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Pirates first. Oneil Cruz singles to left field. Bryan Reynolds walks. Oneil Cruz to second. Rodolfo Castro reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Bryan Reynolds out at second. Oneil Cruz to third. Miguel Andujar grounds out to shortstop, Juan Yepez to Albert Pujols. Rodolfo Castro to second. Oneil Cruz scores. Jack Suwinski grounds out to shortstop, Paul DeJong to Albert Pujols.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Pirates 1, Cardinals 0.
Cardinals third. Andrew Knizner grounds out to shortstop, Oneil Cruz to Ben Gamel. Paul DeJong singles to center field. Brendan Donovan singles to right field. Paul DeJong to second. Lars Nootbaar singles to left field. Brendan Donovan to second. Paul DeJong to third. Paul Goldschmidt grounds out to shallow infield, Tyler Heineman to Ben Gamel. Lars Nootbaar to second. Brendan Donovan to third. Paul DeJong scores. Albert Pujols singles to center field. Lars Nootbaar scores. Brendan Donovan scores. Alec Burleson walks. Albert Pujols to second. Juan Yepez reaches on a fielder's choice to shortstop. Alec Burleson out at second.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 3 left on. Cardinals 3, Pirates 1.
Pirates third. Ji Hwan Bae singles to shallow left field. Oneil Cruz called out on strikes. Bryan Reynolds doubles. Ji Hwan Bae to third. Bryan Reynolds to third. Ji Hwan Bae scores. Rodolfo Castro singles to left center field. Bryan Reynolds scores. Miguel Andujar doubles to deep center field. Rodolfo Castro scores. Jack Suwinski singles to center field. Miguel Andujar scores. Ke'Bryan Hayes walks. Jack Suwinski to second. Ben Gamel singles to right field. Ke'Bryan Hayes to second. Jack Suwinski scores. Tyler Heineman reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Ben Gamel out at second. Ke'Bryan Hayes to third. Ji Hwan Bae singles to shallow infield. Tyler Heineman to second. Ke'Bryan Hayes scores. Oneil Cruz singles to shallow center field. Ji Hwan Bae to second. Tyler Heineman to third. Bryan Reynolds reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Oneil Cruz out at second.
6 runs, 8 hits, 0 errors, 4 left on. Pirates 7, Cardinals 3.
Cardinals seventh. Andrew Knizner doubles to left field. Paul DeJong walks. Brendan Donovan singles to center field, advances to 2nd. Paul DeJong to third. Andrew Knizner scores. Throwing error by Ji Hwan Bae. Lars Nootbaar called out on strikes. Corey Dickerson pinch-hitting for Paul Goldschmidt. Corey Dickerson doubles to right field. Brendan Donovan scores. Paul DeJong scores. Ben DeLuzio strikes out swinging. Alec Burleson reaches on error. Corey Dickerson scores. Throwing error by Oneil Cruz. Juan Yepez strikes out swinging.
4 runs, 3 hits, 2 errors, 1 left on. Cardinals 7, Pirates 7.
Cardinals tenth. Alec Burleson strikes out swinging. Juan Yepez singles to right center field. Ben DeLuzio scores. Dylan Carlson reaches on a fielder's choice to first base. Juan Yepez out at second. Andrew Knizner singles to left field. Dylan Carlson to second. Paul DeJong flies out to shallow center field to Bryan Reynolds.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Cardinals 8, Pirates 7. | 2022-10-05T04:24:35+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/St-Louis-Pittsburgh-Runs-17487600.php |
The Canadian government “would work to provide” access to medical abortion drugs if it is banned in the U.S., an official said in a television interview Thursday.
Families Minister Karina Gould said Canada would assist Americans in getting access to abortion medication in line with its national laws if American law were to change.
“What concerns me … is where you see laws in states where they’re actually criminalizing women (who) cross state borders to access reproductive health care,” Gould said.
“And so, you know, we need to be very thoughtful about how we do this to make sure that we don’t further endanger, you know, American women who are seeking access to reproductive health care and services, as well as health-care providers,” she added.
On Friday, the Supreme Court paused a federal judge’s order to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone. The 5th Circuit Court is currently considering a case to prevent access to the drug after a Texas judge ruled that it should not be allowed.
Reproductive rights advocates say the original ruling, and questions over the drug’s legality, are actually more damaging to people who live in states where abortion is already legal.
“This judicial ping-pong game is impacting the accessibility of a safe, effective, decades-long approved medication and is causing chaos and confusion,” Carrie Flaxman, senior director, public policy litigation & law at Planned Parenthood, said during a recent briefing.
The battle over mifepristone is the latest in a series of efforts to reduce access to reproductive care, including abortions. The Supreme Court overturned the landmark case allowing abortions nationwide, Roe v. Wade, last summer.
Since that ruling, over a dozen states have made abortions illegal, while others have reacted by enshrining the right to abortion to access into their states’ laws or constitutions. | 2023-04-22T18:26:40+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/political-news/hill-politics/canadian-official-says-country-would-work-to-provide-access-to-abortion-pill-if-banned-in-us/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lynnette Williams wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Tennessee's 8th Congressional District.
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SHERIDAN, Colo. (KDVR) — Military medals discovered in an auctioned Colorado storage unit have now been returned to the service member’s family.
“It’s shocking. Just so shocking,” Rhonda Erickson said.
Erickson said she was watching FOX31 news Wednesday morning when she heard a story about medals belonging to a veteran named “Ralph M. Hayward.” She and her sister, Trish Frame, immediately recognized the display case, custom-built by their brother-in-law.
“You know, we haven’t seen it in years, so yeah. It just brings back a lot of memories,” Frame said.
Hayward died in 2003. According to Frame and Erickson, the medals were framed in 2004 and given away to a great-grandchild in 2007 after Hayward’s wife died. It is unclear where the medals have been for the past 15 years.
“But it’s now not going to be lost no more. We’re going to keep it in our family,” Frame said.
Medal discovery brings back memories
Frame, Erickson and their mother, Margaret Frame, say they were extremely close with Hayward. Margaret Frame broke down in tears at the sight of the newfound medals as it brought back a flood of memories.
“We just all loved him dearly,” she said.
Erickson, Trish Frame and Margaret Frame are in possession of Hayward’s military uniform, photographs and letters from his time in the service and the rest of his medals, including a second Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.
“Uncle Ralph was a special man. He really was. And to see this is a big honor,” Erickson said.
They say he rarely talked about his time in the service, despite it being such a big part of his life. They knew him for a special soup he cooked for the family and for always wanting to share stories.
“He was always joking. He was fun to be around. He always had a story,” Trish Frame said.
According to his obituary, Hayward died July 15, 2003, at age 84. He joined the U.S. Army in 1941 and served for seven years before retiring to Greeley. He re-enlisted in 1955 and served another 15 years before being discharged. He fought in both World War II and the Vietnam War.
Denver VFW Post 501 is now organizing a special ceremony to formally present the recently discovered medals to Hayward’s family. | 2023-01-05T06:26:54+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/serving-those-who-serve/military-medals-reunited-with-veterans-family/ |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Athletic Commission is scheduled Wednesday to discuss potential rules changes for slap fighting competitions, including those backed by the UFC, the top mixed martials arts promotion in the United States.
The commission in October unanimously approved sanctioning slap fighting, in which competitors take turns forcefully slapping each other in the face. The commission, which regulates boxing and other combat sports in the state, asserted the approval was given to prevent unregulated matches and so competitors had safety precautions in place.
In November, the commission approved UFC President Dana White’s license to promote the Power Slap League. UFC chief business officer Hunter Campbell assured the commission that safety was the highest priority.
White promoted the TBS show “Power Slap: Road to the Title” in an interview with Front Office Sports last week. The first four episodes averaged 275,000 viewers.
However, many competitors exhibited apparent concussion-like symptoms, raising safety concerns about the competition.
White acknowledged in the interview with Front Office Sports that a video of him and his wife slapping each other in a scuffle on New Year’s Eve at a Mexican nightclub didn’t help in his efforts to promote the new sport. He called the timing “ironic and horrible at the same time.”
White also has publicly apologized for slapping his wife.
The commission also will discuss approving upcoming Power Slap events March 9 and 11 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The UFC Apex plans to install a 1,000-seat arena, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-15T21:02:49+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/ap-slap-fighting-safety-subject-of-athletic-commission-meeting/ |
Bothwell Middle School holds Museum Night
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Bothwell Middle School (BMS) held a Museum Night on Thursday.
Seventh graders have been studying ancient civilizations like the Mayans, the Romans and the Greeks this year.
Students displayed research and projects to their parents and relatives at the event. Sixth graders also showed off their projects for the first time this year.
One BMS teacher said the event was a chance for people to learn from students.
“Since we don’t have a world history museum in the Upper Peninsula, it’s an opportunity to bring people into our school and find out a lot about some ancient world history,” said Scot Stewart, Bothwell Middle School world history teacher.
This was Bothwell’s second Museum Night this year.
The first was in January.
Copyright 2023 WLUC. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-21T00:10:56+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/04/20/bothwell-middle-school-holds-museum-night/ |
Scattered Storms to Start the Week
Published: Apr. 23, 2023 at 9:29 PM CDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Monday looks to feature a mix of sun and clouds with some scattered thunderstorms forming late in the day. Not everybody will see a measurable amount of rainfall tomorrow, but the places that do could see some decently heavy rainfall rates for a short period of time. The same theme will hold true for Tuesday with scattered thunderstorms developing late in the day. Wednesday will be a little bit different, where we’ll have the opportunity (if everything comes together correctly) to see something more in the way of a soaking, widespread rain.
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CLEVELAND, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for surface disinfectant wipes is expected to remain elevated through 2026 due to trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a new Freedonia Group analysis:
- While demand for surface disinfectant wipes fell in 2021 from the pandemic-induced spikes of 2020, it remained well above pre-COVID-19 levels; consumers and nonresidential end users continued to purchase these products to protect themselves from potential viral exposure.
- Major wipes suppliers have invested significantly in expanding their domestic production capacities for surface disinfectant wipes, in some cases enlisting contract manufacturers to help supplement their own lines.
It is expected that demand for surface disinfectant wipes will remain elevated as cleaning regimens in industrial and institutional settings that address healthcare associated infections (HAIs), foodborne illnesses, and other potential viruses continue to be rigorous. While consumer demand for these wipes will decline as households reorient their approach to reducing viral transmission, an expanded base of users will help demand remain above pre-pandemic levels.
US Demand for Wipes to Grow 2.3% Annually Through 2026
Demand for wipes is expected to advance 2.3% per year off a relatively high base to $4.3 billion in 2026. While this growth rate is relatively slow compared to historical norms, it stems from elevated market levels, as pandemic-related sales spikes for various wipes (notably disinfectant wipes in 2020), supply chain challenges, and higher raw material costs led prices for wipes to jump in 2020 and 2021, inflating market value in those years.
In unit terms, wipe demand growth will accelerate, supported by:
- consistent increases in the industrial and institutional market, with major submarkets like healthcare and foodservice returning to pre-pandemic levels of operation
- product development that improves the functionality and environmental profile of available personal care wipes, thereby increasing adoption among consumers
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- baby wipes
- personal care (personal hygiene wipes, facial wipes, hand cleaning moist wipes and towelettes, medicated wipes, other)
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- manufacturing (general purpose wipes, special purpose wipes)
- healthcare (patient care wipes, hard surface disinfectant wipes, skin disinfectant wipes ,other)
- commercial & industrial (foodservice wipes, other)
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Which coconut clusters on Amazon are best?
When the urge to snack strikes, it’s easy to reach for a bag of chips or cookies. These may satisfy the craving for salty and sweet, but they are a recipe for disaster when it comes to maintaining good health. If you need a snack but don’t want to overload your system with excessive fat, salt and sugar, reach for coconut clusters. These healthy treats provide a dose of daily protein with a touch of sweetness and just enough crunch to ease your snack attack.
If you’re looking for coconut clusters on Amazon, check out the Inno Foods Organic Coconut Keto Clusters. These delicious, nutritious snacks fit the ketogenic diet and have a simple ingredient list that’s allergy-friendly.
What to know before you buy coconut clusters on Amazon
Serving size
Coconut oil is a good source of healthy fat, but too much of a good thing can be less than ideal. Look for manageable serving sizes that deliver a healthy dose of protein and energy-boosting carbs without too much added sugar and fat.
Individual packs vs. larger bags
Coconut clusters are a delicious snack you can take with you, but if you prefer to nosh at home, a larger bag might be a better bet.
- Individual packs: These are more convenient, but they also contribute more waste. If portion control is a concern, though, these might be the best choice.
- Larger bags: Larger bags are the move when you have a household of snackers. These also produce less waste and are often more affordable.
Salty vs. sweet
Coconut can take on either a salty or sweet flavor. Many people have a clear preference when it comes to their snacks.
- Salty: These might include more nuts and seeds to bump up the savory flavor profile.
- Sweet: Look for natural sweeteners or additions such as dried fruit.
What to look for in quality coconut clusters on Amazon
Free from allergens
Many people looking for a healthy snack are also trying to avoid possible allergens. If this sounds like you, look for coconut clusters that are free from:
- Gluten
- Soy
- Corn
- Wheat
- Dairy
You also want to steer clear of clusters with artificial ingredients, including colors or flavors. These potentially harmful additives defeat the purpose of a healthy coconut snack.
Plenty of protein
The best snacks not only satisfy your craving but fill in nutritional gaps. Coconut clusters are often paired with nuts, dried fruits and seeds that provide additional protein, vitamins and minerals you may be missing. Look for clusters with 4 grams of protein or more per serving.
Organic and non-GMO
Ethically sourced coconut clusters include only non-GMO ingredients that are certified organic. This makes them good for you and good for the planet.
Added beneficial ingredients
Some coconut clusters go one step further in their ingredient list, adding herbs, spices and powdered roots to boost your benefits even more. Beneficial ingredients may include:
- Maca root, for focus and energy.
- Turmeric, to fight inflammation.
- Cacao, an immune-boosting antioxidant.
How much you can expect to spend on coconut clusters on Amazon
The price varies depending on the size of the bag and the quality of the ingredients. Expect to spend from 83 cents to $1.50 an ounce.
Coconut clusters on Amazon FAQ
Are there potential health benefits to coconut?
A. In addition to adding a sweet, nutty and tropical flair to your snack, coconut has potential health benefits.
Coconut contains:
- Healthy fat
- Iron
- Manganese
- Copper
- Magnesium
According to the National Institutes of Health, potential health benefits of coconut include:
- Improved endurance
- Better oral health
- Weight loss
- Decreased inflammation
- Improved mental cognition
Is there anyone who should not have coconut?
A. Coconut is high in calories and fat, so people with heart disease should check with their doctor before consuming coconut clusters. Eating excessive coconut can also increase blood cholesterol, and some people may find that excessive consumption of coconut products (mostly coconut water) has a laxative effect. As with any snack, moderation is key.
What are the best coconut clusters on Amazon to buy?
Top coconut clusters on Amazon
Inno Foods Organic Coconut Keto Clusters
What you need to know: These vegan clusters, suitable for a keto diet, pack high-energy ingredients in a delicious snack.
What you’ll love: They have no artificial colors or flavors, and they’re certified gluten-free by the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. This 1-pound pack is good for sharing. Two different nuts are a good source of protein, and the coconut is organic.
What you should consider: They’re sweetened with erythritol, a sugar alcohol whose tase some people don’t enjoy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top coconut clusters for the money on Amazon
Go Raw Sweet ‘n Crunchy Sprouted Power Seeds Coconut Clusters
What you need to know: This three-pack of 3-ounce bags is perfect for snacking on the go.
What you’ll love: These have four types of sprouted seeds: pumpkin, sunflower, watermelon and flaxseed. Each serving has 5 grams of protein. The limited ingredient list is perfect for people with allergies, and they are gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free, soy-free, vegan and kosher. They also include maca, an adaptogenic root good for building energy.
What you should consider: Some people found their clusters stale, even within the expiration date.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Kind Coconut Cashew Pecan Clusters
What you need to know: The amount of added sugar is offset by high-quality protein that comes from two kinds of nuts.
What you’ll love: Each serving has 4 grams of protein. The ingredient list is short and contains nutrient-dense foods. Coconut is the second ingredient and gives these clusters a sweet taste.
What you should consider: Although they don’t contain common allergens, they are processed on shared equipment and are not certified safe for people with allergies to eggs, soy or gluten
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Investors can view potential long-term asset wealth generation with new property management tool
DALLAS, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For intentional property investors, the right property management company can take the guesswork out of generating the best return on investment (ROI). Real Property Management, a Neighborly company, has been offering residential property management services throughout North America for more than 30 years, and recently launched the Wealth Optimizer Tool designed to support property investors looking to optimize their rental property's ROI.
Smart property investors use a variety of metrics to analyze real estate investments. These metrics allow for comparing and tracking performance, but with the metrics, there is a balance of understanding real-world variables. Real Property Management's Wealth Optimizer Tool is available to anyone and can help investors determine if a property is a good investment. The free property investment tool provides expert data on a rental property's performance, future capital expenses, helps them analyze the potential of a future purchase and can help analyze the potential of a future purchase.
"Our franchise owners have been offering this type of hands-on assistance for analyzing the potential of a rental property for single and multi-property owners for the past five years. We wanted to build an online, user-friendly calculator that allowed rental-property investors to make their own custom adjustments on parameters," said Jeff Pepperney, president of Real Property Management. "With access to advanced reporting in this tool, our streamlined processes and one-on-one intel help investors analyze current and future properties to maximize their rental income while minimizing expenses and inefficiencies."
The interactive report pulls available data on property valuation based on users' specified investment parameters. The tool allows users to view revenue, expenses, equity changes, cap rate, cash flow, gross yield, annualized return, and cash-on-cash return, in addition to some advanced reporting features. A key feature of the Wealth Optimizer Tool is the option to compare up to three properties when considering adding properties to their portfolio.
"We're always looking to improve our value-add to property owners and provide comprehensive property management with superior service. This includes preserving investors' assets and optimizing their ROI," said Pepperney. "This tool is one more proof point of our brand promise, offering greater visibility into the performance of rental property portfolios."
Along with helping intentional property investors realize rental property potential through wealth optimization, Real Property Management provides full-service leasing, move-in, and move-out property inspections, property maintenance, management of tenant requests and emergencies, advertising and marketing, tenant screening, accounting, rent collection, legal evictions, and online reporting portals.
To learn more about Real Property Management's Wealth Optimizer service or to find a local professional, visit https://www.realpropertymgt.com/.
Real Property Management, a Neighborly® company, is the largest property management franchise in North America, with more than 30 years of industry expertise providing full-service residential property management for thousands of investors and rental homeowners from more than 400 independently owned and operated locations worldwide. Acquired in 2018, Real Property Management is part of Neighborly®, the world's largest home services company with more than 30 brands and 5,000 franchises collectively serving 12 million+ customers in six countries, focused on repairing, maintaining and enhancing homes and businesses. Neighborly® brands are found at Neighborly.com. For more information about Real Property Management, visit RealPropertyMgt.com. To learn about franchising opportunities with Neighborly®, click here.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) between June 13, 2020 and December 31, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important March 13, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Southwest Airlines securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Southwest Airlines class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10716 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than March 13, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) Southwest Airlines continuously downplayed or ignored the serious issues with the technology it used to schedule flights and crews, and how it stood to be affected worse than other airlines in the event of inclement weather; (2) Southwest Airlines did not discuss how it's unique point-to-point service and aggressive flight schedule could leave it prone in the event of inclement weather; and (3) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Southwest Airlines class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10716 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.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against certain officers and directors of NewAge, Inc. ("NewAge" or the "Company") (OTCMKTS: NBEVQ). The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and docketed under 23-cv-00127, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired the securities of NewAge for the time period January 18, 2018 through and including October 18, 2022 (the "Class Period"), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants' violations of federal securities laws and pursue remedies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").
If you are a shareholder who purchased or otherwise acquired NewAge securities during the Class Period, you have until February 6, 2023 to ask the Court to appoint you as Lead Plaintiff for the class. A copy of the Complaint can be obtained at www.pomerantzlaw.com. To discuss this action, contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888.476.6529 (or 888.4-POMLAW), toll-free, Ext. 7980. Those who inquire by e-mail are encouraged to include their mailing address, telephone number, and the number of shares purchased.
Relevant non-party NewAge purports to produce and sell various beverages and other health products. NewAge wholly owns subsidiaries that sell products under a variety of brand names. NewAge purports to be an "organic and healthy products company intending to become the world's leading social selling and distribution company."
On August 30, 2022, NewAge filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. The bankruptcy plan submitted by NewAge has not been confirmed and all litigation against NewAge is subject to an automatic stay.
During the Class Period, NewAge's Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and various Chief Financial Officers ("CFOs") misrepresented to investors the Company's business relationships, product development, business prospects, adequacy of internal controls, and concealed an internal investigation and subsequent disclosure to the Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
On January 10, 2022, NewAge filed a Form 8-K announcing that its Board and Defendant Brent Willis ("Willis") agreed that Willis would "resign as [CEO], Director, and employee of the Company, effective immediately. The Company and Mr. Willis will determine the terms of his departure at a future date . . . . Ed Brennan will provide additional guidance and direction to the senior management team . . . ." In response, the stock went down 6% on each of the following trading days, from an opening price of $0.98 to a closing price of $0.9251 on January 11, 2022, and from an opening price of $0.935 to a closing price of $0.88 on January 12, 2022.
On May 17, 2022, the Company announced after trading hours that it had concluded that it had received a late notice from Nasdaq regarding the filing of its Form 10-Q. The next day, the stock went down by 8%, from an opening price of $0.391 per share to $0.3591 per share.
On June 8, 2022, after trading had concluded for the day, the Company announced that it was undertaking a review of "strategic alternatives," including "available financing alternatives, a potential financial restructuring, merger, sale or other strategic transaction." The next day, NewAge's share price went down 12%, from $0.42 per share to $0.3703. Following that, the Company's share price closed down 11% (the price per share dropped from $0.3605 to $0.3201 on the day), 5% (the price per share dropped from $0.3112 per share to $0.2902 on the day), and 3% (the price per share dropped from $0.298 per share to $0.29 on the day), respectively.
On August 30, 2022, NewAge announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief. Further, on August 31, 2022, The Wall Street Journal released an article called "New Age Says Cost of Internal Probe Contributed to Bankruptcy," which highlighted the fact that in its Chapter 11 disclosure, NewAge admitted that it had conducted an expensive internal investigation into Ariix, which NewAge had acquired in December 2020, for suspected violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The next day, the stock closed down 39%, from an opening price of $0.2016 per share to $0.1222 per share. It further plummeted on September 2, 2022, closing down 27%, from an opening of $0.20 per share to $0.1482.
On September 2, 2022, after trading hours in the domestic markets had finished for the day, NewAge filed a Form 8-K announcing that it had received writing notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") that, as a result of its filing for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, Nasdaq determined that NewAge's securities would be delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange, beginning on September 8, 2022. In response to this news, NewAge stock closed down 9% on September 6, 2022, from an opening price of $0.1368 to a closing price of $0.125.
On October 18, 2022, the SEC announced that it was taking legal action against Defendant Willis. Specifically, he was alleged to have engaged in a "multi-year fraud by disseminating numerous false and misleading press releases and making false public statements concerning NewAge's business dealings, and aided and abetted NewAge's disclosure of material information in violation of Regulation FD," and was accordingly charged under Section 10(b) and corresponding Rule 10b-5 of the Exchange Act, Section 17(a) of the Securities Act, and with aiding and abetting NewAge's violations of Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act and Regulation FD.
On October 19, 2022, the SEC announced that it had instituted cease-and-desist proceedings against NewAge pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act and Section 21C of the Exchange Act, enjoining NewAge from further violations of the Securities and Exchange Acts, and rules and regulations promulgated under them. In anticipation of these proceedings, NewAge submitted a settlement offer, which the SEC has accepted. The next day, NewAge stock plummeted from an opening price of $0.175 per share to $0.0013 per share, or 93%.
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ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Northbound I-196 is closed after a fatal crash Tuesday afternoon.
Michigan State Police are investigating the fatal crash on I-196 at mile marker 43, north of Saugatuck, in Laketown Township in Allegan County. It happened before 3 p.m., on Tuesday, June 20.
The freeway is shutdown and drivers should find alternate routes, police said.
The investigation is ongoing, as well as the crash cleanup.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)Patrick Mahomes strolled through Arrowhead Stadium without any issues with his injured right ankle on Thursday, and the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback expects to practice fully in the next 10 days leading up to the Super Bowl.
Mahomes sprained the ankle during the divisional round against Jacksonville, and he was clearly hobbled in last Sunday night’s AFC championship win over Cincinnati. But despite taking a couple of hard shots during that game, and his mad dash in the closing seconds to set up the winning field goal, Mahomes came out of it feeling just fine.
”It was a physical game. My whole body was a little sore. But I don’t think I had any step backward, a reaggravation of the ankle,” Mahomes said. ”A little pain playing with it but other than that, I feel like I’m in a good spot.”
The Chiefs sustained a number of other injuries during their 23-20 win over the Bengals, though. They lost three wide receivers – Mecole Hardman reinjured his pelvis, JuJu Smith-Schuster had swelling in his knee and Kadarius Toney sprained his ankle – while cornerback L’Jarius Sneed was in the concussion protocol and Willie Gay Jr. hurt his shoulder.
Gay was the only one that returned to practice on an unseasonably mild February day in Kansas City.
Coach Andy Reid did say that Toney did the morning walk-through and ”he’s close and doing well,” while Smith-Schuster ”is in a good place. The main thing is we let that calm down. We’re very optimistic right now.”
The news wasn’t as positive for Hardman, who first hurt his abdominal area in November. The Chiefs later began to classify it as a pelvis injury as Hardman neared his return from injured reserve, but he wasn’t able to make it back onto the field until the AFC title game. He was hurt while getting wrapped up after a catch and did not return.
”Very courageous effort,” Reid said, ”and my heart goes out to the kid. He is hurting today.”
While the Chiefs remained thin at wide receiver, they did have Justin Watson back on the practice field. He was ruled out before kickoff against Cincinnati with an illness, forcing Marcus Kemp to come up from the practice squad.
The Chiefs also are hopeful that Sneed will clear the concussion protocol in the two weeks between games.
In a defense featuring three rookie cornerbacks and a rookie safety, Sneed is often tasked with covering the opposition’s best wide receiver. It would have been Ja’Marr Chase against the Bengals, but Sneed was hurt on the game’s fourth play and did not return; it will likely be A.J. Brown or DeVonta Smith if he can play against the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
Reid also said there’s a possibility Clyde Edwards-Helaire, their 2020 first-round pick, will be activated for the big game. Edwards-Helaire had already ceded the No. 1 running back job to rookie Isiah Pacheco before a high ankle sprain landed him on injured reserve in late November, but his versatility could be helpful against a tough Eagles defense.
”He’ll practice. We’ll see where he’s at,” Reid said. ”We’re just taking it day by day, seeking out how he’s feeling, not only during practice but after practice. He’ll work today.”
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL | 2023-02-03T20:44:59+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/nfl/nfl-dallas/chiefs-patrick-mahomes-gets-back-to-work-for-super-bowl/ |
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Global average temperatures have risen and weather extremes have already seen an uptick, so the short answer to whether it’s too late to stop climate change is: yes. But there’s still time to prevent cascading effects, as every degree of additional warming has exponentially disastrous impacts, experts say.
A 2021 report by the top body of climate scientists provided new analysis of the chance the world has to cap warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) or 2 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times in the coming decades, in line with global climate goals.
Although scientists estimated it’s still possible to stay within these limits, they said it would require immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It’s more likely that global temperature will reach or exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the report said.
The 1.5-degree goal is “on life support,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series answering some of the most fundamental questions around climate change, the science behind it, the effects of a warming planet and how the world is addressing it.
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Without major action to reduce emissions, the global average temperature is on track to rise by 2.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, scientists say.
And researchers warn that the situation will get very serious before then: Once the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold is reached, there will be increasing heat waves, longer warm seasons and shorter cold seasons. When the 2 degrees Celsius mark is crossed, critical tolerance levels for agriculture and health will be reached.
But all hope is not lost, they urge.
At the time of the report’s release, Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College of London, said achieving the 1.5-degree goal “is still possible from a physical science point of view.”
“If we reduce emissions globally to net zero by 2040 there is still a two thirds chance to reach 1.5 degrees and if we globally achieve net zero emissions by the middle of the century, there is still a one third chance to achieve that,” she said.
If all human emissions of heat-trapping gases were to stop today, Earth’s temperature would continue to rise for a few decades but would eventually stabilize, climate scientists say. If humans don’t emit any additional planet-warming gasses, then natural processes would begin to slowly remove the excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and global temperatures would gradually begin to decline.
“There is a direct relation between delay and warming, and between warming and risk of what we would call extreme impacts,” said Ajay Gambhir, a senior research fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, based at Imperial College London. “ Unfortunately, we’re already seeing all these extreme impacts — whether it’s extreme heat waves, increased risk of crop failures, forest fires or bleaching coral reefs— already happening.”
He added: “The further we delay action on addressing climate change by reducing our emissions, the warmer the world will get.”
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VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia River Mental Health Services ("CRMHS") is providing notice of a recent data privacy event that may have affected certain personal information. The confidentiality, privacy, and security of information is one of CRMHS's highest priorities and CRMHS takes this matter seriously.
What Happened? CRMHS recently became aware of suspicious activity related to certain CRMHS email accounts. CRMHS immediately launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party forensic specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the activity. CRMHS' investigation determined that there was unauthorized access to certain email accounts from May 14, 2021 to April 8, 2022. CRMHS began reviewing the affected accounts to determine what, if any, sensitive information was contained within them. CRMHS is providing this information in an abundance of caution, as the investigation cannot confirm that information relating to specific individuals was actually accessed. On August 26, 2022, CRMHS' review confirmed the scope of the information at risk and to whom that information related.
What Information Was Involved? The information impacted by this event varied by individual but may include certain individuals' names, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, financial account information, medical information, health insurance information, username and password, and date of birth.
How will individuals know if they are affected by this incident? CRMHS is mailing notice letters to the individuals whose protected information was affected by this event, and for whom we have a valid mailing address. If you do not receive a letter but would like to know if you are affected, you may call the assistance line listed below.
What You Can Do. CRMHS encourages individuals to review the information below related to "Steps Individuals Can Take to Help Protect Against Identity Theft and Fraud," which provides detail on how to better protect against possible misuse of information. Affected individuals can find guidance in the letters being sent to them.
For More Information. Individuals who may have questions about the incident, may contact 888-689-1152, Monday through Friday from 9am to 9pm ET or visit https://crmhs.org/.
CRMHS encourages individuals to remain vigilant against incidents of identity theft and fraud, to review account statements, and to monitor credit reports for suspicious activity and to detect error. Under U.S. law, a consumer is entitled to one (1) free credit report annually from each of the three (3) major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. To order your free credit report, visit www.annualcreditreport.com or call, toll-free, 1-877-322-8228. You may also directly contact the three (3) major credit reporting bureaus listed below to request a free copy of your credit report.
Consumers have the right to place an initial or extended "fraud alert" on a credit file at no cost. An initial fraud alert is a one (1) year alert that is placed on a consumer's credit file. Upon seeing a fraud alert display on a consumer's credit file, a business is required to take steps to verify the consumer's identity before extending new credit. If you are a victim of identity theft, you are entitled to an extended fraud alert, which is a fraud alert lasting seven (7) years. Should you wish to place a fraud alert, please contact any one of the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below.
As an alternative to a fraud alert, consumers have the right to place a "credit freeze" on a credit report, which will prohibit a credit bureau from releasing information in the credit report without the consumer's express authorization. The credit freeze is designed to prevent credit, loans, and services from being approved in your name without your consent. However, you should be aware that using a credit freeze to take control over who gets access to the personal and financial information in your credit report may delay, interfere with, or prohibit the timely approval of any subsequent request or application you make regarding a new loan, credit, mortgage, or any other account involving the extension of credit. Pursuant to federal law, you cannot be charged to place or lift a credit freeze on your credit report. To request a security freeze, you will need to provide the following information:
- Full name (including middle initial as well as Jr., Sr., II, III, etc.);
- Social Security number;
- Date of birth;
- Addresses for the prior two (2) to five (5) years;
- Proof of current address, such as a current utility bill or telephone bill;
- A legible photocopy of a government-issued identification card (state driver's license or ID card, etc.); and
- A copy of either the police report, investigative report, or complaint to a law enforcement agency concerning identity theft if you are a victim of identity theft.
Should you wish to place a credit freeze, please contact the three major credit reporting bureaus listed below:
You may further educate yourself regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and the steps you can take to protect your personal information by contacting the consumer reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or your state Attorney General. The Federal Trade Commission may be reached at: 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1-877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The Federal Trade Commission also encourages those who discover that their information has been misused to file a complaint with them. You can obtain further information on how to file such a complaint by way of the contact information listed above. You have the right to file a police report if you ever experience identity theft or fraud. Please note that in order to file a report with law enforcement for identity theft, you will likely need to provide some proof that you have been a victim. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement and your state Attorney General. This notice has not been delayed by law enforcement.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. ("West Fraser" or the "Company") (TSX and NYSE: WFG) will hold an analysts' conference call to discuss second quarter 2022 financial and operating results on Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time/11:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
To participate in the call, please dial: 1-888-390-0605 (Toll-free North America) or (416) 764-8609 (Toll number) or connect on the webcast.
Please let the operator know you wish to participate in the West Fraser conference call chaired by Mr. Ray Ferris, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Following management's discussion of the quarterly results, the analyst community will be invited to ask questions.
The call will be recorded for webcasting purposes and will be available on our website at www.westfraser.com. West Fraser's second quarter 2022 financial and operating results will be released on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.
West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the Company produces lumber, engineered wood products (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, and particleboard), pulp, newsprint, wood chips, other residuals, and renewable energy. West Fraser's products are used in home construction, repair and remodelling, industrial applications, papers, tissue, and box materials.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
7-8-6-5-7
(seven, eight, six, five, seven)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 5" game were:
7-8-6-5-7
(seven, eight, six, five, seven) | 2022-06-02T04:56:35+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-5-game-17214019.php |
Newton Public Schools reported a preliminary enrollment of 11,721 students as of Oct. 1, which includes an overall drop of 89 students since last year at the elementary and middle school levels, according to district officials.
The district’s head count remains down about 900 students, a roughly 7 percent drop from before the pandemic struck in March 2020 Katy Hogue, the schools’ director of data analysis and enrollment planning, told the Newton School Committee during an Oct. 27 meeting.
The COVID-19 pandemic affected enrollment in the city, as many students withdrew to attend private schools or engage in homeschooling, Hogue said.
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This year’s enrollment decline was anticipated last winter, and the schools eliminated about a dozen full-time equivalent positions based on its projections for the 2022-2023 school year, according to a statement from the Newton Public Schools to the Globe.
“Staffing was adjusted based on the projections for the 2022-23 school year in the budget last spring to maintain optimal class sizes and adjust for anticipated enrollments at each school in the district,” the statement said.
At the elementary school level this school year, enrollment fell by 42 students since last year, for a total of 4,999 students, according to Hogue.
At the city’s middle schools, the number of students dropped by 54, for a total of 2,772 students, she said.
Enrollment at the two high schools increased by seven students since last year, and climbed to a total of 3,950, Hogue said.
Meanwhile, enrollment in the kindergarten class is 712 students, which is the lowest level since the early 1980s, aside from a drop reported when the pandemic struck, according to Hogue’s presentation to the School Committee.
Kindergarten enrollment has been decreasing since a high of more than 900 reported in 2013. That drop was due to several factors, including declining birth rates.
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Last year, there were 11,810 students enrolled in K-12 in Newton’s public schools, according to the report.
Newton’s enrollment trends during the COVID-19 crisis are similar to many other districts across Massachusetts.
Statewide, public school student enrollment fell by about 4 percent, from 948,828 in 2019-2020 to 911,529 during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
School districts were expecting enrollment declines during those years due to factors such as increasing housing costs, and the health crisis exacerbated those trends, education leaders have said.
During the pandemic, nearly three-quarters of public school districts reported enrollment declines, according to state data.
In Newton, there had been more than 12,000 students enrolled in the city’s public schools when COVID-19 broke out in the spring of 2020, according to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
From October 2019 to October 2020, Newton lost 701 students, according to Hogue’s Oct. 27 report. Enrollment dropped by an additional 100 students the following school year.
The district’s Oct. 27 preliminary enrollment report excludes roughly 200 students who are participating in the Newton Early Childhood Program during the current school year.
An enrollment analysis report with projections for the next five years will be presented to the School Committee in December, according to district officials.
In a statement to the Globe, the school district said it works to learn why families leave the Newton Public Schools.
“We do know that some families opted for private school during the pandemic for a variety of reasons and some have yet to return to public schools,” the statement said. “We do gather data from students who leave our schools so that we may better understand their departure and consider what we might do to create a learning environment that better meets the needs of all students and families.”
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During the School Committee meeting, Kathleen Smith, Newton’s interim school superintendent, suggested that members consider ways of encouraging families to choose the public schools.
Newton is a premier school district, and families move to the city for its public schools, she said.
“Families make choices ... it might be something that we can continue to talk about in a way like many other districts [have],” Smith told School Committee members. “This would not be a first — [to] market our district.”
Anping Shen, a School Committee member representing Ward 3, said he agreed with Smith.
“This might be the time we think about how to market our district,” Shen said. “Not like the past 20, 30 years, [when Newton could] rest on our laurels, saying ‘Hey, Newton, hands down, best district.’ It might be a little bit different now.”
John Hilliard can be reached at john.hilliard@globe.com. | 2022-11-11T04:28:24+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/10/metro/newton-public-schools-report-preliminary-enrollment-remains-below-pre-pandemic-levels/ |
MLB Probable Starting Pitchers Tonight: Saturday, April 22
Who are the probable pitchers lined up to take the mound on Saturday? Below, we list every starting pitching matchup for the day, which includes Dylan Cease toeing the rubber for the White Sox, and Shane McClanahan getting the nod for the Rays.
Keep reading to find the pitching matchups for every game on the schedule for April 22.
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Today's Probable Starting Pitchers
Blue Jays at Yankees Probable Pitchers
The Toronto Blue Jays will send Alek Manoah (1-1) to the hill as they face the Yankees, who will counter with Gerrit Cole (4-0) when the teams meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Blue Jays at Yankees
- NYY Odds to Win: -165
- TOR Odds to Win: +140
- Total: 7.5 runs
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Nationals at Twins Probable Pitchers
The Washington Nationals will send Chad Kuhl (0-1) to the hill as they play the Twins, who will counter with Pablo Lopez (1-1) for the matchup between the teams Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Nationals at Twins
- MIN Odds to Win: -275
- WSH Odds to Win: +230
- Total: 7 runs
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Dodgers at Cubs Probable Pitchers
The Los Angeles Dodgers will send Dustin May (1-1) to the hill as they take on the Cubs, who will give the start to Hayden Wesneski (1-0) when the clubs meet Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Dodgers at Cubs
- LAD Odds to Win: -140
- CHC Odds to Win: +115
- Total: 9 runs
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Rockies at Phillies Probable Pitchers
The Colorado Rockies will send Kyle Freeland (2-1) to the bump as they play the Phillies, who will hand the ball to Cristopher Sanchez (0-0) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Rockies at Phillies
- PHI Odds to Win: -190
- COL Odds to Win: +155
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Marlins at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Miami Marlins will send Sandy Alcantara (1-2) to the bump as they play the Guardians, who will give the start to Shane Bieber (1-0) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
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- Game Time: 3:10 PM ET
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Mets at Giants Probable Pitchers
The New York Mets will send David Peterson (1-2) to the mound as they take on the Giants, who will give the start to Logan Webb (0-4) for the game between the clubs Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Mets at Giants
- SF Odds to Win: -120
- NYM Odds to Win: +100
- Total: 8.5 runs
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White Sox at Rays Probable Pitchers
The Chicago White Sox will send Cease (2-0) to the mound as they take on the Rays, who will counter with McClanahan (4-0) when the teams face off Saturday.
Vegas Odds for White Sox at Rays
- TB Odds to Win: -200
- CHW Odds to Win: +165
- Total: 7 runs
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Marlins at Guardians Probable Pitchers
The Miami Marlins will send Braxton Garrett (0-0) to the bump as they face the Guardians, who will counter with Zach Plesac (1-0) when the teams play on Saturday.
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- Game Time: 6:25 PM ET
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Reds at Pirates Probable Pitchers
The Cincinnati Reds will send Luis Cessa (0-2) to the bump as they take on the Pirates, who will look to Rich Hill (1-2) for the game between the clubs on Saturday.
Vegas Odds for Reds at Pirates
- PIT Odds to Win: -155
- CIN Odds to Win: +125
- Total: 9 runs
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Tigers at Orioles Probable Pitchers
The Detroit Tigers will send Joey Wentz (0-2) to the mound as they play the Orioles, who will give the start to Kyle Gibson (3-0) for the matchup between the clubs Saturday.
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- BAL Odds to Win: -175
- DET Odds to Win: +145
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Athletics at Rangers Probable Pitchers
The Oakland Athletics will send Shintaro Fujinami (0-3) to the mound as they take on the Rangers, who will hand the ball to Andrew Heaney (1-1) for the game between the teams Saturday.
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- OAK Odds to Win: +185
- Total: 9 runs
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Red Sox at Brewers Probable Pitchers
The Boston Red Sox will send Garrett Whitlock (1-1) to the bump as they play the Brewers, who will hand the ball to Wade Miley (2-1) when the teams play on Saturday.
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- MIL Odds to Win: -135
- BOS Odds to Win: +110
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Astros at Braves Probable Pitchers
The Houston Astros will send Framber Valdez (1-2) to the hill as they take on the Braves, who will give the start to Kyle Wright (0-0) when the clubs meet on Saturday.
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- HOU Odds to Win: -105
- Total: 8.5 runs
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Padres at Diamondbacks Probable Pitchers
The San Diego Padres will send Joe Musgrove (0-0) to the hill as they face the Diamondbacks, who will counter with Merrill Kelly (1-2) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
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- SD Odds to Win: -145
- ARI Odds to Win: +120
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Royals at Angels Probable Pitchers
The Kansas City Royals will send Zack Greinke (0-3) to the bump as they play the Angels, who will hand the ball to Tyler Anderson (1-0) for the game between the teams Saturday.
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- KC Odds to Win: +150
- Total: 9.5 runs
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Cardinals at Mariners Probable Pitchers
The St. Louis Cardinals will send Miles Mikolas (0-1) to the bump as they play the Mariners, who will counter with Luis Castillo (2-0) for the game between the teams on Saturday.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan said the truce brokered between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Wagner Group is "evidence" of Putin's "weakness."
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin agreed to a deal this weekend to go into exile in Belarus after he staged an apparent insurrection in which he directed an armed convoy toward Moscow. The Russian mercenary organization had been fighting for the Kremlin in the country's ongoing war in Ukraine, but he marched toward Moscow over the weekend to demand the removal of Russian commanders, who Prigozhin says have mishandled the war.
CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan questioned Sullivan on "Face the Nation" Sunday about how Belarus appears to be a power broker in the deal, considering the country is considered "a vassal state of Russia."
"Like why would Yevgeny Prigozhin move to Belarus? Why are they suddenly appearing to be power brokers?" Brennan asked.
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"[Belarus President Aleksandr] Lukashenko is in power now as president because of Vladimir Putin," Sullivan said. "Vladimir Putin came to his rescue in August 2020. It was Lukashenko who was dependent on Putin. But now think about this. This is, as you know, Belarus is part of a union state with Russia, they are conjoined."
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"How dependent now is Putin on Lukashenko … it's evidence of the weakness that this reveals what's happened in the last three or four days, the weakness of Vladimir Putin. It's not just an appearance of weakness, it's actual weakness," Sullivan said.
"A person that he has said is a traitor who has stabbed him and his nation in the back … he struck a deal with?" Sullivan continued. "A deal that he needed to strike to avoid bloodshed and chaos. What strong leader does that?"
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Prigozhin founded the mercenary group in 2014 and had been considered a close confidant of Putin in recent years. Sullivan called the Wagner Group a "corrupt organization" during his CBS News appearance and cited Prigozhin's time in prison for robbery, fraud and related charges.
"Prigozhin himself spent most of the 1980s in prison because he's a career criminal," Sullivan said.
"Wagner operates in states in Africa and elsewhere, not because there are patriots who were executing policy on behalf of the Russian government, they're there to get access to … gold mines, oil resources and so forth," he added.
"This is a money-making organization, corrupt organization that the United States correctly treats as a transnational criminal organization."
All in, the Wagner rebellion lasted less than 36 hours, and Prigozhin is reportedly headed to Belarus to live in exile. | 2023-06-25T21:25:19+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/putins-deal-with-warlord-shows-actual-weakness-amid-russia-unrest-expert/article_4cae4bd7-0863-536d-9a3a-a54a26dc3a05.html |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Saudi sovereign wealth fund now holds 8.26% of the stock in the video game maker Nintendo, making it the largest outside investor in the Japanese gaming company, a company filing said Friday.
The investment comes as part of efforts by the kingdom's Public Investment Fund to diversify Saudi Arabia's economy away from oil, including billions already spent on video game firms. The fund has been a major component in the plans of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, himself said to be an avid gamer.
However, the purchase of Nintendo and other gaming stocks also entangles the video game companies into the politics surrounding Saudi Arabia and its assertive 37-year-old crown prince. American intelligence agencies believe Prince Mohammed ordered the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Saudi investment.
A filing to Japanese regulators on Friday revealed the Public Investment Fund's holding in Kyoto-based Nintendo. Saudi Arabia has been steadily building its stake over recent months in the company, best known for its Super Mario Brothers franchise and its Nintendo Switch gaming console.
The Saudi fund remains behind Nintendo's own holdings in the gaming company. Nintendo is valued at $52 billion.
Nintendo stock closed slight down Friday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange at $40.50 a share.
The Public Investment Fund did not immediately acknowledge increasing its holdings in Nintendo. It runs the Savvy Games Group, which aims to establish 250 gaming companies in Saudi Arabia and create 39,000 jobs. Savvy Games plans to invest some $38 billion into the gaming industry over the coming years.
Already, the Saudi wealth fund holds stock worth $2.9 billion in Activision Blizzard, $1.7 billion in Electronic Arts, $1.2 billion stake in Take-Two Interactive, according to data from the Nasdaq Stock Market.
The Saudi expansion into gaming, however, has sparked criticism. Riot Games, which makes the popular online multiplayer game League of Legends, cancelled a partnership with Prince Mohammed's planned futuristic city Neom in 2020 after an outcry from gamers.
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Stocks rallied in a roller-coaster day of trading on Wall Street Wednesday after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates by the biggest margin since 1994, but also said such mega-hikes would not be common.
The Fed did signal that more increases are on the way as it tries to tackle the worst inflation in four decades. The increase of three-quarters of a percentage point was three times as big as the central bank usually makes. The S&P 500 rose 1.5% after several sudden moves up and down immediately after the Fed’s announcement. Treasury yields fell.
On Wednesday:
The S&P 500 rose 54.51 points, or 1.5%, to 3,789.99.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 303.70 points, or 1%, to 30,668.53.
The Nasdaq rose 270.81 points, or 2.5%, to 11,099.15.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 23.31 points, or 1.4%, to 1,731.14.
For the week:
The S&P 500 is down 110.87 points, or 2.8%.
The Dow is down 724.26 points, or 2.3%.
The Nasdaq is down 240.87 points, or 2.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 69.14 points, or 3.8%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is down 976.19 points, or 20.5%.
The Dow is down 5,669.77 points, or 15.6%.
The Nasdaq is down 4,545.82 points, or 29.1%.
The Russell 2000 is down 514.17 points, or 22.9%. | 2022-06-15T21:13:56+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/How-major-US-stock-indexes-fared-Wednesday-17244217.php |
17-Year Industry Veteran Replaces Retiring President Gerald Melville
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Liz Zolcak has been named the new President of Fresh Thyme Market, succeeding Gerald Melville, who has announced his retirement after a 43-year retail career.
"I am thrilled and humbled to take on this exciting new challenge and to be trusted to lead such an incredible team," Zolcak said. "Gerald and I have been able to accomplish significant wins with the team during our time working together, and I'm looking forward to even more successes ahead."
Zolcak has 17 years of retail leadership experience and joined Fresh Thyme Market in 2020 as Vice President of Operations, overseeing the company's 71 stores. She previously led in both domestic and international operations with Kroger and ALDI, including roles as Vice President of Retail Operations for Kroger, Division President of Ruler Foods, and Marketing Director for ALDI.
Melville became President of Fresh Thyme Market in 2019, joining the retailer from Meijer, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based supercenter chain.
"My tenure at Fresh Thyme Market has been challenging and exciting," Melville said. "As I move on to my next phase, I'm very confident Fresh Thyme Market is poised for continued success as I hand the baton to Liz."
Fresh Thyme Market, a local, community-focused grocer with 71 stores in 10 states throughout the Midwest, was born from a genuine desire to help people live better and healthier lives. Every day Fresh Thyme Market works to be a trusted resource in our communities, bringing people access to real food at real affordable prices. With a local focus on what the community needs, each store provides fresh, natural and organic food at affordable prices. By offering an immersive, intuitive shopping experience, Fresh Thyme Market meets people wherever they are on their journey to living a healthier lifestyle. To learn more, visit freshthyme.com or keep in touch by liking Fresh Thyme at facebook.com/freshthymemarket, and following them at twitter.com/freshthymefm and https://www.instagram.com/freshthyme/.
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Memorandum signed to improve how information, services are given to farmers
Memorandum signed to improve how information, services are given to farmers
THIS JOINT EFFORT WILL START NEXT YEAR. A MEMORANDUM WAS SIGNED TODAY TO HELP IMPROVE HOW INFORMATION AND SERVICES ARE GIVEN TO FARMERS AND RANCHERS. THE GROUPS GATHERED IN FOLSOM TO SIGN THAT AGREEMENT. YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THEM ON YOUR SCREEN HERE. THE MEMORANDUM OUTLINES HOW THE GROUPS WILL SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR SERVICE AS RESOURCES AND GRANTS. REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH ORGANIZATION WILL KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER GROUPS. THIS IS A BIT MORE EFFECTIVE WAY OF MAKING SURE EVERY FARMER AND EVERY CORNER, REGARDLESS OF THEIR LANGUAGE OR THE SIZE OF THEIR FARM, HAS ACCESS AND EASIER ACCESS TO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDERS THAT CAN CONNECT THEM TO THE SERVICES AND THE GRANT PROGRAMS THAT WORK FOR THEM. FOR MY EXPERIENCE WITH THEM HAS BEEN EXCELLENT AS FAR AS THERE HASN’T BEEN A LOT OF RED TAPE AND I’VE HAD GREAT PEOPLE REALLY HELP ME FIND THE RESOURCES THAT BIG CORPORATIONS GET. SO FOR SMALL GUYS LIKE LIKE US, WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO SOME OF THE SAME TECHNICAL SERVICES AND GRANTS THAT STATE LEADERS SAY THIS MOVE IS EXACTLY
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Memorandum signed to improve how information, services are given to farmers
A memorandum was signed Thursday to help improve how information and services are given to farmers and ranchers. The groups gathered in Folsom to sign the agreement. The memorandum outlines how the groups will share information about their services, resources and grants. State leaders say this move is one way to cut red tape. Learn more in the video above.
A memorandum was signed Thursday to help improve how information and services are given to farmers and ranchers.
The groups gathered in Folsom to sign the agreement.
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The memorandum outlines how the groups will share information about their services, resources and grants.
State leaders say this move is one way to cut red tape.
Learn more in the video above. | 2022-12-05T23:15:50+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/memorandum-signed-improve-information-services-given-farmers/42158270 |
This evening's outlook for Waterloo: Evening rain followed by a mix of rain and snow late. Low 32F. Winds E at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precip 100%. Temperatures will be just above freezing in Waterloo tomorrow. It looks like it will be a bitter 37 degrees. 31 degrees is tomorrow's low. It's likely to rain tomorrow. Models are predicting a 68% chance. The Waterloo area should see a light breeze, with forecast showing winds from northeast, clocking in at 9 mph. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Visit wcfcourier.com for more weather updates.
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Just in time for the Fourth of July, Ohio’s new fireworks law goes into effect Friday. However, not all local governments in the Miami Valley will allow people to shoot off fireworks this weekend.
The Dayton Police Department responds to a lot of fireworks calls around holidays like the Fourth of July.
“Fireworks are kind of ubiquitous on certain holidays,” Major Jason Hall said. “We do respond to a lot of calls. Some of the call information, if you look back as recently as 2020, our call volume went through the roof of fireworks, an increase of over 1000%.”
Starting Friday, Ohio law allows people to shoot off commercial-grade fireworks around select holidays, including July 3, 4 and 5 and the weekends before and after.
Local municipalities can choose to opt-out and ban fireworks outright.
In the Miami Valley, Dayton, Kettering, Fairborn, Beavercreek, Oakwood, Springfield and Germantown have all banned private use of fireworks.
“When you have an urban area and you have people living in close proximity to each other, using these devices can create a lot of different problems, even on the consumer grade, which would be, you know what, you could go to the store and buy,” Hall said.
Not following the rules can result in penalties.
Hall said in Dayton, the first offense comes with a citation, the second is a fourth degree misdemeanor.
Ohio law states if you’re shooting off fireworks intoxicated, or even just have access to alcohol, that’s a first degree misdemeanor with a fine or jail time.
Hall said DPD always has extra patrols for the Fourth, but he’s asking residents to follow the rules so they don’t receive a visit from police.
“Voluntary compliance is key,” Hall said. “We’re not there to ruin anybody’s good time, but people should know that the discharge of fireworks in the City of Dayton is a crime and they could receive a citation.”
Dayton’s fireworks ban does not include novelty fireworks like sparklers, smoke bombs and snaps.
If you live in a community that bans fireworks and still want to celebrate the Fourth of July with fireworks, click here for a list of displays in the Miami Valley. | 2022-07-01T03:30:50+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/fireworks-legal-in-ohio-july-1-miami-valley-cities-to-enforce-fireworks-bans/ |
Greensboro mothers gain resources at American Heart Association event
Expectant parents in the Piedmont Triad learned ways to reduce infant mortality on Monday.
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The American Heart Association teamed up with Every Baby Guilford and The March of Dimes to hold a "Trusted Spaces, Healthy Babies" community celebration.
The program is implemented in 13 barber shops and beauty salons in Guilford County.
It's an outreach campaign to provide new parents with access to support programs and tools like blood pressure monitors and scales.
As part of the celebration, a local chef made heart-healthy parfaits for the soon-to-be parents. | 2022-09-20T01:03:29+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/north-carolina-triad-greensboro-mothers-gain-resources-at-american-heart-association-event/41285170 |
TuneIn On Air Distribution Now Offered for Live365 Stream Hosting Customers
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TuneIn and Live365 announce today a TuneIn On Air distribution agreement between the leading internet radio companies. Live365 broadcasters can now access TuneIn On Air distribution as part of Live365's premium packages or as an add-on to any other package. TuneIn On Air is a new program that allows internet radio broadcasters to expand their reach to TuneIn's 30 million US-based listeners via TuneIn's app and 200+ connected devices and auto partners, which include Tesla, Volvo, Sonos, Amazon, Samsung, and others.
Live365, a one-stop shop for internet radio stations, provides powerful streaming tools, analytics, monetization, listening distribution and the option for music licensing coverage. Live365's world-class tools, music licensing coverage and thousands of broadcasters, paired with TuneIn's massive reach, are opening the door for radio broadcasters to legally stream music and talk content to millions of listeners. TuneIn On Air is now included in Live365's premium broadcast packages – Broadcast 4 and Broadcast 5 – while those on remaining packages are able to select TuneIn On Air as an add-on to their current package.
"This partnership with Live365 fits perfectly within our mission to reinvent radio for a connected world and democratize access to radio for broadcasters large and small. We believe great conversations are driven by the power of the human voice and we know our listeners rely on us to stay connected to the issues that matter to them most via our content catalog," said Richard Stern, CEO of TuneIn. "We're thrilled to help more broadcasters reach TuneIn's expansive audience."
"We're excited to strike up this historic distribution deal with TuneIn to offer our Live365 Broadcaster Community access to TuneIn On Air's unparalleled distribution reach," said Live365 CEO and founder, Jon Stephenson. "As internet radio pioneers, this is an extraordinary opportunity to combine forces and allow broadcasters to utilize Live365's easy-to-use tools and licensing coverage while reaching TuneIn's millions of listeners. We're proud to offer this to our community as we focus on expanding our distribution offering."
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Mickelson’s absence from PGA called disappointing and ‘sad’
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Phil Mickelson isn’t even at Southern Hills and he’s still the talk of Tulsa. Hardly a player could escape the microphone Tuesday without addressing Mickelson’s decision to skip the PGA Championship after the incendiary comments he made about a Saudi-funded rival league he supports in conflict with the PGA Tour. Mickelson also skipped the Masters. But the PGA Championship at Southern Hills feels like an even bigger deal. It was supposed to be Lefty’s victory lap after his stunning win last year at age 50. Rory McIlroy called it “sad” that Mickelson isn’t defending his title. | 2022-05-17T23:44:48+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2022/05/17/mickelsons-absence-from-pga-called-disappointing-and-sad/ |
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The order was signed Wednesday by Judge Jonathan S. Dills of the Office of Administrative Hearings. No hearing date has been set to consider whether the popular Spring Garden Street music venue will lose its license. | 2022-09-10T06:17:11+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/3-bedroom-home-in-greensboro---315-000/article_2b99dc82-31f8-5217-b3f4-40a1220c9b7d.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday ordered an Ohio utility to stop dumping dangerous coal ash into unlined storage ponds and speed cleanup of the site.
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The order to the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant in southern Ohio marks the first time the EPA has formally denied a utility’s request to continue disposing toxic coal ash after a deadline to stop such disposal has passed. The Gavin plant, located along the Ohio River in Cheshire, Ohio, is one of the largest coal-fired electricity plants in the U.S.
At least five other plants, most in the Midwest, face similar action by the EPA under a crackdown proposed in January.
"For too long, communities already disproportionately impacted by high levels of pollution have been burdened by improper coal ash disposal,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said Friday. “Today’s action reaffirms that surface impoundments or landfills cannot be closed with coal ash in contact with groundwater.''
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The action is intended to ensure that local water resources are safe while protecting the public health and ensuring a reliable electricity supply, Regan said.
Coal ash, the substance that remains when coal is burned to generate electricity, contains a toxic mix of mercury, cadmium, arsenic and other heavy metals. It can pollute waterways, poison wildlife and cause respiratory illness among those living near massive ponds where the waste is stored.
The EPA order directs the power plant to stop placing coal ash and other waste streams into an on-site storage pond no later than 135 days after publication in the Federal Register, expected next week. As a practical matter, the plant may have have to pause or even cease operations next year in order to comply with the order.
A spokesperson for the plant's owner, Lightstone Generation LLC, could not be reached for comment. The company is a joint venture between private-equity firms ArcLight Capital Partners and Blackstone Group.
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EPA said Friday that its decision recognizes the importance of maintaining grid reliability. The order establishes a process for Gavin to seek additional time, if needed, to address demonstrated grid reliability issues.
EPA said it is working with a regional grid operator to prevent unscheduled outages and protect reliability of the grid. Under rules established by the grid operator, PJM Interconnection, Gavin must request a planned outage at least 30 days in advance, EPA said.
The order finalized Friday follows through on a proposal issued in January that implements a 2015 rule aimed at reducing groundwater pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Trump administration weakened the Obama-era rule in 2020, allowing utilities to use cheaper technologies and take longer to comply with guidelines that were less stringent than the initial rule.
The action on coal ash was among dozens of public health and environmental mandates that were weakened, rolled back or eliminated under former President Donald Trump.
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U.S. coal plants produce about 100 million tons (90 million metric tons) annually of ash and other waste.
The EPA has proposed denial of requests for extensions of coal ash permits by several other power plants, including the Clifty Creek power plant in Madison, Indiana and the Ottumwa Generating Station in Ottumwa, Iowa.
The H.L. Spurlock plant in Maysville, Kentucky, is required to fix groundwater monitoring as a condition for continued operation of its coal ash pond, the EPA said.
Lisa Evans, a senior attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice, called the Gavin plant “a super-polluter″ and said EPA's action was overdue.
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“In this case, the violations are very obvious and very severe,'' she said, adding that the plant's previous and current operators “have continued their reckless and illegal disposal of toxic coal ash and contaminated groundwater. Now they will be forced to clean it up.''
A report issued this month by Earthjustice and the Environmental Integrity Project said 91% of U.S. coal-fired plants have ash landfills or waste ponds that are leaking arsenic, lead, mercury and other metals into groundwater at dangerous levels, often threatening streams, rivers and drinking water aquifers.
Some power companies are illegally manipulating data and monitoring systems to avoid cleanup requirements and have proposed inadequate cleanup strategies that will not restore groundwater quality, the report said. | 2022-11-19T00:18:33+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/EPA-orders-Ohio-power-plant-to-stop-dumping-toxic-17596222.php |
Nine dead, dozens injured after Russian warplanes attack near Syrian market
By Eyad Kourdi and Hafsa Khalil, CNN
(CNN) — Nine people have been killed and dozens injured after Russian fighter jets bombed a city in Syria’s rebel-controlled northwestern Idlib province, according to the local White Helmets emergency response group.
A fruit and vegetable market was impacted in the Sunday attack on the city of Jisr al-Shughur. One eyewitness told CNN that the “missile had so much pressure and the sharpness hit the crowded market.”
“Thirty minutes after the strike, I went to the location,” 26-year-old Ahmad Rahhal, a local journalist, said. “I saw wagons of tomato on the ground and blood on the floor.”
The White Helmets said this was the second day of airstrikes in the area, coming ahead of the Muslim festival, Eid al-Adha, in the Muslim-majority country. The past four days have also seen artillery fire, the civil defense added.
Sunday’s strike in Jisr al-Shughur stands as the most fatal in northwestern Syria so far in 2023.
Russian military flights over the country have shown marked aggression in the past few months.
In April, Russian pilots attempted to “dogfight” US jets over Syria, the US said. In military aviation, dogfighting is engaging in aerial combat, often at relatively close ranges.
Earlier this month, the US deployed F-22 fighter jets to the Middle East over concerns about “unsafe and unprofessional behavior” by Russian aircraft.
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AFR-IX is the Largest Pan-African Exchange and the New Connection into the EdgeConneX Barcelona Facility Will Help Provide Multi-Continent Connectivity Across the Mediterranean for Customers
HERNDON, Va., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- EdgeConneX®, the pioneer in global Hyperlocal to Hyperscale Data Center Solutions, announces that it has connected its data center located in Sant Boi de Llobregat, (Barcelona) Spain, to the AFR-IX Barcelona Cable Landing Station (CLS) – a critical entry and exit point between Barcelona, Europe, Africa, and the rest of the World.
Opened in 2021, the 9MW EdgeConneX carrier-neutral data center facility in Barcelona provides essential, local, cloud and content access as well as highly secure server collocation in a carbon-neutral facility employing renewable energy strategies.
"The Barcelona CLS connection enables EdgeConneX customers to access new international routes through the submarine cables hosted by the AFR-IX Barcelona CLS," said Bart Verdouw, Senior Director Solutions Architecture EMEA at EdgeConneX "Importantly, the connection also enables alternative routes to EdgeConneX data centers throughout Europe, including Dublin, Brussels, Amsterdam and Munich. The agreement between AFR-IX telecom and EdgeConneX is an example of how a whole digital ecosystem that will eventually consolidate Barcelona and its metropolitan area as a relevant digital hub in Southern Europe.
EdgeConneX is continuing its push to bring the Edge closer to those that need it most, where they need it most. It's a customer centric philosophy that runs companywide and takes the company to places like Barcelona where it can have an immediate and positive impact on overall business opportunity, community and edge market growth.
"There is a great demand from many companies for data centers in the Barcelona metropolitan region to connect to Barcelona CLS to improve their connectivity and access to international routes through submarine cables," said Miguel Angel Acero, CTO of Barcelona CLS and AFR-IX telecom. "The connection between EdgeConneX and Barcelona CLS will be beneficial for both companies and will improve the digital economy, not only in this region, but across Europe and Africa."
For more information about EdgeConneX and its leading Edge of network infrastructure solutions for expanding and improving access to data, content, and communications anywhere, anytime, at any scale, visit edgeconnex.com or email info@edgeconnex.com.
About EdgeConneX
Backed by EQT Infrastructure, part of the global investment organization EQT, EdgeConneX provides a full range of sustainable data center solutions worldwide. We work closely with our customers to offer choices in location, scale and type of facility, from Hyperlocal to Hyperscale. EdgeConneX is a global leader in anytime, anywhere, and any scale data center services for a diverse portfolio of industries, including Content, Cloud, Networks, Gaming, Automotive, SaaS, IoT, HPC, Security, and more. With a mission predicated on taking care of our customers, our people, and our planet, EdgeConneX strives to Empower Your Edge. For more information, please visit edgeconnex.com.
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How to stay safe in record low temperatures
(CNN) – More than 100 million people across the U.S. are under winter weather and wind chill alerts as a major, potential “once in a generation-type,” event sweeps across the country, bringing record low temperatures.
The weather outside is frightful, and will be getting even worse over the next few days.
It’s imperative that you are prepared to battle the cold.
With the National Weather Service warning of life-threatening wind chills in some parts of the country, the number one thing you can do to stay safe is to stay inside.
Kelly Serr, a warning coordination meteorologist with the weather service, said frostbite can happen faster than you might think in negative temperatures.
“We really tell people to limit their exposure outside,” she said. “The air temperature combined with the strong winds really create these hazardous conditions to humans. Then, it’s just a matter of minutes. It’s a matter of minutes. Five to 10 minutes and your skin can start freezing.”
Serr also said to avoid getting on the roads unless you have to.
“Make sure you have an emergency kit in your vehicle, and that emergency kit is going to keep things that are going to keep you warm in the event that you do get stranded or vehicle stalls,” she said. “You want to make sure you have the hat, the mittens, the gloves, your warm winter coat, blankets, some extra food, make sure your cell phone is with you, an extra battery, extra battery charger for your cell phone so that you can call for help when you need.”
Precautions should be taken when indoors too.
People are advised to dress in warm clothing, keep pets inside, and let your water taps drip slightly to prevent freezing pipes.
If the power goes out, make sure not to leave any lit candles unattended, and never use generators, grills, or camp stoves indoors or near windows.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-22T23:14:16+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2022/12/22/how-stay-safe-record-low-temperatures/ |
BEIJING, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheng Hong Holding Group, a leading high-tech enterprise in Suzhou, signed a contract to settle its battery gigafactory and new energy research institute projects involving a total investment of about 30.6 billion yuan in Zhangjiagang City of east China's Jiangsu Province.
The projects will be completed in phases and are expected to generate annual revenue of more than 56 billion yuan upon completion. Among them, the first phase of the 24GWh project and the new energy battery research institute project involving a total investment of 14 billion yuan are expected to be completed and put into operation in three years, with their annual revenue expected to reach 24 billion yuan.
Han Wei, Party chief of Zhangjiagang, said that the city has been committed to creating advantageous business environment for major projects and high-quality enterprises and providing a solid guarantee for the implementation of projects.
As one of the Fortune Global 500 companies growing in Suzhou, Sheng Hong Holding Group has developed into an international high-tech industrial group integrating the whole industrial chain of petrochemical refining, new energy, new materials and high-end textiles.
Miao Hangen, chairman of Sheng Hong Holding Group, said the projects launched by the group are expected to inject impetus into the economic development of Zhangjiagang City.
In addition, Zhangjiagang witnessed the signing of 100 major projects involving a total investment of 59.72 billion yuan at a major project promotion event held on January 29, 2023, including 22 foreign-funded projects worth of 10.18 billion yuan.
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Forest health workshop educates landowners, timber professionals on invasive species
Participants heard speakers talk about invasive species and what programs are available to them.
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. (WLUC) - 45 landowners and timber professionals gathered in Iron Mountain to learn about the health of our forests. Participants heard speakers talk about invasive species and what programs are available to them. The Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition (WRISC) hosted the workshop.
“They get together and hear from area experts and natural resource professionals in the field about current forest health issues, the current state of forest health, and different opportunities for landowners and timber professionals to do best management practices or gain different skills for their own properties,” said Lindsay Peterson, WRISC coordinator.
Peterson says some forest health issues discussed were the impacts of invasive species on our forest.
“Different things like invasive buckthorn, but also forest pests like the emerald ash borer and oak wilt, which are still really big issues in our area,” Peterson said. “We have been hearing a lot about that, especially from the Michigan DNR forest health update.”
The emerald ash borer is a beetle that feeds on ash trees. It is native to Asia. Oak wilt is a fungal disease native to the midwestern United States. Peterson said it is important to discuss and educate professionals about ongoing issues.
“I think that the high turnout today means that people care about these issues and are interested in what they can do to create a healthy forest for generations to come on their properties,” Peterson said.
The last major workshop was in 2018, Peterson said the turnout for the workshop was extremely strong and she said the best way to keep a healthy forest is to stay educated.
Copyright 2022 WLUC. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-21T00:41:36+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2022/12/20/forest-health-workshop-educates-landowners-timber-professionals-invasive-species/ |
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump was convicted Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.Bannon was found guilty after a trial that lasted around five days in federal court in Washington on two counts: one for refusing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena.He faces up to two years in a federal lockup when he’s sentenced. Each count carries a minimum sentence of 30 days in jail.The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for just under three hours before returning the verdict.This is a breaking news update. Earlier story follows below:Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress trial went to the jury Friday, as the panel began deliberating the fate of the longtime Donald Trump ally.Bannon is charged with two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol and the events leading up to the deadly riot. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days in jail and up to a year.In closing arguments Friday morning, both sides re-emphasized their primary positions from the trial. The prosecution maintained that Bannon willfully ignored clear and explicit deadlines, and the defense claimed Bannon believed those deadlines were flexible and subject to negotiation.Bannon was served with a subpoena on Sept. 23 last year ordering him to provide requested documents to the committee by Oct. 7 and appear in person by Oct. 14. Bannon's attorney Evan Corcoran told jurors Friday in his closing arguments that those deadlines were mere "placeholders" while lawyers on each side negotiated terms.Corcoran said the committee "rushed to judgment" because it "wanted to make an example of Steve Bannon."Corcoran also hinted that the government's main witness, Jan. 6 committee chief counsel Kristin Amerling, was personally biased. Amerling admitted on the stand that she is a lifelong Democrat and has been friends with one of the prosecutors for years. Corcoran also vaguely hinted that the signature of Jan. 6 committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss) looked different on the subpoena than on other letters but dropped that topic when the prosecution objected.Prosecutors focused on the series of letters exchanged between the Jan. 6 committee and Bannon's lawyers. The correspondence shows Thompson immediately dismissing Bannon's claim that he was exempted by Trump's claim of executive privilege and explicitly threatening Bannon with criminal prosecution."The defense wants to make this hard, difficult and confusing," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Vaughn in her closing statement. "This is not difficult. This is not hard. There were only two witnesses because it's as simple as it seems."Bannon declined to testify Thursday, and his lawyers did not call any witnesses, instead arguing the judge should dismiss the charges as unproven. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, didn't immediately rule on the request.Bannon's team told the judge that Bannon saw no point in testifying at his trial since Nichols' previous rulings had gutted his avenues of defense. Among other things, Bannon's team was barred from calling as witnesses House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or members of the House panel.Another Bannon lawyer, David Schoen, said Bannon "understands that he would be barred from telling the true facts."Bannon served in an unofficial advisory capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. The committee, which held a prime-time hearing Thursday that included Bannon's comments of Trump's post-election strategy, wanted to speak with Bannon because it had information that he was actively involved in planning, logistics and fundraising for Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's victory.The panel's subpoena demanded any documents or communications relating to Trump and others in his orbit, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.Much of the trial testimony has been built around Amerling, who explained the extent to which the committee tried to engage Bannon and the timeline leading up to the missed deadline.During cross-examination, Corcoran asked Amerling whether it was common for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena. Amerling answered "yes," but added only "when witnesses are cooperating with the committee."Amerling said Bannon was uncooperative from the start, so there was no such leeway.The committee heard nothing from Bannon until after the first deadline had passed, at which point his lawyer sent a letter to the committee stating that Bannon was protected by Trump's claim of executive privilege and would not be providing documents or appearing. The committee responded in writing that Trump's claim was invalid — Trump was no longer president, and Bannon was not employed at the White House at the time of the riot.Vaughn told jurors on Thursday that the subpoena issued to Bannon "wasn't optional. It wasn't a request, and it wasn't an invitation. It was mandatory." She added: "The defendant's failure to comply was deliberate. It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mistake. It was a choice."Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, one month after the Justice Department received the House panel's referral.
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump was convicted Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Bannon was found guilty after a trial that lasted around five days in federal court in Washington on two counts: one for refusing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena.
He faces up to two years in a federal lockup when he’s sentenced. Each count carries a minimum sentence of 30 days in jail.
The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for just under three hours before returning the verdict.
This is a breaking news update. Earlier story follows below:
Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress trial went to the jury Friday, as the panel began deliberating the fate of the longtime Donald Trump ally.
Bannon is charged with two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol and the events leading up to the deadly riot. Each count carries a minimum of 30 days in jail and up to a year.
In closing arguments Friday morning, both sides re-emphasized their primary positions from the trial. The prosecution maintained that Bannon willfully ignored clear and explicit deadlines, and the defense claimed Bannon believed those deadlines were flexible and subject to negotiation.
Bannon was served with a subpoena on Sept. 23 last year ordering him to provide requested documents to the committee by Oct. 7 and appear in person by Oct. 14. Bannon's attorney Evan Corcoran told jurors Friday in his closing arguments that those deadlines were mere "placeholders" while lawyers on each side negotiated terms.
Corcoran said the committee "rushed to judgment" because it "wanted to make an example of Steve Bannon."
Corcoran also hinted that the government's main witness, Jan. 6 committee chief counsel Kristin Amerling, was personally biased. Amerling admitted on the stand that she is a lifelong Democrat and has been friends with one of the prosecutors for years. Corcoran also vaguely hinted that the signature of Jan. 6 committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss) looked different on the subpoena than on other letters but dropped that topic when the prosecution objected.
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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon arrives at the federal court in Washington, Friday, July 22, 2022. Bannon was brought to trial on a pair of federal charges for criminal contempt of Congress after refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prosecutors focused on the series of letters exchanged between the Jan. 6 committee and Bannon's lawyers. The correspondence shows Thompson immediately dismissing Bannon's claim that he was exempted by Trump's claim of executive privilege and explicitly threatening Bannon with criminal prosecution.
"The defense wants to make this hard, difficult and confusing," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Vaughn in her closing statement. "This is not difficult. This is not hard. There were only two witnesses because it's as simple as it seems."
Bannon declined to testify Thursday, and his lawyers did not call any witnesses, instead arguing the judge should dismiss the charges as unproven. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, didn't immediately rule on the request.
Bannon's team told the judge that Bannon saw no point in testifying at his trial since Nichols' previous rulings had gutted his avenues of defense. Among other things, Bannon's team was barred from calling as witnesses House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or members of the House panel.
Another Bannon lawyer, David Schoen, said Bannon "understands that he would be barred from telling the true facts."
Bannon served in an unofficial advisory capacity to Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. The committee, which held a prime-time hearing Thursday that included Bannon's comments of Trump's post-election strategy, wanted to speak with Bannon because it had information that he was actively involved in planning, logistics and fundraising for Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and stop Congress from certifying Democrat Joe Biden's victory.
The panel's subpoena demanded any documents or communications relating to Trump and others in his orbit, including lawyer Rudy Giuliani and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.
Much of the trial testimony has been built around Amerling, who explained the extent to which the committee tried to engage Bannon and the timeline leading up to the missed deadline.
During cross-examination, Corcoran asked Amerling whether it was common for witnesses to appear before a congressional committee several weeks after the deadline date on a subpoena. Amerling answered "yes," but added only "when witnesses are cooperating with the committee."
Amerling said Bannon was uncooperative from the start, so there was no such leeway.
The committee heard nothing from Bannon until after the first deadline had passed, at which point his lawyer sent a letter to the committee stating that Bannon was protected by Trump's claim of executive privilege and would not be providing documents or appearing. The committee responded in writing that Trump's claim was invalid — Trump was no longer president, and Bannon was not employed at the White House at the time of the riot.
Vaughn told jurors on Thursday that the subpoena issued to Bannon "wasn't optional. It wasn't a request, and it wasn't an invitation. It was mandatory." She added: "The defendant's failure to comply was deliberate. It wasn't an accident, it wasn't a mistake. It was a choice."
Bannon was indicted in November on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, one month after the Justice Department received the House panel's referral. | 2022-07-22T19:02:39+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/steve-bannon-contempt-of-congress-trial-jury-deliberations/40691629 |
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Troopers: 4 children dead in Alaska after teen shoots 3 siblings, self
Published: Jul. 27, 2022 at 4:34 PM CDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF/Gray News) - Alaska State Troopers announced four children were found dead at a home in Fairbanks.
A dispatch report obtained by KTVF states troopers received reports of shots fired at a home Tuesday evening.
When troopers arrived at the home, they found the four children dead from apparent gunshot wounds.
Investigators believe a 15-year-old shot three of his siblings before shooting himself.
Troopers said three other children in the home were uninjured, and the parents weren’t home at the time of the shooting.
The bodies were transported to the state medical examiner’s office, and troopers notified the Alaska Office of Children’s Services.
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Moulton man arrested following multi-state crime spree, high-speed chase
LAWRENCE CO., Ala. (WAFF) - During the past month Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office and its Criminal Investigation Division received reports of theft of personal checks, forging and passing of those checks.
After an investigation Paden Terry, 34 was developed as one of the suspects. In that investigation, it was also learned that Terry along with other suspects have been involved in a multi-state crime spree across Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas in the past weeks.
Terry and a female accomplice were arrested following a high-speed pursuit on Oct. 17. The pursuit ended when State Troopers were able to deploy spike strips to disable the car. The female is still in the Prairie County Arkansas Detention Center.
Investigators in Lawrence County received information that Terry was back in Lawrence County and was arrested with help from the Moulton Police Department.
Terry is charged with Forgery, 3rd degree, Possession of Forged Instruments, 3rd degree and Identity Theft 1st degree. His bond was set at $20,000. Terry also has outstanding felony warrants in Wayne County TN for Fraud.
Charges are still pending while the investigation continues.
Copyright 2022 WAFF. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-01T02:03:09+00:00 | waff.com | https://www.waff.com/2022/11/01/moulton-man-arrested-following-multi-state-crime-spree-high-speed-chase/ |
For Wendell Carter Jr., the Orlando Magic’s 2022-23 season further showcased the developmental breakout the 24-year-old big man took the previous season.
In 2021-22, Carter set several career highs, including scoring, rebounding, assists and shooting efficiency.
He one-upped himself this past season, setting new career highs in points (15.2), 2-point (62.4%) and 3-point accuracy (35.6%), 3-point attempts (3.9) and effective field goal percentage (59.1%) — a formula that adjusts for 3-pointers being worth more than made 2-pointers.
Carter was a foundation of Orlando’s defense, which allowed 111.4 points per 100 possessions with Carter on the floor — a top-six mark compared to the rest of the league. The Magic allowed 113.9 points per 100 possessions with Carter on the bench — a solid mark that’s closer to average.
Although he wasn’t as prolific as last season, Carter was the Magic’s best rim protector while adjusting to playing as the lone big man more often.
He was also a connector offensively who was more consistent with being aggressive on that end of the floor.
“He does so many little things,” coach Jamahl Mosley said of Carter late in the season. “Like his ability to know when to roll and where to roll in pick-and-rolls. It’s why he and Franz [Wagner] have such a great connection in the pick-and-roll.
“Defensively, that early talk, that early help with the guards, helping them navigate through screens and being in the right position if something breaks down — those are the things that you don’t really pick up on because he’s covering it so fast.”
The next steps for Carter’s development will come in areas outside of a basketball skill set — leadership and on-court availability.
For a young Magic team that’s looking to take the next step and become a playoff team, accountability between teammates will be important.
This is an area Carter, who’ll be one of the older players of the Magic’s core as a sixth-year player, believes he can help with.
“That’s going to be a big step for me,” Carter said. “Learning how to lead, learning how to be more vocal. I’m a guy who I can faithfully say lead pretty [well] by example. But the accountability of being able to talk up when things aren’t right. Being able to just let people know when I feel a certain way about something they’re doing.
“On the back end of that, being able to receive it whenever I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing, someone can be able to come up to me and I’ll be able to take it and apply it to the next play, whatever the case may be.”
Carter sees being more available as the biggest step he’ll need to take.
He played in 57 of 82 games this past season, missing time because of strained right plantar fascia — the soft tissue under the foot — and hip pain.
Carter’s played at least 73% of games in a season (a 60-game pace) twice in five seasons — the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons.
“It’s a lot of factors,” Carter responded when asked what goes into preparing to be more available for games. “Sometimes injuries are something you can’t control. Some of it’s mental. Making sure I’m in a good mental space. Take care of my body in terms of the way I’m eating. Staying on a really strict diet throughout the offseason.
“And training the small tendons around some of the bigger muscles. I haven’t really had any big muscle or bone injuries since I’ve been in the league. It’s always been the smaller tendons, so strengthening those up and staying on top of that.”
This article first appeared on OrlandoSentinel.com. Email Khobi Price at khprice@orlandosentinel.com or follow him on Twitter at @khobi_price.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - A recall effort against three Flint City Council members is moving forward after the Genesee County Clerk approved recall petition language Tuesday.
The recall is against Second Ward Councilperson Ladel Lewis, Seventh Ward Councilperson and former Council President Allie Herkenroder, and Ninth Ward Councilperson Eva Worthing.
The petitions say the three did not attend a special city council meeting on May 20.
That meeting was meant to allow the public to ask about Flint's allocations of the American Rescue Plan Act funds.
The Clerk says organizers have 180 days to collect enough signatures to put the recall on the ballot unless an appeal is filed.
Herkenroder already announced that she is leaving the council next week. She made that announcement in early June, citing personal health reasons.
Flint's Seventh Ward is invited to a community meeting on Thursday to answer questions about the search for someone to take Herkenroder's place.
Mayor Sheldon Neeley and city leaders will be at Mott Community College this Thursday at 6 p.m. | 2023-06-28T00:02:08+00:00 | abc12.com | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/clerk-approves-recall-language-against-3-flint-city-council-members/article_44db9b12-153c-11ee-8a42-1bd67ec8b4b7.html |
STACEY HAMNER MEMORIAL FUND CREATED: The Shoals Area Chamber Foundation has created the Stacey Hamner Memorial Fund, benefitting Women in Business by providing scholarships for students and micro-grants for female entrepreneurs. Hamner was founder and owner of Reclaimed Spirit in downtown Florence who died on Dec. 15, 2021. “Creating a ‘women in business’-focused financial opportunity has long been a dream of the Shoals Chamber’s and Stacey was very much a part of those conversations, said Olivia Bradford, director of Communications and Events for the Shoals Chamber. “She helped originate the idea for the Chamber Women in Business Council and we could not think of a more beautiful way to honor her and ensure her impact on the women in business community than to create this fund in her name.” The fund will be overseen by the Shoals Chamber and the Chamber Women in Business Council. Donations can be made to the Shoals Area Chamber Foundation RE: Stacey Hamner Memorial Fund. All donations are tax-deductible as the Shoals Area Chamber Foundation is a 501©3 organization.
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Former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer is sitting for a closed-door transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Monday, in an appearance that is expected to fuel Republican attempts to link President Biden to his son’s business dealings.
The interview follows a letter from the Department of Justice over the weekend regarding Archer’s sentencing for an unrelated matter that is adding to GOP claims of government obstruction of their investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings — even as Archer’s attorney beat down the speculation.
The Justice Department (DOJ) in its letter requested that a judge set a date for Archer to start his one-year prison sentence for his conviction for defrauding a Native American tribe, despite Archer’s counsel saying it was “premature” to do so because of an anticipated appeal and an “error” in sentencing.
That set off alarm bells in the GOP.
“I don’t know if this a coincidence, or if this is another example of the weaponization of the Department of Justice,” House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said Sunday on Fox News.
Other Republicans went further, accusing the DOJ of explicit interference in the GOP-led investigation. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said lawmakers should return from an August recess for emergency hearings if Archer did not show up.
But Archer’s attorney stressed the letter would not impact his planned interview, which had been rescheduled multiple times since Comer subpoenaed him in June.
“We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee on Monday,” Acher’s lawyer Matthew Schwartz said in a Sunday statement, first provided to Politico. “To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation. In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators.”
The DOJ said in a subsequent letter that it was not requesting that Archer surrender before his expected congressional testimony.
His appearance went on as scheduled. A smiling Archer did not answer shouted questions as he arrived at the interview with his lawyer Monday morning.
The interview will comprise four hours of questioning divided evenly between Republicans and Democrats, and it is expected to end midafternoon. Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) were in attendance.
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Goldman cast doubt on the GOP attempts to link the president to his son’s business dealings.
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Trump over the weekend claimed without any evidence that he would be arrested on Tuesday, with his representatives later saying he was citing media reports and leaks. There was no indication that prediction would come true, though the grand jury appeared to take an important step forward by hearing Monday from a witness favorable to Trump, presumably so prosecutors could ensure the panel had a chance to consider any testimony that could be remotely seen as exculpatory.
The next steps in a grand jury process shrouded in secrecy remained unclear, and it was uncertain if additional witnesses might be summoned. But a city mindful of the riot by Trump loyalists at the U.S. Capitol more than two years ago took steps to gird itself from any violence that could accompany the unprecedented prosecution of a former president, while fellow Republicans eyeing the 2024 presidential nomination sized up how an indictment might upend the race.
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Costello had provided Cohen legal services several years ago after Cohen himself became entangled in the federal investigation into the hush money payments. In a news conference after his grand jury appearance, Costello told reporters that he had come forward because he did not believe Cohen, who pleaded guilty to federal crimes and served time in prison, could be trusted.
"If they want to go after Donald Trump and they have solid evidence, then so be it," Costello said. "But Michael Cohen is far from solid evidence."
Responding to Costello’s claims on MSNBC later Monday, Cohen said that Costello was never his lawyer and "he lacks any sense of veracity."
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"I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair," DeSantis said at a news conference in Panama City. "I can’t speak to that."
But, he added, "what I can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush money payments, that’s an example of pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. And I think that’s fundamentally wrong." | 2023-03-21T15:09:57+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/trump-new-york-grand-jury-appears-near-end-of-its-work |
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BOSTON (AP) — Employees at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts ratified their first labor deal Tuesday, becoming the latest prestigious art institution to protect workers with a union contract.
The collective bargaining agreement is the first since museum workers voted to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110 in November 2020, the union and management said in a joint statement.
“We are pleased to have reached an agreement on a union contract with the MFA that will provide a more equitable compensation structure and a democratic voice for the staff,” union President Maida Rosenstein said in the statement. “By establishing collective bargaining rights, the MFA staff is helping to bring about necessary systemic change for museum workers in general."
The union represents 227 of the museum’s administrative, technical, curatorial and conservation employees.
The New York-based UAW Local 2110 represents workers at dozens of cultural and educational institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine.
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, museums were forced to shut down and lay off workers, and many employees realized they had few legal protections, said Tom Juravich, a professor of sociology and labor studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The Museum of Fine Arts eliminated more than 100 jobs early in the pandemic, about half through voluntary early retirements and half through layoffs, according to a statement at the time.
Museums have treated their rank-and-file employees as little more than servants for years, and more workers have been unionizing as attitudes change among younger employees, especially, Juravich said.
“There's a new generation moving into the field, and they are not impressed by the prestige of simply working at the finest cultural institutions in the world, they need to pay the bills,” he said, pointing out that many likely have advanced degrees and substantial student loans.
Juravich said it's also difficult to justify working for subsistence wages when museum leadership is paid handsomely, and many museum boards of trustees are filled with society's wealthiest elite.
The MFA's unionized workers held a one-day strike last November to protest what they said were stalled contract negotiations. The museum, which has about 500,000 pieces of art and draws more than 1 million visitors per year, stayed open during the strike.
The museum said in addition to enhanced benefits for union workers, it has committed additional investments in compensation and benefits for all employees in the next three years.
“Our employees make the MFA what it is; they ensure the highest care for the treasures that we hold in trust for future generations as we strive to be a museum for all of Boston,” museum Director Matthew Teitelbaum said. | 2022-06-28T22:17:07+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Museum-of-Fine-Arts-employees-management-reach-17272299.php |
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wheels Up Experience Inc. (NYSE: UP), the leading brand in private aviation, today announced that it will release its fourth quarter 2022 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Management will host a conference call at 10:00 am ET to discuss the results.
The event will be webcast live and can be accessed via the Events and Presentations page of our Investor Relations website.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo" or the "Company") (NYSE: WFC).
Class Period: February 24, 2021 – June 9, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 29, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) Wells Fargo had misrepresented its commitment to diversity in the Company's workplace; (2) Wells Fargo conducted fake job interviews in order to meet its Diverse Search Requirement; (3) the foregoing conduct subjected Wells Fargo to an increased risk of regulatory and/or governmental scrutiny and enforcement action, including criminal charges; (4) all of the foregoing, once revealed, was likely to negatively impact Wells Fargo's reputation; and (5) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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Doctors in Philly helping patients with Congenital Heart Disease lead active lives
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"It’s making sure that everyone with congenital heart disease has a chance to live life to the fullest," Dr. Fuller said. | 2023-05-26T04:42:54+00:00 | fox29.com | https://www.fox29.com/news/doctors-in-philly-helping-patients-with-congenital-heart-disease-lead-active-lives |
(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump told Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward that he had “good chemistry” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Woodward revealed in a new clip from his new audiobook.
In the clip, Trump tells Woodward, “I’m the only one he deals with,” in reference to Kim.
“The word chemistry. You meet somebody and you have a good chemistry,” Trump added about the North Korean leader. “You meet a woman. In one second, you know whether or not it’s all going to happen.”
Woodward had asked Trump about his relationship with Kim and told the former president that the CIA thinks he’s “ultimately stupid” —to which Trump answered the North Korean leader was “cunning” and “crafty.”
During his presidency, Trump met personally with Kim and pushed for peace talks between the U.S., North Korea and South Korea.
Trump also reportedly exchanged what he called “love letters” with the North Korean leader, who has ramped up his aggression against the U.S. and test fired a record spate of ballistic missiles this year.
The new clip was aired on CNN on Monday to promote Woodward’s new audiobook, “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump,” which was released on Tuesday.
The clip can also be heard in Woodward’s op-ed published in The Washington Post, in which he argues the audiobook is integral to understanding the former president, who he calls a threat to democracy.
The audiobook includes the full audio of Woodward’s 20 one-on-one interviews with the former president, which he conducted before the release of his 2020 book “Rage.” It includes key discussions around the coronavirus pandemic and other issues toward the end of his presidency. | 2022-10-25T16:03:17+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/national/trump-told-woodward-he-had-chemistry-with-north-koreas-kim/ |
Maryland AG releases report on Catholic Church sex abuse
By LEA SKENE and BRIAN WITTE
Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Attorney General’s Office has publicly released a redacted version of an investigative report detailing sex abuse allegations against more than 150 Catholic priests and examining the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s response. The redacted findings were made public Wednesday afternoon, marking a significant development in an ongoing legal battle over its release and adding to a growing pile of evidence from parishes across the country as numerous similar revelations have rocked the Catholic Church in recent years. Former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh launched the probe in 2019 and announced its completion in November, saying investigators had reviewed over 100,000 pages of documents dating back to the 1940s and interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses. | 2023-04-05T18:49:21+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/04/05/maryland-ag-releases-report-on-catholic-church-sex-abuse/ |
PASADENA, Texas, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LCM and Total Valve are happy to announce our partnership out of LCM's Pasadena office to sell and service TVS Engineered Product's, a division of Total Valve Systems, line of products in the South Texas & Louisiana territories. These products include Excess Flow Valves, Change-over/Diverter Valves, Lift Track, 6820TRV and other Engineered Products and Services from Total Valve. "This alliance helps us better serve our growing customer base for these unique but required valves in this local market," states Tommy Crume, president of LCM Industries, Inc. Total Valve Systems and LCM industries are proud distributors for Curtiss-Wright Valve Group – Farris Engineering and Dyna-Flo along with other Top Brands in the Valve Industry.
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Businesses can now standardize their end-to-end cybersecurity programs on the industry's most secure infrastructure, while retaining choice and vendor optionality
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Announced today at RSA Conference, Google Cloud and Mandiant are combining their cybersecurity partner ecosystems to offer the industry's most open, comprehensive, and intelligent platform for customers' end-to-end cybersecurity needs.
The combined ecosystem brings together expertise and technology from Google Cloud, Mandiant, and integrations with more than 100 leading cybersecurity vendors. From incident response through proactive defense, Google Cloud gives organizations the choice and breadth to stay ahead of security threats and eliminate common gaps that plague legacy networks, infrastructure, and tools. Google Cloud is expanding these capabilities even further with new partner integrations that help customers better protect against breaches across cloud environments, and respond more quickly to cybersecurity events when they occur.
"Google Cloud remains fundamentally committed to growing its open cloud ecosystem, ensuring that customers on any cloud platform can protect their businesses with the industry's most advanced security tools," said Sunil Potti, VP and GM of security, Google Cloud. "With Mandiant, we can now build end-to-end security programs that unify our leading threat intelligence and technology with the capabilities of our partners, providing customers with comprehensive solutions that are tailored to their security needs."
"As an organization that's been on the frontlines of some of the most impactful breaches, we recognize that the fight against persistent, global adversaries requires a united defense," said Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant, Google Cloud. "Working alongside our combined, growing network of elite security partners accelerates our ability to help customers around the world to strengthen their security posture and proactively defend against emerging threats."
Extending generative AI to partners with Google Cloud Security AI Workbench
Google Cloud today announced Security AI Workbench, an industry-first platform that enables security partners to extend generative AI to their products. The platform combines a new, security-specific large language model (LLM) from Google Cloud, Sec-PaLM, with Mandiant's leading frontline intelligence and encompasses vulnerabilities, malware, threat indicators, and more. Partners can easily integrate with the platform via an API (application programming interface) to bring threat intelligence, workflows, and other critical functionality to customers, while retaining enterprise-grade data protections and sovereignty. Security AI Workbench will power new partner offerings that help customers address key security challenges across threats, toilsome tools, and the talent gap.
Learn more about Google Cloud Security AI Workbench here.
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Google Cloud's ecosystem of global consulting partners provide implementation and managed cybersecurity services for enterprise customers. At RSA, Accenture announced that its managed detection and response (MxDR) security service will be enhanced by technologies from Google Cloud, bringing customers a comprehensive security service inclusive of Chronicle security operations and Mandiant Intelligence and Consulting offerings, delivered by thousands of Accenture specialists with expertise building end-to-end security programs for enterprise customers. Accenture will also be the first partner to utilize Security AI Workbench.
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Today, Mandiant also introduced the next phase of its Cyber Alliance program. Corelight, Nozomi Networks, SentinelOne, and SnapAttack are all expanding their capabilities through deeper integrations and unified offerings, enabling Mandiant's security experts to offer the most comprehensive security solutions to customers and help them proactively defend against threats critical to their organization. Crowdstrike also announced the general availability of CrowdStrike Falcon for Mandiant Incident Response, which will operationalize endpoint detection to help customers stop and defend against breaches.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Hanmi Financial Corp. (HAFC) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profit of $25.1 million.
The Los Angeles-based bank said it had earnings of 82 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 66 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $72.5 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $68.4 million, which also topped Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $62.8 million.
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BOSTON — The Celtics played by far their worst basketball of the season in the first half against the Pacers. Sure, Indiana made plenty of 3-pointers. But the Celtics fell behind by as many as 30 points because of their lackluster, low-energy play.
It was the exact type of basketball a struggling team that had lost four of five games shouldn’t be playing — especially right from tipoff. The Celtics do get limited credit as they rallied back in the second half to cut it to a five-point game, only to see their comeback attempt fall short in the 117-112 loss Wednesday.
Despite the loss, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said he’s not overly concerned about his team. It was only one half, he said. Mazzulla also challenged his team at halftime: “You have to decide what team you want to be.” The Celtics chose to be the aggressor in the second half, outscoring the Pacers by 23 points. Yet, it’s also important to note the Celtics have lost five of six games to drop to 22-10 in the results-oriented NBA.
“In moments like this, it’s important to trust your guys because they’ve been through a lot and they’ve had games like this and they’ve had bounce back and we’ve proven to be a really good team,” Mazzulla said. “You have to trust the relationships that we’ve built to just have a conversation. But I’m not concerned that I’m not going to know what team is coming in.”
With the Celtics hitting their first patch of adversity this season, it’s also learning grounds for Mazzulla. The interim coach was pushed to the top after Ime Udoka’s suspension as those in the C’s organization gave him their endorsement. But Mazzulla will be one of the first to point out that he’s still learning, too, and that he’ll make mistakes.
Mazzulla, though, has said multiple times he wants to be a player’s coach. That’s what he’s doing as the C’s have stumbled in the past two weeks: Mazzulla has put his trust in his players.
“I’m fulfilled and I’m okay with the fact that I know our guys as people and I know their character and I know we’re going through a little bit of a hard stage,” Mazzulla said. “And that’s part of the NBA. It’s also hard when you play the way you did at the beginning of the year and you set such a high standard. It’s hard to play to that all the time. So we have to learn how to make that standard a habit.”
The Celtics also have the luxury of still having one of the best records in the league. There are areas to fix, but there’s no heightened urgency like last season as the C’s didn’t know if they were a playoff team or not. There’s a sense of security that comes from a Finals run, where the Celtics proved they’re battle-tested and bonafide contenders.
So the C’s will go back to the basics, which Jayson Tatum has determined as having fun playing basketball. He repeated that phrase after Wednesday’s loss, just like after the Clippers loss last week. But when things are going wrong and shots are missed, Tatum said he can tell everyone on the team feels the pressure just enough to affect them.
“We got to learn how to win again,” Tatum said. “I think it’s not as simple as that, but we gotta get back to having fun. I think we’re playing a little timid, a little tight. Basketball is supposed to be fun, it’s supposed to be loose, it’s supposed to be competitive.”
The Celtics have no need to panic yet as Tatum pointed out they still have 50 games left on the schedule. What was once the best team in the NBA has struggled, but that’s bound to happen over a long season. It’s how the Celtics bounce back that should be the measuring stick factor in the coming days.
“We have fun together off the court,” Tatum said. “We bond. This is a close group. We’re just having a tough stretch. We’ve had a tough stretch every year since I’ve been in the NBA, and this is no different.” | 2022-12-22T11:59:52+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/celtics/2022/12/why-celtics-joe-mazzulla-says-its-important-to-trust-your-guys-amid-losing-stretch.html |
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Transcript: Chris Krebs on “Face the Nation,” Nov. 6, 2022
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The following is a transcript of an interview with CBS News cybersecurity expert and analyst Chris Krebs that aired on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He’s a CBS News expert and analyst. Good morning to you, Chris. Good to have you back. How do you react to this idea of President Biden characterizing the “MAGA” element of the party as an extreme threat to democracy?
CBS NEWS CYBERSECURITY EXPERT AND ANALYST CHRIS KREBS: The area that I’m most focused on right now is the undermining of the legitimacy of American elections. And Governor Sununu mentioned leaders need to stand up and- and speak truth to power and- and particularly the elements of the GOP that continue to repeat countlessly debunked claims. I mean, we even have the GOP candidate for governor Kari Lake in Arizona just the other day making a joke about there’s no way that President Biden got 81 million votes. In fact, he got more than 81 million votes. But the point here is that we do need leaders like Governor Sununu to stand up and say that this is not acceptable behavior in American democracy, and that we need the those that continue to push these narratives, for clout for political influence for- for money for fundraising, that they need to let it go, and we need to move on if this American experiment is going to continue.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, we’re gonna continue this on the other side of that, but just to your point, there are 308 Republican candidates who have raised doubts about the integrity and validity of the last election. They’re standing for office now, there’s a reason they are using that as a political message. We’re going to talk about that in a moment. So stay with us on Face The Nation.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face The Nation. We return to our conversation now about election security with CBS News, cybersecurity expert and analyst Chris Krebs. Chris, I want to talk about something that’s happening right now. Social media has already changed the way we communicate and, certainly, our political world. President Biden said a few days ago that he has concerns about billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter- said, “the platform spews lies all across the world. There’s no editors anymore in America, there are no editors, how do we expect kids to be able to understand what is at stake?” It’s not just kids, right? What concerns do you have about this happening just days before the election, these changes to Twitter?
KREBS: Well, I think I think the government for one has a mechanism by which they can review the acquisition, the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States can take a look at particularly the second and third ownership positions in Twitter, including Saudi Arabia. That is something that I’m assuming that the Treasury Department is taking a look at right now to see if they can put in place a national security agreement or even potentially unwind the purchase. But I think more specifically to what’s happening right now with Twitter, I think there are kind of- there are two “Elons” that we are seeing. There’s the public Elon, that’s, you know, trolling and saying $8, please, on all the complaints about some of the shifts in the moderation and other activities. Then there’s what’s happening behind the scenes, the conversations with the civil rights groups, with advertisers, with the teens, which perhaps maybe a little bit more stable. And I think if you look at the platform itself right now, not a whole lot has changed. That may not be a popular opinion, but I think the reality is that most, you haven’t seen too much of a change in the moderation. Now, the concern, though, is what happens tomorrow, where you can buy the blue tick for $8 a month, Twitter Blue–
MARGARET BRENNAN: For our viewers who don’t use Twitter, a blue check is a sign of credibility.
KREBS: It has historically been a marker of trust, and that Twitter has said, we’ve confirmed and authenticated the identity of this person, which tends to be a politician, or a news media personality or a journalist, an academic or someone that may be a popular voice in certain civil rights, civil liberties issue.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Now you can buy it for eight bucks a month.
KREBS: Along with a number of other features of editing and longer-form video posting. But again, to have such a dramatic shift in that marker of trust, now you can buy it, in advance of as we’ve been talking about a very contentious and important election. It opens the information space to a broader community of influencers, clout chasers, election denialists–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Foreign actors?
KREBS: Absolutely, I mean, we’ve seen reports lately of Russia, China and Iran, back at their old tricks, and it is going to create a very chaotic environment.
MARGARET BRENNAN: To that point in- in 2018, during the midterms, [U.S] Cyber Command took offensive operations to take out Russian trolls who are spreading misinformation. The New York Times has a story today saying Russia is back at it. What does that say to you about U.S. defenses?
KREBS: Well, I think so Recorded Future and Graphika, two research firms have released information that Russian bots, trolls, associated with the Internet Research Agency, which is a group that targeted since the 2016 and the 2018 election, are back at it and are undermining this time Democratic candidates for Senate in some of the- the more contentious races. I think what it says is that the- there’s a broader community of actors, they recognize that political discourse is very divisive here in the US, and they have more opportunities, probably than ever before, to continue to undermine confidence to create chaos, which is really, their primary objective here. It’s not necessarily that a winner wins, but that we’ve all lost- lost confidence and they degrade the American democracy experiment.
MARGARET BRENNAN: There are also a number of sitting Senators, and of note, Ambassador Richard Grinnell former President Trump’s Acting Director of National Intelligence has been posting some misleading information, that’s him on the screen, about the election. He said “any state which doesn’t count all the votes and announce the winner Tuesday night is incompetent.”–
KREBS: So all 50 states then, by that formulation,
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because what you’re saying is just the fact that votes are never finalized on election night. But why do you think someone who knows better is posting something like that?
KREBS: Well, whether he knows better, I can’t assume that, but the point here is that it’s for clout chasing, it’s for influence. There’s a reward system and structure set up right now within the far-right of the GOP that provides additional engagement. So you tweet something like that, and you can see your likes, your retweets, your amplification really take off. And if you’re just talking about some other, you know, more mundane domestic issue, nobody cares. But there’s a reward system and incentive structure that’s set up where exactly this sort of messaging is- is rewarded. It’s encouraged, and, and this is again, going back to Governor Sununu’s comments, we need leaders to lead. We need the presumptive leaders of the Republican Party to stand up and say this is unacceptable, this is not how it works. We need to be good faith actors in this process and unfortunately, leaders aren’t leading right now.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Chris Krebs, thank you as always for your analysis and we will see you on election night as part of CBS coverage at our democracy desk here at CBS News. | 2022-11-07T07:17:50+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/transcript-chris-krebs-on-face-the-nation-nov-6-2022/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — One person is dead and another was seriously injured during a crash Wednesday morning on East Stone Drive, according to the Kingsport Police Department (KPD).
A release from the KPD states the crash occurred around 11:25 a.m. on East Stone Drive near Bowater Drive. A Ford Mustang was traveling Westbound when it reportedly rear-ended another vehicle for unknown reasons, then veered into oncoming traffic, according to the release.
The Mustang was driven and solely occupied by Grady Bell, 80, of Kingsport.
The car driven by Bell then collided with an Eastbound SUV, and came to a rest after hitting a pickup truck head-on, the release said.
Bell was reportedly killed in the crash. The driver of the pickup truck that was struck head-on “sustained suspected serious injuries,” according to the release. He was transported to a local hospital after the crash.
No one else involved in the crash was injured.
The crash remains under investigation by the KPD Traffic Unit. | 2023-02-23T00:42:04+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-pd-1-dead-following-crash-on-east-stone-drive/ |
Amazon wants to send its corporate employees back to the office.
Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced companies to send workers home, Amazon said Friday it plans to require employees to be in office for at least three days a week, starting on May 1.
In a company blog post addressing staff, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the move to in-person work makes it easier to collaborate, learn and build workplace culture.
"I'm also optimistic that this shift will provide a boost for the thousands of businesses located around our urban headquarter locations in the Puget Sound, Virginia, Nashville, and the dozens of cities around the world where our employees go to the office," he wrote.
There will be some exceptions to the hybrid work model, Jassy said, such as for sales and customer support roles, "but that will be a small minority."
In October 2021, Amazon adopted a flexible approach to let managers of individual teams decide how many days corporate employees would work in the office.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-02-18T03:59:54+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/business-and-economy/2023-02-17/amazon-will-send-workers-back-to-the-office-under-a-hybrid-work-model |
What’s the best charcoal for griling?
Few other methods of cooking can match grilling with charcoal when it comes to taste, especially if you love that smoky flavor. While most people put a lot of thought into choosing their grill, they’re considerably less picky when it comes to the fuel source and often just grab the first bag of charcoal they see on the shelf at their local store. This is a mistake, as charcoal plays a bigger role in the flavor of your food than the grill itself.
There are two types of charcoal: lump and briquettes, and each offer its own benefits.
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Lump charcoal
Lump charcoal is made by burning wood until all the sap and moisture have been released. What you’re left with is pure carbon charcoal with no impurities, which is why many purists swear by it. Lump charcoal lights quickly and generally burns hot and fast, making it ideal for getting a heavy sear on meats. Because it has no impurities or additives, it doesn’t produce too much ash and will never impart a chemical flavor on your food.
Best lump charcoals
Jealous Devil All Natural Hardwood Lump Charcoal
Made of an ultra-dense hardwood and completely free of chemicals, this lump charcoal burns hot and for a long time with minimal popping. This makes it a good choice for both low-and-slow and high-temperature grilling.
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Cowboy 24220 Natural Hardwood Lump Charcoal
Eco-conscious consumers will appreciate that Cowboy Lump Charcoal comes from renewable sources and is made following sustainable practices. It has no additives, so the only flavor it imparts on your food is the one you want from the smoke.
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Rockwood All-Natural Hardwood Lump Charcoal
Thanks to its mix of oak, hickory, maple and pecan woods, Rockwood All-Natural imparts a unique flavor to your food. In addition to using wood left over from timber milling as the source, the company also packages it in recyclable bags printed with soy-based inks.
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Charcoal briquettes
When most people think of charcoal, they’re picturing charcoal briquettes. These are what you see stocking the shelves of every big-box retailer when spring rolls around. Usually, they’re made from a combination of sawdust, fillers and other additives, though there are also some pure options. Many people like briquettes because they burn for a long time and maintain a steady temperature.
The downside to briquettes is that they leave behind a lot of ash and can be difficult to light if you don’t have a chimney starter or aren’t using lighter fluid. Also, some claim the additives can impart an unwanted flavor on foods.
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Best charcoal briquettes
Original Natural Charcoal Hardwood Briquettes
Unlike many other briquettes, Original Natural is made without any fillers or additives. Despite that, it holds together well and can be lit without the need for lighter fluid. It’s a chef-grade option suitable for pitmasters and serious barbecue enthusiasts.
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Kingsford Professional Competition Briquettes
Kingsford Competition is designed to burn hotter and longer than their popular original variety. If you can handle the extra heat, it’s great for getting a hard sear on meats or for events where you’ll be grilling for hours.
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Jealous Devil Maxxx XL All Natural Hardwood Charcoal Pillow Briquets
These extra-large briquettes are twice the size of most others, so they burn hot and for a very long time. If you don’t like to have to deal with constantly adding charcoal to your fire during extended backyard barbecues, these are the ones for you.
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See Auburn's Cole Foster homer from both sides of plate in 1st inning vs. SELU baseball
The Auburn baseball team started strong against Southeastern Louisiana on Friday in the NCAA Tournament Auburn Regional first round on Friday, June 3.
Auburn's offense exploded with 11 first-inning runs to go in front 11-0.
Second baseman Cole Foster provided Auburn with the most power. Foster hit a two-run home run and a grand slam in the first inning.
Foster's home runs came from opposite sides of the plate.
Auburn's Cole Foser right-handed homer
Auburn's Blake Rambusch started the bottom of the first inning with a single.
Next up was Foster, who smashed the seventh pitch of his at-bat over the left-field fence for a 2-0 Auburn lead. Foster hit the home run off SELU left-handed starting pitcher Adam Guth.
Auburn's Cole Foster left-handed grand slam
When Cole Foster came to the plate for the second time, Auburn led 6-0 and the bases were loaded. He faced Southeastern Louisiana right-handed relief pitcher Daniel Dugas.
Foster hammered the fifth pitch of the at-bat over the right-field fence, and it put Auburn up 10-0.
Sonny Dichiara followed Foster's grand slam by hitting a solo home run, and DiChiara's homer put Auburn up 11-0.
Foster was the second college baseball player on Friday during the NCAA Tournament to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in an inning. East Carolina's Bryson Worrell did it in the third inning of ECU's 17-1 win against Coppin State.
In MLB history, there have been three players to ever hit home runs from opposite sides of the plate in the same inning, according to the Baseball Almanac. Cleveland's Carlos Baerga did it on April 8, 1993; the Chicago Cubs' Mark Bellhorn did it on Aug. 29, 2002; and the LA Angels' Kendrys Morales did it on July 30, 2012.
Bellhorn played at Auburn from 1993-95, and he helped Auburn reach the 1994 College World Series.
Here's more Auburn, SELU baseball news:
- Bryson Worrell:See ECU's Bryson Worrell hit home runs from opposite sides of the plate in the same inning
- NCAA Auburn Regional:2022 NCAA Baseball Tournament Auburn Regional bracket, schedule, game times and TV info
- Live stream information:How to watch Auburn baseball vs. Southeastern Louisiana in NCAA Regional on live stream
Matt Riser is the Southeastern Louisiana baseball head coach. Butch Thompson is the Auburn baseball head coach.
Erik Hall is the lead digital producer for sports with the USA Today Network. You can find him on Twitter @HallErik. | 2022-06-04T02:41:01+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/auburn/2022/06/03/auburn-cole-foster-homer-both-sides-plate-southeastern-louisiana-baseball/7506854001/ |
The national champion UConn men's basketball team was honored at the White House today.
President Joe Biden honored the 2023 NCAA National Championship UConn Huskies.
This will be the fifth trip to the White House for the UConn men's program.
The 1999 Huskies were honored by President Bill Clinton, the 2004 Huskies were honored by President George W. Bush, and President Barack Obama honored UConn in both 2011 and 2014.
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(The Hill) — A bill to restrict private ownership of big cats like lions, tigers and leopards as pets and for breeding passed the House on Thursday, marking a victory for animal welfare activists and Carole Baskin of the “Tiger King” Netflix show.
The House passed the bill 278-134, with all votes against being Republican and 63 Republicans joining with Democrats to vote in favor.
It now heads to the Senate, where bill advocates believe it has a shot of passing by unanimous consent. The White House on Tuesday issued a formal statement of support for the bill, indicating that President Biden will sign it into law if it comes to his desk. The bill previously passed the House in the last Congress in December 2020, when there was little time for the Senate to consider it.
The bill was supported not only by animal welfare groups, but also by a number of law enforcement organizations, like the National Sheriff’s Association.
Big cats kept as pets have frequently been seen on the loose, posing a danger to the public. Last year, a tiger in Houston, Texas, reportedly escaped its owners’ property after climbing over a fence. Police have little training or skill on how to deal with the wild animals on the loose, or if confronted with one while conducting other activities.
In a 2011 incident in Zanesville, Ohio, a man set free around 50 exotic animals from his collection — including lions, tigers, bears and a baboon — shortly before killing himself. Police, fearing for public safety, shot and killed dozens of the animals.
“I’ve experienced the worst-case scenario first-hand, and it is a gut-wrenching experience to think about tigers, lions, and other big cats on the prowl in such close proximity to our homes and our schools,” Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz, of the Zanesville area, said in a statement.
Under the bill led by Reps. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), possession of the big cats and cross-breeds would be limited to wildlife sanctuaries, state universities and certified zoos, and ban breeding the cats except by a certified zoo or animal exhibitor. Those on display must be kept at least 15 feet away from the public or build a permanent barrier to prevent contact.
Current owners of big cats now who would be otherwise restricted will be able to keep them, as long as they do not breed, acquire or sell any prohibited wildlife species; do not allow direct contact between cats and the public; and register the cat with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That would gradually phase out private ownership of the animals.
The bill would take aim at the “cub-petting” industry assailed by animal welfare activists, in which members of the public pay to play or take photos with tiger cubs or other big cats.
Many advocates for the bill, including the Humane Society of the United States, have credited the popularity of the 2020 “Tiger King” Netflix series with bringing public attention to private ownership of big cats in the U.S. and propelled the bill forward. A version of the legislation was first introduced a decade ago.
“‘Tiger King’ has clearly put this on the radar for everyone,” animal welfare lobbyist Marty Irby, who is also executive director of Animal Wellness Action, told The Hill earlier this week. “If we had not seen COVID and ‘Tiger King’ come out at the same time when COVID first hit and be such an overwhelming presence around the globe, really not even just the U.S., then we probably would not be where we are today.”
Baskin, the founder and CEO of Florida rescue facility Big Cat Rescue, has met with dozens of lawmakers and offices about the bill and has frequently been spotted on Capitol Hill advocating for the bill.
“It is an enormous expense to care for these animals and reckless behavior foists a massive long-term financial liability on animal sanctuaries,” Baskin said in a statement. “None of these private big cat owners holds onto the animals for very long, and that means they get turned over to groups like Big Cat Rescue that have to take in these traumatized, often very unhealthy animals.”
Though the bill had broad Republican support, some House Republicans voiced opposition to the bill.
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee, argued that the bill would duplicate federal processes and proposed giving the Department of Agriculture authority to regulate the cats rather than the Department of the Interior.
Several other Republicans argued that the House should be spending time addressing other topics like inflation or the Southern border, and that regulation of private big cat ownership should be left to the states.
Irby called the complaints about time spent on the issue “ridiculous, in light of the fact that everyone had plenty of time to practice and dedicate resources to the Congressional Baseball Game this week, which really does little to nothing to help the American people.” | 2022-07-30T21:16:06+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/bill-restricting-big-cat-ownership-made-famous-by-tiger-king-passes-house/ |
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers about the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning and smoke inhalation associated with the use of OKEAH combination smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors. The detectors can fail to alert consumers to the presence of hazardous carbon monoxide and smoke.
More than 200 people in the United States die every year from accidental, non-fire related CO poisoning associated with consumer products. In addition, most fatalities in residential fires are due to smoke inhalation, rather than heat and flames. In typical residential fire scenarios, there may be as little as one or two minutes to escape after the smoke alarm sounds before the conditions in the home become incapacitating or deadly. More than 2,390 people in the United States die every year from residential structure fires. Furthermore, the risk of dying in a fire is twice as high in homes without a working smoke alarm (1.18 per 1,000), as compared to homes with smoke alarms (0.53 per 1,000).
If a combination smoke and CO detector that does not alert to the presence of an elevated level of carbon monoxide or smoke is installed in a home, and carbon monoxide or smoke enters the home, the consumer will not be warned of these harmful conditions, making injury or death very likely. Carbon monoxide sensitivity tests performed on the OKEAH detectors by CPSC found that they failed to alert when exposed to pre-determined concentrations of carbon monoxide (400 ppm), in violation of UL 2034, a voluntary safety standard. The smoke sensitivity test performed on the OKEAH detectors by CPSC found that they failed to alert when exposed to pre-determined concentrations of smoke, in violation of UL 217, a voluntary safety standard.
The combination detectors are made of white plastic and measure about 4 x 1.5 x 4 inches, featuring a digital display. The combination detectors are advertised to detect dangerous levels of carbon monoxide and smoke and alert with a flashing red LED and a loud alarm pattern. Model No. YJ-901 was sold under the Amazon ASIN B097B63W44 on Amazon.com for between $25 and $75.
CPSC urges consumers not to purchase or sell these combination smoke and CO detectors. Stop using them and dispose of these products immediately and install new, working CO detectors. Report a dangerous product or a product-related injury on www.SaferProducts.gov.
Note: Consumers should install combination smoke and CO detectors on each level of their homes and outside separate sleeping areas. Combination smoke and CO detectors should be battery operated or have battery backup. Test combination smoke and CO detectors frequently and replace batteries as needed. Consumers should only buy combination smoke and CO detectors that meet both the UL 2034 and UL 217 safety standards.
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Hello, Upper East Siders, Gossip Girl is back at it again and this time, a familiar face has resurfaced.
HBO Max released the official season 2 trailer on Thursday, revealing in the closing seconds the return of OG villain Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg), who makes her unannounced arrival known to Kate (Tavi Gevinson) after sneakily breaking into her (unsecure) apartment.
"Did you know that you have four weak points of entry? And a very pliable super?" Georgina tells a shocked Kate, who screams when she sees the havoc-wreaking socialite calmly sitting inside her home.
Though the circumstances surrounding Georgina's return to Gossip Girl will be a question that will likely be answered when the new season drops Dec. 1, there's a lot of other shenanigans going on with Manhattan's elite.
As the trailer teases, the folks at Constance Billiard and St. Jude return for the second semester of junior year, and as one of them tees up, "Things have changed," as Julien (Jordan Alexander), in the aftermath of her downfall, moves out of her cushy palace and into a more modest apartment.
And to make matters worse, there's someone -- ahem, Monet (Savannah Lee Smith) -- who's coming for Julien's title of Constance Billiard queen as they face off.
"It's time to lift up a queen who actually wants it," Monet says. "I'm not stopping by taking your place. I'm taking you down bit by bit."
"I can't wait to see you try," Julien bites back.
In other dramatics, the secret throuple between Max (Thomas Doherty), Audrey (Emily Alyn Lind) and Aki (Evan Mock) becomes even more complicated when the trio starts to differ in their desires for the future of the unconventional relationship. And, of course, there's sex, drugs and many more extravagant galas for the rich kids to get dolled up for.
Eli Brown, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak and Grace Duah also star.
Watch the trailer below.
The first two episodes drop Thursday, Dec. 1 on HBO Max, with subsequent episodes releasing weekly through Jan. 26.
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Madison County residents receive assessment change notice
MADISON COUNTY, TN.–If you’re in Madison County resident, you probably received a notice over the past few days, notifying you that the assessed value or classification of your property has changed.
“By Tennessee law all counties are to do a reappraisal every four to six years. Back in 2018 was our last reappraisal and we signed up at that time to so a reappraisal in four years so now we’re putting put the results of that,” says Madison County assessor of property Frances Hunley.
Home sales have been high in the last two years. Many residents wonder why there’s such a large increase in just one year, some even seeing increases up to 70 percent.
“All of our sales are taken from 2021 because our values are as of January the 1st of the tax year which is 2022 so we have seen sales continue to increase in 2022 but those sales were not used just the ones in 2021,” says Hunley.
The notice gives residents from July 1 to 8 to contest the changes. These notices and dates were sent out by the state leaving homeowners only a few days to contest.
“The goal was to get all the reviews. The informal reviews are what we call them, done as quickly as possible. Because the county board is going to start meeting on July 18th and so we have to have time to make any changes,” Hunley says.
Residents as well as officials say they haven’t seen an increase like this before, with assessed value increasing, that means property taxes will increase as well. However, the assessor’s office duty is to make sure who owns what and what the value of the property is.
“My intention is to hear everybody, the 8th is this Friday so next week I’m sure we’ll be taking peoples questions and everything and so I don’t know how long that will take I don’t know how long the county board is going to have to meet but its my intention that everybody gets their chance to be heard,” says Hunley.
If you have concerns regarding the notice, you can still call or email the assessors office after July 8 at 731-423-6063. You can also email the Madison Count y Property Assessors Office at Frances.hunley@cot.tn.gov. | 2022-07-06T06:01:15+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/07/05/madison-county-residents-receive-assessment-change-notice/ |
YAVAPAI COUNTY, AZ — Yavapai County officials have provided an update after a 66-year-old man died Friday morning after being attacked by a bear.
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office says the incident occurred near Groom Creek in Prescott.
RELATED:Man killed in 'unprovoked' bear attack near Groom Creek in Prescott
Officials say the bear was "unprovoked" at the time of the attack.
Watch the full update from officials in the video player above. | 2023-06-16T22:16:08+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/news/state/video-update-on-friday-morning-deadly-bear-attack-near-prescott-arizona |
MDEQ declines offer to meet with EPA regarding civil rights lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - “I’m not surprised, but it is disappointing that they’re not willing to sit down and try to fix this issue.”
Abre Conner is not holding back on how she feels about the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality choosing not to meet with the EPA to discuss some of the allegations being brought against the state.
She’s the director of the Center for Environmental and Climate Justice with the NAACP.
The organization filed a lawsuit alleging the state discriminated against the City of Jackson by not funding water and wastewater projects.
“Right now, they have an opportunity to actually hear from folks, to hear how they can be better, and they’re actually deciding to refuse that opportunity to actually be a better agency on behalf of residents in Jackson,” she stated.
The EPA is investigating this matter and reached out to MDEQ for a chance to discuss “potential options for resolving these issues.”
The federal agency even said it “will suspend the process for issuance of preliminary findings within 180 days of initiating the investigation” if the two sides meet.
MDEQ turned down that offer, saying: “We declined to enter such discussions regarding the informal resolution process as we believe the allegations in the complaint are false.”
“I think that’s very telling of how they have mistreated, how they have intentionally moved funding away from the City of Jackson and away from Black folks in Jackson, Mississippi,” said Connor. “The water has been unclean. They’ve been asking the state for help. The state has been ignoring them and intentionally depriving resources. And now the EPA is seeing that this is exactly what the state has been doing to the residents all along.”
The EPA says it could take roughly 180 days for it to complete its investigation. The agency is expected to release its findings in late April or early May.
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Copyright 2023 WLBT. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-21T05:00:07+00:00 | wlbt.com | https://www.wlbt.com/2023/01/21/mdeq-declines-offer-meet-with-epa-regarding-civil-rights-lawsuit/ |
(NewsNation) — Employers are struggling to fill 10.6 million job openings and may be missing a key demographic for their efforts: those with long COVID.
New research shows as many as 4 million “long haulers” have left the workforce, said Katie Bach, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Her upcoming report examines the policy implications of long COVID on the workforce.
Many others have reduced hours or changed fields entirely due to a lingering group of symptoms including fatigue, brain fog, pain, shortness of breath, nausea and heart and lung damage.
“It’s like front page news when we see like a 0.5 percentage point drop in labor force participation, and I’m talking about something that’s a lot higher than that,” Bach said, estimating the lost wages approach $200 billion a year. “Every company needs to be cognizant of this.”
If managers want to get these workers back, they need to be more flexible about where, how and when employees work, said Linda Batiste of the Job Accommodation Network (JAN), a free resource on disability-related employment issues.
“Employers are sometimes concerned that making accommodations is going to be costly … (or) that providing accommodations will negatively affect coworker morale,” Batiste wrote to NewsNation in an email.
Yet an annual JAN survey of thousands of employers has shown the benefit of making accommodations outweighs the cost — usually under $500.
Two months after making a workplace accommodation, 90% of employers reported retaining the employee, 68% reported workers were more productive and 57% of reported staff took fewer days off, according to the 2021 survey.
‘The walking wounded‘
Kayla Hake ran out of breath while she walked up the steps talking on the phone. A few minutes prior she’d caught her 2-year-old daughter tripping down the last few steps — but her pulse wasn’t slowing.
“My heart rate is still at 137 right now. I mean, just doing that,” the former hospice worker said. “I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve kind of had to accept it — that I’m not going to be able to go back to work and do what I was doing previously.”
Hake faced two bouts of COVID-19 that worsened her heart condition. She says she’s now driving for DoorDash because she can make more money and needs flexible hours.
Employers need to be malleable where they can, said Dr. Ezra Teitelbaum, who specializes in treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
Post-COVID fatigue is due to an “energy crisis” he explained, made worse by overexertion and stress. But often there aren’t physical signs of illness, which may make it harder for managers to understand.
“The walking wounded are coming into work, and they’re doing the best they can,” Teitelbaum said, adding that long COVID affects more women than men.
Finding the right accommodations
Allowing people to work remotely, asynchronous work hours and offering more breaks within the day have been shown to help fatigue sufferers stay in their jobs.
Other accommodations can include more ergonomic chairs or desks, handicap access, making a workplace quieter or less bright, and time off for medical appointments.
“Long Covid Podcast” host Jackie Baxter said the best accommodation she heard of was an office that created a nap space in an unused office.
“We’ll talk about pacing — you can only do so many things in a day, and if you go over that, then it’s not going to be good,” Baxter said. “If you have to do three tasks, for example, rather than doing boom, boom, boom, you do one task, rest, one task, rest.”
Ultimately, it’s about working with the employee — and helping them understand they have rights under the American Disability Act, Batiste said.
Employers should keep in mind that these accommodations may not be permanent, Baxter added. Some research indicates extra rest in the first few months of long COVID may reduce the likelihood of it becoming a long-term disability.
“How can the HR people help? They can offer that, ‘I know that you’re really sick and I will help you as best I can,’” Teitelbaum said. “If you’re looking for employee loyalty in a day where it’s hard to find … if you are there for them, they’re going to be inclined, more likely, to stick around for you.”
Bach said as long as employers view accommodations as a preference — and not an accommodation — companies will continue to struggle to hire enough people. And because the implications for the larger economy are stark, she says the government needs to expedite disability benefit applications as well.
“If there’s any hope that it will help them recover and get them back to work, that’s an obvious investment for the government to make,” Bach said. “Frankly, if we’re talking about a $200 billion cost in lost wages alone, there aren’t many interventions that wouldn’t be worth it.” | 2022-08-21T19:57:48+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/long-covid-with-as-many-as-4m-out-of-work-how-can-they-come-back/ |
Medicare beneficiaries would need more than $300,000 for healthcare costs in retirement: EBRI
Medicare beneficiaries are projected to pay a high price for premiums, deductibles and prescription drugs in retirement, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
A 65-year-old man with Medigap and average premiums will need to have saved $96,000 to have a 50% chance of covering premiums and median prescription drug costs, EBRI said. A woman in the same position would need to have shored up $116,000.
These projections rise significantly when the chances of getting these healthcare costs covered go up. To have a 90% chance of meeting their healthcare cost needs, men would need to have saved $166,000, while women would need to have socked away $197,000, EBRI said. Meanwhile, couples would need to save $212,000 to have a 50% chance of covering their medical needs in retirement and $318,000 to have a 90% chance.
In extreme cases, a couple with considerably high prescription drug expenses would need to save $383,000 to have a 90% chance of having enough to cover their healthcare costs, EBRI said.
However, EBRI’s research notes that "enrollees in Medicare Advantage plans generally have lower savings targets."
A man enrolled in Medicare Advantage with median drug expenses and an average usage of healthcare services would need to have saved $56,000 to have a 50% chance of meeting his healthcare spending needs in retirement, EBRI said. The same person would need $96,000 to have a 90% chance of meeting those expenditures.
And a woman would need to save $67,000 to have a 50% chance and $113,000 to have a 90% chance of covering her health care costs in retirement, EBRI said. Couples would need to have amassed $123,000 to have a 50% chance and $184,000 to have a 90% chance of covering their healthcare expenses in retirement.
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Retirement plan balances decreased by nearly 25% in 2022
Medicare Advantage Plans: Pros and Cons
Medicare Advantage plans offer at least the same level of coverage as Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) and Part B (medical insurance) in addition to added benefits, according to the Medicare marketplace eHealth. These could include vision, dental, prescription drug coverage, and fitness center memberships. But unlike government-administered Medicare, Medicare Advantage is offered by private insurance companies contracted by Medicare. Depending on the type of Medicare Advantage plan people enroll in, prices and scope of services can vary.
In addition, Medicare Advantage plans offer maximum out-of-pocket expense thresholds. So once enrollees breach those limits, they’d typically not pay anything for covered services, eHealth said. Original Medicare doesn’t have out-of-pocket maximum rules.
However, Medicare Advantage plans may impose some limitations on enrollees. Medicare Advantage plans work with specific networks of providers. So some people may not find the coverage they need. Moreover, enrollees may need prior authorization for hospital stays, home healthcare, medical equipment, and other procedures, eHealth said.
"If you have chronic conditions or significant health needs, you may want to think twice," Consumer Reports said in a study. "For one thing, with original Medicare you can see any provider that accepts Medicare, which is most of them."
If high-costs of living are preventing you from saving for healthcare costs, you could consider paying off high-interest debt with a personal loan at a lower rate to reduce your monthly payments. You can visit Credible to compare options from different lenders at once.
Americans may deplete more than half their pandemic era savings by end of 2023: Goldman Sachs
The costs of Medicare
The costs of Medicare’s different components and Medicare Advantage Plans (also called Medicare Part C) vary based on several factors.
For instance, Medicare Part A is free for those who have paid Social Security taxes for 10 years, according to Consumer Reports. Medicare Part B costs $165 a month plus copays and coinsurance. Medigap costs $178 a month, based on eHealth estimates.
Medicare Part D costs $22 a month, plus copays and coinsurance, based on eHealth estimates. Higher earners, however, would be charged more. Monthly Medicare Advantage pricing depends on the provider, but on average would cost $18 plus $165 for Medicare Part B, in addition to copays and coinsurance, Consumer Reports said. Higher earners would pay more.
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Have a finance-related question, but don't know who to ask? Email The Credible Money Expert at moneyexpert@credible.com and your question might be answered by Credible in our Money Expert column. | 2023-04-12T00:57:51+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/money/medicare-healthcare-costs-retirement-savings |
A Missouri boarding school already under scrutiny amid physical and sexual abuse allegations may soon be shut down, following a judge’s ruling.
Cedar County Circuit Judge David Munton signed an order Wednesday night to close Agape Boarding School in Stockton after the Missouri attorney general’s office and the state Department of Social Services filed petitions citing evidence that someone on the state registry for child abuse and neglect was actively working there.
But early Thursday, Munton stated in a court document that before closing the school he wanted the sheriff to confirm that the employee is still working at Agape. Officials have not said whether that’s the case, and a hearing originally scheduled for Thursday to decide Agape’s fate was postponed until Monday.
“Agape’s employment of a staff member who is listed on the state’s Child Abuse/Neglect Central Registry presents an immediate health and safety concern for the children residing at Agape,” the petition from Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office stated. “This new development is sadly consistent with the dark pattern of behavior at Agape previously exposed by the Attorney General’s Office and DSS.”
Agape’s lawyer, John Schultz, said the school remains open. The judge noted in Missouri’s online court filing system that the state and Agape agreed that two Children’s Division workers will have access “to observe the children there” until the hearing occurs.
“My Office has continued to monitor and investigate this situation and when we learned that there was a clear violation of the law, we took swift and decisive action,” Schmitt said in a statement. “We have worked closely with DSS to put into place a Court ordered plan to allow constant on-site monitoring of the children at Agape by DSS to ensure their safety until the hearing is held.”
Munton’s order, if carried out, would require the removal of all 63 boys at Agape, and require assessments of their health, safety and well-being.
Allegations of physical and sexual abuse at Agape and nearby Christian boarding school Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch prompted a state law last year requiring stricter oversight of such facilities. Among other things, the new law allows state or local authorities to petition the court for closure of a facility if there is believed to be an immediate health or safety threat to the children.
Last year, Agape’s longtime doctor, David Smock, was charged with child sex crimes and five employees were charged with low-level abuse counts. Schmitt’s office contended that 22 workers should have been charged, and with more serious crimes. But in Missouri, only the local prosecutor can file charges, and Cedar County Prosecuting Attorney Ty Gaither has said no additional employees would be charged.
Meanwhile, the husband-and-wife founders of Circle of Hope, Boyd and Stephanie Householder, face a combined 99 charges that include child abuse and neglect, sex crimes and other counts. The school was ordered shut down in 2020 amid the investigation.
Several lawsuits filed on behalf of former students also have named Agape and Circle of Hope. | 2022-09-09T12:49:42+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-hearing-to-determine-if-missouri-boarding-school-will-close/ |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. nuclear chief warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhya plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their Feb. 24. invasion of Ukraine.
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“Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated” at the plant, he said. “What is at stake is extremely serious and extremely grave and dangerous.”
Grossi cited many violations of the plant’s safety, adding that it is “in a place where active war is ongoing,” near Russian-controlled territory.
The physical integrity of the plant hasn’t been respected, he said, citing shelling at the beginning of the war when it was taken over and continuing information from Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of attacks at Zaporizhzhya.
There is “a paradoxical situation” in which the plant is controlled by Russia, but its Ukrainian staff continues to run its nuclear operations, leading to inevitable moments of friction and alleged violence, he said. While the IAEA has some contacts with staff, they are “faulty” and “patchy,” he said.
Grossi said the supply chain of equipment and spare parts has been interrupted, “so we are not sure the plant is getting all it needs.” The IAEA also needs to perform very important inspections to ensure that nuclear material is being safeguarded, “and there is a lot of nuclear material there to be inspected,” he said.
“When you put this together, you have a catalog of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility,” Grossi said. “And this is why I have been insisting from day one that we have to be able to go there to perform this safety and security evaluation, to do the repairs and to assist as we already did in Chernobyl.”
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The Russian capture of Zaporizhzhya renewed fears that the largest of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear reactors could be damaged, setting off another emergency like the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the world’s worst nuclear disaster, which happened about 110 kilometers (65 miles) north of the capital Kyiv.
Russian forces occupied the heavily contaminated site soon after the invasion but handed control back to the Ukrainians at the end of March. Grossi visited Chernobyl on April 27 and tweeted that the level of safety was “like a `red light’ blinking.” But he said Tuesday that the IAEA set up “an assistance mission” at Chernobyl at that time “that has been very, very successful so far.”
The IAEA needs to go to Zaporizhzhya, as it did to Chernobyl, to ascertain the facts of what is actually happening there, to carry out repairs and inspections, and “to prevent a nuclear accident from happening,” Grossi said.
The IAEA chief said he and his team need protection to get to the plant and the urgent cooperation of Russia and Ukraine.
Each side wants this international mission to go from different sites, which is understandable in light of territorial integrity and political considerations, he said, but there’s something more urgent and that is getting the IAEA team to Zaporizhzhya.
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“The IAEA, by its presence, will be a deterrent to any act of violence against this nuclear power plant,” Grossi said. “So I’m pleading as an international civil servant, as the head of an international organization, I’m pleading to both sides to let this mission proceed.”
Grossi was in New York to deliver a keynote speech at Monday’s opening of the long-delayed high-level meeting to review the landmark 50-year-old Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually achieving a nuclear-free world.
In the interview, the IAEA chief also spoke about efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers that the Trump administration abandoned in 2018 and the Biden administration has been working to renew.
Grossi said there is “an ongoing effort to try to go for yet another meeting or round to explore possibilities to come to an agreement.” He said he heard the meeting “could be soon.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the NPT review conference on Monday that Iran “has either been unwilling or unable” to accept a deal to return to the 2015 agreement aimed at reining in its nuclear program.
Grossi said “there are important differences among the negotiating parties” and important verification issues related to past activities that Iran needs to address. “It’s not impossible, it’s complex,” he said.
If the nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, is not extended, he said some IAEA inspections will continue. But the JCPOA provides for additional transparency and inspections “which I deem as extremely important, very necessary, because of the breadth and depth of the nuclear program in Iran,” he said.
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Grossi stressed that cooperating with the IAEA, answering its questions, allowing its inspectors to go wherever they need to be, is essential for Iran to build trust and confidence. “Promises and good words will not do,” he said.
On another issue, Grossi said last September's deal in which the United States and Britain will provide Australia with nuclear reactors to power its submarines requires an agreement with the IAEA to ensure that the amount of nuclear material in the vessel when it leaves port is there when it returns.
He said Australia hasn’t decided what type of vessel it will be getting, so while there have been preparatory talks, substantive talks can’t begin.
Because it’s a military vessel, Grossi said, “there are lots of confidential and protection of information measures that need to be embedded into any such agreement, so it’s very complex technologically.” | 2022-08-03T06:41:46+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/03/world/un-nuclear-chief-ukraine-nuclear-plant-is-out-control/ |
AUSTIN, Texas – Bijan Robinson and his Lamborghini sum up what most believe Texas football should be: flashy, fun to watch and faster than anybody else out there.
Far too often, however, the Longhorns find a way to run themselves into a ditch.
Texas starts the season unranked after a 5-7 finish in 2021 with no bowl game and the longest losing streak since 1956 in coach Steve Sarkisian's debut. Years of legacy votes that presumed Texas was deserving of preseason rankings have finally vanished after too many seasons of unmet expectations.
And yet, there is optimism in Austin. At least the kind that assumes last season was so bad, this one has to be better.
For starters, there is talent on campus in the form of some of college football's best playmakers. The fluid and powerful Robinson (in and out of that Lamborghini courtesy of a name, image and likeness sponsorship deal) is one of the top backs in the country. Wide receiver Xavier Worthy had an explosive freshman season in 2021 and should be among the favorites for the Biletnikoff Award.
The rest is anyone's guess.
Sarkisian mined the transfer portal about as well as anybody, and even landed a starting quarterback in freshman Quinn Ewers, who beat out Hudson Card for the job. But that road has been bumpy with one transfer receiver (Isaiah Neyor from Wyoming) lost for the season to a knee injury and another (Agiye Hall from Alabama) suspended indefinitely.
And an offensive line already strapped for depth also lost starter Junior Angilou, who could play multiple positions, for the season to a knee injury.
Texas hasn't won the Big 12 since 2009 and most pick the Longhorns for the middle of the pack again. Still, that would be a step up from last year.
QUARTERBACK
Ewers is a huge arm talent, he just lacks college experience. He was the quarterback everyone wanted out of high school near Dallas and Ohio State signed him. But a freshman season of sitting around Columbus prompted a transfer. That put him in a fight for the job with Card, who started the first two games in 2021 before getting benched. Sarkisian had a quick hook on his QB last year with struggles, so is Card still in play or would he consider a transfer?
SECOND HALF FOLLIES
The Longhorns lost five games last season they led at halftime. Texas has to shake off a bad combination of second-half adjustments and suspect conditioning if they don't want to get dominated in the third and fourth quarters again. Hiring former TCU head coach and defensive guru Gary Patterson as a special assistant may prove to be Sarkisian's shrewdest move of the offseason.
'Having Coach Patterson on board has probably been something that has excited me the most out of a lot of things we’ve done this off-season," Sarkisian said. “I’ve always admired his defensive mind.”
ROBINSON & CO.
Sarkisian will lean heavily on his dependable run game while he sorts things out at quarterback. Robinson is the star after rushing for 1,127 yards and 11 touchdowns in a season cut short by a dislocated elbow. Behind him are workhorse Roschon Johnson and speedy Keilan Robinson.
HOT SEAT
Sarkisian may have felt some heat from Texas fans during that dismal debut season, but not so much from the administration and Board of Regents that approved his original six-year, $34.2 million guaranteed contract. But Texas likely won't abide another years-long skid like it endured under Charlie Strong from 2014-2016.
LOOKING AHEAD
A blockbuster matchup with No. 1 Alabama on Sept. 10 will determine if Texas is ready for prime time. Then comes a matchup with rising UTSA, where coach Jeff Traylor, a former Longhorns assistant, could snag a huge statement win. The Big 12 schedule starts Sept. 24 at Texas Tech and the annual Red River Rivalry game with Oklahoma is Oct. 8 in Dallas.
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — A new report from doxo, a bill-paying app, ranked states according to household bills using their anonymized bill pay data, which they say covers 97% of US ZIP codes. The company found that the most expensive bill for US households is mortgage at a $1,368 average monthly bill, followed by rent at $1,129 a month. The average monthly cost of bills per US household is $2,003.
Hawaii is the most expensive state for household bills with a $2,911 average bill. That’s $908 more than the national average. Hawaiians with a mortgage pay a $2,137 monthly bill, but that only makes up 38% of households. Renters, who make up 41%, spend $1,712 a month, which is $583 more than the national average, according to doxo.
Top 10 Most Expensive States for Household Bills
West Virginia seems to be unique in having a low number of people who have a mortgage or rent, according to the doxo report. Only 34% of households in the study have a mortgage and only 27% of households rent. Both cost nearly half of the national average as well with an $817 average monthly mortgage and a $695 average monthly rent. Even though the bills are low, people in the state are still paying an average ratio compared to their income.
Top 10 Least Expensive States for Household Bills
doxo included a breakdown of the top 25 most expensive cities in the state, which excluded housing. The most expensive city, Charles Town, was about a thousand dollars more expensive than the 25th city, Oak Hill.
Top 25 Most Expensive West Virginia Cities
More information on doxo and the report can be found on its website. | 2022-06-14T17:58:41+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/only-on-wboy-com/wv-is-the-cheapest-state-for-household-bills-study/ |
Conclusions Provide Further Evidence that PFAS Chemistries Should Not Be All Grouped Together for Purposes of Regulation
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The vast majority and types of fluoropolymers, which are part of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) family, meet internationally recognized criteria for being considered polymers of low concern (PLC), a designation for compounds that are expected to have insignificant environmental and human health impacts, according to a new scientific paper. The conclusions of the study, conducted by the American Chemistry Council's Performance Fluoropolymer Partnership (PFP), provide new evidence that PFAS regulations must clearly differentiate among the broad category of PFAS chemistries.
The paper, A Critical Review of the Application of Polymer of Low Concern Regulatory Criteria to Fluoropolymers II: Fluoroplastics and Fluoroelastomers, builds upon research conducted in 20181 that identified four fluoropolymers that met criteria for identifying polymers of low concern for potential adverse effects on human health or the environment. In this new paper, PFP researchers analyzed an additional 14 fluoropolymers and fluoroelastomers and determined they meet the PLC criteria, bringing the number to 18 fluoropolymers and representing approximately 96 percent of the global market for commercially available fluoropolymers.
Fluoropolymers and fluoroelastomers provide exceptional functionality and benefits across multiple critical end-use markets such as electronics, semiconductors, healthcare technology and devices, transportation, 5G telecommunications, and renewable energy. They are a key component driving the technologies used in cellphones, personal protective equipment, solar panels, medical devices, aircraft, and countless other products and industries.
"This paper provides conclusive evidence that an overwhelming percentage of the fluoropolymers in the products we rely on every day are of low concern for human health or the environment according to internationally recognized criteria," said Jay West, Executive Director of the PFP. "It also demonstrates even further that regulating the broad family of PFAS as one single category is neither scientifically sound nor appropriate."
There are 13 criteria used to determine PLC status: polymer composition, molecular weight, weight percentage of oligomers, electrical charge, reactive functional groups, functional group equivalent weight, low molecular weight leachables, water solubility, particle size, polymer stability, thermal stability, abiotic stability, and biotic stability.
While greatly increasing the number and scope of chemistries that meet the PLC criteria, the paper also demonstrates that in addition to fluoropolymers, several fluoroelastomers, ionomers, and amorphous fluoropolymers qualify as well. The result is that the most economically important fluoropolymers (by global market volume) pose minimal threats to humans or the environment.
The substances included in this study are: polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) homopolymer; PVDF copolymer; ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene (ECTFE) copolymer; ECTFE terpolymer; polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE); fluoroethylene-vinyl ether copolymer (FEVE); terpolymer of ethylene, tetrafluoroethylene, and hexafluoropropylene (EFEP); terpolymer of chlorotrifluoroethylene, tetrafluoroethene, and perfluoroalkyl-vinyl-ether (CPT); and terpolymer of tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropylene and vinylidene fluoride (THV), as well as specialty fluoroplastics amorphous fluoropolymers and fluorinated ionomers. The fluoroelastomers included in this study include tetrafluoroethylene-propylene co-polymer (FEPM); hexafluoropropene-vinylidene fluoride co- and terpolymers (FKM); and a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoromethyl vinyl ether perfluoroelastomer (FFKM).
The authors also note that segmentation that clearly differentiates the broad PFAS family according to their properties, rather than the presence of a carbon-fluorine bond, is required for a scientifically sound, risk-based regulatory approach. "Regulating all PFAS as one homogenous group absent consideration of their properties, particularly when the properties are so demonstrably different, neglects basic scientific consideration of these properties, that are the foundation of substance differentiation," they write. "Therefore, we advocate for segmentation based on properties before performing any grouping-based risk assessment, placing stable, non-hazardous fluoropolymers, that meet the criteria to be considered polymers on low concern, in a separate category."
The study was published and announced on June 14, 2022, in the scientific journal Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management and can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4646 (open access pending) or by contacting Erich Shea at erich_shea@americanchemistry.com.
1 Henry, B. J., et al. A critical review of the application of polymer of low concern and regulatory criteria to fluoropolymers. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. Volume 14, number 3, pages 316-334. May 2018. Open Access.
SOURCE American Chemistry Council | 2022-06-14T19:19:47+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/14/new-study-demonstrates-vast-majority-commercial-fluoropolymers-meet-criteria-polymers-low-concern-designation/ |
(The Hill) – Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who fiercely defended Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, is gearing up to be the star witness against the former president as the House Jan. 6 committee winds down its public hearings with a detailed look at Trump’s three hours of inaction as the Capitol riot unfolded.
Cipollone has been a reluctant participant in the investigation, rebuffing initial requests for an under-oath interview with the House select committee, which was able to secure his eleventh-hour cooperation only via subpoena.
His marathon deposition on July 8, however, has proven a gold mine for the panel, providing confirmation for some of the core allegations to emerge from the yearlong probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection and Trump’s role in provoking it.
Not only did Cipollone tell investigators that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud were fallacious, but also that the president’s legal team told him repeatedly that the election was lost and he should concede defeat.
Cipollone also verified a White House visit on Dec. 18, 2020, from several prominent figures in the Stop the Steal movement — including Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney; Sidney Powell, another conspiracy-minded lawyer; Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser; and Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com — who sought to convince Trump to have the Pentagon seize voting machines in battleground states.
Many of those details had been presented publicly in earlier hearings, including just days earlier when Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, had described Jan. 6 as a chaotic day of tension and infighting at the White House, where Cipollone had scrambled to convince a resentful president to intervene while the Capitol was sacked.
Still, to have Cipollone — a Trump loyalist and the public face of his first impeachment defense — siding with the critics in debunking Trump’s claims of a “stolen” election has been something of a coup for the select committee. It’s an unusual alliance that the panel members have been only happy to forge.
“In general, Pat Cipollone was able to corroborate every major element of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election results in 2020. He was aware of all of it, and he tried to throw up some legal guardrails at different points,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a constitutional lawyer who sits on the select committee.
“It’s a remarkable thing that the lawyer who defended Trump in the first impeachment trial had to try to talk Donald Trump down from the ‘big lie’ and to play defense against this group of outside advisers who really wanted to stage a military coup by having the U.S. military take over election machines.”
Cipollone’s interactions with Democrats weren’t always so welcome.
In 2019 and 2020, when Cipollone fought to defend Trump from charges that he’d abused his powers in dealings with Ukraine, Democrats in Congress railed against the reserved White House counsel, not least for his argument that the administration had no obligation to cooperate with the congressional investigation.
“I don’t know how they can retain their lawyer status, in the comments that they’re making,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at the time.
More than two years later, the Jan. 6 committee had been similarly frustrated with Cipollone’s refusal to participate under oath. In its public pleas for Cipollone’s cooperation, investigators stressed that they saw him as one of the few voices in the White House that day pushing for Trump to take some kind of action.
“Our evidence shows that Mr. Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right — they tried to stop a number of President Trump’s plans for Jan. 6,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the committee, said during a hearing last month. “But we think the American people deserve to hear from Mr. Cipollone personally.”
That sentiment grew exponentially following the explosive June 28 testimony from Hutchinson, who relayed Cipollone’s escalating frustration as other officials, notably Meadows, declined to confront Trump while a mob of his supporters stormed violently into the Capitol.
“I remember Pat saying to him something to the effect of, ‘The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark. We need to go down and see the president now,’” Hutchinson said.
When Meadows responded that Trump “doesn’t want to do anything,” Cipollone lost patience, Hutchinson testified.
“Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your effing hands,” Cipollone responded, according to Hutchinson. “This is getting out of control. I’m going down there.”
It was Hutchinson’s remarkable narrative that led the committee to get more aggressive in pursuing Cipollone’s testimony — cooperation they won by issuing him a subpoena shortly after her appearance.
“Without Cassidy Hutchison, I’m not sure if Pat Cipollone would have been in when he was,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), the second of the two Republicans on the nine-member committee. “She was very heroic in what she did. And she’s compelled at least him and other witnesses to come forward.”
Cipollone’s fly-on-the-wall insights will likely be featured in Thursday’s prime-time hearing on Capitol Hill, where the committee is promising to explore the 187 minutes between the start of the Capitol attack and the release of Trump’s message for the mob to stand down.
Cipollone was one of the few to speak directly with Trump that day, allowing him to fill gaps left by Meadows, who turned over his text messages but refused to sit down for a deposition with the panel’s investigators, even under subpoena.
In December, the House voted to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, though the Justice Department declined to bring charges.
Cipollone told the committee that he pushed back on White House plans to seize voting machines during the Dec. 18, 2020, meeting.
“That’s a terrible idea for the country,” he said. “I don’t understand why we even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea for the country.”
Other witnesses who may be featured in the next hearing include Ivanka Trump, who is said to have spoken with her father at least twice on Jan. 6, according to earlier testimony.
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser Keith Kellogg said Ivanka Trump had characterized Pence as “a good man” after overhearing her father’s angry call with his vice president. And she returned to Trump’s office later that day amid encouragement from other aides, who hoped her close relationship with her father would help her to reach him in a way other staffers couldn’t.
“I think she went back in there because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious,” Kellogg told the committee behind closed doors.
Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary, is also reportedly in negotiations with the committee to appear publicly.
In a portion of her videotaped deposition already shown by the committee, she criticized Trump for attacking Pence in a 2:24 p.m. tweet — after the Capitol had already been breached.
“The situation was already bad, and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire,” Matthews told the committee privately.
Yet the featured witness is expected to be Cipollone, who spent a full day with the committee behind closed doors, only a sliver of which has been revealed publicly. Leading the discussion in Thursday’s hearing will be Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Kinzinger, who characterized Cipollone as a crucial figure in the wide-ranging investigation.
“He’s able to corroborate some folks; he’s got kind of unique perspectives. It’s all going to be important,” he said.
“I’m not going to reveal anything from the upcoming hearing because we want to keep that ’til we’re there,” he added. “But … I think his interview was key.” | 2022-07-18T22:11:38+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/ex-trump-counsel-gears-up-for-starring-appearance-in-jan-6-hearing/ |
In Parallel with $150 Million Growth Round, Bilt also Introduces Bilt Homes, a New Platform to Help Renters Access Homeownership
NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bilt Rewards, the leading consumer brand for renters, today announces a growth round of $150 million led by Left Lane Capital with investment from Smash Capital, Wells Fargo, Greystar, Invitation Homes, Camber Creek, Fifth Wall, and Prosus Ventures to further expand its loyalty program and credit card product. The new capital values Bilt Rewards at $1.5 billion.
Launched in 2021 by Kairos, Bilt Rewards operates both a loyalty program and a co-brand credit card, the Bilt Mastercard, that enable consumers to earn points on their rent payments with no transaction fees, while also building a path to homeownership. The Bilt Rewards loyalty program was developed in partnership with an alliance of the nation's largest real estate owners, while the Bilt Mastercard was developed with and issued by Wells Fargo.
In less than a year, the company announced that it has already processed over $3 billion in annualized rent payments and over $1.6 billion in annualized card spend to-date.
"Bilt Rewards has created a compelling loyalty and payments program for the rental market," says Greystar CEO Bob Faith. "As the industry evolves, programs like Bilt are key to delivering the resident experience renters want and expect. We're excited to join as partners and investors in this venture."
"We're excited to expand our partnership with Bilt and look forward to introducing their full suite of offerings to our customers," says Wells Fargo CEO, Charlie Scharf. "Bilt gives us another way to be there for our customers during their biggest life purchases, including a unique solution to help customers build credit from on-time rent payments, ultimately creating an easier path to homeownership."
As rent prices continue to rise, Bilt today also introduces Bilt Homes, a new home buying service "for renters, by renters". Bilt Homes takes a member's monthly rent payment and instantly shows them homes they can own for an equal monthly mortgage payment. The feature automatically factors in real-time interest rates, taxes, income, credit profile, and other personal data to determine mortgage qualification. Members can then use their Bilt points to help cover any downpayment and closing costs required to switch from renting to home ownership.
Bilt Homes also simulates how higher credit scores may lower renter interest rates, thereby increasing the value of homes they could afford for the same monthly payment. Members can then enroll in Bilt's free rent reporting to help boost their credit history with every on-time rent payment.
Since June 2021, Bilt Rewards has been the loyalty program and payment platform for the Bilt Alliance, a network of more than 2.5 million apartment units across the country in partnership with the nation's top multifamily owners and operators including Blackstone, Related Companies, Related Group, Equity Residential, AvalonBay Communities, Inc., and more.
Residents within the Bilt Alliance can pay their rent through the Bilt App and earn points on rent with no transaction fees. Additionally, renters within the Bilt Alliance can earn points on new leases, referrals and other incentives from their landlords, as well as enroll in Bilt's free rent reporting services to all three credit bureaus, which can help members who pay their rent on time and in-full build their credit histories and boost their credit scores. For those who live outside of the Bilt Alliance, the co-brand Bilt Mastercard allows renters at any apartment in the U.S. to earn points on rent with no transaction fees, plus earn 3x points on dining, 2x points on travel and 1x points on all other purchases.
On leading Bilt's growth funding round, Left Lane Capital CEO and Managing Partner, Harley Miller, says, "Housing represents the largest monthly expense for over 100 million renters in the U.S., and yet consumers have never received any incremental value in return. Over the last year, the team brought together an unprecedented group of real estate owners, which has afforded them large scale and immediate distribution to renters across the country. Bilt is quickly weaving itself into the fabric of the everyday consumer, and has the potential to become a household brand that covers the entire homeownership journey."
Bilt Rewards boasts one of the top loyalty programs on the market today, and was recently named the most valuable rewards currency of 2022 by BankRate. Bilt points can be used to travel across over 100 major airlines and hotel partners, book fitness classes at the country's top boutique studios, shop on Amazon.com or purchase limited-edition and exclusive collections of art and home decor through the Bilt Collection, plus can be redeemed for credits towards rent, or applied towards a future downpayment on a home.
Of the announcement, Bilt Rewards Founder and CEO Ankur Jain says, "As rent prices continue to soar, we want to make the path to homeownership easier for renters. This new round of funding will help us to build additional tools, strengthen relationships with existing loyalty and real estate partners, and work to expand the Bilt Rewards platform across the country. We're excited to take the next step in making Bilt Rewards a household name."
For more information on Bilt Rewards, visit BiltRewards.com, download the Bilt Rewards App, or follow Bilt on Instagram at @BiltRewards and on TikTok at @PointQuest.
Bilt Rewards, launched by Kairos, is the first-ever loyalty program that allows renters to earn points on rent with no transaction fees and builds a path towards homeownership. Through a partnership with the country's largest owners including AvalonBay Communities, Equity Residential, Related, Starwood Capital Group and more, Bilt Rewards enables renters in more than two million units across the country to earn points just by paying rent. Bilt Rewards boasts one of the highest value rewards programs on the market today, including one-to-one point transfers to 12 loyalty programs allowing members to travel across over 100 major airlines and hotel partners. Members can also book travel through the Bilt Travel Portal powered by Expedia, book fitness classes at the country's top boutique studios including SoulCycle, Solidcore, Rumble and Y7; shop limited-edition and exclusive collections of art and home decor through the Bilt Collection or purchase items on Amazon.com, redeem for credits towards rent or even apply Bilt points towards a future downpayment. Bilt has also partnered with Mastercard to create the Bilt Mastercard - the first and only credit card that can be used to pay rent and earn points with no transaction fees. For more information, visit BiltRewards.com.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate moved on Wednesday to undo a controversial state Supreme Court ruling that made it easier for state agencies to delay handing over public records.
The bipartisan bill, which moves next to the Assembly, would make it easier for people who sue over open records requests to recover attorney's fees.
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The state Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled 4-3 last year that if a government authority voluntarily turns over records before a lawsuit goes to trial, then the records requester who brought the lawsuit is not entitled to attorney's fees. Essentially, the ruling eliminated consequences for state agencies that wait to turn over records until they have been sued.
Without the ability to easily recover attorney's fees, filing a lawsuit for records would be cost-prohibitive to most requesters, transparency advocates warned after the ruling. Open records laws play a key role in government accountability by allowing citizens to request public documents from government agencies.
If the bill the Senate passed on Wednesday receives approval from the Assembly and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, it would again allow requesters to recover attorney's fees as soon as a court says their lawsuit contributed to an agency's decision to release records. Currently, requesters have to persuade a judge to continue with the lawsuit and rule in their favor, even after records have been released, to recover attorney's fees.
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The measure has support from transparency groups including the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and the Wisconsin Transparency Project. | 2023-04-19T18:41:48+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/senate-passes-bill-to-undo-wisconsin-open-records-17906596.php |
EVANSVILLE, Ind., (WEHT) – On Halloween, spirited trick-or-treaters will don costumes and go house to house, some toting plastic pumpkin pails of different colors. Those same pumpkins, which may have a special meaning based on the color, can also be found on doorsteps.
Nexstar’s WEHT is clearing up any confusion this year when it comes to the vibrant colors and what they signify.
Teal Pumpkins
Popularized through the “Teal Pumpkin Project,” this color is used to make trick-or-treating safer and more inclusive for children with food allergies. A teal pumpkin on a doorstep signals that the homeowner offers non-food trinkets and treats that are safe for all trick-or-treaters. Children with food allergies may carry around a teal pumpkin pail to let grown-ups know of their condition.
Pink Pumpkins
Just as a pink ribbon symbolizes breast cancer awareness, so does a pink pumpkin. Halloween falls within Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and many who have pink pumpkins may know a breast cancer survivor or are one themselves. The non-profit “Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation” has helped facilitate donations to organizations involved in breast cancer research based on the sales of seed and fruit from naturally pink pumpkins.
Blue Pumpkins
A house with blue pumpkins outside may signify that a child in the household is on the autism spectrum. It could mean that the child is fearful of the doorbell ringing or is not participating during Halloween. A trick-or-treater with a blue pail could signify that the child has autism and may need patience and support.
Purple Pumpkins
Purple pumpkins and pails signify that a member of the household or the trick-or-treater themselves has epilepsy. This originally started with the “Purple Pumpkin Project” as a way to spread awareness. It is important to know of this pumpkin in case of a seizure.
If you’re looking to buy a pail of a specific color, retailers such as Walmart and Amazon have options in a range of colors. Although some of these colors naturally occur in certain pumpkins, you can always paint your pumpkins the color needed this spooky season. | 2022-10-29T13:36:47+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/whats-the-special-meaning-behind-each-pumpkin-color/ |
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Viktor Hovland handled the toughest stretch at Muirfield Village and delivered three clutch putts at the end to win the Memorial in a playoff over hard-luck Denny McCarthy on Sunday.
Hovland closed with a 2-under 70 on another brutal test on a course baked all week by sun, forcing the playoff with a 30-foot birdie on the 17th — the only one on that hole in the final round — and saving par from behind the 18th green.
Back to the 18th in the playoff, Hovland barely got onto the front of the green, some 60 feet away from the back pin, and two-putted by holing a 7-foot par putt.
It was his fourth PGA Tour victory and first on American soil, this one with a $3.6 million winner’s check and a handshake from host Jack Nicklaus. The Norwegian’s previous wins were in Mexico twice and Puerto Rico.
It was a crushing loss for McCarthy, one of the purest putters on the PGA Tour. He showed his touch by saving crucial pars and playing bogey-free on a day when the average score was just under 75. His only bogey came on the 18th hole — twice.
McCarthy had a one-shot lead when he missed the 18th fairway to the left, pitched out to the fairway and narrowly missed a 25-foot par putt for the win. In the playoff, his shot from the right rough rolled back off the green some 50 yards away. He pitched to 12 feet and the putt caught the left edge and spun away.
“I’m heartbroken right now,” McCarthy said, emotion in his voice after his closest call to win on the PGA Tour in his 156th attempt.
This was a final day when so many went in reverse from the 22 players who had been separated by three shots at the start of the round.
Rory McIlroy chipped in from below the fourth green for birdie and had the lead on the front nine, but he gave away far too many shots on the back — three bogeys in a row — for a 75 that took him out of the picture.
Scottie Scheffler closed with a 67 and finished third and missed the playoff by one shot, remarkable considering he made the cut on the number. The No. 1 player in the world has not finished worse than 12th in his 13 starts this year.
But what a week to forget with the putter.
Scheffler turned a statistically dominant performance from tee-to-green, picking up 20.7 strokes on the field in that category. But he lost 8.5 strokes to the field in his putting. This might be the best context — it was nearly a 20-shot differential in putting to McCarthy, and Scheffler finished one shot behind.
“I think a little bit of my struggles with the putting have probably helped me elevate my ball striking, just because if I’m trying to compete out here … with the putts not going in, I’ve got to hit it really good. And I’ve been able to do that,” Scheffler said.
“Maybe people are asking me about my putting so much more because I’m hitting it so good,” he said. “When you’re hitting a bunch of greens it’s not easy to make every putt. I mean, if I was putting the best this week, I would have won by a crazy amount of shots.”
That belonged to Hovland, who joined McCarthy (70) at 7-under 281.
Hovland, who moves to No. 5 in the world ranking, didn’t feel as though he did anything special. He has had better weeks striking the ball. His lowest round all week was 69. But he was the only player to break par in all four rounds.
“I played smart. I played my game. And I came up clutch this time,” Hovland said.
He was particularly strong at the end. The final three were the toughest at Muirfield Village all week. Hovland birdied two of the three on Saturday to get in the mix, and he played them 1 under on Sunday to get into a playoff.
Si Woo Kim, who played in the last group with McIlroy, had a 73 to finish alone in fourth. Jordan Spieth was in the group another shot back.
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AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-05T15:01:56+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/sports/sports-headlines/hovland-delivers-clutch-putts-and-wins-memorial-in-playoff/ |
Men exonerated in Malcolm X killing to receive $36 million
NEW YORK (AP) — The city of New York is settling lawsuits filed on behalf of two men who were exonerated last year for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, agreeing to pay $26 million for the wrongful convictions which led to both men spending decades behind bars.
The state of New York will pay an additional $10 million. David Shanies, an attorney representing the men, confirmed the settlements on Sunday.
“Muhammad Aziz, Khalil Islam, and their families suffered because of these unjust convictions for more than 50 years,” said Shanies said in an email. “The City recognized the grave injustices done here, and I commend the sincerity and speed with which the Comptroller’s Office and the Corporation Counsel moved to resolve the lawsuits.”
Shanies said the settlements send a message that “police and prosecutorial misconduct cause tremendous damage, and we must remain vigilant to identify and correct injustices.”
Last year, a Manhattan judge dismissed the convictions of Aziz, now 84, and Islam, who died in 2009, after prosecutors said new evidence of witness intimidation and suppression of exculpatory evidence had undermined the case against the men. Then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. apologized for law enforcement’s “serious, unacceptable violations of law and the public trust.”
The New York City Law Department, through a spokesperson, said Sunday it “stands by” Vance’s opinion that the men were wrongfully convicted and the financial agreement “brings some measure of justice to individuals who spent decades in prison and bore the stigma of being falsely accused of murdering an iconic figure.”
Shanies said over the next few weeks the settlement documents will be signed, and the New York court that handles probate matters will have to approve the settlement for Islam’s estate. The total $36 million will be divided equally between Aziz and the estate of Islam.
Aziz and Islam, who maintained their innocence from the start in the 1965 killing at Upper Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, were paroled in the 1980s.
Malcolm X gained national prominence as the voice of the Nation of Islam, exhorting Black people to claim their civil rights “by any means necessary.” His autobiography, written with Alex Haley, remains a classic work of modern American literature.
Near the end of Malcolm X’s life, he split with the Black Muslim organization and, after a trip to Mecca, started speaking about the potential for racial unity. It earned him the ire of some in the Nation of Islam, who saw him as a traitor.
He was shot to death while beginning a speech Feb. 21, 1965. He was 39.
Aziz and Islam, then known as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, and a third man were convicted of murder in March 1966. They were sentenced to life in prison.
The third man, Mujahid Abdul Halim — also known as Talmadge Hayer and Thomas Hagan — admitted to shooting Malcolm X but said neither Aziz nor Islam was involved. The two offered alibis, and no physical evidence linked them to the crime. The case hinged on eyewitnesses, although there were inconsistencies in their testimony.
Attorneys for Aziz and Islam said in complaints that both Aziz and Islam were at their homes in the Bronx when Malcolm X was killed. They said Aziz spent 20 years in prison and more than 55 years living with the hardship and indignity attendant to being unjustly branded as a convicted murderer of one of the most important civil rights leaders in history.
Islam spent 22 years in prison and died still hoping to clear his name.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-31T14:15:10+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2022/10/31/men-exonerated-malcolm-x-killing-receive-36-million/ |
WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, December 31, 2022
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
115 PM PST Fri Dec 30 2022
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ABOVE 6000 FEET IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO
10 PM PST SATURDAY...
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12 inches
above 6000 feet, locally 3 to 4 feet of snow above 8000 feet.
Winds gusts 45 to 55 mph, particularly at exposed ridgetops and
peaks.
* WHERE...Western Plumas County/Lassen National Park.
* WHEN...From 4 AM to 10 PM PST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. Gusty winds could
bring down tree branches.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow levels will drop through the day on
Saturday, starting around 7000 to 7500 ft, lowering to 4500 to
5000 ft by Saturday evening. Precipitation will fall in the form
of rain below the snow level.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM SATURDAY TO
4 AM PST SUNDAY...
above 7000 feet, locally up to 3 to 4 feet above 9000 feet.
Winds gusts 50 to 60 mph, particularly at exposed ridgetops and
* WHERE...West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada County.
* WHEN...From 10 AM Saturday to 4 AM PST Sunday.
Saturday, starting 8000+ ft Saturday morning, 7000 to 8000 ft
Saturday mid-day, and 5500 to 7000 ft Saturday evening.
Precipitation will fall in the form of rain below the snow
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, and some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency.
The naturalization test is one of the final steps toward citizenship — a monthslong process that requires legal permanent residency for years before applying.
Many are still shaken after former Republican President Donald Trump’s administration changed the test in 2020, making it longer and more difficult to pass. Within months, Democratic President Joe Biden took office and signed an executive order aimed at eliminating barriers to citizenship. In that spirit, the citizenship test was changed back to its previous version, which was last updated in 2008.
In December, U.S. authorities said the test was due for an update after 15 years. The new version is expected late next year.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes that the new test adds a speaking section to assess English skills. An officer would show photos of ordinary scenarios – like daily activities, weather or food – and ask the applicant to verbally describe the photos.
In the current test, an officer evaluates speaking ability during the naturalization interview by asking personal questions the applicant has already answered in the naturalization paperwork.
“For me, I think it would be harder to look at pictures and explain them,” said Heaven Mehreta, who immigrated from Ethiopia 10 years ago, passed the naturalization test in May and became a U.S. citizen in Minnesota in June.
Mehreta, 32, said she learned English as an adult after moving to the U.S. and found pronunciation to be very difficult. She worries that adding a new speaking section based on photos, rather than personal questions, will make the test harder for others like her.
Shai Avny, who immigrated from Israel five years ago and became a U.S. citizen last year, said the new speaking section could also increase the stress applicants already feel during the test.
“Sitting next to someone from the federal government, it can be intimidating to talk and speak with them. Some people have this fear anyway. When it’s not your first language, it can be even more difficult. Maybe you will be nervous and you won’t find the words to tell them what you need to describe,” Avny said. “It’s a test that will determine if you are going to be a citizen. So there is a lot to lose.”
Another proposed change would make the civics section on U.S. history and government multiple-choice instead of the current oral short-answer format.
Bill Bliss, a citizenship textbook author in Massachusetts, gave an example in a blog post of how the test would become more difficult because it would require a larger base of knowledge.
A current civics question has an officer asking the applicant to name a war fought by the U.S. in the 1900s. The applicant only needs to say one out of five acceptable answers – World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War or Gulf War – to get the question right.
But in the proposed multiple-choice format, the applicant would read that question and select the correct answer from the following choices:
A. Civil War
B. Mexican-American War
C. Korean War
D. Spanish-American War
The applicant must know all five of the wars fought by the U.S. in the 1900s in order to select the one correct answer, Bliss said, and that requires a “significantly higher level of language proficiency and test-taking skill.”
Currently, the applicant must answer six out of 10 civics questions correctly to pass. Those 10 questions are selected from a bank of 100 civics questions. The applicant is not told which questions will be selected but can see and study the 100 questions before taking the test.
Lynne Weintraub, a citizenship coordinator at Jones Library’s English as a Second Language Center in Massachusetts, said the proposed format for the civics section could make the citizenship test harder for people who struggle with English literacy. That includes refugees, elderly immigrants and people with disabilities that interfere with their test performance.
“We have a lot of students that are refugees, and they’re coming from war-torn countries where maybe they didn’t have a chance to complete school or even go to school,” said Mechelle Perrott, a citizenship coordinator at San Diego Community College District’s College of Continuing Education in California.
“It’s more difficult learning to read and write if you don’t know how to do that in your first language. That’s my main concern about the multiple-choice test; it’s a lot of reading,” Perrott said.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a December announcement that the proposed changes “reflect current best practices in test design” and would help standardize the citizenship test.
Under federal law, most applicants seeking citizenship must demonstrate an understanding of the English language – including an ability to speak, read and write words in ordinary usage – and demonstrate knowledge of U.S. history and government.
The agency said it will conduct a nationwide trial of the proposed changes in 2023 with opportunities for public feedback. Then, an external group of experts — in the fields of language acquisition, civics and test development — will review the results of the trial and recommend ways to best implement the proposed changes, which could take effect late next year.
The U.S. currently has the easiest citizenship test compared to other Western countries — including Germany, Canada and the United Kingdom — according to Sara Goodman, a political science professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Goodman said she uses the following metrics to determine the difficulty of a test: the number of questions required to pass and the number of questions overall, the percentage of applicants who pass the test, the language level of the test, and whether or not questions with answers are made available to study before taking the test.
In the U.S. test, applicants must answer six out of 10 questions correctly to pass. About 96% of applicants pass the test, according to recent estimates. The test is at a “high beginner” level of English, Goodman said, and a question bank with answers is made available to study beforehand.
But in the German test, Goodman said applicants must answer 17 out of 33 questions correctly to pass. About 90% of applicants pass the test, according to recent estimates. The test is at an “intermediate” level of German, according to Goodman. And a question bank with answers is made available.
The Canada and United Kingdom tests are even harder, and a question bank is not provided in the latter, Goodman said.
Elizabeth Jacobs, director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies — a nonprofit research organization that advocates for less immigration — said the proposed changes would make the U.S. citizenship test even easier for many people.
“We think that’s in the wrong direction,” Jacobs said on behalf of the organization.
The proposed multiple-choice format for the civics section would put the answer to each question in front of applicants, Jacobs said, and would get rid of the memory challenge that’s in the current test.
Jacobs said her organization would prefer a test that includes more material and emphasizes American values, such as religious freedom and freedom of speech.
She added that most people who naturalize are not in the U.S. because of merit or refugee status, but because of family sponsorship, where someone in their family became a citizen before them and petitioned for them to naturalize.
Jacobs said having a stricter test would help ensure that new citizens integrate into American society — and the economy — with sufficient English language skills, as well as promote a healthy democracy with civics knowledge and engagement.
Not everyone agrees.
“Is it important for us to even have a civics test in the first place? I don’t know the answer to that question,” said Corleen Smith, director of immigration services at the International Institute of Minnesota, a nonprofit that connects immigrants to resources.
Smith said USCIS already evaluates whether applicants have past criminal histories, pay taxes and support their children financially.
“They’re already evaluating that portion of your background. Is it also important to know this information about history and government and be able to memorize it?” Smith said, adding: “People that were born in the U.S. and are natural-born citizens — a lot of those folks don’t know many of these answers to the history of government questions.”
More than 1 million people became U.S. citizens in fiscal year 2022 — one of the highest numbers on record since 1907, the earliest year with available data — and USCIS reduced the huge backlog of naturalization applications by over 60% compared to the year before, according to a USCIS report also released in December.
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Trisha Ahmed is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. Follow Trisha Ahmed on Twitter: @TrishaAhmed15 | 2023-07-05T19:04:25+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-us-citizenship-test-changes-are-coming-raising-concerns-for-those-with-low-english-skills/ |
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LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday charged a man and a woman with conspiring to bring a child to the U.K. in order to harvest organs.
London’s Metropolitan Police force said Nigerian nationals Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55, are accused of conspiracy to arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, “namely organ harvesting.”
They are being held in custody and are due to appear in a London court later Thursday.
Police said a child had been taken to safety.
The force said detectives launched an investigation after they were alerted to potential modern slavery offenses in May.
The suspects share the names and ages of a former deputy president of the Nigerian Senate and his wife. The former deputy Senate president’s office had no immediate comment. | 2022-06-23T15:17:49+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/2-nigerians-charged-in-uk-over-alleged-organ-harvesting-plan/ |
BILLINGS - Billings is perhaps experiencing a boost in the food truck trend. Business owners of mobile eateries say they’re feeling optimistic about opening and operating food trucks even through an unsteady economy.
That’s exactly the case for Mike Hernandez, who owns and operates La Taqueria, an authentic Mexican food truck that specializes in street tacos.
“Billings is going to be a hotspot for food trucks,” said Hernandez.
On a recent warm summer morning, Hernandez was getting ready for the day, opening up the windows to the truck, firing up the grill, and setting out his sign.
He admits he wishes he started his food truck a little earlier in life.
“I like the gratification of seeing their smile and thumbs up,” he said. “If I hear that somebody's never heard of something, I am like, come here, let me give you a sample of this.”
Hernandez grew up in Southern California and as a kid used to spend his lunchtime away from the halls of his school, traveling across the street to where food trucks were stationed. He loved to taste what they had to offer, he said.
“My mom doesn't know that,” he laughed.
But making the cuisine stems from another place.
“Tijuana, Mexico, where I was born, actually,” he said.
He knows how a simple meal on wheels can get people to gather. He saw that firsthand coming from a place where the food truck culture was a common sight.
“It’s like having a huge, never-ending backyard barbecue with friends,” he said.
Food trucks in Billings have been on the rise, showing up at businesses where there’s a vast amount of employees who can spend their lunch break, not traveling to a nearby restaurant but instead having lunch come to them.
“I think in the coming years you're going to have all kinds of cuisines out here,” said Hernandez.
And he just might be right. Riverstone Health, which hands out mobile restaurant licenses, says while the numbers aren’t concrete, officials have seen slow growth in food truck permits in recent years.
In fact, there have been 124 mobile food establishment licenses handed out in Yellowstone County in the last year.
Hernandez believes the next city even slightly close to that is Bozeman.
Still, Hernandez faces obstacles with his business like any other. Inflation is driving up the cost of everything, which he says is a sign of the times.
“I think it's the rise in gas. Of course, that's an umbrella. Once the gas prices go up, I mean, everything's going to start coming up,” he said.
Still, he manages by scheduling events closer in proximity.
“We try to not raise our prices,” he said.
And he says until the economy ripens, he’ll just keep doing what he loves; making authentic street tacos savory and special to order.
“The food truck industry is actually growing and it's going to grow even bigger in the next couple of years, I think,” he said. | 2022-08-12T12:44:56+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/food-trucks-trend-that-temps-your-tastebuds-grows-in-popularity-in-billings |
Maine man accused of attacking NY officers remains in hospital
Investigators say suspect might have been radicalized online
Investigators say suspect might have been radicalized online
Investigators say suspect might have been radicalized online
A Maine man accused of attacking police officers on New Year's Eve in Times Square remains hospitalized in New York.
Trevor Bickford, 19, is charged with attempted murder and attempted assault.
Federal agents spent the weekend searching Bickford's home. Investigators said he might have become radicalized in recent months by Islamic extremists online.
Residents in his hometown of Wells said they were shocked.
"The internet makes everything so small that everybody can be compromised by somebody else's thoughts," said Stephan River, of Wells.
Authorities said a diary was found in Bickford's backpack when police arrested him.
He is expected to face a judge in New York sometime this week. | 2023-01-03T19:29:51+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/trevor-bickford-attack-new-york-maine-police/42387295 |
“Let’s do things differently this time.”
Those are the first words you hear at the beginning of this month’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” an otherworldly meditation on multiple realities and how our lives might unfold. The message is clear from the get-go: We have choices. Things could be malleable. You are you, sure. But wait — you might also be you and you and you.
The world is a stressful, sometimes lonely place — and more so at a moment when “It wasn’t supposed to be this way” has become a not-uncommon mantra. But what if things could turn out another way? What if, somewhere, they had? Enter the realm of the multiverse and alternate realities, one of the most glorified canvases in popular culture’s recent years — and a repository for the ache and longing of living in an era of uncertainty.
Alternate universes are everywhere these days, as the long-delayed opening weekend of “The Flash” attests with its regret-streaked, history-changing storyline (and its multiple variations of Batman). There is a deep hunger, it seems, for exploring possibilities — for seeing what might have been if just one thing had unfolded differently.
“The cultural assumption used to be that the world we live in is the way it is, and that’s the only way it could be,” says Douglas Wolk, who read 27,000 Marvel comics from across the decades for his book, “All of the Marvels.”
“What has happened in culture,” Wolk says, “is that people are saying, ‘Well, no. This consensus reality is not how things have to be.’”
The notion of exploring life’s twists and turns through alternate timelines has been around for a while, albeit in varying guises.
“It’s a Wonderful Life,” the quintessential Christmas movie from 1946, sent the affable George Bailey tumbling into a timeline where he’d never been born to reveal his true impact. “You’ve been given a great gift, George — a chance to see what the world would be like without you,” he’s told by his wannabe guardian angel, Clarence.
In the decades since, that notion has accelerated — a rise in stories that consider events both fictional and real, extrapolating different choices.
What if the South had won the Civil War (“CSA: The Confederate States of America”)? What if Germany and Japan had won World War II ( “The Man in the High Castle” )? What if John F. Kennedy hadn’t been assassinated ( “11/22/63” )? What if the Soviets had beaten the Americans to the moon (“For All Mankind”)? What if 9/11 had played out very differently (“The Mirage”)?
Fictional worlds are more malleable, though, and can yield more content. So it is that imaginary characters — particularly beloved ones with established stories — are toyed with in books, TV shows and movies that airlift them out of one life and into another. It’s a concept that cuts across genres, from rom-com (1998’s “Sliding Doors,” where missing a train splits a young woman’s life into diverging paths) to near-musical (2019’s “Yesterday,” where a budding musician tumbles into a universe where the Beatles never existed).
You have the reality where Spider-Man never married Mary Jane Watson (Marvel Comics’ “Brand New Day”); the universe where one variant of Doctor Strange has gone insane ( “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” ); the universe where a Ben Affleck Batman never existed but the Michael Keaton Batman stuck around and got old ( “The Flash,” which we’re not spoiling since this was in the trailers).
And you have the “mirror universe” of “Star Trek,” whose dark and aggressive Terran Empire reveals the baser instincts of beloved characters. Not to mention the recent spate of “Trek” movies, which unfold in yet another reality, splintered when an aging Spock went back in time.
“It’s a way to explore a problem that’s never actually happened in the main story,” sums up Nic Lemire, 13, a California teenager who co-hosts an occasional podcast called “Marvel Mondays” with his mother, former Associated Press film critic Christy Lemire.
One crowning example of multiverse success: Last year’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which showed all the different lives that Michelle Yeoh’s main character might have lived — with the point being that across the multiverse, her family remains a family. It won seven Academy Awards, including best picture.
Whatever the subject matter, these works are united by one theme: There are always possibilities, for better and for worse, and exploring them is entertaining, enlightening and escapist. That’s no small thing in a post-COVID world facing the ravages of extreme climate events, persistent racism, the rancor of political polarization and the rise of artificial intelligence — a planet where convulsive change can seem the only constant.
“Fictions have implicitly done what alternate universes seem to be doing more lately: letting us explore some reality that’s not actual, for the purpose of learning about the actual world,” says Hannah Kim, an assistant professor of philosophy at Macalester College who has researched why the multiverse resonates.
“We’re bombarded with things that seem arbitrary, random,” she says. “The number of difficult developments the past few years — the pandemic, political upheaval, effects of climate change, etc. — leave the anxiety-riddled person with the nagging feeling that this all could have been otherwise.”
Exploring the question of “what if” continues to be lucrative — to the point where there’s an entire Marvel show exploring alternate realities called “What If…?” And while multiple universes are starting to feel spread thin as a plot device, the trope isn’t going away any time soon in our single world, where reality is constantly called into question.
After all, if you can remix popular characters in multiple properties while retaining the potential for a reset in a “prime universe,” what is there to lose? Well, there’s one thing: If everything is reversible, unlike real life as we know it, how high can the stakes really be?
“It narratively lets you have your cake and eat it, too — you can kill off the character, have an emotional death scene and then bring the character back from another universe,” says Matt Ruff, whose 9/11 novel, “The Mirage,” posits an alternate universe that flips aggressors, victims and prejudices. In its reality, it was Christian extremists who attacked the Twin Towers of the “United Arab States” in Baghdad.
“If everything’s possible, the choices are less interesting. The consequences don’t matter all that much,” Ruff says. “Part of engaging in the real world is engaging with the fact that there’s no magical solution.”
That, though, may be precisely why the notion resonates. Human beings have always wanted to try on other outfits, other outcomes, maybe even other lives. That’s what stories are about. Could we be hurtling toward a narrative era — the immersive equivalent of choose-your-own-adventure stories — where all possibilities are on the table?
Technology has enabled people to obtain most anything — customized, to boot — from the world’s bounty within 48 hours. Who in the network television days of the 1980s could have imagined that streaming would bring thousands of television shows and movies to our eyeballs with the push of a button? So why not thousands of stories with thousands of possible endings for characters and plotlines? What does that do to our relationship with our stories?
“You are looking at a piece of a bigger cultural picture that provides a constant barrage of cultural images that reinforce this idea that we can be better versions of ourselves,” says David Newman, a sociologist at Colgate University who has written a book on second chances. “People want to believe that when we have a problem, the problem is fixable.”
There’s one Marvel Comics offshoot, something called “Marvel 1602,” which chronicles a universe in which Earth’s mightiest superheroes existed at the beginning of the 17th century. In it, Reed Richards, the leader of the Fantastic Four, proposes something.
“I posit we are in a universe which favors stories,” he says. “A universe in which no story can ever truly end; in which there can only be continuances.”
However it might play out, that’s a universe full of possibilities. And judging from the past two decades in the popular culture of human beings, it’s good business as well to keep on asking: What if?
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Ted Anthony, director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation for The Associated Press, has been writing about American culture since 1990. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/anthonyted | 2023-06-19T11:41:27+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/what-if-things-could-turn-out-differently-how-the-multiverse-got-into-our-heads-and-didnt-let-go/ |
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Missing Dallas,Texas Teen Found Alive in a Shed a Thousand Miles Away
A thirteen-year-old girl went missing in Dallas about two weeks ago. Thanks to an investigation between the FBI and local law enforcement in several states, the girl was found alive.
Missing Teen Case
Dallas police have been looking into a missing teen case for the past couple of weeks and were able to get more people on the case thanks to the Texas FBI office. A teen had allegedly met 34-year-old Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho in an online chat room. The two had been communicating for awhile and Jorge convinced the girl to meet him.
A few weeks ago, he picked her up in front of her Dallas home and drove her thousands of miles away to a residence in North Carolina. The thirteen-year-old girl has allegedly been abused by Jorge the past few weeks. Police in North Carolina were able to coordinate a sting into Jorge's residence with the help of the FBI. The teen was found living in a shed in the back of the residence. She was taken to a nearby hospital for an evaluation and is being returned to her family in Texas.
Press Conference on Teen Being Found
The Davidson County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina held a press conference yesterday to discuss the arrest.
Sherriff Richie Simmons, urged parents to monitor their kids’ online activity and educate themselves on “how dangerous these chat platforms are.”
Charges for Abductor
Jorge Ivan Santos Camacho is currently facing eight charges. Including child abduction, felonious restraint, human trafficking and statutory rape of a child, the sheriff’s office said. He is currently being held on a bond of 1,250,000 dollars. | 2023-03-14T18:40:11+00:00 | newstalk1290.com | https://newstalk1290.com/missing-dallas-teen-found-alive-in-a-shed/ |
Relentless rain floods roads in Northeast, leads to evacuations, rescues
Jul 10, 2023, 6:05 AM | Updated: 10:34 am
Rescue teams raced into Vermont on Monday after heavy rain drenched parts of Northeast, washing out roads, forcing evacuations and halting some airline travel. One person was killed in New York as she was trying to leave her home.
Mike Cannon of Vermont Urban Search and Rescue said crews from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut were among those helping to get to towns that have been unreachable since torrents of rain belted the state overnight.
Cannon said the hardest hit area are along the mountainous areas of the Green Mountains in the state’s southern and central counties. The towns of Londonderry and Weston were inaccessible, and rescuers were heading there to do welfare checks. A state park in Plymouth was being evacuated, and water levels at several dams were being monitored.
The slow-moving storm reached New England in the morning after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday.
The National Weather Service in Burlington, Vermont, said a flood watch remains in effect for all of Vermont until Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, heavy rain poses a risk of significant flash flooding throughout parts of New England on Monday.
“Widespread, heavy rainfall capable of producing considerable to catastrophic flooding is beginning to unfold. Road washouts are ongoing, and are expected to increase in extent and severity over the course of the day,” the Weather Service said.
The slow-moving storm reached New England in the morning after hitting parts of New York and Connecticut on Sunday.
One of the worst hit places was New York’s Hudson Valley, where rescuers found the body of a woman in her 30s whose home was surrounded by water. The force of the flash flooding dislodged boulders, which rammed the woman’s house and damaged part of its wall, Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus told The Associated Press. Two other people escaped.
“She was trying to get through (the flooding) with her dog,” Neuhaus said, “and she was overwhelmed by tidal-wave type waves.”
He said many roads and bridges were washed out. Officials believed everyone was accounted for, but they were trying to reach people to make sure they were OK.
Officials say the storm has already wrought tens of millions of dollars in damage. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said at a news conference Monday that the storm sent “cars swirling in our streets” and dumped a “historic” amount of rain.
“Nine inches of rain in this community,” Hochul said during a briefing on a muddy street in Highland Falls. “They’re calling this a ‘1,000 year event.’”
Hochul announced a state of emergency Sunday for Orange County. That included the town of Cornwall, near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, where many roads were flooded and closed off.
The storm also interrupted air and rail travel. As of early Monday, there were hundreds of flight cancellations at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports and more than 200 canceled at Boston’s Logan Airport in the last 24 hours, according to the Flightaware website. Amtrak temporarily suspended service between Albany and New York. In Vermont, some 25 state roads were closed.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said swift-water rescue teams from outside the state were needed.
“This is an all-hands-on-deck response,” he said at a Monday press conference. “We have not seen rainfall like this since Irene, and in some places, it will surpass even that.”
Scott was referring to Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011, when the state got 11 inches (28 centimeters) of rain in 24 hours. Irene killed six in the state, washed homes off their foundations and damaged or destroyed more than 200 bridges and 500 miles (805 kilometers) of highway.
Scott declared a state of emergency on Sunday. Some campers and people caught in their homes were rescued in central and southern Vermont, said Mark Bosma, spokesperson for the state emergency management office.
By the morning, some towns reported 2 1/2 to 4 inches (6.35 centimeters to 10.16 centimeters) of rain since midnight, and similar totals were expected during the day, said Robert Haynes, meteorologist with the Weather Service in Burlington.
“We still look like we’re on track for that potentially significant, locally catastrophic flooding,” Haynes said.
“This is one of those unique events that we don’t see very often around here,” meteorologist Marlon Verasamy in Burlington said of Monday’s storm.
He said the ground was already saturated and rivers were relatively high from recent heavy rains. Parts of southern Vermont had mudslides and road flooding from a storm Friday night into Saturday morning.
“It’s the same area being hit today,” he said.
Several communities in western Massachusetts have reported flooded and washed out roads, a spokesperson for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said Monday.
The fire departments in Adams, North Adams and Clarksburg in the northwestern part of the state close to the New York and Vermont borders are also assisting homeowners with in pumping out basements, spokesperson Sara Porter said.
A portion of Route 57 in Tolland was also flooded, she said. In Williamsburg, firefighters were trying to rescue someone who had become trapped in their home by floodwaters, emergency manager Denise Banister said.
Flash flooding and washed out roads were reported in western Connecticut and along the state’s shoreline. In Norfolk on Monday morning, fire officials said several culverts along Route 272 had crumbled or moved and about 50 homes had been cut off by flood waters that destroyed the roads leading to those properties.
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McCormack reported from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press writers Lisa Rathke in Marshfield, Vermont contributed. | 2023-07-10T19:18:16+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3907461/relentless-rain-floods-roads-in-northeast-leads-to-evacuations-rescues/ |
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Thursday hailed economic and educational cooperation with Taiwan, marked by a $12 billion investment in his state by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.
Ducey spoke during a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, in the latest of a series of visits by U.S. political leaders that have stirred the ire of China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory and condemns all official contacts between Taipei and foreign governments that recognize Beijing.
Taiwan is a leader in the production of semiconductors, the critical chips that are used in everyday electronics and have become a battleground in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.
Arizona is also home to a base that trains Taiwan’s F-16 fighter pilots who are a major part in the island’s defenses against a threatened Chinese blockade or invasion. Arizona also plans to open a state representative office in Taipei and the sides have inked an agreement on cooperation in higher education. The TSMC investment is expected to create 2,000 jobs in Arizona, with the company taking numerous future workers for training in Taiwan.
“Arizona and Taiwan have many shared economic strengths specifically in technology and advanced manufacturing industries,” Ducey said.
“Both Arizona and Taiwan are global semiconductor leaders and it is in this industry where our partnership is the greatest. (The investment) has elevated the potential of what’s possible between Arizona and Taiwan,” the governor said.
Neither Tsai or Ducey directly mentioned China, although in her remarks, the president indicated current events were driving expanded economic links between the sides.
“In the face of authoritarian expansionism and the economic challenges of the post-pandemic era, Taiwan seeks to bolster cooperation with the United States in the semiconductor and other high-tech industries,” Tsai said.
“This would help build more secure and more resilient supply chains. We look forward to jointly producing democracy chips to safeguard the interests of our democratic partners and create greater prosperity,” she said.
Close links between Taiwan and Arizona date back to the state’s former senators Barry Goldwater and John McCain, conservatives who were strongly critical of Beijing.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan early last month made her the highest-ranking American official to visit in 25 years, prompting China to launch missiles over the island and send ships and planes across the midline of the Taiwan Strait.
The U.S. recently sent a pair of missile cruisers through the 180 kilometer (110 mile)-wide strait in a rejection of Chinese protests. Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, the U.S. remains Taiwan’s main source of political and military support and federal law requires it to ensure the island has the ability to defend itself against Chinese threats. | 2022-09-01T19:30:22+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/ap-arizona-gov-ducey-hails-taiwan-semiconductor-investment/ |
Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin is awake in a Cincinnati hospital, his agent and a teammate said Thursday morning, three days after the 24-year-old's in-game cardiac arrest.
Hamlin is awake and has been holding hands with family in the hospital, his agent Ron Butler told CNN.
"Our boy is doing better, awake and showing more signs of improvement. Thank you God," one of Hamlin's teammates, Bills cornerback Kaiir Elam, tweeted Thursday morning.
Hamlin has shown "remarkable improvement" in the last day and appears to be "neurologically intact," the Bills said separately Thursday morning.
"Per the physicians caring for Damar Hamlin at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Damar has shown remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours," the Bills tweeted. "While still critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears to be neurologically intact. His lungs continue to heal and he is making steady progress.
"We are grateful for the love and support we have received."
Further details about Hamlin's condition and how he demonstrated he was neurologically intact were not immediately released by the team, as supporters across the nation hang on updates of his condition and NFL players contemplate an emotional return to the field this weekend.
Hamlin collapsed in the first quarter of Monday night's Bills game against the host Cincinnati Bengals, stunning the packed stadium and leading to the contest's postponement -- a rare move in a league where inherently violent play usually resumes after on-field injuries.
The NFL has yet to announce whether it will make up that contest -- halted with the Bengals leading 7-3 -- even as all 32 teams prepare for their final scheduled regular-season games this Saturday and Sunday.
Meanwhile, a fellow NFL player and childhood friend of Hamlin's says there is "no doubt in my mind" Hamlin will recover.
Indianapolis Colts safety Rodney Thomas II drove directly to the Cincinnati hospital where his 24-year-old friend lay sedated following Hamlin's on-field collapse early in Monday's game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
"I know he could hear me," Thomas told reporters Wednesday, adding he held Hamlin's hand. "Even if he couldn't hear me, it didn't matter. I said what I had to say."
"Just basically (I said) that I love him, and I've got his back, and I'll see him in a little bit," Thomas added Thursday to "CNN This Morning," before news that Hamlin was awake was released.
After seeing what happened to Hamlin, some players are openly assessing their readiness to play this weekend. It is still unclear what caused Hamlin's cardiac arrest, and the league will investigate what could have led to it, NFL Chief Medical Officer Dr. Allen Sills said Wednesday.
Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow "probably wants to play" Sunday's Bengals-Ravens game, but there may be others who don't, he told reporters Wednesday.
"I'm sure if you polled the locker room, there'd be mixed votes on that," Burrow said. "Personally, I think playing is going to be tough ... I think getting back to as normal as you can as fast as you can is personally how I kind of deal with these kinds of things. But ... everyone has a different way of dealing with it."
The Bills, scheduled to host the Patriots on Sunday, returned to work Wednesday with meetings and are set to hold their first practice of the week Thursday.
Players felt encouraged and emotional when Hamlin's father, Mario Hamlin, did a Zoom call with the team Wednesday and said his son is making progress, a source in the Bills organization told CNN on Thursday.
Thomas, whose Colts host the Texans on Sunday, said each team needs to "trust that everybody would just make the best decision moving forward, whether that's playing, whether that's not playing."
"Player-wise ... just the world in general, we're all just one heartbeat right now ... all waiting for Damar just to get healthy," Thomas told CNN Thursday.
Hamlin and Thomas, who became close friends as high school teammates in Pittsburgh, spoke daily and had talked Monday before Hamlin's collapse. Seeing his friend soon after the in-game incident "calmed me way down," Thomas said Wednesday. "It made the trip home a lot easier. I could go home and know he's gonna be straight. I got him. We all got him. Everybody's behind him."
Since his hospitalization, Hamlin has gotten a nationwide outpouring of support from fans and players across pro sports, including more than $7 million donated to his foundation's toy drive GoFundMe as of Thursday morning.
Several athletes have donned Hamlin's No. 3 or his jersey while teams have honored him through Jumbotron messages and light displays at their stadiums.
NFL medical chief talks commotio cordis theories
Hamlin collapsed shortly after a collision in which a Bengals receiver tried to power past Hamlin, who'd approached for a tackle, with about six minutes remaining in the first quarter of Monday's game. Hamlin still twisted the receiver to the ground and stood up -- but within seconds fell and lay motionless.
His heartbeat was restored on the field, the Bills have said, before he was ferried from the stadium in an ambulance while stunned and visibly emotional players and fans looked on. Hamlin is on a ventilator and was "flipped over on his stomach" in the hospital to help relieve some of the strain on his lungs, his uncle Dorrian Glenn told CNN on Tuesday.
Any time a player is evacuated from the field, the NFL and its medical experts perform a detailed review of what happened, Sills explained on a call Wednesday with reporters. They also examine the role protective equipment may have played, he said.
In some cases, the medical team will not be able to determine what caused the problem, Sills said.
The doctor addressed theories that the cardiac arrest could have been caused by commotio cordis, which occurs when severe trauma to the chest disrupts the heart's electrical charge, causing dangerous fibrillations.
"You have to have the right type of blow hitting at the right spot on the chest with the right amount of force at just the right time in that cardiac cycle. So, a lot of things have to line up for that to happen," he said, emphasizing that while it is possible, investigators will consider all options.
Sills attributed the "transformational response" of medical personnel when Hamlin collapsed to the "60-minute meeting" that is held among medical teams and NFL officials before every game.
During the meeting, teams identify the location of medical equipment and nearby medical centers, and establish a chain of command in case of an emergency, including cardiac arrest, among other things.
Shock still weighing heavily on the Bills
Hamlin's collapse is the latest in a string of recent tragedies to have struck the community of Buffalo and its beloved football team, including a racist mass shooting and a historic blizzard that left at least 41 people dead in Erie County, New York.
A high-ranking official within the Bills organization told CNN's Coy Wire that they broke down in tears after day and night-long meetings on Tuesday, sobbing because of the heaviness of the situation.
The series of difficult blows to Buffalo have emotionally piled up within the organization, the source said, adding that through it all, the team has tried to be a source of strength for the city.
The performance of Buffalo Sabres hockey forward Tage Thompson on Tuesday night was a "glimmer of hope" at a time when the team needs inspiration, the source said.
Hamlin's jersey No. 3, was a recurring motif throughout the game, played on January 3. Thompson's three goals during overtime brought the Sabres a win. It was Thompson's third hat trick of the season and his third goal came fortuitously in the third minute of overtime.
The Sabres also wore "Love for 3" T-shirts honoring Hamlin before the game.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled Hamlin's agent Ron Butler's first name.
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The Biden administration is ping-ponging among a series of Trump-era immigration proposals as officials fret over the end of Title 42.
That pandemic immigration policy, enacted under former President Trump, has been central to the Biden administration’s management of the border, but is due to end May 11, along with other pandemic emergency measures.
Apart from defending the use of Title 42 for nearly two years, the administration has carried out a program of extensive deportations to Haiti, proposed a rule that would severely limit who could request asylum in the United States, and — according to reports — is considering reinstating family detention at the border.
Both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Department of Homeland Security officials are considering reinstating family separation to deal with the end of Title 42.
The reports have neither been confirmed nor denied by administration officials.
“I’m not going to go weigh in on rumors that are out there or conversations that are happening at this time. The Department of Homeland Security is certainly continuing to prepare for the eventual lift of Title 42,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday.
“No decisions have been made. But we’ve been very clear with how the president wants to move forward … by putting forward a comprehensive immigration reform.”
The specter of the family detention policy, a program that was greatly expanded in the Obama administration after the 2014 surge in asylum applicants, threatens to implode the already-strained relationship between the White House and immigration advocates.
At the core of tensions is the Biden administration’s reliance on measures meant to dissuade migrants from attempting to reach the United States, such as family detention, Title 42 expulsions and other measures heavily favored under Trump.
Those sorts of deterrent measures, say many Democrats and advocates, are not only cruel but they don’t work.
“I’m alarmed by news reports that the Administration is considering reinstating family detention policies. Not only are these policies cruel and harmful to children, but they don’t prevent families from traveling to the United States,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee.
“If the reports are true, I strongly urge the Administration to reconsider this policy change and instead work towards implementing immigration policies that are humane, orderly, and in line with our American values.”
The Department of Homeland Security failed to respond to detailed questions from The Hill.
“The Biden administration has been rolling out Trump 2.0 policies for many months now,” National Immigrant Justice Center Executive Director Mary Meg McCarthy said in a statement pointing to a new proposal to enact further limitations on asylum, as well as to rely heavily on Title 42.
“These cruel and inhumane policies are becoming this administration’s legacy. President Biden has a choice to make: he can either continue to outdo his predecessor or respect the human rights of immigrants and asylum-seekers.”
The idea of reinstating family detention raised alarm bells even among Democrats who publicly worried that the administration’s first push to end Title 42 was premature.
“I will just say this: Family detention was wrong under Trump, and it is wrong now. If anybody tries to implement it, I’ll call it out,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who took flak from the left for criticizing the push to end Title 42.
“It doesn’t address the chaos at the border, and it doesn’t fix our broken asylum system. It’s the wrong way to do it. And we need to actually solve this problem.”
The Biden administration drew down family detention through 2021, and in December of that year it announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement was holding no more detainee families.
The end of the detention policy followed a campaign promise from Biden to enact a “safe, orderly, and humane” immigration system.
“A policy that separates young children from their parents isn’t a ‘deterrent.’ It’s unconscionable. A policy that traumatizes children isn’t a bargaining chip. It’s abhorrent,” Biden said in 2018.
He offered a similar sentiment during the campaign.
“Children should be released from ICE detention with their parents immediately. This is pretty simple, and I can’t believe I have to say it,” he tweeted in 2020.
Advocates warned a reversal on that front could be punishing in future elections.
“Just like the asylum ban, this approach is bad policy and bad politics and cruel. It undermines the argument that Democrats are different when it comes to this issue; will never satisfy the GOP; dampens enthusiasm among key constituencies; and creates another host of problems as it relates to harms to kids and families,” Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director America’s Voice, said in a statement.
“We hope the Administration rethinks this approach and instead focused on standing up more legal pathways and invest in community based support services.”
While the Obama and Trump administrations’ use of family detention received pushback from immigration advocates from the get go, research and headlines piled up over time showing that minors who spend significant time in detention endure significant trauma.
Research on minors in U.S. detention centers largely mirrored similar studies on minors in Australian ones, which have comparable conditions.
That evidence and images of detained families helped solidify political opposition to the practice, which most of the administration’s allies had thought to be fully defunct.
Rep. Lou Correa (Calif.)., the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and an outspoken immigrant advocate, excoriated the administration for considering measures to “stonewall migrants from seeking safe-haven in this country.”
Correa also panned the administration’s Title 42 reasoning for considering more deterrent measures.
“We’ve pushed for the end of Title 42 for over two years, leaving the Administration with ample time to prepare for its ending,” said Correa. “This method of preparation, if chosen, is immoral and unacceptable.”
The potential reinstatement of family detention comes as administration officials say the number of those seeking to cross the border could reach 13,000 a day once Title 42 is lifted in May.
Still, like other measures weighed for alleviating pressure at the border, the resumption of family detention is likely to spur lawsuits.
“How we choose to respond to the children and families fleeing violence and persecution who come to our border seeking safety says a lot about who we are as a nation. Putting children and their parents behind barbed wire to deter them from seeking safety should shock the conscience of every American who believes in fairness, safety, and basic human dignity for all people,” Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.
“If President Biden moves forward with these plans, he will be putting vulnerable, traumatized immigrant children at risk. We will fight him every step of the way.” | 2023-03-08T13:41:30+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/hill-politics/advocates-erupt-as-biden-weighs-return-to-family-detention/ |
A New Hampshire police chief was fined more than $1,400 after being found guilty of sexually harassing an employee, according to Attorney General John Formella’s office.
Litchfield Police Chief Benjamin Sargent was found guilty of sexual harassment following a Merrimack bench trial that spanned from March 23 to April 21. The verdict and sentencing order was issued Wednesday, according to the attorney general’s office.
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Sargent was previously charged, arrested and released on personal recognizance on Dec. 29, 2022. He was sentenced to the maximum fine of $1,200 plus a $288 penalty assessment, the attorney general’s office said.
Reached by phone on Thursday, Litchfield Town Administrator Kimberly Kleiner declined to comment on the matter and would not confirm whether Sargent was still acting as the department’s chief or was on leave.
Sargent is listed as the chief of police on the Litchfield Police Department website. | 2023-04-27T20:53:23+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/news/2023/04/litchfield-nh-police-chief-guilty-of-sexual-harassment-fined-1400.html |
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