons.
In a 2018 letter, Jenkins requested machine gun models that are “suitable only for use in combat,” not for law enforcement purposes, the indictment says.
Jenkins was first elected sheriff of the largely rural county in 2006. He started his career with the agency in 1990. | 2023-04-12T23:41:29+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3874282/maryland-sheriff-charged-in-illegal-gun-rental-scheme/ |
A Los Angeles Lakers fan is $75,000 richer.
Jamie Murry won the money Monday night after hitting a half-court shot at Crypto.com Arena. Immediately after the ball went through the net, Murry began celebrating with the team and crowd. He even got a hug from superstar Anthony Davis.
Murry told ESPN's Dave McMenamin he plays basketball sometimes, but he's mainly into football.
"That was all luck, all luck. I'm going to keep it 100%; that was luck," he said.
Murry told McMenamin that he plans to give most of the money to his mother and save the rest.
The lucky shot was just about the only thing Lakers fans could celebrate Monday night. The team fell to 7-12 this season after losing to the Indiana Pacers. | 2022-11-29T19:34:28+00:00 | ksby.com | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/fan-makes-75k-half-court-shot-at-lakers-game |
EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) - Officials with the Eau Claire Area School District said Monday they no longer intend to make changes two of their language course options.
In November, News 18 reported that the school district planned to stop offering the Hmong One language course, instead combining it into a year-long Hmong History and Cultures course.
The district also told News 18 they would no longer offer the first level of Japanese next school year, and planned to discontinue the language all together by the 2024-2025 school year.
On Monday, the following statement was sent to News 18 about their new decision:
"After receiving considerable feedback in recent weeks from community members, families, students, Board members, and other stakeholders, District Administration has changed the operational decision on World Language. This operational change was also determined after significant collaboration between District and School Administration.
The ECASD will continue to offer six language options at the high school level and will NOT narrow language options to four starting in 2023-24, as previously stated. Hmong and Japanese will NOT be discontinued."
The former move to change these language courses had been met with criticism. At the school board meeting on November 28, people spoke against the decision, saying the languages are important to society, and they offer a window into the world for Eau Claire students.
Superintendent Mike Johnson told News 18 the decision to change/discontinue the language offerings came after a review of the world language program last spring, as well as after surveying 1,700 families and 1,500 students.
ECASD also offers French, Spanish, German and American Sign Language. | 2022-12-05T22:20:03+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/eye_on_eau_claire/ecasd-changes-course-says-they-will-continue-to-offer-hmong-japanese-languages/article_393e72a4-74e5-11ed-8c4d-cbe21a782ec7.html |
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators are warning railroads that the long trains they favor can cause all kinds of problems and contribute to derailments, so they want the railroads to ensure their training and operating procedures account for that.
The Federal Railroad Administration stopped short of recommending in its latest safety advisory issued Thursday that railroads limit the size of their trains, which can routinely stretch more than 2 miles long. However, they did suggest a number of precautions including making sure engineers know how to handle them and that locomotives don’t lose communication with devices at the end of trains that can help trigger the brakes in an emergency.
Currently, there aren’t any restrictions on train length but members of Congress and state lawmakers in at least six states have proposed establishing limits particularly in the wake of the fiery Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment in Ohio. The major freight railroads have pushed back against that idea because they have increasingly come to rely on longer trains to help them move cargo with fewer crews and mechanics as they overhauled their operations over the past six years. Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz said recently that he doesn’t think accident data shows that long trains are riskier.
But the Federal Railroad Administration cited three derailments involving trains longer than 12,250 feet (3,734 meters) where train length was a factor in its advisory. That agency and the National Academies of Sciences are both in the middle of studying the impact of long trains, and they expect to issue reports next year on whether they are a problem.
“FRA believes these incidents demonstrate the need for railroads and railroad employees to be particularly mindful of the complexities of operating longer trains,” the agency said.
The derailments mentioned as examples of the problems that can accompany long trains were in Springfield, Ohio, in March; in Ravenna, Ohio, last November; and in Rockwell, Iowa, in March 2022. In each of those cases, the way cars in different parts of the train pulled and pushed against each other contributed to the derailments.
The fiery February derailment that prompted evacuations in East Palestine, Ohio, and sparked a nationwide focus on rail safety wasn’t mentioned as an example. The National Transportation Safety Board has said that an overheated bearing that caused an axle to fail on one of the railcars likely caused that derailment.
This latest advisory follows one earlier this month that directed railroads to re-examine the way they assemble their trains to minimize those kind of forces that often come into play as a train goes over hills and around corners. Parts of a train can be pulling forward going up a hill while the middle or back of the train pushes against the rest of the cars while going down a hill.
Those forces make it challenging for engineers to control a train, so regulators said railroads need to adjust their training to make sure their engineers are prepared to handle the monster trains they are operating. The common practice of putting locomotives in the middle of long trains as well as in the front can help manage a long train, but having to control those additional locomotives also complicates the engineer’s job.
“A locomotive engineer cannot be expected to safely operate in a more demanding service without proper additional training that covers the unique challenges and complexities those trains present,” regulators said in the advisory.
A spokeswoman for the Association of American Railroads trade group said railroads are already working to manage the challenges associated with long trains and looking for ways to improve safety.
“All stakeholders – the FRA, railroads, and elected officials – share the same goal of continuously enhancing rail safety, minimizing adverse impacts to surrounding communities and keeping the goods that power our economy flowing,” AAR spokeswoman Jessica Kahanek said. “The recommendations within this advisory align closely with the prudent steps railroads already take to do just that.”
The Federal Railroad Administration said that in addition to the concerns about derailments, long trains can block crossings for extended periods of time. When crossings are blocked, firefighters, police and ambulance drivers may be delayed in getting someone the help that they need, and pedestrians may risk their lives by crawling under or across stopped trains that could start moving without warning.
The states proposing limits on train size this year include Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada and Washington. | 2023-04-28T12:53:13+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/railroads-warned-about-the-problems-long-trains-can-cause/ |
Which horse clipper is best?
A neatly clipped horse looks elegant and refined in the show ring, but there are other reasons why a horse gets clipped too. In the winter, a clipped horse takes less time to cool off after a sweaty ride, which makes them less susceptible to getting chilled. Horses with clipped legs and bellies are easier to clean after cross-country or beach rides. In the summer, horses that are unable to shed their coats are more comfortable after a full body clip.
The Wahl Professional Animal Creativa Cordless Horse Clipper is a heavy-duty set of horse clippers you can take anywhere.
What to know before you buy horse clippers
Type of power
Horse clippers are available in either corded or cordless versions. The most expensive cordless brands pack quite a bit of power, but if you need an affordable set of clippers that can still clip a full horse, corded horse clippers might be the best option.
Consider also where you’ll use your clippers. If you frequently travel away from the barn for horse shows, you may want clippers that you can use anywhere, even when there are no outlets.
Level of work
Clippers come in three main types: light, medium and heavy-duty. This defines not only the sturdiness of the clippers themselves but also the type of clipping they can handle. Lightweight clippers might be best for fine trim work around your horse’s ears and coronet, but heavy-duty clippers are definitely necessary for clipping a shaggy horse. Medium-duty horse clippers fall somewhere in the middle and can handle both full-body clips completed a little at a time and fine trim work.
Noise level
Most horses can be trained to stand patiently for clipping, but some horses are more sensitive than others. If you have an extra-sensitive horse who struggles with staying still, you might want to consider buying a whisper-quiet set of horse clippers to help them feel more comfortable.
What to look for in quality horse clippers
Rechargeable batteries
Cordless clippers can really go through batteries. If you need the flexibility that cordless clippers allow but don’t want to blow your budget on batteries, look for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. These will last longer and cost less in the long run, as you won’t need to continue purchasing additional batteries.
Multiple speeds
Sure, one speed will get the job done, but for complicated clips, such as creating designs or for sensitive areas of the body, the ability to slow down and speed up really helps. Horse clippers with multiple speeds are a great tool to have in the grooming box.
Accessories
At a minimum, your horse clippers should include a blade brush for cleaning out stray hairs. Many clippers come with more than that though. Look for horse clippers that come with accessories like different blades for designs, hard-sided carrying cases, combs and clipper oil too.
How much you can expect to spend on horse clippers
Horse clippers can get rather pricey, but there are affordable options available. Expect to spend between $90-$300 for horse clippers.
Horse clippers FAQ
How do you clip a horse?
A. Every good clip starts with a totally clean horse. Dirt will dull your clipper blades and make your job harder than it needs to be. Make sure your horse is desensitized to the sound of the clippers before you begin.
Oil your clipper blades first, then clip by moving the clippers smoothly against the hair growth. Try for smooth, sweeping strokes that are consistent in pressure. Overlap your clipping strokes to make sure you clip all the hair.
Oil and clean your clipper blades as needed during the clip. If your clippers get hot or the blades stop clipping, this could be a sign of a jam. Turn off the clippers, clean the blades and proceed. If you have never clipped a horse before, it can help to watch someone else do it first.
What are the different styles of horse clips?
A. There are many different styles of horse clips. The following five types are the most popular. A full clip removes hair from the entire body, including the head and legs. With a hunter clip, hair is clipped all over except for where the saddle sits. A blanket clip leaves the hair beneath the blanket unclipped. A chaser clip leaves more hair on the sides of the body, but is similar to a blanket clip. A trace clip is a very minimal clip which only removes hair underneath the neck and belly.
What are the best horse clippers to buy?
Top horse clippers
Wahl Professional Animal Creativa Cordless Horse Clipper
What you need to know: Cordless clippers are great for clipping on the go, and these are powerful enough to do the job.
What you’ll love: The adjustable blade and quiet operation means even sensitive horses can tolerate these clippers on their body. They are lightweight, cordless and come with accessories for grooming.
What you should consider: Horses with winter coats needed more power for a full body clip.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top horse clippers for the money
What you need to know: These horse clips have enough power to get through any type of hair.
What you’ll love: The powerful 500-watt motor made short work of full-body clips on coarse, long hair. BEETRO clippers feature six speed settings for their sharp blade and also come with a carrying case with accessories.
What you should consider: Some users found that these clippers were heavy and ran hot.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Oster Clipmaster Grooming Clippers, Large Animal
What you need to know: These affordable clippers are a good middle ground between the most expensive brands and the bare-bones models.
What you’ll love: With enough power for a full-body clip and the ability to clip even the most unruly manes, these sturdy clippers are easy to use. The blade is fully adjustable and comfortable in the hand.
What you should consider: These clippers get hot after a while, and there is only one speed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-26T22:55:58+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/reviews/br/pets-br/grooming-br/best-horse-clippers/ |
A road closed in Lancaster city after a vehicle struck a home sometime overnight.
Lancaster City Bureau of Police and bureau of fire responded to the 1st block of Church Street at 6:47 a.m. for a report of a vehicle striking a home.
When the homeowner called, police said the vehicle was already gone. The vehicle damaged the front porch, including the gas main which resulted in an odor of natural gas.
UGI responded to the scene, and according to police, is making repairs in the area.
Nearby homes were evacuated, police said. The investigation is ongoing.
Church Street from South Lime to East Mifflin streets is closed to traffic. It's unclear when the road will reopen.
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as information is available. | 2023-06-25T00:39:21+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/road-closed-after-vehicle-strikes-home-in-lancaster-city/article_13b189a6-129f-11ee-a3fe-9317bcc8809f.html |
BRIMFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Three Massachusetts teenagers were killed and a fourth seriously injured early Sunday in a car crash in the town of Brimfield, state police said.
Just before 1 a.m. Sunday troopers responded to a single-vehicle crash in which a car went off the East Brimfield-Holland Road and rolled over, police said.
The car was believed to have been driven by a 19-year-old Holland man who was among those who died. The crash also killed an 18-year-old West Brookfield man and 17-year-old boy from Oxford.
The fourth occupant, a 17-year-old Brookfield boy, was hospitalized with serious injuries.
Police say they will not be releasing the names of the victims and no further information will be released at this time.
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Alabama hasn’t played many close games recently.
Oklahoma has played plenty of them.
But going into Saturday’s SEC/Big 12 Challenge matchup between the No. 2 Crimson Tide and Sooners in Norman, Okla., the teams are on opposite ends of things.
Alabama (18-2) is coming off a 66-63 victory over Mississippi State.
It was the first game decided by less than double figures during the Crimson Tide’s nine-game winning streak.
Over the first eight, Alabama won by an average of more than 20 points per game.
Crimson Tide coach Nate Oats said he isn’t concerned about his team taking things for granted after moving up to its highest position in the rankings in 20 seasons.
“I don’t think this is a group that’s gonna let too much of that get to their head,” Oats said. “Listening to them talk, talking to them one-on-one, I think they all understand there’s plenty of room to get better, and we’ve gotta get better.”
That experience could benefit his team down the line.
“Sometimes you’ve gotta learn how to win a tight game. You can’t generate that in practice,” Oats said. “We’ve been doing end-of-game situations in practice. I told the guys, ‘We’re gonna have to execute some late-game stuff. We’re not gonna be able to blow everybody out by 20-plus points. That’s not the way it works in SEC play.’ “
Six of Oklahoma’s last nine games were decided by five or fewer points.
But the Sooners (11-9) are coming off a 27-point loss at No. 11 TCU on Tuesday.
The Crimson Tide’s biggest advantage over Oklahoma might come on the glass, where they are outrebounding opponents by an average of seven per game.
The Sooners are outrebounding opponents by less than one per game and have been outrebounded by an average of more than six during their three-game losing streak.
“There are lots of areas of the game I can help them with,” Oklahoma coach Porter Moser said. “I can help them get free of ball screens, set up action, run plays to get them open. Defensively, give them schemes. Rebounding? We have to block out and go get it. … We’re blocking out, but we have to release and go get it.”
Noah Clowney leads Alabama with 8.5 rebounds per game while Brandon Miller is averaging 8.2 per game.
Tanner Groves, averaging 7.3, is the only Oklahoma player recording more than 5.6 rebounds per game.
One of the areas where Moser wants to help his team is freeing up leading scorer Grant Sherfield, especially in the second half.
Sherfield, who is averaging 16.4 points per game, has been held scoreless after halftime in three consecutive games.
“That’s my job,” Moser said. “To help him stay confident, figure things out, navigate. He’s gotta navigate. We’ll navigate through it together.”
Saturday’s game is the 10th meeting between the programs all-time, with Oklahoma leading 6-3. The teams split two previous SEC/Big 12 Challenge games.
Alabama is 4-2 all-time in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. The Crimson Tide upset then-No. 4 Baylor last season, 87-78.
The Sooners are 6-3 in the event, but for the second consecutive season, have gotten the league’s toughest draw.
Last season, the Sooners fell on the road to then-No. 1 Auburn, 86-68.
— Field Level Media | 2023-01-27T05:51:39+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/after-a-scare-no-2-alabama-travels-to-oklahoma/ |
Retail sales up 0.4% in April from March
NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers picked up their spending modestly in April from March, buoyed by a solid job market and easing inflationary pressures.
A bump up in demand for new cars also helped results, according to the Commerce Department report issued Tuesday.
Retail sales increased 0.4% in April from March when it was down 0.7%. It marked the first increase since January when unusually warm weather and a big jump in Social Security benefits likely spurred more spending.
Sales at car and auto parts dealers rose 0.4%, while business at gas stations fell 0.8%. Excluding car dealers and gas stations, retail sales rose 0.6%.
Spending increased 1.2% at online retailers and ticked up 0.6% at restaurants and bars. Department stores, electronic stores and home furnishings stores all saw declines. The figures are not adjusted for inflation unlike many other government reports.
Spending by Americans has remained resilient with signs of weakness elsewhere in the economy. A solid job market has helped to prop up spending. But there’s still been a broader pullback in spending as inflation still remains high despite some easing, and rising interest rates are taking a toll.
Consumer prices in the United States rose again in April, and measures of underlying inflation remained high, implying that the retreat from sharply higher prices is likely to be slow and bumpy. Prices increased 0.4% from March to April, the government said last week, up sharply from a 0.1% rise from February to March. Compared with a year earlier, prices rose 4.9%, down slightly from March’s year-over-year increase. It was the smallest annual gain in two years.
And earlier on Tuesday Home Depot, after years of explosive growth during the pandemic, said that sales slowed during the first quarter of 2023, and the nation’s largest home improvement retailer cut its profit and sales expectations for the entire year. Sales at stores open at least a year, a key indicator of a retailer’s health, dropped 4.5%, and it was down 4.6% for stores in the U.S.
The numbers from Home Depot were a rough beginning to a busy week of retail earnings, dragging down the entire sector and the Dow as well.
Walmart, Target and Macy’s will all report quarterly earnings this week and next, and all edged lower in trading before the opening bell. Rival Lowe’s slid almost 3%.
Economists will be parsing retail numbers to look for the impact of volatility in the banking sector and how tightening credit is changing behavior.
The retail report covers only about a third of overall consumer spending and doesn’t include services such as hotel stays and plane tickets, which have rebounded as the threat of COVID-19 eases.
The Commerce Department recently revised its retail-sales data based on the results of annual surveys of retail and services industries.
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AP Economics Writer Chris Rugaber in Washington contributed to this report.
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Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-05-16T14:04:08+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2023/05/16/retail-sales-up-04-april-march/ |
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