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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: ASM) (NYSE American: ASM) (FSE: GV6) , "Avino" or "the Company") is pleased to report its record third quarter 2022 production results from the Avino Mine property near Durango, Mexico.
"Our third quarter production was our strongest quarter from Avino in recent history, and results continue to exceed our expectations from the Avino Mine." said David Wolfin, President and CEO of Avino. "With an unsettled market, Avino's performance is a testament to our operations team in Mexico. We continue optimizing underground mining processes, growing and training a local workforce, and practicing sound financial responsibility at the mine site and corporate level. We believe that we will have strong production growth over the next 5 years. We also believe this should correspond with strong global industrial demand for silver and other metals that will be needed for the expanding green energy revolution. Despite a current downturn in metal prices, our concentrate continues to be sold at profitable levels."
- Silver equivalent production increased 20% to 778,008 oz2
- Silver production increased by 27% to 285,444 oz
- Copper production increased by 28% to 2.1 million lbs
- Gold production decreased by 11% to 1,201 oz
- Mill throughput increased by 37% to 162,169 tonnes
Avino Mine Production – Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022 (compared to Q2 2022 & 9M 20211)
- Steady Increase of Production at Avino: Mill throughput increased by 37% compared to Q2 2022, with over 160,000 tonnes milled. This represents the highest total tonnage milled from the Avino mine in recent history.
- Announced ET Area Drilling Results: On October 11, 2022, Avino announced further drill results from the most recent six holes at the Avino Elena Tolosa ("ET") area below our deepest Level 17 mining area. These drill results confirmed the downdip continuity of widths and grades of the Avino vein extending significant potential to a depth of at least 290 metres down dip below current development. Avino is advancing geological modelling to determine the potential geometry and controls of the mineralization. All three of Avino's drills are currently turning with a focus on identifying the extent of the mineralization below the current production operations.
- Exploration Update: At the end of Q3 2022, a total of 11,253 metres had been drilled. News releases on exploration released during the quarter are linked here: Avino ET Area – October 11, 2022
The installation and commissioning of the dry-stack tailings project has been completed. Avino is transitioning to full time operation of the pressure filters as site personnel fine tune the process. Avino chose dry-stack tailings for its environmental, safety and economic advantages. Dry-stack tailings improve the overall tailings facility safety and stability and reduces the need to extract water from local sources by recycling the water removed from tailings. In addition, dry-stack tailings require less land area which results in a smaller environmental footprint. Photos of the dry-stack facility can be viewed at this link.
The Company is conducting community engagement in the nearby towns adjacent to the property and will provide further updates as plans develop. Avino is fully committed to moving this project forward as it factors prominently into the Company's 5-year growth strategy.
Mill assays are performed at the Avino property's on-site lab. Check samples are sent to SGS Labs in Durango, Mexico for verification. Gold and silver assays are performed by the fire assay method with a gravimetric finish for concentrates and AAS (Atomic Absorption Spectrometry) methods for copper, lead, zinc and silver for the feed and tail grade samples. All concentrate shipments are assayed by one of the following independent third-party labs: Inspectorate in the UK, and LSI in the Netherlands and AHK.
Peter Latta, P. Eng, MBA, VP Technical Services, Avino who is a qualified person within the context of National Instrument 43-101 has reviewed and approved the technical data in this news release.
Further to the Company's announcement on May 2, 2022, and in line with its strategic plans to become an intermediate producer in Mexico, an option and royalty agreement (together, the "Agreements") for Endurance Gold ("Endurance") to earn a 100% ownership in the former Minto Gold Mine, Olympic and Kelvin gold prospects contained within a parcel of crown grants and mineral claims in BC (together, the "Olympic Claims") has now been finalized.
The Olympic Claims are located on the north and south shores of BC Hydro's Carpenter Lake Reservoir in the Bridge River Valley, east of the Royal Shear trend.
Under the terms of the Agreements, Endurance can earn a 100% interest in the Olympic Claims for:
- A total cash consideration in the aggregate amount of $100,000 ($10,000 already paid);
- The allotment and issuance of up to a total of 1,500,000 common shares ('Shares') of the Company (100,000 Shares already issued); and
- Exploration expenditures in the aggregate amount of $300,000.
- All to be incurred by December 31, 2024.
- A payment of 100,000 Shares and $15,000 cash is due on or before December 31, 2022.
On vesting its ownership interest, the Olympic Claims will be subject to a 2% net smelter return royalty ("NSR"), of which 1% NSR can be purchased by Endurance for $750,000 and the remaining balance of the NSR can be purchased for $1,000,000.
As part of the final requirement to earn its interest, Endurance has agreed to grant to Avino 750,000 share purchase warrants ("Warrants") by December 31, 2024, that offer Avino the option to purchase additional shares in the Company for a period of three years from the date of issuance. The exercise price of the Warrants will be set at a 25% premium to the 20-day Volume Weighted Average Price share price at the issuance date. During the Option, if Endurance is successful in defining a compliant mineral resource of at least 500,000 gold-equivalent ounces on the Olympic Claims then Endurance will be obliged to pay Avino a $1,000,000 discovery bonus.
The original letter agreement was accepted by the TSX Venture Exchange in May 2022, and the terms accepted at the time remain unchanged. Any Shares or Warrants to be issued will be subject to a four-month hold period on issuance as per the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. All dollar amounts in the Agreements refer to Canadian dollars.
Avino is primarily a silver producer from its wholly owned Avino Mine near Durango, Mexico. The Company's silver, gold and copper production remains unhedged. The Company's mission and strategy is to create shareholder value through its focus on profitable organic growth at the historic Avino Property and the strategic acquisition of the La Preciosa property. Avino currently controls mineral resources, as per NI 43-101, that total 290 million silver equivalent ounces, within our district scaled land package. We are committed to managing all business activities in a safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective manner, while contributing to the well-being of the communities in which we operate. We encourage you to connect with us on Twitter at @Avino_ASM and on LinkedIn at Avino Silver & Gold Mines. To view the Avino Mine VRIFY tour, please click here.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"David Wolfin"
David Wolfin
President & Chief Executive Officer
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (together, the "forward looking statements") within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including the amended mineral resource estimate for the Company's Avino Property located near Durango in west-central Mexico (the "Avino Property") with an effective date of January 13, 2021, and as amended on December 21, 2021, and the Company's updated mineral resource estimate for La Preciosa with an effective date of October 27, 2021, prepared for the Company, and references to Measured, Indicated, Inferred Resources referred to in this press release. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and the dates of technical reports, as applicable. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, as there can be no assurance that the future circumstances, outcomes or results anticipated in or implied by such forward-looking statements will occur or that plans, intentions or expectations upon which the forward-looking statements are based will occur. While we have based these forward-looking statements on our expectations about future events as at the date that such statements were prepared, the statements are not a guarantee that such future events will occur and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause events or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. No assurance can be given that the Company's Avino Property nor the La Preciosa Property have the amount of the mineral resources indicated in their reports or that such mineral resources may be economically extracted. Such factors and assumptions include, among others, the effects of general economic conditions, the price of gold, silver and copper, changing foreign exchange rates and actions by government authorities, uncertainties associated with legal proceedings and negotiations and misjudgments in the course of preparing forward-looking information. In addition, there are known and unknown risk factors which could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Known risk factors include risks associated with project development; the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mining and mineral processing; the COVID-19 pandemic; volatility in the global financial markets; fluctuations in metal prices; title matters; uncertainties and risks related to carrying on business in foreign countries; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain of our officers, directors or promoters with certain other projects; the absence of dividends; currency fluctuations; competition; dilution; the volatility of the our common share price and volume; tax consequences to U.S. investors; and other risks and uncertainties. Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We are under no obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable securities laws. For more detailed information regarding the Company including its risk factors, investors are directed to the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F and other periodic reports that it files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
References to Measured & Indicated Mineral Resources and Inferred Mineral Resources in this press release are terms that are defined under Canadian rules by National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101"). On October 31, 2018, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted Item 1300 of Regulation S-K ("Regulation SK-1300") to modernize the property disclosure requirements for mining registrants, and related guidance, under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All registrants are required to comply with Regulation SK-1300 for fiscal years ending after January 1, 2021. Accordingly, the Company must comply with Regulation SK-1300 for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, and thereafter, and the Company will no longer utilized Industry Guide 7. Regulation SK-1300 uses the Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards ("CRIRSCO") based classification scheme for mineral resources and mineral reserves, that includes definitions for inferred, indicated, and measured mineral resources. U.S. Investors are cautioned not to assume that any part of the mineral resources in these categories will ever be converted into probable or proven mineral reserves within the meaning of Regulation S-K 1300.
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(The Hill) – Virginia McLaurin, who went viral for spontaneously dancing with former President Obama and Michelle Obama during a 2016 Black History Month celebration, died on Monday. She was 113 years old.
McLaurin passed away early Monday morning after being placed under hospice care a few days prior, a post on her Facebook page states.
“While best known for her visit to the White House in 2016, she spent decades volunteering 40 hours a week at schools after she retired,” the post reads. “She had an extraordinary memory, sharing stories of [her] family’s life as sharecroppers in South Carolina before traveling north in the Great Migration.”
McLaurin was born in South Carolina in 1909 and later lived in Washington, D.C.
She had a social media campaign to meet Obama, and in February 2016, McLaurin fulfilled her dream of visiting the White House as she joined the first couple at an event to celebrate Black History Month.
A White House video of her bobbing as she met the first couple garnered more than 4 million views.
“I want to be like you when I grow up,” Michelle Obama told McLaurin in the clip as the then-106-year-old broke out into a dance.
“She’s dancing. Come on! So, what’s the secret to still dancing at 106?” President Obama followed up.
A memorial fund has been created in the supercentenarian’s honor, which has raised more than $4,000 as of Tuesday evening.
The organizers said the funds would be used to cover McLaurin’s funeral and burial expenses, also encouraging admirers to “look out for the other Ms. McLaurins in your neighborhood,” noting her long record of volunteering.
McLaurin, in the 2016 clip, went on to say she never thought she would live to visit the White House, especially with a Black president in residence.
“You have just made our day. You know that? That energy,” Michelle Obama said at one point.
“Well, you made my day,” McLaurin responded.
After meeting the Obamas, McLaurin later declared, “I can die smiling now.” | 2022-11-16T01:27:29+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/virginia-mclaurin-who-went-viral-dancing-with-the-obamas-dies-at-113/ |
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The Multi-year, Multi-million, Multi-territory Deal is Pinterest's First under Chief Content Officer Malik Ducard
NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, inspiration to realization platform Pinterest and modern media company Tastemade announce a first-of-its-kind, multi-million, global strategic partnership to scale creators, content series, and live streaming on Pinterest. The multi-year partnership commences immediately with initial programming launching in Q3/Q4 of 2022 and throughout 2023.
Under the terms of the deal, Tastemade, already one of the largest video partners for Pinterest globally, will produce 50 new shows that will debut exclusively on Pinterest via new content franchises and Idea Pins, Pinterest's multi-page video Pins. Co-developed by Pinterest, these series will feature talent from both the Tastemade and Pinterest creator communities from around the globe — and will be produced in at least eight different languages from Tastemade's global studios across the U.S, LATAM, Europe, and APAC.
Tastemade will also produce hundreds of hours of new live streaming programming for Pinterest TV. Shot on location and in Tastemade's studios, the live streams will aim to increase total viewership, drive repeat viewers, test shopping behaviors, and encourage community engagement. Tastemade's experience with live streaming commerce will prove valuable in activating creators, brands, and consumers alike.
"As one of our largest video partners globally, I've been so impressed by how Tastemade has expanded their platform, consistently delivers engaging content, and builds value on Pinterest," says Chief Content Officer Malik Ducard, Pinterest. "This is a natural extension of our existing partnership as we scale our content and creator efforts at Pinterest, and I'm thrilled to build something even bigger to inspire Pinners in more languages around the world."
By partnering with Tastemade, Pinterest is further scaling their creator ecosystem with a pioneer in native mobile video to drive high-quality video content and engagement on the platform, which allows for a truly unique offering for creators to collaborate with Tastemade and Pinterest on a global basis. While Pinterest began their creator efforts by focusing on "rising stars" and "homegrown" creators, this newly expanded partnership with Tastemade will also bolster Pinterest's native-first content approach with programmers and publishers as premium content creators.
Tastemade drives some of the most inspirational content on Pinterest, with Tastemade Pins driving 200% more saves than the average Pin.1 While Tastemade has historically focused on the passion-led content verticals of Food, Travel, and Home & Design, this partnership will expand its programming to other high-value categories including Beauty, Fashion, Health & Wellness, Fitness, Parenting, Pets, and more – leveraging Tastemade's robust global video platform and creator community to bring greater quality and scale to Pinterest's video ambitions and to produce an even wider array of programming to inspire Pinterest users around the world.
"Consumers have undeniably embraced video as the preferred content medium, and one that is especially powerful in inspiring consumers to take action to create a life they love," says Co-Founder & CEO Larry Fitzgibbon, Tastemade. "The biggest trends in media are now in video, creators, and live streaming – and this partnership addresses all three at global scale. We have a long track record of deeply engaging the Pinterest audience and are excited to take even more Pinners from inspiration to realization through video storytelling."
As a part of the deal, Tastemade will also host a series of in-person creator events at Tastemade studios around the globe (Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Jakarta, Mumbai, São Paulo, Buenos Aires) in many of Pinterest's key international markets. Creators from both the Pinterest and Tastemade communities will come together for community building activities, creator activations, and training sessions focused on catalyzing more high-quality video storytelling and overall engagement on the Pinterest platform.
Tastemade is a modern media company that engages a global audience of more than 300 million monthly viewers on all major digital, mobile, and streaming television platforms, garnering 700 million minutes watched each month. We create award-winning video content and original programming in the categories of Food, Travel, and Home & Design that we share with an engaged, passionate, and global community. Tastemade has won a host of awards and accolades for its innovation and original programming, including three James Beard Awards, two Emmy Awards, and was most recently recognized as one of Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" in 2021. For more information, visit Tastemade at:www.tastemade.com
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has agreed to a $30 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels for the 2023 season in the two-way superstar’s final year of arbitration eligibility before free agency.
The Angels announced the deal Saturday, avoiding a potentially complicated arbitration case with the 2021 AL MVP.
Ohtani’s deal is fully guaranteed, with no other provisions. The deal is the largest one-year contract ever given to an arbitration-eligible player, surpassing the $27 million given to Mookie Betts by the Boston Red Sox in January 2020, a month before he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Ohtani’s $24.5 million raise from his 2022 salary is by far the largest for an arbitration-eligible player in major league history. He shattered the previous record of $9.6 million set by Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets when his pay was bumped from $7.4 million to $17 million before the 2019 season.
Ohtani is having another incredible season at the plate and on the mound for the Angels, regularly accomplishing and surpassing feats that haven’t occurred in the major leagues since Babe Ruth’s heyday. He is a strong contender for the AL MVP award again alongside the Yankees’ Aaron Judge, who has tied the AL home run record and is closing in on the batting Triple Crown.
Ohtani is batting .276 with 34 homers, 94 RBIs and a .888 OPS. The designated hitter is fourth in the AL in homers and seventh in RBIs, and he is on a 15-game hitting streak heading into the Angels’ home game against Texas on Saturday night after racking up four multi-hit games in his last five outings.
Ohtani is even more impressive on the mound, going 15-8 with a 2.35 ERA and 213 strikeouts. Opponents are batting only .207 against the Angels ace, who got within four outs of a no-hitter against the Athletics in his most recent start Thursday.
The 28-year-old Ohtani is slated to make his final mound start of the season Wednesday in Oakland, and he needs to pitch just one inning to reach 162 for the season, which would allow him to qualify for the season-ending AL leaders in pitching statistics. He is currently fourth in the league in victories, third in strikeouts and fourth in ERA.
Ohtani still will be a free agent after the 2023 season, and his future could be tied to the immediate fortunes of the Angels, who will complete their seventh consecutive losing season next week. The Angels didn’t trade Ohtani at the deadline despite being out of the playoff race again, and Ohtani is wildly popular among the club’s fans.
Ohtani repeatedly has said winning will be an important factor in choosing his home beyond 2023, and Angels owner Arte Moreno is currently exploring a sale of the team.
Moreno’s leadership has been widely criticized during the Angels’ mostly miserable run of play since 2009, and a fresh start with deep-pocketed new owners could be the best chance to persuade Ohtani to stay with the franchise he joined in 2018 from Japan. Ohtani immediately won the AL Rookie of the Year award, and he rounded into unique form last season after recovering fully from Tommy John surgery.
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More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-03T21:08:53+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/sports/ap-ohtani-agrees-to-30-million-deal-for-2023-with-angels/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The secret about how Orlando was going to take Paolo Banchero with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft was incredibly well-kept.
Among those who didn’t know: Banchero himself.
Banchero said even he was kept out of the Magic decision loop until about 30 seconds before NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took the draft stage to announce his name for the basketball world to hear. Mike Miller, Banchero’s agent, leaned over and broke the news by simply saying “Congratulations.”
“It all happened pretty fast,” Banchero said.
With that, he was off and running. Banchero arrived in Orlando on Friday, one day after his name got permanently etched on the list of No. 1 draft picks. The 6-foot-10 forward out of Duke will officially start workouts next week for Orlando’s July 7 opener at NBA Summer League.
“There’s going to be high expectations for myself that I’m going to hold myself to and that everyone is going to hold myself to,” Banchero said. “But I feel like it’s nothing I’m not used to. It was the same thing for me heading into college, throughout high school, a lot of expectations. It’s been like that my whole life.”
The Magic looked at every option with the No. 1 pick. Teams called about obtaining it in a trade. Auburn’s Jabari Smith Jr. came in for a workout that some Orlando players attended and raved about. Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren spent a few days with the Magic last week. The team insisted other players were given serious consideration as well.
There were plenty of things to consider, fit in the short-term and fit in the long-term among them.
“There’s things that you’re grabbing from each one that you’re like, ‘Oh, man, wow, that can be great for us,’” Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley said. “But then it ultimately comes down to, ‘How does that fit for us? How do we jell with them in the locker room? How are they treating people when they’re walking in?’ Because all those pieces play a factor. And I think we’ve done an incredible job with those details.”
The Magic said they were convinced when the college season ended that Banchero was the best player at that level this past season. But the actual timetable on when they made the decision to take him No. 1 remains a secret.
Miller, who won the NBA rookie of the year award in Orlando and now will try to help Banchero do the same as an agent, said he started getting hints about a half-hour before the pick was made.
“It was a great job of them doing the due diligence and keeping it quiet,” Miller said. “But they trusted in what they saw in him and what we were talking about as far as his basketball abilities — not only where he’s at now, but where he’s going to be. And there’s not, I’ll be honest, there’s not many Paolo Bancheros walking through a lot of doors. He’s just a special, special kid and a special basketball player.”
What happens over the next few days will be a whirlwind. Summer League practice awaits, and Banchero and second-round pick Caleb Houstan of Michigan both intend to play. There will be tons of attention on that, right from the get-go: the made-for-TV first game in Las Vegas pits Orlando against Houston, the team that used the No. 3 pick on Smith — after he was widely expected by many to end up in Orlando.
Mosley — who will run some practices going into Summer League, but will leave the game responsibilities in Las Vegas to Magic assistant Jesse Mermuys — said he doesn’t intend to coach Banchero any differently than any other player. But the fact is, Banchero will be viewed differently than any other rookie this season. Such is life for the No. 1 pick in any draft.
“Right now, the level of expectation of what people outside view as what the No. 1 pick should do and should be may be different,” Mosley said. “But we also understand, when you walk into this building, you’re an Orlando Magic and there’s a standard and a set of things that we’re going to need to do night in and night out to make everyone successful.”
Ultimately, that was one of the biggest determining factors for the Magic. Smith is obviously talented. Holmgren is obviously talented. The potential for both players is infinite. But something that set Banchero apart, in their eyes, was the way Orlando believes he makes the game easier for teammates.
“There are just so many things that go into this,” Magic President Jeff Weltman said. “It’s talent, it’s fit, it’s character, it’s the projection where the league is going. There’s so many things that factor into a conversation like this that you can literally go on for months more arguing it. And that’s kind of like what makes it fun, right? I mean, it’s been a fun process.”
And now, the real work starts.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-25T07:24:45+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/sports/ap-sports/banchero-arrives-in-orlando-a-day-after-becoming-no-1-pick/ |
GRAPHIC: Records show minor infractions for officers before Nichols case
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Four of five Memphis officers charged with killing Tyre Nichols after violently beating him had infractions on their records from previous police work.
Their transgressions were mainly procedural but included using minor physical force during an arrest and failing to fill out a form about it, failing to report a domestic violence situation, and a car crash, records showed.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show four of the five Memphis Police Department officers had policy violations on their record before the Jan. 7 arrest, but nothing that rose to the brutality that led to Nichols’ death three days later. Two of the officers were previously suspended for procedural violations of department policy.
The five officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith — have been fired and charged with second-degree murder, kidnapping and other offenses. Harrowing video of the arrest was released Friday.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos in this story may contain disturbing content.
Records showed Bean was the only officer who did not have previous infractions or penalties in his administrative records. All five were hired between March 2017 and August 2020, and all were members of a crime-suppression unit that was disbanded after Nichols’ death.
Two officers, Haley and Mills, received reprimands for failing to file “response to resistance” forms after incidents involving women they arrested, records showed.
Such forms are filled out when an officer uses force or physical means to restrain a person deemed to be resisting arrest. In the documents, Memphis police stated that response to resistance included “the use of any part of the officer’s body to compel compliance.”
Other infractions were related to car accidents and equipment issues.
Lawyers for Haley, Martin and Mills declined to comment. A lawyer for Smith did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Records showed Haley responded to a shooting on Feb. 21, 2021, “grabbed a complainant by the arm” and turned her around to be handcuffed as she resisted arrest.
During an administrative hearing, Haley said he understood the policy but was “simply mistaken” about the amount of force necessary in the situation. He received a written reprimand, records showed. A lieutenant cited in the documents for that case said Haley was a “hard-working officer” who routinely made good decisions.
Mills also received written reprimand after he “physically assisted” other officers during an arrest March 21, 2019. Mills said in his hearing that he was trying to help other officers to “gain control” of a young woman to handcuff her. Mills said he did not realize he had to fill out a response to resistance form in the case.
Records also showed Emmitt Martin III “refused to take a report” after responding to a domestic disturbance call involving two sisters. Martin was asked to take a report from the husband of one of the women, but he decided only to “advise all parties,” records showed. He was suspended for one day.
Martin also was suspended for three days after he left a gun on the rear floor of his car after a shift.
Smith received a two-day suspension after his police car was involved in a crash with two other vehicles.
Two other officers were suspended from the Memphis police force after Nichols’ arrest. Only one, Preston Hemphill, has been identified. It is not immediately known whether he had infractions on his record before the Nichols arrest.
Two Shelby County sheriff’s deputies were suspended, and three Memphis Fire Department employees were fired in connection with Nichols’ death. His funeral is Wednesday.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-01T17:10:24+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/02/01/graphic-records-show-minor-infractions-officers-before-nichols-case/ |
DECATUR — A volleyball coach whose book was adapted into the 2018 film “The Miracle Season” is bringing her story to Decatur.
Author and coach Kathy Bresnahan will speak at Eisenhower High School on Friday, April 28, at 6 p.m. The event is being held by Decatur’s Apex Volleyball Club as part of the club’s Decatur invite tournament this weekend.
Apex Director and Dennis Lab School Volleyball Coach Tony Holly said he’s been working on the event for nearly five years.
“Her story resonates with everyone. Coaches, teachers, parents, and kids alike,” Holly said of Bresnahan. “I’m excited that the rest of the community will have the same opportunity. Hearing her has made me a better coach and honestly put the game of volleyball in perspective for me.”
Bresnahan is a two-time Iowa State High School Volleyball Champion and 2011 National Volleyball Coach of the year. In 2011, she coached the Iowa City West High School girl’s volleyball team to a repeat state championship just months after the team’s all-state setter and team leader Caroline “Line” Found died in a moped accident. | 2023-04-26T21:15:40+00:00 | herald-review.com | https://herald-review.com/news/local/coach-of-team-that-inspired-film-the-miracle-season-to-speak-in-decatur/article_e0c4ba3e-e442-11ed-a2cb-bbf402238f54.html |
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (AP) _ National Storage Affiliates (NSA) on Wednesday reported a key measure of profitability in its second quarter. The results met Wall Street expectations.
The Greenwood Village, Colorado-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $91.6 million, or 71 cents per share, in the period.
The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 71 cents per share.
Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.
The company said it had net income of $21.7 million, or 24 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $198.9 million in the period, beating Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $194.6 million.
National Storage expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $2.80 to $2.85 per share.
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(The Hill) – Almost three-quarters of millennials are living paycheck to paycheck, a percentage notably higher than other generations, according to a new report.
PYMNTS, which reports on financial news and data, and the financial services company LendingClub, collaborated to release a report titled “New Reality Check: The Paycheck-to-Paycheck Report,” to learn consumers’ financial situations, broken down into the different generations.
The survey found 60.1% of consumers were living paycheck to paycheck last month, including 73.2% of millennials. Meanwhile, 65.5% of Generation Z consumers and 64.2% of Generation X were living paycheck to paycheck, but only 49.5% of baby boomers and senior citizens were.
The most cited reason for all respondents who said they were living paycheck to paycheck was that their pay only covers basic bills, with 38.4% providing that reason.
More than a quarter of respondents also said they are in the situation because they need to pay for expenses for other family members and have “significant” debts to pay. About 30% of millennials cited each of these reasons, as well.
The survey found more than 70% of millennials live with a partner or spouse, and more than 60% live with children or grandchildren. Almost 80% earn more than half of their household’s income, while 20% earn all of it.
But the researchers did find that millennials appear to be learning to manage finances more effectively, as they had an average savings of $11,000 last month compared to $7,300 one year prior. The report states that millennials and other paycheck-to-paycheck consumers learn to handle finances through recessions and financial crises.
The report also found Generation Z consumers trending up, when it comes to living paycheck to paycheck. The almost-66% recorded last month is an 8-point increase from the year before. It states that many of these consumers are still establishing their careers and might be more likely to spend on discretionary purchases like eating out and entertainment.
Generation Z consumers are the most likely to cite discretionary spending as the reason they are living paycheck to paycheck, with 31% saying so. But almost 40% said their main reason for living paycheck to paycheck is that their salary only covers their basic expenses.
“With inflationary pressures expected to continue well into 2024, consumers of all generations remain tasked with adjusting their financial behaviors to be able to put aside savings and remain credit worthy,” the report concludes.
The resulted of the study were gathered from March 8 to 17 based on a census-balanced survey of 3,363 U.S. consumers. | 2023-04-29T20:51:15+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/nearly-three-quarters-of-millennials-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-report/ |
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WDAF) — The University of Kansas (KU) Jayhawks are saying goodbye to one of their most important players of this past season.
Forward Jalen Wilson used a farewell video to declare for the 2023 NBA Draft.
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint. This magical place has changed my life forever, and I will always be appreciative of my time playing with Kansas across my chest. Through the tough times and the brightest days, I could always count on God, my family, and my forever love for KU,” Wilson said in the video. “No matter where life takes me next, I will always have a home in Lawrence.”
Wilson is the second KU prospect to declare for the NBA Draft after freshman forward Gradey Dick declared on Friday, April 31. Dick is expected to be drafted in the first 15 picks of the draft, while Wilson is projected to be a late first or early second-round pick.
The redshirt junior went through the process of the 2022 NBA Draft before returning to Kansas. Scouts reportedly advised the Denton, Texas native to go back to school and show that he could be the number option for the blue blood program to improve his draft stock.
The 6 feet 8 inches forward took over that leadership role for the Jayhawks in his final season in Lawrence by leading the team in points and rebounds per game (20.1, 8.3) while shooting 43% from the field and 34% from three.
Wilson was also a starter on the 2022 national championship team and contributed by averaging 11 points, seven rebounds and shooting 46% from the floor.
Here are the rest of Wilson’s words from his farewell video:
“I want to thank Coach (Bill) Self for believing in me to represent the school, probably on and off the court, and for teaching me the tools to become the greatest player and man I could be. To my family, I want to thank you for always supporting like no other. I owe everything to you all for all the sacrifice you guys made every day. God has blessed me so much this year. I am truly humbled and excited for what He has next for my journey in life beside it. Thank you to all the people who have supported me through this journey. With all that being said, I am declaring for the 2023 NBA draft. Thank you, 10.” | 2023-04-05T20:27:03+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/jayhawks/kus-jalen-wilson-declares-for-2023-nba-draft/ |
CHICAGO, Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) and Trustco Holdings, Inc. (Trustmark) finalized the previously announced purchase by HCSC of a Trustmark subsidiary, Trustmark Health Benefits (Health Benefits).
Health Benefits is a third-party administrator of health benefits that designs and offers custom plans for self-funded customers that help manage costs through innovative solutions, data transparency and member-centric support.
Health Benefits is now a wholly owned subsidiary of HCSC, which serves more than 17 million members and is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the United States.
"We are excited to welcome Health Benefits and its nearly 1,000 employees to the HCSC family of companies," said Opella Ernest, M.D., executive vice president of commercial markets for HCSC. "Their experience and expertise will enhance the expanded capacity that this acquisition brings. It is the latest way we're developing and building out our network of subsidiaries and investments in businesses with interests affiliated with ours — as we seek to increase access to quality, cost-effective health care."
"Health Benefits adds diversity to HCSC's portfolio of offerings to self-funded employers while giving existing Health Benefits customers and members access to the service and scale of HCSC," added Kevin Cassidy, HCSC's president of national accounts.
With the divestiture of Health Benefits, Trustmark, a leading national employee benefits provider, will focus on its three core businesses: Trustmark Voluntary Benefits, HealthFitness and Trustmark Small Business Benefits.
"The overall well-being of employees is of greater concern than ever," said Trustmark President and CEO Kevin Slawin. "This divestiture enables Trustmark to accelerate investments in innovative voluntary benefits, small-group health plan designs and fitness management solutions. This focus is reinforced by our ongoing growth in these markets and will be further informed by employer and consumer demand."
About Health Care Service Corporation
Health Care Service Corporation is the country's largest customer-owned health insurer, with nearly 17.5 million members in its health plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. A Mutual Legal Reserve Company, HCSC is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
About Trustmark Mutual Holding Company
Trustmark, through its operating divisions and subsidiaries, offers specialized expertise in voluntary benefits, self-funded health plan design and administration for smaller employers, and the delivery of wellness, fitness, recreation, and injury prevention and treatment programs. Visit us at https://trustmarkbenefits.com/
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Prominent international consulting firm welcomes three new advisors to guide company through future growth
WOODBRIDGE, Va., Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta Consulting Group, a leading consulting firm focused on dispute resolution, project advisory, and risk mitigation, announced today that it has named Rob Franklin, David Weekly, and Darin Buchalter to its newly formed Strategic Advisory Board. These highly experienced appointees will leverage their collective skills and industry expertise to provide strategic guidance and direction to Delta's Executive Leadership Team.
About Rob Franklin:
Rob is an entrepreneur, investor and business advisor focused on helping other businesses reach their success potential. Rob is one of the cofounders of MorganFranklin, a management and technology consulting firm that works to address critical operational business objectives. While at MorganFranklin, he held various executive positions to include President and Chief Operating Officer, playing a strategic role in leading the company from a start-up to a market leading services firm with over $100M in revenues. Rob serves as a board member and/or strategic advisor to companies of all sizes. Most recently, Rob served as a strategic advisor and member of the Board of Directors for MorganFranklin Consulting. Rob has served on multiple board committees and helped direct the company through an ESOP transaction and the sale of the firm to Olympus/Vaco in 2019.
About David Weekly:
David has over 45 years building high performing forensic accounting and litigation support practices having cofounded Fenix Financial Forensics (F3) in 2008. Prior to establishing F3, David was a member of the national Forensic and Litigation Consulting team for FTI Consulting, Inc. He was also the partner-in-charge of KPMG's U.S. Dispute Advisory Services practice. Before joining KPMG, David served as the worldwide director of Litigation Services, partner-in-charge of the U.S. Complex Claims and Events practice and partner-in-charge of National Law Firm Relationships for Arthur Andersen LLP. David holds the CPA, CFE, CFF, CIRA, CICA and CGMA designations.
About Darin Buchalter:
Darin is a proven senior operating executive with a 20+ year record of success delivering year over year organic and acquisitive growth for leading global professional services firms. As the Managing Director and Practice Leader of Navigant's Global Construction industry practice, Darin drove the practice's turnaround and transformation which led to 7 years of double-digit revenue growth with the business becoming one of the largest operators in the sector. He was one of the key executives in the marketing and execution of the $470M carve-out of Navigant, and the subsequent integration of people, clients, and infrastructure into one platform at Ankura where he served as Co-Head of Global Client Services, Chief Administrative Officer, and Board Director. Darin is an Independent Director of Pomeroy Technologies, LLC, a PE-owned global technology firm delivering managed workplace services focused on all aspects of the digital experience. Darin is an exceptional business leader and successful C-level executive, and as a Board Advisor and independently recognized industry expert, leads transformations that enable growth and enhanced valuation for companies and clients alike. Darin has a foundation in Big 4 consulting as a Partner at EY and holds the CRE and FRICS designations.
"We are thrilled to welcome this group of experienced leaders to advise Delta through its next growth stage," said Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Fuchs. "The combined expertise of our Strategic Advisory Board will be focused on areas such as Finance, Human Capital, Marketing, Operations, Technology, and Strategic Planning and will play a critical role in guiding the company's future."
The addition of these powerhouse leaders to Delta's Strategic Advisory Board is a boost to a company that is quickly gaining market share with recent acquisitions and key wins. Their expertise and business insight will be fully leveraged to help develop game changing client service strategies and take advantage of growth opportunities for the company and its employees. The Board's unique perspective will prove invaluable to the Executive Leadership Team as they work to maintain Delta Consulting Group's position as a preeminent international consultancy.
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — Ebix Inc. (EBIX) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $7.9 million.
On a per-share basis, the Johns Creek, Georgia-based company said it had net income of 26 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs and stock option expense, were 36 cents per share.
The supplier of software and e-commerce services to the insurance industry posted revenue of $255.2 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $64.6 million, or $2.10 per share. Revenue was reported as $1.05 billion.
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Packers GM says they don't need first-round pick for Rodgers originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
The Green Bay Packers asking price for Aaron Rodgers is becoming a little bit clearer.
After a lot of conflicting reports over whether or not the Packers are asking for a first-round draft pick, Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst set the record straight at the NFL's Annual League Meeting.
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And the New York Jets' first-round pick isn't a requirement for a trade.
"That's not a necessity," Gutekunst said. "But at the same time, the value of the player, he's a premier player. So, I think getting premier picks back for that or players is important."
One way to interpret Gutekunst's statement is the Jets' No. 13 pick could be enough to seal a deal. And if it's not included, then he is going to want premier value.
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But a first-round pick isn't a sticking point in the trade getting done. The two sides clearly still seem to disagree on what that value though.
As for a deadline, some insiders speculate that it's the NFL Draft. Gutekunst said there is no hard deadline and he thinks trade talks could stretch into May or June.
And Gutekunst noted that all is in the Jets' court.
The conflicting reports on trade asks has been going on since before Rodgers announced his intentions.
Earlier in March, Schefter said the Packers were looking for multiple first-round picks. Then NFL Network's Tom Pelissero said the Packers aren't looking for multiple first-round picks.
Schefter later clarified a first-round pick has been discussed inside the Packers building but not formally requested.
"When you look at the landscape of what other quarterbacks in recent trades in recent years have fetched, it has been a lot," Schefter said. "What did the Broncos give up for Russell Wilson? Multiple ones. What are the Rams giving up for Matthew Stafford? Multiple ones.
"Not every quarterback has been traded for a package like that, but those conversations have occurred in the Packers building. Never said the Packers asked for that. But they've talked about that as an organization.
"And now the question is, what can they realistically extract from the Jets?"
Schefter has also previously pointed to the Packers-Jets trade for Brett Favre, which included a conditional fourth-round pick but framed it as the Jets' perspective on the value in the trade.
"The Jets would think that that's closer to the value that should be paid for a 39-year-old quarterback who's on a year-to-year basis who, oh, by the way, also has a $110 million in guaranteed money due to him over the next two years," Schefter said. "So if they're taking on that money and they would restructure the contract, then that should lower the compensation, not increase it. So both sides have their claims."
Schefter previously said it could fall apart because both sides are dug in on their asks. | 2023-03-28T19:48:26+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/packers-dont-need-first-round-pick-jets-aaron-rodgers-trade/3105699/ |
Second lawyer who participated in Molotov cocktail attack during George Floyd protests sentenced to over a year in prison
By Mallika Kallingal and Zenebou Sylla, CNN
A second former New York lawyer has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for participating in a Molotov cocktail attack during a New York City protest in 2020 following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Colinford Mattis, 35, pleaded guilty to carrying out the attack on an empty New York Police Department police patrol car in late May 2020. He will also have to pay over $30,000 of restitution to the police department for the destroyed van and serve one year of supervised release after his jail sentence, according to John Marzulli, spokesperson for the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Mattis was indicted alongside another former New York lawyer, Urooj Rahman, in June 2020 over the incident. Last November, Rahman was sentenced to 15 months in prison for her role in the incident.
Both Mattis and Rahman were charged by federal prosecutors with causing damage by fire and explosives to the police vehicle.
They drove a tan minivan to the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. During the protest, Rahman approached an empty NYPD vehicle with an already broken window and tossed in a makeshift explosive device, according to court filings. She fled the scene in the van driven by Mattis, court records show. Police stopped the vehicle and found “precursor” items to build explosives, including a lighter, a Bud Light bottle filled with toilet paper and a gasoline tank.
The case of Mattis and Rahman has drawn attention not only because of the severity of the allegations, but also due to the characteristics of the defendants. Both attended top-tier schools — Mattis completed New York University Law School after graduating from Princeton University and Rahman is a graduate of Fordham Law School — and have backgrounds that indicate they are devoted members of their families and communities.
Mattis, who is Black, was raised and at the time of the protest lived in East New York, where he was a member of his local community board and cared for three foster children, two of whom he was in the process of adopting.
Rahman, a Pakistani immigrant, worked as an attorney at Bronx Legal Services, where she represented tenants facing evictions, and at the time of the protest lived with her elderly mother, for whom she cares.
United States Attorney Breon Peace wrote in his sentencing memo that the case presented “a uniquely difficult task” in recommending a sentence for Mattis, based on several factors such as entering “a profession that offered a future of gainful and meaningful employment” and “Mattis’s decision to adopt his own foster mother’s foster children.”
Mattis is scheduled to report to prison on March 8.
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- EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub features simple-to-use, cloud-based software to address challenges faced by commercial and industrial building professionals
- Solution simplifies building management by providing a complete view of building energy use
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced enhancements to EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub, a secure, easy-to-use IoT software-as-a-service solution that simplifies energy management and analysis for intelligent buildings and facilities.
With buildings responsible for 40% of global CO2 emissions, it's vital that facility managers are empowered to monitor energy usage and emissions in real-time. Yet, the vast majority of electrical assets are not digitally connected in buildings, limiting visibility of energy usage and compliance. This, plus a lack of skilled personnel, means that organizations are struggling to create a plan and take appropriate actions to achieve net zero goals. zero goals.
EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub solves this issue by providing visibility into energy usage, costs and performance, and energy-saving recommendations - all in an intuitively-designed package that is simple to install, configure and use. It makes managing energy as easy and secure as managing personal finances via a smartphone app.
"EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub simplifies energy management by letting facility managers automatically collect, store, visualize and report on energy data -- whether they manage a single building, a campus, or a portfolio of buildings," said Sophie Borgne, Senior Vice President of Digital Power Line of Business at Schneider Electric. "It empowers customers to change the way they manage their energy - which is more crucial than ever given the current energy crisis and accelerating climate change."
The Burwell Student Center at the University of Denver currently uses the EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub to provide simple energy management tools and sustainability standards. Aligned with LEED Platinum requirements, the solution provides the university with an easily accessible view into the energy and occupancy needs of the student center, and strengthens the university's ability to capture, react to, and resolve immediate issues or make any necessary changes in the system's overall energy usage.
"We were able to combine simplicity and productivity with effective net zero strategy execution and fair price expectations, which made the solution perfect for our energy needs here at the university. In fact, we are considering expanding the Energy Hub system to other buildings on our campus," said Lynn Bailey, P.E., Director Energy & Sustainability at the University of Denver.
EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub was designed with Schneider Electric's vision for sustainability and Buildings of the Future in mind, featuring three phases of building energy management maturity:
- Energy Compliance and Basic Awareness, helps building owners comply with building energy codes and create transparency to help drive energy-efficient and sustainable behavior. In addition to energy compliance data and electrical distribution monitoring and alarming, new enhancements allow users to allocate energy usage and costs to building tenants, driving energy usage accountability and savings.
- Energy Performance, leverage analytics to develop deep insights into waste reduction, operational improvements and performance tracking, including energy savings tips, a new feature.
- Energy Optimization, helps organizations drive continuous energy improvement in building operations without needing to invest in expensive and sophisticated on-premise automation systems.
For more information on Schneider Electric and its EcoStruxure™ products, click here. Following the initial launch in the United States, EcoStruxure Energy Hub will be available in select countries in 2022 and globally in 2023. To learn more about EcoStruxure™ Energy Hub, click here.
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), a social media firm and digital agency, today announced that HoneyDrip.com has seen month over month growth, continuing into January 2023. Honeydrip.com is a digital platform designed and wholly owned by CMGR with a focus on the empowerment of creators. The site allows creators to connect and engage with fans and monetize exclusive content.
HoneyDrip.com has experienced rapid growth in four main categories during the month of January 2023 alone:
- Active performers on the site (by Invite Only) increased by 6%
- Content posts (photos and videos) to be sold increased by 8%
- Active users increased by 5%
- Applications from creators wishing to join the site increased by 4%
"I'm always pleased to see another month of growth on the site" said a representative of the company. "Our goal is to accelerate the pace by continuously improving the platform and enhancing its capabilities. We envision the site scaling as more users and creators shift away from competitor sites."
Creators can apply to join at HoneyDrip.com
About Clubhouse Media Group, Inc.
CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
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Mississippi hostage standoff ends with 1 officer and suspect dead, 1 officer wounded
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety says two police officers were shot, and one of them died, during a standoff that started as a hostage situation
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Two Mississippi police officers were shot and one died Thursday during a standoff that started as a hostage situation in a home, the state Department of Public Safety said.
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Jackie Bradley Jr. has been designated for assignment, according to a league source.
Bradley, who was involved in the offseason trade for Hunter Renfroe which brought the former Sox All-Star and Gold Glove winner back to the team, hit .210 with a .578 OPS and three homers during his second stint with the Red Sox.
Julian McWilliams can be reached at julian.mcwilliams@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @byJulianMack. | 2022-08-04T13:17:54+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/04/sports/jackie-bradley-jr-designated-assignment-by-red-sox/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House oversight subcommittee asked regulators and industry leaders on Tuesday to explain what they are doing to stop cryptocurrency fraud and other scams perpetrated on consumers.
Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, head of the Economic and Consumer Policy subcommittee, asked leaders of the Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Federal Trade Commission for more information on the steps they are taking to curb the growth of fraud and consumer abuse linked to cryptocurrencies.
The inquiries come as the cryptocurrency market has seen immense volatility, as bitcoin lost nearly half its value at one point this year and other cryptocurrencies fell even more.
“Despite these vulnerabilities, the federal government has been slow to curb cryptocurrency scams and fraud. Existing federal regulations do not comprehensively or clearly cover cryptocurrencies under all circumstances," reads one letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Five of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges were also sent inquiry letters, requesting documents on company policies regarding the removal of fake accounts.
A report on the impacts of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets on financial markets and illicit finance is expected to be released in the coming weeks. In March, President Joe Biden issued an executive order calling for several agencies to look at ways to regulate digital assets and gave them 180 days to do so.
On Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that criminals are more frequently exploiting vulnerabilities on certain decentralized finance platforms to steal cryptocurrency.
Several major legislative proposals were offered in Congress this year as well.
Sens. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and John Boozman, R-Ark. have proposed a bill that would give the regulatory authority over Bitcoin and Ether to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Stabenow and Boozman lead the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has authority over CTFC.
In June, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., proposed the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, which would create legal definitions of digital assets and virtual currencies; would require the IRS to adopt guidance on merchant acceptance of digital assets and charitable contributions; and would make a distinction between digital assets that are commodities and those that are securities. | 2022-08-30T21:15:19+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/house-panel-calls-for-cryptocurrency-fraud-oversight/ZS3DHQ7LWBGHRNJODPZ5ER4E6E/ |
President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program remains blocked by federal courts for now. But for some borrowers, the recently extended federal pandemic pause on payments delivers an even bigger benefit.For most federal student loan borrowers, balances have been frozen since March 2020. But those who are enrolled in the existing Public Service Loan Forgiveness program get an extra, lesser-known bonus from the pause that brings them closer to student debt cancellation without paying a dime.For Josie Bicknell, a nurse practitioner at a nonprofit in Los Angeles, the pause could deliver roughly $38,000 in debt relief — much more than the $10,000 she would likely receive if Biden's forgiveness program takes effect."I just keep my head down and pray for more extensions because that's the best scenario for us," Bicknell, 35, said.The pause has been extended eight times, the latest of which was last month when Biden pushed back the restart date from January until after pending litigation over his student loan forgiveness program is resolved — or the end of August, whichever comes first. The administration's goal is to be able to cancel some student debt before payments restart.The Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a case in February, with a decision expected by June.How the PSLF benefit worksThe Public Service Loan Forgiveness program cancels all outstanding student debt — regardless of how much there is — for qualifying public sector workers after they make 120 monthly payments on their loans, which would take at least 10 years.During the pause, these borrowers aren't required to make payments just like everyone else — yet they still receive credit toward the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program as though they did make the payments, as long as all other qualifications are met.Put another way, PSLF borrowers have received credit for nearly 33 months so far without making any payments.Bicknell estimates she would have been paying at least $1,150 a month since March 2020 if the pause was not in place — which would have totaled nearly $38,000.Instead, Bicknell has used that money to pay for child care and to save for a future home. She and her husband also moved their children to a more family-friendly community where the rent is higher.By the time the pandemic hit, Bicknell had made about six years of payments on her student debt, paying off nearly $110,000. Despite those payments, her balance is nearly just as much as what she originally borrowed due to interest. She expects to be eligible for debt cancellation from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in January 2024 — when the remaining debt, worth more than $100,000, will be wiped away.Who benefits more from the pauseThere are roughly 1.6 million people pursuing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, according to a government estimate from October.Borrowers must be employed full-time by a qualifying nonprofit or the government while making payments in order to benefit from the program.Many teachers, social workers and first responders, as well as some doctors and lawyers, may qualify, for example.Borrowers must also be enrolled in a federal income-driven repayment plan, which ties monthly payments to a borrower's income and family size. Generally, the more net income a borrower has, the bigger the monthly loan payment.Lauren McClain, who teaches political science and government at a community college in Texas, has been working in the public sector and making payments on her student loans since 2014. She has about $151,000 of student debt remaining and expects to be granted forgiveness under the PSLF program in 2024.She estimates she's saved nearly $20,000 thanks to the pause, while Biden's forgiveness program wouldn't have actually helped her financially."$10,000 in forgiveness wouldn't make a difference for me because it doesn't make my payments lower," McClain said."Whenever there's even a rumor of the pause being extended, I get really excited. It's made such a huge difference for us," she added.
President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program remains blocked by federal courts for now. But for some borrowers, the recently extended federal pandemic pause on payments delivers an even bigger benefit.
For most federal student loan borrowers, balances have been frozen since March 2020. But those who are enrolled in the existing Public Service Loan Forgiveness program get an extra, lesser-known bonus from the pause that brings them closer to student debt cancellation without paying a dime.
For Josie Bicknell, a nurse practitioner at a nonprofit in Los Angeles, the pause could deliver roughly $38,000 in debt relief — much more than the $10,000 she would likely receive if Biden's forgiveness program takes effect.
"I just keep my head down and pray for more extensions because that's the best scenario for us," Bicknell, 35, said.
The pause has been extended eight times, the latest of which was last month when Biden pushed back the restart date from January until after pending litigation over his student loan forgiveness program is resolved — or the end of August, whichever comes first. The administration's goal is to be able to cancel some student debt before payments restart.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in a case in February, with a decision expected by June.
How the PSLF benefit works
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program cancels all outstanding student debt — regardless of how much there is — for qualifying public sector workers after they make 120 monthly payments on their loans, which would take at least 10 years.
During the pause, these borrowers aren't required to make payments just like everyone else — yet they still receive credit toward the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program as though they did make the payments, as long as all other qualifications are met.
Put another way, PSLF borrowers have received credit for nearly 33 months so far without making any payments.
Bicknell estimates she would have been paying at least $1,150 a month since March 2020 if the pause was not in place — which would have totaled nearly $38,000.
Courtesy Jay Paul Bicknell
For Josie Bicknell, the student loan payment pause could deliver roughly $38,000 in debt relief.
Instead, Bicknell has used that money to pay for child care and to save for a future home. She and her husband also moved their children to a more family-friendly community where the rent is higher.
By the time the pandemic hit, Bicknell had made about six years of payments on her student debt, paying off nearly $110,000. Despite those payments, her balance is nearly just as much as what she originally borrowed due to interest. She expects to be eligible for debt cancellation from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in January 2024 — when the remaining debt, worth more than $100,000, will be wiped away.
Who benefits more from the pause
There are roughly 1.6 million people pursuing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, according to a government estimate from October.
Borrowers must be employed full-time by a qualifying nonprofit or the government while making payments in order to benefit from the program.
Many teachers, social workers and first responders, as well as some doctors and lawyers, may qualify, for example.
Borrowers must also be enrolled in a federal income-driven repayment plan, which ties monthly payments to a borrower's income and family size. Generally, the more net income a borrower has, the bigger the monthly loan payment.
Lauren McClain, who teaches political science and government at a community college in Texas, has been working in the public sector and making payments on her student loans since 2014. She has about $151,000 of student debt remaining and expects to be granted forgiveness under the PSLF program in 2024.
Courtesy Lauren McClain
Lauren McClain estimates she’s saved nearly $20,000 thanks to the pause on student loan payments.
She estimates she's saved nearly $20,000 thanks to the pause, while Biden's forgiveness program wouldn't have actually helped her financially.
"$10,000 in forgiveness wouldn't make a difference for me because it doesn't make my payments lower," McClain said.
"Whenever there's even a rumor of the pause being extended, I get really excited. It's made such a huge difference for us," she added. | 2022-12-09T17:58:52+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/student-loan-payment-pause-vs-forgiveness/42200138 |
George Clinton, the famed frontman of Parliament Funkadelic, is known for creating a psychedelic, sci-fi universe through his music. Songs like Mothership Connection transport listeners to faraway galaxies of pharaohs, UFOs, and glittery leather jumpsuits.
Now the master of funk is out with a new exhibition of his visual art entitled The Rhythm of Vision, which channels similar themes and influences. It’s on view now through January 14, 2023, at Jeffrey Deitch gallery.
“He's really developed this visual language, which you see a lot of in his music and album art as well, these characters coming to life,” remarks art critic Lindsay Preston Zappas. “He realized that he could almost approach art with the same kind of open-ended world-building that he does in his music.”
The exhibition coincides with the 40th anniversary of Clinton’s famous song Atomic Dog. Zappas describes how Clinton features canine motifs throughout his artwork.
“Across the paintings in the show, you see this dog cartoon repeated. In some of the paintings, you'll see a simple spray-painted outline. In others, a dog shape becomes filled with collage elements. In some, it's almost as if that triangular dog head morphs into an alien head … or it becomes a UFO.”
No stranger to bold statements in his music or costuming, Clinton incorporates this sensibility into his visual work. “His music is so theatrical,” says Zappas. “I think his paintings … feel improvisational and layered. And some of them become narrative as well.”
In addition to Clinton’s own work, the exhibition features a custom-built stage from artist and self-proclaimed “Funkateer/afronaut” Lauren Halsey.
Zappas describes the technicolor stage: “[It has a] built-up mound that’s spraypainted to look like the cosmos. There's a throne made out of shiny CDs. There're figures emerging from this cosmic mound, and there are these spaceships floating above, hands coming down from the clouds.”
As part of a gallery activation, Clinton performed spoken word poetry with a backing band shortly after the exhibition’s opening. But as it turns out, this wasn’t the first time he played music in the building.
According to Zappas, “The building actually used to be a recording studio called Radio Recorders, and Clinton has recorded several of his songs in that space over the years.” The venue provides a fitting landing zone for this intergalactic pioneer. | 2022-12-15T00:08:31+00:00 | kcrw.com | https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/social-media-rita-wilson-art/george-clinton-rhythm-vision?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss |
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary championship-winning racecar driver and team owner Tony Stewart is headed to the FOX broadcast booth for the biggest race of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, this weekend's prestigious Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Stewart will join the NHRA on FOX team of Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon for eliminations on Monday, Sept. 5 at the Big Go, with eliminations set to air from 2-5 p.m. ET on FOX.
"Tony Stewart is one of the racing world's most versatile drivers, celebrating success at the highest levels," said Frank Wilson, FOX Sports VP Event & Studio Production. "He is now bringing that versatility to the broadcast booth, first in the NASCAR Cup Series on FOX earlier this year, and now as part of the NHRA on FOX for drag racing's most iconic event. Along with two-time Funny Car champ, Tony Pedregon, the two Tonys will no doubt provide some entertaining and insightful analysis beginning this weekend from Indy."
Stewart added NHRA team owner to his impressive, Hall of Fame resumé this season with the introduction of Tony Stewart Racing. The two-car nitro team features three-time Funny Car world champ Matt Hagan and Top Fuel star Leah Pruett, as the standout duo and title contenders have combined for four wins during the 2022 season.
Stewart, who also called action during select NASCAR on FOX broadcasts this season, will now join the NHRA on FOX broadcast booth on drag racing's grandest stage, offering his unique insight and adding another must-see incentive for fans at a critical juncture of the season. Along with the prestige of the annual race in Indy, the 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals is the last race before the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, giving NHRA a huge platform on FOX to close the regular season with Stewart in the booth as well.
"It's a great opportunity to have a motorsports icon and a new NHRA owner like Tony to join the NHRA on FOX broadcast during the U.S. Nationals," NHRA Vice President of Broadcast Steve Reintjes said. "Tony is passionate about the NHRA, and he brings his experience from his recent role as an analyst during select NASCAR on FOX events to the NHRA broadcast booth. It's a natural fit for Indy, our highest-profile NHRA event."
The race on the FOX network comes during a stretch that features eight of nine NHRA races on FOX, a string that started in June in Bristol. The coverage on FOX has yielded impressive viewership numbers throughout, including the most recent broadcast in Brainerd on Aug. 21. Coverage of the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals registered 813,000 viewers, up more than 10 percent over last year's Brainerd race on FOX.
Television coverage of the prestigious Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals includes racing action on Fox Sports 1 (FS1) from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, and coverage of the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Funny Car Callout from 4-5:30 p.m. Qualifying action will continue from 5:30-7 p.m. on Sunday on FS1. On Monday, live coverage from eliminations will begin at 12 p.m. on FS1 and continue on FOX from 2-5 p.m.
For more information on NHRA, please visit www.nhra.com.
UPCOMING NHRA ON FOX SCHEDULE
August 31-Sept. 5: Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis. MONDAY, SEPT. 5: 2:00-5:00 P.M. ET on FOX
Sept. 15-18: Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa. SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 2:00-4:00 P.M. ET or 4:30-6:30 P.M. ET on FOX (NFL adjacent broadcast, check local listings)
Qualifying action at each race will air on Fox Sports 1 (FS1). For the full NHRA broadcast schedule on FOX and FS1, please visit www.nhra.com.
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Headquartered in San Dimas, Calif., NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. NHRA presents 22 national events featuring the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, FuelTech NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by D-Wagon, Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown™ and Top Fuel Harley Series. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and NHRA Street Legal™. NHRA also offers the NHRA Jr. Street® program for teens and the Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League® for youth ages 5 to 17. With 120 Member Tracks, NHRA allows racers to compete at a variety of locations nationally and internationally. NHRA's Youth and Education Services® (YES) Program reaches over 30,000 students annually to ignite their interest in automotive and racing related careers. NHRA's streaming service, NHRA.tv®, allows fans to view all NHRA national events as well as exclusive features of the sport. In addition, NHRA owns and operates three racing facilities: Gainesville Raceway in Florida; Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park; and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California. For more information, log on to www.NHRA.com, or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Mike Lindell's firm told to pay $5 million in 'Prove Mike Wrong' election-fraud challenge
MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a "cyber symposium" he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year's U.S. election.
He called the challenge "Prove Mike Wrong."
On Wednesday, a private arbitration panel ruled that someone had.
The panel said Robert Zeidman, a computer forensics expert and 63-year-old Trump voter from Nevada, was entitled to the $5 million payout.
Zeidman had examined Lindell's data and concluded that it not only did not prove voter fraud, it had no connection to the 2020 election. He was the only expert who submitted a claim, arbitration records show.
He turned to the arbitrators after Lindell Management, which created the contest, refused to pay him.
In their 23-page decision, the arbitrators said Zeidman proved that Lindell's material "unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data." They directed Lindell's firm to pay Zeidman within 30 days.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Zeidman said he was "really happy" with the arbitrators' decision. "They clearly saw this as I did - that the data we were given at the symposium was not at all what Mr. Lindell said it was," he said. "The truth is finally out there."
Zeidman's attorney Brian Glasser said that the panel's decision stood as a warning to others who made wild allegations about election fraud. "I think the arbitrators thought it important that these claims be vetted, because they've done great harm to our country," he said.
Lindell said in a text to The Post, "They made a terribly wrong decision! This will be going to court!" His attorneys did not reply to a request seeking comment.
A copy of contest rules submitted in the arbitration said disputes would be "resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration" and noted that arbitration "is subject to very limited review by courts."
Glasser said that the panel's decision cannot be directly appealed but that Lindell could ask a federal court to quash it on the basis that it represented a "manifest injustice." The statutory grounds for such a claim are narrow and it is "extremely rare" for such a claim to succeed, according to Glasser.
Lindell also faces a $1.3 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems and a defamation lawsuit from one of Dominion's former executives.
In the months after Trump's 2020 election loss, Lindell spent millions of dollars to finance lawsuits, support right-wing activists nationwide and launch a streaming television station dedicated to amplifying election-fraud falsehoods.
During frequent media appearances, he had advertised his three-day symposium as the event where he would finally provide data proving his claims. And he issued his high-stakes challenge.
"There's a $5 million prize for anybody that can prove the election data that I have from the 2020 election was false, is not from the 2020 election," Lindell said on the conservative show "The Glazov Gang," which streams online.
The data he planned to reveal, he said, were "packet captures" that he said would demonstrate Chinese government interference. Packet captures, or "pcaps," are a specific file format that is an industry standard for archiving internet traffic.
"They were captured in real time and preserved. They cannot be altered . . . they're 100 percent evidence," Lindell said on the show. "So it will show an intrusion. This was an attack from China."
The symposium, he later told arbitrators, was meant to "do three things: to make the media show up, cyber guys show up, and politicians to open their eyes and say, 'Hey, we got to check into this.'"
Lindell's claims that he had packet captures intrigued Zeidman, who has served as an expert for tech firms in intellectual property lawsuits. Describing himself as a "reasonable" and "moderate conservative" who voted twice for Donald Trump, Zeidman told the arbitration panel he was skeptical of Lindell's claims. But he said he also did not believe Lindell would promote unvetted data, so he thought the conference could offer a "great chance to see history in the making, perhaps an election overturned."
At the event, Zeidman received contest rules. There was no mention of disproving Chinese interference, according to contest forms submitted in the arbitration case. Rather, winners would have to prove that the data provided "does NOT reflect information related to the November 2020 election."
At the symposium, participants interested in the contest were given a badge with a hot-pink dot to indicate they were cyber experts and could enter a room where Lindell's data was shared.
The files provided to Zeidman and other experts were primarily text or PDF files. Zeidman testified that one was a flow chart purporting to show how elections generally work. Another, when unencrypted, was a list of internet IP addresses, and others were enormous files of what appeared to Zeidman to be random numbers and letters.
The packet captures Lindell had promised were nowhere to be found, according to Zeidman.
Zeidman laid out his findings in a 15-page report. "I have proven that the data Lindell provides . . . unequivocally does not contain packet data of any kind and do not contain any information related to the November 2020 election," he wrote.
Six weeks after the symposium, Zeidman sent a letter to Lindell Management to claim the prize. He got back a denial, and the following month he filed for arbitration, a type of proceeding that allows parties to resolve disputes outside of the court system.
The private arbitration proceedings in Lindell's home state of Minnesota included written briefs, depositions and a three-day hearing in January with sworn testimony from Zeidman, Lindell, subject-matter experts and witnesses. The Post obtained records from the proceeding.
Asked why he had decided to go to the trouble of seeking a hearing, Zeidman testified that he wanted the money and wanted to push back against stolen-election claims. "Mr. Lindell has a lot of followers," Zeidman said. "He's making a lot of statements to people that I know, people that are good friends of mine, people that are influential. And they are claiming that he has the data that shows that this election was stolen."
Zeidman's lawyers wrote to the panel that the data presented at the symposium contained "no recognizable data in any known data format."
Lindell testified at arbitration that he did not share what he had described as his key data to support the foreign intrusion claim during the conference. He held off, he said, after a man seeking a selfie poked him in the side as the symposium was nearing an end - an act that Lindell called an assault and said he took as a signal the government might tamper with his central information if he made it public.
Lindell told the panel that, after the incident, his "red team" advisers warned him against making that inform public. "They said it could be a poison pill put in the data and we really shouldn't release the China stuff," he said.
The arbitrators did not address the substance of Lindell's claims about vote tampering, noting that they were "not asked to decide whether China interfered in the 2020 election." | 2023-04-20T16:16:29+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/20/mike-lindells-firm-told-to-pay-5-million-in-prove-mike-wrong-election-fraud-challenge/70134384007/ |
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
06-09-10-14-17-49
(six, nine, ten, fourteen, seventeen, forty-nine)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
06-09-10-14-17-49
(six, nine, ten, fourteen, seventeen, forty-nine) | 2022-06-02T04:15:02+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17214015.php |
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Washington Post reporter Lizzie Johnson about continuing the work of a slain Las Vegas journalist who had investigated a huge Ponzi scheme.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's Michel Martin talks to Washington Post reporter Lizzie Johnson about continuing the work of a slain Las Vegas journalist who had investigated a huge Ponzi scheme.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-02-04T23:02:44+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/npr-top-stories/npr-top-stories/2023-02-04/a-reporter-picks-up-ponzi-scheme-investigation-where-a-slain-journalist-left-off |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nine justices of the Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling Friday, made clear their views on abortion, with the conservative majority overturning the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion.
The vote was 6-3 to uphold Mississippi’s law banning most abortions after 15 weeks, but Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t join his five fellow conservatives in overturning Roe. He wrote that there was no need to overturn the broad precedents to rule in Mississippi’s favor.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong had and to be overturned. Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — the diminished liberal wing of the court — were in dissent.
Every high court nominee, in one form or another, was asked during Senate hearings about his or her views of Roe. A look at how the Republican-nominated justices responded over the years when questioned by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee before joining the court:
AMY CONEY BARRETT, 2020:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, then the top Democrat on the committee, asked Barrett: “So the question comes, what happens? Will this justice support a law that has substantial precedent now? Would you commit yourself on whether you would or would not?”
“Senator, what I will commit is that I will obey all the rules of stare decisis,” Barrett replied, referring to the doctrine of courts giving weight to precedent when making their decisions.
Barrett went on to say that she would do that for “any issue that comes up, abortion or anything else. I’ll follow the law.“
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked Barrett whether she viewed Roe v. Wade as a “super precedent.” Barrett replied that the way the term is used in “scholarship” and the way she had used it in an article was to define cases so well settled that people do not seriously push for its overruling.
“And I’m answering a lot of questions about Roe, which I think indicates that Roe doesn’t fall in that category,” Barrett said.
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BRETT KAVANAUGH, 2018: It was Feinstein who also asked Kavanaugh, “What would you say your position today is on a woman’s right to choose?”
“As a judge, it is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. By ‘it,’ I mean Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. They have been reaffirmed many times. Casey is precedent on precedent, which itself is an important factor to remember,” Kavanaugh said.
Casey was a 1992 decision that reaffirmed a constitutional right to abortion services.
Kavanaugh went on to say that he understood the significance of the issue. “I always try and I do hear of the real world effects of that decision, as I try to do, of all the decisions of my court and of the Supreme Court.”
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NEIL GORSUCH, 2017:
With President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination, it was Sen. Charles Grassley. R-Iowa, who asked point-blank: “Can you tell me whether Roe was decided correctly?
Gorsuch replied: “I would tell you that Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, is a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court. It has been reaffirmed. The reliance interest considerations are important there, and all of the other factors that go into analyzing precedent have to be considered. It is a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was reaffirmed in Casey in 1992 and in several other cases. So a good judge will consider it as precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court worthy as treatment of precedent like any other.”
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ROBERTS, 2005
The late Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., asked of the now-chief justice, who was a federal appeals court judge when nominated: “In your confirmation hearing for circuit court, your testimony read to this effect, and it has been widely quoted: ‘Roe is the settled law of the land.’ Do you mean settled for you, settled only for your capacity as a circuit judge, or settled beyond that?”
Roberts replied: “It’s settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis. And those principles, applied in the Casey case, explain when cases should be revisited and when they should not. And it is settled as a precedent of the Court, yes.”
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ALITO, 2006
Specter, who was unabashedly supportive of Roe v. Wade, observed during Alito’s hearings that the “dominant issue” was the “widespread concern” about Alito’s position on a woman’s right to choose. The issue arose because of a 1985 statement by Alito that the Constitution does not provide for the right to an abortion, Specter declared.
“Do you agree with that statement today, Judge Alito?” Specter asked.
“Well, that was a correct statement of what I thought in 1985 from my vantage point in 1985, and that was as a line attorney in the Department of Justice in the Reagan administration.
“Today if the issue were to come before me, if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed and the issue were to come before me, the first question would be the question that we’ve been discussing, and that’s the issue of stare decisis,” Alito said. “And if the analysis were to get beyond that point, then I would approach the question with an open mind, and I would listen to the arguments that were made.”
“So you would approach it with an open mind notwithstanding your 1985 statement?” Specter asked.
“Absolutely, senator. That was a statement that I made at a prior period of time when I was performing a different role, and as I said yesterday, when someone becomes a judge, you really have to put aside the things that you did as a lawyer at prior points in your legal career and think about legal issues the way a judge thinks about legal issues.”
Alito was the author of the leaked draft opinion, which declares the ruling in Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong from the start.”
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CLARENCE THOMAS, 1991:
The late Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, recalled chairing a committee hearing and listening to women maimed by “back-alley abortionists.” He said he was “terrified if we turn back the clock on legal abortion services.”
In questioning Thomas the senator said: “I want to ask you once again, of appealing to your sense of compassion, whether or not you believe the Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion?”
Thomas replied: “I guess as a kid we heard the hushed whispers about illegal abortions and individuals performing them in less than safe environments, but they were whispers. It would, of course, if a woman is subjected to the agony of an environment like that, on a personal level, certainly, I am very, very pained by that. I think any of us would be.”
Thomas declined though to give his opinion “on the issue, the question that you asked me.”
“I think it would undermine my ability to sit in an impartial way on an important case like that,” he said. | 2022-06-26T16:09:14+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/what-gop-named-justices-had-said-about-roe-to-senate-panel/ |
UPS driver collapsed making delivery in scorching heat
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (CNN) – A Ring doorbell camera caught a UPS driver in distress in Scottsdale, Arizona during 108-degree temperatures.
Brian Enriquez said he was concerned after watching video of a delivery man collapsing at his door while delivering an envelope.
You can see the driver have difficulty walking up to the door, setting down the package and then falling to the ground.
After sitting motionlessly for about ten seconds, he falls onto his back then sits back up, rings the doorbell and slowly walks away.
Enriquez said he couldn’t get to the door in time and the delivery man was gone by the time he saw the video.
He did call the police non-emergency line and tried to contact UPS in case the man needed assistance.
UPS said the driver was OK and contacted his supervisor for assistance after leaving Enriquez’s property.
The company said that while frequent stops make air conditioning ineffective in their trucks, their drivers are trained in how to deal with high temperatures.
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IOWA CITY – The Mason City boys’ tennis duo of Reed Kruger and Justin Yarahmadi has advanced to the Class 2A state semifinals.
Tuesday at the University of Iowa Tennis Courts, Kruger and Yarahmadi, the three seed, won a pair of matches.
In their opening match against Waukee Northwest’s Swaroop Panda and Sean Sonoiki dropped the first set before rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory.
Then the two juniors toppled Marshalltown’s Nile Christensen and Gavin Jablonski, 6-2, 6-4, to advance to the final four.
Wednesday morning, Kruger and Yarahmadi will face Pleasant Valley’s Aaron Ingram and Folu Adekunle in the semifinals.
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The West Fork boys’ golf team took second at the Class 1A state championships Tuesday at Ames Golf and Country Club.
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The Warhawks finished five strokes back of champion Hillcrest Academy with a final score of 655.
The Warhawks opened he day just two strokes out of the lead.
Hillcrest and West Fork carded the best rounds of the tournament with vast improvements on day two. Hillcrest shot a 313 and the Warhawks’ 317.
Sage Suntken led West Fork by tying for seventh with a two-round score of 156. He shot a 73 Tuesday.
Noah Atkinson tied for 16th with a 163. Nolan Shreckengost (22nd), Ethan Shields (31st), Landon Showalter (38th) and Gavin Cronk (41st) also played for the Warhawks.
Mikey Takacs of Iowa City Regina and Keith Thompson of Hamburg tied for medalist honors with identical scores of 148. Thompson shot a -1 under 70 over the final round.
North Butler’s Nolan Reser tied for fifth with a two-round score of 154 – 79-75.
In Class 2A at Coldwater Links in Ames, Osage senior Leo Klapperich tied for 14th with a score of 153. He shot rounds of 80-73.
Grundy Center freshmen Judd Jirovsky set a new state record by winning medalist honors. Jirovsky shot a 11-under 131, which is the lowest score recorded in a state championship since the two-round format was introduced in 1975.
The Spartans also captured the team title, their fourth overall.
In Class 3A at Veenker, Washington’s Roman Roth led wire-to-wire to earn medalist honors after rounds of 73 and 70. He beat MOC-Floyd Valley’s Davis Korver by eight strokes.
Hampton-Dumont-CAL’s Michael Showalter tied for 50th as he had rounds of 84 and 96.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The spiritual priorities of Pope Francis will be on display during a trip this week to Hungary, where the populist government will seek to downplay its diverging views on matters like immigration and minority rights while focusing instead on points where it aligns with the pontiff.
Francis will meet with children with disabilities, refugees and those living in poverty on the three-day trip that begins Friday. He will also have an audience with Hungary’s president and its nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban.
The visit will be a political boon for Orban, whose contentious stances on migration, the war in Ukraine and LGBTQ+ rights stand in stark contrast with Francis’ views of inclusion and acceptance for the marginalized and support for Ukraine during Russia’s war.
Yet the cardinal of Hungary’s Roman Catholic Church, Peter Erdo, as well as other members of the Catholic community, expect the pope’s visit to be a celebration of Christian unity, and that differences of opinion will not play a central role.
“When there is a papal Mass to which bishops and priests from different countries come in large numbers, there is a feeling that the whole church is present there,” Erdo said in an interview with The Associated Press. “He’s making a pastoral visit to us specifically out of love and attention to the Hungarian Catholic community and the Hungarian people ... and I think this is a great joy.”
Speaking after an Easter Mass celebrated by Erdo in Budapest, Erzsebet Markus, a believer from the capital, said Francis spending three full days in the country was “very significant” for Hungarian Christians and for Hungary at large.
“I think that he’s spending so much time here represents an appreciation for us and for the country,” she said.
Francis is also scheduled to visit with members of Hungary’s scientific and cultural sectors. On his final day, he plans to preside over a Sunday Mass on a square in central Budapest.
But the war in Ukraine will loom large as he meets with some of the 35,000 Ukrainian refugees who have remained in Hungary after 2.5 million fled across the country’s eastern borders early in the Russian invasion.
His trip is bringing Francis the closest he has traveled to the conflict in Ukraine,. His itinerary includes a stop at a Greek Catholic church that has provided care for refugees. The Greek Catholic Church is one of the eastern rite Catholic churches that recognizes papal authority.
The stop is a nod to Kyiv, which has begged for a papal visit of solidarity ever since Russia invaded, and is watching from the side as Francis visits neighboring Hungary for the second time in as many years.
“We’ll be just a few hundred kilometers from the border with Ukraine,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told reporters. “We can certainly expect words about his pain over this conflict and the search for peace.”
Francis has been supportive of Ukraine’s plight following Russia’s invasion — likening it to a 1930s genocide of Ukrainians blamed on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Orban, meanwhile, has been lukewarm in his support for Hungary’s eastern neighbor, refusing to supply Kyiv with weapons and threatening to veto European Union sanctions against Moscow.
Still, Orban has cast his view of the war as being in line with the Vatican’s, saying during a speech in February that his government and the papacy were the only powers in Europe advocating for peace in Ukraine.
Andras Mate-Toth, a theologian and scholar of religions at the University of Szeged in Hungary, said that while the views of the pope and the Hungarian government on refugees had seemed to be “diametrically opposed” in the past, there was not so much space between them on the war.
“On the issue of Russia’s war of occupation in Ukraine, there seems to be no such diametric difference because the pope urges peace and the Hungarian government urges peace,” Mate-Toth said.
Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, Eduard Habsburg, acknowledged that the country remained highly dependent on Russian energy 14 months into the war but said he believes Orban and Francis are of like minds when it comes to the conflict.
“Orban and the pope, both very clearly over the last month, several times, have asked for an immediate cease-fire and peace negotiations,” Habsburg said.
Francis has already expressed his appreciation for the welcome Hungary has shown to Ukrainian refugees. During a 2022 meeting with Orban at the Vatican, Francis gave the prime minister a medallion of St. Martin and said he chose it specifically to honor Hungary’s reception of people fleeing the war.
Such appreciation was not necessarily on display when Francis visited Budapest in 2021 for a seven-hour visit to close out a Eucharistic Congress. Francis didn’t stay on to actually visit Hungary, which some observers perceived as a snub meant to reflect his opposition to Orban’s tough line on migration.
In remarks delivered at his Sunday noon blessing from his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, Francis addressed his upcoming trip to Hungary, touching on both the war and migration as themes that would play an elevated role during his visit.
“It will be an opportunity to re-embrace a church and a people so dear to me. It will also be a journey to the center of Europe, over which icy winds of war continue to blow, while the movements of so many people place urgent humanitarian issues on the agenda,” Francis said.
“Let us not forget our Ukrainian brothers and sisters still afflicted by this war,” the pontiff said.
Yet despite the fraught backdrop of political friction and armed conflict, Francis will use his trip to make the kinds of visits with the downtrodden for which he is well known.
On Saturday, he will meet with patients at the Blessed Laszlo Batthyany-Strattmann Home for the Blind, an education and comprehensive care facility for children with visual and motor disabilities.
The director of the institute, Gyorgy Inotay, said the pope’s itinerary in Hungary is indicative of his commitment to the most vulnerable of society.
“He has obviously designated a program and path for himself that speaks to him feeling connected to the most desperate, the poorest and those struggling with some kind of illness and injury, and he has demonstrated this countless times over the last decade,” Inotay said.
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Winfield reported from Rome.
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Party and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San Francisco
NEW YORK (AP) - Some of the world’s biggest celebrations of LGBTQ+ pride are set to kick off Sunday, with thousands expected to march in New York, San Francisco and other North American cities in parades that will be part party, part protest.
Entertainers and activists, drag performers and transgender advocates are among the grand marshals in parades embracing a unity message this year, as new laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community take effect in several U.S. states.
The parades and marches are among a range of events the roughly 400 Pride organizations across the U.S. are holding this year, with many offering programs focused specifically on the rights of transgender people.
“The platform will be elevated, and we’ll see communities across the country show their unity and solidarity through these events,” said Ron deHarte, co-president for the U.S. Association of Prides.
Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver and Seattle are scheduled to hold their annual pride parades on Sunday. At the parade in Toronto, Canada, more than 100 groups are expected to march. In New York City, seven-time Grammy winner Christina Aguilera will headline a post-march concert in Brooklyn.
New York’s march is held the last Sunday in June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City, where a police raid on a gay bar triggered days of protests.
Over the years, the annual observations have spread to other cities and grown to include bisexual, transgender and queer people, as well as other groups.
About a decade ago, when her 13-year-old child first wanted to be called a boy, Roz Gould Keith sought help but could find little to assist her family navigate their child’s transition. They attended a Pride parade in the Detroit area but saw little transgender representation.
This year, she is heartened by the increased visibility of transgender people at marches and celebrations that have been held across the country this month.
“Ten years ago, when my son asked to go to Motor City Pride, there was nothing for the trans community,” said Keith, the founder and executive director of Stand with Trans, a group formed to support and empower young transgender people and their families.
This year, she said, the event was “jam-packed” with representation of transgender people.
One of the grand marshals of New York City’s parade this year is nonbinary activist AC Dumlao, chief of staff for Athlete Ally, a group that advocates on behalf of LGBTQ+ athletes.
“Uplifting the trans community has always been at the core of our events and programming,” said Dan Dimant, a spokesperson for NYC Pride.
Many of this year’s parades served as calls to action for LGBTQ+ communities to unite against dozens, if not hundreds, of legislative bills now under consideration in statehouses across the country.
Lawmakers in 20 states have moved to ban gender-affirming care for children and at least seven more are considering doing the same, adding increased urgency to coalesce around the transgender community, its advocates say.
“We are under threat. Prides are under threat,” Pride event organizers in New York, San Francisco and San Diego said in a statement joined by about 50 other pride organizations nationwide. “The diverse dangers we are facing as an LGBTQ community and Pride organizers, while differing in nature and intensity, share a common trait: they seek to undermine our love, our identity, our freedom, our safety, and our lives.”
Some parades, including the event in Chicago, are planning to beef up security amid the upheaval.
The Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD, a national LGBTQ+ organization, found 101 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents just in the first three weeks of this month, about twice as many as in the full month of June last year.
Sarah Moore, who analyzes extremism for the two civil rights groups, said many of the June incidents coincide with Pride events.
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AP writers Geoff Mulvihill in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
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IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The new SkyDock Pro 100 Watt USB-C charging devices offer superior charging and power efficiency for charging personal electronics on the flight deck, main cabin, and galley.
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In May of 2022, the EU announced a mandate that required all new portable devices utilize a standard charger by 2024 via USB C. As Europe will be the first to enforce the law, it could have implications worldwide as companies prefer to streamline products to minimize production costs. Now the US Senate and Congress are encouraging the Department of Commerce to enact the same requirements. With the increasing dependance on mobile devices in the flight deck, the SkyDock Pro USB C 100 Watt Single and Dual charging ports leading the future as many aircraft are moving away from the 110 AC universal outlets.
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Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state's House Bill 543 into law, which lawmakers say will allow residents to carry a concealed firearm without obtaining a permit from the state.
The law will go into effect on July 1, 2023 and will put Florida into a group of around 25 states that have enacted similar legislation.
While the White House accused the governor of signing the bill "behind closed doors," the governor's office released a statement on the move and a photo of the signing to the public.
The White House called the legislation "shameful," noting how soon its ratification came after a shooter entered a Nashville school and fired 152 rounds of ammunition, Scripps News Nashville reported. Three 9-year-old students and three adults were killed before Tennessee police fired nine rounds to kill the shooter.
In 2021, Tennessee passed similar legislation allowing those 21 and older to carry a concealed firearm without a permit.
The Florida law will allow anyone in the state who can legally own a firearm to carry one without a permit.
Training and background checks will not be required to carry a firearm in public. A background check and a three-day waiting period will still be required for someone to purchase a gun from a state licensed dealer. The requirements will not be in place for private deals or weapons exchanges.
Around 3 million people in Florida have a concealed weapons permit.
Those in agreement with the legislation say it will strengthen Second Amendment rights for residents.
Those in opposition to the legislation in Florida say it will make the state more dangerous, pointing to shootings in recent years in Florida like the mass shooting in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the 2016 Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando.
The White House called the legislation "the opposite of common sense gun safety."
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ISLA NEGRA, Chile — There's a steady stream of fans visiting the museum that once was the home of Pablo Neruda, widely considered Chile's greatest poet. It's located on massive black cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It's also the spot where Neruda is buried.
The poet died 49 years ago, yet his reputation remains a work in progress.
Neruda has always been a polarizing figure in Chile, mainly for his left-wing politics. But now he is being called out by Chile's growing feminist movement as a male chauvinist and sexual predator.
"He's been canceled," says Lieta Vivaldi, a human rights activist and member of Chile's Feminist Lawyers Association.
The latest controversy over Neruda, who in 1971 became the second Chilean awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, sprang up in 2018 with the rise of Chile's #MeToo movement against sexual abuse. Activists singled out some of Neruda's verses as sexist and focused new attention on several disturbing episodes from the poet's past.
Neruda abandoned his only child, Malva Marina, and her mother. His daughter was born with hydrocephalus — an accumulation of fluid within the brain that can lead to swelling of the head — and died at age 8.
What's more, Neruda wrote about his rape of a cleaning woman in his hotel room in 1930, in what is now Sri Lanka.
"I decided to go all the way. I got a strong grip on her wrist. ... The encounter was of a man with a statue," Neruda wrote in his memoir, published in 1974, a year after his death from cancer. "She was right to despise me."
Initially, his admission went almost unnoticed. But Chile's feminist movement — newly energized by a series of sexual abuse scandals at the country's universities and by the global #MeToo movement -- has called attention to the episode, and disdain for Neruda is spreading.
Salvador Young, who buys online books for Chile's National Digital Library, says that for the past several years, he was instructed by his supervisors not to purchase Neruda's books. Otherwise, he says, "Readers would demand to know: 'Why are you promoting a rapist?'"
Some Chilean universities and high schools are steering clear of Neruda. One high school teacher, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized by his school to speak to NPR, says many of his female students despise Neruda. He now teaches him less than he did a few years ago.
By contrast, he says, "When I was in school, we had to learn Neruda and recite his poetry. There are verses that students of my generation still recite and analyze."
Among them, he says, is "From the Heights of Machu Picchu," which Neruda wrote following an inspirational trip to the ancient Incan mountaintop site. The poem has been put to music by the Chilean group Los Jaivas.
Rejection of the poet by feminists is so strong that in 2018, Chile's Congress scrapped a proposal to rename the country's main international airport after Neruda. Meanwhile, anti-Neruda slogans were spray-painted on several walls during #MeToo marches in Santiago, Chile's capital.
Kemy Oyarzun, a poet and professor of gender studies at the University of Chile, says this was a response to one of Neruda most famous verses, an ode to silence called "Poem XV."
It begins: "I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent."
Oyarzun says some feminists interpreted this as Neruda telling his lover in the poem to keep her mouth shut. They responded with graffiti proclaiming, "Neruda, now you shut up!"
At a #MeToo demonstration in Santiago in August, high school student Laura Brodsky, 18, said her instructors are not teaching Neruda. Referring to the rape confession in his memoir, Brodsky emphasized that she and her fellow students "have no interest in learning about him."
All this is a startling reversal for one of the world's most famous, prolific and bestselling poets, who has often been compared to Walt Whitman. Neruda's masterwork, Canto General (General Song), is an epic history of Latin America, recounted by way of 231 poems.
In a country where poetry had long been composed by and for the well-to-do, Neruda was known as the poet of the people, often writing about the working class and Indigenous groups, as well as Chile's natural wonders.
In addition, Neruda won praise around the world for his humanitarian work in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, following his diplomatic service as consul, he helped bring more than 2,000 Spaniards — who were fleeing Gen. Francisco Franco's newly installed military regime — to Chile.
"Many working people and progressive activists — not just in Chile, not just in Latin America, but all over the world — adopted him as their hero, proclaimed him as their own," wrote Mark Eisner, author of Neruda: The biography of a poet.
Still, Neruda has fallen from grace before.
In 1947, Chile's government outlawed the Communist Party — of which Neruda was a member — and accused him of treason. To avoid arrest, he went underground; then, in 1949, he escaped by horseback across the snow-capped Andes Mountains to Argentina.
Neruda eventually returned. But in 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet seized power and his right-wing military regime burned Neruda's books while promoting poet Gabriela Mistral, another Nobel Prize winner, who was viewed at the time as apolitical.
As during those past anti-Neruda crusades, many writers and academics say the current campaign has gone too far.
Fernando Saez, executive director of the Pablo Neruda Foundation that oversees the late poet's estate, points out that many writers, painters and musicians have had stormy personal lives, and says reproachable behavior should not negate their artistic contributions.
Doing so, he says "is tremendously dangerous."
Author Isabel Allende has also defended Neruda's literary legacy. "Like many young feminists in Chile I am disgusted by some aspects of Neruda's life and personality," she told the Guardian in 2018. "Unfortunately, Neruda was a flawed person, as we all are in one way or another, and Canto General is still a masterpiece."
Neruda "is a very, very important poet and you cannot just cancel him because of his personal life," Vivaldi says. "In that case, we would be judging everyone."
It's also easy to misread Neruda, says Oyarzun. Take "Poem XV," the one some interpret as a plea for his lover to shut up.
"That's not what he meant," Oyarzun says. "He meant to learn from women. He says: 'I love it when you're in silence because silence is my favorite dimension and I learn from your silence.'"
Yet even Oyarzun is less enthusiastic about Neruda these days. She says so much fuss over Neruda for so long has ended up overshadowing the work of female poets in Chile, where many of them remain largely unknown.
"I myself have chosen to teach young women's poetry that was denied for so many decades," she says. "So if you tell me — 'Will you teach a course only on Neruda?" — I will not do that."
At the Neruda museum on Isla Negra, many fans brush off criticism about the poet. Among them is Santiago storekeeper Jorge Díaz, who says many Chilean men of Neruda's generation behaved the same way.
"Neruda had a dark side," he says. "But everyone has a dark side."
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Delivers strong year-over-year revenue growth for IoT business unit and double-digit sequential billings growth for Cybersecurity business unit
Second Quarter Fiscal 2023:
- Total company revenue of $168 million.
- IoT revenue of $51 million.
- Cybersecurity revenue of $111 million.
- Licensing & Other revenue of $6 million.
- Non-GAAP basic loss per share of $0.05, GAAP basic loss per share of $0.09.
WATERLOO, ON, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today reported financial results for the three months ended August 31, 2022 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated).
"This was a solid second quarter for BlackBerry, where we delivered both revenue in line with, and EPS ahead of, expectations," said John Chen, Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry. "Our IoT business continues to gain market share, and design-phase revenue remained at near-record levels. A major design win in the quarter was with Volkswagen, who chose QNX for their new VW.OS, to be deployed across all Volkswagen group brands. IVY remains firmly on track, with the latest product release in August, proof of concept trials progressing well and the IVY fund continuing to invest in exciting ecosystem partners. In our Cybersecurity business we delivered double-digit sequential billings growth, including securing significant business in both government and financial services, as well as in the middle market. We're executing on our plan and we're seeing the decisions made in recent quarters starting to pay off, with Cybersecurity ARR expected to resume growth early next fiscal year."
Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Financial Highlights
- Total company revenue was $168 million.
- Total company non-GAAP gross margin was 64% and GAAP gross margin was 63%.
- IoT revenue was $51 million, a 28% increase year-over-year, with gross margin of 82%.
- Cybersecurity revenue was $111 million, an 8% decrease year-over-year, with gross margin of 55% and ARR of $321 million.
- Cybersecurity billings increased 15% sequentially to $102 million and grew 6% year-over-year in the first half of the fiscal year.
- Software and Services revenue in total was $162 million.
- Licensing and Other revenue was $6 million, with gross margin of 67%.
- Non-GAAP operating loss was $22 million. GAAP operating loss was $47 million.
- Total cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments were $699 million.
- Net cash used by operating activities was $23 million.
Business Highlights & Strategic Announcements
- Volkswagen Group's software powerhouse, Cariad, selects BlackBerry QNX for its VW.OS, part of a unified software platform to be deployed in all Volkswagen Group brands
- PATEO, a leading Chinese Tier 1, selects BlackBerry QNX for its intelligent cockpit, Pateo Connect+, to be mass produced in more than ten individual models across five automakers
- NETA Auto (Hozon's EV brand) selects BlackBerry QNX for the digital cockpit and ADAS sockets in the NETA S, next generation EV Sedan aimed at the Chinese market
- MotorTrend and BlackBerry announce inaugural Software-Defined Vehicle Innovator Awards to celebrate innovators and pioneers leading the auto industry's transformation to software
- BlackBerry QNX extends support for the Aerospace & Defense market by achieving conformance with the global open standard "Future Airborne Capability Environment" (FACE) certification
- BlackBerry and L-SPARK announce four smart mobility start-ups for their BlackBerry IVY connected car accelerator program
- BlackBerry and LeapXpert collaborate to enable the BlackBerry® Dynamics™ platform to provide secure communications through leading messaging applications such as iMessage, WhatsApp and SMS
- University of California, Irvine and BlackBerry awarded grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program to develop secure 5G infrastructure solutions
- Frost and Sullivan, a leading industry analyst, awards BlackBerry its 2022 Global Market Leadership Award for its Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solution, CylancePROTECT Mobile™
Outlook
BlackBerry will discuss its fiscal year 2023 outlook in connection with the quarterly earnings announcement on its earnings conference call.
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The tables at the end of this press release include a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP financial ratios used by the company to comparable U.S. GAAP measures and an explanation of why the company uses them.
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Reconciliations of the Company's Segment Results to the Consolidated Results
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The following table reconciles the Company's segment results for the three months ended August 31, 2022 to consolidated U.S. GAAP results:
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The following table reconciles the Company's segment results for the three months ended August 31, 2021 to consolidated U.S. GAAP results:
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Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the three months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021
A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures for the three months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted financial measures is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating expense for the three months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted operating expense is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net loss and U.S. GAAP basic loss per share for the three months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted net loss and adjusted basic loss per share is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense for the three months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:
Adjusted operating loss, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating loss margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the three months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 are reflected in the table below.
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Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the six months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021
A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures for the six months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted financial measures is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating expense for the six months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted operating expense is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net loss and U.S. GAAP basic loss per share for the six months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted net loss and adjusted basic loss per share is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense for the six months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 to adjusted research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:
Adjusted operating loss, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating loss margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the six months ended August 31, 2022 and August 31, 2021 are reflected in the table below.
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DALLAS, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carbone's Fine Food and Wine, a mainstay of the Dallas restaurant scene for more than a decade and fondly known as Carbone's, has filed litigation against New York-based Carbone Restaurant, which does business as Carbone and recently opened in Dallas on the same street about two miles away from Carbone's.
Chef Julian Barsotti launched Carbone's in 2011. He operates the beloved and venerable Italian-American restaurant along with four other local favorites: Nona, Fachini and his most recent eatery, Odelay.
The Major Food Group LLC, and its principals Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and Jeff Zalaznick, are the force behind Carbone, which is identical in name to Carbone's—minus the apostrophe s—and also serves up Italian-American cuisine. These glaring similarities form the basis of Carbone's state and federal trademark infringement and unfair competition case against The Major Food Group, Carbone Restaurant LLC and Carbone Café LLC.
According to Barsotti, "Carbone's is named, and its logo is modeled after a restaurant and grocery that my great-grandfather, Angelo Carbone, opened in New Jersey back in 1941."
Just like the Carbone's of old, Barsotti's restaurant features a retail element, offering customers a variety of shelf-stable items and refrigerated homemade specialties like Barsotti's Sunday Gravy, sausages, meatballs and filled pastas.
Despite the history Barsotti has forged with Carbone's, and the rave reviews and loyal following that have come along with it, Major Food Group's launch of East Coast transplant Carbone has caused widespread confusion, as reflected in the local press, Yelp reviews, customers, vendors, and even the City of Dallas.
It is this confusion—which also extends to the supermarket, where Carbone is selling pasta sauces advertised with Carbone's exact name and logo (including the apostrophe s)—that is central to Carbone's litigation.
Matthew Yarbrough, a partner at the Dallas office of Michelman & Robinson, LLP, represents Carbone's Dallas in the lawsuit filed today (June 1) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He explains, "Major Food Group's 'NY Carbone," which is brand new to Dallas, is purposefully attempting to trade on Carbone's name, goodwill and hard-earned reputation to confuse local customers on both the restaurant and retail fronts. It's doing so even though Major Food Group knows that my client, Carbone's Dallas, owns a superior common law right to its trademark in Texas, which Chef Barsotti began using first as early as 2011."
This was made clear to the management of Major Food Group back in December 2021, when it received a cease-and-desist letter sent by Yarbrough, Carbone's Dallas legal counsel. Nonetheless, New York Carbone started hosting diners at its Dallas location in April and recently began selling its pasta sauces in Central Market.
By way of its district court complaint, Carbone's Dallas seeks to prohibit Major Food Group's continued use of the name Carbone in Texas. Carbone's Dallas is also suing for monetary damages and the cancellation of the trademark for Carbone Restaurant that is owned by The Major Food Group and was registered by the U.S. Trademark Office in 2013, well after Carbone's Dallas first began using its mark.
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Greenville County Animal Care waiving adoption fees through Halloween
Published: Oct. 25, 2022 at 3:38 PM EDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Greenville County Animal Care is waiving all adoption fees through Halloween.
Starting Oct. 25 through Oct. 31, you and your family can “Find your BOO.”
The facility says each adoption includes free spay/neutering, up-to-date vaccines and testing, microchipping and registration as well as a pethub ID tag.
The shelter says there are many cats, dogs, puppies and kittens looking for forever homes.
You can find more about adoptable pets at GreenvillePets.org or you can go visit the animals at 328 Furman Hall Rd from 12-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
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Which mochi squishy toy is best?
A mochi is a small Japanese dumpling, and squishy toys, usually abbreviated to “squishies,” are brightly colored toys that are comforting to the touch and shaped like animals, clouds, soda cans, fish or just about anything you can think of.
The materials used in mochi squishies are rubberized plastics that allow them to be cast in more detail than regular foam squishies. If you are looking for a bucket of party favors, take a look at the Kingyao 24 Squishy Toy Party Favor Bucket.
What to know before you buy a mochi squishy toy
Squishy toys are the latest version of the sensory toy category that includes fidget toys and stress relief balls.
Materials
Mochi squishies aren’t made of cheap foam like most mass market squishies; rather, they are made of very soft materials like elastic polyurethane and thermoplastic rubbers. These materials have the characteristics of both rubber and plastic. Rubber gives them squishability and the ability to bounce back into shape, and plastic makes them more durable and longer lasting than foam.
Multipacks
Most mochi squishy toys are so small that buying them individually is impractical because the packaging would cost more than the toy. Most multipack sets do not arrive looking exactly like the ones in the advertisements or the pictures on the box. Most sets are made up of random assortments. If you are interested in mochi squishy toys with a specific theme, check the product descriptions carefully beforehand.
Themes
Most mochi squishy toy sets are centered around a theme, and there seems to be no end to their variety. Because most are cartoonish, you can find mochi squishy toys shaped in any number of ways, like animals, foods and movie characters.
Size
You can find mochi squishy toys that are less than a half inch long and a few that are as large as 12 inches tall. Giant mochi squishy toys are like rubber versions of plush toys, and they are made to be hugged and cuddled by kids.
What to look for in a quality mochi squishy toy
Rebound
After you give these toys a squeeze, you want them to spring back into their original shape. Some mochi squishy toys are made to spring back quickly while others are made to slowly ooze their way back into shape.
Stretching
The best mochi squishy toys don’t just squeeze, they can stretch, too. Look for squishies that snap back into shape when pulled apart without breaking or overstretching.
Kawaii
You will see many squishy toy sets labeled with the word kawaii. This is the Japanese word for cute, and it describes nearly every mochi squishy toy.
Detail
Squishies made of thermoplastic rubber or elastic polyurethane can be painted. This allows for interesting details and facial expressions that make your squishies even cuter
How much you can expect to spend on a mochi squishy toy
When bought in multipacks, small mochi squishy toys cost less than $1 each. Medium mochi squishy toys cost anywhere from $2-$5 each, and large ones cost as much $15 each.
Mochi squishy toy FAQ
Are all mochi squishy toys really small?
With only a few exceptions, mochi squishy toys are designed for kids, so they are made to be easily handled by small hands.
What is the best way to clean mochi squishy toys?
The easiest way to clean squishies is to wipe them down with a damp cloth. If the stains are stubborn, use a mild dish soap, rinse and then let them air dry.
What’s the best mochi squishy toy to buy?
Top mochi squishy toy
Kingyao 24 Squishy Toy Party Favor Bucket
What you need to know: Two dozen mochi squishy toys come in a see-through plastic bucket with a lid.
What you’ll love: These 2-inch mochi squishies are made of thermoplastic rubber. They make great stocking stuffers and party favors. This bucket holds 24 mochi squishy toys made to look like cartoon versions of bunnies, pigs, elephants, hedgehogs and seal pups. The soft pastel easter egg colors are sure to delight.
What you should consider: It is best to keep young children away from tiny things they want to put in their mouths.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top mochi squishy toy for the money
Civaner 60 Piece Christmas Squishies
What you need to know: Deck the halls and trim the tree with all of these cute Christmas themed mochi squishy toys.
What you’ll love: These mochi squishy toys make great stocking stuffers, too. This set includes shapes like Santas, mittens, boots, Christmas trees, snowflakes, snowmen, candy canes and reindeer.
What you should consider: If you use these as Christmas tree ornaments, you will have to supply the hooks or loops.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Slow Rising Jumbo Squishies 7 Piece Set
What you need to know: These squishies are from 4 inches to 7 inches long and are the slowest rising ones you will find.
What you’ll love: These squishies take 10 to 15 seconds to regain their shape. These toys come as delightful snack items, like glazed donuts, a tub of theater popcorn, a slice of cake, ice cream cones and more. The velvety soft polyurethane is sturdy and non-toxic. This set comes with a scented sticker bonus pack.
What you should consider: Little kids might chew on them, but these squishies should be too big for them to eat.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BALTIMORE — Arthur Wang, 17, realized the severity of COVID-19 months before most of his classmates when he got updates about the then novel virus from his uncle, who is a doctor in China.
“We wanted to help the community,” he explained. “I realized how hard it was for the teachers to switch from virtual to in-person classes. Some teachers said it was like flying a plane with no direction.”
Wang inspired 42 other students in the county to form the nonprofit Clarksville Youth Care Group. The organization has donated more than 1,400 protective kits to teachers at 62 schools. And he’s not done yet.
The kits include a handmade colorful cloth mask in assorted designs that features a pocket where a filter can be inserted for additional protection; an “ear saver,” which reduces the strain that masks place on the ears; a thank you card and a mask lanyard. Each kit takes about three hours to make.
“I realized that we should account for how tough it would be for the teachers. We expect them to be such a strong figure. We needed to appreciate all the hard work they do,” said Wang, who previously raised $13,000 in an effort to make 3,600 face shields that were donated to 101 hospitals, clinics, dental offices, urgent care centers and first responders in seven states.
For this project, Wang raised $5,000.
Wang’s efforts were recently recognized when he was one of two Marylanders of 25 high school students from around the country named as Prudential Emerging Visionaries.
Faaris Zuberi, 17, of Rockville, also was recognized for “Financial Literacy Introduction Program,” which offers financial literacy training to student members of the Youth Economic Initiative.
The award recognized the students for their “outstanding, innovative solutions to pressing financial and societal challenges in their communities,” according to Prudential Financial.
“Emerging Visionaries is another way Prudential is demonstrating its commitment to our purpose: to make lives better by solving the financial challenges of our changing world,” said Charles Lowrey, the firm’s chairman and CEO, in a statement. “The students we’re honoring have a sense of possibility that drives them to look beyond themselves. Their vision and dedication are key to creating fully inclusive communities, and we are humbled and inspired by their work.”
Each of the 25 winners will receive $5,000 in funding as well as an invitation to participate in an awards summit at Prudential’s Newark, New Jersey, headquarters starting Saturday. At the summit, Wang will have the opportunity to vie for the grand prize of an additional $10,000 in funding. Prudential employees also will vote to name an Employees’ Choice Award winner, who will receive an additional $5,000.
Mikaela Lidgard, the principal at River Hill High School, first learned about Wang’s project last year while working at another school.
“The project has reached other schools in Howard County and Maryland,” she said. “Seeing young people take the lead and move forward and being compassionate about others was really inspiring. They are our best asset. And they are going to lead us in ways that are exciting, uplifting and reinforce our faith in humanity.”
Amanda Wang, a 14-year-old freshman at River Hill, said she is very proud of her brother’s ability to lead and inspire others in the effort. She also helps to run the group with him.
“It’s remarkable. It’s not something you see every day. It stands out from the ordinary,” she explained. “He helped organize the entire group. His hard work inspired me and others to work harder and make sure this project was going at a smooth pace.”
She added: “(My parents) have been pretty supportive. They have been really proud of us. We needed their help for a few things — such as material costs and design — but it’s mostly us doing this.”
The group has 300 kits remaining that it wants to donate to teachers.
Arthur Wang said he plans to expand the efforts to bus drivers and other community members who are in direct contact with the public. He also wants to inspire more students to join in the effort.
“I think we can really take our stuff to the next level and expand to more and more people,” he said. | 2022-04-23T14:33:34+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-teen-creates-award-winning-covid-kit-for-teachers/2022/04/23/8aa62e12-c305-11ec-b5df-1fba61a66c75_story.html |
JERUSALEM (AP) — A journalist for Al-Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. The broadcaster blamed Israeli forces, who said they were investigating the incident.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian female reporter for the broadcaster’s Arabic language channel, was shot and died soon afterward. Another Palestinian journalist working for the Jerusalem-based Al-Quds newspaper was wounded but in stable condition, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The Qatar-based broadcaster blamed Israeli forces. In a statement flashed on its channel, it called on the international community to “condemn and hold the Israeli occupation forces accountable for deliberately targeting and killing our colleague, Shireen Abu Akleh.”
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In video footage of the incident, Abu Akleh can be seen wearing a blue flak jacket clearly marked with the word “PRESS.”
The Israeli military said its forces came under attack with heavy gunfire and explosives while operating in Jenin, and that they fired back. The military said it is “investigating the event and looking into the possibility that the journalists were hit by the Palestinian gunmen.”
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said it had proposed to the Palestinian Authority a joint pathological investigation into the reporter’s death. “Journalists must be protected in conflict zones and we all have a responsibility to get to the truth,” he tweeted.
The Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied West Bank and cooperates with Israel on security matters, condemned what it said was a “shocking crime” committed by Israeli forces.
Abu Akleh, 51, was born in Jerusalem. She began working for Al-Jazeera in 1997 and regularly reported on-camera from across the Palestinian territories.
Israel has carried out near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks amid a series of deadly attacks inside Israel, many of them carried out by Palestinians from in and around Jenin. The town, and particularly its refugee camp, has long been known as a militant bastion.
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Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, and the Palestinians want the territory to form the main part of their future state. Nearly 3 million Palestinians live in the territory under Israeli military rule. Israel has built more than 130 settlements across the West Bank that are home to nearly 500,000 Jewish settlers, who have full Israeli citizenship.
Israelis have long been critical of Al-Jazeera’s coverage, but authorities generally allow its journalists to operate freely. Another Al-Jazeera reporter, Givara Budeiri, was briefly detained last year during a protest in Jerusalem and treated for a broken hand, which her employer blamed on rough treatment by police.
Relations between Israeli forces and the media, especially Palestinian journalists, is strained. A number of Palestinian reporters have been wounded by rubber-coated bullets or tear gas while covering demonstrations in the West Bank. A Palestinian journalist in Gaza was shot and killed by Israeli forces while filming violent protests along the Gaza frontier in 2018.
Another journalist working for a local Gaza radio station, who was shot on the same day at Gaza frontier, died a week later
In November 2018, Associated Press reporter Rashed Rashid was covering a protest near the Gaza frontier when he was shot in the left ankle, apparently by Israeli fire. Rashid was wearing protective gear that clearly identified him as a journalist, and was standing with a crowd of other journalists some 600 meters (660 yards) away from the Israeli border when he was hit. The military has never acknowledged the shooting.
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During last year’s war between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the building in Gaza City housing the offices of The Associated Press and Al-Jazeera. Residents were warned to evacuate and no one was hurt in the strike. Israel said Hamas was using the building as a command center but has provided no evidence.
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Akram reported from Hamilton, Canada. | 2022-05-11T06:48:34+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/11/world/al-jazeera-reporter-killed-during-israeli-raid-west-bank/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares fell Thursday after heavy selling of big-name tech stocks pushed benchmarks lower on Wall Street.
Stocks fell in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney but rose in Shanghai. U.S. futures were lower. Oil prices retreated.
The declines came despite a sharp upward revision in Japan’s estimated economic growth rate for the January-March quarter, to 2.7%. That was above what analysts had expected.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 sank 0.9% to 31,641.27. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.3% to 7,099.70. South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.2% to 2,610.85.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged less than 0.1% lower to 19,242.26. The Shanghai Composite gained 0.4% to 3,211.44.
Taiwan’s Taiex lost 1.1%, while India’s Sensex gave up 0.2%.
On Wednesday, U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close as declines for Microsoft and other tech stocks overshadowed gains for much of the rest of the market. It’s a reversal from much of this year, as excitement about artificial intelligence and hopes for an end to interest rate hikes have buoyed the tech sector.
The Japanese economy has been recovering since restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic were lifted. The nation has seen a return of tourists, as well as other economic activity.
The focus is now on when Japan’s central bank may move away from the easy monetary policy it’s stuck to for years. In the past year, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the world’s other central banks have been raising interest rates. Japan’s benchmark rate is minus 0.1%.
“While a higher growth reading may provide some room to consider a policy exit from the Bank of Japan, the central bank’s stance could remain unmoved for now, with recent comments from the Governor Kazuo Ueda pointing to more wait-and-see,” Yeap Jun Rong, a market analyst at IG said in a report.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 0.4% to 4,267.52 even though the majority of stocks within the index rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.3% to 33,665.02, while the Nasdaq composite fell 1.3% to 13,104.89.
Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia and Alphabet all sank at least 3% and were the heaviest weights on the S&P 500. Because they’re some of Wall Street’s most valuable stocks, their movements pack extra punch on the index.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks jumped 1.8% to continue its hot streak since a stronger-than-expected report on hiring last week suggested a recession may be further off than feared.
The market in general has climbed for months thanks to a resilient economy that’s managed to defy predictions for a recession. But the threat still looms, and Wall Street is questioning which will come first: a recession or inflation falling enough to get the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates?
Most traders expect the Fed to leave rates steady next week. That would mark the first policy meeting in more than a year where it hasn’t hiked its benchmark rate, which is at its highest level since 2007. But the Fed may resume raising rates in July.
The goal of higher interest rates is to squelch high inflation by slowing the entire economy and hurting prices for stocks, bonds and other investments. Pressure from high rates are squeezing the U.S. banking and manufacturing industries, though the job market has remained solid.
In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 3.78% from 3.68% late Tuesday. It helps set rates for mortgages and other important loans. The two-year yield, which moves more on expectations for the Fed, rose to 4.55% from 4.50%.
In energy trading Thursday, benchmark U.S. crude fell 6 cents to $72.47 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It gained 79 cents to $72.53 on Wednesday. Brent crude, the international standard, shed 9 cents to $76.86 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar fell to 139.84 Japanese yen from 140.10 yen. The euro cost $1.0716, up from $1.0698.
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Yuri Kageyama is on Twitter https://twitter.com/yurikageyama | 2023-06-08T09:25:11+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/business/ap-business/stock-market-today-asian-shares-slip-following-technology-selloff-on-wall-street/ |
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Austin Cook putts himself to a 8-under 64 in second round of the Barbasol Championship
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Austin Cook tee shot sticks the green to yield birdie putt at Barbasol
In the second round of the 2022 Barbasol Championship, Austin Cook makes birdie on the par-3 16th hole.
In his second round at the Barbasol Championship, Austin Cook hit 6 of 14 fairways and 12 of 18 greens in regulation, and had a great day on the green leaving no misses on putts within 10 feet. Cook finished his day tied for 20th at 10 under; Max McGreevy and Matti Schmid are tied for 1st at 16 under; Ricardo Gouveia and Adam Svensson are tied for 3rd at 15 under; and Kevin Streelman and Trey Mullinax are tied for 5th at 14 under.
On the par-4 sixth, Austin Cook's 122 yard approach to 8 feet set himself up for the birdie on the hole. This moved Austin Cook to 1 under for the round.
On the 451-yard par-4 seventh hole, Cook reached the green in 2 and sunk a 16-foot putt for birdie. This moved Cook to 2 under for the round.
After a drive to right side of the fairway on the par-5 eighth, Cook hit his 254 yard approach to 9 feet, setting himself up for a eagle. This was his 3rd under-par hole in a row and moved Cook to 4 under for the round.
Cook got a bogey on the 443-yard par-4 10th, getting on the green in 3 and two putting, moving Cook to 3 under for the round.
On the 573-yard par-5 11th, Cook had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This moved Cook to 4 under for the round.
After a drive to the left side of the fairway on the 458-yard par-4 13th hole, Cook chipped in his third, carding a birdie for the hole. This moved Cook to 5 under for the round.
At the 209-yard par-3 14th, Cook hit a tee shot 187 yards at the green, setting himself up for the 17-foot putt for birdie. This moved Cook to 6 under for the round.
On the 516-yard par-5 15th, Cook had a birdie after hitting the green in 2 and two putting. This was his 3rd under-par hole in a row and moved Cook to 7 under for the round.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- data.ai (formerly App Annie), the first unified data AI company, today released its 2022 State of Food and Drink on Mobile Report. Powered by App IQ, the industry's first comprehensive taxonomy, the report found that time spent on food and drinks apps has grown 65% YoY in the last year.
The report also found that downloads of Food & Drink apps hit 1.7 billion during the last year, ending March 2022, up nearly 10% YoY. Other highlights include:
- Food Delivery & Carryout apps remain the largest share of total downloads and sessions of any subgenre, representing 57% of total Food & Drink downloads globally in Q1 2022. Sessions in Food Delivery & Carryout apps grew 30% YoY to top 47 billion global sessions.
- Grocery Delivery apps represented 25% of all downloads in Q1 2022. They experienced phenomenal growth at 40% YoY. Engagement grew even faster, total sessions up 70% YoY to 8.6 Billion globally.
- Ultrafast Delivery saw the strongest growth YoY at 266% globally — driven by fast movers like Zepto, Getir and Flink.
"Growth in Food & Drink downloads indicates the market is ripe for user acquisition, but competition is heating up. Growth in total sessions highlights that consumers are forming habits and relying on these apps more than ever to access appetizing food — restaurant-quality or home cooking ready — at the tap of an app." said Lexi Sydow, Head of Insights at data.ai.
App IQ allows for analysis of in-app features. Of note, data.ai found that apps that offer consumers the option to choose a "Recurring Order" feature, such as HelloFresh and Instacart, may have unlocked one key to driving engagement and retention.
Diving into demographic data, data.ai found that consumer preferences vary significantly by region for key demographics: Food Delivery apps top the charts for Generation Z in the US, UK, France & Brazil, while QSR apps rank #1 in Australia and Germany. Meanwhile, Generation X and Baby Boomers prefer Grocery Delivery apps.
View the full report here.
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Juul seeks to halt FDA order banning sales of its e-cigarettes in US
(AP) - Juul on Friday asked a federal court to block a government order to stop selling its electronic cigarettes.
The e-cigarette maker asked the court to pause what it calls an “extraordinary and unlawful action” by the Food and Drug Administration. The company filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington as it prepares to appeal the FDA’s decision.
The FDA said Thursday that Juul must stop selling its vaping device and its tobacco and menthol flavored cartridges.
The action was part of a sweeping effort by the agency to bring scientific scrutiny to the multibillion-dollar vaping industry after years of regulatory delays.
To stay on the market, companies must show that their e-cigarettes benefit public health. In practice, that means proving that adult smokers who use them are likely to quit or reduce their smoking, while teens are unlikely to get hooked on them.
The FDA said Juul’s application left regulators with significant questions and didn’t include enough information to evaluate any potential risks. Juul said it submitted enough information and data to address all issues raised.
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys defending Fox in a defamation case related to false claims about the 2020 election withheld critical information about the role company founder Rupert Murdoch played at Fox News, a revelation that angered the judge when it came up at a Tuesday hearing.
It was not clear whether the development would affect a trial scheduled to begin Thursday with jury selection. Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox for $1.6 billion, saying it damaged its reputation by repeatedly airing false claims that the company helped orchestrate a fraud that cost former President Donald Trump re-election.
The role of Fox executives is at the heart of the case. The company’s attorneys have sought to insulate members of the Murdoch family and to keep them from testifying live before a jury, arguing that their roles at the parent company, Fox Corp., put them at a distance from the Fox News shows that aired the bogus claims.
Fox Corp. had asserted since Dominion filed its lawsuit in 2021 that Rupert Murdoch had no official role at Fox News. In its filings, it had listed Fox News officers as Suzanne Scott, Jay Wallace and Joe Dorrego. But on Easter Sunday, Fox disclosed to Dominion’s attorneys that Murdoch also is “executive chair” at Fox News. The disclosure came after Superior Court Judge Eric Davis wondered aloud during a status conference last week who Fox News’ officers were.
Davis was clearly disturbed by the disclosure, coming on the eve of the trial.
“My problem is that it has been represented to me more than once that he is not an officer,” the judge said.
Davis suggested that had he known of Murdoch’s dual role at Fox Corp. and Fox News, he might have reached different conclusions in a summary judgment ruling he issued last month. In that ruling, the judge said there was no dispute that the statements aired by Fox were false, but that a jury would have to decide whether Fox News acted with actual malice and whether Fox Corp. directly participated in airing the statements.
To Fox attorney Matthew Carter, Davis said: “You have a credibility problem.”
In response, Carter said he believed Murdoch’s title at Fox News was only “honorific.”
“I’m not mad at you,” the judge later told Carter. “I’m mad at the situation I’m in.”
In a statement issued after Tuesday’s pretrial hearing, Fox said, “Rupert Murdoch has been listed as executive chairman of Fox News in our SEC filings since 2019 and this filing was referenced by Dominion’s own attorney during his deposition.”
It’s unclear whether the judge will take any action in response to the late disclosure. But an attorney for Dominion said he wanted Fox to further explain Murdoch’s role with the network, indicating the issue could come up when the pretrial hearing continues Wednesday.
Dominion attorney Justin Nelson told the judge the disclosure has “a big impact” on the case. He said Fox’s failure to disclose Murdoch’s status at Fox News has deprived Dominion of “a whole bunch” of information from Murdoch as a custodian of Fox News records that it was entitled to have.
“It is something that really has impacted how we have litigated this case,” he said.
Tuesday’s development was the latest to turn an uncomfortable spotlight on the network.
Information obtained by Dominion as part of its lawsuit has shown that some network hosts harbored off-camera doubts about election fraud claims but nevertheless allowed program guests to repeatedly make them in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The case also has drawn scrutiny of various emails and text messages shared among Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan Murdoch and Scott, the Fox News CEO, about election coverage and the allegations by Trump and his allies that he was cheated.
They revealed a chorus of voices, from Rupert Murdoch and top network hosts to producers and publicists, who internally cast the election-stealing conspiracy claims as crazy even as the network repeatedly gave them a platform. Internal communications also showed that at the time, major players at Fox were deeply worried about retaining pro-Trump viewers.
In a ruling earlier Tuesday, the judge denied a motion by Fox seeking to bar any reference at trial to matters involving the Murdoch family, which owns Fox Corp. The judge also said he would allow jurors to hear some testimony about threats directed at the voting machine company, but only to a point.
The judge granted a motion by Fox to prohibit any reference to specific threats or harassment directed at Dominion, saying he did not want the jury to be prejudiced against Fox because of threats made by people with no connection to the network. But he said he would allow Dominion to talk generally about threats it had received to show how it has been damaged by the Fox broadcasts.
“It has decimated Dominion’s ability to attract and retain employees, because the company is under siege,” said Megan Meier, an attorney for the voting machine company.
The judge already decided last week there would be no testimony about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. | 2023-04-12T11:20:05+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/dominion-can-discuss-general-threats-in-fox-defamation-trial/ |
Top Player Prop Bets for Avalanche vs. Kraken NHL Playoffs First Round Game 4 on April 24, 2023
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- Points Prop: 1.5 (Over Odds: -110, Under Odds: -120)
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The report provides a panoramic guide to transformation involving 99 turning points across 6 major segments
BEIJING and SHANGHAI, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Miaozhen Academy of Marketing Science (MAMS) has recently released Digital Transformation in Marketing: A Roadmap 2022 ("Roadmap 2022"), a groundbreaking research report that is updated annually. This marks the second year that the Roadmap has been released. Digital Transformation in Marketing: A Roadmap 2021, by systematically identifying paths for digital transformation in marketing across 5 major segments, lays a solid foundation for the digital transformation in corporate marketing. Roadmap 2022 further consolidates this foundation.
- Opening up new paths: The new version adds the Innovation Management section, detailing complete digital transformation paths and addressing the core issue of how to support product innovation at companies through digitalization.
- Adding 29 new key turning points: In addition to the 13 new transformative changes highlighted in the Innovation Management segment, other segments add important new sections such as "ROI of Advertising Investment", "Agile Operation of Social Media" and "User Experience Measurement".
- Updating 23 key turning points: The 2022 version adds more color to some sections, including updating of some titles to more accurately reflect the change: "Voice Measurement" to "Social Media Effectiveness Measurement" and "Content Data Governance" to "Content Tagging Analysis".
"With the original intention of 'answering the confusion many company managers and marketing practitioners have about digital transformation in marketing', MAMS systematically researched and released Roadmap 2022, with the goal of, through clear objective and path mapping, providing a detailed interpretation of the findings and of the cases shared, alongside insights into and guidance for an enterprise-wide digital transformation in marketing," said Peking Tan, producer of Roadmap 2022 and president of MAMS.
The Roadmap compares the process of digital transformation in enterprise marketing to mountain climbing, in which each marketing section commences the ascent from the bottom of the mountain, and works through three key stages: basic, advanced and leading. Then, after achieving several transformative milestones, they meet at the top of the mountain and finally complete the digital transformation.
Roadmap 2022 spans 6 major marketing segments and their respective paths: advertising, content, social media, e-commerce, user growth and innovation management, covering 99 key turning points. Compared with the 2021 version, the paths for three segments - advertising, e-commerce, and content - in the new version have remained relatively stable with slight updates. The 2022 version adds paths for innovation management, with social media and user growth sections having evolved the most.
According to the MAMS study, in the past year, the digital transformation in the production, acquisition, launch and management of social media content has all accelerated. Social media-based marketing is not advertising, and its underlying logic is different from advertising as well. Social media is not only about having a voice, but also about stimulating interactions and enhancing relationships with users. Therefore, the path for digital transformation in social media is also different from that for advertising. It requires a more comprehensive balance between talent, content, and management, as well as a new measurement and evaluation system and method to help brands produce quality content, allow their voices to be heard, and enhance user interaction, and, by doing so, creating three key values: cross-domain conversion, brand attachment and brand loyalty.
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TSA raising fines after finding record guns in carry-ons
(AP) – The Transportation Security Administration is raising the fine for people caught with a gun in their carry-on bag after intercepting a record number of firearms at security checkpoints this year.
The TSA said Friday it’s raising the maximum fine to $14,950. Previously it was $13,910.
TSA officers have found 6,301 firearms in carry-on bags so far this year, surpassing the previous record of 5,972 detected in 2021. The numbers have been increasing steadily over the last decade; in 2012, 1,549 firearms were detected at security checkpoints.
Eighty-eight percent of the guns found this year were loaded, the TSA said.
Firearm possession laws vary by location, but guns are never allowed in carry-on bags at any airport security checkpoint, even if a passenger has a concealed-weapon permit. Passengers transporting firearms must do so in a locked case in checked baggage. They also must declare them to the airline, the TSA said.
At a congressional hearing earlier this year, some lawmakers and airport administrators called for higher fines, gun safety classes for violators and other measures. They said the maximum fines were rarely imposed and clearly weren’t working as a deterrent.
But other lawmakers said most of the passengers who get caught simply forgot they were carrying a gun, and higher fines won’t stop that problem.
When the TSA finds a gun, it generally checks to see if it was stolen or involved in a previous crime. The agency may also confiscate the gun.
In addition to the fine __ an amount determined by the TSA based on the circumstances of each case __ the TSA will revoke PreCheck eligibility for at least five years for anyone caught with a gun at a security checkpoint. Passengers may also be arrested for a firearms violation depending on the state or local laws in the airport’s location.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-17T00:57:05+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/2022/12/17/tsa-raising-fines-after-finding-record-guns-carry-ons/ |
American Heart Association continues efforts to close health disparity gap in Georgia
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) -Scientists believe a lack of sleep could be contributing to the health of your heart.
The American Heart Association of Georgia is partnering with a brand new clinic this October, hoping to bring life-saving information to as many families as possible.
According to the American Heart Association, there are 8 factors that contribute to heart health: nicotine exposure, physical activity, diet, weight, blood glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure. Sleep is the most recent factor to hit the list.
”That sleep, a lot of times is the starting point for all of it and it really helps us to maintain that healthy weight, our heart health, blood pressure,” said Pediatrician Courtney Whittle.
Medical experts say, as surprising as it might seem, the hours of sleep you get every night, directly correlates to the health of your heart. According to the CDC, heart disease is the leading cause of death in Georgia. American Heart Association crews have been working to combat those stats. They have found, the environment a person lives in, directly impacts their health.
”To help someone be healthy. I can’t approach someone who lives in Atlanta, the same way I would approach someone who lives in Alpharetta. I can’t have a conversation about eating 5 fruits and vegetables a day if I haven’t asked first, ‘Hey, what grocery stores are near you?’” said Whittle.
They partner with organizations all over the state for health screenings. Part of each appointment is asking patients about the 8 essentials; sleep is now part of the conversation.
The next health screening is coming up in October. American Heart Association is partnering with a Lithia Springs clinic for the first time. Patients at the clinic are underinsured or not insured at all.
“If we do not take care of them, it essentially impacts everyone’s health,” said Kristi Sprowl with American Heart Association.
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Amid fighting in several Iraqi cities, an increasing number of foreigners are missing or held hostage by insurgents. Meanwhile, Vice President Cheney goes to Japan as a crisis builds over threats to kill three Japanese who are captive in Iraq. Hear NPR's Philip Reeves and NPR's Rob Gifford.
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SAN ANTONIO – Shark bait hoo ha ha!
SeaWorld is giving shark lovers the “ultimate” way to celebrate Shark Week.
The theme park is offering a new “Ultimate Shark Experience” ticket that promises a “unique and immersive” experience for guests that will help shark conservation efforts in the process.
Ticket holders will have the chance to get up close to the park’s sharks to learn about them and they’ll get to feed and touch them.
“SeaWorld is the only place in the world where you can touch a shark, move like a shark, feed a shark, dine like a shark, learn from the sharks and importantly, help our ocean’s sharks at the same time,” said Marisa Thalberg, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment in a press release. “Sharks are actually our ocean’s VIP – Very Important Predators – for a reason – and we would love to share this curated, immersive experience with guests young and old who want to celebrate Shark Week in this really unique way.”
The ticket included a full day of experiences including riding on shark-inspired thrill rides and some take-home shark swag.
Here is a list from Seal World about what’s included:
- See Sharks (up close): with a guided tour not accessible to the general public above the aquarium to see sharks.
- Feed and Touch Sharks: safely - with our shark curators guiding you.
- Learn about Sharks: in a private group our educators will share things you never knew about how important sharks are to ALL life on the planet.
- Speed like a Shark: with front-of-the-line access to award-winning shark and ray inspired thrills like San Antonio’s ‘Great White’, San Diego’s ‘Manta’ or Orlando’s ‘Mako’ – voted the best roller coaster in the United States in the 2023 USA Today annual 10Best Readers’ Choice.
- Dine near Sharks: with tasty treats and shark inspired beverages. In Orlando, don’t miss Sharks Underwater Grill® and Bar, recognized among the best restaurants in Orlando, where guests can experience fascinating and ever-changing views of sharks as they swim past during their upscale, full-service dining experience.
- Take home shark swag: with our gift to you of a fabulous shark-themed souvenir, with your choice of items like a shark plush toy, hat, blanket, t-shirt and more. Individual items vary by park.
- Help Us HELP Sharks: central to the day, you will learn how we provide round the clock, world class care for our sharks to ensure we are protecting and conserving this species for years to come. In fact, we are donating a portion of every Ultimate Shark Experience ticket to shark conservation to help sharks for generations to come.
Tickets are on sale now and will only be valid July 21-28.
Tickets cost $199 with $25 going toward shark conservation. | 2023-07-17T13:58:02+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/07/17/sea-world-offers-ultimate-shark-experience-with-up-close-shark-encounter-during-shark-week/ |
NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As kids and families gear up for a fun-filled summer of play, the "Best of Spring & Summer 2022 Influencer Choice List," presented by The Toy Association and powered by Clamour, today unveiled the hottest toys and games as voted on by top-tier toy and family content creators. Consumers can shop the list for toy ideas that will keep kids engaged all summer long – from playthings perfect for backyard fun to creative toys and games for rainy days.
Hundreds of leading digital influencers in the Clamour network were invited to vote on products submitted by toy brands this spring. Influencers were required to have at least one million monthly views on their main platform and a social reach of more than half a million. They reviewed product details, photos, and physical samples (when available) before voting for their favorites.
"As more and more families continue to turn to these key platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram for play ideas and inspiration, this Influencer Choice List offers toy companies a direct line to the top-tier content creators to help them gain critical exposure for their new spring and summer playthings," said Adrienne Appell, executive vice president of marketing communications at The Toy Association. "This year's list shows off a diverse assortment of innovative toys and games that are sure to inspire endless summer days of play for families everywhere."
The Spring & Summer 2022 Influencer Choice List
(Listed alphabetically by company name)
- Air Surfer (Adventure Parks)
- Jenga GIANT JS4 (Art's Ideas)
- Tamagotchi Pix (Nature and Ocean) (Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America Inc.)
- Bluey Garbage Truck – Bluey & Bin Man (BBC Studios America)
- YoYo Ball (Big Time Toys)
- Cloud b Lovelight Buddies (BTL Diffusion)
- 106 Piece Pastel Ball Run Pack (Connetix Tiles)
- Scribble Scrubbie Arctic Pets Igloo (Crayola)
- Horoscope Thinking Putty (Crazy Aaron's)
- droppa-tent (droppatent llc)
- Swurfer 'Coconut' My First Baby Swing (Flybar Inc.)
- Go PoP! Presto (FoxMind Canada Ltd.)
- Hexmods Pro Series Elite Raceway (Hexbug)
- Cry Babies Magic Tears Happy Flowers (IMC Toys)
- Tie Dye Hoop (Kess)
- Pop It! Challenge Activity Book (Klutz)
- Ironing Time Learning Set™ (LeapFrog)
- Föm Mania® Fömalanche® (Little Kids Inc.)
- Magformers Basic Plus 26pc Set (Magformers LLC)
- Heroes of Goo Jit Zu Marvel & DC Minis (Moose Toys)
- Little Live Pets Chameleon (Moose Toys)
- Frozen Kids Tablet (Pebble Gear)
- Spokester (Playtrix/Spokester)
- Wooden coding toy (QUBS)
- Unbreakable Baby Sunglasses (Roshambo Baby, Inc.)
- Nee Doh Dohnuts (Schylling)
- Daniel Tiger Tonie (tonies USA)
For more information about the Spring & Summer 2022 Influencer Choice List powered by Clamour, contact Clamour's Victoria Fener or Jonathan Katz. No employees or representatives of Clamour or The Toy Association had any role in determining the selected products. The announcement was made during Clamour Creator Summit (May 16 to 18 in Scottsdale, AZ).
About The Toy Association www.toyassociation.org / www.thegeniusofplay.org / www.playsafe.org
Founded in 1916, The Toy Association™, Inc. is the not-for-profit trade association representing all businesses involved in creating and delivering toys and youth entertainment products for kids of all ages. The Toy Association leads the health and growth of the U.S. toy industry, which has an annual U.S. economic impact of $98.6 billion, and represents hundreds of companies including manufacturers, retailers, licensors, and others who are involved in the youth entertainment industry. Its manufacturing members account for 93% of U.S. toy and game sales driving the annual $38.2 billion U.S. domestic toy market. The Toy Association serves as the industry's voice on the developmental benefits of play and promotes play's positive impact on childhood development to consumers and media. The organization has a long history of leadership in toy safety, having helped develop the first comprehensive toy safety standard more than 40 years ago, and remains committed to working with medical experts, government, consumers, and industry on ongoing programs to ensure safe and fun play. As a global leader, The Toy Association produces the world-renowned Toy Fair New York; advocates on behalf of members around the world; sustains the Canadian Toy Association; acts as secretariat for the International Council of Toy Industries and International Toy Industry CEO Roundtable; and chairs the committee that reviews and revises America's widely emulated ASTM F963 toy safety standard.
About Clamour www.clamour.co / www.clamoursummit.com
Clamour is a trusted influencer marketing resource for elite brands and the video influencer community. Since launching in 2016, Clamour has innovated experiential marketing in the toy industry with its annual Clamour Summit, a three-day networking retreat for over 300 top-tier video influencers, industry thought leaders, and toy brands. Clamour Summit influencers have a combined reach of over 7 billion and each year's video content generates more that 500 million earned views. Clamour events regularly host global launches of new product lines and allow brands to form priceless personal relationships with influencers for future collaboration. Past toy sponsors include Spin Master, Mattel, Hasbro, ZURU, Nintendo, PlayMonster!, Moose Toys, YULU, WowWee, MGA, Bandai, Goliath Games, Jazwares, Maya Toys, Wicked Cool Toys, JAKKS Pacific, Beverly Hills Teddy Bear, Redwood Ventures, and Zing Toys.
Clamour Summit 2022 takes place in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 16-18, allowing brands to participate remotely or in person while influencers gather in person and online. Please email info@clamour.co for details on all Clamour events and influencer marketing services.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s leading business lobby group won the overwhelming support of its members at a special meeting on Tuesday for a broad set of reform proposals that should ensure its continued survival.
Following a string of allegations of inappropriate behavior that led to the cancellation of membership subscriptions from some of the country’s biggest companies, the Confederation of British Industry sought the support of its members for its plan to improve its governance structures and internal culture.
Members were asked to vote on whether its plan for renewal is enough to give them “the confidence you need to support the CBI.” At the extraordinary general meeting, the organization received the backing of 93% of the members who voted, with 371 votes cast — the dozens of companies that had quit the CBI didn’t vote. A further 23 members withheld their vote.
“After an incredibly tough period, I’m deeply grateful for the faith shown in us by our members,” CBI director-general Rain Newton-Smith said. “We will work tirelessly to repay the faith shown in us and are committed to living the values and changes we have proposed.”
The CBI has been rocked by multiple sexual misconduct allegations since March, including rape, in recent months, which prompted dozens of household names, including automaker BMW, banking firm NatWest and insurance group Aviva, to ditch their membership in the organization. The scale of the outrage raised questions over whether the CBI could survive or whether it was actually needed.
Within its plan, the CBI said that it will speed up the hunt for a successor to its president, a “refreshed board” and the creation of a new People and Culture subcommittee of the board. It said it will also establish an external expert Culture Advisory Committee and bolster its internal training and communications.
“We’ve made real progress in implementing the top-to-bottom program of change promised by the board and, while there remains work to do, today’s result represents an important milestone on that journey,” Newton-Smith said.
Failure to have got the plan through could have spelled the demise of the organization, which was established in 1965 to ensure business’ voice is heard within the government.
The U.K. government, which paused its interactions with the CBI over the past few months, has yet to comment on the vote. The CBI will be hoping that it will reengage soon now that the vote has been won. | 2023-06-07T05:20:54+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/uks-leading-business-lobby-group-wins-backing-of-members-in-vote-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations/ |
Man killed in California church shooting called a hero
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. (AP) — A gunman motivated by hatred against Taiwan chained shut the doors of a California church and hid firebombs before shooting at a gathering of mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners, killing a man who tackled him, authorities said.
David Chou, 68, of Las Vegas — a U.S. citizen whom authorities say grew up in Taiwan — drove to Orange County on Saturday and the next day attended a lunch held by Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, which worships at Geneva Presbyterian Church in the community of Laguna Woods. Though he knew no one there, he spent about an hour mingling with about 40 attendees and then executed his plot, authorities said at a news conference.
He chained the doors and put super glue in the keyholes. He had two 9 mm handguns — legally purchased years ago in Las Vegas — and three bags, containing among other things four Molotov-cocktail-type incendiary devices and extra ammunition. He opened fire and in the ensuing chaos Dr. John Cheng, 52, tackled him, allowing other parishioners to subdue him and tie him up with extension cords.
Cheng died and five people were wounded, the oldest 92. Sheriff Don Barnes called Cheng’s heroism “a meeting of good versus evil” that probably saved the lives “of upwards of dozens of people.”
Chou was booked on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and jailed on $1 million bail. He was expected to appear in state court Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf. A federal hate crimes investigation is also ongoing.
Chou had worked as a security guard in Las Vegas, authorities said.
There was no immediate word on why Chou chose to target the church in Laguna Woods, a scenic coastal area whose population mainly consists of retirees and is near a large gated community.
Barnes said the motive for the shooting was Chou’s hatred toward Taiwan that was documented in handwritten notes that authorities found. Chou’s family apparently was among many forcibly removed from mainland China to Taiwan sometime after 1948, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.
Relations between mainlanders forced to flee a Communist takeover and native Taiwanese were frequently tense as the new arrivals crowded into slums and military communities. Separated by language and lifestyle, bullying and confrontation were frequent as President Chiang Kai-shek tightly restricted civil liberties under nearly four decades of martial law.
The Presbyterian Church is the most prominent of the Christian dominations in Taiwan and was closely identified with the pro-democracy movement during the martial law era and later with the Taiwan independence cause.
Barnes referred to Chou as an immigrant from China but Taiwan’s Central News Agency says it interviewed Louis M. Huang, director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, and he confirmed that Chou was born in Taiwan in 1953.
Barnes said Chou acted alone and was “not believed to be associated with any specific church or any religion, and there’s no direct connection to the church or any member of the church that we’re aware of.”
Balmore Orellana, a former neighbor, said Chou’s life unraveled after his wife left him last year. Before, Chou had been a pleasant man who used to own the Las Vegas apartment building where he lived until being evicted in February, Orellana told The Associated Press.
Records showed the four-unit property was sold last October for a little more than $500,000. Orellana said Chou’s wife used the money from the sale to move to Taiwan.
Before Orellana moved in about five years ago, Chou received a head injury and other serious injuries in an attack by a tenant, the neighbor said. More recently his mental health declined and last summer a gun was fired inside Chou’s apartment and the bullet entered Orellana’s apartment, although nobody was hurt, Orellana said.
Police reports about the assault and the shooting were not immediately available Monday.
Tensions between China and Taiwan are at the highest in decades, with Beijing stepping up its military harassment by flying fighter jets toward the self-governing island. China has not ruled out force to reunify with Taiwan, which split from the mainland during a civil war in 1949.
Taiwan’s chief representative in the U.S., Bi-khim Hsiao, offered condolences to the shooting families on Twitter.
“I join the families of the victims and Taiwanese American communities in grief and pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded survivors,” Hsiao wrote on Sunday.
Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told the AP via email that the Chinese government has “consistently condemned incidents of violence. We express our condolences to the victims and sincere sympathy to the bereaved families and the injured.”
Those wounded by gunshots included an 86-year-old woman as well as four men, ages 66, 75, 82 and 92, the sheriff’s department said. Authorities on Monday said two of the wounded were in good condition, two were in stable condition and the status of the fifth patient was undetermined.
Jerry Chen, a longtime member of the church, said a group of about 40 congregants had gathered in the fellowship hall for a luncheon after a morning service to welcome their former Pastor Billy Chang, a beloved and respected community member who had served the church for 20 years. Chang moved back to Taiwan two years ago. This was his first time back stateside, Chen said.
Everyone had just finished lunch and were taking photos with Chang when Chen went into the kitchen. That’s when he heard the gunshots.
Barnes said Cheng, a sports medicine doctor who is survived by a wife and two children, charged at the shooter and attempted to disarm him, allowing others to intervene. Chang hit the gunman on the head with a chair before other parishioners subdued him.
“I will tell you that evil was in that church,” Spitzer said, who added that Chou had “an absolute bias” against Taiwan and its people.
The shooting came a day after an 18-year-old man shot and killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in a racist rampage where the white gunman allegedly targeted a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
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Associated Press journalists John Antczak in Los Angeles, Ken Ritter in Las Vegas and Ellen Knickmeyer in Washington contributed to this story. News Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.
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ATF: Investigators can’t determine cause of QVC warehouse fire
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WITN) - Federal investigators say they could not come up with a cause for last year’s devastating fire that destroyed the QVC distribution center in Rocky Mount.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the cause of the December 18th fire is undetermined.
Fire crews from six counties responded to the fire and it claimed the life of employee Kevon Ricks. Authorities say the fire has been declared the largest structural fire in the state’s history.
ATF agents, along with other agencies, have been investigating the fire for nearly a year, trying to determine if the cause was accidental, natural, or intentionally set.
“Investigators looked very closely at whether or not this was a criminal act,” said ATF Special Agent in Charge Bennie Mims. “Throughout the investigation, there has been no evidence discovered which would support any findings that the cause of this fire was a result of criminal activity.”
QVC ended up not rebuilding the huge facility and laid off around 2,000 employees.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Don’t count Ronald Acuña Jr. among the Atlanta players who will be missing Freddie Freeman as the Braves open their season.
Acuña said in an Instagram Live interviewhe had no feelings for Freeman, the former longtime Braves first baseman who helped lead Atlanta to the World Series championship last year and then signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Asked if he would miss Freeman, Acuña replied “Me? Nothing.”
Added Acuña, according to a translation of the interview in Spanish conducted by Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times: “We just shared the same stadium. … We had several clashes.”
Acuña attempted play down his comments before Thursday night’s opening game against Cincinnati.
“To be honest, I think it was just exaggerated and blown out of proportion by the media,” Acuña said through translator Franco Garcia.
Braves manager Brian Snitker said he was not aware of any conflicts between Acuña and Freeman.
“If it was, it was between those two,” Snitker said.
Acuña is the first Atlanta player to have anything but praise for Freeman, the 2020 NL MVP.
Many of Freeman’s teammates openly lobbied for the Braves to re-sign the free agent. When Atlanta would not offer more than five years, the first baseman signed a $162 million, six-year deal with Los Angeles.
The Braves countered by trading for Matt Olson, who is four years younger than Freeman, and quickly signing Olson to a $168 million, eight-year deal. Olson now joins Acuña as foundation players for the Braves.
Freeman was extremely popular with fans and most teammates. But Acuña said in the Instagram Live interview he wasn’t warmly welcomed as a rookie by some veteran players.
“It’s something that happens all the time,” Acuña said. “When you come up as a rookie, with your flow. There’s always someone who wants to put you in your place. You put your eye black, your sunglasses, your hat a little crooked. A lot of people doesn’t like it and yourself don’t see it as being bad because it’s part of the game. Lots of veterans did that to me.
“When I came up in 2018, they used a swipe and cleaned it up. I couldn’t say anything. I will be a veteran one day. I’m not saying I’m a veteran today, but no one is going to come and take something off my face today.”
Acuña didn’t name Freeman as one of the veteran players who disapproved of his style as a rookie.
Acuña is recovering from a torn ACL in his right knee suffered midway through last season and is on the injured list as the Braves open their season against Cincinnati on Thursday night. The Braves hope Acuña can return in May.
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Dr. Jill Biden’s attempt to compliment the Hispanic community at an event in Texas backfired spectacularly when she likened them to a traditional Mexican meal.
She was speaking Monday at the UnidosUS annual conference in San Antonio, where more than 60% of the population is Hispanic.
She praised the group’s president, Raul Yzaguirre, who “helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as distinct as the bodegas of the Bronx, as beautiful as the blossoms of Miami and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength.”
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The head of the Wagner mercenary group fighting in Ukraine said that he’s lost more than 20,000 troops during the invasion. Meanwhile, the European Union is exploring ways to send billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to fund its war effort.
Elsewhere in Europe, countries are taking steps to fight climate change. France banned short flights in order to cut emissions from the use of jet fuel and Germany is considering banning gas boilers.
Seven fans of a Spanish soccer team have been arrested for racially abusing a Black player during a match this week. The player’s reaction, and that of the league, have sparked conversations about how racism is dealt with in the sport.
We cover the most important stories from around the world in the international hour of the News Roundup.
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By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Tiger Woods showed up for a private meeting of top PGA Tour players dressed in jeans and a long-sleeved plaid shirt. By the sound of his impact, he might as well have been wearing a Sunday red shirt.
“I think it’s pretty apparent that whenever we all get in the room, there’s an alpha in there,” Rory McIlroy said Wednesday. “And it’s not me.”
Exactly what came out of the Tuesday night meeting at Hotel Du Pont is more of a mystery, even down to the number of players in attendance. The purpose was to unify, not only against the threat of a rival league funded by Saudi money, but shoring up any weaknesses in the tour.
Chief among the topics was a future of bigger money and a formula that gets the best players on tour competing against each other more often.
Otherwise, details were scarce. They emerged from the players-only meeting with another form of unity: tight lips.
“I think I’d be pretty unhappy if I saw one of those guys from last night just blabbering to you guys what we talked about,” Xander Schauffele. “That would be really frowned upon, and you probably wouldn’t get invited back to the meeting. There’s a little bit of a code there, I’d say.”
The meeting was an extension of an impromptu gathering at the J.P. McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor in Ireland the week of the Scottish Open, which featured a field of golf’s best, young and old, even those who already have signed with LIV Golf.
It was important enough for Woods, who has played only three times this year because of injuries to his leg from a February 2021 car crash, to fly up in his private jet and bring along Rickie Fowler, who did not qualify for the BMW Championship.
“I think it shows how much he cares about the tour. I think it shows how much he cares about the players that are coming through and are going to be the next generation,” McIlroy said.
“Like it or not, they can’t really sell Tiger Woods anymore. The Tour had an easy job for 20 years. They don’t have Tiger. Yes, they’ve got a bunch of us and we’re all great players, but we’re not Tiger Woods,” he said. “We’re moving into a different era, and we just have to think about things a little differently.”
The meeting came at a volatile time. Even the start of the lucrative FedEx Cup playoffs was interrupted by more LIV Golf developments — The Daily Telegraph reported British Open champion Cameron Smith will join the rebel series after the FedEx Cup, and a federal judge denied a request by three LIV Golf players who wanted to play in the tour’s postseason.
“One thing that came out of it, which I think was the purpose, is all the top players on this tour are in agreement and alignment of where we should go going forward, and that was awesome,” McIlroy said.
So where should it go?
“I don’t think that’s for a public forum right now,” McIlroy said. “I think that’s between the players and between the executives at the tour to sort of manage a way forward.”
Will Zalatoris was in the meeting, fresh off his first PGA Tour title last week that lifted him to the top spot in the FedEx Cup standings and No. 9 in the world. He just turned 26 and has been on tour for only two years, one of them as a full member.
To be in that room, Zalatoris said, was one of “coolest” experiences he could imagine.
“He is the most powerful voice in sports, obviously in golf, without question,” Zalatoris said of Woods. “Having everyone there and being that united in terms of how much we want — with everything going on in terms of landscape of golf — we want the best thing not only for now but going forward. It was exceptionally cool to see that many people together to try to do the right thing.”
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan was not invited. He had a Player Advisory Council meeting earlier Tuesday, and he had an informal Q&A with players Wednesday morning, similar to what he did last week in Memphis, Tennessee.
Monahan already has announced an increase in prize money for next season, with eight tournaments offering $15 million or more in prize money, a planned series of even larger purses for three international events late in the year and a January-August schedule starting in 2024.
LIV Golf offers $25 million for each tournament — five more this year, 14 for 2023 — with $5 million of that for a team concept.
The players wouldn’t discuss specific areas the PGA Tour could do better or what else they felt was needed except for the top players competing together more often.
So guarded were they that at one point in response to a question about how to improve the tour, Justin Thomas said, “I know that doesn’t answer your question, but that’s what the answer is.”
“I’m not obviously going to talk about it very much. It was a productive meeting,” Thomas said. “I think it’s just one of those things where we all want what’s best for the players, and we’re working to do that.”
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Food solutions company SpartanNash (the "Company") (Nasdaq: SPTN) today announced that on March 1, 2023, its Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.215 per common share, representing a 2.4% increase from its fiscal 2022 quarterly cash dividend of $0.21. The dividend will be paid on March 31, 2023, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 17, 2023. As of February 28, 2023, there were 35,061,566 common shares outstanding.
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SpartanNash (Nasdaq: SPTN) is a food solutions company that delivers the ingredients for a better life. As a distributor, wholesaler and retailer with a global supply chain network, SpartanNash customers span a diverse group of national accounts, independent and chain grocers, e-commerce retailers, U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, and the Company's own brick-and-mortar grocery stores, pharmacies and fuel centers. SpartanNash distributes grocery and household goods, including fresh produce and its Our Family® portfolio of products, to locations in all 50 states, in addition to distributing to the District of Columbia, Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Djibouti, Korea and Japan. To support its distribution business, the Company operates a strategically developed network of large-scale distribution facilities and a nationwide transportation fleet. In addition, the Company owns and operates 147 supermarkets - primarily under the banners of Family Fare, Martin's Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market - and shares its operational insights to drive innovative solutions for SpartanNash food retail customers. Committed to fostering a People First culture, the SpartanNash family of Associates is 17,500 strong and growing. For more information, visit spartannash.com.
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SALZBURG, Austria and WASHINGTON, July 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Salzburg Global Seminar is thrilled to announce the largest single gift the organization has ever received: a gift of $11 million to further advance its mission and impact. This extraordinary contribution by the Chairwoman of the Board of Salzburg Global Seminar and the former Corporate Ombudsman and Chairwoman of the Board of Mars, Incorporated, Victoria B. Mars, will bolster the organization's endowment and enable the launch of a ground-breaking new "Pathways to Peace/P2P" initiative. With this substantial investment, Salzburg Global will enhance its capabilities to address the most urgent challenges confronting the international community by providing a vital platform for candid exchange among key stakeholders.
Established in 1947 as a lever for post-war reconciliation, Salzburg Global Seminar has since grown into a renowned international organization dedicated to fostering dialogue and collaboration on global issues. Through its interdisciplinary and intergenerational programs, Salzburg Global brings together experts from across the fields of peace and justice, education, culture, health, and finance and governance to inspire, inform, and challenge one another. Programs are conducted at the iconic Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, providing a unique setting for intellectual discourse and idea generation.
"We are immensely grateful to Victoria Mars for her trailblazing leadership and exceptional generosity," said Salzburg Global President and CEO Martin Weiss. "An annual program designed to respond swiftly to emerging challenges on the global stage has been an ambition of ours for decades, but the long-term funding required to make this become a reality has been elusive until now. Being able to launch P2P is a dream come true!"
These program funds will be allocated as early as this year for a high-level program at Schloss Leopoldskron that will take a closer look at the future of Russia, a country where previous hopes for liberalization and Europeanization have rapidly faded, making the question of "What is to be done about Russia?" increasingly pertinent.
Reflecting on her decision to contribute to Salzburg Global Seminar, Victoria Mars shared, "As we conclude our 75th anniversary year, I am deeply inspired by Salzburg Global's enduring commitment to fostering global understanding and collaboration. Now, more than ever, we must unite in our commitment to peace and justice, forging a collective resolve to overcome division and build bridges of cooperation. It is through these tireless endeavors that we can pave the way for a better tomorrow, where conflict gives way to understanding, and peace prevails over discord."
Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent US/Austrian non-profit organization founded in 1947 with a mission to spark ideas that shape a more peaceful, thriving world. From our home at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria, and together with our worldwide network of 40,000 Fellows, we have been at the forefront of global movements for change for 75 years, with significant impact on individuals, institutions, and systems.
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Open Door’s potential new shelter is set to have a public hearing at the Midland City Council meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday in City Hall.
Open Door presented its plan for a new women and children's shelter in the city to the Midland Planning Commission in February. The shelter is currently located well outside of the city at 1678 E. Chippewa River Road in Homer Township.
Open Door Executive Director Renee Pettinger explained in February that the current location is difficult for women and children to access because of its distance from the city. The new location would be at 1610 W. Carpenter Street.
The new location would not only be more accessible, but it would also expand the shelter's capacity from 18 to 32 beds and would have a maximum emergency capacity of 36 people. Pettinger said Open Door is currently only able to meet about 60% of the needs of homeless women and children due to limited space.
Also at Monday's meeting, City Manager Brad Kaye will introduce the proposed 2023-2024 city budget. After the document is presented to City Council, copies of the proposed budget will be placed on file for public examination during normal business hours at the city clerk’s office in City Hall and posted to the city’s website.
A budget study work session will be held during a special City Council meeting on April 17. The budget will have a preliminary public hearing at the council’s regular meeting on April 24 and a mandatory public hearing at the regular meeting on May 8.
The budget, which goes into effect at the start of the city's fiscal year on July 1, must be adopted no later than May 22.
Other business on Monday's agenda:
• Mayor Maureen Donker will proclaim April 28 as Arbor Day in Midland.
• Council will consider vacating a portion of a former right-of-way on E. Pine Street for the construction of an exterior staircase.
• Council will consider approving a zoning petition to rezone a portion of two properties for Alpine Village mobile home park.
• Council will consider approving a zoning text amendment that would allow Faith Christian Midland to purchase property in what is now an industrial district to help with the organization’s baby pantry. | 2023-04-08T04:07:55+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/new-open-door-women-children-s-shelter-decided-17884769.php |
ROME (AP) — Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni, who is poised to become Italy’s next premier, vowed Saturday to put national interests first in tackling soaring energy costs as she made her first public outing since her Brothers of Italy party won the most votes in the country’s national election.
Meloni’s address to farmers and producers at an agricultural fair in Milan came as Russia’s Gazprom utility informed gas giant ENI that no natural gas would be delivered to Italy on Saturday, further tightening supplies as Moscow seeks to pressure Europe in its war against Ukraine.
Meloni has strongly backed Ukraine, and one of her first post-victory tweets was in response to a congratulatory note from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “You know that you can count on our loyal support for the cause of freedom of Ukrainian people!” she wrote on Sept. 27.
Her outing Saturday to the Coldiretti farm lobby fair marked her emergence from a week of closed-door meetings with allies and the outgoing government following the Sept. 25 vote that is poised to give Italy its first far-right-led government since World War II.
Much of those talks concerned high energy costs and the EU’s response after Germany announced it would spend up to 200 billion euros ($195 billion) helping consumers and businesses cope while refusing to back a European price cap on gas, as Italy and other countries have sought.
Meloni said if her government takes a similar action, it shouldn’t be seen as some populist, nationalist reaction but rather a “lucid” strategy to “defend national interests to arrive at common solutions.”
“Italy’s posture must return to start off with the defense of its national interests to find common solutions,” Meloni told the farmers in Milan.
Since invading Ukraine in February, Russia has cut back supplies of natural gas sent to Europe to heat homes, generate electricity and run factories. On Saturday, Gazprom informed ENI that it could not confirm any gas deliveries Saturday via the pipeline through Austria, ENI reported. Italian news reports said the cutoff wouldn’t have a significant impact, given that Italy has greatly reduced its reliance on Russian gas since the war began.
Meloni vowed to protect Italian industry and agriculture from the effects of rising energy prices, as well as the residual effects of the coronavirus pandemic and a record heat wave this summer that destroyed billions in crops.
Meloni’s party, which has its roots in a neo-fascist movement, is expected to be the largest party in a center-right Italian coalition government along with the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini and the center-right Forza Italia of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Meloni, who would be the first woman to serve as Italy’s premier, told the farmers a key priority was to protect the “Made in Italy” agricultural brand and its supply chain to reduce dependence on imports, while also keeping government interference to a minimum.
“We said that our compass would be a very simple concept: Don’t disturb those who want to produce, don’t disturb those who want to create wealth, don’t disturb those who produce work, don’t disturb those who want to hire,” she said of her pro-industry stance.
Before arriving at the Coldiretti forum, Meloni called on Berlusconi at his Arcore estate outside Milan, for their first post-election meeting. A joint statement said the meeting took place “in a climate of great collaboration and unity of intent,” especially to confront high energy prices.
Italy has spent 60 billion euros since last year to ease the pain of higher energy prices for households and industry. But Coldiretti says that aid to farmers has been mostly tax credits and not direct help with electricity bills, which have gone up 500% since last year, or fertilizer costs, which are up 170%.
The outgoing government of Premier Mario Draghi has refused to borrow more money for a deeper aid package, citing Italy’s high debt level. Italy has pressed for a European price cap on Russian natural gas but so far has been unable to persuade the rest of the EU’s 27 nations to go along.
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Colleen Barry in Milan contributed. | 2022-10-01T23:26:43+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-italys-meloni-vows-to-put-national-energy-interests-first/ |
(CNN) — Watergate meets “Veep” in “White House Plumbers,” an at-times-surreal HBO limited series that occasionally feels a little too over the top, mostly because the real-life characters actually were. At its best, it’s a lightweight companion to “All the President’s Men,” presenting the flip side of all that planning and frantic covering up by what amounted to Keystone Criminals.
Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux portray E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, the two minor players in the bigger scheme of things that masterminded the plot. The pair sought to ingratiate themselves with the Nixon administration with a bag of “dirty tricks” to help ensure his reelection, leading to Watergate and breaking into the office of Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s psychologist.
If Hunt, a father of three, was leading a life of quiet desperation when this opportunity reared its head, Liddy represented the sort of gung-ho true believer convinced the end — which is to say, “Saving the country from Communism” — justifies any means, and that the ultimate goal is “proximity to power.”
High-ranking White House officials, meanwhile, including John Dean (Domhnall Gleeson) and Attorney General John Mitchell (John Carroll Lynch), were understandably skeptical at first, but eventually gave the green light to some of the clandestine operations. Yet as Hunt and Liddy descended deeper into the abyss, they kept hitting absurd snags, while prompting Hunt’s wife (“Game of Thrones'” Lena Headey) to distrust Liddy, who plays recordings of Hitler speeches and keeps offering to do that thing where he holds his hand over a burning flame.
“The sooner you’re done with this guy the better,” she tells Hunt, who shares those sentiments about half the time while going along with Liddy the rest.
Directed by “Veep” producer David Mandel from a script by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, “White House Plumbers” approaches the material in a satirical manner, and makes some clever and shrewd choices, including a particularly amusing nod to “All the President’s Men.”
Even allowing for the dramatic liberties taken with the facts, the whole exercise sort of rises and falls on Theroux’s cartoonish portrayal of the flamboyant Liddy, which could easily be seen as an absurd exaggeration except for the fact that he really was a beyond-eccentric character, parlaying his association with Watergate into a radio show and acting appearances (it’s noted textually that he guest starred on “Miami Vice”) after his release from prison.
At five parts, “White House Plumbers” meanders a bit in the buildup to the break-in, luxuriating in the trappings of the period and Hunt’s fractious family life while depicting its principals doing unbelievably stupid things, like bragging to a stewardess about their covert activities. The story gains momentum in its aftermath and the coverup that followed, testing the value of the loyalty to Richard Nixon (seen only in news clips) that Liddy preaches with messianic zeal.
Much of the narrative brings to mind the quote attributed to Deep Throat (a.k.a. Mark Felt, played here, briefly, by “Veep’s” Gary Cole) in “All the President’s Men,” in which he tells Bob Woodward, “The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.”
“White House Plumbers” occasionally feels like it has gotten out of hand too, attributable in part to the stranger-than-fiction aspects of the story. On that level the project works primarily as a companion to a rich trove of Watergate-related cinematic fare, but like Hunt and Liddy, when held up next to that roster it relatively looks like a minor-league player.
“White House Plumbers” premieres May 1 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO, which, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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"Investing in children’s success today will pay dividends in the years to come." says KIDS COUNT coordinator for the Oklahoma Policy Institute, Gabrielle Jacobi.
Read today's cartoon by Daryl Cagle.
"The ingredients of this act of terror are with us again, and too many people are either not taking it seriously or are egging it on. If we don’t nip it now, the prospect of a repeat of the Oklahoma City bombing is real." says editorial writer Bob Doucette.
"Banning books isn’t about protecting others; it’s about censoring ideas." says Editorials editor Ginnie Graham.
"State and federal courts across the country have kept the church and the state apart. But there is a growing desire from some to meld the two." says editorial writer Bob Doucette.
"Tulsa Community College has shown what it takes to post good student outcomes: Invest in students." says editorials editor Ginnie Graham.
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"We must do our utmost to seize this once-in-a-lifetime chance to transform an industrial property in the heart of River Parks into a game-changing public park." says River Parks Authority board member Sharon King Davis.
🎧 The hosts discuss the benefits and challenges associated with this fundamental change in how many people do their jobs.
A new study shows that Head Start has positive outcomes on aspects like wages, education and living situation for children into their middle age, says CAP Tulsa executive director Karen Kiely.
Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. | 2022-08-28T05:53:06+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/columnists/cartoon-statue-of-oligarchy/article_d2e0f878-2332-11ed-b95d-e7335d49ad1f.html |
Naked toddler found wandering alone leads officers to ‘hazardous’ living conditions in South Florida
VERO BEACH, Fla. - Two children are in the custody of the Department of Families and Children after a naked toddler found wandering outside alone led officers to a home littered with trash, urine, fecal matter and mold.
According to the Vero Beach Police Department, a neighbor contacted authorities shortly after 1 p.m. on Wednesday because an unclothed four-year-old girl had wandered into her yard alone.
Officers arriving on the scene were told by other neighbors that they saw the child leaving a nearby home about 45 minutes earlier by herself.
Police say they went to the child's home and found the girl’s parents, Michael and Chrystal Slosson, and a nine-year-old inside. The parents told officers that the girl must have climbed out a window after they put her down for a nap.
While speaking with the Slosson’s, officers say they smelled strong odors of urine and feces coming from inside the home.
Police report seeing trash covering the living areas, kitchen, and bedrooms and feces on the walls through the front entrance and the windows of the residence.
Police contacted DCF and the agency noted that the walls and floors of the entire residence were covered in dirt, trash and fecal matter. The bedroom mattresses that the children slept on were soiled and there was fecal matter on the floors. The kitchen of the residence was covered in dirt and dirty dishes. The inside of the refrigerator was covered in mold and it appeared to have no edible food, according to VBPD.
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DCF investigators and detectives deemed the residence to be hazardous to anyone living there. The combined investigation revealed both Michael and Chrystal Slosson failed to provide each of their two children with the proper care and supervision to maintain the children's physical and mental health.
The Slosson's were arrested by the Vero Beach Police Department at their residence and are facing two charges of child neglect each.
They were booked into the Indian River County jail and are being held on a $10,000.00 bond each. | 2022-07-30T20:51:34+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/naked-toddler-found-wandering-alone-leads-officers-to-hazardous-living-conditions-in-south-florida |
ATLANTA, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cousins Properties (NYSE: CUZ) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.32 per common share for the fourth quarter of 2022. The fourth quarter dividend will be payable on January 13, 2023 to common shareholders of record on January 4, 2023.
About Cousins Properties
Cousins Properties is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company, based in Atlanta, GA and acting through its operating partnership, Cousins Properties LP, primarily invests in Class A office buildings located in high growth Sun Belt markets. Founded in 1958, Cousins creates shareholder value through its extensive expertise in the development, acquisition, leasing, and management of high-quality real estate assets. The Company has a comprehensive strategy in place based on a simple platform, trophy assets, and opportunistic investments. For more information, please visit www.cousins.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws and are subject to uncertainties and risk and actual results may differ materially from projections. Readers should carefully review Cousins' financial statements and notes thereto, as well as the risk factors described in Part I, Item 1A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and other documents Cousins files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and speak as of the date of such statements. Cousins undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of future events, new information or otherwise.
CONTACT:
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The Minnesota Twins selected Penn State shortstop Jay Harry in the sixth round with the 177th overall pick Monday.
It’s the third-straight year a Nittany Lion came off the board in the MLB Draft.
Harry, who hit .304 in three seasons with Penn State, has one year of eligibility and could return to Happy Valley next season. A plus-defensive player, Harry hits for contact. He drove in a career-high 37 RBI this season.
Harry is the 13th player selected from Penn State since 2014 when Rob Cooper was hired in Happy Valley. After ten seasons, Cooper resigned following the team’s 25-25 season. Cooper finished 195-270 making the conference tournament just one time under his watch.
Tuesday Penn State will introduce Mike Gambino, who the school hired to replace Cooper. Gambino previously worked for Penn State Athletic Director Pat Kraft at Boston College where this season he led the Eagles to an NCAA Regional berth. | 2023-07-11T03:27:40+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/nittany-nation/twins-take-penn-states-harry/ |
All candidates for local and state office were sent the same series of questions by the Dayton Daily News. Our goal was to help voters make informed choices in the Nov. 8 election (early voting for which begins Oct. 12).
Ohio’s new 40th Statehouse district includes all of Preble County, part of northern Butler County, plus a northern strip of Montgomery County that includes Huber Heights and parts of Vandalia, Butler Twp., Union and Clayton.
This race is between incumbent Republican Rodney Creech and Democratic challenger Amy Cox. The candidates’ answers are below, in their own words. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order.
Amy Cox
Residence: Eaton
Organizations, boards, previous elected positions: N/A
Education: Master Degree in Science Education; Wright State University, Indiana University East
Current employment: Guided By Mushrooms
Why are you seeking elected office: I am seeking office because the majority of our representatives in Ohio aren’t doing anything to improve the lives of working people. In fact, our gerrymandered assembly has quite the rap sheet of corruption that has led to sky high electric bills, rising property taxes, and a dangerous place to have a baby or seek reproductive healthcare as a woman just to name a few. Ohio has become an autocratic dumpster fire as a result of this one-party-rule. I have no plan to allow corruption to go unchallenged. Ohio voters deserve a choice on the ballot so they can hold their representatives accountable.
Credit: Amy Cox
Credit: Amy Cox
Why should voters elect you: Voters who want personal freedom and liberty for all should vote for me. I tell it like it is, a straight shooter so to speak. Love me or hate me, you don’t have to worry about me taking away yours or anyones rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If elected, what will be your top three priorities? If elected, my top three priorities will be wages, education and healthcare.
What specific plans do you have to address those top priorities? I will sponsor legislation to make sure Right to Work legislation is forever a non starter. I will sponsor legislation to force the constitutionality of our public school funding model. I will sponsor legislation that expands medicaid and creates a public option for all Ohioans who are self-employed, under-employed or being sold terrible plans by their employers. I will also support legislation that irreversibly solidifies a woman’s right to make her own choices.
Anything else you would like voters to know? My opponent refuses to debate me so please go to voteamycox.com for more information and follow me on my social media platforms, including youtube. All can be accessed from my webpage under the Social Media menu.
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Rodney Creech
No response | 2022-10-07T17:33:53+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/voters-guide-cox-vs-creech-for-montgomery-countys-40th-statehouse-seat/TP6GQ4WTWVBMNGU3BRIGEUJSHQ/ |
Asurion® Repair Experts Provide Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
WOODLANDS, Texas, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new electronics repair shop, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, has opened in Woodlands at 3026 College Park Drive, Suite B. The store offers professional fixes for most consumer electronics, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, drones, and more. The store will host a grand opening celebration on June 18 from 12 to 2 p.m., featuring discounts, giveaways, refreshments, and more.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, the company's repair experts have fixed millions of devices and can help with most any tech mishap, and many basic repairs can be completed in two hours or less.
"There's no repair that's too difficult for our team to handle," said Jill Phillips, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions District Manager. "We understand the importance of customer service. Not only do we provide expert repairs on devices with the highest quality parts available, but we value each customer relationship and respect their time by offering convenient and affordable fixes in a matter of hours."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or stop by the store for walk-in service. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 90-day limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 800 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve people in Woodlands with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
3026 College Park Dr B, The Woodlands, TX 77384
(936) 703-1338
About Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 700 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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SOURCE Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions | 2022-06-03T15:45:20+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/06/03/asurion-tech-repair-amp-solutions-opens-woodlands/ |
Industry Veteran John Caladim Joins San Jose-based KeyPoint
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- KeyPoint Credit Union, one of the largest Credit Unions in California, named John Caladim as its new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Caladim was Vice President of Finance at Travis Credit Union, a $4.7 billion-asset credit union. Brad Canfield, President and CEO of KeyPoint, said, "After an extensive recruitment effort that included top candidates across the nation, we found that John possessed a unique combination of strategic experience and insight, financial expertise, and a commitment to excellence that aligns with our organizational culture. We are very pleased to have John join our executive team and look forward to his contributions toward our continued success."
Caladim has more than 25 years of financial experience, much of it related to the Credit Union industry. He has a strong background in portfolio management and Asset Liability Management (ALM) strategies. In addition to Travis Credit Union, Caladim served in leadership roles at CU Capital Market Solutions, Brean Capital, First Empire Securities and CU Investment Solutions.
Inspired by Silicon Valley innovation and built to serve a diverse membership, KeyPoint is a full-service, not-for-profit credit union dedicated to providing financial solutions to help members achieve their goals in life. KeyPoint helps members make the most of their money—earning more on savings while paying less for credit. And KeyPoint is active in the community providing free financial education programs, as well as fostering financial literacy, sponsoring reading programs and mentoring the next generation of business professionals at local educational institutions.
Learn more about Next Generation Neighborhood Banking from KeyPoint Credit Union at kpcu.com.
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NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a preeminent national consumer rights law firm, announces that it is investigating claims on behalf of Nelnet Servicing, LLC ("Nelnet") customers.
On or before July 21, 2022, Nelnet discovered a vulnerability that led to a data event (the "Data Breach"). On or around August 17, 2022, an investigation revealed that beginning in June 2022 and ending on July 22, 2022, certain student loan account registration information was accessible by an unknown party.
On or around August 26, 2022, Nelnet began notifying consumers of the Data Breach. Information acquired includes names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers.
If you received a NOTICE OF DATA BREACH from Nelnet and you reside in the United States, if you wish to discuss this investigation, or if you have any questions regarding your rights and interests in this matter, please contact Wolf Haldenstein immediately by telephone at (800) 575-0735, via e-mail at byrd@whafh.com, or visit our website at www.whafh.com
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SEATTLE (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche did not comment Friday on either the status of forward Valeri Nichushkin, who has been away from the team for a few days, or on a police report about an incident at the team hotel in Seattle last weekend.
Colorado coach Jared Bednar again said Friday that Nichushkin is away from the team for personal reasons. Asked later if Nichushkin was not with the Avs because of a violation of team rules, Bednar again reiterated the personal reasons.
“It’s not a professional decision. It’s a personal decision why he’s not here,” Bednar said before the Avalanche faced the Kraken in Game 6 of their first-round series, which Seattle leads 3-2.
“Next one,” Avs forward Mikko Rantanen said when asked about Nichushkin.
A message sent to agents representing Nichushkin seeking comment was not immediately returned.
Nichushkin has not played since Game 2, on April 20, when he scored a goal in Colorado’s 3-2 victory. Bednar announced last Saturday that Nichushkin didn’t participate in morning skate before Game 3 due to a maintenance day. After the game, Bednar said Nichuskin would be away from the team for personal reasons.
Officers responded to a crisis call at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle at 3:44 p.m. PDT on the afternoon of Game 3, according to a report from the Seattle Police Department obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
A 28-year-old woman was in an ambulance when officers arrived, and medics were told to speak with Avalanche team physician Dr. Bradley Changstrom to gather more details.
According to the report, Changstrom told officers that team employees found the woman when they were checking in on Nichushkin. Changstrom told officers the woman appeared to be heavily intoxicated, was too intoxicated to have left the hotel “in a ride share or cab service,” and requested EMS assistance.
Changstrom said the woman hit him but he did not want to press charges, the report said.
When approached in the ambulance by officers, the woman stated she was from Russia but born in Ukraine. She was transported to Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, according to the report.
Nichushkin, who is from Chelyabinsk, Russia, is in his fourth season with the Avalanche and eighth season in the NHL. ___
AP Hockey Writer Stephen Whyno and AP Sports Writer Pat Graham contributed to this report.
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AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-29T00:08:10+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/sports/avs-quiet-about-nichushkins-absence-after-police-report/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the official Palestinian news agency said, blaming both deaths on Israeli troops conducting arrest raids. However, witnesses said one of the men was apparently killed by Palestinian gunmen in a drive-by shooting.
One of them was killed in the Balata refugee camp, the other in the town of el-Bireh.
In Balata, troops arrested a wanted Palestinian during one of several early morning raids in the West Bank, the Israeli military said. The army said troops came under fire and shot back.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that Samer Khaled, a 25-year-old Palestinian man, died of a bullet wound in Balata. The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said he was killed by Israeli troops.
However, Palestinian witnesses said Khaled was shot by one or more Palestinian gunmen after the Israeli military had left the area. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Khaled’s body was taken by his family for burial before health officials could perform an autopsy.
The Israeli military said it was aware of a death in Balata, but did not provide further information.
In the el-Bireh raid, the military said troops came under fire and fired back. Wafa said a 26-year-old man, identified as Yazan Afaneh, was killed by Israeli fire.
Israel has been conducting near-daily raids in the occupied West Bank since March, driving up tensions. Israel began the raids after a series of deadly attacks earlier this year by Palestinians against Israelis that killed 19 people.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed since the start of the year, many of them militants or Palestinians involved in clashes with Israeli forces, the military says. But the rising figure includes several civilians, including a veteran journalist and a lawyer who apparently drove unwittingly into a battle zone.
Israel captured the West Bank, along with the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek the territories for a future independent state. | 2022-09-01T14:10:20+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/ap-2-killed-in-west-bank-palestinians-blame-israeli-raids/ |
MOORESBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — An investigation is underway after a church had more than $1,100 worth of yard maintenance tools stolen and a door was damaged, according to the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office.
An incident report states HCSO responded to Gills Chapel Church on Gills Chapel Church Road on Saturday, July 9 after a church deacon called authorities reporting that the church’s utility building had been broken into and several items were taken.
The theft and property damage are believed to have occurred sometime between July 2 and July 9, when the deacon had last mowed the church lawn and he had returned to mow again Saturday.
The items taken included a Stihl leaf blower, a Stihl grass trimmer, a Cub Cadet push mower, four bottles of 2-cycle oil, a filled red gas can; plus the wooden door to the utility building was damaged. The loss accounts for $1,151.23 worth of the yard tools and the door damage amounted to $310.
“It appears someone kicked the door open,” the HCSO report states, noting “a very faint impression of a shoe mark to the door causing damage to the door.”
The door, deadbolt and lock will all need to be replaced. The investigation is ongoing. | 2022-07-12T16:30:42+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/crime/yard-tools-stolen-from-hawkins-county-church/ |
PEORIA
Divers find body of Lake Pleasant swimmer
Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Arizona Republic
Monday afternoon Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office divers recovered the body of a man who drowned while swimming in Lake Pleasant, according to a statement from the agency.
At 11:30 a.m., deputies responded to the Sunset Ridge area of the lake following the report of a possible drowning. A witness informed deputies that a man swimming did not resurface, officials said.
The search lasted for approximately five hours, and the man's body was recovered around 4:30 p.m., said Sgt. Monica Bretado, an MCSO spokesperson.
The man who drowned has not been publicly identified.
Another body was pulled from Lake Pleasant on Thursday. | 2023-06-27T16:48:59+00:00 | azcentral.com | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/peoria/2023/06/26/maricopa-county-sheriffs-office-find-body-of-man-in-lake-pleasant/70328123007/ |
On Nov. 24, 1964, the Illinois Supreme Court did what no other state high court had ever done — it vindicated Lenny Bruce’s free speech right to perform provocative routines in comedy clubs. But the freewheeling comedian was not so lucky in New York; a state court thereafter convicted him of obscenity for his comedic bits. It was just one of such prosecutions, the others being in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The New York conviction stood since Bruce died before he could appeal.
Twenty years ago, however, New York Gov. George Pataki posthumously pardoned the outspoken comedian. “Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve.”
As First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere then put it in his petition seeking the New York pardon: “Today, comedy clubs are considered free speech zones, and the monologues that prompted New York to prosecute and convict Lenny Bruce would never be considered obscene.”
While that is true insofar as the law of free speech is concerned, today the culture of free speech is increasingly succumbing to censorship. This is why comedy clubs must stand up and boldly reclaim their role as free speech zones and antidotes to “cancel culture.” Hence, the Lenny Bruce story takes on renewed meaning in a nation gone mad with silencing anything that offends anyone in any way.
To draw again from Corn-Revere: “Lenny Bruce was in the vanguard of the transformation of the stand-up comic from jokester to social critic, and his routines covered a wide range of topics including racism, organized religion, homosexuality, and social conventions about the use of language.” In the early 1960s, that got him arrested for acts he performed in several comedy clubs.
Bruce was the last of comedians to be criminally prosecuted for word crimes in a comedy club. It was as if the specter of his persecution forever changed the course of American law even without a Supreme Court ruling. After he died on the desperate run, his spirit resurrected: Uninhibited comedy flourished with the likes of George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, and Margaret Cho, among others. In time, both the law and culture of free speech coalesced in ways that gave meaningful breathing room to a robust measure of speech freedom.
Today, however, though the law of free speech is vibrant, the culture is increasingly threatened by the chilling effects of censorship on the left and right.
Toleration is an anathema to those easily offended by anything that runs counter to their categorical beliefs. So too, being open-minded is not an option for those whose absolute truth is espoused by their preferred cable station. In such a world, mouths are silenced, and minds are closed. It all makes for a society rife with hypocrisy — a sacred cow Bruce delighted in slaughtering.
After comedian Dave Chappelle’s show in Minneapolis was canceled for being offensive, Jamie Masada, owner of comedy club chain the Laugh Factory, told Fox News Digital that the “comic stage is their sanctuary. We have to protect the First Amendment. We can’t dilute it. We have to be able to laugh at ourselves.” Not only should that sanctuary be preserved, but it must also be enriched to exemplify the vital values of free speech zones.
Carlin said Bruce “prefigured the free-speech movement and helped push the culture forward into the light of open and honest expression.”
More than ever, that light needs to shine brightly, first in and then out of America’s comedy clubs — those last safe havens of free speech in a democracy. So let the free speech campaign begin in comedy clubs in Chicago and across the land, those free speech zones where censorship is bum-rushed out the door. | 2023-04-25T01:28:10+00:00 | pantagraph.com | https://pantagraph.com/opinion/columnists/commentary-comedy-clubs-cancel-culture-antidote/article_1f53ffd8-e29c-11ed-9a38-a30caf864240.html |
Woman charged with murder in death of another woman in Uber vehicle back seat
MIAMI - A Miami woman is facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly shooting a woman in the back seat of an Uber vehicle.
Natalia Harrell, 24, was picked up by an Uber at 2:15 a.m. on Saturday with six other passengers. Video captured inside the 2020 Cadillac Escalade shows Harrell arguing with another passenger, identified as Gladys Yvette Borcela, 28, according to police.
Video shows Harrell pulling a gun from her bag and shooting Borcela before the Uber driver stops the car, a Miami police detective swore in an affidavit. Police have not released the surveillance video.
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According to the police report, video evidence shows that "the argument escalated into a physical altercation, and Harrell can be seen reaching into her purse. Harrell retrieves a small caliber firearm from her purse and fires a single shot at Borcela."
Natalia Harrell | Miami Dade Police Department
After the driver pulled the vehicle over, six passengers fled the vehicle.
"Witness A [the Uber driver] then stops the vehicle on the median in front of 96 SE 1st Street, and six passengers and Witness A exit the vehicle," the police report said. "The six passengers flee the scene in various directions. The four males were later identified, located, and transported to the police station for an interview."
Uber vehicles and other transportation are occasional scenes of violent crime.
Deputies in Phoenix are investigating a June incident in which an Uber customer attacked his driver before leaving the scene — a dramatic incident caught on surveillance video.
The Uber driver, Jonathan Carroll, picked up the customer around 2 a.m., Fox 10 of Phoenix reported.
According to the report, the unidentified suspect entered Carroll’s vehicle and began to argue with Carroll over the pick-up location. The two men feuded and Carroll then refuses to provide the man with a ride.
A dashcam then captured the suspect in the back seat of the vehicle reaching forward and striking Carroll several times before he collected his things and got out of the car. | 2022-07-29T01:39:48+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/woman-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-another-woman-in-uber-vehicle-back-seat |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) ("FNF" or the "Company"), a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries and a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients through FNF's wholly-owned subsidiary, F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. ("F&G"), today announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has declared F&G's amended registration statement on Form 10 effective (the "Registration Statement"). The Registration Statement, including amendments thereto, is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and includes information regarding F&G's business and the transaction.
As previously announced, FNF's board of directors has approved the distribution of approximately 15% of the shares of common stock of F&G to FNF shareholders on a pro rata basis. The distribution is expected to be made at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time ("EST") on December 1, 2022, to FNF shareholders as of the close of business on November 22, 2022, the record date for the distribution. Upon completion of the distribution, FNF shareholders of record will retain their FNF shares and will receive 68 F&G shares for every 1,000 FNF shares held as of the record date. Following the distribution, FNF will retain control of F&G through an approximately 85% equity ownership stake.
The New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") has authorized F&G's common stock for listing and advised that "when-issued" trading in F&G common stock on the NYSE will begin on November 21, 2022, under the symbol "FG WI" and continue through the close of trading on the day prior to the distribution date. Beginning on December 1, 2022, "when-issued" trading will end and F&G common stock will begin "regular-way" trading on the NYSE under the symbol "FG".
Shares of FNF common stock will continue to trade "regular-way" on the NYSE under the symbol "FNF" through and after the December 1, 2022 distribution date. Any holder of shares of FNF common stock who sells FNF shares "regular-way" through the close of trading on the day prior to the December 1, 2022 distribution date will also be selling such holder's right to receive shares of F&G common stock in the distribution. FNF shares will also trade "ex-distribution" (that is, without the right to receive shares of F&G common stock in the distribution) under the symbol "FNF WI" beginning on November 21, 2022 and continuing through the close of trading on the day prior to the distribution date. Investors should consult with their financial advisors if they seek to sell their shares of FNF common stock on or after the record date and on or before the distribution date. Beginning on December 1, 2022, "regular-way" trading in FNF stock will reflect the distribution of F&G. FNF common stock will continue to trade on the NYSE after the distribution under the symbol "FNF".
The completion of the F&G distribution is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of a number of conditions described in the information statement included in the Form 10 and in the form of separation and distribution agreement, which is filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. FNF and F&G expect all conditions to the F&G distribution to be satisfied on or before the distribution date. The distribution of F&G common stock and cash received in lieu of fractional shares will be treated as a taxable distribution for U.S. federal income tax purposes. FNF shareholders should consult their tax advisors about the particular consequences of the separation and distribution, including the application of federal, state, local and non-U.S. tax laws.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) is a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters - Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, Alamo Title and National Title of New York - that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States. More information about FNF can be found at www.fnf.com.
F&G is part of the FNF family of companies. F&G is committed to helping Americans turn their aspirations into reality. F&G is a leading provider of insurance solutions serving retail annuity and life customers and institutional clients and is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, please visit www.fglife.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements regarding our expectations, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements, including the ability to complete the separation and distribution and list on the NYSE. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management. Because such statements are based on expectations as to future financial and operating results and are not statements of fact, actual results may differ materially from those projected. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The risks and uncertainties which forward-looking statements are subject to include, but are not limited to: diversion of management's attention and the potential impact of the consummation of the F&G transaction on relationships, including with employees, suppliers, customers and competitors; our ability to successfully realize the anticipated benefits of the separation and distribution; the ability to satisfy any necessary conditions (including any applicable regulatory approvals) to consummate the separation and distribution within the estimated timeframe or at all; the final terms and conditions of the separation and distribution, including the nature of agreements and arrangements between FNF and F&G following any such transaction, the costs of any such transaction, and the nature and amount of indebtedness incurred by F&G; changes in general economic, business, political crisis, war and COVID-19 conditions, including changes in the financial markets; weakness or adverse changes in the level of real estate activity, which may be caused by, among other things, high or increasing interest rates, a limited supply of mortgage funding or a weak U.S. economy; our potential inability to find suitable acquisition candidates; our dependence on distributions from our title insurance underwriters as a main source of cash flow; significant competition that F&G and our operating subsidiaries face; compliance with extensive government regulation of our operating subsidiaries; and other risks detailed in the "Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information," "Risk Factors" and other sections of FNF's Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Epiphan Video, a global leader in video capture, streaming, and recording solutions, today announced Epiphan Connect for Zoom, the latest expansion of their cloud-based tool that makes broadcast-quality live streaming more accessible.
Epiphan Connect leverages the simplicity and convenience of Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to enable better hybrid productions and remote contributions through a cloud-based workflow. All guests have to do is join a Zoom Meeting or Zoom Webinar, and the producer can extract signals to deliver broadcast quality productions, easily and efficiently.
"We saw an opportunity to expand broadcast-quality production to a wider audience," says Nic Milani, Epiphan's VP of Marketing and Business Development. "With its robust platform and millions of users, Zoom was the perfect fit for Epiphan Connect. We're excited for this opportunity to collaborate with Zoom and deliver on a shared vision of video for all."
Through a refined and intuitive interface, Epiphan Connect lets users extract as many as nine 1080p ISO video feeds (at up to 30 frames per second) from Zoom Meetings and Zoom Webinars, including both participants and screen shares, with isolated participant audio. It delivers the highest quality image consistently by communicating directly with Zoom infrastructure to send these feeds to any production tool, whether edge or cloud-based, leveraging the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol for end-to-end security. Via Epiphan Cloud, it also supports a direct integration with Pearl hardware, allowing ISO feeds to be sent directly from Epiphan Connect.
"Zoom is excited to welcome Epiphan to our developer ecosystem! Epiphan Connect is a powerful integration of our Meeting SDK technology to deliver value to the broadcast market and enterprise media at large," says Andy Carluccio, Events Engineering Manager at Zoom. "Epiphan Connect weaves together Zoom's robust AV technology and industry-leading user experience with emergent cloud workflows and versatile edge hardware, making this solution attractive for both virtual and hybrid productions."
Expanding accessibility of broadcast quality productions
The rise of hybrid and remote work has brought unprecedented demand for communication and collaboration solutions like Zoom. More and more organizations are using the same tools for all video, whether it's an external broadcast like a webinar or an internal event such as a corporate town hall meeting. This has driven demand for a higher quality of video – but without sacrificing convenience.
"We're all aware of the critical role video plays, and there's a growing understanding that quality matters more than ever to drive engagement," says Julian Fernandez, Epiphan's Director of Product Marketing. "We've heard from more and more organizations searching for Zoom functionality within Epiphan Connect, and we're proud to announce this expanded capability."
Epiphan has continued to innovate in this area and deliver a toolset that enables anyone to create a broadcast quality production from anywhere. Epiphan Cloud works in conjunction with Epiphan Pearl hardware at the edge to create an ecosystem of production capabilities that can work with your existing gear and workflows to make any space a studio. Whether you are looking to produce a webinar with remote participants completely in the cloud or bring in a remote contributor to an on-site all hands, our toolset allows customers to step in and make any video an experience!
Epiphan Connect for Zoom is planned to be available in May 2023. To learn more, please visit https://www.epiphan.com/connect-for-zoom/
Media Contact: Ron Epstein, repstein@epiphan.com
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New Features Reduce Underwriting Process to Three Minutes or Less
DALLAS, July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Bankers Insurance Group (LBIG), a nationally recognized provider of life, health, and financial products, today announced enhancements to its On-the-Spot underwriting process for Medicare Supplement applicants.
On-the-Spot is a point-of-sale digital decision tool that accelerates the underwriting process for Medicare Supplement coverage. While traditional underwriting processes may take days or weeks, LBIG's On-the-Spot underwriting takes three minutes or less.
"We listened to agent feedback and are excited to bring these improvements to market," said Eric Johansson, executive vice president and chief operations officer at Liberty Bankers Insurance Group. "Leveraging an online interface, we expect to see significant improvement in the cycle time for all underwritten business."
On-the-Spot underwriting was first released in 2019, and allows a health agent to quickly determine whether an applicant has been approved or declined for Medicare Supplement coverage. With the new features, LBIG eliminates the need for an underwriting phone call resulting in an expedited underwriting decision.
"Medicare Annual Enrollment Period is right around the corner," said Brian Clark, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Liberty Bankers Insurance Group. "With the new On-the-Spot, agents will be able to more efficiently and effectively serve their clients during the upcoming enrollment period."
This revolutionary underwriting experience is available for licensed health agents appointed with Capitol Life Insurance Company and American Benefit Life Insurance Company.
Based in Dallas, Texas, Liberty Bankers Insurance Group (LBIG) is a nationally recognized and respected insurance group that offers a variety of life, health, and financial products. Rated A- Excellent by AM Best, LBIG is comprised of Liberty Bankers Life Insurance Company, Capitol Life Insurance Company, and American Benefit Life Insurance Company.
More information is available at www.lbig.com.
Liberty Bankers Insurance Group
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(800) 731-4300
marketing@lbig.com
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ANAHEIM, Calif., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) ("GreenPower"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of purpose-built, all-electric, zero-emission medium and heavy-duty vehicles serving the cargo and delivery market, shuttle and transit space and school bus sectors, today at ACT Expo unveiled the EV Star Utility, a purpose-built, all-electric, all-aluminum utility stake bed truck. The EV Star Utility is built on the company's EV Star Cab & Chassis and is designed for vocational applications such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, public works and more.
Built to maximize vehicle payload, the EV Star Utility features state-of-the-art aluminum materials and electric vehicle (EV) technologies that maximize and lighten the load without compromising structural integrity.
"With the EV Star Utility, we set out to create an all-electric vehicle that would quickly solve the supply and demand problem for the electric medium and heavy-duty vehicle market, which has traditionally been dominated by gas-guzzling, carbon-emitting vehicles," said Claus Tritt, vice president of medium duty and commercial sales. "At GreenPower, we will continue to make vehicles that are cleaner and more efficient while providing our customers with a one-stop shopping, zero-emission solution that reduces operating costs."
Built by Lion Truck Body, the EV Star Utility features a payload of up to 5,740 pounds; more than 14,300 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR); up to 150 miles of range; and inverted aluminum "T" flooring to ensure a watertight, anti-skid and washable interior. The EV Star platform is a purpose-built, zero-emission cab and chassis with a battery pack of 118 kWh and will charge up to 19.2 kW on a standard Level 2 J1772 protocol or 60kW using a DC fast charge.
The EV Star Utility is the second vehicle application built on the EV Star Cab & Chassis following the EV Star Refrigerated Box Truck, which is designed to allow for more payload and longer range for the transportation of goods that require refrigeration. The EV Star Cab & Chassis accommodates a wide variety of mid and last-mile delivery needs while maintaining the benefits of being a zero-emission vehicle.
GreenPower's purpose-built, all-electric commercial vehicles, including the new EV Star Utility and EV Star Refrigerated Box Truck, are eligible for up to $40,000 in tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act. GreenPower vehicles also qualify for the New Jersey ZIP program which opened in April with funding of $90 million.
The EV Star Utility is now available for purchase through GreenPower's dealer network. For fleet sales, please contact claus.t@greenpowermotor.com. For more information on GreenPower's all-electric EV Star suite of products or navigating the voucher application process, visit www.greenpowermotor.com.
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About GreenPower Motor Company
GreenPower designs, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses, school buses, shuttles, cargo van and a cab and chassis. GreenPower employs a clean-sheet design to manufacture all-electric vehicles that are purpose built to be battery powered with zero emissions while integrating global suppliers for key components. This OEM platform allows GreenPower to meet the specifications of various operators while providing standard parts for ease of maintenance and accessibility for warranty requirements. GreenPower was founded in Vancouver, Canada with primary operational facilities in southern California. Listed on the Toronto exchange since November 2015, GreenPower completed its U.S. IPO and NASDAQ listing in August 2020. For further information go to www.greenpowermotor.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This document contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, GreenPower's business and operations and the environment in which it operates, which are based on GreenPower's operations, estimates, forecasts and projections. Forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts, but rather on current expectations and projections about future events, and are therefore subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from the future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "upon", "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. A number of important factors including those set forth in other public filings (filed under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com) could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Consequently, readers should not place any undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. In addition, these forward-looking statements relate to the date on which they are made. GreenPower disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. ©2023 GreenPower Motor Company Inc. All rights reserved.
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Charles Simic, acclaimed poet adept at wordplay, dies at 84
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84.
The death of Simic, the country’s poet laureate from 2007-2008, was confirmed Monday by executive editor Dan Halpern at Alfred A. Knopf. He did not immediately provide additional details.
Author of dozens of books, Simic was ranked by many as among the greatest and most original poets of his time, one who didn’t write in English until well into his 20s. His bleak, but comic perspective was shaped in part by his years growing up in wartime Yugoslavia, leading him to observe that “The world is old, it was always old.” His poems were usually short and pointed, with surprising and sometimes jarring shifts in mood and imagery, as if to mirror the cruelty and randomness he had learned early on.
In “Two Dogs,” Simic writes of how one dog in “some Southern town” and another in the New Hampshire woods reminded him of a “little white dog” who became “entangled” in the feet of marching German soldiers. “Reading History” is a sketch of the “vast, dark and impenetrable” skies for those “led to their death.” In “Help Wanted,” life is a cosmic joke, and the narrator a willing dupe:
They asked for a knife
I come running
They need a lamb
I introduce myself as the lamb
But Simic also loved wordplay (“The insomniac’s brain is a choo-choo train”), catcalls (“America, I shouted at the radio/Even at 2 a.m. you are a loony bin!”) and the interplay of great thoughts and everyday follies: “What was that fragment of Heraclitus/You were trying to remember/As you stepped on the butcher’s cat?” he wrote in “The Friends of Heraclitus.” In “Transport,” sex becomes a near-literal feast of the senses:
In the frying pan
On the stove
I found my love
And me naked
Chopped onions
Fell on our heads
And made us cry
It’s like a parade,
I told her, confetti
When some guy
Reaches the moon
His notable books included “The World Doesn’t End,” winner of the Pulitzer in 1990; “Walking the Black Cat,” a National Book Award finalist in 1996; “Unending Blues” and such recent collections as “The Lunatic” and “Scribbled in the Dark.” In 2005, he received the Griffin Poetry Prize and was praised by judges as “a magician, a conjuror,” master of “a disarming, deadpan precision, which should never be mistaken for simplicity.” He was fluent in several languages and translated the works of other poets from French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian.
His 2022 collection “No Land in Sight” presented a dark vision of contemporary life, such as the poem “Come Spring” and its warning: “Don’t let that birdie in the tree/Fool you with its pretty song/The wicked are back from hell.”
In 1964, Simic married fashion designer Helene Dubin, with whom he had two children. He became an American citizen in 1971 and two years later joined the faculty of the University of New Hampshire, where he remained for decades.
Born Dusan Simic in Belgrade in 1938, the year before World War II began, he would describe his youth as “a small, nonspeaking part/In a bloody epic.” His father fled to Italy in 1942 and was apart from the family for years. Home was so oppressive that Simic came to see the war as a needed escape.
“The war ended the day before May 9, 1945, which happened to be my birthday,” he told the Paris Review in 2005. “I was playing in the street. I went up to the apartment to get a drink of water where my mother and our neighbors were listening to the radio. They said, ‘War is over,’ and apparently I looked at them puzzled and said, ‘Now there won’t be any more fun!’ In wartime, there’s no parental supervision; the grown-ups are so busy with their lives, the kids can run free.”
Simic would refer to Hitler and Stalin as his “travel agents.” Nazi rule gave way to Soviet-backed oppression and Simic emigrated to France with his mother and brother in the mid-1950s, then soon to the U.S. His family settled in Chicago, where his high school was once attended by Ernest Hemingway, and he became interested in poetry — for the art and for the girls. His parents unable to pay for college, he spent a decade working at jobs ranging from a payroll clerk to house painter while taking night classes at the University of Chicago and eventually New York University, from which he graduated in 1966 with a degree in Russian studies.
His first book, “What the Grass Says,” came out in 1967. He followed with “Somewhere Among Us a Stone is Taking Notes” and “Dismantling the Silence,” and was soon averaging a book a year. A New York Times review from 1978 would note his gift for conveying “a complex of perceptions and feelings” in just a few lines.
“Of all the things ever said about poetry, the axiom that less is more has made the biggest and the most lasting impression on me,” Simic told Granta in 2013. “I have written many short poems in my life, except ‘written’ is not the right word to describe how they came into existence. Since it’s not possible to sit down and write an eight-line poem that’ll be vast for its size, these poems are assembled over a long period of time from words and images floating in my head.”
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The 2023 U.S. Open Odds & Preview: Russell Henley
Russell Henley will hit the course at The Los Angeles Country Club in Los Angeles, California to compete in the 2023 U.S. Open from June 15-18. It's a par-70 that spans 7,423 yards, with a purse of $15,000,000.00 up for grabs.
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Russell Henley Insights
- Over his last 18 rounds, Henley has shot better than par on 10 occasions, while also shooting three bogey-free rounds and 12 rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has finished with the best score of the day in one of his last 18 rounds, while scoring among the top five in three rounds and the top 10 on seven occasions.
- Henley has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in six of his last 18 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day eight times.
- In his past five appearances, Henley has finished in the top five once.
- He has made the cut in four of his past five tournaments.
- In his past five appearances, Henley has finished within five shots of the leader once. He posted a score that was better than average four times.
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U.S. Open Insights and Stats
- In Henley's past seven appearances at this tournament, he has finished among the top 20 once. His average finish has been 31st.
- Henley has made the cut in four of his past seven appearances at this tournament.
- Henley finished below the cut line and did not qualify for the weekend in his most recent appearance at this event in 2022.
- This course is set up to play at 7,423 yards, 164 more than the average course on the Tour in the past year.
- Courses that Henley has played in the past year have measured an average of 7,335 yards, 88 yards shorter than the 7,423-yard The Los Angeles Country Club this week.
Henley's Last Time Out
- Henley finished in the 56th percentile on the 16 par-3 holes at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, with an average of 3.13 strokes.
- His 4.10-stroke average on the 40 par-4 holes at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday ranked in the 65th percentile among all competitors (the tournament average was 4.14).
- Henley was better than 61% of the field at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.63 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.72.
- Henley carded a birdie or better on two of 16 par-3s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (the other competitors averaged 1.2).
- On the 16 par-3s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Henley carded more bogeys or worse (four) than the tournament average (3.3).
- Henley carded more birdies or better (five) than the field average of 4.5 on the 40 par-4s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday.
- In that most recent competition, Henley posted a bogey or worse on nine of 40 par-4s (the field averaged 8.2).
- Henley ended The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday bettering the tournament average of birdies or better on par-5s (4.8) with eight on the 16 par-5 holes.
- On the 16 par-5s at The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Henley had two bogeys or worse, more than the field average of 1.7.
U.S. Open Time and Date Info
- Date: June 15-18, 2023
- Course: The Los Angeles Country Club
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Par: 70 / 7,423 yards
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A school system in Virginia has engaged parents and teachers in targeted discussions over the treatment of transgender student and mistrust of public schools.
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A school system in Virginia has engaged parents and teachers in targeted discussions over the treatment of transgender student and mistrust of public schools.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-03-23T21:55:57+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2023-03-23/virginia-school-district-parents-practice-calm-communication-on-culture-war-issues |
John A. Bertolero — 11 a.m. at Cheyenne Crossing store in Spearfish Canyon
Elaine P. Bouzek — 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church in Rapid City
Vicki Heairet — 10 a.m. at Leverington Funeral Home of the Northern Hills in Belle Fourche
Rich Hildebrand — 10 a.m. at City Auditorium in Kadoka
Thomas Gene Smith — 11 a.m. at Behrens-Wilson Funeral Home in Black Hawk | 2022-07-12T06:59:42+00:00 | rapidcityjournal.com | https://rapidcityjournal.com/obits/services-for-july-12/article_dc0c8a53-7ea8-5797-99be-7166aa506df9.html |
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Visitors to the new terminal at Orlando International Airport may want to wear sunscreen, shades and a floppy hat.
Sun rays beaming through the windows of its soaring ceilings don’t just peck at the passing passengers — they practically smooch them as if they were spending a day at the beach.
Accompanied by realistic-looking fake indoor palm trees, gigantic LED screens depicting underwater springs and skylight views of blue skies and billowing clouds, Terminal C lets passengers know they have arrived in Florida. And that’s the point, as the world’s seventh-busiest airport makes a $2.8 billion bet when the 1.8 million-square-foot (167,225-square-meter) terminal opens to the public this week that Florida’s tourism is moving well beyond the pandemic slowdown and has a bright future.
“They get to see the sunshine so they really know they are in the Sunshine State,” Kevin Thibault, CEO of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, said of passengers arriving in the terminal. “It really is a facility for generations to come.”
With 40.3 million passengers last year, Orlando International Airport was the busiest airport in Florida, according to Airports Council International. However, that figure was still a fifth below the number of passengers in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic. For 2022, the airport had a rolling 12-month total at the end of June of 47 million passengers, just shy of the 50.6 million who came in 2019.
The addition of Terminal C gives the airport the ability to handle 12 million more passengers at the terminal’s 15 new gates in a first phase, increasing the airport’s capacity by a quarter. Airport officials say it will ease some of the crowding that had grown in the decade before the start of the pandemic at the airport’s other two terminals as central Florida became the most visited destination in the U.S.
The Orlando area had 59.3 million visitors last year, up two-thirds from 35.3 million in 2020, when central Florida’s theme parks shut down for several months and international travel was limited in an attempt to stop the virus’ spread. However, last year’s Orlando area visitor numbers still fell short of the pre-pandemic high of 75.8 million in 2019.
Like Orlando, the state of Florida this year is on pace to match its pre-pandemic tourism figures now that restrictions on international travel have been lifted. Florida had 122 million visitors last year, still short of the 131 million in 2019. But the first two quarters of this year put Florida’s 2022 visitor numbers on pace to match those from three years ago.
Officials at Orlando International Airport said the new terminal is one of the most technologically advanced in the U.S.
Suitcases and other baggage at Terminal C will be deposited in large, chip-embedded tubs that are tracked through radio frequency technology. The tubs reduce opportunities for wheels or straps to cause jams in the maze of conveyor belts that move luggage, and the system allows bags to always be tracked. The goal at the Orlando airport, which gets the most strollers and golf clubs of any in the U.S., is to move bags from a gate to the baggage carousel within five minutes, airport officials said.
“We don’t have to track the bag anymore. We are tracking the transport device,” said Scott Goodwin, assistant director of airport operations.
Passengers on international flights who have opted in can match their passport photos with facial scans at departure gates, speeding up the boarding process. At security checkpoints leading to gates, passengers will be able to place their carry-on bags in bins on automated conveyor belts rather than pushing them along tables until they reach the X-ray machines, speeding up the screening process by allowing travelers to bypass slowpokes in line.
“You can move ahead, grab a bin and you won’t seem impolite to anyone,” said Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration.
Terminal C is located across from a newly-built train station that will serve Brightline, a higher-speed line that is starting runs between South Florida and Orlando early next year. Airport officials believe that will open up Orlando International Airport to Europe-bound passengers from South Florida who may have previously used Miami International Airport.
Thibault said Orlando International Airport officials currently are in conversations about having seamless ticketing between Brightline and the terminal’s airlines, which include Aer Lingus, British Airways, Emirates, JetBlue and Lufthansa.
More than 90% of the terminal’s restaurants and stores, which include mandatory shops from Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld Orlando, are past security checkpoints in an effort to give departing passengers time to shop and eat once they are past security screening.
Arriving passengers will be flooded by sunlight since they will be on the upper-most level of skylighted Terminal C, a flip from the traditional design of having arrivals on the lower level and departures on the upper level.
“We want them to feel the sunshine. We want them to feel them palm trees, the flora and fauna,” said Curtis Fentress, whose firm was the terminal’s design architect. “It brings light into the building in a way that sort of dapples, like the light that used to stream through the orange orchards, historically.”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Asylum-seekers from around the world have a new pathway to hope right here in Western New York, called the Vive Shelter.
Vive focuses on supplying food, housing, legal services and children’s programs for asylum seekers from all over the world. Jericho Road is now trying to raise $6 million to buy and renovate a new building to serve these individuals. West Herr CEO Scott Bieler has kicked off the capitol campaign with a large donation.
“56 rooms in there, families are going to have a place to stay. This is so remarkably better, I can’t wait until they are here,” Bieler said.
The new shelter will be open at 1500 Main Street in Buffalo. It’s expected to be fully operational by the spring. | 2022-09-01T22:08:07+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/vive-shelter-in-buffalo-gives-asylum-seekers-hope/ |
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadview Group Holdings, LLC ("Broadview"), a leader in direct middle-market investing, announced today its investment in Coffman Stair Parts ("Coffman" or the "Company") in partnership with Hunters Gate Holdings, LLC. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1874, Coffman has been a national leader in residential stair parts distribution in the United States for more than 148 years. The Company serves a highly diversified customer base of lumberyards, professional dealers, stair builders and installers, and home improvement retailers. With three strategically located distribution facilities in Texas, Georgia, and New Jersey, the Company maintains a strong foothold east of the Rocky Mountains, enabling the Company to service customers in many of the largest, fastest growing population centers in the United States.
"Coffman's leadership team has an exceptional reputation in their markets, and the Company's market leadership is due in large part to a culture focused on differentiated and highly reliable customer service." said Clay Hunter, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Broadview. "We believe the structural undersupply of single-family housing in the U.S. must, over the long-term, correct, providing Coffman a solid foundation from which to build further scale. Our unique structure, permanent capital base, and long-term investment horizon allow us to support outstanding businesses like this when others find it difficult. We are thrilled to welcome Coffman to the Broadview platform and look forward to supporting Coffman as they embark on their next stage of strategic growth.
"Broadview brings a long track record of investing and operating experience, support, and resources that will enable us to accelerate our growth," said Derek Barksdale, Coffman's president. "Broadview shares our vision to grow Coffman well beyond its current scale through initiatives that create value for our customers and through the execution of strategic acquisitions. Building a premier market leader takes time. Broadview's permanent capital base and long-term investment approach were clear differentiators as we selected our ideal next partner."
ABOUT BROADVIEW GROUP
Broadview Group invests in and partners with successful business owners and growth-oriented leadership teams to help scale and create significant and sustainable value in niche manufacturing, specialty distribution, business services, and B2B food and agriculture businesses. Broadview's permanent capital base and long-term perspective enable true alignment with its partners and portfolio companies. Broadview Group's principals have decades of experience leading and scaling businesses and providing strategic insight and other expertise as executives, lead investors and board members in a variety of businesses and industries.
ABOUT COFFMAN STAIR PARTS
Founded in 1874, Coffman Stair Parts is the oldest and one of the largest distributors of residential stair parts in the United States. From its headquarters in Plano, TX and additional facilities in Austell, GA and Edison, NJ, Coffman provides a highly diversified customer base a one stop shop for residential, interior stairway design and construction, supplying a complete collection of wood and iron stair parts and related accessories required to assemble staircase systems.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
12-21-27-31-38
(twelve, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Illinois Lottery's "LuckyDay Lotto Midday" game were:
12-21-27-31-38
(twelve, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-eight)
Estimated jackpot: $100,000 | 2022-09-20T19:22:43+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-LuckyDay-Lotto-Midday-17454706.php |
Oktibbeha County EMA opens warming shelter on Lynn Lane
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – A warming shelter is being opened in Starkville and volunteers are needed.
The Oktibbeha County Emergency Management Agency is opening the Safe Room on Lynn Lane.
It will open tonight at 8 p.m. and will stay open until 8 a.m. Friday morning.
Volunteers are needed for early Friday morning.
This will only be a place to go and stay warm. There are no sleeping accommodations.
For more information call or possible assistance to get to the shelter call the EMA at the number on your screen.
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NEW YORK, June 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Microvast Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVST, MVSTW) resulting from allegations that Microvast may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Microvast securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=16538 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On May 22, 2023, Reuters reported that the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) canceled a $200M grant to lithium battery manufacturer, Microvast, citing lawmakers' concerns over Microvast's alleged links to the Chinese Communist Party. Microvast has been in talks with the DoE over the grant to help build a plant in Tennessee to support its work with General Motors developing specialized electric vehicle batteries.
On this news, Microvast's stock price fell $0.80 per share, or 36.36% to close at $1.40 per share on May 23, 2023.
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The school in Nashville, Tenn., started the program last spring, and the team's first meet is Friday. Coach Corrine Tarver was the first Black gymnast to win an NCAA all around championship
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The school in Nashville, Tenn., started the program last spring, and the team's first meet is Friday. Coach Corrine Tarver was the first Black gymnast to win an NCAA all around championship
Copyright 2023 WPLN News | 2023-01-06T16:49:16+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-01-06/fisk-university-is-the-first-hbcu-to-have-an-intercollegiate-womens-gymnastics-team |
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crave Hot Dogs & BBQ is one of the fastest growing Hot Dog and BBQ restaurants across the United States. With over 50 brick and mortar locations on the map as well as food trucks, Crave is really making their mark in the food and beverage industry. A fast casual restaurant concept, Crave specializes in BBQ, hot dogs, brats, sausages, as well as sides and toppings. The brand is especially known for their self-pour beer walls at every location that feature anywhere from 18-42 crafts, domestic, ciders, and mixed drinks on tap. The atmosphere at Crave is truly family friendly, where everyone can find something they enjoy. Several locations offer patios, and all locations have table games inside for customers to play while they eat and drink. Locations host trivia, bingo, karaoke, live music, kids eat free Wednesdays, and so much more! Each location has multiple flat screen TVS so that the customers can watch their favorite sport games and celebrate each win. Customers can enjoy Crave's offerings through dine-in, curbside pickup, take out, drive through, delivery, and catering!
Crave Hot Dogs & BBQ in Raleigh North Carolina has recently been voted by the people and awarded as the "Best BBQ restaurant" in News & Observers Raleigh's Best 2022! The owners of the Raleigh Crave location, Eric and Jesse Reyes, are grateful for this award and excited to continue the legacy!
"Raleigh is known for its great BBQ restaurants, and we couldn't be prouder to have been voted by the people! In less than a year of being open, to accomplish this feat speaks volumes! We look forward to the continued growth of this brand!" -Eric Reyes Owner of Crave Raleigh
You can visit Eric at his storefront location located at, 1028 Oberlin Road, Raleigh NC, 27605, or follow them on Facebook/Instagram to see where their food truck is serving up deliciousness!
Crave is expanding nationally and always looking for qualified franchisees for both brick-and-mortar locations as well as food trucks! For more information on owning your own Crave, please visit us at www.iwantcrave.com.
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Amerie Jo Garza, one of the 21 victims killed in a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, has been posthumously given the highest award in the Girl Scouts organization — the Bronze Cross.
"The Bronze Cross is awarded for saving or attempting to save life at the risk of the Girl Scout's own life," the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas said on Twitter Tuesday.
Amerie, 10, was a student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman barricaded himself in a classroom and opened fire, killing 19 students and two teachers.
"On May 24, Amerie did all she could to save the lives of her classmates and teachers," the statement said.
The honor was presented to Amerie's family. The organization additionally gave a Presentation of Colors at Amerie's funeral Tuesday, it said.
"We will carry her story with us always and ensure her brave actions will endure for generations," the Girl Scouts chapter said.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-06-01T10:38:19+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-06-01/girl-scout-posthumously-honors-10-year-old-uvalde-victim-for-heroism |
The short documentary video opens with a high school student explaining how human waste flows up from the ground and floods an area where he and his friends eat lunch.
In the eight-minute video with background music and captions of key quotes, students at Druid Hills High School use iPhones to document the classrooms, hallways and bathrooms that are crumbling around them.
In several scenes, plaster is falling off walls, and water is dripping around electrical outlets in one area. So much water has leaked into the weight room that it oozes up from the floor when a student steps on it. Another student demonstrates how one of the holes in a ceiling is so large that he can put his entire hand through it.
“You can tell someone about the conditions but when you visually see it, it’s a lot more impactful,” sophomore Harley Martz, one of the students who produced the video, told The Associated Press in an interview. “Some of the things we pointed out in the video are very undeniable.”
“As you walk through the school now, you can smell the mold and it’s kind of really nasty,” Montrice Berry, a junior student at Druid Hills, says in the video. “So I tend to walk outside just so I can avoid the smell.”
Now, after the video came out, “every time I go walking the halls, people are like ‘I’m so proud of you for speaking up,’” Berry said in an interview.
The video, which has garnered more than 27,000 views so far since it was posted on YouTube this month, has prompted outrage among some parents in the suburban area just east of Atlanta who want repairs made. It was produced after the DeKalb County School Board in February removed Druid Hills from a list of schools in need of priority renovations.
The video won praise from other students.
“I walked into my first period and my fellow students were applauding,” Martz said.
It is the latest effort by students, parents and teachers across the nation to show people what conditions are like in their schools – and make their case that improvements are badly needed.
In Virginia, journalism students documented conditions at Maury High School and showed the video on the YouTube channel they use for school news broadcasts. Administrators ordered them to remove the video from the YouTube channel in 2019.
The same year in Louisiana, a video by residents exposed problems at Block High School in Jonesville, about 90 miles (about 145 kilometers) northwest of Baton Rouge. In Duvall County, Florida, the county produced a similar video in 2019 to persuade voters to approve a sales tax measure that would pay for repairs.
In Georgia, the DeKalb County School Board will consider a resolution “to modernize Druid Hills High School,” according to the meeting agenda. The school has been in operation since the 1920s and is among the oldest in Georgia, according to historical accounts from the school district. Film crews used it as the backdrop for several scenes in the 2000 film “Remember the Titans.”
The agenda for Monday’s meeting includes no specifics, so it’s unclear what the board will discuss or ultimately do.
The video showed “many areas of concern throughout the building that we have long known about and have been working to address in meaningful ways,” Superintendent Cheryl Watson-Harris said in an April 13 letter to community members the district also shared with the media.
“As always, we are grateful for the advocacy of these students for themselves and future generations of learners,” she wrote.
The school district and board “remain fully committed to ensuring that all scholars are in positive learning environments,” she wrote, adding that she expects the board’s next steps will be to “move forward with renovations at the school, including addressing immediate needs.”
But students are waiting to see concrete steps being taken to improve their school.
“So far I feel like they’re just talking,” Berry said. “I don’t really see a change so far. No one has really done anything.” | 2022-04-17T20:34:23+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/students-make-video-to-prove-their-high-school-needs-repairs/ |
HELSINKI (AP) — Wireless and fixed-network equipment maker Nokia reported substantially improved third-quarter profits and higher sales Thursday on the back of strong demand for 5G technology from operators.
The company, based in Espoo, Finland, reported net profit of 551 million euros ($539 million) for the July-September period, up 19% from 463 million euros a year earlier. Net income attributable to shareholders was up 21% at 550 million euros from 454 million euros a year earlier.
Nokia’s reported sales were up 16% to 6.2 billion euros.
CEO Pekka Lundmark said the company’s third-quarter performance “demonstrates we are delivering on our ambition to accelerate growth.”
“As we start to look beyond 2022, we recognize the increasing macro and geopolitical uncertainty within which we operate,” Lundmark said in a statement. “While it could have an impact on some of our customers’ … spending, we currently expect growth on a constant currency basis in our addressable markets in 2023.”
Nokia is one of the world’s main suppliers of 5G — the latest generation of broadband technology — along with Sweden’s Ericsson, China’s Huawei and South Korea’s Samsung.
“Considering our recent success in new 5G deals in regions like India which are expected to ramp up strongly in 2023, we believe we are firmly on a path to outperform the market and to make progress towards achieving our long-term margin targets,” Lundmark said.
The Finnish company recently closed two significant 5G deals with Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, two major Indian telecom operators.
Nokia’s largest market area during the quarter was North America, where it generated turnover of 2.3 billion euros ($2.2 billion), followed by Europe and Asia Pacific.
On Monday, Nokia announced it would transform the company’s Canadian headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, into a research and development center focusing on network technology, AI and cyber security among other things.
The investment, to be realized in cooperation with Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal authorities, is worth more than 340 million Canadian dollars ($248 million) and the facility is expected to be opened in 2026. | 2022-10-20T20:18:00+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/science/ap-nokia-sees-improved-3q-profit-sales-on-strong-demand-for-5g/ |
The AFC got a bit more difficult earlier in the week when the New York Jets and the Green Bay Packers completed their trade for Aaron Rodgers.
While Rodgers probably does not make the best team in the AFC, New York definitely becomes an automatic postseason contender with him at the helm and could throw a wrench into the playoff plans of guys like Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert.
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Los Angeles was the No. 5 seed in the playoff last season after losing the AFC West division to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, add Rodgers to a team that already had seven wins with the quarterback position in flux and AFC teams will have an even harder time trying to vie for a position.
Herbert is up to the challenge and is looking forward to potentially meeting Rodgers next season as the Chargers are set to play the Jets at MetLife Stadium in 2023.
JETS' AARON RODGERS RESPONDS TO ZACH WILSON'S 'HELL' IN PRACTICE COMMENT: 'I'M GOING TO MAKE HIS LIFE HEAVEN'
"He’s an awfully great quarterback," Herbert told Fox News Digital. "Obviously, very talented. Being a part of the AFC, it’s always a great opportunity to play against those guys. We got so much respect for him as a quarterback, as a player, and as a leader. The AFC is definitely a tough division but looking forward to the challenges."
Herbert had 4,739 passing yards last season with 25 touchdown passes and 11 interceptions. He finished ninth in AP MVP voting but failed to garner a Pro Bowl selection.
Los Angeles was eliminated from the postseason after a brutal defeat to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
They will look to regroup and press on in 2023. | 2023-04-28T14:57:23+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/chargers-justin-herbert-on-aaron-rodgers-joining-jets-looking-forward-to-the-challenges/article_40bbae53-a2ca-594a-b615-21006add8e69.html |
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