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By TOM HAYS and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Through tears and anger, R. Kelly’s accusers told a court Wednesday he had preyed on them and misled his fans, while the fallen R&B star awaited sentencing on his federal sex trafficking conviction.
“You made me do things that broke my spirit. I literally wished I would die because of how low you made me feel,” one woman told the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer. She said she was forever traumatized by her teenage experience with him.
“Do you remember that?” she asked.
A Brooklyn federal court jury last fall found Kelly, 55, guilty of racketeering and other counts at a trial that was seen as a signature moment in the #MeToo movement.
Outrage over Kelly’s sexual misconduct with young women and children was fueled in part by the widely watched docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” which gave voice to accusers who wondered whether their stories were previously ignored because they were Black women.
Kelly manipulated millions of fans into believing he was someone other than the man the jury saw, another accuser told the court.
Victims “have sought to be heard and acknowledged,” she said. “We are no longer the preyed-on individuals we once were.”
A third woman, sobbing and sniffling as she spoke, said Kelly’s conviction renewed her confidence in the legal system.
“I once lost hope,” she said, addressing the court and prosecutors, “but you restored my faith.”
The woman said Kelly victimized her after she went to a concert when she was 17.
“I was afraid, naive and didn’t know to handle the situation,” she said, so she didn’t speak up at the time.
“Silence,” she said, “is a very lonely place.”
Kelly kept his hands folded and eyes downcast as he listened. It wasn’t yet clear whether he would speak at the sentencing.
“He’s strong, and we are going to get through this,” defense lawyer Jennifer Bonjean said on her way into court. Whatever his sentence, Kelly is hopeful his conviction will be overturned on appeal, she said.
U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly determined that federal guidelines allowed for a sentence of up to life in prison. Kelly’s lawyers sought 10 years or less.
They argued in court papers he should get a break in part because he “experienced a traumatic childhood involving severe, prolonged childhood sexual abuse, poverty, and violence.”
As an adult with “literacy deficiencies,” the star was “repeatedly defrauded and financially abused, often by the people he paid to protect him,” his lawyers said.
The hitmaker is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue.
Allegations that Kelly abused young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. He was sued in 1997 by a woman who alleged sexual battery and sexual harassment while she was a minor, and he later faced criminal child pornography charges related to a different girl in Chicago. A jury there acquitted him in 2008, and he settled the lawsuit.
All the while, Kelly continued to sell millions of albums.
The Brooklyn federal court jury convicted him after hearing that he used his entourage of managers and aides to meet girls and keep them obedient, an operation that prosecutors said amounted to a criminal enterprise.
Kelly, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, used his “fame, money and popularity” to systematically “prey upon children and young women for his own sexual gratification,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month.
Several accusers testified that Kelly subjected them to perverse and sadistic whims when they were underage.
The accusers alleged they were ordered to sign nondisclosure forms and were subjected to threats and punishments such as violent spankings if they broke what one referred to as “Rob’s rules.”
Some said they believed the videotapes he shot of them having sex would be used against them if they exposed what was happening.
According to testimony, Kelly gave several accusers herpes without disclosing he had an STD, coerced a teenage boy to join him for sex with a naked girl who emerged from underneath a boxing ring in his garage, and shot a shaming video that showed one victim smearing feces on her face as punishment for breaking his rules.
Kelly has denied any wrongdoing. He didn’t testify at his trial, but his then-lawyers portrayed his accusers as girlfriends and groupies who weren’t forced to do anything against their will and stayed with him because they enjoyed the perks of his lifestyle.
Evidence also was presented about a fraudulent marriage scheme hatched to protect Kelly after he feared he had impregnated R&B phenom Aaliyah in 1994 when she was just 15. Witnesses said they were married in matching jogging suits using a license falsely listing her age as 18; he was 27 at the time.
Aaliyah worked with Kelly, who wrote and produced her 1994 debut album, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.” She died in a plane crash in 2001 at age 22.
An earlier defense memo suggested prosecutors’ arguments for a higher sentence overreached by falsely claiming Kelly participated in the paying of a bribe to a government official in order to facilitate the illegal marriage.
The Associated Press does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted or abused, unless they come forward publicly. The women who spoke at Kelly’s sentencing were identified only by first names or pseudonyms.
Kelly has been jailed without bail since in 2019. He’s still facing child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago, where a trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 15.
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Associated Press journalists Jennifer Peltz and Ted Shaffrey contributed.
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Wheat for May was down 12.50 cents at $6.9225 a bushel; May corn was off 1 cent at $6.4950 a bushel, May oats lost 3.25 cents at $3.7275 a bushel; while May soybeans fell 2.75 cents at $14.7450 a bushel.
Beef was higher and pork was lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Apr. live cattle rose 1.73 cents at $1.6755 a pound; Mar. cattle was up .95 cent at $1.9240 a pound; while Apr. lean hogs was off .32 cent at $.7645 a pound. | 2023-03-30T21:24:48+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/grains-lower-livestock-mixed-17869621.php |
Stocks on Wall Street closed lower on Tuesday as investors braced for a big week of news on inflation and company earnings reports.
The S&P 500 fell 0.9%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.6% and the Nasdaq lost 0.9%. Big companies are beginning to report their latest quarterly results this week. PepsiCo's profits easily beat analysts' estimates.
Major banks including JP Morgan Chase are on tap later this week. Crude oil prices fell sharply. Bond yields continued flashing a warning signal about a possible recession. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slid to 2.96%.
Travel-related companies bucked the broader market decline. United Airlines climbed 7.3%, American Airlines jumped 9.6% and cruise line operator Carnival rose 6.4%.
Clothing company Gap fell 4.7% after announcing that CEO Sonia Syngal is stepping down from her role after two years on the job. | 2022-07-12T22:48:34+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/us-stocks-dip-amid-release-of-earnings-reports-for-big-companies |
21st Annual All-American Classic to take place August 20, 2023
- Dick's Sporting Goods All-American Classic is the culminating amateur baseball game of the summer and follows the Perfect Game National Showcase, also scheduled for Chase Field July 11-15
- The All-American Classic and related events help raise funds for charitable causes and efforts to grow the sport of baseball
- Luis Gonzalez, MLB & Diamondbacks great, named event's Honorary Chairman
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect Game, the world's largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, today announced that the 21st edition of its prestigious Dick's Sporting Goods All-American Classic will be played at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ on Sunday, August 20, 2023. Perfect Game also announced that Arizona Diamondbacks legend, Luis Gonzalez, will once again serve as All-American Classic Honorary Chairman.
[Watch the 2023 Dick's Sporting Goods All-American Classic preview video here.]
The All-American Classic features the top 50 high school baseball players from across North America. It is the premier amateur baseball game of the summer, attracting professional and collegiate scouts from around the country, and is broadcast on linear television and streamed live to an international viewing audience.
For the players, the pathway to the All-American Classic includes participation in the equally challenging and competitive National Showcase, which is also scheduled to be played at Chase Field, between July 11-15.
Being chosen as one of the players to play in the All-American Classic is the crowning achievement sought by more than 1 million players participating in Perfect Game Tournaments and Showcases throughout the year. When Major League Baseball began its 2022 Championship Season, there were 87 Perfect Game All-American players on the Opening Day rosters of 28 of the 30 Major League teams. The rosters for the 2023 All-American Classic will be selected by Perfect Game's experienced scouts and announced in July following the National Showcase.
"Perfect Game is thrilled to once again play the All-American Classic at Chase Field," said Perfect Game CEO, Rob Ponger. "We thank the Arizona Diamondbacks and Chase Field for working with Perfect Game to once again deliver a first-class experience to participating players, their families, professional and amateur scouts, and, of course, the great baseball fans from the Valley of the Sun. The All-American Classic will provide the baseball world a sneak peek at some of the most promising young athletes playing the game we all love. Most of these young men are destined for greatness on and off the field."
"It is an honor to welcome back players and their families to Chase Field for Perfect Game's All-American Classic as well as an exciting time for us to witness the energy and enthusiasm from these young athletes," said Derrick Hall, Arizona Diamondbacks President and CEO. "I am proud that Perfect Game has chosen to return to Arizona for this national event and for their continued commitment to ensuring it includes a strong community element. I look forward to welcoming the teams and providing them and their families with a first-class experience while they are here with us at Chase Field."
In addition to the All-American Classic, Perfect Game will host related events and charitable activities in the Phoenix area in the days leading up to the game, the details of which will be announced at a later date. Over the past 20 years, Perfect Game has raised more than $4.5 million to support a number of causes in communities hosting the All-American Classic.
For more information, please visit PerfectGame.org.
Watch the 2023 All-American Classic preview video here.
Perfect Game is the world's largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing over 9,800+ events, hundreds of thousands of games, and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players are performing with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, more than 1,847 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 13,893 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2022 Draft, for example, more than 90 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft's first day had previously attended Perfect Game events.
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Charleston County high schools to add weapons detectors to security measures
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Charleston County School District Board of Trustees authorized the district to purchase weapons detectors for all high schools in the district.
Michael Reidenbach, the Charleston County School District’s executive director of security and emergency management, said they will work with schools over the next few weeks and months to determine the best way to deploy the devices.
What makes them different from traditional metal detectors is that they are intended to specifically detect weapons, primarily firearms, and they’re a lot quicker and more efficient to operate. Weapons detectors allow you to keep most of your belongings in your pocket and even in your bag.
“If you go into a school that’s using these devices today, you see that it really looks a lot different than you would see in an airport or traditionally in other government buildings when everybody’s emptying their pockets and taking off belts and things like that,” he said.
For the most part, Reidenbach said students should just be able to freely walk through, which makes it less intrusive.
The weapons detectors will cost $1.2 million to purchase, but keeping them running year after year could cost up to $2.9 million a year.
Reidenbach said this is just one additional layer in addition to all of the other security measures to help keep schools safe. He said they still want to have their threat assessment protocol, develop positive school climates and cultures within schools, and encourage students to report information to them when they learn about potential threats to the school.
“When we look at developing a physical security plan for our schools, we look to layer various security measures on top of each other to try to provide various checkpoints or various opportunities for us to catch potential risks from coming into our schools,” Reidenbach said. “And so certainly a metal detector or a weapons detector is an opportunity to increase our risk of being able to detect things like firearms from coming into the school but also and perhaps more importantly deterring individuals from bringing a firearm.”
While a big step, Reidenbach said there is still more to do.
“This doesn’t end now,” he said. “We still have a lot of work to do and we’ll continue to discuss new and evolving things that come around.”
The Board of Trustees also approved a recommendation to use money the district allocates for vacant school resource officer positions to fund private, armed security until law enforcement can fully staff those positions.
While the district will slowly implement weapon detectors across the county, one Charleston high school started using them at the beginning of the year. James Island Charter High School purchased a similar, but different system earlier this year and started using them in August. Principal Timothy Thorn says the speed at which they can screen students makes the system much more practical than a metal detector.
“These devices screen over 4,000 people in an hour,” Thorn said. “We don’t have that many students so we can easily screen all of our students. Most students can walk through without even breaking stride.”
Even early in the school year, students were getting the hang of things very quickly, removing rod-shaped items, like umbrellas, and certain electronics like laptops that are notorious for setting off the detectors. Junior C.J. Daniels says he hardly notices the extra security measures.
“I think it’s fine. I mean, it’s needed,” Daniels said. “If you have certain things in your bag, like a binder or something, you have to take it out and you just go through the line and you’ll be cool.”
Thorn had one of his student resource officers walk through the detectors. The towers turned red and beeped, then highlighted on a small display the area on the body where a prohibited object was detected. The display also indicated the object detected was the officer’s sidearm. If an item is in a backpack the displays would indicate whether or not it detected a gun, a knife or a variety of other objects.
Thorn says one of the best features of the detectors is that they aren’t as intrusive as traditional metal detectors.
“I don’t think it feels like you’re walking through something that is scary. It’s basically a couple towers and lights. It looks like it belongs in Star Wars so it doesn’t make it feel like a prison to go through these sensors,” Thorn said. “Being able to walk the halls and know that there aren’t guns or weapons in the school is an amazing feeling.”
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature on Thursday approved a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a proposal supported by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis as he prepares for an expected presidential run.
DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into law. Florida currently prohibits abortions after 15 weeks.
A six-week ban would give DeSantis a key political victory among Republican primary voters as he prepares to launch a presidential candidacy built on his national brand as a conservative standard bearer.
The policy would also have wider implications for abortion access throughout the South in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year overturning Roe v. Wade and leaving decisions about abortion access to states. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy, while Georgia forbids the procedure after cardiac activity can be detected, which is around six weeks.
“We have the opportunity to lead the national debate about the importance of protecting life and giving every child the opportunity to be born and find his or her purpose," said Republican Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, who carried the bill in the House.
Democrats and abortion-rights groups have criticized Florida's proposal as extreme because many women do not yet realize they are pregnant until after six weeks.
The bill contains some exceptions, including to save the woman's life. Abortions for pregnancies involving rape or incest would be allowed until 15 weeks of pregnancy, provided a woman has documentation such as a restraining order or police report. DeSantis has called the rape and incest provisions sensible.
Drugs used in medication-induced abortions — which make up the majority of those provided nationally — could be dispensed only in person or by a physician under the Florida bill. Separately, nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone is being challenged in court.
Florida's six-week ban would take effect only if the state's current 15-week ban is upheld in an ongoing legal challenge that is before the state Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservatives.
“I can’t think of any bill that’s going to provide more protections to more people who are more vulnerable than this piece of legislation,” said Republican Rep. Mike Beltran, who said the bill’s exceptions and six-week timeframe represented a compromise.
Abortion bans are popular among some religious conservatives who are part of the GOP voting base, but the issue has motivated many others to vote for Democrats. Republicans in recent weeks and months have suffered defeats in elections centered on abortion access in states such as Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin.
“Have we learned nothing?" House Democratic Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell said of recent elections in other states. "Do we not listen to our constituents and to the people of Florida and what they are asking for?”
DeSantis, who often places himself on the front lines of culture war issues, has said he backs the six-week ban but has appeared uncharacteristically tepid on the bill. He has often said, “We welcome pro-life legislation,” when asked about the policy.
DeSantis is expected to announce his presidential candidacy after the session ends in May, with his potential White House run in part buoyed by the conservative policies approved by the Republican supermajority in the Statehouse this year.
Democrats, without power at any level of state government, have mostly turned to stall tactics and protests to oppose the bill, which easily passed both chambers on largely party-line votes. The Senate approved it last week, and the House did so Thursday.
A Democratic senator and chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party were arrested and charged with trespassing during a protest in Tallahassee against the six-week ban. In a last ditch move to delay the bill's passage in the House on Thursday, Democrats filed dozens of amendments to the proposal, all of which were rejected by Republicans.
“Women's health and their personal right to choose is being stolen," said Democratic Rep. Felicia Simone Robinson. "So I ask: Is Florida truly a free state?" | 2023-04-13T21:29:40+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/florida-gop-passes-6-week-abortion-ban-desantis-17896087.php |
Belvedere Vodka brings together a stellar community of outstanding creatives who have created an unforgettable campaign inspired by the pure emotion captured in a glorious moment of feeling free
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Belvedere, the world's first super-premium vodka, today reveals a monumental campaign featuring critically acclaimed actor Daniel Craig as he has never been seen before. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Taika Waititi, the unexpected, fun and inspired collaboration showcases Craig's talent to surprise and innovate.
Courageous in spirit with a warmly rebellious energy, the campaign unites an exceptional community of collaborators. Craig has been skillfully and humorously choreographed by celebrated choreographer JaQuel Knight, to an original track written and performed by global superstars Rita Ora and Giggs and produced by hitmakers Invisible Men, Bandits and Hungry Man. The accompanying campaign stills were photographed by the iconic Juergen Teller, in the same suite that sets the scene of the movie's grand finale whilst Christine Centenera has styled the shoot with a clean, modern edge.
Taika's unique vision imagines how life might look when the cameras are not rolling. Craig moves out of a gathered crowd and passes across Paris's iconic Pont Neuf bridge. He playfully sashays his way through the lobby, hallways, and rooftop of the luxurious Cheval Blanc Paris never missing a beat. Finally, and seemingly without a care in world, the actor side-steps into the spectacular suite, and dances towards the Belvedere bar. Then just as he is about to take an ice-cold sip, the Director yells cut, and Waititi makes a cameo as he asks Craig to take it from the top once more.
All in all, a group of inventive and gifted provocateurs, who each have a taste for the unconventional, have creatively captured an incredibly unique snapshot as a nod to their and Belvedere's shared values of self-expressions, authenticity and style.
The campaign will come to life in Times Square on November 9th at 6PM EST to then explode onto preeminent billboards and a prominent succession of key events and reveals designed to make a sensational impact and become a global talking point.
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) — On a September day in 2020, New York City Police Officer Baimadajie Angwang kissed his toddler goodbye and was about to drive to work when he was surrounded by rifle-toting FBI agents.
You’re under arrest, the bewildered cop was told. The charge: Being a secret agent for China.
Angwang, a former U.S. Marine, spent six months in a federal detention center before he was freed on bail while awaiting trial on charges that he fed information about New York’s Tibetan community to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York.
Then, just as suddenly, it was over. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn dropped the charges Jan. 19, saying only that they were acting “in the interest of justice.” They didn't explain further.
Now Angwang says he wants to be reinstated to the police force, which suspended him with pay while the case was pending. But more than that, he wants answers.
“Why did you start the investigation on me? Why did you drop all the charges?” said Angwang, who was born in Tibet but was granted political asylum in the U.S. as a teenager.
“We want an explanation. We’re demanding it because you owe me,” he said during an interview at his attorney’s office. “You can’t just put me in jail for six months and ruin my name, ruin my reputation and give all this stress to my family members and friends, and then you say, ‘in the interest of justice.’ You just going to leave it like that?”
China’s Communist Party has ruled over Tibet for seven decades and China has claimed a vast stretch of the Himalayas as part of its territory since the 13th century. But the relationship has been fraught with tension, with many Tibetans — some in exile — seeking independence.
The original charge against Angwang was that he began supplying information to Chinese officials on Tibetan independence groups in New York in 2018.
In court documents, prosecutors said Angwang was a threat to national security. He was charged with being an unregistered foreign agent, making false statements to federal investigators, obstruction of justice and wire fraud. There were no allegations of espionage, a more serious accusation.
In building its initial case against Angwang, prosecutors argued that he provided intelligence on ethnic Tibetans who might cooperate with Chinese officials and advised them on how to expand China’s “soft power” in New York.
Specifically, the government said, he sought a tit-for-tat arrangement that would give him a 10-year visa to his homeland in return for surveillance information and access to the police department.
The case was built partly on recorded phone calls, including some in which authorities said Angwang called a consular official “big brother” and “boss.”
Angwang told The Associated Press his words were either mistranslated from Mandarin or taken out of context. He said he became superficially friendly with Chinese officials because he needed the visa to visit his homeland, so his parents and other relatives could finally meet his daughter.
The judge presiding over the case sought answers about why the charges were dismissed, but federal prosecutors declined to divulge classified information that might have given clues.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn declined to comment.
The judge agreed to dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning the government could press charges again, a possibility hanging over Angwang but his lawyer suggests is unlikely.
The attorney, John Carman, surmised his client became caught up in the Trump administration’s effort to root out Chinese espionage across U.S. institutions, including the economy, academics and other facets of public life. Angwang contends there were shades of racism targeting people with Chinese links.
“I think our criminal justice system sometimes goes off the track when it has a publicity aspect to it and when it has a political aspect to it. And this case had both,” Carman said.
Angwang first visited the U.S. as a teen on a cultural exchange visa. He went back to Tibet but later returned to the U.S., saying he had been arrested and beaten by Chinese authorities. He moved in with an uncle in Queens and was granted asylum at age 17.
In his adopted country, Angwang enlisted in the U.S. Marines and served in Afghanistan. After being discharged, he joined the Army Reserves and enrolled in the police academy.
He said it was his way of giving back to a country that has been so good to him.
With the charges dropped, he said he wants to regain the good graces of his Tibetan community, which remains suspicious.
“I’m very proud of my heritage. I love my culture and I love the community,” Angwang said. He said he was wrongly depicted as a three-way traitor.
“So I’m a traitor of my birthplace? I’m a traitor of America? I’m a traitor of the Tibetan community — which I was never a traitor. I never betrayed anyone — my fellow Tibetans, my fellow Americans, anybody.”
Norbu Choezung, the president of the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey, a group comprising some 10,000 members of Tibetan heritage, remains wary. He, too, wants the government to provide more details about why it dropped the case.
“It’s a little fishy,” Choezung said. “We as a community definitely want to dig deeper why his charges have been dropped, and how those things happened.”
U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee, who presided over the case, was left with questions but said he was glad Angwang’s ordeal was over.
“In some ways a straightforward case but also in some ways, especially given the landscape of statutes at issue, a complicated matter,” the judge said, also noting the “fanfare” in which the case was brought.
“It’s unfortunate, obviously, that Mr. Angwang did serve as much time as he did in jail pretrial or in detention pretrial,” the judge said, “but better late, as they say, than never.” | 2023-02-09T06:45:27+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/the-spy-who-wasn-t-new-york-police-officer-wants-17773294.php |
Which adjustable rolling pin is best?
Are you struggling to get an even bake on your pie crust or can’t quite get that pizza base right? You need an adjustable rolling pin. These rolling pins are far more versatile than your average rolling pin because they enable you to adjust the width of your dough with removable rings. Adjustable rolling pins are available in either wood or stainless steel and can be used in adjustable form or as a basic rolling pin. For a good all-rounder, you can’t go wrong with the Joseph Joseph Adjustable rolling pin.
What to know before you buy an adjustable rolling pin
Material
Adjustable rolling points are either available in wood or stainless steel. These two options are both great and have their advantages and disadvantages. A stainless steel rolling pin will be more durable, easier to clean, and lighter but could be a lot stickier when rolling out certain doughs. Stainless steel rollers are also at risk for rust if they aren’t appropriately cleaned but can withstand higher temperatures than a wooden one. A stainless steel pin can be placed in the freezer before rolling out doughs or pastries with a high butter content, improving the lamination quality.
A wooden rolling pin is a lot heavier because each tends to be made from one solid piece of wood. These rolling pins will also have to be hand-washed, unlike the stainless steel version. The perks of having a wooden rolling pin are weight and how they interact with dough. Wooden pins will also need to be treated with oil after every use to avoid cracking.
Length
Most adjustable rolling pins will measure 17 inches, with the adjustable rings included. Once the rings come off, returning the point to a normal rolling pin, it could measure anywhere between 13-13.8 inches. This makes these rolling pins extremely versatile.
Weight
A wooden rolling pin will be a lot heavier, but this can be advantageous for home cooks. The heavier the pin, the less work you will have to do when rolling. The weight of the rolling pin will do most of the work. A stainless steel rolling pin will be lighter, but this can be better or the more delicate doughs such as phyllo.
What to look for in a quality adjustable rolling pin
Removable rings
The rings that make a rolling pin adjustable are super handy when you’re looking to achieve a specific width of dough, but they’re even better when you can remove them and use the rolling pin as a normal rolling pin. You want rings that are easy to remove and put back on so that you can go about cooking and baking without any hiccups.
Dough width options
Most bakers and cooks will be looking for an adjustable rolling pin that will cover most tasks. From rolling pizza dough to cookie dough, you want a rolling pin that is as versatile as possible. Good width options to look out for include 1/16, ⅙, ¼ and ⅜ inches and occasionally a ⅛-inch rolling pin will do.
Measurements
A great addition to have with your rolling pin is a measurement scale that has been engraved or printed onto the pin. These handy measurements will come into use when you’re rolling your pie crusts, pizza bases, and various other pastries. Instead of getting out the ruler every time, your pin will help you accurately measure as you roll.
How much you can expect to spend on an adjustable rolling pin
An adjustable rolling pin will cost, on average, $20, with the low-end pins coming in at $9 and the high-end options costing around $30.
Adjustable rolling pin FAQ
Which rolling pin is better: metal or wood?
A. This will be up to you and your preferences. Wooden rolling pins are great and will get the job quickly and effectively but require a bit more care. A metal pin is easy to clean and good with maintaining a cold temperature but will be a lot more slippery.
What are adjustable rolling pins used for?
A. An adjustable rolling pin is used to achieve a specific width of dough. This can help you achieve more even bakes.
What’s the best adjustable rolling pin to buy?
Top adjustable rolling pin
Joseph Joseph Wooden Adjustable Rolling Pin With Removable Rings 13.6 inches
What you need to know: This versatile rolling pin made by a trusted brand is suitable for many different baking projects.
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Gorilla Grip Wooden Adjustable Rolling Pin With Rings 13.8 inches
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of killing five people in a North Carolina shooting rampage released a statement saying they are "overcome with grief" and saw no warning signs before the killings.
The statement Tuesday by Alan and Elise Thompson also confirmed that one of Austin Thompson's five victims on Thursday night was his own 16-year-old brother, James. Witnesses said in 911 calls that the shooter opened fire with what appeared to be a shotgun in a neighborhood northeast of downtown Raleigh and along an adjacent walking trail.
"Our son Austin inflicted immeasurable pain on the Raleigh community, and we are overcome with grief for the innocent lives lost," the parents said.
They also said in their statement that they will fully cooperate with law enforcement to help investigators understand what happened, but that they have questions themselves. Authorities have not discussed a motive for the shootings.
"There were never any indications or warning signs that Austin was capable of doing anything like this," the statement said.
Reached by phone Tuesday night, Elise Thompson declined to comment outside of the statement. She also didn't immediately respond to a message left Wednesday seeking comment about her son Austin's condition.
Austin Thompson was hospitalized in critical condition following his arrest on Thursday night, hours after the shooting began. WRAL-TV reported Wednesday that his condition had improved but that he remained in an intensive care unit, citing information from his mother.
The Associated Press generally does not name people under 18 who are accused of crimes, but is identifying Austin Thompson because of the severity and publicity of the shootings and because his parents have voluntarily named him in their public statement.
The Wake County prosecutor has said she will pursue adult charges against the suspect. Authorities had previously identified the shooter as a 15-year-old boy but had not publicly released his name.
Investigators have not disclosed where Austin Thompson obtained the gun or guns used in the shooting. A lawyer for the parents didn't immediately respond to an email Wednesday asking if the parents knew how he got the weaponry he used.
Callers who dialed 911 during the shooting rampage described encountering bodies on the streets or front yards of their neighborhood and along a trail popular with runners and bikers, according to recordings released by authorities. Witnesses said shooter was wearing camouflage and using a shotgun in the attacks that began shortly after 5 p.m.
The shooting drew officers from numerous agencies to the neighborhood as the suspect eluded capture for several hours. The victims, ranging in age from 16 to their late 50s and were felled going about their daily routines, police and loved ones said. Among those killed was an off-duty police officer. In addition to those killed, two others were wounded.
Several people acquainted with Austin Thompson before the shooting – including a neighbor, a classmate and a victim's husband who lived nearby — told The AP that he was quiet but seemed friendly.
Tracey Howard, whose wife of five years Nicole Connors was among those killed, said that Austin Thompson and his brother lived two doors down. He said that he would talk college football with their father and that he would exchange waves with the two boys.
"I'd see them coming from school. `How you doing?'" he said on Friday, raising his arm to demonstrate. "They'd wave back. Sometimes they didn't. But we never had any beef or problems with them."
Another neighbor, Jennifer Magnuson, said that her three teenage children attended high school with the boys and rode the bus with them. She said her children described Austin and his brother as keeping to themselves.
"They said that they were just very quiet, very shy. Didn't talk very much on the bus. And they were a little weird. Like, they just wouldn't socialize, except with each other."
She said her 16-year-old son tried to socialize with Austin and his brother, but the boys didn't seem interested.
"My 16-year-old, he talked to them a couple of times, just to kind of see, to get a feel for them. But they, the boys just seemed like they just were not willing to be friends or just didn't want to talk or anything like that," she said. "So, my son's like, `All right. Well, I tried.' And just, yeah, went on."
Omer Rosas, a sophomore at Knightdale High School who was in classes with Austin Thompson, said they talked frequently in class and described him as personable. He said he was shocked to find out Friday morning that his classmate had been arrested in connection with the shooting. He said that Austin Thompson liked to run and was considering joining the track team.
"I did not expect it to be him," Rosas said in an interview outside the school Friday. "He was very calm. He wasn't like a mean person. He was open to be nice to everyone."
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Associated Press writer Hannah Schoenbaum contributed to this report. | 2022-10-19T21:33:39+00:00 | wkbw.com | https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/parents-of-accused-north-carolina-shooter-express-sorrow |
SEOUL, South Korea, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - CanariaBio Inc. (developing its biotechnology assets through its subsidiaries, MH C&C and OncoQuest Pharma US Inc.) announces today that it has reached 50% of target enrollment of 602 patients for its pivotal Phase III clinical study of its lead product oregovomab, in combination with standard of care chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) for the treatment of front-line advanced ovarian cancer patients.
This double blind and placebo controlled multinational trial (FLORA-5, GOG-3035, NCT04498117) is currently accruing patients at over 137 centers in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Taiwan and US; with additional sites in India and Romania being activated. This study seeks to confirm the observations of Brewer et al (Gynecology Oncology 2020 156:523-529) that demonstrated oregovomab in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel improved both progression free and overall survival relative to chemotherapy which was statistically significant and clinically meaningful in the absence of incremental toxicity.
For this ongoing Phase-III study, the last Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (IDSMB) meeting held in March 2022 identified no safety concerns and IDSMB recommended to continue the study without modifications.
"We are excited about reaching this important milestone, which is a testament of the hard work that all our investigators, GOG leadership, team members and collaborators has put in, and are grateful to the patients that have participated in the study," said Dr. Sunil Gupta MBBS, FRCPC, Chief Medical Officer of OncoQuest Pharma US, Inc. (a subsidiary of CanariaBio Inc.) "We remain on track with our projected enrollment, and we are excited about the potential benefits that our drug may bring to patients with ovarian cancer."
Oregovomab is a murine IgG against CA 125. Indirect immunization with oregovomab interacts with immune modulating properties of infused paclitaxel and carboplatin resulting in synergistic clinical benefit as observed in a phase 2 trial. In a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of 97 patients, treatment with Oregovomab in combination with chemotherapy had demonstrated a highly statistically significant and clinically meaningful outcome for both progression-free and overall survival compared to standard of care chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel). The risk of progression and of death was reduced by more than 50% when compared to control arm, and safety data showed that oregovomab did not add incremental toxicity to the chemotherapy regimen. Clinical and translational results were published in Gynecology Oncology 2020 156:523-529) and Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy 2020 69: 383-397, respectively. To learn more, visit www.FLORA-5.com.
CanariaBio Inc. is a Korean biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of immunotherapies for cancer. CanariaBio's technology platform includes a portfolio of tumor antigen specific monoclonal immunoglobulins targeting CA-125, MUC1, PSA and Her2/neu. The company is exploring the therapeutic potential of these antibodies as indirect immunizers in combination with other immune modulating drugs or drug combinations to address unmet medical needs in oncology.
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Partnership facilitates easy purchase and delivery of world-class Enel X Way commercial electric vehicle charging stations to US customers.
SAN CARLOS, Calif. & SHAWNEE, Kan., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Enel X Way and HiON Distribution today announced a strategic partnership agreement to supply the fast-growing US market with electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and accessories. Enel X Way is the leading global provider of smart EV charging solutions, including residential and commercial Level 2 and DC fast charging stations including residential and commercial Level 2 and DC fast charging stations.
"We are thrilled to expand our partnership with the Enel X Way team," said HiON CEO Jim Frank. "Our mission is to accelerate EV charging infrastructure in the United States, and that can't be done without best-in-class EV charging stations and software. Enel X Way has partnered with some of the most widely recognized vehicle brands in the world, and their technology and systems can be found throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America. The reliability of their products, coupled with their charge speed, network expansion capabilities, and future-proof engineering make them a perfect choice for commercial applications."
HiON Distribution is a new subsidiary of EV charging station implementation partner HiON Group, Inc., which has over 30 years' experience in infrastructure design and construction and is considered an expert in EV charging station planning, site identification and project management.
HiON Distribution will stock the full range of Enel X Way commercial products ranging from commercial Level 2 to Level 3 DC fast charging stations and will assist with incentive applications and logistics support. HiON Distribution will feature products from Enel X Way's JuicePump, JuicePedestal and JuiceBox Pro series. All EV charging stations are UL, cUL and Energy Star Certified and are compatible with all EV models. Durable, versatile, compact and weatherproof, Enel X Way chargers are eligible for federal-, state-, and utility-sponsored rebates and incentives.
"Building out the charging station infrastructure required to support the continued adoption of EVs in the US is critical," said Chris Baker, Head of Enel X Way North America. "We are pleased to serve partners like HiON to efficiently meet market demand and accelerate the electric transition."
The affordability and reliability of the JuiceBox Pro Level 2 charger makes it the ideal choice for multi-tenant housing looking for future-proofed daily-charging options for their residents. Meanwhile, for other commercial locations where multiple public fast chargers are needed, the JuicePump 175 kW can charge a vehicle up to 80% in under 20 minutes. The EV chargers also have app-enabled easy payment and load balancing capabilities through JuiceNet Enterprise Software, which can help businesses avoid costly energy infrastructure upgrades.
About HiON & HiON Distribution: HiON Group, Inc. is an electric vehicle charging station facilitator that develops entire infrastructure development from concept to commissioned. HiON Distribution, a subsidiary of HiON Group, Inc., is a US distributor of best-in-class Enel X Way commercial electric vehicle charging stations. For more information about HiON Distribution, please visit: www.hiondistribution.com.
About Enel X Way: Enel X Way is a global leader in smart electric vehicle charging solutions with over 380,000 charging ports worldwide, including roaming agreements. As a subsidiary of Fortune 200 renewable energy leader, the Enel Group, Enel X Way is committed to providing smart mobility solutions for drivers, businesses and partners to make driving electric simple. Enel X Way's flagship home charging station, the JuiceBox, has been named the "Best EV Charger Overall" in 2022 by CNET and Car and Driver. For more information, please follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @enelxwayna.
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Southern California's Largest Winter Festival Returns to the OC Fair & Event Center With 26 Days of Fun for All Ages, Featuring All-New Attractions, Live Entertainment, Shopping, Food and More
COSTA MESA, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Winter Fest OC, Southern California's largest winter festival, returns to Costa Mesa from November 25th through January 1st for 26 days and nights of attractions, live entertainment and fun! Winter Fest OC transforms the OC Fair & Event Center into a magical winter wonderland with oversized holiday decor, more than a million lights, and endless opportunities for memory-making. New for 2022, and included in all admission tickets, is "North Pole Journey," an immersive walk-through experience that guides guests to North Pole Village on an important mission to meet Santa Claus and save the holidays.
Enjoy the magic of the holiday season with past Winter Fest OC favorites as well as all-new activities, including outdoor ice skating under the stars, a nine-lane 150-foot-long ice tubing slide, ice bumper cars, LED mini golf, trackless train rides, snowboard simulator, and carnival thrills. Also returning are winter-themed bounce houses, an arts and crafts area, holiday market, and seasonal food and drinks. Winter Fest OC features a variety of stage and strolling entertainment, including a nightly Holiday celebration featuring snow flurries and Santa, meet and greets with kid's favorite characters, tribute bands, and more. All this plus unique winter-themed photo opportunities with the 30-foot-tall giant walk-through ornament, numerous giant Christmas trees, and of course, meeting Santa himself.
"We are so excited to bring Winter and Holiday magic back to the OC and celebrate being together again with our reimagined winter wonderland festival," said Katrina Carlson, executive producer of Winter Fest OC. "This year, we're bringing an all-new event with the most popular activities of Winter Fest OC and even more fun for kids and adults alike, including new ice attractions, performances, food and drinks, shopping, and much more. Plus, the immersive favorites from the last two years of our wildly successful Night of Lights OC production will be integrated into the new 'North Pole Journey' walk-through experience that's included in every general admission ticket. We can't wait to spread the joy of the season with our Southern California community and bring holiday magic to everyone!"
All-New Immersive Walk-Through Experience: "North Pole Journey"
Travel from Forest Gate to North Pole Village in the all-new "North Pole Journey" walk-through experience that will immerse you in the sights, sounds, and smells of five magical lands on an important mission from Santa. Stop in three Holiday Towns and collect an element of the holidays in each that will help Santa take flight. Enjoy dazzling lights, music, unique photo opportunities, interactive activities, and visits with your favorite Night of Lights and Winter Fest OC characters including Yowie the Yeti, Snow Princess, Toyland Troupe, Toy Soldiers, Polar Bear, and Santa in this unforgettable experience!
Holidays & VIP Experiences
New Year's Eve Orange Ball Celebration: Ring in the New Year not once, but twice, with a special countdown, Orange Ball drop, fireworks and an unforgettable balloon drop at both 6pm and midnight. Live bands will be playing to commemorate the end of the year, and the start of 2023! Awarded by Reader's Digest as one of the top New Year's Celebrations in the U.S.
Fireside Lounge: Enjoy an exclusive fireside lounge area with comfortable seating, fire pits roasting s'mores and an exquisite view of the nightly Holiday celebration. With a private bar, Fireside Lounge is perfect for groups and holiday corporate parties.
Rink-Side VIP Private Cabanas: Private, ice rink-side VIP cabanas for up to 10 people are available to rent, creating the ultimate premium lounge for families, date nights and girl's night out. Cabanas can be adjoined to accommodate up to 250 people for memorable office parties. A private server is available for the purchase of specially themed food and drinks. Reserve now as they typically sell out early.
Lowest Prices of the Season
Don't miss the lowest prices of the season with limited time early bird specials October 17th through 19th, including anytime use general admission tickets of $16.95 for adults and $11.95 for children 3 to 12 years old. General admission tickets include the all-new "North Pole Journey" immersive walk-through experience, stage and strolling entertainment, nightly Holiday celebration, plus unique photo opportunities throughout Winter Fest OC. Other select attractions require an add-on ticket or reservation. Visit WinterFestOC.com to see all pricing information, including season passes for 26 unlimited days and nights of family fun, friend outings or date nights.
Discounts will be offered on select days to honor our community heroes: First Responders, Nurses, Teachers, and Military/Veterans with proof of ID.
For the latest updates on ticket promotions, entertainment, food and fun, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube or with #WinterFestOC.
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- Sportage posts triple-digit sales increase for second consecutive month
- Sales of Kia's electrified models post double or triple-digit sales increase the past five months
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kia America announced best-ever November sales of 56,703 units, an 8-percent increase over the previous November sales record set in 2016, and a 25.1-percent improvement year-over-year. For the second consecutive month, sales were led by the Sportage family of SUVs, which were up 144-percent over the same period a year ago. Sales of Kia's electrified models – which have posted double or triple-digit gains in the past five months – also contributed to the record-breaking performance with a 133-percent year-over-year increase.
"Building on our best-ever third-quarter and October sales, Kia's upward momentum continued with a record November with SUVs and hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs pushing the brand ever higher," said Eric Watson, vice president, sales operations, Kia America. "With Sportage up 144-percent and our electrified offerings posting double or triple-digit sales increases for the fifth consecutive month, we are confident that we will end the year strong, and this positive sales momentum will carry through to 2023."
In addition to sales, November saw a number of significant announcements from the brand, including:
- Kia EV6 named a finalist for the 2023 North American Utility Vehicle of the Year award.
- Kia's guaranteed minimum $1,000,000 minimum donation to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® as part of the brand's "Accelerate The Good" charitable initiatives1.
- Kia taking home the highest number of model awards – five – in the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. ALG Residual Value Awards. The segment wins by Telluride (Midsize SUVs with 3-row seating), Sportage (Compact SUVs), K5 (Midsize Cars), Soul (Micro SUVs), and Rio (Small Cars), led Kia to the best year-over-year improvement of any mass market brand in the annual evaluation.
- Kia's U.S. reveal of the 2024 Kia Seltos with significant upgrades across the board, including increased horsepower, an available first-in-segment2 panoramic display featuring two 10.25-inch screen and available power liftgate3
- Kia's participation in Electrify Expo Austin. The last of five events nationwide where leaders in automotive electrification gathered to share best practices and chart the best path forward as the industry transitions to fully electric models.
Kia America – about us
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Kia America continues to top automotive quality surveys and is recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brands. Kia serves as the "Official Automotive Partner" of the NBA and offers a range of gasoline, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and electrified vehicles sold through a network of over 750 dealers in the U.S., including several cars and SUVs proudly assembled in America*.
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* The K5, Sportage, Sorento, and Telluride (excludes HEV and PHEV models) are assembled in the United States from U.S. and globally sourced parts.
1 Kia will donate $8.00 for every new Kia vehicle that is purchased or leased at authorized Kia dealerships, and delivered to retail customers, between November 11, 2022, and December 31, 2022 - with a guaranteed minimum donation of $1,000,000 in the aggregate - to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®. For more information, please click here.
2 Segment first among competitive entry SUVs, not inclusive of other Kia vehicles; competitive specs sourced from manufacturer's websites.
3 Driving with liftgate open may be unlawful and can draw dangerous exhaust fumes into vehicle; if you choose to do so, keep air vents and windows open for ventilation.
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SOURCE Kia America | 2022-12-01T09:19:22+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/12/01/kia-america-posts-best-ever-november-sales/ |
NYC man charged in fatal shooting over cold fries tied to 2020 murder
Published: Aug. 5, 2022 at 10:58 AM EDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
NEW YORK (WABC) – A 20-year-old man in New York is accused of fatally shooting a McDonald’s employee during a dispute over cold fries earlier this week.
While Michael Morgan, 20, was being questioned over Monday’s shooting, he implicated himself in a 2020 murder in Brooklyn.
As a result, the NYPD formally charged Morgan with the murder of 28-year-old Kevin Holloman in October 2020.
The crime scene is just six blocks from where Morgan shot a McDonald’s employee in the neck Monday.
Police said Friday the McDonald’s employee died, according to WABC. The shooting is now being investigated as a homicide.
Copyright 2022 WABC via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-05T15:51:40+00:00 | foxcarolina.com | https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/08/05/nyc-man-charged-fatal-shooting-over-cold-fries-tied-2020-murder/ |
- Access to direct trading on NYSE brings an upgraded investing experience
- UP Fintech's number of licenses and qualifications worldwide grows to 59
- A new milestone marks UP Fintech's growing industry-wide recognition
NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UP Fintech Holding Limited ("UP Fintech" or the "Company", Nasdaq: TIGR), a world-leading online brokerage, announced today that its subsidiary TradeUP Securities, Inc. is the latest member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
The NYSE's approval gives the company membership in New York Stock Exchange LLC, NYSE American LLC, and NYSE Arca, Inc., respectively, making it one of the very first fintech brokers to obtain this status. The move also boosts its worldwide number of global licenses and qualifications from 56 to 59.
The membership enables UP Fintech, also known as Tiger Brokers, to offer investors direct access to rapid and efficient electronic executions on NYSE, in an upgraded investing experience reshaped by lower latency, more competitive pricing, and more flexible order placements.
"We are very excited about the NYSE membership. The move marks a growing industry recognition, and a valuable accolade, to our financial technology R&D capabilities. As a world-leading online brokerage, we strive to elevate R&D to a new level, to let everyone enjoy a secure, stable, and superior global investing experience in one stop," said Wu Tianhua, CEO and founder of UP Fintech.
The approval comes after an all-around assessment by NYSE over UP Fintech's compliance standards, operations management, capital requirements, and its front- and back-end systems.
"In our relentless pursuit of a better infrastructure we redefine with technology for the next generation, these advantages will surely bode well for our future growth," Wu Tianhua added.
UP Fintech's 59 licenses and qualifications are now scattered in global markets including Singapore, the US, Hong Kong, and Australia, giving the company a competitive edge in diversifying license holding and increasing market coverage. This also lays a solid foundation for the company's global expansion.
Prior to this, UP Fintech possessed financial licenses and qualifications in the US across segments from securities broker, commodity broker, investment banking, and clearing, to trading securities for its own account. These provide the company with a mature business layout from broker, investment research, securities issuance and underwriting, proprietary investment, and wealth management to clearing.
As one of the first self-clearing license holders in the online brokerage industry, the company has structured a system for retail investors from account opening, deposit, and withdrawal to trading, risk control, clearing, and settlement—a flow brought to life by its fintech innovations.
The company cements its industry-leading position in many categories. By the end of the second quarter in 2022:
- The number of global customer accounts grew to 1.935 million.
- Of these customers, 731,400 were customers with deposits.
- Net asset inflow from customers exceeded US$1.5 billion in the second quarter of 2022.
- 99% of our customers were retained in the second quarter of 2022.
NYSE is one of the world's largest stock exchanges.
About UP Fintech
UP Fintech Holding Limited (Nasdaq: TIGR), also known as Tiger Brokers, is a leading online brokerage with a focus on redefining global investing with technology for the next generation.
Founded in 2014, we relentlessly offer superior user experience in pursuit of becoming a world-leading online brokerage, to let everyone enjoy efficient and smart investing. Currently, we offer a multitude of quality financial products and services across brokerage, employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) management, investment banking, wealth management, investor community, and investor education.
We strive to elevate financial technology R&D to a new level. While we inherit the best traditions from the financial sector and blend them with the best minds of tech experts, we develop our own technology infrastructure—an aggregation that enables multi-currency trading of various products across markets, guaranteeing our reliable, secure, and scalable services are accessible to all with low latency.
In March 2019, UP Fintech was listed on Nasdaq under the ticker TIGR. As of now, we serve over 9 million users and 2 million account holders worldwide on our flagship platform "Tiger Trade", own 59 licenses and qualifications in different markets, and have over 1,000 employees on the team in Australia, China, New Zealand, Singapore, and the US.
For more information about UP Fintech as a company, please visit itigerup.com
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Russia deploys hypersonic missiles to its Baltic exclave
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military said Thursday that it has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s Kaliningrad region, a move that comes amid soaring tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said three MiG-31 fighters with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles arrived at the Chkalovsk airbase in the Baltic Sea enclave as part of “additional measures of strategic deterrence.”
The ministry said the warplanes will be put on round-the-clock alert.
A video released by the Defense Ministry showed the fighters arriving at the base but not carrying the missiles, which were apparently delivered separately.
The deployment of Kinzhal missiles to Kaliningrad as Russia’s campaign in Ukraine nears the sixth-month mark appeared intended to showcase the Russian military’s capability to threaten NATO assets. The region borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania.
Moscow has strongly criticized the deliveries of Western weapons to Ukraine, accusing the U.S. and its allies of fueling the conflict.
The Russian military says the Kinzhal has a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (about 1,250 miles) and flies at 10 times the speed of sound, making it hard to intercept. Russia has used the weapon to strike several targets in Ukraine.
Kaliningrad’s location has put it in the forefront of Moscow’s efforts to counter what it described as NATO’s hostile policies. The Kremlin has methodically bolstered its military forces there, arming them with state-of-the-art weapons, including precision-guided Iskander missiles and an array of air defense systems.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-18T13:33:40+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2022/08/18/russia-deploys-hypersonic-missiles-its-baltic-exclave/ |
The European Union agreed Tuesday to a plan to cut gas consumption across Europe by 15% in order to reduce its dependence on Russia for its energy needs. This move comes the same week that Russian energy company Gazprom abruptly cut gas deliveries to Europe on one of its most important pipelines.
NPR’s Rob Schmitz joins Here & Now‘s Scott Tong from Berlin.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-27T19:21:48+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2022-07-27/europe-to-cut-gas-consumption-in-attempt-to-reduce-dependence-on-russian-energy |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A Volkswagen Group-backed automotive company announced plans this week to open a $2 billion electric truck and SUV manufacturing plant just outside of Columbia, South Carolina.
Scout Motors Inc. and South Carolina officials said Friday that the company would be establishing its first manufacturing plant in Blythewood at an industrial site. At full capacity, more than 200,000 vehicles may be produced annually at the facility, which is expected to create 4,000 or more permanent jobs, Gov. Henry McMaster's office said in a news release.
Scout Motors, an independent company headquartered in Virginia and backed by Volkswagen, plans to produce all-electric trucks and SUVs in the style of the Scout vehicles produced by International Harvester between 1960 and 1980.
“Scout Motors will provide thousands of South Carolinians with previously unimagined opportunities and prosperity for generations to come,” McMaster said in a statement. “The Palmetto State, with its rich history, superior people, and sterling automotive manufacturing reputation, is the perfect place to re-start this iconic American brand.”
Vehicle production is targeted to begin by the end of 2026, according to the news release.
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LOCUST VALLEY, N.Y., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new paper published last Thursday by the scientific journal Nature https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9691 presents a comprehensive analysis of the dispersal of horses among indigenous peoples in the western US beginning in the early 16th century.
The paper uses a previously unexploited source for historical documentation---the modern science of genomics, or the study of genetic material (DNA) using the latest molecular tools. The research was overseen by molecular biologist Dr Ludovic Orlando, a leading authority on horse evolution located at the university of Toulouse in southern France. But unlike most such studies, the paper's authorship includes not only biologists and archeologists from European and American universities, but also a number of indigenous researchers utilizing traditional sources of knowledge (TEK). Cana Foundation has supported the application of TEK in its research program, which concerns the use of wild horses as a keystone species in helping to rebuild grasslands.
The new paper references research supported by the Cana Foundation that reveals that horses survived in northern North America as late as 5-6000 years ago. This late surviving population did not leave a persistent genetic trace, however, as less than 1% of their ancestry can be found in modern horses. There are several possible reasons for this, including very low population numbers, restriction to the subarctic, and final extinction before the arrival of European horses.
Archeologist William Taylor, the lead author of the new paper, has stated publicly that the story of late horse survival has yet to be fully explored: "DNA recovered from soil in the Arctic suggests horses might have survived until at least 5000 years ago in parts of North America, where people hunted them and fashioned their bones into tools".
Perhaps the memory of that early relationship survived for millennia and is preserved in the oral tradition of the Lakota and other groups—who then reestablished a connection with domesticated horses in the past few centuries. "It would be crazy to dismiss this idea without testing it further," Taylor says. "And now we can start to do that. More radiocarbon dates and DNA, along with other methods, might even document an intersection between ancient horses and the Lakota and other groups."
Dr. Ross MacPhee from the American Museum of Natural History underlines Taylor's important message: "It needs to be emphasized that, apart from the fact of their existence, almost nothing is known about these late surviving horses. Premodern horse macrofossils (bones and teeth) younger than 10,000 years have yet to be found anywhere in North America, and the existing DNA evidence---isolated from sediments, not bones---remains very limited. These gaps in our knowledge need to be closed, and thanks to Cana Foundation's programs the hunt for their remains continues."
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CANNES, France, June 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 2019, there has been a significant acceleration in the digitization process of the Chinese consumer market, driven by changing consumer behaviors and market dynamics. This transformative shift has further intensified in recent times, creating new opportunities and challenges for brands to adapt and thrive in the digital landscape.
Reconnecting after three years, Tencent Marketing Solution made a remarkable presence at the 70th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, where Zeus Jiang, Corporate Vice President of Tencent, joined industry leaders in a discussion on Long-termism in Digital Marketing on June 20th. The discussion emphasized the significance of digitization and scientific marketing for sustainable brand operations.
Kiki Fan, General Manager of Industrial Sales Operations at Tencent Marketing Solution also delivered a keynote speech entitled "China's Digital Market: A Growth Roadmap" on June 21st, where she shared invaluable insights from years of marketing expertise in the Chinese market. Meanwhile, Tencent Marketing Insights (TMI) collaborated with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to unveil the "A New Chapter to Digital Future - 2023 Report on Digital Trends of China's Luxury Market," providing profound analysis and predictions. Tencent Marketing Solution also utilized the occasion to enhance its Joint Business Partnership (JBP), reinforcing its collaborative efforts with partners as part of its ongoing commitment.
Industry Leaders Explore Long-Termism in Digital Marketing:
Insights from Zeus Jiang and Prominent Advertising Figures
On June 20th, Zeus Jiang, Corporate Vice President of Tencent, participated in a discussion organized by "Modern Advertising" media alongside Zhang Guohua, the president of the China Advertising Association and the global vice chairman of the International Advertising Association, and Dai Lijuan, the editor-in-chief of "Modern Advertising." The discussion centered around the concept Long-Termism in Digital Marketing. Zeus Jiang said: "On the one hand, brands should focus on the digitization of commodity assets and crowd assets, leveraging technology to enhance the recommendation efficiency and optimization capabilities of advertisements. On the other hand, brands can utilize scientific marketing to fully leverage Tencent's multi-traffic scenarios, effectively linking product characteristics and desired outcomes to achieve sustainable long-term operations."
Social Commerce Innovation
Seamlessly Connecting with Consumers through Weixin Brand.com 2.0
"Weixin has become brand zone areas to distribute useful information to their customers. Through friend recommendations, article browsing, video watching, information searching, product purchases, and loyalty programs, we are redefining the new online customer journey for our clients, and forging a deeper connection with their customers," explained Kiki Fan, General Manager of Industrial Sales Operations at Tencent Marketing Solution. Today, consumers increasingly seek brands that align with their values, making effective communication between brands and consumers crucial. Weixin Mini-Programs have emerged as a space for explosive growth and the evolution of Brand.com 2.0. Data reveals that in 2022, Weixin Mini-Program sales reached trillions RMB of transactions, experiencing a remarkable 460% increase since 2019. Global brands have established official flagship stores and customer service centers within Weixin Mini-Program, seamlessly integrating social elements with Tencent's robust service ecosystem. This innovative approach represents a new paradigm in social commerce, paving the way for customized brand management in China's digital era.
To support brands in their marketing endeavors, Tencent Marketing Solution has introduced an intelligent tool called RACE. Leveraging on various data from its diverse platforms, RACE provides valuable insights into science-driven marketing strategies. These insights guide brands in optimizing ad placement and maximizing marketing efficiency.
Resilient Growth in China's Luxury Market Spending
Digital Innovation Brand Equity and Sustainable Growth
To help luxury brands harness the potential of the Chinese market, Tencent Marketing Solution organized a press conference themed "A New Chapter to Digital Future" on June 20, unveiling the 2023 Tencent Luxury Report and sharing valuable insights and effective strategies for luxury brand marketing.
In today's ever-changing digital landscape, where consumer-brand interactions are increasingly digitalized, it's crucial for brands to elevate their digital marketing strategies. "Over the past three years, Weixin has introduced a lot of innovative advertising formats to improve the impact to our customers. Moreover, our intelligent data tools enable us to assist our clients in measuring the extent of this impact and other relevant metrics," said Ms. Fan.
The report points out that the Chinese market has fully recovered and demonstrated strong resilience. It is estimated that luxury spending by Chinese consumers is expected to grow by 15-20% and reach 550 billion RMB by the end of 2023. Veronique Yang, BCG Managing Director and Senior Partner, said, 'The underlying forces behind luxury spending are the upper middle class and affluent consumers in China. We find that despite the ups and downs in the macro environment, this group of consumers remains relatively intact, and the luxury experiences in China are almost on par with the international markets right now.'
The thriving digital ecosystem is one of the key drivers behind the strong performance of the Chinese market. Lin An, BCG Managing Director and Partner, emphasizes the importance of understanding the key consumer journeys of each brand and the role of diverse touchpoints. He said: "We need to know exactly what the key consumer journeys of our brand are, what the role of all the diverse and complicated touchpoints is, how to allocate resources, and what kind of products and services to provide. We believe this group of consumers is the future driver of growth in China, and capturing and activating them will pose challenging questions for brands."
Regarding the catering of consumer demand for digitalization and the business needs of brands, Dan Shu, Head of the Luxury and Beauty Goods Industry at Tencent Marketing Solution, emphasized the importance of focusing on brand assets for the long-term development of luxury brands. He said: "We realize that we should focus more on brand asset over just sales volume by promotions, so we are doing the sustainable work to formulate sustainable strategies for luxury brands within the Tencent ecosystem." To establish brand equity, various approaches such as festival marketing, event marketing, and youth activation are adopted. Brands can leverage Weixin Mini-Program, paid traffic, Weixin Search, and travel retail to drive business growth. George Xie, Head of the Luxury and Beauty Goods Industry Planning at Tencent Marketing Solution, highlighted the impact of the digital wave on luxury consumption. He said: "Under the development of digital wave, the transformed online channels, evolving consumer behaviors and innovative digital marketing strategies have jointly shaped a new luxury consumption experience."
Global Joint Business Partnership Upgrade
Empowering Brands for Sustainable Growth
During the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Tencent Marketing Solution engaged in extensive discussions with its four strategic partners, GroupM, Publicis Groupe, Omnicom Media Group, and Dentsu, resulting in an upgrade to its global Joint Business Partnership. Ethen Zhang, Deputy General Manager of Channel Sales Department, Tencent Marketing Solution, emphasized the collaborative potential. "With Tencent's product ecosystem and our partners' global client network, we have the opportunity to deepen our collaboration in areas such as integrated marketing strategies, content partnerships, leveraging marketing science and advertising technology, and more. Together, we'll deliver sustainable solutions that truly make a difference for our esteemed clients."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Aaron Scott sat down at a table ready to tell the world where he’d spend the next three to five years of life.
I’m front of him sat an Oregon bag in his right, an Ohio State bag on his left and a Michigan bag in the middle while the colors of rags school hung behind him. That Oregon bag lasted all of three minutes of the announcement as the clear distance third school in this race. They were a finalist but more because of his fandom as a kid than as a person now with a realistic option of playing Power Five college football.
Next to go was the Buckeyes who’s spent the past year trying to fight off their rival from stealing away a top 100 recruit from their backyard for the first time since 2013. At that moment it felt like Michigan was on the verge of an upset win and that’s where our story begins where a month earlier Scott thought the very same thing as he went into an official visit in Columbus.
“At that time I was leaning more to Michigan honestly,” Scott told cleveland.com. “At the time of the visit, I’m still thinking I’m gonna be a Wolverine.”
While this wasn’t quite a battle that was Michigan’s to lose, it was out in front heading into the summer. That’s because the whole “Ohio’s best stay home” idea didn’t resonate with the nation’s No. 52 player and No. 5 cornerback the same way it had the other seven in-state commits in this class.
Just because he was from Ohio didn’t mean people should’ve just assumed he’d want to stay home. OSU would have to recruit him hard just as it would any other kid and so far he wasn’t sold on coming to Columbus. At least not yet.
That’s where an official visit at the end of June changed everything. He watched the only player he hoped to play with at the next level decide to commit to the Buckeyes with everyone who mattered watching and it sparked something in his head.
“I tried not to pay too much attention to it,” Scott said. “But seeing Bryce (West) do that got me thinking OK, this is what we’re doing. We’ve talked about teaming up and he just made the first move.”
West put the ball in Scott’s court and the actual Ohio State coaching staff did the rest to tip the scale. That started with Tim Walton establishing a family-like relationship while never being too pushy for a decision. It continued with Ryan Day who continues to be more hands-on with recruits than what one might expect from a head coach. That matter just as much as any other part of this recruitment, especially on that visit since Scott hadn’t been on campus in months
“They all made me feel like I’m special,” Scott said. “Like I’m the one who’s gonna bring B.I.A. back. Especially Coach Day. He let me know my family is comfortable with him and they can pick up the phone and call him anytime.”
Those factors helped flipped a momentum that seemed to be trending toward Scott being the first top 100 recruit from Ohio to choose Michigan since Dymonte Thomas in 2013, stay home. Staying home wasn’t the only thing that mattered to him and he made that clear on numerous occasions. But variables made more and more sense by the day as everything else that mattered started to check out.
“Being from Ohio knowing what they could do for me (and) they made me feel like I’m needed,” Scott said after his decision. “They showed me a lot of love so it just made sense for me to go there.”
Scott’s recruitment it finally over. There will be No visits, phone calls or anything else in that category unless it’s for the Buckeyes and there’s not a person more relieved by that reality than him. He’s been over all of it for the past month and some of the antics schools pulled don’t help ease that stress.
That includes Michigan choosing to involve Hall of Famer Charles Woodson in his recruitment by sending tweets at him It’s something given Woodson’s status should’ve been a cool moment and even more emphasized how much Michigan valued him. But it’s hard to receive that when you’re already stressing yourself out over a decision that had even every one that mattered to him in a room on a Sunday evening divided.
“It made it worse,” Scott said. “It was tough.”
Scott’s commitment to Ohio State played out early similar to the road it he took to get into the class. A month ago he thought he was eventually headed to Ann Arbor the the Buckeyes came in hot in the end which takes us back to the beginning of this story with three bags sitting on a table in a community center in Springfield, Ohio. The Oregon bag was eliminated first, just as it had in his process. Then he tossed away the Ohio State bag leaving only the Michigan bag as those in the crowd who were pro-Wolverine got excited.
Then he opened up the maize and blue bag and to the delight of every Buckeye fan in the Building, pulled out a scarlet and gray jersey with the No. 5 on it. The home team won, even if it took a few twists and turns to get there.
“That was the plan,” Scott said with a smirk about his announcement plan. “Just to throw them off a little bit.”
To see Ohio State’s full 2024 recruiting class, click here.
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DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana judge has recused himself from the case of two slain teenage girls, an Indiana Supreme Court spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Indiana Supreme Court is in the process of appointing Allen County Superior Court Judge Fran Gull as special judge in the case after Carroll Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Diener’s recusal, spokeswoman Kathryn Dolan said.
“A judge does not have to explain a reason for recusal,” Dolan said in an email to the news media.
Diener's recusal came on the same day he approved a request from Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby to transfer Richard Allen, the suspect in the 2017 killings, to the Indiana Department of Corrections for safety reasons.
In the order to transfer Allen, Diener wrote, “This FINDING is not predicated on any acts or alleged acts of the Defendant, since arrest, rather a toxic and harmful insistence on ‘public information’ about Defendant and this case.”
Diener said the court found Allen to be in “imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death, or represents a substantial threat to the safety of others.”
He also addressed what he termed the “public bloodlust for information” in the case, calling it dangerous and saying all public servants working on the case do not feel safe or protected.
The order went on to state the public’s desire to learn about the case and access court records was “inherently disruptive” to court operations
Allen is being held on $20 million bond, online court records show.
Allen, 50, was arrested Friday on two murder counts in the killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, in a case that has haunted Delphi.
The deaths were ruled a double homicide, but police have never disclosed how they died or described what evidence they gathered. A relative had dropped them off at a hiking trail near the Monon High Bridge just outside their hometown of Delphi, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northwest of Indianapolis. Their bodies were found the next day, Feb. 14, 2017, in a rugged, heavily wooded area near the trail.
Diener entered a not-guilty plea for Allen at his initial hearing on Friday.
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VANCOUVER, BC, May 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPower Motor Company Inc. (NASDAQ: GP) (TSXV: GPV) (the "Company"), a leading manufacturer and distributor of zero-emission, electric-powered, medium and heavy-duty vehicles, announces the results of the Annual General and Special Meeting (AGM) that was held yesterday.
The shareholders elected all of management's director nominees being Mark Achtemichuk, Fraser Atkinson, Malcolm Clay, Cathy McLay, David Richardson and Brendan Riley.
The shareholders also approved the Company's Equity Incentive Plan and the appointment of Crow MacKay LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants as the Company's auditors for the ensuing fiscal year.
Following the AGM the Directors of the Company appointed the following officers of the Company for the ensuing year: Fraser Atkinson – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brendan Riley – President and Michael Sieffert – Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary.
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GreenPower designs, builds and distributes a full suite of high-floor and low-floor all-electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles, including transit buses, school buses, shuttles, cargo van, and a cab and chassis. GreenPower employs a clean-sheet design to manufacture all-electric vehicles that are purpose built to be battery powered with zero emissions while integrating global suppliers for key components. This OEM platform allows GreenPower to meet the specifications of various operators while providing standard parts for ease of maintenance and accessibility for warranty requirements. GreenPower was founded in Vancouver, Canada with primary operational facilities in southern California. Listed on the Toronto exchange since November 2015, GreenPower completed its U.S. IPO and NASDAQ listing in August 2020. For further information go to www.greenpowermotor.com
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Zookeeper found dead in animal enclosure in Slovakia
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Authorities in Slovakia launched an investigation after a zookeeper was found dead in an animal enclosure, officials said Tuesday.
Police said an autopsy was being performed to determine the cause of the death and declined to provide further details, citing an ongoing investigation.
Slovak TV channel Markiza said the owner of the small zoo in the town of Kysucke Nove Mesto was attacked by a lion while feeding the animal. The broadcaster said the man’s relatives confirmed the information.
Local media in Slovakia said the zoo bred lions, tigers, goats, sheep, llamas, camels, donkeys, monkeys and other animals.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Coronavirus cases are on the rise again in New Mexico, but top state health officials said Wednesday that a return to mask mandates or other widespread public health restrictions are unlikely because infections are becoming more mild.
Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase said during his first briefing on the pandemic in months that the situation is very different now than it was over the winter. He noted that more tools and treatments are available and that infections are resulting in far fewer hospitalizations and deaths.
“This isn't about infections. It's about serious disease, it's about hospitalizations, it's about deaths. That's what we need to pay attention to," he said of the focus. “... Our deaths are only a fraction, our hospitalizations are only a fraction and that's really the sticking point for this state.”
The pandemic took a toll on New Mexico early on because of the state's historical lack of resources, including nurses and its low ranking among states when it comes to hospital bed capacity.
Health care officials and some elected officials promoted the mandates in hopes of limiting infections and preventing the overtaxing of a system already running at full capacity.
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 infection are currently low and only a small percentage of patients require ventilators, which state officials said means an evolution toward a milder illness from coronavirus infections.
State epidemiologist Dr. Christine Ross, who will step down from her post in the coming weeks, said it has been a long and difficult public health period but that she was pleased to report what she called a welcomed difference from the severity of prior infections.
“What we're seeing with this wave is very different than what we've seen in the past,” she said, pointing to multiple factors that range from the properties of the latest variant to what she referred to as a wall of protection created by vaccination and immunity resulting from infections and in some cases re-infections.
Health officials did acknowledged the difficulty in analyzing data now because many positive infection tests conducted at home go unreported.
While state data showed vaccinated and boosted people made up nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 cases reported over the last four weeks, Scrase said the numbers should not be considered a study of how effective vaccination might be “because there are too many variables.”
With treatments now seen as a game-changer, Scrase said his next hope is that deaths caused by the virus can be prevented.
New Mexico's coronavirus death toll is approaching 7,900 people, according to state data. | 2022-06-09T00:46:38+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Mexico-sees-uptick-in-less-severe-COVID-19-17229094.php |
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. (AP) _ Watts Water Technologies Inc. (WTS) on Wednesday reported second-quarter earnings of $69.7 million.
The North Andover, Massachusetts-based company said it had net income of $2.07 per share. Earnings, adjusted for restructuring costs, were $2.11 per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.63 per share.
The maker of valves for plumbing, heating and water needs posted revenue of $526.6 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $488.7 million.
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3M, maker of Post-it notes, industrial coatings and ceramics, is cutting about 2,500 manufacturing jobs worldwide as it looks to align itself with adjusted production volumes.
The company announced last month that it will exit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance manufacturing by the end of 2025. The so-called forever chemicals are used in nonstick frying pans, water-repellent sports gear, stain-resistant rugs, cosmetics and countless other consumer products.
3M Co. also reported fourth-quarter earnings of $541 million, or 98 cents per share. Its adjusted profit was $2.28 per share. That's below the $2.34 per share that analysts polled by Zacks Investment Research predicted.
Revenue for the St Paul, Minnesota-based company totaled $8.08 billion in the period, beating Wall Street's estimate of $8.04 billion.
Chairman and CEO Mike Roman said in a statement that 3M experienced rapid declines in consumer-facing markets and a significant slowdown in China due to COVID-19-related disruptions. He said the company anticipates macroeconomic challenges continuing this year.
Looking ahead to the full year, the company expects 2023 adjusted earnings per share of $8.50 to $9, versus $9.88 per share in 2022.
Shares fell 4.7% before the market open. | 2023-01-24T13:23:57+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/business/2023/01/24/3m-cutting-about-2500-manufacturing-jobs-globally/ |
NOTTINGHAM, England — Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper was given public backing by the club’s owner Wednesday as the team slides down the Premier League standings.
Clubs typically don’t respond to media speculation about a manager’s position but Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis wanted to put the record straight with increasing reports about Cooper’s future.
“No one denies that our club is in a difficult position in the Premier League,” Marinakis said in a statement, “but we wish to end the speculation and the false and disruptive reporting in the media to confirm that Steve Cooper remains our manager at Nottingham Forest.”
Marinakis stressed, though, that “results and performances must improve immediately.”
“We have all been disappointed with recent performances,” he said, “and it is very clear that a lot of hard work needs to be done to address this urgently.”
Forest is in its first season in the Premier League since 1999.
Cooper has been Forest’s manager since September 2021.
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Voting concludes Tuesday in the Maryland primary elections, highlighted by an open governor's race. There are also notable contests for U.S. Senate, attorney general and key congressional districts. (Here's why counting may be delayed.)
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NEW YORK (AP) — After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural issues that “deteriorated to the point where they were now posing an immediate threat to public safety.”
Two of the parking garages have apartments above them — a 25-story high-rise in downtown Manhattan and an eight-story building in Chinatown — but officials said the residential areas appear to be in no danger.
City officials directed the owners of the parking facilities to make immediate repairs to corroded concrete and other damage.
Inspections were launched soon after a three-story stand-alone parking structure, about a century old, imploded into shards of concrete and twisted metal on April 18, crushing to death its manager.
“This work was done in the interest of public safety, and out of an abundance of caution,” said Building Department spokesperson Andrew Rudansky.
“During our sweep of 78 parking structures, we found four locations where structural concerns necessitated areas of the buildings to be immediately vacated," he said.
The city last year began mandating parking structures be inspected by owners at least once every six years. The first wave of garages, located from the southern tip of Manhattan to the lower Central Park area, have until the end of the year to complete initial inspections.
The structure that collapsed earlier this month had not yet completed its required inspection, city officials said.
Why it collapsed is still under investigation but it had been previously cited for various structural defects, including signs of corrosion in concrete called "spalling."
Inspectors visited 17 parking garages managed by the same company that managed the collapsed structure and 61 additional buildings, all with parking garages, that had open structural issues.
They found four properties with structural damage in the parking garages where the damage was so bad, the city issued vacate orders to at least parts of the structures.
Underneath the 25-story building in lower Manhattan, inspectors found concrete slabs “extensively corroded, with spalled concrete on the underside of two-floor slab ceilings.” As a result, more than half of the garage is now off-limits and its operators ordered to provide protected pathways in those places.
But engineers found no need to vacate any residential areas of the building.
Similarly, building officials said residents could stay put in a Chinatown apartment building despite finding “numerous severely deteriorated and rusted steel beams, with excessive cracked and spalling concrete piers."
A two-story parking structure in Brooklyn was in such disrepair, the city said, that it ordered the shuttering of the entire structure. Another two-story structure in the borough was partially closed because of extensively corroded beams and deteriorated vehicle ramps.
The four buildings can't reopen until repairs are made and pass inspection.
Because inspections of parking garages continue, officials said there could be more enforcement action to come.
Meanwhile, crews continue clearing debris from the fallen structure.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had opened an investigation into the collapse.
An initial investigation by the Building Department noted that all three floors of the garage partially or completely collapsed. The garage’s rear wall partially collapsed, and the front facade bulged.
Enterprise Ann Parking, which operated the garage on Ann Street, said it was cooperating with authorities on the probe.
Two decades ago, city inspectors cited the property owner for failing to properly maintain the building, finding at the time that there were “cracks and defects” in the concrete. A more recent inspection in fall 2013 showed no further structural issues, according to an update the Building Department provided Wednesday.
The garage caved at around 4 p.m. Tuesday, a few blocks from City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge, just as patrons were beginning to return to the garage after work.
The collapse shook nearby buildings and terrified people who likened the sound to a massive explosion and the experience to a violent earthquake.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Natalie Morales is joining CBS News as a correspondent and will do stories for the crime series “48 Hours” as well the network's weekday and weekend morning shows, the network said on Monday.
Morales was at NBC News for two decades, working on the “Today” show and “Dateline NBC,” before jumping to the CBS-produced daytime show, “The Talk,” last year.
She's based in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and two sons. She begins at CBS News on Nov. 1.
“She has excelled at the highest levels — from network morning shows to longform storytelling — and we couldn't be more thrilled to have her on our team,” said Neeraj Khemlani, president of CBS News and Stations.
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3-Point Goals: 7-20, .350 (Richards 3-7, Sabally 1-1, Addo-Ankrah 1-3, Medor 1-3, Buggs 1-5, Tucker 0-1).
Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 3 (Germany, Medor, Sabally).
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Turnovers: 10 (Medor 4, Buggs 2, Germany 2, Farmer, Richards).
Steals: 5 (Sabally 2, Germany, Medor, Richards).
Technical Fouls: coach Steve Henson, 5:44 first.
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Percentages: FG .492, FT .700.
3-Point Goals: 5-23, .217 (Sheffield 2-4, Huseinovic 1-3, Mason 1-6, Olivari 1-6, Jones 0-1, Evee 0-3).
Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 1.
Blocked Shots: 7 (Akuchie 2, Lieppert 2, Fiedler, Mason, Sheffield).
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Biden faces a crucial day of closely watched meetings in the West Bank and Saudi Arabia
President Joe Biden on Friday will travel to the West Bank and meet with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority before heading to Saudi Arabia for the final leg of his closely watched Middle East trip.
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The meeting with the Palestinian leader comes as Biden continues to advocate for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though he says he does not see such an arrangement materializing in the "near term."
A senior administration official previewing Biden's schedule said the President would announce several measures aimed at supporting the Palestinian people, including US aid for hospitals and refugees as well as efforts to upgrade Gaza and the West Bank to a 4G network.
Biden will deliver remarks at Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem and is expected to announce he is asking Congress to approve up to $100 million for the East Jerusalem Hospital Network. Former US President Donald Trump cut $25 million in planned funding for the East Jerusalem Hospital Network during his time in office.
The President is scheduled to visit Abbas at the Muqataa Presidential Compound in Bethlehem, West Bank, and the leaders are expected to deliver joint statements.
Biden will fly directly from Israel to Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to hold highly anticipated bilateral meetings with Saudi King Salman and his advisers, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. According to Biden's schedule, the Saudi king will only be present for about 30 minutes during the bilateral meetings Friday night, the White House confirmed Thursday. The President and the crown prince will continue their meeting after the king departs, which was expected because of the king's health.
The US has accused the crown prince in a declassified CIA report of having approved the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The crown prince has denied involvement.
The President has repeatedly defended his decision to travel to Saudi Arabia and meet with MBS, maintaining his administration wants to lead in the region and not create a vacuum for Russia and China to fill. But the trip has been highly scrutinized and the decision to meet with MBS is a significant departure from Biden's pledge on the campaign trail to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" state.
The president's interactions with the crown prince will be heavily scrutinized－in particular how he greets MBS and whether Biden shakes his hand. The White House has sought to downplay the significance of any greeting between Biden and MBS.
"We're focused on the meetings, not the greetings," one senior administration official told reporters.
The official said, "The President will greet the leaders as he does. And there's no special rules for one leader or another. So I know we've gotten this question quite a bit, but for those of us doing the work, it's really -- we're focused on the substance of the meetings and not the particular greetings. The President's going to about a dozen leaders and he'll greet them as he usually does."
Biden's handshakes -- or lack thereof -- have been under the microscope during this trip after the White House said the President was looking to reduce contact with others amid the spread of a transmissible subvariant of the omicron variant of COVID-19. Biden has noticeably broken from that guidance on multiple occasions in the two days he's been in Israel after offering fist bumps after his arrival, adding fuel to speculation that the guidance from the White House was an elaborate excuse for Biden to avoid shaking the crown prince's hand.
Biden in Saudi Arabia
The trip to Jeddah has been particularly thorny for the White House ever since it began materializing earlier this year, given the President's campaign trail promise to make the nation a "pariah" state for the murder of Khashoggi. Biden on Thursday stopped short of committing to raise Khashoggi's murder directly with leaders in Saudi Arabia and said he "always" brings up human rights and that his views on the murder have been "absolutely, positively clear." U.S. officials had told CNN ahead of the trip that Biden was expected to raise Khashoggi with MBS.
The trip comes amid high gas prices and widespread inflation in the US and across the globe, in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though the President and other officials have dismissed Saudi Arabia's rich oil supply as a key motivator for the trip.
One senior administration official said the meetings with Saudi leadership will focus on strengthening the ongoing truce in Yemen, technological cooperation including in 5G, clean energy, global infrastructure and human rights in addition to discussing the global energy supply.
But the official suggested that the US and Saudi and other Middle Eastern officials would be talking about energy security issues and that Biden would engage with the world leaders on bringing gas prices down.
"I think the conversation is really focused on, given current market conditions, how do we see things? How do we see the next six months, and how can we keep markets balanced in a way that contribute to continued economic growth? So that's the common focus of ours, with not just the Saudis, but other producers," the official said.
The official added, "And of course, the President has said for months he will do everything possible to get prices down. That includes our own Strategic Petroleum Reserve release. That includes diplomacy with other producers, and it includes, of course, our own domestic production."
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But before flying to Saudi Arabia for the most pressure-packed portion of his trip, Biden has a series of engagements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and several funding announcements aimed at helping Palestinians.
The President is expected to announce on Friday morning an additional $201 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees to support Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, according to the White House.
Biden is also expected to announce that Israel has committed to working with Palestinians to speed up the implementation of a 4G network in Gaza and the West Bank, with the goal of rolling out that infrastructure by the end of next year.
"It has been a priority for President Biden to rebuild ties with the Palestinians that were severed by the previous administration," the official said.
Biden will tell Abbas that Israel has agreed to increase accessibility to the Allenby Bridge so that Palestinians and others can access it 24/7 by September. The bridge is controlled by Israel and is the only crossing point into Jordan for Palestinians from the West Bank.
"He will also announce steps to build grassroots support for peace, including by supporting collaboration and professional exchanges between the Palestinians and Israeli health sectors as they work to build mutual trust," the official said.
The US will also provide an additional $15 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in response to rising food insecurity brought on by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Before departing for Saudi Arabia, Biden is scheduled to visit the Church of the Nativity "to underscore support for Christians who face challenges across the region," the official said. | 2022-07-15T12:06:10+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/biden-faces-crucial-day-meetings-west-bank-saudi-arabia/40620155 |
ORLANDO, Fla. – We all know gas and grocery prices have climbed substantially since this time last year.
What you may not have noticed is that even though some products are still being sold at the same price, the sizes are shrinking.
For instance, you likely remember Gatorade selling large 32-ounce drinks. Now their slimmed-down bottles are just 28 ounces.
UCF business professor Anand Krishnamoorthy said it’s called “Shrinkflation,” and it is here to stay.
To make sure their customers don’t feel too bad about it, Krishnamoorthy said companies often pass it off as “product innovation.”
“Gatorade in this case, PepsiCo. argued that the size of the packaging decreased not because they wanted to provide less of the item, but because these containers are becoming less easy to hold so what they did is they introduced a groove in the middle of the packaging which makes a product easier to hold, so this is positioned less as shrinkage, more as product innovation,” Krishnamoorthy said.
Krishnamoorthy said something similar happened with bar soap as well.
He said soap was originally square. Then, over time manufacturers put a groove in the soap so it would be easier to hold. Then, he said the groove got deeper and deeper, meaning less product for consumers, even though the prices remained the same.
But, Krishnamoorthy said, companies are not always working to fool customers, sometimes they do just make valid changes.
“There might be cases where there is actual innovation going on because Bounty for a long time has claimed that their paper towels are more absorbent today, as a result of which you don’t need as much paper towel,” he said.
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Krishnamoorthy said chocolate bars also used to be a lot longer 15 years ago. But, changing the size of the sugary snack could be a part of trying to reduce the number of calories people are consuming.
With costs rising, Krishnamoorthy said many companies are struggling to stay profitable and even after the market stabilizes package sizes likely won’t go back to their original sizes.
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You can check out Florida’s Fourth Estate with Matt Austin and Ginger Gadsden wherever you enjoy listening to podcasts. | 2022-07-03T14:00:41+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/03/shrinkflation-how-companies-are-tricking-you-into-paying-for-less/ |
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newport Healthcare, a national network of evidence-based treatment programs for teens and young adults with primary mental health disorders, has earned Certification™ as a Great Place to Work®. The prestigious award is based entirely on current employee sentiment about their experience working at Newport, with the percentage of employees who consider Newport a great place to work 11% higher than the typical U.S. company.
"We are thrilled to become Great Place to Work-Certified™ as we consider employee experience a top priority, integral to our success in helping clients and families," said Joe Procopio, CEO of Newport Healthcare. "We are very proud of our dedicated, compassionate workforce and value their contributions to making Newport a great place to work."
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading success, employee retention, and increased innovation.
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Newport Healthcare is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
Newport's workplace culture is defined by authentic connection and open communication with employees. Some of the company's highest ranked statements in the survey were related to fairness, safety, and employee pride in their work. Additionally, 84% of employees responded that they believe their work helping clients with mental health issues has special meaning. Diversity, equity, and inclusion also ranked high.
Newport has been surveying its employees for critical, constructive feedback for years, but this is the first time they enlisted the help of the experts at Great Place to Work®. According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work.
Looking to grow your career at a company that puts its people first? Visit the Newport Healthcare careers page at: https://www.newporthealthcare.com/careers/?utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=referral
Newport Healthcare, including Newport Academy and Newport Institute, provides evidence-based healing centers for teens, young adults, and families struggling with primary mental health issues. Newport offers a family-systems approach with individualized, integrated programs that combine clinical and experiential therapies with academic or career support. Newport's nationwide residential and outpatient treatment programs bring teens and young adults from self-destruction to self-esteem, addressing the underlying causes of high-risk behavior from a foundation of compassionate care, clinical expertise, and unconditional love. With a commitment to advocacy, Newport is creating a movement to shift our mental health culture from awareness to action, with the primary mission to empower lives and restore families.
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™. Learn more at greatplacetowork.com.
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After three police officers stood by as a man drowned in a Tempe, Ariz. lake last month, questions have arisen about why law enforcement officials on the scene didn't enter the water to try to save him.
"I'm drowning," Sean Bickings, 34, said to officers, according to a transcript of police body camera video captured during the encounter.
"Okay, I'm not jumping in after you," one unnamed officer says.
Moments earlier, police had been talking to Bickings after being called to the scene for a domestic disturbance.
As they were putting his and his companion's names into a database to check for warrants, Bickings entered Tempe Town Lake and began to swim away. He quickly became distressed in the water, and as he pleaded for help, officers continued to speak with him but didn't go in the lake.
According to the Tempe Officers Association, the union that represents city police, Tempe police officers receive no training in water rescues and don't have the equipment necessary to help drowning victims.
"Attempting such a high-risk rescue could easily result in the death of the person in the water and the officer, who could be pulled down by a struggling adult," the group said in a statement.
Instead, police officers are trained to call the fire department or get the Tempe police boat or both, which the association said is what the officers in this case did.
"The drowning of Sean Bickings in the early morning of May 28 is a human tragedy," the group added. "Our grief mirrors our community's grief. No one wanted this incident to end as it did."
The Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, which sets police academy curriculum in Arizona and certifies police officers, confirmed that applicants are not required to show swimming proficiency and there is no basic training related to water rescues.
The Tempe Police Department is conducting an investigation of Bickings' death, which will be reviewed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The Scottsdale Police Department is also investigating the police response.
The three officers who responded to the call and were present when Bickings drowned are on "non-disciplinary paid administrative leave" as the investigations unfold, which officials say is standard practice.
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Delaware’s Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is now processing first-time Trusts requests by appointment only.
The change is for those placing their Delaware-titled vehicle in the name of a trust.
The appointment-only process aims to help streamline wait-times in the DMV’s lobbies across the First State.
People coming into a DMV with a simple transaction can be in and out in three to five minutes on a good day.
But the DMV’s vehicle services program manager Jacob Carey says unlike a typical title transfer - a trust request can take longer.
“These can take probably up to 20 to 30 minutes. So that’s just a ballpark figure. But these transactions all depend on the paperwork and the amount of paperwork that we have,” he said.
Carey says shifting to the appointment-only process for these transactions should benefit customers and DMV staff.
DMV chief of communications Kathryn Beasley explains why the DMV is moving to this appointment-only process for trust requests.
“It comes down to personalizing the service. There are many different scenarios that could affect the appointment," he said. "And as we look at ways to improve our customer service - it’s another level we can personalize this service for the person looking to move a vehicle into a Trust.”
Beasley says prior to scheduling an appointment, you’re asked to have several documents handy - including the vehicle identification number (VIN), the make, model and year of the vehicle and the original Trust and/or amendments.
Appointments can be made online here. | 2022-12-29T05:59:51+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2022-12-28/dmv-announce-first-time-trust-requests-by-appointment-only |
Demesmin and Dover law firm expands from the South Florida region to Tampa, FL.
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demesmin and Dover law firm, a team of personal injury attorneys today announced they have opened a new office in Tampa to expand the firm's field of reach.
The plans to develop operations in Tampa were started by the firm because of a large amount of clientele in that area. The new office will be the company's second physical location, which clients can visit. This location will serve as a hub for meetings and staff outside of the South Florida region. The company plans on continuing to expand into other areas of Florida to continue to spread its message of we care more and to help more individuals with their accident claims.
"The opening of Demesmin and Dover law firm's new Tampa office is an important step towards our ability to help clientele outside South Florida and continually expand." says Victor Demesmin Jr., founding partner of Demesmin and Dover law firm. "The new office will be the first of many important developments for the company in 2022." says other founding partner Jeremy Dover.
The new office is expected to push Demesmin and Dover's field of reach beyond the South Florida region. This will expand the company into the northern region of Florida. The company plans on continually expanding further within the state, making this office its first effort to do so. They plan on celebrating with a grand opening event at the end of September. In honor of Hispanic heritage month and their grand opening, the event will be Havana Nights themed.
The personal injury law field has exploded with the amount of cases available as well as attorneys that practice within this field. Demesmin and Dover Law Firm have been in the personal injury field since 2019. Since its conception, Demesmin and Dover have continually grown exponentially, both internally and externally. They plan on continuing to do so throughout the state of Florida, with this office being the first step in that direction.
Founded in November 2019, Demesmin and Dover Law Firm Is known for helping its clientele and community in fulfilling its message of "We Care More". The company's mission is to help those involved in an accident, slip and fall, nursing home abuse, or property damage case to receive the compensation they deserve.
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Although Calhoun County offers plenty of options for a “stay-at-home” vacation during the July 4 holiday, it has become almost an American tradition to hit both the roads and the skies to celebrate independence of travel.
AAA is predicting a record-setting 50 million Americans will travel for this year’s holiday.
It is always best to plan such a journey and here are some tips about what to expect as you prepare to be part of one of the busiest vacation periods of the year marking an unofficial start to summer.
The heat is on
Friday and Saturday were forecast to be the extreme temperature days heading into July 4 with heat indexes rising into the three-digit zone throughout a large portion of the south.
The National Weather Service in Birmingham has issued an extreme heat advisory for Saturday.
According to the advisory, dangerously high heat and humidity is expected to continue across much of central Alabama through Monday. Heat index values during the day Saturday will most likely climb to 105 degrees with some areas near 110 degrees.
“Heat exhaustion or heat stroke could occur for those exposed to the heat for a prolonged period of time,” the advisory said.
A few strong to severe storms may develop late Saturday afternoon through 11 p.m. with the highest chances appearing in the northeast. Damaging winds and large hail will be the main threats. Calhoun County’s risks for those storms are marked as “slight.”
The heat will only slightly back down as the time for the showers of fireworks draws near but the chance of real showers will increase.
The local forecast for July 4 shows a predicted high of 92 degrees with a 60 percent chance of rain mainly after 1 p.m. Rain chances decrease to 30 percent as temperatures begin to drop to a predicted low of 72 degrees.
Paying for the gas
Filling up the car will be cheaper than last year but prices still remain above the historic average in most parts of the country.
“Gas prices are $1.30 per gallon less this year than last, but they are still high compared to historical averages,” said AAA spokesperson Andrew Gross. “The previous record average high price for gas on July 4th was $4.10 in 2008, while the low was $1.39 in 2001. Yet despite currently elevated prices, drivers are not cutting back on travel this summer.”
Alabama scores as one of the ten least expensive markets at $3.10 per gallon.
AAA reports the gas prices for the Anniston/Oxford market have dropped 9 cents over the last week from $3.10 to $3.05.
State will suspend road construction
Outside of an emergency, Alabama drivers will not be subjected to all the obstacles which occur during road construction.
The Alabama Department of Transportation announced all major interstate road work projects in Alabama have now paused until midnight on Tuesday, July 4 as a record number of vehicles are predicted to be on the roads.
“These kind of roadwork pauses are standard practice during high-traffic holidays,” said ALDOT chief of media and community relations Tony Harris. “They are meant to prevent slowdowns on major roadways as such slowdowns often lead to accidents.”
Anniston events to cause Saturday road closures
On Saturday, July 1, streets around Zinn Park will close for Main Street Anniston’s Model City Jubilee event. The streets to be closed are as follows: West 13th Street to Gurnee Avenue, West 14th Street to Moore Avenue and Moore Avenue to West 13th Street. The closures will be effective between 5:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Saturday will also have West 11th Street, from its intersections with Gurnee Avenue to its intersection with Moore Avenue, closed for the Anniston Downtown Market from approximately 6 a.m. until noon. This street closure may reoccur on future Saturdays for the Market and officials request the public remain aware of this closure each Saturday until the market ends in the Fall.
Noble Street, from its intersection with 12th Street to its intersection with 13th Street, will also be closed for a Saturday event being hosted by SRV Guitars, located at 1211 Noble Street. The street will close at 10 a.m. and reopen at 7 p.m.
Anniston public relations director Jackson Hodges said crosswalk improvements continue at the intersection of 11th Street and Noble Street.
“The work is nearly complete; however, citizens should expect the closure to last through the first week of July, with an estimated completion date of July 3, due to slight delays in the project,” Hodges said.
Taking to the skies
Record numbers of up to 17 million travelers are predicted to take to the skies and the agency which oversees air traffic says they are ready.
“The Transportation Security Administration is staffed and ready for the increasing travel volumes during this holiday travel period with the technologies and resources for improved security effectiveness, efficiency and passenger experience at security checkpoints,” said TSA Administrator David Pekoske. “We expect that passenger volumes will continue to grow, and we will continue to work with our industry partners in the transportation network to meet our passenger throughput standards of 30 minutes or less in standard lanes and 10 minutes or less in TSA PreCheck lanes. We have met these standards over 98 percent of the time so far this year.”
Remember the reason
While July 4 is a time for food, fun and games, it was a day designated to celebrate the freedoms of being an American
So it would be most appropriate to seek out a veteran, a soldier on duty or their family and thank them for both their service and their sacrifice which have provided the reason to celebrate July 4. | 2023-07-01T01:23:12+00:00 | annistonstar.com | https://www.annistonstar.com/free/travel-tips-for-july-4th-holiday/article_35829fe8-17a4-11ee-8c8e-e3bb1bfeb24c.html |
New car shoppers continue to pay record levels, and many are funding their purchases with record-level loan amounts that teeter into delinquencies and eventually, negative equity, or owing more than the car is worth. Recent reports from Edmunds and Bloomberg found that high interest rates coupled with high new car prices and cooling used car values have found many Americans upside down on their car loans.
“Even if the US economy avoids a recession this year, consumers will likely struggle to make payments on their auto loans, especially with the Federal Reserve planning to keep raising interest rates,” Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
The average new car interest rate rose to 6.5% in Q4 of 2022, up from 4.1% a year earlier, according to data from Edmunds. The confluence of high new car prices and higher interest rates means that borrowers owe more and are taking out longer, more expensive loans to finance their purchase.
The average term limit of a new car loan is 70 months, which has stayed relatively even for the past few years. The difference now is the monthly payment has ballooned to $717 per month in Q4 of 2022, up from $659 a year ago. Nearly 16% of new car borrowers are paying more than $1,000 per month—a record—due to the double whammy of high new car prices and high interest rates.
The average price shoppers are paying for a new car reached $46,229, which is a record for the month and an increase of 4.8% from February 2022. In December 2022, the average hit $47,362, which was a record for any month in history. The average new car price has risen 20% since the start of the pandemic, according to Automotive News, with no signs of it cooling off any time soon.
With supply finally catching up with demand, new car shoppers were estimated to spend “nearly $42.0 billion on new vehicles” in the month, another February record.
“Despite economic headwinds, the auto industry is on track to deliver year-over-year sales growth alongside record transaction prices and record consumer expenditures for the month of February,” said Thomas King, president of data and analytics at J.D. Power.
Now that supply constraints have loosened, more new cars mean that dealers won’t be selling as many cars above MSRP as they did during the pandemic. In July 2022, the number of vehicles sold above MSRP was 48%, compared to 31% now. J.D. Power estimates that dealers make $3,820 on every new car sold, which is down more than 23% from a year ago.
Are 7-year car loans the new normal?
That might be down news for dealers, but good news for their financial arms. For now.
Consumers are requesting longer terms as a way of lowering their monthly payments, Automotive News reported in January. In the third quarter of 2022, 20% of new car borrowers committed to at least seven-year, 84-month loans, according to Experian. And used car borrowers got in on the action, with 11% of borrowers agreeing to a seven-year loan.
Four to five years into that loan, the vehicle can be worth less than what is owed on the loan. So if an owner went to trade in for a new car, they would have to roll the old debt on the trade-in into the new car loan, further compounding the debt.
During the topsy-turvy pandemic world, when the constraints on new car prices let to recored used car prices, a shopper could trade in their car for a much higher value to offset the cost of a new car loan. For a brief time, owners were able to sell their gently used cars for more than they paid for them.
Those days are over. Used car prices have fallen 7.3% in February 2023 from the year before, according to Manheim’s Used Vehicle Value Index.
“As we shifted toward an environment with diminished used car values and rising interest rates over the past few months, consumers have become less insulated from those riskier loan decisions, and we are only seeing the tip of the negative equity iceberg,” Ivan Drury, Edmunds’ director of insights, said in a statement.
This means new car shoppers will either keep amassing debt, and increasing the risk of default, or stay in their current vehicles and stop buying new cars.
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The Atlanta Braves are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a special night game against the Boston Red Sox. Fans will be treated to a cultural t-shirt as K-pop music fills the stadium before the game.
According to theAtlanta Regional Commission, Asian Americans are the fastest growing population in the region. The population has more than doubled in 10 years, and now accounts for 7% of residents, or more than 300,000 people.
Teams are keeping an eye on the changing demographics of America by celebrating various cultures. It's no secret that Major League Baseball is losing fans, with MLB reporting a loss of 11 million in-person fans between 2007 and 2019.
One way to get new fans is to appeal to the diversity of a team's base, and the diversity of America. Vietnamese American Kory Le Phillips appreciates the Braves' outreach.
"I’m an athlete myself, so seeing other players from my family’s country, playing out here and making the big leagues — I love it. I love how diverse my culture is," Phillips said.
The Atlanta Braves staff say they are excited to celebrate the second annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Night.
"The Braves are proud to honor and recognize the important contributions that Asian American, and Pacific Islander athletes, fans and employees have made to the team and the game of baseball," said Braves Director of Marketing and Diversity Eugene Brooks. The celebration of cultures is why Phillips is a Braves fan.
"There’s something so different about the Braves, I love it. I love how open and welcoming they are too," she said.
Asians are the newest group of players that teams are scouting from professional leagues like Nippon Baseball of Japan, Korea Baseball Organization as well as Asian American players in the United States.
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KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI – Charter and Spectrum customers may not have access to 911.
Charter Communications has an interruption that may affect 911 service in Kalamazoo County on Aug. 3, the Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority said.
Dispatch said they learned about the outage at 6:06 p.m., Wednesday but the outage happened at 8:12 a.m.
People can call the non-emergency number at 269-488-8911 and press 1 for dispatch. People can also try texting 911, but it’s unclear if it will work for Charter customers, dispatch said.
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GOLDEN, Colo. (KDVR) — The teenage son of a Denver Police detective was sentenced Thursday afternoon to five years in state custody for crimes Jefferson County prosecutors say he committed with his father’s service weapon.
Samuel Rose, 17, pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to five counts related to a pair of housing shootings in May 2022. The counts were possession of a handgun by a juvenile, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, second-degree assault and aggravated juvenile offender.
Rose also pleaded guilty to second-degree assault after staff members at Mountain View Youth Services Center say he attacked a fellow juvenile inmate on Nov. 19.
Rose was originally charged as an adult, but under the plea deal he agreed to, he’s being sentenced as a juvenile.
As a result, he will stay in state juvenile custody until the age of 21. When he turns 21, there will be a hearing to determine if he gets released from state custody on his 21st birthday or if he will be transferred to an adult prison to complete any remaining time on his sentence.
Rose turns 18 next week, on May 25.
Shooting victim: ‘He made some adult decisions’
The sentencing was closed to the media because it involved the discussion of health records for Rose, a minor.
But victim Jessica Edgar was allowed to attend because her townhome was one of the homes shot up by Rose, who investigators think may have been involved in a dispute with her son.
“I was expecting an adult conviction because he made some adult decisions,” Edgar said, but the Littleton mom said, ultimately, she trusted the judge’s sentence — “if that’s what she feels is necessary to get him help and save and keep the community safe.”
Samuel’s father, Asher Rose, is a Denver Police detective who’s been facing an internal affairs investigation since last July, when his son was arrested.
He could face discipline if it’s determined he violated department policy by allowing his son to have access to his service weapons.
Jefferson County prosecutors confirmed to KDVR for the first time on Thursday that the weapon the teen used was his father’s service weapon. | 2023-05-19T03:31:55+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/teen-who-used-dads-police-gun-sentenced-to-5-years-in-shootings/ |
FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — Cleanup is underway after a semitrailer rolled into Fall River, Massachusetts, Tuesday evening, sending dozens of watermelons careening out onto a major highway.
The truck was driving down Interstate 79 south when it rolled, spilling its cargo of watermelons onto the northbound side of the highway.
Fall River District Fire Chief Sean Flannery said the driver was transported to the hospital with injuries that don’t appear to be life-threatening.
Flannery said both sides of I-79 will remain partially closed throughout the night as crews clear the watermelon-logged highway.
Images captured by Nexstar’s WPRI, seen below, show pallets of watermelons spilling out of the damaged trailer and across the lanes on both sides of I-79.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
This is just one of the latest crashes to cause food to cover a highway.
In August, a tractor-trailer wreck sent alfredo sauce pouring across the roadway. Last month, a crash involving multiple semis caused one to lose its load of beer. | 2022-10-12T12:25:54+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/watermelons-cover-highway-after-semi-rolls-in-massachusetts/ |
TROY – Miami County’s Ohio State University Extension Office staff is offering a reality-based financial literacy program for youth to local schools districts.
The Real Money, Real World program also is being promoted for schools across the state by the office of the Ohio Treasurer.
“This is a skill that kids need to have when they graduate,” said Alisha Barton, educator, family and consumer sciences, at the OSU Miami County Extension Office.
Barton discussed the literacy program this summer saying money in its budget from the county will help pay for the program. Real Money, Real World meets financial education now required in the schools by the state, she said.
“This is very hands on. It teaches kids how to write checks, learn about signatures on (bank) accounts, how to keep an account safe,” she said.
“They also go through a simulation of real life where they are making choices about insurance, renting or buying a home, the cost of electronics,” Barton said. “They learn they may have to cut some of the luxuries to meet their necessities.”
The program includes classroom learning, hands on budget management and decision making spending simulation and a post session evaluation of spending choices made during the simulation.
The program goals include:
- To increase awareness of how educational level and corresponding career choice influence personal income and financial security;
- To increase the students’ knowledge of money management tools used in daily spending for cost of living decisions;
- To increase participants’ awareness of how income and lifestyle choices affect the amount of money available for discretionary spending.
Marcie Longenecker, the state treasurer’s liaison for southwest Ohio, joined Barton in a discussion of the program and what they see as its benefits.
Over time, the state office had provided content for a lot of schools, she said. When they learned more about Real Money, Real World, “We thought, ‘Why not use this?’” she said.
One of the advantages of teaming up, is they might get attention for the program more easily together, Longenecker said. Among the treasurer’s office contributions to the program is providing volunteers to help run the simulations.
OSU Extension also uses the program with teens in juvenile court independent living programs, Barton said.
“We look at needs versus wants and the need to prioritize your needs over your wants,” she said. “Kids need information to make decisions for what is best for them. It starts with their goals.”
For more information on Real Money, Real World, contact Barton at barton.345@osu.edu
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About the Author | 2022-08-28T17:26:26+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/financial-literacy-program-a-win-for-kids/R2H6JR4AOJBLHKXNVST3SEG2G4/ |
The Chicago Bears have a new offensive tackle after selecting Tennessee’s Darnell Wright with the No. 10 pick in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night in Kansas City, Mo.
Before the Bears took Wright, general manager Ryan Poles traded back one spot with the Philadelphia Eagles, who selected Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter at No. 9. The Bears gained a 2024 fourth-round pick in the trade.
The Bears needed an offensive tackle to play opposite Braxton Jones, who started every game at left tackle in his rookie season in 2022. Quarterback Justin Fields was sacked 55 times last season, and part of building a roster that will help Fields elevate his game is shoring up the protection for him.
In the 6-foot-5, 333-pound Wright, they have a player who has prototypical size and an aggressive style. He started 42 games over four seasons at Tennessee and was a first-team All-SEC selection in 2022. Some draft analysts believe he is a plug-and-play starter at right tackle.
NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger called Wright “a mauler.””Watch him against the elite players in college football and watch him eliminate them and shut them out,” Baldinger said. “Then you just watch how he moves bodies. His power is real. His base is good. Everybody needs to be coached in this business. It’s a different game in the NFL than it is in college. But there’s an awful lot to like about his size, about his movement, about his power, about his mentality, about his experience.”
The Bears picked Wright over other highly rated offensive tackles — Northwestern’s Peter Skoronski and Georgia’s Broderick Jones. The Arizona Cardinals picked Ohio State’s Paris Johnson Jr. at No. 6.
Fifteen months into rebuilding the Bears roster, Poles entered this draft with multiple major roster needs.
The Bears also need help at edge rusher after totaling a league-low 20 sacks in 2022. And they need a three-technique defensive tackle, a key position in coach Matt Eberflus’ defense.
Carter might have fit that role and was a popular topic of draft speculation surrounding the Bears.
Carter was ranked by many as one of the top defensive prospects in this draft, but character concerns caused him to drop. Last month, Carter pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of reckless driving and racing in a car crash that killed a Georgia teammate and staffer. Carter was not driving the car that crashed.
At his pro day, Carter also had gained weight and struggled to make it through his drills, calling into question his preparedness.
Poles made clear last month that the Bears would do their due diligence to make sure they were comfortable with Carter. He also said he would talk with Chairman George McCaskey and President Kevin Warren about making such a pick. The Bears met with Carter at the NFL combine, went to his pro day and then hosted him at Halas Hall for a visit.
Now the Bears will look to fill out their defensive holes Friday and Saturday.
The Bears have three Day 2 picks —Nos. 53 and 61 in the second round and No. 64 in the third round, but there is a 43-pick gap between their pick Thursday night and their first second-round pick. Bears assistant GM Ian Cunningham said Tuesday that the team would regroup after the first round to discuss whether they wanted to move up in the second round to go after a higher-rated crop of players.
The Bears started down the road to this draft on Jan. 8, 2023, when they lost their franchise-record 14th game of the season to the Minnesota Vikings. When the Houston Texans beat the Indianapolis Colts in their season finale the same afternoon, that gave the Bears the No. 1 draft pick.
Poles spent more than two months determining what to do with that pick. One of the first steps was determining if Fields would remain the Bears starting quarterback, meaning Poles would not select one of a quartet of highly ranked prospects — Alabama’s Bryce Young, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, Kentucky’s Will Levis and Florida’s Anthony Richardson.
Instead, Poles turned his attention to fielding trade offers from other general managers and ultimately landed a deal with the Carolina Panthers that gave the Bears the Nos. 9 and 61 picks this year, a 2024 first-rounder, a 2025 second-rounder and wide receiver DJ Moore.
The Panthers used the No. 1 pick to take Young, one of three quarterbacks taken before the Bears picked at No 10.
Young, the Heisman Trophy winner in 2021, threw for 8,200 yards and 79 touchdowns with 12 interceptions over the last two seasons for Alabama. The biggest question with Young, who has elite-level processing skills and great instincts and poise, is whether his size — 5-foot-10 and 204 pounds — will affect his ability to have success and hold up at the NFL level.
The Texans took Stroud at No. 2 and then traded up with the Arizona Cardinals to take Alabama edge rusher Will Anderson Jr. at No. 3. The Colts picked Richardson at No. 4.
Illinois cornerback Devon Witherspoon became the first Illini player selected in the first round since 2012 when the Seattle Seahawks picked him at No. 5. Witherspoon is the first top-five pick from Illinois since Kevin Hardy and Simeon Rice went second and third in 1996. | 2023-04-28T01:54:25+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-chicago-bears-darnell-wright-nfl-draft-20230428-e66jnixxmjd6bjfkpnghagodoe-story.html |
Lando Norris may drive a McLaren Formula 1 race car for a work, but when it comes time to cool off he now has a customized McLaren road car at his disposal.
The car in question is a McLaren 765LT Spider, which made its debut in mid-2021 and is limited to 765 examples worldwide.
Norris, who has driven for McLaren since the 2019 season and is currently 10th in the 2023 Drivers’ Championship, commissioned his 765LT Spider 18 months ago and recently took time out from his busy schedule to visit the factory of the McLaren Automotive road car division and personally take delivery of his build.
Norris helped design the look of the car together with McLaren’s MSO personalization department. In a video posted on Monday to McLaren Automotive’s YouTube channel, Norris is shown as he visits the factory and sees the car for the first time.
His specification features blue-tinted carbon fiber for the exterior in combination with yellow accents that match the yellow color used on his racing helmets throughout his career. Some of the yellow accents form a logo comprised of four dashes, a nod to Norris’ racing number.
While not as fast as his F1 race car, the 765LT Spider still dishes out plenty of speed. The car is the more extreme version of the 720S Spider, with its turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 rated at 755 hp, or 45 hp more than the standard car. Performance claims include a 0-60 mph time of 2.7 seconds and a top speed of 205 mph.
The LT in the name, while originally signalling the Long Tail version of McLaren’s F1 GTR race car, is now used for hardcore versions of McLaren’s road cars. In the case of the 765LT, the car’s extra length over the 720S actually comes from an extended front splitter as opposed to a stretched rear. The splitter adds 57 mm to the overall length. McLaren also increased the track width at the front by 6 mm and lowered the front ride height by 5 mm.
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A woman who says she was hit by a microphone rapper Cardi B hurled into the crowd at a Las Vegas concert has filed a police report for battery, authorities say.
The singer was performing "Bodak Yellow" at Drai's Beachclub on Saturday before a raucous crowd when a fan threw a large drink on stage, videos circulating on social media show.
Cardi B appeared shocked for a moment then threw her microphone toward the fan. The microphone appeared to hit the fan and another woman and ricocheted into the air.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said a woman, who was not named, reported a battery case to police one day after the concert.
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Read the full story at NBCNews.com. | 2023-07-31T22:33:59+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/fan-files-police-report-after-cardi-b-hurled-microphone-into-crowd-during-las-vegas-show/3082202/ |
OTTAWA (AP) — Canada’s chief public health officer is warning of a possible COVID-19 resurgence in the fall and winter.
Theresa Tam said Thursday the circulating omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are even more transmissible and able to evade immunity than previous versions, making a rise in cases likely in coming weeks.
Tam and federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos stressed the importance of up-to-date vaccination status, noting 40% of Canadians still have not received a booster following their primary two shots, putting Canada behind other G7 countries when it comes to three doses.
“As cases go up… in some areas of Canada, getting that booster, if you haven’t had it, now would be quite important, in particular going into the fall,″ Tam said.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization has advised jurisdictions to prepare to offer another round of shots to people at increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness, regardless of the number of booster doses they’ve already received.
Tam said new vaccines tailored to omicron are in development but have not yet been evaluated by Canada’s drug regulator. She said officials are still waiting for data on what new protection the so-called bivalent vaccines could offer.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2022-07-01T00:52:57+00:00 | wtmj.com | https://wtmj.com/national/2022/06/30/canada-official-warns-of-possible-covid-resurgence-ahead/ |
The City of Yuma’s annual Neighborhood Cleanup begins Monday, Jan. 30, providing curbside removal of large, unwanted items.
Conducted in addition to normal solid waste pickups, Public Works crews will make weekly rounds through city neighborhoods and collect bulky items such as broken furniture, appliances, tree trimmings and bagged lawn clippings.
The annual program runs late January through March. Each of the 10 areas designated for pickups has one week for the curbside collection of these ordinary household bulk items. For residents’ convenience, descriptions and maps of these 10 areas are available on the city’s website at www.yumaaz.gov/neighborhoodcleanup.
First up is the area from Colorado Street to West Main Canal and Avenue A to the west city limits.
If your area’s designated week passes and pickup has not taken place, please leave your materials at the curb.
The Neighborhood Cleanup program is for residents inside the Yuma city limits only. There is no additional fee.
Material that qualifies as household hazardous waste, such as old chemicals, paints, pesticides, fertilizers, batteries and electronic waste, should be delivered to Household Hazardous Waste drop-off events, which take place on the second Friday of each month and are managed by appointment. Call 928-373-4504 to schedule an appointment.
Examples of items that will be accepted: Old furniture, mattresses, carpets, and appliances; lawn clippings that are bagged; tree limbs that are no longer than 4 feet in length, tied and bundled and weigh no more than 50 pounds; five tires without rims per residential location (no commercial or farm tires).
Examples of items that will not be accepted: Roofing and construction material; tree stumps; concrete or dirt; household hazardous waste such as motor oil, pesticides, and other chemicals; tires with rims; abandoned or commercial vehicles or farm equipment; materials from commercial enterprises.
Please follow these rules:
• Place all items at the curb for collection at the beginning of your neighborhood’s designated week.
• Please do not block or place items near trash containers and water meters.
• Loose items must be bagged, boxed or tied and easily handled by two people (not to exceed 50 pounds).
• Place appliances, tires, bound limbs and miscellaneous items into separate piles for easier handling. Each of these piles will be handled by a separate crew.
• Do not place items in alleys; the only exception is for homes facing Avenue A.
• Be sure to keep any items that you do not want removed well away from the curbs and rights of way surrounding your home. | 2023-01-23T19:58:47+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/news/city-s-annual-neighborhood-cleanup-starts-jan-30/article_69b5b7a8-96af-11ed-906a-9ff54af3be1f.html |
Federal appeals judges appeared skeptical Tuesday that former President Trump should have been awarded a third-party special master to review the documents stored in his Florida home as the Justice Department works to nullify the appointment.
Lawyers for the DOJ and Trump appeared before a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, the latest battleground as the Justice Department seeks to expedite its access to more than 22,000 pages of government documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
The arguments did not seem to bode well for the Trump team, with one of the judges asking amid the arguments, “What are we doing here?”
On the bench were two Trump appointees — Judge Britt Grant and Judge Andrew Brasher — who previously sided with the Justice Department, granting its request to siphon off the classified materials from the special master review and allowing them to be turned over to investigators.
But the Justice Department hopes to more quickly gain access to the remaining documents in order to inform its investigation, potentially speeding ahead of likely ongoing legal challenges to the review by Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master.
Trump attorney James Trusty was almost immediately interrupted by Grant after he referred to the search of Trump’s home as a raid, apologizing for using “a loaded term” after the judge inquired whether deeming it the execution of a search warrant would be more accurate.
And at another point, Chief Judge William Pryor, a George W. Bush appointee, questioned why Trump should be entitled to a special review of the contents collected during the search at his home when few other criminal defendants — let alone those who have yet to be charged — are afforded a similar process.
“Other than the fact that this involves the former president, everything else about this is indistinguishable from any pre-indictment search warrant,” Pryor said.
“And we’ve got to be concerned about the precedent that we would create that would allow any targets of a federal criminal investigation to go into a district court and to have a district court entertain this kind of petition … and interfere with the executive branch’s ongoing investigation.”
Trusty struggled to answer the judge’s questions about prior case law, noting the novel nature of the search of the home of a former president.
“It’s not special treatment. It’s just basic facts of where we are. This is a situation where a political rival has been subjected to a search warrant [where] thousands of personal materials have been taken,” he said.
But at another point, Pryor seemed irritated that Trusty had not demonstrated the ability to meet one of the key tests when seeking the return of seized property — that the government showed a callous disregard for a plaintiff’s constitutional rights.
“The entire premise of the exercise of this extraordinary kind of jurisdiction would be that the seizure itself is unlawful,” he said.
“And if you can’t establish that, then what are we doing here?”
The Justice Department on Tuesday pushed back against the use of a special master,
“What he wants is not really the documents back. As I said, he already has them back,” Sopan Joshi argued on behalf of the government.
“What he wants is to prevent the government from using the documents, and I’m not sure that that would ever be a valid justification,” he added, noting such a move would usually come through a motion to suppress evidence at a later stage.
Joshi also argued that Trump’s attorneys had laid out a dizzying list of supposed privileges to justify scheduling the records from prosecutors.
Trump’s attorneys, Joshi said, initially raised attorney-client privilege issues only to later bring up executive privilege issues, then claimed some of the documents may have been declassified, then moving to claim some of the presidential records could be his personal property.
“This just sort of emphasizes how anomalous and extraordinary what the district court did here was,” he said.
The hearing was the latest development in the Mar-a-Lago case since Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of a special counsel, Jack Smith, to take over both the documents investigation and the DOJ investigation into the events of the Capitol riot.
In court, Trump’s lawyers also argued their position was weakened as they have yet to gain access to an un-redacted copy of the warrant used to gain access to Trump’s property.
Trump’s team filed a motion to Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon — who first appointed the special master — to force DOJ to release the warrant, but it’s unclear if such a motion should be directed to Judge Bruce Reinhart, who first approved the document.
Dearie, the special master, is set to hold a status conference with the two sides next week, where Trusty said they will review some 930 remaining documents.
“The big swaths of that will be decided with a legal ruling rather than kind of a one-by-one look at the document,” he said.
—Updated at 5:03 p.m. | 2022-11-23T00:25:00+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/hill-politics/judges-appear-skeptical-of-trump-special-master-appointment/ |
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CHIPPEWA VALLEY (WQOW) - It's officially kitten season.
Animal shelters across the Chippewa Valley will soon be seeing an increase in kitten intakes. This is because spring is mating season for cats.
Stray cats play a large role because they are often not spayed or neutered. As a result, humane societies are left with dozens of kittens who need homes.
"Like clockwork yes, every single year. All shelters get overwhelmed, all rescues get overwhelmed, so people who have outdoor cats please make sure they are spayed and neutered," Dunn County Humane Society Kennel Manager Jamie Wagner said.
Cats can begin to reproduce at the age of four months. To avoid a constant cycle of kittens, Wagner says it's important to spay and neuter your felines. The Dunn County Humane Society expects to adopt out several kittens in the coming weeks. | 2023-04-19T02:49:22+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/news/the-cats-out-of-the-bag-its-kitten-season-in-the-chippewa-valley/article_151a6526-de3b-11ed-b9ae-d77e4aed6f6e.html |
BOSTON (AP) — Pablo Reyes doubled twice for a career-high four RBIs to help the Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 12-3 on Wednesday night.
Justin Turner had a two-run homer, Rafael Devers and Kiké Hernández also each drove in two runs and right-hander Brayan Bello (3-1) won on his 24th birthday, allowing one run on three hits in five innings with five walks and seven strikeouts.
Left-hander Marco Gonzalez (3-1) took the loss, lasting just 1 2/3 innings, He gave up eight runs on eight hits and two walks.
The Red Sox took a 9-0 lead after two innings, sending eight batters to the plate in the first inning and 10 in the second.
In the first, consecutive one-out singles by Turner, Rob Refsnyder and Devers scored a run, with Reyes' two-out double adding two more.
In the second, Turner's two-run homer, his fifth homer of the season, scored Alex Verdugo to start the scoring. Refsnyder walked before consecutive two-out singles by Masataka Yoshida and Hernández and another two-run double from Reyes with Jarren Duran's single scoring Reyes.
Boston added three in the fifth when Turner and Refsnyder singled, with Devers' double scoring Turner. Yoshida's groundout and Hernández's sacrifice fly completed the scoring.
The Mariners scored a run in the fourth when Cal Raleigh led off with Seattle's first hit of the game, a ground-rule double, and scored on Jose Caballero's two-out single. They added two more in the sixth when Caballero and pinch-hitter Sam Haggerty worked back-to-back one-out walks off right-hander Joely Rodriguez.
Ty France's single loaded the bases, extending his hitting streak to a career-best 14 games. Julio Rodriquez hit into a fielder's choice with a throwing error by second baseman Reyes combining to allow Caballero and Haggerty to score.
Seattle's J.P. Crawford extended his on-base streak to 14 games when he was hit by a pitch in the third inning.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Red Sox: RF Alex Verdugo left the game after the second inning as a precaution because of left groin tightness. ... RHP Garrett Whitlock, on the injured list since April 25 with right elbow ulnar neuritis, is scheduled to make another rehab start for Triple-A Worcester on Sunday. ... RHP Kutter Crawford, on the IL since May 4 with a left hamstring strain, is expected to join the team and be activated on its nine-game road trip West Coast trip, which starts Friday.
UP NEXT
Both teams are off Thursday. On Friday, Seattle RHP Bryce Miller (2-0, 0.47 ERA) is scheduled to face the Braves in Atlanta, while Boston LHP James Paxton (0-0, 3.60) is scheduled to start against the Padres in San Diego.
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-05-18T02:44:59+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/reyes-helps-power-red-sox-to-12-3-win-over-18105693.php |
FAIRFIELD, Maine — As the state pursues cleaner sources of energy, Gov. Janet Mills is announcing a new challenge: install 175,000 heat pumps in Maine by 2027.
The governor unveiled this effort on Friday with students at Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield.
“Over the last two years especially, Maine people and businesses have been impacted by high and volatile energy costs, which are a direct consequence of our state being so reliant on global energy markets and big oil,” Mills said.
Heat pumps are a more energy-efficient alternative to heating oil, which six in 10 Mainers use to heat their homes in wintertime. But the high costs of heat pump units are out of reach for many low-income families in the state.
Hannah Pingree, who leads the governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, says she is working to expand access.
“We’re doubling down to make sure that moderate and low-income people can afford them [heat pumps]. And, I will say, every day we hear from towns, schools, and small businesses who want to know how they can install heat pumps,” Pingree said.
If the state can reach the goal of 175,000 new pumps, the total number of pumps in the state will rise to 320,000.
But a big hurdle in accomplishing this is communication. Joseph Dube is a maintenance worker at Kennebec Valley Community College. While he took advantage of a rebate offered by Efficiency Maine to install a heat pump water heater, he says not many of the people he knows have one.
“I’m not hearing as much as I think I would hear. It should be publicized more, I think. It’s a great program and I think most people in Maine should take advantage of it,” Dube said.
More NEWS CENTER Maine stories | 2023-07-23T15:18:10+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/money/gov-mills-launches-drive-to-add-175000-heat-pumps-in-maine-energy/97-5557fca9-ca5e-4005-bbe7-ef3845e9eb93 |
BERLIN (AP) — Authorities in Norway have euthanized a walrus that had drawn crowds of spectators in the Oslo Fjord after concluding that it posed a risk to humans.
The 600-kilogram (1,320-pound) female walrus, known affectionately as Freya, became a popular attraction in Norway in recent weeks, despite warnings from officials that people should refrain from getting close and posing for pictures with the massive marine mammal. Freya liked to clamber on small boats, causing damage to them.
Walruses are protected and as recently as last month officials said they hoped Freya would leave of her own accord and that euthanasia would be a last resort.
Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries said Freya was put down early Sunday “based on an overall assessment of the continued threat to human safety.”
“Through on-site observations the past week, it was made clear that the public has disregarded the current recommendation to keep a clear distance to the walrus,” it said. “Therefore, the Directorate has concluded, the possibility for potential harm to people was high and animal welfare was not being maintained.”
The head of the directorate, Frank Bakke-Jensen, said other options — including moving the animal elsewhere — were considered. But authorities concluded it wasn’t a viable option.
“We have sympathies for the fact that the decision can cause a reaction from the public, but I am firm that this was the right call,” Bakke-Jensen said. “We have great regard for animal welfare, but human life and safety must take precedence.”
Atlantic walruses normally live in the Arctic. It is unusual but not unheard of for them to travel into the North and Baltic Seas. Another walrus, nicknamed Wally, was seen last year on beaches and even a lifeboat dock in Wales and elsewhere. | 2022-08-15T01:42:15+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/norway-puts-down-freya-the-walrus-that-drew-oslo-crowds/ |
Location opens on July 6; grand opening celebration scheduled for July 9
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF) ("Trulieve" or "the Company"), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, today announced the opening of its Trulieve medical dispensary in Hurricane, West Virginia. Located at 2 Putnam Village Dr. Suite 2-3, the new dispensary will open its doors at 10am on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. This is the Company's sixth retail location in West Virginia and will be open seven days a week from 10am to 6pm.
Grand opening festivities will be held on Saturday, July 9 throughout the day to include partner giveaways, deals and specials, and all registered patients will receive a 25% discount. On-site medical care specialists will be available to assist with medical card registration and certification for West Virginia patients.
"We are excited to expand medical cannabis to Hurricane while creating jobs in the area," said Trulieve Chief Executive Officer Kim Rivers. "In less than a year, West Virginia's medical cannabis program has already added nearly 10,000 patients, and we look forward to supporting this thriving community. Trulieve is committed to providing the best quality services and products for the state's registered medical cannabis patients while strengthening community connections in this developing market."
Trulieve patients across West Virginia can choose from a large selection of THC and CBD products available in a variety of consumption methods, including flower, concentrates, tinctures, topicals, ingestibles, and more. Designed to meet every patient's needs, our portfolio of in-house brands includes Cultivar Collection, Momenta, Muse, TruFlower and more.
Last November, Trulieve opened West Virginia's first dispensary and has since expanded its store hours to welcome patients seven days a week. The Company has already opened four new dispensaries in the state this year, with plans to open three additional dispensary locations by the end of the year in Milton, Huntington and Belle.
For more information on store locations, please visit https://www.trulieve.com/dispensaries/west-virginia.
Trulieve is an industry leading, vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S. operating in 11 states, with leading market positions in Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Trulieve is poised for accelerated growth and expansion, building scale in retail and distribution in new and existing markets through its hub strategy. By providing innovative, high-quality products across its brand portfolio, Trulieve delivers optimal customer experiences and increases access to cannabis, helping patients and customers to live without limits. Trulieve is listed on the CSE under the symbol TRUL and trades on the OTCQX market under the symbol TCNNF. For more information, please visit Trulieve.com.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan authorities on Saturday imposed a travel lockdown on two Ebola-hit districts as part of efforts to stop the spread of the contagious disease.
The measures announced by President Yoweri Museveni mean residents of the central Ugandan districts of Mubende and Kassanda can’t travel into or out of those areas by private or public means. Cargo vehicles and others transiting from Kampala, the capital, to southwestern Uganda are still allowed to operate, he said.
All entertainment places, including bars, as well as places of worship are ordered closed, and all burials in those districts must be supervised by health officials, he said. A nighttime curfew also has been imposed. The restrictions will last at least 21 days.
“These are temporary measures to control the spread of Ebola,” Museveni said.
Ebola has infected 58 people in the East African country since Sept. 20, when authorities declared an outbreak. At least 19 people have died, including four health workers. Ugandan authorities were not quick in detecting the outbreak, which began infecting people in a farming community in August as the “strange illness” described by local authorities.
The new measures come amid concern that some patients in the Ebola hot spots could surreptitiously try to seek treatment elsewhere — as did one man who fled Mubende and died at a hospital in Kampala earlier this month, rattling health officials.
Ugandan authorities have documented more than 1,100 contacts of known Ebola patients, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is no proven vaccine, is circulating in the country of 45 million people.
Ebola, which manifests as a viral hemorrhagic fever, can be difficult to detect at first because fever is also a symptom of malaria.
Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and at times internal and external bleeding.
Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks in South Sudan and Congo, where it occurred in a village near the Ebola River after which the disease is named. | 2022-10-16T17:46:21+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/healthbeat/ap-health/ap-uganda-locks-down-2-districts-in-bid-to-stem-spread-of-ebola/ |
WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – The Waco Fire Department and members of the community pushed in a new fire truck Wednesday.
The push-in ceremony is a tradition that dates back to the late 1800s, and its something Chief Gregory Summers says he wants to continue doing with the community.
This is the last new truck of seven after the city invested about $5 million. Chief Summers says he’s thankful for that support.
In the 1800’s, fire departments used hand-drawn pumpers and horse-drawn equipment. After a fire call, the horses could not quickly back the equipment into the station after returning. So, they were disconnected from the fire equipment, and firefighters would push the equipment back into the bays themselves. This practice has continued as a way to dedicate new apparatus when placed in service.
Summers says he loves the community aspect of the push in ceremony.
“We want the community to know that our fire station is definitely an extension to the community,” Summers said. “So we reside in these facilities for them to provide them safety. So we want them to know it’s an open door.”
Today’s new truck is an aerial ladder engine. It is a 105 foot aerial ladder truck that replaces a 75 foot long ladder, gaining 30 feet of additional reach.
The new ladder truck is equipped with improved emergency warning lights and sirens, 400 gallons of water, a pump, 85 feet of ground ladders, and a full complement of hoses to support firefighting.
Chief Summers says you primarily have the firefighters pushing the fire trucks, but having the kids do it here in Waco makes the day extremely special. | 2022-08-11T00:32:21+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/mclennan-county/waco-fire-department-pushes-in-new-truck/ |
Kraken coach Dave Hakstol certainly enjoyed a swing in his team’s and his own fortunes this past season and on Wednesday was rewarded for it with a two-year contract extension.
Once anticipated to be on a coaching hot seat after a 60-point debut campaign, Hakstol saw his Kraken engineer a 40-point turnaround and make the playoffs in 2022-23 — eliminating Colorado and taking Dallas to seven games before bowing out in the second round. His efforts earned Hakstol a finalist nod for the Jack Adams Award handed out annually for the NHL’s coach of the year, and now they’ve seen his contract extended through the 2025-26 season.
“We believe we are heading in the right direction with Dave as our head coach and it was important to show that confidence with this contract extension,” Kraken general manager Ron Francis said in a news release. “Dave and his staff have done a great job of creating a close-knit, team-first mindset in our locker room and their work ethic helps set the tone for our team. Dave helped guide this team to a 40-point improvement and was a Jack Adams finalist for coach of the year. That recognition is well deserved.”
Hakstol’s hiring two years ago came as somewhat of a surprise given his name hadn’t been among a slew of highly-regarded veteran coaches being bandied about as the franchise’s first bench boss. But Francis had met him while they were working with Team Canada at the 2019 IIHF World Hockey Championships in Slovakia and came away tremendously impressed by Hakstol’s work ethic.
The extension comes as the Kraken enter a period of heightened expectations coming off their 100-point campaign and playoff run.
“We are building something special here in Seattle. We have a committed staff, a great group of players and an incredible fanbase,” Hakstol said in Wednesday’s news release. “We took a lot of positive steps last season and we have much more to achieve. I’d like to thank Ron Francis, Tod Leiweke, as well as Samantha Holloway and the Kraken ownership group, for their continued faith in me.”
Kraken co-owner Holloway has spent ample time getting to know Hakstol and his thought processes since assuming a more active role in team operations in place of her father, billionaire co-owner David Bonderman, in January 2022.
“It has been a pleasure getting to know Dave over the last two years,” added Samantha Holloway, Co-owner Seattle Kraken. “His achievements last year were remarkable, and his leadership skills and work ethic are admirable. I look forward to continued collaboration.”
This story will be updated. | 2023-07-19T18:13:27+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/kraken/kraken-coach-dave-hakstol-receives-contract-extension/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pre-orders for the much-anticipated autobiographical release telling the story of widely regarded entrepreneur Mignon François, founder and CEO of The Cupcake Collection (TCC), are now available at rhboyd.com/madefromscratch.
Set for release on May 9, Made from Scratch: Finding Success Without a Recipe is the story of a woman moving beyond her obstacles to find success with no presets, mapping a journey that led to the joy that has become synonymous with Mignon François.
François is a speaker, entrepreneur, and community leader who has inspired thousands through her "Follow Your Spirit" approach to life. In Made from Scratch, François shares her story of climbing out of a life of upsets, setbacks, struggle, and lack to building a brand and legacy to bless her and future generations.
"All you have is all you need," is the life lesson baking icon François learned as she turned the five dollars she had to feed her family dinner for the week into a multi-million-dollar bakery brand with over 5 million cupcakes sold since 2008 when the TCC was founded.
François and the phenomenal story of TCC have been featured on NBC's TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, as well as in such publications as Southern Living, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider to name a few. Her success has garnered numerous awards, including Women of Legend and Merit, Entrepreneur of the Year, Women's Empowerment Innovator, NAACP Powershift Entrepreneur, and Black Enterprise magazine's Family Business of the Year.
When François decided it was time to tell her story, she thought R.H. Boyd was a natural fit. François saw the partnership with the 127-year-old company as an opportunity to help fulfill her personal mission of legacy building.
Since its founding in 1896, R.H. Boyd has taken seriously the charge to print, publish, and distribute resources with a targeted focus on African-American communities.
"Our company's legacy is to serve as a voice for the unheard. These kinds of partnerships further empower our community to take control of their narrative and to tell their story," says Dr. LaDonna Boyd, fifth-generation R.H. Boyd president/CEO. "We need storytellers now more than ever who won't allow others to speak for them."
To learn more about the book, R.H. Boyd, and stay updated on news and events, visit rhboyd.com and follow on social media @rhboydco. For bulk orders and bookstore inquiries, contact bookstore@rhboyd.com. For press inquiries, contact marketing@rhboyd.com.
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Friends and family remember toddler killed in Shaler fire
A makeshift memorial now stands outside of the home where Danika Deramo, 2, died in fire over the weekend.
A makeshift memorial now stands outside of the home where Danika Deramo, 2, died in fire over the weekend.
A makeshift memorial now stands outside of the home where Danika Deramo, 2, died in fire over the weekend.
A makeshift memorial now stands outside of the home where Danika Deramo, 2, died in a fire over the weekend. Many have left signs of support for the family outside of the driveway, the display includes teddy bears, balloons and flowers.
"She was just the sweetest little girl," said family friend Heather Cesar. "She was happy and joyful, she never cried. She just always had a big smile on her face."
On Friday night, fire tore through the family home of Danika Deramo just before 10 pm. The toddler was taken to the hospital but died from her injury.
According to Shaler Township Police, four other family members were taken to the hospital, including Danika's grandmother, Michelle DeRamo. Investigators say the grandmother tried to go back in to get Danika. She is still recovering in the hospital and is expected to be there for quite some time.
"When I seen what was going on there, I just couldn't even imagine," said Cesar. "I just couldn't believe my eyes. These people lost everything."
Cesar's feelings and reaction are similar to what many in this community are feeling. About a half a dozen people stopped our crew as they were working on this story, many sharing the same sentiments of shock and heartbreak for the DeRamo family.
A GoFundMe has been set up by the family. We spoke with family members Monday afternoon who were appreciative of the community's support. A family member shared with Pittsburgh's Action News 4 that right now, they are most in need of clothing and shoes for the other family members that were displaced in the fire.
In the meantime, Cesar said she and her family are taking donations of old clothing and shoes and other personal necessities for the DeRamo family. Cesar says she has already had a number of people reach out via Facebook and ask how they can help.
Shaler Township Police Chief Sean Frank said Sunday that investigators believe the fire started in the basement of the home. The investigation is ongoing. | 2023-01-16T23:14:23+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/shaler-fire-toddler-killed-memorial/42525904 |
Tulsa County is under a winter storm watch for Tuesday afternoon and evening.
With a winter storm moving through and temperatures expected to drop through the day, the risk for accumulating snowfall increases as the day progresses.
By 9 to 10 a.m. Tulsa will see a cold rain, which means the morning commute should be fine. However, by the early afternoon hours the temperatures will begin to drop enough that we will see the precipitation transition from rain to snow.
Tulsa may see anywhere from 2 to 5 inches of snowfall throughout the evening and into the early morning hours of Wednesday. This may make for a hazardous evening commute, so motorists should stay aware of the weather as the day progresses.
Higher snowfall totals are expected south of Interstate 40 and into northwestern Arkansas. | 2023-01-24T05:45:33+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/weather/tulsa-expecting-accumulating-snowfall-on-tuesday-evening/article_ddde145a-9b63-11ed-85a2-97e5f6c30963.html |
Gordon Ramsay’s “MasterChef” is back for its 13th season and will premiere on Wednesday, May 24 on FOX at 8/7c.
This season, officially named “MasterChef: United Tastes of America,” will include the top home cooks from four parts of America (West, Northeast, Midwest and South) battling it out for their region. The season is set to premiere at 8 p.m. EST on FOX. Viewers looking to stream the new season can do so by using FuboTV or DirecTV. Both streaming services offer free trials for new users.
According to FX’s description of the show, “MasterChef: United Tastes of America” sees Gordon Ramsay, acclaimed chef Aarón Sánchez and renowned restaurateur Joe Bastianich returning for the ultimate cook-off, as the top home cooks from four parts of America (West, Northeast, Midwest and South) battle it out for their region. The home cooks will face a multitude of cooking trials, including a State Fair challenge, a series of iconic Mystery Box challenges, cooking a meal at Dodger Stadium, and the fan-favorite Tag Team event, where they must create a Michelin-star quality three-course meal. Only one home cook will win it all and take home the cash prize of $250,000 and the title of America’s MasterChef.
In the first episode of the new season, Daphne Oz guest judges, chefs from the Northeast prepare their signature dishes and five home cooks receive a coveted white apron and move on in hopes of becoming the next MasterChef. Here is a look at the new season:
How can I watch season 13 of “MasterChef” without cable?
The season is set to premiere at 8 p.m. EST on FOX. Viewers looking to stream the new season can do so by using FuboTV or DirecTV. Both streaming services offer free trials for new users.
What is FuboTV?
FuboTV is an over-the-top internet live TV streaming service that offers more than 100 channels, such as sports, news, entertainment and local channels.
What is DirecTV?
The streaming platform offers a plethora of content including streaming the best of live and On Demand, starting with more than 75 live TV channels. DirecTV also offers a free trial for any package you sign up. | 2023-05-24T22:35:53+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/tv/2023/05/master-chef-season-13-premiere-how-to-watch-for-free-on-fox.html |
AKRON, Ohio — The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force "Fugitive of the Week” is 28-year-old Chris Johnson.
Johnson is wanted for his alleged role in the 2017 death of Brandon Belleville, according to Akron Police.
Three others have already been convicted for their roles in Belleville's death.
Johnson is 5-feet-6-inches tall and weighs 180 pounds.
Marshals said he was last known to be living in Akron.
Anyone with information on his location is asked to call marshals at 1-866-492-6833. A reward is being offered in this case. | 2022-07-10T17:42:24+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/fugitive-of-the-week-chris-johnson-wanted-for-alleged-role-in-2017-akron-murder |
NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") (Nasdaq: GBDC, www.golubcapitalbdc.com), a business development company, today announced that it originated $176.7 million in new middle-market investment commitments during the three months ended September 30, 2022. Approximately 91% of the new middle-market investment commitments were one stop loans, 7% were senior secured loans and 2% were equity and other securities. Of the new middle-market investment commitments, $139.4 million funded at close.
Total investments at fair value are estimated to have decreased by approximately 3.0%, or $167.2 million, during the three months ended September 30, 2022 after factoring in debt repayments, sales of securities, net fundings on revolvers and net change in unrealized gains (losses).
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, INC.
Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") is an externally-managed, non-diversified closed-end management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. GBDC invests primarily in one stop and other senior secured loans to middle market companies that are often sponsored by private equity investors. GBDC's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, GC Advisors LLC, an affiliate of the Golub Capital LLC group of companies ("Golub Capital").
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced credit asset manager. The firm specializes in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. Golub Capital's sponsor finance expertise also forms the foundation of its Late Stage Lending, Broadly Syndicated Loan and Credit Opportunities investment programs. Golub Capital nurtures long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from private equity sponsors and investors.
As of July 1, 2022, Golub Capital had over 675 employees and over $55 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has lending offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and London. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.
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Congress to try again to pass legislation to combat college sexual assaults
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act was introduced in both the House and Senate earlier this month.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Lawmakers in Congress want to combat sexual assaults on college campuses.
Sexual assault is one of the most prevalent crimes on a college campus with college women being twice as likely to be sexually assaulted than robbed. That’s according to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network).
The anti-sexual violence organization found 13% of all students on campuses across the nation experience rape or sexual assault.
That’s despite 89% of colleges and universities reporting zero incidents according to the American Association of University Women.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has reintroduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act to combat sexual assault on college campuses.
Grassley introduced the original legislation in 2014. He shared what he believes the hold up is in Congress in getting the bill passed.
“I think there is a feeling among some people that if there’s transparency and due process for the person that’s accused that somehow it restricts other students from coming forth,” said Grassley.
Provisions in the bill include more transparency and reporting initiatives, along with establishing more resources and services for survivors.
“It also includes efforts for victims of sexual abuse,” said Grassley. “There’s a great deal of trauma in those instances and it’s to help them through that trauma.”
The legislation’s co-sponsor is New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who says in a statement, “this legislation would not only professionalize the response to and reporting of sexual assault, but also protect survivors and help give them the support they need.”
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act was also introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives where it’s been referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor for consideration.
Copyright 2022 Gray DC. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-26T20:06:37+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2022/10/26/congress-try-again-pass-legislation-combat-college-sexual-assaults/ |
Sheriff John Hunt fought back tears while saying goodbye to his longtime friend, William Petry, one of three law enforcement officers killed in an ambush while serving a warrant in eastern Kentucky last week.
The small Appalachian county that Hunt is in charge of protecting is reeling from the deaths of the officers, who walked into a hail of bullets from a gunman holed up in his home Thursday evening. Petry, a veteran officer who joined the Floyd County sheriff’s office after retiring from the state police a few years ago, was honored Tuesday during an emotional funeral service.
“William loved law enforcement. He loved the job. He loved the people,” Hunt said in a eulogy for his longtime friend Tuesday morning. “He is a hero … and I know he will never be forgotten.”
The shooting is likely Kentucky’s deadliest incident for law enforcement in nearly 100 years. Petry and Prestonsburg police Capt. Ralph Frasure, both 60 years old, died at the scene and Prestonsburg Officer Jacob Chaffins, 28, died in a hospital Friday night. A police dog was also fatally shot.
The man arrested for their deaths, 49-year-old Lance Storz, was taken into custody in the small community of Allen after family members helped police secure his surrender Thursday night.
Dozens of uniformed law enforcement officers gathered Tuesday at the funeral at Prestonsburg’s Mountain Arts Center. Petry’s family gave permission for media to livestream the event on local news stations. Frasure, Chaffins and the police dog, Drago, will be laid to rest after funeral services later this week.
Chaffins, who joined the department in 2019, left behind a wife and young daughter. He also served on the Prestonsburg Fire Deparment and was a member of the National Guard. Frasure had been married for more than 40 years and had four grandchildren. He had been an officer with Prestonsburg Police since 1983.
Frasure’s daughter wrote in a Facebook post Friday that her father “was a great man who loved his family like no other.”
“An evil evil man took my daddies life today,” Stacy Frasure McGuire wrote. “I know I should forgive but how do I do that?”
Floyd County Deputy Kevin Thacker said he took a phone call from Petry last week, a typical issue about a towed car, he said. But at the end of the call, as had become ritual, Petry told him he loved him.
“That was his last words to me,” Thacker said at the funeral. “And I’ll never forget that.”
Police went to the house in Allen on Thursday after a family member called to say Storz’s wife was being held in the home against her will and was being abused, Hunt said in a news conference over the weekend. The wife was waiting for them when they arrived, telling the officers Storz was asleep, so she was able to get outside. Four officers, including Petry, returned to serve a protective order against Storz, Hunt said. Storz watched them approach from a window and began shooting, Hunt said.
The officers’ deaths were the most in a single incident since a 1923 prison riot in Eddyville that left three corrections officers dead, Prestonsburg Police Deputy Chief Ross Shurtleff said Sunday. Storz is facing three counts of murder of a police officer and is being held in jail on a $10 million cash bond.
Petry’s death will be a huge loss for the department, Hunt said, because he worked so well with younger, inexperienced officers who revered his experience and calm.
The young officers “respected him like nobody I’ve ever seen in such a short time,” Hunt said.
Four other officers were injured in the shooting, though none wounds were life-threatening, state police said over the weekend. One civilian was also hurt in the shooting, state police said. | 2022-07-06T15:04:34+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/funerals-begin-for-3-kentucky-officers-killed-in-ambush/ |
A Long Term Aspirational Goal (LTAG) for sustainable aviation will be discussed at the ICAO 41st Assembly
Action will be key for aviation's journey towards net zero emissions
LONDON, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attending the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Assembly in Montreal this week, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is calling on all governments to urgently agree an emissions reduction target for global aviation.
ICAO's 41st Assembly will see 193 countries gather for talks on the future of aviation. WTTC is urging all Member States to support the 'Carbon Offsetting & Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA)' and agree on the proposed emissions reduction target called the 'Long Term Aspirational Goal' (LTAG).
Whilst the Travel & Tourism sector recognizes the challenges involved in the transition to sustainable aviation, WTTC believes CORSIA and the LTAG, aligned with Net Zero by 2050 and the Paris Climate Agreement, will be a critical next step for protecting the planet and maintaining global connectivity.
Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO, said: "Governments have a historic opportunity to sign a worldwide agreement on a net zero future for aviation.
"The aviation industry is fully committed to reducing its emissions. We need that same level of ambition by governments. We urge all ICAO Member States to endorse the aviation net zero target and support a sustainable travel industry."
The global tourism body believes ICAO's 41st Assembly will be a crucial step towards a more sustainable sector and can set a global example as the world's only industry that is fully aligned and committed to net zero action across borders.
To support governments and the sector achieve a greener future, WTTC launched the 'Net Zero Roadmap for Travel & Tourism,' an ambitious guide for the sector in its battle against climate change.
The roadmap sets out emissions reductions for each industry within the travel and tourism sector including hotels, airlines, airports, cruise lines and tour operators, providing a clear roadmap on how to decarbonize the sector.
WTTC urges ICAO and its 193 Member States to adopt the WTTC Net Zero Roadmap as a contributor to international aviation's emissions reduction plans.
For further information on WTTC's Net Zero Roadmap, please click here.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) represents the global travel & tourism private sector. Members include 200 CEOs, Chairs and Presidents of the world's leading travel & tourism companies from all geographies covering all industries. For more than 30 years, WTTC has been committed to raising the awareness of governments and the public of the economic and social significance of the travel & tourism sector.
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Dodgers first. Mookie Betts strikes out swinging. Trea Turner flies out to right field to Max Kepler. Freddie Freeman walks. Will Smith doubles to deep right center field. Freddie Freeman scores. Max Muncy grounds out to shallow right field, Jorge Polanco to Jose Miranda.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 1, Twins 0.
Twins second. Jose Miranda called out on strikes. Gio Urshela triples to deep left center field. Gilberto Celestino singles to shallow infield. Gio Urshela scores. Max Kepler reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Gilberto Celestino out at second. Sandy Leon pops out to shallow right field to Freddie Freeman.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Twins 1, Dodgers 1.
Dodgers second. Justin Turner strikes out swinging. Gavin Lux singles to right field. Joey Gallo doubles to right field. Gavin Lux to third. Cody Bellinger doubles to deep right field. Joey Gallo scores. Gavin Lux scores. Mookie Betts flies out to deep left field to Nick Gordon. Trea Turner doubles to center field. Cody Bellinger scores. Freddie Freeman pops out to shallow left field to Gio Urshela.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 4, Twins 1.
Dodgers third. Will Smith pops out to shallow right field to Jorge Polanco. Max Muncy homers to center field. Justin Turner doubles to deep left center field. Gavin Lux flies out to shallow left field to Nick Gordon. Joey Gallo pops out to Gio Urshela.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 5, Twins 1.
Dodgers fourth. Cody Bellinger lines out to left field to Nick Gordon. Mookie Betts singles to center field. Trea Turner grounds out to shallow infield, Joe Ryan to Jose Miranda. Mookie Betts scores. Freddie Freeman flies out to left field to Nick Gordon.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 0 left on. Dodgers 6, Twins 1.
Dodgers seventh. Freddie Freeman singles to shallow right field. Will Smith singles to right field. Freddie Freeman to third. Max Muncy doubles to right field. Will Smith to third. Freddie Freeman scores. Justin Turner grounds out to shortstop, Carlos Correa to Jose Miranda. Will Smith scores. Gavin Lux grounds out to first base, Jose Miranda to Emilio Pagan. Max Muncy to third. Joey Gallo strikes out swinging.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 8, Twins 1.
Twins eighth. Nick Gordon singles to shortstop. Byron Buxton homers to left field. Nick Gordon scores. Carlos Correa pops out to shallow left field to Trea Turner. Jorge Polanco pops out to Will Smith. Jose Miranda grounds out to third base, Max Muncy to Freddie Freeman.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Dodgers 8, Twins 3.
Dodgers eighth. Cody Bellinger pops out to Sandy Leon. Trayce Thompson pinch-hitting for Mookie Betts. Trayce Thompson doubles to left field. Trea Turner doubles to left field. Trayce Thompson scores. Freddie Freeman flies out to center field to Gilberto Celestino. Will Smith singles to right field. Trea Turner scores. Max Muncy called out on strikes.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Dodgers 10, Twins 3. | 2022-08-10T07:02:20+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Minnesota-L-A-Dodgers-Runs-17363509.php |
Around 1 in 20 residents in Arkansas and Tennessee were missed during the 2020 census, and four other U.S. states had significant undercounts of their populations which could short-change them of federal funding in the current decade, according to figures from a survey the U.S. Census Bureau released today.
In Florida, and Texas, undercounts appear to have cost them congressional seats too.
On the flip side, residents in eight states were overcounted during the once-a-decade head count that is used to allocate political power and federal funding. In Minnesota and Rhode Island, overcounts appear to have helped save them from losing congressional seats.
In the remaining 36 states and the District of Columbia, the overcounts and undercounts were not statistically significant. Undercounts signal people were missed. Overcounts suggest they were counted more than once, as for example, children of divorced parents who share custody or people with vacation homes.
The figures released today from the Post-Enumeration Survey serve as a report card on how well residents in the 50 states and District of Columbia were counted during a census that faced unprecedented obstacles from a pandemic, hurricanes and wildfires, social unrest and political interference by the Trump administration.
States that did a better job of getting residents counted scored greater Electoral College and congressional representation, or did not lose expected seats in the House of Representatives. They also are now better positioned for the annual distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal funding in the coming decade.
Nothing can be done at this point to change how many congressional seats are allocated among the states, and neither can the data used for redrawing congressional districts be adjusted.
Today’s release did not break down by demographic traits how good a job the 2020 census did at the state level, but a national report card released in March showed significant undercounts for the Black and Hispanic populations, as well as for those identifying as some other race and American Indians and Native Alaskans living on reservations.
Academics and civil rights leaders are pressing the Census Bureau to tweak yearly population estimates that traditionally have used census numbers as their foundation and incorporate other data sources to produce a more accurate portrait of the undercounted racial and ethnic communities for the numbers that help determine the distribution of federal funding. The Census Bureau has set up a team to explore this.
Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Illinois respectively had undercounts of 5%, 4.8%, 4.1% and 1.9%, while Florida and Texas respectively had undercounts of almost 3.5% and 1.9%.
Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee and Texas did not direct as many resources as other states in encouraging residents to fill out census forms. Mississippi spent around $400,000 and Illinois allocated $29 million toward those efforts. Historically, groups that have undercounts are racial and ethnic minorities, renters and young children.
In a statement, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison said he was interested in getting more details on his state’s undercount, especially since Arkansas grew by more than 95,000 residents over the decade and surpassed 3 million residents for the first time.
Demographer Allison Plyer also observed that Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee have among the highest rates of households without a computer or internet subscription. The 2020 census was the first head count in which most participants were encouraged to fill out the form online.
“Get-out-the-count efforts can make a big difference, even when your community has poor internet access and is less likely to answer the census,” said Plyer, chief demographer of The Data Center in New Orleans.
Florida’s undercount translates into around 750,600 missed residents, and an analysis by Election Data Services shows the Sunshine State needed only around 171,500 more residents to gain an extra seat. The undercount in Texas translates into around 560,000 residents, while the analysis put Texas as needing only 189,000 more residents to gain another congressional seat.
Hispanics make up more than a quarter of Florida’s population and almost 40% of Texas residents, and critics say the Trump administration’s failed efforts to add a citizenship question to the census form may have had a chilling effect on the participation of Hispanics, immigrants and others.
Arturo Vargas, CEO of NALEO Educational Fund, said there was a “desperate need” for information about undercounts and overcounts of racial and ethnic groups at geographies smaller than states, especially in places like Texas where the undercount most likely was in the Hispanic population.
Given the inaccuracies in the count, there is a real risk of an unfair distribution of congressional seats among the states, he said.
“Without knowing below the state level, we aren’t able to understand the extent of that error,” Vargas said.
Minnesota was allocated the 435th and final congressional seat in the House of Representatives; if Minnesota had counted 26 fewer people, that seat would have gone to New York. Minnesota’s 3.8% overcount amounted to around 219,000 residents.
Other states with overcounts were Hawaii, at almost 6.8%; Delaware, at 5.4%; New York, at 3.4%; Utah, at almost 2.6%; Massachusetts, at 2.2%; and Ohio, at almost 1.5%.
Eugene Tian, Hawaii’s chief state economist, said the state’s large number of vacation homes likely contributed to people being counted twice.
“People were counted as Hawaii residents while vacationing in Hawaii or waiting out the pandemic in their vacation homes between April and October 2020, but their usual residences were on the U.S. mainland,” Tian said in an email.
In Rhode Island, the 5% overcount translates into more than 55,000 residents. It would have lost a seat if 19,000 fewer residents had been counted, according to Election Data Services.
John Marion, executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause Rhode Island, said it was difficult to pinpoint exactly why Rhode Island had such a large overcount. There were significant outreach efforts and the state has a large summer home population, but the same applied to other states, he said.
“We’re essentially the lucky beneficiary of a statistical anomaly,” Marion said. “And as a result, we’ll have more representation in Congress for 10 years.” | 2022-05-20T02:53:22+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/19/breaking-news/in-2-states-1-in-20-residents-missed-during-u-s-head-count/ |
Roschon Johnson can't wait to get physical at practice originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago
Rookie minicamp can be a lot of fun. It’s the first real practice we get to watch dating back to the Super Bowl. The entire draft class gets together. Training camp hopefuls like guys brought in on tryouts have two or three days to show what they can do, as they try to earn more time with the team. The sun is shining and the birds are chirping. Hope springs eternal.
But one Bears player is ready to move things along to the middle of summer.
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Roschon Johnson did not hold back when sharing his feelings about running around in shorts.
“I hate it.”
Johnson’s main gripe is that he can’t hit anybody. The Bears fourth-round draft pick doesn’t have blazing speed. Those are the guys who usually look the best when contact is limited. Instead, he makes defenders miss with his elusiveness, or by running through them. That’s how Johnson managed a 45% forced missed tackle rate over the last two yearsー which led all running backs in the country with at least 190 carries per PFFー despite running the 11th fastest 40-yard dash among 15 RBs who ran it at the 2023 NFL Combine.
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But the rules are strict this time of year. Full contact is not allowed until training camp. In fact the Bears had one OTA taken away from them last year because their practices were too physical. Players on Friday said a big coaching point was making sure everyone stayed on their feet, i.e., making sure things never got rough enough that someone would be knocked to the ground.
“Down the road when we get pads on my playing style will definitely show,” Johnson said. “I hate practicing without pads on. I'm a physical guy so I think I will be able to show more when that time comes.
“There is a lot of stuff you’ve got to account for. You can't run into somebody with no shoulder pads on, you can't stiff arm somebody. Basically I just got to run and can't use my body as a weapon. That's the worst part about it.”
For now Johnson will try to impress in the classroom, show he’s absorbing all the details coaches teach him, do the right things at the right times and work up to playing instinctually on the field. But make no mistake, he’s looking forward to the day when he can lower his shoulder and punish a tackler.
"Definitely. All the time.” | 2023-05-05T23:16:18+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/bears-rb-roschon-johnson-cant-wait-to-get-physcial-at-practice/3135171/ |
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NEW DELHI (AP) — Top Indian wrestlers continued a sit-in protest near the parliament building for a third straight day Friday as the federation president they accused of sexually and mentally harassing young female athletes remained defiant and refused to quit.
The wrestlers and their nearly 200 supporters at Jantar Mantar carried placards reading “We will fight for our rights,” and “Boycott the WFI president.”
Wrestlers Sakshee Malikkh, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia are scheduled to meet Indian Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur for a second time in the past 24 hours to press their demands.
They are seeking the immediate removal of Wrestling Federation of India President Brijbhushan Sharan Singh and some other officials pending an inquiry against them.
Singh, a lawmaker representing the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, rejected the accusations and said he was ready to face any probe.
“Why should I resign?” Singh said.
Indian media reports said the protesting wrestlers have sent a letter to the Indian Olympic Association demanding its intervention.
P. T. Usha, the IOA president, in a tweet promised a complete investigation into their complaint to ensure justice.
“We also have decided to form a special committee to deal with such situations that may arise in the future, for swifter action,” she said.
Usha said she has discussed the wrestlers’ accusations against Singh and some coaches with IOA members and urged athletes to come forward and voice their concerns with the association.
The ministry earlier asked the wrestling body to answer the accusation made by the wrestlers by Friday “otherwise, the ministry will proceed to initiate action against the federation.”
Phogat said she knew of at least 10-20 female wrestlers who were sexually exploited by Singh and others and that she will reveal their names at an appropriate time.
Jagmati Sangwan, a former volleyball player and an activist, said the cases of harassment voiced by women wrestlers were merely the tip of the iceberg.
“The true shape of this particular problem has become quite gigantic,” Sangwan wrote in a newspaper column.
She added that the measures taken so far to hear the complaints of sportswomen “have been absolutely ineffective and have instilled zero confidence in women to come out and report their abuse.”
Phogat won a bronze medal at the world championships last year. Punia won bronze at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, and Malikkh a bronze at the 2016 Olympics.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Like some 260,000 Americans, Sean Saifa Wall was born with significant intersex traits. The sex on the birth certificate was checked “ambiguous” and then crossed out.
Wall was instead labeled female on the document and, at the age of 13, after his mother was inaccurately warned of a cancerous threat, his testes were removed. Doctors told his parents to raise him as a girl, though Wall later developed masculine features and now identifies as a man.
“They literally stopped my development — I was starting to develop as male. And they stopped it right there and changed course. It was a hard left,” says Wall. “It was disappointing and almost devastating that what I wanted could never be achieved. I wanted to pass. I wanted to be read as cis.”
“I had to tap into something else because it was hard being misgendered all the time and people not seeing me the way I saw myself,” Wall adds. “That’s when I was like: I need to really fight back.”
Wall, co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, is one of three intersex activists profiled in the new documentary “Every Body,” by “RBG” filmmaker Julie Cohen. The film, which Focus Features will release in 250 nationwide theaters on June 30, shines a warm spotlight on a much-misunderstood community, and three of its most dauntless champions.
An estimated 1.7% of the U.S. population — or about the same number of red-haired people — have some intersex traits, including genitalia, reproductive organs, chromosomes and/or hormone levels that don’t fit typical definitions for males or females. At a time when gender is an increasingly fraught battleground everywhere from state legislatures to youth sports leagues, those born intersex contradict any strictly binary notion of gender.
“At the core, people are afraid of uncertainty. The thing that trans people and intersex people represent is that gray space,” says actor and filmmaker River Gallo, another subject of the film. “It’s been six years since I came out. I’m still trying to grapple with what it means to exist in between.”
“Every Body,” which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, seeks to be a galvanizing moment in the intersex rights movement, a small but growing advocacy for a sizeable segment of LGBTQIA+ people (the “I” stands for intersex).
Fear of social stigma has often haunted intersex people. But the advocate trio of “Every Body,” gathered for a recent interview in New York, are unashamed, unshakable and forthright about themselves and their experiences — and what they believe needs to change about how intersex children are medically treated.
Alicia Roth Weigel, a political consultant and human rights commissioner for the city of Austin, Texas, was born with male (XY) chromosomes. As an infant, her gonads were removed, which she considers a castration. Years of hormone treatments followed.
“I’ve found so much freedom in realizing that there are so many roles for all of us in the world,” Weigel says. “None of us have to be defined by — set gender aside, set sex aside — the rigid notions of what anyone thinks you should be. My whole thing is just: There’s no should. Just be.”
The United Nations, in a 2013 report on torture, called for an end to “genital-normalizing surgery, involuntary sterilization, unethical experimentation, medical display, ‘reparative therapies’” — procedures which the U.N. said may violate a person’s “right to physical integrity.”
But such surgeries have continued. A stalled bill in California sought to prohibit surgeries until a child is 12, in order to give them time to develop a gender identity and offer consent themselves. At the same time, several states have advanced anti-trans legislation that bans gender-affirming care for those under 18 or older.
“What happened to me shouldn’t happen to anyone,” says the 44-year-old Wall, whose co-stars call the “OG” of the movement. “To me, that was the drive, and it’s still the drive. People ask me, ‘How are you doing all this work after all these years?’ And I’m like, ‘First, I’m a Capricorn.’ But I am determined to fight whoever to stop this. I will not stop until justice is upon us.”
Cohen was first attracted to the subject by the tragic story of David Reimer, a Canadian man who, in an infamous medical experiment overseen by physician Dr. John Money, was raised as a girl for most of his first 14 years of life. Reimer, after speaking out about what happened to him, killed himself in 2004.
For “Every Body,” Cohen wanted people who were comfortable speaking publicly about their experience. The 33-year-old Weigel, whom Cohen first approached, came out while speaking before the Texas Legislature in 2017 to argue against a proposed ban on healthcare for trans kids, which would have also impacted intersex people. She has an upcoming book titled “Inverse Cowgirl.”
Gallo wrote and stars in the the film “Ponyboi,” a film they expect to release later this year or early next. The Los Angeles-based Gallo, who has found Hollywood less liberal than it often presents itself, is accustomed to performing. But it takes courage.
“I still get really scared every time a camera points at me or I get on a stage,” they say. “I would be better suited to a life that’s smaller. But I know that my experience is one that needs to be shouted from the rooftops because it could save people’s lives.”
Cohen, wanting to foster intimacy, filmed interviews with only herself in the room each subject. But while there are anguished and heart-wrenching aspects of the documentary, “Every Body” is a inspiring and celebratory testimony. It concludes with dancing.
“The center of the whole film is just Saifa, Alicia and River telling their own stories and being their own amazing selves,” says Cohen.
“The intersex rights movement is right in the middle of a lot of national conversations that we’re having right now as some of the country starts to look at gender in a more expansive way,” Cohen says. “But leaving aside the relevance and impact that they might have on trans rights cases and on nonbinary people, intersex people deserve their own lives. They want to be advocated for, too.”
Even among LGBTQ causes, funding for intersex people is a tiny percentage. In national debates over trans rights, they can be forgotten. A bill passed by House Republicans in April that would bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams, advocates say, discriminates against intersex kids, too.
“Every Body,” though, has brought together a dispersed and fledgling movement that’s coalesced largely online. At the Tribeca premiere, many intersex people flocked to the screening and even joined the film team on the red carpet.
“Great films have always brought people together and we’re already seeing that happen on this one,” says Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus. The film, he added, “represents the best of what we do.”
For Weigel, Wall and Gallo, the screening was a deeply moving experience and a rare sense of togetherness. Weigel was there with guests, she says, from throughout her life, from elementary school to her professional career in Texas.
“I felt a little bit vulnerable because I said some stuff that most human beings don’t need to share with the world in the way that we often need to expose ourselves,” Weigel says. “But it also felt very like freeing. Kind of like everyone from my world saw me for the first time.”
In one scene, Wall visits a Berlin art exhibit that paid tribute to him and others and featured nude photographs. At the sight of Wall’s naked body, the crowd cheered.
“For Saifa, Alisha and River to see themselves as kind of works of art verses something that’s freakish and to be kept closeted and buried, I think, felt like a big moment,” Cohen says.
Wall wants the burst of energy prompted by “Every Body” to keep growing.
“I hope that this film creates a wave of people going, ‘Wait, maybe I’m intersex?’” Wall says. “Given the number of intersex people in the world, it can’t be a handful of people in different countries holding up so many millions of people. We need more people. Whatever they do, just be out. Be like: ‘I’m intersex and that’s OK.’”
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CHICAGO, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Witherite Law Group, home of 1-800-Truck-Wreck and 1-800-Car-Wreck, a premiere personal injury law firm that specializes in helping those injured in commercial truck and car wrecks, is opening a new office in Chicago's North Loop. The Chicago office is the fourth location for the firm, with other offices servicing Atlanta, Georgia, and Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.
Founded by award-winning attorney Amy Witherite, Witherite Law Group is one of the largest female-owned personal injury law firms in the country. With 22 years of proven success in Texas and Georgia, Witherite Law Group has specialized expertise in commercial trucking litigation, which distinguishes WLG from other personal injury firms. Because of WLG's outstanding expertise and track record in commercial vehicle accidents, other lawyers often refer their trucking cases to WLG.
Witherite Law Group's dedication to and knowledge of the trucking industry is second to none.
The firm has a deep understanding of the full range of local, state, and federal laws and regulations that govern the commercial trucking industry. Witherite Law Group ensures its lawyers and paraprofessionals attend a specialized trucking school to further enhance the firm's trucking knowledge. Witherite also works closely with truck drivers to fully appreciate their day-to-day work on the road and discern which drivers and trucking companies are complying with mandatory safety standards and which are not.
At Witherite Law Group, the mission is to be a champion for people and to take care of the Firm's clients and the greater community with unmatched expertise and absolute integrity. Witherite strives to be a rarity and trailblazer in the world of personal injury law, and the vision is to improve the lives of every person the Firm serves. Witherite Law Group believes in leading by results, character, and a genuine desire to help others, not by making empty promises or using gimmicks.
"We are excited to announce the opening of Witherite Law Group in Chicago -- a city very near and dear to my heart. As a Firm, we strive to provide top-quality legal representation and expertise for those that have been involved in trucking accidents. We are dedicated to fighting for our clients with unmatched expertise. At Witherite Law Group, we not only serve our clients with zeal but also are an involved community partner to effectuate positive changes in the communities we serve. We are committed to impacting the lives of our clients and their families and to make Chicago our home." -Amy Witherite
Witherite Law Group's Chicago office is located at 161 N Clark St Suite 1875, Chicago, IL 60601 and will be taking on clients starting January 9, 2023.
For more information about Witherite Law Group, Amy Witherite, the firm's philanthropic work, and more, please visit www.witheritelaw.com.
Witherite Law Group is a personal injury law firm founded in 2001 with offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, and now Chicago. The firm's attorneys specialize in helping those injured in car or truck accidents and can be reached by calling 1-800-Truck-Wreck or 1-800-Car-Wreck, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Please contact Anastasia Russ, Witherite Law Group, for interviews or media coverage at anastasia.russ@witheritelaw.com or 972-375-4520.
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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — A single-engine plane carrying five people crashed Sunday near a golf course in the South Carolina coastal resort community of North Myrtle Beach, killing at least one person, police and federal officials said.
The Piper PA-32 went down northwest of the city’s Grand Stand Airport shortly after 11 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that confirmed five people were aboard.
North Myrtle Beach police spokesman Patrick Wilkinson said initially that there was at least one death and one other person taken to a hospital, the Myrtle Beach Sun News reported.
A North Myrtle Beach police dispatcher, contacted by The Associated Press, said she had no further information later Sunday and that no spokesperson was immediately available to provide further updates on the dead or injured.
The newspaper reported the plane went down in a fiery crash near a golf course in an area called Barefoot Landing, prompting police, fire and other emergency vehicles to rush to the site.
The paper quoted a visitor to the area, Iris Gaines, as saying she spotted the plane flying “sort of crazy like” with one of its wings higher than the other just before the crash. “It was so close over this condo,” she told the newspaper.
Wilkinson said the aircraft was fully engulfed in flames by the time emergency crews arrived, and the paper reported some trees appeared to be down along a road near the crash site.
The FAA said in a statement said the National Transportation Safety Board will lead an investigation into the crash. The FAA had no other information on where the plane departed from or where it was headed. | 2023-07-03T06:13:28+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-us-news/ap-at-least-1-person-is-dead-in-a-fiery-small-plane-crash-in-south-carolina-beach-resort/ |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid starts the Spanish league season overflowing with confidence that it can retain the domestic title despite Barcelona spending big to add top talent to its team.
Barcelona hosts Rayo Vallecano on Saturday, a day before Madrid visits the newly promoted Almería in the opening round of the league.
Led by Ballon d’Or favorite Karim Benzema, Madrid delivered an outstanding campaign last season by winning the Champions League for a record-extending 14th time and running away from Barcelona and Atlético Madrid in the league.
After retaining all its starters and important reserves, as well as making select reinforcements to its midfield and defense, Carlo Ancelotti’s team is openly talking about their aspirations to sweep up all the titles in play.
Madrid was in championship form on Wednesday when it won the UEFA Super Cup after easing past Eintracht Frankfurt 2-0 thanks to goals by Benzema and David Alaba. Now it wants to not only defend its European and Spanish titles, but also win the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.
“When you’re successful, it’s difficult to do it again,” Madrid defender Dani Carvajal said after the victory over Frankfurt. “We’re going to fight for everything. Barcelona, Atlético and Sevilla will make life difficult in La Liga. We have to approach the Champions League game by game. We’ve won one title and we’re aiming for the next five.”
Madrid will start its league title defense on Sunday in southern Spain at Almería, which won the second division last season. The modest Almería’s biggest threat is Nigeria forward Umar Sadiq.
Ancelotti, who exceeded expectations last season after returning for a second stint in charge of the team, should have more to work with from the bench this season. Little-used veterans Gareth Bale, Isco Alarcón and Marcelo have all left. Madrid has added defender Antonio Rüdiger and defending midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni.
Madrid will still boast its mix of proven winners in Benzema, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Thibaut Courtois, along with younger players Vinícius Júnior, Federico Valverde, Éder Militão and Rodrygo.
Ancelotti praised the team spirit his players have forged, saying that “this is the healthiest (locker room) I have coached” in his long career that has included success at AC Milan, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
Madrid, however, should have to face a tougher challenge from Barcelona, which finished 13 points adrift in second place after a tumultuous season following the exit of Lionel Messi.
Unable to contemplate another year without a title, the highly indebted Barcelona sold 25% of its Spanish league television rights for the next 25 years and part of its own production company to get the money needed to reinforce its squad.
So instead of fielding an attack led by Memphis Depay and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, former Bayern star Robert Lewandowski will be its top striker. Winger Raphinha has arrived from Leeds to compete with Ousmane Dembélé, Ferran Torres and Ansu Fati for playing time on either side of Lewandowski, while Jules Koundé moved from Sevilla to greatly boost its defense. Those three signings cost the club 160 million euros ($165 million). Barcelona also bulked up in defense with Andreas Christensen and in midfield with Franck Kessie, who arrived as free agents.
“We have to admit that (Barcelona) has added some quality players, with Raphinha, who I know well, with Lewandowski, who is another world-class player,” Madrid midfielder Casemiro said. “They will try to play their best. We will also want to play better, so let the best team finish on top.”
It remains unclear if Barcelona’s new signings will be able to make their competitive debuts against Rayo due to the league’s salary cap rules that limit how much clubs can spend on players relative to their financial balance. With Barcelona still holding 1 billion euros ($1 billion) in debt, it has seen its salary cap shrink dramatically.
Club president Joan Laporta has said that his club will be able to register its new signings but two days before the home opener at Camp Nou, Barcelona has yet to officially register Lewandowski and its other new players with the league. Madrid, Atlético and Sevilla, along with most of the other clubs, have registered their new players. The deadline is the end of August to play in the 2022-23 league season.
So Barcelona’s busy off-season is likely not over. The club may need to sell players or more club assets to get its new transfers in league action as it tries to give Madrid a genuine challenge.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-08-12T14:34:42+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/ap-top-headlines/madrid-starts-spanish-league-defense-aiming-for-title-sweep/ |
NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- While the importance of global regulatory reporting continues to increase, there is a noticeable contrast between readiness across geographies, according to the S&P Global Market Intelligence Global Regulatory Reporting Survey, published today.
While the survey highlights that the financial services industry is being more proactive in preparing for upcoming regulatory change, there is disparity among respondents on their readiness for regulatory requirements in Europe and the US. While 38% of respondents with European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Refit requirements are confident they'll be ready or have made significant progress on the program expected to go live in the first half of 2024, more than half of respondents with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Rewrite reporting requirements are not ready for December's implementation date.
"The survey results indicate that more than a year ahead of implementation, those firms with EMIR Refit reporting requirements are taking a proactive approach to regulatory readiness," said Igor Kaplun, Head of Cappitech Business Development, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "As with any large-scale regulatory change, it pays to prepare early to stay ahead of the next wave of changes on the horizon."
Conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence Cappitech, the survey found that 99% of respondents indicate having reporting obligations in at least two jurisdictions. As this trend continues, the industry is taking a more proactive approach to existing and new regulations, with more than half making changes in 2022 to enhance existing processes or prepare for new regulations, almost double the 26% who made changes in 2021.
"The industry has matured significantly over the past decade and there is a realization that reporting requirements will continue to change and evolve, and firms need to plan ahead, not only for new regulations, but in terms of how best to benefit from improved technology and global solutions," said Ronen Kertis, Head of Cappitech, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "In some regions, we are starting to see a genuine shift in the way in which firms consider and plan for their regulatory reporting requirements, while there are other regions where work still needs to be done."
Key highlights from the report include:
- The use of a combination of in-house and vendor reporting continues to grow, particularly among Tier 1 firms: 64% of respondents are using a hybrid approach today, with 68% of those being Tier 1 organizations; this is up from 57% overall, over half of which were Tier 1 in 2021.
- The most common change to regulatory reporting is increased automation, used to prevent and manage inefficiencies and inaccuracies as a key driver.
- Managed services for regulatory reporting is expected to grow over the next few years, with 60% identifying it as a tool being considered in their future plans.
- The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is still in its early phases, but sourcing data is very clearly the most notable challenge – highlighted by 55% of those in scope.
The Global Regulatory Reporting Survey data was collected during August and September 2022 from 89 respondents, of which 51% worked for banks, 18% asset managers and 9% brokers. 31% were from Global Tier 1 organizations. The geographic spread was also varied with 37% of respondents based in Europe, 31% in the UK, 7% in North America and 25% in APAC.
To request a copy of the Global Regulatory Reporting Survey, please contact katherine.smith@spglobal.com.
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On April 15, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education revealed the state’s approved math textbooks after it prohibited textbooks that it claimed “included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL).”
People on social media claimed Florida only approved textbooks from just one publisher and prohibited the use of textbooks from all other publishers across the country.
THE QUESTION
Did Florida approve just one publisher’s math textbooks for all public schools?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, Florida did not approve just one publisher’s math textbooks for all public schools.
WHAT WE FOUND
An approved textbook list released by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) initially listed textbooks from 11 publishers across all of the state’s K-12 math classes. That initial list approved just one publisher for standard K-5 math classes, but approved textbooks from two additional publishers for the state’s advanced elementary school math classes. FDOE later updated the list to add textbooks from a second publisher to standard K-5 math classes.
FDOE released its first list on April 15, which shows the approved math textbooks for each math class in Florida’s K-12 standard curriculum. Only Accelerate Learning’s STEMscopes textbooks were approved for standard K-5 math classes, but a McGraw Hill textbook and a Savvas Learning Company textbook were also approved for third grade accelerated math classes. The only textbook approved for the fourth grade accelerated math class was a Savvas Learning Company textbook.
Outside of elementary school, FDOE approved textbooks from 10 different publishers, bringing the state to 11 publishers in total when including the three elementary school textbook publishers. Two of the publishers for elementary school textbooks, McGraw Hill and Savvas Learning Company, also produce textbooks the state approved for students in middle school and high school.
FDOE updated its approved textbook list on April 26 to also include textbooks from Big Ideas Learning for standard K-5 math courses. FDOE had already included seven Big Ideas Learning textbooks from sixth grade math to geometry in its original approved textbook list.
Just three other publishers created and submitted math textbooks for Florida’s standard K-5 curriculum, according to FDOE’s list of textbooks it does not recommend. Those publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw Hill and Savvas Learning Company, all produced approved textbooks for other Florida math classes. | 2022-04-29T21:30:48+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/verify/education-verify/florida-desantis-didnt-approve-just-one-publisher-for-all-math-textbooks/536-19a16893-5c8e-446d-a27b-1fe2c47b5f11 |
WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, January 27, 2023
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
710 PM CST Thu Jan 26 2023
...The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Texas...
San Bernard River Near East Bernard affecting Colorado, Wharton,
Fort Bend and Austin Counties.
For the San Bernard River...including East Bernard, Sweeny, Boling...
Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued Friday morning at 900 AM CST.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TOMORROW MORNING...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...San Bernard River Near East Bernard.
* WHEN...Until late tomorrow morning.
* IMPACTS...At 17.0 feet, Minor lowland flooding begins in the
vicinity of the gage with minor roads along the river inundated.
Backwater flooding up Britt Branch and Bratcher Slough begins.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 8:00 AM CST Thursday the stage was 18.5 feet.
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 8:00 AM CST Thursday was 18.5 feet.
- Forecast...The river is expected to rise to a crest of 18.6
feet this afternoon. It will then fall below flood stage late
tonight.
- Flood stage is 17.0 feet.
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
18.5 feet on 04/19/2015.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Fld Observed Forecasts (6 pm CST)
Location Stg Stg Day/Time Fri Sat Sun
San Bernard River
East Bernard 17.0 18.5 Thu 8 am CST 15.4 12.6 10.7
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The U.S. embassy in Cuba restarted full service earlier this month. It closed for nearly six years after staff got sick in what the Central Intelligence Agency called “anomalous health incidents.”
Approximately two dozen American diplomats in Havana, Cuba, first heard piercing, metallic hissing in 2016. They began experiencing nausea, vertigo, headaches, and other cognitive ailments. But doctors haven’t figured out what could have been making them sick.
Theories include the use of sonic weapons launched by foreign actors like Russia. The CIA has dismissed that idea, saying most cases of “Havana Syndrome” actually stem from other pre-existing medical conditions. Still, the CIA says some cases are unexplainable.
The new investigative podcast “The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome” explores what we know about this mysterious illness – and what questions remain.
Journalist Nicky Woolf walks listeners through the international story and theories of what happened.
The whole story has left many diplomats and CIA officers experiencing these ailments disillusioned, though some recompense from the federal government is on the way.
“It’s incumbent on [the CIA] to provide the medical help we require, which does not include telling us that we’re all making it up,” former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos told GQ Magazine. “I want the Agency to treat this as a combat injury.”
A CIA spokesperson offered this statement from the agency.
“At CIA, we have no more profound obligation than to take care of our people, and our steadfast dedication to this issue is unwavering. We have expanded access to care and resources significantly, and, in partnership with other intelligence and government agencies, we committed to undertaking the most rigorous investigation possible into reported anomalous health incidents. We assembled a large team of some of our very best officers focused exclusively on this issue, with a commitment to following every single lead. As we have learned more, we have been able to identify very real medical, environmental, and technical factors that credibly explain a majority of reports, and many others were submitted out of an abundance of caution. Director Burns has said he has great confidence in the professionalism of the people, who come from both the CIA and the wider Intelligence Community, who are carrying out this mission, in their commitment to objectivity, and in the findings they have reached to date.”
We speak with Woolf, Polymeropoulos, and one of the medical investigators of “Havana Syndrome.”
Copyright 2023 WAMU 88.5 | 2023-01-25T21:21:52+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-01-25/the-curious-case-of-havana-syndrome |
XP Foundry opted to migrate assets of its debut web3 game from Solana to ImmutableX to offer mainstream gamers gas-free minting & trading for their characters & items
SYDNEY, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XP Foundry, a web3 game development studio, today announces that it is migrating on-chain assets of its free-to-play (F2P) mobile game Rooniverse to ImmutableX - the dedicated platform for building and scaling web3 games from leading web3 gaming company Immutable.
"We are extremely excited that XP Foundry and its debut web3 title Rooniverse are joining the ever-growing ImmutableX family," said Andrew Sorokovsky, VP of Global Business Development at Immutable. "The partnership will greatly help both Immutable and XP Foundry onboard millions of mobile gamers together with a combination of chaotic fun and frictionless blockchain integrations to support what really matters: ownership, trading, and interoperability."
Rooniverse is a F2P hyper-royale mobile game featuring cute and savage creatures battling in PvP game modes. Players can also take part in crafting, user-generated content (UGC), and social gameplay. On-chain collectibles are integrated through a fully optional blockchain layer, making the game enjoyable by both traditional and web3 gamers on iOS, Android, PC, and Mac.
In the game, players pit their "Roos" against each other in multiplayer game modes to win resources, which can be used to craft unconventional weapons and build their own empire in the Rooniverse ecosystem.
XP Foundry's engineers and artists boast AAA credentials in IPs like Sonic the Hedgehog, Game of Thrones, Batman, Call of Duty, The Elder Scrolls, and more. The studio's co-CEO and game director James Finley is a former director of technology at Unity Studios with over 15 years of experience in game direction. Additionally, executive producer, James Chung, is a former art director at EA and worked on the original Call of Duty team.
With the transition of assets to ImmutableX, Rooniverse offers gamers a plethora of user-friendly features such as extremely fast, cost-efficient transactions and zero-fee minting for their on-chain characters & items, this is combined with Ethereum's robust inherent security.
Unlike general-purpose blockchains, ImmutableX was explicitly designed from the ground up with web3 gaming in mind, resulting in one of the most expansive and innovative blockchain gaming ecosystems to date, in terms of both players and developers. XP Foundry will gain access to Immutable's vast technical expertise in blockchain as well as the team's hands-on experience working with 100+ other web3 gaming studios as well as through Immutable Gaming Studios.
"Immutable has great features to facilitate mass adoption like gas-free trading and a development roadmap exclusively focused on serving games," noted James Finley, co-Founder/co-CEO at XP Foundry and game director at Rooniverse.
"There are superb blockchains and L2s out there, but I am a big believer in platforms who niche down and focus on catering to a specific industry segment," says Germán Palau, XP Foundry's co-Founder/co-CEO and its resident crypto-native. "Through our many conversations, Immutable has shown us that they clearly 'get it' when it comes to understanding mainstream gamers and getting rid of 'NFT stigma' that prevent open adoption. We love using blockchain integrations as features for our game, for this reason, I think we're making the best long-term decision for the game."
Previously, XP Foundry had successfully raised $1.5 million at a fully diluted valuation of $10 million during its pre-seed funding round led by Shima Capital. Today, the studio's backers and partners include Big Brain Holdings, Deep Ventures, Criterion, Double Peak, Snack Club, Magic Eden, 3DGG Labs, Spectre, Citizen Capital, XBorg, Naavik, Battle Arena Gamers Guild, and Stardust, as well as esports organizations such as YGG SEA and the Global Esports Federation.
Rooniverse's open alpha testing is slated for February 2023, with beta (Q2/3) and the full game (Q4) to follow.
About Immutable
Immutable is powering the next generation of web3 games through ImmutableX - the leading developer platform for building and scaling mainstream-ready web3 games on Ethereum, entirely carbon neutral and gas-free.
ImmutableX offers unparalleled support to launch a successful web3 game on Ethereum. SDKs and APIs make adding NFT functionality to a game seamless and easy, the wide ecosystem of products and partners manage all blockchain infrastructure needs, and the ImmutableX Global Order Book generates real liquidity for assets.
Today, many world-class web3 games are built on ImmutableX including Gods Unchained, Guild of Guardians, Illuvium, Embersword, Planet Quest and many more.
Join the Immutable community on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and Youtube
About XP Foundry
Led by decorated builders in gaming, XP Foundry is the web3 arm of a AAA gaming studio housing 20+ engineers and artists with 120+ titles credited. The studio's breakout into web3 features fast time-to-fun games with optional blockchain layers. XP Foundry specializes in hybrid-genre skill-based gameplay and 360° LiveOps, and is inspired by its player community.
Rooniverse is a F2P hyper-royale mobile game set in the whimsical world of Roos, savage pets who fight to the death for glory! The game features easily customisable gameplay in variety PvP modes, user-generated maps with creation/curation rewards, and optional blockchain later that enriches a player-driven economy. Rooniverse's alpha launch in February will feature its flagship Mini-Rooyale mode with custom lobbies, exclusive battle pass rewards, and an all-new Roohalla map.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
7-1-8-9
(seven, one, eight, nine)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Louisiana Lottery's "Pick 4" game were:
7-1-8-9
(seven, one, eight, nine) | 2022-09-30T04:50:40+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-game-17477067.php |
Blockdaemon's infrastructure and technical expertise will help enable WEMIX3.0 as a safer, progressive ecosystem
SEOUL, South Korea and LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockdaemon, the leading institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking, joins as WEMIX3.0's first node partner, to participate in decision making as a part of 40 WONDERS of WEMIX3.0 ecosystem and to additionally provide various technical infra-related support as a tech partner.
Wemade signed an NCP (node council partner) with Blockdaemon and welcomed the company as one of 40 WONDERS, the governance partners of WEMIX3.0 ecosystem.
Founded in 2017, Blockdaemon is the largest independent blockchain infrastructure platform connecting institutions and developers to leading networks. Its clients include Fortune 500 enterprises, banks, custodians and trusts.
Blockdaemon's Ubiquity API is a high performance, multi-chain API for accessing blockchain data across multiple protocols using REST or RPC (Native) Access. The company's other offerings include high-performance node infrastructure, staking, onramp and MPC wallet.
The ISO 27001:2017 certified blockchain provider is working with blockchain companies in various fields on many fronts.
Wemade assigned WEMIX NCP identification number 11. A unique identification number, ranging from 1 to 40, is given to each NCP.
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NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index Hits All-Time High of 370.56
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Homeowners 62 and older saw their housing wealth grow by 3.98 percent or $405 billion in the fourth quarter to a record $10.6 trillion from Q3 2021, according to the latest quarterly release of the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index.
The NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index (RMMI) rose in Q4 2021 to 370.56, another all-time high since the index was first published in 2000. The increase in older homeowners' wealth was mainly driven by an estimated 3.7 percent or $452 billion increase in home values, offset by a 2.3 percent or $47 billion increase in senior-held mortgage debt.
NRMLA President Steve Irwin, said: "In just a few days, we'll be celebrating Older Americans Month. The theme will be Age My Way. To help ameliorate the risks and concerns surrounding the ability of homeowners to age their way, it is critical that housing wealth is carefully and responsibly considered when developing a comprehensive retirement plan. For many, housing wealth is indeed their greatest asset, and tapping that equity, under the right circumstances, will enable a secure path to aging security.
About Reverse Mortgages
Reverse mortgages are available to homeowners who are 62 and older with significant home equity. They are a versatile financial tool that seniors can use to borrow against the equity in their home without having to make monthly principal or interest payments as with a traditional "forward" mortgage or a home equity loan. Under a reverse mortgage, funds are advanced to the borrower and interest accrues, but the outstanding balance is not due until the last borrower leaves the home, sells or passes away.
To date, more than 1.21 million households have utilized an FHA-insured reverse mortgage to help meet their financial needs. For more information, please visit www.ReverseMortgage.org
About the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association
The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) is the national voice for the industry and represents the lenders, loan servicers, and housing counseling agencies responsible for more than 90 percent of reverse mortgage transactions in the United States. All NRMLA member companies commit themselves to a Code of Ethics & Professional Responsibility. Learn more at www.nrmlaonline.org.
About RiskSpan, Inc.
RiskSpan offers end-to-end solutions for data management, risk management analytics, and visualization on a highly secure, fast, and fully scalable platform that has earned the trust of the industry's largest firms. Combining the strength of subject matter experts, quantitative analysts, and technologists, the RiskSpan platform integrates a range of data-sets–including both structured and unstructured–and off-the-shelf analytical tools to provide you with powerful insights and a competitive advantage. Learn more at www.riskspan.com.
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Darryl Hicks, 202-939-1784, dhicks@dworbell.com
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INDIANAPOLIS — With a double digit lead in votes Tuesday night, Diego Morales declared himself the winner of Indiana’s Secretary of State race.
The race had not been called when he made the declaration in front of the crowd at the Indiana Republican Party’s 2022 Election Night Watch Party in the JW Marriott.
The Secretary of State’s race was not the only statewide race that looked to be going to Republicans Tuesday night. The party’s candidates for Auditor and Treasurer also held substantial leads over their Democrat and Libertarian opponents.
Morales defeated Indiana’s current Secretary of State Holli Sullivan for the GOP nomination in June. | 2022-11-09T04:28:34+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/your-local-election-headquarters/morales-claims-victory-in-secretary-of-states-race/ |
It's been slower than past cycles but presidential hopefuls are starting to make trips to Iowa a year ahead of the Iowa caucuses. The Democratic National Committee voted earlier this month to remove Iowa from the early window of presidential nominating states for a variety of reasons including its botched 2020 results. Republicans, however, are sticking with tradition.
Former Vice President Mike Pence was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week, the same day a federal appeals court in Minnesota heard arguments by a group representing parents of students in the Linn-Mar Community School District near Cedar Rapids.
Parents of the district sued over a policy adopted last year allowing students there to ask to use a gender-affirming name or pronouns without including their parents.
Politicians with presidential stars in their eyes are testing the waters in Iowa
Pence was speaking at a local Pizza Ranch, a chain restaurant based in Iowa that is popular among Republicans visiting the state while campaigning. Pence has not declared that he's running for president but it's commonplace for politicians to start showing up in Iowa well ahead of making it official.
As he spoke inside, more than fifty protesters stood along the street outside the restaurant holding signs in support of LGBTQ youth.
"Is this all the Republican Party stands for? Because that's what it seems like these days," Hiawatha City Council member Aime Wichtendahl said. Wichtendahl is thought to be the first trans person elected to office in Iowa. "Republican politicians just beat up on trans kids to be divisive and to get the votes of the base and it's absolutely disgusting."
"We are going to defend parent's rights and the children of Iowa and America," Pence said to the applause of the small group of supporters gathered in the restaurant's event room.
Iowa swung to the right over the past decade
The Iowa caucuses are famously the first-in-the-nation to test primary candidates and that's still true for Republicans. Former President Donald Trump's announcement last year that he's making another run seemed to have an early chilling effect on the race. But politicians like Pence are flying out here to craft their stump speeches and get in front of potential voters.
Iowa U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson highlighted that Democrats will not be starting in Iowa when she introduced Pence.
"It's very clear that the Democrats think that Iowa is flyover country," Hinson said. "They don't want to hear from Iowans and they don't want their candidates to have to answer Iowans tough questions."
Republicans will be taking those questions in a state that has marched to the right over the last decade.
Voters here chose Barack Obama twice and then turned around and backed Trump in the next two general elections. Democrats lost even more ground in the midterm.
The last remaining Democrat in the state's Congressional delegation was toppled in 2022 and two major statewide Democratic offices turned red.
Trump's chilling effect on the race may be warming
In true Iowa tradition, it is not only the highest Republican officeholders – current or former – flocking to the Hawkeye state.
Iowa native and failed Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake visited in early February and drew hundreds of people.
But the former president still looms large over the Republican contest that is still in its earliest stages.
"I'd like [Trump] to support somebody," Republican voter Margaret Saddoris told NPR when asked about former President Trump at a Lake event in Ankeny, Iowa. "I think there's just too much drama there."
Saddoris said she would still vote for Trump. John Whipple was also at this rally in suburban Des Moines.
He likes Trump and would also like to see Florida Governor Ron DeSantis get into the race.
"I think they would both do a good job," Whipple said. "Some people seem to, even though they support Trump, just are kind of thinking maybe it's time to move on."
Even former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was at the Lake event. He's not picking favorites in the primary even though he served as U.S. Ambassador to China under Trump.
"I want them all to feel welcome," said Branstad, who is the longest serving governor in U.S. history. "I want to do my part to encourage them to come early and often ... and let the Iowa voters decide who they think is the best and strongest candidate."
One caucus is nothing like another
The last contested primary for Republicans happened in the 2016 campaign cycle. The Republican Party then looked very different than it does today.
For example, in January of 2015, there was a big day of Republican speeches. Iowans heard from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie also spoke. At that time, Donald Trump was there and nobody really seemed to take him all that seriously.
But voters were taking Trump seriously.
As caucus campaigning continued through that year and into 2016, the feeling among the other candidates in the Republican field seemed to focus on who was going to be the candidate to take out Trump.
And in language that will be reminiscent of more recent U.S. elections, when Cruz won the caucus, Trump called foul and declared the vote to be invalid. That was not the case. But, he did go on to winnow down the Republican field, ultimately becoming the nominee and winning the presidential election.
Trump has not visited Iowa this time around, despite declaring his candidacy notably early in November of 2022.
Iowa is still important - at least for Republicans - but it's definitely been a slower start than in 2016 or from the Democrats in 2020.
Some candidates make it official while others just enjoy Iowa...for now
Meanwhile, back at the Pizza Ranch in Cedar Rapids, Pence was asked by the press to comment on former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley who recently announced her bid for the presidency.
"Ambassador Nikki Haley did a great job in our administration, and she may have more company soon in the race for president," Pence said with a smile. "I promise folks here in Iowa and all of you I'll keep you posted."
It's the sort of wink-wink, nudge-nudge comment that highlights just how important Iowa is to the primary process – and in a contested Republican primary, every vote matters.
That's why you'll see Haley in Iowa, courting voters. Her fellow South Carolinian Sen. Tim Scott is in Iowa this week, too.
Copyright 2023 Iowa Public Radio | 2023-02-20T11:31:13+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-02-20/after-a-slow-start-to-caucus-campaigning-republicans-start-courting-iowa-voters |
Warm winds were blowing entering the weekend and elevating temperatures to near-record levels. Rain is on the way along with a cold front
RARE AIR
We do not get warm days like this, this late in the year all that often. In fact, this is only the 15th year on record to produce a temp this warm (76°) so late in the year. Even more interesting, only 21 days have been this warm out of 151 years on record! The high today was shy of the record 78° set in 2003 and a full19-degrees above normal. Today’s high is the normal for September 23rd.
The warmth continues through the night. What an open to the weekend and this marks the fifth straight Friday with full on sunshine! This is the warmest Friday since September 16th (82°). We will remain well into the 60s beyond 11pm and RAIN FREE for football and into the early morning hours on Saturday.
GUSTY WINDS AND DOWNPOURS SATURDAY
Showers and fast moving downpours arrive ahead of a cold front early Saturday morning. The rain will increase in coverage and intensity reaching peak coverage by 1pm. A late day cold front COULD produce a skinny line of downpours and a gusty storm or two before exiting into Ohio. The strong wind field may preclude vertical storm development but IF one or two develop a localized damaging wind gusty could occur.
A Sharp temp change over a small distance fuels the gusty winds across the Midwest Friday and the winds will strengthen as a low pressure deepens as it approaches the state early Saturday. A WIND ADVISORY has been issued for Saturday with gusts possible to 50mph by early afternoon. Winds will subside late day and into the evening hours.
Clearing and much cooler conditions arrive behind the front late Saturday with temperatures lowering to the lower 40s by sunrise Sunday, that’s still above average for this time of the year. REMINDER we change clocks when you head to bed Saturday night FALL BACK one hour. We gain an hour of sleep but the sunsets are also an hour earlier moving forward.
MORE MILD DAYS AHEAD
Temperatures will cool but remain well above normal for much of next week with afternoon highs in the 60s and even some 70-degrees. Looking ahead to elections day, the coolest of the next seven, temperatures will still run 8° above normal. | 2022-11-04T23:39:08+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/weather/rain-and-wind-precede-a-cool-off-for-the-weekend-mild-november-will-continue/ |
At least 146 killed during incident at Halloween festivities in Seoul
By Gawon Bae and Claire Colbert, CNN
At least 146 people are now reported to have been killed during an incident at Halloween festivities in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood Saturday night, according to Choi Seong-bum, chief of the Yongsan-gu Fire Department.
At least 150 others were also reported injured, the chief added.
Authorities are still investigating exactly what caused the incident, but the fire chief said it was a “presumed stampede” and that many people fell, resulting in casualties. The chief said they received reports of people “buried” in crowds starting around 10:24 p.m. local time Saturday night.
There was no gas leak nor fire on site, according to the chief. The cause of the deaths has not been confirmed.
Earlier, the Yonhap News Agency reported that some people had suffered from “cardiac arrest,” attributing the statement to fire authorities. Emergency officials assisted at least 81 people in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood reporting “difficulty breathing.”
Dozens of the injured were transferred to nearby hospitals, said Choi Jae-won, the head of Yongsan Health Center, adding that the death toll would likely increase.
The Seoul city government is also receiving reports of missing people as there are many unidentified victims. The bodies of the victims are being transferred to multiple hospital mortuaries, according to authorities.
A witness described a chaotic scene to CNN, saying he saw people jammed in a narrow street unable to breathe.
“I saw people going to the left side and I saw the person getting to the opposite side. So, the person in the middle got jammed, so they had no way to communicate, they could not breathe,” Song Sehyun told CNN.
Police closed off the area and social media videos showed people lying in the streets and on stretchers as first responders rendered aid.
The fire chief said that more than 1,700 emergency response forces have been dispatched, including 517 firefighters, 1,100 police officials, and about 70 government workers.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sent a disaster medical assistance team to the Halloween incident, according to the presidential office.
The president also ordered authorities to secure emergency beds in hospitals nearby and to implement swift rescue operations and treatment, presidential spokesman Lee Jae-Myung said in a briefing.
Yoon was in an emergency meeting regarding the situation, the office said in a statement.
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CNN’s Chandler Thorton and Will Ripley contributed to this report. | 2022-10-29T22:08:03+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/national-world/cnn-asia-pacific/2022/10/29/dozens-of-people-suffer-cardiac-arrest-during-halloween-festivities-in-seoul/ |
NEW ORLEANS — Khalid Moore had 23 points in Fordham’s 95-90 win against Tulane on Saturday.
The Green Wave (5-3) were led by Kevin Cross, who recorded 25 points, nine rebounds and two blocks. Jalen Cook added 25 points, five assists and two steals for Tulane. In addition, Jaylen Forbes finished with 15 points.
Moore’s 20-point second half helped Fordham close out the five-point victory.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-12-03T22:49:52+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/fordham-defeats-tulane-95-90/2022/12/03/201c7c34-7351-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html |
Leading Home Maintenance, Repair, and Improvement Franchise to Give Away Premium Power Tools to 10 Random Winners this Holiday Season
WACO, Texas, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mr. Handyman®, a Neighborly® company and the nation's leading home maintenance, repair, and improvement franchise, is giving away Milwaukee® power tools to 10 lucky winners this holiday season as part of the brand's third annual Ultimate Holiday Tool Giveaway. Power tools are essential resources for home improvement projects, and Mr. Handyman is here to help cross some items off holiday wish lists this year.
To enter the Ultimate Holiday Tool Giveaway, participants can visit Mr. Handyman's official entry page on Facebook and submit their names into the drawing from December 1st till December 14th. Starting Thursday, December 15, 2022 through December 17, 2022, 10 random winners will be announced with the tools increase in value with each drawing. Void where prohibited by law. Rules and limitations apply.
Whether home improvement enthusiasts choose to keep the power tool for themselves or gift it, there is an opportunity to win a cordless drill, multi-tool, circular saw, impact driver, reciprocating saw, table saw, angle grinder, random orbit sander, air compressor or jigsaw.
"We're thrilled to host our third holiday giveaway and offer home improvement enthusiasts a chance to win top-of-the-line power tools," said Jeff Palla, President of Mr. Handyman. "Bringing homeowners comfort and satisfaction in any home improvement project is our main priority and power tools play a vital role in that."
To learn more about the Ultimate Holiday Tool Giveaway, please visit the Mr. Handyman's blog and Facebook page.
If you do not have the time to complete a home project on your list and want Mr. Handyman's help, contact your nearest Mr. Handyman® location. For additional home improvement inspiration for the holidays, visit mrhandyman.com.
Mr. Handyman® is North America's leading commercial and residential property maintenance, repair, and improvement company. With about 300 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, Mr. Handyman® is recognized as one of the fastest growing, handyman service franchise systems. Acquired in 2015, Mr. Handyman® 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 or on the Neighborly App. For more information about Mr. Handyman®, visit MrHandyman.com. To learn about franchising opportunities with Neighborly®, click here.
Media Contact: Taylor Saltijeral, Fishman Public Relations, tsaltijeral@fishmanpr.com or 847-945-1300
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Cleveland Cavaliers (17-11, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (14-13, eighth in the Western Conference)
Dallas; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Luka Doncic and Donovan Mitchell meet when Dallas hosts Cleveland. Doncic leads the NBA averaging 33.1 points per game and Mitchell ranks seventh in the league averaging 29.0 points per game.
The Mavericks are 11-4 in home games. Dallas is the worst team in the league with 38.9 rebounds per game led by Doncic averaging 8.6.
The Cavaliers are 5-9 on the road. Cleveland ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference shooting 36.9% from 3-point range.
TOP PERFORMERS: Doncic is averaging 33.1 points, 8.6 rebounds, 8.8 assists and 1.7 steals for the Mavericks. Spencer Dinwiddie is averaging 16.9 points over the last 10 games for Dallas.
Mitchell averages 3.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Cavaliers, scoring 29.0 points while shooting 42.1% from beyond the arc. Darius Garland is averaging 21.9 points and 7.9 assists over the past 10 games for Cleveland.
LAST 10 GAMES: Mavericks: 5-5, averaging 116.4 points, 39.1 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 6.9 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.3 points per game.
Cavaliers: 5-5, averaging 102.5 points, 41.3 rebounds, 20.5 assists, 7.4 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 100.6 points.
INJURIES:
Cavaliers: Dean Wade: out (shoulder), Ricky Rubio: out (knee), Dylan Windler: out (ankle).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2022-12-13T07:30:06+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/doncic-and-mitchell-clash-in-dallas-cleveland-matchup/P2BX4XG36RCZTGA2SIPJGURYCM/ |
Volvo is close to unveiling an electric crossover smaller than its XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge compact duo.
It will be called the EX30, and Volvo has confirmed a June 7 debut, which is when the automaker will start accepting reservations in the U.S. Volvo hasn’t said when the EX30 will reach showrooms, but given the automaker’s current product cadence we should see it arrive in 2024 as a 2025 model.
Prototypes have been spotted testing and Volvo in recent weeks has been teasing details like the exterior design and safety features. On Wednesday, the automaker provided a look at the interior, which like the mid-size EX90 due for the 2024 model year, will have a focus on sustainability.
Volvo said the EX30 will have the smallest carbon footprint of any vehicle in the company’s history, with the lifecycle emissions promised to be around 25% lower than the XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge.
The EX30’s smaller size, which will likely place it in the subcompact category, already saves on carbon as less material, particularly metals, is required for the construction. And for the materials that are used, much of it is recycled, according to Volvo. This approach extends to the interior where Volvo uses recycled and renewable materials like denim, flax, and a wool-blend that also contains around 70% recycled polyester.
Volvo said designers have also managed to simplify the interior so fewer parts are needed.
Another key step in reducing the vehicle’s carbon footprint, according to Volvo, was opting for suppliers and production facilities that use clean energy. Volvo said 95% of suppliers for the EX30 have committed to 100% renewable energy in their production by 2025.
Though it’s yet to be confirmed by Volvo, the EX30 is thought to be designed around the SEA modular EV platform of Volvo parent company Zhejiang Geely. The platform debuted in 2021 in the Zeekr 001 and will also underpin the upcoming 2025 Polestar 4. This would likely also mean EX30 production will take place in China, where all current SEA platform-based vehicles are built.
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