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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive branch recommended Wednesday that billions of euros of EU funds allocated to Hungary remain frozen over its failure to implement solid rule-of-law reforms, a move highlighting the growing rift between the EU’s traditional Western democratic values and its partner’s democratic backsliding.
The EU’s 27 nations have until Dec. 19 to take a decision based on the Commission’s proposal, which came as Hungary continues to block crucial EU decisions such as the disbursement of 18 billion euros of financial aid to Ukraine and a global tax deal.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has also angered the bloc’s officials with his repeated criticism of the EU sanctions targeting Russia for its war in Ukraine.
“This is an historic moment for the protection of the rule of law in Europe,” said Petri Sarvamaa, a member of the European Parliament’s committee on budgetary control. “If EU citizens’ money cannot be protected against irregularities, then it cannot be disbursed.”
European lawmakers last week put pressure on the Commission and Council, which represents the bloc’s 27 countries, with a resolution asking them to freeze the funds.
Although Hungary insists it does not link the issue of EU funds to other topics, many in Brussels see its vetoes as a sign that Orban is trying to blackmail the rest of the bloc into releasing the billions in regular EU funds and pandemic recovery cash that has been held up.
The EU’s executive branch proposed in September that the bloc suspend around 7.5 billion euros ($7.5 billion) in regular funding to Hungary over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money.
Hungary agreed on 17 anti-corruption measures, including the creation of an anti-corruption task force and changes to its public procurement rules, but the Commission believes that “notwithstanding steps taken, there is still a continued risk to the EU budget/”
The money can be frozen under a recently introduced conditionality mechanism that allows the EU to take measures to protect its budget.
Any action to suspend the funds must be approved by the EU member countries, and this requires a “qualified majority,” which amounts to 55% of the 27 members representing at least 65% of the total EU population.
The Commission simultaneously approved Hungary’s pandemic recovery plan worth 5.8 billion euros, but only on the condition that the country implement 27 “super milestones” — including the previous 17 measures.
“This means that no payment under the (recovery plan) is possible until Hungary has fully and correctly implemented these 27 super milestones,” the commission said.
Didier Reynders, the European Commissioner for Justice, said the EU will be “very vigilant” in its scrutiny of the progress made by Hungary in putting in place the binding reforms, adding that a backpedalling on their acceptance would block any subsequent payments. At the current speed of talks, Hungary is unlikely to receive any money before spring.
Hungary, a large recipient of EU funds, has come under increasing criticism for veering away from democratic norms. The commission has for nearly a decade accused Orban of dismantling democratic institutions, taking control of the media and infringing on minority rights. Orban, who has been in office since 2010, denies the accusations.
If EU members decide to bloc access to the cohesion funds until Hungary meets the conditions required, Budapest will not lose cash immediately. Hungary would no longer be allowed to apply for the subsidies designed for EU programs and infrastructure projects, but the decision would not stop it from getting money which is still flowing through from the previous long-term budget, for the 2014-2020 period. | 2022-11-30T20:29:54+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/ap-eu-commission-proposes-blocking-billions-in-funds-to-hungary/ |
One ticket bought in Arizona matched all six numbers drawn on Wednesday night and won the $473.1 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said.
The winning numbers were white balls 11, 36, 61, 62, and 68. The Powerball number was 4.
There was no early word on where in Arizona the ticket was sold.
Strong ticket sales pushed the jackpot over earlier estimates to reach the $473.1 million total. The cash option is $283.3 million.
The ticket holder or holders can choose between an estimated annuity of $473.1 million, paid in 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or the lump sum of $283.3 million. Both options are before taxes.
One ticket in Indiana fell a number short: It matched all five white balls, but not the Powereball number. It's still worth $1 million.
Wednesday marked the third time a Powerball jackpot was won this year. In the January 5 drawing, two tickets in California and Wisconsin split a $632.6 million jackpot – the 7th biggest in Powerball history.
The biggest was $1.586 Billion, on Jan. 13, 2016, split by three ticketholders, in Callifornia, Florida and Tennessee.
Powerball tickets are $2 each. Tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The odds of winning any prize are 1 in 24.9. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
First published on April 28, 2022 / 4:46 AM
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Updated December 10, 2022 at 12:37 PM ET
Morocco isn't done yet at the 2022 World Cup. The pride of Africa and the Arab world defeated yet another European powerhouse to reach the semifinals with a 1-0 victory over Portugal.
Portugal came in favored to win and dominated possession the entire game. But Morocco once again found a way to win at this World Cup in Qatar.
The game's only goal came just before halftime in the 42nd minute when Morocco's Yahya Attiat-Allah lofted a ball in front of the Portugal goal and Youssef En-Nesyri soared high and headed it down past the keeper. En-Nesyri is the first Moroccan player to score at two World Cups.
Morocco's defense sparkled once again - particularly the sensational play of goalkeeper Yassine "Bono" Bounou. None of Morocco's opponents this World Cup — Croatia, Belgium, Canada, Spain or Portugal — has scored a goal (the one credited to Canada was an own goal by Morocco).
Morocco is the first Arab country to go this deep into a World Cup and, now, the first African country to reach the semifinals of a World Cup. Across Doha - and the Arab world - fans have turned out in force to cheer for their Cinderella team.
At the FIFA Fan Fest in Doha, thousands of fans squeezed in to watch the game on an outdoor big screen TV. They cheered every move, every shot, every time Morocco's players touched the ball. As the game ended, Tarig Saad was gleeful. He's originally from Sudan and now lives in Saudi Arabia. He drove ten hours to get to Doha.
"Being an Arab I'm very proud. Because we love football," Saad said. He noted top European rosters are filled with African players. "As individuals we are as skillful. We can do anything."
Asked why it's taken this long for the African nation to have this kind of success? "The competition is very high. And football has become like an industry. If we spent the same money as Portugal or Spain, we'd be better than Argentina or Brazil," said Saad.
For a second straight match, star Cristiano Ronaldo started the game on the bench for Portugal. The 37-year-old is one of the finest to ever play the sport but the aging star hasn't been his usual dominant self at this tournament (he hasn't scored a single goal). His replacement Gonçalo Ramos, who scored three goals against Switzerland, didn't make much of a mark. Ronaldo was substituted into the game in the 51st minute. As the game ended, he appeared to wipe away tears as he walked off the field.
It was the third time Portugal reached the quarterfinals (it had won its last two appearances in 1966 and 2006).
Morocco awaits the winner of Saturday's late game between France and England to see who it will play in the semifinals on Wednesday.
NPR's Tom Goldman contributed reporting from Doha, Qatar.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-10T17:49:44+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-12-10/morocco-marches-on-eliminating-portugal-in-the-quarterfinals-of-the-world-cup |
PARIS (AP) — An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport that he long called home, officials said.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said. The official was not authorized to be publicly named.
Nasseri lived in the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he lacked residency papers and later by apparent choice.
Year in and year out, he slept on a red plastic bench, making friends with airport workers, showering in staff facilities, writing in his diary, reading magazines and surveying passing travelers.
Staff nicknamed him Lord Alfred, and he became a mini-celebrity among passengers.
“Eventually, I will leave the airport,” he told The Associated Press in 1999, smoking a pipe on his bench, looking frail with long thin hair, sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. “But I am still waiting for a passport or transit visa.”
Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman, a part of Iran then under British jurisdiction, to an Iranian father and a British mother. He left Iran to study in England in 1974. When he returned, he said, he was imprisoned for protesting against the shah and expelled without a passport.
He applied for political asylum in several countries in Europe. The UNHCR in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, but he said his briefcase containing the refugee certificate was stolen in a Paris train station.
French police later arrested him, but couldn’t deport him anywhere because he had no official documents. He ended up at Charles de Gaulle in August 1988 and stayed.
Further bureaucratic bungling and increasingly strict European immigration laws kept him in a legal no-man’s land for years.
When he finally received refugee papers, he described his surprise, and his insecurity, about leaving the airport. He reportedly refused to sign them, and ended up staying there several more years until he was hospitalized in 2006, and later lived in a Paris shelter.
Those who befriended him in the airport said the years of living in the windowless space took a toll on his mental state. The airport doctor in the 1990s worried about his physical and mental health, and described him as “fossilized here.” A ticket agent friend compared him to a prisoner incapable of “living on the outside.”
In the weeks before his death, Nasseri had been again living at Charles de Gaulle, the airport official said.
Nasseri’s mind-boggling tale loosely inspired 2004’s “The Terminal” starring Tom Hanks, as well as a French film, “Lost in Transit,” and an opera called “Flight.”
In “The Terminal,” Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a man who arrives at JFK airport in New York from the fictional Eastern European country of Krakozhia and discovers that an overnight political revolution has invalidated all his traveling papers. Viktor is dumped into the airport’s international lounge and told he must stay there until his status is sorted out, which drags on as unrest in Krakozhia continues.
No information was immediately available about survivors.
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Angela Charlton in Paris contributed.
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Nasseri’s first name to Mehran, not Merhan. | 2022-11-13T12:58:46+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/entertainment-news/ap-iranian-who-inspired-the-terminal-dies-at-paris-airport/ |
NEW YORK and LONDON, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To better help asset managers of European funds be prepared for the upcoming compliance requirements and regulatory disclosure obligations under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has launched a new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting solution.
"Asset managers are navigating a very complex and changing regulatory landscape and are under increasing pressure to disclose more ESG data to investors," said Paul Poletti-Gadd, Chief Solutions Officer at Broadridge Fund Communication Solutions. "Broadridge's new ESG solution enables asset managers to efficiently provide data by leveraging automation and existing network links amongst fund distribution channels to ensure they have data and regulatory documents at the right time for their end clients."
The new solution, which enables disclosure through the European ESG Template (EET), is a timely expansion of Broadridge's multi-jurisdictional regulatory fund reporting suite used by asset managers globally. The end-to-end EET outsourcing solution has rigorous evidential control systems to support asset managers from pre-production through to dissemination, providing complete support for all aspects of the EET, encompassing composition, ongoing maintenance and dissemination to distribution channels. With a track record of over two decades of subject matter expertise, the solution is based on already established processes for managing regulatory reporting for funds and an existing dissemination network to industry end points.
The SFDR regulations require Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) information to be publicly disclosed effective January 2023, as well as from amendments to both MiFID II and the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) coming into effect in August 2022. The EET, designed by Financial Data Exchange (FinDatEx), will facilitate the necessary exchange of data between product manufacturer and distributor for the purpose of fulfilling ESG-related regulatory requirements contained in the SFDR, relevant provisions of the Taxonomy Regulation, and the relevant delegated acts complementing MiFID II and IDD.
Developed through several Client Working Group sessions to ensure that it has the benefit of various industry perspectives, the Broadridge managed solution for EET will enable industry participants to be compliant by the deadlines with relative ease. It's an easy addition to existing Broadridge services, including European PRIIPs Template, European MiFID Template, Solvency II Tripartite Template and many more across the European jurisdictions, delivered from its centralized data platform and regulatory services platform.
Broadridge Fund Communication Solutions provides a comprehensive digital platform and has a proven track record of supporting the life cycle of fund data, documents and regulatory reporting for the global asset management industry. It manages and distributes data for over 1,000 global fund groups and supports over 200 million fund data requests each year, in over 35 languages.
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LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), an influencer-based social media firm and digital talent management agency, today announced that HoneyDrip.com has seen month over month growth, continuing into June 2022. Honeydrip.com is a new digital platform designed and owned by CMGR with a focus on the empowerment of creators. The site allows creators to connect and engage with fans and monetize exclusive content.
HoneyDrip.com has experienced rapid growth in four main categories during the month of June 2022:
- Active performers on the site (by Invite Only) increased by 14%
- Content posts (photos and videos) to be sold increased by 16%
- Active users increased by 13%
- Applications from creators wishing to join the site increased by 6%
"The content on the site is incredible" said Danche Prokopov, General Manager of HoneyDrip.com. "We monitor all of the content being posted on HoneyDrip.com to ensure our users have access to only the highest quality photos and videos. Unlike OnlyFans, our creators join the site by invite only, so we want to ensure they are representing HoneyDrip in a way that will allow us to operate for years to come."
Creators can apply via email to join@honeydrip.com
CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation received a $22,500 grant from the Reeves foundation in support of Camp Adventure. Camp Adventure offers one-week camps for Carrie Tingley patients across the state of New Mexico and features a variety of fun activities.
They will have four camps all around New Mexico and one mobile camp in Roswell. Hosting 30-35 children per camp with an army of volunteers. If you would like to volunteer you can apply online and must be 16+, volunteers will be trained and have everything they need to be ready to help.
The Summer Camp offers adaptive activities for kids ages 6-19 with a variety of different disabilities. Activities include wheelchair basketball, cycling, archery, arts and crafts, etc.
Camp Adventure dates:
- Albuquerque: June 19-23
- Las Cruces: June 27-30
- Farmington: July 11-14
- Gallup: July 18-21
For more information visit carrietingleyhospitalfoundation.org. | 2023-03-06T22:26:17+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/camp-adventure-offers-camps-for-children-with-disabilities/ |
Oldest living Kansan celebrates her 112th birthday
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A Chanute, Kansas woman sets a record that could take others many years to break.
Margaret Hollenshead turned 112-years-old Saturday and Credo Senior Living facility in Chanute wanted to make sure she was celebrated right. The facility had a birthday party where friends, family and community members gathered to sing to Hollenshead. Then, it held a birthday parade where many drivers honked and waved to the 112-year-old.
Hollenshead’s youngest daughter Lynn Saylor said she always in awe of her mother.
“Would I have thought she would’ve lived to 112? No. But, here she is, she’s hardheaded,” said Saylor.
The facility director, Barbie Baughn, said everyone lives on Hollenshead’s time.
“If she doesn’t want to get up in the morning she doesn’t get up. And at 112 she can do whatever she wants,” said Baughn.
Many of those at the party said she continues to share endless laughs with her loved ones and also shares her love for music with others, sometimes still playing the piano from time to time. Some said she has made an impact in her community for generations.
“She taught four generations of children... in this community everyone knows her. There are people who were her students who will be driving by in recognition,” said Saylor.
Those closest to Hollenshead said when she turns 113-years-old next year, the celebration will continue and her title as the oldest living Kansan will live on.
“We’ll do this again next year even bigger. We all hope we will be here,” said Sharon Carpenter, Hollenshead’s friend.
Copyright 2023 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com | 2023-04-23T20:14:25+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/04/23/oldest-living-kansan-celebrates-her-112th-birthday/ |
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware State Auditor Kathy McGuiness declined to testify Wednesday as the defense rested its case in her criminal corruption trial.
“I am confident that my team has conveyed reasonable doubt, so no thank you, your honor,” McGuiness told Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr.
McGuiness, a Democrat elected in 2018, is responsible as state auditor for rooting out government fraud, waste and abuse. She is being tried on felony counts of theft and witness intimidation, and misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with procurement laws. McGuiness is the first statewide elected official in Delaware to be prosecuted while in office.
Prosecutors allege, among other things, that McGuiness orchestrated a no-bid communications services contract for My Campaign Group, a consulting firm she used when running for lieutenant governor in 2016, then kept the contract payments under $5,000 to avoid having to get them approved by the Division of Accounting.
They also allege that McGuiness hired her daughter and her daughter’s best friend as part-time employees in 2020, even though other “casual-seasonal” workers were forced to leave because of the lack of available work. In hiring her daughter and exercising control over her pay, McGuiness engaged in theft and conflict of interest, according to prosecutors, who note that Elizabeth “Saylar” McGuiness’ paycheck went into a joint bank account she shared with her mother.
Authorities also allege that after employees began complaining to the attorney general’s office about McGuiness, she responded by intimidating and harassing the whistleblowers, including monitoring their email accounts.
Testimony concluded with three defense witnesses and some final questioning of chief investigator Franklin Robinson, who has struggled to answer questions about repeatedly making false statements in a search warrant affidavit and to a grand jury, and omitting information that could have cast McGuiness in a more favorable light.
Jurors heard a recording of a phone call Robinson made to Lydia August, a part-time employee in the auditor’s office who left in May 2020. That's the same month the state Department of Justice began investigating McGuiness after receiving complaints about her conduct.
“What we’re doing is a general review of casual-seasonal employees that were impacted by the pandemic,” Robinson told August in the May 2021 phone call, adding he was looking into the treatment of casual-seasonal employees “throughout state government.”
In reality, Robinson was conducting a criminal investigation, not a “general review,” and was looking only at casual-seasonal employees in the auditor’s office, and no other state agencies.
As he has done previously under cross-examination, Robinson became evasive when defense attorney Steve Wood grilled him about the falsehoods.
“I wouldn’t agree with the characterization as false,” said Robinson, who explained he was concerned that August might tell McGuiness about the phone call.
“So you’re testifying it’s not false, even though it’s not true? Wood asked.
The judge then told Wood to “move on,” noting that it was a common investigative technique for law enforcement officials to make false statements when questioning people, and to imply otherwise was not acceptable.
Wood nevertheless got Robinson to admit that saying his investigative techniques include “telling people falsehoods." Prosecutor Mark Denney echoed that sentiment, describing the practice as “common.”
August, meanwhile, said she had told McGuiness after being hired that she planned to stay only until May 1, 2020, because she was planning to move. She later asked to stay through June 1, but was allowed to stay only until May 18.
“I wasn’t offended at all,” said August, whom prosecutors allege was laid off to make room for McGuiness’ daughter.
Jurors also heard from Kyra Marshall, a friend of Elizabeth McGuiness who also worked part-time at the auditor’s office. Marshall said she had the same pay and work conditions as the younger McGuiness, including access to Kathy McGuiness’ state-issued vehicle. Prosecutors contend that access to that vehicle was among the special privileges made available to Saylar McGuiness but not other part-time workers, even though several have testified that they, too, were authorized to drive it.
The final witness was Tracey Rogers, a former employee who mistakenly attributed a final payment on the My Campaign Group contract to another firm, Innovate Consulting, which had been established by consultant Christie Gross and won a competitive bid for a second contract. Prosecutors have suggested McGuiness directed the $1,950 credit card payment to Gross’ PayPal account and had it attributed to Innovate, rather than My Campaign Group, in an effort to avoid compliance with state procurement rules.
Rogers, who had recently joined the office, testified that neither McGuiness nor her chief of staff told her to code the credit card receipt to Innovate Consulting instead of My Campaign Group.
“My understanding ... is that we were no longer using My Campaign Group and (Gross) was opening up Innovate Consulting.... I probably made the assumption myself that it should go there,” Rogers said. | 2022-06-29T22:59:53+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Defense-rests-in-corruption-trial-of-Delaware-17275260.php |
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There are some things you just assume you'll never see in your lifetime. Flying cars. A universal flu vaccine. Boris owning up to his mistakes. And Eurovision being hosted by the UK was, until very recently, one of those impossible-feeling things. Then everything changed. Last month, Sam Ryder captivated Eurovision 2022 viewers with his sweet vocal stylings and magnificently strokeable blonde mane, landing the UK in second place. And now, the bigwigs behind the Eurovision Song Contest have announced that they're beginning talks with the BBC to host the event in the UK next year.
By rights, the contest should be held in Ukraine, as a triumphant homecoming celebration for Kalush Orchestra's 'Stefania', the neo folk rave that won the public vote by a landslide. But for obvious reasons, there's a huge amount of uncertainty about whether it'll be feasibly possible for Ukraine to host a gigantic international event next May. So the Song Content's bosses have issued a statement saying they're looking to the UK to host the event, while offering an understandable caveat: 'It is our full intention that Ukraine's win be reflected in next year's shows. This will be a priority for us in our discussions with the eventual hosts'.
There's a lot that's still unclear, not least where in the UK the Eurovision Song Contest will be held. Obviously, we'll be crossing fingers for London, which has no shortage of massive event spaces. But no doubt there'll be a boisterous inter-city bunfight to see who gets the honour, with Eurovision fans on Twitter suggesting Cardiff's Millennium Stadium or Manchester Arena are big enough to host the pop-based bacchanal.
Hopefully, wherever it's held, next year's contest will offer the UK's Eurovision lovers the best of both worlds: a night that raises up Ukraine by platforming its presenting and performing talent, while also letting more British fans access the event than ever before. In tragic circumstances, that'll be something to celebrate.
Get ready for London Pride 2022 with our ultimate guide.
Time Out has a new daily newsletter and you should sign up immediately. | 2022-06-19T05:34:08+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/london/news/breaking-news-eurovision-is-probably-going-to-be-hosted-by-the-uk-next-year-061722 |
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – Tonight there’s a chance of isolated thunderstorms with a low in the middle 50s. The wind will shift from southeast to northwest at 5 to 15 MPH.
A mostly sunny and pleasant Wednesday is anticipated with an afternoon high just over 80°. There may be a stray evening thunderstorm or two. The wind will turn from northwest to the south at 10 to 15 MPH.
Thursday will be a hot and windy day as the temperature reaches up near 90° with the wind rushing in from the south gusting to about 50 MPH. Toward the evening, a cold front will arrive developing a chance of severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging wind gusts.
Suddenly this weekend, it’ll become quite cool! Highs will be in the lower to middle 60s extending from Friday until next Monday. Overnight low temperatures may even dip into the upper 30s a couple nights.
Rain should make an appearance in the forecast once again next Monday and Tuesday on the leading edge of warmer air.
For the latest from Siouxland’s Most Accurate Forecast, click here. | 2022-05-17T21:59:12+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/weather/weather-forecasts/may-17th-pm-more-thunderstorm-chances-major-weekend-cooldown/ |
(The Hill) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday announced it would review the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting after officials spent days following the tragedy giving conflicting accounts of how local police and federal authorities handled the situation.
A Justice Department spokesman said in a statement that a request for a review came come Uvalde’s mayor, Don McLaughlin.
“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said, adding the department would publish a report at the conclusion of the review.
“As with prior Justice Department after-action reviews of mass shootings and other critical incidents, this assessment will be fair, transparent, and independent,” Coley added.
Local police have faced intense scrutiny from the public and from parents in the aftermath of the mass shooting, which killed 19 school children and two teachers. On Friday, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steven McCraw, admitted it was wrong for officers to have waited for about an hour after the shooting began to confront the gunman.
“From the benefit of hindsight, where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There’s no excuse for that,” McCraw said.
Officials initially said the shooter had “engaged” with a school resource officer but later contradicted that statement saying such an officer had not been on campus. Law enforcement authorities later said that 19 police officers had been in the hallway outside the classroom where the gunman had barricaded himself, but waited until a janitor could unlock the door with a key more than an hour after gunfire began.
While officers were in the hallway, at least one student inside the classroom where some were killed called 911 begging for police to be sent in.
Wide-ranging police protocol put in place following the Columbine school shooting in Colorado in 1999 states that police should confront an attacker as soon as possible. Officials in Texas said officers opted to wait to confront the gunman until reinforcements had arrived.
Videos, however, have emerged of parents pleading police officers outside the school to let them in to save their own children where some reported being threatened with tasers and handcuffed.
This is a developing story, check back for updates. | 2022-05-30T15:10:43+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/doj-launches-review-of-police-response-to-texas-school-shooting/ |
Hertz has clarified to its employees that Puerto Rican driver's licenses are valid forms of identification for customers, following an incident in which agents of the rental car company called the police on a Puerto Rican man after demanding he show his passport in order to pick up a car.
Both Hertz and a local Louisiana police department apologized to the man, Puerto Rico resident Humberto Marchand. The incident was previously reported on by CBS News.
Afterward, Puerto Rico's representative in Congress, Jenniffer González-Colón, wrote a letter to the company's CEO urging Hertz to implement a companywide "educational campaign" for its employees.
"It is unacceptable that, more than 100 years after having obtained US citizenship, Puerto Ricans are still being discriminated against and treated like second-class American citizens," González-Colón wrote.
In a response dated Tuesday, Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr wrote that he was "disappointed" to learn about the incident, which he called "unacceptable."
The company's policy already allowed customers with Puerto Rican driver's licenses to rent cars without showing a passport, Scherr said, but it has since been rewritten to "be even more clear" about the status of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories.
The company will emphasize the policy in communications with employees at its rental locations and call centers and add the topic to in-person training sessions, he added. "We will strive to make sure that Mr. Marchand's experience is not repeated," Scherr wrote.
On May 10, at the Hertz rental counter at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, Marchand presented his valid Puerto Rican driver's license to pick up a prepaid reservation. According to Marchand, Hertz employees did not accept his license as a valid form of identification and asked to see a passport. He was not carrying his with him, he said, and agents ultimately denied him the car.
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens.
In a video recorded by Marchand, he can be heard asking an employee "Did you know that my driver's license in Puerto Rico is as valid as a Louisiana driver's license?" The employee tells him he is behaving illegally and calls the police.
Hertz later apologized for the incident. "We sincerely regret that our policy was not followed and have apologized to Mr. Marchand and refunded his rental," the company said in a statement earlier this month. "We are reinforcing our policies with employees to ensure that they are understood and followed consistently across our locations."
A police officer from Kenner, La., responded to the incident. In footage recorded by the officer's body-worn camera, the officer can be heard asking Marchand to leave.
"Maybe you can understand the words that are coming out of my mouth a little bit more clear for the third time," the officer says. "If they say you need a passport and you don't have one, and they say you need a passport to rent a car, what is your problem?"
The Kenner Police Department also later apologized. "I don't think that's the way we want to be portrayed, and he shouldn't have been spoken to in that manner," Police Chief Keith Conley said to local TV station WVUE.
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When you think of red-hot real estate markets, you probably think of the giants — like New York City, San Francisco and Boston. Some other cities that have been garnering some buzz lately, like Denver and Austin, may also come to mind.
But as it turns out, the metro areas that are seeing the largest year-over-year price increases happen to be some smaller, lesser-known markets — and surprisingly, none are in California, according to an analysis from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Rather, the hottest markets are mostly clustered in Florida and the Carolinas.
About nine in 10 metro areas saw home price gains in the fourth quarter of 2022, even though mortgage rates topped 7%, which likely sidelined many buyers. A monthly payment on a 30-year mortgage for a $250,000 house at a 7% interest rate is $1,663 versus $1,054 at a 3% interest rate, which makes a big difference for budgets.
Of the 186 metro areas that were tracked, 18% registered double-digit price increases over the same time period, which is actually down from 46% in the third quarter of 2022.
“A slowdown in home prices is underway and welcomed, particularly as the typical home price has risen 42% in the past three years,” NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said, who noted that these cost increases have far surpassed wage increases and consumer price inflation of 15% and 14%, respectively, since 2019. “Far fewer metro markets experienced double-digit price gains in the latest quarter.”
The fastest growing market, according to NAR, is Farmington, New Mexico, which is in the northwest corner of the state. The average home price in Farmington, according to Zillow, is $209,811, which is far less than the national average of home prices that’s at $328,745.
The top 10 metro areas with the steepest year-over-year price increases all recorded gains of at least 14.5 percent, according to NAR.
The Fastest-Growing Markets and Their Year-Over-Year Growth Rates:
- Farmington, New Mexico: 20.3%
- North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida: 19.5%
- Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, Florida: 17.2%
- Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina: 17.0%
- Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and North Carolina: 16.2%
- Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin: 16%
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina: 15.7%
- El Paso, Texas: 15.2%
- Punta Gorda, Florida: 15.2%
- Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Florida: 14.5%
The report says that California still dominates when it comes to the most expensive markets in the U.S., with five California metropolitan areas on the list, including San Jose-Sunnywale-Santa Clara area, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale. Other expensive markets include Honolulu, Hawaii; Boulder, Colorado, and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington.
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2023-02-16T15:34:56+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/us-cities-where-housing-markets-are-growing-fastest |
(NewsNation) — At least 25 people died — including four children — in flash flooding across Kentucky, the state’s governor said Saturday.
Among those who died were four children from the same family, the Knott County coroner said. Gov. Andy Beshear said the number would likely rise significantly and it could take weeks to find all the victims.
More than 330 people have sought shelter, and there has been extensive property damage in the state.
Beshear, who flew over parts of the flood-stricken region on Friday, described it as “just total devastation, the likes of which we have never seen.”
“We are committed to a full rebuilding effort to get these folks back on their feet,” Beshear said. “But for now, we’re just praying that we don’t lose anybody else.”
The rain let up early Friday after parts of eastern Kentucky received between 8 and 10 1/2 inches over 48 hours. Some waterways were not expected to crest until sometime Saturday.
“From everything we’ve seen, we may be updating the count of how many we lost for the next several weeks,” Beshear said. “In some of these areas, it’s hard to know exactly how many people were there.”
The governor predicted it would take a least a year for the state to fully rebuild.
Austin and Brianna Imhoff lost everything in the flooding. They told Nexstar’s NewsNation they were still trying to process what had happened.
“You don’t really know what happened unless you’re living in it,” Austin said. “Unless you’re there and the water is rising a foot every five minutes, you don’t understand it.”
President Joe Biden on Friday approved a major disaster declaration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and ordered federal aid to supplement commonwealth and local recovery efforts in 13 counties.
Perry County is one of the hardest-hit areas of the state. Almost everyone in the area suffered some sort of damage. Perry County Sheriff Joe Engle said his 82-year-old great aunt drowned in the flood waters.
“We’ve still got a lot of searching to do,” said Jerry Stacy, the county’s emergency management director.
Nonprofit groups like the “Cajun Navy” have stepped up to help with search and rescue efforts and are still asking for more volunteers to join their efforts, said Cajun Navy ground force founder Rob Gaudet.
He said “the clock is ticking” for people to save their homes.
“Communication systems are down, there’s a lot of danger,” Gaudet said. “The longer these homes sit, the harder it will be to repair them. Mold will set in… there’s enormous challenges to a flood.”
Intense downpours have happened across rural Appalachia, with steep hills and terrain of narrow river channels funneling water into Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Water tumbled down hillsides and into valleys and hollows where it swelled creeks and storms coursing through small towns. The torrent engulfed homes and businesses and trashed vehicles. Some people were marooned on steep slopes by mudslides.
St. Louis, Missouri has also seen a lot of rainfall, which has made it challenging for the paved city environment to soak it all up.
Scientists warn climate change is to blame for making these kinds of weather disasters more common.
“It’s a battle of extremes going on right now in the United States,” said University of Oklahoma meteorologist Jason Furtado. “These are things we expect to happen because of climate change. … A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor and that means you can produce increased heavy rainfall.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-07-31T15:55:27+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/more-than-2-dozen-dead-after-flash-floods-in-kentucky/ |
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a 19-year-old chess grandmaster who alleged his career was ruined by allegations that he had cheated.
Last year, Hans Niemann sued former world champion Magnus Carlsen and the online chess organization Chess.com. He was seeking $100 million in damages for slander and libel.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in St. Louis, Niemann also accused Carlsen and Chess.com of violating antitrust laws by merging online playing platforms and refusing to let him play on them.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig found Niemann's antitrust claims had no merit. She also dismissed libel and slander claims because she said she didn’t have jurisdiction to oversee them, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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The lawsuit came after Niemann shocked the chess world by defeating Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup last year in St. Louis, ending Carlsen’s world-record unbeaten streak. Carlsen accused Niemann of cheating and withdrew from the tournament.
Niemann said that after the cheating allegations were made, tournaments banned him, matches were canceled, and reputable chess schools wouldn’t hire him.
The lawsuit contends Carlsen. generally considered one of the greatest chess champions in the world, was trying to preserve his status as the “King of Chess” and to complete a deal with Chess.com to acquire Play Magnus for nearly $83 million.
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Carlsen’s attorney, Craig Reiser, said Niemann's lawsuit was an "attempt to recover an undeserved windfall” and “chill speech through strategic litigation.”
Chess.com was happy the controversy, which stunned the chess world, was ending and "are grateful that all parties can now focus on growing the game of chess,” said Nima Mohebbi and Jamie Wine, of the firm Latham & Watkins.
Niemann’s attorneys said they plan to pursue the libel and slander claims in state court. | 2023-06-30T08:45:53+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/federal-judge-throws-out-lawsuit-filed-by-chess-star-over-cheating-allegations/3177287/ |
Watch: Magical 'snow' delights Disneyland guests amid winter storm
A snow-like graupel was seen falling at Disneyland in Anaheim after a winter storm brought even heavier that kept most of California's mountain residents snow.
ANAHEIM, Calif. – That wasn't drifting cotton candy and spilt Dippin' Dots you saw by Space Mountain on Wednesday.
It was a snow-like graupel falling at Disneyland in Anaheim after a winter storm brought even heavier snow that kept most of California's mountain residents snowbound.
Moira Camacho captured the frozen precipitation falling near the Galaxy’s Edge attraction on video that she says briefly appeared to be snow, adding it was the first time she experienced snow in California.
"We saw little flakes and thought it was rain," she recalled. "Eventually, we realized it was more ice and snow!"
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The rare event lasted for about 10 minutes, according to Camacho.
"It was a cool experience because I’ve never seen snow fall," she added. "It felt magical to us!"
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles said a graupel shower was observed in Malibu near 540 feet above sea level about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The FOX Forecast Center said another storm would move through the Northwest on Thursday, which will bring rain and snow to the region. An even stronger system is eyeing the West Coast this weekend, which could bring an additional 1 to 5 feet of snow to the Sierra Nevada with around 2 to 3 inches of rain in parts of Northern California. | 2023-03-02T18:23:28+00:00 | foxweather.com | https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/snow-graupel-wednesday-disneyland-california |
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released this statement Saturday regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket:
"The People's Republic of China (PRC) did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth.
"All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property. Doing so is critical to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here on Earth."
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“Is there nothing that you personally are willing to do to stop the cancer of white supremacy and the domestic terrorism it inspires? Because if there is nothing, then respectfully, senators, you should yield your positions of authority and influence to others that are willing to lead on this issue.”
– Garnell Whitfield Jr., testifying on Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Yes. The former Buffalo fire commissioner had it exactly right. So does the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the Business Council of the State of New York and even actor Matthew McConaughey, a native of the suffering city of Uvalde, Texas.
It’s enough. It’s far beyond enough. Americans want better control of firearms, especially weapons that are designed to kill by the dozen. On Tuesday, Whitfield gave passionate voice to the need. His 86-year-old mother, Ruth Whitfield, was the oldest of the 10 Black people killed by a white supremacist at the Jefferson Avenue Tops on May 14.
“We are people of decency,” he told the panel of senators. “We are taught to love even our enemies. But our enemies don’t love us. So what are we supposed to do with all of our anger and pain? You expect us to forgive and forget. Again? And what are you doing? You were elected to protect us.”
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Yes. But they haven’t.
Instead, despite the wishes of a clear majority of Americans, Congress has sat on its hands after every massacre, grimly determined to do nothing until the next massacre, then to repeat the process. The main obstacle to action is the Senate, which provides the same influence to small red states like Utah or Idaho as it does to large blue ones like New York or California. The Senate is also paralyzed by the financial clout of the National Rifle Association and by the routinely abused filibuster, which can block just about any legislation that lacks 60 votes in the 100-member chamber.
Will passion make a difference? Will the racism in the heart of the Buffalo killer awaken a sense of urgency in the do-nothing caucus? What effect will the murders of 19 Texas schoolchildren and two of their teachers have?
Already, there is intransigent pushback against raising the age to purchase military-style weapons. Both the Buffalo and Texas killers were 18 years old when they legally acquired the AR-15 rifles they used to commit mass murder. New York just passed a law raising the age to 21; Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of gun laws containing that new standard on Monday. Washington should act, too.
There are hopeful signs. In Washington, elected officials are at least debating the issue, possibly because a new poll shows a significant increase in the number of Republicans favoring stricter gun laws. But another poll shows that nearly half of Republicans believe the country must simply learn to live with mass shootings. Americans, they seem to think, aren’t smart enough find a better way.
Nevertheless, the recent fusillade of killings has produced vocal new support for improved gun laws. Earlier this week, large business groups in New York called for federal restrictions on guns. They included the Buffalo Niagara Partnership and the Business Council of New York State. These fiscal conservatives bluntly acknowledged the overarching societal threat.
Said Dottie Gallagher, president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership: “While gun control may not be a typical lane for chambers of commerce, there is no avoiding the impact gun violence is having on our country and in our communities, and we have an obligation to be part of solving this American problem.”
So does Congress.
McConaughey, a gun owner, made that case in an appearance at the White House on Tuesday, pleading with Congress to “reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in his hometown. He observed, correctly, that Congress can approve gun reforms without infringing on the Second Amendment, specifically calling for improved background checks and raising the age to purchase military-style rifles to 21 from 18. It’s little enough to ask.
But the day belonged to Whitfield, still grieving the loss of his mother. In his testimony, he set down a marker that senators should heed.
“My mother’s life mattered,” he said. “Your actions here today would tell us how much it matters to you.” Buffalo, Uvalde and the rest of the country are watching.
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MADISON — Wisconsin deer hunters shot 203,295 deer during the state’s nine-day firearms deer hunting season that ended Sunday.
That total is up 14.4% over 2021 and up 8% from the recent five-year average.
DNR officials on Tuesday credited good weather, with no major storms, for allowing hunters to spend more time in the woods. Snow on the ground also helped many northern hunters.
All four deer management zones showed harvest increases from 2021 for both antlered and antlerless harvests. The Northern Forest Zone was up 19.3% over last year and up 11.3% from the five-year average. The Central Forest Zone was up 30.6% from 2021 and farmland areas were up 10%-13%.
The state sold 554,898 firearms hunting licenses this year, down about 2% from 2021. There were eight firearms-related accidents and one victim: an 11-year-old boy who was fatally shot in the chest by a member of his party near their vehicle.
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DNR officials said hunters from all 50 states purchased Wisconsin deer licenses this year, with the most coming from Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois. Hunters from 20 countries bought licenses this year.
In Northwestern Wisconsin during the nine-day firearms season:
- Douglas County hunters shot 1,643 bucks and 723 antlerless deer, for a 13.5% increase from 2021 and up 1.5% from the five-year average.
- Ashland County hunters shot 780 bucks and 193 antlerless deer, for a 14.2% increase from 2021 and up 7.1% from the five-year average.
- Bayfield County hunters shot 1,733 bucks and 1,059 antlerless deer, for a 4.5% increase from 2021 and down 5.5% from the five-year average.
- Burnett County hunters shot 1,641 bucks and 1,496 antlerless deer, for a 6 % increase from 2021 and up 4.8% from the five-year average.
- Iron County hunters shot 336 bucks and 105 antlerless deer, for a 17% increase from 2021 and up 18.9% from the five-year average.
- Washburn County hunters shot 1,629 bucks and 1,454 antlerless deer, for a 19.2% increase from 2021 and up 12.1% from the five-year average.
There are several deer hunts still to come in Wisconsin in coming weeks, including ongoing archery/crossbow hunting, a muzzleloader hunt and special antlerless seasons.
Final Minnesota firearms deer harvest down 9% statewide
Minnesota deer hunters bagged 124,330 deer over the state’s various firearms deer hunting seasons in November.
With the final season ending Sunday in southeastern Minnesota, the statewide tally was down 9% from 2021 and off 16% from the five-year average.
DNR wildlife managers said weather during the seasons was an issue, with snow, wind and rain keeping hunters out of the woods more than usual. The final 300-unit hunt that ended Sunday in southeastern Minnesota saw better weather and a 10% increase in deer shot compared to 2021.
But in Northeastern Minnesota, the culprit was the weather for several of the recent past winters, with heavy snow causing increased deer mortality and far fewer deer on the landscape. Combined with reduced doe permits issued by the DNR, that lead to a 12% drop in deer registered in the 100-numbered units compared to 2021 with registrations 26% off the five-year average. | 2022-12-22T07:33:07+00:00 | duluthnewstribune.com | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/northland-outdoors/final-wisconsin-deer-registrations-up-14-statewide-nearly-20-in-north |
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Jury selection has been scheduled for January in the case of the daughter of MLB Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley who gave birth in the woods in New Hampshire in subfreezing temperatures.
Alexandra Eckersley gave birth to a son on Dec. 26 in the woods in Manchester, who was left alone in a tent for more than an hour before police officers found him, authorities said. They accused her of abandoning her child without heat or proper clothing.
Her lawyer said the 26-year-old Eckersley didn't know she was pregnant, gave birth alone, called 911, and led police to the baby. She said Eckersley suffered medical complications. She pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, reckless conduct, and falsifying physical evidence.
Since then, she finished rehabilitation programs, is sober, and sees her son twice a week, her lawyer said.
“She just saw him yesterday,” defense attorney Kim Kossick told WMUR-TV. “I've seen tons of pictures of him. He's beautiful and healthy.”
A court document indicated there was a plea offer and a response to it, but it offered no details.
A man who was arrested with Eckersley is scheduled for trial in August charges of tampering with witnesses, reckless conduct and endangering the welfare of a child.
Eckersley is the daughter of Dennis Eckersley, who was drafted by Cleveland as a California high schooler in 1972, went on to pitch 24 seasons as both a 20-win starter and a 50-save reliever for Cleveland, Boston, the Cubs, Oakland and the Cardinals. He won the AL Cy Young and MVP awards in 1992 while playing for the Oakland Athletics. Eckersley retired last year from broadcasting Boston Red Sox games.
The Eckersley family released a statement in December saying they had no prior knowledge of Alexandra's pregnancy and were in complete shock. They were seeking guardianship of the boy.
The statement said that Alexandra Eckersley, whom they referred to as “Allie,” has suffered from “severe mental illness her entire life” and that the family did their very best to get her help and support. | 2023-05-12T18:58:46+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/daughter-of-dennis-eckersley-accused-of-18096577.php |
GOLETA, Calif., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deckers Brands (NYSE: DECK), a global leader in designing, marketing and distributing innovative footwear, apparel and accessories, today announced that the Company's conference call to review first quarter fiscal 2023 results will be on Thursday, July 28th, 2022 at approximately 4:30 pm Eastern Time. The broadcast will be hosted at ir.deckers.com. The broadcast will be available for at least 30 days following the conference call.
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Deckers Brands is a global leader in designing, marketing and distributing innovative footwear, apparel and accessories developed for both everyday casual lifestyle use and high performance activities. The Company's portfolio of brands includes UGG®, KOOLABURRA®, HOKA®, Teva®, and Sanuk®. Deckers Brands products are sold in more than 50 countries and territories through select department and specialty stores, Company-owned and operated retail stores, and select online stores, including Company-owned websites. Deckers Brands has over 40 years of history building niche footwear brands into lifestyle market leaders attracting millions of loyal consumers globally. For more information, please visit www.deckers.com.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.
Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade's constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan said the public's view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law.
She stressed that she was not talking about any particular decision or even a string of rulings with which she disagreed.
Still, her remarks were similar to points made in dissenting opinions she wrote or contributed to in recent months, including in the abortion case.
“Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves ... when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” Kagan said at Temple Emanu-El in New York. The event was livestreamed.
The 62-year-old New Yorker struck a different tone from Chief Justice John Roberts, who spoke to a gathering of judges and lawyers in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last week.
"Simply because people disagree with an opinion is not a basis for questioning the legitimacy of the court,” Roberts said.
The chief justice has been a consistent defender of the court's legitimacy against complaints that the court is not much different from the political branches of the government.
But Kagan said the court risks damaging its own legitimacy when big changes in the law follow changes in the court's membership.
The public has a right to expect, she said, “that changes in personnel don’t send the entire legal system up for grabs.” Kagan joined the court in 2010, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
Three of the justices who are part of the court's conservative majority were appointed by President Donald Trump. They voted to overturn Roe, and also imposed limits on the Biden administration's efforts to fight climate change, expanded gun rights and weakened the separation between church and state.
In the court term that begins next month, the court will take up a challenge to the use of race in college admissions, just six years after the court reaffirmed affirmative action in higher education.
Kagan also briefly addressed the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion in the abortion case, saying it makes the justices' jobs much harder “when you might wake up tomorrow morning and there's an opinion on the front page of the newspapers."
She said she does not know if the investigation Roberts ordered in May has determined the source of the leak. | 2022-09-13T02:45:25+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Justice-Kagan-cautions-Supreme-Court-can-forfeit-17437187.php |
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MUFG, one of the world's leading financial groups, today announced that Hideaki "Hide" Takase has been appointed to the board of directors for MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation and its U.S. banking subsidiary, MUFG Union Bank, N.A., effective August 2, 2022. Mr. Takase succeeds Takayoshi "Taka" Futae, who has been a member of the board of directors since April 2022.
"On behalf of my fellow board members, we are pleased that Hide has been appointed to the board of directors," said Toby Myerson, lead independent director. "Hide's more than 30 years of successful banking experience in Japan, the U.S. and EMEA will be an important asset to the board and MUFG's Americas operations," Mr. Myerson continued. "Taka has been a trusted partner to me and to the board, and we have benefitted tremendously from his leadership and institutional knowledge. We wish him well with the next chapter of his very successful career."
In addition to serving as a board member, Mr. Takase is Managing Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer – International (COO-I) of MUFG and MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Deputy Chief Executive for the Global Commercial Banking Business Unit, positions he assumed in April 2022.
A seasoned banker with more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Takase has held a series of leadership positions both in Japan and overseas. He began his career in 1991 at The Mitsubishi Bank, a predecessor of MUFG Bank. He was seconded to the Japanese Bankers Association three times in his career to help manage issues related to the entire Japanese financial industry.
Mr. Takase's overseas experience includes more than seven years in the United States, most recently as General Manager of the MUFG Los Angeles Branch, and Head of Asian Corporate Banking (West) of MUFG Union Bank, beginning in 2015.
In June 2017, Mr. Takase returned to Tokyo to serve as Head of the Global Planning Division, and was assigned a leadership role to enhance global governance and business development. He led the team creating MUFG's Medium-Term Business Plan, including the establishment of the current MUFG global governance structure.
He also managed a team tasked with enhancing the alliance with partner banks in Asia, including the acquisition of PT Bank Danamon Indonesia, Tbk. Previously, Mr. Takase served as President of MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. (MBE) in the Netherlands, and as Deputy Regional Executive for EMEA. As MBE President, he was responsible for enhancing the safety and soundness of MBE's business and operating platforms.
Mr. Takase holds a BA degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University, and received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2012.
About Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.'s U.S. Operations including MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation
The U.S. operations of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups, has total assets of $332.4 billion at March 31, 2022. As part of that total, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation (MUAH), a financial holding company, bank holding company, and intermediate holding company, has total assets of $159.2 billion at March 31, 2022. MUAH's main subsidiaries are MUFG Union Bank, N.A. and MUFG Securities Americas Inc. MUFG Union Bank, N.A. provides a wide range of financial services to consumers, small businesses, middle-market companies, and major corporations. As of March 31, 2022, MUFG Union Bank, N.A. operated 297 branches, consisting primarily of retail banking branches in the West Coast states. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. is a registered securities broker-dealer which engages in capital markets origination transactions, domestic and foreign debt and equities securities transactions, private placements, collateralized financings, and securities borrowing and lending transactions. MUAH is owned by MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. MUFG Bank, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and Canada. Visit www.unionbank.com or www.mufgamericas.com for more information.
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Zach Shallcross has found his happy ending! On Monday night's season finale of The Bachelor, the 26-year-old tech executive popped the question to Kaity Biggar, a 27-year-old ER nurse.
A happy ending wasn't a foregone conclusion for Zach, who made a bit of a mess of things during Fantasy Suite week. Despite initially stating that he wouldn't get intimate with anyone during his overnight dates, he did just that with Gabi.
He then upset Gabi by publicly discussing their sexual encounter and disappointed Kaity by disclosing that information to her.
During Monday's finale, Kaity's feelings for Zach only grew after a near-perfect meeting with his family. Though concern over Zach's connection with Gabi lingered, Kaity decided to lay it all out on the table afterward, telling him, "After today it's not even a question, I am so in love with you, Zach."
Kaity reiterated her feelings for Zach on their last date of the season, as she confessed to him, "I'm very crazy about you, very in love with you, and I hope I can be someone that makes you happy for the rest of your life."
Though her fears still lingered, Kaity said on the morning of the final rose ceremony that "all my walls are gone."
Right after Zach sent home his runner-up, Gabi Elnicki, Kaity arrived and delivered a romantic speech.
"I didn't think it could be me, that I could experience a big love, a love that you only read about in books, that you only see in movies," she said. "... I built my walls up so high that I couldn't see past them, and then you stepped into my life and, Zach, every moment that I spent with you, my walls came tumbling down... I'm so in love with you. I'm so crazy about you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you."
Zach agreed, telling Kaity, "I can no longer say I'm falling in love with you, because, Kaity Lane, I am so in love with you. You are my world."
"The love I feel for you is something I could've never imagined and something I thought a lot of my life I would never be able to deserve. I love you so much. I love you with all my heart," he said. "You're the face I want to wake up to every morning. I want to go through life with you and only you. Kaity, I want to be with you forever... You're the only one I want in my life... Kaity, will you marry me?"
Kaity quickly accepted Zach's proposal, and, not long after, did the same with his final rose.
During the live portion of the episode, the engaged couple was all smiles as they recounted their love story.
"We've been longing for this moment for so long," Kaity told host Jesse Palmer before Zach confessed when he knew Kaity was the one for him.
"When I saw her at the last chance date, I saw her and I thought to myself, 'It's you. It's always been you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you,'" he said.
As for the drama surrounding the Fantasy Suites, Kaity credited her and Zach's communication skills for their ability to move past the hard situation.
Zach then confirmed that this summer, he and Kaity will move in together in Austin, Texas, a city that they both called home before the show. Wedding planning, though, is on hold, at least for the time being.
"This whole process was very accelerated, very quick, and right now we're just excited to be together, go to the restaurants, go to the coffee shops, the little things," he said. "But we have talked about it and we're thinking about in 2025. We'll see what happens after that with little ones."
Zach Shallcross' journey for love has come to an end. You can relive the season with all of ET's coverage. Next up for Bachelor Nation is Charity Lawson's season of The Bachelorette, which will premiere June 26.
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DETROIT, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wayne County Community College District's Curtis L. Ivery Health and Wellness Education Center (CLI HWEC) on January 18 was awarded the 2022 Annual MXM Location of Excellence Award, achieving the top distinction among 900 clubs evaluated nationwide.
MXM's annual locations of excellence awards recognize health and fitness clubs that have set themselves apart through innovation and a commitment to analyzing member feedback to continuously provide an outstanding experience. The award prioritizes excellent member service and care in its award criteria. Award winners have achieved an average score of 9 or higher (out of 10) in at least five-member feedback categories.
"We are honored to be recognized as a Location of Excellence among health and fitness clubs nationwide," said Michael Dotson, WCCCD Regional Provost and Administrator in Charge of the CLI HWEC. "As a District, our mission is to help people achieve their best lives through higher education. At the CLI HWEC, that mission is the same, and we are very proud of the incredible team that helps each of our members achieve their individual health and wellness goals in a motivating and supportive way."
Winners of the award are selected based upon two criteria: At least 240 valid member feedback responses from the last six months of 2021 and achieving an average score of 9 out of 10 in four required categories (front desk staff friendliness, overall staff friendliness, cleanliness, and likelihood to recommend) and one flex category (equipment condition, locker room/showers, staff assistance, group classes, and personal training services).
The CLI HWEC is the premier health and wellness club for WCCCD students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community. The center features the latest equipment, indoor walking/running track, personal trainers, and a wide variety of fitness classes to help members achieve all of their fitness goals in a holistic way. The center is located on the WCCCD Curtis L. Ivery Central Educational Complex on Fort Street in Detroit. More information about the CLI HWEC may be found at https://mywcccdhwec.org/.
WCCCD, one of the largest urban community colleges in Michigan, is a multi-campus district with six campus locations and specialty campuses, including the Mary Ellen Stempfle University Center, the Heinz C. Prechter Educational and Performing Arts Center, the Michigan Institute for Public Safety Education (MIPSE), the Curtis L. Ivery Health and Wellness Education Center, and the Outdoor Careers Training Center. The District serves students across 32 cities and townships, and more than 500 square miles. WCCCD is committed to the continued development of innovative programs, workforce transformation, hosting community-based training sessions, and improving student facilities and services. www.wcccd.edu.
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(NEXSTAR) – Simone Johnson will be known by another name in the ring: Ava Raine.
The 20-year-old daughter of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced her wrestling name on Twitter Sunday, changing her handle to @AvaRaineWWE.
She immediately began fielding questions on social media about why her name didn’t pay homage to her legendary wrestling lineage. The Rock wrestled for WWE in the late 1990s and early 2000s. His daughter signed with WWE in 2020, putting her “on a path to become the first fourth-generation Superstar in WWE history,” the company announced.
“To know that my family has such a personal connection to wrestling is really special to me and I feel grateful to have the opportunity, not only to wrestle, but to carry on that legacy,” the young Johnson said in a statement announcing her WWE contract.
She repeated that sentiment on Twitter Sunday under her new name: “i probably sound like a broken record & hopefully this is the last i’ll mention this but i don’t understand why people being portrayed as separate individuals from their family name is such a heated topic. a name doesn’t discredit any prior accomplishments from any family.”
As Johnson weighed potential ring names, there was one that was apparently never under consideration: The Pebble.
“i beg of you guys to find a new joke. anything,” she tweeted. | 2022-05-30T19:43:53+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/national/the-rocks-daughter-reveals-new-wrestling-name/ |
MARNE - In what is shaping up to be an exciting night of racing this Saturday, there are many talented drivers, including a well-known celebrity, taking to the asphalt at Berlin Raceway in the annual Berlin ARCA 200.
- Watch ARCA Racing on FuboTV (7-day free trial)
LOTS OF LOVE
Arguably one of the hottest drivers in the upper levels of stock car racing is Jesse Love. The 18-year-old sits atop the ARCA Menards Series (AMS) standings heading into this weekend, thanks to wins in each of the last three races, all three have come at circuits featured on the NASCAR Cup Series calendar. After a disappointing 27th-place finish at Phoenix, Love won at Talladega, before also taking the checkered flags at Kansas Speedway and Charlotte.
“Really happy with how we’ve been able to rattle off some wins already,” Love said to be when we talked earlier in the week.
The Menlo Park, California resident started racing Super Late Models as a 13-year-old, and has as much experience, if not more, than drivers years older than him.
“I’ve been able to learn for a long time and try to maintain a child’s mind, continuing to learn every time I come to the race track. All that stuff adds up.”
Love’s performances over his career has earned him a shot in the NASCAR ranks, competing in the Craftsman Truck Series back on June 3 at World Wide Technology Raceway, finishing ninth. He will also be running the No. 11 Tricon Garage machine in the series trips to Kansas and Phoenix.
The Venturini Motorsports driver has ran well in his two appearances at Berlin, finishing fifth in the 2021 edition of the race, before ending up third behind victor Sammy Smith and teammate Tom Hessert III last year. Love looks to become the third driver from VMS to win at Berlin, as Byron native Erik Jones won as a 17-year-old in 2013, while Dalton Sargeant ended up in victory lane three years later.
“Berlin would be a cool place to win. I love the fans there, they do a good job of promoting the race track, and obviously the facilities and all that is very nice.”
Love is on the right path to contending for the series championship this year, though he has finished at the top of one of its regional series, as he won the ARCA Menards West series title in 2020 and 2021.
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MUNIZ IN THE MIDDLE
One of the big new faces in the AMS this season has been Frankie Muniz. While he is fresh to the stock car racing circuit, Muniz is well known by many for his television and film career, the 34-year-old decided to pursue his passion for racing.
Muniz has shown that he is no slouch by any stretch. He grabbed everyone’s attention by posting the fastest time in practice at Daytona back in February, finishing the 200-mile race in 11th. The driver of the Rette Jones Ford No. 30 has finished in the top 10 in each of the last four events, including a season-best sixth-place finish in the General Tire 150 at Charlotte during Memorial Day Weekend.
The consistent runs by Muniz have helped place him right behind Love in points heading into Berlin.
This is actually not the first season Muniz has ever raced before. From 2007-09, he ran for multiple seasons in the open-wheel Atlantic Championship Series, which is well-known for breeding future IndyCar drivers. That said, Muniz has never won a race.
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ROSE PEDALS HIS WAY TOWARD THE TOP
Coming out of the foothills of West Virginia, Christian Rose is earning the respect of those around the racing community, and it has helped the 28-year-old get a shot in the annals of NASCAR, despite just starting out his racing career driving Late Models five years ago.
In his first full season with AM Racing, Rose is coming off two of the best runs of his career. Heading into 2023, the former D1 baseball player never finished inside the top 10 in ARCA’s top series, but the change from Cook Racing Technologies has helped Rose put together some impressive performances, finishing ninth at Kansas, before an eighth-place finish at Charlotte.
“We’ve led laps in two of the first five races,” Rose mentioned when I chatted with him on Tuesday. “I had never led laps in my career, and to do it at Dayton and Charlotte have been big steps in my career and for my team.”
The results have helped the driver of the No. 32 West Virginia Department of Tourism Ford Fusion move up to fifth in points, just a few back of Andres Perez De Lara. However, as he only raced part-time in the AMS last year, this will be Rose’s first laps at Berlin, though a number of members on his team have raced there in the past.
“It’s pretty cool to know that, you got someone that has a ton of laps to coach you around there.”
While he has raced on various tracks over the years, and has some quality finishes, Rose has never won a race, but the paved oval in West Michigan might be the place to right that ship. There have been a lot of first-time ARCA winners at Berlin Raceway. In fact, each of the three winners in the 200-lap event, including Sammy Smith last year, have picked up their maiden win in Marne.
“I’m hoping that Jesse [Love] and the No. 18 of William Sawalich get up there racing each other hard, and we get a chance to steal one.”
Rose has driven well enough to earn a shot up in NASCAR, as he will be driving for AM Racing in the Truck Series in July of this season at Richmond Raceway.
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The ARCA Menards Series has been coming to Berlin Raceway dating back to 1958, and has produced many of NASCAR’s biggest stars. From former ARCA champs like Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick, to Martin Truex Jr. and Ryan Newman, many have earned their racing stripes in this series, including battling it out on the banks of the 7/16-mile oval.
The race is scheduled to begin around 8 p.m. ET, and will be broadcasted on FOX Sports 1, and can be streamed on FuboTV (Free Trial).
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While ARCA will be the headliner on the night’s festivities, a couple of local series will also be burning rubber, as the Model Coverall Limited Late Models and Betten Baker Sportsmans hit the track.
Check out the full Berlin Raceway schedule of events here | 2023-06-15T19:12:11+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/sports/grand-rapids/2023/06/frankie-muniz-jesse-love-and-christian-rose-highlight-who-to-watch-four-in-the-berlin-arca-200.html |
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Advanced Load-Cell Brake Pedals from Asetek for Immersive Sim Racing
AALBORG, Denmark, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek, sim racing gear innovator, the creator of the all-in-one liquid cooler, and the global leader in liquid cooling solutions for gaming PCs and DIY enthusiasts, today announced it has started shipping its high-performance Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set for immersive sim racing. Forte means "strong" and with the Forte™ Pedal Set from Asetek SimSports™ aspiring sim racers can experience high-end pedals for immersive racing at a very competitive price point, while still providing a true racecar feel.
The ultra-realistic sim racing pedals with Asetek's proprietary 2-stage M.L.C.P.C.™ (Mechanical Load Cell Powered Cylinder) braking technology provide precise braking and incorporate the sleek design from the Invicta™ pedals, along with custom-made RaceHub™ software for quick and easy adjustments and calibration. The Forte™ Throttle and Brake pedals are compatible with the optional Invicta™ Clutch pedal and include several aspects of the premium-performance Invicta™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set from Asetek SimSports™.
Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedals Feature Set:
- Custom designed load-cell solution measuring pedal force up to 180kg
- M.L.C.P.C.™ technology ensures the 2-stage braking system enabling perfect trail braking and gained lap time
- Identical high-performance design to Asetek SimSports™ Invicta™ pedals
- High-precision, hall-effect sensor-based throttle
- Forte™ pedals feature smooth pedal plates for a more comfortable feeling for sim racing without shoes
"We are thrilled to be shipping our Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set, a high-quality product that provides many of the benefits of our premium performance Invicta™ pedals, at a price point accessible to many more sim racers," said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek. "Our goal with all of our SimSports products is to empower sim racers to experience the thrill and feel of a real racecar. With the Forte™ pedal set, aspiring sim racers are sure to improve their lap times, while benefiting from high-quality load-cell braking, and simple customization and personalization."
Sim racers can place their orders by going to www.asetek.com/simsports/webshop/.
- Asetek Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set is available for purchase. Extremely competitively priced and fully immersive, the Forte™ pedals including the load-cell brake offer the performance level and quality of much higher priced solutions. The Forte™ Pedal Set with its custom-made RaceHub™ software is available for €419.00 excluding VAT ($499.00 excluding sales tax when available for sale in the U.S.). To learn more or purchase the Forte™ Pedal Set with its custom-made RaceHub™ software click here: https://www.asetek.com/simsports/webshop/global/product/forte-pedals-brake-and-throttle/
- The optional Invicta™ Clutch Pedal is currently being sold for €209.00 excluding VAT ($249.00 excluding sales tax when available for sale in the U.S.). To learn more or purchase click here: https://www.asetek.com/simsports/webshop/global/product/invicta-pedals-clutch/
If desired, Forte™ pedal owners will be able to upgrade their pedals to the Invicta™ T.H.O.R.P.™ (Twin Hydraulic Opposing Rapid Pistons) system and replace the Forte™ pedal plates with Invicta™ pedal plates, for the ultimate experience of driving a real racecar. The Forte™ to Invicta™ Pedal Upgrade Kit is expected to be available for purchase in 2022.
In addition to the Invicta™ and Forte™ sim racing pedals, Invicta™ Footrest, and Forte™ Pedal Plates, Asetek SimSports™ will also offer wheel bases, steering wheels, shifters, and other end-user customization options.
Learn more about the high-performance Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set in the review videos from Will Ford of Boosted Media, Lawrence Dusoswa, Dave Cam, Ron Reviewt, Random Callsign, and more. Check out the reviews here: Reviews - SimSports (asetek.com).
Asetek prides itself on its credibility. Working with reviewers and influencers is an integral part of letting customers know our products will live up to everything they are designed and tested to do. When it comes to racing hardware reviews, advertising and ethics, Asetek joined the Conscious Advertising Network, a voluntary coalition of over 70 organizations to ensure that industry ethics catches up with modern advertising technology. More information can be found here: Asetek's Ethical Guidelines.
About Asetek
Asetek (ASTK.OL), a global leader in mechatronic innovation, is a Danish garage-to-stock-exchange success story. Founded in 2000, Asetek established its innovative position as the leading OEM developer and producer of the all-in-one liquid cooler for all major PC & Enthusiast gaming brands. In 2013, Asetek went public while expanding into energy-efficient and environmentally friendly cooling solutions for data centers. In 2021, Asetek introduced the first of its products for next-level immersive SimSports gaming experiences. Asetek is headquartered in Denmark and has operations in China, Taiwan, and the United States.
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Delta flight attendant comforting woman afraid to fly goes viral
(CNN) - A Delta flight attendant went above and beyond, and it was caught on camera.
A photo of the moment has since gone viral, showing the attendant comforting a passenger who was afraid to fly.
The flight attendant has been identified as Floyd Dean-Shannon and he’s only been an airline attendant for three months.
He said he noticed the passenger was visibly nervous getting on the plane and was sweating before takeoff.
However, once the flight was in the air, Dean-Shannon approached the woman and sat in the aisle to hold her hand and talk to her.
He reportedly explained everything that was happening to the woman from the sounds she was hearing to the turbulence.
Dean-Shannon said it was all to help calm the passenger down and reassure her of her safety.
Another passenger on the flight was able to capture a photo of the heartwarming interaction.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music as a genre has always been a melting pot of influences and cultures, often shifting and morphing to reflect popular sounds and trends. BRELAND’s debut full-length album “Cross Country” builds on that history, interpolating and sampling older songs and bringing in his background in gospel, R&B and hip-hop under the expansive umbrella of country music.
“I’ve gone on and on about cross country being the intersection of country and all these other genres,” said the 27-year-old New Jersey native. “But when you zoom out from that definition a little bit, and in practice, in reality, cross country is a movement.”
Since his breakout viral hit, “My Truck,” landed in 2019, BRELAND has quickly immersed himself in Nashville’s songwriting rooms, taking over as the king of country collabs. He’s had songs with Keith Urban, Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Jimmie Allen, Dierks Bentley, Tennille Townes, Lauren Alaina and Chase Rice, just to name a few. With each co-writing session, he’s building on his brand of a more fluid and inclusive genre.
“We live in a world where there are a lot of different divisions,” said BRELAND. “They pop up everywhere, whether it’s political or not, people don’t really agree on a lot. And music is one of the unifiers that we have. It’s one of the only things that we have that really brings people together.”
The Georgetown University grad grew up in a very musical family, which he jokingly referred to as the Von Trapps. His parents met in a gospel choir and they have continued their musical ministry. After singing in a cappella in college, BRELAND moved to Atlanta to write songs for other artists. But his goal has always been to be a singer, and after seeing positive reaction on social media to a demo for “My Truck,” he took the leap.
He got early support from Urban, a similarly minded country artist who brought him into the studio to work on tracks for Urban’s 2020 record “Speed of Now, Pt. 1.” Since then, BRELAND has been hopping from one collaboration to the next. Those collabs also led to his first CMA nomination for musical event of the year on the Bentley No. 1 song “Beers on Me” with HARDY.
“When I’m in those types of rooms, I’m not really worried about what the outcome is going to be. I just want to try to make the best song possible,” said BRELAND. “I think musically I bring so many different sounds and possibilities on a record that if I’m on a more country-leaning song, I might be the hip-hop element as a feature. If I’m on a more hip hop-leaning song, I might be the country element.”
His album has even more features with other artists: a country trap song anchored by Urban’s banjo and vocals, a poppy duet with Ingrid Andress, a slow jam drinking song with country group Lady A and the title track with Mickey Guyton.
Together with his producers Sam Sumser and Sean Snell, BRELAND also reinterprets samples and interpolations of older country songs to bridge his music to country’s past, most notably songs by female artists. In a homage to Shania Twain, BRELAND’s “Natural” mimics the distinctive guitar riffs from “Man! I Feel Like a Woman,” while the song “County Line” uses the jingly keyboard from the No. 1 crossover hit “Nobody” by Sylvia, which came out in 1982.
Co-written with Hunt and country singer-songwriter Ernest, BRELAND raps about small town characters with tongue-in-cheek lyrics over a beat built over the distinctive ’80s sounding “Nobody” melody. Ernest said that Sumser brought them the sample, and the writers immediately started vibing on its throwback sound.
“Trends come back around,” Ernest said of reworking the song. “I think we’re just all tipping our hat and paying homage to the stuff that had the sauce before us.”
BRELAND said, “Both of those songs can exist under the umbrella of historical country music.”
Given that gospel was his family’s cornerstone, BRELAND said his parents ideally would have wanted him to continue that path of religious music. But he found a different way to preach a unifying message.
“Whether or not it’s a directly religious message, I do think that there is a God message in the music, which is being positive,” said BRELAND. “I want people to feel good. I want people to be positive. I want people to love each other.”
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For more AP music news, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/music | 2022-09-13T17:08:14+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-breland-king-of-collabs-invents-the-sound-of-cross-country/ |
LOS ANGELES >> Police said Thursday that they are investigating actor Anne Heche for driving under the influence of drugs after a fiery crash into a Los Angeles house that left her with critical injuries.
Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of Heche’s blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesman Officer Jeff Lee said. But toxicology tests, which can take weeks to complete, must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital, where she remained Thursday, six days after the crash.
A representative for Heche did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
A spokeswoman said Tuesday that Heche was still in critical condition and had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
On Aug. 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles’ westside. Flames erupted, and Heche, who was alone in the car, was pulled by firefighters from the vehicle embedded in the house. No one in the house was injured.
Police said Thursday that they were still gathering evidence from the crash, and would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
Heche, 53, was among the most prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (“Donnie Brasco”) and Harrison Ford (“Six Days, Seven Nights”). In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
She recently had recurring roles on the network TV series “Chicago P.D.” and “All Rise,” and in 2020 was a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.” | 2022-08-12T02:08:19+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/08/11/breaking-news/police-investigate-anne-heche-for-dui-in-crash-into-house/ |
LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 23, SID Display Week 2023, the world's most influential event in the display industry, opened in the United States. As a global leader in the semiconductor display industry, BOE held the "Define the Future - BOE Innovation Ecosystem Forum" during SID Display Week 2023. A cohort of industry pioneers and leaders attended the forum and delivered speeches, including Chairman and senior executives of BOE, Achin Bhowmik, President of SID, David Gold, Vice President of Hisense International, and Kai Hohmann, Principal Expert of Automotive Displays at Continental. The forum demonstrated the innovation outcomes and applications of BOE's three display technology brands and fully reflected its transformation from a technology pacesetter to a standard setter, charting a new course for the development of the global semiconductor display industry.
Chen Yanshun, Chairman of BOE, said, "We are grateful that the professional platform provided by SID brings us closer, which deepens our mutual understanding and facilitates cooperation. This year, we are celebrating SID's 61st birthday, and BOE celebrated the 30th anniversary of its founding last month. This is a truly memorable moment. Ten years have passed since BOE made its debut at SID Display Week in 2014. Over the years, BOE has vigorously propelled the development of the semiconductor display industry while promoting its own transformation. BOE has launched the 'internet of displays' strategy and the first ever technology brand in China's semiconductor display sector, and implemented the "technology + brand" dual-drive model. In the IoT era where displays are ubiquitous, we should pursue 'Openness, Cooperation, Innovation' when embracing the future. BOE is ready to work with all friends to jointly build a new global industry ecosystem, write a new chapter of win-win cooperation and embark on a new and exciting journey filled with hope."
During the event, Dr. Gao Wenbao, President of BOE, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SID. The two sides agreed to jointly promote the healthy, sustainable and high-quality development of the global display industry through in-depth cooperation. Dr. Xu Xiaoguang, CTO of BOE, shared the industry and technology trends and called on global partners to together promote technological innovation and adopt a new model of cooperation.
UB Cell delivers premium UHD image quality comparable to OLED
ADS Pro is one of BOE's three display technology brands and its independently developed industry-leading high-end LCD display technology solution. It can present optimal images from all viewing angels and has ultrahigh refresh rate and other prominent strengths, while leading the way in eye care and environmental friendliness.
At the BOE Innovation Ecosystem Forum, Dr. Chen Dongchuan, PhD. Principal Expert of TV Dev. Dept. of BOE, said that building on its ADS technology over the past decade, BOE launched UB Cell that can deliver even higher image quality. UB Cell has a variety of strengths such as ultra black, ultra brightness and ultra brilliance to further improve product performance. It boasts an ultrahigh contrast ratio of 3,000:1, 90% color gamut coverage of BT.2020 and a high refresh rate of 240 Hz. Especially when it comes to color deviation from wide viewing angles, BOE developed the STW angle compensation technology solution jointly with its ecosystem partners, which can present true-to-life images from all viewing angles in multiple scenarios, putting it on par with OLED products.
BOE's UB Cell technology has been used in the Hisense U8H, a 98-inch 4K 144 Hz TV model in Hisense's ULED X lineup. The UB Cell display features six core strengths, namely, ultrawide viewing angles, ultralow reflectivity, high contrast ratio, high refresh rate, wide color gamut and high brightness, setting a new benchmark for high-end flagship TVs. At SID Display Week 2023, BOE showed off a range of UB Cell products, including the 600 Hz laptop with the world's highest refresh rate, the first-of-its-kind low-carbon monitor and other innovative display solutions, creating a whole new viewing experience in a more lifelike and energy-efficient manner.
Flexible OLED takes smart cockpit experience to the next level
BOE has launched the high-end flexible display technology solution f-OLED and constantly broken new ground in full-screen display, flexible forms, feature integration and the like to empower a broad range of smart devices and innovative application scenarios, which give users an incredible immersive experience.
Qiu Haijun, Senior Vice President and co-CTO of BOE and head of the OLED Technology and Product Development Center, said that BOE's flexible OLED technology branded as f-OLED has been widely adopted by world-renowned phone makers. Among them, BOE's lower-powered OLED display solution brings upgrades to the Honor Magic5 and the flagship phones by Xingji Meizu Group. BOE also supplies 6.8-inch full-screen OLED displays to the Nubia Z50 Ultra equipped with Gen 4 under-display camera technology. Additionally, BOE has been branching out into in-vehicle display, education, entertainment and other fields. In terms of smart cockpit, BOE's flexible OLED display technology well satisfies the requirements for quality, safety, rich colors, smooth smart interaction and feature-rich cockpit. With a wide color gamut and high contrast ratio, BOE's in-vehicle display presents true-to-life images and takes diverse forms to suit the needs of the instrument panel, central display, passenger display, A-pillar and taillight. It offers personalized options to customers, meeting their diversified expectations for smart cockpit.
As a global leader in the semiconductor display industry, BOE has been diving into the field of OLED display, with rich technical accumulations and strong R&D capacity. The company has filed more than 28,000 patent applications related to flexible OLED, and its proprietary technologies have been applied in a wide range of fields, such as mobile phones and laptops. It provides highly innovative products and services to over 16 customer ecosystems, and has earned high recognition from leading brands at home and abroad. According to data from Omdia, BOE has stayed No. 1 in China and No. 2 in the world by flexible OLED display shipments for years, diving deeper into the field of flexible display with innovative technologies and products.
α-MLED creates superb immersive experience in multiple scenarios
In the field of MLED, BOE has continuously pushed for breakthroughs in and commercialization of Mini/Micro LED technology centered on its display technology brand α-MLED and its unique chip-on-glass (COG) and active matrix (AM) technology. It has taken the lead in achieving the mass production and commercialization of COG AM Mini LEDs.
Chen Ming, BOE's CTO for MLED, introduced that through innovation in various links such as the electroplated TFT process, packaging solution and side wiring process, BOE's MLED technology enables MLED display to achieve peak brightness of 2,000 nits, ultra black, super low flicker and edge-to-edge spicing, giving the audiences a brand-new immersive experience. By becoming a controlling shareholder of the Chinese LED chipmaker HC Semitek, BOE aims to increase its presence in the LED eco-chain, establish a complete MLED technology system and industry ecosystem and constantly solidify its leadership in the field of Mini/Micro LED.
Up to now, BOE has rolled out a range of high-end products, such as the 86-inch COG AM Mini LED display that was selected as the Display Components of the Year of the Display Industry Awards (DIA) at SID Display Week 2022, the 163-inch 0.9mm LTPS COG MLED display, the 75-inch 8K Mini LED display, and the 34-inch COG Mini LED esports display. The company has forged extensive cooperation with leading Chinese and foreign brands, for example, Lenovo, HP, Hisense, KONKA and Skyworth. Meanwhile, BOE is active in expanding MLED application scenarios and developing MLED products and system solutions like commercial exhibition and display, HUD display and AR glasses, unlocking infinite possibilities for the rapid adoption and development of Mini/Micro LED technology.
At the forum, Dr. Xu Xiaoguang announced a call-up for global technological innovation on behalf of BOE. In his speech he mentioned that the display industry is now preparing for megatrends such as the metaverse, AIoT and low carbon, while facing new challenges in physical mechanisms, material devices, process equipment, algorithms and other fields. Maintaining its respect for technology and dedication to innovation, BOE is committed to bringing together talents to deal with industry challenges together. By scaling up capital inputs, sharing innovation platforms and opening incubation centers, BOE is working alongside scholars, startups, mature companies and other partners across the globe to boost display technology innovation and promote the high-quality development of the industry.
From a struggling enterprise to a "bottleneck breaker" in China's display industry to an undisputable industry leader, BOE has been pushing the limits of technology and embarked on a path of innovation-driven development, navigating its epic 30-year journey with industry-leading technologies and products. Going forward, BOE will stick to the "technology + brand" dual-drive model, inject sustained vitality into the high-quality development of the industry with its "internet of displays" strategy, and join forces with global partners to build a win-win ecosystem and usher in a new era where displays are ubiquitous.
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"Treason is the biggest crime on Earth, and traitors must be punished," said Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Financial Times in June 2019, commenting on the poisoning of a former GRU officer and double agent who spied for Western intelligence Sergei Skripal and his daughter. "I am not saying that it’s necessary to punish in [the] way that was done in Salisbury, added Putin, "not at all. But, nevertheless, traitors must be punished."
Last week, before the airwaves got hit with the whirlwind of bizarre reports of a failed coup in Russia, news broke out about another failed Russian plot, taking place in 2020. The Russians ran a clandestine operation to kill a high-ranking Russian intelligence official, Aleksandr Poteyev, who was living in Miami, Florida, under the protection by the U.S. government as part of a highly secretive program that is designed to keep former spies safe. Poteyev defected here, having given up the names of 11 deep-cover Russian agents who operated in the U.S. and collected valuable intelligence for the Kremlin while posing as regular Americans.
The operation to eliminate Poteyev, ordered by Putin, fell through when a Mexican scientist, Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, whom the Russians coerced to track down Poteyev, sparked a red flag with security. Fuentes, who wasn’t trained in operational tradecraft, tried to pass through the gate of Poteyev's apartment building in Miami Beach by tailgating another car. Fuentes ultimately got arrested.
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This wasn’t the first time that the Russians targeted those who have crossed the Kremlin around the world, including here on U.S. soil. In fact, there’s an entire doctrine, called "Wet Deeds" – the spilling of blood.
The practice dates back to the early days of the Soviet Union. Wet Deeds was the favorite tool of Lenin, Stalin and now Putin to "eliminate" (likvidirovat’) persons perceived as a threat to the regime. Putin renewed the practice of "wet affairs" or "special tasks" by approving a federal law, "On Countering Extreme Activity," in 2002, two and a half years after he assumed the presidency. The law was updated in 2006, authorizing targeted assassinations for "extremist activity," which includes "crimes" such as "diminishing national dignity" and "publicly expressing slander or false accusation of persons who hold Russian government positions."
These "special tasks" are carried out by Russian military intelligence operatives and include killings, kidnappings, poisonings, "forced suicides" and other acts of intimidation and murder. Throwing a victim out of a window or making the victim jump is a very common tactic, along with staging car explosions and other "tragic accidents."
Prior to 2020, the Russians targeted Kremlin critics on U.S. soil twice. In March 2007, former CIA officer and staffer for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Paul Joyal survived a brutal attack near his home in Maryland. The attackers shot Joyal in the groin four days after he implied during a "Dateline NBC" broadcast that Putin and the Kremlin were responsible for the death of Aleksandr Litvinenko, a former FSB officer and Putin’s vocal critique, in Great Britain. Although the FBI was originally involved in the case, five years after this highly likely murder attempt, the criminals had not been found.
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In November 2015, Mikhail Lesin, a former Russian media executive and Putin adviser, was found dead in an upscale Washington, D.C., hotel. Lesin’s death happened a day before he was due to be interviewed by the Justice Department about the Kremlin-funded media company, RT, which he had founded. In October 2016, his death was deemed "accidental" by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington and the Metropolitan Police Department. But an official at the Chief Medical Examiner’s office revealed that Lesin’s neck bone was fractured in a way that is "commonly associated with hanging or manual strangulation."
On Russian soil, the Kremlin’s hit men conduct "wet deeds" at will. In July 2004, the New York–born Russian-American journalist and the chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov, was gunned down with nine bullets on the streets of Moscow late at night. Through his work, Klebnikov exposed the corruption of the Russian oligarchs.
The botched Russian plot in 2020 suggests that perhaps Putin’s assassins are not as highly trained as Stalin’s. Stealthiness used to be the hallmark of the Russian tradecraft involving "special tasks" – the assassins did their job, leaving no trace of foul play. According to a 1993 CIA document, even "in cases where the Soviet hand is obvious, investigation often produces only fragmentary information, due to the KGB ability to camouflage its trail."
Some Americans are not buying the story that the recent armed revolt in Russia was authentic. Here’s a litmus test that would show whether the Russians ran a false-flag operation or whether Putin’s regime is about to collapse. If Prigozhin is indeed a traitor, Putin will hunt him down wherever he may be hiding.
If Prigozhin becomes the target of Putin’s assassination playbook, the coup is real. If Prigozhin and Wagner hitmen open up a second front targeting Ukraine from Belarus, we will know that Team Biden was outplayed by Putin again.
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Mayors' Beans and Cornbread Luncheon supports Hospice of Lubbock mission
Hospice of Lubbock hosted its 34th annual Mayors' Beans and Cornbread Luncheon on Friday, its largest fundraiser of the year. The event was back in person this year after several years of drive-thru events due to COVID-19.
The annual Mayors' Beans and Cornbread Luncheon is Hospice of Lubbock's opportunity to raise funds to provide free hospice care to unfunded and underfunded people in 19 counties in our region. Hospice of Lubbock is the region's only faith-based, non-profit hospice care available to both adults and children, according to the organization. This year, Hospice of Lubbock is celebrating 36 years of service to West Texas.
"The money we raise helps support the amazing work Hospice of Lubbock provides for terminally ill patients and families in Lubbock and 18 surrounding counties," said Dr. Jeremy Brown, Hospice of Lubbock CEO. | 2023-03-04T21:51:51+00:00 | lubbockonline.com | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2023/03/04/hospice-of-lubbock-hosts-mayors-beans-and-cornbread-luncheon/69969351007/ |
A man was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Mission Thursday night after he allegedly shot his wife.
Authorities say the man shot his wife during an argument at their home, then left the residence and refused to pull over when he was found by law enforcement. This led to a high-speed chase that ended in a crash, then police said the man got out of his vehicle and pulled a gun. At that point, he was shot and killed by officers. The man’s wife is in stable condition. | 2023-05-26T23:50:08+00:00 | kurv.com | https://www.kurv.com/shooting-suspect-killed-by-officers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shooting-suspect-killed-by-officers |
Proactively Promoting Liquidity of Shares and Circulating Market Value
HONG KONG, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hangzhou SF Intra-city Industrial Co., Ltd. ("SF Intra-city" or the "Group") (Stock Code: 9699.HK), China's largest third-party on-demand delivery service provider, is pleased to announce that on 25 July, the Group received approval from the Stock Exchange for the listing and dealing of a total of 451,403,783 H shares, which represent approximately 48.36% of the Group's total issued Shares.
The conversion and listing of H shares will involve 18 participating holders of unlisted shares, and they will participate in the conversion of H shares. Once the conversion and listing of the shares are completed on the Stock Exchange, SF Intra-city's total number of H shares is expected to increase from 310,289,026 to 761,692,809 significantly. This surge represents a remarkable increase in the approximate percentage of issued H shares from 33.24% to 81.60% of the Group's total shares. The listing of the converted H shares on the Stock Exchange is currently expected to commence by the end of this month.
SF Intra-city emphasised that the shares conversion and listing are important measures to further enhance the Group's brand value in the capital market. This move is conducive to bolstering the Group's reputation and competitiveness domestically and internationally while also enhancing operational efficiency, optimizing conporate structures and enhancing profitability. Additionally, the measure will significantly promote the liquidity, trading volume and turnover rate of SF Intra-city's shares, consequently contributing to the increase in circulating market value. The Group also expects a turnaround from losses to profits in the first half of 2023. SF Intra-city will continue focusing on high-quality growth, improved profitability, and steady development, aiming to deliver greater value returns to its shareholders and investors.
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Sheryl Sandberg opened her next chapter as a full-time philanthropist Tuesday with a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union to fight state abortion bans across the country.
Sandberg, who officially left her position as Facebook’s parent company Meta’s chief operating officer last week after 14 years, donated $3 million to the ACLU Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center. The ACLU plans to use the funds to support candidates and ballot measures for abortion rights, as well as defending pregnant women’s rights in state courts and legislatures over the next three years.
Sandberg told The Associated Press in an interview that it’s “unthinkable” that her three daughters have fewer rights over “their own health care, their own bodies, their own destinies” than she did. She wanted to immediately start working to change that.
“As I’m leaving Meta and looking at the next phase of my life and what I want to do and dedicate myself to, this is an issue that I think is absolutely fundamental to who we are as women who we are as a society,” Sandberg said. “The time is now. These state elections are now. And the next cycle is just two years away.”
Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director, said Sandberg’s donation is the largest ever given to the ACLU’s political arm for abortion rights. The funds will help support a shift in the organization’s abortion rights strategy back to state legislatures following the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that found there is no constitutional right to an abortion.
“It will be decades before we can clean up this mess through litigation,” he said. “We’ll get back there. We will re-establish a fundamental right to an abortion at the federal level. There will be another case that overturns Dobbs. But that will take us decades.”
Sandberg partnered with the ACLU because she believes fighting for reproductive rights requires a political component following the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision. The political donation was made by Sandberg personally and did not come from the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, which she says will remain the center of her philanthropic work. Political donations are not tax-deductible.
Though the ACLU donation is separate from her philanthropic work, Sandberg says the “connective tissue” is that it supports women, just as she does through Lean In and Option B, the nonprofit initiatives named after her two best-selling books.
“Lean In is about giving women the opportunities that men have – women of color, women of all backgrounds, women with less access to resources – giving them the opportunities to choose their own paths, chart their own courses, become leaders,” she said. “Nothing’s more fundamental than controlling our own bodies, our own reproductive rights and our own reproductive health.”
“Option B is about overcoming tragedy and adversity,” she added. “And what’s happening here is that we are creating adversity that should not be created for the women in our country who need the most help.”
Romero said the ACLU is already fighting legislation to further limit abortions in some states and bringing legislation to challenge abortion bans in others, as well as fighting to keep abortion clinics open in several states.
“The future battles have to be for the hearts and minds of the American voters,” Romero said. “More of the American public agrees with us than with the Supreme Court, so we have to find a way to course correct the political process. If the court says, ‘We’ll let the states decide,’ well, OK, let’s let the voters decide – not these governors, not the state legislatures that are detached from their own constituents.”
Sandberg, 52, has a net worth of about $1.6 billion, according to Forbes. She announced in June that she would leave Meta — though she remains on its board — to focus on her foundation and its philanthropic work. That remains her intent, focusing her efforts on gender equality, she said.
“A lot needs to go better for women,” she said. “We need to do much better for women in leadership. We need to much better for women of color. We need to do much better for women everywhere in the country.”
That work starts with abortion rights, Sandberg said, adding that “this issue is the one where we have taken the biggest single step backwards – a single step backwards that none of us could even believe could happen.”
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Americans mark Juneteenth with parties, events and quiet reflection on the end of slavery
Posted/updated on: June 19, 2023 at 7:40 pmAmericans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated the end of slavery after the Civil War. While many have treated the long holiday weekend as a reason for a party, others urged quiet reflection on America’s often violent and oppressive treatment of its Black citizens. Still others have remarked at the strangeness of celebrating a federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the nation while many Americans are trying to stop parts of that history from being taught in public schools.
The holiday, which was on Monday, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the bloody Civil War. For generations, Black Americans have recognized Juneteenth, but it only became a federal holiday two years ago. In Fort Worth, Texas, the woman known as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee, led her annual Walk for Freedom. The 96-year-old former teacher and activist is largely credited for rallying others behind a campaign to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. This year, Lee became only the second Black person to have her portrait hung in the Senate chamber of the Texas Capitol. | 2023-06-20T03:25:21+00:00 | ktbb.com | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1236539 |
WASHINGTON — Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.
The estimated $740 billion package heads next to the House, where lawmakers are poised to deliver on Biden’s priorities, a stunning turnaround of what had seemed a lost and doomed effort that suddenly roared back to political life. Democrats held united, 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.
“It’s been a long, tough and winding road, but at last, at last we have arrived,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ahead of final votes.
“The Senate is making history. I am confident the Inflation Reduction Act will endure as one of the defining legislative measures of the 21st century.”
Senators engaged in a round-the-clock marathon of voting that began Saturday and stretched late into Sunday afternoon. Democrats swatted down some three dozen Republican amendments designed to torpedo the legislation. Confronting unanimous GOP opposition, Democratic unity in the 50-50 chamber held, keeping the party on track for a morale-boosting victory three months from elections when congressional control is at stake.
“I think it’s gonna pass,” Biden told reporters as he left the White House early Sunday to go to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, ending his COVID-19 isolation. The House seemed likely to provide final congressional approval when it returns briefly from summer recess on Friday.
The bill ran into trouble midday over objections to the new 15% corporate minimum tax that private equity firms and other industries disliked, forcing last-minute changes.
Despite the momentary setback, the “Inflation Reduction Act” gives Democrats a campaign-season showcase for action on coveted goals. It includes the largest-ever federal effort on climate change — close to $400 billion — caps out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare to $2,000 a year and extends expiring subsidies that help 13 million people afford health insurance. By raising corporate taxes, the whole package is paid for, with some $300 billion extra revenue for deficit reduction.
Barely more than one-tenth the size of Biden’s initial 10-year, $3.5 trillion rainbow of progressive aspirations in his Build Back Better initiative, the new package abandons earlier proposals for universal preschool, paid family leave and expanded child care aid. That plan collapsed after conservative Sen. Joe. Manchin, D-W.Va., opposed it, saying it was too costly and would fuel inflation.
Nonpartisan analysts have said the “Inflation Reduction Act” would have a minor effect on surging consumer prices.
Republicans said the measure would undermine an economy that policymakers are struggling to keep from plummeting into recession. They said the bill’s business taxes would hurt job creation and force prices skyward, making it harder for people to cope with the nation’s worst inflation since the 1980s.
“Democrats have already robbed American families once through inflation, and now their solution is to rob American families a second time,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., argued. He said spending and tax increases in the legislation would eliminate jobs while having insignificant impact on inflation and climate change.
In an ordeal imposed on all budget bills like this one, the Senate had to endure an overnight “vote-a-rama” of rapid-fire amendments. Each tested Democrats’ ability to hold together a compromise negotiated by Schumer, progressives, Manchin and the inscrutable centrist Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., offered amendments to further expand the legislation’s health benefits, and those efforts were defeated. Most votes were forced by Republicans and many were designed to make Democrats look soft on U.S.-Mexico border security and gasoline and energy costs, and like bullies for wanting to strengthen IRS tax law enforcement.
Before debate began Saturday, the bill’s prescription drug price curbs were diluted by the Senate’s nonpartisan parliamentarian. Elizabeth MacDonough, who referees questions about the chamber’s procedures, said a provision should fall that would impose costly penalties on drug makers whose price increases for private insurers exceed inflation.
It was the bill’s chief protection for the 180 million people with private health coverage they get through work or purchase themselves. Under special procedures that will let Democrats pass their bill by simple majority without the usual 60-vote margin, its provisions must be focused more on dollar-and-cents budget numbers than policy changes.
But the thrust of their pharmaceutical price language remained. That included letting Medicare negotiate what it pays for drugs for its 64 million elderly recipients, penalizing manufacturers for exceeding inflation for pharmaceuticals sold to Medicare and limiting beneficiaries out-of-pocket drug costs to $2,000 annually.
The bill also caps Medicare patients’ costs for insulin, the expensive diabetes medication, at $35 monthly. Democrats wanted to extend the $35 cap to private insurers but it ran afoul of Senate rules. Most Republicans voted to strip it from the package, though in a sign of the political potency of health costs seven GOP senators joined Democrats trying to preserve it.
The measure’s final costs were being recalculated to reflect late changes, but overall it would raise more than $700 billion over a decade. The money would come from a 15% minimum tax on a handful of corporations with yearly profits above $1 billion, a 1% tax on companies that repurchase their own stock, bolstered IRS tax collections and government savings from lower drug costs.
Sinema forced Democrats to drop a plan to prevent wealthy hedge fund managers from paying less than individual income tax rates for their earnings. She also joined with other Western senators to win $4 billion to combat the region’s drought.
Several Democratic senators joined the GOP-led effort to exclude some firms from the new corporate minimum tax.
The package keeps to Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less than $400,000 a year.
It was on the energy and environment side that compromise was most evident between progressives and Manchin, a champion of fossil fuels and his state’s coal industry.
Clean energy would be fostered with tax credits for buying electric vehicles and manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines. There would be home energy rebates, funds for constructing factories building clean energy technology and money to promote climate-friendly farm practices and reduce pollution in minority communities.
Manchin won billions to help power plants lower carbon emissions plus language requiring more government auctions for oil drilling on federal land and waters. Party leaders also promised to push separate legislation this fall to accelerate permits for energy projects, which Manchin wants to include a nearly completed natural gas pipeline in his state. | 2022-08-07T20:18:41+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-senate-approves-biden-deal-20220807-zpvskox7q5fjvgbzfjzt64jne4-story.html |
A Fox News producer is suing the network, alleging she was coerced into providing misleading testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against the company. Pictured is an advertisement for Fox News in New York on March 9.
A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters in New York on April 12.
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A Fox News producer is suing the network, alleging she was coerced into providing misleading testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against the company. Pictured is an advertisement for Fox News in New York on March 9.
A former Fox News producer who claims the right-wing network pressured her to give false testimony escalated her own lawsuit against the company, adding CEO Suzanne Scott as defendant and accusing Fox's lawyers of deleting messages from her phone.
In explosive lawsuits filed last month, Abby Grossberg claimed Fox lawyers bullied her into protecting the network and its on-air personalities in her deposition for the Dominion Voting Systems' case.
Grossberg now accuses Scott of being complicit in the alleged coercion, according to her amended lawsuit.
Fox News has previously said her lawsuits are "riddled with false allegations" and says its lawyers never acted improperly.
The network fired Grossberg after she initiated the litigation.
Grossberg worked for Maria Bartiromo during the 2020 election cycle, and some of the comments made on Bartiromo's show are at the center of Dominion's defamation case against Fox, which saw jury selection begin Thursday in Delaware. The network says it never defamed Dominion and that Dominion's lawsuit undermines US press freedoms.
In Grossberg's amended complaint filed this week, she accused Fox's lawyers of deleting messages from her phone. The lawsuit says Grossberg gave her phone to Fox lawyers in 2022, and "that certain messages between Ms. Grossberg and Ms. Bartiromo were missing/appeared to have been deleted" when she got the device back from Fox's team.
A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.
The topic of potentially missing or withheld evidence is looming large over the Dominion case. A judge sanctioned Fox on Wednesday for withholding key material from Dominion — audio recordings of Bartiromo talking off-air with Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
Fox said it never withheld any evidence from Dominion, and Fox lawyers said in court Wednesday that they only learned that Grossberg had made the recordings when she mentioned them in her lawsuits in recent weeks.
Dominion has said that it plans to call Grossberg as a witness as part of its case against Fox News.
Scott, the Fox News CEO, is expected to testify at the trial.
Emails made public in the Dominion case revealed that Scott said in 2020 it was "bad for business" for Fox News reporters to debunk Donald Trump's false assertions that the presidential election was rigged. (Fox News said these emails have been taken out of context by Dominion in its court filings.)
Scott was also on the receiving end of emails from Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, where he decried Trump's election denialism and blamed Trump for the January 6 insurrection. | 2023-04-13T23:48:12+00:00 | albanyherald.com | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/business/ex-producer-escalates-lawsuit-claiming-fox-news-lawyers-deleted-messages-from-her-phone/article_723bf0cc-ac94-5867-af4d-c367fc1a2a59.html |
Joan Donovan, 89, received her master's degree diploma. At 84 she had gotten her undergraduate degree. She wanted a master's in creative writing, but that school didn't offer it — she learned online.
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Joan Donovan, 89, received her master's degree diploma. At 84 she had gotten her undergraduate degree. She wanted a master's in creative writing, but that school didn't offer it — she learned online.
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This year, to celebrate the ancient Jewish festival of lights, the White House added a menorah to its holiday lineup for the first time.
The nine-pronged candelabra was created by the Executive Residence Carpentry Shop out of wood removed from the building in 1950 during a Truman-era renovation, the White House says.
As we mark the first night of Hanukkah, we celebrate with the first-ever White House menorah. It is a work of historic importance – and it’s also a work of love. pic.twitter.com/EipMFCjsSR
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 19, 2022
It now sits in Cross Hall, between portraits of former presidents Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson, as part of this year's "We The People"-themed holiday display. The White House welcomes roughly 50,000 visitors each holiday season, in addition to offering virtual tours of the decorations.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are set to add the menorah to the permanent White House collection at a Hanukkah reception Monday evening, which will mark the first time a Jewish artifact is added to the White House archives, according to the White House.
Various menorahs of special significance have been loaned to the White House over the years, the Hill reports.
A 2007 event included the parents of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and a menorah that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and in 2010 then-President Barack Obama lit candles on a menorah that had been recovered from a Louisiana synagogue hit by Hurricane Katrina.
It's one of several ways the Biden administration is marking the holiday
The Biden administration marked the first night of Hanukkah on Sunday by publicly denouncing antisemitism after a rise in troubling incidents and hate speech. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is himself Jewish, lit the National Menorah on the White House Ellipse.
"Together, we must stand up against the disturbing rise in antisemitism. And together, we must stand up against bigotry in any of its forms. Our democracy depends on it," he said, according to CNN. "As a descendant of those who fled persecution because they were Jewish, it is especially meaningful to be here tonight as we light this menorah in our nation's capital and under the protection of its laws."
The White House points to other actions that Biden has taken to support the Jewish community, from convening a summit to combat hate-fueled violence to forming an antisemitism task force to securing the largest-ever increase in federal funding for the physical security of nonprofits, including synagogues and Jewish Community Centers.
Monday night's Hanukkah reception will include a blessing and menorah lighting, with special guests including Holocaust survivor Bronia Brandman, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker (who was among the hostages held at a Texas synagogue earlier this year) and Avigael Heschel-Aronson, the granddaughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
The White House says that Biden's remarks will "make the case that in the face of emboldened antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world, silence is complicity — and we must forcefully say that all forms of hate, antisemitism, and violence can have no safe harbor in America."
A brief history of White House Hanukkahs
The first president to mark Hanukkah in the nation's capital was Carter, who lit what would come to be known as "the National Menorah" in nearby Lafayette Park in 1979.
Hanukkah officially arrived in the White House a decade later, when President George H.W. Bush displayed a menorah (given to him by the Synagogue Council of America) in the building. Bill Clinton became the first president to actually light a menorah in the people's house in a small ceremony in 1993 (at which a young student's hair famously and briefly caught fire).
President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush hosted the first White House Hanukkah party in 2001, lighting a 100-year-old menorah borrowed from the Jewish Museum in New York.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff led the menorah lighting at last year's Hanukkah party, which Biden called a White House tradition that was newly "a family tradition" as well.
And this year, the president and first lady hosted the first-ever High Holiday reception at the White House in September.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- We are very pleased to announce our Synthetic Turf & Infill Recycling Program with the nation's first recycling facility located right here in North America. Our flagship plant is located in sunny Southern California.
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Our program documents the chain of custody from the time the trucks arrive on site until 100% of the turf is recycled into resalable post consumer products so you have assurance the right thing is being done. Once the process is complete a Certificate of Compliance is issued. This paper trail is essential for a proper recycling program.
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Rotunda Rumblings
The limit does not exist: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine dealt what might be a death blow to the Ohio Senate’s proposal to raise the speed limit on some roads. Jeremy Pelzer reports that DeWine told reporters on Tuesday that he is “adamantly” against raising the speed limit, pointing to concerns about safety. State senators added language to the two-year transportation budget bill raising speed limits on highways with a 55 mph limit to 60 mph and giving cities and townships the ability to ask the Ohio Department of Transportation to raise maximum speeds on state routes from 60 mph to 65 mph. DeWine could line-item veto the provision if it makes it to his desk without supermajority support that would be needed to override him.
Letter and law: DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted sent a letter to Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw, who is expected to appear before U.S. Senate committee today, noting he hasn’t explicitly backed federal and state legislation that would improve railroad safety. The letter said he owes it to the people of East Palestine, Laura Hancock reports.
Parental guidance suggested: The FBI launched at least 25 investigations of threats to school boards after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a 2021 memorandum instructing it to address the issue, but none of the probes resulted in federal charges, according to a new interim report from U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government, reports Sabrina Eaton. “The weaponization of law enforcement powers against American parents exercising their First Amendment rights is dangerous,” says the report, which will be used in a Thursday House Judiciary subcommittee hearing.
Made in Ohio: Some Ohio exports have seen surges due to the war in Ukraine increasing their demand, including prepared animal feed, oil and miscellaneous grain, seeds, fruits and plants, Zachary Smith reports. The top exports from Ohio include boilers, machinery, mechanical appliances, automobiles and auto parts and accessories and aircraft.
Off the rails: Because so many of the nation’s rail lines run through rural districts that trend Republican, GOP U.S. Senators J.D. Vance of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida and Josh Hawley of Missouri argue Republicans should support the rail safety legislation they co-sponsored after last month’s Ohio’s derailment. “When derailments occur, it is predominantly Republican voters—their voters—who bear the brunt and who rush to put out the fires,” the trio write in an opinion piece published by Fox News. “The U.S. government must provide the American people with the security of knowing that what happened to East Palestine will not happen again.”
Campaign trail: Ohio is getting a visit from one of the early frontrunners for the GOP nomination for president in 2024. The Akron Beacon Journal reports that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will visit the Summit County Republican Party on April 13 at a University of Akron venue. DeSantis hasn’t formally announced a run for president, but he has been visiting early primary and caucus states in a strong signal that he will take on former President Donald Trump, who is running for a third time after losing the 2020 election.
Uprooted: DeSantis has some largely unexplored roots in Ohio. DeSantis’ mother grew up in Youngstown before moving away and raising the future Florida governor in Tampa Bay, per Henry Gomez of NBC News, but his northeast Ohio roots are reflected in his brand of politics. “Places such as Youngstown and Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where his father also grew up in the shadows of now-shuttered steel mills, have become incubators for the kinds of cultural grievances that DeSantis nurtures,” Gomez writes.
Rain gear: Ohio’s rainy day fund recently reached $3 billion, a record high, but it is still lower than levels on reserve in other states. The average U.S. state has 42.3 days of state government spending in its rainy day fund. Ohio has 36.7 days, according to a new analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Wyoming has the largest rainy day fund, with 349.6 days of daily state expenses saved. New Jersey has nothing set aside.
Hot for the school board: The Washington Post’s Hannah Natanson traveled to Mentor near Cleveland to report on the divide among parents on how social studies, sex ed and other educational topics are handled in the classroom. The divide generally follows the liberal-conservative ideological lines. Some parents claimed they spend 20 hours a week on activism.
Voting rights: David Jackson and Dominic Wells, Bowling Green State University political science professors, argue in Talking Points Memo that Ohio and Michigan, which formerly voted similarly, diverged after 2016 because of voter rights laws. Specifically, in 2018, Michigan passed a same-day voter registration law. Michigan also getting abortion rights on the ballot last year ultimately resulted in the state becoming more Democratic. The professors, who note their research hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, reviewed demographics in both states and found them similar.
Full Disclosure
Five things we learned from state Rep. Gayle Manning’s March 16, 2022, financial disclosure. Manning is a Republican from North Ridgeville.
1. In addition to her Ohio House salary, which was $77,600 last year, she reported that in 2021 she received $50,000 to $99,999 from her teacher’s pension and $25,000 to $49,999 from the Ohio Public Employees Retirement system.
2. Manning reported owning a number of properties, including a condo on Gay Street in Columbus, four pieces of property in North Ridgeville, property in Elyria and property in Sheffield Village.
3. The House reimbursed her $3,460 in 2021 for mileage and the Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee gave her $271.44 for travel expenses.
4. For investments, she reported four money market accounts, an education savings account, an individual retirement account with American Savings and a trust.
5. At some point in 2021, Manning owed at least $1,000 with Citibank, Quicken Loan, Chase Bank, Third Federal Bank and Capital One.
On the Move
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor. He had been a political commentator on CNN since 2019, after his second term as governor had ended.
Birthdays
State Sen. George Lang
Dan Lusheck, communications director, Ohio Republican Party
John Gilligan, Ohio’s 62nd governor (1921-2013)
Straight From The Source
“It can be and should be a very thoughtful sport. There is a strategy to it, and you want to be able to dodge a punch and take one, and then choose yours really wisely. It’s been a good metaphor for me in life and politics.”
U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman in the Cincinnati Enquirer describing one of his seven tattoos, a line from the poem, “Seven Hills and a Queen to Name Them.” The line is a reference to Landsman’s amateur boxing career, a sport he took up after losing his first election in 2013.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The family of a Black man who died after police officers in North Carolina repeatedly used Tasers on him called Thursday for officials to fire and charge the officers, noting that the dead man told the police he had heart problems.
Darryl Tyree Williams, 32, died at a hospital after being confronted and handcuffed by officers in a southeast Raleigh neighborhood about 2 a.m. on Jan. 17, according to a report by Police Chief Estella Patterson released days later.
Police have said they were arresting Williams for possession of a controlled substance and that he was stunned with a Taser three times by two different officers as they tried to take him into custody. Williams can be heard in body and dashboard camera videos released by police last week protesting that he didn’t do anything and warning that he had a heart problem.
Williams was “taken from the Earth by the very people who were supposed to protect and serve him,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference at a Raleigh church on Thursday. Crump, who has been retained by Williams’ family, has won multimillion-dollar settlements in numerous police brutality cases.
“When he said, ‘I have heart problems,’ you would not think that a person then would tase him again and again,” Crump said. “That’s not humanity, that’s torture.”
Dawn Blagrove with Emancipate NC, a criminal justice reform group, called for the officers to be fired and prosecuted. She also called for the department to end proactive policing and the use of Tasers.
“The investigation remains ongoing,” State Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Angie Grube wrote in an email Thursday.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman deferred on Thursday to the SBI’s ongoing probe. Freeman has said an autopsy has been conducted, but that she had not yet received a the report. Six officers are on leave as the investigation continues.
Sonya Williams, Darryl Williams’ mother, said at the news conference that she had not heard from the police chief or the mayor.
“That was my first born. That was my only son” she said. “He shouldn’t be dead and I want justice.” | 2023-02-16T22:03:01+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/ap-north-carolina-family-seeks-charges-in-police-stun-gun-death/ |
OTARU, Japan (AP) — Wealthy nations can lead by example in cutting carbon emissions, though much faster action is needed to stem global warming, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Granholm and other senior energy and environment officials from the Group of Seven advanced economies are in Hokkaido in northern Japan this week for meetings on climate change, energy security and related issues.
“That’s what we hope to do is lead by example,” Granholm said after touring the world’s first and only liquefied hydrogen carrier, a ship that showcases Japanese efforts to transform heavily polluting coal into emissions-free hydrogen power.
At the G-7 summit in May last year, member nations set a common goal of achieving a fully or predominantly decarbonized electricity supply by 2035.
The fact that carbon emissions are continuing to rise despite massive investments in cleaner energy is “very disappointing,” Granholm said. But she noted that 90% of the new generating capacity that came online globally last year is from renewable sources.
“So this is happening. The tectonic plates are shifting, and it has to happen more quickly,” she said, pointing to U.S. efforts to curb emissions in transportation and power generation and other steps toward “decarbonization” of many industries.
Still, the approval of major fossil fuel projects such as the Willow project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope has drawn criticism that it runs counter to President Joe Biden’s pledges to cut carbon emissions and move to clean energy. There are also objections to the project’s environmental impact.
Environmentalists say Japan’s strategy of relying on fossil fuels such as coal, even with technologies like carbon capture that prevent emissions from escaping into the atmosphere, and failure to more fully embrace renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, fails to set a persuasive example for other major polluters such as China and India.
Granholm said that moves toward embracing renewable, clean energy sources, including hydrogen, nonetheless “give hope to others to be able to do it as the technology lowers the cost.”
The Suiso Frontier, the ship Granholm toured Friday as it was docked in the port of Otaru, is the world’s only liquefied hydrogen marine carrier. Built by Japanese ship maker Kawasaki Heavy Industries, it carries hydrogen cooled to minus 253 degrees Celsius (minus 423 degrees Fahrenheit) in a liquid form that occupies one eight hundredth of the volume it would occupy as a gas.
The 8,000-ton ship was built to carry hydrogen produced at a coal gasification facility in Australia to Japan for power generation and to fuel vehicles, among other uses.
The Biden administration is turning to hydrogen as an energy source for vehicles, manufacturing and generating electricity. It’s offering $8 billion to entice the nation’s industries, engineers and planners to figure out how to produce and deliver clean hydrogen.
“We’re interested in taking this to the next level in making sure that it can be derived from clean sources,” Granholm said while standing on the bridge of the vessel, whose home port is Kobe.
American companies made final pitches earlier this month in bidding for a new program that will create regional networks, or “hubs,” of hydrogen producers, consumers and infrastructure. The aim is to accelerate the availability and use of the colorless, odorless gas that already powers some vehicles and trains.
The Department of Energy is required to fund at least four hydrogen hubs by 2026. The hubs are to demonstrate various ways of producing hydrogen, including fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewable energy sources.
The challenge is to ensure such projects are commercially feasible, that there is adequate demand from industries for the hydrogen.
The Department of Energy has estimated that at least $85 billion is needed to establish a U.S. hydrogen industry.
Despite ambitions to turn the country into a “hydrogen society,” Japan’s own hydrogen industry is in its infancy, with the government still drawing up the legislation needed to support creation of infrastructure and supply chains for commercial use of hydrogen and ammonia.
Part of that plan involves providing an estimated 7 trillion yen ($53 billion) in subsidies to help bridge the difference in prices between energy produced from hydrogen and conventional sources such as natural gas.
Since hydrogen is difficult to transport it is sometimes stored as liquid ammonia, which is one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen. Ammonia allows the hydrogen to be stored and shipped more easily and compactly.
Supporters of hydrogen and ammonia say they offer a way for countries in Southeast Asia, whose combined emissions are the world’s fourth largest, to meet rising demand for power while cutting carbon emissions.
Another is nuclear power.
Granholm praised Japan’s decision to restart many of the nuclear power plants it idled for safety concerns after a massive earthquake and catastrophic tsunami in March 2011 triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant on the northeastern coast of its main island.
It’s a choice that many in the energy-scarce nation view as inevitable, even as the plants near the end of their expected lifetimes.
Major Japanese industries such as steelmakers, manufacturers and electrical utilities are heavily invested in fossil fuel-based technologies and have huge sway over the government and politicians, Kumiko Hirata, founder and international director of Climate Integrate (Japan), said in an online briefing.
Japan’s “green transformation” strategy, which includes commercializing the use of hydrogen and ammonia, mainly caters to big business interests, she said.
“They always argue that using existing technology is the most economically feasible approach for decarbonization and because of that, climate policy development in Japan has been so slow,” she said. “And Japan became the laggard among the G-7.” | 2023-04-14T14:00:08+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/us-energy-secretary-says-g7-can-lead-global-emissions-cuts/ |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. , July 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zynex, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZYXI), an innovative medical technology company specializing in the manufacture and sale of non-invasive medical devices for pain management, rehabilitation, and patient monitoring, today announced preliminary results for second quarter 2022 and reiterated full year guidance.
"Our order growth remained strong throughout the second quarter, wherein June and Q2 saw the highest number of monthly and quarterly orders in the Company's history, respectively. Second quarter orders grew 19% sequentially over Q1 2022 and 10% over Q2 2021, which had, to date, been the highest order total in Company history. Additionally, cash collections remained strong during the quarter. We are confirming our previous estimates for second quarter revenue of $35.0 to $38.0 million and adjusted EBITDA between $4.0 and $6.0 million," said Thomas Sandgaard, CEO of Zynex. "These figures are in line with our full year guidance range, and we remain committed to executing on our strategic growth while maintaining financial health. Our Q2 2022 revenue estimate is approximately 18% higher than Q2 2021."
"As the year progresses, we look forward to emphasizing the efficiency of our sales force and expect to see profitable growth with a hyperfocused cohort of reps," said Sandgaard. "Zynex is fostering a high standard of performance within the sales team and anticipates new and existing reps to be able to sell more effectively in the coming quarters."
The Company reiterates its full year 2022 guidance of $150 to $170 million in revenue and adjusted EBITDA between $25 and $35 million.
About Zynex, Inc.
Zynex, founded in 1996, markets and sells its own design of electrotherapy medical devices used for pain management and rehabilitation as well as developing noninvasive patient fluid, pulse oximetry and sepsis monitoring systems. For additional information, please visit: www.zynex.com.
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This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Forward-looking statements are neither historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead, they are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. Our actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore you should not rely on any of these forward looking statements. The Company makes no express or implied representation or warranty as to the completeness of forward-looking statements or, in the case of projections, as to their attainability or the accuracy and completeness of the assumptions from which they are derived. Factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the need to obtain CE marking of new products, the acceptance of new products as well as existing products by doctors and hospitals, larger competitors with greater financial resources, the need to keep pace with technological changes, our dependence on the reimbursement for our products from health insurance companies, our dependence on third party manufacturers to produce our products on time and to our specifications, implementation of our sales strategy including a strong direct sales force, the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and other risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including but not limited to, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 as well as our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K.
Any forward-looking statement made by us in this release is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — As a deadly tornado tore through the lower Mississippi Delta, the Rev. Mary Stewart clung to a door in the hallway of her Rolling Fork home, shielding herself from the branches and chunks of debris that came flying through her shattered windows.
Friday’s storm flattened entire town blocks, but the Rolling Fork Methodist Church withstood the high winds. And so the first Sunday after the twister commenced just like any other Sunday — with congregants reaffirming their faith and finding solace together.
“We are a very religious community,” said Laura Allmon, a fourth-generation congregant. “It just means a lot for us to be able to get together and pray and be thankful for what we have.”
At least 25 people were killed and dozens were injured late Friday in Mississippi as the storm ripped through one of the poorest regions in the country, carving out a swath of destruction. Elsewhere, a man was killed in neighboring Alabama after his trailer home flipped over several times.
Their homes rendered unlivable, many Rolling Fork residents flocked Sunday to the network of churches dotting the landscape. It is a close-knit farming community bound by intergenerational ties of family and faith that form the social fabric of this rural Southern town of about 2,000.
Wayne Williams, 55, teaches construction skills at a vocational center. He was working with others Sunday to clean up some relatively minor damage at the building. Across the street, a large metal building that had been a community center was ripped apart by the tornado.
“It’s going to be a long road to recovery, to rebuild and get over all the devastation,” Williams said of his community. “With God in the mix, we will recover.”
For Rolling Fork, a rebuilding process now awaits unlike any the town has faced before. But Friday’s tornado wasn’t the first time residents have had their lives upended by the elements. In 2019, the worst flooding since 1973 drove some from their homes.
Religion is a central way residents of the Delta cope with an unpredictable climate and entrenched poverty.
“So many people here know patience from farm work,” Stewart said. “With their dependence on the rain for their crops — their livelihood — and having to leave it in God’s hands … it’s a wonderful reaffirmation that God is in control.”
Founded nearly 135 years ago, the Rolling Fork Methodist Church has long been a source of support and resilience in hard times, its members said.
Since the church building was without power Sunday morning, roughly two dozen worshipers gathered on its historic steps and bowed their heads while Stewart delivered a short sermon.
“We’re grateful, Lord, that you brought us through this storm,” she said, standing in sunshine beneath a clear blue sky. “We have a lot to do and a lot of rebuilding, and there are people that we’ve lost in our town. … We pray for their families.”
Elsewhere, President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi early Sunday, making federal funding available to the hardest hit areas.
Based on early data, the tornado received a preliminary EF-4 rating, with top wind gusts between 166 mph and 200 mph (265 kph and 320 kph), according to the National Weather Service office in Jackson. Officials said the twister was on the ground for more than an hour.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued a state of emergency and vowed to help rebuild as he viewed the damage in the region, which boasts wide expanses of cotton, corn and soybean fields and catfish farming ponds. He spoke with Biden, who also held a call with the state’s congressional delegation.
More than a half-dozen shelters were opened in Mississippi to house displaced residents.
Just a few blocks down the road from the Rolling Fork Methodist Church, pastor Britt Williamson spoke from the pulpit at First Baptist Church, addressing rows of weary congregants. During the service, people hugged, shook hands and wiped away tears.
“The Delta is a hard soul for the gospel,” Williamson said. “Through the calamity of what happened, God has brought a plow bigger than any of these farmers could have.”
He said faith gives people something to hold onto during life’s challenges.
“We don’t want to help people just to give them a place to live. We don’t want to feed them for a day,” he said. “We want to give them an eternal home.”
Marlon Nicholas, a congregant of the church, said his family’s attendance at a local high school prom Friday night meant they stayed safe even as their home was destroyed. He said other relatives also lost their homes but escaped without serious injuries.
“Miracles,” he said. | 2023-03-27T17:28:02+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/churches-provide-solace-in-tornado-ravaged-mississippi-delta/ |
Enterprise police investigate juvenile homicide case
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WSFA) - A south Alabama police department is investigating its second shooting of the day Tuesday, the latest involving the death of a minor.
Enterprise police responded to the 600 block of Tartan Pines around 10:30 a.m. on reports that someone had been shot.
Officers found an unresponsive boy inside the home. The victim, whose name and exact age have not been released, was pronounced dead on the scene.
Enterprise police detectives are actively investigating the shooting as a homicide but have not released any other details about the case.
The homicide happened hours after police were called to the 400 block of Grimes Street on reports of a separate shooting around 4:30 a.m. A suspect has been arrested in that case and is being held on an attempted murder charge.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Even after five years of living together in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, something as simple as holding hands or sharing a kiss in public is unthinkable for Dayanny Marcelo and Mayela Villalobos.
There is an ever-present fear of being rejected or attacked in Guerrero, a state where same-sex relationships are not widely accepted and one of five in Mexico where same-sex marriage is still not allowed.
But this week they traveled the 235 miles (380 kilometers) to Mexico’s capital, where the city government hosted a mass wedding for same-sex couples as part of celebrations of LGBT Pride Month.
Under a tent set up in the plaza of the capital’s civil registry, along with about 100 other same-sex couples, Villalobos and Marcelo sealed their union Friday with a kiss while the wedding march played in the background.
Their ability to wed is considered one of the LGBT community’s greatest recent achievements in Mexico. It is now possible in 27 of Mexico’s 32 states and has been twice upheld by the Supreme Court.
Mexico, Brazil and Argentina top Latin America in the number of same-sex marriages.
Mariaurora Mota, a leader of the Mexican LGBTTTI+ Coalition, said the movement still is working to guarantee in all of Mexico the right to change one’s identity, have access to health care and social security and to let transsexual minors change their gender on their birth certificates.
Walking around Mexico City a day before their wedding, Marcelo and Villalobos confessed to feeling strange holding hands in the city streets. Displays of affection between same-sex couples in the capital are commonplace, but it was difficult to shed their inhibititions.
“I feel nervous,” said Villalobos, a 30-year-old computer science major, as Marcelo held her hand.
Villalobos grew up in the northern state of Coahuila in a conservative Christian community. She always felt an “internal struggle,” because she knew she had a different sexual orientation, but feared her family would reject her. “I always cried because I wanted to be normal,” she said.
She came out to her mother when she was 23. She thought that moving to Acapulco in 2017 with a young niece would give her more freedom.
Villalobos met Marcelo, a native of the beach town, there. Marcelo, a 29-year-old shop employee, said her acceptance of her sexual orientation was not as traumatic as Villalobos’, but she still did not come out as pansexual until she was 24. She said she had been aided by the Mexico City organization Cuenta Conmigo, — Count on Me — which provides educational and psychological support.
Walking around the capital this week with massive rainbow flags hanging from public buildings and smaller ones flapping in front of many businesses, Villalobos could not help but compare it to her native state and her present home in Guerrero.
“In the same country the people are very open and in another (place) … the people are close-minded, with messages of hate toward the community,” she said.
Elihú Rendón, a 28-year-old administrative employee for a ride-sharing application, and Javier Vega Candia, a 26-year-old theater teacher, grew up in Mexico City and coming out for them was not so complicated.
“We’re in a city where they’re opening all of the rights and possibilities to us, including doing this communal LGBT wedding,” said Vega Candia as he held out Rendon’s hand to show off a ring he had given him shortly before they moved in together.
When they walk through the city’s streets they don’t hesitate to express affection, sometimes hugging and dancing in a crosswalk while traffic was stopped.
“I’m happy to have been born in this city thinking that we have these rights and not in another country where we could be killed,” Vega Candia said.
Villalobos and Marcelo do not expect much in their daily lives to change when they return to Acapulco as a married couple. But Marcelo said that with the marriage certificate, she will try to get Villalobos included on the health insurance she receives through her employer.
“With a marriage certificate it is easier,” Marcelo said. “If something happens to me or something happens to her, we’ll have proof that we’re together.” | 2022-06-26T16:06:12+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/mass-same-sex-wedding-in-mexico-challenges-discrimination/ |
Can’t get your fill of local sports? The Herald Journal has launched a sports podcast to keep residents up to date on what’s going on around Cache Valley.
“Prepping for the Week” is hosted by sports reporters Shawn Harrison and Jason Turner. There are three episodes so far, and a new podcast will be released each Wednesday.
They look back at last year’s success by local high schools in the first episode, then turn their attention to prep football getting started in the second, while also giving updates on what has been going on in the local sports world over the summer. In the latest episode, they review the first week of high school football, while also catching up with girls soccer, girls tennis, volleyball and boys golf. They also give an update on Aggie football, recap the NUL baseball championship series and look ahead to this week’s high school football matchups.
Harrison and Turner have decades of experience in covering local sports for The Herald Journal and working together. The banter between them has always been lively and interesting, and this year someone got the idea of sticking a microphone in front of them and letting the community in on the conversation.
They will be giving insight on what has transpired in high school action and looking ahead to future games and region matchups.
Of course there will also be coverage of Utah State. Turner has covered Aggie football for years, while Harrison has been on the men’s basketball beat for decades. They both have also covered the other sports at USU.
Check out “Prepping For The Week” online at hjnews.com. It’s also available on Spotify. | 2022-08-18T21:00:13+00:00 | hjnews.com | https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/catch-the-herald-journals-sports-podcast-each-wednesday/article_c23f3572-a773-5534-9dba-93d3e39bc54e.html |
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A look at Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals as they approach major home run milestones:
AARON JUDGE
Season HR Total: 60
Wednesday's Game: Doubled twice but didn't homer in a 14-2 win over Pittsburgh.
Thursday's Matchup: The Yankees host the rival Red Sox at 7:15 p.m. ET on Fox.
Current HR Pace: Judge is on pace to hit 65.7 home runs this season.
Next HR: Judge’s next home run would tie him with Roger Maris for the AL record. Maris hit 61 for the Yankees in 1961.
ALBERT PUJOLS
Career HR Total: 698
Wednesday's Game: Singled with two outs in the seventh inning for the Cardinals' first hit off Blake Snell but didn't homer in a 1-0 loss at San Diego.
Thursday's Matchup: The Cardinals play at San Diego at 4:10 p.m. ET
Current HR Pace: Pujols is on pace to hit 20.5 home runs this season, so he’s on pace for a career total of 699.5.
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(The Hill) – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson can add another distinct honor to her résumé: she’s the inspiration for a new bobblehead.
The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum announced Friday that Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, is being immortalized in bobblehead form.
The Milwaukee-based museum is selling $30 figures that show a smiling mini version of Jackson standing tall in her judge’s robe in front of a replica of the Supreme Court. The seven inch, limited-edition bobbleheads are poised to ship in September.
“When the Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, history was made,” National Bobblehead Hall of Fame co-founder Phil Sklar said in a statement announcing the launch, following the 51-year-old former federal public defender’s April confirmation.
“We celebrate the momentous day in the 233-year history of the Supreme Court,” Sklar said.
In addition to the Jackson bobblehead, the Hall of Fame is also releasing collectibles of 16 other current and former Supreme Court justices.
Bobbleheads of justices including Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall, among others, will be available for pre-order on Friday and are expected to ship in December.
The release comes at a sticky time for the court — a Gallup poll conducted in June, just before the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights was overturned, found that only a quarter of Americans have confidence in the Supreme Court.
Sklar said the brigade of bobbleheads gives the public “the chance to collect bobbleheads representing the Supreme Court justices that have a very influential impact on our lives given their roles in our government and the impact their decisions have.” | 2022-07-29T17:09:41+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ketanji-brown-jackson-gets-a-bobblehead/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is holding some 600 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2016, an Israeli rights group said Monday.
Israel says it uses so-called administrative detention to thwart attacks and to hold dangerous militants without revealing sensitive intelligence. Palestinians and rights groups say the system is widely abused and denies due process, with some detainees held for months or years without seeing the evidence against them.
HaMoked, an Israeli rights group that regularly gathers figures from prison authorities, said that as of May there were 604 detainees held in administrative detention. Nearly all are Palestinians, as administrative detention is very rarely used against Jews.
HaMoked says 2,441 Palestinians are serving sentences after being convicted in military courts. Another 1,478 detainees are being held for questioning, have been charged and are awaiting trial, or are currently being tried.
Israel has seen a wave of attacks in recent weeks that have killed at least 15 people. It has carried out arrest raids across the occupied West Bank that it says are aimed at preventing more. Those operations have ignited violent protests and gunbattles.
At least 29 Palestinians have been killed, according to an Associated Press tally. Most were killed after carrying out attacks or during clashes with Israeli forces, but an unarmed woman and two people who appear to have been bystanders were also killed.
The last time Israel held this many administrative detainees, in October 2016, was also in the wake of a surge in violence, including stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks carried out by Palestinians.
“Administrative detention is used only when the security forces have credible and well-established information of an actual security threat posed by the detainee, and when other avenues to remove the threat are not feasible,” the army said in a statement.
Israel says all administrative detention orders are subject to judicial review. Detainees can appeal to a military court of appeals or Israeli’s Supreme Court, but rights groups say the courts overwhelmingly defer to the security establishment.
Jessica Montell, the director of HaMoked, said violence does not justify detaining hundreds of people for months or years without charge.
“It’s like an assembly line of administrative detention, far in excess of what can be justified under international law,” she said, which only allows preventive detention under rare circumstances for a limited period of time.
Those held could include dangerous militants, but also cases of mistaken identity. A teenager with a rare neuromuscular disorder has been held in administrative detention for over a year.
“We have no idea what they’re suspected of, and many of them also have no idea what actually are the allegations against them, because it’s entirely based on secret evidence,” Montell said.
Several Palestinians in administrative detention have gone on prolonged hunger strikes in protest, with many developing lifelong health issues. Administrative detainees and their lawyers have boycotted Israeli military court proceedings since the start of this year in protest. The courts are holding hearings without them, according to B’Tselem, another prominent Israeli rights group.
The West Bank has been under Israeli military rule since Israel captured the territory in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state.
The territory’s nearly 3 million Palestinian residents are subject to Israel’s military justice system, while the nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers living alongside them have Israeli citizenship and are subject to civilian courts. | 2022-05-03T18:09:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/israel-holding-more-than-600-without-charge-most-since-2016/ |
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — One of Gov. Greg Abbott’s emergency items for this year’s legislative session, is to “create education freedom.”
Parents want to know more surrounding the governor’s new legislative priority and what it means for their children’s future. Gov. Abbott is fully backing school choice this year.
“Parents to take the money, that the government collects for education and allowing for them to choose what educational setting best works for them,” Robert Enlow, the President, and CEO of Edchoice.
According to their website, EdChoice is a “nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to understanding and pursuing a K–12 education system that empowers every family to choose the schooling environment that fits their children’s needs best.”
Many options fall under school choice, and Gov. Abbott supports Education Savings Accounts (ESA’s).
“The taxpayer dollars that the state collects for education and allows the parent to put it on an online platform that is managed by the Department of Education or the department of revenue or some other government agency that allows them to go and customize their child’s education,” said Enlow.
Enlow went on to explain that ESA funds are for multiple uses.
“Go to partially a non-public school, then tutoring or they can get curriculum and then go to a charter school or they can get therapy for their special need children and have homeschool curriculum and give it to them as well,” said Enlow.
School vouchers are another option. “Money following the family, directly to a non-public school,” said Enlow.
Wednesday morning, representatives from nine Smith County school districts like Tyler, Brownsboro, and Lindale are coming together. They’re sharing their concerns on school vouchers specifically and the impact they could have on their districts. | 2023-03-08T20:51:41+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/education/what-school-choice-means-for-texas-childrens-futures/ |
More women go to Illinois State University than men, a lot more. The same is true of Bradley University, and Heartland Community College. It's part of a nationwide trend that began in the 1980s and has grown since then.
In 1972 the U.S. government passed landmark Title IX laws to promote gender equality in education. Back then, there was a 12-point gap in the proportion of bachelor's degrees going to men compared with women The gap closed in 1982.
Since then, it has widened the other way along with overall enrollment numbers. Total college enrollment has been falling since the Great Recession. But the drop also is disproportionate by gender. The male share of college enrollment fell each year from 2015 to 2020 and the pandemic made the gender gap bigger.
Graduation rates amplify the gender gap. More men do not finish degrees than women who leave without a diploma.
"Essentially, you can say that the proximate cause is that girls do better in high school," said Sarah Reber, a Brookings Institute Senior Fellow and associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Enrollment numbers from 2022 show the national split is about 60% women and 40% men.
- ISU — 57% female / 42% male / 1% non-binary or not reported
- Bradley — 66% females / 34% male
- Heartland Community College — 57% female / 43% male
- Illinois Central College — 60% male / 40% male
It's not that Title IX and access to higher education explains the gender gap. It's that Title IX revealed something that would have been happening all along, but for cultural norms that historically favored men. Other developed nations have similar gender trends in higher education.
"Women have been doing better in high school, like, as long as we have had data," said Reber.
Why are girls better than boys in K-12? There are several possibilities, including differences in brain development.
"Some hypotheses include differences in what economists sometimes call non-cognitive skills, behavioral stuff, everything from organization and executive function to things like acting out. There are significant gender gaps in all those things," said Reber.
Reber cautioned there's not enough work in the field yet to say how much of the difference is from brain development. Gender differences in course-taking choices and grades are more pronounced than they are in assessment test scores, she said.
It's not clear there should be policies that prop up a historically advantaged group, though Reber said the size of the gaps is concerning. She said society should want to use all its talents and make sure everyone is served. And on campuses where the balance gets too far out of whack, it can create less of a sense of belonging. Reber said strengthening supports for those who have weaker academic backgrounds is a good idea in general and could help men more than women, or maybe not.
"You do find some of the interventions we do in education don't work as much for boys as for girls," she said.
Some experts have even suggested delaying the start of kindergarten by a year for all male students.
Illinois State University
Illinois State University pays attention to gender imbalances, but Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management Jana Albrecht said it's by professions and by colleges. For instance, there are significantly more men than women enrolled in the College of Business (COB) and the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST). And women dominate the College of Education (COE) and the Mennonite College of Nursing (MCN). The largest area of the university, the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), is closest to the national average.
- COB — 64% male / 36% female
- MCN — 13% male / 87% female
- COE — 11% male / 88% female / 1% non-binary or not reported
- CAS — 36% male / 63% female / 1% non-binary or not reported
- CAST — 53% male / 46% female / 1% non-binary or not reported
“Depending on the industry, we know we need more males in education. We know we need more males in nursing. But I think we still need more women in STEM fields. It’s our responsibility to pay attention to what industry is telling us they need, and if you do that, I think that balances out that 60-40 split,” said Albrecht.
Men may skew more toward coming back to education sometime after age 25, she said, which speaks to the readiness and brain development issue.
“Another big population are the adult learners. Do we need to call on that adult learner population and get them to come back and get a degree in the fields we have shortages. I think that’s something we could work on and facilitate as well,” said Albrecht.
Because women do better than males in K-12, there could be more men who go into the workforce after high school that could be attracted to something like nursing, she added.
ISU has only a limited number of adult learners and to make that be a part of the solution, Albrecht said they would need to find ways to attract more.
“We would probably need to broaden our online options for adult learners, and we would have to have other services on campus for adult learners, but we’re certainly looking into the potential opportunity to serve that population,” she said.
Heartland Community College
The pandemic affected the gender enrollment balance as well as total enrollment. That was particularly true for community colleges that tend to have more programs that prepare students for the workforce and programs in businesses that skew toward men. Those programs require more in-person learning and practical application settings.
Reber of the Brookings Institution said there's a risk that male enrollment will disappear forever, even if community colleges expand workforce readiness programs to relieve the pandemic bottleneck in the supply of students.
"I think if you disrupt the transition to college, that can be permanent," said Reber.
Heartland Vice President for Enrollment Services Sarah Diel Hunt said before the pandemic, Heartland also had a higher proportion of female students than peer institutions, but that is changing.
Heartland gender balance (data from the Illinois Community College Board)
- 2022 — 57% female / 43% male
- 2021 — 62% female / 38% male
- 2020 — 58% female / 42% male
- 2019 — 56% female / 44% male
“We are closing that gap between ourselves and other community colleges. We historically have been more transfer heavy than applied program heavy than many of the other community colleges in the state,” said Diel Hunt.”
She said Heartland has worked to expand more applied work-ready programs. As the needs of businesses have changed, so has Heartland workforce programs. In the past, Heartland workforce programs focused on female-centric professions such as nursing.
“We’ve really been building out programs not because they attract males, but because (that is) what’s in demand in our local community. They are in areas of advanced manufacturing, HVAC, welding, renewable energy, electric vehicle energy storage, and agriculture,” said Diel Hunt.
When men enroll, they often do so later in the annual cycles. Diel Hunt said Heartland has done marketing campaigns to get students to enroll earlier in the year, so they have more class choices. She said HCC general strategic enrollment efforts look at programs to help students complete degrees.
And Diel Hunt said even co-curricular programming might help convince male students to stick around: e-sports, a game club, and intramural activity for instance. She said other efforts to support identity-based organizations like the Black Student Union and a new association of Latin American students on campus could have a disproportionate effect on male student attraction and retention.
“A lot of the things the college is doing generally to support enrollment should have the effect of supporting male enrollment as well,” said Diel Hunt, adding collaborations with businesses for apprenticeships also can attract some of the men who have checked out of education.
Another broad trend for Heartland and most community colleges is growth in dual credit courses for high school kids. Diel Hunt said students who get dual credit are more likely to go on to earn four-year degrees. That's particularly true for under-served communities.
Heartland male enrollment in dual credit courses started at 34% in 2014. Male students were not early adopters. Now, the 44% male dual credit enrollment portion is about the same as the Heartland population as a whole. Diel Hunt said it's a good sign that the dual credit growth in males comes in both transfers (gen ed classes) and applied (workforce) programs.
Liberal arts schools
Two small liberal arts colleges in the region, Illinois Wesleyan University and Eureka College, cut against the nationwide trend with roughly balanced enrollment by gender.
- IWU — 2022 49% female / 51% male
- IWU — 2021 51% female / 49% male
- Eureka — 2022 49% female / 51% male
Reber said that doesn't surprise her.
"Probably some of, at least the selective private colleges, are doing essentially affirmative action for men because they want to have gender balance. They are very attentive to the on-campus experience, and I think students of both genders prefer a mix," she said.
Illinois Wesleyan University has had a fairly even gender balance in recent years, according to Kasey Evans, dean of admissions and associate vice president for enrollment management. Evans said the IWU doesn't use gender as a factor in admissions, but the athletic program might explain some of the data.
“In any given year, our athletic rosters run about 60 percent male and 40 percent female. We offer the same number of teams for both genders, but football and men’s lacrosse traditionally carry larger rosters than any female sport, which skews the number more (toward) male,” said Evans.
As student-athletes continue to make up a larger and larger percentage of the student body, it likely counters the national 60-40 balance that favors females, she said. IWU president Georgia Nugent said the competitiveness of the sports teams also may matter in gender balance enrollment choices.
“We have national championship teams and I think that brings a number of young men to our campus and happily our student-athletes are also very good students. Their academics are serious,” said Nugent, adding IWU will double down on that: the school is adding men’s and women’s wrestling.
One thing that’s not a factor is family income. You might expect small liberal arts institutions to have an enrollment that skews wealthier than average, and could be expected to have more gender parity because of that.
Nugent said that's not the case.
“When you compare us to the state universities, typically the economic quintiles of our students match up pretty closely.,” she said, noting about 30% of small liberal arts college students come from lower economic-bracket households.
Even though college degrees provide more of a lifelong economic advantage over non-graduates than ever before, women aren't benefiting from the gender enrollment majority.
The Brookings Institution's Sarah Reber said even though women have more education in the labor market, the gender gap still tilts toward men. There are a lot of occupations that are heavily female and require a lot of education, but have low wages, she said. | 2023-05-24T22:57:27+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-05-24/gender-enrollment-gap-is-wide-at-isu-bradley-heartland |
CHICAGO, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Voting is open today to determine who will be the winners in Oak Point University's "Calling All #BadassNurses" contest. Launched during National Nurses Week, Oak Point University, an academic leader that has prepared students for successful careers as nurses and nurse leaders since 1914, has selected 18 finalists from more than 400 submissions. The public is encouraged to vote for winners in two grand prize categories (Oak Point University alum and non-alum) now through 11:59 p.m. CDT on Thursday, June 30. All finalists are listed in random order at badassnurses.org.
"We are proud to celebrate nurses who demonstrate dedication, perseverance, and resilience every day," said Therese A. Scanlan, EdD, president of Oak Point University. "They are true badasses in the sense that they put their very best on the line and help their patients on the road to better health."
The contest is part of the "Built to Be Badass" campaign that features nurses and their stories with the goal to share with the world what nurses do every day is not only difficult but highly challenging—in all aspects—emotionally, physically, and intellectually. And that they do their jobs with empathy, grace, determination, and grit. Nurses are smart, resilient, and resourceful like no other. They are true badasses.
Phase one of the campaign, appearing on billboards, transit advertising, and radio in the Chicagoland area — utilizes Oak Point University alumni stories to illustrate the "badassery" of nursing in action and offered inspiration for the next generation of nurses. Hearing the life stories and career arcs, the far-from-ordinary career opportunities, and the paths that led from anguish to metamorphosis give "Built to Be Badass" the power to connect.
Eighteen standout finalists were selected from the pool of submissions and awarded a $500 gift card. The public may vote for one finalist in each category (alum and non-alum) once a day through June 30. The finalists with the most votes in each category will determine the two grand prize winners; each will receive a badass vacation for two and the opportunity to appear in phase two of the "Build to Be Badass" campaign. The two "Calling All #Badass Nurses" grand prize winners will be announced on July 7. Meet the finalists and vote today at badassnurses.org.
Oak Point University, formerly Resurrection University, is a private, not-for-profit nursing and health sciences educational institution committed to creating a healthy tomorrow, with campuses in Chicago and Oak Brook, Illinois. The University offers undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing, undergraduate programs in radiography, and micro-credentialing through its School of Emerging Education. Oak Point offers the most cutting-edge SIM technologies available in the region and is a top option for those seeking degrees and certifications in health care. Visit oakpoint.edu for more information.
Entrants must be U.S. residents and eighteen (18) years of age or older. Nominees must be a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse, a legal U.S. resident, and twenty-one (21) years of age or older at the time of nomination. The nomination period begins on 5/6/2022 at 12:00 a.m. CDT and ends on 6/10/2022 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Public voting of finalists starts on or about 6/15/2022 at 12:00 p.m. CDT and ends on 6/30/2022 at 11:59 p.m. CDT. Sponsored by: Oak Point University, Chicago and Oak Brook, IL. For entry form and official rules at visit badassnurses.org.
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DENVER (AP) — DENVER (AP) — Frontier Group Holdings Inc. (ULCC) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter net income of $40 million.
The Denver-based company said it had profit of 18 cents per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 17 cents per share.
The discount airline posted revenue of $906 million in the period, which did not meet Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $941.6 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $37 million, or 17 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $3.33 billion.
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Legoland Windsor Resort in England has created two scenes imagining the upcoming coronation of King Charles III made entirely out of Legos. One shows the monarch and Queen Consort on the balcony of Buckingham Palace surrounded by fans outside the gates, while the second displays a miniature concert in front of Windsor Castle planned for the day after the coronation. The creation will be on display in Windsor through November 2023.
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Concerns about misconduct at Kettering Health touch the highest ranks of an organization that is the region’s second largest employer and plays a central role in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The SDA Columbia Union Conference, the administrative body of the church in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region, said in a statement it is “aware and takes seriously allegations of inappropriate fiscal and operational management at Kettering Health, a nonprofit health care organization sponsored by the Columbia Union.”
“The allegations are currently being investigated by an external firm retained by the Kettering Health Board to conduct a thorough and independent examination,” the statement says, echoing statements from the hospital.
The exact nature of the investigation is unknown. Kettering Health announced its investigation in response to questions about anonymous complaints to the Ohio Attorney General’s Office about “abuse of charitable funds” by Kettering Health executives including former board chairman Dave Weigley and former Kettering Health CEO Fred Manchur who retired last year.
Neither Manchur nor Weigley have responded to multiple requests for comment.
The Columbia Union Conference appoints several members to Kettering Health’s board. Weigley is currently president of the conference and was chairman of the Kettering Health board until he stepped down in January for “family reasons,” according to the conference.
Weigley named as his successor current hospital board chair Celeste Ryan Blyden. Blyden has worked for the SDA Church for 30 years. She is also the executive secretary of the Columbia Union Conference. She was vice chair of Kettering Health’s board since January 2022, the Visitor Magazine said.
Blyden’s background and education is in public relations, organizational communications, psychology, and theology, according to Washington Adventist University’s website, where Blyden has also served on the board of trustees. She is also an ordained local church elder.
“Kettering Health is an integral part of the mission and ministry of the Columbia Union to operate health care institutions which promote our faith-based approach to health care and which include a ministry of healing to the whole person — body, mind and spirit,” the Columbia Union Conference said.
Hospital and church officials have said that issues identified through their investigation are being addressed immediately, but won’t say what those changes are. They say the investigation found no issues pertaining to donor funds.
Complainant goes public
The Dayton Daily News interviewed one of the people who made the complaints, former executive secretary at Soin Medical Center Lori Van Nostrand. She complained about nepotism in the hospital system and hospital funds being used for improvements at Manchur’s house, among other things. She also said there were lot of trips that were non-hospital related.
“There’s this search nationwide for a CEO, but you still have leadership that participated,” she said about why she filed a complaint with the state. “To me, if you don’t stand up and go against or speak out and just say, ‘This isn’t right,’ you’re part of the problem.”
Van Nostrand, who filed a complaint with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office in August 2021 according to the complaint, worked at Soin for five and a half years until she resigned in February 2022 after claiming she was retaliated against for comments she made in support of a letter that was circulating among hospital staff criticizing Manchur. Van Nostrand filed a complaint with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission that is currently pending.
Precedent elsewhere
An independent health market analyst spoke with the Dayton Daily News about examples of investigations into extravagant spending done by hospitals or health care systems in other states. Allan Baumgarten said attorneys general of other states, like Minnesota, have had health systems adopt new policies regarding gifts, retreats for board members, or other questionable practices.
In the early 2000s, Mike Hatch, Minnesota attorney general at that time, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance regarding non-profit and charitable organizations, specifically going over extravagant spending for board members and executives of different health care-related industries. Examples included expensive retreats out of the country and “lavish gifts.”
“You get very bad publicity, you get in the cross hairs or the in the bad graces of an official like an attorney general, and it’s possible that you’re forced to, very publicly, adopt new policies and practices and to maybe say goodbye to some of the board members who were present when those kinds of practices were taking place,” Baumgarten said.
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office won’t comment on whether it is involved in any investigation at Kettering Health.
The U.S. spends more than any country on health care — over $12,000 per person in 2021, according to the World Economic Forum — and wasteful spending the U.S. health care system is projected to be in the billions. A 2019 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association yielded the following estimated ranges of total annual cost of waste: failure of care delivery, $102.4 billion to $165.7 billion; failure of care coordination, $27.2 billion to $78.2 billion; overtreatment or low-value care, $75.7 billion to $101.2 billion; pricing failure, $230.7 billion to $240.5 billion; fraud and abuse, $58.5 billion to $83.9 billion; and administrative complexity, $265.6 billion.
Major employer
Kettering Health is ranked as the region’s second largest employer, after Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, according to the Ohio Department of Development’s 2022 major employer list. Kettering Health is reported as having approximately 14,400 employees in Ohio, the same as Honda. For comparison, Premier Health Partners is reported as having 11,100 employees.
Almost four years ago, the figures for Kettering Health and Premier Health were the opposite, with Kettering Health reported has having 12,000 employees in 2019 and Premier Health Partners with 14,000 employees, according to the Ohio Department of Development.
Kettering Health has 14 medical centers and over 120 outpatient locations throughout Western Ohio, as well as Kettering Physician Network, which includes more than 700 board-certified providers.
Together, Kettering Health’s large facilities saw approximately 70,000 admission in 2021, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Archeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru’s capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club.
A team from The Associated Press on Thursday viewed the skeleton with long black hair lying face up with its lower extremities tied with a rope braided from vines of vegetable origin. Stones surrounded the mummy buried one meter (three feet) down.
Miguel Aguilar, a professor of archeology at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, said the mummy was buried in a ritual that included coca leaves and seashells.
The burial was on top of a destroyed U-shaped clay temple, a characteristic of some pre-Hispanic buildings. The mummy has not yet been subjected to radiocarbon dating to determine its age, Aguilar said.
He said old fly eggs were found next to the male skeleton, leading them to believe the body was exposed for at least several days before being covered with dirt.
It was found in Rímac, a district separated by a river of the same name from the oldest part of Lima. Aguilar also heads the Historical and Cultural Center of the Municipality of Rímac.
Pieter Van Dalen, a professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos who is an expert on archeology of the Peruvian coast but was not involved in the project, said the rope binding the lower extremities of the mummy is an example of the pattern seen in ceremonies. He cited another mummy found in a different area of Lima whose body was also tied with vegetable ropes.
The team of excavators worked the first months of this year collecting up to eight tons of garbage that covered the top of the hill, which is next to the training field and headquarters for the Sporting Cristal soccer club. Police also removed homeless people and drug addicts who camp out around the hill.
The hill, which has remains of ancient mud walls, was a “huaca,” a Quechua word meaning oracle or sacred place. There are more than 400 huacas in Lima, according to the Ministry of Culture.
Mummies and other pre-Hispanic remains have been found in unusual places in the city. Workers installing natural gas lines or water mains have found mummies, sometimes children, inside large clay vessels.
There are even cases of discoveries by residents, such as Hipólito Tica, who found three pre-Hispanic mummies in a hole in the patio of his house. He kept quiet about them for a quarter century, until in 2022 they were removed by archaeologists with permission from Peru’s Ministry of Culture. | 2023-06-16T07:42:42+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/science/ap-science/archeologists-find-mummy-surrounded-by-coca-leaves-on-hilltop-in-perus-capital/ |
Updated May 9, 2023 at 5:56 PM ET
President Biden met with congressional leaders for a little less than an hour on Tuesday to discuss the looming deadline for raising the nation's debt limit but Republicans and Democrats remained far apart and said they would meet again on Friday.
The Tuesday afternoon meeting came a week after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned lawmakers that without raising the debt ceiling, the government could run short of money to pay its bills as early as June 1.
"Everybody in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. I didn't see any new movement," McCarthy told reporters after he left the White House, saying the leaders would meet again on Friday.
It was the first time Biden and McCarthy, R-Calif., met on this issue since February. They were joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., along with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Senate Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters "there are large differences between the parties" but said that the threat of default on the nation's debt needed to be removed from the table, and kept separate from spending talks.
Schumer said Democrats and Republicans "can try to come together" on spending issues, and said staff would start meeting tonight or tomorrow to see where there was room for compromise on spending.
McConnell says the United States will not default
Last month, House Republicans passed a bill that would increase the debt limit by $1.5 trillion or through March 2024 — whichever comes first — and include trillions in deficit reduction.
McCarthy won a protracted fight for the speaker's gavel after pledging to a bloc of hardline Republican lawmakers that he would not allow a House vote on a bill to increase the country's borrowing authority without federal spending reductions.
Democrats and the White House have insisted that the House bill is a nonstarter. They want the debt limit and spending deals to be handled separately.
Biden and Democrats have pointed out that Republican lawmakers raised the debt limit multiple times when former President Donald Trump was in office.
Most Republican senators signed on to a letter from Sen. Mike Lee of Utah saying they oppose raising the ceiling without "substantive spending and budget reforms."
That included McConnell. After the meeting, he noted that Trump had reached a compromise on spending with then-Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi to raise the debt limit in 2019, and said Biden needed to take a similar approach.
"This is not unusual. We've been here before," McConnell said. He warned the leaders were running out of time to reach a deal, but sought to reassure markets.
"The United States is not going to default. It never has and it never will," McConnell said.
Biden plans to underscore his message in New York on Wednesday
Biden has panned the spending cuts proposed by House Republicans, which the White House says would slash to programs for veterans and Meals on Wheels. He plans to travel to New York on Wednesday to give remarks in a district narrowly won by Republican freshman Rep. Mike Lawler in the 2022 midterm election.
Lawler will take part in the event, said a spokesman for the congressman, who has said the White House and Congress need to agree on a deal to lift the debt ceiling while cutting spending.
The clock is ticking
The U.S. hit its current debt limit — $31 trillion — in January.
The Treasury Department has been employing extraordinary measures to essentially act as a Band-Aid for several months. If Congress fails to raise the debt limit by the time those measures are exhausted, which Yellen says could happen as soon as June 1, there would be an unprecedented debt default, whose effects would likely be felt worldwide and lead to a recession in the United States.
This is also a short month for lawmakers to try to address the issue. Both the Senate and the House have separate recess weeks planned, and President Biden is traveling to Japan and Australia to meet with foreign leaders.
Over the weekend, both Jeffries and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., didn't rule out a short-term solution to buy lawmakers more time to craft a longer-term deal.
"Everything's on the table at this point," McHenry said on Face the Nation.
Business groups urge compromise
Ahead of the meeting, a group representing the nation's largest companies urged action. Business Roundtable CEO Joshua Bolten said even the threat of default could come at a high cost.
"A default would deliver a severe blow to the economy, leading to widespread job losses, decimated retirement savings and higher borrowing costs for families, businesses and the government," Bolten said. "Failing to raise the debt limit would also threaten the U.S. dollar's central role in the global financial system to the benefit of China."
The Chamber of Commerce urged a compromise deal that includes reforms for permits for big programs as well as restraints on spending. "While there are plenty of areas where the two parties disagree, two areas that are ripe for inclusion are permitting reform and an agreement on discretionary spending caps, both of which can improve the federal government's fiscal outlook," said Neil Bradley, the chamber's chief policy officer.
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Sports help Ukrainian exchange student Kozlov 'live in the moment' while in Pueblo
Attending school as a foreign exchange student is often a difficult transition. It requires learning a new language, adjusting to a new country and other challenges.
For Pueblo West High School’s Ivan Kozlov, who came to Pueblo by way of Ukraine, attending school in the United States has been especially challenging as his home country continues to fight a war sparked by the invasion of Russian military forces in February 2022.
Kozlov came to the U.S. a few years ago before the war broke out. He has since been told he cannot go home for his own safety.
His father, who serves in the Ukrainian army, told him it was best for him to stay in the U.S.
“I was told to stay here and be safe,” Kozlov said. “It was really rough. I'm just trying to do what I can to help them.”
One of the hardest things Kozlov has had to deal with is not seeing his family for so long: It's been two years since he has seen his parents, although they still are able to communicate via phone calls, text messages and video calls.
“It’s been extremely difficult not seeing my family for almost two years, trying to adjust here in a place I've never been before,” Kozlov said. “But I do have a lot of support from my friends and my 'American family.' I love them and I don't know where I would be right now if it wasn’t for them.”
While Kozlov remains in Colorado, he's trying to make the most of it and participates on some of the sports teams at Pueblo West High School.
This year, he decided to try out track and field and has since come to love the sport of pole vaulting.
“It’s very new to me because I used to do martial arts,” Kozlov said. “I did wrestle here, but I wanted to try something new. I wanted to keep my mind off things and live in the moment, and I feel like pole vaulting is one of the best ways to do it. You are just flying.”
Pole vaulting is one of the few track and field events in which Pueblo schools have not had a presence in recent years. This year, the Pueblo West track team is hoping Kozlov can help revitalize pole vaulting, not only at the school but in Pueblo in general.
Despite his family dealing with traumas that are never far from his mind, Kozlov is thriving.
His surrogate family in Pueblo has supported him in all his ventures.
“Traveling, sports, wrestling and track — it's all been so much fun with my teammates and my coaches,” Kozlov said. “It helps to bring inner peace for me to keep busy.”
The Ukrainian is now a senior and plans to attend college in Oregon, where he wants to study computer science.
His biggest goal is to make enough money to send some home to his family in Ukraine to help them weather the storm of the ongoing invasion.
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Christopher Abdelmalek is a sports reporter for the Pueblo Chieftain and can be reached at cabdelmalek@gannett.com or on Twitter @chowebacca | 2023-04-11T11:07:34+00:00 | chieftain.com | https://www.chieftain.com/story/sports/high-school/track-field/2023/04/11/sports-help-ukrainian-exchange-student-find-inner-peace-in-pueblo-pueblo-west-student-athlete-from-u/70080486007/ |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The collapsed stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will reopen within two weeks, Pennsylvania’s governor said Saturday, after joining President Joe Biden on a helicopter tour over the critical stretch of highway closed to East Coast traffic since last weekend.
“We are getting it done here in Philly,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said at a briefing at Philadelphia International Airport after the flyover that included members of Congress and the city’s mayor.
Biden outlined the substantial initial federal commitment and longer term support for a permanent fix for the vital roadway.
“I know how important this stretch of highway is” to Philadelphia and the Northeast Corridor, Biden said. “Over 150,000 vehicles travel on it every day, including 14,000 trucks. … It’s critical to our economy and it’s critical to our quality of life.’’
Shapiro, offering a timeline that would be welcome news to commuters and long-haul truckers alike, said with Biden at his side: “I can state with confidence that we will have I-95 reopened within the next two weeks. We are going to get traffic moving again thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here.”
He said “folks here in Philly have a real renewed sense of civic pride through this project” and that “there’s something special happening in our community” with people coming together.
The stretch of the East Coast’s main north-south highway collapsed early last Sunday after a tractor-trailer hauling gasoline flipped over on an off-ramp and caught fire. State transportation officials said the driver was trying to navigate a curve and lost control.
“I’ve directed my team … to move heaven and earth to get this done as soon as humanly possible,” Biden said. He said he told the governor, “There’s no more important project right now in the country as far as I’m concerned.” The president described it as an “all hands on deck” project to address a “crisis.”
“We’re with you. We’re going to stay with you until this is rebuilt, until it’s totally finished,” he said at the briefing.
Pennsylvania’s plan for the work involves trucking in 2,000 tons of lightweight glass nuggets for the quick rebuilding, with crews working around the clock until the interstate is open to traffic. Instead of rebuilding the overpass right away, crews will use the recycled glass to fill in the collapsed area to avoid supply-chain delays for other materials, Shapiro has said.
After that, a replacement bridge will be built next to it to reroute traffic while crews excavate the fill to restore the exit ramp, officials have said.
Biden said the design was “incredibly innovative in order to get this work done in record time.’’
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the area Tuesday, promised that the federal government would provide the needed assistance to repair the destruction, although he warned that the wreckage will likely raise the cost of consumer goods in the short term because truckers must now travel longer routes.
Joining Biden on the presidential Marine One helicopter were Shapiro, Sens. Bob Casey and John Fetterman and Rep. Brendan Boyle and Mayor Jim Kenney, all Democrats. Later Saturday, Biden is scheduled to attend a 2024 campaign event with union workers at the convention center. | 2023-06-17T19:38:07+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/collapsed-portion-of-i-95-in-philadelphia-to-reopen-within-2-weeks-governor-says/ |
Same-sex marriage faces Senate test with GOP votes uncertain
Staring down the prospect of divided government in the next Congress, Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation this week to protect same sex and interracial marriages. It’s a vote that’s “as personal as it gets,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday.
Schumer is holding a test vote on the bill Wednesday, betting that at least 10 Republicans will vote with all 50 Democrats to move forward with the legislation to ensure that same-sex and interracial marriages are legally recognized nationwide. The bill has gained steady momentum since the Supreme Court’s June decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to an abortion. An opinion at that time from Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that an earlier high court decision protecting same-sex marriage could also come under threat.
If the Senate votes to move forward with the legislation, a final vote could come as soon as this week, or by the end of the month, while Democrats still control the House. Republicans are on the verge of winning the House majority and would be unlikely to take up the issue next year.
“I firmly believe that passing bipartisan marriage protections would be one of the more significant accomplishments in what’s already been a significantly productive Congress,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “It will do so much good for so many people who want nothing more than to live their lives without the fear of discrimination.”
Congress has been moving to protect same-sex marriage as support from the general public — and from Republicans in particular — has sharply grown in recent years, as the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalized gay marriage nationwide. Recent polling has found more than two-thirds of the public supports same-sex unions.
Still, it’s not yet certain whether Democrats have the 10 votes they need to overcome a filibuster on Wednesday and get a bill through the 50-50 Senate. So far, at least three Republicans have said they will vote for the legislation and are working with Democrats to pass it: Maine Sen. Susan Collins, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman.
Most Republicans have stayed quiet on whether they will support it, but those pushing the bill say they believe the 10 GOP votes are there. Democrats delayed consideration of the legislation until after the midterm elections, hoping that would relieve political pressure for some Republicans who might be wavering on the bill.
And a proposed amendment to the legislation, negotiated by supporters to bring more Republicans on board, would clarify that it does not affect the rights of private individuals or businesses — rights that are already enshrined in law. Another tweak would make clear that a marriage is between two people, an effort to ward off some far-right criticism that the legislation could endorse polygamy.
The legislation would repeal the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act and require states to recognize all marriages that were legal where they were performed. The new Respect for Marriage Act would also protect interracial marriages by requiring states to recognize legal marriages regardless of “sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin."
Some Republicans say the changes are not enough. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who had hinted that he might support it before he won reelection last week, said this week that he would not, citing concerns about religious liberty.
Still, the growing GOP support for the issue is a sharp contrast from even a decade ago, when many Republicans vocally opposed same-sex marriages. The legislation passed the House in a July vote with the support of 47 Republicans — a larger-than-expected number that gave the measure a boost in the Senate.
On Tuesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints became the most recent conservative-leaning group to back the legislation. In a statement, the Utah-based faith said church doctrine would continue to consider same-sex relationships to be against God’s commandments, but that it would support rights for same-sex couples as long as they didn’t infringe upon religious groups’ right to believe as they choose.
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat who is the first openly gay senator and has been working on gay rights issues for almost four decades, says the newfound openness from many Republicans on the subject reminds her “of the arc of the LBGTQ movement to begin with, in the early days when people weren’t out and people knew gay people by myths and stereotypes.”
Baldwin says that as more individuals and families have become visible, hearts and minds have changed.
“And slowly laws have followed,” she said. “It is history.”
Schumer said the issue is personal to him, as well.
“Passing the Respect for Marriage Act is as personal as it gets for many senators and their staffs, myself included,” Schumer said. “My daughter and her wife are actually expecting a little baby in February. So it matters a lot to so many of us to get this done.”
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Associated Press writer Sam Metz in Salt Lake City contributed to this report. | 2022-11-16T11:10:19+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/same-sex-marriage-senate-vote/41976599 |
Ford and Chevrolet have encroached on the Power Wagon’s off-road territory, but now Ram has a response.
On Thursday, the 2023 Ram 2500 Heavy Duty Rebel rumbled into existence with standard underbody protection, off-road tires, an off-road suspension, and an available Warn winch or turbodiesel engine, but not both at the same time.
When it goes on sale in the fourth quarter the Rebel will slot under the Power Wagon and cost $68,940 (including destination) as it fends off the 2023 Ford F-250 Super Duty Tremor and upcoming 2024Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD ZR2.
Winch or turbodiesel: pick one
While the Rebel will come standard with the 2500 Heavy Duty’s 6.4-liter V-8 producing 410 hp and 429 lb-ft of torque, a turbodiesel will be available. That option shoves a Cummins 6.7-liter inline-6 diesel engine rated at 370 hp and 850 lb-ft of torque under the HD Rebel’s hood. Notably, it’s an option that isn’t available on the Power Wagon due to clearance issues with the off-roader’s front suspension and the engine’s oil pan along with cooling issues with the standard winch.
Ram’s bolted skid plates under the Rebel to protect the vulnerable bits like fuel tank and transfer case, but due to cooling issues, the available 12,000-lb Warn Zeon-12 winch can’t be optioned with the turbodiesel on the 2023 Rebel. The Rebel doesn’t receive the Power Wagon’s trick electronic disconnecting front sway bar, either. The Ford Super Duty Tremor can be optioned with both a turbodiesel engine and winch.
While the gas V-8 engine hooks to an 8-speed automatic transmission the turbodiesel gets a stout 6-speed. Four-wheel drive, a rear limited-slip differential, and electronic rear locker are standard.
The Rebel fixes the Power Wagon’s lackluster work credentials with the ability to tow up to 16,870 lb and haul up to 3,140 lb. Those numbers are competitive with the current Ford Super Duty Tremor, though final ratings for the new 2023 model haven’t been released yet. Nothing is known about the upcoming 2024 Chevrolet Silverado ZR2, yet, other than it will exist.
Riding on 33s
The Rebel sticks with a tried-and-true formula from the Power Wagon with 33-inch off-road tires. At launch, those tires will be on standard 20-inch wheels, but optional 18s—the Power Wagon runs on 17-inch wheels—will eventually be available.
It’ll take a keen eye and more than a quick glance to pick the Rebel out from the Power Wagon. With a similar look including black bumpers, black lower body color, the Power Wagon’s grille, and blacked-out trim, the main distinguisher for the Rebel is the sport hood ripped from the Mopar parts bin and different wheels. When the Rebel is equipped with the Cummins turbodiesel, a turbodiesel badge sits proudly on the front fenders. A small Rebel badge rests on the bottom left of the tailgate.
Every Heavy Duty Rebel will be a Crew Cab with a 6-foot 4-inch bed.
Inside the cabin the Rebel has cloth bench seats, but front bucket seats will be available, as will Bristol leather for models with the bench seat or Natura Plus leather for trucks equipped with bucket seats. Ram’s new 12.0-inch digital gauge cluster will be standard while a 12.0-inch touchscreen will be available.
Every Heavy Duty Rebel will feature a surround-view camera system. Automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, active lane control, and blind-spot monitors will be available.
At $68,940 the 2023 Ram 2500 Heavy Duty Rebel won’t be cheap. Ram said the Rebel slots in between the Laramie and Power Wagon in the Heavy Duty’s lineup, but it’s more expensive than the current 2022 Power Wagon. Prices for the 2023 Power Wagon haven’t been released.
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CLEVELAND, July 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MIM Software is proud to announce that it has been authorized by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)—reinforcing its commitment to global cybersecurity.
The CVE Program is an international and community-driven initiative that identifies, defines, and catalogs publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. As a CNA, MIM Software will assign and publish CVE Records, allowing the community to rapidly discover and correlate vulnerability information which will be used to protect systems against attacks.
"We're thrilled to join this vital, community-driven program. Our CNA status allows us to enhance our cybersecurity measures and deliver critical vulnerability information to our customers faster," said Jonathan Papcun, Director of Engineering, Security & Infrastructure at MIM Software. "This partnership reinforces our commitment to transparency and protecting our customers and patients," he added.
About the CVE Program
The mission of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program is to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. There is one CVE Record for each vulnerability in the catalog. The vulnerabilities are discovered then assigned and published by organizations from around the world that have partnered with the CVE Program. Partners publish CVE Records to communicate consistent descriptions of vulnerabilities. Information technology and cybersecurity professionals use CVE Records to ensure they are discussing the same issue, and to coordinate their efforts to prioritize and address the vulnerabilities.
About MIM Software Inc.
MIM Software Inc. is a privately held company with a dynamic working environment. It is headquartered in Cleveland, OH, with international offices in Beijing, Chengdu, and Brussels.
MIM Software sells its products globally to imaging centers, hospitals, specialty clinics, research organizations, and pharmaceutical companies. The company's products are used in over 3,500 centers worldwide.
MIM Software Inc. is committed to enhancing patient care by providing customer-centered and innovative imaging solutions in the fields of Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Neuroimaging, and Cardiac Imaging.
To learn more, visit mimsoftware.com/security
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The second-ever meeting between Eastern Michigan and San Jose State will take place in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, Idaho.
While the game will be nearly 2,000 miles away from Ypsilanti and nearly 700 from San Jose, EMU and SJSU fans can still get tickets to watch the teams compete for a bowl win at 3:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. MST) on Tuesday, Dec. 20.
The game will also be televised on ESPN and is available to stream on fuboTV with a free trial.
Fans can get tickets through the official Idaho Potato Bowl website or at any of the following reseller sites:
- VividSeats starting at $5
- StubHub starting at $5
- SeatGeek starting at $4
- Ticketmaster starting at $20
Eastern Michigan enters the matchup with an 8-4 record, its best since 1987. That was the last time EMU won a bowl game as the Eagles are 0-4 since.
SJSU finished the regular season at 7-4 and is making its 12th bowl appearance with a record of 7-4 in those games.
Coincidentally, the two teams last played in a bowl game with EMU winning, 30-27, in the California Bowl.
The two squads are scheduled for a home-and-away series beginning with SJSU visiting EMU in 2026 and EMU traveling to San Jose in 2029. | 2022-12-09T21:38:23+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/sports/2022/12/easter-michigan-vs-san-jose-state-how-to-get-tickets-to-the-famous-idaho-potato-bowl.html |
Seven Star Digital, a OneTwenty Company acquires Moneta Communications, a leading UK betting media company and owner of Horseracing.net and Bettingodds.com
LONDON, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Star Digital, as part of OneTwenty, is a leading provider of marketing services for the regulated global online gambling industry. Today the business announced it has acquired Moneta Communications Limited, a pure-play performance marketing business focused on publishing sports betting content for the UK, Irish and North American markets.
The acquisition of Moneta Communications supports Seven Star's growth strategy of rapidly expanding its digital sports publishing content in mature gambling markets such as the United Kingdom.
"I'm delighted to solidify our position in the UK market with the acquisition of Moneta Communications. The UK has been the foundation of Seven Star Digital's success over the last five years and by bringing Moneta onboard, we can expand our UK presence, particularly in the sports betting market. I believe that the synergies we can achieve by sharing Seven Star Digital's operational expertise will help drive the growth of Moneta Communications in a highly competitive market" said, Jack Lodge, CEO of Seven Star Digital
Horseracing.net generates over 4 million visits per year and publishes online content which help consumers to find and bet on horse racing events across the UK and Globally.
Bettingodds.com publishes odds related content to help consumers find the best odds for all sports across markets including the UK, Africa and North America.
Both properties have traction in the United States, where the Group expects to be able to accelerate growth substantially in the coming years.
"Over the past Fifteen years, the business has been developed by an industry leading team in horse racing and sports betting. I am excited to see the Manchester team become part of OneTwenty's UK and Global brand. Strategically, our focus is on leveraging great engagement business with our pure play performance marketing DNA." said Group CEO, Chris Russell.
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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A multi-screen cinema hall opened on Saturday in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir for the first time in 14 years in the government’s push to showcase normalcy in the disputed region that was brought under India’s direct rule three years ago.
Decades of a deadly conflict, bombings and brutal Indian counterinsurgency campaign have turned people away from cinemas, and only about a dozen viewers lined up for the first morning show, the Bollywood action movie “Vikram Vedha.” The 520-seat hall with three screens opened under elaborate security in Srinagar’s high security zone that also houses India’s military regional headquarters.
“There are different viewpoints about (cinema) but I think it’s a good thing,” said moviegoer Faheem, who gave only one name. “It’s a sign of progress.”
Others at the show declined to comment.
The afternoon and evening shows had less than 10% occupancy on Saturday, according to India’s premier movie booking website in.bookmyshow.com.
The multiplex was officially inaugurated on Sept. 20 by Manoj Sinha, New Delhi’s top administrator in Kashmir. The cinema is part of Indian multiplex chain Inox in partnership with a Kashmiri businessman.
After Kashmiri militants rose up against Indian rule in 1989, launching a bloody insurgency that was met with a brutal response by Indian troops, the once-thriving city of Srinagar wilted. The city’s eight privately owned movie theaters closed on the orders of rebels, saying they were vehicles of India’s cultural invasion and anti-Islamic.
In the early 1990s, government forces converted most of the city’s theaters into makeshift security camps, detention or interrogation centers. Soon, places where audiences thronged to Bollywood blockbusters became feared buildings, where witnesses say torture was commonplace.
However, three cinema halls, backed by government financial assistance, reopened in 1999 amid an official push to project the idea that life had returned to normal in Kashmir. Soon after, a bombing outside one hall in the heart of Srinagar killed a civilian and wounded many others and shut it again. Weary Kashmiris largely stayed away, and the other hall locked its doors within a year. One theater, the Neelam, stuck it out until 2008.
Officials said the government is planning to establish cinemas in every district of the region, where tens of thousands have been killed in the armed conflict since 1989. Last month, Sinha also inaugurated two multipurpose halls in the southern districts of Shopian and Pulwama, considered as hotbeds of armed rebellion.
“The government is committed to change perceptions about Jammu and Kashmir, and we know people want entertainment and they want to watch movies,” Sinha told reporters at the inauguration.
In 2019, India revoked the region’s semi-autonomy and brought it under direct control, throwing Kashmir under a severe security and communication lockdown.
The region has remained on edge ever since as authorities also put in place a slew of new laws, which critics and many residents fear could change the region’s demographics. | 2022-10-01T18:27:55+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/entertainment-news/ap-cinema-opens-in-kashmir-city-after-14-years-but-few-turn-up/ |
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Nationals third. CJ Abrams singles to right field. Victor Robles reaches on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield. CJ Abrams to second. Fielding error by Eric Hosmer. Alex Call reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Victor Robles out at second. CJ Abrams to third. Luis Garcia singles to center field. Alex Call to third. CJ Abrams scores. Keibert Ruiz grounds out to second base. Luis Garcia out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 1 left on. Nationals 1, Cubs 0.
Cubs seventh. Patrick Wisdom homers to center field. Tucker Barnhart walks. Nico Hoerner strikes out swinging. Dansby Swanson pops out to second base to Luis Garcia. Ian Happ grounds out to third base, Jeimer Candelario to Dominic Smith.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Cubs 1, Nationals 1.
Nationals seventh. Dominic Smith singles to right field. Lane Thomas grounds out to second base, Nico Hoerner to Eric Hosmer. Dominic Smith to second. CJ Abrams singles to right field. Dominic Smith scores. Victor Robles singles to third base. CJ Abrams to second. Alex Call doubles to deep left center field. Victor Robles scores. CJ Abrams scores. Luis Garcia grounds out to first base to Eric Hosmer. Alex Call to third. Keibert Ruiz grounds out to shallow infield, Michael Rucker to Eric Hosmer.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Nationals 4, Cubs 1. | 2023-05-03T02:07:27+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/chicago-cubs-washington-runs-18074988.php |
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A 12,000 seat outdoor venue called the Sunset Amphitheater is coming to the metro and is expected to attract a wide range of entertainment talent.
The owner and agent for Mustang Creek Crossing Development, Carol Coury Hefner, joined News 9 to discuss the development.
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July 19th, 2023 | 2023-07-20T03:10:20+00:00 | news9.com | https://www.news9.com/story/64b80070c54d777a8af561aa/multigenerational-experiences:-mustang-development-company-discusses-new-amphitheater |
Legally change your first name to Subway and get free subs for life
(Gray News) – Subway is looking to reward its biggest fan with free subs for life. All they have to do is legally change their first name to Subway.
The national sandwich chain recently changed its entire menu to include freshly sliced meats and a collection of new Deli Heroes subs.
“Since debuting on Subway’s menu on July 11, Americans have gobbled up 2 million Deli Heroes, and now one lucky fan will eat them free for life,” Subway wrote in a news release.
Those willing to commit to taking the plunge can visit SubwayNameChange.com and enter between Aug. 1 and Aug. 4 to win free Subway Deli Heroes for life.
One person will earn $50,000 in Subway gift cards and assume an iconic new identity.
The restaurant will provide the winner with $750 to reimburse them for legal and processing costs for the name change.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Edwards had season highs with 37 points and 11 assists and the Minnesota Timberwolves broke the franchise record for points in a game, routing the Chicago Bulls 150-126 on Sunday night.
D’Angelo Russell added 28 points after missing two games and Minnesota made a season-high 23 pointers to roll past Chicago despite missing four regulars.
Rudy Gobert missed his second straight game because of a sprained left ankle. Karl-Anthony Towns (right calf strain) and top reserves Jordan McLaughlin (left calf strain) and Taurean Prince (right shoulder) also sat out.
Starting a four-game trip, Chicago lost its fourth straight and sixth in eight games.
DeMar DeRozan led the Bulls with 29 points, Nikola Vucevic added 23 and Zach LaVine had 22.
Edwards scored six points in a 9-1 surge for a 106-89 lead late in the third quarter. But Edwards saved his best shot of the quarter for a buzzer- beater.
With 2.1 seconds left, he stole an inbounds pass on the logo at center court, continued right and made a 32-foot pull-up jumper. As the ball went through the hoop to make it 113-97, Edwards turned to face the crowd and, after a couple of seconds of basking with a huge smile, began to high-five the fans.
Missing the past two games with a left knee contusion, Russell made seven of his eight first-half shots, including 6 of 7 from deep. That included a 34-foot desperation heave from the logo early in the second quarter as the shot clock expired.
TIP-INS
Bulls: Vucevic had nine rebounds. … Javonte Green missed the game with right knee soreness. He missed three games earlier this month with right knee pain. … Chicago is 4-11 on the road, including 1-7 against Western Conference opponents.
Timberwolves: Knight scored a season-high 16 points. … Naz Reid, who scored the first 10 Minnesota points, left in the second quarter with trapezius tightness. … Edwards had a steal to extend the NBA’s longest active streak of at least one steal to 16 games.
UP NEXT
Bulls: At Miami on Tuesday night.
Timberwolves: Host Dallas on Monday and Wednesday nights.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-19T02:55:25+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/Timberwolves-hit-season-high-23-3s-beat-Bulls-17663191.php |
Texas police officer shot in face
Posted/updated on: July 25, 2022 at 10:35 am(HOUSTON) -- A Houston-area police officer was shot in the face by a suspect armed with two automatic pistols with extended magazines, authorities said.
Crystal Sepulveda was injured early Saturday and hospitalized in stable condition, authorities said.
"She's a strong officer, she will make it through this," Missouri City Assistant Police Chief Lance Bothell said at a news conference.
Sepulveda, who has been with the Missouri City Police Department for three years, suffered one gunshot to the face and another to the foot, he said.
The shooting took place early Saturday when Missouri City officers spotted a car that was suspected of being linked to an aggravated robbery on Friday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner told reporters. Officers pursued the car, Finner said, and the suspect stopped in front of a house. The suspect then headed to the side or back of the house where he shot Sepulveda, Finner said.
The suspect fled on foot, and when he was found in a backyard, he opened fire on officers, Finner said. The suspect was shot and pronounced dead at a hospital, he said.
"We never celebrate the loss of life, but what could you do when a suspect is so violent?" Finner told reporters. "I ask for prayers for everybody involved, but certainly our men and women on the front line."
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GREILICKVILLE — Elmwood Township planners will soon begin deliberations on a special-use permit application for the proposed Wellevity resort to ensure it meets all standards of the township zoning ordinance.
But with more than 100 pages in the document, it may take a while to get through.
A special meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Elmwood Township fire hall. Planning commission Chairman Rick Bechtold said it’s difficult to say if it will take more than one meeting to complete findings of fact and come to a decision.
“Marathon meetings are not fair to the public or to the applicant,” Bechtold said. “We don’t want people to become so fatigued that they don’t do a fair job of reviewing the material.”
If the health and wellness resort meets zoning standards, a permit for that resort must be approved, according to state law.
Attorney Lauren Teichner represents the Friends of Timberlee, a group of about 100 people living in the immediate area of the proposed resort. Teichner said all conditions of the zoning ordinance must be met.
“This is a really important issue for the local community and the residents in the area,” said Teichner, who specializes in environmental law. “They know the planning commission has one chance to do this and we hope they’ll get it right.”
Attorney Marc S. McKellar represents Steve Brock of Big Rapids, the owner of the 100-acre parcel situated next to Timberlee Hills, a wedding and snow-tubing venue. The resort will use about 20 acres of the parcel.
“I believe the merits and facts in this case meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance,” McKellar said. “I’m absolutely confident that the reports and information we have submitted for approval are adequate.”
Several meetings have already taken place to give the public the opportunity to have its say on the 20-acre resort. They’re now held in the fire hall because of the large number of people attending — more than 100 at the most recent meeting.
A majority of those people oppose the resort, saying it will impact the environment, increase traffic on narrow and private neighborhood roads, and create noise and light pollution.
“As evidenced by massive turnout at three meetings, obviously there’s massive public interest, not only from residents of the township, but I’ve had many phone calls from people in Leelanau County and Traverse City,” said Jeff Dungan, who lives near the proposed resort. “We know that the Grand Traverse area is growing. Communities are nervous about development.”
Plans submitted with the application show a lodge, single-family homes and cabins, as well as a restaurant, market, clubroom, pavilions, a greenhouse and gardens. There is a spa and wellness facility with areas for yoga and exercise, an indoor pool and a meditation dome.
Plans also show the resort will have a private well and its own wastewater treatment system.
Teichner is especially concerned about the environmental impact of the project, which she said has not been sufficiently studied. The township zoning ordinance gives the planning commission the power to have further studies done at the developer’s expense, she said.
Teichner sent planners a letter from certified geologist Mike Wilczynski, who recommended a pumping test to predict water levels when the resort’s well is in use, a wetlands delineation and geological cross-sections to determine the impact on wetlands and groundwater. Wilczynski also recommended the township hire a third party to review the application, also at the applicant’s expense.
Permits for the well and wastewater system are issued by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy.
“Any related issues pertaining to the environment are out of the township’s purview,” McKellar said, adding that the township’s issue is whether zoning standards are met.
Bechtold said he spent several days reviewing the comments made during the public hearing on the resort. He also read the nearly 100 letters that came in from township residents.
When asked how much the public outcry weighs in the decision on whether to approve or deny the request, Bechtold said it is a fact-based process.
“The planning commission is not a popularity contest,” he said. “We welcome information from the public and we review it. We welcome people’s good ideas and good thinking.”
Sarah Clarren, planner and zoning administrator for Elmwood Township, said planning commissioners can’t make their decision based on whether the public likes the project or not. If it meets conditions, the permit has to be approved.
She said if the development took up all 100 acres of the property, it would be an easy decision.
“But this is less than a 20-acre development,” Clarren said. “It is not as clear-cut as a lot of people are indicating.”
Three Traverse City firms are involved in the project: Environmental Architects, Gosling Czubak Engineering and planning consultant Northview 22, LLC. | 2023-04-08T14:23:43+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/elmwood-planners-to-begin-fact-finding-on-proposed-resort/article_37913700-d2f7-11ed-91f2-6776b33aedc9.html |
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — Two suburban Atlanta preschool teachers have been charged with felony child cruelty after parents alleged they saw the teachers physically abuse children on live video from the classroom.
Roswell police on Wednesday told local news outlets they are asking the public for more information on incidents involving Zeina Alostwani, 40, and Soriana Briceno, 19.
The two taught toddlers in a classroom for Parker-Chase preschool in the suburb north of Atlanta.
Warrants obtained by WXIA-TV state Briceno pushed a 2-year-old in the forehead. Police say video also shows Alostwani standing on the hand of a 3-year-old and then kneeing the 2-year-old in the back.
A mother who was viewing video earlier in June said she saw the abuse. She and her husband tell news outlets they went to the school to report the abuse. Police were then called.
“It doesn’t matter whose child it is,” Brant Duncan told WSB-TV. “It’s a child. They’re helpless. They’re defenseless.”
The women were arrested Monday. Alostwani was granted $75,000 bail Tuesday and was released Wednesday, while Briceno was denied bail because of her immigration status. It's unclear if either have lawyers representing them.
Several other parents have reported abuse since the arrests. Police said they are reviewing video looking for other instances.
The owner of the preschool, Endeavor Schools, told parents it fired the women for “inappropriate disciplinary actions.”
“We expect our staff to adhere to the highest standards of care, and any failure to do so will not be tolerated," Endeavor said.
The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning is investigating “allegations of inappropriate discipline," spokesperson Reg Griffin said. Endeavor said child welfare authorities were also called.
A teacher who wrote a statement given to police said Alostwani and Briceno had a history of abusive behavior, including screaming, pinching and pulling ears.
“Whenever a child wasn’t listening or following directions, Zeina would get in the child’s face and scream at them, pinch their cheeks, arms, nose, pull their ears, she would sometimes pick them up and very forcefully would place them back down on the carpet. Soriana would do some of the same actions as Zeina, but at a different time,” the warrant reads, quoting the statement. | 2022-06-09T21:09:08+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-preschool-workers-charged-after-parent-sees-17231361.php |
Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue magazine, has filed a lawsuit against rappers Drake and 21 Savage for using a fake Vogue cover used to promote their new album, Her Loss.
In a 30-page lawsuit filed on Monday, Condé Nast argues that the "widespread promotional campaign" launched by the rappers for their latest album is "built entirely" on the use of Vogue's trademarks — giving the false premise that the two artists would be featured in the December issue of the magazine.
Condé Nast is seeking at least $4 million in damages, or triple the rappers' profits from their album and its "counterfeit" magazine — whichever is higher.
It's unclear if the artists directly profited from the fake magazines, other than through publicity, as the magazines were not for sale.
The publisher is also seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to stop the rappers from continuing to publicize the fake magazine cover, as well as damages over trademark infringement.
"All of this is false. And none of it has been authorized by Condé Nast," said Condé Nast in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit also alleges that the two rappers created counterfeit issues of Vogue and distributed copies of it in "North America's largest metropolitan areas" in addition to posters of the spoof cover. The counterfeit issue was also posted to social media for more than 135 million users who actively follow both Drake and 21 Savage, according to the suit.
In addition, the lawsuit alleges that the artists falsely thanked Anna Wintour — the editor-in-chief of Vogue — on social media for the "love and support on this historical moment."
The publisher said it was in communication with both Drake and 21 Savage leading up to the release of Her Loss, but according to the lawsuit, the rappers' "disregard for Condé Nast's rights" left it no choice but to take legal action.
Representatives for both Drake and 21 Savage did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on the lawsuit. NPR also reached out to attorneys representing Condé Nast for comment but did not immediately hear back.
The distribution of the counterfeit Vogue cover is among several parodies the two rappers produced in support of their latest album. The two also pretended to perform on NBC's Saturday Night Live and to have been interviewed on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show.
The duo also pretended to perform on NPR Music's Tiny Desk series, where the rappers are seated in front of a backdrop of books and All Songs Considered signage.
Thank you to @nprmusic @tinydesk for having the gang @Drake @21savage let’s go crazy 🔪🦉#HERLOSS pic.twitter.com/cBpG9SgARI
— OVO Sound (@OVOSound) November 2, 2022
In response to the spoof performance, an NPR spokesperson said: "If Drake and 21 Savage want to perform at the real Tiny Desk, we'd love to have them."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-11-09T12:05:20+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-11-09/vogue-sues-rappers-drake-and-21-savage-over-fake-magazine-cover-promoting-new-album |
(The Hill) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday said he has “great confidence” in Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz, despite several polls showing the television doctor trailing Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) in the Keystone State.
Asked in Kentucky about Oz’s chances to win the Senate seat, McConnell said he thinks the GOP nominee — who has been painted as an out-of-touch elite from New Jersey by Fetterman’s campaign — has “a great shot at winning.”
“I have great confidence. I think Oz has a great shot at winning,” McConnell told reporters.
The comments came after the Senate leader on Friday hosted a fundraiser for Oz, Georgia Senate candidate Hershel Walker and Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), who is running for the upper chamber in North Carolina, all of whom have the backing of former President Trump.
McConnell pointed to that event as proof that he has faith in Oz.
“I don’t think I would have had him here if I didn’t think that,” the Kentucky Republican said.
McConnell’s public votes of confidence for Oz comes despite the television doctor-turned-Republican politician consistently polling behind Fetterman in Pennsylvania’s Senate race. According to FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls, Oz is trailing Fetterman, with 39.2 percent to Fetterman’s 48.2 percent.
And his comments come on the heels of a number of gaffs and controversies that have engulfed the Oz campaign — the most recent being the crudité squabble.
The Fetterman campaign earlier this month resurfaced a video Oz first posted in April that showed him shopping for “crudité” in a local grocery store as a way to show the effects of inflation. The lieutenant governor criticized Oz for using the French word to describe a “veggie tray” and for mispronouncing the name of the supermarket.
The ploy raked in more than $500,000 in the 24 hours as the video spread.
Oz’s campaign tried to hit Fetterman — who recently had a stroke — back for the video, with his senior communications adviser writing in a statement, “If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly.” But the response attracted even more criticism.
The Pennsylvania Senate election has been one of the most closely watched races this cycle, as Republicans look to tip the 50-50 chamber in their direction come November.
McConnell was bullish about his party’s chances of taking control of the Senate last year, saying November 2022 would be “very good” for Republicans. But he has since changed his tone as a number of GOP nominees are struggling to overcome their Democratic opponents in the polls.
Earlier this month, McConnell said Republicans had a better chance of flipping the House than the Senate, citing “candidate quality,” which was seen as a veiled reference to Oz, Walker and other GOP nominees supported by Trump.
Democrats are currently favored to win control of the Senate over Republicans in November, according to FiveThirtyEight, 67 percent to 33 percent.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome,” McConnell said.
Asked during an interview on Fox Business Network last week if he thought McConnell was talking about him, Oz said “he was not,” pointing to contributions McConnell has made in the race.
Despite his concerns, McConnell is throwing his weight behind the Republican nominees in hopes of taking control of the Senate in November.
McConnell was also asked on Monday why he decided to hold a fundraiser last week for Oz, Walker and Budd in particular.
“I pick out three of our candidates every summer that I think have the best shot at winning and invite them and I picked these three because I thought they were in critical states and had a good chance of winning,” he said.
The Senate leader noted that he holds a similar fundraiser every August, and said last week’s event was scheduled roughly six weeks ago. | 2022-08-29T23:43:10+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/pennsylvania-senate-race-mcconnell-says-he-has-great-confidence-in-oz/ |
Train derailment latest: EPA taking charge of cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) - Federal environmental regulators on Tuesday took charge of the cleanup from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and chemical burn and ordered Norfolk Southern to foot the bill.
The Environmental Protection Agency told Norfolk Southern to take all available measures to clean up contaminated air and water, and also said the company would be required to reimburse the federal government for a new program to provide cleaning services for impacted residents and businesses.
The EPA warned Norfolk Southern that if the company failed to comply with its order, the agency would perform the work itself and seek triple damages from the company.
"The Norfolk Southern train derailment has upended the lives of East Palestine families, and EPA’s order will ensure the company is held accountable for jeopardizing the health and safety of this community," EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan said in a statement ahead of a planned news conference with the governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
"Let me be clear: Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess they created and for the trauma they’ve inflicted on this community," he said.
"In no way shape or form will Norfolk Southern get off the hook for the mess they created," Regan said at the press conference.
He added that he knows the order "cannot undo the nightmare that families in this town have been living with, but it will begin to deliver much needed comfort for the pain that Norfolk Southern has caused."
The agency said it would release more details on the cleanup service for residents and businesses this week.
Petroleum based chemicals float on the top of the water in Leslie Run creek after being agitated from the sediment on the bottom of the creek on February 20, 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio following a train derailment prompting health concerns. (Photo
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The EPA said its order marks the end of the "emergency" phase of the derailment and the beginning of long-term remediation phase in the East Palestine area.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday also acknowledged the community’s concern that it will be left to handle the aftermath on its own once the news cameras leave and public attention turns elsewhere, and he assured residents that won’t be the case.
Separately, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a package of reforms Tuesday, calling on railroad operators to take immediate steps to improve safety, such as accelerating the planned upgrade of tank cars.
RELATED: Buttigieg urges railroads to improve safety changes after fiery Ohio derailment
Some 50 freight cars derailed on the outskirts of East Palestine, near the Pennsylvania state line, prompting persistent environmental and health concerns. The derailment prompted an evacuation as fears grew about a potential explosion of smoldering wreckage.
Officials seeking to avoid the danger of an uncontrolled blast chose to intentionally release and burn toxic vinyl chloride from five rail cars, sending flames and black smoke again billowing high into the sky. That left people questioning the potential health impacts for residents in the area and beyond, even as authorities maintained they were doing their best to protect people.
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Rubinkam reported from northeastern Pennsylvania. | 2023-02-21T18:43:23+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/ohio-train-derailment-cleanup-epa-federal-government |
Gardening, an 'investment in the future'
Gardeners, actress Audrey Hepburn once said, believe in tomorrow. And in the gardening world, perennials especially are an investment in the future.
So when I was asked to keynote the 60th anniversary celebration for Keep Michigan Beautiful, I choose as my topic "Sustainable Beauty". Keep Michigan Beautiful as an organization demonstrates that kind of endurance. It moved from litter pickup projects to recycling, educational efforts and annual awards and grants to encourage community beautification — especially plant and garden-based efforts around the state.
Bottom line, my talk turned out to be both a pep talk to organization members and a highly personal reminder to myself that gardening is not just a seasonal but a perennial experience. Like many Northern Michiganders, at first I despaired 50-odd years ago of getting anything to thrive in the sandy, root-bound soil of our cottage. The growing season was so short. Trips to buy annuals at the local nurseries seemed like the only sensible solution.
But over the years, I learned to appreciate as a gardener that despite those issues, a whole host of perennials can thrive here. They are the 'perma-fudgies’ of the gardening world. And like their human counterparts they can lovingly find themselves returning to Northern Michigan every summer.
Fast forward to six years ago when I began establishing my gardens above the Bear River recreation area at our new home in Petoskey. We still install annuals in the pots on our decks and porch. But now those once skimpy and struggling perennial ‘rescue plants’ of mine from the clearance racks have rallied to create a lush living wall along the lot line. The cement patio that started out in a sea of muddy fill-dirt? It is now framed by a thick screen of variegated leaf dogwood, ninebark and weigela. We have similar high hopes for the plantings around our 2022 pond garden at the foot of the yard.
Even the woodland below our house has filled in so amazingly after it was decimated by a storm in 2020 that took out a deck and landed four trees on our roof. Dogwood, walnuts and box elders are springing up from the forest floor. And our efforts to restore some shade for our sun-baked hostas with fast-growing bushes is having some success.
It may take baby steps to find the right mix of plants in a garden. It may take several seasons to refine just where a plant is most happy. But then gardening is a perennial experience — in the broadest possible sense.
Here's to all the organizations of this world — whether Keep Michigan Beautiful or the local garden club — that remind us every day that beauty is within our reach if only we are willing to look for and cultivate it. | 2022-08-06T01:03:05+00:00 | petoskeynews.com | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/lifestyle/2022/08/05/gardening-investment-future/10211564002/ |
- Successful acquisition and integration of ARA – ESR delivered outsized EPS[2] growth of 31.8% year-on-year
- AUM increased 14% year-on-year to US$149 billion[3] supercharged by New Economy which delivered 23% growth to reach US$67 billion[3]
- Total EBITDA[2] and Core PATMI[2],[4] achieved strong growth of 15.3% and 27.3% year-on-year to US$665 million and US$389 million, respectively
- Stabilized Group New Economy occupancy hit a record 96%[5] (99%[5] ex-China) with record leasing of 2.0 million[5] sqm across the portfolio in 1H 2022
- Largest New Economy development workbook in APAC, reaching US$12 billion[5] fuelled by record development starts of US$3.5 billion[5] (up 109% year-on-year) and US$2.0 billion[5] of completions (up 51% year-on-year)
- Robust balance sheet with gearing further reduced to 17.9% on the back of record capital recycling (US$1.4 billion of assets); significant liquidity (US$2.0 billion of cash) on balance sheet and in funds (US$17.9 billion[6] of "dry powder" to deploy)
- Returning value to shareholders with maiden interim dividend of HK$0.125 per share (1.6 US cents) implying a 1.3%[7] dividend yield)
HONG KONG, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ESR Group Limited ("ESR" or the "Company", together with its subsidiaries as the "Group"; SEHK Stock Code: 1821), APAC's largest real asset manager powered by the New Economy, today announced its results for the six months ended 30 June 2022 ("1H2022").
The Group's adjusted revenue[8] for 1H2022 is US$432 million, up 9.4% from the pro-forma 1H2021 revenue US$395 million. Total EBITDA[2] increased by 15.3% from US$577 million in 1H2021 to US$665 million in 1H2022. PATMI[2] and Core PATMI[2,4] grew 16.8% (from US$353 million in 1H2021 to US$412 million) and 27.3% (from US$306 million to US$389 million) in 1H2022, respectively. Strong recurring income from the growth in the Group's co-investments in funds, associates, and joint ventures contributed to higher PATMI and Core PATMI. Given the weakening of local currencies across APAC in relation to the US dollar in 1H 2022, total PATMI would have increased by 23% from US$353 million in 1H 2021 to US$434 million in 1H 2022 on a like-for-like basis based on forex as of 31 December 2021. Following the successful accretive acquisition of ARA, EPS[2] growth was 31.8% despite the enlarged share base.
Jeffrey Perlman, Chairman of ESR, said: "I am very pleased to report that the Group has delivered stellar performance for 1H 2022. Despite numerous headwinds in the first half of the year including rising interest rates, sustained inflation, increasing geopolitical tensions and zero COVID policies, the ESR Group continues to be able navigate this complex environment effectively to deliver for our shareholders. Our successful acquisition of ARA earlier this year has further expanded our fee base and our New Economy business with the addition of LOGOS has never been stronger. In fact, our development starts and completions were up over 100% and 50% year-over-year, respectively, on the back of record low vacancies, record leasing for our existing portfolio and customers who are pushing us for more space. This has contributed to further growth in our development workbook which represents the largest in APAC at US$12 billion and one of the largest globally.
With an evolving market environment, we also wanted to take advantage of opportunities to lock in gains and actively recycle capital. I am pleased to report that we achieved a record US$1.4 billion of divestments from our balance sheet (returning over US$1.0 billion of cash to the Group), which helped to lock in and crystalize development gains mainly from China. This was more than double our historical annual capital recycling target. Combined with generally lower co-investment stakes on new funds raised, we have succeeded in accelerating our asset light trajectory and are setting ourselves up for improved returns on future capital deployed. From the launch of our first Pan Asia discretionary logistics development vehicle to the Group's inaugural US$1 billion APAC data centre fund, ESR is extending our reach as the leading New Economy real estate platform in Asia Pacific.
Given the strong execution, the Group is well-positioned to deliver sustainable growth to shareholders. We have made our balance sheet more efficient, we have US$17.9 billion[6] of undrawn capital from our funds to deploy and we are benefitting from the addition of ARA's recurring and stable fee revenue. Our strong business fundamentals mean we are ready to commence our maiden dividend to deliver long-term value to shareholders."
Maiden dividend declaration - delivering value to shareholders
The Board of ESR Group has declared an inaugural interim dividend of HK$0.125 (1.6 US cents) per share (which implies a 1.3[7] yield) for the financial year ending 31 December 2022, amounting to US$70 million, which is payable to shareholders on 30 September 2022. The distribution of a dividend follows the announcement of ESR's Dividend Policy last month, underscoring the Group's commitment to deliver returns and continued growth to its shareholders.
Exceptional fund management performance fuelled by strong capital support
ESR Group's Fund Management segment continued to record new highs in terms of performance given the strong support from its capital partners. Fund Management EBITDA[2] increased 9.2% to US$288 million, driven by high recurring fee revenue from higher AUM, record development, leasing fees and solid promotes. This was even a stronger result as the first half 2021 Fund Management EBITDA (on a pro forma basis) was a very robust period for comparison given that it delivered higher EBITDA than in the second half of 2021 (on a pro forma basis). Segment growth was driven by the exceptional growth momentum of the Group's fund AUM which rose 14% to US$146 billion[9] on a normalised basis as well as the record development starts and leasing fees. New Economy AUM grew 23% year-on-year to US$67 billion[3].
The Group continues to see strong capital flows from global institutional investors who are seeking to strategically rebalance their portfolios into New Economy sectors. Supported by the deep capital partner relationships and track record the Group has established, the Group raised US$3.9 billion[6] (over 80% is New Economy focused) through 15 new or upsized funds and mandates. This includes the newly launched Pan Asia discretionary development vehicle and the Group's inaugural US$1 billion APAC data centre fund which comprises a development pipeline of eight seed projects with over 260 megawatts of capacity.
In addition, the Group, in partnership with a leading global institutional investor, acquired a prime logistics and industrial portfolio in Greater Shanghai, China. The portfolio, which consists of 11 completed logistics and industrial assets with a total GFA of over 550,000 sqm, represents the largest logistics and industrial portfolio ever sold in Greater Shanghai. In South Korea, ESR also upsized its second development joint venture with APG and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ("CPP Investments") by up to US$1 billion for investment in and development of a best-in-class industrial and warehouse logistics portfolio.
As of 30 June 2022, the Group has US$17.9 billion[6] of dry powder capital (equity and debt) to deploy into new investments.
Strong operational and robust leasing performance with near zero vacancy rates in mature markets
The Group achieved strong leasing progress for 1H2022 with a record of over 2.0 million sqm of space leased. This was primarily driven by e-commerce acceleration and supply chain resilience which continues to generate demand for modern, institutional-grade logistics facilities in key gateway markets. Portfolio occupancy reached an all-time high at 96%[5] (99%[5] ex-China) with close to full occupancies in most markets. High occupancy is underpinning strong rental growth in many of the markets in which the Group operates. In particular, ESR has seen an overall positive weighted average portfolio rental reversion of 5.8%[5] which was recorded across the New Economy portfolio. The Group's portfolio has a weighted average lease expiry ("WALE") (by income) of 4.9 years[5] and coupled with relatively subdued supply in many of the markets in which it operates, the Group expects to be able to continue to capture strong rental reversions. In fact, 40% of ESR's lease expiries are due within the next 30 months, positioning the Group to benefit from the outsized rental growth across its major markets.
Record development starts fuel APAC's largest development workbook
ESR has over 38.0 million sqm of GFA in operation and under development across its portfolio and a sizable landbank of over 4.4 million sqm for future development, as of 30 June 2022. For 1H2022, the Group achieved US$3.5 billion worth of development starts, as well as US$2 billion in completions. Given the record low vacancy rates across the portfolio, the Group substantially increased its development starts by 109% year-on-year which was further complemented by development completions which increased by 51% year-on-year. On the back of that continued progress, the Group has US$ 12 billion in development work-in-progress ("WIP"), the largest development workbook in APAC.
ESR's strong development pipeline includes a number of landmark projects that are set to create new benchmarks in the market:
- In Japan, the Group is developing the ESR Yokohama Sachiura Logistics Park in Greater Tokyo. The multi-phase development provides approximately 720,000 sqm logistics space over four phases, set to be the largest logistics park (by value) in Japan and one of the largest ever developed (by value) in APAC upon completion. Its second phase, ESR Yokohama Sachiura Distribution Centre 2, commenced construction in June 2021 and is scheduled for completion in January 2023 (which follows the recent completion in 1H 2022 of Phase I).
- The Group is developing a US$1.5 billion multi-phase logistics park, ESR Kawanishi Distribution Centre, on a 505,647 sqm site in Greater Osaka, unveiling one of the largest and most significant urban rezoning developments to accommodate Japan's ongoing expansion in e-commerce driven New Economy real estate.
- LOGOS and its partners are in the process of developing the US$3 billion Moorebank Logistics Park, Australia's largest intermodal logistics facility at Moorebank in south-western Sydney, into high quality industrial property and infrastructure including initial approval for 850,000 sqm of warehouse opportunities directly adjacent to key rail intermodal facilities being developed by Qube Holdings Limited with direct linkage to Port Botany and the regional New South Wales and interstate rail networks.
- In Singapore, ESR is partnering PGIM Real Estate in a built-to-suit redevelopment to build a 64,490 sqm logistics facility for POKKA, which has signed a 10-year lease to commit a minimum of 70% of the building space.
Key development starts in 1H 2022 included the Sime Darby JV (Malaysia), Moorebank Phase II (Australia), Busan New Port (South Korea), ESR Green Link Estate (Australia) and Kunshan Zhonggang (China). Key development completions included ESR Yokohama Sachiura Distribution Centre 1 in Greater Tokyo and Phases 1 and 2 of Opo Logistics Park in Greater Seoul. ESR KendallSquare, ESR's South Korean platform, completed a total of 520,000 sqm of Class A logistics space in South Korea during the first half of 2022, constituting approximately half of the Group's completions. Upon completion, the logistics space was fully pre-leased to high quality tenants, including one of the largest e-commerce companies in Korea and the logistics arm of a major global electronics provider amongst others.
Strong commitment to a robust balance sheet and an accelerating asset light strategy
The Group continues to take a disciplined approach to financial positioning with a well-capitalised balance sheet with US$2 billion of cash and low net gearing of 17.9%[10] as of 30 June 2022. The Group continues to expand and proactively diversify its funding and capital structure.
- In November 2021, the Group closed its first Sustainability-Linked Loan ("SLL") of US$700 million which was subsequently upsized to US$1 billion at Libor +2.25% and Libor +2.75% for 3-year and 5-year tranches respectively. As of 30 June 2022, the Group has fully drawn down the loan.
- In January 2022, the Group closed a 5-year JPY28 billion SLL, which was upsized to JPY32.5 billion at Tibor +1.8%.
- In May 2022, the Group closed a 5-year S$300 million SLL at SORA +1.65%.
The Group remains focused in its capital recycling strategy and asset-light approach. In 1H2022, the Group divested over US$1.4 billion of its balance sheet investments primarily in China to ESR managed funds, exceeding the Group's annual capital recycling target. The sell down of over 873,000 sqm portfolio in China represented the Group's largest self-developed balance sheet sell-down to date. The Group also executed on the successful tender of its 18.16% holding in China Logistics Property Holdings Co., Ltd in May 2022, receiving US$349 million and crystalizing a strong return on this 4-year investment.
Best-in-class practices to drive Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") initiatives across the enlarged Group
The Group has made great progress on its ESG efforts set out in the ESG 2025 Roadmap. To date, the Group has closed a total of approximately US$2.5 billion in Sustainability-Linked Loans ("SLL"), reinforcing the Group's sustainable financing and operations, as it continued to integrate ESG into its financial management, operations and future planning. In June 2022, ESR became a signatory to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment ("PRI"), reinforcing its commitment to adopting and promoting responsible investment practices. On diversity and inclusion, the Group continues to have strong female representation of approximately 40% across its workforce, and 60% of its independent non-executive directors who are women.
Sustainability features are increasingly being incorporated in the development of ESR's assets. The Group is working to increase the deployment of rooftop solar power generation across the portfolio, with a target of 50% increase in solar power generation by 2025. Approximately 100 MW of rooftop solar capacity is being set up, including projects planned for this year. To further such commitment and efforts, the Group has commissioned ongoing third-party solar feasibility studies to increase renewable energy performance across the portfolio, leading to improved efficiency of tenants' operations. In June 2022, the Group signed a memorandum of understanding with CLP Power Hong Kong Limited and CLPe Group to leverage their energy and infrastructure solutions expertise to develop sustainable data centres and logistics centre in Hong Kong. In addition, ESR is the first real asset manager to work with Enerbank in Japan to provide environmental value to tenants with the country's authorised Green Energy Certificate system, with ESR's self-generated solar power from its facilities now recognised as part of the power grid in Japan in exchange for renewable energy consumption.
Looking ahead
The Group remains confident in the strong fundamentals and future prospects for real assets. E-commerce acceleration and digital transformation will continue to drive demand for logistics infrastructure and data centres. Moreover, global investors are increasingly consolidating their relationships towards a limited number of large-scale managers and allocating more capital to a smaller roster of platforms. Capitalising on these trends, ESR is firmly focused on accelerating its growth in size, scale and offerings.
Jeffrey Shen and Stuart Gibson, ESR Co-founders and Co-CEOs, said: "We are proud to have delivered outstanding performance for 1H2022. Globally, especially in Asia Pacific, economies are rebounding as many pandemic related restrictions have been eased. We will focus in meeting the outsized demand for logistics, industrial and life science space as a part of a renewed push by governments to onshore key activities. Additionally, we will continue to scale our data centre efforts to deliver on the critical need for digital infrastructure across APAC. With our unique multi-asset class exposure and market leadership positions in APAC, we are poised to deliver a fully integrated one-stop solution to leading global capital partners and customers.
The Group has made great progress in building the foundation for long-term sustainable growth. We are delighted to have the support across our asset management platform from many of the world's leading sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies. Whilst we remain cautious about the changing external environment, we are in a strong position to weather any unforeseen headwinds and further capitalise on opportunities that may present themselves."
About ESR
ESR is APAC's largest real asset manager powered by the New Economy and the third largest listed real estate investment manager globally. With over US$140 billion in total assets under management (AUM), our fully integrated development and investment management platform extends across key APAC markets, including China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, India, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, representing over 95% of GDP in APAC, and also includes an expanding presence in Europe and the U.S. We provide a diverse range of real asset investment solutions and New Economy real estate development opportunities across our private funds business, which allow capital partners and customers to capitalise on the most significant secular trends in APAC. ESR is the largest sponsor and manager of REITs in APAC with a total AUM of US$45 billion. Our purpose – Space and Investment Solutions for a Sustainable Future – drives us to manage sustainably and impactfully and we consider the environment and the communities in which we operate as key stakeholders of our business. Listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, ESR is a constituent of the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (Large Cap), Hang Seng Composite Index and MSCI Hong Kong Index. More information is available at www.esr.com.
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Which deep fryer is best?
Deep-frying food may be among the least healthy ways to cook, but it’s also among the most delicious. If you want to treat yourself to a deep-fried Oreo or fresh, piping hot french fries, then you’ll need to own a deep fryer. They come in a variety of capacities with all manner of useful features, whether you want one for home or for commercial purposes.
For use at home, the best option is the T-Fal Basket Deep Fryer. It has handy features such as an oil-filtration system, and the pieces that get dirtiest are dishwasher-safe.
What to know before you buy a deep fryer
Deep fryer types
There are three types of deep fryers — pot, basket and commercial.
- Pot fryers are small and meant solely for at-home use. They have a small capacity, with a single chamber that can only cook one type of food at a time. They are also the most affordable.
- Basket fryers are the most varied. They’re square or rectangular and can have many individually heated chambers to cook several types, or several servings, of foods at once. Two-basket capacities are the most common.
- Commercial fryers can be small enough to rest on a counter or as large as a flat-top grill to best fit your restaurant’s needs. Otherwise, they function similarly to basket models.
Size and capacity
When shopping for deep fryers, you need to balance their size and capacity with your available space and needs.
- Size: At-home models are designed to take up as little counter space as possible while still having reasonable capacities. For safety reasons, make sure the fryer is small enough to sit away from your counter’s edge.
- Capacity: Deep fryers, as the name suggests, have ample room to hold large amounts of oil in even the smallest fryers. That said, the smallest hold roughly 3 cups, while the largest commercial fryers can hold tens of gallons. Double-check the depth and width to make sure your intended food will fit.
Baskets
For basket deep fryers, consider the number and quality of the included basket or baskets. They should have a comfortable handle with some kind of stay-cool material and be long enough that there is a low risk of splatter burns. If the fryer is large enough for two or more baskets, check to see if it includes a basket large enough to cover the entire capacity.
What to look for in a quality deep fryer
Temperature control
The best deep fryers have a built-in thermostat and temperature control. This lets you avoid having to use a separate thermometer to track your oil temperature.
Safety
Deep fryers may have a variety of safety measures, but the best include two key options: cool-touch exterior and automatic shutoff. Cool-touch exteriors prevent accidental burns and automatic shutoff triggers if your oil becomes too hot.
How much you can expect to spend on a deep fryer
Deep fryers typically cost between $30 and thousands of dollars. You won’t spend more than $300-$400 for an at-home deep fryer, while commercial fryers typically start around $200 and can rapidly increase in cost.
Deep fryer FAQ
What kind of oils should I use in a deep fryer?
A. There are many excellent oil choices, each with its pros and cons.
- Olive oil is a great choice. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it has a high smoking point — the point where it stops shimmering and starts to smoke — and according to the National Institutes of Health, it brings many health benefits.
- Canola oil is a common choice. It has a high smoking point and is packed with Omega-3 amino acids. However, it doesn’t hold up well to repeat usage, so you’ll go through it fast.
- Vegetable oil is another common choice. It has a neutral flavor and is among the cheapest oils.
- Peanut oil is the most commonly used in commercial settings. It has a neutral flavor and high smoking point, but it’s expensive and causes reactions in those with nut allergies.
- Safflower oil is uncommon thanks to its strong flavor, but it’s packed with Omega-6 acids and unsaturated fats.
How do I clean oil for reuse?
A. First, skim off any leftover particles from the top of the oil. Then, strain it through a very fine sieve. Store the now cleaned oil in a container and refrigerate it.
What’s the best deep fryer to buy?
Top deep fryer
What you need to know: It’s got excellent features for a great price.
What you’ll love: It has a 3.7-quart capacity and uses a filtration system to clean used oil for reuse so you get the most for your money. Every piece except the heating element and base unit is dishwasher-safe. It has an adjustable temperature using both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
What you should consider: A few consumers had issues with batter sticking to the basket, making cleaning difficult. The cooking area could be deeper than it is.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top deep fryer for the money
Presto CoolDaddy Cool-Touch Deep Fryer
What you need to know: This small fryer is good for small households.
What you’ll love: The fryer basket is lifted and dropped using a roomy handle that keeps your hands protected from any oil splashes. A charcoal air filter helps absorb odors to limit lingering oily smells. It has a locking cover to prevent spills and splattering.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have the power of stronger models, so heating up to your selected temperature can take a while. Its capacity is a bit small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
CookRite Commercial Deep Fryer
What you need to know: This is a great purchase for a burgeoning business.
What you’ll love: It has a 7-gallon capacity, large enough to deep-fry a whole turkey. It can be set to temperatures between 200-400 degrees and each burner can be manually controlled. The stainless steel body and thermo-tube heating element are built for maximum durability.
What you should consider: It has no self-cleaning function, which makes cleaning long and difficult. It’s large and heavy — getting it into place is challenging. It’s among the pricier options.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Kathy Thoreson had just returned home from a breakfast meal when she said she heard multiple shots ring out Monday morning.
Thoreson lives in the Burton Hills area where The Covenant School is located.
According to Nashville authorities, a 28-year-old woman reportedly opened fire inside the school around 10:13 a.m. Monday, killing three students and three adult staff members. According to Metro Nashville Police Spokesman Don Aaron, the identity of the shooter is not yet known, but she was killed by Metro Police who responded to the scene.
Thoreson said some of the shots were louder than others and, at first, she thought the sound may have been roofers.
“The first about eight or 10 shots were very loud,” she said. Then there were more that followed that were quieter than the initial round of gunfire.
It was at that point she realized the sound was not roofers but rather gunfire. It rattled her, she indicated to Nexstar’s WKRN.
“I have four grandkids here. I mean, I can be thankful, but I am so sad for these parents and kids,” Thoreson said. “It’s very tragic. It’s two blocks from our house. It could happen at any school. It’s very tragic. It really is.”
This was the ultimate nightmare for any child or parent, she told WKRN. Thoreson has lived in the area for about three years and never expected this to happen at her home.
“You never think it’s going to happen where you are,” she said. | 2023-03-27T19:44:42+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/its-very-tragic-woman-recounts-what-she-heard-during-nashville-school-shooting/ |
Taco Bell's hottest items return to menus on June 29 for a limited time – complete with the hottest Paris Hilton partnership to introduce the brand's first-ever pre-recorded advice Hot Line at 1-844-THTS-HOT1
IRVINE, Calif., June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Taco Bell is coming in HOT with nostalgia for the return of the 2000s fan favorite Volcano Menu. To spice things up, Taco Bell is partnering with the queen of heat, Paris Hilton for a themed advice line: that's hot. As promised, the fan-favorite Volcano Menu returns nationwide on June 29 and even earlier for Taco Bell Rewards members with exclusive early access on June 272.
"We're always listening to our fans, and the extensive passion and needs of the Volcano fanbase could no longer go unmet" said Taylor Montgomery, US Chief Marketing Officer. "Taco Bell is always looking to deliver on the 'surprise' factor for fans and build on our reputation of choosing authentic partnerships with those who are already mega-fans. So, to bring the heat for this major campaign, we called on none other than Paris Hilton. Always in-the-know of what's hot, Paris will help bring back these beloved items of the 2000s that never go out of style."
The epic comeback will be the third time fans can satisfy fire filled taste buds, thanks to the Volcano Taco, Double3 Beef Volcano Burrito and with it, Lava Sauce. The Volcano Taco holds seasoned beef, shredded lettuce, a three-cheese blend and, of course, Lava sauce in an iconic fiery red Volcano crunchy taco shell for $2.49*. The Double3 Beef Volcano Burrito wraps seasoned rice, seasoned beef, a three-cheese blend, reduced fat sour cream, crunchy Fiesta tortilla strips and Lava sauce in a warm flour tortilla for $3.99*. Fans craving the same heat on their favorite core menu item like the Crunchwrap Supreme or bean and cheese burrito can do so by adding Lava Sauce for just $1*.
1 1-844-THTS-HOT is a toll-free line with prerecorded content available for calls originating from the US only between 6/26 - 8/2.
2 Early Access is available to Rewards Members only from 6/27-6/28 only via the Taco Bell mobile app, at participating U.S. Taco Bell® locations, while supplies last. Non-transferable and cannot be combined with any other offer. Check your local Taco Bell store for availability. No cash value. Additional terms and conditions apply https://www.tacobell.com/legal-notices/terms-of-use.
3 Double the beef as compared to a Beefy Melt Burrito.
4 Valid for one Volcano Taco or Double3 Beef Volcano Burrito only at participating Taco Bell locations, with a minimum subtotal of $15, excluding taxes, fees and tips. Offer valid for one (1) redemption per customer. Valid for DashPass members only. Offer valid from 6/29/2023 through 7/5/2023, or while supplies last. Fees (including service fee), taxes, and gratuity still apply. All deliveries subject to availability. Prices and items may vary. Must have or create a valid DoorDash account with a valid form of accepted payment on file. No cash value. Non-transferable. See full terms and conditions at help.doordash.com/consumers/s/article/offer-terms-conditions. TACO BELL and TACO BELL LOGO are Registered Trademarks of Taco Bell IP Holder, LLC.
5 Estimated savings are based on average savings for DashPass members and do not include the subscription fees members pay.
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Federal authorities announced charges against a ring of nine people for thefts of millions of dollars worth of paintings, sports memorabilia and other valuables including an Andy Warhol silkscreen, a Jackson Pollock painting and nine World Series rings belonging to the late Yankees catcher Yogi Berra.
The thefts took place over more than two decades at 20 different museums and institutions across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and North Dakota, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said Thursday.
Investigators believe some of the sports memorabilia had been melted down, including nine of Berra’s 10 World Series rings, U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam said at a news conference.
It was unclear which items would be returned to their owners or to the museums, but authorities said some of those valuables had been recovered.
Eight of the nine people named as part of the theft ring Thursday have turned themselves in, Karam said. At least five had already entered into preliminary plea agreements on charges including theft of major artwork and conspiracy to dispose of major objects of cultural heritage, according to court records. The suspects are in their late 40s to early 50s and are Pennsylvania residents.
Karam said the ninth suspect, 53-year-old Nicholas Dombek, is considered a fugitive.
The indictments allege the thieves transported the memorabilia and valuables and would melt the gold items down into transportable discs that were sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars — but for way less than many of the items were worth.
Court documents also allege that Dombeck destroyed a painting by Jasper Cropsey by burning it, to avoid the stolen artwork titled “Upper Hudson” from being used as evidence against him.
Some of the thefts happened nearly 20 years ago including the 2005 theft from the Everhart Museum in Scranton, where the thieves shattered a glass door in the back of the building. They stole a 1949 oil-on-canvas painting by Jackson Pollock, “Springs Winter,” then worth an estimated $11.6 million and a silkscreen by Andy Warhol titled “Le Grande Passion” then worth an estimated $15,000. | 2023-06-15T18:42:31+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-us-news/arrests-made-in-thefts-of-yogi-berras-world-series-rings-warhol-and-pollock-art/ |
CHARLESTON, S.C., Aug. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- First Capital Bancshares, Inc. ("First Capital"), parent company of First Capital Bank (the "Bank"), announced today the completion of a private placement of shares of its common and non-voting preferred stock to accredited individual and institutional investors. Due to the high level of interest in the offering, the First Capital Bancshares board of directors elected to modify the original offering from $10 Million to $15.1 Million.
The private placement resulted in gross proceeds to the company of $15.1 million before deducting expenses. First Capital intends to use the proceeds from the private placement to support growth of the franchise in its South Carolina and North Carolina markets and for general corporate purposes.
Commenting on the capital raise, Harvey L. Glick, Chairman and CEO, said, "We are so pleased with the level of interest the community showed in our offering. Our team of talented bankers is ready to put the new capital to work knowing it will enhance our client services and shareholder value."
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. The securities offered and sold in the private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration, or an applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
About First Capital Bancshares, Inc.
First Capital Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina with assets of approximately $458 million as of June 30, 2022. Its principal activity is the ownership and operation of First Capital bank, a state-chartered community bank that operates four branches and one loan production office in South Carolina and North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.bankwithfirstcapital.com.
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) formally announced Monday that he will seek the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, jumping into a primary battle that has so far centered around former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Scott announced his decision at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University, in a speech drawing on his biography of growing up poor in North Charleston, S.C., and eventually ascending to the Senate.
“We live in the land where it is possible for a kid raised in poverty by a single mother in a small apartment to one day serve in the People’s House and maybe even the White House,” Scott said, according to prepared remarks shared with reporters ahead of his formal announcement.
“This is the greatest country on God’s green Earth.”
Scott’s announcement makes him the sixth major candidate to enter the 2024 Republican presidential primary, putting him on a list that also includes Trump, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and radio host Larry Elder.
The field is likely to grow even larger later this week, with the expected announcement of DeSantis’s campaign.
Scott’s announcement has long been expected. He formed a presidential exploratory committee earlier this year and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Friday disclosing his intention to run.
While Scott’s seen as an affable, well-liked senator by Republicans and many Democrats, he’s likely to face an uphill battle for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Early polling shows Trump running well ahead of any other declared or prospective presidential hopeful. DeSantis is in a distant second place, and most surveys show him as the only candidate besides Trump to score double-digit support.
Still, the Iowa caucuses, the first-in-the-nation nominating contest for Republicans, are months away, and Scott’s supporters say there’s plenty of time for the state of the race to change.
To be sure, Scott already has $22 million sitting in his campaign war chest. And he’s spent the past few months testing the waters for a presidential campaign, giving him a leg up as he formally kicks off his campaign.
In his announcement on Monday, Scott sought to strike an overwhelmingly optimistic tone, espousing the value of work and the opportunity for growth in America. Though he also painted a dim view of the country under President Biden’s leadership, saying that the U.S. had become a “nation in retreat.”
“They say opportunity in America is a myth and faith in America is a fraud. But the truth of my life disproves their lies,” Scott said. “The good news is all we need to do is turn around.”
Yet it’s unclear just how far Scott’s optimism will get him in a Republican primary dominated by debates over culture wars and conservative anger. The race has so far focused on the anticipated rivalry between Trump and DeSantis, who is expected to launch a 2024 bid later this week.
Trump welcomed Scott into the race on Monday, using the senator’s announcement to swipe at DeSantis, whom Trump sees as his main competition for the 2024 nod.
“Good luck to Senator Tim Scott in entering the Republican Presidential Primary Race,” Trump said on his social media site, Truth Social. “It is rapidly loading up with lots of people, and Tim is a big step up from Ron DeSanctimonious, who is totally unelectable.”
Updated at 12:14 p.m. | 2023-05-22T16:40:52+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/hill-politics/tim-scott-announces-bid-for-2024-gop-presidential-nomination/ |
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyxus International, Inc. (OTC Pink: PYYX) ("Pyxus International" or the "Company"), a global value-added agriculture company, announced that it will hold a conference call to review financial results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2022, on Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 5:30 P.M. ET. A press release reporting the Company's second quarter 2023 results will be issued prior to the call.
Investors and analysts interested in participating in the call are invited to dial (646) 960-0369 or (888) 350-3452 and use conference ID 2624736. A live audio webcast of the call will also be available through the Pyxus International website at www.pyxus.com.
For those who are unable to listen to the live event on November 10, 2022, a telephonic replay of the conference call will be available for five days by dialing (647) 362-9199 or (800) 770-2030 and entering the access code 2624736.
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Pyxus International, Inc. is a global agricultural company with nearly 150 years of experience delivering value-added products and services to businesses and customers. Driven by a united purpose—to transform people's lives, so that together we can grow a better world—Pyxus International, its subsidiaries and affiliates, are trusted providers of responsibly sourced, independently verified, sustainable, and traceable products and ingredients. For more information, visit www.pyxus.com.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An accused double killer will stay in jail until his trial - after a judge rejected a release recommendation from the probation department Monday.
Police believe cell phone video recorded the shootings by 21-year-old Nicholas House.
House stood behind his defense attorney on Monday as he started his fight against charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter.
"Enter pleas of not guilty," said defense attorney Sam Luten. "Deny any priors. Deny any enhancements."
House is accused of gunning down 19-year-old Nicole Diaz and her boyfriend, 17-year-old Noah Golding, in Fresno.
RELATED: Police arrest 21-year-old for Fresno double homicide; victims identified
Police said Diaz and House's 19-year-old girlfriend agreed to meet for a fight back in May.
Bystanders recorded video of the fight as Golding and Diaz took shots with fists or a bat-like object at the other young woman.
A screenshot from the video appears to show one of the gunshots that killed Golding and Diaz.
Police say they later caught House in a getaway vehicle with a couple guns, one of which matched shell casings from the crime scene.
But a pretrial report from the probation department assessed House as a low-level risk and recommended releasing him pending trial.
"The report states he's a level 2," Luten said before the judge interrupted.
"I don't consider these reports as binding whatsoever on the Court," said Judge Francine Zepeda. "You can go ahead. I find them to be generally lacking because to find someone who has these charges and find them to be a Level 2, to me, is, actually, a little beyond the pale."
Prosecutors pointed out a level of planning and argued against House's release.
"The defendant went to the location with a bulletproof vest on and brought a firearm into a situation, and then used the firearm, killing two individuals," Deborah Miller said.
"What was he anticipating when he went there?" legal analyst Tony Capozzi said of the suspect bringing a gun and a bulletproof vest. "Was he anticipating killing these people, or was he waiting to see if he or his girlfriend was going to be put in a life-threatening situation?"
Police say nobody else had a gun at the fight, but Capozzi says that potential is a likely defense.
Judge Zepeda agreed with prosecutors on the level of danger House poses, and her decision drew cheers from Golding's family members and friends in court.
"I will hold him as a danger to the community, and I'll hold him on no bail whatsoever as a danger to the community," she said.
Golding's older brother, Isaiah Murrietta-Golding, was killed by a Fresno police officer in 2017. His family got a settlement of almost $5 million. His mother is accused of using some of the money to find gun trafficking for a gang.
House is due back in court in late October. | 2022-08-30T02:07:33+00:00 | abc30.com | https://abc30.com/nicholas-house-double-murder-noah-golding-nicole-diaz/12178787/ |
ROME — Cardinal George Pell, who was the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse and spent 404 days in solitary confinement in his native Australia only to have his convictions overturned, died Tuesday. He was 81.
Pell died after undergoing hip surgery at Rome's Salvator Mundi hospital, said a friend, Rev. Robert McCulloch, a Rome-base priest. He had been in Rome to attend the funeral last week of Pope Benedict XVI.
Pell, an Australian, was once the third-highest ranked Catholic in the Vatican after earlier serving as the Archbishop of Melbourne and Archbishop of Sydney.
Pope Francis brought Pell to the Vatican in February 2014 to reform its finances as the first prefect of the newly created Secretariat for the Economy. But Pell returned to his native Australia in 2017 in an attempt to clear his name of child sex charges.
A Victoria state County Court jury convicted him of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the latest 1990s shortly after he had become Archbishop of Melbourne.
Pell served 404 days in solitary confinement before the full-bench of the High Court unanimously overturned his convictions in 2020. But his career in the Vatican was effectively over.
During his time in prison, Pell kept a journal documenting everything from his prayers and Scripture readings to his conversations with visiting chaplains and the prison guards. The journal turned into a triptych, "Prison Journal," the proceeds of which went to pay his substantial legal bills.
In the diary, Pell reflected on the nature of suffering, Pope Francis' papacy and the humiliations of solitary confinement as he battled to clear his name for a crime he insists he never committed.
Pell and his supporters believe he was scapegoated for all the crimes of the Australian Catholic Church's botched response to clergy sexual abuse. Victims and critics say he epitomized everything wrong with how the church has dealt with the problem.
Even after he was acquitted, Pell's reputation remained tarnished by the scandal.
Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that he knew of clergy molesting children in the 1970s and did not take adequate action to address it.
Pell later said in a statement he was "surprised" by the commission's findings. "These views are not supported by evidence," Pell's statement said.
With his rather brusque, no-nonsense Australian sensibilities, Pell clashed frequently with the Vatican's Italian old guard during the three years he lived in Rome trying to get a handle on the Vatican's assets and spending. He was somewhat vindicated when Vatican prosecutors put 10 people, including his onetime nemesis, on trial in 2021 for a host of alleged financial crimes.
After Pell returned to Rome following his release from prison, he had a well-publicized private audience with Francis.
"He acknowledged what I was trying to do," Pell said of the pope during a 2020 interview at his apartment in Rome. "And, you know, I think it's been sadly vindicated by revelations and developments."
Pell was born on June 8, 1941, the eldest of three children to a heavyweight champion boxer and publican also named George Pell, an Anglican. His mother Margaret Lillian (nee Burke) was from an Irish Catholic family.
Pell grew up in the Victorian regional town of Ballarat. At 193 centimeters (6 foot, 4 inches) tall, he was a talented Australian Rules Footballer. He was offered a professional football contract to play for Richmond but opted for a seminary instead.
He was archbishop of Melbourne then Sydney before he headed to the Vatican.
While in Melbourne, he set up the Melbourne Response which was a world-first protocol to investigate complaints of clergy sexual abuse and to compensate victims.
However, many abuse victims were critical of the system and of compensation payments.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Ferree, Chairman & CEO of Connected Nation (CN), issued the following statement regarding today's launch of the new National Broadband Map by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC):
"Today's launch of the new National Broadband Map marks a significant leap forward in our nation's efforts to close the Digital Divide once and for all. In 2017, we began working with Congress on legislation that eventually led to the passage of the Broadband DATA Act. Accurate and granular broadband mapping that is subject to validation and a robust, ongoing challenge process is essential to pinpointing broadband coverage gaps and directing funding to close them.
"This map is only a first draft, and it is now incumbent upon state broadband offices, working in partnership with organizations like ours, to identify provider misreporting, data processing errors, and issues with the underlying Broadband Serviceable Location Fabric to make the map better with each iteration. The public, too, must play its part in challenging the data—and everyone from elected officials and service providers to consumer groups and the media must get the word out about the challenge process. Only a map that is subject to public scrutiny and refined over time will be truly accurate.
"We encourage the FCC to increase the awareness of the GIS processing support that the organization is required to provide to small service providers (as mandated by the Broadband DATA Act) to ensure that availability data is reported as accurately as possible by service providers, regardless of size or geospatial capability.
"We commend FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, her fellow FCC commissioners, and the FCC's Broadband Data Task Force led by Jean Kiddoo for its work getting the map to this point. It was truly a monumental effort. But with so much broadband funding on the line, we must not rest now. We stand ready to support our state broadband office partners each step of the way and do the hard work necessary to make this map the resource that it has the potential to be."
About Connected Nation: The national nonprofit, based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, is celebrating 20 years of service in 2021. Our mission is to improve lives by providing innovative solutions that expand access to and increase the adoption and use of broadband (high-speed internet) and its related technologies for all people. Everyone belongs in a Connected Nation. Learn more at connectednation.org.
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Fast Company Recognizes Tech Breakthroughs Across Industries That Promise to Transform the Future
WOODINVILLE, Wash., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anavasi Diagnostics ('Anavasi'), an NIH/RADx medical technology company focused on the development of novel molecular diagnostic testing, announced today that the brand is an honorable mention on Fast Company's second annual Next Big Things in Tech list in the Small and Mighty Companies category, rewarding technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of industries through their cutting-edge advancements.
"Getting recognized for Anavasi's innovation within the diagnostic testing industry is such a huge accomplishment for the company," says Nelson Patterson, President and CEO of Anavasi Diagnostics. "We are a small but mighty team and are immensely proud of the work we have done to date. Anavasi has many exciting innovations in the pipeline. We look forward to bringing these advancements to market and becoming the gold standard for molecular diagnostic testing."
Anavasi has grown tremendously over the past couple of years, especially with regard to innovation and fundraising. The brand has completed a $6.0 million Seed Round, a $2.6 million Founder's Round, and is currently raising funds in a previously announced $20M Series A round. In November 2021, the company was awarded $14.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to accelerate the launch and broad market availability of the AscencioDx™ molecular diagnostic platform for the detection of RNA indicative of the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 virus.
"Technology breakthroughs and cutting-edge advancements promise to be the solution to some of the world's most pressing issues. Fast Company is excited to highlight some of the organizations, of all sizes and industry backgrounds, whose technology advancements today will lead to a better tomorrow," says Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company.
Click here to see the final list and visit https://anavasidx.com to learn more about Anavasi Diagnostics. The Winter 2022/2023 issue of Fast Company is available online now and will hit newsstands on December 6.
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Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. The editor-in-chief is Brendan Vaughan. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with our sister publication, Inc., and can be found online at fastcompany.com.
About Anavasi Diagnostics
Anavasi Diagnostics is a rapidly growing medical technology company focused on developing novel molecular diagnostic testing using a proprietary reverse transcriptase methodology (patent-pending). As a spin-out of the University of Washington, Anavasi's technology platform was developed by renowned researchers in UW's bioengineering department. The Company's quest to successfully commercialize this technology is led by top medical device and clinical diagnostics executives, manufacturing experts and a former Microsoft software veteran. The team's combined experience has been responsible for the introduction of more than forty medical/diagnostic products and hundreds of peer-reviewed research publications. More information can be obtained at https://anavasidx.com.
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WATERLOO — Mary Jennelee Higgins, 84, of Waterloo passed away, Monday, April 24, 2023.
Visitation will be Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., at Morrison Funeral Home, Central Heights. Funeral service will follow with Don Singleton officiating. Burial will be at Richardson Cemetery.
Mrs. Higgins was born in Lancaster SC., to Milledge and Lizzie Belle Catoe. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Waterloo and retired from the United States Postal Service. She enjoyed Playing the piano, watching the Atlanta Braves Baseball, community services, and spending time with her grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Harry Hugh Higgins, Sr; son, Kevin Neil Higgins; parents, Milledge C and Lizzie Belle Catoe; sister, Valada Catoe; brother, Kenneth Catoe.
She is survived by her children, Harry Hugh Higgins, Jr. (Judy) of Crestview, Fl., Susan Claiborne of Jackson, TN., Mike Higgins (Maureen) of Coral Springs, FL., Melynda Woods (Robert) of Waterloo, AL. and Kris Higgins (Cindy) of Estill Springs, TN; grandchildren, Sean Higgins (Katie), Tiffany Claiborne (Diego), Christopher Higgins (Talia), Melanie Malone (Mike), Cristy Woods (Thomas and Chipper), Chad Woods (Kelsie), Bryan Saxon (Liz), Sarah Vantrease (William); great grandchildren, Ansley Grace Woods, Brooklyn Saxon, Bella Saxon, Josiah Vantrease, Michael Malone, and two more on the way; brother Corzine Catoe (Betty) of Lancaster, SC.
Pallbearers will be David Knolton, Chad Woods, Robert Woods, Thomas Hinton, Bryan Saxon, and William Vantrease.
The family would like to send a heartfelt thank you to Amedisys Hospice Care for taking care of our mother. They were caring and sympathetic to our needs and made her very comfortable in her last days.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Richardson Cemetery fund in care of Farmers and Merchants Bank, PO Box 128 Waterloo, AL 35677.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cal Raleigh homered and drove in three runs as the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 6-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.
The Mariners have won two of three after dropping five of six as they added to their lead over the Baltimore Orioles for the third and final wild-card spot, moving four games ahead with 11 to play as the Orioles fell to Houston Saturday. Seattle also closed to a half-game behind Tampa Bay, which lost to Toronto.
“A nice win,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “We needed it. A heck of a ballgame. We left a lot of guys on base tonight. We weren’t able to capitalize until late when Cal got the big hit.”
“(The win) was very important,” Raleigh said. “Obviously we haven’t been doing the best lately. For us to gut it out and get a win tonight was huge. A lot of guys were saying that’s what good teams do and that’s what playoff teams do. That’s where we want to be.”
With one out in the ninth, Jarred Kelenic and Jesse Winker singled ahead of Raleigh’s tiebreaking RBI double off Brad Keller (6-14). Raleigh had tied the score 5-5 as a pinch-hitter with his 25th homer, a two-run shot to start the sixth inning.
“I’m always looking for a fastball,” Raleigh said. “Something I can put a good swing on. I took advantage; he left it up a little bit.”
“Cal’s in a zone,” Servais said. “That’s where he’s at right now. When athletes get in that point, everything really slows down and that’s what I see with Cal Raleigh’s at-bats right now. He’s really able to slow it down right now and he’s really in control. He’s on a great run right now.”
Raleigh has homered in consecutive games for the first time in his career and has six home runs and 14 RBI in 16 September games.
Paul Sewald (5-4) earned the victory with two scoreless innings and Andres Munoz worked the ninth for his fourth save.
The loss ended the Royals’ season-best four-game win streak.
Both teams had multiple baserunners in each of the first four innings, trading scores as the Royals led 5-3.
The starting pitchers struggled from the outset. The Royals’ Kris Bubic, who has not won since July 24, a span of 11 starts, allowed 11 runners before departing with two out in the fifth. Seattle’s Logan Gilbert had not allowed more than three runs in his past seven starts, dating to Aug. 14, before giving up five runs and seven hits over five innings.
“Just leaving pitches in the middle and not getting in the counts I wanted to,” Gilbert said. “Credit to them; they took advantage of a lot of bad pitches, mistakes on my part and constantly had runners on. It was a tough one.”
Ty France had three hits and reached safely four times for the Mariners.
“Big hits all around tonight,” Servais said. “Ty France had a big night. Winker, two really good at-bats. But none bigger than what Cal Raleigh did off the bench.”
Salvador Perez extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a double in the first inning for Kansas City. Vinnie Pasquantino followed with his ninth homer for a 2-1 lead.
J.P. Crawford had an RBI single in the second to tie for the Mariners before the Royals regained the lead in the bottom of the inning on the first of Drew Waters’ three hits, an RBI triple. Nate Eaton’s sacrifice fly in the third put Kansas City up 4-2.
“All night I was just trying to compete and help the team win a baseball game,” Waters said. “So it was a good night for me, but obviously baseball’s not an individual game, it’s a team game, so a tough loss.”
France’s RBI single in the fourth pulled Seattle within one before Bobby Witt Jr.’s run-scoring hit put the Royals back up by two in the bottom of the inning.
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After recently signing a five-year contract extension, Mariners RHP Luis Castillo (7-6, 2.85 ERA) faces Royals RHP Max Castillo (0-1, 2.97). | 2022-09-25T21:07:14+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/royals/raleigh-has-hr-3-rbis-as-mariners-beat-royals-6-5/ |
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