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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) _ Amtech Systems Inc. (ASYS) on Wednesday reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $2 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier.
On a per-share basis, the Tempe, Arizona-based company said it had net income of 14 cents.
The provider of equipment for solar panel and semiconductor makers posted revenue of $28.6 million in the period.
Amtech shares have declined 22% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, shares hit $7.69, a drop of 20% in the last 12 months.
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Despite a difficult nesting season, baby blue herons are starting to rear their mohawked heads in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.
The Stanley Park Ecology Society says it’s found 13 newborn Pacific great blue heron chicks so far and, in the rare moments the mother herons have stepped away from their nests, has spotted about 40 other eggs near hatching.
It’s been a tough year for the birds, according to the city’s board of parks and recreation. It says more extreme winter weather than usual and spring eagle raids delayed the blue heron’s nesting season.
It’s concerning for the at-risk species, whose numbers have been declining since the 1980s. On top of eagle attacks, the birds are also impacted by human disturbance and habitat loss, the parks board says.
Still, dozens of eggs have survived so far.
If people are patient, they may even be able to spot some of the freshly hatched fuzz balls by checking out the city’s online Heron Cam livestream. Previous videos also show the birds courting and mating, nest building and egg laying.
If people decide to visit in person, the parks board asks that they observe the blue herons from outside fenced areas, refrain from making any loud noise and keep their dogs on leash. It adds that it’s normal for chicks to be on the ground at times, but if one is obviously fallen and injured, people can notify the Wildlife Rescue Association or Burrard Animal Hospital and Emergency.
READ ALSO: Nelson golf club president denies existence of threatened heron nests at course
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Manchester City took another stride towards winning the Premier League title on Wednesday evening after thumping Wolves 5-1 at Molineux.
A stunning 17-minute hat-trick from Kevin De Bruyne gave the visitors a commanding advantage in the first half, despite Leander Dendoncker's equaliser. The Belgian went on to score a fourth goal after the interval, while Raheem Sterling tapped in their fifth.
Pep Guardiola's side are now three points clear of Liverpool in second with just two games left. City's remaining league fixtures are against West Ham and Aston Villa, while the Reds take on Southampton and Wolves. Here are five talking points from Molineux.
King Kev
Is Kevin De Bruyne the greatest midfielder in Premier League history? Let us know in the comments below!
De Bruyne produced one of the greatest individual displays in Premier League history. His first goal was a thing of beauty. A one-two with Bernardo Silva gave him the opportunity to fire at Jose Sa, hammering the ball into the bottom corner with his left foot.
The Belgian's second goal was scrappy but equally as impressive. He picked up the ball from Oleksandr Zinchenko's forward pass and played it into the feet of Sterling. Sa closed the Englishman down, yet possession squirmed straight to De Bruyne to finish.
His third goal was just ridiculous. He picked up the ball in midfield, drove at the defence and just smashed a strike into the far corner with his left foot. De Bruyne had ripped Wolves to shreds... and there was only 24 minutes on the clock.
The 30-year-old wasn't finished there, scoring a fourth after the interval. Few would've been surprised if he added a fifth (and he nearly did - rattling the crossbar). De Bruyne must be considered for a third consecutive PFA Players' Player of the Year award.
Wolves bite back
The home fans were after a response following De Bruyne's first goal... and they certainly got one. Portuguese winger Chiquinho almost had a chance to equalise within seconds of the restart, forcing Aymeric Laporte to produce a last-gasp tackle to deny him.
Then came Dendoncker's goal. Raul Jimenez picked up the ball on the counter and drove at City's defence. He fed possession to Pedro Neto, who played a low cross into the box for Dendoncker to hammer home. It was counter-attacking football at its best.
Unfortunately for Wolves (and Liverpool) fans, City have De Bruyne.
Fernandinho chips in
Guardiola recently confirmed three City players have been ruled out for the rest of the season through injury - and they're all defenders. Much to the Spaniard's frustration - John Stones, Ruben Dias and Kyle Walker will not kick another ball this term.
And, with Nathan Ake still returning to full fitness, Guardiola was left with just one recognised centre-back against Wolves - Laporte - forcing him to play Fernandinho at the back. The veteran didn't put a foot wrong against the hosts, producing a captain's display.
To make matters worse for Guardiola, Laporte went down with a knee injury in the second half. He played on for a while but couldn't complete the game. Even the big clubs aren't immune to an injury crisis - just ask Jurgen Klopp after Liverpool's woes last season.
Wolves hopes over
It's been a disappointing end to the season for Wolves, who've won just three of their last 12 Premier League games. If it wasn't for their last-gasp equaliser against Chelsea on Saturday, they'd have lost five in-a-row.
Wolves' hopes of playing in Europe next season are all but over, sitting five points behind West Ham in seventh. Yet it's still been a good campaign for Bruno Lage's side. They'll be confident of challenging the top seven again in 2022-23.
Pep nearing history
Guardiola hasn't brought the European Cup to Manchester yet, but he won't care about that right now. City are just four points away from winning an eighth league title and fourth under Guardiola's leadership following their stunning performance against Wolves.
If City get over the line, Guardiola will become the second most successful manager in Premier League history after Sir Alex Ferguson, who won 13 titles at Manchester United. The Spaniard will eclipse the three titles won by Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho.
It'll be some achievement by Guardiola. He's quickly creating a dynasty at the Etihad and, with Erling Haaland coming in the summer, title number five could be won by this time next year. Guardiola's been at City six years... and he could just be getting started. | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/wolves-man-city-match-report-26941262 | 2022-05-11T21:28:15Z | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/wolves-man-city-match-report-26941262 | false | 2 |
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A film production company is contesting sanctions by New Mexico officials for alleged workplace safety violations on the set of “Rust,” where actor and producer Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer in October, according to filings posted Wednesday by state regulators.
Rust Movie Productions is challenging the basis of a $137,000 fine against the company by state occupational safety regulators who say production managers on the set of the Western film failed to follow standard industry protocols for firearms safety.
At a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins inside a small church during setup for the filming of a scene when it went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza.
Baldwin said in a December interview with ABC News that he was pointing the gun at Hutchins at her instruction when it went off without his pulling the trigger.
“The law properly permits producers to delegate such critical functions as firearm safety to experts in that field and does not place such responsibility on producers whose expertise is in arranging financing and contracting for the logistics of filming," Rust Movie Productions said in its filing. The company “did not ‘willfully’ violate any safety protocol, and in fact enforced all applicable safety protocols.”
In April, New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau imposed the maximum fine against Rust Movie Productions and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires of blank ammunition on set prior to the fatal shooting.
The bureau also documented gun safety complaints from crew members that went unheeded and said weapons specialists were not allowed to make decisions about additional safety training.
Rust Movie Productions responded in its filing by saying that misfires prior to the fatal shooting of Hutchins did not violate safety protocols and that “appropriate corrective actions were taken, including briefings of cast and crew.”
“In fact, a safety meeting was held the morning of the incident,” the company said, apparently referring to the shooting of Hutchins. The filing does not elaborate further.
Rust Movie Productions also is challenging allegations that film set armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed was overburdened, asserting that she had sufficient time to properly inspect and safeguard all firearms and ammunition on set. The production company cites comments by a costume designer who said Reed had “plenty of time” to do her job properly.
State investigators say that Gutierrez Reed was limited to eight paid days as an armorer to oversee weapons and training, and was assigned otherwise to lighter duties as a props assistant. As her time as an armorer ran out, Gutierrez Reed warned a manager and was rebuffed.
The sheriff investigating the fatal film-set shooting has described disorganization and neglected safety measures in the making of the low-budget movie. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza has said he is waiting on a forensic analysis of the weapon, projectile, fingerprints and more from the FBI and state medical examiners before turning the case over to prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges will be filed.
State findings and sanctions against Rust Movie Productions hold implications for at least five lawsuits that have been filed over the shooting, including a wrongful death suit brought by Hutchins’ family against Baldwin and the movie’s other producers.
The lawsuit on behalf of widower Matt Hutchins and his 9-year-old son alleges a “callous” disregard in the face of safety complaints on the set.
The state fines would apply to a film with a budget of about $7 million. Baldwin was assigned a salary of $250,000 as an actor and producer and may have put some of that money back into the production.
Rust Movie Productions says in its filing that all personnel on set were instructed that they had authority to cease activities at any time until safety concerns were resolved, with film union stewards on site to ensure compliance with labor-union safety protocols. | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Film-producers-defend-safety-in-Alec-Baldwin-17165788.php | 2022-05-11T21:29:29Z | https://www.sheltonherald.com/news/article/Film-producers-defend-safety-in-Alec-Baldwin-17165788.php | false | 32 |
As political aspirants gear up for their parties primaries, a frontline female aspirant for the Etsako federal constituency in Edo state, Zaynab Ikaz-Kassim, has stated that her interest to contest for the ticket was to bring the dividends of democracy to the door steps of the people of the constituency.
Ikaz- Kassim, who is vying under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), declared her intention to run shortly after she picked her expression of interest and nomination forms, lamenting that past representation had pauperized the people at the constituency and promised to change the narrative if given the opportunity.
Speaking to journalists in Benin City, Ikaz -Kassim said, “Earlier today, I picked up my expression of interest and nomination forms to run for the House of Representatives to represent Etsako federal constituency.
“This decision was borne out of my desire to be the voice of my people and to represent them at the National Assembly.
“Over the past years, my people have been poorly represented and I believe I have the capacity to swing the odds in their favour and ensure that the dividends of democracy, which have been flying over our heads since 1999 reaches our people.
“It is heartwarming to see people of high caliber showing interest to participate in this political season, I wish us all a good run.
“Interestingly it is a consensus that Auchi should produce the next member of the House of Representatives and as an inbred daughter of Auchi with the strength of character, youthful energy, and gender-focused, go-getting spirit, I believe I am the best candidate, who can easily garner the support of women and youth.
“I have lived a life of service to people nationwide and I believe now is the time for me to give back to my people, and I’m happy that I’ve taken this bold step after all these years of people asking me to go into full time politics”. | https://www.blueprint.ng/2023-etsako-needs-fresh-air-zaynab-ikaz-kassim/ | 2022-05-11T21:30:07Z | https://www.blueprint.ng/2023-etsako-needs-fresh-air-zaynab-ikaz-kassim/ | true | 2 |
A man who killed his victim after beating him with a baseball bat at their Audlem home has today been jailed for eight years and six months.
Daniel Griffiths was sentenced at Chester Crown Court after being convicted last week of manslaughter of Andrew Guy.
Griffiths, 43, was found guilty of killing Andrew after he believed he was chatting up his partner.
He repeatedly beat Andrew with a baseball bat shortly after he had sent his partner the text message ‘on way babe, 10 mins’.
After the attack at Griffith’s property on Stafford Street, Audlem, Andrew returned to his mother’s home in nearby Buerton.
But the 54-year-old was in significant pain throughout the night and the following morning his body was found by his mother.
The attack happened in October last year after Andrew had travelled to his mother’s home by train from Bournemouth where he had been living for around four months.
Andrew arrived at the home of Griffiths and his partner at around 7pm to bring them drugs.
Griffiths dragged Andrew in and out of the property and used a baseball bat to hit him in the stomach and leg.
The blows to his leg left him with dented marks which he covered with a T-shirt.
Andrew managed to drive back to Buerton and collect a takeaway in Market Drayton before telling his mother what had happened.
The following morning Andrew was found in the bathroom. An ambulance attended but paramedics and his mother could not revive Andrew. | https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2022/05/11/audlem-man-jailed-for-eight-and-a-half-years-for-manslaughter/ | 2022-05-11T21:30:30Z | https://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2022/05/11/audlem-man-jailed-for-eight-and-a-half-years-for-manslaughter/ | true | 1 |
Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis declared victory in his third election Tuesday in a packed catering hall, flanked by friends in the Hudson County Democratic Organization (HCDO).
The results had gone Davis’ way. He and his entire team of city council candidates had won and were celebrating alongside Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, County Commissioner Anthony Romano, Hoboken Council President Michael Russo, among others.
It wasn’t a time to dwell on turnout, which had been abysmally low for a contested election.
And it wasn’t worth worrying about the potential for a runoff — Davis had clocked in at 51% of the vote on election day. He said he’d been anticipating taking 51% to 53% of the vote in the three-way race with Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski and Dr. Mitchell Brown.
But when back-slapping and glad-handing ends, people in Hudson County political circles will be asking why the sitting mayor, with the power of the HCDO behind him, couldn’t get out the vote Tuesday.
Up in Union City, where HCDO counterpart Mayor Brian Stack had won a fifth full term, turnout was much higher. There, about 30% of voters had gone to the polls even though there was no opponent on the ballot.
In Bayonne, just 23% voted in the mayoral election, nearly 10% off the 32% turnout for the 2018 race between Davis, Jason O’Donnell and Brown.
Even with a legitimate challenge from City Council President Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski, only about 10,000 Bayonne residents had been inspired to weigh in on the race.
In a county where the democratic machine reigns supreme, it wasn’t the powerful performance that might inspire the HCDO to offer the mayor more political sway than he already has, even if his city council slate of Neil Carroll, Jacqueline Weimmer, Gary La Pelusa, Juan Perez and Loyad Booker all won.
Booker, who led all at-large candidates in votes, will be the city’s first Black councilmember when he is sworn in on July 1.
Davis did what was expected of him, but didn’t overperform, explained Seton Hall political science professor Matt Hale.
“He’s going to be safe,” Hale said. “He’s going to be OK. No one’s going to punish him or anything like that, but he hasn’t shown that he can do anything better than expected.”
Exceptional turnout can mean opportunities to be put up for state-level elections or appointments or to influence more local races, Hale said.
Assemblyman William Sampson IV, Davis’ hand-picked candidate, easily won his first election in November and stood behind the mayor Tuesday during his victory speech. But beyond elected seats that directly represent Bayonne, Davis might be limited, Hale said.
While 318 provisional ballots and late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots have not been tallied, Ashe-Nadrowski would need to win more than about 75% of the provisional votes to force a runoff, an unlikely scenario.
The mayor attributed the closeness of the race to Davis fatigue.
“After eight years some people just get tired,” he said on election night. “For your first term, it’s always good; second term, people like what you’re doing, they want to keep you here; third term, they might want to be looking for new ideas; fourth term — we’ll talk about that in four years.”
But even if it was close, Davis did enough to win.
“The big power of any machine is the ability to turn out voters in any election under any circumstances,” Hale said. “It’s a zero-sum game. All that matters is winning.” | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/05/did-low-turnout-in-bayonne-elections-send-a-louder-message-than-jimmy-davis-victory.html | 2022-05-11T21:30:31Z | https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/05/did-low-turnout-in-bayonne-elections-send-a-louder-message-than-jimmy-davis-victory.html | true | 1 |
(WXYZ) — A growing number of vaccinated people are dying from COVID-19, but data shows booster shots can lower the risk.
Omicron’s highly transmissible variants are part of the reason. But waning vaccine protection is also contributing to higher deaths for those who are fully vaccinated.
Federal data shows that during the height of the delta wave, almost 19% of COVID-19 deaths were among the vaccinated. That number jumped to 40% in February, when cases were surging because of omicron.
Now, this does not mean that our vaccines are not working. They have saved millions of lives and continue to do so.
It is still the unvaccinated that continue to have the highest risk of severe illness and death than those who are fully vaccinated, meaning two doses of Moderna’s or Pfizer’s vaccine, or Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot dose. In fact, the unvaccinated’s risk of death is about five times higher.
Our older population continues to be most at risk. About three-quarters of deaths this year have been seniors. They were the first in line to get COVID-19 vaccines. Many people are now a year out from getting the first shot.
But boosters can add protection. Data tells us that people who were only fully vaccinated had a three times greater risk of death from COVID-19 than people who got their booster shot.
So, all adults, aged 18 and up, really should get a booster dose. All Americans aged 50 and up and those who are immunocompromised over the age of 12 should get a second booster dose, especially since numbers are going up nationwide as well as in Michigan.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, metro Detroit has moved from low risk to medium risk. That means cases are up and so are hospitalizations.
Deaths are not up yet, but they typically follow. That’s most likely due to the more transmissible subvariant, BA.2. It makes up about three-fifths of cases. And its sublineage, BA.2.12.1 makes up about 30% of new cases in the U.S.
So please, once again, I will remind you all to get fully vaccinated, boosted and then a second booster if you’re eligible. Being vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones.
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See complete coverage on our Coronavirus Continuing Coverage page. | https://www.fox47news.com/covid-19-deaths-in-vaccinated-people-rise-but-boosters-significantly-lower-risk | 2022-05-11T21:31:31Z | https://www.fox47news.com/covid-19-deaths-in-vaccinated-people-rise-but-boosters-significantly-lower-risk | true | 4 |
MANILA – A poll watchdog on Wednesday said disenfranchised voters can file charges against the Commission on Elections for damages by using an “overlooked” law.
On election day Monday, there were multiple reports of defective VCMs, alleged ballot-snatching in some provinces, and allegations of voters being asked to leave their ballots at the precinct.
Legal Network for Truthful Elections executive director Ona Caritos said “there is an overlooked provision in the Civil Code" in Article 32, which provides that "any public officer or employee who directly or indirectly obstructs, defeats, violates, impair any of the following rights, including the right of suffrage of another person shall be liable to the latter for damages.”
In the panel discussion led by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the University of the Philippines Department of Political Science, Kontra Daya Convenor Malou Turalde-Jarabe said the Comelec and its partners should not downplay these reports.
"Each vote is important … Also Smartmatic and F2 Logistics. They were given a huge contract, they were given enough time to prepare. And they promised to us that they are well prepared but the results otherwise,” she said.
“It is difficult to be confident with the results of the elections because we were able to gather numerous complaints on the ground.”
Kontra Daya collected over 4,000 reports of fraud and election-related violence, of which 1,370 “have been verified”.
Out of the verified reports, 42% of these incidents involve machine incidents.
“We should hold them accountable for whatever inconveniences, glitches or malfunctions that occurred during election day, especially among the senior citizens, the PWDs,” National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections Systems group head Lito Averia said.
Rohana Hettiarachchi, secretary-general of the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL), added: “The trust, because whatever the system, whatever the election, whatever the country – the main, main issue is the trust.”
Despite these issues, there were good points observed during the 2022 election, one of which was the vibrant voter turnout.
“It was impressive to see the very widespread levels of participation across the country, and I would particularly note that these elections were conducted against the background of the pandemic and the challenges that it brought,” Peter Wardle, team leader of the International Election Expert Mission to the Philippines, the Carter Center said.
Caritos added: “What is striking in the conduct of the elections last Monday is the will of the people to actually fight and be vigilant about their votes … This is the first time that the voters are really adamant, they’re forcing their way, they’ll wait for the machines to be repaired, or they’ll wait that they will be the one to insert the ballot in the VCM and wait for the resibo.”
LENTE believes that this year’s election is “credible”, but expressed “reservation” since they still have to conduct the random manual audit.
The Comelec was also able to pull off an election despite the challenges, they said.
“It is right to acknowledge that the Comelec made a good effort, I think, to balance the response to this as best they could. It is almost impossible to perfectly observe all the health requirements at the same time, and perfectly observe every aspect of the electoral requirements,” Wardle said.
He added the poll body also established mechanisms to enable people to trust the process.
“In general, we found that our analysis in the election process, there were no significant gaps in the process, and in particular ... We are impressed by the fact that in the Philippines, there are a number of mechanisms which are running on either alongside or as a channel the automated voting to help build trust in the process,” he said.
Activists and youth groups had called to take to the streets, after Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. held a sizable lead in the presidential elections, based on the partial and unofficial results of the poll body's canvassing.
As of 9:47 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, Marcos had 31,048,319 votes. His closest rival, Vice President Leni Robredo, had 14,798,295, based on the Comelec's partial and unofficial results of canvassed votes.
Despite Marcos' considerable lead, Robredo, the face of the opposition, has not bowed out of the presidential race, as of writing, but read a statement early Tuesday calling for calm.
Her camp said it is seeking the help of experts in looking at the allegations of poll irregularities.
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PLAINS TWP. — U.S. Senate hopeful Dave McCormick stopped by D's Diner on Wednesday morning to rub elbows with potential voters ahead of next week's primary election.
McCormick, who is locked in a tight race with celebrity physician Mehmet Oz and conservative commentator Kathy Barnette for the Republican nomination, shook hands and chatted with people over breakfast as part of a "Diners with Dave" tour in an effort to drum up support as Tuesday's election fast approaches.
McCormick told reporters a recurring theme he's heard on the tour has been concern about surging inflation, energy policy and what he described as President Joe Biden's "open-border policy." He urged Republican voters to select him because he said he has the knowledge and determination to address their concerns.
"The stakes in this could not be higher," McCormick said. "We've got to have someone who wins the primary, can win the general election — someone who has the leadership, the credibility, the resilience, the toughness to get through the biggest Senate race in history, and then go to Washington and actually fight from day one."
Diners at the restaurant at 587 E. Main St. on Tuesday morning included Wilkes-Barre Twp. Mayor Carl Kuren. On Friday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will accompany McCormick for a "can't miss conservative rally" being held at the Wilkes-Barre Twp. Volunteer Fire Hall, but Kuren said he had been unaware McCormick was stopping by the same Plains Twp. diner he chose for breakfast Wednesday.
Kuren, who talked to McCormick about the Wilkes-Barre Twp. Settlement Camp and its upcoming Kids Fishing Derby, said he came away from the conversation with a favorable impression.
"I liked him. I think he's down to earth," said Kuren, a Republican. "I haven't decided (who to vote for) yet, but after I met him, I'm leaning toward voting for him."
Another diner, Nanticoke resident Joe Falkowski, said he meets at D's Diner monthly with a group of fellow retired carpenters and that he also had been unaware of McCormick's visit. After speaking with the candidate, Falkowski said he found McCormick personable and that he was leaning toward giving him the vote because they have shared values.
"I like what he stands for. I've been doing my research," Falkowski said. "Except, he was in the Army. I'm not going to hold that against him. You know, we're all Navy guys."
McCormick, 56, is a former hedge fund executive. He served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in the administration of former President George W. Bush.
He and the other contenders are vying for the seat of Republican incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey, who announced in 2020 that he is not seeking reelection. | https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/election/mccormick-hosts-meet-and-greet-at-plains-twp-diner/article_626cacd7-4f0e-59c1-9a40-3e90762d3b92.html | 2022-05-11T21:33:28Z | https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/election/mccormick-hosts-meet-and-greet-at-plains-twp-diner/article_626cacd7-4f0e-59c1-9a40-3e90762d3b92.html | true | 2 |
Expect Coyote sightings as pupping season peaks
Coyotes will roam a wide area searching for food, sometimes crossing through neighborhoods and densely populated areas looking for an easy meal.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WWAY) – Coyotes are common throughout North Carolina, even in cities and suburbs, but often go unnoticed because they are very good at avoiding people.
However, biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission say that coyote sightings spike in the spring, so it’s imperative to know what attracts them, and what to do if you see one.
Coyotes prefer to raise their young in secluded areas, but keeping a litter of pups well-fed and healthy means scouting for food at all hours and covering a large territory.
Coyotes will roam a wide area searching for food, sometimes crossing through neighborhoods and densely populated areas looking for an easy meal.
Coyotes mostly eat rabbits, small rodents, insects, fruits and dead animals, but will also dine on outdoor pet food and food scraps left near homes.
Smaller pets, such as cats and small-breed dogs, should always be closely supervised when outdoors, as they can easily be mistaken for a coyote’s natural prey.
Dog-proof fencing, which is at least 6 feet tall and prevents digging underneath, is the only guarantee of a no-coyote zone, but there are other ways to keep coyotes from hanging around.
“Try to remove any food sources that could attract coyotes and find ways to actively make the area uncomfortable for them,” says Falyn Owens, extension biologist for the Wildlife Commission.
Owens offers these tips to deter coyotes:
- Feed pets inside and keep food waste in secure containers. If you feed pets outside, set specific feeding times and remove the dishes and spilled food afterward.
- Keep fruit and bird seed off the ground. They can attract coyotes and their rodent prey.
- Keep cats and small dogs on a leash or harness whenever they are outside.
- Haze coyotes away from homes and businesses. Examples include waving your arms and shouting forcefully until a coyote leaves, spraying them with a water hose or throwing small rocks in their direction.
Pup season brings an added factor to interacting with coyotes.
“Coyotes typically avoid confrontations with people, but they are diligent parents. A coyote that has young pups nearby is more likely to stand its ground rather than run away. If you are passing through a brushy or wooded area and notice a coyote watching you or following you at a distance, there could be a den nearby,” said Owens. “Calmly leave and notify others to avoid the area if you are near a public trail. Coyotes will move on once their pups are old enough to survive outside of the den.”
Coyotes rarely attack people, but sometimes take an interest in our pets.
Keep cats indoors, and if you are walking a small dog and notice a coyote watching or following you, pick up the dog and haze the coyote until it leaves.
Teaching a coyote to have a healthy fear of people is a great way to discourage unwanted behavior and foster coexistence.
If you have questions about interactions with coyotes, you can click here to be directed to the N.C Wildlife Commission’s website. | https://www.wwaytv3.com/expect-coyote-sightings-as-pupping-season-peaks/ | 2022-05-11T21:35:22Z | https://www.wwaytv3.com/expect-coyote-sightings-as-pupping-season-peaks/ | false | 9 |
Jada Pinkett Smith, in 2019: “I don’t call mine with Will marriage, we are a partnership”
JAdama Pinkett Smith returned to the public sphere on her Red Table Talk show, broadcast live on Facebook. The actress, presenter and businesswoman has attracted attention after the recent incident of Will Smith with Chris Rock at the Oscars.
The latest rumors point to a divorce between the marriage, which shows a fracture in the relationship. Already in 2018, Jada Pinkett he rated their relationship differently on his show.
On that occasion, Stephen Curry’s family (Golden State Warriors star and NBA MVP) was protagonist. The driver traveled to North Carolina. There he was able to chat with the player’s wife, Ayesha Curry and with the mother of this Sonya Curry.
Sonya, who was married to the former player Dell Curry (later they separated), he talked about his marriage, which came to exceed 30 years of marriage. As a result of that conversation, Jada Pinkett also opened up about her relationship with Will Smith.
“Did you know that I am 21 (years of marriage)?Jada revealed. To which Sonya replied, “You can do it. It’s possible.” An answer that caused laughter from the people involved in the conversation.
At that time, the relationship seemed to go through a sweet situation. But the presenter’s words resound at this moment: “We don’t really call it marriage anymore, we call it partnership“.
“We are life partners, we are at a different stage of our union. I know that unions go through many stages,” summed up Jada Pinkett. Precisely, the couple will be going through a really complicated period. | https://d1softballnews.com/jada-pinkett-smith-in-2019-i-dont-call-mine-with-will-marriage-we-are-a-partnership/ | 2022-05-11T21:35:23Z | https://d1softballnews.com/jada-pinkett-smith-in-2019-i-dont-call-mine-with-will-marriage-we-are-a-partnership/ | true | 2 |
Here's everything you need to know from the Google I/O 2022 keynote today
It's Google I/O keynote day! Once a year Google kicks off its developer conference with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, finally unveiling so many of the things they've been working on behind-the-scenes lately.
Didn't have time to tune into the whole two-hour presentation? We get it — that's why we've packaged the biggest news up in an easy-to-digest, easy-to-skim list. Lets dive in!
Google finally makes a smart watch
"Here’s something to wrap your brain around: Google has never made its own smartwatch" writes Brian Heater — but "all of that will change this fall."
Details are still very light (much of whats out there now actually leaked ahead of time) but Google has shown off the first official images of its first Pixel watch, which is expected to launch later this fall. Find all the details here.
Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro
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Last year, Google tried something new at I/O: they showed a bit of info about their new flagship Pixel phone — then the Pixel 6 — but saved most of the information for another announcement a few months later.
They're doing the same thing this year with the announcement of the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Details like price and release date are still under wraps, but here's what we do know: it'll run Android 13, and use the next generation of Tensor chip. It borrows much of its design from the Pixel 6, including the raised "camera bar" that runs across the back. Want more? Check out the full post here.
Pixel 6a
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Google is taking much of what made the already-very-good Pixel 6, shaving down some of the specs to get the price down to $449 (from $599), and releasing it as the Pixel 6a. Its got a smaller screen (6.1" vs 6.4"), less RAM, and downgraded cameras — but it still has things like Google's custom Tensor chip, the Titan M2 security chip, and 5G support. Find the full breakdown here.
Pixel Buds Pro
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Pixel Buds with noise cancellation! At last! These $199 earbuds are also IPX2 sweat resistant, and use things like beam forming mics, mesh wind blockers, and bone conduction to improve how you sound on calls. Find Brian's overview here.
The Next Google Glass?
Like many of the other products today, Google was light on specifics — but just as they wrapped the keynote, Sundar Pichai played a quick demo reel of what appears to be an ongoing AR glasses project in the same spiritual vein as Google Glass (albeit in a much less jarring form factor). One particularly wild thing hinted at was live transcription/translation — think subtitles for real life, with a speaker's words rendered in your view. Check out Brian's notes here.
Pixel Tablet
Google is making Android tablets again! Eventually.
Teased today, Google won't actually ship the new "Pixel tablet" until sometime in 2023. Besides the fact that it's in the works, though, Google is saying pretty much nothing about it.
Google Wallet
Google has long offered Google Pay, an Android app where you could store digital credit cards for contactless payments. They're now expanding the concept with a new app called Google Wallet, which will also "allow users to store things like credit cards, loyalty cards, digital IDs, transit passes, concert tickets, vaccination cards and more." The roll out process varies a bit depending on what country you're in — find all those details here.
Google Assistant Improvements
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Google Assistant is getting quite a bit smarter! Frederic has the full breakdown here.
More natural communication: Google Assistant will now be able to better understand when you've flubbed a command, or when you need a second to figure out what you're trying to say. The example given on stage had the speaker say "Can you play that new song frommmm....", with Google Assistant responding by saying "mmhmm?" and waiting for them to finish their thought.
Look and Talk: On Google Assistant devices with a camera built in (like the Nest Hub Max), you'll no longer have to say "Hey Google" before asking a question — just look at the device, and it'll use things like proximity/head direction/gaze direction to understand that you're asking it a question.
Quick Phrases: Nest Hub Max will now let you use certain often-used commands, as picked by you, without first saying the hot word. So you can just shout "What time is it?" or "Turn off the lights" into the room and Google Assistant will act accordingly.
Google Maps Improvements
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Google Maps is picking up a few new tricks — check out Sarah's full post here.
"Immersive" view: Google Maps is getting a new 3d exploration mode, starting in select major cities, allowing you to zoom around a 3D model of that city to get a better sense of where everything is. As their data set expands, that 3D model will grow to include the interiors of popular restaurants and locations.
Eco-friendly routing expansion: Late last year Google launched a feature that let you choose your route to optimize for vehicle efficiency, rather than just whatever's fastest. It'll expand that feature to Europe later this year.
Live View for third parties: Back in 2019, Google started rolling out a feature that used your phone's camera and the buildings/landmarks around you to determine exactly where you are in the world for more accurate navigation — most commonly, to figure out which direction to walk when you've just started a new route. Google says it's opening this tech up to third parties, showing off examples like helping concertgoers find their seats or helping commuters find where to park their rented e-bikes.
New languages for Google Translate
Google Translate is learning dozens of new languages, with a focus on "languages with very large but underserved populations". Additions include Quechua, Guarani, Aymara, Sanskrit, and Tsonga. Google says that many of the languages they're adding today would've been technically impossible to support even just a few years ago, enabled today only by advances in machine learning. Find all the details here.
Virtual credit cards in Chrome
Google Chrome will now be able to generate a "virtual" credit card number meant to keep your real credit card number safe. Should the virtual number ever get stolen, you just revoke it and generate a new one without the hassle of getting a whole new card. Here's all the details.
A better understanding of skin tone
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In addition to its work around Real Tone for more accurately capturing all skin tones in photos, Google is aiming to improve its understanding of skin tone within search results. "For example," writes Aisha, "if you’re looking for 'bridal makeup looks,' you’ll have the option to find results that work best" for a specific skin tone. | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-everything-know-google-o-192737082.html | 2022-05-11T21:36:33Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-everything-know-google-o-192737082.html | false | 2 |
HYDERABAD: Health minister T. Harish Rao on Wednesday launched the ‘Telangana Diagnostics’ app for mobile phones. The app, available on Google Play, will help patients locate the nearest government run diagnostics centre, facilities available at different centres, track status of diagnostics tests, view and download reports, and also lodge grievances.
Speaking after launching the app at the Narsingi hub of Telangana Diagnostics, the state run health tests organisation, Rao said patients are required to undergo various tests and Telangana Diagnostics provides access to many of them for free.
He said so far, the government has opened 20 radiology labs where X-Rays, 2D Echo for the heart, ultrasound, and ECG tests are done. In addition, as many as 57 tests can be performed at any of the 350 Basti Dawakhanas and in the days to come, the number of tests that these facilities can provide will be ramped up to 134, he said. Patients using this app, he said, can also view their past medical histories.
Since the launch of Telangana Diagnostics, as many as 27 lakh people have availed its services, he said, adding once results come, free medicines and treatment are provided, and if required, patients are admitted to larger government hospitals for treatment.
Harish Rao also said the bed strength in various government hospitals was being increased. For instance at NIMS Hospital, the number of beds will soon rise to 2,000 from 1,400. Both NIMS and Gandhi hospitals will also soon have 200-bed mother and child care units.
The government, he said, will soon be issuing notifications to fill 13,000 vacancies in the state health department.
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Lifting immensely-restrictive zero-COVID-19 policies in China amid the continued presence of the virulent omicron variant would cause a significant rise in new infections and nearly 1.6 million deaths, said a new study.
The peer-reviewed research, conducted by Shanghai’s Fudan University and published in the journal Nature, said the decision to remove the strict mitigation measures would cause around 112 million symptomatic cases of COVID-19, five million hospitalizations and 1.55 million deaths.
The study’s authors said the country’s lackluster efforts to vaccinate its most vulnerable populations are a factor in the dismal projections.
“We find that the level of immunity induced by the March 2022 vaccination campaign would be insufficient to prevent an omicron wave that would result in exceeding critical care capacity with a projected intensive care unit peak demand of 15.6-times the existing capacity,” read the study.
Reports indicate China’s president, Xi Jinping, has not offered any signal of wavering from his country’s stringent protocols of mass testing, surveillance, lockdowns quarantine and isolation, despite growing concerns surrounding the financial and social costs of the restrictions.
The World Health Organization’s director general, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said during a briefing Tuesday that he felt China’s current approach to maintaining the outbreak was not “sustainable considering the behavior of the virus.”
Researchers said the projected death toll would primarily come among those 60 and older who are not yet vaccinated.
The study was published as Beijing, China’s capital, faces a surge of new infections, according to reports, with officials racing to stunt the outbreak’s growth. | https://www.silive.com/news/2022/05/study-eliminating-zero-covid-19-policy-in-china-could-cause-16-million-deaths.html | 2022-05-11T21:45:07Z | https://www.silive.com/news/2022/05/study-eliminating-zero-covid-19-policy-in-china-could-cause-16-million-deaths.html | false | 1 |
ATLANTA (AP) _ Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AVAH) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $25.3 million.
On a per-share basis, the Atlanta-based company said it had profit of 14 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 4 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 6 cents per share.
The home health care services provider posted revenue of $450.5 million in the period, which beat Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $432.8 million.
In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, the company's shares hit $2.58. A year ago, they were trading at $11.21.
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The Senate’s plenary session has adopted on Wednesday the legislative proposal for the amendment of the Offshore Law, which regulates the oil operations of exploration, development, exploitation of oil fields both in offshore and deep onshore oil perimeters. The Romanian state will have the right of preemption for the acquisition of natural gas, according to the text of the law.
The draft bill act was adopted by 91 votes in favor and 13 against. On Tuesday, the Senate Finance and Energy Committees had issued a joint admission report on the Black Sea Offshore Gas Exploitation Act, with 17 votes in favor and 2 against.
USR has filed a threat to transfer the proceeds of gas to Pillar II pensions. The amendment was rejected in plenary with only 21 votes in favor and 65 against.
According to the Energy Minister, Virgil Popescu, the first gas will be extracted from the Black Sea in the second part of this year.
The Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu, also underlined that by amending the current law, the investments in the Black Sea will be unblocked and the investments in the deep onshore will be accelerated, while the security in the country’s supply will be ensured in case of energy crisis, and Romania will also be able to become a provider of regional energy security, after producing more than it consumes.
The bill sparked heated debate within the ruling coalition and after months of misunderstandings was tabled in parliament in mid-April. The legislative initiative stipulates that Romania will have the right of preemption to purchase gas and also regulates onshore exploitation. It also regulates a competitive tax regime in such a way that the distribution of revenues is made in a percentage of approximately 60% for the Romanian state and 40% for the investor.
The Senate Plenary session has adopted on Wednesday the legislative proposal for the amendment of the Offshore Law, which regulates the oil operations of exploration, development, exploitation of oil fields both in offshore and deep onshore oil perimeters. The Romanian state will have the right of preemption for the acquisition of natural gas, according to the text of the law.
After the vote of the Senate, the law will also be debated by the Chamber of Deputies, the decision-making body in this case. | https://www.romaniajournal.ro/politics/senate-passes-the-offshore-law/ | 2022-05-11T21:48:29Z | https://www.romaniajournal.ro/politics/senate-passes-the-offshore-law/ | true | 1 |
‘No reason for him to shoot my son’: Navy sailor killed on Mother’s Day; police search for gunman
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) - Police in Wisconsin are searching for the person who shot and killed a 19-year-old Navy sailor who was visiting his girlfriend on Mother’s Day.
Phoenix Castanon was in Wisconsin from Arizona over the holiday weekend.
Castanon’s mother, Tiata Nez-Dunklin, said he enlisted in the Navy last year. Nez-Dunklin is a Navy veteran herself.
“To know that he wanted to follow in my footsteps. His dad was also in the Army,” she said.
West Allis police said the Mother’s Day incident occurred just before 3 a.m. Castanon approached a man in a car who was bothering a woman. During the argument, that man pulled a gun and shot the 19-year-old.
“There was no reason for him to shoot my son. To me, that’s just so cowardly. To use a weapon to take a child, my child’s life,” Nez-Dunklin said.
Castanon’s mother said her son was known for his big heart, always sticking up for others, protecting her, his 15-year-old sister and 9-year-old brother. He was their hero.
“They’re hurting. They’re trying their very best to stay strong, but they’re just as lost as we are, along with his dad,” Nez-Dunklin said.
In their last phone conversation, Castanon’s mother said they said they loved each other, as they always did, and he sent a text message just hours before the shooting.
“He was asking me what I wanted for Mother’s Day. He told me that he loved me,” Nez-Dunklin said.
Now, she’s pleading for help from strangers in a city she’s never been to in helping to find the man who killed her son.
“Anybody can help; just bring justice for my son,” Nez-Dunklin said.
West Allis police urge anyone with more information to contact them at 414-302-8000.
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CALGARY, Alberta (AP) _ Big Rock Brewery Inc. (BRBMF) on Wednesday reported a loss of $1 million in its first quarter.
The Calgary, Alberta-based company said it had a loss of 14 cents per share.
The craft beer maker posted revenue of $6.9 million in the period.
In the final minutes of trading on Wednesday, the company's shares hit $3.11. A year ago, they were trading at $4.97.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Switching to the Republican Party turned out to be a good move for some former Democrats in primary races for the West Virginia Senate.
Mark Hunt and Mike Oliverio won their respective GOP parties Tuesday in their bids to return to the Legislature on the other side of the aisle.
But on the day after the primary, much was left to be decided Wednesday with numerous races too close to call. In the House of Delegates, Wayne County GOP incumbent Josh Booth was behind challenger Mark Ross by a single vote in a district serving Wayne County, and they were counting on provisional ballots to settle the race.
Booth was handpicked by Gov. Jim Justice a year ago to a House seat in place of Derrick Evans, who resigned after his arrest in January 2021 for participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, a month before the start of the legislative session. Evans pleaded guilty in March to his role in the riot and faces sentencing later this year.
In the Senate, Hunt won a three-candidate race Tuesday for the GOP nomination in a district spanning five counties. As a Democrat, Hunt served 14 years in the House of Delegates before losing in the 2016 general election for a U.S. House seat. He also lost a 2018 nonpartisan race for an unexpired term on the state Supreme Court.
Now as a Republican, Hunt defeated former Delegate Joshua Higginbotham and Mark Mitchem by a double-digit margin Tuesday. A fourth GOP candidate, Andrea Garrett Kiessling, was disqualified from running after a successful challenge to her residency. Kiessling had been promoted by West Virginia Senate Finance Chairman Eric Tarr, who lives in another Senate district, as “the only true conservative” in the 8th District race.
Hunt advances to take on incumbent Democrat Richard Lindsay in November. Lindsay ran unopposed Tuesday.
Oliverio used the party-switch method to win his GOP Senate primary, too. The former Democratic senator from Morgantown easily defeated former FBI officer and analyst Carly Braun on Tuesday and will face Democratic Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer in the fall.
Oliverio spent 16 years in the state Senate after serving one term in the House. He won the 2010 Democratic nomination for U.S. House before losing to Republican David McKinley that fall.
In the Northern Panhandle, Owens Brown, a former president of the West Virginia NAACP who was the first Black man to serve in the Senate after his appointment by Justice last October, lost his Democratic primary to former Delegate Randy Schwartzmiller.
Raleigh County incumbent Rollan Roberts won his GOP primary against Delegate Mick Bates. Other Senate GOP incumbents who advanced included Mike Azinger of Wood County, Majority Leader Tom Takubo of Kanawha County and Mark Maynard of Wayne County. Former U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart defeated Chad McCormick of Yawkey in the 7th District GOP primary.
Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin was unopposed in his Democratic primary and will meet another church pastor, Republican Vince Deeds, in November. Deeds defeated two others in his GOP primary in a five-county district in southern West Virginia.
All House candidates ran in single-member districts because of a 2018 restructuring. Previously, some districts had multiple delegates. Because of redistricting, some incumbent lawmakers faced off in the primary in their new districts. Republican George Miller of Morgan County ousted Ken Reed of Berkeley County, while Democrats Ric Griffith and Chad Lovejoy were locked in a tight race in their Huntington-area district.
In Kanawha County, incumbent Democrat Kayla Young and incumbent Republican Larry Pack easily won their respective primaries and will face each other in the fall.
Several other House GOP incumbents lost: Johnnie Wamsley of Mason County to former Delegate Jim Butler, Dianna Graves of Kanawha County to Nitro High School teacher Andy Shamblin, Danny Hamrick of Harrison County to ex-magistrate Keith Marple, and Guy Ward of Marion County to businessman Mike DeVault.
Among other GOP House races still undecided, Raleigh County incumbent Chris Toney led challenger Kase Poling by two dozen votes, Wood County incumbent Shannon Kimes was in second place in a three-way race, and less than a dozen votes separated challenger Bob Fehrenbacher in his race against Wood County incumbent Roger Conley.
Fehrenbacher admitted he was not a registered Republican when he filed his candidacy papers, calling it a simple oversight. He changed his registration to the GOP after the mistake was pointed out and ignored calls from the state Republican Party to discontinue his campaign.
Republicans outnumber Democrats 78-22 in the House, 23-11 in the state Senate and are looking to add to their supermajority this fall. Four senators, including three Democrats, did not seek reelection and eight others were unopposed in the primary. More than half of the House ran unopposed while 15 incumbents, including 10 Republicans, did not seek reelection. | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/After-switch-to-GOP-2-Senate-candidates-win-WVa-17166092.php | 2022-05-11T21:51:08Z | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/After-switch-to-GOP-2-Senate-candidates-win-WVa-17166092.php | false | 14 |
The City of Vancouver is rolling out a pilot project aimed at cutting the number of disposable cups that end up in the region’s landfills.
The pilot, which is being run by Return-It, will see nearly two dozen public and commercial collection points around the city where people can return single-use cups for recycling.
The stations will also eventually allow people to return reusable cups acquired from several of the city’s largest fast food chains.
Read more: ‘It’s as good as new’: Vancouver businesses adopt reusable cup-share programs to reduce waste
The program will support reusable cups from Tim Hortons at launch, with plans to add Starbucks and McDonald’s, Return-It said. Project partner A&W is currently running its own in-house cup share pilot.
The reusable cups will be washed, sterilized and returned to their company of origin to be lent out again.
“This pilot program represents the first step towards implementing a permanent program for reuse and recycling that will keep more cups out of our landfills.” said John Nixon, interim president and CEO of Return-It.
The City of Vancouver implemented a 25-cent fee for disposable cups earlier this year in an effort to cut down on waste.
That program was criticized for disproportionately affecting low-income people, and the city later pledged to help craft a reusable cup program.
“(This program) shows that Vancouver is a leader when it comes to the environment,” Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said.
“Eighty million disposable cups every year go into our landfill, and this really is a city coming together to change that, and doing it in a way that is easy for the public.”
The pilot program will run for six months, while stakeholders evaluate the viability of a wider, permanent program in the city.
The program is launching with four public collection bins and 10 Tim Hortons locations, all in downtown Vancouver, where people can return their cups. Return-it says more bin locations are “coming soon.”
The bins will have separate slots for reusable and single-use cups, along with a drain to empty out any remaining fluids.
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Top Epee Coach Guillermo Madrigal Joins Acclaimed NYC Fencers Club
NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fencers Club (FC) –North America's oldest and most accomplished fencing sport club – welcomes its newest coach: Guillermo Madrigal. Coach Madrigal is a former national coach in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Coach Madrigal has just returned from the 2022 Junior World and Cadet Championships, where one of his most accomplished students won the Junior World's in Women's Epee. He now joins the ranks of FC's past and present fencing masters, who have groomed National Champions, World Champions, and Olympic Medalists throughout the iconic New York fencing club's 139-year history. Coach Madrigal joins a Fencers Club coaching roster that includes three active USA Fencing Hall of Fame coaches; Simon Gershon (2015), Akhi Spencer-El (2020) and Mikhail Petin (2021).
"After an international search to identify and hire an outstanding coach for our Epee program, the Coaches Search Committee fully believe that Coach Guillermo will be an invaluable asset to the Fencers Club community," says Philippe Bennett, Chairman of the Fencers Club's Board of Directors.
Born in Cuba, Coach Madrigal was an accomplished athlete – competing internationally at a senior level, including as team captain of the National Cuban Fencing Team. Coach Madrigal received a degree in fencing and studied all 3 weapons at the University in Physical Education in Cuba. His coaching career started as assistant coach for the Cuban team in 2008. He then moved to Puerto Rico where he was the National Coach from 2012-2015. Coach Madrigal moved to the U.S. in 2016 and since then, many of his students have consistently achieved at the national and international levels.
"New York City is one of the most culturally diverse places in the world, and our fencing community reflects this strength, with club members and board representatives of widely differing backgrounds in terms of ethnicity, color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and age," says Luisa Sanchez, Co-Treasurer and member of FC's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and Coaches Search and Dues Committee. "We are proud to welcome Coach Madrigal, as we continue to diversify our leadership representation to reflect the goals and values of our multifaceted community."
David Niu, FC's executive director, is equally excited for this new step: "We ask our New York City neighbors and the global fencing network at large to join us in welcoming Coach Guillermo to the FC community. We cannot wait to see what we can all accomplish together."
About Fencers Club : Established in 1883, Fencers Club is the oldest fencing club in New York and one of the oldest in the Americas. FC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to the pursuit of excellence through the sport of fencing – both on and off the fencing strip. The club's students have gone on to become not only National Champions, World Champions, and Olympic Medalists, but also Ivy League graduates, doctors, lawyers, and other accomplished individuals dedicated to supporting their communities. We actively support a culture of sharing by performing community services that extend beyond fencing. Fencers Club is recognized by the U.S. Olympic Committee as a Community Olympic Development Program. At least one Fencers Club member has competed for the USA in each Olympic Games.
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PACE Funding helps communities reduce energy and water usage, reach climate change policy goals, prepare for natural disasters
LOS GATOS, Calif., May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Maywood, in Los Angeles County, has voted to approve the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) home improvement financing option, available through the California-based company Home Run Financing. This innovative financing mechanism helps communities upgrade their housing stock to be more energy and water efficient and more resilient in the face of earthquakes and wildfires, while creating good jobs in the clean energy sector.
PACE enables homeowners to make renewable energy, energy and water efficiency, and earthquake and wildfire related upgrades, then pay over time through their property taxes. Because of this payment mechanism, PACE providers must be approved by each city and county.
"PACE is an equity creator," explained Robert Giles, CEO of Home Run Financing. "This financing model opens up access to capital for underbanked, underfinanced communities, including low-income communities and communities of color. These communities have welcomed the PACE model with its inclusive accessibility and robust consumer protections." Maywood has the highest proportion of Latinos and immigrants in Los Angeles County.
Maywood joins Alhambra, Arcadia, Covina, and Montebello, that have added PACE as an option for their property owners since last year. More than 45 cities in Los Angeles County have now approved a PACE program; the following have access to Home Run PACE financing: Agoura Hills, Alhambra, Arcadia, Azusa, Baldwin Park, Claremont, Commerce, Covina, Cudahy, Duarte, El Monte, Gardena, Glendale, Glendora, Inglewood, La Verne, Lancaster, Long Beach, City of Los Angeles, Lynwood, Maywood, Montebello, Monterey Park, Norwalk, Palmdale, Redondo Beach, Santa Fe Springs, Santa Monica, Torrance, Walnut, West Covina and West Hollywood.
"Approving PACE unanimously is a great step forward for Maywood," said Mayor Heber Marquez. "We live with ongoing injustices, inequities, and rising property prices, but PACE brings a new type of hope through equitable financing solutions Latino communities often don't qualify for, bringing efficient water and energy options for homeowners."
The PACE financing model has evolved significantly over the last decade. It now provides the strongest consumer protections of any home improvement financing product, requiring price cap protections on project costs; additional protections for elderly and low-income homeowners; financial hardship protection policies; term verification calls to confirm the homeowner understands their contract terms; a call to verify the project is complete before the contractor gets paid; third-party inspection of the completed project; and rigorous contractor oversight and training, among several other stringent consumer protection measures.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has sidelined manager Terry Francona and several of the team’s coaches, leading to the postponement of their series finale against the Chicago White Sox. Shortly after Francona’s positive test became known, Major League Baseball called off the game at Chicago to allow for more testing and contact tracing. It was the first coronavirus-related postponement in the league so far this season. Guardians bench coach DeMarlo Hale, who was slotted to fill in for Francona, also tested positive, and Cleveland has other coaches support staff members infected with the virus. At this point, it’s unclear who will manage the Guardians when they open a three-game series in Minnesota on Friday. | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2595945784734/marcinkowski-cardoso-lift-earthquakes-past-rapids-1-0 | 2022-05-11T21:54:42Z | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2595945784734/marcinkowski-cardoso-lift-earthquakes-past-rapids-1-0 | false | null |
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HOUSTON — Everything is bigger in Texas, including the vegetables.
A century plant, related to the regular asparagus we get at the grocery store, is becoming a spectacle in Houston.
It’s about two stories tall and is still growing.
This kind of plant only lives for about 30 years.
It only produces flowers once and then it dies.
This giant plant only has a few weeks left before its big goodbye. | https://www.kshb.com/news/national/giant-century-plant-set-to-die-after-it-flowers | 2022-05-11T21:56:48Z | https://www.kshb.com/news/national/giant-century-plant-set-to-die-after-it-flowers | false | null |
A man police spent almost two days looking for after a church was broken into didn’t have anything to say as he was walked into the sheriff’s office Wednesday.
Christian Thomas Hill, 24, of 4479 Rainhill Drive, had warrants active for his arrest when deputies took him into custody Tuesday afternoon. The specific charges against him weren’t immediately available at press time Wednesday.
He was wanted after deputies intercepted a breaking and entering in progress early Tuesday morning, according to information previously released by the Burke County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies had stopped to check on a suspicious vehicle at Missionary Ridge Baptist Church around 1:54 a.m. Tuesday when the church’s alarm was activated and they saw a man leave the church through a window, the sheriff’s office previously said.
They weren’t able to catch up to the man, who they later identified as Hill, and spent Tuesday and Wednesday searching for him.
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BCSO’s criminal investigations division, patrol division and warrant sergeant worked with the Morganton Department of Public Safety and probation officers to find Hill and take him into custody around 3:30 p.m. on Conley Road, said Sheriff Steve Whisenant. Hill also is a suspect in a string of residential breaking-and-entering cases in the area.
“The cooperation and determination of officers from multiple agencies working collaboratively for our citizens is rewarding,” Whisenant said.
Hill didn’t say anything as he was walked into the sheriff’s office Tuesday afternoon, but he did shake his head when a News Herald reporter asked about residential break-ins.
The sheriff said he was proud of the work deputies put in to find Hill.
“You’re always proud of these officers,” Whisenant said. “You look at them, standing there, they’ve been out there as a team, they’ve got the job done and now they move onto the next person. It just makes you proud to see them so dedicated that they are going to go out and find these people and arrest them and take them off the street.”
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The man who helped lead UCF to its undefeated football season in 2017 and inspired NFL fans with his success story playing pro football despite an amputated hand is taking on a new role as godfather of the rebranded Margaritaville at Sea cruise ship.
Shaquem Griffin, who played for the Seattle Seahawks for three seasons alongside his twin brother Shaquill after being drafted in 2018, is now a free agent, having not made the final roster of the Miami Dolphins last year. In the meantime, he will be christening the reimagined ship that had been the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line’s Grand Classica, but will now be known as the Margaritaville at Sea Paradise.
“As a passionate philanthropist, Shaquem’s efforts within our local community align with our own commitment to giving back,” said company CEO Oneil Khosa. “He is a true inspiration on every front. We are honored to have him serve in this very special role as our first-ever godfather.”
The Griffin twins, natives of St. Petersburg, both attended UCF, but Shaquill left for the NFL one season earlier. They authored the book “Inseparable.” Shaquem had his left hand amputated when he was 4 years old because of a congenital condition called amniotic-band syndrome.
He has since served as Grand Marshal of the Special Olympics USA Games and even if he doesn’t make an NFL squad for the next season, the NFL has approached him to act as a brand ambassador. He’s also been involved with Citi Bank’s #StareAtGreatness campaign tied to paralympic athletes.
The brothers also started the nonprofit St. Petersburg Nitro Track Club, to which the cruise line will be making a donation.
Now Griffin will perform a traditional naming ceremony at the Port of Palm Beach on Thursday during an inaugural two-night sailing to the Bahamas before beginning regular service on Saturday.
The nearly 53,000-gross-ton, 1,308-passenger ship with its new overlay of the Jimmy Buffett empire brand will continue the two-night voyages between the Port of Palm Beach and Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas. Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line launched service in 2016 with its original vessel Bahamas Celebration, since sold and scrapped. Grand Classica began service in 2018.
What the company called a multimillion rebranding features the signature Jimmy Buffet Margaritaville stylings in its cabins, suites and open spaces, calling it “casual-luxe design with subtle nautical details and colors influenced by the surrounding sea, sand, and sky.”
On board are brand mainstays JWB Prime Steak & Seafood, Frank and Lola’s Pizzeria, Port of Indecision Buffet, LandShark Sports Bar, Margaritaville Coffee & Pastry Shop, Euphoria Lounge, Sunset Bar and 5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar.
The casino is now called the Par-A-Dice Casino while other ship amenities include the Stars on the Water Theater, St. Somewhere Spa, Fins Up! Fitness Center, plus pools and retail.
The ship was built in 1991 at the Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, Italy and originally sailed for Costa Cruises in Europe as the Costa Classica.
More details about the ship are at margaritavilleatsea.com.
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Green government would provide grants for home upgrades
Program would cover some of the costs of green retrofits like heat pumps, insulation, and solar panels
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Ontario Green Party leader Mike Schreiner says he wants to tackle the climate crisis while helping Ontarians save on their utility bill.
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Schreiner was in Sudbury on Wednesday as part of his Northern Ontario campaign tour to announce his party’s plan for a Green Retrofit Program, which would provide grants to homeowners for energy-efficient household upgrades.
“Buildings, depending on how you count climate pollution, are either the second or third largest source of climate pollution in the province of Ontario,” Schreiner said. “So we know that retrofitting our buildings to decarbonize them and to make them more energy efficient is vital to addressing the climate crisis.”
The $160-billion plan proposes providing grants of $15,000 to $20,000 to cover some of the costs of green retrofits like heat pumps, insulation, and solar panels. The plan also includes $2 billion to retrofit non-profit and co-op housing.
“We know that the people of this province need new solutions to old problems,” said Schreiner.
“It is clear that it is now or never to address the climate emergency, (but) at the same time, we are facing a cost of living crisis. I’m the only leader who talked about the climate emergency and the cost of living crisis that we’re facing, how the two are linked, and how the solutions to both are directly connected to each other.”
The announcement took place outside the home of Lively residents Tom and Kim Brose, who had their home fitted with solar panels in 2016.
According to Tom, the upgrade didn’t come cheap.
The couple paid $36,000 to a Toronto company for the original solar panels. After a botched installation, the panels had to be replaced with a more reliable set from local solar energy systems installer, Solar Associates, at a similar price.
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The couple was eager to pursue green upgrades to their home, but the out-of-pocket costs were hard to stomach.
“That’s the reason we moved out of the city and moved here; we want to be as self-sufficient as we can,” he said.
Of the Greens’ proposal, he added, “It would have been nice because it probably would have (taken) some of the initial costs away.”
Solar Associates owner Steve Deforge, who attended the event, said the enthusiasm for green retrofits is present in the North, but so is the hesitation.
“The biggest barrier to entry we find is the capital cost investment and uncertainty,” said Deforge. “People are scared to go pull out loans on their own. We have an extensive waiting list right now, with people that are just waiting for the (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s Greener Homes Grant) $40,000 interest-free loan because it could take the variable of uncertainty out of there.”
Deforge said he hopes a new provincial government will increase transparency in how money is allocated in delivering green subsidy programs, citing concerns over the extensive auditing process homeowners go through to qualify for grants, which can cost the province millions before the retrofits are approved.
“Why do we need to go through these extensive processes to put this on somebody’s roof?” he said. “(Installing solar panels is) almost like fixing a deck.”
Schreiner said the Green Party’s plan would also include an auditing process to ensure grants are used for their intended purpose.
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Still, green retrofits like solar panels can be major cost-savers for homeowners, and can even be a source of income.
The Broses appreciate the flexibility the solar panels provide them, said Tom.
Currently, Ontario households who produce solar power can sell the electricity to Ontario Hydro to go back into the grid. The guaranteed rate starts at $0.39 per kWh, with homeowners able to buy back their energy for personal use well below market value at $0.12 per kWh.
“I care about the environment, as evidenced by my lifestyle. But when you’re facing retirement, and you’re disabled, the extra income is nice.”
Homeowners simply looking to power their own homes can also switch over the net metering, as the Broses intend to do when their contract comes up. The electricity billing mechanism would allow them to store and use their electricity at any time.
“It’s a simple thing to do,” said Deforge. “You go from selling and making money to saving money and producing your own electricity.”
It’s this kind of support that the Greens hope their plan will provide to Ontarians. Schreiner said he it can be beneficial to Northern Ontario residents.
“We believe Northern Ontario, as I’ve said (it) can be and will be the global leader in the new climate economy. And we just need to ensure that we have a government that’s going to provide the support the vision and the ambition to deliver on that.”
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Dundee United 1 Celtic 1
Celtic regained the cinch Premiership title with a game to spare despite being held to a 1-1 draw by Dundee United at Tannadice.
A large travelling Hoops support descended on Tayside knowing anything other than defeat would see their team crowned champions for a 10th time in 11 seasons after Rangers interrupted their run of dominance last term.
Celtic looked set to get over the line in victorious fashion when Giorgos Giakoumakis opened the scoring with his 15th goal of the campaign after the break but Dylan Levitt hit back for the hosts.
In the end, it was a result that suited both teams as Ange Postecoglou was able to savour confirmation of title glory in his first season in charge of the Parkhead side, while United sealed their place in the Europa Conference League qualifiers.
Home manager Tam Courts made six changes to the team that lost 2-0 to Rangers on Sunday as he opted to rest some key men ahead of what could potentially have been a European shootout with Ross County this Saturday.
Celtic had the first opportunity of the night after three minutes but Anthony Ralston fired an angled shot over the bar from 10 yards out after being set up by Matt O’Riley following a quickly-taken corner by Forrest.
The Hoops threatened again five minutes later as Forrest saw a powerful shot from inside the box deflected over by Liam Smith.
Reo Hatate shot over from the edge of the box in the 19th minute and the Japanese midfielder went close again on the half hour when he pinged a powerful angled strike just over from 15 yards out after playing a one-two with Giakoumakis.
United’s first attempt of the match came four minutes before the break when Archie Meekison shot over from the edge of the box.
Celtic made the breakthrough in the 52nd minute when Giakoumakis powered home a close-range header after being picked out by an excellent Ralston cross from the right.
United thought they had equalised five minutes later when Nicky Clark followed up to force the ball home after teenager Rory MacLeod had hit the inside of the post from 20 yards out but the linesman’s flag cut short the hosts’ celebrations.
The hosts went close again in the 62nd minute when substitute Tony Watt headed against the post and Ilmari Niskanen bundled the rebound wide of the target.
Celtic almost doubled their lead five minutes later but United goalkeeper Benjamin Siegrist got down to make a sensational save to stop Jota’s powerful strike from inside the box nestling in the bottom corner. Giakoumakis then shot just wide from 10 yards out as the visitors looked to kill the game.
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The 2023 NFL Draft class has been talked about already with some elite prospects set to be at the top of the board.
While it’s not a guarantee that all of the projected top prospects will declare for the draft, declaring early has become more prevalent, and the odds are out at Caesars Sportsbook for who will be the first overall selection next April.
The 2023 draft is set to have a deep quarterback class unlike 2022, with Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young of Alabama and Ohio State's C.J. Stroud leading the way as early favorites to be the first pick, both at +225.
While neither is a guarantee to be in the draft considering they’re both going into their third college season, Young and Stroud set the world on fire in their second year and will almost certainly declare if they can carry over that momentum into this season.
Young and Stroud would likely be heavier favorites if we knew for sure they would declare, but another Alabama player is very much in the mix to go No. 1 according to the odds.
That would be dominant edge rusher Will Anderson at +350, who’s coming off a season in which he recorded 17.5 sacks and projects to be the first defensive player off the board if he declares early.
It’s all offense after Anderson until Clemson defensive tackle Bryan Breese at +2200, with Cincinnati offensive tackle Paris Johnson and Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba with the next best odds. They’re followed by a trio of quarterbacks in BC’s Phil Jurkovec, Miami’s Tyler Van Dyke and South Carolina’s Spencer Rattler, a transfer from Oklahoma.
After Rattler, five more quarterbacks have odds listed below +4000 to go No. 1, showcasing the depth that this class possesses as opposed to the 2022 class that only saw one quarterback go in the first two rounds.
As for LSU, its top prospect for the 2023 draft appears to be dynamic wide receiver Kayshon Boutte, who has the second-best odds among wide receivers to go first overall at +4000.
ODDS TO GO FIRST OVERALL IN 2023 NFL DRAFT
Odds from Caesars Sportsbook, the official odds partner of Bet.NOLA.com
CJ Stroud, QB, Ohio State (+225)
Bryce Young, QB, Alabama (+225)
Will Anderson, EDGE, Alabama (+350)
Paris Johnson, OT, Cincinnati (+1000)
Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR, Ohio State (+1500)
Phil Jurkovec, QB, Boston College (+1500)
Tyler Van Dyke, QB, Miami (+1800)
Spencer Rattler, QB, South Carolina (+2000)
Bryan Breese, DT, Clemson (+2500)
Anthony Richardson, QB, Florida (+2500)
Kedon Slovis, QB, Pittsburgh (+2500)
Peter Skoronski, OT, Northwestern (+2500)
Eli Ricks, CB, Alabama (+3000)
Jalen Carter, DT, Georgia (+3000)
Nolan Smith, LB, Georgia (+4000)
Kayshon Boutte, WR, LSU (+4000)
Jaren Hall, QB, BYU (+4000)
Justin Flowe, LB, Oregon (+4000)
Will Levis, QB, Kentucky (+4000)
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Christian Yelich bolted out of the box, sprinting around the bases and cruising into third standing up for his first triple of the season.
A very well-timed triple, too.
The Milwaukee Brewers star hit for a record-tying third cycle — amazingly, all of them against Cincinnati. Yelich accomplished the feat Wednesday in a 14-11 loss to the Reds.
“I’d definitely rather win the game,” Yelich said. “Weird things happen in baseball. Any time you can hit for a cycle, it’s pretty cool. I will try to enjoy it as much as possible."
Yelich tripled during a six-run ninth inning rally. His teammates were well aware of the significance, and they stood on the top row of the dugout to applaud him.
Yelich became the sixth player in major league history to hit at least one home run, triple, double and single in the same game three times. He joined Trea Turner, Adrián Beltré, Babe Herman, Bob Meusel and John Reilly in accomplishing the feat.
Earlier, Yelich doubled in the first, hit a three-run homer in the third and singled in the fifth.
Late in the 2018 season, Yelich hit for the cycle twice in a span of three weeks against the Reds.
“A lot of things kind of have to happen to hit the cycle,” the former National League MVP said. “It is hard enough to get four hits in a major league game and to have the right kind, there’s an element of luck. It is still pretty cool.”
Tyler Stephenson drove in four runs with a pair of doubles and Colin Moran hit a three-run homer for Cincinnati. The Reds, with the worst record in the majors, won their second straight series by topping the NL Central leaders.
“All these teams in the league are good -- you have to keep playing, you have to keep going,” Reds manager David Bell said. “Great day offensively. Not only the hits and the RBIs, but just grinding out at-bats, controlling the strike zone, getting guys in base. That created the opportunities.”
Tyler Naquin hit a bases-loaded triple for Cincinnati, which led 7-0 after two innings. Moran homered during a six-run eighth that made it 14-5.
Hunter Renfroe hit two solo homers for the Brewers.
Milwaukee's first six batters reached base in the ninth, including home runs by Jace Peterson and pinch-hitter Mike Brosseau. Joel Kuhnel relieved and gave up a pair of RBI doubles while getting the final three outs.
Reds starter Vladimir Gutiérrez allowed four runs and six hits over 4 2/3 innings. The right-hander exited with a four-run lead and the bases loaded in the fifth, and Alexis Diaz (1-0) came in and struck out Luis Urías.
Adrian Houser (3-3) made it through four innings. He gave up six hits and seven runs, four of them unearned because of two infield errors. Reliever J.C. Mejia was charged with five runs in the Reds' eighth-inning outburst.
“I thought Adrian just getting through the fourth inning was a success," Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said. "Nothing went right for him in the first two innings.”
The Reds scored four in the first on Stephenson's RBI double and Naquin's bases-loaded triple off the center-field wall that came about a foot short of being a grand slam.
The Reds loaded the bases again in the second. After Houser fanned Mike Moustakas for the second out, Stephenson struck again, driving in all three in with a double to left.
Tommy Pham drove in two more runs for the Reds in the eighth with a bases-loaded single, followed by an RBI single by Moustakas to cushion the lead.
Brousseau and Peterson homered off Dauri Moreta in the ninth.
TYLER ON A TEAR
Stephenson has hit well since coming back from concussion protocol May 3. Since then he is 11 for 29 and bumped his batting average to .322. The regular catcher, he went 3 for 5 as the DH in Wednesday's lineup.
“He’s a presence in our lineup, in our clubhouse, behind the plate,” Bell said. “He is going to need some days off here and there, but when we can keep him in the lineup he showed today how important he is.”
TRAINER'S ROOM
Reds: LHP Mike Minor (shoulder) is scheduled to make his second rehab start at Triple-A Louisville on Sunday. He could make his season debut next week. ... Bell said OF Jake Fraley (knee inflammation), 1B Joey Votto (illness) and OF Nick Senzel (illness) all are getting close to rehab assignments.
UP NEXT
Brewers: After an off day, open a weekend series with Miami. RHP Corbin Burnes (1-2, 1.86) is scheduled to get the start against RHP Pablo López (4-1, 1.00 ERA).
Reds: Open a four-game series with the Pirates. RHP Connor Overton (0-0, 2.53) is scheduled to go against RHP JT Brubaker (0-2, 5.68 ERA). The Reds took two of three against Pittsburgh at Great American Ball Park last weekend.
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Dividend Aristocrats are great places to be when the market waters get really rough. While they still get knocked down during bear markets, their dividends tend to offer a glimmer of certainty amid turbulent times.
The payouts of Dividend Aristocrats have held up during past crashes, crises, and everything in between. With growing fear that we’ll fall into a bear market and recession, insisting on quality may prove a wise decision.
In this piece, we used TipRanks’ Comparison Tool to evaluate three of the most enticing Dividend Aristocrats that have outpaced the broader S&P 500 on a year-to-date basis.
Chevron (CVX)
Chevron is a big oil company that Warren Buffett has been loading up lately. Following the Oracle of Omaha’s latest helping, Chevron is now a top-four holding in Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio.
Year-to-date, shares of Chevron are up over 40%, much higher than the S&P 500, which is down around 17%. With the stock fluctuating at around $164 per share, the stock could be at risk of a pullback if the broader markets are able to find their footing.
In any case, the reality of higher oil prices seems to be sinking in for many. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, $100 per barrel of oil may be here to stay. If that’s the case, Chevron will be rich with cash flow over the next 18 months.
Though it’s hard to chase a stock that’s already taken off, it’s worth noting that the valuation is still incredibly cheap. The stock trades at just 15.12 times trailing earnings, with a 3.5% dividend yield. It’s not a mystery why Buffett likes the big oil firm. Energy stocks are one of the few places to hide from broader volatility, and Chevron is arguably one of the best of the bunch.
With a healthy balance sheet and top-tier production growth, Chevron appears to be one of the Dividend Aristocrats that can keep powering higher, even in the face of a recession.
Wall Street analysts are bullish, with the average Chevron price target of $171.58 suggesting 4.3% upside potential from current levels.
International Business Machines (IBM)
IBM is an old-time technology company that’s also held its own relatively well amid the market correction. Shares of IBM are down just 2% year-to-date. While IBM’s innovative capabilities may be subject to scrutiny, there’s no denying the value and dividend yield—currently at 5.1%—to be had in the name.
It’s been years since Berkshire Hathaway has thrown in the towel on IBM. Though the low valuation metrics and high yield were present, the stock had continued to be a perennial underachiever – and it continues to be to this day. Shares are still down from their 2013 highs, even when adjusting for dividends. It’s been around nine years, and the stock has still yet to recover.
Moving ahead, there are reasons for optimism. The company’s margin-dampening Kyndryl (KD) business has been spun off, and it could pave the way for margin expansion.
Although IBM’s latest first-quarter results beat by two pennies, management’s guidance was quite encouraging. Still, it will be difficult for the firm to sustain a rally if an economic recession is approaching.
Looking to Wall Street, analysts are bullish, with the average IBM price target of $152.11 implying 15.7% upside from today’s levels.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Johnson & Johnson is another Dividend Aristocrat that’s actually up ~3% year to date. The healthcare behemoth recently came off a modest earnings beat ($2.67 versus the $2.56 consensus) despite ongoing supply chain challenges.
The Oncology segment saw 15% sales growth, led by Darzalex and Erleada. Looking ahead, the company expects Pharmaceutical revenues to be around $60 billion by 2025. The ambitious target is realistic and would fuel further dividend increases for investors, regardless of where the economy heads next.
With minimal exposure to Ukraine and Russia, Johnson & Johnson has been minimally impacted by the Russia-Ukraine war. As a healthcare play, the company is also a great defensive for recessionary times.
At writing, the stock trades at 23.8 times trailing earnings and around 5 times sales. With a mere 0.72 beta, JNJ stock is yet another Dividend Aristocrat that should continue outperforming the averages amid a downturn.
The 2.55% dividend yield is modest, but it is incredibly safe and subject to growth over the years as the company looks to meet its 2025 top-line targets with or without a recession.
Wall Street analysts are bullish, with the average Johnson & Johnson price target of $193.36, implying 9.4% upside from current levels.
Conclusion
Dividend Aristocrats may very well be one of the best places to outpace the S&P 500 in a pretty ugly 2022. So far, they’ve fared well. Solid fundamentals should pave the way for more of the same. Currently, IBM stock has the highest implied upside potential at 15.7%, while Chevron has the lowest at 4.3%.
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A new study has found more than a third of people who use drugs in Vancouver have reported a decline in the quality of drugs during the pandemic.
Researchers from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, UBC, Curtin University and the Burnet Institute Behaviours and Health Risks Program in Melbourne, Australia carried out the study — together with co-authors who included people with lived and living substance use experience.
They surveyed 738 people who use drugs and found 272 people or 36.9 per cent of those surveyed reported a decline in drug quality. Those who reported a decline in drug quality were far more likely to have experienced a non-fatal drug overdose, as well as frequent injection or stimulant drug use.
Individuals who used stimulants were far more likely to report a decline in drug quality. Despite a major focus on opioids as being the drug most related to fatal overdoses, the B.C. Coroners Service found cocaine use was related to 46.2 per cent of deaths from 2019 to 2021.
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“The perception is that it’s the toxic drug supply of opioids that is killing people, but contaminated stimulants are also killing a high number of stimulant users,” says Kali Sedgemore, study co-author and a youth harm reduction and peer navigator/supervisor with Molson Overdose Prevention Site and Mobile Unit in Vancouver. “Many youths rely on stimulants as a survival tactic to stay safe, alert and protect themselves on the streets. Harm reduction and other services would help to support these realities for young people.”
The findings are consistent with previous research from the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, which found 50 to 70 per cent of respondents globally reported that the quality of drugs declined during the pandemic.
Researchers believe the decline in drug quality was related to border control measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. Those measures accelerated the trafficking of fentanyl and analogues through the mail while causing interruptions in the production of methamphetamine and heroin.
The unregulated, toxic drug supply in B.C. is the reason why so many people are dying from overdoses. Drug samples collected by B.C.’s Community Drug Checking programme found fentanyl contamination in 79 per cent of opioids and an increased presence of benzodiazepines in the drug supply.
“If anyone is still wondering why overdoses are continuing at rates higher than ever, they just need to look at the drug supply,” says Dean Wilson, study co-author and peer engagement lead with the BC Centre on Substance Use.
“The supply first became more unpredictable in 2016. What happened? People died. In 2020, the supply got worse and more dangerous. What happened? More people died. The drug supply is killing people. Regulate drugs and get people access to a safer supply, where they know what they’re using.”
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What hearsay objections mean at the Depp v Heard trial
Hearsay objections have been raised frequently during testimony
Those who have followed the defamation trial opposing Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in Virginia will have become familiar with the term “hearsay”. It has been frequently brought up in objections by either party’s legal teams, prompting some questions about what hearsay is, why it’s not admissible as evidence in a court of law, and whether it might be used under special circumstances.
During witness testimony, particularly when Mr Depp and Ms Heard have taken the stand themselves, their respective attorneys have been known to interject with the words: “Objection, hearsay.” Objecting on the basis of hearsay is a way for an attorney to ask for a statement that has just been made to be dismissed as evidence.
Hearsay, according to the Federal Rules of Evidence as published by Cornell Law School, is a statement that “the declarant does not make while testifying at the current trial or hearing”, and “a party offers in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement.”
In other words, and as summarized by the legal company LegalZoom, hearsay is “testimony or documents quoting people who are not present in court”.
“It is not hearsay for someone to comment on something said by another witness in court,” notes the legal resource website HG.org. “But, if the statement occurs outside of court, where the judge and jury could not hear it, then it may be hearsay.”
As for the “truth of the matter” part of the legal definition, HG.org offers this example: “If John calls Sue at 2 in the afternoon from his cell phone and says ‘I just saw Paul shoot someone,’ the statement would be hearsay if offered to prove that Paul shot someone. But, if the statement is offered to prove that John made the phone call before the victim was shot, this could be used as evidence that John lied about seeing Paul shoot someone and that he may be implicated himself since he knew about it before it occurred.”
There are hearsay exceptions that make it possible to accept statements made outside of court as evidence. For example, if a statement is considered an “excited utterance”, then it might be acceptable as evidence. The reason for that rule is that, per LegalZoom, it is generally considered that “during or immediately following a criminal act, a person is not likely to have the presence of mind to lie or give false statements”.
Other exceptions exist, for example for statements that go against a person’s own interests.
A statement doesn’t have to be made orally in order to constitute hearsay, it can also be made in writing. There exists an exception here too: some documents, including business records and government records, may be admitted into evidence.
Law & Crime analyst Gene Rossi, speaking to the network in comments highlighted by TheWrap in a recent article, pointed to a judge’s discretion in sustaining or overruling hearsay objections.
“I think the judge has tremendous judicial temperament – I strongly disagree, respectfully, with a lot of her rulings,” Rossi said. “... Technically, hearsay is whatever I say – I’m on the witness stand, and I’m saying something ... outside the courtroom, that is technically hearsay, because it’s a statement outside of the courthouse.
“In my 30 years of practicing law, 99 percent of the judges did not care what I said if I’m on the stand and I’m quoting myself outside the courtroom, because I’m there to be cross-examined.”
He called Judge Penney Azcarate, who has presided over the Depp v Heard trial, a “purist” in that regard, adding: “She’s sustaining that objection, because academically, technically it is hearsay, but practically in my experience 99 percent of judges allow it, because I’m on the stand to be cross-examined.”
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San Francisco boba tea shop was front used to sell items stolen in car burglaries, DA says
A San Francisco boba tea shop was used as a front in a widespread scheme to fence thousands of items taken in vehicle burglaries, authorities said Tuesday.
After a citywide investigation by the San Francisco district attorney's office into a rash of car burglaries, Quoc Le was arrested and charged with 12 counts of possession of stolen property — eight felonies and four misdemeanors, prosecutors said.
Investigators had set up bait cars with laptops and other items in plain view, then tracked the items after they were stolen. One of the laptops led them to Le and the boba shop in the Tenderloin district, which the San Francisco Chronicle identified as a Quickly cafe owned by Le's wife, who was not charged with a crime.
At the shop, the district attorney's office said, authorities recovered about 1,000 electronic items and $13,000 in cash Monday.
Le, who the district attorney's office alleged was a known fence, took possession of the bait laptop in a parking lot, and the computer was traced to the boba tea shop, then to FedEx and through the delivery process.
Additionally, two victims of car burglaries, including one from Morgan Hill, more than an hour's drive south of San Francisco, tracked their stolen electronic devices to the boba shop.
Investigators obtained search warrants to track Le's car and gained access to his cellphone and shipping and business records.
"Through this work, investigators were able to establish a pattern of Mr. Le buying and selling stolen goods from all over the Bay Area out of his business," the district attorney's office said in a release.
Some of the stolen goods were shipped to Southern California and internationally to Vietnam and Hong Kong, officials said.
"Car break-ins have been a longstanding problem in San Francisco for at least the past decade," San Francisco Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said in the release. "We hope that this sends a strong message to deter anyone considering breaking into a car or buying stolen goods: we are watching, and you will be held accountable."
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As I went through a few insurance companies' websites looking to buy travel insurance, I noticed that while all adults pay the same premium, those who are at least 70 years old have a much lower medical expenses compensation limit.
This can be as low as 25 per cent of that paid to those below 70.
This feels unfair. With people living longer and borders being reopened, more and more older folk are travelling, and they need better insurance coverage.
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The UConn men’s basketball team has added another guard to what coach Dan Hurley hopes will be a perimeter-oriented group in the coming season. Hassan Diarra, a 6-foot-2 guard who played last season at Texas A&M, announced Wednesday afternoon that he will be transferring to UConn.
Diarra, who is originally from Queens, announced his decision via social media.
Diarra is the third transfer to choose UConn this offseason, joining East Carolina’s Tristen Newton, and Virginia Tech’s Naheim Alleyne.
UConn has seen four of its players transfer out: guard Corey Floyd Jr. (Providence), guard Jalen Gaffney (Florida Atlantic), guard Rahsool Diggins (UMass), and forward Akok Akok (Georgetown).
Hassan Diarra is the brother Mamadou Diarra, the former UConn forward who is now a graduate assistant coach in the program.
Hassan Diarra averaged 6.2 points and 1.4 assists last season for the Aggies. He is expected to have three years of eligibility remaining.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Republicans struggled to put the bruising campaign for governor behind them on Wednesday as a rally that was intended to highlight party unity instead showed division following the first major loss for a candidate endorsed by Donald Trump in this year’s midterm elections.
Fissures remained evident in the hours after the primary was called for Jim Pillen, a University of Nebraska regent backed by Gov. Pete Ricketts and other prominent Republicans.
Charles Herbster, the Trump-backed candidate who finished second, appeared briefly at the event but left immediately afterward without taking questions or endorsing Pillen. Herbster, a businessman and cattle breeder who faced groping allegations from eight young women during the campaign, has a lawsuit pending against one of his accusers, a Republican state senator.
Another top contender, state Sen. Brett Lindstrom, did not attend the post-election unity gathering, as is customary for losing candidates. He endorsed Pillen on Tuesday night after conceding the race.
Regardless of any lingering hard feelings, Pillen will be a strong favorite against Democrat Carol Blood, a state senator, in November. Nebraska, a Republican stronghold, has not elected a Democrat as governor since 1994. Ricketts is prevented by term limit laws from running again.
“I know when you or your candidate is on the losing side, sometimes it becomes pretty darn difficult to come together,” Dan Welch, the state Republican Party chair, said in a speech at the rally. He added: "But if you think about what brings us all together as a party, it’s not the candidates. What brings us together are our conservative ideologies, our conservative principles and our philosophies.”
The discord highlights the dangers for Republicans of Trump wading into primary contests where other GOP leaders have endorsed different candidates. The stakes will only get higher later this month for Trump in primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia as he seeks to reward allies and punish enemies before a possible run for the White House in 2024.
Trump lashed out at Ricketts in a statement Wednesday that referred to him and others as a “RINO,” short for “Republican in Name Only.” The former president had defended Herbster during in-person and telephone rallies with Nebraska voters, saying the allegations against the candidate were politically motivated. Trump has previously denied sexual assault allegations of his own using similar language.
Pillen struck a unifying tone in his speech at the rally.
“I think that what’s important today is we focus on tomorrow,” he said, adding, “I will work very, very hard to earn the rest of the Republican votes, eyeball to eyeball, handshake to handshake, all across the state.”
During the campaign, Herbster and Lindstrom both faced television attacks from Conservative Nebraska, a political action committee heavily bankrolled by Ricketts, a wealthy former executive and the son of billionaire TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts. The family has spent millions of dollars over the years to help their chosen candidates and causes.
Herbster denied allegations from eight women, including state Sen. Julie Slama, that he had groped them, and he accused Ricketts and Pillen of conspiring to spread the story; both men denied that. Herbster has filed a defamation lawsuit against Slama, who responded with a suit of her own accusing him of sexual battery.
Herbster campaign spokeswoman Emily Novotny said Wednesday that Herbster “is going to continue pursuing all legal avenues until his name is cleared.”
“This lawsuit was never about the governor's race, but about returning honor to Mr. Herbster's reputation,” she said in an email.
Slama's lawyer did not immediately reply to email and phone messages. After the race was called for Pillen, Slama tweeted, “God Bless Nebraska” with an American flag emoji.
State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, who helped form a legal fund to defend Herbster's accusers, said her group had not decided yet whether to disband. “He lost. We need to move on,” said Linehan, a Pillen supporter.
Ricketts, in an interview, said it was important for Republicans to come together against Blood and any other Democrats running in November. He said Pillen had a better ground game and message that resonated with voters.
“Endorsements only carry you so far, especially endorsements from outside the state,” Ricketts said. “What Nebraskans want to know is what you're going to do, and one of the things Jim Pillen did was have the best grassroots campaign to get around the state and tell people directly. That's why he won.”
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Rockwell Medical (NASDAQ:RMTI) came across our desk as an attractive value play with plenty of potential. This company operates in the iron deficiency market where its goal is to improve patients' lives through its respective treatments. First off, the stock is cheap from both a dollar standpoint as well as from a valuation one. Shares are trading with an ultra-low sales multiple of 1.2. The 10-year average for example comes in at 4.5. Furthermore, the stock is optionable which means we have the opportunity to reduce basis by selling options against a basket of shares.
The undervaluation of the shares can really be seen on the long-term chart below. Shares dropped well under $1 a share late last year but have already rallied over 30% off their lows since last October. From a technical perspective, we would be taking a "wait and see" stance here for the following reason. Momentum for example really accelerated to the downside prior to the bottom shares printed last October. This means we continue to see bearish divergences on the RSI momentum indicator.
From a sheer technical standpoint, we would be first looking for the 10-month moving average ($1.45) to be taken out before contemplating putting long deltas to work in here. Investors only need to look at where the share-price traded around 2014 and 2015 to see the potential here. Therefore we do not mind giving up some upside here. If indeed, rising prices are ahead of us, we should be seeing some bullish trends in the financials and fundamentals. Therefore, let's delve into the most recent quarterly earnings report to see where we stand.
From a forward-looking earnings standpoint for example, analysts who cover this company definitely see potential. Earnings in the most recent third quarter met expectations at -$0.08 but projections are expected to significantly improve in Q4 and beyond. Although net profit in fiscal 2021 is expected to also be negative, consensus expects a 74% improvement in EPS (-$0.19) over 2020. Therefore it is fair to say that investors undoubtedly will be asking when the company will finally be able to generate a profit. Followers of our work will be fully aware that our value picks almost always are profitable either from an earnings standpoint or a cash/flow standpoint. Rockwell's cash/flow generation long-term record is very similar to its earnings record - predominately negative.
In fact, top-line sales have been the only key financial metric which has held its own over the past decade (1%+ annual growth on average per year) and management reiterated this on the latest earnings call. In fact, the forward sales multiple of 0.93 looks very attractive due to the 62% expected increase in top-line sales in 2021 ($110 million).
Although margins have been shrinking, Rockwell's sound revenue base gives the company a firm footing in dialysis clinics in the US. Rockwell hopes to gain more momentum from Triferic AVNU rollout as it should be able to piggy-back on top of the success of Triferic Dialysate to date.
Momentum though is not only expected from the home market but also internationally in markets such as China, India & South Korea where Rockwell has already made inroads. The size of the market here though is key for the bulls not just with respect to the amount of people who need iron but also how the condition is generally treated. Intravenous iron for example has to be administered frequently to patients due to the limitations of current treatment options (Tablets, etc).
This is where Rockwell's FPC (Ferric Pyrophosphate Citrate) platform could be a key fundamental driver for the company. The reason being is that through this platform, iron can be immediately available to organs irrespective of inflammation (which traditionally restricts the flow of iron) and can be administered at home. Therefore, management intends to develop this platform for new indications not solely in the iron deficiency segment but also in other areas where there are large unmet medical needs.
To sum up, although we expect solid momentum from the roll out of Triferic AVNU in due course, the real potential in Rockwell's eyes will be the upcoming trials in FPC for both home infusion therapy and congestive heart failure. If Rockwell can gain some solid wins here, the share price should easily bounce into double digit numbers. We though will wait for some solid resistance levels to be taken out first starting with the 10-month moving average. Rockwell has serious potential but the COVID situation may also delay matters somewhat over the near-term. Let's see what the fourth quarter brings.
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Continuing with its slew of launches and announcements as part of the two-day Intel Vision 2022 being held here, the tech major unveiled Project Amber on Wednesday. Project Amber represents an independent trust authority in an innovative service-based security implementation code.
At the event, the company also focused on enabling secure and responsible AI, and outlined its strategy to further build quantum-resistant cryptography for the coming quantum computing era.
“As organizations continue to capitalize on the value of the cloud, security has never been more top of mind. Trust goes hand in hand with security, and it is what our customers expect and require when delivering on Intel technology,” said Greg Lavender, chief technology officer, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel.
“With the introduction of Project Amber, Intel is taking confidential computing to the next level in our commitment to a zero-trust approach to attestation and the verification of compute assets at the network, edge and in the cloud,” he added.
Intel plans to launch a customer pilot of Project Amber in the second half of 2022, followed by general availability in the first half of 2023.
At the event, Intel also demonstrated how it is accelerating AI deployments in ways that are responsible and secure to help customers and partners solve complex problems.
For instance, through a partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine’s Federated Tumor Segmentation or FeTS initiative, it used a set of Intel hardware and open-source software technologies to improve the training of AI models to locate brain tumours. Intel’s technology helped ensure each institution participated in improving the fidelity and quality of the inferencing algorithms by using Open Federated Learning (OpenFL). OpenFL enabled 55 institutions across six continents to collaborate while preserving the security and privacy of their individual datasets. The resultant AI model improved efforts to locate tumours by 33%, Intel said.
Quantum-Resistant Cryptography
Intel is also developing a rich cryptography technology pipeline for innovations that are quantum-resistant. This includes built-in crypto acceleration in the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable platform providing next-generation security without sacrificing performance.
To proactively address threats posed by quantum computers, the company has developed crypto guidelines for Intel products, actively contributed to post-quantum crypto standardization efforts and is evaluating the new families of crypto algorithms being considered for standardization by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
(This Correspondent is in Texas at the invitation of Intel)
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Wednesday took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting devices.
The latest additions to its six-year-old Pixel brand will include Google’s first smartwatch that draws upon the features and expertise it has gained from last year’s $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness gadget maker Fitbit.
The new watch, targeted for an autumn release, marks Google’s first major attempt to make its mark in wearable technology, a market that has been growing steadily since Apple introduced its smartwatch in 2014. Until now, Google’s presence in the smartwatch market had been limited to making a version of its mobile Android operating system for watches made by other companies.
Google also used its annual I/O developers conference to tease a Pixel tablet that it is scheduled for release next year to compete against Apple’s market-leading iPad.
Besides showcasing its upcoming devices, Google also previewed the next version of its Android operating system, which runs most of the world’s smartphones outside Apple’s iPhone. It also highlighted several advances in the field of artificial intelligence.
Google’s emphasis on new devices signals that a company best known for its dominant search engine and other popular internet software is confident it now has a better handle on how to design and manufacture hardware. It released its first Pixel smartphone in 2016.
“It takes a long time to build the capabilities, and now you are seeing very visibly that technology be expressed through many different products,” Rick Osterloh, the executive in charge of Google’s device division, told reporters earlier this week. “It was like an iceberg in that you didn’t see a lot what was happening underneath, but now you can really see all these things coming to the surface.”
Because it already brings more than $200 billion annually in digital ad sales, Google can afford to branch out into different directions and find new ways to connect with people, said Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen.
Adding more products to the Pixel line-up “gives them another touch point to learn and experience things with people more directly,” Nguyen said. “Now, they not only be in your pocket, but now they can be on your wrist, and in your ears, too.”
Before launching its smartwatch, Google will be fleshing out its selection of Pixel phones with a new budget model called the 6a coming out in late July, along with its first set of wireless ear buds to include noise cancellation.
The Pixel 6a will include Google’s top-of-the line processor but sell for $449 — a 25% discount from the slightly more sophisticated Pixel 6 released last fall. The Pixel Buds Pro will sell for $199. Both products are scheduled for a July 28 release.
Because it already brings more than $200 billion annually in digital ad sales, Google can afford to branch out into different directions and find new ways to connect with people, said Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen.
Adding more products to the Pixel line-up “gives them another touch point to learn and experience things with people more directly,” Nguyen said. “They not only be in your pocket, but now they can be on your wrist, and in your ears, too.”
The watch will be the first product to test a privacy pledge that Google made to gain regulatory approval for its Fitbit takeover 16 months ago. As part of the deal, Google promised not to collect the health and fitness information accumulated through Fitbit features to sell digital ads that generate most of its revenue — a commitment that the company said it will honor with the new Pixel Watch.
Although they still aren’t anywhere as popular as phones, smartwatches continued to make significant inroads with projected worldwide shipments of 31.3 million units this year, up from 18.5 million in 2019 before the pandemic helped stoke even more demand for internet-connected gadgets.
Even after pouring billions of dollars into a hardware division that now employs thousands of people, Google hasn’t made major inroads.
Despite occasional glowing reviews, Pixel smartphones have less than a 1% share of the global market for the devices, according to the research firm International Data Corp. All told, IDC estimates that fewer than 30 million Pixel smartphones have been sold since the release of the first model nearly six years ago. By contrast, Apple shipped more than 56 million iPhones during the first three months of this year alone, according to IDC.
But IDC analyst Nabila Popal said there are signs that the Pixel smartphone line is starting to gain more traction. She believes the Pixel 6 would have sold even better than it already has were it not for chip shortages that have hurt a variety of products, increasing the chances that the lower priced 6a model will be “very well received.”
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Investigations into WASA shooting ongoing
A police investigation into Tuesday’s shooting and wounding incident at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) headquarters at Farm Road, St Joseph, is ongoing.
Police said around 7.30 am, a 32-year-old WASA employee was injured when gunmen in a Nissan Wingroad drove into the carpark and shot him.
Estate constables who saw the incident shot at the men before they escaped. Police later retrieved the car used in the shooting, which had been abandoned in Curepe.
The wounded employee was taken to hospital.
In an update on Wednesday police told Newsday he had been discharged and no one has been held in connection with the matter.
WASA’s chairman Ravindra Nanga told Newsday on Wednesday that the authority has, over the past two months, improved its security measures for the safety of its workers.
“I recall there was an incident at Macoya WASA office, but that didn’t have anything to do with WASA operations, or it didn’t affect WASA’s operations.
“There was a recent protest action that turned unruly, and since then we have increased security as well."
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Louisiana governor slams bill that could jail women for abortion
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat with a history of opposing abortion rights, came out Wednesday emphatically against legislation that could subject women to prosecution and prison for getting abortions.
Edwards told a Baton Rouge civic club he would veto a measure by Rep. Danny McCormick, an Oil City Republican, according to news outlets.
Later, he issued a statement calling the bill “anti-woman.” He called it “patently unconstitutional” and said it would criminalize some types of contraception and parts of the in vitro fertilization process.
McCormick’s bill, set for debate in the state House on Thursday, was introduced in March. But it got its first legislative hearing last week, less than two days after the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion indicating the high court is preparing to overturn decisions upholding a constitutional right to abortion.
It makes abortion a crime of homicide for which a woman ending her pregnancy could be charged, along with anyone helping her. It also declares that any federal law, regulation or court ruling that allows abortion is void and that any judge who blocks enforcement of the bill’s provisions could be impeached.
“In addition to the fact that this legislation is patently unconstitutional, this bill would criminalize the use of certain types of contraception, as well as parts of the in vitro fertilization process, and it could even serve as a barrier to life-saving medical treatment for a woman who is suffering a miscarriage,” Edwards said. “To suggest that a woman would be jailed for an abortion is simply absurd.”
In addition to the anti-abortion governor, the bill has also drawn opposition from the anti-abortion organization Louisiana Right to Life, as well as numerous groups supporting abortion rights.
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‘It’s a dirty job:’ How traps are keeping trash out of the Chattahoochee River
Last year alone, the devices kept 2400 pounds of trash from reaching the river.
ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) - A group dedicated to protecting one of metro Atlanta’s most precious waterways is using traps to keep trash out – and they appear to be working.
Sitting on the water’s edge of the Chattahoochee River, near Vinings on Wednesday, Karen Baker stopped to admire what she considers a beautiful slice of nature.
“It’s peaceful,” Baker said looking at the river. “The water is so clean and clear. Like that drew me in.”
However, keeping the 435-mile river, which is used for drinking water and recreation, free of litter is no easy task. Jason Ulseth with Chattahoochee Riverkeeper said the biggest pollution threat to the river is stormwater runoff.
“One of the most common types of pollutants that we find in these tributaries and in the Chattahoochee River is trash,” he said.
One solution to the problem are trash traps. The environmental advocacy nonprofit maintains 10 trash traps, placed in tributaries across the metro, that empty into the Chattahoochee River. Two more traps are in the LaGrange area.
“We’re finding that they’re highly effective in screening out the trash out of these waterways before it’s making its way into the Chattahoochee River,” Ulseth said.
Ulseth said when it rains, debris pours into creeks and storm drains, which empty into the river. Instead of letting the garbage flow all the way down stream, the traps, which are mostly in urban areas, intercept the trash. Storm Water Systems helped the group install a ‘bandit model’ last month in Chamblee’s Dresden Park.
“Once you get into the groove of it, it’s actually pretty peaceful being out here in the water,” said Jordan Yu, a watershed protection specialist employed by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper.
Yu, who admits the job is dirty, cleans the traps by hand after each rainfall, pulling out mostly plastic and Styrofoam. The trash is separated and recycled, if possible.
“You have to be careful, especially sometimes there’ll be hazardous material that people litter that gets caught up in the trash trap,” Yu said.
Last year alone, the devices, which are anchored by cables but can rise and fall with the water, kept 2400 pounds of trash from reaching the river. Ulseth said the group is testing other trap prototypes and plan to add more in the future.
“Whether you like to go fishing tubing or kayaking, or if you just like to drink clean water, we all use the Chattahoochee River,” said Ulseth. “And we all have to do our part to protect it. These trash traps are just one tool in the toolbox to do that.”
“I think that those traps are incredibly necessary to keep this and preserve it the way it is,” Baker added.
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper still welcomes volunteers. The group has pulled 2.5 million pounds of trash from the river since 1994, according to Ulseth.
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Asked to define innovation today, most IT leaders will agree: It’s all about digitization and finding new and better ways of thinking about processes and services to solve a problem.
“Around here, we think of it as a stool with three legs: quality/safety, patient satisfaction, and cost efficiencies,’’ says Sam Amirfar, CIO and chief medical information officer at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Chris Manriquez, vice president of IT at California State University, Dominguez Hills, sees innovation as “the rapid, practical application of digital technologies to resolve present and emerging needs.’’ And it’s about developing new digital or tech-enabled spaces, which could incorporate elements of the metaverse, he says.
For Vishal Gupta, global CTO and CIO, and senior vice president of connected technology at Lexmark, innovation is about making things cheaper, better, and faster. What’s different in 2022 is that because of the pandemic, digital transformation has no longer become a question of whether to move to the cloud but how and when, he says.
IT has proved its innovative capabilities because businesspeople are finally looking at technology more seriously, Gupta says. CIOs and CTOs are now “getting a bigger seat at the table because a number of companies are demonstrating that even if they’re not a tech company, they need to be tech-enabled. Innovation is what is driving their growth because the corporate world is all about growth and profitability and sustainability.”
But there’s a school of thought that technology should not be the sole focus to demonstrate a culture of innovation. There’s more to innovation than technology, says Ron Adner, a business professor at Dartmouth College and author of Winning The Right Game: How to Disrupt, Defend and Deliver in a Changing World.
Adner maintains that companies that talk about innovating often fall into the trap of being too focused on their technology — and not focused enough on their innovation ecosystem.
The innovation illusion
To be innovative, IT organization must incorporate three elements, Adner says. And it starts with looking beyond your own execution requirements and having more awareness of the external capabilities you’re plugging into. That expands the sense of what is actually possible, he says.
The second facet is having an awareness of the priorities and constraints of your external partners; lastly, it’s about developing an alignment mindset that goes beyond the ability to execute a plan, Adner says. “You need to put a high priority on getting partners to be willing to play the game you’re trying to get them to play.” He characterizes this as an “ecosystem innovation” because it requires other people to adjust and develop a new capability and interact with either your organization or their customer or some other third party in a new way.
This involves having a strategy separate from having APIs, he adds. An alignment mindset changes what you want to do as well as how you want to compete and is needed to bring external partners into a cohesive structure. “This is a critical part of what a culture of innovation needs to look like in 2022,’’ Adner says. “It’s as much about managing collaboration as it is allowing for creativity.”
It is an illusion to believe deploying modern technology alone is enough, he adds, because there is a difference between being up to date and being innovative. “When you’re innovative you’re using tools you have to do something new,’’ he explains. “Updating your toolset with modern technology is not enough — it only gets you to the starting line.”
A CIO should get credit for doing the hard work of migrating legacy systems to more modern technology, Adner notes, but it’s different than claiming you’re innovative for doing so. Connecting new systems to new initiatives is “how you move from an operational stance to a strategic stance.”
There’s also a difference between an innovative organization and an organization that innovates successfully, Adner notes. “An innovative organization is one that keeps coming up with new ideas. An organization that innovates successfully is able to bring the right players into the right place around the new innovation that is the value proposition you’re trying to drive.”
Here’s a look at some new ways IT leaders are innovating in their organizations.
Creating mini shark tanks
At Lexmark, Gupta has initiated a process called Focus to Future, or F2F. Twice a year, he holds a meeting in every key geography where Lexmark has a presence in which engineers team up with at least one other person for a couple of days to create a simple proof of concept detailing an idea they have. The teams compete for a pot of money, which is generally $50,000 for the winner to build out a working prototype.
Lexmark
The teams are required to do a video demonstrating the problem while explaining the proof of concept, Gupta says. The video is meant to encourage communication skills, he adds.
The most recent F2F garnered around 80 ideas and Gupta says leadership created “mini shark tanks” with two winners in each of three geographic regions. “They had their projects ranked and they all got different levels of money,’’ he says. “We were able to take some of them forward and invested money in some to see what we could productize.”
The latest winning idea was Optra Edge, a camera that does a visual inspection of products on a factory floor. The camera is embedded with AI and flags any quality issues it finds. “We launched the product in our own factory and found it eliminated almost 95% of errors we’re seeing and now we’re productizing it to sell it to the market,’’ Gupta says.
Another idea was for a gaming product that has been funded beyond the prototype stage. “The idea is a lot of people in the gaming industry have hundreds of thousands of cards and they don’t know how to manage and trade them,’’ he says. The hardware has software embedded with scanning functionality that aims to give gamers a good idea of how much their collection is worth, with the ability to trade and reduce friction, Gupta says.
F2F has had two types of impact: It gets employees more engaged in being part of the company and that helps with retention, he says. It also “obviously helps us get more interesting products out and it helps Lexmark be seen as a more innovative company.”
Predicting the sickest patients with AI
In addition to standing up a telemedicine program in three weeks after the start of the pandemic, Brooklyn Hospital’s IT department is using AI to try to predict who are the sickest patients in the hospital.
“What’s surprising is in 2022 … if you ask the hospital director, ‘Who’s your sickest patient,’ obviously, it’s people in the ICU,’’ Amirfar says. But there are another 200-plus patients throughout the hospital on regular floors, and during the height of the pandemic, it was hard to figure out who wasn’t doing well, he adds. This created the challenge of knowing where to deploy doctors and nurses to patients who maybe weren’t as sick as those in the ICU but needed additional care, he says.
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
The hospital implemented an AI program about a year ago to learn about its patients, he says. The program monitors four vital signs: blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximeter, and breathing rate at regular time intervals, depending on the patient.
The program is trained to identify patterns in those vital signs. “We tell [the algorithm] periodically, ‘This person in bed 10 did well or didn’t and had to go to the ICU,’ so the program looks back at the patterns of the preceding 12 or 24 hours,’’ Amirfar says.
Once the AI learns enough to make good predictions, “we will let it loose,” hopefully in the next couple of months to analyze information, look for patterns, and keep making predictions, he says. IT will also look at where the algorithm needs to be improved.
Amirfar expects there will need to be some fine-tuning, so that if a patient takes a lead off their chest to go to the bathroom and their pulse goes down to zero, “it’s not because they passed away,’’ he says.
Amirfar doesn’t like to use the term AI, “because it implies a machine is becoming smarter by the minute — it’s not about number crunching and pattern recognition.” It’s more important that a machine learns common sense, such as “someone’s going to the bathroom, so stop recording,” he says.
The hospital created a “nerve center” with servers and monitors and data analysts who actively monitor the AI system for those 200-plus patients and make sure everything is running smoothly.
If they are able to come up with an effective AI model using the four elements and package it, Amirfar envisions sharing the software with other healthcare institutions that over time can improve on it to monitor their beds, he says. They can also create “a decent nerve center for $10,000 to $20,000,” he says.
The investment in the program has been small, he says, “and the return could be huge. We realize it’s a bit of a Hail Mary pass. But we’ll learn something.”
Innovating to address the realities of life
Cal State Dominguez Hills has a very diverse population and socioeconomic challenges, according to Manriquez. “Given those realities, our campus has … an innovative, forward-looking, and can-do attitude.”
While the pandemic forced the university to turn to technology to keep functioning like most academic institutions and organizations, the school did more. IT implemented an esports program complete with an incubation innovation lab where students can go beyond classic gaming and learn elements of design to create avatars, for example. They can also learn application and business development, Manriquez says.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
“We were using digitally-engaged functionality to address deficits presented during COVID so students could continue their educational paths,’’ he says. “One of the big deficits in higher education is [students] losing connection with an institution.”
Gaming/esports is an emerging technology at Cal State Dominguez Hills, he adds. “In some places, it’s becoming competitive, like D1 baseball or football, where people can receive scholarships.” Similarly, it’s now a burgeoning career path for young adults.
For students who didn’t have internet access, the university also loaned about 2,000 mobile devices during the lockdown and made wireless MiFi connections available for high-speed connectivity, Manriquez says.
IT also developed an iOS app for those who are food insecure. The app advertises different food pantries on campus as well as food available after an event has ended. It also lists different food resources available off-campus.
“We consider that innovative — addressing needs,’’ he says.
Don’t rest on your laurels
If you think you’ve achieved a culture of innovation, chances are you haven’t, maintains Dartmouth’s Adner. “A culture of innovation is one where people are constantly striving and supporting change in a productive way, so it’s a dynamic state — it’s not a level you reach and now you rest.”
CIOs and IT organizations would do well to heed a quote from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that it will always be “Day One” at Amazon, he says. “The motive behind that was if you stop [acting like a startup], you’re no longer innovating,’’ Adner says. “It’s not something you reach, it’s something you sustain.’’ | https://www.cio.com/article/100000324/cios-look-to-foster-innovative-it-cultures-post-covid.html | 2022-05-11T22:49:27Z | https://www.cio.com/article/100000324/cios-look-to-foster-innovative-it-cultures-post-covid.html | true | 1 |
Anyone with a 2022 Minnesota fishing or hunting license can receive a free camouflage and blaze orange Minnesota Twins logo cap thanks to a special ticket offer.
The Minnesota DNR Days partnership includes four more games this year: Saturday, June 25, vs. the Colorado Rockies at 1:10 p.m.; Sunday, July 3, vs. the Baltimore Orioles at 1:10 p.m.; Tuesday, Aug. 16, vs. the Kansas City Royals at 6:40 p.m.; Friday, Sept. 9 vs. the Cleveland Guardians at 7:10 p.m.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) _ Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS) on Wednesday reported a loss of $4.9 million in its first quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Grants Pass, Oregon-based company said it had a loss of 10 cents. Losses, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, came to 2 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of seven analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was breakeven on a per-share basis.
The drive-thru coffee chain operator and franchisor posted revenue of $152.2 million in the period, which topped Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $144.2 million.
Dutch Bros expects full-year revenue in the range of $700 million to $715 million.
Dutch Bros shares have decreased 32% since the beginning of the year.
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Poetry is what registers its impact on us and gets assimilated in the blood and nerves and one sees the world differently after encountering it. Wani Nazir is a poet who leaves indelible imprints on readers and as such he succeeds as a poet.
Unlike most of poets of newer generation, he is immersed in the Tradition to stamp his individual talent and we hope to get more and more gems in future from him if he succeeds in distancing himself from experience, and approaches it as an artist who sees or contemplates and doesn’t react – who appreciates the value of what has been called “stasis” and “recollection in tranquillity.”
An artist has no self as Keats said and as such doesn’t judge life or events but mirrors it and in the process transfuses its meaning by immersing himself/herself in its midst to appreciate its glory and beauty beyond the binaries of pleasure and pain.
A great poet who teaches generations doesn’t get hooked by good or bad memory or this or that experience, or personal unconscious but gives voice to collective unconscious and even beyond that to the Sacred founts of Spirit underlying all myths and folklore as he enters into the heart of higher world – Imaginal World.
Poetry as partaking of revelation and wisdom in traditional cultures is trusted with the great task of helping us in salvation/felicity/enlightenment and as such it can’t afford to restrict itself to the accidents of psyche only.
Poetry is the art of finding higher order in the disorderly world and we live and rise higher by contemplating that order. This is why it is said the rhyme and rhythm have descended from Heavens and constitute a discipline and package that filters and magnifies the vivifying light of words.
Poetry is defiance against what we can’t force conscience or Spirit to accept. It is resistance. It is affirmation; the very attempt to write is to affirm; even if one writes only of overwhelming oppression. Our poet’s dedication of his work is worth noting in this connection:
To my parents whose syllables and syntax
I pound to give order to disorder
And the poem “Cosmos” make this clear.
Other poems reiterate the conviction about art’s power to endure:
He is “looking for a poem
Under the debris of words
Where none can erase us”
Poem is a corpse of my bosom
Paper – a graveyard
And, you carve light out
Of its darkness (“Guns and Poems”)
The power of community, of Spirit, of hope and resistance is thus stated,
Together
We are a clan of eyes
Lingering for an earthly miracle
That needs no human mediation (“Loss”)
Even if his verses are ill fitting “jigsaw puzzle of scratch and scar” and his poems are rearrangement of alphabets of blood drops, he sticks to his art of weaving poems. He seeks to engage “the quagmire of meaninglessness” and braving ruins “carve a temple of dreams.” For him there is no spring or summer in Kashmir. There is only extended winter or autumn. There are seasons of grief only. Taking full look at the worst, as Hardy would require, our poet broods over our failures in the face of our eternal rendezvous with evil – he calls it eternal affair ancient grief.
Your cold words melt
In my warm mouth,
Dissolve
Like the sacramental bread
And their chill never wanes away.
An affair eternal.
The poet is at a loss to say anything and has turned into “a graveyard of emptiness.” Both his daybreak and dusk are marked by agony. He talks of sins and demons. He fights memories. There are all kinds of stinking, gruesome harrowing metaphors and images – “dead decaying bones” gravedigger, shrouds, yawns, blurred dreams, torrid noon and many more.
He complains of poems as shrieks of silence. But what is to be noted in the midst of all these ruins is the will to write poetry, the will to register his complaint as protest, the will to be communicate and be heard, the will to get appreciated.
Even if sounds like mourning mostly, there is an inward morning, to recall the title of Bugbee’s great work, that sustains him to write, to publish and love his reviews. A poet is someone who sells curses and tears by packing them in words that console.
Indeed the world is justified as a work of art. Despite getting strangulated by the discipline of prosody, he gives us expansive poetry that shocks and uplifts.
Indeed poetry is a pickle made from all kinds of weird unwholesome stuffs. Poetry is in fact a sweet recipe made from bitter tasting flowers.
The descent into hell is described at many places. Note some verses from Ghazal 5, as an instance,
Why do moon beams sear my dream? Ask me not!
Why do panting flames of love scream? Ask me not
Drenching the summer, the sun plunged into my eyes,
Why won’t the moon too shun her esteem? Ask me not!
Our poet seems to have given up and describes his dismemberment. One may comprehend these macabre operations on the soul as constituting a sort of fana, a descent into hell of which postmodern theologian Altizer talks about.
There are scattered but ample signs that he finds grace – grace to lift the pen and compose poetry, grace to affirm and record his signature against the sand dunes of suffering.
Some of his poems present sheer exhaustion of loss and horror. For instance read “Lament of an Old Man” “Journey” and “Silence and Me.”
Silence is the other me
Entangled in my throat
Memory-
The vestiges of past
Aborted in my chest.
In the tussle
between silence and memory
a joy dies everyday
The poet does smell resurrection at times though he is diving deep in the sea of doubts that scarify the soul. “Resurrection.”
Beauty resurrects every time
It is buried
Under the thick layer of oblivion
“In the insides of my mind” and many such expressions show laxity in the vigil of the poet for form.
There are many poems dealing with the question of poetry itself. Self reflexive poetry compels attention on other grounds. The poet explains ”why do my poems carry pain from head to toe” or ooze blood or smell of it.” And in the concluding verses gives his verdict:” how can my poetry be about my beloved’s beautiful sable locks/Who too has to prove her fidelity in the court docks.”
While drawing our attention to the pain he lives amidst, the poet can’t be allowed to forget that the task of art is to ennoble, to sanctify, to redeem, to reconcile us to life.
One needs to note why Arnold chose to edit out his poem “Empedocles at Etna” that talked about suffering. We write poetry to celebrate life and life is the last court or testing lab for poetry to stamp its claim.
At times our poet seems to give up before life’s tragic play and despairs. “The delights of life, now, to me futility seem/The harvest of sorrows brings in the morning beam”
Some poems/verses are destined to stay. For instance, “Grief is Ancient”
Grief is ancient-
A bundle of black tufts
Of the Abyssinian maid
Girdled by threads
Spun by history.
It often lisps through ink
Of a graveyard poet.
One recalls chilling lines from likes of al-Maari, Hardy and Cioran upon encountering such poems as” Pain and Memory.” Although peeping into the inside of a temple “where a god/sitting cross legged/plays with the prayers/and the fate” and writhing with “the pain of loss” the readers do indeed make “gold out of it.”
However what redeems otherwise strangulating and chilling encounter with the horror of life here captured in powerful images and metaphors of Wani Nazir is affirmation of order and art. One may conclude with his following verses to take home the message of fellowship of spirit and poetry as prayer and catharsis.
Is poetry a religion? No. It is something more
It is breath that religion breathes. What is your view?
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ Fumed that Cain
I too reject the age-old trinity – ‘me, we and you.’
One wishes, in the face of horrendous and seemingly overwhelming evil around, recall Camus who affirms invincible summer and sunshine that reflect his deep faith in Spirit despite its secular framing.
One also wishes to recall the likes of Brecht who take on the system head on and don’t lose heart and will.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author.
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Building Containing Asbestos To Be Demolished
Kāpiti Coast District Council is demolishing the old BP building along State Highway 59 just past the Paekākāriki Hill Road intersection due to asbestos and being at the end of its economic life.
Mike Mendonca, Acting Group Manager Place and Space says the building contains asbestos and needs to be removed. It could pose a public health risk if left as is.
“Council has earmarked the site where the old BP building stands to provide additional carparking for those walking the Escarpment Track or visiting the shops and eateries in the Paekākāriki village. We are aware that the community has some ideas, and we are open to discussion about how the site could be used in the future.
“Right now our priority is to safely remove the building as it can’t be easily modified or renovated due to the asbestos,” Mr Mendonca said.
Work to remove the building will start on Friday 13 May. Mr Mendonca said this is likely to take a couple of weeks. While asbestos removal would be undertaken by qualified professionals, he encouraged people to stay clear of the area. | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2205/S00239/building-containing-asbestos-to-be-demolished.htm | 2022-05-11T22:58:19Z | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2205/S00239/building-containing-asbestos-to-be-demolished.htm | true | 1 |
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) _ Pan American Silver Corp. (PAAS) on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of $76.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company said it had profit of 36 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 15 cents per share.
The results did not meet Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 22 cents per share.
The silver mining company posted revenue of $439.9 million in the period, which beat Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $419.3 million.
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Arrest Made in an Aggravated Assault while Armed (Gun) Offense: 4500 Block of Georgia Avenue, Northwest
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Fourth District announce an arrest has been made in reference to an Aggravated Assault while Armed (Gun) offense that occurred on Sunday, May 1, 2022, in the 4500 block of Georgia Avenue, Northwest.
At approximately 1:20 am, members of the Fourth District responded to the listed location for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, members located an adult female, inside of a residence, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
On Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 20 year-old Johan Martinez, of Northwest, DC, was arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault while Armed (Gun), Possession of Unregistered Firearm, and Possession of Unregistered Ammunition. The detectives’ investigation revealed that this offense is domestic in nature. | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/572046966/arrest-made-in-an-aggravated-assault-while-armed-gun-offense-4500-block-of-georgia-avenue-northwest | 2022-05-11T23:04:39Z | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/572046966/arrest-made-in-an-aggravated-assault-while-armed-gun-offense-4500-block-of-georgia-avenue-northwest | true | null |
San Antonio is ready to give homeowners some tax relief through bigger homestead exemptions and a lower tax rate.
The homestead exemption would increase from 0.01 percent, or a minimum of $5,000, to 10 percent in San Antonio under a draft budget for the next fiscal year presented to City Council on Wednesday. The maximum homestead exemption allowed statewide is 20 percent.
North Side councilmen John Courage and Clayton Perry led the push for a larger homestead exemption, which shaves a percentage off the taxable value of a primary residence. That means a lower property tax bill — at least for the city’s portion.
In addition, city officials are testing the waters for an increase to the homestead exemption for seniors who are at least 65 years old — raising it from $65,000 to $85,000 of assessed value. The draft budget also increases the exemption for people with disabilities from $12,500 to $85,000.
Mayor Ron Nirenberg promised some form of tax relief was on its way when Bexar County Appraisal District sent out updated property values earlier this year, though school districts receive the highest percentage of the tax payments.
The soaring housing market — fueled by high demand and tight inventory — pushed the city’s property tax revenue estimates higher. In one year, the average home in Bexar County rose in value from $250,806 to $309,118, a 23.2 percent increase, according to the appraisal district. That’s a sharp rise compared to recent years.
City Council largely supported the property tax relief proposals Wednesday.
“I’m all for these,” Perry said.
He was glad to see most of his asks — property tax relief, increased police officers and infrastructure funds — in the draft budget.
A 10 percent homestead exemption would save about $55 total for a taxpayer whose home is assessed at $100,000. For someone with an assessed home value of $200,000, the savings would be $109. When the assessed value rises to $300,000, a homeowner would see about $164 in total savings.
At least 240,000 households could take advantage of an increased homestead exemption if passed.
An increased senior homestead exemption could impact around 103,000 households, while around 7,000 homes would be affected by a jump in the exemption for people with disabilities. Both seniors and disabled homeowners have a tax freeze in place as well.
The proposed property tax relief measures would cut $93.8 million from the city’s projected revenue — up from $72.4 million this fiscal year.
Helping offset such a revenue loss is the estimate that taxable value will grow by about 14 percent in San Antonio for the next fiscal year, city estimates show — it’s the largest such jump in more than a decade.
“If I didn’t think we could afford it, then we wouldn’t put it on the table,” City Manager Erik Walsh said.
San Antonio is required by state law to cap its revenue growth from property taxes at 3.5 percent from the prior year. That means even with the increased homestead exemptions, the city also needs to adjust the tax rate to prevent bringing in too much revenue.
City officials proposed dropping the tax rate from 55.8 cents per $100 property valuation to 54.5 cents to provide further relief.
Courage and Perry have argued San Antonio can afford to lose some revenue to tax relief because of the good projections for the budget. Sales tax revenues also are up 21 percent over last year as consumers recovered from the pandemic and returned to spending more, bolstering the city’s positive financial outlook.
City staff said the number of hotel room nights sold in March were up 35 percent from last year, but still down 7 percent from before the pandemic. Airport travel is also down 7 percent from 2019.
City Council has a July 1 deadline to approve homestead exemptions, which would be reflected on tax bills sent out this fall.
Police resources
The draft budget includes $29 million in new spending for various city efforts, including affordable housing and Animal Care Services.
The new spending also incorporates a plan to increase San Antonio’s police force by 50 officers next year. Those positions would primarily be funded through a federal grant if the city receives it, although San Antonio would have to match some money — about $3.6 million in its next budget.
The proposal sparked some backlash from East Side Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, who has focused on policing issues and has not wanted to add to the police department’s budget. He worried about the eventual cost to the city of adding grant-funded positions now.
But at a goal-setting budget session last month, multiple council members, including Perry and District 8’s Manny Pelaez, said they wanted to see more officers on the street to respond to a jump in crime.
The draft budget also includes about $13 million for the tentative new police union contract, up for a vote at City Council on Thursday.
Missing from the trial budget is an office of crime prevention proposed by McKee-Rodriguez earlier this year. The city is instead planning a related study from the University of Texas at San Antonio. The policy proposal has yet to make its way to a committee but got extra vocal support Wednesday from District 1 Councilman Mario Bravo and District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval.
Walsh said he would wait for the proposal to make its way to governance committee, where such policy ideas are debated by other council members. Nirenberg decides when proposals go before the committee.
McKee-Rodriguez did notch one win from budget talks. City officials proposed a new funding formula for street maintenance that will determine its budget based on the condition of a street rather than the size of the road network. The East Side councilman has argued it would more equitably invest in fixing city streets. The idea has gained traction among others, including Sandoval.
“That’s one of the major things I had asked for,” McKee-Rodriguez said. “This is what equity looks like.”
The city will soon post an online survey for residents about the priorities in the draft budget, and the community can give feedback through the end of June.
Officials will return with a proposed budget in August that will offer more details. The final budget is scheduled for a vote on Sept. 15.
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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson has added Boston College transfer Brevin Galloway to its men's basketball roster.
Galloway is a 6-foot-2, 215-pound guard who is from Anderson, South Carolina. Next year will be Galloway's sixth in college.
Galloway started his career at the College of Charleston and moved as a graduate transfer to the Eagles and first-year coach Earl Grant, who was his coach in Charleston.
Galloway played 25 games for the Eagles, averaging 8.3 points. He was second on the team with 44 3-pointers.
Tigers coach Brad Brownell said Galloway will add experience to his club, along with his outside shooting. His addition is “such a great fit not just for us, but for him as well,” Brownell said.
Galloway's brother, Braden, played four seasons as a tight end for Clemson football from 2018-21.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, May 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
507 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern Oldham
and Hartley Counties through 530 PM CDT...
At 506 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 15
miles southwest of Hartley, or 21 miles south of Dalhart, moving
northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Hartley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3545 10260 3553 10293 3599 10274 3588 10231
TIME...MOT...LOC 2206Z 203DEG 29KT 3577 10263
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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2 children robbed at gunpoint for their puppy, police say
MILWAUKEE (WISN) – Authorities in Wisconsin are investigating after two children were robbed at gunpoint for their puppy Friday afternoon.
Alanna Vaughn, 12, and her little brother Izayah Savangvongsavanh, 10, were both uninjured, but someone stole their 4-month-old puppy Coco.
The siblings were walking their puppy on the streets of Milwaukee in the middle of the afternoon when a man approached them, asking questions about the dog. Then, the man pulled out a gun and stole Coco.
The siblings said they immediately ran home and told their parents.
While Alanna and Izayah are physically OK, they are sad and begging for the return of their puppy.
“Can I please have my dog back?” Alanna asked.
“Please just give us our dog back,” Izayah said.
Their grandmother, Katrina Chester, is angry.
“They pulled a gun on these little kids, innocent kids; I was hysterical,” Chester said. “It’s crazy, I mean, real crazy.”
Milwaukee police said the suspects – two young adult males – drove off in a four-door 2017 silver INFINITI Q50 with heavily-tinted windows and stock wheels.
Coco is a white and tan mixed-breed bulldog with blue eyes and cropped ears.
Anyone with information is asked to call Milwaukee police at 414-935-7272 or Crime Stoppers at 414-224-TIPS.
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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson has added Boston College transfer Brevin Galloway to its men's basketball roster.
Galloway is a 6-foot-2, 215-pound guard who is from Anderson, South Carolina. Next year will be Galloway's sixth in college.
Galloway started his career at the College of Charleston and moved as a graduate transfer to the Eagles and first-year coach Earl Grant, who was his coach in Charleston.
Galloway played 25 games for the Eagles, averaging 8.3 points. He was second on the team with 44 3-pointers.
Tigers coach Brad Brownell said Galloway will add experience to his club, along with his outside shooting. His addition is “such a great fit not just for us, but for him as well,” Brownell said.
Galloway's brother, Braden, played four seasons as a tight end for Clemson football from 2018-21.
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The Crimean human rights activist and nurse disappeared on her way home from work in the
Russian-annexed peninsula almost two weeks ago. On Wednesday, her loved ones finally received confirmation she had been detained by Russian authorities, who have until now refused to say whether, where or by whom she was being held.
Danylovich’s lawyer Aider Azamatov has spent the past 12 days searching for her in detention centers across the peninsula. He told CNN that like her friends and family, he was repeatedly turned away and told by the authorities they had no information about Danylovich.
That all changed on Wednesday afternoon.
“We went to the detention center in Simferopol again and I was finally told that Iryna is there. They didn’t let us speak or see each other,” he said.
Azamatov told CNN he was given documents that show Danylovich has been charged with Illegal handling of explosives or explosive devices — a charge she denies.
Danylovich’s father Bronislav told the news site Krym.Realii, a Radio Liberty affiliate, that his daughter went missing on the morning of April 29, after finishing her shift at a medical facility in Koktebel, southeastern Crimea.
At around the same time, Azamatov said, balaclava-clad officials from the Russian special police unit came to the house Danylovich shares with her parents in the village of Vladislavovka, near Feodosiya. Vladislavovka is about 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Koktebel.
He told CNN that the officials who searched the family’s house told her father she had been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for “the transfer of unclassified information to a foreign state.”
However, they refused to hand over any documents.
Crimean authorities were not immediately available to comment on Wednesday afternoon.
When CNN inquired about Danylovich on Tuesday, Crimean authorities refused to comment. The officer on duty at the prosecutor’s office for Russian-occupied Crimea referred CNN to authorities in Danylovich’s hometown.
When CNN reached the police station in Feodosiya on Tuesday, the person who answered the call said they knew nothing about the case and hung up.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian-occupied Crimea did not respond to a written request for comment. A phone number listed on its website is not reachable.
Through her work as a citizen journalist, Danylovich has exposed problems in Crimea’s health care system, including in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. She has written for a number of Ukrainian media outlets and has published her findings on Facebook.
Human rights organization Crimea SOS said Wednesday that Danylovich faces up to eight years in prison.
“Human rights activists are now investigating whether there was falsification of evidence. It is known that Iryna does not admit her guilt and has refused to testify,” the group said in a statement.
It added that the case had “all the elements of an enforced disappearance.”
The term enforced disappearance describes disappearances either perpetrated by state actors or by others acting on behalf of, or with the support of, state authorities, followed by a refusal to disclose the person’s fate and whereabouts.
Because the authorities refuse to acknowledge detention, the victim doesn’t have any legal protection and perpetrators are rarely prosecuted, according to the UN.
The UN says the practice is often used as a strategy to spread terror within society.
Danylovich’s case is the latest in a string of disappearances of activists, journalists and ordinary citizens reported over the last decade in Crimea.
According to a report published in March 2021, the UN Human Rights Office documented
at least 43 cases of enforced disappearances in Crimea between 2014 and 2018.
The UN said they were mostly abductions and kidnappings and that some of the victims — 39 men and four women — had been subjected to ill treatment and torture. Eleven of the men remained missing, and one man remained in detention at the time of the report.
The UN said they had not been able to document any prosecutions in relation to any of the cases.
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Fluorination Reagents Market is globally expected to drive growth of USD 1121.86 Million by 2030
The increased demand for complex organic compounds in the pharmaceutical and agriculture chemical manufacturing industries is one of the major drivers of the Fluorination Reagents Market.
/EIN News/ -- Newark, NJ, May 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per the report published by MarketsandResearch.biz, the global fluorination reagents market is expected to grow from USD 646.26 million in 2021 and to reach USD 1121.86 million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.32% during the forecast period 2022-2030.
Fluorine generally causes significant changes in the chemical, physical, and biological properties of bioactive compounds when introduced into them. Fluorine gas and hydrogen fluoride are utilized as fluorine sources, although they are highly toxic and corrosive, requiring handling equipment and techniques. As a result, other fluorinating reagents have been created, which may be employed in laboratories to quickly add a fluorine atom to specific places in compounds. Nucleophilic and electrophilic fluorinating reagents are the two types of fluorinating reagents. Many electrophilic fluorinating reagents, as well as elemental fluorine, have been utilized in synthesis; however, most of these fluorinating reagents are highly aggressive and unstable, requiring specific handling equipment and care. The growing demand for fluorination reagents in different end-users, as well as advances in the manufacturing technology of fluorination reagents, are propelling the industry forward.
Competitive Strategy
To enhance their market position in the global fluorination reagents market, the key players are now focusing on adopting the strategies such as product innovations, mergers & acquisitions, recent developments, joint ventures, collaborations, and partnerships.
Companies across the world are eager to seize market share by capitalizing on existing opportunities. As a result, to obtain a competitive advantage over other organizations, the majority of companies are today selecting product supply to support ongoing industrialization and urbanization.
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Market Growth & Trends
Fluorinating reagents that were first developed, such as potassium fluoride, hydrogen fluoride, and antimony trifluoride, are still widely used for essential fluorination reactions, but their direct applications in pharmaceutical synthesis are limited due to the harsh reaction conditions they typically require. Thus, the new convergent synthesis, which involves the insertion of fluorine substituents considerably later in the synthetic sequence, is becoming more popular. The growth of the market is driven by the requirement for the incorporation of fluorination reagents in several applications for deducing efficient results for pharmaceutical applications. The rising demand for complex organic compounds in the pharmaceutical and agriculture chemical manufacturing industry is one of the primary drivers of the market. The manufacturers present in the market have invested in the research and development of reagents that can be used for the fluorine compounds used in agriculture and pharma products.
Key Findings
- In 2021, the electrophilic fluorination reagents type dominated the market with the largest market share of 51.47% and market revenue of 332.62 million.
The type segment is divided into electrophilic fluorination reagents and nucleophilic fluorination reagents. In 2021, the electrophilic fluorination reagents type dominated the market with the largest market share of 51.47% and market revenue of 332.62 million.
- In 2021, the pharmaceutical segment accounted for the largest share of the market, with 48.26% and a market revenue of 311.86 million.
The application segment is divided into pharmaceutical, agricultural chemicals, and others. In 2021, the pharmaceutical segment accounted for the largest share of the market, with 48.26% and a market revenue of 311.86 million. The demand for low-cost, safe, and mild fluorination reagents is increasing for use in complex intermediates in large-scale manufacturing processes. Thus, the pharmaceutical companies must continue to fluoridate using currently available reagents that meet their systems' cost and reactivity constraints. Most pharmaceutical businesses have streamlined their operations and outsourced the manufacturing of intermediates that need specialist chemistry and synthetic procedures.
Regional Segment Analysis of the Fluorination Reagents Market
- North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)
- Europe (Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Spain, Rest of Europe)
- Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, Rest of APAC)
- South America (Brazil and the Rest of South America)
- The Middle East and Africa (UAE, South Africa, Rest of MEA)
Among all regions, the North American region emerged as the largest market for the global fluorination reagents market, with a share of 37.86% of the market revenue in 2021. There are several significant players in fluorination reagents in North America, and thus it is the most significant contributor to the global market in terms of market revenue. The US is ought to be the country with the highest revenue and growth rate in the region. Pharmaceutical giants have their presence throughout the North American region due to the presence of advanced manufacturing technologies and reimbursement of investments. Further, the favourable research and development scenario attracts a higher number of fluorination reagents manufacturers.
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Key players operating in the global fluorination reagents market are:
- TCI
- Merck
- DAIKIN Industries
- Manchester Organics
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Tosoh Finechem Corporation
- Shanghai Furui Fine Chemical
This study forecasts revenue at global, regional, and country levels from 2019 to 2030. The Markets and Research have segmented the global fluorination reagents market based on the below-mentioned segments:
Global Fluorination Reagents Market by Type:
- Electrophilic Fluorination Reagents
- Nucleophilic Fluorination Reagents
Global Fluorination Reagents Market by Application:
- Pharmaceutical
- Agricultural Chemicals
- Others
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Wolford Reunion
The family of Omar and Mamie Wolford will be having a reunion at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 14 at the American Legion in Romney. Bring a covered dish; meat will be provided.
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Sympathy is extended to the family and friends of Jentry “Chuck” Shanholtz. Chuck passed away at his residence on Tuesday April 26. Chuck was well known through the area and was a member of different groups and organizations and will be missed by all who knew him.
Thursday, April 21, Norma Shanholtzer of Springfield went to Smithsburg to visit her daughter Michele and husband Eric. On Friday the 22nd and Saturday the 23rd, she and Michele attended the Spiritual Growth of United Methodist Women Conference Retreat at Cedar Lake. On Sunday, Michele and Eric brought Norma home.
April 29, Claire Shanholtzer of Hurricane, granddaughter of Norma, and daughter of Craig and Amy Shanholtzer, received her doctrine degree in pharmacy from Marshall University in Huntington.
In July, Claire will be moving to McKeesport, Pa., and continuing her education.
I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but the hummingbird arrived on April 25, several said they had seen them earlier. Usually I don’t see them until May.
Norma Shanholtzer had a nice visit with the writer this past Sunday afternoon.
On Saturday of last week, Amanda Koontz attended what was called a Baby Sprinkle in Frederick, Md. for Chris and Monie Potter.
We had a lot of rain over the weekend and local flooding. I don’t even have to see the water is over the toll bridge. I know by the traffic on Arnold Stickley Road. If the bridge is open, it’s like the beltway. If it’s closed, it’s like we are isolated. I like the latter. Anyway the earth got a extra good drink and sounds like more to come. | https://www.hampshirereview.com/living/all_community_living/article_c67f31ce-d136-11ec-b67e-070d68018855.html | 2022-05-11T23:19:29Z | https://www.hampshirereview.com/living/all_community_living/article_c67f31ce-d136-11ec-b67e-070d68018855.html | false | 1 |
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WWE NXT 2.0 On May 10 Draws Lowest Viewership On USA Network
Posted By: Ben Jordan Kerin on May 11, 2022
This week’s episode of WWE NXT 2.0 on May 11 drew 533,000 viewers on the USA Network, which is down from the 61,000 viewers who watched the week previous.
The 2-hour broadcast scored a very low 0.10 rating in the key 18-49 demographic, which is down from last week’s 0.13 rating. Overall the broadcast ranked #51 in the top 150 shows on cable for the night.
This was the lowest viewership and key demo for the show since airing on USA Network.
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May 10
Bracket Announced For WWE NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament WWE has announced the bracket for the NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament which kicks off tonight on NXT 2.0 on USA Network: - Nikkita Lyons vs. Arianna Grace- Fallon Henley vs. Sloane Jacobs- Roxa[...]
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May 10
WWE RAW Viewership Rises For Post-WrestleMania Backlash Episode The viewership for WWE RAW on May 9, which was the post-WrestleMania Backlash episode has been revealed. Brandon Thurston reports the 3-hour broadcast on USA Network was watched by an average of 1.652[...]
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May 10
Former IMPACT Wrestling Star To Debut On AEW Dark Tonight AEW has announced eleven matches for tonight’s AEW Dark episode which will air at 7 PM ET on the official AEW YouTube channel. The episode will feature the debut of former IMPACT Wrestling star [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google on Wednesday took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting devices.
The latest additions to its six-year-old Pixel brand will include Google’s first smartwatch that draws upon the features and expertise it has gained from last year’s $2.1 billion acquisition of fitness gadget maker Fitbit.
The new watch, targeted for an autumn release, marks Google’s first major attempt to make its mark in wearable technology, a market that has been growing steadily since Apple introduced its smartwatch in 2014. Until now, Google’s presence in the smartwatch market had been limited to making a version of its mobile Android operating system for watches made by other companies.
Google also used its annual I/O developers conference to tease a Pixel tablet that it is scheduled for release next year to compete against Apple’s market-leading iPad.
Besides showcasing its upcoming devices, Google also previewed the next version of its Android operating system, which runs most of the world’s smartphones outside Apple’s iPhone. It also highlighted several advances in the field of artificial intelligence.
Google’s emphasis on new devices signals that a company best known for its dominant search engine and other popular internet software is confident it now has a better handle on how to design and manufacture hardware. It released its first Pixel smartphone in 2016.
“It takes a long time to build the capabilities, and now you are seeing very visibly that technology be expressed through many different products,” Rick Osterloh, the executive in charge of Google’s device division, told reporters earlier this week. “It was like an iceberg in that you didn’t see a lot what was happening underneath, but now you can really see all these things coming to the surface.”
Because it already brings more than $200 billion annually in digital ad sales, Google can afford to branch out into different directions and find new ways to connect with people, said Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen.
Adding more products to the Pixel line-up “gives them another touch point to learn and experience things with people more directly,” Nguyen said. “Now, they not only be in your pocket, but now they can be on your wrist, and in your ears, too.”
Before launching its smartwatch, Google will be fleshing out its selection of Pixel phones with a new budget model called the 6a coming out in late July, along with its first set of wireless ear buds to include noise cancellation.
The Pixel 6a will include Google’s top-of-the line processor but sell for $449 — a 25% discount from the slightly more sophisticated Pixel 6 released last fall. The Pixel Buds Pro will sell for $199. Both products are scheduled for a July 28 release.
Because it already brings more than $200 billion annually in digital ad sales, Google can afford to branch out into different directions and find new ways to connect with people, said Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen.
Adding more products to the Pixel line-up “gives them another touch point to learn and experience things with people more directly,” Nguyen said. “They not only be in your pocket, but now they can be on your wrist, and in your ears, too.”
The watch will be the first product to test a privacy pledge that Google made to gain regulatory approval for its Fitbit takeover 16 months ago. As part of the deal, Google promised not to collect the health and fitness information accumulated through Fitbit features to sell digital ads that generate most of its revenue — a commitment that the company said it will honor with the new Pixel Watch.
Although they still aren’t anywhere as popular as phones, smartwatches continued to make significant inroads with projected worldwide shipments of 31.3 million units this year, up from 18.5 million in 2019 before the pandemic helped stoke even more demand for internet-connected gadgets.
Even after pouring billions of dollars into a hardware division that now employs thousands of people, Google hasn’t made major inroads.
Despite occasional glowing reviews, Pixel smartphones have less than a 1% share of the global market for the devices, according to the research firm International Data Corp. All told, IDC estimates that fewer than 30 million Pixel smartphones have been sold since the release of the first model nearly six years ago. By contrast, Apple shipped more than 56 million iPhones during the first three months of this year alone, according to IDC.
But IDC analyst Nabila Popal said there are signs that the Pixel smartphone line is starting to gain more traction. She believes the Pixel 6 would have sold even better than it already has were it not for chip shortages that have hurt a variety of products, increasing the chances that the lower priced 6a model will be “very well received.”
For its part, Google says the Pixel 6 already has outsold the Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 combined during its first six months on the market. | https://kdvr.com/news/money/google-adopts-an-apple-like-approach-for-its-pixel-products/ | 2022-05-11T23:25:00Z | https://kdvr.com/news/money/google-adopts-an-apple-like-approach-for-its-pixel-products/ | true | 55 |
LONDON (AP) — Google said Wednesday that it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced European Union copyright law.
The tech giant signed the agreements with national, local and specialist news publications in Germany, Hungary, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Ireland and said discussions with many others are ongoing.
It didn’t disclose how much it’s paying or give names of the news outlets.
European Union countries have been adopting into local law a 2019 EU directive granting publishers additional rights over their content.
The new law allows search engines like Google to link to and use snippets of news content, while giving publishers new rights when extended previews are used online.
It doesn’t, however, specify where the line between the two lies. The agreements are aimed at avoiding costly and lengthy lawsuits over that distinction.
Google last year announced copyright deals with several large German publications and a group of French news publishers.
The company also said it’s rolling out a new tool to offer licensing agreements to thousands of other European publishers, starting in Germany and Hungary.
The tool’s licensing offers “are based on consistent criteria which respect the law and existing copyright guidance, including how often a news website is displayed and how much ad revenue is generated on pages that also display previews of news content,” Sulina Connal, Google’s director of news and publishing partnerships, said in a blog post. | https://www.informnny.com/news/tech-news/google-strikes-content-deals-with-300-european-publishers/ | 2022-05-11T23:24:59Z | https://www.informnny.com/news/tech-news/google-strikes-content-deals-with-300-european-publishers/ | true | 29 |
WASHINGTON, (Nexstar) — On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs released the findings of an investigation of the U.S. Government’s forced assimilation of indigenous people.
Records show that between 1819 and 1969, the U.S. Government operated or supported 408 boarding schools in 37 states and territories. About half of those schools were also funded or run by religious institutions.
“Children were induced or compelled by the federal government to be brought to these schools,” said Brian Newland, the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs. “We’ve identified 53 marked or unmarked burial sites and cemeteries for Indian children across the system, with more site discoveries expected.”
The schools operated in military-like conditions and banned children from using their native languages and cultural practices.
“When my maternal grandparents were only eight years old, they were stolen from their parent’s culture and communities and forced to live in boarding schools until the age of 13. Many children like them never made it back to their home,” Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland said.
The report says the schools focused on vocational training and manual labor. Haaland says the traumatic system created generational consequences, including poverty and loss of wealth, mental health disorders and substance abuse.
The Department of the Interior is asking for more funding for the ongoing investigation. It’s also calling for the federal government to do more to help revitalize native communities and languages. | https://www.klfy.com/national/report-finds-government-abuse-of-indigenous-children/ | 2022-05-11T23:25:07Z | https://www.klfy.com/national/report-finds-government-abuse-of-indigenous-children/ | false | 21 |
'I will say goodbye' - Chiellini confirms Juventus exit after Coppa Italia final defeat
Giorgio Chiellini has confirmed he will leave Juventus at the end of the season, concluding speculation about his future at the club, following the Bianconeri's Coppa Italia loss to Inter on Wednesday.
The veteran defender, who first joined the club in 2004 and has emerged as one of its key figures over their past decade of dominance, had already been coy about his future in Turin, even amid announcing his retirement from the Italy national team.
But after a 4-2 extra-time defeat in Rome ensured a first season without silverware at the club for over a decade, Chiellini has now confirmed he will bid farewell to Allianz Stadium after nearly two decades.
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What has Chiellini said about his Juventus exit?
"We had these ten magnificent years, [and] it’s up to the lads to continue now," the veteran defender stated in his post-match comments. "I did everything I could, [and] I hope that I left something.
"On Monday, I will say goodbye to my Juventus Stadium, [and] then, if I’ve still got something in the tank, I might have a run-out in Florence. It is my choice, 100 per cent, I am happy to leave at such a high level, because for many years I’ve said I didn’t want to finish struggling.
"I gave it my all. Soon, I will be the biggest Juventus fan! After so many years within this club, you cannot shake it off."
Chiellini brings glittering stay to a close
The 37-year-old's departure will bring to an end a near-two-decade playing association with the club, during which he has emerged as one of the most iconic footballers in both Bianconeri and Azzurri history.
With Juventus, Chiellini has won 20 major honours across his career, including nine Scudetto triumphs and five Coppa Italia victories, as well as twice making the final of the Champions League.
Coupled with his impending retirement from Italy duty - having steered them to Euro 2020 glory last year before failing to reach a second successive World Cup with Qatar 2022 - it means that he leaves behind a legacy matched by few others as he prepares for his next steps. | https://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/i-will-say-goodbye-chiellini-confirms-juventus-exit-after/blt3e73109f411f444e | 2022-05-11T23:28:45Z | https://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/i-will-say-goodbye-chiellini-confirms-juventus-exit-after/blt3e73109f411f444e | false | 14 |
Shelby County looks to divert people with mental illness away from jail
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - For people experiencing a mental health crisis, who shows up can make all the difference in the world.
Shelby County leaders are working to ensure the right people show up when it matters.
Too often, experts say people experiencing a mental health crisis end up dead or in a jail cell.
Shelby County leaders are trying to change that.
Jails and prisons are sometimes referred to as “the new asylums.”
The phrase was coined because people experiencing mental health disorders often end up there.
The exact number of inmates with a mental illness is unclear, but according to a 2017 U.S. Department of Justice report, 44% of inmates said they’d been told by a mental health professional they have a mental health disorder.
“There are so many people that wind up in jail over a mental health crisis that does not need to be in jail,” said Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr.
In April, Bonner and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris announced a new crisis intervention program, allowing clinical professionals to be embedded with the sheriff’s crisis intervention team.
“The pandemic made it even more clear that our community needs to focus on addressing mental health,” Harris said. “We know that many in our community will cope with severe mental illness at some point in their lives. All too often, residents with persistent mental health issues end up in our criminal justice system instead of in an appropriate healthcare setting. This effort to embed mental health professionals with our first responders will help divert those in crisis to the help they need and reduce their reliance on 9-1-1 distress calls.”
It’s the latest iteration of a program that began in Memphis following a 1987 incident in which police shot and killed a suicidal man who ran toward them.
“Law enforcement officers were faced with uncertainty about what exactly to do,” said Sam Cochran, a retired Memphis police major. “Our law enforcement officers often felt a lack of confidence.”
Cochran developed what later became known as the “Memphis Model” of crisis intervention.
It’s a model used in communities across the country and around the world.
The idea is to provide officers with special training to help them deescalate tense situations and steer people experiencing mental episodes away from jail and toward community resources that can help them.
“I think that’s very, very critical during a crisis they’re able to use their skills and their talents,” said Cochran.
Funding remains an issue for C.I.T. programs amid tight government budgets.
It’s also been challenging for researchers to measure the effectiveness of the programs since communities take different approaches.
According to the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, of the 1,000 people fatally killed by police in the U.S. in 2018, 25% had a mental illness.
It shows there’s still a lot of work to do.
But mental health leaders say it’s better than sending people who need help to places where they may not get it.
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Students win essay contest
Published 1:37 pm Wednesday, May 11, 2022
AMMD Pine Grove Project sponsored its second annual Women’s History Month Essay Contest during the month of March. Cumberland County Middle School students had the opportunity to write an essay on the topic, “What woman, historic or present, in Cumberland County inspires you most and why?
“Visualize having a voice so powerful that it saves a part of history.”
“You can’t stop! You have to continue to make sure that everybody’s rights are the same.”
These were the opening sentences that captivated the scoring team to read more of Kamira Holman and Alana Johnson’s essays; both seventh grade students at Cumberland County Middle School. Receiving perfect scores, both Kamira and Alana, were first-place co-winners. These students poured their hearts into their essays and evidenced research to support their topic on the women who inspire them most.
Alana chose to write about her great aunt Dorothy Lockett Holcolmb, “Aunt Dot”, who was a student during the Massive Resistance Movement of 1959 in Prince Edward County. Alana is inspired by her aunt’s tenacity, community service and accomplishments having served on the Board of Directors for the Robert Russa Moton Museum to her published book, “Educated In Spite Of.”
After hearing about Muriel Miller Branch during her class discussions of Cumberland natives, historic and present, in her History class Kamira asked her teacher if it would be possible to conduct a phone interview with Branch. “I chose her because she inspires me to work hard, use my voice and actions to make a difference.”
A release from AMMD Pine Grove Project noted, “These young ladies did a phenomenal job capturing the essence of why Dorothy Lockett Holcolmb and Muriel Miller Branch inspired them.”
Kamira wrote, “Mrs. Branch has that voice that speaks to me and makes me want to dream to do better.” Alana shared, “Aunt Dot was the light in the dark, during the time of segregation; she was the hope for peace. She inspires me to speak up and not stay silent when I see injustice. One’s voice and few words can impact the lives and futures of many generations.”
Holcolmb and Branch were civil rights activists, and as expressed in the essays, the common thread is women using their voices to empower others and promote equal justice.
Kamira and Alana were awarded $100 gift cards and a copy of “You Need A Schoolhouse” written by Stephanie Deutsch to read as a part of their classroom instruction in preparation for the culminating event, a Tuskegee-Rosenwald School Tour. The collaboration with two History teachers at Cumberland County Public Schools, Mr. Longenecker and Mr. Ronemus, is part of the AMMD Pine Grove Project Partners in Philanthropy Program funded in part by Virginia Humanities. | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/05/students-win-essay-contest-2/ | 2022-05-11T23:29:20Z | https://www.farmvilleherald.com/2022/05/students-win-essay-contest-2/ | false | 1 |
Which dust collector is best?
If you have a home workshop, you know how much of a menace dust can be to your breathing, comfort and especially health. It’s imperative to properly handle the dust created by even the most basic woodworking. Dust collectors are the simplest and best way to maintain a healthy workshop.
The best dust collector is the Powermatic PM1300TX-CK Dust Collector. It’s powerful and has an excellent two-micron filtration system, plus it’s built with the sturdiest all-metal ducts.
What to know before you buy a dust collector
How it works
Think of dust collectors as special vacuums that hook up to most woodworking workshop equipment, and use a motor to draw in air containing dust particles. They collect small particles in filters and canisters and large particles in big bags before sending the cleaned air back into the shop.
Size and capacity
Size and capacity go hand in hand with dust collectors, and you need to balance your available space and needs carefully when shopping.
- Small collectors tend to be wall-mounted units with five cubic feet or less capacity. If you only have one or two pieces of woodworking equipment inside a small garage, these are your best bet.
- Medium collectors have up to twice the capacity of small wall-mounted units and tend to be placed on wheels so they can be taken to each machine as needed. These are perfect for non-commercial workshops.
- Large collectors have 15 or more cubic feet of capacity but take up the most space. These are best for commercial workshops.
What to look for in a quality dust collector
Filtration
Filtration is the most important aspect of your dust collector. It’s measured in microns, with the smaller the microns, the better the filtration. The starting point is typically 30 microns, though these filtration levels are designed for use in commercial settings with multiple air filtration systems working together. Most non-commercial dust collectors have at least five-micron filtration systems, with many having finer filters. Some can be as fine as a single micron.
Horsepower and CFM
There are two dust collector power measures: horsepower and cubic feet of air per minute, or CFM.
- Horsepower: The higher the horsepower, the more powerful the motor. However, it’s rare to find a motor without enough horsepower to run efficiently. It’s best to focus on CFM.
- CFM: CFM is a measure of how much air will pass through the dust collector every minute. The higher the CFM, the more dust it processes and the cleaner your workshop remains. Home workshops should aim for 500-1,000 CFM, while commercial workshops should aim for 1,000-plus CFM.
Noise
Like most workshop equipment, dust collectors make noise. Most create 70-90 decibels worth. Anything higher, and you should use ear protection while using it.
How much you can expect to spend on a dust collector
Dust collectors typically cost $200-$1,000, though they can cost more. The most basic models cost $300 or less, while ones in the modest range are available for $300-$700. The best ones usually start at around $900.
Dust collector FAQ
Is a dust collector really necessary?
A. Technically no, as you could get by with a shop vacuum. That said, dust collectors are far more effective, efficient and healthy. For example, they can run while you’re working, so there’s no need to vacuum up large piles of dust later, and they can prevent dust particles from gathering in your airways or your paints and varnishes.
Can I leave my dust collector in one spot instead of moving it?
A. If your dust collector is strong enough and you have the gear to create a piping network, then yes. Keep in mind that this can take up a large amount of space, so it may not be feasible in cramped conditions like small garages.
What’s the minimum filtration level for safety in a home workshop?
A. The smallest particles are the deadliest, so it’s recommended to have the best filtration possible for your budget. Consider five-micron filtration levels as your starting point for home workshops, and go lower if you can.
What’s the best dust collector to buy?
Top dust collector
Powermatic PM1300TX-CK Dust Collector
What you need to know: It’s among the most powerful dust collectors.
What you’ll love: It has a remote-controlled timer that can be set up to run for up to 99 minutes and dual 4-inch dust ports for simultaneous dust collection from two machines. Its collection bag has a 10-cubic-foot capacity to decrease the rate of bag changes.
What you should consider: It’s among the most expensive dust collectors. Some consumers reported receiving damaged products caused by poor shipping preparation. Others said it was louder than anticipated.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top dust collector for the money
What you need to know: It’s plenty powerful despite the low cost.
What you’ll love: It has a 1.5 hp motor that can pull 1,280 cubic feet of air per minute. Its bag has a 5.4 cubic foot capacity and a bag filtration of 2.5 microns. It’s easy to move, thanks to a wheeled base.
What you should consider: Some customers had issues understanding the instructions, particularly for measurements only given in metric units that require conversion to customary units.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
Worth checking out
Jet DC-1100VX-5M Dust Collector
What you need to know: It’s powerful and has some useful features.
What you’ll love: Its motors are enclosed for protection and are fan-cooled, lubricated and rated to last through continuous use. Its base has four swivel casters for maximum mobility. It compresses dust to increase the time before bag changing is needed, plus quick-connect bags make changing them simple.
What you should consider: It’s a little pricey and loud. Some purchasers had issues understanding the setup instructions. Others found the frame to be a little flimsy.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Home Depot
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Security forces are deployed across Sri Lanka with orders to shoot looters on sight amid continuing protests at the government’s handling of a devastating economic crisis.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has vowed to restore order, in his first national speech since protests began last month.
Ignoring calls to resign, he offered to cede some powers to parliament and name a prime minister, but set no timetable.
His brother quit as PM on Monday amid fury over soaring prices and shortages.
Sri Lankans are desperate as basic items like food and fuel run out or become unaffordable.
“We have come to the protest site despite the curfew,” one protester, Chandrasekaran, told BBC Tamil in Colombo. “We are suffering even now. There is no kerosene, no petrol, no diesel, and no power.”
Despite a nationwide curfew, there have been two consecutive nights of arson attacks by mobs – many have targeted property belonging to the Rajapaksas and other politicians who are blamed for the mess the country is in.
Shops near Colombo were torched, as well as a resort owned by the son of former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Mr Rajapaksa, the president’s elder brother and a two-time former president, is holed up in a naval base in the north-east for his own safety, the military has confirmed. | https://www.stvincenttimes.com/sri-lanka-ex-pm-flees-to-naval-base-as-arson-attacks-spread/ | 2022-05-11T23:33:49Z | https://www.stvincenttimes.com/sri-lanka-ex-pm-flees-to-naval-base-as-arson-attacks-spread/ | false | 1 |
Livingston claimed a point in a goalless draw at St Mirren to all-but secure a seventh-placed finish in the cinch Premiership table this season.
Both teams had chances to win it, most notably home substitute Jay Henderson who saw his late effort cleared off the line by Livi captain Nicky Devlin.
The result left David Martindale’s side three points ahead of St Mirren with one match to play – and with a superior goal difference.
St Mirren made just one change from the team that had defeated Dundee, with Ryan Flynn replacing Richard Tait.
Livingston made three alterations following the 1-1 draw with St Johnstone. Out went Ayo Obileye, Andrew Shinnie and Odin Bailey, with Jackson Longridge, Caleb Chukwuemeka and Alan Forrest all starting.
It was Forrest who had the first chance of the game, meeting Devlin’s cross but seeing his shot gathered by Saints goalkeeper Jak Alnwick.
The home side responded with a Joe Shaughnessy header that struck the post from Scott Tanser’s cross before Chukwuemeka headed wide from Sean Kelly’s corner when he should have scored.
Forrest then had another chance for Livingston but poked his shot at Alnwick who blocked well as both teams belatedly showed signs of life.
Devlin, racing in at the back post, then blazed a shot high over the crossbar as the visitors threatened again.
They had another great chance in the final minutes of the first half. Joel Nouble broke the offside trap and ran in on goal but Alnwick got down well to smother before the forward could get his shot away.
Livingston again looked the side more likely to score in the second period and Devlin almost came close with a ferocious shot that the goalkeeper eased over the crossbar.
St Mirren, though, kept pushing too and Ethan Erhahon played in Flynn whose shot was well saved by Ivan Konovalov in the visitors’ goal.
Conor McCarthy then saw his shot deflected by some last-gasp Livingston defending for a corner, as did Shaughnessy when he rose for a header moments later.
St Mirren continued to push for an opener. Substitute Alan Power sent Greg Kiltie clear down the line and his cross was volleyed narrowly wide by Alex Greive.
Livingston could have claimed the victory in the closing minutes but substitute Bailey’s effort struck the top of the crossbar but a point was enough. | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/sport/4282451/livingston-stay-above-st-mirren-after-goalless-draw/ | 2022-05-11T23:34:43Z | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/sport/4282451/livingston-stay-above-st-mirren-after-goalless-draw/ | false | 5 |
Elon Musk’s Crash Course: release date, premise and everything we know about the documentary
By Terrell Smith published
An in-depth look at Tesla and the truth behind the safety of the Autopilot technology.
Producer and director Emma Schwartz is shining a light on the richest man in the world and his company in Elon Musk’s Crash Course. However, we don’t mean Twitter (if you haven’t heard, the billionaire now owns the social media platform), but instead Tesla, the luxury electric car brand.
Elon Musk’s Crash Course is the latest documentary in The New York Times Presents film series. Previous projects Framing Britney Spears and Controlling Britney Spears were not only informative but were topics of many conversations on social media. It will be interesting to see if this new documentary will gain such buzz on Twitter given the new owner.
Here’s everything we know about Elon Musk’s Crash Course.
When is the Elon Musk’s Crash Course release date?
Elon Musk’s Crash Course premieres on Friday, May 20, at 10 pm ET/PT on both FX and Hulu.
There currently isn’t an official word as to when the film will be released in the UK. However, it looks like the BBC has its own Elon Musk project in the works.
Elon Musk’s Crash Course premise
For a while now, there have been discussions about just the Autopilot technology's safety in Teslas. At the end of 2021, Tesla reported, "one crash for every 4.31 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology." However, as The New York Times alleges in the documentary, over the years, the Autopilot feature has played a role in a number of accidents and deaths that the car company hasn’t publicly acknowledged. Furthermore, the film explores whether or not there was an active attempt to cover up the truth.
The New York Times press page for Elon Musk’s Crash Course describes the premise of the documentary as the following:
"Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has claimed since 2015 that, for Tesla, technology for self-driving cars is essentially a 'solved problem' and made outlandish claims about Autopilot capabilities. But a New York Times investigation reveals the quixotic nature of Musk’s pursuit of self-driving technology and the tragic results.
"Drawing on first-hand accounts, the film traces how Autopilot has been a factor in several deaths and dozens of other accidents that Tesla has not publicly acknowledged. It details pressure Elon Musk put on government officials to quash investigations and features inside stories from several former Tesla employees, who speak out against Musk for promoting a self-driving program that they believe was perilous.
"Elon Musk made his name and fortune taking bold risks and betting on the impossible, but the story of his pursuit of self-driving has put Musk on a crash course with both the business realities and technology’s limits. Yet, even after years of unfulfilled promises, Elon Musk continues to double down on his Full Self Driving service, once again, with questionable results."
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NEW YORK, May 12 ― Former US President Donald Trump must pay a US$110,000 (RM481,472) fine and meet other conditions to purge a contempt of court order over his failure to comply with a subpoena in a civil probe into his business practices by New York state's attorney general, a judge said yesterday.
The judge, Arthur Engoron, also accused Trump during a virtual hearing of making a false statement in an affidavit relating to the subpoena seeking documents concerning his family real estate business, the Trump Organisation.
Engoron said a US$10,000-per-day fine he imposed on Trump in April for his failure to comply with the subpoena stopped accruing on Friday, when the former president and his lawyers filed new affidavits detailing steps they took to find documents relevant to Attorney General Letitia James' investigation.
Trump said in the May 6 sworn statement that he does not have any relevant documents.
Engoron took issue with Trump's claim in the affidavit that he has not communicated digitally since 2010, pointing to his past posts on Twitter and current posts on Truth Social, a network he founded.
“We all know he uses electronic communication ― 80 million people were on his Twitter feed,” Engoron said. “A sentence has to be true. That sentence is just not true.”
Michael Madaio, a lawyer for Trump, said the statement was not meant to imply that Trump did not post on social media. Alina Habba, another Trump lawyer, said Trump did not use direct messaging on Twitter and that his tweets were not relevant to the investigation.
“Everything relevant to the (attorney general's) subpoena has been produced,” Habba said.
The judge gave Trump until May 20 to comply with the additional conditions, or else the contempt order could be restored and the fine reinstated retroactively.
The conditions include having a third-party firm that has been hired to search the Trump Organisation's records submit a report about Trump's compliance with the subpoena.
Engoron also asked for affidavits from several Trump Organization employees and lawyers, as well as a sworn statement from a Trump assistant about how the assistant handled Trump's documents.
Once Trump pays the fine, the funds will be held in escrow pending his appeal of the contempt order.
Parallel criminal probe
James has said her probe has turned up evidence that the Trump Organisation ― which manages hotels, golf courses and other real estate around the world ― has given banks and tax authorities misleading financial information to obtain benefits such as favourable loans and tax breaks.
A Republican, Trump denies wrongdoing and calls the investigation politically motivated. James is a Democrat.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office, now run by Alvin Bragg, is also conducting a criminal investigation into how the Trump Organization valued its assets, which led to last summer's indictment of the company's chief financial officer on tax fraud charges.
Trump in February appealed a ruling by Engoron that he and his oldest children Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump testify in James' civil probe, saying their words could be used against them in Bragg's probe in violation of their constitutional rights.
Some lawyers from James' office are working with Bragg's team on the criminal probe.
At a Wednesday afternoon hearing, a four-judge panel of a state appeals court in Manhattan appeared sceptical of Trump's bid to overturn Engoron's ruling.
Rolando Acosta, the presiding justice, noted that Trump and his children could simply invoke their right against self-incrimination and decline to answer questions. Read full story
“You cannot avoid a civil investigation,” Acosta said. “The only remedy that you have is to invoke your privilege of not incriminating yourself.”
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The Stillwater Board of Education approved the hiring of Brian Warwick as the new Athletics Director for Stillwater Public Schools at its regular May 10 meeting.
Warwick has served as Assistant Athletics Director for the district since July of 2019. He began working with Stillwater Public Schools in August of 2003 as a teacher and a coach at Stillwater Junior High. Over the last 18 years, he has also served as assistant football, boys basketball and track coaches, head track coach, assistant Middle School principal, and assistant Junior High principal.
“I am very excited about this opportunity and the future of the SPS Athletic Department ,” Warwick said. “We have seen a lot of growth and success in all of our programs over the last several years, and I feel confident that will continue in the future.
“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with district administrators and community members on planning for the upcoming 2023 bond issue. It has the potential to impact our students for decades to come. Academics, athletics, safety – every aspect of our students’ experiences stand to benefit. It’s a great opportunity to add to the successes we are already having.”
Warwick received both a Bachelors in Secondary Education and a Master's in Administration from Oklahoma State University. He is married to Emily Warwick and together they have two children, 5-year-old Braylon and 2-year-old Blair. He enjoys spending time with his family, working out, and traveling in his spare time.
The athletics director role was previously combined with coaching duties, but Interim Superintendent Gay Washington says that is no longer the case.
“Over the last 10 years our sports programs have expanded the number of athletes participating across all grade levels where we have sports,” she said. “With that increase comes an increase in scope of responsibility, and it was time to eliminate coaching duties to allow that individual to really focus on those director responsibilities.
“I’d already been impressed by my interactions with Mr. Warwick and his reputation in the district. While contacting references, I was struck by how well respected Mr. Warwick is. It’s clear that he is viewed as an impressive, up-and-coming leader by his peers in other districts for his knowledge, insight, and careful consideration of issues facing student athletes.”
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Jennifer Lopez is working on a limited series of ‘Rodgers Hammerstein’s Cinderella’.
The ‘Let’s Get Loud’ hitmaker is working with her production company Nuyorican Productions, Concord Originals and with Skydance Television to bring the 1957 musical to television screens alongside Rachel Shukert, the creator of Netflix's ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ as who will adapt the source material and act as showrunner.
The production is the first to come from an arrangement between the three production houses to create original content based on Concord’s back catalogue of musicals.
Bill Bost, the president of Skydance said in a statement: “The story of Cinderella is as timeless now as ever. This aspirational story of romance, unconventional families and the surprising power of wishes has inspired audiences around the world for centuries, and we are thrilled to be working with Jennifer, Rachel, Concord and The Rodgers Hammerstein Organization to bring our fresh take to the screen.”
The show - that originally starred Julie Andrews in the title role in the 50s - was the only work Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II created together exclusively for television and raked in an audience of roughly 100 million people. Since then, the classic fairytale musical has been revived on-stage and screen, most notably with the 1997 movie starring Whitney Houston and Brandy Norwood.
Concord have praised the creative partner’s abilities to be able to “expand upon this story in a creative way”.
Sophia Dilley, senior vice-president of development and production said: “Rodgers Hammerstein elevated the already magical story of Cinderella with their iconic music that has attracted legends of screen and stage throughout its many beloved, award-winning iterations over the years. Our partnership with Skydance and Nuyorican on this project is the first step of many towards our collective goal of championing timeless classics for a new generation, and Rachel is the perfect voice to expand upon this story in a contemporary way.” | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-is-producing-a-limited-series-of-rodgers-hammerstein-s-cinderella/article_72d01d99-c854-5b3e-ae8b-fde3d99331ee.html | 2022-05-11T23:43:17Z | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-is-producing-a-limited-series-of-rodgers-hammerstein-s-cinderella/article_72d01d99-c854-5b3e-ae8b-fde3d99331ee.html | false | 2 |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A congressional map approved by Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and drawn by his staff is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives, a state judge said Wednesday.
Leon County Circuit Judge Layne Smith said he would issue a formal order Thursday or Friday to keep the maps from taking effect in November’s election. He made it clear he would rule in favor of voting rights groups challenging the maps.
Smith said the order will likely replace the DeSantis map with one of two that the Legislature included in a bill and sent to DeSantis in March. The governor vetoed the bill and later called the Legislature back into special session. The Republican-dominated House and Senate chose not to draw a new map, and instead passed the DeSantis map.
The challenge focuses on a north Florida district now held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Lawson. The district runs from Jacksonville west more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) to Gadsden County and nearly half of its population is Black.
“The judge recognizes that this map is unlawful and diminishes African Americans’ ability to elect representatives of their choice,” Lawson said in a statement emailed to news outlets. “DeSantis is wrong for enacting this Republican-leaning map that is in clear violation of the U.S. and state constitutions.”
DeSantis’ proposal prompted a protest by Black House members as the chamber was preparing to vote on the maps.
Smith said he will issue his order as soon as he can so the state can immediately appeal it. It may be the conservative state Supreme Court that ultimately resolves the dispute.
DeSantis’ office confirmed it will appeal.
“As Judge Smith implied, these complex constitutional matters of law were always going to be decided at the appellate level,” DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske said in an email. “We will undoubtedly be appealing his ruling and are confident the constitutional map enacted by the Florida legislature and signed into law passes legal muster.”
Smith said that while the DeSantis map is more compact, the issue of allowing Black voters to choose their representatives is more important.
“The district that has since been enacted and signed into law by the governor does disperse 367,000 African American votes between four different districts,” Smith said in a video call with both sides. “The African American population is nowhere near a plurality or a majority.”
Equal Ground, one of several voting rights groups that challenged the maps, praised Smith’s decision.
“No Floridian – including Governor DeSantis – is above the law,” Equal Ground founder Jasmine Burney-Clark said in a statement emailed to news outlets. “This is one step forward in the fight to protect Black voters, and we will keep doing everything in our power to ensure our voices are heard.”
The governor’s office drew up a map it described as neutral on race and party affiliation, and which it said abided by both the state and federal constitutions.
Smith said his ruling will be based on the state constitution, not the U.S. Constitution.
Qualifying for federal office will run from June 13-17.
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Capital Analysts LLC raised its holdings in shares of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI – Get Rating) by 1.4% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 158,085 shares of the pipeline company’s stock after buying an additional 2,200 shares during the period. Capital Analysts LLC’s holdings in Kinder Morgan were worth $2,507,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
A number of other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in KMI. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Kinder Morgan during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Newbridge Financial Services Group Inc. increased its holdings in Kinder Morgan by 237.8% during the fourth quarter. Newbridge Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 2,054 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $33,000 after buying an additional 1,446 shares during the last quarter. Curi Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in Kinder Morgan during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $33,000. Evoke Wealth LLC increased its holdings in Kinder Morgan by 628.9% during the fourth quarter. Evoke Wealth LLC now owns 2,143 shares of the pipeline company’s stock valued at $34,000 after buying an additional 1,849 shares during the last quarter. Finally, D Orazio & Associates Inc. purchased a new stake in Kinder Morgan during the third quarter valued at approximately $37,000. 58.53% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on KMI. TD Securities increased their price objective on shares of Kinder Morgan from $21.00 to $23.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 21st. Wolfe Research cut shares of Kinder Morgan from a “peer perform” rating to an “underperform” rating and increased their price objective for the stock from $17.00 to $18.00 in a research note on Monday, April 11th. Wells Fargo & Company raised shares of Kinder Morgan from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and set a $21.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Thursday, April 28th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of Kinder Morgan from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $18.00 price objective for the company in a research note on Tuesday, January 25th. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased their price objective on shares of Kinder Morgan from $19.00 to $20.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 20th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $19.78.
Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI – Get Rating) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, April 20th. The pipeline company reported $0.32 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.29 by $0.03. Kinder Morgan had a net margin of 6.64% and a return on equity of 7.51%. The firm had revenue of $4.29 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $3.66 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $0.60 earnings per share. Kinder Morgan’s revenue for the quarter was down 17.6% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Kinder Morgan, Inc. will post 1.11 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, May 16th. Shareholders of record on Monday, May 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.2775 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, April 29th. This represents a $1.11 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.99%. This is a positive change from Kinder Morgan’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.27. Kinder Morgan’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 246.67%.
In other Kinder Morgan news, VP Dax Sanders sold 91,129 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, April 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $19.51, for a total transaction of $1,777,926.79. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president now owns 204,105 shares in the company, valued at $3,982,088.55. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, VP John W. Schlosser sold 1,500 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, March 25th. The shares were sold at an average price of $18.34, for a total transaction of $27,510.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 94,129 shares of company stock valued at $1,833,202 in the last quarter. 12.51% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
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Kinder Morgan, Inc operates as an energy infrastructure company in North America. The company operates through four segments: Natural Gas Pipelines, Products Pipelines, Terminals, and CO2. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment owns and operates interstate and intrastate natural gas pipeline, and underground storage systems; natural gas gathering systems and natural gas processing and treating facilities; natural gas liquids fractionation facilities and transportation systems; and liquefied natural gas liquefaction and storage facilities.
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Capital Analysts LLC decreased its stake in shares of General Dynamics Co. (NYSE:GD – Get Rating) by 0.7% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 13,397 shares of the aerospace company’s stock after selling 97 shares during the quarter. Capital Analysts LLC’s holdings in General Dynamics were worth $2,793,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other large investors have also bought and sold shares of GD. Costello Asset Management INC purchased a new stake in General Dynamics in the fourth quarter valued at $26,000. Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC acquired a new stake in shares of General Dynamics in the fourth quarter valued at $29,000. Dixon Hughes Goodman Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of General Dynamics in the fourth quarter valued at $29,000. Ten Capital Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of General Dynamics in the third quarter valued at $32,000. Finally, Widmann Financial Services Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of General Dynamics in the fourth quarter valued at $41,000. Institutional investors own 85.84% of the company’s stock.
In other General Dynamics news, VP Gregory S. Gallopoulos sold 10,644 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, April 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $237.93, for a total transaction of $2,532,526.92. Following the sale, the vice president now owns 124,605 shares in the company, valued at approximately $29,647,267.65. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. Also, VP William A. Moss sold 2,391 shares of the stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $237.17, for a total value of $567,073.47. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Corporate insiders own 1.50% of the company’s stock.
GD traded down $2.36 on Wednesday, hitting $226.94. 1,829,858 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 1,522,765. The company has a 50 day moving average of $238.84 and a 200-day moving average of $218.37. The company has a quick ratio of 1.09, a current ratio of 1.48 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.58. The stock has a market capitalization of $63.02 billion, a PE ratio of 19.43, a PEG ratio of 2.01 and a beta of 0.95. General Dynamics Co. has a 12-month low of $182.66 and a 12-month high of $254.99.
General Dynamics (NYSE:GD – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, April 27th. The aerospace company reported $2.61 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $2.48 by $0.13. General Dynamics had a return on equity of 19.67% and a net margin of 8.52%. The company had revenue of $9.39 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $9.02 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $2.48 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up .0% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts anticipate that General Dynamics Co. will post 12.16 EPS for the current year.
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, May 6th. Investors of record on Friday, April 8th were issued a $1.26 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, April 7th. This represents a $5.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.22%. This is a boost from General Dynamics’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.19. General Dynamics’s dividend payout ratio is currently 43.15%.
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General Dynamics Corporation operates as an aerospace and defense company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Aerospace, Marine Systems, Combat Systems, and Technologies. The Aerospace segment designs, manufactures, and sells business jets; and offers aircraft maintenance and repair, management, charter, aircraft-on-ground support and completion, staffing, and fixed-base operator services.
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Louisiana governor slams bill that could jail women for abortion
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat with a history of opposing abortion rights, came out Wednesday emphatically against legislation that could subject women to prosecution and prison for getting abortions.
Edwards told a Baton Rouge civic club he would veto a measure by Rep. Danny McCormick, an Oil City Republican, according to news outlets.
Later, he issued a statement calling the bill “anti-woman.” He called it “patently unconstitutional” and said it would criminalize some types of contraception and parts of the in vitro fertilization process.
McCormick’s bill, set for debate in the state House on Thursday, was introduced in March. But it got its first legislative hearing last week, less than two days after the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion indicating the high court is preparing to overturn decisions upholding a constitutional right to abortion.
It makes abortion a crime of homicide for which a woman ending her pregnancy could be charged, along with anyone helping her. It also declares that any federal law, regulation or court ruling that allows abortion is void and that any judge who blocks enforcement of the bill’s provisions could be impeached.
“In addition to the fact that this legislation is patently unconstitutional, this bill would criminalize the use of certain types of contraception, as well as parts of the in vitro fertilization process, and it could even serve as a barrier to life-saving medical treatment for a woman who is suffering a miscarriage,” Edwards said. “To suggest that a woman would be jailed for an abortion is simply absurd.”
In addition to the anti-abortion governor, the bill has also drawn opposition from the anti-abortion organization Louisiana Right to Life, as well as numerous groups supporting abortion rights.
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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A Louisiana man faces up to 10 years in prison after a federal jury in Laredo, Texas, convicted him of transporting dozens of undocumented migrants in a trailer through South Texas.
The jury deliberated over three hours before convicting Roderick DeWayne Chisley, 47, of Monroe, Louisiana, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Chisley drove the tractor-trailer through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on busy Interstate 35 on Dec. 17, 2021.
The trailer was stolen and when authorities opened it, they found 52 migrants.
Chisley said he was unaware the undocumented migrants were in his trailer.
However, two of the migrants testified during the three-day trial that the vehicle began moving almost immediately after they entered the trailer and did not stop until it reached the checkpoint.
A jury found Chisley guilty of conspiring to transport and transporting undocumented aliens. In addition to 10 years in prison, he faces a $250,000 fine.
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For the past year or so, inflation has been a very popular topic of discussion among investors. We’ve seen inflation increase at a very fast rate, causing investors to worry about losing buying power in their passive-income sources. In order to combat that issue, investors should hold shares of companies that are able to increase dividend distributions faster than the inflation rate. In this article, I’ll discuss three such companies.
This reliable company should be on your shortlist
When it comes to dividend stocks, Canadian National Railway (TSX:CNR)(NYSE:CNI) is one of the first stocks that comes to mind. It’s listed as a Canadian Dividend Aristocrat. In fact, it’s one of only 11 companies on the TSX that has managed to establish an active dividend-growth streak of at least 25 years. That makes it an elite Canadian dividend company.
In this article, I try to identify stocks that could beat inflation. I do that by looking at a stock’s five-year dividend-growth rate. In the case of Canadian National, its quarterly dividend has grown from $0.413 per share in 2017 to $0.733 per share today. That represents a CAGR of 12.2%, easily beating even this year’s inflation rate.
The banks are excellent dividend stocks
When looking for dividend stocks to add to your portfolio, it should be inevitable that investors land on the Canadian banking stocks. These companies are well known for paying stable dividends to investors. In addition, these companies usually offer very attractive dividend yields. This combination of a reliable dividend and giving good value for every dollar spent makes the Canadian banks a must-have in any portfolio.
Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS)(NYSE:BNS) is an example of a dividend stock you should consider for your portfolio. Another Canadian Dividend Aristocrat, Bank of Nova Scotia’s dividend-growth streak spans 11 years. Over the past five years, its dividend has grown at a CAGR of 5.6%. Although not as high as Canadian National’s growth rate, it does beat the long-term inflation rate of 2%. Bank of Nova Scotia’s most recent dividend increase was an impressive 11%. This suggests that the company may be able to bump up its increases alongside the rising inflation rate.
A stock you may not have considered before
The TSX hosts a vast number of dividend stocks. With that said, there are actually many dividend stocks in Canada that are worth considering. Some, like Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD) may have slipped under the radar. This company doesn’t have the most exciting business, but it’s a stable one. That’s exactly what investors should be looking for in the stocks they hold.
Like Bank of Nova Scotia, Alimentation Couche-Tard has increased its dividend in each of the past 11 years. It has also managed to establish a very impressive five-year dividend-growth rate of 19.6%. Despite that very fast increase in its dividend, Alimentation Couche-Tard maintains a payout ratio of about 11%. That suggests that the company could continue to comfortably increase its dividend over the coming years. | https://www.fool.ca/2022/05/11/3-dividend-stocks-that-could-help-you-beat-inflation/ | 2022-05-12T00:03:33Z | https://www.fool.ca/2022/05/11/3-dividend-stocks-that-could-help-you-beat-inflation/ | true | 1 |
On Tuesday, the Oilers dropped an 8-1 decision to Karns City in a non-region game under the lights at Pullman Park in Butler.
Oil City trailed 2-0 until Jacob Teeter singled in a run in the top of the third to cut the deficit in half. However, the Gremlins scored two in the bottom of the frame and added four more in the fourth to pull away.
Also adding singles for Oil City were Koen Bearer, Conner Lockhart and Lincoln Kauffman.
Alex Stevens went 3 2/3 innings and took the mound loss. He gave up 11 hits and two walks with two strikeouts. Will McMahon tossed the final 2 1/3 innings, giving up a hit and a walk with four punchouts.
On Monday, the Oilers used a big six-run first inning and held on for a 7-6 road win over Sharon in a Region 2 matchup.
Oil City banged out 11 hits as Kauffman led the way with a double and two singles while Connor Highfield added a pair of singles. Bearer and Lockhart chipped in with a double apiece while Teeter, McMahon, Matt Ames and Justin Dunkle all singled.
Motter picked up the mound win by going 2 2/3 innings. He gave up five hits and two walks with one strikeout. Bearer came on and pitched 2 1/3 frames. He allowed four hits and fanned one while Teeter finished up to earn the save. In his two inning on the hill, he gave up three hits and a walk and struck out one.
Sharon collected 13 hits in the loss as Mikey Rodriguez had two doubles and Dante Currie added a single and double. | https://www.thederrick.com/baseball-roundup/article_2b6fc39a-d17e-11ec-8919-a7b79f67e77a.html | 2022-05-12T00:04:39Z | https://www.thederrick.com/baseball-roundup/article_2b6fc39a-d17e-11ec-8919-a7b79f67e77a.html | true | 1 |
ERIE -- Oil City's No. 1 doubles team of Mason Stephens and Jackson Dilks won their opening match on Wednesday in the District 10 Class 2A Doubles Tennis Tournament before falling to the eventual district champion Fairview.
Held at the Westwood Racquet Club, Stephens and Dilks opened the day with an 8-4 pro-set victory over Grove City I, which included Ryan Waugaman and Shane Cavalo.
However, the Oiler duo was blanked by Fairview I, 8-0, in the next round. Fairview's tandem of Nate Kisiel and Arazind Turata went on to capture the championship by beating their teammates, Chris Spriegel and Jacob Miller, 6-2, 6-2.
Oil City's No. 2 doubles team of Eric Goughler and John Pardee dropped their opening bout to the Cathedral Prep II team of Austin Glance and Cameron Grieshaber, 8-0. | https://www.thederrick.com/district-10-tennis/article_8d99150a-d177-11ec-97c1-53cf7c69c46d.html | 2022-05-12T00:04:45Z | https://www.thederrick.com/district-10-tennis/article_8d99150a-d177-11ec-97c1-53cf7c69c46d.html | true | null |
The Erie School Board is meeting on Wednesday with several hot top issues on the agenda that could include a tax increase for Erie residents.
We went to East Middle School for more on the Erie School District’s proposal.
The proposed tax hike is aimed at funding student support programs started with federal COVID rescue money.
The Erie School Board is also considering rebuilding Edison Elementary School, or rebuilding a new school entirely.
Erie School District Superintendent Brian Polito is proposing a 4.4% tax increase to continue funding programs that were started during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Yes and that was the intent of them, and we have discovered that they have a lot of worth an value and some good results, and we would like to keep that going, but we do now have to begin to get serious about considering the cost of all of our programs, all of our needs, and this is the time of year when we all bring that into serious focus,” said John Harkins, Erie School Board Member.
They need the money after the districts $100 million dollars in rescue funds have been used up.
Harkins added that the programs are focused mainly on mental illness support.
“Some of these kids come from situations and circumstances that they are not equipped to just sit down and open the book and learn their ABC’s and learn to read and write. We have to be sensitive to and mindful of the condition their psyche is in,” said Harkins.
The reconstruction of Edison Elementary has been discussed for many years.
The question was always should they renovate or build new?
“The position we are in financially, we find that it would be easier and more desirable to build new,” said Harkins.
“We could have added to the school for I think 26 million or put up a new school for 34 million and it seems to be the sense of the board that it is time to start over there,” said Sumner Nichols, Erie School Board Member.
The meeting on Wednesday started at five and is just the first significant step of the tax increase.
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Harkins said that 4.4% is more of a starting point of the tax rate. | https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/erie-school-board-meets-on-proposed-tax-increase/ | 2022-05-12T00:05:21Z | https://www.yourerie.com/news/local-news/erie-school-board-meets-on-proposed-tax-increase/ | true | 1 |
Late-season Influenza cases surge in San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A surge in late-season influenza cases has county public health officials reminding residents that vaccinations can help prevent the illness and its spread, it was announced Wednesday.
Last week, 189 lab-confirmed influenza cases were reported in the region, a figure that far exceeds the number of infections identified during the same week in previous seasons, according to the county Health and Human Services Agency.
Last year, seven flu cases were reported during the same week and an average of 35 infections were identified during the same period over the past five seasons.
“By this time, the influenza season should be winding down, but that is not what we are seeing this year,” said Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s public health officer. “Cases have increased and remained steady over the past few weeks.
“Many San Diegans are getting sick with influenza week after week,” she said. “If you have not gotten vaccinated, you should do it now. Remember, it is not too late to vaccinate.”
No new flu deaths were reported in the past week. Influenza-related deaths remain at five for the 2021-22 season.
The percentage of emergency room visits for influenza last week was 3%, same as the previous week. The 189 cases compared to 160 the week before. The total lab-confirmed cases for the season to date now number 2,906, compared to 795 at the same time last season and a 11,636 prior five-year average for this time of year.
From 2020-21, the county reported 848 influenza cases and two deaths. During the 2019-20 flu season, the county reported more than 20,700 flu cases and 108 deaths.
According to the county, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone 6 months and older get a flu shot every year. It takes about two weeks for immunity to develop. The CDC also says that a person can get a flu and COVID-19 vaccination at the same time. The coronavirus vaccine does not work against influenza and vice versa, county officials said.
According to the county, the flu vaccine is especially important for people at higher risk of having serious complications from the virus, including those with chronic medical conditions like asthma, diabetes and lung disease; pregnant women; those 65 years and older; or people living with or caring for others at higher risk.
The flu vaccine is available at private doctors’ offices and retail pharmacies, and is covered by medical insurance. Those with no health care coverage may get the vaccine at one of the county’s six public health centers or a local community clinic.
Information is available by calling 2-1-1 San Diego or visiting www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/immunization_branch/Vaccin e_Preventable_Diseases/Seasonal_Influenza/Flu_Vaccine_Locations.html.
The county also recommends that residents:
— wash hands thoroughly and often or use hand sanitizers;
— avoid sick people, or touching their eyes, nose, and mouth;
— clean commonly touched surfaces; and
— stay home and avoid contact with others, if they are sick. | https://www.kusi.com/late-season-influenza-cases-surge-in-san-diego-county/ | 2022-05-12T00:07:50Z | https://www.kusi.com/late-season-influenza-cases-surge-in-san-diego-county/ | false | 1 |
Missouri election chief: Redistricting risks election errors
Missouri’s top election official on Wednesday warned that it may be too late to pass new congressional districts for the Aug. 2 primary without causing errors that could undermine confidence in the election.
Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said that even if lawmakers were to approve a new U.S. House map before Friday’s deadline to pass legislation, it wouldn’t leave local election authorities with enough time to ensure that everyone’s voting addresses are accurately assigned to the new districts.
“We’re running the risk of having a good amount of individuals that could end up with the wrong ballot,” Ashcroft told The Associated Press.
He suggested it would be better to hold congressional primaries under current voting districts, though multiple lawsuits contend those are unconstitutional because they are based on the 2010 census and no longer have equal populations.
Missouri is one of only a few states that have yet to enact new congressional districts based on the 2020 census. Though Republicans hold large majorities in the state House and Senate, they have been at loggerheads over how aggressively to draw districts to their favor and which communities to divide.
Republicans currently hold six of Missouri’s eight U.S. House seats. Ashcroft had been among those advocating for an approach that would give Republicans a shot at winning seven of those seats. But some GOP legislative leaders feared that could backfire by spreading Republican voters too thin. The debate more recently has focused on efforts to shore up GOP strength in the 2nd Congressional District in suburban St. Louis, the only one which is relatively competitive.
Earlier this week, the House passed another attempt at a redistricting plan that is now pending in the Senate.
Even if the Senate passes that plan, “my concern is that it will turn out to be too late for all the work that has to be done, and I’m afraid it will cause confusion and problems in the August election, and I do not want that to happen,” Ashcroft said.
His concerns were echoed by Shane Schoeller, president of the Missouri Association of County Clerks & Election Authorities.
If the Legislature were to pass a redistricting plan by Friday and Gov. Mike Parson were to quickly sign it, election authorities would have only about one week to make the necessary changes before the state’s centralized voter registration system is locked in place on May 25 for the preparation of ballots that must be available for absentee voters in mid-June, Schoeller said.
“If they’re concerned about fair and accurate elections, they cannot pass a map this week and be assured that the congressional districts will be accurate when voters go to vote,” said Schoeller, a Republican who is the Greene County clerk.
The time crunch poses a problem primarily for counties that are split among multiple congressional districts. The latest redistricting plan passed by the state House would split several counties in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas, as well as Columbia’s home of Boone County, Webster County to the east of Springfield, and Camden County, which contains part of the Lake of the Ozarks.
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State and Paul Mitchell Beauty School are taking action to help students prepare for future careers.
Wednesday, the two schools hosted an end-of-the-year clothing giveaway, complete with free haircuts from barbers and cosmetologists.
The Fresno State Career Development Center equips students with professional clothing to wear to interviews.
Since it has an abundance of casual wear, it encouraged students to take extra.
If you have gently-used clothing you'd like to donate, just contact the Career Development Center at Fresno State at 559-278-2381.
You can also visit their website. | https://abc30.com/fresno-state-paul-mitchell-clothing-giveaway/11838655/ | 2022-05-12T00:12:17Z | https://abc30.com/fresno-state-paul-mitchell-clothing-giveaway/11838655/ | true | null |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to be a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, giving President Joe Biden's Democrats control of the agency.
Bedoya, who teaches at Georgetown Law School, was confirmed on a vote of 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. Bedoya's confirmation gives Democrats a 3-2 majority among FTC commissioners.
The FTC enforces antitrust law and helps fight scams. For the past several months it has been run by a Democratic chair, Lina Khan, joined by another Democrat and two Republicans. A tie vote on any decision prevents the commission from going forward.
In February, Democrats on the commission failed to win needed Republican support for a study on pharmacy benefit managers, like CVS Caremark, which serve as intermediaries between drug manufacturers, health insurance plans and pharmacies to negotiate prescription drug prices.
With Bedoya's confirmation, there could be another attempt to undertake that study along with other efforts that Republicans oppose.
Bedoya, founding director of Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy & Technology, is also a former chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce had urged the Senate to delay consideration of Bedoya, saying they wanted a fifth commissioner who would rein in FTC Chair Khan, a progressive who has advocated tough antitrust policies.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer had said confirming Bedoya was a priority.
"With the FTC at full membership, this important agency will be empowered to drive full steam ahead in cracking down on bad actor companies who are using anticompetitive practices, inflation, and price manipulation to bilk consumers and drive up profits," he said in a statement. | https://gazette.com/senate-confirms-bedoya-giving-dems-ftc-control/article_7b557fe8-d17a-11ec-803e-b3d0194d6a4d.html | 2022-05-12T00:12:27Z | https://gazette.com/senate-confirms-bedoya-giving-dems-ftc-control/article_7b557fe8-d17a-11ec-803e-b3d0194d6a4d.html | false | 2 |
Republicans aim to defund DHS disinformation board
House Republicans on Wednesday introduced a bill to defund the recently announced Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the latest in a series of GOP actions against the panel that they have deemed an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”
The bill, led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), prohibits funds from flowing to activities to carry out the Disinformation Governance Board or any “substantially similar” entity.
“The President’s Ministry of Truth is just an un-American abuse of power, which is a scheme conjured up by Washington Democrats to grant themselves the authority to control free speech,” McCarhty said in a press conference on Wednesday.
Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), House GOP Conference Vice Chairman Mike Johnson (La.), August Pfluger (Texas), House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.), House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) and Homeland Security Committee ranking member John Katko (N.Y.) are co-sponsors of the bill.
DHS has released few details about how the board will work, and a clumsy rollout led to swift attacks. In a fact sheet released last week, the department said that the board was “established with the explicit goal of ensuring these protections are appropriately incorporated across DHS’s disinformation-related work and that rigorous safeguards are in place.”
The department also said that it has dealt with disinformation relating to scammers and smugglers distributing false information about the border and taking advantage of natural disaster victims.
Boebert dismissed the possibility of working with the board to counter disinformation from cartels.
“This board needs to be defended and needs to be dismantled because this is not a tool to go after the cartels. We have plenty of tools that we can use to go after the cartels,” Boebert said. “It seems like it was created to terrorize the American people rather than to prevent terrorists from engaging in our country. So I would not give any credence to this disinformation governance board, this department of propaganda.”
Republicans are taking other actions to move against the panel, too.
Last week, 170 House Republicans signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seeking answers about the disinformation governance board. The House Judiciary Committee GOP also invited Nina Jankowicz, head of the board, to speak to the committee.
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A 1,000-Pound Great White Is Cruising East Coast Waters
The shark, "Ironbound," is an adult male great white that was last tracked to Pamlico Sound
Question: What’s 12 feet, 4 inches long, weighs 1,000 pounds, and just cruised from the Jersey Shore to the Pamlico Sound this week? Answer: “Ironbound,” a great white shark tagged and tracked by OCEARCH.
OCEARCH, which has tracked 431 marine animals, including sea turtles, dolphins, pilot whales, and a variety of shark species, tagged Ironbound near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia on October 3, 2019. Since then, they’ve tracked his zig-zagging yearly migration back and forth from the Canadian Atlantic to the Florida Keys, for a total of more than 13,000 miles. His latest tracker ping put him at Hatteras Canyon off the coast of North Carolina on May 10.
Ocearch tags and tracks great white sharks and other marine animals to better understand their migrations patterns and protect them from extinction. Their ship, the M/V OCEARCH, is equipped with a 75,000-pound-capacity hydraulic platform. When the research team hauls a great white onto the deck, they use hoses to keep the animal’s gills hydrated and gather up to 12 biosamples in 15 minutes. Before releasing the shark, they attach acoustic, accelerometer and SPOT tags, which work in coordination with a GPS.
When Ironbound pinged near Jersey last week, Bob Hueter, chief scientist at OCEARCH, told CNN, “Mating season is over, we think, and Ironbound is on his way north to get into some good feeding ground and bulk up again for the next year.” While scientists haven’t conclusively determined where great white sharks mate, they have theorized that it happens off the coast of the Carolinas, Heurter explained. In March, Ironbound pinged near Georgia, then steadily moved north to the Jersey Shore, where a ping was recorded on April 28. But, contrary to Hueter’s prediction, the half-ton fish turned and headed back to the Pamlico Sound, where it had spent much of the summer and fall. Perhaps it has one last bit of business to tend to before it heads back to Nova Scotia.
Heuter estimated that Ironbound is about 20 years old, but explained that OCEARCH has tagged much larger great whites, including one that was 17.5 feet and 4,000 pounds. The great white is the world’s largest predatory fish and can grow up to 20 feet long and reach weights over 5,000 pounds.
The World Wildlife Fund classifies great white sharks as a vulnerable population, one step away from endangered. Heuter told CNN: “Sharks have been around for about 400 million years. They in many cases occupy what’s called the apex predator position, in marine food webs. Just like on land, that is an important role in terms of keeping the lower parts of the food web healthy and balanced.” | https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/1000-pound-great-white-shark-spotted-off-east-coast/ | 2022-05-12T00:15:47Z | https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/1000-pound-great-white-shark-spotted-off-east-coast/ | false | 1 |
EAU CLAIRE — Progress was made Wednesday between GFL Environmental and a local committee toward an agreement that would allow expansion of Seven Mile Creek Landfill to proceed, but the two sides have not yet signed a deal.
The Seven Mile Creek Landfill Siting Committee — a group of 10 community representatives — met for four hours at Eau Claire City Hall with officials from the Canadian waste management company that owns the landfill in the ongoing expansion talks.
Committee Chairman Stephen Nick, Eau Claire’s city attorney, said there was “meaningful progress on a sharing of core principles” during the meeting and negotiations will continue in three weeks.
Among the breakthroughs he cited from Wednesday’s meeting was GFL agreeing to reconsider how tall the landfill could rise.
“We’re very pleased there was a willingness to reduce that permitted height,” he said.
Under a permit the state Department of Natural Resources issued for the expansion, garbage could be piled 64 feet higher than the landfill is currently allowed to go, ultimately reaching a height of 1,165 feet.
“In the long term, this would’ve made this landfill the highest point in the county,” Nick said.
While GFL did not specify a different height limit at the meeting, Nick said the company agreed to do engineering work to see what is possible to reduce it.
Another important step forward in negotiations made on Wednesday was GFL acknowledging the expansion will have an impact on the community and those neighboring the landfill.
“These really impact those living near it and our community in the long term. To their credit they acknowledge those sort of impacts today,” Nick said on Wednesday afternoon.
As planned, the expansion would increase the landfill’s volume by 40%.
The committee set the next negotiating meeting for June 2 as both parties look to bring the long-simmering talks to a conclusion.
“Both sides expressed a mutual interest in moving the negotiations forward at a thoughtful, but much more rapid pace in what we’ve been doing over the last two to three years,” Nick said.
Expansion talks began in 2019 when the landfill was owned by Advanced Disposal. GFL purchased the landfill in 2020 and continued those talks.
Prior to having its closed-door discussion on Wednesday, the committee heard what those living near the landfill want to see out of an agreement.
Roxanne Backowski, a member of the Seven Mile Creek Neighborhood Association, read a letter from a Madison attorney the residents hired to help advocate for them in the negotiations.
Attorney Christa Westerberg urged committee members to reject any agreement that lacks “strong property value protections and robust sociological payments to neighbors.” And if a deal with those features cannot be gotten through negotiation, the attorney said the committee should move to arbitration.
The neighbors say GFL’s proposal made in late March was a step backward, giving the company too much power when home and farm owners are looking to sell their properties for a fair price.
Among the provisions they’ve taken issue with is giving GFL the right of first refusal for sales, limiting the value protection plan to five properties per year, and giving GFL power over the list price for properties being sold near the landfill.
“This is not the proposal of an entity negotiating in good faith,” Westerberg wrote. “In fact, GFL appears to have gone out of its way to propose a plan that would be unacceptable to the community and committee, or that if accepted would not actually be utilized.”
Neighbors are also sticking to their demand that “sociological payments” to compensate residents for the experience of living by a landfill be included in any agreement.
They are seeking $3,500 per year to those living within a half-mile of the landfill, and $2,000 annually for those between a half-mile and one mile from the landfill.
“These amounts are well within the mainstream of similar payments for other landfills in Wisconsin, including those owned by GFL,” Westerberg wrote.
Previous agreements for Seven Mile Creek Landfill have not included sociological payments, but Westerberg notes they are now common in the state.
One of the draft agreements proposed last year by the committee included sociological payments of $1,500 annually for people living within ¾-mile of the landfill.
Based on the 1-mile radius of value protections and sociological payments sought by the neighborhood association, 100 owners would be covered. The ¾-mile range would shrink that to 80 properties.
The landfill’s neighbors heard a voice of sympathy and support Wednesday from the union representing workers there.
Michael Ervin, organizing director for Local 139 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, likened GFL’s negotiations for the landfill expansion to the company’s tactics with its workers.
“GFL has not been fair to its workers,” he said. “What makes you think it will be fair to your community?”
The union has accused GFL of unfair labor practices by delaying negotiations and failing to provide regular pay raises after workers formed a union. Workers began striking and picketing outside the landfill on May 4, and the union sent its allegations of unfair labor practices to the National Labor Relations Board.
Ervin noted the company has been making many acquisitions lately — big and small — and has been reporting financial growth.
“They have plenty of money to negotiate and give fair contracts out,” Ervin said.
According to GFL’s latest financial report, company revenues grew by 27.4% in the first quarter of this year when compared to the start of 2021, which GFL attributed to pricing strategies, volume improvements and higher-than-expected performance from its acquisitions. During 2021, the company had a total of $5.5 billion in revenue across its operations spread throughout Canada and half of the U.S.
The company posted $137 million in net income from its continuing operations during the first three months of 2022, according to GFL Environmental’s most recent quarterly financial report released last week. That profit contrasts with the same quarter a year before when the company posted a $283.7 million loss.
The company has been on a buying spree recently that its filing referred to as “outsized mergers and acquisitions activity.”
As of May 4, the company had completed 21 acquisitions so far this year, which are expected to add about $300 million in annual revenue for the company, according to the filing.
GFL is the fourth-largest diversified waste management company in North America.
Seven Mile Creek Landfill, 8001 Olson Drive, is legally part of the city of Eau Claire, but it is surrounded by the town of Seymour and is about 2½ miles east of the rest of the city.
The landfill was first opened in 1978 as a publicly-owned site, but was sold in the mid-1990s and has gone through numerous owners due to acquisitions and mergers in the waste management industry. | https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front-page/progress-made-in-landfill-talks-chairman-says-but-no-deal-yet/article_5b6ec69a-a6f4-5caa-9c0d-58e3f91e57b5.html | 2022-05-12T00:21:26Z | https://www.leadertelegram.com/news/front-page/progress-made-in-landfill-talks-chairman-says-but-no-deal-yet/article_5b6ec69a-a6f4-5caa-9c0d-58e3f91e57b5.html | false | 1 |
Former rivals Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jędrzejczyk may be spending a lot of time together ahead of Jędrzejczyk’s rematch with Zhang Weili.
Jędrzejczyk is set to make her return to the Octagon next month at UFC 275 against Weili. It is her first fight in the UFC since their first matchup at UFC 248.
Jędrzejczyk lost her title to Namajunas at UFC 217 in her first professional loss via first-round knockout. She would go on to lose in their rematch at UFC 223 via a unanimous decision.
While the two sides had a bit of heated buildup to their first fight, it appears that Namajunas and Jędrzejczyk have put any beef behind them.
During a recent appearance on The MMA Hour, Namajunas shared that she’s considering helping Jędrzejczyk for her UFC return.
“I didn’t totally make that decision in my mind yet but I was just thinking about it,” Namajunas revealed. “Nothing personal against Weili or anything but you know Henry Cejudo was kind of talking some crap before our rematch. I’m just kidding.”
Jędrzejczyk and Weili competed in arguably the greatest women’s MMA fight of all time, with Weili earning a split decision victory. Both former champions are looking to get back to the title shot to challenge Carla Esparza.
Jędrzejczyk isn’t going away anytime soon after signing a new multi-fight deal with the UFC.
Namajunas earned a head kick knockout over Weili at UFC 261 before defeating her in an immediate rematch at UFC 268 via split decision. She is also looking to get back in the title hunt after falling to Esparza at UFC 274 last weekend.
It’s uncertain if Namajunas will follow through and help Jędrzejczyk get ready for Weili, but it’s clear that an offer is under consideration.
What do you make of Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jędrzejczyk potentially training together? | https://www.mmanews.com/2022/05/namajunas-offers-joanna-zhang-help/ | 2022-05-12T00:25:57Z | https://www.mmanews.com/2022/05/namajunas-offers-joanna-zhang-help/ | false | 1 |
NEWS CONFERENCE TOMORROW (THURSDAY) AT SALTZ MOGELUZZI & BENDESKY P.C TO ANNOUNCE MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS FOLLOWING TIKTOK "BLACKOUT CHALLENGE" DEATH OF 10-YEAR-OLD PENNSYLVANIA GIRL
Published: May. 11, 2022 at 6:05 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
PHILADELPHIA, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Social media-injury attorneys and Internet safety advocates at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky P.C. tomorrow will hold a news conference to discuss major developments following the accidental death of 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, of suburban Philadelphia, who died last December 12th after attempting the highly addictive and dangerous TikTok 'blackout challenge', the firm announced today.
Lawyers from the leading national catastrophic injury law firm, that represents the child's family and Estate, will for the first time review the results of their months long post-incident investigation. Here are details of the news conference, which will also be live-streamed:
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