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NEW YORK (AP) — The day Victor Wembanyama has dreamed of for years has arrived.
The 19-year-old from France figures he was about 12 when he began thinking about being an NBA player and then being selected No. 1 in the draft, which seems certain to happen Thursday night in Brooklyn.
The San Antonio Spurs have that pick and the opportunity to add a player who is being considered a can’t-miss prospect, perhaps the likes that hasn’t been seen since LeBron James in 2003.
Wembanyama has thrown out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium and said he hoped to visit Times Square, but the trip he came to New York to take is the simple walk up to the stage at Barclays Center after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announces the top pick.
Wembanyama will then show off the suit he selected to cover his 7-foot-4 frame. Many players keep their style plans a surprise, though potential No. 2 pick Brandon Miller of Alabama said he will be sporting red and black, the Crimson Tide’s colors.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Reining in the ballooning public debt and returning it to a responsible debt-to-GDP level must start now. Driving the urgency is that it will take 20 to 30 years of a sustained effort to draw the debt-to-GDP ratio down from 95% to a responsible 70% with the least draconian fiscal hardship, according to a new analysis from the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board (CED).
The projection is detailed in CED's new Solutions Brief, Debt Matters: A Road Map for Reducing the Outsized US Debt Burden to 70% of GDP, which is the latest study in CED's Sustaining Capitalism series.
Released today, the study explains how rising interest rates and the looming threat of a recession are intensifying the national debt crisis, what fiscal policies are necessary to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio to 70%, why it will take two to three decades, and includes policy recommendations for achieving that goal so we can return to a path of fiscal health and stability.
As detailed in the report, high levels of debt can diminish economic growth. Rising debt service costs will consume the discretionary budget, crowding out all other priorities; cause higher interest rates and borrowing costs for public and private sectors; weaken investment; and erode the standard of living.
Most immediately, CED's recommendations advocate raising or suspending the debt ceiling to avoid a fiscal crisis, particularly at this time, when the economy is fragile. That decision should be linked to the immediate establishment of a bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Reform and Debt Reduction, with a road map that will achieve debt reduction.
The analysis and recommendations come at a time when the debt-to-GDP levels are projected to reach 185% by 2052 and fiscal restraint is more important than ever before. The US and global economies have been battered by two global shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which have further compromised our nation's fiscal health, leaving us with even higher debt, high inflation, rising interest rates, and a possible recession.
"Debt matters. An urgent and determined change of course must be undertaken without delay. The combination of high inflation, high interest rates, and an already outsized debt turn inflation and rising interest rates into an accelerant, more quickly stunting economic growth, and moving the nation faster toward an economic crisis," said Dr. Lori Esposito Murray, President of CED. "Rising interest rates make it clear there is no time to lose on this priority. Fixing the budget and reducing the debt will be challenging and will take a decades-long commitment. It is far wiser to act now than wait and suffer an even more cataclysmic fiscal crisis."
The Solution Brief is supplemented by a Tool for Debt Reduction, allowing the public to create different scenarios to achieve a 70% ratio of debt-to-GDP by adjusting the tax rate and outlay cuts.
Key Recommendations from the Solutions Brief
To get us on the path to a more stable debt-to-GDP ratio of 70 percent and return to fiscal health, CED recommends the following policy solutions be undertaken immediately:
Avert a debt ceiling crisis and establish a Bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Reform/Debt Reduction
- Congress should remove consideration of the debt ceiling from a last-minute, volatile political battle that will threaten economic recovery and link that decision to the commitment to immediately establish a new bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Reform and Debt Reduction.
- It should also include a roadmap to put the US on a binding path to achieve the reduction of the US debt-to-GDP ratio to 70%.
Prioritize fiscal restraint
- Government must cut spending where possible, avoid stimulus, and focus to promote work and productivity, i.e., investment in R&D, education, infrastructure, and support for private investment.
- The net savings necessary to reverse the growth of the ratio of the debt to the GDP should be tallied alongside the cost of new spending in budget bills.
Reform Medicare/health care policy
- Federal health spending is the biggest long-term driver of costs, and the Medicare Trust Fund is expected to reach insolvency in 2028. Reform the Medicare/health care system by giving incentives for consumers to limit costs and for providers to deliver the best results rather than the most services and by focusing on prevention programs.
- Improve efficiency in the health care sector, also by making permanent pandemic regulatory improvements, especially in telehealth, licensing, accelerated development of treatments, and increasing the use of technology and data.
Save Social Security
- To restore Social Security and avoid its Trust Fund reaching insolvency, consider broadening its portfolio to include higher retirement ages, a broader payroll tax coverage for workers with higher wages/generous fringe benefits, higher-yielding financial instruments, removing work disincentives for retirees, and a reduction in benefits for more well-off workers.
Remove budget gimmicks/pay for new initiatives
- New programs should be fully paid for without the use of budget gimmicks—for example, minimizing their cost by building in unrealistic end-dates for programs. Similarly, identify real budget savings, not just unspecified future spending cuts.
- Congress must execute a complete annual appropriations process and an annual budget resolution that takes the debt problem into account and uses the reconciliation process only for deficit reduction.
Tax reform
- Increase tax revenues through tax reform aimed at reducing preferential treatment. Use the opportunity to clean up the tax code by streamlining the existing system, making it simpler, and turning it away from picking winners and losers as it does today.
Streamline regulation
- Reduce unproductive roadblocks without jeopardizing safety. Adopt pro-growth regulations that neither impede nor favor any particular sector. Continually review current regulatory requirements which are outdated, redundant, or create expensive and non-productive activities.
Segregate the debt
- Given the debt burden's overwhelming size and the dedicated time needed to address it, Congress should also consider addressing it in segments, i.e., addressing pandemic debt as a first-order priority and separating out the large incremental addition to the public debt resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic: roughly $5.3 trillion from specific relief bills, plus about $1.3 trillion from economic losses.
Develop a realistic energy transition policy
- The transition to clean energy will require additional investment and transition costs that will need to be compatible with the deficit and debt reduction goals. To avoid economic disruption, strategically plan with the private sector for a realistic, reliable energy transition and the fiscal tradeoffs that will be required to achieve the net-zero objectives.
The new Solutions Brief, Debt Matters: A Road Map for Reducing the Outsized US Debt Burden to 70% of GDP, can be accessed here.
About CED
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is the public policy center of The Conference Board. The nonprofit, nonpartisan, business-led organization delivers well-researched analysis and reasoned solutions in the nation's interest. CED Trustees are chief executive officers and key executives of leading US companies who bring their unique experience to address today's pressing policy issues. Collectively they represent 30+ industries, over a trillion dollars in revenue, and over 4 million employees. www.ced.org
About The Conference Board
The Conference Board is the member-driven think tank that delivers trusted insights for what's ahead. Founded in 1916, we are a non-partisan, not-for-profit entity holding 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States. www.conference-board.org
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ROME, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- World Leaders, ambassadors, diplomats, entrepreneurs, lawmakers, academics, and clergy from over thirty countries converged on Rome today for the First Annual Abraham Accords Global Leadership Summit, an exclusive invitation-only event focused on new ways to increase peace and tolerance in the spirit of the Abraham Accords.
The event celebrated the seismic change that the Abraham Accords have already brought to the Middle-East and North Africa in two short years with an emphasis on the shared values that enabled bitter adversaries to become indispensable allies and friends in such a short time. To this end, delegates from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Israel shared their insights with policy shapers from around the world.
Religious leaders from the three major faiths spanning six continents emphasised the importance of shared Abrahamic values that prepared the ground for peace.
Imam Mohammad Tawhidi, Islamic scholar and vice president of the Global Imams Council told delegates: "We recognize our shared past and build our common future and celebrate the traditional family cohesive unit which forms an essential role in the Abrahamic legacy as it symbolizes love, community, care and respect." He emphasized: "Our strong values and Abrahamic traditions endorse the family's core role in preserving the identity and culture of our societies."
Continuing with the theme of family values, Pastor Carlos Luna Lam, Founder and Pastor of Casa De Dios of Guatemala said: "Traditional family values is at the forefront of our Abrahamic heritage. A cohesive family unit with the mother and father at the helm - is critical to our future"
Rabbi Elie Abadie, Senior Rabbi of the UAE added his recipe for peace which he feels was instrumental in making the Abraham Accords a reality: "Our commitment to the central role of our traditions form the cornerstone of our societies and connects us as we recognize our shared past and build our common future. We celebrate the traditional family values that have sustained and allowed religions and cultures to impact the world in a positive way that has resulted in a commitment to a strong sense of humanity, tolerance, and coexistence."
The summit concluded with the presentation of the Abrahamic Values Pledge, a joint declaration where delegates declared their support of shared Abrahamic values and respect to the traditional family that has been a cornerstone of our faiths for thousands of years.
The pledge was made by all delegates and read: "While shared humanity is constantly challenged by trends that question the traditional values shared by all Abrahamic religions, our deep-rooted heritage has enabled us to build a vibrant and well-knit society that is both entrepreneurial and innovative in its nature."
It continued "The spirit of the Abraham Accords has allowed our communities to reap the fruits of peace and flourish in an ever-evolving socio-economic environment and has underscored the importance of the following foundational pillars: Tolerance, Coexistence & Diversity, Religion and Family Economic Peace."
Delegates from six continents made a commitment to promote these pillars and bring them proactively to their communities in the spheres of academia, governance, and community.
With free market economics, front and center they declared that: "The Abraham Accords Global Leadership Summit values economic peace as a vehicle to promote open markets, contributing to more peaceful behavior among states. Economic peace has traditionally assisted in developing market-oriented economies that seek increased collaboration with one another."
It concluded "Our commitment to the central role of our tradition forms the cornerstone of our societies and connects us as we recognize our shared past and build our common future. We celebrate the traditional family values that have sustained and allowed religions and cultures to impact the world in a positive way that has resulted in a commitment to a strong sense of humanity, tolerance, and coexistence."
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(The Hill) — The school system in Madison County, N.C., plans to put AR-15 rifles in emergency safes in each of its six schools as a part of a plan for enhanced security in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting earlier this year.
“We were able to put an AR-15 rifle and safes in all of our schools in the county,” Sheriff Buddy Harwood told the Asheville Citizen-Times. “We’ve also got breaching tools to go into those safes. We’ve got extra magazines with ammo in those safes.”
The breaching tools are intended to allow police to break down barricaded doors without having to wait for the fire department.
Harwood said that he wants to “make sure my deputies are prepared” in the event of a school shooting, especially after the Uvalde police failed to take down the shooter at Robb Elementary School for over an hour.
“Those officers were in that building for so long, and that suspect was able to infiltrate that building and injure and kill so many kids,” said Harwood.
“I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR, because that’s time lost. Hopefully we’ll never need it, but I want my guys to be as prepared as prepared can be,” he added.
The schools where the safes will be located are Brush Creek Elementary, Hot Springs Elementary, Mars Hill Elementary, Madison Middle, Madison High and Madison Early College High.
Madison County Schools Superintendent Will Hoffman said that the system’s administration has been in regular contact with Harwood and the rest of the police department about school security.
“Our partnership with law enforcement is a critical part of our daily preparations. We have to be vigilant and prepared for any possibility at any time. Our students have to feel safe in order to be safe,” said Hoffman.
Harwood acknowledged that people might have concerns about AR-15s being located in school, but he argued that it would be safer on the whole.
“I hate that we’ve come to a place in our nation where I’ve got to put a safe in our schools, and lock that safe up for my deputies to be able to acquire an AR-15. But, we can shut it off and say it won’t happen in Madison County, but we never know,” he said.
Harwood continued: “I want the parents of Madison County to know we’re going to take every measure necessary to ensure our kids are safe in this school system. If my parents, as a whole, want me to stand at that door with that AR strapped around that officer’s neck, then I’m going to do whatever my parents want as a whole to keep our kids safe.” | 2022-08-05T23:43:43+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/school-watch/north-carolina-county-putting-ar-15s-in-every-school-for-security/ |
LAKE FOREST, Calif., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the global leader in dental lasers, announced today that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with a single institutional investor to purchase approximately $6.5 million of its common stock and pre-funded warrants in a registered direct offering and warrants to purchase common stock in a concurrent private placement, priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. The combined effective purchase price for one share of common stock (or pre-funded warrant in lieu thereof) and one warrant to purchase one share of common stock will be $4.625.
Under the terms of the securities purchase agreement, BIOLASE has agreed to sell 1,405,405 shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof). In a private placement, which will be consummated concurrently with the registered direct offering, BIOLASE also has agreed to issue warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,405,405 shares of common stock. The warrants will be immediately exercisable, will expire five and a half years from the date of issuance and will have an exercise price of $4.625 per share of common stock.
Maxim Group LLC is acting as the lead placement agent for the offering. The Benchmark Company and Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC are acting as co-placement agents for the offering.
The offering is expected to close on or about June 30, 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants are being offered pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-233172) previously filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The offering of the shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants will be made only by means of a prospectus supplement that forms a part of the registration statement.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor will there be any sales of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. A prospectus supplement relating to the shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants will be filed by BIOLASE with the SEC. When available, copies of the prospectus supplement relating to the registered direct offering, together with the accompanying prospectus, can be obtained at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or from Maxim Group LLC, 300 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022, Attention: Syndicate Department, or via email at syndicate@maximgrp.com or telephone at (212) 895-3745.
About BIOLASE
BIOLASE is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells laser systems in dentistry and medicine. BIOLASE's products advance the practice of dentistry and medicine for patients and healthcare professionals. BIOLASE's proprietary laser products incorporate approximately 301 patented and 32 patent-pending technologies designed to provide biologically and clinically superior performance with less pain and faster recovery times. BIOLASE's innovative products provide cutting-edge technology at competitive prices to deliver superior results for dentists and patients. BIOLASE's principal products are revolutionary dental laser systems that perform a broad range of dental procedures, including cosmetic and complex surgical applications. BIOLASE has sold over 43,300 laser systems to date in over 80 countries around the world. Laser products under development address BIOLASE's core dental market and other adjacent medical and consumer applications.
BIOLASE®, Waterlase® and Waterlase iPlus® are registered trademarks of BIOLASE, Inc.
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Big-wave surfer Clyde Aikau is on the mend.
Speaking by phone Wednesday from his hospital bed in Las Vegas, where he’s recovering from open-heart surgery that removed an aortic aneurysm, the legendary Hawaii waterman sounded hale, upbeat and just slightly out of breath.
The retired Honolulu City and County lifeguard expressed gratitude for the support and well wishes he’s been receiving, and said the harrowing experience had inspired him to pursue a new, preventive plan aimed at saving the lives of people with aneurysms.
“I really want to tell the people of Hawaii, thank you for all the love and aloha and prayers,” Aikau told the Star-Advertiser, his voice choking up, adding he wanted to reassure the “thousands” of well-wishers who have been reaching out with concern and donating funds to help cover medical costs.
“I am out of the woods,” said the Oahu resident, who had traveled to Las Vegas to attend last week’s Western Regional Native Hawaiian Conference, “and I’m entering rehab here for another three, four weeks, and then I can jump on the plane and come home.”
The veteran big-wave surfer, 73, noted that after he collapsed outside a Las Vegas restaurant, “being a hard-head Hawaiian, I didn’t want to go urgent care because by the time we got there, I was feeling pretty good, no need,” and he was grateful his friends insisted he be examined.
He clarified that, while the cause of his collapse was an aortic aneurysm, it had not burst. “My aorta, and everyone’s, is normally 3 cm and it had expanded to 8 cm, the biggest the doctors had ever seen,” he said, adding, “if it had burst, I’d be gone.”
From his hospital bed, with his son Ha’a Aikau by his side, Aikau has been talking with stakeholders and potential investors about setting up a foundation to help people at risk for aneurysms, often a hereditary condition, with diagnosis and treatment.
“Our family’s goal has always been to help people,” he said. His older brother, revered big-wave surfer and waterman Eddie Aikau, who died in 1978 trying to rescue his fellow crewmates on the Hokule‘a voyaging canoe, was the first lifeguard at Waimea Bay, where Aikau joined him in the tower in 1966.
Since January, when City and County lifeguard Luke Shepardson won the 37 th Eddie Aikau Big-Wave Invitational at Waimea Bay, Aikau, who directs the event, said he has felt uplifted and inspired by the public recognition and monetary support that has flowed to the city’s junior lifeguard program.
“And don’t forget, it was two rescues on that day and he was in on them,” Aikau said of Shepardson, who was on duty during the Eddie competition and surfed his two heats during his breaks.
But while he was eager to reunite with his wife, Eleni Aikau, his sister Myra and the rest of his family, and get back in the Hawaiian ocean, Aikau said he had to be patient for now and focus on his recovery, step by step.
The Aikau family’s Go Fund Me page can be found at https://gofund.me/623535f5 and as of this writing, $33,748 had been donated toward estimated medical expenses of $200,000. | 2023-06-29T11:02:55+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/06/29/sports/aikau-says-hes-out-of-the-woods-after-heart-surgery/ |
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, and his wife, who is Black, were used to “the look.” But this time it was more intense.
“There was this white family who was just staring at us, just staring holes in us,” Fleisher recalled.
That fraught moment occurred even though any legal uncertainty about the validity of interracial marriage had ended a decade earlier — in 1967, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning marriages between people of different races.
In the more than half-century since, interracial marriage has become more common and far more accepted. So Fleisher was surprised that Congress felt the need to include an additional protection in the Respect for Marriage Act, which goes to the House for a final vote expected this week. It would ensure that not only same-sex marriages, but also interracial marriages, are enshrined in federal law.
The 74-year-old Fleisher, a retired teacher and children’s book author, attended segregated public schools in the 1950s in the then-Jim Crow South, and later saw what he called “token desegregation” in high school, when four Black students were in his senior class of about 400 students.
He and his wife, Debra Sims Fleisher, 73, live outside Richmond, about 50 miles from Caroline County, where Mildred Jeter, a Black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were arrested and charged in 1958 with marrying out of state and returning to Virginia, where interracial marriage was illegal. Their challenge to the law led to Loving v. Virginia, the landmark ruling that ended bans against interracial marriages.
The Respect for Marriage Act, which passed the Senate l ast week, has been picking up steam since June, when the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion. The ruling included a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas that suggested the high court should review other precedent-setting rulings, including the 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
While much of the attention has been focused on protections for same-sex marriages, interracial couples say they are glad Congress also included protections for their marriages, even though their right to marry was well-established decades ago.
“It’s a little unnerving that these things where we made such obvious progress are now being challenged or that we feel we have to really beef up the bulwark to keep them in place,” said Ana Edwards, a historian who lives in Richmond.
Edwards, 62, who is Black, and her husband, Phil Wilayto, 73, who is white, have been married since 2006. Both have been community activists for years and said they didn’t consider interracial marriage a potentially vulnerable institution until the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.
“That reminds all of us that whatever rights we have in this society are conditional — they can be taken away,” said Wilayto. ”The fact that Congress had to take up this issue in 2022 should be a stark reminder of that fact for us.”
For younger interracial couples, the thought that their right to marry could ever be threatened is a foreign concept.
“We never in our wildest dreams thought we would need to be protected as an interracial couple,” said Derek Mize, a 42-year-old white attorney who lives in an Atlanta suburb with his husband, Jonathan Gregg, 41, who is Black, and their two children.
As a same-sex couple, they were at the forefront of the long struggle for acceptance and felt the elation that followed the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the country.
Still, they see the need for new protections for interracial marriages as well.
“We’re really relieved that there is this law,” Mize said. “Protections through the courts and protections through the legislation certainly helps us sleep better at night.”
Mize said he remembers studying Loving v. Virginia in law school and thought then that it was “ridiculous” that there had to be litigation over marriages between people of different races. But after he read the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, he said: “Who knows where it will stop?”
Gregg, a management consultant, said he sees the Respect for Marriage Act as “an added level of safety” for same-sex and interracial marriages — a federal law and Supreme Court rulings supporting their right to marry.
“You’ve got two ways to be OK,” he said. “They have to take down both of them in order for your marriage to fall apart.”
Angelo Villagomez, a 44-year-old senior fellow at the think tank Center for American Progress, said it was “unthinkable” that his marriage could become illegal. Villagomez, who is of mixed white and Indigenous Mariana Islands descent, and his wife, Eden Villagomez, 38, who is Filipina, live in Washington, D.C.
But after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, “it feels like some of those things that have just been taken for granted … are under threat,” said Villagomez, whose parents, also a mixed-race couple, were married in the 1970s, not long after the Loving decision.
Villagomez worries about what could come next. “If we don’t put a stop to some of this backsliding, this country is gonna go to a very dark place,” he said.
“I’m worried about what else is on the chopping block.”
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Associated Press reporter Claire Savage contributed to this report from Chicago.
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Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | 2022-12-07T23:33:28+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-interracial-marriages-to-get-added-protection-under-new-law/ |
PORTLAND - No. 1 York boys lacrosse defeated No. 3 Messalonskee 12-10 on Friday night to win the Class B state title, the first state crown in program history.
The Eagles opened up the game with two quick goals by Cooper LeClair and Brady Brunelle to go up 2-0, but the Wildcats would take a 6-3 lead after one quarter.
The game went back-and-forth from there with it ending up being tied 8-8 in the third quarter. York then scored four unanswered goals to take a 12-8 lead with less than five minutes left in the game.
The Wildcats' Evan Anastas led all players in the game with six goals. | 2023-06-17T03:32:37+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/bangor-local-sports/no-1-york-boys-lacrosse-defeats-no-3-messalonskee-for-class-b-title-their-first/article_d45c4b12-0cb1-11ee-960d-af3cb07e80fa.html |
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Limitless X Inc., (OTCQB: VYBE) ("the Company"), a creative and empowering lifestyle agency, is pleased to announce that Vybe.com and Limitless X were sponsors at the 14th annual World MMA Awards, that took place on December 8th, 2022 at the Sahara Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Limitless X's CEO Jas Mathur and President Kenneth Haller were among those that joined and celebrated the award show. Both VYBE and Limitless X logos appeared throughout the show as awards were presented.
Dubbed the "Oscars of MMA," the World MMA Awards are presented by Fighters Only Magazine, the world's biggest MMA magazine, to honor exceptional performance in various aspects of mixed martial arts.
Limitless X's CEO Jas Mathur said, "Limitless X has been a proud sponsor of Mixed Martial Arts for some time and takes pride in continuing to support such events that provide recognition to the dedicated athletes in the sport. The daily hard work displayed by MMA athletes is the exact dedication and persistence that VYBE represents and best articulates our motto to 'Visualize Yourself Better Every Day'".
Jas Mathur is an investor and entrepreneur who has developed multiple brands in the marketing, health, and wellness spaces generating tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year. The digital marketing and branding firm he founded, Limitless X, has launched numerous industry-leading products in the dietary and CBD supplement sectors. He is a trendsetter with more than 7 million Instagram followers and frequently collaborates with leaders in the sports and entertainment industries.
Jas' passion is helping accelerate the achievement of people's health, wellness, and business goals, inspired by his personal transformation story of losing over 250lbs in his twenties. Now a sought-after expert in developing fitness and training programs, he's helped many high-profile figures embark on their own health journeys and seeks to do the same for today's youth. Suitably, Jas recently partnered with Dr. Oz's nonprofit, Healthcorps, to jumpstart health and wellness programs targeted at teens and young adults.
As Jas transformed his life and body, he applied his newfound passion for health and wellness towards launching Limitless X. Prospective services he is blueprinting for the company include personality development, life coaching, and educational platforms, in addition to the brand portfolio.
Limitless X is a creative and empowering lifestyle agency specializing in the full spectrum of digital advertising and marketing. The Company has a global eco-system with three verticals and a series of unique product and service-oriented businesses within each, focused on the Health & Wellness, Beauty & Skincare, and CBD Industries.
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Dozens of people rallied and marched for justice and greater public accountability in downtown Newark Saturday afternoon, in light of the recent violent beating, and resulting death, of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police earlier this month.
The rally was organized by the People’s Organization for Progress and led by Larry Hamm, the group’s chairperson. Attendees gathered in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue at the intersection of West Market Street and Springfield Avenue, and marched down to Broad Street.
They shouted “No justice, no peace,” and “Tyre, Nichols,” and held signs condemning police brutality, as well as Black Lives Matter signs.
Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was brutally beaten by five Memphis police officers after pulling him over for a traffic stop, the Associated Press reported. They beat him with a baton, and kicked and punched him, while screaming profanities at him.
Video of the attack was released Friday night. Nichols died three days after the confrontation, the AP reported.
“It was horrendous,” said Hamm of the video. “Most of these incidents are just as horrendous, it’s just that we didn’t see them. And this time, we were able to see it, like the murder of George Floyd, like the beating of Rodney King.”
The five police officers, who are Black, were fired from the department and charged Thursday with murder and other crimes, the AP reported.
“This is happening every day in America, it’s just that these officers were caught on videotape,” Hamm said. “We’re (not just) here today to draw attention to the problem, but we’re also here to demand reform.”
Rally attendees in Newark also referenced Carl Dorsey III, a 39-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by a Newark police detective. A state grand jury declined to indict the detective, Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office announced earlier this week.
Hamm and other rally attendees advocated for police reform initiatives at the rally, including civilian oversight of police through review boards with subpoena power, the elimination of qualified immunity, and the end of no-knock warrants.
In a speech, Louise Scott-Rountree, a Newark councilwoman at-large, said she prayed for Nichols’ mother and other family members, and that justice would be served.
“I pray that one day, one day, that justice has to be done to the people who are creating these instances and these circumstances, that God will move on the minds and the hearts of these people because karma is real, and it’s coming back,” she said.
Diane Beeny, a Westfield resident and member of POP for more than 20 years, said the video of Nichols was horrific. “We’ve been doing rallies like this for years and years, and we want to see things change,” she said.
Before the video was released, cities nationwide braced for demonstrations, the AP reported. But the protests were scattered and nonviolent, the outlet said.
Elected officials across New Jersey quickly condemned the video and treatment of Nichols.
“We are horrified by the video footage released earlier today that showed Memphis police officers brutally and inhumanely beating Tyre Nichols,” said Gov. Phil Murphy and Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver in a joint statement issued Friday.
“When those sworn to uphold the law violate the rights of those they serve, there must be accountability,” they said. “While we are gratified that the officers involved were immediately relieved of duty and swiftly charged for their roles in Tyre’s death, that does not reverse the injustice that was done. Tyre should be alive today.”
Sen. Cory Booker called Nichols’ death a “grave injustice” in a statement.
“My heart aches for his family, friends, and loved ones, who are dealing with an unimaginable loss,” he said. “Those responsible must be held accountable, and we can’t stop there.”
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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (Minn.), the No. 3 Republican in the House, called for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, becoming the highest-ranking GOP leader to do so.
“This, to me, is the greatest malfeasance, and malfeasance is — it’s not a failure to act — it’s an intentional failure to act. Mayorkas should be impeached,” Emmer told Breitbart News in an interview on Friday. “I think we should be talking seriously about that regardless of what this feckless Senate might want to do.”
He is not the only GOP leader escalating their rhetoric against Mayorkas. In an interview with The Hill last week, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) stopped short of calling for impeachment, but signaled that Republicans are preparing to take action against Mayorkas.
“You’re seeing a lot of a lot of questions being raised about the competence of Secretary Mayorkas and there’s been legislation filed and that’s going through the committee process right now,” Scalise said. “The committee has also been doing work on looking into holding Secretary Mayorkas accountable, and that process is going to play out – and it’s far from over.”
Emmer’s call to impeach Mayorkas comes just after House Republicans passed a border crackdown bill, and as Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that allowed for the rapid expulsion of migrants, expired.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has repeatedly said that House Republicans will not impeach Biden administration officials for political purposes, and will first conduct an investigation.
Multiple committees have been investigating Mayorkas’s management of the U.S.-Mexico border since the GOP took control of the House.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who would oversee impeachment proceedings, has repeatedly said that the U.S. does not have “operational control” of the U.S.-Mexico border — referring to a legal argument that would likely form the basis of a House GOP impeachment push. Jordan has asserted that is intentional on the part of Mayorkas, also playing into a case for impeachment.
“I know that we’re going to have members — much like other constitutional disagreements we’ve had, there’s probably going to be a member who says … who’s a stickler about high crimes and misdemeanors,” Emmer told Breitbart News. “I believe if you look at the actual law and the precedent that’s been set — and forget about the phony impeachment stuff that the Democrats have been doing for political stunts — this one’s a real, real issue. You can see the pictures live every day. You have an administration and an idiot that’s in charge of the border.”
Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Pat Fallon (R-Texas) have filed impeachment articles against Mayorkas, and 57 other House Republicans have cosponsored one of both of those resolutions. | 2023-05-15T18:28:17+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/house-gop-whip-emmer-calls-for-mayorkas-impeachment/ |
PHOENIX (AP) _ Republic Services Inc. (RSG) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $371.9 million.
The Phoenix-based company said it had profit of $1.17 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, were $1.32 per share.
The results exceeded Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of nine analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.18 per share.
The waste management company posted revenue of $3.41 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Seven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $3.33 billion.
Republic Services expects full-year earnings in the range of $4.77 to $4.80 per share.
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DALLAS (AP) — Shaina Pellington scored 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting and had eight assists, Cate Reese added 13 points and 13 rebounds to help No. 20 Arizona beat Baylor 75-54 Sunday at the Pac-12 Coast-to-Coast Challenge.
Jade Loville hit 4 of 5 from 3-point range and finished with 16 points for Arizona (9-1)
Aijha Blackwell made a layup that gave the Bears a 16-15 lead with 44 seconds left in the first quarter but Cate Reese answered with a basket 15 seconds later and, after a Baylor turnover, Pellington made a layup make it 19-16 before the Wildcats scored 12 of the first 15 second-quarter points take a 31-19 when Jade Loville hit a 3-pointer midway through the period.
Baylor trailed by double figures the rest of the way.
Jaden Owens scored 15 points and Sarah Andrews added 14 for the Bears.
No. 18 Baylor (8-4) went 3-plus minutes without a made field goal on three separate occasions in the second half and shot just 28.6% (10 of 35) as Arizona limited the Bears to just 23 points after halftime.
The Wildcats scored 25 points off 19 Baylor turnovers.
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VINITA, Okla. (KSN/KODE) — A $2-billion “Americana-themed” theme park roughly the size of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is scheduled to open in Oklahoma in 2026, developers announced this week.
The American Heartland Theme Park will be located along Route 66 near Vinita, in northeast Oklahoma.
“Our whole objective is to bring family entertainment and value to the world,” said Larry Willhite, the CEO of development firm Mansion Entertainment Group.
The 125-acre park will offer rides and attractions across “six distinctly American lands” to be known as Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. The park will also offer “restaurant-quality food” throughout, according to a press release.
In addition to the theme park, developers also plan to build what’s said to be the largest campground in the central United States on an adjacent 30-acre lot, comprising of 750 RV spaces and 300 cabins.
A 300-room hotel with an indoor water park is also anticipated.
The attraction is expected to bring almost 5 million guests each year — including an estimated 2 million from out-of-state.
“And our main goal is to make it affordable,” said American Heartland founder and chief creative officer Gene Bicknell. “So a family of mom and dad and a couple of kids, you know their whole dream is to take their kids to a park of this type.”
Bicknell added that a portion of the revenue from the park is earmarked for various charities, too.
“We have a record of helping orphans and people all around the world getting education and improving their lives. I hope this park will help generate that for this area and many more to come in the future,” said Bicknell.
The development will open in phases, with the RV park scheduled to open first in 2025. The 125-acre theme park is scheduled to begin operating in 2026.
“I’m not going to say anything is easy at this magnitude, but we have not had any hurdles,” Willhite said. “The state has been wonderful, and we also know we are going to face other hurdles as we grow and it comes to fruition.” | 2023-07-20T16:09:33+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/americana-themed-amusement-park-the-size-of-disneys-magic-kingdom-is-coming-to-oklahoma/ |
Millions of Americans from the Northeast to the Midwest were under air quality alerts on Thursday, as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to fill the skies.
The haze — which contains particulate matter that poses both short- and long-term health risks — has disrupted air travel, sporting events and all sorts of outdoor activities.
Officials are warning people, especially children, the elderly and those with heart and respiratory conditions, to take precautions and stay inside until the smoke clears, which could take days.
"There's nothing you can do about the processes of the atmosphere," says William Vizuete, a professor in the department of of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "But we need to understand those processes so we can eventually understand what we're exposed to when we're exposed to those [particles]."
Forecasters expect hard-hit areas in New England and the Mid-Atlantic to see some relief on Friday, but shifting wind patterns could mean worsening air quality for people across vast stretches of the Midwest and South.
"As a nearly stationary upper-low churns off the New England coastline, sustained northerly winds will allow the smoke to spread southward, with major metro areas such as Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. expected to experience unhealthy air quality levels for all age groups through Thursday, before winds shift more easterly, pushing smoke further west into the interior Northeast and Ohio Valley on Friday," says the National Weather Service.
Here's what to know about the ongoing blazes and what they could mean for the air quality in your area.
As fires rage, smoke lingers
Experts say air quality in the U.S. will improve when the fires stop or the weather patterns change.
And while there are efforts to contain the blazes in Canada, that may take some time.
Wildfire season is off to an early and intense start in Canada, where 2,293 wildfires have scorched a whopping 9.4 million acres and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
They began in late April in British Columbia and Alberta, and new blazes have cropped up in recent weeks in the eastern provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec.
Bill Blair, Canada's minister of public safety, said at a Wednesday briefing that there are 414 active wildfires, with 239 of those considered out of control.
He acknowledged the "challenging start" to wildfire season but reassured Canadians that "there are strong plans in place" to respond to it.
"It's all hands on deck, and around the clock," Blair added.
He says firefighters from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, France and the United States are also helping out. The U.S. has so far deployed more than 600 firefighters and support personnel to Canada.
Canada's government is forecasting higher-than-normal fire activity across much of the country through August, with officials calling it on track for its worst wildfire season to date.
Jason West, a professor of environmental sciences and engineering at UNC Chapel Hill, says it's not unheard of for wildfire smoke to travel long distances: The last few years have seen cases where smoke from West Coast fires ended up on the East Coast. What's notable this season, he says, is how widespread the fires are in Canada.
"Canadian wildfires are not new, but this particular spring seems very severe for affecting the eastern United States which is, I suppose, a little bit unusual," West told NPR.
He says the situation offers a window into what we might expect to see in the future, as climate change brings about more frequent and extreme weather events — from floods to fires to heat waves — in different places.
A lot is riding on the wind
A change in weather could improve air quality in one of two ways, West explains: Rainfall could remove the harmful particles from the air, while wind could change the direction of the smoke altogether.
Forecasters expect the smoke to subside over the weekend as the wind shifts, but say it may not fully dissipate until a new storm system moves in from the west early next week.
"A stalled low pressure system directing smoke southward may shift away from the [Northeast] this weekend, but as long as the fires continue, the smoke may simply be directed towards other areas of the U.S.," the National Weather Service tweeted.
Smoke from Canadian fires continues into the Northeast, but when will it end? A stalled low pressure system directing smoke southward may shift away from the region this weekend, but as long as the fires continue, the smoke may simply be directed towards other areas of the U.S. pic.twitter.com/XleLN4gx1O
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) June 7, 2023
Air quality is likely to improve near the East Coast but worsen in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region— specifically around Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit — in the coming days as the weather pattern lingers, according to AccuWeather.
"A significant shift in the weather pattern is expected by early next week, as a storm may form over the Midwest," said AccuWeather senior meteorologist Brett Anderson. "[This] will completely shift the winds and force the smoke back to the north in Canada."
The Weather Channel meteorologist Ari Sarsalari says that could start to happen Sunday night into Monday.
In the meantime, people should take steps to protect themselves — several experts who spoke with NPR recommended making DIY box fan filters — and check online resources like PurpleAir and AirNow to monitor the air quality in their area.
UNC's Vizuete sees the availability of that data — from both state agencies and citizen scientists — as a silver lining in the haze.
"We've spent a lot of time trying to develop ways to measure air quality and create an air quality index that can easily communicate what that means to the public," he says, "and I think we're seeing some of the fruits of that."
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian soccer fan who came to the U.S. as a political refugee is creating a training camp for young people in New Mexico with former players from Colombia as the instructors.
David Certain, who owns a coffee company, hopes one day to expand the program in the United States and also take it back to his home country.
Former Philadelphia Union player Carlos Valdés and ex-Colombia midfielder Víctor Pacheco are among those teaching the skills and disciplines of soccer to young people in Albuquerque this week, along with former midfielder Jorge Bolaño and ex-goalkeeper Julián Viafara.
Certain wants to create a physical but also emotional and mental training camp for young people who like to play soccer.
“You see a lot of talent that looks very robotic. We want to focus a lot on the emotional part, so that they can control their emotions a little more and know that, when there are emotions, it is normal”, the 42-year-old Colombian said. “It is totally normal to feel failure when the goal is not scored, but how do you manage the moment after that? After that, a lot of kids get stuck.”
The daily camp, which is the first project of the new Alianza Sports, ends Friday in Albuquerque. New Mexico United forward Devon Sandoval will also be involved.
Certain says he is working with companies to provide scholarships for the camp. Sessions are for 10-14-year-olds and the 15-20 age group.
Certain and his family fled Cali, Colombia, in 1999 after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) tried to kidnap him when he was 19.
Certain had an aunt in New Mexico and, after living in Miami for a while, the family moved to Albuquerque. Certain’s 11-year-old son, who plays soccer, inspired him to create the program.
During work trips to Colombia, Certain was able to contact the former players, some of whom already teach soccer and have helped create the program.
“We are very excited, really, we are very happy with everything that has been happening,” Valdés said from Colombia during a telephone interview. “It has not been an easy job, but I know that everyone who is part of it, and those who will go through this experience, will love it.”
Valdés hopes that young people learn not only soccer techniques but also values such as discipline, respect, tolerance and teamwork.
“Getting involved in something in which everyone must go in the same direction helps develop skills that make you a better person,” Valdés said.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials working to prevent threatened Florida manatees from starving to death say they're encouraged that some of the marine mammals' favorite food is growing naturally in a key area.
Seagrasses have been found growing recently in small areas of the Indian River Lagoon along Florida's east coast where chronic pollution has wiped out much of it, officials said on a Wednesday conference call.
“We take it as a positive there is seagrass growing, ”said Ron Mezich of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “What that means long-term, we have no idea.”
The lack of seagrass forage during winter months has triggered an unprecedented die-off of manatees, including a record of more than 1,100 last year. The deaths recorded so far in 2022 are at 551, according to commission statistics.
The FWC and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in March completed an experimental program that fed manatees more than 202,000 pounds (91,600 kilograms) of donated lettuce near a power plant where the animals gather during colder months. Officials say a similar program is in the works for the coming winter.
“We aren't ruling out other locations,” Mezich said.
As of Wednesday, FWC officials said there were 92 rescued manatees being treated at rehabilitation centers around the country — most of them in Florida including critical care facilities at SeaWorld in Orlando and the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.
Jon Wallace of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the new seagrass growth is positive but the plants could easily be wiped out by a sunlight-choking summer algae bloom. Fully restoring seagrass and improving water quality will take years, he added.
“It is just going to be a long process,” Wallace said.
People interested in assisting the manatee program can donate to a FWC-affiliated organization. Distressed manatees can be reported by calling a hotline at 888-404-FWCC (888-404-3922).
There are only an estimated 7,520 of the animals in the wild today, according to the state wildlife commission.
Manatees are gentle round-tailed giants, sometimes known as sea cows, and weigh as much as 1,200 pounds (550 kilograms) and live as long as 65 years or so. Manatees are also Florida’s official state marine mammal. | 2022-05-25T17:20:16+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Florida-wildlife-officials-say-some-manatee-food-17198104.php |
Biden administration seeks stay of judge’s social media order, saying it could cause ‘grave harm’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration attorneys say a Louisiana-based federal judge’s order broadly limiting executive branch communications with social media companies could cause “grave harm” by preventing the government from “engaging in a vast range of lawful and responsible conduct.” The lawyers filed a motion Thursday with a federal appeals court. The request to stay the order was the administration’s first substantive response to a July 4 ruling by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe. Doughty issued an injunction blocking multiple government agencies and administration officials from meeting with social media companies for the purpose of encouraging the “removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.” | 2023-07-07T03:11:50+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/ap-national/2023/07/06/biden-administration-seeks-stay-of-judges-social-media-order-saying-it-could-cause-grave-harm/ |
After a pandemic-induced grace period, the time has come to pay all those parking, red light camera and traffic tickets you’ve been putting off.
Seattle Municipal Court is about to start charging late fees again after suspending them during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reintroduction of late fees will begin Jan. 30, 2023, said communications adviser Laura Bet in a news release. Over 295,000 tickets will be impacted if they remain unpaid, she said.
Drivers have until Jan. 30 to pay overdue tickets, sign up for the court’s payment or community service options or schedule a hearing to dispute a ticket. After that, late fees will go back into effect.
The court instated a moratorium on default penalties for past-due tickets and sending unpaid tickets to collections in March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began. Late fees include $25 penalties on parking and camera tickets and $52 penalties for traffic violations.
Tickets can be paid online, in person at Seattle Municipal Court which is located at 600 5th Avenue or a neighborhood customer service center. More information is available through the court’s customer service team which can be reached at 206-684-5600. | 2022-09-16T15:03:16+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/after-a-covid-grace-period-late-fees-for-seattle-traffic-tickets-are-coming-back/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
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-- Economic analysis reveals a 14% range in credit risk costs among nine PRT insurance providers --
-- Pensioners are not currently compensated for bearing the risk of lower quality insurers because their benefits are fixed --
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NISA Investment Advisors, LLC ("NISA") released a framework to help corporate pension plans and their fiduciaries discern their "Safest Available" annuity options under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"): "Pension Risk Transfers (PRT) May Be Transferring Risk to Beneficiaries." The analysis yielded surprising results, including a 14% range in credit risk costs among nine PRT insurance providers.
With annual PRT transactions running approximately $40 billion, the disparity puts pensioners at risk of losing as much as $5 billion per year in uncompensated credit risk. A considerable challenge is that pensioners' benefits are fixed -- they are not compensated for bearing the risk of lower quality insurers.
Potential remedies include reducing the list of prospective PRT insurance providers to those that corporate pension plans and their fiduciaries can more comfortably group as all "safest available." Another solution could be to require lower quality insurers to increase benefits by an amount that provides pensioners the appropriate compensation for this forced-upon credit risk.
According to David G. Eichhorn, CFA, NISA's CEO and Head of Investment Strategies:
- "Choosing an annuity provider for a PRT requires that fiduciaries conduct an in-depth review of the insurance company's creditworthiness."
- "We believe that the readily available bond market pricing of credit risk provides fiduciaries with an extremely useful, if not outright necessary, tool to evaluate potential annuity providers."
- "In our opinion, to cavalierly ignore the collective wisdom of the multitude of market participants who seek to price credit risk daily would seem imprudent."
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About NISA Investment Advisors, LLC
NISA Investment Advisors, LLC is a registered investment adviser, and manages assets for some of the largest institutional investors in the U.S. The firm is 100% employee-owned and based in St. Louis, Missouri. Client portfolios include investment-grade fixed income, derivative overlay and equity investments. As of June 30, 2022, NISA managed $277 billion in physical assets and $168 billion in derivative notional value in separate account overlay portfolios.
For more information, visit www.nisa.com and see us on LinkedIn.
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Courtney Thompson of Kent, who led the Washington women’s volleyball team to a national title in 2005 and two other Final Four appearances, headlines a class of eight inductees in the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame for 2022.
Others in the class of 2022 are former Seattle Sounders coach Alan Hinton, major-league outfielder Bill North, major-league pitcher Bruce Kison, who died in 2018, high-school football coach Steve Gervais, National Soccer Hall of Fame member Shannon (Higgins) Cirovski, late boxer Pete Rademacher and late UW rower Ted Garhart.
Thompson set an NCAA career record in assists, and finished all four of her years at UW averaging more than 14 assists per set. No one else in UW history has averaged 14 assists for even one season. She is the first UW female athlete to have her jersey number retired. She won an Olympic silver medal in 2012 and a bronze in 2016.
Hinton coached the Sounders and Tacoma Stars, earning coach of the year with both teams.
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• Jayden Wayne, a five-star edge rusher who played three seasons at Lincoln High in Tacoma before transferring to Bradenton IMG Academy in Florida, orally committed to Miami. The 6-foot-5, 245-pounder is the No. 30 player and No. 5 edge rusher in one composite rankings for the Class of 2023. | 2022-07-10T03:46:09+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-huskies/washingtons-courtney-thompson-leads-eight-inductees-into-hall-of-fame/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_olympics |
3 Pahrump residents charged in death of 19 day-old baby
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Nye County District Attorney’s Office announced charges against three Pahrump residents in the death of a newborn baby.
The baby’s parents, Erica Eisenloffel and Daniel Bills, and Angela Guerini-Bolt were arrested and charged with murder and child abuse charges. According to prosecutors, the 19 day-old baby was allegedly malnourished, dehydrated and allegedly had methamphetamine in his system at the time of death in October 2021.
The DA’s office said Eisenloffel is related to the Undersheriff in the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. The Nevada Department of Investigation handled the investigation with the Nye County DA’s Office.
“I had the chance to work with NDI on this case and really want to thank NDI for their thorough, excellent work,” District Attorney Chris Arabia said. “We have all put a lot of time and effort into this case. Thanks to that cooperation and dedication, we are now in a position to seek some measure of justice for that poor baby.”
Additional details on the case weren’t immediately available.
A preliminary hearing for Bills and Guerini-Bolt was set for 9 a.m. Aug. 25 in Pahrump Justice Court. Eisenloffel’s first court appearance was not yet set.
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Former President Donald Trump says he has been indicted by a federal grand jury in relation to classified documents stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence.
Trump announced in posts on his Truth Social media platform Thursday night he was indicted in connection with improperly handling classified documents. The Department of Justice said it seized over 100 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago last year.
The former president said he was due in federal court in Miami on Tuesday, June 13.
The New York Times reported Trump faced charges of conspiracy to obstruct, making false statements, and willful retention of documents, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that Trump's team had been informed of seven counts in total, shortly before Trump made his announcement on social media.
The Department of Justice did not immediately comment or confirm the indictment. The White House declined to comment on the developments, referring questions to the Department of Justice.
A federal indictment would make Trump the first sitting or former president to face federal charges.
Trump has not denied having the documents in his possession and has claimed that he declassified the documents before he left office.
"Number one, it was all declassified," Trump wrote last year. "Number two, they didn’t need to 'seize' anything. They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago. It was in secured storage, with an additional lock put on as per their request. They could have had it anytime they wanted—and that includes LONG ago."
According to a search warrant made public by a federal judge, 28 boxes of evidence were taken from Trump's residence, including multiple top-secret documents.
There were three potential criminal statutes listed in the original search warrant. In order to obtain a search warrant, officials would have to prove they have probable cause and that they would find evidence of a crime.
The statutes listed were:
18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation generally
18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy
Federal grand juries are composed of 16-23 citizens. Their deliberations are considered secret.
In order for a grand jury to return an indictment, at least 12 jurors have to believe it is probable that someone committed a crime. Unlike a conviction, jurors can issue an indictment even if they have reasonable doubt.
An indictment would add to Trump's ongoing legal entanglements. Trump was indicted in New York in March, in connection with payments he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016. That indictment made him the first sitting or former president to be indicted for a crime.
He was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump issued a not-guilty plea in a Manhattan courtroom in April. The case likely won’t go to trial for a number of months.
Trump also faces investigation in Georgia, in connection with alleged attempts to interfere with the state's 2020 presidential election results.
Regarding the latest charges, Trump’s campaign released a statement, saying in part, “President Trump will fight this unconstitutional abuse of power until he is ultimately vindicated. He will never stop fighting for the American people, and he will continue to work to restore the greatness of the United States of America.”
This is a developing story. Stay with Scripps News for additional updates.
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BEIJING (AP) — The mayor of a northeastern Chinese city on the North Korean border that has been under lockdown for more than 50 days has apologized for failures in his administration’s work amid widespread — but often disguised — dissatisfaction over the government’s heavy-handed approach to handling the pandemic.
Dandong Mayor Hao Jianjun gave no specifics, but said government work and basic services had been “unsatisfactory,” for which he offered his apologies, according to a statement issued by the city government late Monday.
It is highly unusual for a ranking Communist Party official to publicly concede errors, particularly regarding the hardline “zero-COVID” policy that has been repeatedly endorsed by top officials under President and party leader Xi Jinping.
Despite reporting only a handful of cases, Dandong had seen one of the strictest lockdowns in China, with even deliveries of food and other necessities banned, according to unconfirmed reports.
In his reported comments at a meeting with residents, Hao acknowledged the sacrifices made by the city’s 2.4 million citizens, along with the “complaining voices” among them over the government’s work. Dandong would now be moving into a stage of pandemic control that would be “more proactive, more active and more effective,” Hao said.
Unable to root out the source of new cases, Dandong officials took increasingly extreme measures, some of them of questionable scientific merit. That included recommending residents close their windows to prevent the virus being blown in from North Korea, even though its ability to spread through the air is extremely limited.
Authorities have also cracked down on smuggling across the Yalu River with North Korea, offering cash incentives for information on those involved. China has long held that the virus is spreading through packaging and other surfaces, despite little evidence showing that is a significant factor.
Officials at one point also transported residents of an entire apartment block to quarantine in the city of Shenyang, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) north of Dandong. Upon their release, it was discovered the positive case sparking the move had been in a resident of a neighboring building, leading to an angry confrontation between the residents and authorities.
Residents have been permitted out to shop, but no word has yet been given on when normal work can resume, said Li Yueqing, the owner of a wood processing factory in Dandong reached by phone. Rules still demand that any building where a positive case is found will be sealed off, Li said.
“We understand the epidemic situation in the city is still unstable. We don’t know when exactly we will be allowed to resume production,” he said.
A restaurant worker said the 50 days of closure is majorly affecting incomes.
“Up to now, we still haven’t received any instruction from the government on restarting business and our incomes have been affected by doing nothing,” said the worker, who gave only her surname, Guo.
A staffer at a maritime training academy who gave just his surname, Zheng, said they remained shuttered as a precautionary measure.
“The government feels it is better for us to remain closed longer, given the large number of trainees we have had. We have no idea when we will reopen,” Zheng said.
Lengthy lockdowns have become the norm in China’s COVID-19 response, with Shanghai’s ongoing predicament gaining the most notoriety. Most of the 25 million residents of China’s largest city and key financial hub were confined to their homes or immediate neighborhoods for two months or more and hundreds of thousands continue to remain under restrictions.
The severity of the Shanghai lockdown and the apparent lack of preparation by authorities prompted confrontations at checkpoints between residents and officials, and a series of nightly sessions of banging pots and screaming from balconies. Criticisms of the government’s policy were posted online, often in formats designed to thwart censorship software.
The relaxation of measures prompted an exodus from the city and foreign business leaders say confidence in its future as an international business hub remains in question.
The response in the capital Beijing has been more nuanced, possibly for political reasons, although many students have been forced to attend class online and a major shopping and nightlife district has been shut down following the detection of 166 cases linked to a nightclub.
Testing is required daily or every other day in most districts and failure to participate can result in a person’s cell phone health condition app being flagged, barring them from public spaces. | 2022-06-14T07:54:05+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/china-city-mayor-apologizes-over-covid-19-lockdown-response/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — What Jalin Hyatt did Saturday night was a long time coming.
Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said Hyatt worked in the offseason to reach his goals, adding, “I trust him. He understands what we’re doing. I’m proud of the way he played tonight.”
In three games in this his junior season, Hyatt (18 receptions, 267 yards, 3 TDs) has nearly matched his two previous seasons (20-276-2 in 2020, 21-226-2 in 2021).
Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker threw for 251 yards and two scores in the first 30 minutes and finished with 298 yards. Hooker extended his streak of games with a TD pass to 15, three behind school leader Heath Shuler.
In an effort to focus on the run game, the Vols had 165 first-half rushing yards before substituting freely in the second half. Jaylin Wright led the way with 96 yards and two TDs.
Tennessee finished with 676 total yards.
“Our passing game created some really big plays,” Heupel said. “At the half, there was a lot of football left to be played. We had to start fast (in the third quarter).”
Akron coach Joe Moorhead summed up the night by saying: “We all knew they were all explosive.”
Akron’s best chance for a TD in the first half came with second-and-goal on the 5 when Daniel George fumbled on an end around.
EARLY EXITS
Two key Tennessee offensive players — running back Jabari Small (right arm) and receiver Cedric Tillman (left knee) — left the game in the first half with injuries. Freshman Dylan Sampson filled in for Small and scored twice. Heupel didn’t think they would be significant injuries. ... Vols receiver Jimmy Calloway was ejected in the third quarter when he threw at least five punches at an Akron defender.
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For the first time since Oklahoma in 2015, Tennessee sold out a nonconference game. The Vols will have two sellouts in a row when 101,915 will cram Neyland Stadium next Saturday for the Florida game.
THE TAKEAWAY
Akron: Moorhead is convinced that the team can find positives in the lopsided losses the last two weeks (Michigan State and Tennessee), but they have to be ready to pick on someone their own size for a change.
Tennessee: The efficient victory gave the Vols an opportunity to work through some of the concerns from the win over Pitt before they tangle with Florida next week.
UP NEXT
Akron: The Zips will play their third consecutive road game at Liberty next Saturday night before they start MAC play at home with Bowling Green on Oct. 1.
Tennessee: SEC rival Florida will come to Knoxville next Saturday for a showdown.
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HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (hereafter "Ping An" or the "Group", HKEx:2318; SSE:601318) is delighted to announce that Ping An Life has won the Global Bronze Award for Re-imagining the Customer Experience at the Efma-Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards 2022 with its "Intelligent Visiting Assistant - AI Meeting Platform". Ping An Life is the only Chinese company among the award winners, demonstrating its outstanding performance in digital transformation
Built with Ping An's proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the "Intelligent Visiting Assistant - AI Meeting Platform" has been used in a wide array of business scenarios, including agent recruitment, smart training, and digital sales management, to fully support the agent team to carry out recruitment, training and marketing management.
In the agent recruitment process, the AI Interview tool can identify multi-dimensional information of prospective agents through smart conversation recognition and generate interview reports, saving a lot of interview manpower and costs. As of March 2022, AI Interview supported 17.98 million interviews over 2.76 million hours.
In the agent training session, the AI Training simulates actual sales practices and improves agents' sales techniques through interacting with robots and receiving training feedback. As of March 2022, AI Training delivered 830.5 million training sessions.
In exhibition marketing, the tool provides agents with functions including real-time Q&A with chatbots, smart conversation assistance, and conversation summaries. In addition, it also supports hosting large-scale online seminars and conferences, which can accommodate as many as 300 participants, making it the first of its kind in the insurance industry. In 2021, the platform facilitated more than 70,000 online product introduction meetings, with an average monthly meeting time exceeding 150,000 hours.
Ping An continues to advance its life insurance reform and strengthen its core competitiveness. Guided by the Group's "Finance + Technology" strategy, Ping An Life will continue to explore ways to facilitate seamless integration of technology and business and promote innovative technologies and solutions in marketing, services and risk management.
The Efma–Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards was launched by Efma and Accenture in 2016. Efma is a global non-profit organization established by banks and insurance companies to support industry development. Accenture is a leading global professional services company. The award recognizes the most innovative projects, initiatives, and ideas in insurance globally.
This year, the competition received 398 outstanding projects from 44 countries and over 250 insurance organizations across Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific. Participants included internationally renowned insurance companies, such as AXA from France, Allianz from Germany, and Discovery from South Africa.
The winning projects are independently voted on by a panel of global industry experts.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — South Korean pop group CIX is making its way to the U.S. for the first time and Dallasites will get the chance to watch them perform in May.
They’re calling their American debut “REBEL in U.S.” with their first performance being on April 27 in Los Angeles and their last being May 10 in New York.
The group will play at the House of Blues in Dallas on May 5.
The highly popular band began back in July of 2019 and has amassed more than a million fans. They are comprised of five members: BX, Seunghun, Yonghee, Bae Jinyoung, and Hyunsuk.
To buy tickets, visit houseofblues.com. | 2022-04-13T18:54:22+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/k-pop-boy-group-cix-stopping-in-dallas-during-first-ever-u-s-tour/ |
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Multiple people were wounded in shootings Monday night at Michigan State University, police said.
On Twitter, university police said there appeared to be only one suspect, described as a “short male with a mask” and still at large.
"We are still receiving multiple calls of an active shooter on campus,” police said.
Police said victims were being transported to a local hospital.
Authorities ordered students and staff to shelter in place after a report of shots fired around Berkey Hall, an academic building, on the East Lansing campus.
In an alert sent shortly after 8:30 p.m., campus police reported a “shots fired incident occurring on or near the East Lansing campus.” The alert advised students and staff to “Secure-in-Place immediately" and to monitor alert.msu.edu for information.
By 10:15 p.m., police said Berkey, as well as nearby residence halls, were secured.
Separately, police reported a shooting at IM East, a recreational center for students.
Aedan Kelley, a junior who lives a half-mile (less than a kilometer) east of campus, said he locked his doors and covered his windows “just in case.” Sirens were constant, he said, and a helicopter hovered overhead.
"It’s all very frightening," Kelley said. “And then I have all these people texting me wondering if I’m OK, which is overwhelming.”
Authorities announced late Monday that all campus activities would be canceled for 48 ours, including athletics and classes. Via Twitter, people were advised not to come to campus Tuesday.
Michigan State has about 50,000 students. East Lansing is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.
The East Lansing High School auditorium, where a school board meeting was being held Monday night, was locked down and people were being prevented by police from leaving, the Lansing State Journal reported.
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Kusmer reported from Indianapolis. | 2023-02-14T03:50:13+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/michigan-state-university-police-say-shootings-17782551.php |
Florida Atlantic vs. Fairleigh Dickinson: Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - Second Round
A spot in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament East Region bracket is on the line when the No. 9 seed Florida Atlantic Owls (32-3) face the No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson Knights (21-15) on Sunday at 7:45 PM on truTV. Florida Atlantic has been installed as a 12.5-point favorite to win this second round matchup. The over/under is set at 149.5 in the matchup.
Florida Atlantic vs. Fairleigh Dickinson Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, March 19, 2023
- Time: 7:45 PM ET
- TV: truTV
- Where: Columbus, Ohio
- Venue: Nationwide Arena
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Florida Atlantic vs Fairleigh Dickinson Betting Records & Stats
- The Owls have a 22-11-0 record against the spread this season.
- Florida Atlantic has been at least a -800 moneyline favorite seven times this season and won all of those games.
- The Owls have a 88.9% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Fairleigh Dickinson has gone 15-18-1 ATS this year.
- This season, the Knights have come away with a win one times in four chances when named as an underdog of at least +550 or longer on the moneyline.
- Fairleigh Dickinson has an implied victory probability of 15.4% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
Florida Atlantic vs. Fairleigh Dickinson Over/Under Stats
Additional Florida Atlantic vs Fairleigh Dickinson Insights & Trends
- Florida Atlantic has gone 9-1 over its past 10 contests, with a 6-4 record against the spread in that span.
- Five of Owls' last 10 contests have gone over the total.
- Fairleigh Dickinson is 6-4 against the spread and 6-4 overall in its past 10 contests.
- In their past 10 games, the Knights have hit the over four times.
- The 78.4 points per game the Owls score are only 4.3 more points than the Knights allow (74.1).
- Florida Atlantic has a 13-6 record against the spread and a 20-1 record overall when scoring more than 74.1 points.
- The Knights score an average of 77.6 points per game, 12.6 more points than the 65 the Owls give up to opponents.
- Fairleigh Dickinson has put together a 10-13-1 ATS record and a 16-10 overall record in games it scores more than 65 points.
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Temperatures will steadily rise through the weekend, with heat potentially sticking around for a little while.
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Updated: 4:37 PM PDT Aug 10, 2022
AND PRETTY WARM. LET’S TURN IT OVER TO METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WATERMAN, A NICE DAY TO COOL OFF. HEATHER: THAT WILL BE ONE OF THE POPULAR SPOTS AT THE FAIR THIS WEEKEND. TEMPERATURES TODAY NEAR 90, BUT THEY WILL BE UNDERWEIGHT OF EACH OF THE NEXT FEW DAYS. LOOK LIKE A NICE VIEW OF THE MIDWAY, FOLKS GETTING REFRESHMENTS AND ENJOYING THE GAMES, TANKS TO LIVECOPTER3 FOR SOME GREAT SHOTS OVER THE NEVADA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS. TEMPERATURE AROUND 90 DEGREES IN SACRAMENTO. THE WIND IS CALM, BUT WE HAVE ONE MORE EVENING WITH A GOOD DELTA BREEZE HELP COOL THINGS DONE OVERNIGHT. BUT WE WILL LOSE IT TOMORROW AND THAT IS WHEN THE WARMING STARTS. 91 IN STOCKTON. WINS WEST-NORTHWEST ATTEND MILES PER HOUR. NORTH BREEZE AT SIX MILES PER HOUR. IN FAIRFIELD, WINS OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST AT 18 MILES PER HOUR, THAT HAS KEPT THE TEMPERATURE AT 89 DEGREES. 77 IN SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, WINDS OUT OF THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT EIGHT MILES PER HOUR. WE HAVE HAD A FEW STRONGER WIND GUSTS IN THE SIERRA TODAY, THOUGH, 15-20 MILES PER HOUR AROUND TAHOE AND TRUCKEE. SAN FRANCISCO ALSO GUSTING CLOSE TO 30 MILES PER HOUR THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS THE LOW PRESSURE THAT HAS BEEN SITTING OFF THE COAST OF THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS, IT WAS FURTHER TO THE SOUTH YESTERDAY SO WE HAD A STRONGER OFFSHORE FLOW. BUT AS IT LIFTS AWAY, WE START TO LOSE THE DOMINATING SOUTHWEST WIND. THIS AREA OF PRESSURE WHICH IS TYPICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SENDING MONSOONAL MOISTURE AWAY, WILL BE TOO FAR TO THE EAST TO INFLUENCE OUR WEATHER. SO THE BIG STORY THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS IS THE WARM-UP AND STOP WE WILL BE DOING THAT WITHOUT RAIN CHANCES IN THE SIERRA. WIND BACKING OFF OVERNIGHT, STILL BREEZY THROUGH THE DELTA. YOU CAN SEE FAIRFIELD, 10 TO 15 MILES PER HOUR. AND WE HAVE AN ONSHORE FLOW THROUGH THE AFTERNOON TOMORROW BUT WILL NOT BE QUITE AS ROBUST AS THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. WATCH WHAT THAT DOES FOR THE TEMPERATURE. TRUCKEE SHOULD BE IN THE MID 80’S, LAST COUPLE OF DAYS WE HAVE BEEN IN THE LOWER 80’S. IN THE FOOTHILLS THE WIND IS LATE TOMORROW, OUT OF THE WEST AT 5 TO 10 MILES PER HOUR. . BULLET TEMPERATURES GET TO THE UPPER 80’S AND LOW 90’S. SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD END UP IN THE LOW 70’S TOMORROW, THE MARINE LAYER NOT QUITE AS THICK AS WE SAW LAST WEEK, A LIGHTER BLUE THAN WHAT WE SAW TODAY SO TEMPERATURES AND UP IN THE MID-90’S. TODAY IN SACRAMENTO, LOW 90’S, TOMORROW, MID-90’S, CLOSE TO AVERAGE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. BUT WATCH THE WEATHER PATTERN CHANGE AS WE GO TO THE REST OF THIS WEEK, THAT THOUGH CONTINUES TO LIFT AWAY IN THE HIGH CONTINUES TO LIFT TO THE EAST. THAT MEANS WE WILL HAVE THE SAME AREA SITTING OVER CALIFORNIA THE NEXT FEW DAYS, THE SUN WOULD BE ITS THING WE WILL BE IN TRIPLE DIGITS BY SUNDAY, PERHAPS SATURDAY AS WELL, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THAT KIND OF HEAT WILL HANG ON FOR A LITTLE BIT THIS TIME. TY: NOT TOO BAD FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. WE HAVE BEEN SPOTTED LITTLE BIT LAST WEEK O
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A warm-up begins Thursday for all of NorCal
Temperatures will steadily rise through the weekend, with heat potentially sticking around for a little while.
So far this week, temperatures have been running a few degrees below average throughout Northern California. But as the southwesterly wind flow weakens, heat will start to steadily build back in. High temperatures on Thursday will reach the mid 90s in the Valley. Expect low to mid 90s in the foothills and low to mid 80s at the highest points of the Sierra. There will still be a bit of a delta breeze pattern, allowing for decent cooling at night. Temperatures will likely be near 100 degrees in the valley this weekend. For those looking to escape the heat, the Sierra will stay dry with monsoonal moisture remaining well to the east. A weak onshore flow will keep the coast in the 70s with plenty of sunshine.
So far this week, temperatures have been running a few degrees below average throughout Northern California.
But as the southwesterly wind flow weakens, heat will start to steadily build back in.
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High temperatures on Thursday will reach the mid 90s in the Valley. Expect low to mid 90s in the foothills and low to mid 80s at the highest points of the Sierra.
There will still be a bit of a delta breeze pattern, allowing for decent cooling at night.
Temperatures will likely be near 100 degrees in the valley this weekend. For those looking to escape the heat, the Sierra will stay dry with monsoonal moisture remaining well to the east. A weak onshore flow will keep the coast in the 70s with plenty of sunshine. | 2022-08-10T23:48:37+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/a-warm-up-begins-thursday-for-all-of-norcal/40864299 |
NASA review underway after water leaks into astronaut's helmet
NASA is halting all spacewalks at the International Space Station over concerns about the safety of decades-old spacesuits after water leaked into one astronaut's helmet while working outside the station.
Watch the full report in the video player above.
European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Mauer was wrapping up a 7-hour long spacewalk outside the International Space Station when he noticed water leaking into his helmet.
"I think we should accelerate the steps to get him out of the suit here," NASA astronaut Kayla Barron said.
They got him out, but the incident in March of this year was eerily similar to what happened to an Italian astronaut back in 2013.
"I feel a lot of water on the back of my head," European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano said.
Water from the cooling tubes inside Parmitano's spacesuit was leaking into his space helmet and he almost drowned.
"For a couple of minutes there, maybe more than a couple of minutes, I experienced what it's like to be a goldfish in a fishbowl from the point of view of the goldfish," Parmitano said.
It's a “nightmare scenario” according to veteran spacewalker and former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman – who went on to become the “first spacesuit engineer” at SpaceX.
"Obviously if you fill the helmet, you can't breathe. And you can't take the helmet off. So you're in a bad, bad place and it got very serious," Reisman said.
NASA has now stopped all spacewalks at the International Space Station until Matthias' faulty spacesuit is returned to Earth later this month for an inspection.
But even if it's fixed – the underlying problem is that these spacesuits – or emus – are decades old and there are not many left.
"That big white spacesuit actually has heritage that goes all the way back to Apollo. So pre-1975. The helmets are exactly the same as that as the helmet that we wore on the Apollo suits," Reisman said.
NASA knows it's a problem.
"I think it's critical to have a suit that works for everyone," NASA associate administrator Robert Cabana said.
NASA is now partnering with two commercial companies to develop its next-generation spacesuits – but those likely will not be ready until at least 2025.
"NASA's gotten quite good at keeping these old clunkers running. I think NASA has got a really capable team that will keep these suits going as long as they have to, but the right thing is to get a new suit, and the sooner the better," Reisman said.
Spacewalks will remain halted until the suits are fixed. | 2022-08-09T00:11:05+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/nasa-review-underway-after-water-leaks-into-astronauts-helmet/40840429 |
Lloyd Newman, one of the reporters of the documentary Ghetto Life 101, died this week at age 43. The documentary aired on this program almost 30 years ago.
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Lloyd Newman, one of the reporters of the documentary Ghetto Life 101, died this week at age 43. The documentary aired on this program almost 30 years ago.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. (WXIN) — More than 300,000 portable generators are being recalled over amputation and crushing risks.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves 6500-watt and 8000-watt Generac, HomeLink and DR brands of portable generators. They were sold at major home improvement and hardware stores nationwide and online.
Generac Power Systems owns the DR and Homelink brands.
The CPSC says the recalled generators have gasoline-powered engines that are used to generate electricity for use as backup power. The portable generators have two wheels and one “U-shaped, two-grip, flip-up pin-lock handle” to help move the generator.
The generators were initially recalled in July 2021 after Generac received eight reports of injuries. Since then, the company has received a new total of 37 reported injuries, including 24 reports of finger amputations and five reports of finger crushing.
The CPSC said the issue with the products is that an unlocked handle can pinch the fingers against the generator frame when the generator is moved.
The following generators are subject to recall:
The unit type can be found on the front of the product, while the model and serial numbers are printed on a product label.
Anyone with the recalled portable generators should stop using them unless the locking pin has been inserted to secure the handle in place before and after moving the generator. They should then contact Generac for a free repair kit consisting of a set of spacers to move the handle away from the frame to eliminate the pinch point.
Anyone with questions can contact Generac toll-free at 844-242-3493 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or visit the recall page. | 2022-11-11T17:06:18+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/300k-portable-generators-recalled-after-finger-amputations-reported/ |
Officials: Father punched baby twice in face and head, also punched mother
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - A father is accused of punching his 10-month-old son twice in the face and head, as well as the baby’s mother.
According to court records, 31-year-old Martinez Payton was charged with one count of felonious assault and two counts of domestic violence.
Colerain Township police arrested Payton Saturday morning and said he fled the home.
Affidavits written by police said he punched his baby with a closed fist twice in the face and head, creating “a substantial risk for the victim due to the victim being 10 months old.” He also allegedly “poured Ginger Ale” on the baby.
The mother of the son told police Payton slapped her on both sides of her face, struck her in the face with a closed fist, pushed her into a wall, and then fled in a vehicle, another affidavit said.
Police filed a motion asking the court to issue a temporary protection order for the victims against the suspect.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three months after having her first baby and not long after she completed the Emmy-nominated series “PEN15,” Anna Konkle liked the sound of filming her next project in a remote Mexican jungle.
“You had heard of casts going to these beautiful places and they had to be quarantined and so they would just stay in these amazing hotels and film there,” she said.
In reality, Konkle’s experience of making her new movie, “The Drop,” which premieres Friday on Hulu, was anything but blissful. The poor cell reception and limited access to food and water were the least of the breastfeeding mom’s worries. By the end of the shoot, she had to have fluids administered through an intravenous line.
“Everyone got horrific diarrhea and I stopped making milk so then I would have to get the IV while I pumped to make milk because I was so dehydrated,” she recalled. In the end, she was glad she made the movie — and not just because her daughter “adapted wonderfully and was very fat by the end of filming.”
“I loved the idea of motherhood being not saccharine, but R-rated and funny. And that just felt exciting to be a part of that, I think, especially grappling with the stage that I was at,” she said.
“The Drop,” which was executive produced by Jay Duplass, follows Lex (Konkle) and Mani (Jermaine Fowler) as the happy couple tries to get pregnant. But their relationship is put to the test when Lex drops their friends’ baby in front of everyone during a destination wedding trip.
For Konkle, the film’s honest exploration of being a parent and the mistakes that come with it was a refreshing reminder as she was adjusting to life as a new mom.
“The amount of criticism that I find myself having, scrutinizing myself, comparing myself to other people and, you know, they’re vacationing with their child or they’re teaching them science or whatever,” she said. “I just loved in the film that it was kind of like, s—- happens, no one’s perfect and you grapple with that and you keep going.”
Konkle, along with her best friend Maya Erskine, garnered critical praise for “PEN15,” a cringe-filled homage to seventh grade set in the early 2000s that the duo starred in and co-created. Although she and Erskine both studied experimental theater in college, where they met, Konkle sees comedy as a natural, albeit unexpected, step in her career.
“There is something in comedy of laughing at the darkest moments and your own vulnerability that feels like you can go farther than drama,” she said. “I didn’t think I’d end up in comedy. I was like so serious. But it’s the perfect home. I feel so grateful that that’s where I kind of landed.” | 2023-01-13T20:16:23+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/entertainment-news/ap-anna-konkle-embraces-realities-of-motherhood-in-the-drop/ |
CALGARY, AB, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enbridge Inc. (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB) (Enbridge or the Company) will host a conference call and webcast to provide a business update and review 2022 second quarter results on July 29, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. MT (9:00 a.m. ET).
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Enbridge will announce its financial results before markets open on July 29, 2022.
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Cocktails from the 1990s. Vegetables from the sea. A mushroom that looks like a chicken’s feathers. Avocado in desserts. And restaurants being driven to deliver “experiences,” not just a plate of food or a cocktail in a glass. These are just some of the food, beverage and restaurant business trends that culinary prognosticators — national and local — foresee for the year 2023.
Restaurants will need to offer diners a reason to come out for a meal, says Johnny Roberts, business and market development director for Isaac’s.
Roberts attends restaurant industry trade shows in Chicago and New York most years, and follows food trends through trade magazines and newsletters throughout the year.
Diners “want a restaurant experience and local flavors that can’t be replicated at home,” Roberts says. “Consumers want to be surprised” with flavors that defy their expectations, along with “unconventional flavor mashups and high concepts: Cold-brew smoothies. Nutella s’mores. Caffeinated chocolate milk. Dragon fruit.”
With experiences being so important, San Francisco-based food and hospitality marketing companies af&co. and Carbonate say in their annual trend report, restaurants will look to create more affordable, “two-digit-price” tasting menus — so diners don’t have to pay top dollar for a special chef’s-table evening.
In keeping with the demand for experiences, the companies say, retro flaming baked Alaska looks to make a comeback as “dessert of the year.”
Consumers want to experience what they’ve seen on TikTok, Roberts says, and what will look good in their own TikTok feeds.
“TikTok is the new Yelp,” he says. “Everything from butter boards (charcuterie with a spread-butter base) to, well, just everything is on there,” he says. “People are getting a lot of food ideas, from the crazy to the benign ... to recipes. It’s bizarre how (the app) has exploded.”
Beverages
Kolbe DiGiulio, beverage director at Decades restaurant, bar, retro arcade and event venue at 438 N. Queen St., Lancaster, says sweet and nostalgic cocktails are back for 2023.
“This year it seems to be a bit of a ’90s trend,” DiGiulio says, “bringing back cosmos and appletinis and all of these sweet, sugary drinks that kind of phased out when we went into fresher, more local ingredients. It became a movement. But now we’re kind of just back into having fun. ... with classic margaritas, Midori sours, blue Hawaiians.
“I think the whole cocktail experience is kind of the new frontier that everyone’s kind of pushing for,” DiGiulio says.
“At bars today, everyone can make an amazing drink. Everyone is super skilled,” he says. “But now we’re thinking about the next thing. How can we make sure you’re sharing this on Instagram? How can we make sure you’re sharing this on TikTok? How can we make sure you’re really enjoying the entire experience?”
DiGiulio offers an example. “Here at Decades, we have a drink that comes inside of an ice ball. ... It’s a sphere that’s hollowed ice. We inject the drink inside of it, and then when you order it and it comes out to you, we have a little hammer — it’s like a jeweler’s hammer — and then we break it and then the drink just kind of spills into the glass.
“We have a drink with a smoke bubble on top, and the customer pops the bubble and the smoke spills out all over the glass,” DiGiulio adds.
With those kinds of cocktails, you can’t merely capture the experience with a still photo,” he says. Customers like to take a video of their drink experience to upload to TikTok.
“It’s not just ‘is this an amazing drink, and is it very photogenic?’ ” says DiGiulio. “It’s ‘was this fun, and did you have a good time doing it?’ ”
“The general public is becoming so much more knowledgeable about food and how it’s produced because of Instagram, TikTok, social media,” says Blayre Wright of Manheim, owner of private wedding cake studio Flouretta Sweet and recent winner of the Food Network’s “Halloween Baking Championship.”
Customers “are watching these master bakers in France making croissants by hand and they’re seeing all the technique and they see all the detail, and they’re like, ‘I want that. I want to post it online,’ ” Wright says.
“I will say, in general, the public just seems a lot more knowledgeable because of social media,” she says. “They’ll know wedding cake terms and even food terms, and I think it’s keeping food businesses on their toes.
“So, we, as business owners,” need to be “coming up with something trendy, something that we’re known for and it also has to taste good ... it can’t just be visually appealing,” she says.
Foods and cuisines
af&co./Carbonate’s annual report declares maitake mushrooms — known as hen-of-the-woods for their feather-like texture — as the “dish of the year.” Roasted or fried, its hearty texture makes it a meat substitute in a food sphere where people continue to look for new and different sustainable and plant-based food choices, the companies say.
“It’s the new portobello,” Roberts says. “It has all these crags on it, and it holds the sauces or whatever you’re cooking it with.”
Another hot item for the year is kelp, Roberts says.
“It’s the rise of the sea veggies,” he says. “Kelp ... is the most nutrient-dense vegetable on Earth, and it doesn’t require any fresh water, land or chemicals, making them the ultimate regenerative crop. ... They’re starting to put that stuff into everything now.”
Kelp is also on the radar at Whole Foods Market, which also produces an annual trend report. The supermarket company sees the seaweed being used in noodles, chips, fish-free “fish” sauce and more in 2023.
It’s part of a push for sustainable eating, Roberts says. “I cannot begin to tell you how that has really blown up. People want clean labels, gluten free. Diners want to know how the chicken or the pig or cow is being taken care of.”
Being a “regenivore” is the food-trend “word of the year,” writes the New York Times’ Kim Severson in her annual food forecast for 2023. “That refers to a new generation demanding that food companies help heal the planet through carbon-reducing agriculture, strict animal welfare policies and fair treatment of food growers and processors.”
Severson and af&co./Carbonate say briny cocktails, featuring clam juice, Clamato, olive brine, raw oysters, caviar, crab claws and shrimp, are on trend for the year.
Other Whole Foods trends for 2023 include yaupon, a dark beverage made from a caffeinated plant native to the southern U.S.; baking mixes made with the pulp left over from making soy, oat and almond milk; new plant- and fruit-based pasta alternatives made from produce, including hearts of palm, spaghetti squash and green bananas; and using dates — and pastes and syrups made from them — as sweeteners.
af&co./Carbonate says ube, a purple tuber native to the Philippines, will make an appearance in lots of foods for the year; af&co.’s chosen “cuisine of the year” is Filipino.
Purple ube will be found in food and beverages “from pies and waffles to lattes and ube coladas,” Severson says.
Nigerian food, with its layered-flavor stews and fonio grain, is also getting diners’ attention this year, Severson says.
Sharing Severson’s trend list are avocados in cocktails and desserts. Whole Foods says the properties of avocado oil — healthy fats and a high smoke point — will make it popular this year, as well.
In addition, Severson foresees crispy chicken skins being used in snacks such as nachos; the combination of aspects of Japanese cuisine with other culinary heritages such as Italian and Peruvian; and inflation-conscious penny pinching through swapping money-saving hacks and using energy-saving small appliances for cooking.
Roberts says pistachios will have an expanded role on menus in 2023— in place of pine nuts in pesto, in Mexican mole, pizza toppings and even tortellini filling.
Low, no alcohol
Mocktails will continue to be important on restaurant and bar menus, say Roberts and DiGiulio.
“This younger generation doesn’t drink as much as we do,” Roberts says, predicting lower-ABV craft beers will continue to rise in popularity.
Nonalcoholic beverages “are definitely very popular, especially with dry January,” DiGiulio says. “We just started putting mocktails on the menu right before COVID ... and we’ve always had pretty good success with them.
“I’m also seeing larger sales in nonalcoholic beer, DiGiulio says. “You’re going out with friends, still feeling a part of the party, but you have to get up early or you have to be responsible” as the designated driver.
“There’s more craft breweries that make nonalcoholic beers,” he says. “When I go to order, where I might have had one or two options 10 years ago, even five years ago, now I have probably 10 to 15 more options.
“I can get nonalcoholic stouts, I can get nonalcoholic IPAs, I can get nonalcoholic lagers,” DiGiulio says. “That wasn’t always the case.”
Desserts and weddings
“I’m generally seeing a shift in the entire food-service industry to people just honing in on what they’re good at, becoming experts at just one thing,” Wright says. “Even if you look here at Lancaster city, and look at the types of food businesses that are here,” there are businesses that focus solely on empanadas or burgers or cheesecakes.
“I feel like people are almost trying to become the experts in one thing or even have a big draw so people are coming to your shop for one specific thing,” Wright says.
“Design-wise people love retro. Retro is definitely coming back,” she says.
“Macarons are really popular,” Wright says. “They’re having this resurgence, I think, in general.
“Dessert bars are huge right now,” she says. “There are weddings where they’re just serving appetizers or they’re serving small bites and multiple courses and not a big plate of things. Eighty percent of or my weddings get a cake and a dessert display as well. ...
“I do the basics — cookies, brownies, bar cookies — but I also offer little parfaits, and people love the nostalgic flavors. I have a s’mores parfait and people love that. Strawberry shortcakes. I have a macaron that’s creme brulee flavor,” she says.
“When it comes to wedding cakes, the cupcake display, for me, is dying off,” Wright says. “It’s pretty rare. I only have maybe one or two weddings out of 40 or 50 every year that gets a cupcake display. People really want the pies and the whoopie pies and they want a big amount of variety.
“But I’m noticing people do want larger and larger cakes,” she says. “For a while they were were doing the small cake to cut. And now people are like, ‘I want an eight-tier cake or a seven-tier cake,’ which I love. I always love a challenge.”
Tech is king
Finally, Roberts says, restaurants will continue to upgrade their technological capabilities in 2023, including streamlining their ordering apps to make it easier for the consumer — continuing to turn the smartphone into ever more of an ordering kiosk.
He sees an emphasis on “the expansion of in-house delivery, to take it back from third-party delivery.
“Everyone’s either renovating their current loyal programs or they are adding one on. ... It’s not just getting a discount. It goes back to the ‘experience’ piece” of letting customers get access to additional food, experiences, swag and more, “but only if you’re a member.”
Food halls — from new ones in New York City to our own Southern Market Center — will grow in popularity this year, as will “ghost kitchens” where you can only order your food online,” Roberts predicts.
Making these business adjustments will be especially important, Roberts adds, as the food service business continues to face challenges from the lingering effects of the pandemic, supply-chain issues, higher food costs and the difficulty in recruiting staff. | 2023-01-27T20:01:00+00:00 | lancasteronline.com | https://lancasteronline.com/features/food/2023-food-trends-include-retro-cocktails-baked-alaska-filipino-food-and-more/article_aa3f5b0c-9e71-11ed-afa8-d34735c45385.html |
The 2023 John Deere Classic Odds & Preview: Nick Hardy
After the first round of the John Deere Classic, Nick Hardy is currently 14th with a score of -4.
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Nick Hardy Insights
- Hardy has finished below par on eight occasions, completed his day without a bogey once and finished eight rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 13 rounds played.
- He has carded a top-five score in one of his last 13 rounds, while ranking among the top 10 scores of the day twice.
- Over his last 13 rounds, Hardy has finished within five strokes of the top score for the day five times.
- In his past five appearances, Hardy has finished in the top 20 twice.
- Looking at the past five tournaments he has entered, he made the cut three times.
- In his past five events, Hardy has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average once.
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John Deere Classic Insights and Stats
- In Hardy's previous four appearances at this tournament, he has finished in the top 20 once. His average finish has been 36th.
- Hardy made the cut in each of his last four attempts at this event.
- Hardy finished 14th on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- TPC Deere Run will play at 7,289 yards for this event. In the past year on the Tour, the average tournament has been hosted on a shorter course, with an average distance of 7,011.
- Hardy will take to the 7,289-yard course this week at TPC Deere Run after having played courses with an average length of 7,288 yards in the past year.
Hardy's Last Time Out
- Hardy finished in the 42nd percentile on the eight par-3 holes at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with an average of par.
- He averaged 4.00 strokes on par-4 holes (of which there were 20) at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, which placed him in the 37th percentile of the field.
- Hardy was better than only 15% of the competitors at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on par-5 holes, averaging 4.75 strokes per hole in comparison to the field average of 4.51.
- Hardy did not card a birdie on any of the eight par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic (the field averaged 1.9).
- On the eight par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Hardy did not record a bogey or worse (the other participants averaged 1.9).
- Hardy recorded fewer birdies or better (five) than the tournament average of 5.9 on the 20 par-4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
- In that most recent tournament, Hardy's par-4 performance (on 20 holes) included a bogey or worse five times (worse than the field average, 4.4).
- Hardy ended the Rocket Mortgage Classic recording a birdie or better on four par-5 holes, compared to the field average of 6.2 on the eight par-5s.
- On the eight par-5s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Hardy carded more bogeys or worse (two) than the tournament average (0.8).
John Deere Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 6- 9, 2023
- Course: TPC Deere Run
- Location: Silvis, Illinois
- Par: 71 / 7,289 yards
- Hardy Odds to Win: +4000 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HomeTown Texas, (formerly Leahy Lending) (https://httexas.com), voted number 1 Mortgage Lender by Austin Business Journal's Best Places To Work in Central Texas.
HomeTown Texas, is passionate about understanding individual goals and aspirations. The company ensures team members have what they need to achieve their dreams. A strong work-life balance is key to their high retention of best-in-class employees.
This year's Best Places to Work in Central Texas award is based on employee feedback collected through Quantum's annual workforce study. ABJ's BPTW measures Communication and Resources, Individual Needs. Manager Effectiveness, Personal Engagement, Team Dynamics and Trust in Leadership.
"We have an amazing culture! We always work hard to protect and nurture our Core Values. We are a highly motivated, energetic, fun and professional team treating one another as family."- Ryan Leahy – Regional President & Senior Loan Officer (https://httexas.com/leadership-team/ryan-leahy/)
Based in Austin, Texas, Ryan Leahy and Team at HomeTown Texas pride themselves in supplying homebuyers with the confidence needed to secure their dream home. Specializing in Jumbo, Conventional, FHA, VA, Refinancing and a variety of other loan solutions, their team of mortgage professionals brings a combined 250+ years of experience in real estate and funding to their clients.
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FROM SACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN, ERIN HEFT, KCRA 3 NEWS. DEIRDRE: MARCH MANDNESS. THE KINGS QUEST TO END THEIR PLAYOFF DROUGHT. AND MUSIC LEGENDS LIKE STEVIE NICKS. YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THAT HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT 4 WEEKS IN SACRAMENTO. IT IS A JAM-PACKED SCHEDULE BRINGING THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO THE GOLDEN 1 CENTER. THAT IS MUSIC TO THE EARS OF BUSINESSES IN THE DOWNTOWN COMMONS. KCRA 3’S DENEEKA HILL IS LIVE WITH A LOOK AT THE IMPACT. REPORTER: YOU MAY HEAR A GENERATOR IN THE BACKGROUND BECAUSE CREWS ARE HERE CLEANING OF DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO BEFORE THE EVENTS COME. FOR THE MOST PART, THINGS ARE QUIET DOWN HERE BUT THAT WILL CHANGE OVERNIGHT WITH THE HOSTING THE CLIPPERS WHICH MEANS THIS PLACE WILL BE FILLED WITH FANS, WHICH MEANS MORE MONEY WILL BE COMING IN. AFTER HAVING JUST 3 GAMES IN FEBRUARY, THE KINGS HOST 9 IN MARCH, INCLUDING SOME OF THE BEST TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE, THE CELTICS, BUCKS, SUNS, AND CLIPPERS. MARCH MADNESS ALSO COMES TO SACRAMENTO, WITH THE FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS OF THE NCAA TOURNAMENT ON MARCH 16 AND 18TH AND THE STATE HIGH SCHOOL FINALS ON THE 10TH AND 11TH. AND CONCERTS OF ALL GENRES ARE COMING TO THE ARENA, INCLUDING DEPECHE MODE, STEVIE NICKS, AND CARRIE UNDERWOOD. ALL THESE EVENTS BRINGING TONS OF PEOPLE TO SACRAMENTO AND ITS EXPECTED TO BRING 10 OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REVENUE. >> WE’VE SEEN IT FOR KINGS GAMES AND IT’S A LOT MORE FUN WHEN THEY’RE WINNING AND WE CERTAINLY FEEL THAT ATMOSPHERE AFTER THE GAMES. FOR THINGS LIKE THE GAMES ARE MARCH MADNESS, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY SO THERE’S A GAP IN BETWEEN. SO YOU’VE GOT ALL THE VISITING TEAMS IN TOWN BUT YOU’VE ALSO GOT THE FANS THAT CAME WITH THEM AND YOU’VE GOT FANS OF JUST BASKETBALL IN THE MARKET SO THERE WILL BE A BUZZ DURING MARCH MADNESS AND CERTAINLY FOR THESE CONCERTS TOO. REPORTER: VISIT SACRAMENTO SAYS THEY DO SEND INFORMATION TO BUSINESSES AHEAD OF THE EVENT TO GIVE THEM TIME TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE FULLY STAFFED FOR THE INFLUX OF PEOPLE COMING IN. THEY ALSO SAY WITH THE EVENTS THEY HAVE HAD THIS YEAR, THEY ARE SEEING NUMBERS OF PREPAID DEBIT LEVELS WHICH MEANS PENALTY
Downtown Sacramento expected to be buzzing with dozens of events in March at Golden 1 Center
Updated: 11:07 AM PST Mar 3, 2023
March is the busiest planned month of the year at Sacramento's Golden 1 Center and is expected to millions of dollars in revenue to the city.The Sacramento Kings will host nine NBA games this month, including some of the best teams in the league, the Celtics, Bucks, Suns, and Clippers. March Madness will also come to Sacramento with the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament on March 16 and 18.The state high school finals will take place at the arena on March 10 and 11.There are also several concerts planned for the month across genres, including Carrie Underwood on March 14, Depeche Mode on March 23, and Stevie Nicks on March 26."When you have one thing, you attract one demographic, but when you have about 30 things like we do this month, you attach that many more demographics — a great thing for Sacramento," said Mike Testa, president and CEO of Visit Sacramento.All these events also mean a boost for the economy."We know the capacity of Golden 1 Center, but though to know how many hotel rooms that will generate. How many visitors will come in for those concerts, but it's safe to say 10s of millions of dollars in economic impact," Testa said.Here's a link to a full list of events happening at Golden 1. More entertainment stories Everything you need to know about the 2023 Academy AwardsSo Tell Me More: Airric Qualls wants to do his part to boost the Sacramento film scene'Dying to Ask' Podcast: The most stressful word in the English language
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — March is the busiest planned month of the year at Sacramento's Golden 1 Center and is expected to millions of dollars in revenue to the city.
The Sacramento Kings will host nine NBA games this month, including some of the best teams in the league, the Celtics, Bucks, Suns, and Clippers.
March Madness will also come to Sacramento with the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament on March 16 and 18.
The state high school finals will take place at the arena on March 10 and 11.
There are also several concerts planned for the month across genres, including Carrie Underwood on March 14, Depeche Mode on March 23, and Stevie Nicks on March 26.
"When you have one thing, you attract one demographic, but when you have about 30 things like we do this month, you attach that many more demographics — a great thing for Sacramento," said Mike Testa, president and CEO of Visit Sacramento.
All these events also mean a boost for the economy.
"We know the capacity of Golden 1 Center, but though to know how many hotel rooms that will generate. How many visitors will come in for those concerts, but it's safe to say 10s of millions of dollars in economic impact," Testa said.
Here's a link to a full list of events happening at Golden 1.
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Kevin Costner has landed a new series amid uncertainty surrounding his Yellowstone future. The actor will host and executive produce Kevin Costner's The West (working title) for History Channel, the network announced Wednesday. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will also executive produce.
The eight-episode documentary series explores the clichés and myths of the "Wild West" and features various perspectives that "capture the spirit of opportunity, adventure and peril through the diverse, complex characters and untold stories that defined the era and continue to shape our country today."
“I am in love with history. I love the rich, heroic and harrowing stories of the West. The people and their stories have always held a fascination for me, but there’s an urgency today to put those times and the men and women who we think we know in perspective, in the context of their times, without judgement,” said Costner in a statement. “This particular West project is significant for me as it marks a return to The History Channel, the home of my first foray into television with the Hatfields & McCoys, and an opportunity to partner with the legendary biographer and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who so artfully weaves together important stories that are at once expansive, intimate and true.”
“Kevin Costner’s body of work on the American West has defined him as one of the finest storytellers of this genre and of our time,” said Goodwin in a statement. “What a privilege it is for my partner Beth Laski and I to collaborate with Kevin and his team and our trusted colleagues at The History Channel and Radical Media to portray with authenticity and accuracy a sweeping and nuanced portrait of the American West and its people, places and movements at this pivotal time in American history.”
According to History Channel, Kevin Costner's The West will be told through characters, historical archive and expert interviews, creating a portrait of the American frontier from the literal trailblazers to the law enforcers and the bloody battles for both land and freedom. The series will also illuminate how the stories of The West continue to impact the nation today.
The announcement comes as Costner's Yellowstone future remains a hot topic.
Speculation surfaced that the current iteration of the Paramount Network drama could come to an end due to Costner's alleged desire to shorten his work hours, with the network reportedly in talks with Matthew McConaughey to lead a potential Yellowstone offshoot. Costner's attorney, Marty Singer, pushed back against the claims, telling ET that the allegations "Kevin was only willing to work one week on the second half of season 5 of Yellowstone is an absolute lie."
"It's ridiculous -- and anyone suggesting it shouldn't be believed for one second," Singer continued in his statement. "As everyone who knows anything about Kevin is well aware, he is incredibly passionate about the show and has always gone way above and beyond to ensure its success."
Paramount Network also seemingly stood by Costner, with a spokesperson telling ET, "As we previously stated, Kevin has been a key component of the success of our Yellowstone series, and we hope that continues from here on out."
Yellowstone is currently on hiatus after wrapping up the first half of season 5, with a vague Paramount Network teaser teeing up a summer return for the series.
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LUSAIL, Qatar — Lionel Messi, wearing a black Qatari robe over his blue-and-white Argentina shirt, kissed the World Cup, shuffled toward his teammates and hoisted the golden trophy high in the air.
It was an iconic sight that finally — definitively — places the soccer superstar in the pantheon of the game’s greatest players.
Messi’s once-in-a-generation career is complete: He is a World Cup champion.
In probably the wildest final in the tournament’s 92-year history, Argentina won its third World Cup title by beating France 4-2 in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw featuring two goals from the 35-year-old Messi and a hat trick by his heir apparent, France forward Kylian Mbappé.
“It’s just crazy that it became a reality this way,” Messi said. “I craved for this so much. I knew God would bring this gift to me. I had the feeling that this (World Cup) was the one.”
Amid the chaos inside Lusail Stadium, Mbappé did all he could to emulate Brazil great Pelé as a champion at his first two World Cups. Even scoring the first hat trick in a final since Geoff Hurst for England in 1966.
It wasn’t enough.
Now there’s no debate. Messi joins Pelé — a record three-time World Cup champion — and Diego Maradona, the late Argentina great with whom Messi was so often compared, in an exclusive club of the best soccer players of all time.
Who is the greatest? It’s a discussion that will rage forever because there can never be a definitive answer. Messi has put up a good argument, though, and — with the World Cup title on his resume — he is surely above Cristiano Ronaldo as the best player of his generation.
Messi achieved what Maradona did in 1986 and dominated a World Cup for Argentina. He scored seven goals and embraced the responsibility of leading his team out of those dark moments after a shocking 2-1 loss to Saudi Arabia in the group stage.
Playing in the spirit of Maradona, Messi coupled his dazzling skills with rarely seen aggression and led Argentina to the title by becoming the first man in a single edition of the World Cup to score in the group stage and then in every round of the knockout stage.
The torch will one day pass to Mbappé, but not just yet.
“Let’s go, Argentina!” Messi roared into a microphone on the field in the post-match celebrations after playing in a record 26th World Cup match.
Later, he said: “I can’t wait to be in Argentina to witness the insanity of this.”
Messi had a tantalizing glimpse of the 18-carat gold World Cup trophy when walking on the stage to collect the Golden Ball, awarded to the player of the tournament. He even kissed the World Cup and rubbed it repeatedly.
He got his hands on it for good about 10 minutes later, after a ceremonial robe — a bisht — was draped over his shoulders by Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. And, oh, did he enjoy the moment, celebrating with his family and the teammates who put Argentina atop the soccer world for the first time since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The country’s other title came in 1978 on home soil.
Messi was in scintillating form from the start of the final, putting Argentina ahead from the penalty spot after Angel Di Maria was tripped and later playing a part in a flowing team move that resulted in Di Maria making it 2-0 after 36 minutes.
Mbappé, on the other hand, was anonymous until bursting into life by scoring two goals in a 97-second span — one an 80th-minute penalty, the other a volley from just inside the area after a quick exchange of passes — to take the game to extra time at 2-2.
Messi still had plenty of energy and he was on hand to tap in his second goal in the 108th minute, with a France defender clearing the ball just after it had crossed the line. Argentina was on the brink of the title once again, but there was still time for another penalty from Mbappé, after a handball, to take the thrilling game to a shootout.
“We managed to come back from the dead,” said France coach Didier Deschamps, whose team was looking to become the first back-to-back champions since Brazil in 1962.
Mbappé and Messi took their teams’ first penalties and scored. Kingsley Coman had an attempt saved by Argentina goalkeeper Emi Martinez and Aurelien Tchouameni then missed for France, giving Gonzalo Montiel the opportunity to end it. He converted the penalty to the left and sparked wild celebrations.
“The match was completely insane,” said Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, who was asked if he had a message for Maradona, who died two years ago.
“If he had been here, he would have enjoyed it so much,” Scaloni said. “He would have been the first person on the field (to celebrate). I wish he’d have been here to enjoy the moment.”
Europe’s run of four straight World Cup winners, dating to 2006, came to an end. The last South American champion was Brazil, and that was also in Asia — when Japan and South Korea hosted the tournament in 2002.
In Qatar, Argentina backed up its victory from last year’s Copa America, its first major trophy since 1993. It’s quite the climax to Messi’s international career, which is not over just yet. He said after the match that he would continue to play with the national team.
It was quite a final for a unique World Cup — the first to be played in the Arab world.
For FIFA and the Qatari organizers, a final between two major soccer nations and the world’s two best players represented a perfect way to cap a tournament laced in controversy ever since the scandal-shrouded vote in 2010 to give the event to a tiny Arab emirate.
The years-long scrutiny since has focused on the switch of dates from the traditional June-July period to November-December, strong criticism of how migrant workers have been treated, and then unease about taking soccer’s biggest event to a nation where homosexual acts are illegal.
On Sunday, there was one narrative at play for most people: Could Messi do it?
He could, despite the 23-year-old Mbappé doing all he could to deny his Paris Saint-Germain teammate. Finishing the tournament as the top scorer with eight goals is likely only a crumb of comfort.
Messi has been a man on a mission in the Middle East, determined to erase memories of his only other World Cup final — in 2014 when Argentina lost to Germany 1-0 and Messi squandered a great chance in the second half.
On that night at the Maracana Stadium, Messi stared down at that golden World Cup trophy that escaped him.
Eight years later, he raised it aloft in the biggest moment of a career like no other.
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LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Oumar Ballo dominated inside with 30 points and 13 rebounds for No. 14 Arizona, which held off No. 10 Creighton 81-79 on Wednesday to win the Maui Invitational for the third time.
The combination of the unstoppable 7-foot, 260-pound Ballo and his speedy, talented supporting cast was just enough for the Wildcats (6-0) to remain undefeated. Kerr Kriisa added 13 points and nine assists, Azuolas Tubelis had 12 points and Courtney Ramey scored 10. Arizona scored its final points with 2:21 to play but managed to hold on.
“I’m super proud of these guys,” Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said. “These tournaments are hard. To play three games in three days against three really good teams with very distinct styles and to come out of it on top the way we did, it says a lot about this group.”
Ryan Nembhard scored 20 points for Creighton (6-1), which was trying to beat a ranked opponent for the third straight day. Ryan Kalkbrenner added 16 points, Trey Alexander scored 15 and Baylor Scheierman had 11 points and 11 rebounds.
Arizona appeared to be pulling away late, but the Bluejays kept hanging around.
Scheierman made a layup with 2:41 left to pull Creighton within 79-72 but Kriisa made a beautiful pass to Ballo for a dunk and an 81-72 lead with 2:21 left. He was fouled but missed the free throw.
Nembhard made a layup and Scheierman a 3-pointer to get Creighton within 81-77. Kalkbrenner made one of two free throws to cut the deficit to three. Ramey missed a 3-point attempt with 18 seconds left.
Creighton called timeout with 7.4 seconds left to set up a final play. Kalkbrenner didn’t have an open 3 and passed to Nembhard, who was fouled by Ramey with 2 seconds left. He made the first shot and intentionally missed the second, with Arizona rebounding to seal the win despite Creighton closing with a 12-2 run.
“I just kept looking at the score and the time and our timeouts. And I thought we had enough separation to kind of ride it out,” Lloyd said.
“But you’re just hoping for a miss. You hate to say that, you need to make ‘em miss. But one of those shots bounces off, you know, and we rebound it, you know, the game could have been over a little bit earlier. But they didn’t. They went in.
“I think we had one or two maybe poor decisions, but we’ll learn from that. We practice situations a lot. So a lot of the situations came up there and I felt comfortable not calling a timeout,” he added.
Ballo was strong from the start, tallying 16 points and nine rebounds in the first half to help the Wildcats to a 39-30 lead.
“We showed some grit in getting ourselves back in that,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “It felt like in the second half, every time we would get it to three or four, they’d stretch it back to nine or 10 and we just couldn’t quite crack the seal, so to speak, to get ’em where they were really, really nervous.
“And then we executed some stuff down the stretch pretty well to give ourselves a chance, you know, on the free-throw line there to cut it to two, and then ran a play where we thought we could get a good look at a 3 there to tie it, and obviously didn’t work.”
BIG PICTURE
Creighton: The Bluejays reached the title game by beating No. 21 Texas Tech in the opening round and stopping No. 9 Arkansas in the semifinals.
Arizona: The Wildcats also won the Maui Invitational in 2000 and 2014. Lloyd was part of two Maui titles as a Gonzaga assistant in 2009 and 2018.
UP NEXT
Creighton plays at No. 4 Texas on Dec. 1 as part of the Big 12-Big East Battle.
Arizona opens Pac-12 play at Utah on Dec. 1.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, a federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association Tuesday claims.
The powerful NRA joined a parade of gun-rights activists seeking to toss out the newly minted prohibition on dozens of rapid-fire pistols and long guns, as well as large-capacity magazines or attachments.
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the law Jan. 10 in response to the shooting deaths of seven at the Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, where 30 were also injured. He has said he believes the law will withstand court challenges about its constitutionality.
Two individual gun owners from Benton, nine miles (about 14 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis, are lead plaintiffs in the NRA lawsuit, the second to be filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. They are joined by two southern Illinois gun dealers and shooting range operators, as well as a Connecticut-based shooting sports trade association.
The NRA pleading notes that the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 Heller decision refuses to let stand any restriction on “weapons that are in common use” today unless — another ruling last summer found — there is evidence of an “enduring American tradition” of restriction.
The Illinois law “takes the radical step of banning nearly every modern semiautomatic rifle — the single-most popular type of rifle in the country, possessed by Americans in the tens of millions,” the document says.
The 24 million AR-15 semiautomatic rifles in U.S. circulation far outnumber the 16 million Ford F-150 trucks, the nation’s top-selling vehicle, according to the lawsuit.
A similar constitutional challenge was filed last week in the Benton-based Southern District. It was filed by gun owners and gun-rights advocacy groups.
Other lawsuits, filed in southern Illinois county courts, challenge the legislative procedure to approve the law.
Plaintiffs in all the lawsuits are likely seeking southern Illinois courts because of a stronger disposition toward Second Amendment rights. Guns are viewed far more favorably in central and southern Illinois where there are larger populations of hunters and sport shooters, compared to northern metropolitan areas, particularly Chicago, which continues to battle deadly handgun violence.
The NRA-backed lawsuit also argues that the law’s ban on high-capacity ammunition cartridges — no more than 10 rounds for rifles and 15 for pistols — and a long list of attachments and other accessories, is just as problematic because the weapons in question can’t operate without them, so the add-ons are constitutionally protected “firearms” by inference.
Pritzker and allies nationally refer to the guns as “assault weapons.” The pleading notes the tradition of bearing arms and includes a glossary of terms. It explains that the restricted semiautomatic weapons are not machine guns — the expulsion of each round requires a separate squeeze of the trigger.
It points out that detachable magazines date to the Civil War and semiautomatic power is a century old.
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Follow Political Writer John O’Connor at https://twitter.com/apoconnor | 2023-01-25T12:02:59+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-nra-sues-over-illinois-ban-on-semiautomatic-weapons/ |
Criminal Minds is back from the dead. Paramount+ has officially resurrected the procedural drama, which ended in February 2020 following a 15-season run on CBS, formally greenlighting the revival series on Thursday.
Original cast members Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster will return to reprise their characters. Showrunner Erica Messer, who oversaw the flagship series, will return to run the new iteration. Notably missing among the returning cast are Matthew Gray Gubler and Daniel Henney, the latter of whom currently stars in Amazon Prime Video's The Wheel of Time.
In the new Criminal Minds, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers come up against their greatest threat yet, an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. Now, as the world opens back up, the network goes operational and our team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.
“For 15 seasons, Criminal Minds was at the forefront of cutting-edge scripted drama as it explored the psychology behind crime – thrillingly,” said Nicole Clemens, President of Paramount+ Original Scripted Series. “The series never stopped evolving during its run, and we are beyond excited to bring it back into a new era with new stories for a new generation of viewers at Paramount+. Erica, the whole cast and creative team are building a season full of new twists that we are sure will electrify audiences.”
Messer will serve as showrunner, executive producer and writer, while Breen Frazier and Chris Barbour will join as writers and EPs. Glenn Kershaw will direct and executive produce and Mark Gordon will also serve as executive producer.
The resurrection of Criminal Minds comes more than two years after its series finale, which saw Vangsness' Garcia leaving the BAU for greener pastures as the others reported for duty on a new case.
"I knew that we would never please everyone with the final hour of the TV series that had been on 15 seasons because... we didn't want to write the ending. We didn't want it to end," Messer told ET at the time. "We wanted to leave it with, they're going to go fight another case and that will be that. We just won't go with them this time. That was the overwhelming majority saying, 'Can't the show just go on?' And part of it was also, if the show ever got picked up to keep going, which, who knows if that would ever happen, we can untie that bow really easily and keep telling stories."
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Harlingen post office preparing for holiday rush
The U.S. Postal Service is bracing for a busy shipping season, and a post office in Harlingen is getting ready for the workload increase.
"The holiday season gets real busy for us," Ramiro Leal, a mail carrier at the Harlingen USPS office, said.
Postmaster Tomas Herrera said two distribution clerks were brought on this holiday season to help with the workload. The Harlingen office now has nearly 100 people on payroll this holiday season, including 76 mail carriers.
“I am more than positive that we have the man power to deliver all packages in time here at the Harlingen area," Herrera said.
Mail carriers are expected to deliver 6,000 packages a day through Christmas.
Watch the video above for the full story. | 2022-11-25T02:17:24+00:00 | krgv.com | https://www.krgv.com/news/harlingen-post-office-preparing-for-holiday-rush |
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term as he sought Thursday to dispel notions that it is partisan, even after conservatives brought about the end of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief program.
“The court is an institution of law. It's an institution of law not of politics, not of partisanship,” Kavanaugh said at a judicial conference in Minnesota, in the first public remarks by a justice since the court recessed for the summer late last month.
The Supreme Court has been reshaped by the three justices nominated by President Donald Trump, including Kavanaugh. Although Kavanaugh sided with the conservative majorities in the affirmative action and student loan rulings, as well as last summer's ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion, he was also part of the mixed conservative and liberal majorities this term that backed Black voters in Alabama and preserved a federal law aimed at keeping Native American children with Native families.
And the term was marked by other notable surprises, rejecting conservative positions in a North Carolina redistricting case that could have reshaped elections across the country, while backing the Biden administration in a fight over deportation priorities.
“We have lived up, in my estimation, to deciding cases based on law and not based on partisan affiliation and partisanship," Kavanaugh said. "We don't caucus in separate rooms. We don't meet separately. We're not sitting on different sides of the aisle at an oral argument. ... We work as a group of nine.”
Speaking to an audience of judges, attorneys and court personnel from the 8th Circuit, which stretches from Minnesota and the Dakotas south to Arkansas, Kavanaugh said he didn't fully appreciate until he joined the court how much time the nine justices spend alone with each other.
He estimated that they eat lunch together around 65 times a year.
“And the rule at lunch is you can't talk about work," he said. "It's a good rule. ... It builds relationships and friendships and then when we have tough cases — and we only really have tough cases — you have a reservoir of good will toward each of the other people."
Kavanaugh said he was warmly welcomed in his first term in 2018 by then-Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, who were part of the court's liberal wing. He also praised his working relationships with the two newest justices, conservative Amy Coney Barrett and liberal Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Kavanaugh, who was the justice most often in the majority this term in divided cases, said the Supreme Court hears 60 to 70 cases a term and that only a relative few might get most of the attention. But he said there are lots of 9-0 decisions, and there can also be a lot of 7-2 and 6-3 decisions.
"All sorts of different lineups," he said. "And so I might be working with Sonia Sotomayor on the Andy Warhol case, while we disagree on a case on the competition clause. We're not going to let our relationship where we're working together on one suffer just because we disagree on the other. And that's going on with all nine of us on a daily basis."
Kavanaugh only briefly mentioned the ethics issues that have dogged some justices — including conservatives Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and the liberal Sotomayor — and potentially undermined public confidence in the court. He noted that Chief Justice John Roberts said in May that the justices were continuing to work on that as a group.
“That's accurate," he said. "I'm not going to add anything to what the chief justice has said on that topic.”
Roberts offered no specifics at the time, and the justices have not adopted an ethics code.
Kavanaugh said people getting upset when the high court makes difficult decisions comes with the territory. He said the best the justices can do is try to be consistent, clearly explain their reasoning, and try to show that they actually are working as a team of nine on difficult cases instead of caucusing on a partisan basis.
“You shouldn't be in this line of work if you don't like criticism," he said. "Because you're going to get it. And you're going to get a lot of it.”
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Credit: AP | 2023-07-13T21:15:33+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/justice-kavanaugh-seeks-to-dispel-the-notion-that-the-supreme-court-is-partisan/4CKAB6IG2BGJ7LCJYFPD2BWTRY/ |
Spongy moth caterpillars are crawling — or falling — back into Park Ridge this summer, and the city is preparing to counter the hordes with two rounds of targeted spraying in an attempt to prevent them from converging on homes and porches and threatening the city’s oak trees, as they did last summer.
City Forester Brandon Naser told aldermen at an April 17 Committee of the Whole meeting that the city would apply two rounds of aerial spray via helicopter in two targeted areas to counteract infestations of the caterpillars, which last summer piled up on decks and sidewalks near the Southwest Woods.
Spongy moths are an invasive species with a particular predilection for oak trees, according to a memo from Naser to council members. Eggs hatch in mid-May and moths spend seven to 10 weeks in the caterpillar stage, the memo states.
Prior reporting on the issue of spongy moths in Park Ridge quotes residents who found the insect onslaught alarming as well as a nuisance, and aldermen appeared to concur — toward the end of the Committee of the Whole meeting, 4th Ward Ald. Harmony Harrington jokingly predicted that council members would all have “spongy moth nightmares” that night.
The caterpillars are up to two inches long and are covered with tiny hairs, or “setae,” which can cause a mild skin rash in some people upon contact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In addition to being off-putting, however, the moths present a serious threat to trees by feeding on the leaves. This is known as defoliation, and it can be a hazard to trees already under stress.
“A single caterpillar can consume 11 square feet of vegetation during its lifetime which can greatly impact the health of our urban forest,” Naser’s memo states.
The city will treat two areas: 30 acres bounded by Lincoln and Devon Avenues to the west of the Southwest Woods and 26 acres bounded by Devon, Hamlin and Rose Avenues to the north of the Southwest Woods, according to a map presented to aldermen.
The treatments will take place about a week apart during May and June, Naser said, and residents of the affected areas would be notified via mail about the spray. Children should not play with or otherwise handle the caterpillars, city information for residents states.
The spray the city will use, known as Btk, is not harmful to people who come into contact with or ingest it, city communication states. | 2023-04-20T18:16:05+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/park-ridge/ct-prh-moth-attack-fight-back-tl-0427-20230420-oko5ovp2ajgm3cno4236grkhxu-story.html |
Original owners buy brewery back from Anheuser-Busch
BOONE, N.C. (Gray News) - The co-founders of a North Carolina brewery are buying their business back from Anheuser-Busch.
Nathan Kelischek and Chris Zieber founded Appalachian Mountain Brewery in 2011 before entering a partnership with the Craft Brew Alliance and eventually being acquired by the world’s largest brewing company.
In 2021, beers from the Appalachian Mountain Brewery officially became part of Anheuser-Busch’s craft beer portfolio.
Kelischek and Zieber, who are also cousins, said they stayed involved with the operation through the years under the different ownership groups, but they have now reached an agreement to purchase Appalachian Mountain Brewery back from their partners at Anheuser-Busch.
“We’re grateful to have spent the last two years as active founders within A-B’s craft portfolio,” the business partners shared.
Kelischek and Zieber added, “We will be shifting our focus immediately on growing our local team, opening our new taproom in Mills River, North Carolina.”
The North Carolina business partners said they have opened a new tap room in Asheville and will continue to own and operate their original location in Boone, North Carolina.
More information on the Appalachian Mountain Brewery is available online.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-03T20:10:22+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2023/06/03/original-owners-buy-brewery-back-anheuser-busch/ |
IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — One building in the recaptured but devastated Ukrainian town of Izium is filled with those at the end of their lives. It reeks of unwashed sheets and unbathed skin and needs more heat to fend off the approaching winter. Despair weighs on its occupants like a blanket and the sound of weeping echoes in its rooms..
Now an orphan wanders the cold hallways among the elderly and infirm, his eyes firmly upon the phone in his hand. Until a few days ago, 13-year-old Bohdan had a father. Now he has no one.
Bohdan’s father wasted away for weeks in the corridor room of a shelter for the injured and homeless before stomach cancer finally claimed him on Oct 3. During every dwindling waking moment at the end of his life, Mykola Svyryd worried about his son.
“He runs to me and says, ‘Papa, I love you.’ I tell him, ‘Who else could you love?’” said Svyryd, cheeks sunken and skin pale, in a bedside interview only a few days before his death at 70. “His mother is dead, his father is old. … When his father is gone, I won’t know if there is someone with him and where they will send him.”
The small compound in the eastern town opened in January as a rehabilitation center for people recovering from surgeries or injury. When the war started a month later, Russian forces quickly engulfed the town. Within a matter of weeks, airstrikes, artillery and fires had left their mark on nearly every building.
Those who didn’t have the means to flee the city quickly enough cowered in its basements, surviving — but only just — without electricity, gas or running water. In early September, a Ukrainian counteroffensive swept through the Kharkiv region, sending the Russians into a disorganized retreat from Izium and other towns.
But their departure did little to lessen the deprivation in Izium. The 39 people sleeping in the rehab center have nowhere else to go. They are infirm and impoverished , their homes are destroyed, and the rest of their families are dead or gone.
The realization of all that is what brings on the tears.
And this is how Mykola Svyryd and Bohdan ended up here. Svyryd was already dying when the war started, and cancer had taken Bohdan’s mother two years earlier.
The boy himself was born with a brain injury that his father had hoped doctors could eventually treat with surgery. Between timid glances and shy smiles, Bohdan says little, only a few short words at a time.
“He was born disabled. He never went to school. I taught him to read a little, to write numbers and letters,” Svyryd said of his son.
A retired former worker in a factory that made eyeglass lenses, Svyryd sheltered with his son from the Russian assault on the town, which had blown out all the windows in their apartment. Neighbors helped where they could as his health gradually failed.
“We had to sit in a basement for three months. When we came out, my health became worse and worse. And then my legs stopped working,” Svyryd said. By the time he spoke to AP reporters, he was bedridden and emaciated, his voice barely rising above a whisper.
Bohdan embraced his father tenderly and often in the older man’s last days. He whispers along with Ukrainian pop music and plays small-screen video games as avidly as any teen.
He seems to find nothing odd about being the only child in a building filled with the elderly, but nor does he particularly interact with them. Standing in a knit cap and blue hooded parka beneath the trees in the rehab center’s small front courtyard, he shuffles about uncertainly.
Svyryd was buried in a simple grave in a cemetery on the outskirts of Izium, a wooden cross and colorful bouquet of artificial flowers marking his final resting place.
Since his father’s death, Bohdan has often sat in the room they shared at the shelter, staring out distantly. He sleeps elsewhere in the shelter now, and the staff hope that a new environment will dull his pain a little.
The surgery that had been postponed because of war and his father’s illness is finally scheduled for the coming days. Ultimately, Bohdan will go up for adoption, one more Ukrainian orphan among so many.
But sometimes, he still asks where his father is. | 2022-10-14T13:46:34+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/this-orphan-watched-his-dad-die-now-he-awaits-his-future-in-a-ukrainian-shelter/ |
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Inventory levels for used heavy-duty sleeper trucks in Sandhills Global marketplaces have been rising since January 2022. Value trends, however, have been in decline. Specifically, asking and auction values have decreased for seven and eight consecutive months, respectively, and recent sleeper truck inventory trends suggest value declines are likely to continue into early 2023. The latest Sandhills market reports shed light on these and other trends.
The key metric used in all of Sandhills' market reports is the Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI). Buyers and sellers can use the information in the Sandhills EVI to monitor equipment markets and maximize returns on acquisition, liquidation, and related business decisions. The Sandhills EVI data include equipment available in auction and retail markets, as well as model year equipment actively in use. Regional EVI data is available for the United States (and key geographic regions within) and Canada, allowing Sandhills to reflect machine values by location.
This percentage gap between asking and auction values is quantified in Sandhills market reports as EVI spread, and during periods of accelerated or narrowing EVI spread, such as what Sandhills is seeing now, assessing buying and selling strategies is crucial in order to mitigate risk.
Sandhills Market Reports highlight the most significant changes in Sandhills' used heavy-duty truck, construction equipment, and farm machinery markets. Each report includes detailed analysis and charts that help readers visualize the data. The current used sleeper truck market report examines a regional breakdown of inventory and values, as well as auction value trends across model age years.
- The Sandhills EVI indicates used heavy-duty sleeper truck inventory increased in December, gaining 8.7% month over month. Used inventory levels have doubled since December 2021, increasing 104.2% year over year.
- Sleeper truck auction values decreased 7.4% from November to December 2022, while asking values decreased 3.4% in the same time frame.
- Asking values are trending down at a slower pace than auction values. Auction values were down 20.4% YOY and asking values decreased 0.7% YOY in December.
- EVI spread has widened in recent months. Asking values for used heavy-duty sleeper trucks were 58% higher than auction values in December. Asking values are typically 55% to 60% higher than auction values as expressed in EVI spread.
- The North Central region displayed the biggest M/M decreases in asking values (down 4.5%) and auction values (8.3%) from November to December 2022.
- In the South Central region, sleeper truck inventory increased 10.8% M/M in December, the highest among U.S. regions.
- The West region displayed the lowest M/M inventory increase (up 6.3% in December), along with the smallest M/M regional value declines. West region sleeper truck auction and asking values dropped 5.9% and 1.9% M/M, respectively.
- Used heavy-duty sleeper truck values in the North East region are typically lower than in other U.S. regions. In December, asking EVI for sleeper trucks in the North East was $61,000 while auction EVI was $38,000.
- Consistent inventory decreases throughout 2020 and 2021 were a major driver of rising auction values in used sleeper trucks manufactured from 2016 to 2019; values for these model years peaked in March and April of 2022.
- The Sandhills EVI shows that sleeper trucks manufactured from 2016 to 2019 have decreased 40% to 50% since the 2022 peaks.
- At their peak, auction values for heavy-duty sleeper trucks manufactured in 2016 and 2017 doubled. Despite the recent drop, auction values for 2016 and 2017 sleeper trucks are still above those observed in July 2020.
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The Sandhills Equipment Value Index (EVI) is a principal gauge of the estimated market values of used assets—both currently and over time—across the construction, agricultural, and commercial trucking industries represented by Sandhills Global marketplaces, including AuctionTime.com, TractorHouse.com, MachineryTrader.com, TruckPaper.com, and other industry-specific equipment platforms. Powered by FleetEvaluator, Sandhills' proprietary asset valuation tool, Sandhills EVI provides useful insights into the ever-changing supply-and-demand conditions for each industry.
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NYC transit agency pulls the brake on Twitter service alerts
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The transit authority that runs subways, commuter trains and buses in New York City is giving up on a system that sent automated alerts about service disruptions through Twitter. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to stop using Twitter for service alerts Thursday. MTA officials say they balked at Twitter’s recent decision to start charging for certain functions. The authority also was concerned with technical problems that had led to two recent outages of its Twitter alerts service. The decision put the country’s largest transportation network among a growing number of accounts who have reduced their Twitter presence or left the platform since its takeover by Elon Musk. | 2023-04-29T08:17:28+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/04/28/nyc-transit-agency-pulls-the-brake-on-twitter-service-alerts/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s “loose cough” has returned as he faces a rebound case of COVID-19, his doctor said Tuesday, though he “continues to feel well.”
White House physician Kevin O’Connor provided the update on the president’s condition as he continues to test positive for the virus. He said Biden “remains fever-free,” and that his temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and oxygen saturation “remain entirely normal.”
Still, Biden is required to remain in isolation through at least Thursday under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines — and perhaps longer under tougher White House protocols if he continues to test positive.
Biden’s rebound case — labeled such because he tested positive on Saturday just three days after being cleared from isolation during his initial bout of the virus with two negative tests last Tuesday and Wednesday — has left him eager to return to a normal schedule.
During his first go-around with the virus, Biden, 79, was treated with the antiviral drug Paxlovid, and his primary symptoms were a runny nose, fatigue and a loose cough, his doctor said at the time. | 2022-08-03T01:09:59+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/politics/doctor-bidens-covid-symptoms-return-in-good-spirits/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — When Melissa Martinez applied to have her student loan debt forgiven more than a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education told her she was ineligible.
Martinez, a professor, tried again this past year and managed to erase the last $6,000 she owed for her doctorate. She wasn’t alone — according to new federal figures, more than 145,000 borrowers have had the remainder of their federal student loan debt canceled through a program for people who work for schools, governments or nonprofits.
Hundreds of thousands more have completed the paperwork for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, and officials say many more likely qualify. An Oct. 31 deadline to apply under the less stringent rules is fast approaching.
There’s a broader conversation underway in America about how to handle student loan debt. An estimated 43 million Americans carry student loans worth $1.6 trillion, according to federal figures. Federal student loan payments were paused during the coronavirus pandemic and will remain so until at least Aug. 31. President Joe Biden is expected to make some sort of announcement about student loan relief before then.
Nearly all of the cancellations through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program have come since last October, when the government temporarily relaxed the complex requirements. Before that, the program had rejected more than 90% of applicants, the Department of Education said in 2019.
A spokesperson for the Education Department said Wednesday that most borrowers who were denied then were deemed ineligible because they didn’t meet employer eligibility requirements, their employment dates didn’t align with the dates of their student loans, or they didn’t have the required direct loans.
“I thought maybe it would work now,” said Martinez, who graduated from the University of Texas, Austin in 2010 with a doctorate in educational administration.
Martinez said the money will go towards lowering credit card debt and building savings to have on hand for emergencies and unexpected expenses.
“Knowing that it’s forgiven lifts some of the worry or stress off my shoulders,” she said.
Even though the deadline is in October, Martinez advises people who may qualify for the loan forgiveness to apply as soon as possible. She found the process difficult to navigate, even with the relaxed rules. It took her five months to complete the paperwork and another three months to hear back from the program.
“I remember calling and staying on the line for an hour waiting,” she said. Martinez also initially had her proof of employment denied, though it was approved when she re-sent the documents.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, launched in 2007 to steer more graduates to public service, cancels federal student loan debt after 10 years of public interest work, or 120 payments. Teachers, librarians, nurses, public interest lawyers, military members and other public workers all qualify, along with people who work for non-profits.
So far, the forgiveness totals almost $8.1 billion in federal loans, but that amount is just a fraction of the debt that could qualify. The average amount of debt forgiven through the program is $64,968.
“The program seems really simple — people commit ten years to serving their country and communities and the government promises to end their student debt,” said Kat Welbeck, Civil Rights Counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center. “We’ve seen, throughout the 14 years, so many people set back by administrative hurdles and burdens, not knowing they had access to this program or being told they couldn’t get access even though they worked in qualified employment.”
Under the reformed rules, loan servicers count payments that had previously been deemed unacceptable, such as when borrowers mistakenly or unwittingly signed up for non-qualifying plans.
“I think it’s a great incentive, especially for teachers. So many are overworked and underpaid, and they’ve got those loans that they’re still working on,” Martinez said.
The waiver period has been life-changing for loan holders who’ve been able to receive credit toward forgiveness for years they’ve worked in public service after previously being rejected, Welbeck said, describing joyful tears as loan balances drop to zero.
“There are so many more people to reach,” Welbeck added. “And it’s only a year, so we’re operating with a sense of urgency.”
Martinez encourages others to apply during the waiver period, despite the frustration. She says it was worth the time and effort to get the balance of her student loan forgiven.
Borrowers who are currently jobless or not working in public service may still qualify for forgiveness, according to the Department of Education. And the months during the pandemic since March 2020 in which payments on federal loans have been paused count as credits towards the total number of payments required for the program.
The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new rules for the program that are expected to take effect by July 2023. They would give borrowers more leeway if they’re late on payments or don’t pay in full.
Under the original rules, borrowers must make payments in full within 15 days of the due date to get credit toward their 120 monthly payments. The proposal would relax that, allowing borrowers to make progress even if they’re late or make the payment in multiple installments.
The waiver that expires Oct. 31 was mostly meant to make up for widespread confusion about which types of loans and payment plans are eligible under the program. Some borrowers had made years of payments only to find out they weren’t in an eligible plan or loan program.
The new proposed rules won’t change which loans are eligible, but they aim to provide more flexibility so borrowers don’t lose progress toward forgiveness because of late payments or paperwork problems.
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Associated Press Writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.
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The new lineup includes officially licensed Crumbl Cookies costumes inspired by the brand's
classic Pink Sugar Cookie and iconic packaging available exclusively at SpiritHalloween.com
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. and OREM, Utah, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirit Halloween is teaming up with Crumbl Cookies to expand its menu of foodie-inspired fashion with two sweet new costumes this season. Together, North America's largest Halloween retailer and the nation's largest cookie company will roll out two costumes inspired by the booming baked good brand.
Fans can mix up their Halloween look with two tasty and exclusive costume options, including:
- Adult Classic Pink Sugar Cookie Costume: Cookie lovers looking for a costume as sweet and perfectly-decorated as their favorite treat need look no further than Spirit Halloween's Adult Crumbl Cookies Frosted Cookie Costume. The Frosted Cookie costume features a sugar cookie base topped with Crumbl's signature swirl of pink frosting for an instant sweet tooth.
- Adult Iconic Pink Cookie Box Costume: Inspired by Crumbl's famous and instantly recognizable pink packaging, Spirit Halloween's Adult Crumbl Cookies Box Costume is the perfect ensemble to help fans do Halloween in classic Crumbl style.
Halloween fans craving the new cookie-inspired costumes can treat themselves exclusively at SpiritHalloween.com, while supplies last. The too-good-to-eat costumes will be offered in one size for $49.99 each.
"Spirit Halloween is famous for our creative collaborations, so teaming up with the fastest growing cookie brand in the country is a great way to celebrate the season," shared Kym Sarkos, Executive Vice President at Spirit Halloween. "We have seen the enthusiasm for Crumbl Cookies from fans, how much they love Halloween, and we are excited to serve up two hot new costumes."
"Our fans have been there to support us from the beginning, and we are so excited to provide them with a costume to help them take their celebrations to the next level," said Sawyer Hemsley, COO and Co-Founder of Crumbl Cookies. "We couldn't think of a sweeter way to help them celebrate Halloween than by giving them a chance to dress up as our fan-favorite sugar cookie and our perfectly postable pink box, especially since the beloved pink sugar cookie returned to the menu recently."
For the inside scoop on all things Halloween, follow @SpiritHalloween on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Visit SpiritHalloween.com, where die-hard Halloween fans can shop anytime, anywhere, every day of the year.
About Spirit Halloween Spirit Halloween (SpiritHalloween.com) is the largest Halloween retailer in the country, with over 1,450 locations in strip centers and malls across North America. Celebrating more than 39 years of business, Spirit is the premier destination for all things Halloween, offering one-stop shopping for everything from costumes to décor and party goods to accessories. In addition to being a fun and interactive event for shoppers, Spirit stores offer complete selections of costumes and accessories for infants/toddlers, children, 'tweens, teens, and adults, along with exclusive décor you won't find anywhere else. For more information, please visit: SpiritHalloween.com.
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Crumbl Cookies mission statement is to bring friends and family together over a box of the best cookies in the world. Crumbl was founded in 2017 in Logan, Utah by Jason McGowan and Sawyer Hemsley. In just five years, Crumbl has grown from a humble cookie shop to a booming franchise with over 500 locations in 45 states. Crumbl is honored to be the largest cookie company in the nation and fastest growing restaurant franchise. Its rotating menu offers new flavors every week while regularly bringing back crowd favorites and unique original recipes. Crumbl is open from 8am - 10pm on weekdays, 8am –midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and closed on Sundays. Visit Crumbl online at crumblcookies.com, on social media (@crumblcookies), or any of their nationwide locations.
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Queen Elizabeth II died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland at age 96 on Thursday. She was the longest-serving monarch in British history, reigning for 70 years.
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Queen Elizabeth II died at her Balmoral estate in Scotland at age 96 on Thursday. She was the longest-serving monarch in British history, reigning for 70 years.
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Feds find four Chinese solar panel companies have been evading US tariffs
By Ella Nilsen, CNN
After a months-long investigation, US officials have preliminarily determined that four Chinese solar panel companies have been avoiding US tariff laws by routing their operations through other Southeast Asian countries.
The Commerce Department investigation, which launched in March, looked at eight companies that manufacture solar panels and parts in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The department said Friday that four of them — BYD Hong Kong, Canadian Solar, Trina and Vina Solar — should be subject to additional US tariffs.
President Joe Biden in June waived the anti-circumvention tariffs on solar panels for two years, so the changes that result from the investigation won’t kick in until June 2024.
The full investigation is expected to be completed in May and could include different findings from the preliminary investigation, according to a senior administration official. The four companies will have to pay additional, steep tariff rates that apply to their Chinese parent companies. Other overseas companies must certify they are not using Chinese-made components or also face steep tariffs in the future.
China has a massive hold on the global supply chain for solar panels and parts — including in the US — but there have been allegations of human rights abuses in its manufacturing in addition to trade concerns.
The investigation was launched after one small US-based company, Auxin Solar, filed a complaint in February suggesting that some companies doing business in Southeast Asia might be avoiding tariffs. Auxin CEO Mamun Rashid previously told CNN that the complaint “was existential” for his company.
“When prices of finished panels from Southeast Asia come in below our bill of materials cost, American manufacturers cannot compete,” Rashid said, adding that “if foreign producers are circumventing U.S. law and causing harm to U.S. producers like Auxin Solar, it needs to be addressed.”
The fact that Commerce even initiated an investigation had a chilling effect across the US solar industry, which ground to halt earlier this year after the investigation was launched. Hundreds of projects were delayed or canceled in the spring, according to an industry survey, and there were fears the probe could have a devastating impact on the solar workforce.
The fallout created a crisis for the Biden administration, which is trying to hasten the transition to clean energy in the US. Biden’s top climate officials and top officials in the White House set to work on a strategy to allow solar panels and parts from Southeast Asia to continue to be shipped to the US, while letting Commerce carry out its investigation independently.
A senior administration official stressed on Friday that there are no import bans in place, adding that tariff orders on Chinese solar companies have been in place since 2012.
“Solar installers have 18 months to find new suppliers who are willing and able to show that they’re complying with American trade laws,” the official said.
US manufacturers cheered the investigation’s findings.
“While immediate relief for domestic solar manufacturers would be ideal, at the very least there will be duties imposed in the near future,” Alliance for American Manufacturing President Scott Paul said in a statement. “In the meantime, installers, solar manufacturers, and the federal government must turbocharge efforts to build up domestic capacity. The United States shouldn’t depend on dumped, subsidized, circumvented, or forced labor-made imports to build our solar energy future.”
But the national solar trade association expressed disappointment.
“The only good news here is that Commerce didn’t target all imports from the subject countries,” Solar Energy Industries Association President Abigail Ross Hopper said in a statement. “Nonetheless, this decision will strand billions of dollars’ worth of American clean energy investments and result in the significant loss of good-paying, American, clean energy jobs.”
Ross Hopper said the clock is ticking on the two-year window, and while the solar industry is working to move its supply chain away from Asia and to the US with the help of the new climate law, it will take years to complete.
“Two years is simply not enough time to establish manufacturing supply chains that will meet U.S. solar demand,” she said.
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™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-02T19:35:49+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2022/12/02/feds-find-four-chinese-solar-panel-companies-have-been-evading-us-tariffs/ |
ROME (AP) — Victor Osimhen combines the characteristics of a classic No. 9 with the talents of a modern striker.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s dribbling wizardry and passing abilities befuddle defenders in Italy and beyond.
Individually, Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia are devastating enough. Together, they are leading Napoli to new heights game after game.
The latest demonstration came when Osimhen scored a brace of headers and Kvaratskhelia earned and converted a penalty and set up two goals in Napoli’s 4-0 win at Torino in Serie A on Sunday.
The victory left the runaway leader 19 points ahead of second-place Lazio, which beat Roma 1-0 in a derby, and a step closer to Napoli’s first Serie A title since Diego Maradona led the club to its only two Italian league championships back in 1987 and 1990.
“Once again when I talked to the team before the game I had the feeling that there could be a sense of fulfillment, and once again they responded by showing that they’re made of different stuff, that they know how to handle the Napoli shirt,” coach Luciano Spalletti said. “There’s a Neopolitan saying that goes, ‘Whoever is hungry doesn’t feel sleepy,’ and that fits perfectly.”
Osimhen started it off midway through the first half when he leaped above the defense to redirect in a corner with a towering header.
After a couple of key saves from Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret — who is also quietly having a standout season — Kvaratskhelia doubled the advantage with a penalty.
But that was just the warmup.
The main act was Napoli’s third goal, a full team move with Kvaratskhelia providing a backheel flick to Mathias Olivera, who floated in a cross for Osimhen to head in at the far post.
“Napoli isn’t just (Osimhen and Kvaratskhelia). You’ve got to expand the discussion to the entire squad,” Spalletti said. “The third goal wasn’t just about Kvaratskhelia’s backheel pass, Olivera’s cross and Osimhen’s header. Before that (Napoli captain Giovanni) Di Lorenzo cut inside to create the conditions for the play to develop on the other side.”
Osimhen became the first player to score two headed braces in the same Serie A season since former Italy striker Alberto Gilardino accomplished the feat in 2009-10 with Fiorentina.
Osimhen has a league-best 21 goals in 27 matches, while Kvaratskhelia has 12 goals and 10 assists — the first player with such production in their first season in Europe’s big five leagues since Diego scored 13 and provided 13 assists for Werder Bremen 16 years ago.
Kvaratskhelia also set up Tanguy Ndombole’s first Serie A goal midway through the second half.
Osimhen also scored twice when Napoli beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 on Wednesday to secure a 5-0 aggregate victory and reach the Champions League quarterfinals.
ROME DERBY
Mattia Zaccagni scored for Lazio midway through the second half with a precise shot after Roma was reduced to 10 men in the first half when Roger Ibanez picked up his second yellow card for a foul on Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.
Roma thought it had equalized two minutes after Zaccagni’s goal following a free kick but the score was waved off by the VAR for offside.
Before kickoff, fans clashed with police outside the Stadio Olimpico.
Having also beaten Roma 1-0 in November, it marked the first time that Lazio won both season league derbies in 11 years.
Also, Fiorentina moved into the top half of the table by beating Lecce 1-0 with an own-goal from Antonino Gallo and Sampdoria defeated Hellas Verona 3-1 with a brace from Manolo Gabbiadini in a matchup of two teams in the drop zone.
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Democrats are pushing to reform the deposit insurance system following massive bank failures that nearly tanked the economy earlier this year.
After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank and First Republic Bank, whose uninsured deposits all ended up being insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Democrats are echoing the call of smaller banks, arguing that deposit insurance should apply to all U.S. deposits.
“The recent bank failures have reignited concerns regarding an implicit guarantee wherein only deposits at larger banks will reliably be safe in the event of a failure,” Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said Friday.
More to come: Banking crisis is over but its effects will last, Powell says
Waters endorsed a number of suggested reforms including “raising the $250,000 [account balance insurance] limit to a higher threshold, unlimited deposit insurance for everyone, and covering business payment accounts like the payroll accounts of start-up companies.”
The rise of ‘bailout culture’ raises questions
Financial regulators, who after the failures earlier this year bemoaned the U.S. financial sector’s “bailout culture” that “privatizes gains while socializing losses,” have been arguing for greater capital requirements on banks as part of an international banking framework.
FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said that improvements in calculating capital requirements would have specifically addressed SVB’s botched handling of rising interest rates.
First Republic fallout: Democrats fume as regulators bail out yet another failed bank
The bank’s approach ultimately led to its collapse and put the entire financial system at risk.
“If [SVB’s] unrealized losses had been required to flow through to capital, the bank would have been required to hold more capital against those assets, and that would have meant that the capital hit on the institution would have been … easier to absorb,” Gruenberg said at an event on Thursday.
Some GOP voices join chorus for reform
Since the bank failures in March, some Republicans have also signaled support for the idea of extending deposit insurance across the banking industry, including Financial Services Committee member Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.).
Luetkemeyer said in March a blanket insurance policy would help prevent cash outflows from smaller banks to bigger banks.
Many smaller banks were effectively state-backed following the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008.
Who is responsible? Regulators to blame in part for SVB, Signature Bank failures, federal watchdog says
But other Republicans have pushed back, including Financial Services Committee chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who received donations from and was even reportedly thrown a fundraiser by Signature Bank less than two weeks before its collapse.
His committee passed much more limited legislation focused on regulatory actions specifically during “crises” last month.
Republican committee aides told The Hill that the bill would “ensure banking regulators are acting within the authorities provided by Congress by bolstering accountability and transparency at the agencies, especially in the event they invoke emergency powers.”
Pushback against reform gaining traction
Critics say the bill actually further de-regulates the banking business by allowing any bank or financial company on the high-powered Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) list of “systemically important” institutions to lobby Congress to be removed.
“This would render the FSOC designation authority under the Dodd-Frank Act futile and unnecessarily politicize the agency’s efforts to monitor companies that pose an outsized risk to our financial system,” Americans for Financial Reform, an organization who advocates for tougher banking rules, wrote in an analysis.
“This bill comes at the heels of the FSOC’s announcement to reinvigorate its designation process, a welcome step in preventing the next financial crisis,” it wrote.
Speaking at a conference of the American Bankers Association trade group in March, McHenry expressed doubt that a new banking law was the right answer.
McHenry has sounded notes of agreement with both FDIC regulators and Democrats.
“What we have to do is address over a period of time, the safety and stability of smaller banks, at a time where the market is judging their business model, their interest rate sensitivity, and the assumption that regulators are going to require a lot more capital for these banks to exist,” he said last month.
A free market no more? Rules of the game have changed after banking crisis, some say
He also concurred with FDIC chair Gruenberg that mismanaged interest rate exposure was the reason for SVB’s collapse.
“If we look at the reason why these banks — the three of the 30 largest banks in America — have failed in the last two months, it’s because of interest rate sensitivity of their balance sheet. Which means they misjudged inflation,” he said in May.
Experts weigh in on regulating banks like utilities
Economists say that extending deposit insurance to all U.S. depositors would be like regulating the banking system in the same way as water and electricity providers.
“The only way that [extending deposit insurance to everyone] would possibly make sense is if banks became regulated like public utilities,” Dartmouth University economist Andrew Levin told The Hill.
That would likely mean that banks could no longer take advantage of the huge spreads between the interest rates they provide to customers and the interest rates they pay to each other.
The average savings account now pays 0.25 percent in annual interest while the federal funds rate is now more than 5 percent.
But a more practicable idea, Levin says, for stabilizing and ensuring the financial system would be to allow groups of small businesses and consumers to bank directly with the Federal Reserve.
They could do that using digital wallets in the same way that big banks and other types of big money funds already do through the Fed’s reserve system and reverse repo facility.
Such a system has perhaps extra appeal when banks run like the one that crippled SVB are fast-tracked by social media and digital interconnectedness.
Criticism mounts: House lawmakers roast regulators over failed banks
“Ordinary families and small businesses should be able to have a transaction account,” he said in an interview. “It would be perfectly safe, secure, easy to use, and effectively free. So don’t just do that for the money market funds and the pension funds and insurance companies, make it available to everyone.”
Is banking directly with the Fed a workable plan?
Even more direct proposals are out there, whereby small businesses and consumers would bank directly with the Fed as opposed to through third parties like business consortiums and credit unions.
One such plan by Cornell University law professor Robert Hockett envisions a “publicly administered digital savings and payments platform,” which Hockett describes as “an essential public utility.”
The system would use “phone-accessible digital wallet capability [and] enable direct peer-to-peer transacting in ‘real time’ … among all wallet holders.”
A similar system is already being built in China, which the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a U.S. think tank, describes as “further ahead in digital currency research than any other major economy.”
Dartmouth’s Levin said privacy concerns would likely make an exact analogue a legal nonstarter in the U.S., but initial research into the technical feasibility of digital wallets from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was already completed last year.
“Central banks, researchers, and policymakers have proposed various objectives including fostering financial inclusion, improving efficiency in payments, prompting innovation in financial services, maintaining financial stability, and promoting privacy,” the researchers noted in a white paper published last year.
They cautioned that their work was not yet “intended for a pilot or public launch.” | 2023-06-26T21:06:27+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/hill-politics/lawmakers-push-major-banking-reforms-following-near-collapse-of-financial-sector/ |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trayce Thompson drove in two runs and thrilled his older brother, Klay, with an RBI double during the decisive rally in the seventh while the Los Angeles Dodgers surged past the San Francisco Giants 7-4 Sunday for their season-high eighth consecutive victory.
Unlikely cleanup hitter Jake Lamb delivered a tiebreaking RBI double during that three-run rally by the NL-leading Dodgers, who have 15 victories in 16 games overall. Los Angeles swept a four-game series with the Giants at Chavez Ravine for the first time since 1995 and only the third time in the archrivals' long history.
Gavin Lux also drove in two runs as Los Angeles' offense overcame a mediocre start by Clayton Kershaw to earn the club's 11th consecutive victory at Dodger Stadium. After Lux's RBI single drove in Lamb in the seventh, Trayce Thompson's drive to the right-center gap scored Max Muncy and pumped up Klay Thompson, the Golden State Warriors star, in his seat right behind the Giants' dugout.
Freddie Freeman, Lux and Thompson had early RBI singles for LA, and Muncy added a run-scoring double. Evan Phillips (5-3) pitched the seventh for the Dodgers, who got 4 2/3 innings of scoreless, two-hit relief culminating in Craig Kimbrel's 17th save.
Darin Ruf hit a tying two-run homer in the fifth and Thairo Estrada had a two-run single for the Giants, who got swept at Chavez Ravine by a combined 25-13.
Alex Cobb yielded eight hits and four runs while pitching into the sixth for San Francisco. He is winless in nine starts since May 17.
Journeyman backup Lamb doubled twice while batting cleanup for LA for the first time, and he came through against Tyler Rogers in the seventh.
After Freeman got a one-out double off Dominic Leone (3-3) when Yermín Mercedes couldn’t make a tough catch on his tailing fly ball, Lamb’s drive to right bounced into the short porch.
Kershaw yielded five hits and four runs while failing to get through the fifth inning for the Dodgers in his first appearance since throwing a scoreless inning in his first career All-Star Game start at home last Tuesday.
The nine-time All-Star selection took a perfect game into the eighth inning of his previous start in Anaheim last weekend, but Ruf's two-run shot chased him after 94 pitches and six strikeouts. Kershaw dropped to one knee while the homer soared toward LA’s bullpen, lamenting his hung slider.
After Mookie Betts singled on Cobb's first pitch, Trea Turner extended his hitting streak to 11 games and Freeman stretched his streak to 12 games with two more singles to score Betts. The Dodgers got four consecutive two-out hits in a three-run rally in the third.
BROS BEING BROS
Klay Thompson cheered wildly for his brother and the Dodgers throughout the game despite his proximity to his fellow Bay Area pro athletes. The four-time NBA champion also chugged a beer for his Instagram followers during the sixth inning. The sons of Lakers broadcaster Mychal Thompson grew up in Orange County.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Giants: 3B Evan Longoria went on the injured list for the third time this season. The 36-year-old veteran strained his right hamstring while running out a grounder Saturday. He will have an MRI exam Monday. David Villar started at third base and went 0 for 4.
Dodgers: Andrew Heaney is likely to return to the rotation Wednesday against Washington, manager Dave Roberts said. In his first season with the Dodgers, the longtime Angels left-hander has appeared in only three games — just one since April 17 — due to shoulder woes. Roberts is going temporarily to a six-man rotation during a stretch of 18 consecutive days with games.
UP NEXT
Giants: Jakob Junis (4-1, 3.06 ERA) takes the mound in Arizona on Monday for the opener of a three-game series.
Dodgers: Tony Gonsolin (11-0, 2.02) returns from his All-Star Game loss on the Dodger Stadium mound Monday to open a three-game series against the Nationals and All-Star outfielder Juan Soto, who was serenaded with chants of “Future Dodger!” during the Midsummer Classic.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to increase protection and improve breathing while wearing a PPE face covering all day," said an inventor, from Hilliard, Ohio, "so I invented the D K B PPE HOOD. My design would eliminate the need to breathe in exhaled air trapped within a mask and it will not interfere with the face area."
The invention provides an improved PPE mask covering for the entire head. In doing so, it prevents the covering from interfering with the face area for use all day. It also ensures that the user has a fresh filtered air supply and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a practical design that is easy to wear and use so it is ideal for individuals who wear PPE face masks for longer durations. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Cincinnati sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-CCT-4664, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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PHOENIX — The biggest sales of the summer are almost here! We talked with RetailMeNot Shopping Expert Kristin McGrath about what you need to know to save the most money.
"I would say for 4th of July concentrate your efforts on home, mattresses, furniture, appliances, that sort of thing. Concentrate your efforts on tech for Prime Day," says McGrath.
She tells us if your home needs a makeover, now is the time to shop.
"4th of July is a really big sales time for big ticket home stuff. It's a very home centric holiday. Like, a lot of long weekends are super seeing big sales on mattresses, appliances. Home Depot's offering up to 35% off appliances. Home decor deals are going on Overstock and Wayfair. Basically, every place that sells home goods is marking them down," says McGrath.
She tells us a lot of the disruptions we saw to the supply chain during the pandemic have eased, and with inflation cooling off too businesses are back to their typical schedule for sales.
"The deals are pretty normal. We're talking, you know, up to 75% off clearance stuff, about 30 to 40% off non-clearance," says McGrath.
And if you can, now is also a good time to start your back-to-school shopping.
"Because summer is passing its midpoint, you're gonna see some good discounts on you know, summer clothing. You're gonna find better pricing towards the end of summer around Labor Day, and a lot of that summer clothing. However, the selection is not going to be as good. So, you kind of have to balance out whether you want a good deal or whether you want a lot of choices," says McGrath.
Her last tip: do your research. You can use websites like camelcamelcamel.com or Keepa.com to find an item's price history. That way you can see if what retailers are offering is actually a good deal or it a store bumped up the price to make it look like you're saving money.
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An Exciting Race For A Great Cause, The Feed The County 150 Returns To Spud Speedway
Caribou, Maine (WAGM) - Over the weekend, The Aroostook Savings & Loan Feed The County 150 , a local charity event to raise money for the Catholic Charities Maine Food Bank which supplies food to all of the food pantries in Aroostook County was held. The race itself was the first stock car race in three years . Newssource 8s Jonathon Eigenmann was there Sunday covering the event and has the story.
Troy Haney:” This is a third time we’ve done this event, this is the third year in a row. That we, of course, the last couple of years we were off due to covid but, we don’t want to see anybody in our community go hungry and that’s the driving force behind this one race a year we do at spud speedway”.
On Sunday the Feed The County 150 took place, Pro All Star Series drivers came out along with other classes like pass modifieds to race against each other and put on a show for race fans, but of course the main purpose of this race is to help feed the county. And everyone there from the drivers to the volunteers are determined to give their all to help those who need it.
Troy Haney:” I’ve grown up in Aroostook county, I’ve been blessed to have a couple of local businesses that have been supported by our communities all over Aroostook County. This is a way we can give back, we try really hard to figure out ways to give back to the community and help, this is one of our main things all year long with other avenues along with our other businesses”.
And this event just shows how much people inside and outside the county care for each other.
“We get 73 sponsors for this event that decided to help feed the county, local businesses and people and individuals, and then we have all these race teams from all over New England, that could go to a racetrack closer to them today. They didn’t have to drive the four, five , six. seven, eight, ten hours depending on where their coming from to be here, but they came because there was a cause”.
This has been a busy weekend for many of the volunteers for feed the county and Dixie Shaw, who on Saturday hosted the 7th Annual Feed The County Family Fun Day, and it help set the stage for the race that would take place the next day.
Dixie Shaw: " The event yesterday was awesome, it was beautiful weather, its again our 7th annual family fun day at Goughan’s Berry Farm with the corn maze, the mini golf, all of the wonderful things, The Barbeque and we had a great turnout because I think people. They know what to expect, they know when they come to Goughan’s berry farm its going to fun for the whole entire family. there was a great turnout, a lot of support for our work and we sure do appreciate everybody who came out to do that as well as the race this weekend”.
One race driver in Spencer Morse really enjoys his time at Spud Speedway, and to raise money and food for charity, his team along with other drivers and car owners set up a challenge that started with 100 dollars and couple of cans of food and asked other drivers to match it. well, they did, and it turned into 1,630 dollars in donations along with a bunch of food. Spencer Morse says he just loves being a part of the atmosphere the county presents.
Spencer Morse:” There is no better people, in the state of Maine or in the country then up here in caribou. And just the way that this show is put together. So many people work so hard, and no money is going back in their pocket it’s all to help the people of the county. So just everything about this when you can combine race cars and you can combine the charity and giving back, I’m absolutely all in”
The need to support those less fortunate is needed now more than ever, due to high costs of heating, oil due to the current inflation
Dixie Shaw: " It doesn’t matter if your low income or working or whatever, it just seems like the ends don’t meet anymore. And when the ends don’t meet, something’s has to give and you know you have to pay certain bills like the rent, or the mortgage, or whatever or you’ll be homeless. So, people cut back on food, they cut back on heat because they can go a little hungry or they can get/be a little cold.” But our hope is that if we can help alleviate some of the need for food, that it will help them with their bottom line and help them get those ends together a little better”.
The important message to take away from this race and the events hosted by feed the county is that at this time where inflation is high and it comes down to choosing between certain needs based on importance, that we need to help each other, so that we can all be happy and enjoy life to the fullest.
Jonathon Eigenmann, Newssource 8.
Copyright 2022 WAGM. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-13T02:26:11+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2022/09/13/an-exciting-race-great-cause-feed-county-150-returns-spud-speedway/ |
Here's a snapshot of the United States in 2023.
The NFL completed its season Sunday with a Super Bowl that was viewed by 113 million people, making it the third-most-watched television show of all time. On Saturday, the XFL will return to the field to kick off its 10-week regular-season schedule. On April 15, the USFL will start its own 10-week season.
In all, there will be 20 consecutive weekends of nationally televised pro football from now until early July. The NFL hasn't confirmed its preseason schedule yet, but a look at the calendar suggests that 2023 will deliver pro football games on 46 of its 52 weekends.
Purchased out of bankruptcy in 2020 by Dany Garcia, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners, the XFL has spent 2½ years in product development. It now has more than 800 full-time employees, an exclusive agreement with ESPN/Disney to broadcast and stream all 43 of its games and a calendar that will make players available to transition into NFL offseason programs at the start of May.
"We want to be a league of opportunity and innovation," league president Russ Brandon said. "And we want to continue to advance the game of football and to develop players for it."
Let's take a closer look at the details within this iteration of the XFL, how it will fit into the larger football ecosystem, its plans for differentiating itself from the USFL and the extent to which it wants to work with the NFL.
Is this the same XFL we saw in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic?
In some ways, yes. Garcia, Johnson and RedBird bought the league's intellectual property and other assets from Vince McMahon's Alpha Entertainment in August 2020 for $15 million.
Where has it been?
The new owners briefly considered a single-market season for 2021, but the timing of the sale process would have made it a tight turn. It then spent part of that year exploring a partnership with the CFL before ultimately deciding to remain independent and build toward a 2023 return to the field.
That 2020 iteration was a descendent of the original XFL that played one season in 2001 through a partnership between McMahon's WWE and NBC Sports. It leaned heavily into a pro wrestling schtick, deciding opening possession by a scramble for the ball rather than a coin toss, encouraging confrontations between coaches and aggressive sideline reporters (one was retired wrestler Jesse Ventura) and allowing players to use alternative names on their jerseys. (Running back Rod Smart used the nickname "He Hate Me.")
McMahon disavowed that aesthetic for the 2020 version, deciding instead to make it more like a traditional football league but with designs on reimagining the game through new rules and access-based broadcast storytelling. The USFL adopted many of those ideas when it relaunched in the spring of 2022.
What is the basic structure of the league?
Eight teams are divided into two divisions to play a 10-week regular season. The top two teams in each division will play a round of semifinal playoff games April 29-30 before a championship game to be played May 13.
The league made three changes to its franchise locations, moving out of New York, Los Angeles and Tampa, Florida, and into Las Vegas, San Antonio and Orlando, Florida.
Here are the division arrangements:
North Division: D.C. Defenders, Seattle Sea Dragons, St. Louis BattleHawks, Vegas Vipers
South Division: Arlington Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, Orlando Guardians, San Antonio Brahmas
Will they operate out of their home markets or from a central location?
For 2023, the XFL has employed a hybrid structure. All eight teams will practice in or around a hub in Arlington, Texas, where training camp has been underway since early January. Teams will travel to home markets for games that will be played in a combination of NFL/college stadiums, converted baseball ballparks and soccer fields.
Here are the home venues for each team:
Arlington: Choctaw Stadium
Houston: TDECU Stadium
Orlando: Camping World Stadium
Vegas: Cashman Field
San Antonio: Alamodome
Seattle: Lumen Field
St. Louis: The Dome at America's Center
D.C.: Audi Field
What are expectations for attendance?
There are likely to be significant variations in game attendance. St. Louis averaged 28,541 fans per game in 2020, but the overall league average was 18,614. The lowest-drawing 2020 markets, New York and Los Angeles, are not part of the league in 2023. Brandon did not offer an attendance goal but noted that players and coaches have made multiple trips to each market during training camp to begin making connections.
"They've done an outstanding job of continuing to light up the excitement in our markets," Brandon said.
The XFL began selling season-ticket packages last fall with price points that started at $100 per seat for the season in seven of the eight cities. The lowest-priced season tickets for games in St. Louis are $125.
Did the XFL keep its unique rules from 2020?
The league hired Dean Blandino, the longtime NFL officiating executive who supervised referees for the 2020 XFL, as its vice president of officiating and rules innovation. In that role, Blandino has preserved most of the 2020 rules with a few tweaks.
The XFL kickoff will once again put the kicking team and the returning team 5 yards apart. No one except the kicker and returner can move until the ball is caught or is on the ground for three seconds, an effort to encourage returns and discourage touchbacks. The arrangement prompted XFL teams in 2020 to return 92% of kickoffs; the NFL rate this season was 40%.
After touchdowns, teams will choose one of three options from scrimmage: a 1-point-attempt play from the 2-yard line, a 2-point play from the 5 and a 3-point play from the 10. Blandino said most coaches are likely to use the 2-point conversion unless end-game math requires a different approach.
The XFL, meanwhile, has reinterpreted a rule that has long vexed NFL fans. If a team fumbles into its opponent's end zone, and the ball goes out of bounds without being recovered, it will not be a touchback. Instead, the offense will retain possession at the point of the fumble.
After initiating all reviews from the replay booth in 2020, the XFL will give its 2023 coaches one challenge per game -- a "golden challenge," Brandon called it -- to use on any play or penalty in a game. The NFL, by contrast, does not allow coaches or replay officials to review penalties.
The league tweaked its overtime structure to consist of a minimum of three plays from the opponents' 5-yard line, per team, rather than five. There were no overtime games during the XFL's 2020 season to test the original rule.
Finally, teams will have an alternative to the onside kick in the fourth quarter. Instead of kicking, they can line up for one offensive play to get 15 yards in order to maintain possession after a score.
What will be different from 2020?
In addition to the hub practice model, Brandon pointed to the league's uniforms, which were redesigned by Under Armor.
Brandon also noted that seven of the eight head coaches will be different. Arlington's Bob Stoops returned from the 2020 league, but the remainder are new. The list includes a mix of former NFL head coaches and prominent players:
D.C.: Reggie Barlow
St. Louis: Anthony Becht
Orlando: Terrell Buckley
Seattle: Jim Haslett
Houston: Wade Phillips
San Antonio: Hines Ward
Vegas: Rod Woodson
Overall, however, the XFL did not feel compelled to overhaul the 2020 product.
"That version of the XFL was obviously moving along well on the football side," Brandon said. "Unfortunately our whole entire world got crippled by the pandemic."
What about players?
The XFL has held two drafts and, since the start of the year, has added about 50 players who finished the NFL season on practice squads. Most of the 51 players per roster are what Doug Whaley, the XFL's senior vice president of player personnel, would classify as those who would rank as Nos. 53-75 on an NFL training camp roster.
Said Whaley: "It's players that need to determine, and we as a league need to determine, whether they're really just good college players that aren't good enough to be NFL players or if they are NFL players that, for whatever circumstances, haven't had the light shined on them to show that they can make it. There's a tranche of players in there that can play really good football, and as we've been saying and I've been saying, we are either going to be a launching pad for NFL careers or a soft landing where people can still live out their dream of playing professional football and then transition to another phase of their life."
With that said, there are some notable former NFL players mixed throughout the league. That list includes:
WR Geronimo Allison (Vegas)
LB Vic Beasley (Vegas)
WR Martavis Bryant (Vegas)
QB Ben DiNucci (Seattle)
DB Matt Elam (Orlando)
WR Josh Gordon (Seattle)
DB Will Hill (Arlington)
P Marquette King (Arlington)
QB Paxton Lynch (Orlando)
QB A.J. McCarron (St. Louis)
DL Caraun Reid (D.C.)
WR Eli Rogers (Orlando)
QB Kyle Sloter (Arlington)
P Brad Wing (San Antonio)
What are the players' salaries?
Whaley and executive vice president of football operations Marc Ross have pitched agents on deals that would pay players $5,000 per week with a $1,000 bonus per win. Including other potential bonuses, the average player would be estimated to earn about $60,000 from training camp through the end of the season. The XFL also valued its benefits package as worth an additional $20,000, in addition to paying for housing and two meals a day during the season.
For context, NFL practice squad players will earn a minimum of $12,000 per week in 2023. The minimum salary for NFL players on the active roster in 2023 will be $750,000.
Some quarterbacks are expected to receive higher salaries, although not as high as in 2020, when the XFL signed some passers to deals worth up to $500,000.
Seattle Sea Dragons QB Steven Montez hopes to show off his skills to NFL teams. Seattle kicks off its XFL season vs. D.C. on Sunday (8 p.m. ET on ESPN, ESPN+).
Can the XFL coexist with the USFL?
To the extent that the leagues are in competition, the USFL got a one-year head start by kicking off in the late spring of 2022. In some cases, it signed players to two-year contracts to keep them away from the XFL in 2023.
Speaking in 2022, USFL executive vice president of football operations Daryl Johnston noted his league would get past its growing pains before the XFL. But the big differentiator, Johnston said, would be Fox Sports' ownership of the USFL and partnership with NBC.
"Let's say the product is the same on the field, which I think is going to be a challenge for them to be able to match us," Johnston said, "but how do you then deliver that to the fan? When you're talking about Fox and NBC as partners, I don't think there is a way for the XFL to match what we have created there in the ability to broadcast the USFL into television for the fans."
Speaking earlier this month, Brandon said, "I've only been focused on the XFL and what we're doing," but he noted the timing of the XFL's calendar, which is designed as a bridge for fans who still have football on their mind after the Super Bowl and leaves players in position to jump into NFL offseason programs.
In 2022, the XFL and NFL reached an agreement to collaborate on innovation programs, officiating initiatives and protecting the health of players. Brandon said at the time that the XFL could serve as a "petri dish" for the NFL to experiment with proposed rules, test new equipment and develop prospective officials and coaches.
What are the XFL's broadcast plans?
The league signed an exclusive agreement with ESPN/Disney to air every game while also collaborating on other content. Seven games will be broadcast on ABC, 22 on a combination of ESPN and ESPN2 and 15 on FX. ESPN+ will stream every game.
All games will have two broadcast crew members on the sideline to interact with players and coaches for in-game access. Blandino also indicated replay decisions and some officiating discussions will be part of the broadcast.
This week, the XFL announced a docuseries titled "Player 54: Chasing the XFL Dream" will debut Thursday on ESPN2. "Player 54" refers to co-owner Dwayne Johnson, who played college football at Miami but did not make a 53-man NFL roster.
What would success look like in 2023 for the XFL?
For different reasons, neither of the XFL's predecessors -- in 2001 and 2020 -- made it past one season. So the first measure of success will be getting to a 2024 season.
Brandon, however, said the league wants to demonstrate it is fit for a long-term run well beyond a second season. The XFL has built out a league office that includes 12 senior executives as well as separate business and football operations departments for each team.
"We've taken so much time and energy in trying to build this the right way," he said. "[Ownership] has allowed us to build an incredible senior level executive staff and in just building the organizational design to this. We're very focused on long-term sustainable success. That is the overall goal here. We're trying to phase things in. We're not trying to over-index everything in Year 1. We were very disciplined in structuring this league over time." | 2023-02-16T13:45:27+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/xfl/story/_/id/35660230/xfl-football-2023-primer-rules-player-salaries-coaches-expectations |
WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Monday, November 7, 2022
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.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 20s.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in
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.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of snow overnight. Lows
in the lower 20s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Northwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 17 to 20.
.THURSDAY THROUGH VETERANS DAY...Mostly clear. Highs in the upper
20s to mid 30s. Lows 18 to 20.
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1132 PM PST Mon Nov 7 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
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gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
Brisk. Northeast wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 20. Brisk. Northeast
wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the 30s. North wind 5 to 15 mph with
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.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 10 to 17. Northeast wind
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1132 PM PST Mon Nov 7 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow. Lows 11 to 21. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of snow in the morning. Highs
in the upper 20s to lower 30s. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Very cold. Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 14.
.WEDNESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 30s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Very cold. Partly cloudy. Lows 3 to 13.
.THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s
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1132 PM PST Mon Nov 7 2022
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19 to 26. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph.
.TUESDAY...Cloudy with a chance of snow in the morning, then
mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 20s to lower
30s. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 20 percent.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 18. North wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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40s, except in the upper 20s to lower 30s on the Waterville
Plateau. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 17.
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1132 PM PST Mon Nov 7 2022
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18 to 24. North wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
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Tavon Lozada lives right down the street from Midtown Bistro, but he never knew it until Tuesday.
“I”m literally like 30 seconds away, and I didn’t know it was here,” Lozada said.
The St. Michael’s senior post player might not have known the restaurant existed until he learned the Horsemen were holding a special team lunch there Tuesday, but all it took was one plate of pasta for him to become a fan.
He wasn’t alone in that assessment.
For most of this week, Midtown Bistro set up special lunches for five of the city’s boys teams and one girls squad that advanced to the state basketball tournament. For many players, it was the first time they had been to the restaurant.
Coordinated by co-owners Edmund Catanach and Angel Estrada, he reached out to the teams as a way of showing support to them as they embark on their postseason journeys.
The gesture has a special connection for Catanach, who played basketball at St. Michael’s and had sons who played for the Horsemen in the mid-2000s. He said he understands the long road the players and coaches took to get to this point, and he wanted to honor them for their hard work and dedication.
“The kids deserve it, they work hard,” Catanach said. “I remember when I was in high school and they did it for us, you know. It was just in the cafeteria, but it was something nice.”
Monday saw Santa Fe High and Santa Fe Indian School bring their boys teams, while St. Michael’s and Academy for Technology and the Classics boys took their turns Tuesday. The Capital boys will eat there Wednesday, and the ATC girls will have their lunch Thursday.
Catanach said these were the most team lunches the restaurant has done for the opening week of the state tournament.
For Santa Fe High and Capital’s programs, they have held state tournament meals at the restaurant for a while. Demons head coach Zack Cole said this was the seventh straight year the team has done it, while Capital has regularly done it since the restaurant opened in 2012.
Cole said the lunch is a way of making the state tournament a special time for the players. It was a big step up from the usual post-game meals at a fast-food restaurant.
“It magnifies our moment this first week,” Cole said. “It’s a long week in terms of preparation getting ready for your one game on the weekend. So, it fills this week up, it magnifies the moments, gets the kids excited. So, it’s always nice to see them have moments like this.”
Santa Fe Indian School head coach Jason Abeyta said it was the first time he had done this with the program, and felt it was good for some of his players to be in a social setting like a restaurant.
“It’s an eye-opener to these guys too,” Abeyta said. “There’s a lot of learning of being more outgoing and talkative. Native Americans can sometimes be very shy.”
SFIS senior Owen Pecos said he thought his coach was joking when he told them of the lunch, and didn’t realize he wasn’t until there was an announcement Monday morning excusing the basketball team from classes.
“I was like, ‘It’s during school hours,’ ” Pecos said. “So I didn’t believe him at first.”
The teams were ushered to a room separate from the main dining area. The menu had select items for the players and to choose from, like a green chile cheeseburger and pasta. They also got an appetizer of calamari and cake for dessert. The programs paid for the meals, but Catanach said they received a discount.
He added he was doing this during a big week for Midtown Bistro — it’s during the heart of the city’s Restaurant Week, in which restaurants promote special deals designed to attract new and existing customers.
“It’s the first year it came back in two years,” Catanach said. “So, my lunch is taking a little hit because I don’t offer a Restaurant Week lunch menu. But lunches are a little light, right now at this time [of the year].”
Estevan Martinez, a junior guard for ATC, said the lunch made a special week more memorable for he and his teammates. It the first time the Phoenix had a celebratory lunch because it was the program’s first time making it to the state tournament.
“It was pretty cool to have a fancy restaurant sponsor this,” Apodaca said.
Catanach added there was a business motive to his decision, but the gesture is still coming from the heart.
“The truth of the matter is, when you look at it from the bigger picture, these are future customers you know will become lawyers, they’ll become business people, they’ll become writers,” Catanach said. “And they’ll remember this.” | 2023-03-01T10:02:02+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/sports/midtown-bistro-honors-tournament-teams-with-special-lunch/article_eaec39d2-b7b1-11ed-b188-77185d9f5132.html |
WASHINGTON – In the waning moments of Democrats' four-decade hold on the House, I saw a gesture that seems unthinkable today. On the evening of Nov. 29, 1994, they let the top Republican preside, briefly, over the chamber.
It was a display of respect and affection toward Minority Leader Bob Michel, R-Ill., retiring after a 38-year House career served entirely under Democrats. He embraced with outgoing Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash. Republicans were taking over in January under the combative Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., abandoning Michel's consensus-building style.
Those feelings between leaders are all but gone. In their place are suspicion and even hostility, most starkly symbolized by magnetometers lawmakers must pass through before entering the House chamber.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., installed the metal detectors over GOP objections after the brutal Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. Democrats also expressed concerns about Republican lawmakers who carry guns.
As I retire after nearly four decades covering Capitol Hill, that contrast and the forces behind it illustrate why I’ve loved covering Congress — and why I've recently felt dispirited.
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Congress is dominated by masters of political hardball who’ve survived a Darwinian culling of the nation’s most ambitious politicians. Covering them is like attending a riveting theatrical drama, except you get to wander behind the curtain and chat up the actors.
In a moment of irony, I saw Gingrich in 1998, then speaker, lash out at the very conservatives who'd powered his own rise after they opposed his budget deal with President Bill Clinton as a surrender. Gingrich mocked them as the “perfectionist caucus,” a bow to the compromises needed in a divided government. He soon announced his retirement.
Near midnight on Sept. 11, 2001, I watched Democrats and Republicans, in a show of solidarity on the Capitol steps, spontaneously sing “God Bless America."
Pelosi triumphantly waved the gavel aloft in 2007 when she became the first female speaker. “For our daughters and our granddaughters, we have broken the marble ceiling,” the California Democrat said.
Eight years later, I saw awe in the eyes of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, a Catholic, as he greeted Pope Francis, whom he'd invited to address Congress.
I saw shock on Republicans' faces the very next morning as they left a Capitol basement meeting where Boehner revealed he was quitting, hounded by a new generation of hard-right conservatives, the House Freedom Caucus.
Democrats and Republicans cheered when No. 3 House GOP leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana limped into the chamber in 2017, three months after being gravely wounded when a gunman attacked a Republican baseball practice.
I've seen change. Since Pelosi's 1987 arrival, the number of women in Congress has multiplied from 25 to 146. There are around 130 lawmakers of color, up from 38.
And I've witnessed upheaval. Starting in 2017, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and others resigned amid the #MeToo sexual harassment movement.
I had one deeply embarrassing close encounter with a freshly sworn-in president in 2001. I was assigned to a ceremonial Senate room where new presidents sign papers immediately after their inaugural address.
Someone brushed my elbow. Standing beside me was President George W. Bush. I tried drawing him out with a folksy, “So, how’d it go?” He parried what was likely his first reporter's question as president with a nod, adding, “Good.”
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Since coming to Washington in 1983, I’ve seen debates over wars, terrorism, recessions, government shutdowns and taxes. Three of history’s four presidential impeachment trials. Fights over social justice, abortion, a pandemic.
I still overhear Democrats and Republicans making dinner plans. The sorrow over this month’s traffic accident death of Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., and two aides was bipartisan and heartfelt.
Yet today’s common ground seems narrower, the atmosphere darker, the stakes higher.
Pelosi referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as a “moron” after he opposed mask mandates in the House as the coronavirus pandemic spiked. McCarthy said it would be “hard not to hit her” with the gavel if he becomes speaker. His spokesperson called it a joke.
Both parties have fewer moderates. House districts increasingly drawn for partisan advantage push Democrats left, Republicans right as they appeal to their most activist primary voters.
Voters self-sort among social media and news outlets they believe. That hardens constituents’ views, further constraining lawmakers’ willingness to compromise.
Senate filibusters requiring bills to garner 60 votes are commonplace, derailing nearly anything without broad bipartisan support.
Through early this century, most Supreme Court nominees were approved easily.
In 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., refused to let President Barack Obama fill a Supreme Court vacancy, citing upcoming elections a full nine months away. Then just weeks before Election Day 2020, McConnell sped a Trump appointee through the Senate, giving the court a 6-3 conservative majority and McConnell a legacy achievement that outraged Democrats.
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None of that approximates Trump's baseless assertion that the 2020 election was stolen from him, a claim rejected by dozens of courts, local officials and his own attorney general.
His false construct fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection. I wasn’t in the Capitol because of the pandemic, but there is no forgetting the death, injury, destruction and disheartening sense that democracy itself had been defiled.
Just hours after the mob was dispersed, more than half of House Republicans and eight GOP senators voted against certifying Democrat Joe Biden's victory. McCarthy initially said Trump “bears responsibility” for the attack but later blocked a bipartisan investigation.
Many Republicans have downplayed or deflected attention from that calamitous day. Trump remains his party's dominant figure.
Republicans have backed Trump's claims that this month's court-sanctioned search of his Mar-a-Lago estate was politically motivated. The FBI is led by Trump-appointed Director Christopher Wray and emerged with sensitive national security documents that are federal property.
Anti-government rhetoric by politicians is not new. But these latest assaults on faith in government and the election system underpinning it — by potent influencers like a former president and his elected supporters — come amid authorities' warnings about increased calls for violence, even civil war.
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Despite ever-tighter security, reporters still walk unfettered in most Capitol corridors.
I've bumped into celebrities from Muhammad Ali to Jon Stewart. But politicians have left the most lasting impressions.
Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas wielded light-speed wit. After the newly elected Clinton dined with GOP senators in a gesture of bipartisanship, he described a novel he’d read involving a murdered Democratic senator. “A happy ending!" Dole replied.
Gingrich's hardening of partisan enmity — he counseled describing Democrats with focus group-tested words like “traitors" and “sick" — was sometimes answered in kind. Rep. Sam Gibbons, D-Fla., angrily left one 1995 House hearing on Medicare cuts Republicans wanted. “I had to fight you guys 50 years ago,” shouted Gibbons, who parachuted into France behind Nazi lines on D-Day.
I've seen agreements to authorize a military response to 9/11, keep the 2008 Great Recession from getting even worse and spend trillions of dollars to counter the pandemic.
Republicans have enacted huge tax cuts and created Medicare prescription drug coverage. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., recently muscled a top Biden priority to passage bolstering environment and health initiatives.
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Trump's norm-busting four years featured constant clashes with Congress including Republicans, from whom he tolerated no dissent.
I prodded one Republican, privately critical of Trump, to talk on the record. “He’d send me to Gitmo,” he said.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., just 48, announced in early 2018 that he would retire. He later told author Tim Alberta he could not endure two more years working with Trump.
The cautious McConnell and impulsive Trump long had a fraught relationship. It was severed as McConnell, who voted to acquit Trump over Jan. 6 on the grounds that he'd already left the White House, immediately afterward blistered him as being “practically and morally responsible” for the riot.
I've seen lawmakers risk their jobs by backing the party line. Democrats lost dozens of seats in 1994 after rallying behind a Clinton deficit-reduction package. They lost again in 2010 after enacting Obama's health care law.
And I've seen some infuriate colleagues by straying. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., elicited gasps with his decisive thumbs-down that derailed Trump's effort to repeal Obama's health care statute.
Ten House Republicans voted to impeach Trump over the insurrection. At least eight, including Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Trump's most relentless GOP foe, will not be in Congress next year.
Lawmakers have recently approved accords helping Ukraine and veterans and modestly restricting guns — glimmers suggesting they can still work together.
Yet the confluence of today's forces chipping away at faith in government institutions would not be recognizable to Foley and Michel.
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Follow AP's coverage of Congress at https://apnews.com/hub/congress. | 2022-08-29T18:10:27+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2022/08/29/decades-on-capitol-hill-from-civility-to-open-hostility/ |
BERLIN (AP) — With the world reeling from the economic fallout of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, senior officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin for heart-to-heart talks on how to stay focused on fighting climate change and addressing its impact.
Organizers have billed the two-day gathering as an opportunity to rebuild trust between rich and poor nations ahead of this year’s U.N. climate summit in Egypt, after technical talks last month achieved little progress on key issues such as climate aid for developing countries.
“Many of the poorest and most vulnerable countries in the world are experiencing severe climate impacts now,” Germany climate envoy Jennifer Morgan told The Associated Press. “The question is how to support them in both adapting to those impacts and when they experience real losses and damages. We must also show more solidarity.”
Developing countries are still waiting for rich nations to provide $100 billion in climate aid each year, a target they were meant to reach by 2020.
Big polluters, however, have also long resisted the idea that they should pay for the destruction their greenhouse gas emissions are causing around the world.
The closed-doors talks in Berlin kicks off with experts delivering a presentation on the issue of “loss and damage ” to ministers, who will then break into small groups to discuss and listen to each other in the hope of building trust ahead of November’s U.N. summit in Sharm el-Sheikh.
The meeting in Berlin comes as scientists say the extreme heat slamming large parts of the northern hemisphere in the past few weeks could become the new normal in summer if global warming continues.
“As this meeting is taking place, parts of Europe are baking, indeed they’re burning; and sadly, it’s an experience that is all too familiar to many millions across the globe already,” said Alok Sharma, the British official who led last year’s climate talks in Glasgow. He told delegates as the meeting opened: “My plea to you all is, please, let’s speed up our work.”
“It is incumbent upon us in these uncertain times to act swiftly to ensure that climate action remains at the top of the international agenda, and that the current state of affairs is not taken as a pretext to backtrack or renege on previous commitments — especially those related to supporting developing countries,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who will chair the Sharm el-Sheikh summit.
China was taking part in the Berlin meeting. Russia was not invited.
The question of energy sources endangered by Russia’s war in Ukraine looms over the talks.
Environmental activists warn that recent efforts by countries such as Germany to tap new sources of fossil fuels could undermine countries’ already fragile climate actions. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to discuss buying liquefied natural gas from Egypt with the country’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Berlin on Monday, just a few miles from where the climate talks are being held.
“The Russian war of aggression is forcing us to take short-term decisions we don’t like, including the increased use of coal for a very limited period of time,” said Morgan, who was previously the head of Greenpeace International.
“But we are not only sticking rock-solidly to our climate goals — we are accelerating the energy transition and will phase-out the use of fossil energy even faster,” she added, citing a newly approved plan to ramp up solar and wind power generation in Germany.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, likewise, comes to the talks following setbacks suffered in the U.S. by President Joe Biden in his efforts to regulate pollution and boost renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
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Follow AP’s coverage of climate change at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment | 2022-07-18T11:50:32+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/berlin-hosts-envoys-for-heart-to-heart-talks-on-climate/ |
Editor's note: This article was published in the Record-Eagle's Momentum '22 special publication. For more stories from northern Michigan's economic engine, click here to read Momentum in its entirety online.
The past three years have been constant change from COVID, to worker shortages, technology advances, and now the war in eastern Europe. The pace of change continues to accelerate as the importance of regrowing our manufacturing sector is not only recognized as economically smart but also for the sustainability of our culture through national security.
Challenges and conflicts typically reveal underlying weaknesses in systems that have been left unattended for the sake of convenience or cost. The world is a closed system and if any resource is overused without repairing, regrowing, reenergizing, replacing or renewing it, then consequences will hit harder — whether it is our national policies for manufacturing, defense, energy or healthcare.
If it wasn’t already, it is now abundantly clear that the U.S. and democratic nations need to get back to making more of their own stuff. Not to rid ourselves of world trade and the benefits, but for the sake of a more diverse supply base and increased agility — even at the expense of higher costs.
No business wants to be fully dependent on a single source of supply, neither should the U.S. be significantly dependent on another county’s supply for critical goods, production, energy and medications. The wise tradeoff is a little higher cost now in exchange for stability and risk-avoidance of disastrous increases and availability in the future.
While we have been moving toward reinvigorating U.S. manufacturing for the past 10-plus years, the last two should have given us plenty of reason to step up the progress. Computer chips, energy, food, clothes, anything critical to sustaining an economy, needs to be produced in the U.S. — not all of it, but enough to avoid being dependent.
When listening to the news, I was particularly struck but the juxtaposition between the war’s impact on Ukrainian lives and the impact on gas prices for Americans. Seriously, are we comparing a bump in our pocketbook to loss of human life and liberty?
I was heartened to learn that more than 70 percent of Americans supported cutting off Russian oil, even at the prospect of higher gas prices. Not only is this morally right, it’s also critically important to sustain our energy independence and nudge us toward more renewables.
Manufacturing Trends for 2022:
- Accelerating the reshoring of both manufacturing production and supply chains: Risks for producing goods overseas and specifically in politically unfriendly countries will rise dramatically and may sustain at higher levels for the foreseeable future. Overall, the costs of doing business globally will reflect the increased risk of transportation, timeliness, quality, and associated insurance costs potentially offsetting any labor cost gains. In January, Intel Corp announced it will invest at least $20 billion in new facilities to make computer chips in the U.S.
- Moving from “safety and cleanliness” to overall wellness as a strategic metric for employers: A January 2022 Harvard Business Review article suggested “organizations will add in new measures that assess their mental, physical, and financial health.” Not just for safety, but also for attraction and retention of employees.
- Continuing growth in automation and cyber security: January 2022, Security Magazine predicted “Cybersecurity insurance premiums will grow significantly in 2022 as the continuing rise in breaches and ransomware occurrences dictates.” At the same time, automation continues its rapid growth to address labor shortages, cost and quality as companies try to stay competitive.
- Available talent and organizational agility are partially addressed by remote work. A 2021 article from the World Economic Forum suggests three keys to making remote work a reality. Leaders must be able to monitor the status of production, the health of the equipment, and have real-time collaboration with onsite workers who can problem solve and fix situations.
- Job skills continue to focus on problem-solving ability, mechanical aptitude, and computer skills, a.k.a. high-tech jobs.
It’s satisfying to see the pundits of 10 years ago eating their words regarding the passing of manufacturing while the sector continues to grow and with renewed vigor. | 2022-04-27T22:12:32+00:00 | record-eagle.com | https://www.record-eagle.com/news/business/rich-wolin-what-2022-has-in-store-for-u-s-manufacturing/article_dc6167e8-aba5-11ec-bbc8-a3133424a32a.html |
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SEOUL – At least 120 people were killed and 100 more were injured as they were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital of Seoul, South Korean officials said.
Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise and that an unspecified number among the injured were in critical conditions following the stampede in the leisure district of Itaewon Saturday night.
He said 74 of the dead have been sent to hospitals while the bodies of the remaining 46 who had been kept on the streets were being transported to a nearby gym so that workers could identify them.
Officials say people were crushed to death after a large crowd began pushing forward in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel, a major party spot in Seoul.
More than 800 emergency workers and police officers from around the nation, including all available personnel in Seoul, were deployed to the streets to treat the injured.
The National Fire Agency separately said in a statement that officials were still trying to determine the exact number of emergency patients.
TV footage and photos showed ambulance vehicles lined up in streets amid a heavy police presence and emergency workers moving the injured in stretchers. Emergency workers and pedestrians were also seen performing CPR on people lying in the streets.
In one section, paramedics were seen checking the status of a dozen or more people who lied motionless under blue blankets.
Police, which were restricting traffic in nearby areas to speed up the transportation of the injured to hospitals across the city, also confirmed that dozens of people were being given CPR on Itaewon streets. The Seoul Metropolitan Government issued emergency text messages urging people in the area to swiftly return home.
Some local media reports earlier said the crush happened after a large number of people rushed to an Itaewon bar after hearing an unidentified celebrity visited there.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a statement calling for officials to ensure swift treatment for those injured and review the safety of the festivity sites. He also instructed the Health Ministry to swiftly deploy disaster medical assistance teams and secure beds in nearby hospital to treat the injured.
Local media said around 100,000 people flocked to Itaewon streets for the Halloween festivities, which were the biggest since the start of the pandemic following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in recent months. | 2022-10-29T18:19:33+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/10/29/officials-9-dead-after-halloween-crowd-surge-in-seoul/ |
MILFORD, Conn., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists propose a new and revolutionary method to harness the vast energy within Yellowstone's supervolcano. Their technology would generate enough electricity to power the entire American continent – simultaneously solving the energy crisis and mitigating climate change, while also preventing a catastrophic eruption.
Watch the video: https://www.scipod.global/dr-thomas-arciuolo-dr-miad-faezipour-yellowstone-caldera-supervolcano-a-solution-to-the-climate-and-energy-crisis/
The climate crisis poses a major threat to human civilization. Burning fossil fuels to generate energy is the primary cause of this crisis, due to greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, our energy requirements are expected to grow significantly in the future, as would be expected.
At the same time, we face another great crisis. Underneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming lies a powerful supervolcano, which has the guaranteed potential for an eruption that will be catastrophic to the entire world.
Researchers Dr Thomas Arciuolo and Dr Miad Faezipour propose a solution to these problems, by harnessing the mighty energy reserve within the Yellowstone Supervolcano to generate clean, emission-free energy.
The team's proposed technology would generate phenomenal amounts of electricity – enough to power the entire American continent. Their plan would also cool the supervolcano's magma chamber, preventing a super-eruption. NASA has predicted that cooling the magma by just 35% would prevent such a calamity. The project would also generate thousands of jobs and ensure energy-independence for the USA.
The proposed copper-based, volcanic energy harvesting technology has the potential to produce triple the USA's predicted energy requirements for 2050. The excess power could be sold to other countries on the American continent for profit, and to fund the facility's construction.
Arciuolo and Faezipour's pioneering technology has been fully simulated, to prove that its methodology is both practical and efficient. The use of volcanoes to generate power has already proved successful in Iceland and Hawaii.
Harvesting energy from Yellowstone's supervolcano would provide safer and more dependable power than any form of energy used today, including solar, wind, and nuclear. The team's technology would not only generate huge profits, but it would also prevent a catastrophic eruption, while significantly mitigating the climate crisis and meeting the American continent's energy needs for centuries to come.
This technology could be adopted globally by other nations to provide a world-wide solution to climate change and energy production.
For more information, contact Dr Arciuolo and Dr Faezipour at ultint@optonline.net and mfaezipo@purdue.edu, (203) 640-7100
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Oklahoma prisons locked down following unspecified incident in northeastern Oklahoma
HOMINY, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections has locked down all prisons statewide and canceled all visitations following an unspecified “incident” at a medium security prison in northeastern Oklahoma.
“A statewide lockdown was implemented after an incident occurred at the Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy,” about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of Tulsa, according to a statement Friday night.
Department spokesperson Kay Thompson said in an email Saturday that the incident is still under investigation and did not elaborate on the event.
The Dick Conner Correctional Center also has a minimum security prison on its grounds and houses about 1,200 inmates, according to the Department of Corrections website.
In September 2021, prisons statewide were locked down following what authorities said were gang-related attacks that injured several inmates at six of the department’s 21 prisons, including the Dick Conner Correctional Center.
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Dear Amy: I am the youngest of three sisters and have always had a rough relationship with my mom and sisters.
I don’t fit in. They are all about drama.
Recently, I received a call from my dad, asking me to visit.
I was so stressed out the night before that I didn’t sleep. That morning, I almost threw up from so much anxiety about it. I never know what I’ll say that will set one of them off. Then the others follow suit.
I can’t ask them questions. Anything I do say gets used against me.
I have tried to give them a taste of their own medicine, but that only seems to increase the bullying.
I want them in my life because they are my parents and sisters, but I don’t want to walk on eggshells around them.
We have gone two years without talking before, and recently we went over a year with no contact.
The times I didn’t have them in my life were amazing. My relationship with my husband flourished. I wasn’t stressed. My daughters did well because I was happy enough to make sure they thrived.
I don’t know how to go about explaining this to them in a manner that doesn’t set them off, but I just don’t want them in my life.
Do I need to explain why, or do I just flat-out go no-contact?
What do I tell my dad? Do I block him too, even though he’s innocent? But he’s never defended me.
It’s always them against me. And dad just stays out of it.
– Confused by Family
Dear Confused: You outline the extreme anxiety you felt after accepting your father’s invitation, but you don’t say how the visit went.
My point is that for you, boundaries are essential. If you choose to spend any time with family members, you should always have an “escape plan” for when your anxiety rises.
Going no-contact is the nuclear option, but if you understand that it is necessary to escape being the family scapegoat for your own well-being, then that’s a choice you can make.
I do not suggest completely blocking contact with your father. You should gauge how this contact affects you on a case-by-case basis. If he uses his contact with you only to draw you back into the family maelstrom, then you should make that choice.
You might benefit from reading the personal memoir of Sherrie Campbell, a psychologist who has written extensively about surviving drama-filled and bullying families. Check out “But It’s Your Family…: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath (2019, Morgan James Publishing).
Dear Amy: My husband and I have been married for 12 years. We have done a lot of traveling and other fun things together. He is a kind and good person, but there is one thing that is a recurring problem for me.
He frequently “forgets” to take photos of me.
I take numerous photos of him, which he seems to enjoy, but he will not take a photo of me unless prompted to do so.
We have photos of our travels and exploits, but there is very little evidence that I was also there!
We have talked about this, and he says that he no longer likes to take photos because photos are too prevalent on social media.
I agree that many people share way too much, and I personally don’t care for the whole selfie obsession.
But the fact that he will not reciprocate in taking photos really bothers me.
Am I being unreasonable or insecure?
– Photophobic
Dear Photophobic: Your husband does reciprocate taking photos of you, but he needs to be prompted to do so. So – prompt him.
You are simply more oriented toward this sort of chronicling than he is, perhaps because you participate in social media, and he doesn’t.
Also – ask others to take photos of you two together.
Dear Amy: “Scared Gram” wondered if she should tell her son-in-law that her daughter was cheating on him.
She might find a way to talk with him without spilling everything. “I’m concerned about all the overtime Sally’s working,” could do the trick.
Years ago, my dad’s brother told my mom to “get a good lawyer.”
It was his way of telling her he knew things he couldn’t say as a brother, but that his heart was with his sister-in-law. It meant a lot to her.
– A Friend in Omaha
Dear Friend: Fantastic advice. Thank you.
(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, August 15, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
514 PM CDT Mon Aug 15 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of Deep South Texas, including the following
county, Zapata.
* WHEN...Until 815 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 514 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
mainly rural areas of Northwestern Zapata County
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain.
Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a
matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
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Dunkin’s holiday menu has officially returned and includes returning seasonal fan favorites and a new iced coffee for people who’ve always wanted to drink a Christmas cookie.
Among the repeat favorites are Dunkin’s Peppermint Mocha Signature Latte, which is available hot or iced, as well as the Toasted White Chocolate Signature Latte, which is topped with whipped cream, caramel drizzle and a dusting of cinnamon sugar. The chain’s Holiday Blend Coffee, which features notes of sweet molasses and dried fruit, is also returning.
The bold new drink for 2022, the Cookie Butter Cold Brew, is made with slow-steeped cold-brew coffee that is blended with notes of brown sugar and baked cookie flavors. Although the drink is served cold, it’s full of warm spices like cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, plus a hint of caramelized baked cookie. The drink is then topped with creamy Cookie Butter Cold Foam and cookie butter crumbles.
Happy holidays indeed!
Foods On Dunkin’s 2022 Holiday Menu
Along with the return of the Cranberry Orange Muffin, you’ll also find two new food items for the holidays, including a Cookie Butter Donut, which would likely pair well with the new Cookie Butter Cold Brew. Made with a classic yeast doughnut shell, it is filled with cookie buttercream filling, topped with maple-flavored icing and covered in a layer of cookie pieces.
If you need something with a slightly better protein-to-carb ratio for breakfast, the new Pancake Wake-Up Wrap includes eggs, melted American cheese and the choice of sausage or bacon, wrapped in a warm and fluffy pancake with a hint of maple flavor cooked in. The Pancake Wake-Up Wrap is served with a side of syrup for either dipping or pouring over.
You can also treat your furry friends to some Dunkin’ goodies this holiday season with a new Dunkin’-inspired dog toy collection that supports the company’s Joy in Childhood Foundation.
The dog toys are available as a gift with a donation at select Dunkin’ locations and can also be bought online at BarkShop.com. Chew toys include ones that look like Dunkin’s signature iced coffee or hot coffee cups for a $12 donation, or a chocolate glazed doughnut, a stack of doughnuts on a rope, a Dunkin’ Munchkin, or a crinkle bag with doughnut each for a $15 donation.
What’s On The 2022 Starbucks Holiday Menu?
While Starbucks hasn’t introduced any new drinks for this holiday season, the popular Peppermint Mocha is returning on Nov. 3 for the 20th year. The coffee chain is also bringing back its Caramel Brulée Latte, Chestnut Praline Latte, Toasted White Chocolate Mocha, Irish Cream Cold Brew and nondairy Iced Sugar Cookie Almondmilk Latte.
While the drinks are all repeats, Starbucks does have a new bakery item coming for the holidays. A Starbucks representative tells Simplemost the new Chocolate Pistachio Swirl features a creamy chocolate filling with notes of cinnamon and coffee swirled into buttery brioche-inspired dough with mint chocolate chips and chopped pistachios. The new treat joins the returning Reindeer Cake Pop, Sugar Plum Cheese Danish, Cranberry Bliss Bar and Snowman Cookie.
Are you still in fall mode or are you ready to bring on the holiday flavors?
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Checkout Simplemost for additional stories. | 2022-11-02T21:37:45+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/dunkin-holiday-drinks-are-back |
HOUSTON, Aug. 3 , 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Callon Petroleum Company (NYSE: CPE) ("Callon" or the "Company") today reported results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Presentation slides accompanying this earnings release are available on the Company's website at www.callon.com located on the "Presentations" page within the Investors section of the site.
Second Quarter 2022 and Recent Highlights
- Delivered production of approximately 100.7 MBoe/d (61% oil and 81% liquids) in the second quarter of 2022
- Increased Delaware Basin well productivity in 2022 by approximately 20% over 2021 as co-development offset spacing and completions initiatives are implemented
- Generated net cash provided by operating activities of $372.3 million and adjusted free cash flow of $125.6 million
- Reported net income of $348.0 million, or $5.62 per diluted share, adjusted EBITDA of $418.5 million, and adjusted income of $227.8 million, or $3.68 per diluted share
- Achieved an operating margin of $67.58 per Boe, a sequential increase of over 15%
- Executed a refinancing transaction that extended maturities and reduced term balances, with total debt balance of $2.5 billion at June 30 after continued debt reduction
"Callon continues to execute on important steps to solidify a foundation for durable free cash flow generation" said Joe Gatto, President and Chief Executive Officer. "In the inflationary environment that we operate in today, and likely for the foreseeable future, operating margins are critical to our cash generation objectives. In our most recent quarter, our operating margins increased to almost $70 per Boe produced, our eighth consecutive quarterly increase, which drove unhedged adjusted EBITDA of over $600 million. When our industry leading margins are combined with demonstrated well productivity gains in the Delaware and drilling and completion efficiencies across the portfolio, we expect to drive more efficient conversion of EBITDA into free cash flow. These cash flow benefits will be further enhanced in the near-term with a steadily decreasing impact of financial hedges and a reduced interest expense burden as debt continues to be reduced."
Callon Operations Update
At June 30, 2022, Callon had 1,377 gross (1,229.3 net) wells producing from established flow units in the Permian and Eagle Ford. Net daily production for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was 100.7 MBoe/d (61% oil and 81% liquids).
Production volumes for the quarter include the impact of the following items:
- Increased Workover Activity – Callon experienced a higher level of well failures than historical trends due to intermittent power disruptions and the timing of useful equipment lives. During these outages, Callon accelerated its artificial lift initiatives, which provide production and runtime benefits, primarily in Delaware Basin South. Given the additional time to complete these conversion and repair projects, which were roughly double the level executed in the first quarter, downtime was elevated in the second quarter. Portions of this activity were previously planned to occur later in the year and, as a result, workovers and associated downtime for this initiative should be reduced going forward relative to our previous forecast.
- Conversion of Midland Basin Gathering Contract – Natural gas and NGL volumes increased from the conversion of a Midland Basin gathering contract from a percentage of proceeds to fee-based which resulted in a reduction in oil cut for the quarter.
Operated drilling and completion activity for the three months ended June 30, 2022 are summarized in the table below:
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, Callon drilled 35 gross (32.6 net) wells and placed a combined 33 gross (29.1 net) wells on production. Completions operations for the quarter included 6 gross (5.9 net) wells in the Delaware Basin, 7 gross (6.3 net) wells in the Midland Basin, and 15 gross (13.0 net) wells in the Eagle Ford Shale. Callon placed 11 gross (10.1 net) wells on production in the Delaware Basin, 7 gross (6.0 net) wells in the Midland Basin, and 15 gross (13.0 net) wells in the Eagle Ford Shale. The average lateral length for the wells completed during the second quarter was 8,281 feet. Operated completions during the second quarter consisted of 4 Upper Wolfcamp A wells and 2 Lower Wolfcamp A wells in the Delaware Basin; 2 Lower Spraberry wells, 3 Wolfcamp A wells and 2 Wolfcamp B wells in the Midland Basin; and 15 lower Eagle Ford Shale wells.
Leverage and Liquidity Update
On June 9, 2022, Callon priced $600 million principal amount of 7.50% Senior Notes due 2030 in a private offering. On June 24, 2022, the Company deposited with the trustee the proceeds from the offering of the 7.50% Senior Notes due 2030, along with borrowings under the Credit Facility, to redeem all of its outstanding 6.125% Senior Notes due 2024 and 9.0% Second Lien Notes due 2025. As of June 30, 2022, the drawn balance on the facility was $779.0 million and cash balances were $6.1 million. The Company intends to continue its application of organic free cash flow towards repayment of debt balances related to the credit facility and other debt instruments.
Third Quarter Activity Outlook and Guidance
Callon is currently running six rigs, with three rigs in the Delaware Basin, two rigs in the Midland Basin and one rig in the Eagle Ford which the Company will be dropping in the coming days. Callon plans to utilize two to three completion crews for the third quarter, supporting new production across the Midland, Delaware and Eagle Ford positions.
For the third quarter, the Company expects to produce between 102 and 105 MBoe/d (63% oil) with between 38 and 42 gross wells (33 and 36 net) placed on production. In addition, Callon projects an operational capital spending level of between $245 and $255 million on an accrual basis.
For full year 2022, Callon is increasing the bottom end of its production guidance to between 102 and 105 MBoe/d (63% oil) to reflect underlying Permian well performance that is above expectations, and an increase in natural gas and NGL volumes from the Midland Basin gathering contract conversion. The revised guidance is available in the accompanying presentation.
Capital Expenditures
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, Callon incurred $237.8 million in operational capital expenditures on an accrual basis. Total capital expenditures, inclusive of capitalized expenses, are detailed below on an accrual and cash basis:
Hedge Portfolio Summary
As of July 29, 2022, Callon had the following outstanding oil and natural gas derivative contracts:
Operating and Financial Results
The following table presents summary information for the periods indicated:
Revenue. For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, Callon reported revenue of $760.3 million, which excluded revenue from sales of commodities purchased from a third party of $153.4 million. Revenues including the loss from the settlement of derivative contracts ("Adjusted Total Revenue") were $575.7 million, reflecting the impact of a $184.6 million loss from the settlement of derivative contracts. Average daily production and average realized prices, including and excluding the effects of hedging, are detailed above.
Commodity Derivatives. For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the net loss on commodity derivative contracts includes the following (in thousands):
For the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the cash paid for commodity derivative settlements includes the following (in thousands):
Lease Operating Expenses, including workover ("LOE"). LOE for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $72.9 million, or $7.96 per Boe, compared to LOE of $67.3 million, or $7.29 per Boe, in the first quarter of 2022. The sequential increase in LOE was primarily due to increases in workover costs as well as certain operating costs such as fuel, power and equipment rentals. The increase in LOE per Boe was due to the increases in operating costs mentioned above as well as the distribution of fixed costs spread over lower production volumes.
Production and Ad Valorem Taxes. Production and ad valorem taxes for the three months ended June 30, 2022 were approximately 5.9% of total revenue excluding revenue from sales of commodities purchased from a third-party and before the impact of derivative settlements, or $4.90 per Boe.
Gathering, Transportation and Processing. Gathering, transportation and processing expense for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $23.3 million, or $2.54 per Boe, as compared to $20.8 million, or $2.25 per Boe, in the first quarter of 2022. This increase in gathering, transportation and processing expense was primarily due to a new contract entered into during the second quarter of 2022 as well as inflationary cost increases.
Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization ("DD&A"). DD&A for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $11.94 per Boe compared to $11.15 per Boe in the first quarter of 2022. The increase in DD&A per Boe was primarily attributable to higher capital expenditures during the three months ended June 30, 2022 and increases in future development cost assumptions.
General and Administrative Expense ("G&A"). G&A for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022 was $10.9 million and $17.1 million, respectively. G&A, excluding non-cash incentive share-based compensation valuation adjustments, ("Adjusted G&A") was $16.0 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $14.3 million for the first quarter of 2022. The cash component of Adjusted G&A increased to $14.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 compared to $13.0 million for the first quarter of 2022 primarily as a result of higher compensation costs during the quarter.
The following table reconciles total G&A to Adjusted G&A - cash component and full cash G&A (in thousands):
Income Tax. Callon provides for income taxes at the statutory rate of 21% adjusted for permanent differences expected to be realized. We recorded income tax expense of $3.0 million and $0.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022, respectively. Since the second quarter of 2020, we have concluded that it is more likely than not that the net deferred tax assets will not be realized and have recorded a full valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets. As long as we continue to conclude that the valuation allowance is necessary, we will not have significant deferred tax expense or benefit.
Adjusted Income, Adjusted EBITDA and Unhedged Adjusted EBITDA. The following tables reconcile the Company's net income (loss) to adjusted income, adjusted EBITDA and unhedged adjusted EBITDA:
Adjusted Free Cash Flow. The following table reconciles the Company's net cash provided by operating activities to unhedged adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted free cash flow:
Adjusted Discretionary Cash Flow. The following table reconciles the Company's net cash provided by operating activities to adjusted discretionary cash flow:
Adjusted Total Revenue. Adjusted total revenue is reconciled to total operating revenues, which excludes revenue from sales of commodities purchased from a third party, in the following table:
Net Debt. The following table reconciles the Company's total debt to net debt:
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This news release refers to non-GAAP financial measures such as "adjusted free cash flow," "adjusted EBITDA," "unhedged adjusted EBITDA," "operating margin," "adjusted income," "adjusted income per diluted share," "adjusted diluted weighted average common shares outstanding," "adjusted discretionary cash flow," "adjusted total revenue," "adjusted G&A," "full cash G&A," and "net debt." These measures, detailed below, are provided in addition to, and not as an alternative for, and should be read in conjunction with, the information contained in our financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP (including the notes), included in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and posted on our website.
- Adjusted free cash flow is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that is defined by the Company as adjusted EBITDA less operational capital expenditures (accrual), capitalized cash interest, capitalized cash G&A (which excludes capitalized expense related to share-based awards), and cash interest expense, net. We believe adjusted free cash flow provides useful information to investors because it is a comparable metric against other companies in the industry and is a widely accepted financial indicator of an oil and natural gas company's ability to generate cash for the use of internally funding their capital development program and to service or incur debt. Adjusted free cash flow is not a measure of a company's financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities, or as a measure of liquidity, or as an alternative to net income (loss).
- Callon calculates adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) before interest expense, income tax expense (benefit), depreciation, depletion and amortization, (gains) losses on derivative instruments excluding net settled derivative instruments, impairment of evaluated oil and gas properties, non-cash share-based compensation expense, merger, integration and transaction expense, (gain) loss on extinguishment of debt, and certain other expenses. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP. Accordingly, it should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss), cash flow provided by operating activities or other income or cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, the Company believes that adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors because it provides additional information with respect to our performance or ability to meet our future debt service, capital expenditures and working capital requirements. Because adjusted EBITDA excludes some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the adjusted EBITDA presented above may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
- Callon calculates unhedged adjusted EBITDA as adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, excluding the impact of net settled derivative instruments. Unhedged adjusted EBITDA is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP. Accordingly, it should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss), cash flow provided by operating activities or other income or cash flow data prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, the Company believes that unhedged adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors because it provides additional information with respect to our performance without the impact of our settled derivative instruments. Because unhedged adjusted EBITDA excludes some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the unhedged adjusted EBITDA presented above may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
- Callon believes that operating margin is a comparable metric against other companies in the industry and is useful to investors because it is an indicator of an oil and natural gas company's operating profitability per unit of production. Operating margin is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that is defined by the Company as oil, natural gas, and NGL revenues sales price less lease operating expense; production and ad valorem taxes; and gathering, transportation and processing fees divided by total production for the period.
- Adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share are supplemental non-GAAP measures that Callon believes are useful to investors because they provide readers with a meaningful measure of our profitability before recording certain items whose timing or amount cannot be reasonably determined. These measures exclude the net of tax effects of these items and non-cash valuation adjustments, which are detailed in the reconciliation provided. Adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share are not measures of financial performance under GAAP. Accordingly, neither should be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), operating income (loss), or other income data prepared in accordance with GAAP. However, the Company believes that adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share provide additional information with respect to our performance. Because adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share exclude some, but not all, items that affect net income (loss) and may vary among companies, the adjusted income and adjusted income per diluted share presented above may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies.
- Adjusted diluted weighted average common shares outstanding is a non-GAAP financial measure which includes the effect of potentially dilutive instruments that, under certain circumstances described below, are excluded from diluted weighted average common shares outstanding, the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. When a net loss exists, all potentially dilutive instruments are anti-dilutive to the net loss per common share and therefore excluded from the computation of diluted weighted average common shares outstanding. The effect of potentially dilutive instruments are included in the computation of adjusted diluted weighted average common shares outstanding for purposes of computing adjusted income per diluted share.
- Adjusted discretionary cash flow is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that Callon believes provides useful information to investors because it is a comparable metric against other companies in the industry and is a widely accepted financial indicator of an oil and natural gas company's ability to generate cash for the use of internally funding their capital development program and to service or incur debt. Adjusted discretionary cash flow is defined by Callon as net cash provided by operating activities before changes in working capital and merger, integration and transaction expenses. Callon has included this information because changes in operating assets and liabilities relate to the timing of cash receipts and disbursements, which the Company may not control, and the cash flow effect may not be reflected the period in which the operating activities occurred. Adjusted discretionary cash flow is not a measure of a company's financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net cash provided by operating activities, or as a measure of liquidity, or as an alternative to net income (loss).
- Callon believes that the non-GAAP measure of adjusted total revenue (which is revenue including the gain or loss from the settlement of derivative contracts) is useful to investors because it provides readers with a revenue value more comparable to other companies who engage in price risk management activities through the use of commodity derivative instruments and reflects the results of derivative settlements with expected cash flow impacts within total revenues.
- Adjusted G&A is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that excludes non-cash incentive share-based compensation valuation adjustments and adjusted G&A - cash component further excludes equity-settled, share-based compensation expenses. Callon believes that the non-GAAP measure of adjusted G&A and adjusted G&A - cash component are useful to investors because they provide for greater comparability period-over-period. In addition, adjusted G&A - cash component provides a meaningful measure of our recurring G&A expense.
- Full cash G&A is a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that Callon defines as adjusted G&A – cash component plus capitalized G&A excluding capitalized expense related to share-based awards. Callon believes that the non-GAAP measure of full cash G&A is useful to investors because it provides a meaningful measure of our total recurring cash G&A costs, whether expensed or capitalized, and provides for greater comparability on a period-over-period basis.
- Net debt is a supplemental non-GAAP measure that is defined by the Company as total debt excluding unamortized premiums, discount, and deferred loan costs, less cash and cash equivalents. Net debt should not be considered an alternative to, or more meaningful than, total debt, the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Management uses net debt to determine the Company's outstanding debt obligations that would not be readily satisfied by its cash and cash equivalents on hand. We believe this metric is useful to analysts and investors in determining the Company's leverage position since the Company has the ability to, and may decide to, use a portion of its cash and cash equivalents to reduce debt. This metric is sometimes presented as a ratio with Adjusted EBITDA in order to provide investors with another means of evaluating the Company's ability to service its existing debt obligations as well as any future increase in the amount of such obligations. This ratio is referred to by the Company as its leverage ratio.
Earnings Call Information
The Company will host a conference call on Thursday, August 4, 2022, to discuss second quarter 2022 financial and operating results, outlook and guidance for the remainder of 2022, and current corporate strategy and initiatives.
Please join Callon Petroleum Company via the Internet for a webcast of the conference call:
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SOURCE Callon Petroleum Company | 2022-08-03T21:33:11+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/08/03/callon-petroleum-company-announces-second-quarter-2022-results/ |
Central Aroostook Jr/Sr High School Fourth Quarter Honor Roll
The fourth and final quarter of the academic school year has wrapped up for several Aroostook County school districts. Central Aroostook Jr/Sr High School released their honors for the fourth quarter for students in grades 7-12.
MSAD #42 distinguishes their honors, high honors, and highest honors based on the student's grades. Congratulations to the following students:
Grade 7 Honors
Avery Birmingham
Agis Clark
Mackenzie Davis
Kohen Kinney
Abrianna McDonald
Jacob Orser
Brandon Whitman
Grade 7 High Honors
Maddilyn Atkinson
Lilly Burtt
Maxwell Couture
Jahleel Joseph
Kellen McCrum
Dylan McKeen
Rebecca O'Leary
Stevi Pierce
Rachel Rolon
Grade 7 Highest Honors
Sophia Bradstreet
Lilly Brewer
Jack Hentosh
Charlie Pierce
William Whited
Grade 8 Honors
Elana Barnes
Carson Scott
Myleigh Waugh
Destiny Wood
Grade 8 High Honors
Savannah Hallett
Abigail Howlett
Victoria McCrum
Livia Sawyer
Grade 8 Highest Honors
Harleigh Allen
Isabell Anthony
Ella Gagne
Hannah Shaw
Grade 9 Honors
Olivia Blanchard
Charly Chadbourne-Wilson
Ethan Cushman
Jamison Fulton
Isaac Gillen
Joshua Kearney
Brinleigh Kingsbury
Brycin Morrison
Steven Price
Narei Wright
Grade 9 High Honors
Lily Bell
Rebecca Bell
Taylor Burtt
Lily Clair
Cassie Codrey
Millie Couture
Riley Crawford
Molly Grant
Trace Kinney
Julia Pierce
Braden Scott
Caroline Thomas
Jonah Tweedie
Olivia York
Grade 9 Highest Honors
Keith Giberson
Chase Henderson
Grade 10 Honors
Wyatt Allen
Shane Brewer
Colby Burlock
Carson Cushman
Hayden Dumond
Cody Hayes
Jacob Hotham
Kale Kinney
Aleigha West
Grade 10 High Honors
Allisa Burtt
Emma Giberson
Caleb Howlett
Abram McCrum
Rylee Pierce
Izabel Pryor
William Sargent
Abbiegail Toby
Cierra White
Grade 10 Highest Honors
Kassidy Blackstone
Kristen Butler
Ira Fletcher
Abigail Haines
Nevaeh Shaw
Skylynn Tilley
Grade 11 Honors
Ryder Brewer
Kaitlyn Carvell
Malachai Couture
Collin Ford
McKenzie Honeycutt
Cooper Mahan
Samuel Mahan
Summer Novak
Grade 11 High Honors
Gracie Bailey
Josephine Boyce
Hailey Brewer
Kenyan Campbell
Emily Crandall
Calleigh Crawford
Mallory Kingsbury
Lane McCrum
Grade 11 Highest Honors
Nicki Deschaine
Kira Fitzherbert
Anna Kilcollins
Delaney McKeen
Frankie Pierce
Riley Prince
Ali Rowbotham
Grade 12 Honors
Kaily Coffman
Will Durost
Aaron Gagne
Frankie Kearney
Elizabeth McCrum
Mayan Pratt
Ian Roberts
Samantha Shorey
Grade 12 High Honors
Meagan Blanchard
Liberty Fulton
Daisy Grant
Chase Hentosh
Kobe Honeycutt
Colby Novak
Grade 12 Highest Honors
MacKenzie Blackstone
Olivia Blackstone
Madison Howlett | 2022-06-21T22:29:30+00:00 | 1019therock.com | https://1019therock.com/central-aroostook-jrsr-high-school-fourth-quarter-honor-roll/ |
House lawmakers on Wednesday voted to approve legislation crafted by two members of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack committee that seeks to protect elections from interference by lawmakers.
The Presidential Election Reform Act reaffirms that the vice president’s role in certifying the election is purely ceremonial, and drastically increases the number of lawmakers in each chamber needed to object to the certification of electors from one member to one-third of the body.
It also targets other actions taken by former President Trump in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, making explicit the role governors play in the electoral process. The bill takes aim at the faux election certificates crafted by Trump’s team and the pressure campaign in various states to replace their electors with those who would vote for then-President Trump.
The bill passed in a 229-203 vote, with nine Republicans joining all Democrats present in supporting the measure: Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), Fred Upton (Mich.), Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), Peter Meijer (Mich.), Tom Rice (S.C.), John Katko (N.Y.), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio) and Chris Jacobs (N.Y.).
During debate on the House floor Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) — a sponsor of the bill and a member of the Jan. 6 select committee — said the legislation “will make it harder to convince people that they have the right to overthrow the election.”
“Ultimately, this bill is about protecting the will of the American voters, which is a principle that is beyond partisanship. The bottom line is this — if you want to object to the vote, you better have your colleagues and the Constitution on your side. Don’t try to overturn our democracy,” she added.
Cheney, the second sponsor of the bill and one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 panel, argued that the measure would “prevent Congress from illegally choosing the president itself.”
After reading a host of conservative commentary praising the legislation, the Wyoming Republican urged her GOP colleagues to support the measure.
“If your aim is to prevent future efforts to steal elections, I would respectfully suggest that conservatives should support this bill. If instead your aim is to leave open the door for elections to be stolen in the future, you might decide not to support this or any other bill to address the Electoral Count Act,” Cheney said.
House Republican leadership began whipping against the bill Tuesday afternoon, urging members of the conference to vote against the “flawed” measure, and arguing that it “tramples on state sovereignty and opens the door for destructive private rights of action that will only delay results and inject more uncertainty into our elections.”
Republicans during debate also pounced on the bill for the speed at which it was brought to the floor — Lofgren and Cheney, who have been working on the bill since shortly after Jan. 6, introduced the measure on Monday, and it faced a final vote on Wednesday.
Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, during debate on Wednesday argued that Democrats are trying to put a spotlight on Trump just weeks away from the midterm elections.
“Why rush such a significant piece of legislation when the next presidential certification won’t happen for over two years? It’s pretty simple, Madam Speaker: the midterm elections are just weeks away, and the Democrats are desperately trying to talk about their favorite topic, former President Trump,” he said.
Also during debate, Democrats criticized Republicans for failing to back legislation they say largely reaffirms principles laid out in the U.S. Constitution.
“To all those who oppose this legislation, I ask you: how could anyone vote against free and fair elections, a cornerstone of our Constitution? How could anyone vote against our founders’ vision, placing power in the hands of the people? How could anyone vote against their own constituents, allowing radical politicians to rip away their say in our democracy?” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.
The Presidential Election Reform Act, which adjusts the 1887 Electoral College Act, is the first of a number of legislative proposals that could stem from the House Jan. 6 committee’s review. The panel has been tasked with investigating the events of the Capitol riot and presenting improvements to ensure that a similar event does not occur in the future.
The passage of the bill comes as the Senate has plans to review bipartisan legislation introduced in July that would also reform the Electoral College Act.
That bill, though similar, would require just a one-fifth vote in each chamber for lawmakers to raise objections to a state’s election results.
During a House Rules Committee meeting on Tuesday, Lofgren signaled an openness to discussing the threshold needed to raise an objection to a state’s electors.
“We selected one-third, and I thought it was a reasonable amount, but to some extent it’s an arbitrary number. Now in talking to [Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)], they had a formula that they had in mind, they have a smaller number. Maybe they’re right, I don’t know, so I think we need to have some further discussion with the Senate on that point, and I’m sure that will be productive,” she said.
Another departure from the Senate bill is a provision in the Presidential Election Reform Act that seeks to prevent any future attempt to delay an election — making clear only scenarios like natural disasters could be considered a “catastrophic event” used to extend voting.
Cheney said the provision was designed to ensure against future situations where “false claims of fraud could be made to allow a state to refuse to certify valid votes.”
The bill drafted by Lofgren and Cheney may be the only formal legislation to come out of the committee.
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters Wednesday that he’s unsure if any of the committee’s recommendations from its final report will be crafted into legislation by the panel.
“I think in terms of what we have before us now, that will probably be the only complete legislation introduced, but that is not in stone. But the discussion up to this point has been recommendations” for the final report, he said. | 2022-09-21T23:50:15+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/hill-politics/house-passes-jan-6-election-reform-bill/ |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Yale University is accused in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut on behalf of current and former students seeks no monetary damages. Rather, it demands changes to Yale’s withdrawal policies, including the required forfeiture of health insurance and tuition payments, among other rules.
“Yale’s withdrawal policies and practices push students with mental health disabilities out of Yale, impose punitive consequences on students who have withdrawn, and place unreasonable burdens on students who, after a withdrawal, seek reinstatement,” according to the suit, which contends that the burden is most harsh on students “from less privileged backgrounds.”
The plaintiffs contend that Yale needs to implement a process for handling students with mental health needs that’s more accommodating for individuals.
“Each person is different and their mental health disability will affect them differently,” said Deborah Dorfman, an attorney and executive director of Disability Rights Connecticut, one of three groups that filed the lawsuit. “We’re really advocating here for individual assessments of each student’s situation and also full consideration of all of the possible reasonable accommodations that might work for the student.”
Yale didn’t immediately reply to a message seeking comment. In a Nov. 16 letter to alumni in response to a Washington Post article about student mental health and Yale’s withdrawal and readmission policies, President Peter Salovey said the “health and well-being of Yale students are primary university priorities.”
Salovey said colleges and universities in the last few years have seen a surge in demand for mental health services that was exacerbated by the pandemic. He said Yale has since made a “substantial change” to its reinstatement policy by dropping the requirement that students who have withdrawn from Yale must take two courses at another school before they could seek readmission.
“We also simplified the process for students in other ways, including dropping an informational interview with the chair of the reinstatement committee, which students told us could be intimidating,” wrote Salvoney, who noted other changes, including adding more mental health support services for students.
The plaintiffs, however, say more needs to be done.
“The current state of things still leaves students with a very stark binary when they’re struggling. They either have to commit to a full-time schedule, or they commit to an extended absence in which they lose university health insurance, campus housing, institutional support,” said Rishi Mirchandani, a 2019 Yale graduate and co-founder of Elis for Rachael, a group founded 2021 in honor of a Yale student who took her own life and that helps Yale students struggling with mental health issues.
The lawsuit alleges that past and present students who sought mental health treatments were told it would not “look good” if they resisted taking a voluntary withdrawal from the school, which is different from a leave of absence.
One plaintiff, international student Hannah Neves, recalled being visited at the hospital by three Yale officials after her 2020 suicide attempt and being encouraged to take a withdrawal despite her reluctance, according to the lawsuit. When she was discharged from the hospital, she saw an email from four or five days earlier stating that she had been involuntarily withdrawn from Yale and had 72 hours to leave the campus. She said she could not return to her dorm room unless accompanied by a Yale police officer and could only say goodbye to friends off-campus.
Another plaintiff, current student Alicia Abramson, told The Associated Press that she did not feel pressured to voluntarily withdraw. However, she said she felt Yale put up numerous barriers that made it hard for the third-year student to be reinstated, including the now-defunct requirement to take two classes elsewhere.
“I don’t want other people to have to go through the same process that I did because it’s certainly not conducive to any kind of healing,” said Abramson, who feels Yale treats students’ mental health needs as “something to be punished and disciplined” rather than offering them care and support.
Yale, she said, “tends to view students with mental health issues as liabilities in a way that I feel like they don’t with people with more physical disabilities.”
The lawsuit seeks certification to be a class action, ultimately representing more than 1,300 current students as well as alumni. | 2022-11-30T20:29:13+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/yale-university-sued-over-student-mental-health-policies/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
LEAD, S.D. (AP) — In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: dark matter.
Scientists are pretty sure the invisible stuff makes up most of the universe’s mass and say we wouldn’t be here without it — but they don’t know what it is. The race to solve this enormous mystery has brought one team to the depths under Lead, South Dakota.
The question for scientists is basic, says Kevin Lesko, a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “What is this great place I live in? Right now, 95% of it is a mystery.”
The idea is that a mile of dirt and rock, a giant tank, a second tank and the purest titanium in the world will block nearly all the cosmic rays and particles that zip around — and through — all of us every day. But dark matter particles, scientists think, can avoid all those obstacles. They hope one will fly into the vat of liquid xenon in the inner tank and smash into a xenon nucleus like two balls in a game of pool, revealing its existence in a flash of light seen by a device called “the time projection chamber.”
Scientists announced Thursday that the five-year, $60 million search finally got underway two months ago after a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. So far the device has found … nothing. At least no dark matter.
That’s OK, they say. The equipment appears to be working to filter out most of the background radiation they hoped to block. “To search for this very rare type of interaction, job number one is to first get rid of all of the ordinary sources of radiation, which would overwhelm the experiment,” said University of Maryland physicist Carter Hall.
And if all their calculations and theories are right, they figure they’ll see only a couple fleeting signs of dark matter a year. The team of 250 scientists estimates they’ll get 20 times more data over the next couple of years.
By the time the experiment finishes, the chance of finding dark matter with this device is “probably less than 50% but more than 10%,” said Hugh Lippincott, a physicist and spokesman for the experiment in a Thursday news conference.
While that’s far from a sure thing, “you need a little enthusiasm,” Lawrence Berkeley’s Lesko said. “You don’t go into rare search physics without some hope of finding something.”
Two hulking Depression-era hoists run an elevator that brings scientists to what’s called the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment in the Sanford Underground Research Facility. A 10-minute descent ends in a tunnel with cool-to-the-touch walls lined with netting. But the old, musty mine soon leads to a high-tech lab where dirt and contamination is the enemy. Helmets are exchanged for new cleaner ones and a double layer of baby blue booties go over steel-toed safety boots.
The heart of the experiment is the giant tank called the cryostat, lead engineer Jeff Cherwinka said in a December 2019 tour before the device was closed and filled. He described it as “like a thermos” made of “perhaps the purest titanium in the world” designed to keep the liquid xenon cold and keep background radiation at a minimum.
Xenon is special, explained experiment physics coordinator Aaron Manalaysay, because it allows researchers to see if a collision is with one of its electrons or with its nucleus. If something hits the nucleus, it is more likely to be the dark matter that everyone is looking for, he said.
These scientists tried a similar, smaller experiment here years ago. After coming up empty, they figured they had to go much bigger. Another large-scale experiment is underway in Italy run by a rival team, but no results have been announced so far.
The scientists are trying to understand why the universe is not what it seems.
One part of the mystery is dark matter, which has by far most of the mass in the cosmos. Astronomers know it’s there because when they measure the stars and other regular matter in galaxies, they find that there is not nearly enough gravity to hold these clusters together. If nothing else was out there, galaxies would be “quickly flying apart,” Manalaysay said.
“It is essentially impossible to understand our observation of history, of the evolutionary cosmos without dark matter,” Manalaysay said.
Lippincott, a University of California, Santa Barbara, physicist, said “we would not be here without dark matter.”
So while there’s little doubt that dark matter exists, there’s lots of doubt about what it is. The leading theory is that it involves things called WIMPs — weakly interacting massive particles.
If that’s the case, LUX-ZEPLIN could be able to detect them. We want to find “where the wimps can be hiding,” Lippincott said. | 2022-07-08T02:40:04+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/south-dakota-news/huge-underground-search-for-mysterious-dark-matter-begins-in-south-dakota/ |
CHICAGO — Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 thanks to a record showing by Democratic female candidates. Two years later, a record number of GOP women won seats, bringing the number of women in the chamber to a historic high.
It’s too early to know how many female representatives were hurt by the once-a-decade process known as redistricting — in which boundaries are redrawn based on census data to ensure similarly sized districts — because multiple states haven’t finalized their maps. But in states with new district boundaries, the Center for American Women in Politics at Rutgers University found more than a dozen women so far who are running in significantly tougher territory. That’s more than double the number who are in districts that will be significantly easier to win after redistricting, the analysis found as of this month.
The new maps mean some female representatives are seeking reelection against longer-serving incumbent men — or against each other, such as in Georgia’s Tuesday primary, where two Democratic female incumbents are facing off. Ultimately, the new maps will be a factor in whether women maintain or grow their numbers in the next Congress to more accurately reflect the makeup of the country, a goal members of both parties have concentrated on. Currently, female representatives make up about 28% of the 435 House members, with Democratic women holding roughly three times the number of seats as GOP women.
Many of those women are already vulnerable because they were recently elected and don’t have the advantages of longtime incumbency, such as fundraising and name recognition, said Kelly Dittmar, director of research for the center. They also often won in swing districts, areas more likely to switch from one party to the other.
“2022 is an important year to understand how these recently elected women are going to fare,” Dittmar said.
In Illinois, which lost a seat in redistricting because of its shrinking population, the state’s two first-term female representatives — one Democrat, one Republican — were among the 18-member delegation’s biggest losers in the state’s remapping.
Democratic mapmakers drew new boundaries that put Democratic Rep. Marie Newman and Republican Rep. Mary Miller into districts already represented by male incumbents. Both women chose instead to run in neighboring districts, against other men. (House members aren’t required to live in the district they represent, though most do.)
Newman is a progressive who in 2020 unseated Rep. Dan Lipinski, one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress. Last fall, Illinois legislators largely dismantled the Chicago-area district she represented as they created a new predominantly Hispanic district to reflect population gains. A large section of Newman’s district was drawn into a neighboring district represented by two-term Democratic Rep. Sean Casten.
Newman’s home, and the area immediately around it where she performed her best in 2020, were drawn into the heavily Hispanic district represented by Democratic Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. That, Newman said, “I took personal.”
She thinks it was payback. “A lot of corporations, a lot of establishment people, they seem to still be mad at me,” she told the audience at a fundraiser this month.
In an interview, Newman said she believes Democratic legislators responsible for the new map felt she was expendable because she was the most recently elected incumbent. She said it is “critically important” to have more women in Congress, especially at a time when abortion rights are under threat. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
“You can’t have an unqualified person in there. But if there’s a qualified woman, I think you really have to look at that and say, ‘We need more of a women’s voice in Congress, period,’” said Newman, who recently released a campaign ad in which she discusses having an abortion at age 19. “I am very confident if there were another 50 to 100 women in Congress and in the Senate, we would not be in this situation ... (Roe) would have been codified and unoverturnable.”
Of course, not all women support codifying, or putting into federal law, the right to abortion. Among the fiercest opponents in the House is Miller, who said she was inspired by then-President Donald Trump to run for her southern Illinois seat in 2020.
Miller was drawn into the same congressional district as fellow conservative Rep. Mike Bost, for whom Trump campaigned in 2018. Rather than run against him, Miller opted to run in a nearby district against five-term Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, who supported a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Trump has endorsed Miller.
Another female Republican, first-term Rep. Yvette Herrell of New Mexico, also was the victim of a partisan remap as Democrats who control the Legislature redrew her district in the southern part of the state to be significantly more Democratic.
It is not clear yet whether women were negatively affected by redistricting at a greater rate than male incumbents, many of whom also face more difficult elections, Dittmar said.
In some cases, women are being challenged by other incumbents whose districts were drawn to their detriment. That’s the case in Michigan, where Democratic Rep. Andy Levin chose to run against Rep. Haley Stevens in her safe Democratic district rather than in the area he currently represents, which an independent commission drew to be more contested.
And in Georgia, at least one female incumbent will lose her bid for another term after Tuesday’s primary. Reps. Lucy McBath and Carolyn Bourdeaux both flipped longtime GOP-held districts in the Atlanta area in recent election cycles. But after Republicans who control the state Legislature redrew McBath’s district to favor Republicans, the two-term incumbent chose to take on the first-term Bourdeaux in a more Democrat-friendly district.
Some women are benefiting from the shakeup. In Oklahoma, GOP Rep. Stephanie Bice’s district in the Oklahoma City area — previously held by Democratic Rep. Kendra Horn — was redrawn to be significantly more Republican.
For the candidates facing a tougher reelection, it is often familiar ground.
“I just have to prove myself again,” Newman said.
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Follow AP for full coverage of the midterms at https://apnews.com/hub/2022-midterm-elections and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ap_politics. | 2022-05-21T05:40:13+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-maps-create-challenge-for-women-seeking-reelection/2022/05/21/580652c0-d8c2-11ec-be17-286164974c54_story.html |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats over a gun control protest is an extraordinary showcase of how the levers of single-party power in America’s statehouses can be pulled not only to shut down opponents, but to also punish them.
On any given day in Tennessee, Republicans have the commanding majority to pass just about any law they want. The lopsided dynamic is common in many U.S. statehouses — including where Democrats are in charge — and it has widened under gerrymandered voting maps that redraw legislative district boundaries to dilute the opposition party’s votes.
But in ousting Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson altogether from the Tennessee Legislature on Thursday, Republicans went beyond their typical ability to steamroll Democrats. They instead maximized their parliamentary power to exact retribution.
Not only did Republicans have the votes to oust the lawmakers — one of the few times such drastic action has been taken since the Civil War — they suspended legislative rules of procedure to hasten the process.
The expulsions reverberated far beyond Tennessee, with Democrats in states where they’re similarly outnumbered taking notice. GOP leaders defended their actions as necessary to send a message that disruptive protests in the Tennessee House would not be tolerated.
A third Democrat, Rep. Gloria Johnson, was narrowly spared expulsion by a one-vote margin.
“The erosion of democracy in the state Legislature is what got us here,” Pearson said after his ouster. “It wasn’t walking up to the well, it wasn’t being disruptive to the status quo, it was the silencing of democracy and it’s wrong.”
THE TENNESSEE VOTE
In Tennessee, Republicans hold a supermajority control in both the House and Senate and have wielded full control of the Legislature since 2008.
But in the House, GOP members have increasingly used parliamentary maneuvers to cut off debate – particularly on controversial topics ranging from abortion to LGBTQ+ issues and guns. Republicans have used a legislative tactic known as “calling the question,” which forces an immediate vote on a bill and cuts off debate that can otherwise stretch on for hours.
In the days leading to the expulsion hearing, Republicans also employed what’s known as “suspending the rules,” which allows lawmakers to sidestep usual procedure — such as what happened on Thursday, when lawmakers suspended rules to allow the so-called “Tennessee three” to defend themselves.
Suspending the rules is not always divisive — it can be used to speed up passage of uncontentious bills, for example — but it can also inflame tensions.
Democrats who spoke during Thursday spent most of their time calling on Republicans to pass some sort of gun control legislation in the aftermath of the Nashville school shooting. But they also accused their GOP colleagues of having used the rules to keep debate to a minimum on other topics throughout the legislative session.
Several Democrats joked Thursday how they normally weren’t allowed to talk at such length but got a minor break of sorts during the hearing because of to the national attention it had attracted.
House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican, dismissed suggestions that Democrats have been silenced, saying lawmakers have many opportunities to speak up during legislative committee hearings and on the House floor.
“We haven’t had anybody complain,” Sexton said. “People raise their hands to be recognized. I don’t know who is going to call the question.”
LEGISLATIVE TACTICS
The aggressive actions by Tennessee Republicans demonstrated a flip side to parliamentary tactics that lawmakers in the minority often use to as a last-ditch effort to thwart the other side. Among the most common are filibusters, in which lawmakers try to run out the clock on a bill through lengthy speeches.
In Nebraska, a filibuster brought lawmaking to a standstill for weeks this year over GOP legislation that would impose restrictions on transgender rights. State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, a Democrat, introduced amendment after amendment to every bill on the Senate floor and took up all eight debate hours allowed by the rules each day.
Two years ago, Texas Democrats temporarily stalled passage of new voting restrictions for weeks by breaking quorum and going on a 38-day walkout. They had quietly walked out of the House chamber one by one while facing the potential of Republicans calling the question for a decisive vote before a midnight deadline to pass the bill.
‘NUCLEAR OPTION’
Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who helped spearhead the Democrats’ walkout in 2021, described calling the question as a “nuclear option” and criticized it an offensive tactic to stop debate.
On Friday, he called the expulsions in Tennessee a warning for lawmakers in minority parties to keep their guard up. He said he was especially mindful of how state legislators act at a time when there is gridlock in Washington and the Supreme Court is throwing contentious issues back to the states to decide.
“If you can willy-nilly silence voices by changing rules, then I think that is a significant assault on our democracy,” Fischer said.
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Weber reported from Austin, Texas. | 2023-04-08T22:27:11+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/how-tennessee-gops-majority-used-power-to-expel-democrats/ |
DALLAS, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) has reported its third quarter 2022 financial results. The results are available on the Investor Relations section of Comerica's website here. In addition, the financial results and earnings presentation will be furnished on a Form 8-K filing that will be available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov.
As previously announced, Comerica will host a conference call to review the third quarter 2022 financial results. Interested parties may access the call and supplemental materials through the following details:
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Commercial Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.
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80% of lebrikizumab responders maintained improvements in skin clearance and disease severity at 52 weeks; lasting improvements in itch were also observed
Data supported both once every two week and once every four week maintenance dosing, with consistent and durable responses
INDIANAPOLIS, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced topline results from one-year analyses of the efficacy and safety of lebrikizumab, the company's investigational IL-13 inhibitor for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD). The new findings from the Phase 3 clinical trials (ADvocate 1 and 2) showed eight out of ten patients who achieved clinical response (EASI-75*) with lebrikizumab monotherapy at 16 weeks maintained skin clearance at one year of treatment with the once every two weeks or four weeks regimen. Additionally, patients treated with lebrikizumab maintained itch relief across the two trials over the one-year period. These results build upon positive data from the 16-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled part of the ADvocate program.
"Atopic dermatitis is a complex disease that requires personalized treatment approaches, including flexible dosing options for patients. In these studies, patients treated with lebrikizumab maintained skin clearance and lasting relief from intense itch at one year. We believe this supports the potential of lebrikizumab to become a first-line biologic and may support less frequent dosing," said Lotus Mallbris, M.D., Ph.D., vice president of global immunology development and medical affairs at Lilly. "We look forward to providing an important new medicine and helping patients find the relief they so desperately seek from the varied and debilitating symptoms of this disease, contingent upon FDA approval."
AD, or atopic eczema, is a chronic, relapsing, heterogenous skin disease characterized by intense itching, dry skin and inflammation that can be present on any part of the body.1-2 Lebrikizumab is a novel, monoclonal antibody (mAb) that binds to the interleukin-13 (IL-13) protein with high affinity to specifically prevent the formation of IL-13Rα1/IL-4Rα (Type 2 receptor) which blocks downstream signaling through the IL-13 pathway.3-7 IL-13 plays the central role in AD, promoting Type 2 inflammation that drives skin barrier dysfunction, itch, skin thickening and infection.8-10
In ADvocate 1, 79% of patients who received lebrikizumab every four weeks and 79% of patients who received lebrikizumab every two weeks maintained 75% or greater skin improvement (EASI-75) at one year of treatment. Additionally, 85% of patients who received lebrikizumab every four weeks and 77% of patients who received lebrikizumab every two weeks maintained EASI-75 response in ADvocate 2 at one year of treatment.
The frequency of adverse events and the overall safety profile among these patients treated with lebrikizumab were consistent with the induction phase of the trials as well as previous lebrikizumab studies in AD. No new safety signals were observed in this patient population.
"ADvocate 1 and 2 results add to the exciting growing body of evidence from our Phase 3 clinical trial program and demonstrate that this medicine may provide much-needed relief for those seeking new treatment options. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Lilly and advancing in our clinical program, aiming to obtain approval in the European Union," stated Karl Ziegelbauer, Ph.D., Almirall S.A.'s Chief Scientific Officer.
With these data, Lilly plans to submit a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lebrikizumab in AD in the second half of 2022, followed by submissions to other regulatory agencies around the world. Almirall also plans to submit these results this year to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for authorization.
These studies are part of the comprehensive clinical development program for lebrikizumab in AD evaluating more than 2,000 patients. Full one-year results from the Phase 3 monotherapy studies will be disclosed at upcoming congresses and in publications in 2022. Additional Phase 3 clinical trials are enrolling for lebrikizumab in AD.
Lilly has exclusive rights for development and commercialization of lebrikizumab in the United States and the rest of the world outside Europe. Almirall has licensed the rights to develop and commercialize lebrikizumab for the treatment of dermatology indications, including AD, in Europe.
*EASI=Eczema Area and Severity Index, EASI-75=75 percent reduction in EASI from baseline to Week 16
About ADvocate 1 and ADvocate 2 and the Phase 3 Program
ADvocate 1 and ADvocate 2 are 52-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, global, Phase 3 studies designed to evaluate lebrikizumab as monotherapy in adult and adolescent patients (aged 12 to less than 18 years of age and weighing at least 40 kg) with moderate-to-severe AD. During the 16-week treatment period, patients received lebrikizumab 500-mg initially and at two weeks, followed by lebrikizumab 250-mg or placebo every two weeks. In the maintenance period, patients with moderate-to-severe AD who achieved a clinical response after 16 weeks of lebrikizumab treatment were re-randomized to receive lebrikizumab every two weeks or four weeks or placebo for an additional 36 weeks. Patients who required rescue treatment during the induction period or who did not achieve clinical response (lebrikizumab non-responders) at 16 weeks received lebrikizumab every two weeks for an additional 36 weeks. The primary endpoints were measured by an Investigator Global Assessment (IGA) score of clear (0) or almost clear (1) skin with a reduction of at least two points from baseline and at least 75 percent change in baseline in the Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI-75) score at 16 weeks. EASI measures extent and severity of the disease. Key secondary endpoints were measured by IGA, EASI, the Pruritus Numeric Rating Scale, Sleep-Loss due to Pruritus and the Dermatology Life Quality Index.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted lebrikizumab Fast Track designation in AD in December 2019. The lebrikizumab Phase 3 program consists of five key global studies including two monotherapy studies, a combination study (ADhere), as well as long-term extension (ADjoin) and adolescent open label (ADore) studies. Lilly has also initiated a first-of-its-kind clinical study dedicated to people of color living with AD. The study will further evaluate the efficacy and safety of lebrikizumab in people of color to generate additional data and disease information to help investigators and clinicians provide better diagnoses and treatment options.
About Lebrikizumab
Lebrikizumab is a novel, investigational, monoclonal antibody designed to bind IL-13 with high affinity to specifically prevent the formation of the IL-13Rα1/IL-4Rα heterodimer complex and subsequent signaling, thereby inhibiting the biological effects of IL-13 in a targeted and efficient fashion. IL-13 is the central pathogenic mediator of AD, promoting Type 2 inflammation that drives skin barrier dysfunction, itch, skin thickening and infection.6-8
About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 47 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. P-LLY
Lilly Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about lebrikizumab as a potential treatment for patients with atopic dermatitis and reflects Lilly's current beliefs and expectations. However, as with any pharmaceutical product, there are substantial risks and uncertainties in the process of research, development and commercialization. Among other things, there can be no guarantee that planned or ongoing studies will be completed as planned, that future study results will be consistent with the results to date, or that lebrikizumab will receive regulatory approvals, or be commercially successful. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see Lilly's most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
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7 Okragly A, et al. Comparison of the Affinity and in vitro Activity of Lebrikizumab, Tralokinumab, and Cendakimab. Presented at the Inflammatory Skin Disease Summit, New York, November 3-6, 2021.
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A recently formed Michigan school group is looking to completely remove mentions of LGBTQ existence from classrooms, calling it “rogue sex-ed ... under the guise of safety and inclusivity,” with a newly created opt-out form they hope to force districts to legally comply with.
The non-profit Great Schools Initiative (GSI) first registered with Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs on Sept. 12, 2022. They describe themselves on their website as working to coordinate “collaborative, high impact, education focused initiatives designed to transform declining schools into highly effective teaching institutions.”
But their members appear keyed in on one main issue: sex education. Particularly, in their view, as it intersects with the existence of LGBTQ individuals within Michigan schools.
The group has created a tailor made opt-out form, which seeks to not only opt a child out of traditional sex education classes, but students out of learning about or being exposed to sexuality or gender altogether.
Under Michigan law, the state is not required to teach sex education but is required to educate students about HIV/AIDS. If sex education is taught, it must be medically accurate and taught by someone qualified to teach health education, though it does not need to be comprehensive.
It is also legally required in Michigan to stress that abstinence from sex is “a responsible and effective method of preventing unplanned or out-of-wedlock pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease and is a positive lifestyle for unmarried young people.”
Michigan parents or guardians do, however, have the right to excuse their child or ward from such a class “without penalty or loss of academic credit.” Schools similarly cannot mandate sex education as a pre-requisite for graduation, with state law dictating that the class must be an elective.
It’s from here that GSI’s mission is formed. Using its own opt-out form, the group is looking to target the mere reference of LGBTQ peoples’ existence – including displaying pride flags or referencing gender-neutral bathrooms – as something their child should not be subjected to.
Great Schools Initiative Parental Opt-Out Form by MLive.com on Scribd
It’s something GSI Director Nathan Pawl refers to as a push to end “radical sex education in Michigan schools.”
Pawl is an entrepreneur from the Detroit area and a member of the group Walled Lake Citizens for Parental Rights, which formed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to fight against masking in schools.
He is one of three agents registered as working with GSI, with others including Grand Rapids based lawyer Matthew Nelson and Monica Yatooma, a Michigan Republican Party precinct delegate for the 11th Congressional district.
“I want to be really clear about this: We’re not picking on a student. We’re not picking on anyone’s sexuality or any of those issues,” Pawl said during a Jan. 19 GSI meeting. “What we’re saying the problem is, is that the schools are violating the law ... Most people don’t care if it’s heterosexuality, homosexuality, transsexuality – all of it, we’re saying, needs to be confined to a sex-ed class, not sprinkled in everywhere without any direction or control set.”
Outside of exempting a student from sex education classes, the GSI form also explicitly looks prevent their student from seeing or being exposed to:
- “Use of pronouns for my student that does not match the student’s biological sex as listed in the enrollment documents;
- “Teachers, staff, or administrators, displaying or distributing sexuality/gender paraphernalia like LGBTQ+ flags, or gay pride stickers;
- “Teaching, lessons, or discussions in gender/sexuality social justice or gender/sexuality activism;
- “DEI or SEL sessions, teaching, discussions, or lessons that introduce trans and non-binary genders as protected classes of people;
- “Access to books/materials in the classroom libraries with references to non-biological gender identities or storylines containing any type of non-heterosexual relationships, and/or explicit sexual activities of any kind;
- “Schoolwide activities that teach, discuss, or promote concepts about gender or sexual identities, gender or sexual expression, or other gender concepts such as LGBTQ+ Pride Week or Transsexual Week.”
Pawl said the purpose of the tailored opt-out form is to overwhelm districts and possibly set parents up to fight the issue out in court, thereby creating a “coordinated effort to, as much as possible, transform all the schools in Michigan.”
GSI would do this in partnership with the Thomas More Society, a conservative law firm which has long been enmeshed in anti-abortion and anti-gay litigation.
More recently, the Thomas More Society established the Amistad Project which sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in several states, including Michigan.
Erick Kaardal, special council for the Thomas More Society, told MLive that GSI’s opt-out forms are a way for parents to communicate with school districts “about safety and privacy” concerns. Pressed on what safety had to do with the forms, Kaardal said it was incumbent on schools to be “viewpoint neutral.”
That would mean if a classroom displayed a rainbow pride flag, then it would likely also need to display a “traditional marriage flag” to remain content neutral, adding: “It’s a complicated topic.”
“The school needs to be viewpoint neutral. It has to welcome everyone, but we have to have a viewpoint neutrality,” Kaardal said said. “I don’t think the GSI has suggested a curriculum change. It’s just been about opting out ... If parents object to curriculum, or extra-curricular items, the school district should listen.”
But Jay Kaplan, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Michigan’s LGBTQ+ Project, seemed dubious GSI’s requests or the Thomas More Society would have any standing in a court of law.
He said what GSI sought would be virtually impossible enforce, given that non-heterosexual identities are not inherently sexual and do not fall under the umbrella of sex-education.
“They’re trying to say that any mention or recognition of LGBTQ people, LGBTQ students, is a form of sex education when that’s not the case ... and I think their aim is to try to silence any discussion or recognition of LGBTQ people in the school districts,” Kaplan said. “And, they’re hoping by threatening and intimidating school districts that they’ll be able to accomplish that purpose.”
At that Jan. 19 meeting, Pawl indicated a mass opt-out initiative would begin in February, telling members: “If you have 20, 30, 50 or 100 parents per school start dropping off opt-out forms? This is going to change everything.”
“It will be too much for them to handle. There’s too many places. They can’t pick on one kid any longer. They can’t stop that,” Pawl said. “And, with the ability for us to bring lawsuits – we’ve got a whole system set up, simultaneously, across many different places – we think we can make a very strong move with this.”
It’s unclear, however, if this opt-out push has actually begun. Sources speaking to MLive on background were aware of GSI and its intent, but had yet to see the fully coordinated effort Pawl described in January. The Detroit Free Press indicated that Rochester Community Schools has received forms but didn’t say how many.
A request for comment from GSI was not returned in time for publication.
What’s more, it’s unclear how wide reaching GSI actually is.
Testimonials from parents who’ve benefitted from GSI’s opt-out plan are simply listed as “Mom, Farmington” or “Grandmother, Clinton Twp.” Headshots associated with quotes from alleged parents out of Troy, Rochester and Walled Lake were later found to be stock images, as first reported Jan. 30 by journalist Judd Legum on his Substack.
Those headshots, which were featured on GSI’s site as recently as Jan. 25, have since been removed. No headshots are currently featured on GSI’s website, though the same testimonials remain.
A request for comment from the Michigan Department of Education regarding GSI’s initiative was met with an emailed memorandum sent to educators Thursday, Feb. 2.
The guidance within, however, seemed to insinuate the department believes GSI has no standing in their personally crafted opt-out forms.
The memo – sent by Diane Golzynski, MDE’s interim deputy superintendent of finance and operations – notes that the provision allowing a parent/legal guardian to excuse their child from classes specified in statute “applies only to sex education classes as defined in those sections.”
“Sometimes a parent or legal guardian requests to excuse their child from district programs, practices, and resources outside of the instructional program (e.g., those that pertain to facilities, communications, library holdings, surveys, after-school programs, and student-led non-curricular clubs),” Golzynski wrote. “These programs, practices, and resources are also not part of formal instruction detailed in (state law) and would not be subject to the sex education excusal provisions specified in statute.”
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Forecast Outlook- 3/9/2023
Wind Advisory and Shower Chances for Friday
A storm moving into the area will bring gusty wind and the chance for scattered showers on Friday. Despite the shower chances, temperatures are back in the 70s for your weekend plans.
A Wind Advisory will be in effect from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday. The wind will be coming in from the south with gusts up to 50 mph for the Las Vegas Valley. Gusts up to 65 mph are possible for our local mountains. Along with the wind, skies stay mostly cloudy with the chance of passing showers in the forecast. The forecast high is at 70° in Las Vegas.
A slight shower chance will remain in the forecast for Saturday with wind gusts still pushing 40 mph. Sunday turns mostly sunny with light wind. High temperatures are holding in the mid to low 70s through the weekend.
High temperatures hold in the mid to upper 70s Monday and Tuesday. Another storm moving in will bring the chance of showers late Tuesday and Wednesday. It turns breezy for the middle of next week with highs falling back into the mid to upper 60s Wednesday and Thursday.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkshire Bancorp Inc. (OTCQB: BERK) reported today that TBB Investments LLC ("TBB Investments"), an entity that beneficially owned more than 90% of the common stock of BERK and is controlled by Mr. Moses Marx, members of his family and certain family entities, acquired ownership of all remaining outstanding common stock of BERK as a result of the consummation today of a previously disclosed merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of TBB Investments with and into BERK, with BERK as the surviving corporation. Following these transactions, BERK common stock will no longer be publicly traded.
As a result of the merger, all shares of BERK common stock outstanding immediately before the effective time of the merger were cancelled and holders of shares of BERK common stock outstanding immediately before the effective time of the merger (other than TBB Investments and its subsidiary) became entitled, upon surrender of their BERK shares (together with certain other documentation) to receive a cash payment of $12.40 per share as merger consideration. Alternatively, such holders may exercise certain appraisal rights under Delaware law.
Persons who held shares of BERK common stock at the time of the merger will shortly receive a letter of transmittal and instructions on how to surrender their share certificates in exchange for payment of the merger consideration. Stockholders should wait to receive the letter of transmittal before surrendering share certificates. Stockholders holding BERK shares in street name will receive the merger consideration in their brokerage or similar accounts.
Under Delaware law, no action was required by the stockholders of BERK (other than TBB Investments and its subsidiary) or the Board of Directors of BERK to authorize the merger or for the merger to become effective because, immediately before the effective time of the merger, TBB Investments and its subsidiary owned more than 90% of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of BERK that would have been entitled to vote on the merger.
The merger and certain related transactions were previously approved by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the New York Department of Financial Services.
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After the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, schools around the country pledged to boost security measures and increased the presence of law enforcement on campus — partly to reassure parents and students.
But police inside schools can make some students more uneasy, not less. Especially for Black students and other students of color, their personal experiences with policing can leave them feeling unsafe and alienated from school when they see officers on campus.
High school senior Malika Mobley has seen three different school resource officers patrolling the campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Once on the way home from school, Mobley saw officers detain a visibly distraught classmate and push the student into the back of a police vehicle.
“They were crying, ‘Why are you doing this to me? I didn’t do anything,’” said Mobley, co-president of Wake County Black Student Coalition. “I was just forced to stand there and couldn’t do anything.”
Since 2020, the student group has advocated for eliminating police officers from school buildings in favor of investing in counselors and support staff for students.
“We don’t see police presence as part of the solution,” Mobley said. “If you really think about why police don’t make us safer, you can draw connections to all types of tragedies that impact the most marginalized among us.”
Police officers have a regular presence at schools across the country in recent decades, often in the form of school resource officers, who are tasked with building relationships with young people to promote trust of law enforcement, providing security, and enforcing laws. Critics say having armed police on campus often results in Black students being disproportionately arrested and punished, leading to what they call the school-to-prison pipeline.
Researchers have found that Black students report feeling less safe around police officers than their white peers and that officers in predominantly Black school districts were more likely to view students themselves to be threats.
Black students and other students of color also are disproportionately likely to have negative interactions with police in schools, ranging from referrals to law enforcement to being arrested or restrained, said Katherine Dunn, director of the Opportunity to Learn program at the Advancement Project. Since 2007, the Advancement Project has documented at least 200 instances of officers at schools assaulting students, she said.
“It shows all the physical harms that young people experience by police,” she said. “It’s also the experience of being degraded and made to feel like a criminal because you have to walk down the hallway to your class with several armed cops, who are not there for your safety, who you see arrest your friends, assault your friends.”
In 2018, after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the state Legislature passed laws mandating public schools to have either law enforcement or armed personnel present on campuses.
A study of the law’s impact by F. Chris Curran, a University of Florida professor, found the expanded police presence was followed by an increase in school arrests and the number of reported behavioral incidents. He said there are many factors to consider in deciding the role police play in schools.
“I’d like to see that conversation include thoughtful considerations of potential benefits, decreasing certain kinds of behaviors, but also the potential unintended consequences, if that’s increasing the likelihood students are arrested or potentially increasing racial disparities in discipline and arrest rates,” Curran said.
While there are examples of school resource officers who have intervened in incidents of gun violence, Curran said, the presence of law enforcement does not always guarantee that shootings or other violence won’t occur, or that the officer would be immediately effective at stopping the perpetrator and minimizing casualties.
In a statement issued this week on best practices for school security in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, shooting, the National Association of School Resource Officers emphasized the importance of having “a carefully selected, specifically trained SRO on its campus whenever school is in session.”
The nonprofit group has rejected criticism that officers contribute to a school-to-prison pipeline. Officers who follow its best practices, it says, do not arrest students for disciplinary issues that would be handled ordinarily by educators.
As elsewhere around the country last week, the police presence was increased outside schools across North Carolina to provide reassurance to families in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas shooting.
Wake County schools have 75 school resource officers, drawn from several local law enforcement agencies.
The Wake County Black Student Coalition’s campaign to remove the officers stemmed partly from student accounts of bad experiences with officers, including a 2017 incident where a school resource officer was filmed picking up a Black girl and slamming her to the ground, said Chalina Morgan-Lopez, a high school senior who is co-president of the student group.
“I think it’s a reasonable response to want more officers in schools, especially from people who genuinely do feel protected by law enforcement, even though that’s not my lived experience,” Morgan-Lopez said. “But I think people need to take into account … that officers do in fact do more harm than they do good.”
Last summer the school system made several changes to its school resource officer program, including a new process for fielding grievances involving officers and adjustments to training to prepare them better for the school environment, said Lisa Luten, a spokesperson for the school system. The review was based on community feedback the district sought in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, Luten said.
“This is not a new conversation for us,” she said. “That certainly brought it back to light.”
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Ma, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, writes about education and equity for AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/anniema15
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By JIM SALTER (Associated Press)
The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits filed by two people who said former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into their necks years before he used the same move to kill George Floyd.
John Pope Jr. will receive $7.5 million and Zoya Code will receive $1.375 million. The settlements were announced during a meeting of the Minneapolis City Council.
Both lawsuits stemmed from arrests in 2017 — three years before Chauvin killed Floyd during an arrest captured on video that sparked protests worldwide, prompted a national reckoning on racial injustice and compelled a Minneapolis Police Department overhaul.
At a news conference Thursday, Mayor Jacob Frey apologized to all victims of Chauvin and said that if police supervisors “had done the right thing, George Floyd would not have been murdered.”
“He should have been fired in 2017. He should have been held accountable in 2017,” Frey told reporters.
Both lawsuits named Chauvin and several other officers. The lawsuits alleged police misconduct, excessive force, and racism — Pope and Code are Black; Chauvin is white. They also said the city knew that Chauvin had a record of misconduct but didn’t stop him. Criminal charges in both cases were eventually dropped, but Chauvin is in prison for Floyd’s murder.
Bob Bennett, an attorney for Pope and Code, noted that other officers failed to intervene or report Chauvin, and police leaders allowed Chauvin to keep working even though they had video evidence from body cameras of his wrongdoing. He said the video is expected to be released soon.
“The easy thing is to blame Chauvin for everything,” Bennett said in a written statement. “The important thing that the video shows is that none of those nine to a dozen officers at the scene ever reported it, ever tried to stop it. They violated their own policy and really any sense of humanity.”
Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the department is “forced to reckon once again with the deplorable acts of someone who has proven to be a national embarrassment.” But he also cited “systemic failure” within the police department.
“I am appalled at the repetitive behavior of this coward and disgusted by the inaction and acceptance of that behavior by members of this department. Such conduct is a disgrace to the badge and an embarrassment to what is truly a very noble profession,” O’Hara said in a statement.
Code, who has a history of homelessness and mental health problems, was arrested in June 2017 after she allegedly tried to strangle her mother with an extension cord. Pope was 14 in September 2017 when, according to his lawsuit, Chauvin subjected him to excessive force while responding to a domestic assault report.
City Council member Elliott Payne said he hoped the settlements “bring some closure to this era and is a stark reminder of the work we have lying ahead.”
The lawsuits said body camera recordings showed Chauvin used many of the same tactics on Pope and Code that he used on Floyd. Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison on a state murder charge in 2021 for killing Floyd by pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck for 9 1/2 minutes as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. The city also paid $27 million to Floyd’s family.
Code’s lawsuit said she was in handcuffs when Chauvin slammed her head to the ground and pinned his knee on the back of her neck for 4 minutes and 41 seconds. A second officer didn’t intervene and a responding police sergeant approved the force, the lawsuit stated.
Pope’s lawsuit said his mother was drunk when she called police because she was upset that he and his 16-year-old sister left their cellphone chargers plugged in, leading to a physical confrontation. It alleged Chauvin struck Pope in the head with a large metal flashlight at least four times. It says he then put Pope in a chokehold before pinning him to the floor and putting his knee on Pope’s neck.
“Chauvin would proceed to hold John in this prone position for more than fifteen minutes, all while John was completely subdued and not resisting,” the complaint alleged. “Over those minutes, John repeatedly cried out that he could not breathe.”
The complaint alleged that at least eight other officers did nothing to intervene. It said Chauvin did not mention in his report that he had hit Pope with his flashlight, nor did he mention pinning Pope for so long. Chauvin’s sergeant reviewed and approved his report and use of force “despite having firsthand knowledge that the report was false and misleading,” the lawsuit alleged.
Chauvin admitted to many of Pope’s allegations when he pleaded guilty in December 2021 to federal charges for violating the civil rights of both Floyd and Pope. He was sentenced in July to 21 years on those charges.
Chauvin is serving his sentences in a federal prison in Arizona.
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For more of AP’s coverage on the killing of George Floyd and the aftermath: https://apnews.com/hub/death-of-george-floyd | 2023-04-13T21:19:48+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/04/13/minneapolis-to-pay-8-9m-over-chauvins-actions-before-floyd/ |
Whether Michigan women can obtain an abortion legally came down to an unexpected question: Does a space count as text? In this sentence, for example, are the spaces part of the text, or not?
Thanks to this exhaustive consideration, Viviano found himself with little choice but to dissent from the majority’s opinion on the case at hand: one allowing a constitutional amendment on access to abortion to appear on the November ballot. The amendment had been blocked by a state board ostensibly because some of the text of the amendment appeared on petitions without visible spaces, sortoflikethis.
In a footnote, Justice Richard Bernstein, who voted with the majority, disagreed with arguments like Viviano’s.
“As a blind person who is also a wordsmith and a member of this Court,” he wrote, “I find it unremarkable to note that the lack of visual spacing has never mattered much to me.”
The fact that Bernstein dismissed the spaces-between-letters argument in a footnote, and that Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack spent very little time on it in her majority opinion, reflects an understandable view of why so much attention was paid to the spacing in the first place: It wasn’t about ensuring comprehension of the proposed amendment but, instead, about blocking it from the ballot by any means necessary.
“While I accept the assumption in the Court’s order that the challengers’ argument is arguably a challenge to the ‘form and content’ of the petition,” McCormack wrote in a footnote of her own, “I believe there is good reason to question whether this is the appropriate standard, and if so whether the challengers’ argument is truly such a challenge.”
In other words, she doubted whether the argument was being offered in good faith.
“Even though there is no dispute that every word appears and appears legibly and in the correct order, and there is no evidence that anyone was confused about the text, two members of the Board of State Canvassers with the power to do so would keep the petition from the voters for what they purport to be a technical violation of the statute,” McCormack wrote in concluding her opinion. “They would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad.”
“What a sad marker of the times,” her opinion concludes.
That addendum is potent. It is a marker of the times, certainly, that the Board of State Canvassers should use technicalities to block multiple proposed amendments from the ballot. The other amendment rejected by the board last month would expand access to voting itself — meaning that the two Republicans who caused the board to deadlock on placing the amendments declined to allow voters to vote on whether it should be easier to vote.
This same board, you may recall, was in the spotlight after the 2020 election when certification of the state’s not-close vote for Joe Biden was at risk of being blocked by Republican objections. Ultimately, one of the board’s Republicans announced that the board had no power to block the certification even if it wanted to and voted to certify. The other Republican abstained; the state Republican Party later declined to renominate the one who backed certification to the board.
This is often what the right’s struggle for power looks like these days: introducing obstructions to voting or undermining election results.
There was another development on that second front this week as well. Matthew DePerno, the Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general in November, is under investigation for having participated in a plan to obtain and “investigate” voting machines in several counties. Because the investigation involves the state attorney general — an office held by his Democratic opponent — a special prosecutor was appointed to continue the probe.
DePerno seeks election as attorney general not despite his involvement in a scheme to question voting machines but largely because of it. He gained national attention in the wake of the 2020 election, including from Donald Trump, by elevating dubious and debunked claims about election fraud and the security of election systems. He excoriated state officials and the media as biased and corrupt in harsh terms, although no evidence of any significant fraud or malfeasance has ever been shown. A Republican-led committee in the state Senate even dismissed DePerno’s claims by name as “demonstrably false and based on misleading information and illogical conclusions.”
And then Republicans nominated him to serve as the state’s top law enforcement agent.
It’s clearly true that it’s advantageous for Michigan Democrats to have an abortion amendment on the ballot in November. An effort to allow the state to ban abortion access on the ballot in Kansas lost by a huge margin after turnout surged; Democrats would certainly like to see similar energy as the midterms approach. (Particularly since the Republican gubernatorial nominee, Tudor Dixon, has a hard-line position on access to abortion.) But that doesn’t detract from the fact that more than 700,000 people signed those petitions to have the opportunity to vote on the amendment.
None of them, it seems, were fazed by the lack of spaces — often, one might assume, for the same reason that people rarely object to the terms and services offered by software companies. Presented with the opportunity to vote on an amendment protecting access to abortion, about 1 out of every 13 Michiganders expressed a desire to do so. It took only two Republican bureaucrats to stand in their way.
Democracy is littered with chokepoints where norms and good faith keep the public will moving forward. In multiple ways, Michigan is being tested on how freely democracy in the state can flow. | 2022-09-09T15:14:43+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/09/michigan-abortion-ballot-elections/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd said there should be “full transparency” Friday regarding the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida.
Budd has had Trump’s backing in the race for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat and called the search at Mar-a-Lago “absolutely unprecedented.”
“What we’ve asked for is full transparency. And, so far we don’t have that at this point,” Budd said.
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland said Thursday the Department of Justice would ask a judge to unseal the warrant and property record from the search, which the judge did Friday.
The unsealed documents show the FBI obtained 11 sets of classified documents, including some labeled top secret.
The documents also show the former president is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and removal or destruction of records.
Budd said he also wants the affidavit in support of the search warrant released as well.
“We do not want a current sitting president to attack a former president by means of the FBI. So, that’s what’s concerning at this point,” Budd said. “So, we want full transparency to make sure that’s not what’s happening.”
Officials at the White House said this week President Biden was not briefed on the search before it occurred. Atty. Gen. Garland said he “personally approved” the decision to seek the search warrant.
Soon after former President Trump announced on Monday that the search was taking place, some Republicans quickly criticized the FBI and Department of Justice.
U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC 9th) tweeted, “Republicans must smash the FBI into a million pieces.”
When asked about comments like that, Budd said, “I’m focused on this race right here in North Carolina, and my job is not to comment on other colleagues in Congress.”
Budd’s opponent in the U.S. Senate race, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, also weighed in on the matter Friday in an interview on MSNBC.
“I have a real respect for the rule of law and for law enforcement to be able to do their jobs,” she said. “I think we need to see how all of this falls into place, so that we have more information to have a better opportunity to assess where we are in all of this. I do also know that it’s important that national security be of primary concern for all of us in this work.”
The new developments regarding the search came the same day Budd debuted his first TV ad of the general election campaign.
In the ad, Budd focuses on the economy and inflation while standing in a grocery store and talking about the higher costs families are paying.
“And, I’m running for Senate to stop (Biden’s) spending and end this recession,” he said in the ad.
It was released the same day the U.S. House of Representatives was scheduled to take a final vote on the Inflation Reduction Act and send it to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
“It’s poor timing. And, this is reckless spending from Joe Biden that’s going to hurt Americans, ultimately,” Budd said.
David McLennan, an expert on state politics at Meredith College, said the economy remains the top issue in the election and it’s unclear how this week’s events could impact that.
“As we get further into the situation and start finding out more details, it may temper that kind of kneejerk, initial response,” he said. “It will definitely play a role. We just don’t know how big of one.” | 2022-08-13T20:00:49+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/ncs-budd-still-asking-for-full-transparency-amid-trumps-fbi-search/ |
Orlando weather forecast: Life-threatening rip currents at Florida beaches this weekend
ORLANDO, Fla. - Today's high: 90 degrees
Tonight' low: 73 degrees
Rain: 20-30%
Main weather concerns:
Main concerns today shift from booming storms to high surf and life-threatening rip currents at ALL Central Florida Atlantic beaches. Breaking waves in the 4-6' range with a few larger waves at times. A "longshore" will also be at play at all time today through the weekend.
A longshore current is a fast moving channel of water that races from North to South. This current will be encountered immediately upon entering the surf zone.
BEACHES:
The beaches look decent today but, showers will be possible-blowing by in a Northeast breeze. Rain chances are near 20%. Good idea to stay out of the water as deadly rip currents and high surf are still issues. Highs hit near 87 on the sand today. Breezes from the Northeast at 10-20mph.
THEME PARKS:
Plenty of sunshine and slight rain chances at the parks today! Highs will hit near 90 and rain chance are at 20-30% for the pm... Sunscreen and hydration will both be a must today. Enjoy it!
EXTENDED OUTLOOK:
The FOX 35 STORM TEAM is watching newly formed DEPRESSION 9 in the Southern Caribbean. This feature will become tropical storm HERMINE later today and could bring impacts as a strong hurricane to Florida by next Tuesday-Wednesday.
TROPICS:
Tropical Depression 9 formed this morning in the Central Caribbean and will likely become Tropical Storm HERMINE on Friday afternoon, according to the latest NHC forecast.
A hurricane is expected to form late weekend just before entering the Southern Gulf. From there, future HERMINE draws closer to the Southwest Florida Peninsula early next week. Hard to iron out local impacts right now so stay with the FOX 35 Storm Team for the latest this weekend and beyond! | 2022-09-23T12:47:08+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/orlando-weather-forecast-life-threatening-rip-currents-at-florida-beaches-this-weekend |
(NerdWallet) – When you’re deciding whether to vacation at Walt Disney World in Florida or Disneyland in California, there’s a lot to consider, like the size of the parks, the number of rides and the distance from home.
But if you’re purely picking based on price, which is cheaper: Disneyland or Disney World?
Disney World tends to be cheaper overall for stays of one night or more, largely due to Florida’s lower hotel prices. But for some expenses, like tickets and food, Disneyland is cheaper.
A recent NerdWallet analysis looked at Disney World and Disneyland prices between April 2023 and April 2024 across four categories:
- Park tickets (and add-ons, like Genie+).
- On-property hotel room rates.
- Food at park restaurants.
- Add-on activities, like spa treatments and tours.
Read more about NerdWallet’s methodology at the end of this piece.
Here’s a closer look at the data on Disneyland versus Disney World costs.
An overall cost breakdown
Disney World tickets are about 3.9% more expensive than Disneyland tickets, and Disney World food runs about 9.9% more expensive.
But because the prices of Disney-owned hotels near Disneyland are significantly higher (nearly 50% higher, on average) than those near Disney World, the Florida resort tends to net out far cheaper overall than its California counterpart.
Our conclusions average estimated costs per person across three price tiers: Value, Moderate and Deluxe. Hotel room rates are based on Saturday night stays, which generally are more expensive than weekdays.
Here’s a look at some of the average individual line item costs.
These estimates don’t account for other costs like airfare, gas and parking, which vary depending on your transportation mode and starting location.
But all else equal, Walt Disney World tends to be far cheaper overall. And that doesn’t even account for the myriad free and low-cost Disney World activities available such as live music, fireworks viewing, bike rentals and fishing — all of which don’t even require a theme park ticket.
🤓Nerdy Tip
If you take on-property hotel stays out of the equation, Disneyland is actually more affordable than Disney World.
Ticket prices
There are some similarities between Disneyland tickets and Disney World tickets. At both resorts, theme park ticket prices vary based on park and date, but Disneyland’s are almost always slightly cheaper.
The average price for a one-day Disneyland ticket for entry between April and August 2023 is $154. At Disney World, an average Magic Kingdom ticket (the closest park equivalent at Disney World) costs $160, making Disney World tickets, on average, 3.9% more expensive.
Hotel stays
A huge factor in Disneyland’s higher cost comes down to its on-property hotel prices, which average 49% more expensive per night than Disney World hotels.
One reason for the high prices is that supply is limited. There are just three Disney-owned hotels at Disneyland compared to the more than two dozen at Disney World, offering far more options at every price point, from budget-friendly to higher-end.
Nightly rates for one of Disney World’s most expensive hotels, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, start at $780, according to Disney price tracking site Touring Plans.
This makes the West Coast equivalent, Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa — where room rates start at $475 — look like a deal.
But whereas you should expect to pay a minimum of $210 per night for Disneyland’s cheapest property, the Paradise Pier Hotel, Disney World rooms run as low as $128 per night at Disney’s All-Star properties, according to Touring Plans.
For what it’s worth, Disneyland’s higher hotel room prices align with broader regional trends.
The U.S. General Services Administration, an agency of the government that manages federal property, collects average hotel room price data. These numbers serve as an indicator for mid-range hotel prices in each market.
Between April and September 2023, the average daily lodging rate in Orange County, California — where Disneyland is located — is $182, according to GSA data. For Orange County, Florida — home of Disney World — it’s just $129.
Food costs at the parks
Across all price tiers of dining options, Disney World meals average 9.9% more expensive than equivalent-quality meals at Disneyland.
For an average budget meal at a Value restaurant or cart, expect to spend at least $1 more per person, per meal in Florida. For high-end, waiter-service meals, Disney World is roughly $10 more expensive per person, per meal.
Other activities
For trips of three nights or more, NerdWallet’s data factored in additional entertainment beyond theme parks, like spa services, tours and bowling. Price differences in this category across the parks are a mixed bag. Depending on the activity, it might be cheaper at one park or the other, so research your specific interests when budgeting for your trip.
Methodology
To compare Disneyland versus Disney World trip costs, NerdWallet analyzed more than 200 ticket prices, more than 550 price points across hotel room rates at Disney-owned hotels, and prices for more than 100 additional activities and restaurant menu items.
NerdWallet’s trip costs start once you’re on property, thus don’t account for parking, airfare or driving costs. Each trip assumes three meals per day in the parks, daily theme park tickets and overnight stays at a Disney-owned hotel.
NerdWallet broke trips into one-night, three-night and seven-night trips, and also categorized trips into three price tiers: Value, Moderate and Deluxe (the same classification that Disney World uses for its hotels).
Here’s what’s included in each price tier:
From there, NerdWallet used average costs to build sample trip budgets.
Additional notes:
- Because Walt Disney World ticket prices vary by park, one-day ticket prices were based on Magic Kingdom admission. Two-day ticket prices were based on Magic Kingdom and Epcot.
- NerdWallet’s analysis did not account for Park Hopper tickets, which allow access to multiple theme parks in one day.
- All prices are per person other than hotel prices, which are listed per room. Your individual hotel costs might be less than what’s listed above if you share a room with multiple people.
These budgets should be used to estimate rather than determine your own Disney trip costs. For instance, you might spend less if you pack your own snacks, or you might spend more if you spring for miscellaneous costs (e.g. taxis, Mickey-shaped balloons or PhotoPass).
Sam Kemmis and Carissa Rawson contributed to this report. | 2023-05-06T19:39:29+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/entertainment/which-is-cheaper-disneyland-or-disney-world/ |
SONGDO, South Korea, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pegasus Capital Advisors is pleased to announce the initial commitment of up to $125 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and $5 million from Builder's Vison for its Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) Investment Fund. The Global Fund for Coral Reefs is a blended finance initiative dedicated to catalyzing investment on behalf of critically threatened coral reefs and climate-vulnerable coastal communities.
The Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) Investment Fund announced new contributions totaling up to $130 million at the recent UN Ocean Conference 2022, during the Sustainable Blue Economy Investment Forum – a high-level event focused on oceans investments, hosted by the Governments of Kenya and Portugal.
The GFCR is the largest UN-supported blended finance initiative dedicated to Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water, and brings together a target $500 million impact investment fund and a target $125 million grant fund, with the goal of generating environmental and social impacts for coastal ecosystems that house the world's most important coral reefs, and climate-vulnerable coastal communities that depend on those reefs for their livelihoods and food security.
Craig Cogut, Founder & CEO, Pegasus Capital Advisors said, "We are thrilled and grateful for the commitment of the Green Climate Fund as an anchor investor and for Builder's Vision's contribution. The GFCR is an exciting new coalition, and with our many partners we plan to unlock significant private capital to invest in the reef-positive sustainable blue economy, bridging the funding gap for SDG14."
Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund said, "As a junior equity investor in the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) hopes the GFCR closing will catalyze additional private capital into the GFCR Investment Fund. This innovative Fund will provide critical growth equity to entrepreneurs, catalyzing finance at the scale needed to protect coral reefs and the livelihoods of people in some of the world's most climate vulnerable countries."
Founded by Lukas Walton, Builders Vision is an impact platform offering versatile philanthropic and investment tools to people and organizations committed to building a more humane and healthier planet. Builders Vision will invest USD $5 million in the GFCR Investment Fund, becoming its first private investor.
"How we care for the environment is a reflection of how we care for one another. When it comes to restoring and preserving the world's coral reefs, we have an urgent obligation to intervene and pursue innovations to create a flywheel effect to save these vibrant natural resources. Builders Vision is proud to make this impact investment as part of the United Nations Coral Reef Fund's powerful and growing toolbox. We also hope our investment serves as a catalyst for new advocates and investors to join this critical mission," says Lukas Walton, CEO and Founder of Builders Vision.
The Global Fund for Coral Reefs is a target $625 million blended finance initiative comprised of a $500 million target size Investment Fund and $125 million target size Grant Fund. GFCR is the first commercial-scale private equity impact investment fund targeting SDG14, life below water. The investment fund will pursue a diversified, global portfolio of high-growth opportunities in the wildcaught fisheries, aquaculture, hospitality, and circular economy sectors, with the goal of generating market rate returns while creating positive benefits for coral reef ecosystems and the people who depend on them.
Pegasus Capital Advisors is a leading global private markets impact investment manager. As the first U.S. private equity fund manager accredited by the Green Climate Fund, we are dedicated to fostering sustainable and inclusive growth while providing attractive returns for our investors. Founded in 1996 by Craig Cogut, Pegasus has invested over $2 billion across five private equity funds.
For additional information, please visit: www.pcalp.com.
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NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emily Portney, Chief Financial Officer, will speak at the Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference, at 8:45 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. The discussion may include forward-looking statements and other material information.
A live webcast of the audio portion of the conference will be available on the BNY Mellon website (www.bnymellon.com/investorrelations). An archived version of the audio portion will be available on the BNY Mellon website approximately 24 hours after the live webcast and will remain available until July 14, 2022.
BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2022, BNY Mellon had $45.5 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $2.3 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.
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In June 2023, the Supreme Court put a stop to the Biden administration’s plan to forgive $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt for most student borrowers.
Less than a month later, the U.S. Department of Education announced it was forgiving student loans for some borrowers on Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans. Google search interest then surged for topics like student loans, Joe Biden and the Supreme Court.
THE QUESTION
Do qualified borrowers have to do anything to receive forgiveness from the one-time IDR adjustment?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, qualified borrowers do not have to do anything to receive forgiveness from the one-time IDR adjustment.
WHAT WE FOUND
On July 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would forgive a combined $39 billion in student debt for more than 800,000 borrowers on Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) plans.
“Eligible borrowers will be informed by the Department starting today that they qualify for forgiveness without further action on their part,” the Education Department wrote. “Discharges will begin 30 days after emails are sent.”
IDR plans allow borrowers to make lower monthly payments depending on their income. Generally, borrowers on IDR plans are required to make payments for 20 or 25 years — 240 or 300 months — depending on their specific kind of IDR plan. After they’ve made 240 or 300 months of payments, any remaining loan balance is forgiven, the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid website says.
The Department of Education is adjusting the way it counts the months borrowers are credited for so that borrowers receive credit for months they were not credited for before. Now credit will be given for:
Any month in which a borrower was in a repayment status, regardless of whether payments were partial or late, the type of loan or the repayment plan
Any period in which a borrower spent 12 or more consecutive months in forbearance
Any month in forbearance for borrowers who spent 36 or more cumulative months in forbearance
Any month spent in deferment (except for in-school deferment) prior to 2013
Any month spent in economic hardship or military deferments on or after January 1, 2013
For some borrowers, this may mean receiving additional years of credit toward loan forgiveness. If those additional years or months push a borrower past 20 or 25 years of payments, those loans may immediately qualify for forgiveness, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says.
Borrowers will be notified by their student loan servicer after their debt is forgiven. Anyone receiving forgiveness will have their scheduled repayments put on hold until the forgiveness is processed.
The Education Department first announced its intention to adjust IDR plans in this way back in April 2022, several months before the Biden administration announced its plan for student loan forgiveness of $10,000 or $20,000 for most student borrowers.
The IDR adjustment plan is unrelated to June 2023’s Supreme Court decision and is not affected by it. Student loan interest will begin accruing again on Sept. 1, 2023, and student loan payments will resume the following month, in October. | 2023-07-14T21:51:30+00:00 | wcnc.com | https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/verify/student-loan/idr-loan-forgiveness-biden-administration-student-debt-plan/536-6922b43e-d135-4a9d-83a3-88f2f0fd6b6e |
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