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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Cipollone, whose reported resistance to Trump’s schemes to overturn his 2020 election defeat has made him a long-sought and potentially revelatory witness, was subpoenaed by the select committee last week after weeks of public pressure to provide testimony to the panel.
The person briefed on the matter, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss private negotiations, said Cipollone agreed to appear before the committee for a private, transcribed interview.
As Trump’s top White House lawyer, Cipollone was in the West Wing on Jan. 6, 2021, as well as for key meetings in the turbulent weeks after the election when Trump and associates — including Republican lawmakers and lawyer Rudy Giuliani — debated and plotted ways to challenge the election.
The agreement for Cipollone to speak to the panel follows last week's dramatic testimony from former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. The young aide to former chief of staff Mark Meadows provided the committee with a striking account of what she saw and heard in those weeks and presented lawmakers with arguably their clearest case for how Trump or some of his allies could face criminal liability.
Cipollone is said to have stridently and repeatedly warned Trump and his allies against their efforts to challenge the election, threatening to resign as Trump eyed a dramatic reshuffling atop the Justice Department.
One witness said Cipollone referred to a proposed letter making false claims about voter fraud as a “murder-suicide pact.”
But while his interview with the committee could prove to be a breakthrough, it remained unclear whether Cipollone would try to limit what he is willing to talk about. As the administration’s chief lawyer, he could argue that some or all of his conversations with Trump are privileged.
Nevertheless, the nine-member panel believes he is a crucial witness who can provide them with an even closer, first-hand recollection of the several and varied efforts by Trump allies to subvert the Electoral College, including a strategy to organize so-called alternate electors for Trump in seven swing states that Biden won. Lawmakers also said that Cipollone's name came up in a number of private depositions as a voice of reason against efforts to appoint a loyalist as attorney general who championed false theories of voter fraud and a plan to have Trump march to the Capitol on Jan. 6 alongside his supporters.
Hutchinson testified last week that days before the Capitol attack, Cipollone warned that there were “serious legal concerns” if Trump accompanied the protesters to the Capitol, saying, “We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen.” By the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone was urging Hutchinson to “keep in touch” about any possible movements by the president and “please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy.”
If Trump did go to the Capitol, Hutchinson recalled Cipollone saying, “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.” He had previously identified obstruction of justice or defrauding the electoral count as among the possibilities, she said.
While Cipollone sat for an informal interview in April, the committee has reiterated that it required his cooperation on the record after it obtained evidence about which he was “uniquely positioned to testify.”
“Our evidence shows that Pat Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right,” Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, said in a hearing last month. “They tried to stop a number of President Trump’s plans for Jan. 6.”
“We think the American people deserve to hear from Mr. Cipollone personally," She added.
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Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report. | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/AP-source-Cipollone-agrees-to-testify-before-17287439.php | 2022-07-06T16:23:18Z | https://www.lakecountystar.com/news/article/AP-source-Cipollone-agrees-to-testify-before-17287439.php | false |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
1034 AM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
8 PM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures of 102 to 105 degrees expected.
* WHERE...Big Country, Concho Valley, and Heartland.
* WHEN...From 2 PM Wednesday to 8 PM CDT Friday. The most
hazardous condition will occur in the afternoon and early
evening hours.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures may cause heat related illnesses to
occur.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Anyone spending an extended period of time
outdoors is encouraged to stay hydrated and take frequent breaks
in the shade.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Burnalong grows to the most expansive digital health solution with 20,000+ live and on-demand classes with hundreds of programs to reach entire populations
BALTIMORE, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Burnalong, the leading digital health solution that unlocks human potential, today announced reaching the milestone of 20,000+ live and on-demand classes, supported by hundreds of curated programs across 60+ categories, taught by 5,000+ credentialed experts and medical professionals on their core platform.
With more classes than all competitors combined, Burnalong is now the largest and most robust library of digital health and wellbeing classes to support the holistic health of corporate employees, health plan members, hospital patients, government workers, and their families. The extensive range of classes, programs, and categories means that Burnalong is relevant and helpful for every single person.
By reaching entire populations with a single digital health solution, it means that everyone – regardless of age, race, ability, fitness level, health goals, chronic condition, or mobility range – can find what they need to reach their potential.
As Burnalong's library of classes grows to more than 20,000 classes, the diversity of categories and interests supported grows as well. With more than 60 categories of classes and hundreds of curated programs, Burnalong offers even more comprehensive support for:
- Neuromuscular conditions
- Mental health
- Diabetes
- Arthritis
- Cardiovascular health
- Nutrition
- Leadership development
New programs on the platform provide focused support for family nutrition, emotional management, financial reboots, mental health and OT for healthcare workers, diabetes basics, heart-healthy recipes, preparation for bariatric surgery, and specific chronic condition support.
This premiere content is provided in partnership with hundreds of YMCAs across the US, local gyms and studios, certified individual instructors, medical professionals, hospitals, and medical professionals. Chronic condition and medical content are being provided by centers of excellence such as Inova Well for surgery fitness content, Shepherd Center for multiple sclerosis classes, MedFit for chronic condition management, National Register of Health Service Psychologists for mental health care, and the American Diabetes Association for diabetes support.
In recent months, Burnalong has also released new platform features to support social motivation which is a key indicator of long-term success in health journeys. These features include:
- Open door classes that simulate a group class experience in a gym or studio. Any Burnalong member can join or schedule an open-door experience to experience classes with members across the globe.
- Playlists to allow for individual program creation with classes on a common topic, theme, or class time duration. These playlists can be shared with small groups or be made public, extending the ability to personalize health journeys in the platform.
"We are excited to reach this milestone of more than 20,000 classes on Burnalong," says Daniel Freedman, co-CEO of Burnalong. "Our mission is centered on providing digital health solutions and programming that unlock human potential by meeting the needs of every person, no matter their ability, age, location, stage in life, or fitness level with quality programming and social support. The continued growth of the Burnalong library means that we can uniquely meet every single individual with the classes they want with the social support they need to progress on their health journey."
You can learn more about how to get started supporting your population with holistic wellness and social motivation by visiting www.burnalong.com.
Burnalong transforms individuals' lives and improves measurable results by maximizing human potential. It helps people from all walks of life achieve happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives. Clients range from governments to companies of all sizes (with employees across 70+ countries), to hospital systems, and health plans. Burnalong partners with wellness, medical, education, and other professionals globally – from thousands of brick and mortar facilities and YMCAs to hospitals and their specialists to corporate on-site wellness centers.
Press inquiries:
Annika Mitic
press@burnalong.com
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IndusInd Bank partners with MoEngage to deliver a differentiated digital experience for its customers
IndusInd Bank on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with MoEngage to deliver a differentiated digital experience across multiple customer journeys.
IndusInd Bank on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with MoEngage to deliver a differentiated digital experience across multiple customer journeys.
As part of the partnership, IndusInd Bank will leverage MoEngage's technology platform to deliver a 'Gen Z' digital banking experience to its customers. The Bank will be able to curate personalized content & recommendations across channels where the customers spend most of their time.
Charu Mathur, Head – Digital Banking & Strategy, IndusInd Bank said, "IndusInd Bank has always been at the helm of driving responsive innovation; with this factor at the core, we have on-boarded MoEngage as it has the ability to drive personalization through real-time and actionable insights. This novel and unique insights-led approach gives the Bank the ability to engage with its customer meaningfully while cutting down the time to market to half compared to other customer engagement platforms."
Soumitra Sen, Head - Consumer Banking & Marketing, IndusInd Bank added "IndusInd Bank's engagement with MoEngage is designed to achieve strategic outcomes that support our vision of being the most preferred Bank for our customers by providing relevant and personalized financial recommendations. With the lifestyle change, we have observed a substantial change in digital banking expectations and we as a Bank are poised to deliver a rich experience that our customers deserve."
Yash Reddy, Chief Business Officer (APAC & EMEA), MoEngage, said, "We are excited to partner with IndusInd Bank and look forward to using our deep banking industry knowledge and digital capabilities to support IndusInd Bank in their ongoing journey to deliver highly personalised and seamless experiences across all digital touchpoints."
MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform, trusted by more than 1,200 global consumer brands such as Ally Financial, McAfee, Flipkart, Domino's, Nestle, Deutsche Telekom, Travelodge, and more. MoEngage empowers marketers and product owners with insights into customer behaviour and the ability to act on those insights to engage customers across the web, mobile, email, social, and messaging channels. Consumer brands across 35 countries use MoEngage to power digital experiences for over 1 billion customers every month. With offices in ten countries, MoEngage is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, B Capital, Steadview Capital, Multiples Private Equity, Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital, Matrix Partners, Ventureast, and Helion Ventures. | https://www.thehansindia.com/business/indusind-bank-partners-with-moengage-to-deliver-a-differentiated-digital-experience-for-its-customers-752220 | 2022-07-06T16:29:32Z | https://www.thehansindia.com/business/indusind-bank-partners-with-moengage-to-deliver-a-differentiated-digital-experience-for-its-customers-752220 | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a person briefed on the matter.
Cipollone, whose reported resistance to Trump’s schemes to overturn his 2020 election defeat has made him a long-sought and potentially revelatory witness, was subpoenaed by the select committee last week after weeks of public pressure to provide testimony to the panel.
The person briefed on the matter, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss private negotiations, said Cipollone agreed to appear before the committee for a private, transcribed interview.
As Trump’s top White House lawyer, Cipollone was in the West Wing on Jan. 6, 2021, as well as for key meetings in the turbulent weeks after the election when Trump and associates — including Republican lawmakers and lawyer Rudy Giuliani — debated and plotted ways to challenge the election.
The agreement for Cipollone to speak to the panel follows last week's dramatic testimony from former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. The young aide to former chief of staff Mark Meadows provided the committee with a striking account of what she saw and heard in those weeks and presented lawmakers with arguably their clearest case for how Trump or some of his allies could face criminal liability.
Cipollone is said to have stridently and repeatedly warned Trump and his allies against their efforts to challenge the election, threatening to resign as Trump eyed a dramatic reshuffling atop the Justice Department.
One witness said Cipollone referred to a proposed letter making false claims about voter fraud as a “murder-suicide pact.”
But while his interview with the committee could prove to be a breakthrough, it remained unclear whether Cipollone would try to limit what he is willing to talk about. As the administration’s chief lawyer, he could argue that some or all of his conversations with Trump are privileged.
Nevertheless, the nine-member panel believes he is a crucial witness who can provide them with an even closer, first-hand recollection of the several and varied efforts by Trump allies to subvert the Electoral College, including a strategy to organize so-called alternate electors for Trump in seven swing states that Biden won. Lawmakers also said that Cipollone's name came up in a number of private depositions as a voice of reason against efforts to appoint a loyalist as attorney general who championed false theories of voter fraud and a plan to have Trump march to the Capitol on Jan. 6 alongside his supporters.
Hutchinson testified last week that days before the Capitol attack, Cipollone warned that there were “serious legal concerns” if Trump accompanied the protesters to the Capitol, saying, “We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen.” By the morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone was urging Hutchinson to “keep in touch” about any possible movements by the president and “please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy.”
If Trump did go to the Capitol, Hutchinson recalled Cipollone saying, “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.” He had previously identified obstruction of justice or defrauding the electoral count as among the possibilities, she said.
While Cipollone sat for an informal interview in April, the committee has reiterated that it required his cooperation on the record after it obtained evidence about which he was “uniquely positioned to testify.”
“Our evidence shows that Pat Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right,” Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, said in a hearing last month. “They tried to stop a number of President Trump’s plans for Jan. 6.”
“We think the American people deserve to hear from Mr. Cipollone personally," She added.
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Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report. | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/AP-source-Cipollone-agrees-to-testify-before-17287439.php | 2022-07-06T16:30:21Z | https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/AP-source-Cipollone-agrees-to-testify-before-17287439.php | true |
Free e-learning course offers a roadmap for underrepresented inventors to pursue patents
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Invent Together today launched an online learning platform aimed at guiding inventors from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds through the benefits of the patent system and the process of turning their breakthroughs into patented inventions. Produced in collaboration with Qualcomm Incorporated and free to users, The Inventor's Patent Academy (TIPA) was designed to make patenting more accessible for groups historically excluded from patent-heavy science and engineering fields, including women, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQIA, people from lower-income communities, and people with disabilities.
Created by patent-holding inventors, patent-law specialists and experts in social and economic equity, inclusion and diversity, the multimedia TIPA course is written from an inventor's perspective. It features the innovation and patenting experiences of inventors from diverse backgrounds and teaches users about U.S. intellectual property rights and the practical knowledge required to navigate the patenting process.
The course is presented online by Invent Together, an alliance of organizations, universities, companies, and other stakeholders dedicated to understanding the diversity gaps in invention and patenting and supporting public policy and private initiatives to close them.
"It is estimated that millions of potential American inventors from underrepresented groups are not inventing or patenting, in part, due to a dearth of accessible information and limited early exposure to inventors and invention," said Sudeepto Roy, VP, Engineering, Qualcomm Incorporated, TIPA program lead and a founding member of Invent Together. "The lack of tailored information about the patenting process coupled with the financial barrier to entry prevents many inventors from patenting their inventions. Qualcomm and Invent Together have designed TIPA to be a solution to help increase participation by providing a free course to help people embark on their innovation journeys. In crafting this course, we were motivated by the belief that everyone can invent, and every inventor can learn to patent."
Black and Hispanic-American college graduates patent at half the rate of white college graduates, while women make up less than 13 percent of inventors who hold a U.S. patent, according to studies of patent data. Closing these gaps would promote U.S. job creation, entrepreneurial activity, economic growth, and global leadership in innovation, and estimates suggest that increasing participation by underrepresented groups in invention and patenting would quadruple the number of American inventors and increase annual U.S. gross domestic product by nearly $1 trillion.
"Thanks to the ideas of brilliant inventors, scientists, engineers and creators, the United States is an innovation powerhouse," said Invent Together Executive Director Holly Fechner. "The goal of TIPA is to expand access to inventing and patenting, and when we do that, we open new doors to opportunities, spur further innovation, create jobs, grow businesses, close wage and wealth gaps, and strengthen the U.S. position as a global innovation leader."
TIPA's "at-your-own-pace" modules explore the challenges inventors may face and provide tools needed to solve them. These include the fundamentals of how patents work, relevant patent laws and steps needed to protect inventions. Throughout the program, participants hear from real inventors about the challenges and opportunities of bringing their ideas to life.
Upon completing the first module, a course student said: "Before this course, I didn't realize that there was so much more to consider in addition to getting a patent issued. How would an inventor even know how to commercialize? The lessons answered that by offering the different options based on values and personality type. Overall, module one helps to frame the inventor's mindset. It also has therapeutic value in that it acknowledges some of the microaggressions that underrepresented people experience but don't verbalize. The lesson content validates those feelings and makes that group of people feel seen and included as innovators."
To learn more about TIPA and access the platform, visit https://inventtogether.org/tipa/.
Invent Together is an alliance of organizations, universities, companies, and other stakeholders dedicated to understanding the gender, race, income, and other diversity gaps in invention and patenting and supporting public policy and private efforts to close them. www.inventtogether.com.
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CalypsoAI's independent testing and validation solution enables efficient, secure deployment of trustworthy AI.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CalypsoAI, the leader in building trust in artificial intelligence (AI) through independent testing and validation, announced that it has been named a 2022 Gartner® Cool Vendor in the "Cool Vendors™ for AI Core Technologies–Scaling AI in the Enterprise."
According to the Gartner report, "two in five organizations that are already using AI have had an AI privacy breach or security incident. Of those, one in four were malicious attacks." Additionally, the report recommends to data and analytics leaders tasked with AI implementation to "Explore the breadth of solutions that address your priorities such as faster model development, ModelOps, data quality, AI explainability and security."
CalypsoAI's independent testing and validation solution, VESPR Validate, benchmarks model performance against adversarial threats and other anomalies and obstructions. Attacks on AI systems have already been widely documented, and many organizations have not yet invested in tools to secure their AI. As these risks intensify and new threats are introduced, CalypsoAI's solution will be critical in scaling and securing AI.
The Gartner report calls securing AI one of the "mission-critical" priorities of data and analytics leaders and outlines that it's "essential to operationalize AI successfully in the enterprise." The report goes on to state, "Traditionally, companies find themselves behind on security measures, and unfortunately, they don't take security seriously until they experience their first breach or compromise. Most organizations are not even aware that benign actors can cause severe damage just by mistake."
Following this recognition, Neil Serebryany, CalypsoAI CEO, said, "We are thrilled to be recognized as a Cool Vendor in AI by Gartner. We feel this marks a major moment in the growth and evolution of CalypsoAI. We support the democratization of model testing, providing independent testing and validation of models to enable trust in AI. This empowers decision-makers & leaders to deploy their AI with confidence, efficiency, and speed."
*Gartner, "Cool Vendors in AI Core Technologies — Scaling AI in the Enterprise," Farhan Choudhary, Alexander Linden, Chirag Dekate, Soyeb Barot, Sumit Agarwal, Afraz Jaffri, 27 May 2022
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About CalypsoAI
CalypsoAI's mission is to build trust in AI through independent testing and validation. We solve one of the biggest issues facing AI: machine learning models not getting deployed into production. Through CalypsoAI's automated testing and validation solution, decision-makers gain the performance visibility needed to confidently deploy their models into production. This ensures the success of AI strategy while drastically reducing the amount of risk, time, and money spent to manually test and validate models. CalypsoAI was founded in Silicon Valley by DARPA, NASA, and DoD veterans. For more information, visit calypsoai.com.
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(WFRV) – Her motto is Be Bold. Be You.
And Brandi Annabelle is helping you do just that with Velvet n Roll Boutique where you can shop super fun fashions and accessories for yourself or gifts for others.
Brandi visited Local 5 Live with a closer look at some fun options available and how to add her items to your closet.
Shop online at velvetnrollboutique.com or in person at one of her upcoming pop-up events. See what’s coming on her Facebook page. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/local5live/be-bold-be-you-at-the-velvet-n-roll-boutique/ | 2022-07-06T16:31:40Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/local5live/be-bold-be-you-at-the-velvet-n-roll-boutique/ | false |
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(NewsNation) — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continues to receive 24-hour security following what the State Department says is a credible threat against him, costing taxpayers an unprecedented amount of money.
His security price tag is higher than protection costs for some former presidents. A NewsNation investigation found that it isn’t necessarily the threat against Pompeo that’s costing taxpayers, however. Pompeo also keeps a busy schedule of non-essential travel, including trips that his own security has warned him not to take.
The former secretary of state’s travel schedule is packed. No longer serving as the nation’s top diplomat, Pompeo continues to be heavily guarded. That’s in part because he still faces a credible threat from Iran in connection with his role in the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
In a speech this year, Iran’s president said martyrs would “take revenge” on Pompeo.
Sources around Pompeo, however, told NewsNation that he’s ignoring the advice of his security and ultimately costing taxpayers.
NewsNation obtained sensitive but unclassified documents that show the cost of protecting Pompeo and one of his aides ballooned in 2021 from nearly $700,000 to more than $2 million each month. About 90% of those public dollars go to Pompeo’s security.
That $2 million mostly covers “vehicle and travel costs for Pompeo’s security agents and his own extensive travel for paid speeches and public events,” according to the documents obtained by NewsNation.
It’s not uncommon for former officials to go on book tours or travel for paid speeches, retired Diplomatic Service Agent Mark Hipp said. But when there’s a credible threat, announcing when and where you’ll be somewhere puts lives at risk, he added.
“There’s a stark difference between a national security mission that’s important for us and then a discretionary trip,” Hipp said. “In all things, especially if there’s a threat from a state sponsor, you’d have to be concerned.”
That’s particularly true when the trip is for personal gain, Hipp said.
Pompeo nets about six figures per speech.
“Most secretaries, if not all, pretty much do this stuff,” Hipp said. “It’s to what extreme they do it.”
Below is a look at just some of Pompeo’s domestic travels from April to July of 2022. Many of the appearances were announced ahead of time, a factor that Hipp said makes security’s job more complicated.
Congressman Brad Sherman serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and says when it comes to personal travel, finding a balance between what the public has to pay and legitimate security concerns is tough.
“I’m very reluctant to say if you go into public service and you do things that may get you shot by a foreign adversary, then you can’t go on a book tour,” Sherman said. “But the amounts of money that you’re talking about — millions a month — damn!”
NewsNation learned that before this year, Congress limited how much it spent on security for former state department officials to $15 million annually. After Pompeo’s detail nearly doubled that amount, Congress rewrote its budget, this year providing as much as $30 million.
“I want the professionals to decide: How big is this security detail and does Pompeo need security, and if so, where?” Sherman said.
The professionals did decide that a planned trip in November to the United Arab Emirates was too risky for Pompeo and his agents in light of the threat against him.
Pompeo’s security warned him not to go, but he dismissed the state department’s concern and went anyway, sources told NewsNation.
The paid gig earned Pompeo hundreds of thousands of dollars. It also took place as many security officials and diplomats acknowledged the UAE was a target of Iran. Pompeo was one of those diplomats and acknowledged in a January interview two months after his visit that a missile attack in the UAE was conducted by Iran.
The incident didn’t deter other overseas trips to destinations including Israel, South Korea, Switzerland and London.
That’s in addition to what sources exclusively told NewsNation is a planned $1.1 million taxpayer-funded upgrade to Pompeo’s new $3.5 million Virginia home — to amp up security.
Pompeo did not answer NewsNation’s questions, and multiple requests for interviews went unanswered.
A statement from the U.S. State Department read in part:
“The Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) works with Department leadership and Congress to ensure that we have adequate personnel and resources to carry out protective operations and our global security mission. As new requirements arise and threats evolve, we will seek the necessary resources to ensure mission success.”
NewsNation Digital Reporter Katie Smith contributed to this report. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/pompeos-security-detail-costs-taxpayers-2-million-a-month/ | 2022-07-06T16:33:08Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/pompeos-security-detail-costs-taxpayers-2-million-a-month/ | true |
LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Oak Capital Markets, LLC, an alternative investment distributor, announced today that financial services industry veteran Hans Henselman has rejoined the company as CEO, where he will be responsible for overall firm strategy and providing strategic and tactical guidance to the organization. Henselman previously served as the chief compliance officer of Pacific Oak Capital Advisor and Pacific Oak Capital Markets.
"Hans' previous service in the role of CCO combined with his passion for the value that alternative investments bring to investment portfolios make him an ideal choice to lead this organization," said Keith Hall, co-founder of Pacific Oak Capital Advisors. "We see significant growth ahead, and are confident that his intuition and understanding of the retail marketplace will further enhance sales across our offering platform."
In his new role, Henselman will focus on product development, distribution, business planning, compliance, operations and oversight of the firm's wholesaling operations and activities. Henselman was an instrumental part of the leadership team that formed Pacific Oak Capital Markets in 2019, and he brings more than 25 years of experience in compliance, operations, sales, financial distribution, broker-dealer formation and team building to his role.
"My decision to return to Pacific Oak Capital Markets to be its CEO is one that was easy to make," said Henselman. "The alternative investment arena is compelling and dynamic and there are a host of exciting opportunities that we are eager to capitalize on. I am excited to work with our talented team and to lead them into a future filled with optimism and opportunity."
Henselman graduated from California State University Long Beach with a degree in finance and an emphasis in investments. He holds his FINRA Series 7 and Series 24 licenses.
With the addition of Henselman as CEO, Jeff Kremin continues in his role as managing director of distribution and has accepted the additional responsibility of president of Pacific Oak Capital Markets.
About Pacific Oak Capital Advisors
Pacific Oak Capital Advisors is an alternative investment company that sponsors and manages quality real estate-based investment opportunities for clients of financial advisors and registered investment advisors as well as institutional investors. Formed in 2018, the company is advisor to Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT and Keppel-Pacific Oak REIT, and sponsor to numerous private real estate investment programs. In total, Pacific Oak Capital Advisors and its affiliated companies currently manage a diverse portfolio of real estate valued in excess of $4 billion. For additional information, please visit PacificOakCapitalAdvisors.com.
About Pacific Oak Capital Markets
Pacific Oak Capital Markets is a wholesaler and managing broker-dealer for alternative investment offerings. Pacific Oak Capital Markets is committed to representing products where financial professionals can match capital with opportunity for their clients. The Pacific Oak Capital Markets team focuses on providing financial solutions to financial advisors and registered investment advisors. Its investment professionals are dedicated to delivering offerings that produce compelling risk-adjusted returns through real estate, private equity, and other alternative investments, including a qualified opportunity zone fund, Delaware Statutory Trust, and other private and public offerings such as SmartStop Strategic Storage Trust VI (SST VI). For additional information, please visit PacificOakCapitalMarkets.com.
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ARLINGTON, Va., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] will release its financial results for the second quarter of 2022 on Wednesday, July 27.
President and Chief Executive Officer David Calhoun and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Brian West will discuss the results and company outlook during a conference call that day at 10:30 a.m. ET.
The event will be webcast at:
http://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=2HqZzkE4
The event can also be accessed by dialing 1-877-336-4436 within the U.S. and by dialing 234-720-6984 outside of the U.S. The passcode for both is 3750106.
Individuals should check the webcast site prior to the session to ensure their computers can access the audio stream and slide presentation. Instructions for obtaining the required free downloadable software will be posted on the site.
The Boeing news release and presentation materials will be posted to the Investors section of www.boeing.com prior to the event.
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HILVERSUM, Netherlands, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group N.V. (EURONEXT: UMG) will release its financial results for the second quarter and first half of 2022 on 27 July 2022 after that day's close of the Euronext market.
The company will host a conference call to discuss these results on Wednesday, 27 July 2022, at 6:15PM CEST. A link to the live audio webcast will be available on investors.universalmusic.com and a link to the replay will be available after the call.
While listeners may use the webcast, a dial-in telephone number is required for investors and analysts to ask questions. Investors and analysts interested in asking questions can pre-register for a dial-in line at investors.universalmusic.com under the "Financial Reports" tab.
About Universal Music Group
At Universal Music Group, we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation, and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms, and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. For more information, visit www.universalmusic.com.
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Pediatric neurosurgeon Jay Wellons regularly feels the exhilaration of saving a child from near certain death — and sometimes the anguish of failing to prevent it. He's operated on various parts of the pediatric central nervous system, including performing spine surgery on an in-utero fetus to correct spina bifida.
"Depending on the size of the fetus, [the spine] can be really small, [like] three grains of rice," Wellons says. "We use our magnifying loops, these surgical loops, which are magnifying glasses that we wear, and then we have a headlight on so that we can see what we're doing."
Wellons, who's from south Mississippi, says he didn't set out to become a pediatric surgeon. When he first went to medical school, he envisioned himself as a small-town family medicine doctor, who might "occasionally get paid in tomatoes and chickens." But a gross anatomy lab where he learned about the spinal cord and the nerves of the brachial plexus changed his path.
"I remember just spending hours dissecting that out and just being absolutely entranced by it. It was like macramé," Wellons says. "That was the beginning of when I realized that I may be pivoting from a great career in family medicine, which would've been very rewarding, into an entirely different career."
Wellons reflects on his experiences as a pediatric surgeon in the memoir, All That Moves Us. He says he has a big book of photos and mementos from his patients that he pulls out whenever he needs to be lifted up or grounded.
"I will always pull that file out and just flip through it and just think, 'This is why we do what we do,'" he says. "Because it's late nights. It's a lot of hours for the residents and for us in the field. But that degree of gratitude — I mean, I've experienced it as a patient. I've experienced it as a parent, and I've experienced it as a surgeon."
Interview highlights
On how overturning of Roe v. Wade will impact patients whose fetuses have neurological defects
I will tell you a story about my niece and my niece has allowed me to talk about this. My niece ... called me one day after being pregnant for a few weeks to say, 'I'm with the OB, we've just done our 13-week ultrasound and they say that there's a problem with the brain and they say that I need to come see you, Uncle Jay.' And we get her into the fetal clinic, we do the ultrasound. I'm right there with them the whole time — my niece, who I've known since she was a baby, my children walked in her wedding — and there's this encephalocele. It's giant. And the entire brain is on the outside of the skull and it's kind of inverted. So now it's also at the mercy of amniotic fluid, which is that caustic fluid that gets more caustic over time, which is why fetal surgery for spina bifida makes a difference.
So in that scenario, the choices are to have a child that is ultimately born, that's in constant pain, that has no ability to communicate or see or interact with the world around them. They're in a wheelchair, the type of wheelchair that holds your neck still. They have G-tube feedings and over time they never grow up from being a baby. They become adults who have that degree of care that's needed. In situations like this before, with other patients, we've talked about termination and that's what we talked about with my niece. ...
We're going to see a lot more of these now and we're going to have to, as a society, understand that we're going to have to take care of these children. That's our job.
On performing in-utero surgery to correct spina bifida on a fetus
The mom comes into the operating room, she goes to sleep, lines are placed, her stomach is prepped. And then there's an entire team called MFM, the maternal fetal medicine team. ... So the belly is prepped, an incision is made, the uterus is exposed. It's like an orange-pink soccer ball. And the team will ultrasound the dome of the uterus, find a good place to open, make the incision, expose the inside of the uterus, which is where the fetus is. And so, all of a sudden, at, like, 20 to 22 weeks, we're down there looking at this little back that's rotated into place. And at that point is when we do the repair of the back to get that closed in order to reduce some of the long-term sequelae that can occur from spina bifida.
On being a parent and dealing with the death of his patients
I think you have to actively decouple when you're in the middle of it, particularly if you have children and you're a pediatric neurosurgeon. It's almost like I envision myself pressing a clutch to kind of disengage that gear. It's not that easy. ...
[I] kind of have this place that I go to that's just outside of my vision, and it's just kind of a beautiful green field that I think of. I can take kind of the memories and the experience of these [patients] and I can envision myself putting them in a box. It's not like I forget those children. It's just that it's a place that we put them. And I think that's a common feeling among surgeons that deal with things like life and death.
On the importance of communicating clearly with his patients' families
As much as you want to pull the punch, or as much as you don't want to have to be saying it, or as much as you don't think that you could take it if it was being told to you, it's still your job to make sure that they know and they understand. It doesn't mean you can't deliver that without compassion: "I'm so sorry to be having this conversation with you, but your daughter is really sick and we need to get her to the operating room right now." So to some extent, making sure they understand the situation is important, making sure that they understand what the plan is ... making sure they understand what's going on, making sure [they know] what the risks are and then telling them what we're going to do. And then being with them, not stepping away afterwards, going and talking to them after surgery and then, [making rounds] as much as you need to in the ICU, and I think that's critically important as well.
On assault weapons as a public health issue
I've seen some really horrible injuries from gunshot wounds, and it's not specific to assault weapons, but I've seen some injuries to the brain and to the spinal cord leaving a girl paralyzed, quadriplegic on a ventilator. And this has just been part and parcel of a society that has guns in them. ... Nowadays what we see with these assault weapons is that there's so much damage. I have a friend, Jon Martin, who is the chief of pediatric neurosurgery up at Connecticut Children's Hospital. And after the Newtown [Sandy Hook] shootings, he describes them all gowned up and waiting in the hospital for the children to get there until they realized that nobody was really coming because so many people had died. And I just have a hard time understanding why we need these assault weapons within society.
Sam Briger and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Laurel Dalrymple adapted it for the Web.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police in Richmond, Virginia, said Wednesday that they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns.
Authorities announced the alleged plot in a news release but did not release any additional information. Chief Gerald Smith planned a news conference for Wednesday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the police department did not immediately respond to a call seeking additional details of the planned shooting.
The announcement came just two days after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on a July 4 parade in the affluent Chicago suburb of Highland Park, killing seven people and injuring more than three dozen.
Robert E. Crimo III was charged with seven counts of murder Tuesday. The shooting sent hundreds of people fleeing in fear and set off an hourslong manhunt. Authorities have not yet identified a motive. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/fourth-of-july-mass-shooting-thwarted-in-virginias-capital-police-say/ | 2022-07-06T16:42:23Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/fourth-of-july-mass-shooting-thwarted-in-virginias-capital-police-say/ | true |
PLEASANTON, Calif., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tabulera (www.tabulera.com), a platform to capture, reconcile and pay employee benefit plan invoices, announced today that Benefits Communication Inc. (BCI) has entered into an agreement to integrate Tabulera into BCI's upgraded ElectBenefits enrollment platform.
BCI and Tabulera partnering together now allows employers to connect their ElectBenefits data directly to Tabulera's platform eliminating tedious entry of insurance carrier invoices, reconciliation spreadsheets and manual payment processing. "We are very excited to partner with ElectBenefits, one of the true thought leaders in the industry, to have a positive impact on saving their customers time and money", said Doug Devlin, CEO of Tabulera.
"With the recent upgrade to our ElectBenefits enrollment platform, it made logical sense to integrate Tabulera as our billing portal to provide a unified view and to simplify the entire back-office invoicing, reconciliation and payment processes for our customers. Tabulera's flexibility and unique solution along with their outstanding product reviews made them our top choice. We know from our deep benefits administration history that automating these back-office accounts payable functions for employee benefit plans will save our customers both time and money, said Pride Scanlan, Co-Managing Director".
BCI is considered an industry thought leader and one of the largest U.S. specialists in benefit communications and enrollment while maintaining best in class quality metrics for more than 30 years. We customize affordable solutions in the areas of benefit enrollment, communications, data management and staffing. Our experienced professionals and innovative systems streamline processes to maximize efficiency. As a business processing organization, BCI partners with insurance companies, brokers, large employers, technology firms and consultants to analyze needs, design systems, build processes and report impact of project work using flexible, customer-centric and secure procedures.
Employer back-office benefits administration is overly complicated and gets in the way of growing your business. Thousands of employees, dozens of plans and carriers, all on disparate systems. No wonder bad data, headaches, and millions in leakage are the status quo. Get the freedom to focus on your business with Tabulera, a platform that captures, reconciles and pays employee benefit plan invoices so you don't have to.
Finally, all your carrier invoices, reconciliation and payments in one place, and see your benefits costs clearly — down to the penny.
Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Tabulera is online at tabulera.com.
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Megan Wood is organization's first female leader after national search
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ohio History Connection board of trustees has named Megan Wood, 41, of Worthington as the organization's next executive director and CEO, effective Aug. 1.
Wood, who has served as director of cultural resources for the Ohio History Connection since 2019, is the first woman to lead the private, nonprofit organization that was established in 1885. The organization functions as the state's partner in preserving and interpreting Ohio's history, archaeology, natural history and historic architecture across a network of 58 sites, 1.8 million collections items and hundreds of exhibits.
"Megan was the clear choice among a large and diverse pool of national candidates," said Charles R. Moses, president of the Ohio History Connection board of trustees. "She represents the Ohio History Connection's ongoing commitment to cultivating talent within its own ranks. Her vision for the organization is in line with the board's, and she is the ideal leader to guide the Ohio History Connection into its next era as we continue our enduring mission of embracing the present, sharing the past and transforming the future."
Wood emerged as the Ohio History Connection's next leader after a nationwide search yielded a deep pool of diverse and talented candidates from elite institutions across the country.
"I am pleased that the Ohio History Connection will be led by Ohioan Megan Wood," said Governor Mike DeWine. "Ohio has an important and remarkable past, and with Megan Wood as the new CEO, the Ohio History Connection will continue to ensure that Ohio's many historic places and fascinating stories reach a wide variety of audiences."
"I believe in the power of history as a way to better understand ourselves and our place in this world," Wood said. "I plan to help the Ohio History Connection embrace its role of sharing Ohio's diverse stories and making Ohio communities better as a partner with other governmental, nonprofit and private partners. The Ohio History Connection will continue to grow as a vibrant organization that improves every community we touch by cultivating pride, encouraging economic development and bringing people together."
Wood succeeds Burt Logan, who in late March announced his plans to retire in 2023.
Effective Aug. 1, Logan will transition into a role of executive consultant to the board of trustees through Feb. 28, 2023.
For more information, photos and video, go to: http://www.ohiohistory.org/newCEO.
Contact: Neil Thompson, Ohio History Connection
nthompson@ohiohistory.org | 614.297.2330
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Users Can Download To Evaluate AmpCon™ Network Controller, PicOS-V Virtual Switch Software
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pica8 Network Platform is available now for download and evaluation from pica8.com. The Pica8 Network platform is a turnkey software solution for deploying and managing switch software for white-box networking. The platform consists of two products: AmpCon™ Network Controller and PicOS-V Switching Software.
The AmpCon™ Network Controller is an application developed by Pica8 to automate the deployment, provisioning, and lifecycle management of switches. AmpCon™ can be installed on a physical server or a virtual machine.
The PicOS-V Switching Software is a free virtual machine from Pica8 that can help you get familiar with the features of the PicOS® Software Switch, without the need for a bare-metal switch or specialized hardware. PicOS-V runs on VMware, GNS3 and VirtualBox hypervisors.
"The AmpCon™ Network Controller is a feature rich automation platform that can be used for managing both PicOS and PicOS-V software switches," according to Pica8 Senior Technical Marketing Manager Mani Subramanian. "AmpCon™ can be used to simplify and automate business workflows, reducing operating expenses for networking."
Major use cases for Pica8 AmpCon™ include:
- Switch Deployment: Automate deployment of bare-metal switches to reduce cost and complexity.
- Security and Network Compliance: Enforce day-to-day security and network compliance policies on groups of switches with ease.
- Scheduled Backups and Upgrades: Leave long weeknight/weekend switch upgrades behind with automated upgrades and backups.
- Customized Automation: Use Ansible Playbooks to create custom workflows.
Networking professionals currently evaluating network switch software, from the data center to the enterprise, will appreciate this obligation-free product download. Product documentation and deployment guides are also available.
To register for the AmpCon™ and PicOS-V products download, please visit:
Pica8 is the industry's open networking software alternative to Cisco, Juniper and Arista for the enterprise. Pica8's AmpCon™ Network Controller for centralized management and automation and PicOS® Software Switches for networking and security have successfully replaced Cisco DNA Center and Catalyst Switches and competing Juniper and Arista solutions for campus, data center and distributed site networks within Fortune 500 enterprises. Pica8 software is deployed at over 1,000 customers in over 40 countries. For more information, visit www.pica8.com.
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408-370-0100
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SYDNEY (AP) — Floodwaters inundated or were threatening the homes of 85,000 people around Sydney on Wednesday as rivers started to recede and the heavy rains tracked north of Australia’s largest city.
While rain was easing across Sydney, several waterways including the Hawkesbury-Nepean rivers system on Sydney’s northern and western fringes remained at major flood levels, Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke said.
Emergency responders knocked on doors overnight in the towns of Singleton and Muswellbrook, in the Hunter Valley north of Sydney, to order residents to evacuate, she said.
“For many, it has been a sleepless night,” Cooke said.
Evacuation orders and official warnings to prepare to abandon homes were given to 85,000 people by Wednesday, up from 50,000 on Tuesday, New South Wales state Premier Dominic Perrottet said.
On the fifth day of the flood emergency, Perrottet warned that homes that remained dry during previous floods could be inundated this week.
“This event is far from over. Please don’t have that past experience inform your current behavior,” Perrottet said.
Federal funding would be available to flood victims from Thursday, less than two days after a disaster was declared in 23 local government areas, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
“This is, I believe, the quickest that these payments have ever been approved,” Albanese said.
Albanese said the fourth major flood event across Sydney and its surrounds since March last year that followed devastating wildfires in the same region during the 2019-2020 Southern Hemisphere summer were evidence of the need for climate action.
“We are looking at long-term solutions. My government has changed Australia’s position on climate change from day one,” he said.
Albanese’s center-left Labor Party was elected in May on a promise to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. The previous conservative government had promised a reduction of between 26% and 28%.
“What we know is that Australia has always been subject of floods, of bushfires, but we know that the science told us that if we continued to not take action, globally, on climate change, then … extreme weather events would be more often and more intense. And what we’re seeing, unfortunately, is that play out,” Albanese added.
When Parliament resumes on July 26 for the first time since the election, the government will propose spending 4.8 billion Australian dollars ($3.3 billion) on disaster mitigation measures such as building higher river levees, Albanese said.
Bureau of Meteorology manager Jane Golding said the weather pattern that brought heavy rain to Sydney since Friday has moved off the coast north of the city of 5 million people.
Heavy rain fell in the last 24 hours as far north as Coffs Harbor, 450 kilometers (280 miles) from Sydney, Golding said.
Hong Kong-registered cargo ship Portland Bay was towed into Sydney’s Port Botany on Wednesday after its engine failed near the coast farther south on Monday in mountainous seas and strong winds.
Transport Minister Catherine King thanked tugboat and rescue crews, saying the ship had been in serious danger of being wrecked on the coast, which would have risked the lives of 21 crew members on board and an environmental disaster.
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Shasta Computer Repair Reopens as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions, Offering Fast Fixes on Phones, Tablets, Laptops, and More
REDDING, Calif., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Local tech repair provider Shasta Computer Repair has reopened as an Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™ franchise. The store offers professional repair services for anything with a power button, from smartphones, tablets, and computers to game consoles, smart speakers, and drones—and everything in between.
While common repairs include cracked screens, battery issues, and water damage, Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions repair experts have fixed more than 14 million devices and can help with most any tech mishap, with most basic repairs completed in 45 minutes or less.
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions Redding is locally owned by Andrew Bley and Matthew Jones. No stranger to tech repair, Bley and Jones founded Shasta Computer Repair six years ago and are excited for the opportunity to continue growing their business as part of the Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions family.
"We founded Shasta Computer Repair to fill a need for high-quality phone repair in Redding," Bley said. "Now, as part of the Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions franchise network, we can offer more repair types and provide even better service to our customers, thanks to the company's industry-leading processes, partnerships, and network of experienced repair technicians."
The store's expert repair technicians fix all kinds of technology, regardless of make or model, and the store is an authorized repair provider for Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel smartphones. Customers can book a repair appointment online or stop by the store for walk-in service. The store offers free, no-obligation diagnostics on all gadgets, as well as a 1-year limited warranty on all repairs. It even offers a price match guarantee on any local competitor's regularly published price for the same repair.
The new Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions store brings the company's retail footprint to more than 800 locations across the U.S. Formerly known as uBreakiFix®, all U.S. locations will rebrand as Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions throughout 2022.
"We are excited to serve people in Redding with fast and affordable tech repair," said Dave Barbuto, CEO of Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions. "We all rely on our phones and laptops more than ever before, and our mission is bigger than repairing shattered screens and broken charge ports. We fix tech because people depend on it to stay connected to things that are important to them. I look forward to serving this community through our new location."
The new store is located at:
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions
1020 E Cypress Ave Unit 200, Redding, CA 96002
(530) 399-6599
Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions™, formerly known as uBreakiFix®, is the retail brand operated and franchised by a subsidiary of tech care company Asurion®. As the world's leading tech care company, Asurion eliminates the fears and frustrations associated with technology to ensure its 300 million customers get the most out of their devices, appliances, and connections. Asurion Tech Repair & Solutions stores specialize in the repair of consumer technology, including smartphones, game consoles, tablets, computers, and nearly everything in between. Asurion Tech Repair and Solutions repair experts fix cracked screens, software issues, camera issues, and most other tech mishaps at more than 700 stores across the U.S. The stores provide fast, affordable fixes for nearly any device type, regardless of make or model, including authorized repairs for Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Overall receipts to Oklahoma's treasury were up 15% during the fiscal year that ended June 30, fueled by record-high tax collections on oil and natural gas production, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said Tuesday.
Overall collections for the 2022 fiscal year totaled $16.46 billion, a 15% increase from the previous fiscal year, McDaniel reported. The figures show Oklahoma’s economy is continuing to expand despite inflationary pressure.
“Inflationary forces are a significant concern for consumers, but Oklahoma’s macro economy is benefitting from current energy prices and low unemployment,” McDaniel said in a statement.
For the first time in state history, collections from oil and gas production taxes topped $1.5 billion during fiscal year 2022. June 2022 oil and gas production taxes totaled $171 million, the highest of any single month.
The record-high collections from oil and gas production in June are based on April production when crude oil averaged $101.78 per barrel, McDaniel reported. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oklahoma-revenue-collections-up-15-during-last-17287567.php | 2022-07-06T16:48:58Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Oklahoma-revenue-collections-up-15-during-last-17287567.php | true |
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — All but six of the 53 migrants found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer in Texas last week have been identified, officials said Wednesday.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office said 22 of the dead were from Mexico, 19 were from Guatemala and six were from Honduras.
The migrants were found in an abandoned trailer June 27 on a back road on the edge of San Antonio. The alleged driver of the truck was due in federal court Wednesday for a detention hearing.
The dead included a 13-year-old and 14-year-old from Guatemala and two 16-year-olds from Mexico, the medical examiner's office said.
One survivor of the journey, a 20-year-old from Guatemala, told The Associated Press that smugglers had covered the trailer’s floor with what she believes was powdered chicken bouillon, apparently to throw off any dogs at checkpoint.
The truck was carrying 73 people in all when it was found June 27. Federal prosecutors say four people have been arrested in connection with the discovery of the truck, including the driver. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Texas-officials-ID-all-but-6-of-53-migrant-truck-17287510.php | 2022-07-06T16:49:47Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Texas-officials-ID-all-but-6-of-53-migrant-truck-17287510.php | false |
Turkish lawmaker chains self to rostrum, sparks new brawl
ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish legislator handcuffed herself to parliament's rostrum on Thursday to protest a reform package that would give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office executive powers. The move sparked fighting between women legislators, who were seen slapping each other.
Independent legislator Aylin Nazliaka attached herself to the microphone, forcing parliament's deputy speaker to twice call a recess and halt debate on the draft constitutional amendments for more than an hour.
During the recess, a group of women legislators from Erdogan's ruling party tried to convince Nazliaka to end her protest, while counterparts from the opposition pro-Kurdish party surrounded the rostrum to support her.
The lawmakers soon came to blows, shoving and slapping each other, television footage showed. Media reports said the microphone came apart during the scuffles and Nazliaka was removed from the assembly hall.
It was the third time that deliberations on the proposed amendments gave way to brawls.
Last week, ruling party and opposition lawmakers scuffled with each, and one ruling party legislator claimed he was bitten on the leg.
The ruling Justice and Development Party, founded by Erdogan, says a strong presidency is needed to strengthen Turkey as it faces an array of terror threats.
Critics say the changes would give too many powers to Erdogan, who is accused of displaying authoritarian tendencies.
A final vote on the proposals is expected Friday or Saturday. If approved by parliament, the reforms would be put to a national referendum. | https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkish-lawmaker-chains-self-to-rostrum-sparks-new-brawl | 2022-07-06T16:50:39Z | https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkish-lawmaker-chains-self-to-rostrum-sparks-new-brawl | false |
The Detroit Red Wings need to bolster the scoring ability in their system and might do so with the eighth pick Thursday in the first round of the NHL draft at Montreal’s Bell Centre (7 p.m., ESPN).
Several forwards are projected to be selected in the top 10. The Red Wings and general manager Steve Yzerman have their priority list, but much will depend on who is available. | https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2022/07/nhl-mock-draft-top-10-red-wings-take-center-at-no-8.html | 2022-07-06T16:50:42Z | https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2022/07/nhl-mock-draft-top-10-red-wings-take-center-at-no-8.html | true |
ORLANDO, Fla., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated, a national vacation ownership company, today announced that James "Jamie" Kluetz has been named Vice President of Brand Experience and Design. In this new role, Jamie will spearhead the company's effort to transform its sales journey, which includes building personalized and innovative experiences at its sales centers.
"This year, our company is celebrating 40 incredible years of helping families go on memorable vacations. While we are proud of this milestone anniversary, we also understand that our consumers, and the way they interact with brands, have changed over the years," said John Staten, President and Chief Executive Officer at Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated. "Jamie's valuable experience, passion for the industry and reputation for pushing the boundaries makes him the perfect individual to lead the charge of reinventing our sales process."
Working closely with sales, customer experience and brand teams, Jamie will enhance the sales journey and bring a brand-new look and feel to the company's sales centers. This work will begin with the company's new properties, such as the oceanfront resort in Myrtle Beach that is currently in development and expected to open in 2024.
"We are so excited to work with Jamie to create an innovative and impactful new way to tell the Holiday Inn Club Vacations story at our sales centers," said John Sutherland, Executive Vice President of Sales at Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated. "His creative and customer-first mindset aligns with our brand, and ultimately, will be vital as we build a more personalized, inviting and immersive guest experience."
Jamie has more than 30 years of creative and marketing experience and spent a majority of his career working in the timeshare industry. He co-founded the brand experience and marketing agency Brand Tango in 2004, serving as its President and Chief Creative Officer until the company's acquisition by Lamark Media Group in 2019. Then, Jamie continued to lead the agency's creative strategy and development as Executive Creative Director, a role he held prior to joining Holiday Inn Club Vacations. During his time with the agency, Jamie led branding, product design, marketing, innovation and sales center projects for a variety of high-profile clients, including AM Resorts, Hilton Grand Vacations, Wyndham Destinations, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, Disney Vacation Club and Ritz-Carlton Reserve Residences. Prior to launching Brand Tango, Jamie spent over a decade leading agency and corporate in-house creative teams in the communications and hospitality industries.
About Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated
Encompassing 28 resorts, 7,900 villas in 14 U.S. states and more than 365,000 timeshare owners, Holiday Inn Club Vacations Incorporated is a resort, real estate and travel company with a mission to be the most loved brand in family travel by delivering easy-to-plan, memorable vacation experiences that strengthen families.
Based in Orlando, Fla., the company has been a leader in the vacation ownership industry since 1982, when it was established by Holiday Inn® founder Kemmons Wilson with the opening of the company's flagship property, Holiday Inn Club Vacations® at Orange Lake Resort next to Orlando's Walt Disney World® Resort.
Today, the Holiday Inn Club Vacations resort portfolio spans across the United States. Throughout its history, the company has maintained the core family values true to its founding Wilson family, while aggressively pursuing growth, transforming its member engagement model and building an industry-leading team passionate about the guest experience.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-2-0-1, FIREBALL: 7
(five, two, zero, one; FIREBALL: seven)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-2-0-1, FIREBALL: 7
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The Los Angeles Sparks have been on roll lately, battling their way to just below .500 after a slow start to the season.
Los Angeles (10-11) has won four of its past five games and a big reason why is the play of All-Star Nneka Ogwumike and free agent signee Liz Cambage.
“I’m happy we’re on a little streak and hope to keep it rolling in July,” Cambage said.
The 6-foot-8 Australian struggled for most of June but os playing much better during the Sparks’ recent run. She has scored in double figures the past four games — something she hadn’t done once since May 31.
During their current winning stretch, the Sparks earned the 500th win in franchise history. The most by any WNBA organization.
The Sparks have also had time over the last few weeks to adjust to interim coach Fred Williams, who took over for Derek Fisher when he was let go on June 7.
“Each game is a step in the right direction,” Ogwumike said, adding that the coaching changes have helped the team and players find their identity individually and collectively. “The coaching staff lets us understand what we’re great at.”
It also has helped that the Sparks have been able to play many of their games at home lately after starting the season with nine of 12 on the road.
“Looking at May, you just got to get to July,” Cambage said. “I was like if we could survive May it would be cool. …I’m proud for us staying together. That first month could have seen teams go the other way.”
Cambage is proving to be a solid complement to Ogwumike, who is having another stellar season. She’s averaging 18.8 points — tied for second most in her career.
The Sparks moved up three spots to No. 6 in the AP WNBA power poll this week.
POWER POLL
This week’s WNBA poll:
1. Chicago (15-5): The Sky have won five straight and eight of nine and are the top team in the league right now with so many offensive options.
2. Las Vegas (15-6): The Aces have dropped four of six after starting the season 13-2. They need to get more consistent play off the bench to help give their starters some rest. Las Vegas’ reserves are averaging about 11 points a game.
3. Connecticut (14-7): The Sun are looking to get off to better starts after being outscored 58-35 in the first quarter in their last two games. .
4. Seattle (13-8): Newly signed post Tina Charles got off to a slow start averaging 5 points and 5 rebounds in her first three games with the Storm.
5. Washington (13-10): The Mystics have gone 3-4 in their past seven games and are winless in the three games that Elena Delle Donne sat out to rest her back during that stretch.
6. Los Angeles (10-11): Lexie Brown has provided stability in the backcourt for the Sparks this season and is averaging a career-best 7.6 points a game.
7. Atlanta (10-11): The Dream are getting healthy and had wins over New York and Seattle last week. Tiffany Hayes played for the first time this season after recovering from a knee injury for the first two months of the season.
8. Minnesota (7-15): The Lynx have been playing better lately and their depth has been a reason why. Five different players have led Minnesota in scoring in the Lynx’s past six games. The Lynx are 4-2 in that stretch.
9. Phoenix (9-14): Skylar Diggins-Smith has had an All-Star season averaging 19.1 points, but the Mercury have had little consistency on offense besides her.
10. New York (8-12): After a solid June, the Liberty have struggled dropping two in a row. New York has two more road games (at Las Vegas and at Phoenix) before the All-Star break.
11. Dallas (9-12): The Wings have struggled with four losses in their last five games; their lone victory was against last-place Indiana.
12. Indiana (5-17): The Fever are getting valuable experience for their rookies and Queen Egbo and NaLyssa Smith have shown flashes of excellence.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Ogwumike of Los Angeles was voted the AP Player of the Week. She averaged 21.7 points, 6 rebounds and 2.3 assists to help the Sparks go 3-0. Candace Parker of Chicago, Diggins-Smith of Phoenix and Aerial Powers of Minnesota also received votes.
GRINER UPDATE
Brittney Griner’s trial in Russia began last week and on Monday she sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking him not to “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” The trial will resume Thursday.
MAKING A COMEBACK
Three-time All-Star 3-point champion Allie Quigley left the door open to potentially returning to defend her title in Chicago this weekend.
“I don’t think so, but never say never,” she recently told The AP. “We’ll see. Chicago definitely makes you think a little bit more about it. I haven’t been asked yet.”
Quigley said last year after she won in Las Vegas that she wasn’t going to compete in the contest anymore.
GAME OF THE WEEK:
Team Stewart vs Team Wilson, Sunday. It will be the last All-Star Game for Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles when the league plays its midseason showcase in Chicago.
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Denver, Colo. (AP) — For National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Arnold, it was a moment he'd been dreading. Bare-legged in sandals, he was pulling in a net in a shallow backwater of the lower Colorado River last week, when he spotted three young fish that didn't belong there. “Give me a call when you get this!” he messaged a colleague, snapping photos.
Minutes later, the park service confirmed their worst fear: smallmouth bass had in fact been found and were likely reproducing in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam.
They may be a beloved sport fish, but smallmouth bass feast on humpback chub, an ancient, threatened fish that’s native to the river, and that biologists like Arnold have been working hard to recover. The predators wreaked havoc in the upper river, but were held at bay in Lake Powell where Glen Canyon Dam has served as a barrier for years — until now. The reservoir’s recent sharp decline is enabling these introduced fish to get past the dam and closer to where the biggest groups of chub remain, farther downstream in the Grand Canyon.
There, Brian Healy has worked with the humpback chub for more than a decade and founded the Native Fish Ecology and Conservation Program.
“It’s pretty devastating to see all the hard work and effort you’ve put into removing other invasive species and translocating populations around to protect the fish and to see all that effort overturned really quickly,” Healy said.
As reservoir levels drop, nonnative fish that live in warm surface waters in Lake Powell are edging closer to the dam and its penstocks — submerged steel tubes that carry water to turbines, where it generates hydroelectric power and is released on the other side.
If bass and other predator fish continue to get sucked into the penstocks, survive and reproduce below the dam, they will have an open lane to attack chub and other natives, potentially unraveling years of restoration work and upending the Grand Canyon aquatic ecosystem — the only stretch of the river still dominated by native species.
On the brink of extinction decades ago, the chub has come back in modest numbers thanks to fish biologists and other scientists and engineers. Agencies spend millions of dollars annually to keep intruders in check in the upper portion of the river.
Under the Endangered Species Act, government agencies are required to operate in ways that will not “jeopardize the continued existence” of listed animals. That includes infrastructure.
Even before the discovery of smallmouth bass spawning below the dam, agencies had been bracing for this moment. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation recently enlisted a team of researchers at Utah State University to map the nonnative fish in Lake Powell and try to determine which could pass through the dam first.
A task force quickly assembled earlier this year to address the urgency the low water poses for native fish. Federal, state and tribal leaders are expected to release a draft plan in August containing solutions for policymakers who intend to delay, slow and respond to the threat of smallmouth bass and other predators below the dam.
There are a variety of solutions, but many will require significant changes to infrastructure.
In the meantime, National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Arizona Game and Fish are moving quickly to try to contain the issue. During an emergency meeting, they decided to increase their monitoring efforts in other shallow areas and block off the entire backwater where the smallmouth bass were found so they can't swim out into the river.
“Unfortunately, the only block nets we have are pretty large mesh, so it will not stop these smaller fish from going through, but it will keep the adults from going back out,” Arnold said, noting it's the best they can do with available resources.
Experts say leaving more water in Lake Powell would be the best solution to ensure cool water can be released through the dam, although it's tough to do in a river under so much stress.
Last month, the Department of the Interior notified states that depend on Colorado River water, which means the entire southwestern United States, that they must devise a way to conserve one fifth to one quarter of the river's supply in 2023, or face federal intervention. It is unclear where that conserved supply would be stored, but Healy says he hopes Lake Powell is being considered.
“If we want to protect some of the values for which Grand Canyon National Park was established, we need to really think about how water is stored,” Healy said. “That issue needs to be at the table.”
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A Central Florida nonprofit is making sure local students have much-needed hygiene products many of us take for granted.
Eight Waves was founded in 2019 and focuses on eight pillars of serving children in Orange and Lake counties.
“We Just help support the children through eight different innovative programs offering like waves of opportunity,” said Executive Director Sara Meyer. “Through lots of communication and connection and over time we just decided these are the best things that will help families out of poverty.”
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Those eight initiatives are reading intervention, birthday wish, mother mentoring, books for babies, life experience, family stability and hygiene help. Meyer said the lack of access to hygiene products a community crisis.
“With so many people struggling financially to even pay rent or electricity, often what’s happening is leaving kids without options to have toilet paper, shampoo, conditioner. These items are taxed, so we pay taxes on them. There is no government support. So if a family is in need of hygiene items, SNAP and WIC do not cover it,” said Meyer.
Meyer said that lack of access to things like toilet paper and deodorant contributes to students being absent from school.
“And we got to see first hand — a 13-year-old boy didn’t know what toilet paper was because he’s never grown up with toilet paper. So if a child smells bad, he might feel bad. Maybe he’ll get bullied. It is a whole — it’s a vicious cycle that could be easily broken by just the community rallying around and saying ‘(That’s) not happening here in Central Florida.’ That every child in Central Florida will get the necessary hygiene items they need,” she said.
Meyer said Eight Waves also provides women’s hygiene products to the families it serves.
She said Eight Waves is looking for businesses to host hygiene drives. Click here for details on how to help. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/06/central-florida-nonprofit-provides-supplies-to-help-keep-children-healthy/ | 2022-07-06T16:55:15Z | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/06/central-florida-nonprofit-provides-supplies-to-help-keep-children-healthy/ | false |
The Midwest and the Plains states don’t get hurricanes. They get derechos — sprawling thunderstorm complexes that can travel hundreds of miles and cover multiple states with the impact of a 100-mile-wide tornado. Parts of South Dakota and Iowa, as well as Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois, faced a derecho on Tuesday. It even turned the skies green in some areas.
Winds gusted as high as 96 mph in Huron, S.D., the same location that faced 90 mph wind gusts during an equally severe derecho back on May 12. Tuesday’s derecho also brought a gust to 91 mph in Agar, S.D., and 99 mph in Miner, S.D. In Dewey County, S.D., softball-sized hail accompanied winds gusting to 84 mph; the National Weather Service received reports of broken windows, and a machine shed and grain bins destroyed.
The Weather Service received scores of damage reports from South Dakota to Illinois from the violent complex of storms. The winds knocked down power lines and trees, some falling onto homes and vehicles. Tens of thousands of utility customers lost power.
Ahead of the derecho, thousands witnessed skies turn an ominous shade of neon green, the heavens appearing borderline phosphorescent. While green skies are sometimes byproducts of thunderstorms, few meteorologists could remember having seen skies reflect that peculiar hue.
How strong were the winds?
It got a bit windy in the derecho today near Sioux Falls. @SevereStudios @NWSSiouxFalls #SDwx #derecho pic.twitter.com/Vadr1PAAVO
— TornadoRaiders.com (@tornadoraiders) July 6, 2022
For a thunderstorm squall line to be classified a derecho, “damage must be incurred either continuously or intermittently over a swath of at least ~400 mi and a width of approximately ~60 mi) or more.” That’s according to the American Meteorological Society. The National Weather Service also stipulates that, in addition to widespread 60 mph winds, a few significant wind gusts, or those topping 75 mph, must be thrown in as well.
Tuesday’s episode more than fit the bill. Here’s a look at some of the greatest observed wind gusts:
- 99 mph, Howard, S.D. Storm report noted frequent gusts of 70 mph or greater for between 20 and 30 minutes
- 96 mph, Huron, S.D.
- 91 mph, Agar, S.D.
- 87 mph, Ree Heights, S.D.
- 85 mph, Wall Lake, S.D.
- 84 mph, Timber Lake, S.D.
- 82 mph, Butte, Neb.
- 79 mph, Hartley, Iowa
- 70 mph, Independence, Iowa
- 64 mph, Magnolia, Minn.
In Sioux Falls, S.D., the Weather Service reported winds gusted over 58 mph for 45 minutes straight, with a peak gust of 80 mph.
A menacing green sky
The approach. @NWSSiouxFalls @keloland @dakotanews_now pic.twitter.com/NOl35jIlpt
— jaden 🥞 🍦 (@jkarmill) July 5, 2022
Hundreds posted on social media before, during and after the storms to remark on how bizarre the sky scene was as the storms rolled in. Among them were scores of veteran storm chasers, many of whom had never experienced a sky that color.
The infamous green sky that comes with some severe thunderstorms has to do with what the thunderstorm is holding — water, and lots of it. It’s believed that big raindrops and hail scatter away all but the blue wavelengths, allowing primarily blue light to penetrate through and beneath the storm cloud.
The green in this thing is insane! Taken in Sioux Falls South Dakota looking south west. #sdwx pic.twitter.com/x7Yx6UE2wF
— Tanner Charles 🌪 (@TannerCharlesMN) July 5, 2022
During the late afternoon and evening, the light is already skewed red/yellow by the setting sun. The combination of yellow and blue light produces green, although experts in atmospheric optics still have some uncertainties about the overall process.
Even by that metric, however, the colors exhibited by storms over Siouxland and along the Interstate 29 corridor of South Dakota, the James River Valley and northwestern Iowa were unlike any in recent meteorological memory.
One Twitter user even joked about making it a new paint color, referring to it as “derecho green.”
Still not over how menacing this derecho looked over Siouxland today.#sdwx #weather #photography pic.twitter.com/dzNhMLTEwg
— Alex Resel 📸 (@aresel_) July 6, 2022
What made the derecho
Major #derecho coming through eastern SD yesterday! Wind gusts reported over 90+ mph and power just came back on moments ago! Had major tree and structural damage @StephanieAbrams @JenCarfagno @accuweather @weatherchannel @AMHQ @StormCenterLive @JimCantore #sdwx pic.twitter.com/plvMCV2GJR
— Justin lewis 🌪 (@JustinFrantzen8) July 6, 2022
This was a progressive derecho — or one that rides along a temperature boundary. Progressive derechos are common in summertime patterns dominated by a high-pressure heat dome. In this case, the heat dome was anchored over the Mississippi Valley, and thunderstorm complexes known as “ridge runners” rode up and around it.
The northern periphery of heat domes is a breeding ground for progressive derechos. That’s where there’s a stout south to north temperature contrast — or a boundary for thunderstorms to straddle — and plenty of wind energy aloft. Heat domes shunt the jet stream to the north, meaning the river of swiftly-moving upper-atmospheric winds was racing over the Northern Plains with plenty of momentum for thunderstorms to tap into.
This is a full Timelapse of todays Derecho, viewed from 3 separate radars pic.twitter.com/fDJ4LDGBBF
— jake - tornado lover (@tornadicwonder) July 6, 2022
More than 60 million people were under alerts for the heat, which helped fuel Tuesday’s derecho. Scientists have determined rising temperatures from human-caused climate change may be intensifying these storm complexes.
Thunderstorms had been in the forecast for days, but it wasn’t until a morning thunderstorm complex over western South Dakota caught the attention of Storm Prediction Center forecasters that the severity of the situation became apparent. At 11:51 a.m. Central time, the agency drew a level 4 out of 5 risk for severe weather on their forecast map, writing, “A derecho with embedded significant severe wind gusts appears probable from central to eastern South Dakota into southwest Minnesota and northern Iowa into this evening.”
On satellite imagery, the derecho could be seen ingesting warm, humid air from the east.
By the end of the day, the derecho had traveled about 500 miles. Virtually all customers who had lost power had it restored as of Wednesday morning, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Although it’s unclear if another derecho will form on Wednesday, strong to severe thunderstorm are again forecast to erupt overtop the heat dome along a corridor from the northern Rockies to the Mid-Atlantic. With a heat dome lodged over the zone from the Plains to the Carolinas, nearly 80 million people are under excessive heat warnings or heat advisories Wednesday.
Jason Samenow contributed to this report. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/06/derecho-green-sky-south-dakota/ | 2022-07-06T16:55:40Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/06/derecho-green-sky-south-dakota/ | false |
Super-utility prospect Ceddanne Rafaela entered pro ball in obscurity when the Red Sox signed him to a $10,000 bonus out of Curaçao in 2017. Now the 21-year-old will step into a prospect spotlight.
Rafaela was one of eight players announced as participants in the Futures Game, which will take place at Dodger Stadium during All-Star Weekend. The rest of the team will be announced on Thursday.
Rafaela’s emergence as one of the top 10 prospects in the Red Sox system traces to a pair of developments that altered his path in 2021. A versatile, 5-foot-8-inch infielder to that point, Rafaela added outfield duties to his profile and immediately showed elite defense in center on top of his above-average glove at shortstop, second base, and third.
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Even so, he looked like a big league role player at best while hitting just .225/.302/.317 with one home run through the first two months of last year. But Rafaela made an adjustment to raise his hand position, resulting in a cleaner, more direct path to the ball, one that allowed him to channel his surprising strength into hard contact.
The result? Rafaela started to show surprising thump down the stretch last year in Single A Salem, hitting .266/.306/.484 with nine homers in his last 63 games, then erupted at two levels this year. Rafaela hit .330/.368/.594 with nine homers, 30 extra-base hits, and 14 steals in 45 games with High-A Greenville to earn a promotion to Double A. Since joining Portland, he’s hitting .278/.333/.578 with six homers and 13 extra-base hits in 23 games.
Rafaela’s 43 extra-base hits this year lead the minors, and his .314/.357/.589 line suggests a standout season that made a place in the Futures Game logical.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, a year after the Biden administration said it was moving to strengthen such species protections.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Northern California eliminated the Trump-era rules even as two wildlife agencies under President Joe Biden are reviewing or rescinding the regulations. The decision restores a range of protections under the Endangered Species Act — including some that date to the 1970s — while the reviews are completed. Environmental groups hailed the decision, which they said sped up needed protections and critical habitat designations for threatened species, including salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Tigar’s ruling “spoke for species desperately in need of comprehensive federal protections without compromise,” said Kristen Boyles, an attorney for the environmental group Earthjustice. “Threatened and endangered species do not have the luxury of waiting under rules that do not protect them.”
The court ruling comes as two federal agencies — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service — review five Endangered Species Act regulations finalized by President Donald Trump’s administration, including critical habitat designations and rules requiring federal agencies to consult with the wildlife or fisheries services before taking actions that could affect threatened or endangered species.
Fish and Wildlife also said it will reinstate the decades-old “blanket rule,” which mandates additional protections for species that are newly classified as threatened. Those protections were removed under Trump.
Critical habitat designations for threatened or endangered species can result in limitations on energy development such as mining or oil drilling that could disturb a vulnerable species, while the consultation rule and a separate rule on the scope of proposed federal actions help determine how far the government may go to protect imperiled species.
Under Trump, officials rolled back protections for the northern spotted owl, gray wolves and other species, actions that Biden has vowed to review. The Biden administration previously moved to reverse Trump’s decision to weaken enforcement of the century-old Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which made it harder to prosecute bird deaths caused by the energy industry.
The bird law reversal was among more than 150 business-friendly actions on the environment that Trump took and Biden wants to reconsider, revise or scrap, including withdrawal last month of a 2020 rule that limited which lands and waters could be designated as places where imperiled animals and plants could receive federal protection.
A spokesman for the Interior Department, which oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Tuesday the agency is reviewing the court ruling.
Fish and Wildlife, along with the marine fisheries service, announced in June 2021 that it was reviewing the Trump-era actions on endangered species. The reviews could take months or years to complete, officials said.
Industry groups and Republicans in Congress have long viewed the Endangered Species Act as an impediment to economic development, and under Trump they successfully lobbied to weaken the law’s regulations. Environmental groups and Democratic-controlled states battled the moves in court, but many of those cases remained unresolved.
Ryan Shannon, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, another environmental group, said he was “incredibly relieved” that “terrible” Trump-era rules on endangered species were thrown out by the Oakland, California-based Tigar, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama.
“I hope the Biden administration takes this opportunity to strengthen this crucial law, rather than weaken it, in the face of the ongoing extinction crisis,” Shannon said Tuesday.
Rebecca Riley of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the court ruling “ensures that the previous administration’s ‘extinction package’ will be rolled back.”
She and other advocates called on the Biden administration to ensure the Endangered Species Act “can do its job: preventing the extinction of vulnerable species.” | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/judge-throws-out-trump-era-rollbacks-on-endangered-species/ | 2022-07-06T16:57:42Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/judge-throws-out-trump-era-rollbacks-on-endangered-species/ | true |
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An offender who glassed a doorman at a nightclub has been sentenced at the Court of General Delivery.
Maxamilliano Pietro Ingrassia pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at a previous appearance.
The court heard that just after midnight on November 22, 2020, the door manager at 1886 in Regent Street, Douglas, was asked by the designated official to remove a male from the club due to his behaviour.
As the doorman went to remove the man, who was a friend of Ingrassia, he was struck on the head by an object before being hit again by a tumbler glass in his forehead. This caused the glass to shatter and badly cut the doorman.
The men continued to remove Ingrassia’s friend from the club before the doorman attended A&E.
During this time, staff reviewed CCTV and having watched Ingrassia hitting the doorman with the glass, followed him to the third floor where he told them he had cut his hand on broken glass.
When he was later arrested and interviewed by police, he told them he had been at a house in Laxey and was jolly, but not intoxicated.
Ingrassia, aged 22, told officers that he didn’t know the doorman was working in 1886 and he just believed another customer was attacking his friend. He said he had tried to break up what he believed to be an attack and in doing so hit the doorman with his glass.
Prosecutor Hazel Caroon also read from a victim impact statement, in which the doorman said he had worked for five years on the doors without being assaulted and that the assault by Ingrassia had left him ‘wary’ of people when working.
He detailed that as well as missing work due to his injuries, he had quit his other job as a hotel reception manager as he felt uneasy being questioned by people about the injuries to his face and was worried people would believe he had been fighting.
The doorman also noted that Ingrassia’s previous decision to plead not guilty, one he reversed only weeks before his trial, had caused him to worry, not only about the impact on him but also on his colleagues who had witnessed the attack.
He added: ‘It should not be OK for anyone to be glassed or assaulted while doing their job.’
Defence advocate Stephen Wood began his mitigation by handing the court a letter of apology from Ingrassia to his victim and by admitting it ‘wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny if I suggested it didn’t cross the custody threshold’.
Mr Wood also noted that he could not speak for the previous legal advice given to Ingrassia, but that he had pleaded guilty before the trial, by which time Mr Wood was representing him.
The advocate said his client accepted full responsibility for what he had done but repeated that he did not know at the time that the man he hit was a doorman and that Ingrassia had acted impulsively when he saw, what he believed, to be an attack on his friend.
He said Ingrassia, who lives at Highfield Drive, Baldrine, had ‘misread’ the events but accepted that his actions were ‘completely and utterly inappropriate’.
Turning to references from several people, including his employer, who was shocked by the attack Ingrassia committed, Mr Wood said it was ‘completely out of character’ for him.
He added that Ingrassia was capable of learning from his mistakes, had referred himself to Motiv8 when asked by probation to consider why he acted in the way that he did and made an open offer of compensation to the doorman.
In sentencing Ingrassia, Deemster Graeme Cook said he accepted that he didn’t know the man he hit was a doorman, but that he had hit him with a glass, twice, and caused some nasty injuries.
He told him: ‘Once is bad enough, twice removes the suspicion of intent.’
Echoing the words of the doorman, Deemster Cook said that ‘nobody should expect to hit with anything while doing their job’.
He sentenced Ingrassia to 23 months in custody, suspended for two years.
He also ordered Ingrassia to pay £2,000 in compensation to the doorman and court costs of £1,000, to be paid within seven days. | https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/courts/yob-who-glassed-doorman-walks-free-from-court-553620 | 2022-07-06T17:02:01Z | https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/courts/yob-who-glassed-doorman-walks-free-from-court-553620 | true |
(The Hill) – A group of Pennsylvania Republicans threw their support behind Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s gubernatorial bid on Wednesday, going against their party’s gubernatorial nominee and state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R).
The list of Republicans supporting Shapiro includes eight former GOP officials and the sitting chairman of the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners, Morgan Boyd. The former Republican officials include former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), former state Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-Pa.), former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman, former Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Denny O’Brien (R ), former state Reps. Dave Steil and Lita Cohen, former Lieutenant Gov. Robert Jubelirer, and former Montgomery County GOP Chair Ken Davis.
The group of Republicans hailed Shapiro while attacking Mastriano as an extremist and threat to the rule of law.
“In the Legislature, Josh championed some of the strongest ethics reforms in Pennsylvania’s history, and as Attorney General, he’s continued to work with Republicans and Democrats alike to get things done,” O’Brien said in a statement. “That’s a stark contrast with his opponent, who continues to divide us and waste time and taxpayer money on his conspiracy theories and plans to upend Pennsylvania’s elections. We deserve a Governor who will bring people together, and that’s why I’m proud to endorse Josh Shapiro.”
In other statements, Dent called Mastriano “an extremist who is a threat to the rule of law and the constitutional order,” while Greenwood accused Mastriano of continuing “to fan the flames of division.”
The effort somewhat resembles past efforts from some Republicans to rally against former President Trump, who has endorsed Mastriano.
The endorsements represent a direct hit against Mastriano, who has centered much of his campaign around the unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020. Despite an effort from some Pennsylvania Republicans to block him from the nomination, Matsriano defeated a crowded field of other GOP gubernatorial candidates, including former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), in May. Mastriano’s campaign was given a boost from Trump’s endorsement ahead of Primary Day.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as “lean Democratic.” | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/group-of-pennsylvania-republicans-back-democrat-shapiro-for-governor/ | 2022-07-06T17:04:37Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/group-of-pennsylvania-republicans-back-democrat-shapiro-for-governor/ | false |
‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ director forgot Natalie Portman’s ‘Star Wars’ role
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
Your bad, Taika Waititi.
The “Thor: Love and Thunder” director told Rolling Stone he forgot about his film’s star, Natalie Portman, being part of the “Star Wars” franchise.
According to Waititi, his initial conversation with Portman went like this:
“Natalie said to me, what do you do next? And I said ‘I’m trying to work on a Star Wars thing. Have you ever wanted to be in a Star Wars movie?,'” he recalled. “She said, ‘I’ve been in Star Wars movies.’ I forgot about those ones.”
The director then laughed about it, according to the publication.
For the record, Portman starred as Padmé Amidala in the prequel trilogy to “Star Wars.”
She reprises her role as Jane Foster in the “Thor” sequel.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government faced a new crisis Tuesday after two of his most senior Cabinet ministers resigned within minutes of each other.
Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid quit, saying the government under Johnson’s leadership was no longer competent or “acting in the national interest.”
The apparently coordinated exits came after Johnson was hit by allegations he lied about how he handled claims of sexual misconduct by a lawmaker who was appointed to a senior position.
Both Javid and Sunak are key members of the Cabinet and both are seen as potential successors to Johnson, leaving his position perilous.
A look at who Sunak and Javid are:
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RISHI SUNAK, TREASURY CHIEF
In his resignation letter, Sunak told Johnson “it has become clear to me that our approaches are fundamentally too different.”
“The public rightly expect government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously. I recognise this may be my last ministerial job, but I believe these standards are worth fighting for and that is why I am resigning,” he wrote.
Sunak was, until recently, widely regarded as the party’s brightest rising star, the best-known of potential leadership contenders — and the bookies’ favorite to succeed Johnson.
Sunak, 42, was thrust into the spotlight when he became treasury chief in 2020, tasked with the unenviable job of steering the economy through its worst economic slump on record because of the pandemic. He dished out billions of pounds in emergency spending to help businesses and workers, and his policies have generally been seen in a positive light.
But “partygate” changed those fortunes. Like Johnson, he was issued a police fine for attending a lockdown-flouting birthday party at Downing Street in June 2020. He has also come under heavy criticism for being slow to respond to Britain’s severe cost-of-living crisis.
Sunak also faced pressure following revelations that his wife, Akshata Murthy, avoided paying U.K. taxes on her overseas income, and that the former investment banker held on to his U.S. green card while serving in government.
Born to Indian parents who moved to the U.K. from East Africa, Sunak attended the exclusive Winchester College private school and studied at Oxford.
Some see his elite education and past work for the investment bank Goldman Sachs and a hedge fund as a deficit because he seems out of touch with ordinary voters.
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SAJID JAVID, HEALTH SECRETARY
In his statement, Javid said he could “no longer, in good conscience, continue serving in this government.”
Javid, 52, has been health secretary since June 2021, leading Britain’s COVID-19 response.
Before that, he served as treasury chief, but resigned in early 2020 after clashing with Johnson over his order to fire his team of advisers.
The fact that Johnson brought him back into the government to handle the coronavirus response reflects his reputation for competence.
Javid, a father of four, was first elected in 2010 and has held various positions in government, including serving as home secretary and leading departments for business, culture and housing.
He ran in the 2019 Conservative leadership election, but was eliminated in the fourth round and lost to Johnson.
The son of Pakistani immigrants, Javid has billed himself as a common-man alternative to his private school-educated rivals — although he had a lucrative career in investment banking before entering politics. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/profiles-of-sunak-and-javid-who-quit-johnsons-cabinet/ | 2022-07-06T17:05:22Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/profiles-of-sunak-and-javid-who-quit-johnsons-cabinet/ | true |
Chelsea: Raheem Sterling agrees move from Manchester City
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Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has agreed personal terms with Chelsea.
The 27-year-old has one year left on his contract at City and had attracted interest from major clubs overseas.
City signed Sterling from Liverpool in a £49m deal in 2015 and he went on to score 131 goals in 339 games.
Should the deal be completed, Sterling - who has 77 England caps - will become Chelsea's first major signing since they were taken over by a consortium led by Todd Boehly this summer.
More to follow.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke Wednesday with the wife of detained WNBA player Brittney Griner, who is on trial in Russia, and assured her that that he is working to win Griner’s freedom as soon as possible, the White House said.
Biden’s conversation with Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, followed Brittney Griner’s personal appeal to the president in a handwritten letter from the basketball player the White House received on Monday. In the letter, Griner acknowledged her fears that she would spend forever in detention in Russia and asked Biden not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.”
Griner has been detained for four months and is currently on trial in Russia, accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
“The President called Cherelle to reassure her that he is working to secure Brittney’s release as soon as possible, as well as the release of Paul Whelan and other U.S. nationals who are wrongfully detained or held hostage in Russia and around the world,” the White House said in a statement. “He also read her a draft of the letter the President is sending to Brittney Griner today.”
Biden offered his support to the family and committed to making sure they receive “all possible assistance” while the administration pursues steps to win Brittney Griner’s release, the White House said.
Griner is in the midst of a trial in Russia that began last week after she was arrested on Feb. 17 on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for her Russian team. The trial is scheduled to resume Thursday.
Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted, and unlike in U.S. courts, acquittals can be overturned.
Cherelle Griner told “CBS Mornings” in an interview Tuesday that it was “disheartening” to her that she had yet to hear from Biden during Brittney Griner’s detention. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/biden-tells-with-griners-wife-hes-working-to-get-her-home/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-06T17:14:59Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/biden-tells-with-griners-wife-hes-working-to-get-her-home/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
Ciao! American Kennel Club adds a breed, the bracco Italiano
U.S. dog lovers, say "benvenuto" to the bracco Italiano.
The ancient Italian bird-hunting dog is the 200th member of the American Kennel Club's roster of recognized breeds, the organization announced Wednesday. That means the handsome, powerful but amiable pointers can now go for best in show at many U.S. dog shows, including the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club event next year.
The bracco (pronounced BRAH'-koh) goes back more than two millennia in Europe but wasn't brought to the U.S. until the mid-1990s, according to the AKC. It's sometimes called the Italian pointer or Italian pointing dog.
The ideal bracco should be "tough and adapted to all types of hunting, reliable, docile and intelligent," while also friendly and neither shy nor aggressive, according to the AKC's standard for the medium-to-large breed.
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"They're very easy to live with and be around, and yet it's like a light switch — when it's time to jump in the back of the truck and go hunting, and they've got a job, they just light up like a Christmas tree," said owner and breeder Lisa Moller of Portage, Wisconsin.
She and husband Dale relied on Labrador retrievers as pheasant-hunting helpers before a friend introduced them to a bracco about five years ago. The couple was quickly struck by the dog's methodical hunting style in the field and affectionate nature at home: "They're very Velcro," Lisa Moller said.
The dogs — the proper plural is "bracchi Italiani" — have a deep bark and readily deploy it on spotting backyard wildlife, so "they may not be the right dog for everybody," she noted.
AKC Executive Secretary Gina DiNardo called the bracco a great companion for active families who can provide "the love and attention it needs."
The AKC opened the nation's oldest dog registry with a mere nine breeds in 1878. In the last decade alone, the club has added over 20 breeds, ranging from the teeny Russian toy to the powerful dogo Argentino. Criteria involve the total number and generations of registered dogs nationwide, their geographical distribution and other factors.
There remain many breeds that are registered elsewhere but not by the AKC, or aren't formally recognized at all. Some aficionados eschew, or are torn about, the exposure that AKC recognition brings to a breed.
Animal rights activists denounce dog breeding, and they say that adding more breeds just exacerbates faddish demand for purebred pets and fuels puppy mills that feed it.
The AKC says it promotes responsible breeding aimed at preserving characteristics that equip dogs for various tasks and ease owners' search for a pup they can live with and commit to. | https://www.kcra.com/article/bracco-italiano-american-kennel-club-adds-breed/40528215 | 2022-07-06T17:17:01Z | https://www.kcra.com/article/bracco-italiano-american-kennel-club-adds-breed/40528215 | false |
Biden heading to Ohio to spotlight rule to rescue pensions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reassuring frustrated blue-collar voters, President Joe Biden on Wednesday is visiting Ohio to highlight federal action to shore up troubled pension funding for millions now on the job or retired.
Biden’s speech at a Cleveland high school is showcasing a final rule tied to his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package from last year. The rule allows troubled multi-company pensions to be made financially whole, ensuring full benefits for 2 million to 3 million workers and retirees.
Hurt politically by inflation at a 40-year high and damage wrought by the pandemic, the president chose to deliver his message in a state that has been trending strongly Republican, with Donald Trump easily carrying it twice. This is Biden’s sixth visit as president as he labors to personally reverse that electoral tide.
Details about Biden’s remarks were shared by two administration officials who insisted on anonymity to preview his speech.
The roughly 200 pension plans receiving assistance faced possible insolvency without government aid. And without the full benefits, workers and retirees could struggle to pay for housing, food and other essentials. The financial support should help keep the pension funds solvent for roughly 30 years until 2051.
That’s important, several retirees said.
Bill DeVito, 73, was an iron worker for almost 50 years before retiring a decade ago. When his pension was cut 40% in 2017, he said, “it was devastating.”
“The thing of it is, we had a lot of politicians over the years saying, hey, we’ll try to help you, we’ll do everything we can, and nobody’s ever done anything for us until Joe Biden come along,” he said. He said that other Ohio Democrats in Washington kept pushing, too.
Jeffrey Carlson, 67, of the Cleveland suburb of North Ridgeville, said that a year before he retired in 2017, he learned his pension would be cut, too.
“I’m grateful for anything that we could get back,” he said. “I know I earned it. I worked hard.”
Multiemployer plans are created through agreements between companies and a union, and are insured by the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). In 2014, Congress passed the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act that allowed plans, for the first time, to cut workers and retirees’ benefits in order to ensure that pensions projected to run out of money remained solvent.
The American Rescue Plan passed in March 2021 included a special finance assistance program that allows struggling multiemployer pension plans to apply to the PBGC for assistance. The final rule being unveiled by the Biden administration is designed to make it easier for the pensions’ investments to receive a higher rate of return.
The effort to highlight a program to help union workers comes as Democrats hope to pick up a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio, where a strong showing with working class voters could play a pivotal role.
Republican Rob Portman is leaving the Senate after two terms. Vying to replace him are Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance, the author of the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” who secured an endorsement during the primary from Trump. Ohio voters backed Trump in 2016 and 2020, with his margin of victory each time at roughly 8 percentage points.
While Biden boasts of steady job growth — unemployment sits at 3.6% — Americans have largely been discontented with the Democratic president’s handling of the economy as inflation continues to rise, interest rates increase and the stock market wobbles. Just 28 percent approve of Biden’s stewardship of the economy, down from 51% a year ago, according to an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll published last week.
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AP writer Julie Carr Smyth contributed from Columbus, Ohio.
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WASHINGTON — Pat Cipollone, Donald Trump’s former White House counsel, has reportedly agreed to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A person briefed on the matter, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss private negotiations, said Cipplone agreed to appear before the committee for a private, transcribed interview on Friday.
Cipollone's reported resistance to Trump’s schemes to overturn his 2020 election defeat has made him a long-sought witness.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified that Cipollone warned about potential legal ramifications on Jan. 6.
She said Cipollone was adamant that Trump should not go to the Capitol.
"We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen," Hutchinson said Cipollone warned.
Despite the warnings, Hutchinson said Trump was insistent on going to the Capitol, but the move was denied and he was taken back to the White House after speaking at a rally.
Cipollone was subpoenaed by the select committee following Hutchinson's testimony and requests to testify voluntarily. | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/ap-source-cipollone-agrees-to-testify-before-jan-6-panel | 2022-07-06T17:19:18Z | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/ap-source-cipollone-agrees-to-testify-before-jan-6-panel | false |
FLOYD, Va. – Years of service and dedication as a coach and educator can be counted by the decades, but the impact Winfred Beale has had on the Floyd community is timeless and priceless.
“One of the local coaches found out I was available and twisted my arm and said why don’t you come back and coach the Buffaloes so that’s how it got started,” said Beale, whose coaching career began at Galax.
“The basic thing is the relationships with the players, the coaches, the students--just being around people,” Beale said.
As a 1970 graduate of Floyd County High School, Beale attended American University where he was on the track and field team.
Beale’s interest in education and being an educator came from a long family tradition. His mother and multiple aunts also spent decades in the classroom.
Beale recently ended his tenure as a teacher in December, but it’s 47 and a half years that he thoroughly enjoyed.
In regards to challenges, Beale touched on how race relations impacted him growing up in segregated schools in his early years.
“Through the seventh grade you know all the schools in Floyd were segregated,” Beale said. “I was one of the first classes to come to the high school as an 8th grader.”
When asked how he manages to keep up with the times, Beale said, “Young people keep you young. You know I’m getting on up there in age.” | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/07/06/around-the-way-with-ej-winfred-beale/ | 2022-07-06T17:22:22Z | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/07/06/around-the-way-with-ej-winfred-beale/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem.
After one successful communication and a second partial one on Monday, the space agency said it could no longer communicate with the spacecraft called Capstone. Engineers are trying to find the cause of the communications drop-off and are optimistic they can fix it, NASA spokesperson Sarah Frazier said Tuesday.
The spacecraft, which launched from New Zealand on June 28, had spent nearly a week in Earth orbit and had been successfully kick-started on its way to the moon, when contact was lost, Frazier said.
The 55-pound satellite is the size of a microwave oven and will be the first spacecraft to try out this oval orbit, which is where NASA wants to stage its Gateway outpost. Gateway would serve as a staging point for astronauts before they descend to the lunar surface.
The orbit balances the gravities of Earth and the moon and so requires little maneuvering and therefore fuel and allows the satellite — or a space station — to stay in constant contact with Earth. | https://www.yourbasin.com/science/nasa-contact-lost-with-spacecraft-on-way-to-test-moon-orbit/ | 2022-07-06T17:27:07Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/science/nasa-contact-lost-with-spacecraft-on-way-to-test-moon-orbit/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration issued an administrative stay Tuesday on the order it issued last month for vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market.
The agency said on Twitter that the stay temporarily suspends the marketing denial order while it conducts further review, but does not rescind it.
The FDA issued the initial order banning Juul sales on June 23. A day later, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the government ban.
The initial FDA action was part of a sweeping effort by the agency to bring scientific scrutiny to the multibillion-dollar vaping industry after years of regulatory delays.
To stay on the market, companies must show that their e-cigarettes benefit public health. In practice, that means proving that adult smokers who use them are likely to quit or reduce their smoking, while teens are unlikely to get hooked on them.
The FDA originally said Juul’s application left regulators with significant questions and didn’t include enough information to evaluate any potential health risks. Juul said it submitted enough information and data to address all issues raised.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted Juul’s request for a hold while the court reviews the case.
On Tuesday, the FDA said it has determined “there are scientific issues unique to the Juul application that warrant additional review.”
Still, it said, the stay and the review do not “constitute authorization to market, sell or ship Juul products.” | https://www.yourbasin.com/lifestyle/health-resource-center/fda-temporarily-suspends-order-banning-juul-cigarettes/ | 2022-07-06T17:28:35Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/lifestyle/health-resource-center/fda-temporarily-suspends-order-banning-juul-cigarettes/ | true |
Watchdog's Free Guide Aims to Help Car Buyers Learn More about Electric Vehicles
CHICAGO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marking the introduction of an unprecedented electric vehicle rebate in Illinois, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) on Tuesday released the EV Buyer's Handbook, a free resource for consumers interested in the practical steps to purchasing an electric vehicle (EV).
Consumers can order a free copy of the guide here. The first of its kind in CUB's 38-year history, this handbook helps buyers decide whether an electric vehicle is the right choice by answering key questions, offering an EV checklist and providing a list of helpful additional resources.
The timing of the guide is important, given the fact that gasoline prices have shot well past $5 a gallon this summer. Also, the Climate & Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), historic legislation that CUB supported, has made possible a $4,000 rebate for the purchase of an electric passenger vehicle.
CUB planned the public release of its guide with the introduction of that unprecedented rebate this month. (You can read more about the rebate, offered by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, here.)
"This summer, drivers have seen a tremendous increase in fuel prices across the country–and the growing costs of gasoline-powered cars combined with our growing climate problems are leading many to consider cleaner, cheaper transportation options," said CUB Executive Director David Kolata. "We're excited to provide the EV Buyer's Handbook, just as Illinois drivers have the opportunity to take advantage of the $4,000 EV rebate created by CEJA."
CEJA made Illinois a national leader in electric vehicle policy, setting a statewide goal of 1,000,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. This switch to electric vehicles will help meet carbon emission reduction goals and reduce Illinois' dependence on imported fossil fuels.
Vehicle pollution is now a more significant cause of carbon pollution than power plants.
CUB is Illinois' leading nonprofit utility watchdog. Created by the Illinois Legislature, CUB opened its doors in 1984 to represent the interests of residential and small-business utility customers. Since then, it has saved consumers more than $20 billion by helping block rate hikes, secure refunds and fight for clean, low-cost energy. For more information, call CUB's Consumer Hotline, 1-800-669-5556, or visit its website, www.CitizensUtilityBoard.org.
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PARIS (AP) — Paris fashion week geared up a notch Wednesday with theatrical performances in historic courtyards, cantering horses and jewels adorning supernatural creations. Fashionistas meanwhile prepared for Olivier Rousteing’s one-off turn as a designer at Jean Paul Gaultier for the highly-anticipated evening show. Gaultier himself retired from couture in January 2020 after 50 years.
Here are some highlights of the fall-winter 2022 collections so far:
ELIE SAAB’S SUPERNATURAL
There was something shamanic in the air at Elie Saab, as the Lebanese designer fused his usual show-stopping fare with the supernatural in a rare co-ed show.
Flame red and charcoal black feathers, which seemed to burn up the skirt of the first black gown in a V, set the otherworldly tone.
There was an ethnic feel to the textures and patterns, and a nice geometry in the garment’s pared-down straps that exposed the model’s flesh.
Another piece, a high priest-cum-bird look, was surely the piece de resistance: A red-black feathered A-line cape with strong shoulders worn on a male model that powerfully swept the floor. With its intricate white embroidered patterning resembling a totem, it was an impressive piece of design.
A sorceress feel infused other creations, such as one bejeweled, silver-tasseled number with a sparkling choker that seemed to hark from a fantasy movie. It was worn on a model with swept-back hair and nude makeup.
FRANCK SORBIER
The French couturier and lover of art and theater took his audience back in time on Wednesday to a Renaissance universe of court jesters, fairytale maidens and cantering horses.
In the cobbled courtyard of a historic grand townhouse, a saxophonist played on stone steps as a horse grazed at his feet. Then a damsel descended from two carved wooden doors, wearing a bleeding red velvet gown with voluminous full skirt to lead the horse away. A court jester appeared in an amorphous white bib featuring playing card motifs, as a model in pigtails and a baby pink textured gown with capped sleeves offered out candy floss. Her skirt, cut on the bias and slightly dropped, had heavy ripples that moved with a stylish swagger.
And then a man in tails and 19th century top hat rode in on a Penny Farthing bicycle.
Groups of men and women entered the courtyard scuffling in stylized black, funeral-style tailored ensembles. One female model had a mafia-style hat and long silk scarf — and looked like the head of some feuding crime clan.
The fusion of performance with fashion made for a highly memorable spectacle. | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/theatrical-shows-horses-and-sparkle-gear-up-paris-couture/ | 2022-07-06T17:30:08Z | https://cw33.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/theatrical-shows-horses-and-sparkle-gear-up-paris-couture/ | false |
AMDA College of the Performing Arts Sends Six Recent Graduates to The Town Hall in New York City for the First Broadway Rising Stars Event in Three Years.
NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AMDA graduates Lily Arriaga, Jared Goodwin, Hannah Faith Marshall, Isaiah Mayhew, Erika Nicole Mesa, and Henry O'Connell will be participating in this national showcase of the Top Musical Theatre students on Monday, July 18, 2022 at The Town Hall in New York City.
Broadway Rising Stars is a prestigious national showcase that introduces New York audiences to the next generation of emerging talent from the most acclaimed performing arts institutions in higher education. AMDA students study under renowned faculty in a creative, inspiring, and inclusive environment. Their experience within AMDA's premier performing arts training has given the six selected students the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in a venue where past AMDA participants landed top billing in various Broadway shows including: Hamilton, The Color Purple, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, and Les Misérables.
AMDA College of the Performing Arts has campuses in the two entertainment capitals of the world: New York City and Hollywood. Founded in 1964, AMDA has been training emerging performing artists in musical theatre, acting, and dance for nearly 60 years and AMDA's training has been adopted as the gold standard of performing arts education by colleges and universities throughout the country, and indeed throughout the world. Notable AMDA graduates include Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid's Tale, Orange is the New Black), Tyne Daly (Cagney & Lacey, Judging Amy), Jason Derulo (Multi-platinum recording artist), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family, Tony Award Winner for Broadway's Take Me Out), Ray Fisher (Justice League, Women of the Movement), Caissie Levy (Broadway's Frozen, Caroline, or Change, Wicked), Rizwan Manji (Schitt's Creek, The Magicians, Peacemaker), J. Elaine Marcos (Broadway's A Chorus Line, Annie, The Wedding Singer), Anthony Ramos (Broadway's Hamilton, A Star Is Born, In the Heights film adaptation), and Kyle Scatliffe (Broadway's Hamilton, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple).
For more information about AMDA Graduates, visit the AMDA website: https://www.amda.edu/alumni-videos
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LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unilever PLC ("Unilever" or the "Company") (NYSE: UL).
Class Period: September 2, 2020 – July 21, 2021
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: August 15, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that, in July 2020, Ben & Jerry's board passed a resolution to end sales of its ice cream in "Occupied Palestinian Territory"; (2) the risks attendant to the Ben & Jerry's board's decision; (3) the foregoing risked adverse governmental actions for violations of laws, executive orders, or resolutions aimed at discouraging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel adopted by 35 U.S. states; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans hoping for future Hall of Fame tight end Rob Gronkowski to change his mind on retirement may not want to hear what teammate Mike Evans had to say about the chances.
Evans, Tampa's number one receiver, called Gronk the best tight end ever and said losing him would hurt, but he still hopes Gronk might change his mind.
"I hope he comes back," Evans told Ari Alexander of Houston NBC affiliate KPRC. "With Tom (Brady) and Gronk, you never know now. I wouldn't be mad if he came back. Our guys would be really excited if he came back."
Still, Evans said he feels like Gronk is done with football.
"He takes a pretty big beating," Evans said. "I've seen his body after some of them games and I understand why (he would choose to retire from the NFL)."
Losing Gronk will leave a large tight-end-sized hole in the offense. The only tight end on the roster who has played significant snaps in the NFL is Cameron Brate. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/sports/report-bucs-evans-thinks-gronk-is-done-with-football | 2022-07-06T17:32:13Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/sports/report-bucs-evans-thinks-gronk-is-done-with-football | false |
LACEY, Wash., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbor Foods received the award recognizing the organization as one of the 2022 Washington's Best Workplaces by Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ). The Best Workplaces list is a ranking based on anonymous employee surveys. The top 100 companies will be recognized at a fun-filled celebration on August 18th, 2022, at T-Mobile Park, culminating in a release of the final rankings in a special section published on August 19, 2022, in the PSBJ.
Following a few challenging years, the Harbor Foods team is especially proud of this recognition during a volatile time in the food industry and a competitive market for talent. Justin Erickson, 4th generation owner & CEO states, "We stand behind our purpose of Fortifying Community and continuously strive to make Harbor Foods a Best Workplace through our commitment to the success of our team members and customers. I'm proud of our Harbor team, we pulled together during a challenging time and did our best to have a positive impact on those we serve, both internally and externally." As a 4th generation Erickson family member, Justin puts his trust in the team members operating and growing Harbor Foods. The feeling of belonging, ownership, and purpose gives Harbor Foods' team members a sense of pride in the work performed each day. The Harbor Foods' team lives by four simple values; Genuine, Resourceful, Motivated, and Friendly that are the foundation of Harbor's "Best Workplaces" culture.
Founded in 1923, the Harbor Foods family of companies are dedicated to supporting the local entrepreneurs, providing jobs in their communities, bringing convenience to busy lives, and inviting us all to experience life around the table. As the largest independent 4th generation-run distributor in the Northwest, Harbor Foods (Harbor Wholesale and Harbor Foodservice) serves over 6,000 restaurants, convenience stores, independent grocers, and quick-serve restaurants with a great selection of products and business solutions. These products include Harbor-owned brands held under the Real Fresh Brands™ division. Brands such as Skippers®, Mountain Fresh™, Via Vita Pizza™, Split Shift®, Watertown Craft Roasted®, and Mein Street®. Harbor Foods also houses Northlink Logistics, an end-to-end third-party logistics company where the culture and values create a unique hassle-free experience. Harbor Foods operates distribution centers in Kent, WA, Lacey, WA, Portland, OR, and Roseburg, OR. For additional information, please visit us at harborfoods.com or harborwholesale.com, harborfoodservice.com, or northlinklogistics.com.
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The Los Angeles Sparks have been on roll lately, battling their way to just below .500 after a slow start to the season.
Los Angeles (10-11) has won four of its past five games and a big reason why is the play of All-Star Nneka Ogwumike and free agent signee Liz Cambage.
“I’m happy we’re on a little streak and hope to keep it rolling in July,” Cambage said.
The 6-foot-8 Australian struggled for most of June but os playing much better during the Sparks’ recent run. She has scored in double figures the past four games — something she hadn’t done once since May 31.
During their current winning stretch, the Sparks earned the 500th win in franchise history. The most by any WNBA organization.
The Sparks have also had time over the last few weeks to adjust to interim coach Fred Williams, who took over for Derek Fisher when he was let go on June 7.
“Each game is a step in the right direction,” Ogwumike said, adding that the coaching changes have helped the team and players find their identity individually and collectively. “The coaching staff lets us understand what we’re great at.”
It also has helped that the Sparks have been able to play many of their games at home lately after starting the season with nine of 12 on the road.
“Looking at May, you just got to get to July,” Cambage said. “I was like if we could survive May it would be cool. …I’m proud for us staying together. That first month could have seen teams go the other way.”
Cambage is proving to be a solid complement to Ogwumike, who is having another stellar season. She’s averaging 18.8 points — tied for second most in her career.
The Sparks moved up three spots to No. 6 in the AP WNBA power poll this week.
POWER POLL
This week’s WNBA poll:
1. Chicago (15-5): The Sky have won five straight and eight of nine and are the top team in the league right now with so many offensive options.
2. Las Vegas (15-6): The Aces have dropped four of six after starting the season 13-2. They need to get more consistent play off the bench to help give their starters some rest. Las Vegas’ reserves are averaging about 11 points a game.
3. Connecticut (14-7): The Sun are looking to get off to better starts after being outscored 58-35 in the first quarter in their last two games. .
4. Seattle (13-8): Newly signed post Tina Charles got off to a slow start averaging 5 points and 5 rebounds in her first three games with the Storm.
5. Washington (13-10): The Mystics have gone 3-4 in their past seven games and are winless in the three games that Elena Delle Donne sat out to rest her back during that stretch.
6. Los Angeles (10-11): Lexie Brown has provided stability in the backcourt for the Sparks this season and is averaging a career-best 7.6 points a game.
7. Atlanta (10-11): The Dream are getting healthy and had wins over New York and Seattle last week. Tiffany Hayes played for the first time this season after recovering from a knee injury for the first two months of the season.
8. Minnesota (7-15): The Lynx have been playing better lately and their depth has been a reason why. Five different players have led Minnesota in scoring in the Lynx’s past six games. The Lynx are 4-2 in that stretch.
9. Phoenix (9-14): Skylar Diggins-Smith has had an All-Star season averaging 19.1 points, but the Mercury have had little consistency on offense besides her.
10. New York (8-12): After a solid June, the Liberty have struggled dropping two in a row. New York has two more road games (at Las Vegas and at Phoenix) before the All-Star break.
11. Dallas (9-12): The Wings have struggled with four losses in their last five games; their lone victory was against last-place Indiana.
12. Indiana (5-17): The Fever are getting valuable experience for their rookies and Queen Egbo and NaLyssa Smith have shown flashes of excellence.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Ogwumike of Los Angeles was voted the AP Player of the Week. She averaged 21.7 points, 6 rebounds and 2.3 assists to help the Sparks go 3-0. Candace Parker of Chicago, Diggins-Smith of Phoenix and Aerial Powers of Minnesota also received votes.
GRINER UPDATE
Brittney Griner’s trial in Russia began last week and on Monday she sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking him not to “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” The trial will resume Thursday.
MAKING A COMEBACK
Three-time All-Star 3-point champion Allie Quigley left the door open to potentially returning to defend her title in Chicago this weekend.
“I don’t think so, but never say never,” she recently told The AP. “We’ll see. Chicago definitely makes you think a little bit more about it. I haven’t been asked yet.”
Quigley said last year after she won in Las Vegas that she wasn’t going to compete in the contest anymore.
GAME OF THE WEEK:
Team Stewart vs Team Wilson, Sunday. It will be the last All-Star Game for Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles when the league plays its midseason showcase in Chicago.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police in Richmond, Virginia, said Wednesday that they thwarted a planned July 4 mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns.
Authorities announced the alleged plot in a news release but did not release any additional information. Chief Gerald Smith planned a news conference for Wednesday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the police department did not immediately respond to a call seeking additional details of the planned shooting.
The announcement came just two days after a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on a July 4 parade in the affluent Chicago suburb of Highland Park, killing seven people and injuring more than three dozen.
Robert E. Crimo III was charged with seven counts of murder Tuesday. The shooting sent hundreds of people fleeing in fear and set off an hourslong manhunt. Authorities have not yet identified a motive. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/fourth-of-july-mass-shooting-thwarted-in-virginias-capital-police-say/ | 2022-07-06T17:32:33Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/fourth-of-july-mass-shooting-thwarted-in-virginias-capital-police-say/ | true |
(The Hill) – A group of Pennsylvania Republicans threw their support behind Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s gubernatorial bid on Wednesday, going against their party’s gubernatorial nominee and state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R).
The list of Republicans supporting Shapiro includes eight former GOP officials and the sitting chairman of the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners, Morgan Boyd. The former Republican officials include former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), former state Rep. Jim Greenwood (R-Pa.), former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman, former Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Denny O’Brien (R ), former state Reps. Dave Steil and Lita Cohen, former Lieutenant Gov. Robert Jubelirer, and former Montgomery County GOP Chair Ken Davis.
The group of Republicans hailed Shapiro while attacking Mastriano as an extremist and threat to the rule of law.
“In the Legislature, Josh championed some of the strongest ethics reforms in Pennsylvania’s history, and as Attorney General, he’s continued to work with Republicans and Democrats alike to get things done,” O’Brien said in a statement. “That’s a stark contrast with his opponent, who continues to divide us and waste time and taxpayer money on his conspiracy theories and plans to upend Pennsylvania’s elections. We deserve a Governor who will bring people together, and that’s why I’m proud to endorse Josh Shapiro.”
In other statements, Dent called Mastriano “an extremist who is a threat to the rule of law and the constitutional order,” while Greenwood accused Mastriano of continuing “to fan the flames of division.”
The effort somewhat resembles past efforts from some Republicans to rally against former President Trump, who has endorsed Mastriano.
The endorsements represent a direct hit against Mastriano, who has centered much of his campaign around the unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in 2020. Despite an effort from some Pennsylvania Republicans to block him from the nomination, Matsriano defeated a crowded field of other GOP gubernatorial candidates, including former Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), in May. Mastriano’s campaign was given a boost from Trump’s endorsement ahead of Primary Day.
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as “lean Democratic.” | https://who13.com/news/national-news/group-of-pennsylvania-republicans-back-democrat-shapiro-for-governor/ | 2022-07-06T17:32:45Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/group-of-pennsylvania-republicans-back-democrat-shapiro-for-governor/ | false |
LOS ANGELES , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against LMP Automotive Holdings, Inc. ("LMP" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LMPX).
Class Period: June 29, 2021 – May 19, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 26, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the LMP lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/lmp-automotive-holdings-inc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the Company engaged in the improper identification and elimination of intercompany transactions; (2) that the Company used incorrect estimates for chargeback reserves for finance and insurance products; (3) that the Company had misclassified certain items in its financial statements which impacted balance sheet and income statement financial statement captions; (4) that there were material weaknesses in LMP's internal control over financial reporting; (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company overstated its revenue; (6) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company would restate certain of its previously issued financial statements and results; and (7) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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Partnership to offer premier online education to Quakes Academy student-athletes
SAN JOSE , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Jose Earthquakes announced today an education partnership with Laurel Springs School, a leading private online school offering K-12 and postgraduate programs, to create a new standard for the San Jose Earthquakes Academy's academic programming. Student-athletes on the Quakes Academy U15 and U17 boys' squads will enroll in Laurel Springs School, and will benefit from the self-paced, mastery-based education model with the flexibility to train, travel, and compete at a high level, while receiving a premier, college-prep education.
As the number one online, self-paced, mastery-based school in the U.S., Laurel Springs has a 30+ year track record of successful alumni and students who have become Olympians and professional athletes, including Earthquakes Homegrown forward and United States Men's National Team player Cade Cowell, who signed at 15 years old in 2019. Another standout is Quakes Academy and Earthquakes II player Ethan Kohler, who currently holds a 4.0 GPA and recently committed to Stanford University after his high school program.
"As a coach, my goal is to inspire our student-athletes to perform at their best both on and off the field," said Earthquakes II and Quakes Academy coach Dan DeGeer. "This education program will provide that platform for our academy members, ensuring a successful school career while preparing them for college. The benefits are already apparent for our players such as Ethan Kohler, who will be attending Stanford University after high school."
Laurel Springs has long been considered the preferred online school for professional-caliber student-athletes who seek flexibility and a college-prep experience as they continue their training, making it an excellent partner to pair alongside the Quakes Academy program.
"As we're expanding our student base, student-athletes represent a group of individuals who can greatly benefit from our student-driven academic approach," said Laurel Springs School President Arra Yerganian. "Our course offerings nurture personal growth for students as they pursue their passions and talents, and uniquely positions Laurel Springs School and the Earthquakes Academy to support these student-athletes in their development, offering them limitless learning opportunities."
Over the years, Quakes Academy student-athletes have enrolled in Laurel Springs School, but this partnership represents a significant investment in the development of their homegrown talent, ensuring players who are looking to commit to increased training schedules have access to a Laurel Springs education.
With the development of MLS NEXT Pro, an affiliate league of Major League Soccer, the San Jose Earthquakes are creating an innovative, enhanced soccer program where players can more easily ascend from the youth academy to the professional ranks. Laurel Springs School has similarly structured partnerships in place with other MLS academies including Chicago Fire FC, as well as other sports academies such as IMG Academy.
"As young players make the jump from the Quakes Academy to the first team, we believe it's very important to offer a strong support system that includes the best education," said Earthquakes General Manager Chris Leitch. "We're proud to work with Laurel Springs School and make their top-class online programs accessible to our academy players that will prepare them academically for success in class and on the field."
The educational partnership also includes Laurel Springs School brand opportunities during Quakes home matches and marketing newsletters, increasing the school's visibility in Northern California.
Laurel Springs School has offered accredited private online K-12 and postgraduate academic programs since its establishment in 1991. Laurel Springs values and encourages student individuality and recognizes the need to aid them in aligning their passions and pursuits with their academic aspirations. By providing expert faculty to teach more than 200 college prep courses paired with a student-driven personalization for academic design and vibrant student life of over 30 clubs and activities, Laurel Springs fosters inquiry, growth, mastery, purpose, and independence within each student. On average, students attending Laurel Springs earn higher than the national average scores on the SAT and ACT, which has led to acceptance to the top colleges and universities. Of the more than 4,500 graduates from 100-plus countries, Laurel Springs alumni can be found leading today's business, education, athletics, and entertainment industries. Learn more at www.laurelsprings.com.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a botched robbery that ended with the fatal shooting of an undercover Cleveland detective and his informant.
Kevin Robinson, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts each of aggravated murder and robbery, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office. He must serve 28 years of his sentence before he becomes eligible for parole.
The pleas came the same day he was due to appear in court for a pretrial hearing.
Robinson was 17 when detective James Skernivitz, 53, and informant Scott Dingess, 50, were killed Sept. 3, 2020, while they were in an unmarked car preparing for a drug operation. A group of youths approached them and fired several shots into the vehicle, authorities said.
Skernivitz, a married father of three and a 22-year member of the Cleveland force, had been sworn in as a member of a federal violent crime task force the day before he was killed. Authorities have not said whether he was working, either for the task force or for the gang unit to which he was normally assigned, when he was shot.
Robinson and another defendant, David McDaniel, were accused of firing the shots into the vehicle. McDaniel, who was 19 at the time, is facing capital murder charges and could receive a death sentence if convicted. His next court date is scheduled for July 21.
Another youth charged in the case, who was 15 at the time of the robbery and did not fire any shots, pleaded guilty in August 2021 to two counts of aggravated murder. He is now serving a term in the state’s youth services facility. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Man-sentenced-in-death-of-undercover-detective-17287766.php | 2022-07-06T17:41:58Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Man-sentenced-in-death-of-undercover-detective-17287766.php | true |
Cotton Co. Rural Water District 2 asks users to conserve water
Published: Jul. 6, 2022 at 11:53 AM CDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
WALTERS, Okla. (KSWO) - Customers of one rural water district is asking its customers to conserve water.
Cotton County Rural Water District #2 issued the request on Wednesday afternoon as Heat Advisories covered most of Southwest Oklahoma.
In the request, the district asks customers to refrain from high usage activities.
For more information, you can visit their website.
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At what rate are women seeking abortions?
According to the Guttmacher Institute, abortion care rose 8% from 2017 to 2020.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The number of women seeking abortions is on the rise increasing 8% from 2017 to 2020.
That’s more than 930,000 abortions in 2020 up from more than 862,000 in 2017.
When it comes to who’s seeking abortion care, numbers provided by the Guttmacher Institute revealed 39% of abortion patients were white, 28% were Black, and 25% were Hispanic.
Alisha Gordon is the founder of The Current Project, an advocacy organization that supports Black single mothers.
Gordon shares how she believes the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade may impact women of color.
“There’s a misalignment here for Black and brown women are more likely to suffer at the hands of economic injustices, and this conversation of abortion adds another layer to that,” said Gordon.
As far as age groups, 60% of abortion patients were in their 20s. Twenty-five percent were in their 30s.
In 2020, one in five pregnancies ended in abortion.
Carol Tobias is the president of the National Right to Life Organization.
“I think you will see women falling into if it’s not legal there must be something wrong with it,” said Tobias. “I don’t know how much the numbers will drop, but I certainly think they will to some extent.”
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Biden administration is calling on Congress to act to restore Roe vs. Wade.
Democrats say they’re exploring legislation that will protect women’s health data, the right to travel freely, as well as reintroduce the Women’s Health Protection Act which would re-enforce abortion access.
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BEIJING, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An ancient Chinese saying goes, "True knowledge only comes from practice in the field." As a political leader who comes from the grassroots level, Chinese President Xi Jinping has practiced his people-centered governance with improved effectiveness through decades of working at the local level.
In the early 1990s, economic exchanges across the Taiwan Straits were gradually being restored as the reform and opening-up policy went deeper and further across the nation. With its enormous market potential, the Chinese mainland soon generated significant interest from entrepreneurs based in the Taiwan region. And Fuzhou, the capital city of southeast China's Fujian Province, only 200 km away from the island, quickly became the second biggest destination for investment from Taiwan.
Unfortunately, the enthusiasm of investors soon cooled down when they were confronted with the daunting administrative process. In 1990, Xi became the secretary of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Fuzhou Municipal Committee. After carefully examining the situation, he proposed the adoption of a new approach called "Do It Now," which aimed at cutting the red tape.
The approach unleashed Fuzhou's potential. From 1990 to 1995, the city's GDP shot up to over 40 billion yuan, from less than 10 billion yuan, far outstripping the national average growth rate. Fuzhou was soon recognized as a major boom town.
"Right now we're faced with lots of problems for which there's no lack of proper solutions," Xi said at the time. "What it takes is the will to get things done. That's why I insist on action, which is essential in implementing our theories, guidelines and policies. Effective implementation is the key to success."
Twenty years on, the Fuzhou government remains committed to the policy of "Do It Now."
Another trademark of Xi's governing style is his determination to root out corruption, regardless of the perpetrators' status. As early as 1988 in Ningde, Fujian Province, Xi led a successful drive to end illegal land occupation.
Xi was the party chief of the CPC Ningde Prefectural Committee from 1988 to 1990, the youngest member of the committee.
Shortly after taking office, Xi spent a month in villages, companies, schools and government departments to conduct surveys. People told him that some officials illegally used public land to build their own houses. He was determined to stop the illegal land occupation. He led a team on the first steps of an anti-corruption drive in Ningde.
When Xi asked an official of the discipline commission if he thinks ordinary people are content with the situation, the official answered negatively. Xi then asked the official if he thinks the situation is harming people's productivity, to which the official answered affirmatively.
"Then I asked if we should upset about three million people or thousands of officials who violated the Party's discipline," Xi revealed during an interview in 2003.
"He said, 'Of course we would rather offend the two or three thousand officials.' I replied, 'We shall do this, and strive for it without turning back."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke Wednesday with the wife of detained WNBA player Brittney Griner, who is on trial in Russia, to reassure her that he is working to win Griner's freedom as soon as possible, the White House said.
Biden's conversation with Cherelle Griner followed Brittney Griner's personal appeal to the president in a handwritten letter from the basketball player the White House received on Monday. In the letter, Griner said she feared she would spend forever in detention in Russia and asked Biden to not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.”
Griner has been detained in Russia for four months and is currently on trial, accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
The call was placed as Griner’s family has become more aggressive in pressuring the Biden administration by speaking out about her case, including through Brittney Griner's letter to the president and several television interviews by Cherelle Griner, who said she did not think the government was doing enough to bring her wife home.
“The President called Cherelle to reassure her that he is working to secure Brittney’s release as soon as possible, as well as the release of Paul Whelan and other U.S. nationals who are wrongfully detained or held hostage in Russia and around the world,” the White House said in a statement. “He also read her a draft of the letter the President is sending to Brittney Griner today.”
Biden offered his support to the family and committed to making sure they receive “all possible assistance” while the administration pursues steps to win Brittney Griner's release, the White House said.
Griner is in the midst of a trial in Russia that began last week after she was arrested on Feb. 17 on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for her Russian team. The trial is scheduled to resume Thursday.
Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted and, unlike in U.S. courts, acquittals can be overturned.
Cherelle Griner told “CBS Mornings” in an interview Tuesday that it was “disheartening” to her that she had yet to hear from Biden during her wife's detention.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked repeatedly about Griner during her daily briefing Tuesday. She said Biden read the letter, but would not describe his reaction, other than to say, "This is very personal to him.”
Jean-Pierre did not say whether there were plans for Biden to speak with Griner’s family, but noted that National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken both recently had spoken to Griner's wife.
Representatives for Brittney Griner on Monday shared excerpts from her letter to the president.
In one, she wrote, “…As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I’m terrified I might be here forever.”
The letter was delivered to the White House on the Fourth of July, which Brittney Griner said was a special day for her family.
“On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father who is a Vietnam War Veteran,” the center for the Phoenix Mercury said. “It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.” | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Biden-tells-with-Griner-s-wife-he-s-working-to-17287752.php | 2022-07-06T17:46:53Z | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Biden-tells-with-Griner-s-wife-he-s-working-to-17287752.php | false |
(Bloomberg)—Rivian Automotive Inc.’s shares surged after the electric-vehicle maker reaffirmed its annual production target and revealed accelerated output in the second quarter, buoying the company as it works to overcome parts shortages and other supply-chain snags.
The EV startup built 4,401 vehicles in the period, according to a statement Wednesday, up from 2,553 in the first quarter. That keeps Rivian on track to produce 25,000 units this year across its three products. The manufacturer, backed by founder and Chief Executive Officer R.J. Scaringe, also delivered 4,467 vehicles to customers in the second quarter. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing/rivian-stock-jumps-after-company-boosts-ev-output-reaffirms-annual-goal | 2022-07-06T17:46:56Z | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing/rivian-stock-jumps-after-company-boosts-ev-output-reaffirms-annual-goal | true |
Are You Looking for a High-Growth Dividend Stock?
All investors love getting big returns from their portfolio, whether it's through stocks, bonds, ETFs, or other types of securities. But when you're an income investor, your primary focus is generating consistent cash flow from each of your liquid investments.
While cash flow can come from bond interest or interest from other types of investments, income investors hone in on dividends. A dividend is the distribution of a company's earnings paid out to shareholders; it's often viewed by its dividend yield, a metric that measures a dividend as a percent of the current stock price. Many academic studies show that dividends make up large portions of long-term returns, and in many cases, dividend contributions surpass one-third of total returns.
Prosperity Bancshares in Focus
Headquartered in Houston, Prosperity Bancshares (PB) is a Finance stock that has seen a price change of -3.87% so far this year. The financial holding company is paying out a dividend of $0.52 per share at the moment, with a dividend yield of 2.99% compared to the Banks - Southwest industry's yield of 1.46% and the S&P 500's yield of 1.73%.
In terms of dividend growth, the company's current annualized dividend of $2.08 is up 4.5% from last year. In the past five-year period, Prosperity Bancshares has increased its dividend 5 times on a year-over-year basis for an average annual increase of 9.78%. Any future dividend growth will depend on both earnings growth and the company's payout ratio; a payout ratio is the proportion of a firm's annual earnings per share that it pays out as a dividend. Prosperity Bancshares's current payout ratio is 38%, meaning it paid out 38% of its trailing 12-month EPS as dividend.
Looking at this fiscal year, PB expects solid earnings growth. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2022 is $5.70 per share, with earnings expected to increase 1.79% from the year ago period.
Bottom Line
Investors like dividends for a variety of different reasons, from tax advantages and decreasing overall portfolio risk to considerably improving stock investing profits. But, not every company offers a quarterly payout.
Big, established firms that have more secure profits are often seen as the best dividend options, but it's fairly uncommon to see high-growth businesses or tech start-ups offer their stockholders a dividend. Income investors must be conscious of the fact that high-yielding stocks tend to struggle during periods of rising interest rates. With that in mind, PB is a compelling investment opportunity. Not only is it a strong dividend play, but the stock currently sits at a Zacks Rank of 3 (Hold).
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden spoke Wednesday with the wife of detained WNBA player Brittney Griner, who is on trial in Russia, and assured her that he is working to win Griner's freedom as soon as possible, the White House said.
Biden's conversation with Griner's wife, Cherelle Griner, followed Brittney Griner's personal appeal to the president in a handwritten letter from the basketball player the White House received on Monday. In the letter, Griner acknowledged her fears that she would spend forever in detention in Russia and asked Biden not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.”
Griner has been detained for four months and is currently on trial in Russia, accused of possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
“The President called Cherelle to reassure her that he is working to secure Brittney’s release as soon as possible, as well as the release of Paul Whelan and other U.S. nationals who are wrongfully detained or held hostage in Russia and around the world,” the White House said in a statement. “He also read her a draft of the letter the President is sending to Brittney Griner today.”
Biden offered his support to the family and committed to making sure they receive “all possible assistance” while the administration pursues steps to win Brittney Griner's release, the White House said.
Griner is in the midst of a trial in Russia that began last week after she was arrested on Feb. 17 on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for her Russian team. The trial is scheduled to resume Thursday.
Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted, and unlike in U.S. courts, acquittals can be overturned.
Cherelle Griner told “CBS Mornings” in an interview Tuesday that it was “disheartening” to her that she had yet to hear from Biden during Brittney Griner's detention.
"I will not be quiet anymore," she said. "I will find that balance of harm versus help in pushing our government to do everything that's possible because being quiet, they're not moving, they're not doing anything." | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-calls-griners-wife/507-a0ec4af8-2f0d-4ebc-b920-0a621512698a | 2022-07-06T17:49:42Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/biden-calls-griners-wife/507-a0ec4af8-2f0d-4ebc-b920-0a621512698a | true |
PHILADELPHIA, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bartlett Bearing Company, Inc., an independent authorized distributor of bearings and accessories headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, debuted their new company brochure at this year's EASA Convention in St. Louis. The 20-page full color brochure marks the company's recent brand update with a sleek new design, the first printed version since 2014.
"Bartlett Bearing is proud to be family-owned and operated, as we have been since 1951," says the company's President, Sarah Musser. "This brochure helps to illustrate the values our customers have come to know us by, as well as give people the opportunity to see what kind of benefit we can offer them from a products and service standpoint."
The brochure represents Bartlett Bearing's commitment to its customers, highlighting the history of the company, while showcasing its products and services.
"Over the decades we have been in business, our customers have come to know Bartlett Bearing for our dependability, technical expertise, and the unparalleled inventory we offer," stated Mike Pulley, Vice President of Sales and Operations for the company. "Our real value still lies in the people that make this possible and I think this latest brochure does a great job of really highlighting that."
The brochure is available for digital download by visiting www.bartlettbearing.com/brochure/
Physical copies are available upon request.
Bartlett Bearing Company, Inc. is a family-owned and operated bearing distributor founded in 1951, specializing in serving the electro-mechanical repair industry nationwide. Bartlett has grown to six, fully stocked locations as Authorized Distributors for major manufacturers such as SKF, Timken, NTN, Koyo, The Schaeffler Group, and many more. With over 70 years of experience, our highly knowledgeable staff strives to provide the highest quality service for our customers 24/7/365. For more information, visit our website at www.bartlettbearing.com.
Stephanie Ford | Marketing Manager
215-743-8963 Ext. 3209
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New Prescribing Authority Could Improve Access for Some Patients at High Risk for Severe COVID-19
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revised the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir), to authorize state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid to eligible patients, with certain limitations to ensure appropriate patient assessment and prescribing of Paxlovid.
"The FDA recognizes the important role pharmacists have played and continue to play in combatting this pandemic," said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Since Paxlovid must be taken within five days after symptoms begin, authorizing state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid could expand access to timely treatment for some patients who are eligible to receive this drug for the treatment of COVID-19."
When testing positive for COVID-19, patients should first consider seeking care from their regular health care provider or locating a Test-to-Treat site in their area. While this action allows state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid with certain limitations as described below, community pharmacies not already participating as a Test-to-Treat site can decide if or how they will offer this service to patients.
Patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are seeking to determine their eligibility for receiving Paxlovid at locations where prescribing by state-licensed pharmacists is available should bring the following information to ensure that the state-licensed pharmacist has sufficient information to determine their eligibility to receive Paxlovid:
- Electronic or printed health records less than 12 months old, including the most recent reports of laboratory blood work for the state-licensed pharmacist to review for kidney or liver problems. State-licensed pharmacists could also receive this information through a consult with the patient's health care provider.
- A list of all medications they are taking, including over-the-counter medications so the state-licensed pharmacist can screen for drugs with potentially serious interactions with Paxlovid.
Under the limitations outlined in the authorization, the state-licensed pharmacist should refer patients for clinical evaluation with a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant licensed or authorized under state law to prescribe drugs, if any of the following apply:
- Sufficient information is not available to assess renal and hepatic function.
- Sufficient information is not available to assess for a potential drug interaction.
- Modification of other medications is needed due to a potential drug interaction.
- Paxlovid is not an appropriate therapeutic option based on the current Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers or due to potential drug interactions for which recommended monitoring would not be feasible.
Paxlovid is authorized for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kilograms or about 88 pounds) with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death. Patients in the authorized population who report a positive home test result from a rapid antigen diagnostic test, or a positive PCR test, to their provider are eligible for Paxlovid under the EUA. Confirmation of a positive home rapid antigen diagnostic test with additional direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, such as a PCR, is not required. Antibody tests are not considered to be direct SARS-CoV-2 viral tests.
Additional Resources:
- Paxlovid EUA Letter of Authorization
- Frequently Asked Questions on the Emergency Use Authorization for Paxlovid
- FDA Updates on Paxlovid for Health Care Providers
- Emergency Use Authorization: Drugs and Non-Vaccine Biological Products
- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (CTAP)
- Test to Treat Locator
- COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator
Media Contact: FDA Office of Media Affairs, 301-796-4540
Consumer Inquiries: Email or 888-INFO-FDA
The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.
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CRED iQ's Overall Delinquency Rate Declined from 3.32% to 3.30% in June 2022
RADNOR, Pa., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The CRED iQ delinquency rate for CMBS declined modestly during the June 2022 remittance period. Overall delinquency has declined consecutively in each month since June 2020. The delinquency rate, equal to the percentage of all delinquent specially serviced loans and delinquent non-specially serviced loans was 3.30%, which compares to the prior month's rate of 3.32%.
By property type, the delinquency rate increased in June for the office and industrial sectors. The delinquency rate for loans secured by office properties was 1.72% as of June 2022, which was an increase compared to 1.60% in the previous month.
Delinquency rates declined for the retail, lodging and self-storage sectors. Retail continued to have the highest delinquency rate (6.01%) by property type for the third consecutive month after eclipsing the lodging sector in April 2022. New high-profile retail delinquencies this month included an $85.2 million loan secured by the Crossroads Center regional mall in Saint Cloud, MN. The loan became 30 days delinquent in June 2022 but has been in special servicing since October 2020.
CRED iQ's special servicing rate (includes delinquent and non-delinquent loans) declined month-over month to 4.64% from 5.17%. The lodging sector, which had a special servicing rate of 7.72%, exhibited the greatest month-over-month improvement among all property types. The retail sector had the highest special servicing rate (9.43%), weighted by relatively large mortgages secured by regional malls. In one of this month's latest developments, the $210 million Eastview Mall and Commons loan transferred to special servicing on June 1, 2022. The borrower cited ongoing issues related to the pandemic; however, the loan also has an impending September 2022 maturity date in an unfavorable refinancing environment.
Aggregating the two indicators of distress – delinquency rate and special servicing rate – into an overall distressed rate (DQ + SS%) equals 4.95% of CMBS loans that are specially serviced, delinquent, or a combination of both. Distressed rates for all property types declined, except for office and industrial.
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Why riesling is the sommelier’s favourite grape
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Ask any sommelier, wine critic or collector how they feel about riesling and the answer will be the same: they love it. On the steep slopes of southern Germany this white grape variety produces among the finest wines in the world, combining bracing acidity with purity of fruit, a lithe texture and intensity of flavour. Yet the experts will grumble that riesling is criminally underappreciated by the wider public and often undervalued too. Prices have risen in recent years, but they have a point about it being consistently underrated.
I take a relaxed view. If you want to stick to chardonnay and sauvignon blanc, that’s fine with me. But before you do, let me tell you what you’re missing out on. At their best, producers | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-riesling-is-the-sommeliers-favourite-grape-8b2r9rk30 | 2022-07-06T18:00:59Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-riesling-is-the-sommeliers-favourite-grape-8b2r9rk30 | false |
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More flexibility proposed for student debt forgiveness
(AP) - New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday would make it easier for borrowers to get their federal student debt forgiven through several existing programs.
The action is intended to overhaul relief programs that have been criticized for their burdensome paperwork requirements and long processing times. It builds on the administration’s efforts to expand targeted debt cancellation for certain borrowers while President Joe Biden considers broader student debt forgiveness.
“We are committed to fixing a broken system,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “If a borrower qualifies for student loan relief, it shouldn’t take mountains of paperwork or a law degree to obtain it.”
The proposal would reshape a debt forgiveness process for students whose colleges deceive them, along with other programs for borrowers who are disabled and those with careers in public service.
It’s unlikely to open debt forgiveness to huge swaths of borrowers, but it’s meant to make it easier for those who already qualify. The Education Department plans to finalize the rules no later than July 1, 2023.
Some of the most significant changes are to the borrower defense program, which allows students to get their loans erased if their colleges lie to them or otherwise commit fraud.
The program has seen an explosion of claims over the last decade starting with an Obama-era crackdown on for-profit colleges. But political and legal battles have led to a backlog of more than 200,000 applications, with some borrowers waiting years for a decision.
Instead of requiring the government to review each claim individually — a rule set by the Trump administration — the new proposal would allow the Education Department to review and decide groups of similar claims together.
If a chain of colleges is found to have deceived students about their job prospects after graduating, for example, the department would be able to combine all claims from that school and approve them in one action. That option would be available if there’s evidence of widespread fraud by a school, determined by state or federal authorities or through a class-action lawsuit.
In a change of policy, the Biden administration also hopes to hold more colleges financially liable for their students’ canceled loans. In the past, loan cancellation has typically been passed to taxpayers, but the proposal rules would make it clear that the department plans to recoup costs from colleges that commit fraud.
The new plan drew condemnation from the for-profit college industry, which faced intense scrutiny from the Obama administration but later found an ally in President Donald Trump.
Jason Altmire, president and CEO of the industry trade group Career Education Colleges and Universities, said the policy would be an “unprecedented expansion” of the Education Department’s authority.
“Today’s proposed rule sends a clear and troubling message that the Department intends to use the rulemaking process to discharge federal student loans en masse while hurting unfavored institutions and their students,” Altmire said.
Also targeted for an overhaul is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which was created by Congress as an incentive for government and nonprofit workers but has been criticized for having overly rigid requirements.
Under the current rules, workers in eligible jobs who make 120 monthly payments can get the rest of their federal student debt erased. Those payments must be made in full and within 15 days of their due date, otherwise they don’t count toward the 120 payments.
The new action would erase the 15-day rule, allowing payments to count even if they are made late or in multiple installments. It also would allow borrowers to make up to a year of payments in advance instead of making monthly payments.
For the first time, borrowers in certain situations could also make progress toward loan forgiveness even if they don’t pay. Those who get their loans paused for cancer treatment, military service or to join the Peace Corps, for example, would be treated as if they were still making monthly payments during that time.
While the changes would add flexibility, they don’t go as far as a temporary overhaul the Biden administration instituted last year in response to the pandemic.
That short-term fix allows borrowers to get past payments counted toward loan forgiveness even if the money went toward loans that aren’t eligible under the program’s rules. That change is in effect until Oct. 31, and the Education Department urged borrowers to use it before it expires.
More flexibility would also be added for a separate program intended to help borrowers with disabilities.
That program offers to cancel federal student debt for people who are permanently disabled and unable to generate significant income. But many who have been granted forgiveness later had their debt restored after failing to submit paperwork during a three-year monitoring period.
The new action would eliminate the three-year review period and make more types of disabilities eligible for cancellation. The Biden administration temporarily lifted some of the program’s rules during the pandemic, but the new changes would be permanent.
All the proposed changes are the result of a federal rules process that has been in the works for more than a year. It adds to the Biden administration’s effort to expand targeted student debt relief through a patchwork of existing programs. So far it has approved nearly $26 billion in debt forgiveness for more than 1.3 million borrowers.
Biden has separately faced pressure to pursue mass debt cancellation, with some Democrats urging him to erase $50,000 across the board. As a candidate Biden supported $10,000 in forgiveness and in April he said he was “taking a hard look” at the issue, promising a decision “in the next couple of weeks.” No decision has been announced.
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Dirt bike rider dies after collision with SUV, Tuscaloosa police say
Ken Roberts
The Tuscaloosa News
A Tuscaloosa man died early Tuesday morning after his dirt bike struck an SUV, according to police.
Justin Tionne Wilder Jr., 21, was driving a Yamaha dirt bike north on McFarland Boulevard East around 12:50 a.m.
Police say Wilder's bike collided with an SUV that was turning right from McFarland Boulevard onto Jug Factory Lane toward a row of restaurants in the 800 block of Skyland Boulevard.
Wilder and his passenger were taken to DCH Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The 21-year-old female passenger had injuries there were not life-threatening, police said.
The Tuscaloosa Police Department’s Accident Reconstruction is investigating the crash. | https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2022/07/06/dirt-bike-rider-dies-after-collision-suv-tuscaloosa-police-say/7819425001/ | 2022-07-06T18:05:58Z | https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/2022/07/06/dirt-bike-rider-dies-after-collision-suv-tuscaloosa-police-say/7819425001/ | false |
Rain moves north as Sydney begins clean-up
Widespread rain has eased for Sydney and the NSW Central Coast, but the wet weather and risk of flooding has now moved to the Hunter and state's north.
More than 6000 Hunter residents have fled to higher ground as rising flood levels threaten their homes.
An evacuation order has been issued for Singleton, with the Hunter region expected to cop more heavy rain overnight.
Transport officials said the New England Highway remains closed at Singleton and Maitland due to flooding.
The Bureau of Meteorology says river levels in the town are likely to exceed the March 2022 flood level of 13.15 metres, and may reach 13.80 metres.
Electricity provider Ausgrid is warning residents that power could be cut off from the town as it battles to restore electricity to approximately 3000 customers in parts of the Central Coast, Lake Macquarie and pockets of Sydney.
There is also evacuation orders for several Hunter Valley towns in place including Bulga, Broke, Wollombi and Dunolly.
Meanwhile, a severe weather warning was issued for the mid-north coast and Northern Tablelands on Wednesday evening, with flash flooding and heavy rainfall expected.
With rain easing in Sydney, and as the clean up and assessment of significant damage begins, residents have been told they can return to their homes in Lansvale, Moorebank and Chipping Norton in the city's southwest.
Prime Minister Antony Albanese has announced disaster recovery payments of $1000 for eligible adults and $400 for children. Applications for the support will open at 2pm Thursday.
Mr Albanese and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet on Wednesday visited deluged parts of the Hawkesbury, a region that has endured four floods in the past 18 months.
The weather bureau is predicting severe weather to ease on Thursday as a low-pressure system tracks out to sea. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10988665/Rain-moves-north-Sydney-begins-clean-up.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-06T18:05:59Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10988665/Rain-moves-north-Sydney-begins-clean-up.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 8, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
1129 AM CDT Wed Jul 6 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 105 degrees and heat index values up
to 108 degrees expected.
* WHERE...All of North and Central Texas.
* WHEN...Through 8 PM CDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity will increase the
risk for heat-related illnesses to occur, particularly for
those working or participating in outdoor activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Feb. 25, 1930 - July 4, 2022
GIBSON CITY — Doris Genevieve (Trunnell) Bandeko, 92, of Gibson City, formerly of Lexington, passed away at 6:08 p.m. on Monday, July 4, 2022, at Gibson Community Hospital Annex, Gibson City.
A graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, July 8, 2022, at Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington. Carmody-Flynn Funeral Home is assisting the family.
She was born February 25, 1930, in Bloomington, daughter of Albert "Jack" and Bertha Anderson Burk. She grew up in Lexington and graduated from Lexington High School.
She married Donald LaMoyne Trunnell on August 7, 1948, he preceded her in death August 4, 1964. She later married Guy Bandeko on May 6, 1972, he preceded her in death on December 25, 1990. Later, she had a special friend, Don "Rich" Richardson, who passed away April 6, 2000. She was also preceded in death by one sister, Reba Canull; and three brothers: Carl, Leslie and Oscar Burk.
Surviving are five children: Donita (Jim) Compton of Lexington, Loren (Sandy) Trunnell of Lexington, Shebet (Marc) Shoemaker of Colfax, Tim (Mary) Trunnell of Normal and Mona (Jim) Hendricks of Lexington; ten grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren (and one more on the way); five great-great grandchildren. She is also survived by a special nephew, Richard (Connie) Burk of Lexington.
Doris retired from State Farm Insurance Company in 1991 after more than 20 years in the Illinois Office Mailroom. She was a very outgoing and social person. She loved her friends, camping, bluegrass music, NASCAR racing and animals of all kinds. Most of all, she loved her family. Doris will be sorely missed.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her honor to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or the Gibson Community Hospital Annex, where she was loved and cared for the past five years. We are forever grateful to the entire Annex staff for all they have done for her and for the family.
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More flexibility proposed for student debt forgiveness
(AP) - New rules proposed by the Biden administration on Wednesday would make it easier for borrowers to get their federal student debt forgiven through several existing programs.
The action is intended to overhaul relief programs that have been criticized for their burdensome paperwork requirements and long processing times. It builds on the administration’s efforts to expand targeted debt cancellation for certain borrowers while President Joe Biden considers broader student debt forgiveness.
“We are committed to fixing a broken system,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “If a borrower qualifies for student loan relief, it shouldn’t take mountains of paperwork or a law degree to obtain it.”
The proposal would reshape a debt forgiveness process for students whose colleges deceive them, along with other programs for borrowers who are disabled and those with careers in public service.
It’s unlikely to open debt forgiveness to huge swaths of borrowers, but it’s meant to make it easier for those who already qualify. The Education Department plans to finalize the rules no later than July 1, 2023.
Some of the most significant changes are to the borrower defense program, which allows students to get their loans erased if their colleges lie to them or otherwise commit fraud.
The program has seen an explosion of claims over the last decade starting with an Obama-era crackdown on for-profit colleges. But political and legal battles have led to a backlog of more than 200,000 applications, with some borrowers waiting years for a decision.
Instead of requiring the government to review each claim individually — a rule set by the Trump administration — the new proposal would allow the Education Department to review and decide groups of similar claims together.
If a chain of colleges is found to have deceived students about their job prospects after graduating, for example, the department would be able to combine all claims from that school and approve them in one action. That option would be available if there’s evidence of widespread fraud by a school, determined by state or federal authorities or through a class-action lawsuit.
In a change of policy, the Biden administration also hopes to hold more colleges financially liable for their students’ canceled loans. In the past, loan cancellation has typically been passed to taxpayers, but the proposal rules would make it clear that the department plans to recoup costs from colleges that commit fraud.
The new plan drew condemnation from the for-profit college industry, which faced intense scrutiny from the Obama administration but later found an ally in President Donald Trump.
Jason Altmire, president and CEO of the industry trade group Career Education Colleges and Universities, said the policy would be an “unprecedented expansion” of the Education Department’s authority.
“Today’s proposed rule sends a clear and troubling message that the Department intends to use the rulemaking process to discharge federal student loans en masse while hurting unfavored institutions and their students,” Altmire said.
Also targeted for an overhaul is the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which was created by Congress as an incentive for government and nonprofit workers but has been criticized for having overly rigid requirements.
Under the current rules, workers in eligible jobs who make 120 monthly payments can get the rest of their federal student debt erased. Those payments must be made in full and within 15 days of their due date, otherwise they don’t count toward the 120 payments.
The new action would erase the 15-day rule, allowing payments to count even if they are made late or in multiple installments. It also would allow borrowers to make up to a year of payments in advance instead of making monthly payments.
For the first time, borrowers in certain situations could also make progress toward loan forgiveness even if they don’t pay. Those who get their loans paused for cancer treatment, military service or to join the Peace Corps, for example, would be treated as if they were still making monthly payments during that time.
While the changes would add flexibility, they don’t go as far as a temporary overhaul the Biden administration instituted last year in response to the pandemic.
That short-term fix allows borrowers to get past payments counted toward loan forgiveness even if the money went toward loans that aren’t eligible under the program’s rules. That change is in effect until Oct. 31, and the Education Department urged borrowers to use it before it expires.
More flexibility would also be added for a separate program intended to help borrowers with disabilities.
That program offers to cancel federal student debt for people who are permanently disabled and unable to generate significant income. But many who have been granted forgiveness later had their debt restored after failing to submit paperwork during a three-year monitoring period.
The new action would eliminate the three-year review period and make more types of disabilities eligible for cancellation. The Biden administration temporarily lifted some of the program’s rules during the pandemic, but the new changes would be permanent.
All the proposed changes are the result of a federal rules process that has been in the works for more than a year. It adds to the Biden administration’s effort to expand targeted student debt relief through a patchwork of existing programs. So far it has approved nearly $26 billion in debt forgiveness for more than 1.3 million borrowers.
Biden has separately faced pressure to pursue mass debt cancellation, with some Democrats urging him to erase $50,000 across the board. As a candidate Biden supported $10,000 in forgiveness and in April he said he was “taking a hard look” at the issue, promising a decision “in the next couple of weeks.” No decision has been announced.
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No plans for snap election, says Johnson, at bruising encounter with MPs
Boris Johnson gave no sign that he was planning on resigning during a grilling by Commons MPs, as his leadership crisis continues to escalate.
In a dramatic encounter with the Commons Liaison Committee, which came as Mr Johnson faces the most serious crisis of his leadership, he repeatedly denied that he was planning to call a snap election to firm up his ailing premiership.
He also denied that he was going anywhere, stressing the need to tackle rising inflation and the crisis in Ukraine.
In one of the most eye-catching encounters, Labour MP Darren Jones told the Prime Minister that senior Cabinet ministers were waiting at Downing Street to tell him to go.
Mr Johnson was resolute that he saw no reason to go, repeatedly telling MPs that he was “not going to get into a running commentary on political events”.
“I have been very clear with you. I see no reason whatever for a general election now,” he told MPs.
“On the contrary, what we need is a stable Government, loving each other as Conservatives, getting on with our priorities.”
It was a bruising encounter, made somewhat surreal by the fact that the Prime Minister was quizzed for the first half of the the session on day-to-day Government policy even as further Conservative MPs call for him to quit.
When it turned to the issue of the Prime Minister’s leadership, both Labour and Conservative MPs pulled few punches.
William Wragg, a Tory MP and fierce Johnson critic, asked the Prime Minister: “At which point does it become impossible for the Queen’s government to be continued?”
Mr Johnson replied: “I really think you are underestimating the talent, energy and sheer ambition of Members of Parliament, and they want to get things done.
“The Government of this country is continuing with ever-increasing energy.”
Mr Wragg told him that even more Tories had resigned in the time Mr Johnson had faced the committee, and asked whether he thought there was sufficient supply “of those young thrusters on the back benches” to replace them.
Mr Johnson said: “I think it highly likely, yes.
“Maybe we are all deluded in our ambitions, but I think most people who come to this place – in spite of what everybody says about MPs – are actuated by the highest motives.”
He repeatedly stressed that he had a mandate from the 2019 general election to lead the country.
“I look at the biggest war in Europe for 80 years and I can’t for the life of me see how it is responsible just to walk away from that. Particularly not when you have a mandate of the kind that we won two, three years ago.”
The controversy over Chris Pincher inevitably dominated proceedings.
Mr Pincher quit as deputy chief whip after allegedly assaulting two men while drunk at London’s Carlton Club.
The Prime Minister later acknowledged he had previously been informed of allegations against Mr Pincher dating back to 2019, and said he regretted keeping him in government beyond that point.
At one stage, Mr Johnson failed to deny whether he said “all the sex pests are supporting me” and “Pincher by name, Pincher by nature”.
The chairman of the Commons Standards Committee went on: “That sounds like a yes to me. Did you say he is a bit handsy?”
Mr Johnson insisted “it’s not a word I use”.
When asked if he ever said “Pincher by name, Pincher by nature”, the PM said: “I’m not going to get into some trivialising discussion of what I may or may not have said. This is a serious matter.
“The member has had, I believe, a complaint made against him. And that is where I propose to leave it.”
Asked about the culture in Westminster, he said: “I have given this a lot of thought and I do think there is a problem with alcohol, and I have always resisted this conclusion in the past.
“But it feels to me that some people simply cannot take their drink and we need to think how we work that in parliament.”
He added: “There is also an issue about standards of behaviour. I should have been more stringent in my approach.”
The Prime Minister repeatedly said that he did not foresee an early election.
He added: “The earliest date that I can see for a general election is two years from now or 2024, I think it is the most likely date for the next election.
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Jury finds man guilty in Nipsey Hussle slaying
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors found a 32-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle.
The Los Angeles County jury also found Eric R. Holder Jr. guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter instead of two attempted murder counts as prosecutors had sought for two other men who were hit by gunfire at the scene.
The verdict brings an end to a legal saga that has lasted more than three years and a trial that was often delayed because of the pandemic.
Holder and Hussle had known each other for years — they grew up members of the same South Los Angeles street gang — when a chance meeting outside the rapper’s Los Angeles clothing store led to the shooting, and his death.
The evidence against Holder was overwhelming, from eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival, the shooting and his departure.
His attorney did not even deny that he was the shooter but urged jurors to find him guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
The shooting followed a conversation the two men had about rumors that Holder had been acting as an informant for authorities. Holder’s lawyer Aaron Jansen said that being publicly accused of being a “snitch” by a person as prominent as Hussle brought on a “heat of passion” in Holder that made him not guilty of first-degree murder.
“This is a provocation that stirs up rage and powerful emotion,” Jansen told jurors Thursday.
Deputy District Attorney John McKinney argued during the trial that Holder and everyone else in the conversation that preceded Hussle’s death were so calm that the “snitching” conversation could not have been the primary motive, and that Holder must have had some previous envy or hatred for Hussle.
McKinney told jurors that the nine minutes between the conversation and the shooting allowed more than enough time for the killing to be premeditated, a requirement for first-degree murder.
The jury apparently agreed.
Hussle, whose legal name is Ermias Asghedom, died at age 33. He had just released his major-label debut album, which earned him his first Grammy nomination, when he was gunned down.
He was a widely beloved figure in Los Angeles, especially in the South LA area where he grew up and remained after gaining fame, buying property and opening businesses.
“He wanted to change the neighborhood,” McKinney said in his closing argument. “He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.”
Hussle was mourned at a memorial at the arena then known as Staples Center, and celebrated in a performance at the Grammy Awards that included D.J. Khaled and John Legend.
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Biden to nominate Denver airport official to head FAA -- official
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden plans to nominate Denver International Airport Chief Executive Phil Washington to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The job has been vacant since March 31 when Steve Dickson, who was nominated to the position by former President Donald Trump in 2019, stepped down about halfway through his five-year term. The next FAA administrator will face questions about the agency's oversight of planemaker Boeing, including its ongoing review of the 737 MAX 10. A formal announcement is set for Wednesday. (Reporting by David Shepardson)
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Mary Littles Beshires
Mary Littles Beshires, age 77, passed away on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, at her home in Brownsville, TN. Funeral Services will be conducted on Friday, July 8, 2022, at 10:00 A.M. in the Chapel of the Lea and Simmons Funeral Home. Burial to follow in the Brownsville Memorial Gardens. A visitation for the Beshires family will be held on Thursday, July 7, 2022, at the Lea and Simmons Funeral Home from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.
Mrs. Mary was born in Lauderdale County, TN, on April 1, 1945, to the late Lonnie Littles and Gracie Jackson Littles. She retired from the Haywood County School System with over 21 years of service. She loved puzzles, playing with her grandchildren and loving her family. She will be greatly missed by all that knew her. Also preceding her in death was her husband of over 24 years: Leonard Scott Beshires; three daughters: Barbara Freeman, Patsy Smith, Joyce Jackson; one brother: Leon Littles; and one sister: Peggy Barnett.
She is survived by four sons: Scott Beshires of Brownsville, TN, Leonard Ray Beshires (Phylana) of Brownsville, TN, Tony Lee Beshires (Shelia) of Pinson, TN, Sammy Lee Beshires (Beth Chandler) of Whiteville, TN; one brother: James Littles of Ripley, TN; three sisters: Brenda Linderman (Tommy) and Darlene Linderman (Eddie) of Ripley, TN and Linda Littles of Dyersburg, TN; She leaves a legacy of eleven grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and numerous great-great-grandchildren. | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/07/06/mary-littles-beshires/ | 2022-07-06T18:17:42Z | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2022/07/06/mary-littles-beshires/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the common stock of DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc. (NASDAQ: XRAY) between June 9, 2021 and May 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important August 1, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Dentsply common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Dentsply class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6111 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 1, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) defendants orchestrated a scheme to inflate Dentsply's revenue and earnings by manipulating its accounting for a distributor rebate program in order for senior executives to be eligible for significant cash and stock-based incentive compensation; (2) in order to facilitate this scheme, Dentsply and its executives made numerous false and misleading statements to investors during the Class Period; (3) accordingly, Dentsply's financial statements were not prepared in accordance with GAAP and SEC rules, and Dentsply's internal controls over financial reporting were deficient throughout the Class Period; and (4) as a result of defendants' misrepresentations, Dentsply's common stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period. As a result of the foregoing, When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Dentsply class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=6111 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. Eagle Federal Credit Union was recognized as one of New Mexico's Best Credit Unions by Forbes Magazine.
This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on June 21st, 2022 and can currently be viewed on the Forbes website.
Forbes and Statista identified Best-In-State Credit Unions 2022 based on an independent survey of approximately 26,000 consumers who were asked to rate credit unions at which they have or previously have had checking accounts. Participants made recommendations regarding overall satisfaction; they also assessed financial institutions in the following areas: Trust, Terms & Conditions, Branch Services, Digital Services, Customer Service, and Financial Advice.
Based on the results of the study, U.S. Eagle is ecstatic to be recognized on the Forbes list of Best-In-State Credit Unions once again.
U.S. Eagle Federal Credit Union is the state's first member-owned credit union. Founded in 1935, U.S. Eagle offers a full suite of financial products and services and has nine locations in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Farmington, and Santa Fe. With assets of more than $1.5 billion, more than 80,000 members, and as a four-time Forbes Best-In-State Credit Union award recipient, U.S. Eagle is where people mean more.®
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Apple to add ‘lockdown’ safeguard on iPhones, iPads, Macs
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple said it will roll out a “lockdown” option for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers intended to protect against spyware unleashed by state-sponsored hackers — although enabling that protection will also make these devices less useful.
The safeguard announced Wednesday is a tacit acknowledgement that not even Apple — the world’s most valuable company — has been able to adequately shield the iPhone and its other products against intrusions from state-backed hackers and commercial spyware. Governments have used these tools to violate the privacy of journalists, political dissidents and human rights activists.
The new feature, called “lockdown mode,” will initially be offered as a test version so that security researchers can help Apple identify any bugs or weaknesses. Apple usually releases its major updates to its device operating systems in late September.
While only a handful of countries appear to have the resources to develop in-house mobile phone hacking tools, private companies like Israel’s NSO Group have been selling phone hacking software to government agencies around the world for years.
The growing hacker-for-hire problem prompted Apple to file a federal lawsuit late last year against NSO Group for breaking into iPhones and other Apple products. In its complaint, Apple accused NSO Group employees of being “amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.”
NSO, which has been blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department, has denied any wrongdoing and said its products have been used to thwart child abusers and terrorists.
Unlike the security features that Apple builds into most of its software, the company’s lockdown feature is meant to serve as an emergency button that Apple expects will only be needed by a small number of its users.
The lockdown measure is considered a last resort for people targeted by spyware, since activating lockdown will disable many popular features. That includes sending attachments and links in texts, as well as the ability to receive FaceTime calls from new numbers. Web browsing will also be limited.
But Apple believes the extra layer of protection will be valuable to activists, journalists and other targets of hacking attacks launched by well-funded groups. Users will be able to activate and deactivate lockdown mode at will.
The growing use of encrypted communications through phone apps like WhatsApp and Signal have prompted governments to turn to commercial spyware vendors to gather information on targets.
Such mobile phone spyware vacuums up text messages, emails and photos while secretly controlling a smartphone’s microphones and cameras. Some of the more advanced tools can infect a phone using so-called “zero click” exploits that don’t depend on the user inadvertently activating them, such as by clicking on a malicious link.
Google, whose Android mobile phone platform is used by iPhone competitors, has also been targeted by commercial spyware vendors. The company’s Threat Analysis Group says it’s tracking more than 30 such companies and routinely publishes reports on exploits used to hack into phones, making them far less effective.
Google also offers an “Advanced Protection Program” that uses a special security key hardware to make user accounts harder to hack. The company said it strongly recommends the program for “journalists, activists, business executives, and people involved in elections.”
Separately, Apple also provided more details about a $10 million grant it pledged last November to help counter large-scale hacking attacks. The money will go to the Dignity and Justice Fund, a philanthropic arm of the Ford Foundation.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bartlett Bearing Company, Inc., an independent authorized distributor of bearings and accessories headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, debuted their new company brochure at this year's EASA Convention in St. Louis. The 20-page full color brochure marks the company's recent brand update with a sleek new design, the first printed version since 2014.
"Bartlett Bearing is proud to be family-owned and operated, as we have been since 1951," says the company's President, Sarah Musser. "This brochure helps to illustrate the values our customers have come to know us by, as well as give people the opportunity to see what kind of benefit we can offer them from a products and service standpoint."
The brochure represents Bartlett Bearing's commitment to its customers, highlighting the history of the company, while showcasing its products and services.
"Over the decades we have been in business, our customers have come to know Bartlett Bearing for our dependability, technical expertise, and the unparalleled inventory we offer," stated Mike Pulley, Vice President of Sales and Operations for the company. "Our real value still lies in the people that make this possible and I think this latest brochure does a great job of really highlighting that."
The brochure is available for digital download by visiting www.bartlettbearing.com/brochure/
Physical copies are available upon request.
Bartlett Bearing Company, Inc. is a family-owned and operated bearing distributor founded in 1951, specializing in serving the electro-mechanical repair industry nationwide. Bartlett has grown to six, fully stocked locations as Authorized Distributors for major manufacturers such as SKF, Timken, NTN, Koyo, The Schaeffler Group, and many more. With over 70 years of experience, our highly knowledgeable staff strives to provide the highest quality service for our customers 24/7/365. For more information, visit our website at www.bartlettbearing.com.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- aytm (Ask Your Target Market), the leading consumer insights platform for some of the world's most notable brands, creative agencies, and marketing consultancies, has announced the launch of their comprehensive Solutions Center marketplace.
The new Solutions Center is built to empower researchers with a collection of agile and adaptable tools. It features expert-automated templates (Xpert Solutions) and fully customizable research tests. It will become the go-to place to browse all of aytm's offerings that meet researchers' unique needs.
Focusing on a commitment to empower more agile research, aytm has built a wide selection of expert-crafted solutions geared towards helping the curious directly engage technology to explore, evolve, and innovate in real-time. aytm's Solution Center is a convenient way to browse a comprehensive collection of research tests—varying in research objective, scope, and inputs. These solution types include:
DIY Solutions give users the ability to view an example led by survey design best practices, review and program their own survey, get their raw data, and leverage aytm's powerful analytics dashboard.
Service Solutions allow users to have their survey designed and programmed by aytm's experts—customized to achieve their unique research goals. After fielding, they'll get a custom report that delivers all the insights to their research questions.
In addition, the Solutions Center includes Xpert Solutions, a new and growing collection of expert-automated research tests that are now available to everyone. These solutions are finally coming out of Beta after being tested and loved by some of the top researchers at some of the world's largest and most renowned brands.
Xpert Solutions allow users to add concepts, define a few settings, and let aytm's automation do the rest. Xpert Solutions use best practices to streamline the research process, automatically generating a report after fielding surveys and populating answers to the users' research questions.
"Xpert Solutions brings all the trusted best-practices in survey design and data analysis to automated research. Simply upload your materials, make a few configuration decisions, and the rest of the work is done for you. Current offerings allow concept, ad, pricing, and claims testing to be done quickly and efficiently."
- Julia Maier, PhD, Xpert Solutions Product Manager at aytm
The various tests available in the Solutions Center are designed to help minimize the manual effort needed to find actionable insights. With a fully accessible library of advanced tools and automated research, aytm is reimagining what a market research platform can offer—including solutions that span every stage of research, from product development to market landscape, consumer experience, advertising and messaging, brand insights, business strategy, and beyond.
By aggregating all of these solutions into a singular hub, aytm is making it simple for users to search solutions by keywords, categories, or solution type and filter by stimuli, analytic method, or research areas.
With the release of aytm's Solutions Center, insights seekers can inform their businesses of key consumer purchase drivers, motivations and triggers, influencers, and more. Now they can advance their ideas immediately while leaning on aytm's robust platform to provide everything they need along their journey.
Visit aytm's Solution Center at aytm.com/solutions-center
Driven to deliver true insights ownership, aytm empowers brands to connect with consumers, iterate quickly, and get successful ideas to market faster.
Researchers can finally satisfy their curiosity with aytm's automated insights platform, combining access to 100 million+ consumers, predictive sample engine, adaptive survey editor, and comprehensive insights and analysis dashboard designed to bring consumer opinions and behaviors to life.
By partnering with aytm, teams can harness powerful automated solutions to quickly optimize products, positioning, and concepts with actionable data. The service team at aytm can also provide support at every level, from full service expertise to purpose-built solutions designed by expert researchers and statisticians. To learn more, go to aytm.com.
Media contact: Tiffany Mullin, tiffany@aytm.com
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The White House said Wednesday that President Joe Biden plans to nominate Phillip Washington, the CEO of Denver International Airport, to lead the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA is currently led by acting chief, Billy Nolen, after former pilot and Delta Air Lines executive Stephen Dickson stepped down March 31.
The FAA has come under criticism for its approval of the Boeing 737 Max jetliner, which was later involved in two deadly crashes, and its slow reaction to fears that new wireless networks could interfere with critical equipment on planes.
This summer, airlines have accused the FAA of causing many flights to be delayed or canceled, partly because of a shortage of air traffic controllers, a claim disputed by administration officials.
Washington has a limited resume in aviation. He has been the top executive at the Denver airport only since last July. He has been closely tied to a plan to improve the airport for growth expected over the next 10 years, and called for building two new runways in addition to one under construction.
Before that, he led the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority from 2015 to 2021 and ran Denver’s regional transportation agency between 2009 and 2015.
Washington spent 24 years in the U.S. Army, and holds a bachelor's degree in business from Columbia College and a master's degree in management from Webster University, according to the White House.
The FAA has been without a Senate-confirmed administrator since Dickson, in a surprise move, stepped down halfway through his five-year term.
The FAA approved the Boeing Max before Dickson took over in 2019. He oversaw the approval of Boeing-made changes to a key flight-control system that played a role in the crashes, and he won praise for resisting pressure from Boeing’s then-CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, to speed up the review of Boeing’s work. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Biden-plans-to-nominate-Denver-airport-CEO-to-17287852.php | 2022-07-06T18:21:00Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Biden-plans-to-nominate-Denver-airport-CEO-to-17287852.php | false |
RESTON, Va., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InQuisient, a recognized leader in data management and strategic enterprise planning solutions, today announced that it has filed a patent infringement suit against ServiceNow, Inc. for its unauthorized use of InQuisient's patented workflow technology.
In the Complaint, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, InQuisient alleges infringement of some of its core patent portfolio, which dates back to 2005. These pioneering patents include U.S. Patent No. 7,979,468, 8,219,585, and 8,224,855, which all relate to new ways to plan, manage, and analyze data sets through the use of specialized data structures in a data dictionary system for a database. The inventions have assisted InQuisient's customers to create and improve their workflow and internal processes, manage sprawling database footprints, accelerate and scale processing, and get better data in the hands of decision-makers.
"InQuisient regards its intellectual property as a key asset; patents were obtained to help protect the company against the unauthorized use of its IP," said Scott Dixon Smith, Chief Executive Officer, InQuisient. "While we are excited about competition in the marketplace and the ability to distinguish our technology fairly, on its merits, we cannot permit infringement to go unchecked."
"We are very proud of our innovative solutions and are happy they can be used in some of the largest systems in the world," stated Randy DeWoolfson, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, InQuisient.
The lawsuit is Case No. 22-CV-00900 in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
About InQuisient
InQuisient is a comprehensive enterprise strategic planning and data management solution that unifies hybrid data integration and metadata management, enterprise architecture and technology asset management, portfolio and project management, risk modeling and process optimization in one easy-to-use platform. For more information, please call 888-230-2181 or visit www.inquisient.com.
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BOSTON, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Lawyers Group (BLG) today announced the retirement of Carolyn Golden Hebsgaard, who has led the organization as its Executive Director since 1993. BLG was founded more than 35 years ago to support the efforts of its member legal organizations – which today include 40 premier law firms, corporate law offices, and government agencies – to identify, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color.
"While this marks the end of my nearly 30-year journey, the organization is stronger than ever, and the work towards building a more diverse legal community will continue," said Carolyn Golden Hebsgaard. "I am proud of not only the impact BLG has had on the careers of many individual attorneys, but also of the progress I have seen across our partners and the entire legal industry. This impact will only continue to grow, and I am excited to see what the future has in store."
Hebsgaard's many accomplishments during her BLG tenure include creating an annual job fair, summer internship program, and mentorship program for law students of color; establishing five 10-week clerkships for rising 1Ls with BLG member organizations to work in both the public and private sectors; developing a mock interview program; and implementing social skills training programs to advance networking and relationship-building skills with judges and other legal leaders. Thousands of law students have participated in BLG's events and programs.
"When Carolyn stepped into the role of Executive Director in 1993, not one member firm had a diversity committee or a DEI professional on their teams. Thanks to her impressive leadership, BLG members now have a variety of DEI resources on-hand, including diversity committees, mentor programs, diversity and inclusion professionals, diversity training, and websites that speak to diversity-related missions and goals," said Dan Halston, Partner-in-Charge of WilmerHale's Boston office. "We are fortunate to have had Carolyn's wisdom and guidance for so many years. BLG was the first-of-its-kind organization, and Carolyn's work has helped create a path towards increasing diversity within the Boston legal community. She will be greatly missed," added Kenneth Leonetti, former Co-Managing Partner of Foley Hoag.
Moving forward, BLG has established a 501(c)(6) organizational structure with a newly formed Board of Directors, including Ayeshah Johnson, Goulston & Storrs, and former BLG participants Louis Mercedes, Mintz, and Adrianne Ortega, Ropes & Gray, with others to be added over the next several months. In addition to continuing its current programming and success, BLG intends to expand its programming and reach to further establish itself as a resource for attracting diverse talent to Boston. The group will also enhance its positioning as a support system for attorneys navigating their careers and the city through new relationships with similar organizations within other fields, including other nonprofit organizations and an expanded outreach effort to corporate law offices and government agencies. The search for a new Executive Director is currently underway.
"Carolyn has played a pivotal role in advancing BLG's mission of a more equitable and diverse legal community in Boston. She has raised the bar and made every organization involved better. The entire legal community is grateful to Carolyn for everything she has done to prepare BLG for its next exciting chapter," said Louis Mercedes, Member at Mintz.
Founded in 1986, the Boston Lawyers Group (BLG) was established by 13 Boston law firms with the mission to support the efforts of its member organizations to identify, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color. Since then, BLG has seen its membership grow to more than 40 organizations, including law firms, corporate law offices, and government agencies. Each member gathers information through the consortium and takes steps independently to achieve the goal of greater diversity within in its own organization.
Contact:
Leigh Herzog
Goulston & Storrs PC
(617) 574-2259
lherzog@goulstonstorrs.com
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GLC Advisors & Co. and Ethan Stienstra to Assist with the Transaction
ALPINE, Wyo., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Melvin Brewing (the "Company"), a full-scale brewing facility and pub in Alpine, WY with national distribution and international reach based on Melvin's numerous award winning beer recipes and styles, announces its intent to seek a strategic partner that can support and assist with current growth initiatives. GLC Advisors & Co. LLC ("GLC"), a leading independent investment banking advisory firm, along with industry expert Ethan Stienstra, a craft brewery veteran and visionary beverage brand portfolio and marketing strategist, have been retained to explore strategic alternatives available to the company, including the possible sale of the Company.
To keep pace with the ongoing and increasing demand for Melvin Brewing's products, Melvin successfully completed an oversubscribed capital raise through the Company's existing shareholder base. In addition to the recent capital raise, establishing a strategic partnership allows Melvin to accelerate immediate growth goals including brewery and pub upgrades, expansion of current on-premise sales channel partners, increasing market share in existing western markets, and entering new geographies.
"As a Denver-based team, GLC's Middle Market M&A Team has witnessed the Melvin brand grow and flourish throughout the Rocky Mountain West" said Michael Richter, Managing Director at GLC. "We are tremendously excited to have the opportunity to support Melvin's next phase of growth in seeking a strategic partner to deepen the Company's penetration in existing markets while also accelerating expansion in surrounding markets while also increasing their ability to efficiently service a fast-growing restaurant / pub partner. Our M&A team's proven ability to achieve great outcomes for consumer products – and specifically – food and beverage companies in prior transactions is the perfect fit to Melvin's ambitious pursuit of growth and success."
"An opportunity to partner with or own an iconic brewery and pub like Melvin Brewing with proven consumer trusted craft brands does not happen very often." Stated Ethan Stienstra, "Melvin's state of the art brewing facility and pub is located in Alpine, WY near the town of Jackson, WY, Jackson Hole Resort, Teton National Park, and Yellowstone National Park. This location is a marketer's dream with numerous opportunities for brand building and sampling with outdoor enthusiasts visiting from around the world. The Alpine lakeside location surrounded by snow covered mountains offers one of the best destination brewery development opportunities in the industry. I am thrilled to be working with the Melvin and GLC teams to make this a dream transaction."
Together, GLC and Mr. Stienstra offer the perfect combination of M&A advisory expertise and craft brewing industry acumen. Combined, both advisors understand first-hand the depth of materials, information and analysis, and industry knowledge required to conduct a successful M&A process for all stakeholders involved.
"The culture of Melvin is based on living life passionately and keeping fun and a bit of madness at the core of our brand, with beer as our business platform. Melvin Brewing is also about valuing our team; valuing our customers and valuing our brand," indicates Frank Magazine, Melvin Brewing's CEO. "While experiencing strong growth over the COVID years, we are prepared to step forward into our next phase of growth. We are seeking a business partner that understands and embraces our culture and beliefs while supporting our vision to turn our Alpine Mothership into a fully developed destination brewery and to introduce Melvin brands and madness to an expanded customer base. Remember, if your beer is not madness, it's not beer."
For inquiries or additional information, please contact:
Michael Richter, Managing Director
303.479.3844
Michael.Richter@glca.com
Melvin Brewing was born in the back of a Thai restaurant in 2009 in Jackson, WY. The Company's 20-gallon brew system quickly grew into a 3-barrel system, and served award-winning beers — the original Melvin IPA, 2x4 Double IPA, and Ch-Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb. After winning Small Brewpub of the Year at Great American Beer Festival ("GABF") 2015, the Company opened a 30-barrel production facility nearby in Alpine, WY with the awesome help of the people of Wyoming. Shortly thereafter, the Company quickly went on to win Brewing Group of the Year at GABF 2017. Embracing the chaos and riding the wave, Melvin Brewing is now ready to take its world class beers on a worldwide tour.
GLC Advisors & Co. is a leading independent investment bank delivering objective, senior-level expertise to successfully execute financial advisory M&A assignments. GLC's, middle market M&A mandates are focused on providing investment banking advisory services to clients involving Sell-side and Buy-side M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory.
Mr. Stienstra, founder of Ahead of the Curve Strategy and The E-Premise Group, has a proven track record of success with iconic companies like Craft Brew Alliance, MolsonCoors and New Belgium Brewing Company. One of his signature achievements was bringing the Blue Moon orange garnish and ritual to life which helped fuel the brand to the #1 selling spot in Craft beer. This led to his tenure as the Brand Manager of Innovation for Craft Brands and Imports at MolsonCoors. Mr. Stienstra also spent six years at New Belgium as Director of Innovation and Specialty Brands where he successfully re-imagined New Belgium's portfolio and market approach.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials were increasingly concerned at their meeting last month that consumers were starting to anticipate higher inflation, and they signaled that much higher interest rates could be needed to restrain it.
The policymakers also acknowledged, in minutes from their June 14-15 meeting released Wednesday, that their rate hikes could weaken the economy. But they suggested that such steps were necessary to slow price increases back to the Fed's 2% annual target.
The officials agreed that the central bank needed to raise its benchmark interest rate to “restrictive” levels that would slow the economy’s growth and “recognized that an even more restrictive stance could be appropriate” if inflation persisted.
After last month's meeting, the Fed raised its rate by three-quarters of a point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% — the biggest single increase in nearly three decades — and signaled that further large hikes would likely be needed. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fed-Sharply-higher-rates-may-be-needed-to-quell-17287994.php | 2022-07-06T18:21:51Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Fed-Sharply-higher-rates-may-be-needed-to-quell-17287994.php | true |
CLEVELAND (AP) — A man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a botched robbery that ended with the fatal shooting of an undercover Cleveland detective and his informant.
Kevin Robinson, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts each of aggravated murder and robbery, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office. He must serve 28 years of his sentence before he becomes eligible for parole.
The pleas came the same day he was due to appear in court for a pretrial hearing.
Robinson was 17 when detective James Skernivitz, 53, and informant Scott Dingess, 50, were killed Sept. 3, 2020, while they were in an unmarked car preparing for a drug operation. A group of youths approached them and fired several shots into the vehicle, authorities said.
Skernivitz, a married father of three and a 22-year member of the Cleveland force, had been sworn in as a member of a federal violent crime task force the day before he was killed. Authorities have not said whether he was working, either for the task force or for the gang unit to which he was normally assigned, when he was shot.
Robinson and another defendant, David McDaniel, were accused of firing the shots into the vehicle. McDaniel, who was 19 at the time, is facing capital murder charges and could receive a death sentence if convicted. His next court date is scheduled for July 21.
Another youth charged in the case, who was 15 at the time of the robbery and did not fire any shots, pleaded guilty in August 2021 to two counts of aggravated murder. He is now serving a term in the state’s youth services facility. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-sentenced-in-death-of-undercover-detective-17287766.php | 2022-07-06T18:22:05Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-sentenced-in-death-of-undercover-detective-17287766.php | false |
MIAMI (AP) — Norwegian Cruise Line is dropping a requirement that passengers test negative for COVID-19 before sailing unless it is required by local rules.
The company said Wednesday that it will drop the testing requirement Aug. 1 except on ships sailing from places with local testing rules, including in the United States, Canada, Bermuda and Greece.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requires pre-trip testing for passengers on 94 ships taking part in CDC's voluntary COVID-19 program, including Norwegian ships that sail in the U.S.
Norwegian requires vaccinated passengers in the U.S. to show a negative antigen test for COVID-19 within two days of their trip or a negative PCR test within three days of sailing. Unvaccinated children under 12 are subject to more testing when they board and leave the ship.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. said it will relax its testing policy in other countries to be in line with other sectors of the travel industry “as society continues to adapt and return to a state of normalcy.”
The cruise industry complains that when the pandemic hit, it was singled out for a shutdown by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention while airlines were not.
Norwegian, which has its headquarters in Miami, operates the Norwegian, Oceania and Regent Seven Seas lines. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Norwegian-Cruise-Line-to-drop-requirement-for-17287765.php | 2022-07-06T18:22:51Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Norwegian-Cruise-Line-to-drop-requirement-for-17287765.php | true |
The technology-driven plasma collection company introduces its modern approach to a new market.
BAY CITY, Texas, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parachute opened a new plasma donation center today in Bay City, bringing its modern and consumer-driven donation experience to residents of Matagorda and neighboring counties. The donation center offers donors an opportunity to earn extra money by donating life-saving plasma.
"The U.S. is facing a critical health care crisis and blood plasma shortage, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is impacting patients' access to essential treatments for chronic illnesses including primary immunodeficiencies, bleeding disorders, and cancer," said Wayne Sharp, Parachute's VP of Operations. "At its core, Parachute is focused on two things: improving the donation experience for our members and increasing access to plasma for patients who rely on it. We look forward to serving the Bay City community and are confident that donors will appreciate the convenience of our seamless booking and payment experiences."
Parachute's mission is to increase national access to plasma by introducing thoughtfully designed plasma donation centers to new communities. Parachute combines technology and hospitality with donor experience, allowing members to schedule donations, receive customer support, and manage payments through a mobile application.
The new plasma donation center is located 3521 7th Street in Bay City, Texas. To schedule a donation download the Parachute app.
Delivering the best experience possible to as many plasma donors as possible. Parachute's mission is to increase national access to life-saving plasma by reimagining the plasma donation experience into one that is modern and convenient. To learn more about Parachute, visit www.joinparachute.com
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Wednesday, July 6: While incessant rains have battered Coastal Karnataka all day today, forecasts from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) indicate that this intense wet spell is likely to last at least until the end of this week.
With the active monsoon trough, a low-pressure area over central Gujarat, and an off-shore trough from Gujarat to Karnataka all in play, these meteorological factors will combine to create the following weather conditions across Karnataka:
- Extremely heavy rains over Coastal Karnataka and heavy showers over South Interior Karnataka on Wednesday (July 6)
- Isolated very heavy rainfall over North Interior Karnataka on Wednesday and Coastal Karnataka on Thursday and Friday (July 7-8)
- Fairly widespread to widespread rainfall, thunderstorms and lightning with isolated heavy rainfall over the entire state until Sunday, July 10
Accordingly, an orange alert has been placed over Coastal Karnataka on Wednesday, so as to urge locals to "be prepared" for trough weather. This alert will be followed by a yellow watch over the region lasting until Sunday to highlight the need to "be updated" about the inclement conditions.
Meanwhile, North Interior Karnataka will remain on yellow watch until Thursday and South Interior Karnataka until Sunday owing to the rainfall predictions.
As for district-level alerts, the IMD has issued a red warning (meaning 'take action') over Udupi, Dakshina Kannada and Uttara Kannada for the next 24 hours. An orange alert has been placed for the rest of the Coastal Karnataka districts for the day.
Dire situation across Karnataka
With heavy rains lashing Coastal Karnataka since Monday, its districts have been left reeling due to the loss of life and property.
Mangalore reported hours-long power outages, landslides, artificial flooding and damage to houses due to inundation. Four flights coming into or leaving Mangalore airport were delayed or diverted due to the rain.
The downpours also pummelled Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Kodagu, Belagavi, Hubballi, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru and other districts of the state.
Many rivers have crossed the danger levels, while agricultural fields and farms remain inundated. The roads have been washed away in some coastal districts as well. Two instances of landslides have also been reported from the Kodagu district.
On Monday, a young school girl was washed away by the floods when returning home from school in Thogarihankal Gram Panchayat limits in Chikkamagalur district. The search for her is still on.
Given these dire conditions, authorities have declared a holiday for all educational institutions in seven districts of the state for Wednesday.
Officials have begun taking immediate relief measures in the regions where rain has wreaked havoc, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced.
(With inputs from IANS)
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New exhibits open and longtime favorite experiences return
SEATTLE , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Science Center (PacSci) today announced it will reopen many of its signature experiences to the public on Wednesday, July 6. PacSci will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the summer season. Tickets are available for purchase online and on site.
"We are thrilled to welcome visitors back to PacSci for brand new experiences as well as familiar ones that our community knows and loves," said PacSci CEO Will Daugherty. "We are proud of the ways we were able to serve the community over the past two years and look forward to igniting curiosity with our in-person experiences again."
Both longtime and new fans of PacSci will enjoy exploring the Tropical Butterfly House with over 1,000 colorful butterflies and plants from around the world; traveling to far-away galaxies in the live and immersive Planetarium; hands-on experimenting, building, and inventing in the Tinker Tank Makerspace; and journeying through time in the Dinosaurs exhibit. The Live Science Stage, Waterworks and Courtyard with its fountains and reflecting pools are also reopen to the public.
Experiences include new and updated Augmented Reality exhibits as well as the new maze Water's Extreme Journey, which takes visitors on an exciting and important adventure quest for clean water. Visitors will have a chance to experience the life of a water drop, exploring first-hand the science behind the water cycle, and discovering how our daily decisions impact local wildlife and ecosystems.
PacSci is also home to the world's largest dedicated Laser Dome, with live laser artists that adapt shows in real time based on the crowd's reaction. For the first time ever, daytime Laser Dome shows will now also be included as part of general admission.
Additionally, PacSci houses two IMAX theaters, where moviegoers can watch blockbusters as well as documentaries on the most advanced digital projection systems, designed specifically for giant IMAX screens. Films come to life on the 60 feet high (that's six stories!) and 80 feet wide screen; The Boeing IMAX screen at PacSci is the biggest IMAX screen in the Pacific Northwest.
PacSci is also launching a new membership program. Stay tuned to the PacSci website for updates.
The past two years have been a time of remarkable growth for PacSci. In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, doors closed in March 2020. During that time, PacSci remained committed to igniting curiosity and providing informal science education to the community. PacSci continued to prioritize opportunities for youth to engage in STEM exploration at home by creating a free digital catalogue of programming, offering virtual summer camps, launching virtual field trips, and more. After the site reopens, PacSci will continue to offer this comprehensive digital programming to meet students' needs wherever they are.
More details about PacSci's reopening can be found below and on the PacSci website, including entrance, parking, and accessibility information. Click here for more images.
Summer Opening Hours
Daily
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Last admission at 4 p.m.)
All general admission tickets are available for sale on site and online, with a 20% discount offered for advance purchase. Both Planetarium shows and daytime Laser Dome shows are included as part of general admission.
Masks and proof of vaccination are not required for entry.
Pacific Science Center is an independent, not-for-profit institution in Seattle and has been a gateway to access science education and innovation for nearly 60 years. The institution's mission is to ignite curiosity in every child and fuel a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us. Prior to COVID-19, Pacific Science Center's award-winning, interactive programs reached nearly 1 million people each year – in their communities across the state of Washington, classrooms, and on the Seattle Center campus and at Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center in Bellevue. Throughout the pandemic, Pacific Science Center has continued to serve the community and ignite curiosity from everywhere through digital and virtual programming. Visit the PacSci website to learn more.
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LOS ANGELES – Jurors found a 32-year-old man guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday for the 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle.
The Los Angeles County jury also found Eric R. Holder Jr. guilty of two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter for gunfire that hit other men at the scene. Prosecutors had sought two counts of attempted murder. Holder also was found guilty of two counts of assault with a firearm on the same men.
Holder, wearing a blue suit and face mask, stood up in the small court room next to his lawyer as the verdict was read. He had no visible reaction.
A jury of nine women and three men deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching the verdict. Most of their deliberations took place Friday, and they promptly came to their unanimous decision Wednesday, briefly reconvening after a four-day break.
Typos on the verdict form compelled jurors to briefly return to the deliberation room to correct and sign them while attorneys, reporters and others waited in the courtroom. No apparent family or friends of Hussle were in the room when the verdict was read.
Holder could get life in prison when he's sentenced on Sept. 15.
The verdict brings an end to a legal saga that has lasted more than three years and a trial that was often delayed because of the pandemic.
Holder and Hussle had known each other for years — they grew up members of the same South Los Angeles street gang — when a chance meeting outside the rapper’s Los Angeles clothing store led to the shooting, and his death.
The evidence against Holder was overwhelming, from eyewitnesses to surveillance cameras from local businesses that captured his arrival, the shooting and his departure.
His attorney did not even deny that he was the shooter but urged jurors to find him guilty of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
The shooting followed a conversation the two men had about rumors that Holder had been acting as an informant for authorities. Holder's lawyer Aaron Jansen said that being publicly accused of being a “snitch” by a person as prominent as Hussle brought on a “heat of passion” in Holder that made him not guilty of first-degree murder.
“This is a provocation that stirs up rage and powerful emotion," Jansen told jurors Thursday.
Deputy District Attorney John McKinney argued during the trial that Holder and everyone else in the conversation that preceded Hussle's death were so calm that the “snitching” conversation could not have been the primary motive, and that Holder must have had some previous envy or hatred for Hussle.
McKinney told jurors that the nine minutes between the conversation and the shooting allowed more than enough time for the killing to be premeditated, a requirement for first-degree murder.
The jury apparently agreed.
Hussle, whose legal name is Ermias Asghedom, died at age 33. He had just released his major-label debut album, which earned him his first Grammy nomination, when he was gunned down.
He was a widely beloved figure in Los Angeles, especially in the South LA area where he grew up and remained after gaining fame, buying property and opening businesses.
“He wanted to change the neighborhood," McKinney said in his closing argument. "He kept the same friends. And the neighborhood loved him. They called him Neighborhood Nip.”
Hussle was mourned at a memorial at the arena then known as Staples Center, and celebrated in a performance at the Grammy Awards that included D.J. Khaled and John Legend.
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INSIDE A COAL MINE, Ukraine — A little more than 4 miles into a mine, in the newfound relative comfort of being over 1,000 feet underground, eastern Ukrainian coal miners position a drill bit on a dark rock wall.
A series of beeps echoes in the dimly lit tunnel, hydraulics hum and the spiked spherical bit spins into a blur before it brushes the wall, filling the cavern with a cloud of thick, muting dust.
This is Ukraine's "energy front line," says Aliona Samarska, an employee of the privately owned coal mine. NPR is not using the mine's name or location for security reasons. Despite mining's own familiar dangers, Samarska says many miners say they feel safer underground. And this front line could be just as critical to the war effort, Ukrainian officials say, as the artillery-lined trenches being dug into the country's surface.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has become a brutal war of attrition that Western military analysts warn could last for months or years. While Ukraine focuses on immediate needs like stalling Russia's slow advance in the east and finding export routes for spoiling grain, there are also growing concerns about the coming winter — the next heating season — when the tens of millions of Ukrainians who are still in the country will need electricity to warm their homes.
"This will indeed be the most difficult winter of all the years of independence," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently warned in a video address.
It's a heating season Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to weaponize, says German Galushchenko, Ukraine's energy minister. He says Russian forces have repeatedly targeted energy infrastructure in the more than four months since they launched a full-scale invasion. "If we are talking about the long-term war, it makes sense they should target this because they know that we are preparing for the next heating season," he says.
Oil and gas pipelines have been shut off or destroyed. Imports from Russia and Belarus have been stopped. Fuel shortages in the country are already stymieing travel.
To alleviate the coming crunch, Ukrainian authorities have put a pause on all oil, coal and gas exports from the country. Energy sources are being reserved for domestic use. And there are talks of expanding coal extraction, where possible, to meet the coming demand. That's despite prewar efforts to decarbonize the country's economy to reduce harmful gas emissions that cause climate change.
"In the long-term of course we should follow this green course and the Paris agreement and all of this," Galushchenko says.
But right now, he says, "our general strategy is to provide Ukraine with the necessary energy resources it needs."
Miners in eastern Ukraine, who have long watched their industry erode, see the shift in rhetoric and renewed focus on coal as an opportunity.
Leading Western economies have vowed to move away from Russian energy and are hitting Moscow with hefty sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
"I believe that the demand for coal in the whole world will increase," says Oleksander Aksonov, the lead engineer of this mine in eastern Ukraine, as he stands in the harsh light of a headlamp at the end of a tunnel. "Due to the sanctions [on Russia], the import of oil is limited now so coal will be in high demand."
He adds, "Providing Ukraine with power is on our shoulders now."
Global coal production is on the rise
The burning of coal, a carbon-rich fossil fuel, is the single largest source of climate-warming emissions in the world. Scientists and world leaders have pledged to phase it out, "consigning coal to history," but even before Russia's invasion, the global demand for coal was rising.
Spurred by surging electricity use following pandemic lockdowns and limited supplies of natural gas, coal production and pollution jumped sharply in 2021. Then came Russia's invasion and the European Union's ban on most Russian oil imports.
Russia was the world's largest exporter of fossil fuels in 2021, according to the International Energy Agency. Many of those exports went to Europe. And there are concerns Russia may be looking to use that dependence to gain "leverage" in international talks as winter draws nearer, Fatih Birol, the head of the IEA, told the Financial Times in June.
To brace themselves for the winter ahead, European countries, including Germany, Poland, Italy and the Netherlands, have announced plans to resurrect old coal plants. Britain recently announced it may keep some coal plants, slated for closure later this year, open longer.
In Ukraine, which has the sixth-largest coal reserves in the world, the situation is complicated by Russian forces' repeated attacks on its rail infrastructure; the fact that they occupy a Ukrainian nuclear power plant — Europe's largest; and their territorial gains in the country's coal-rich east.
Ninety percent of Ukraine's coal is believed to be in the Donets coal basin — the Donbas — where slag heaps dot the pancake-flat landscape like little mountains and elevator towers, reaching skyward, are still sometimes adorned with the Soviet star.
Prior to the outbreak of armed fighting in 2014, there were 227 coal mines in eastern Ukraine, according to a report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, an intergovernmental organization. More than 80% of them have since fallen under Russian occupation.
"Mines are the most important thing here," says Aleksandr, a 62-year-old retired miner in Dobropillia, a town in the Donetsk Oblast. He asks not to use his last name because of Russia's recent military advances in the area.
His apartment building sits next to a massive mound of slag and a mine where operations briefly stopped in April. He doesn't flinch as an air raid siren starts to blare.
"If we stop producing coal," he says, "these towns will die."
"The climate crisis and this war have the same roots"
Despite its history and regional importance, Ukraine's coal industry has been on a similar decline to coal mining in the United States.
Total Ukrainian production dropped from a 174 million tons in 1986 to a record low of 24 million tons in 2020, according to the London-based data analysis firm CEIC Data.
Unprofitable mines have been shuttered or privatized. Pay for miners has been cut. Efforts were underway before the most recent invasion to help transition Ukrainian coal communities away from the heavy polluting industry and to keep towns alive.
"Not long before the war we had the concept of a just transition being approved on the state level," says Iryna Holovko, a board member at the Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction, a Kyiv-based nonprofit. "And now the priority is on internal extraction, which is absolute nonsense."
During last year's international climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Ukraine promised to stop burning coal by the year 2035, shifting instead to nuclear, renewable energy sources and natural gas.
Holovko is worried that Russia's invasion and Ukraine's immediate response put that in doubt, and that new investments in Ukrainian fossil fuel resources will give them a longer life.
"The war has shown the risks connected with fossil fuels, which are actually powering Putin's war machine," she says. "The climate crisis and this war have the same roots."
Ukraine's Energy Ministry says it will continue to pursue green energy sources. Galushchenko, the energy minister, says an agreement has already been made with the U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Company to build new nuclear plants in Ukraine as soon as the fighting stops.
In the immediate-term though, Ukrainian mines are expected to play an increased role in providing thermal and steel-making coal, much of which was imported prior to Russia's invasion.
At a bus station in Pokrovsk, near the front lines and the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region, a crowd of coal miners smoke cigarettes and wait for a bus to pick them up for a 12-hour shift.
Valerie Ivaniv checks his phone.
"It's really scary to go to the mine because you don't know what's going to happen with your family," he says. "I feel safer. I work [almost 4,000 feet] underground. But there's no mobile communication. That's why you worry for people on the surface."
The work is grueling, he says. Temperatures at the bottom of the mine are often around 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
But the coal they extract, he says, "is the best in the world." It's metallurgical coal — coking coal, critical for the production of steel.
And steel will be needed in Ukraine, Ivaniv says, to rebuild.
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New Prescribing Authority Could Improve Access for Some Patients at High Risk for Severe COVID-19
SILVER SPRING, Md., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revised the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir and ritonavir), to authorize state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid to eligible patients, with certain limitations to ensure appropriate patient assessment and prescribing of Paxlovid.
"The FDA recognizes the important role pharmacists have played and continue to play in combatting this pandemic," said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Since Paxlovid must be taken within five days after symptoms begin, authorizing state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid could expand access to timely treatment for some patients who are eligible to receive this drug for the treatment of COVID-19."
When testing positive for COVID-19, patients should first consider seeking care from their regular health care provider or locating a Test-to-Treat site in their area. While this action allows state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe Paxlovid with certain limitations as described below, community pharmacies not already participating as a Test-to-Treat site can decide if or how they will offer this service to patients.
Patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are seeking to determine their eligibility for receiving Paxlovid at locations where prescribing by state-licensed pharmacists is available should bring the following information to ensure that the state-licensed pharmacist has sufficient information to determine their eligibility to receive Paxlovid:
- Electronic or printed health records less than 12 months old, including the most recent reports of laboratory blood work for the state-licensed pharmacist to review for kidney or liver problems. State-licensed pharmacists could also receive this information through a consult with the patient's health care provider.
- A list of all medications they are taking, including over-the-counter medications so the state-licensed pharmacist can screen for drugs with potentially serious interactions with Paxlovid.
Under the limitations outlined in the authorization, the state-licensed pharmacist should refer patients for clinical evaluation with a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant licensed or authorized under state law to prescribe drugs, if any of the following apply:
- Sufficient information is not available to assess renal and hepatic function.
- Sufficient information is not available to assess for a potential drug interaction.
- Modification of other medications is needed due to a potential drug interaction.
- Paxlovid is not an appropriate therapeutic option based on the current Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers or due to potential drug interactions for which recommended monitoring would not be feasible.
Paxlovid is authorized for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kilograms or about 88 pounds) with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death. Patients in the authorized population who report a positive home test result from a rapid antigen diagnostic test, or a positive PCR test, to their provider are eligible for Paxlovid under the EUA. Confirmation of a positive home rapid antigen diagnostic test with additional direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing, such as a PCR, is not required. Antibody tests are not considered to be direct SARS-CoV-2 viral tests.
Additional Resources:
- Paxlovid EUA Letter of Authorization
- Frequently Asked Questions on the Emergency Use Authorization for Paxlovid
- FDA Updates on Paxlovid for Health Care Providers
- Emergency Use Authorization: Drugs and Non-Vaccine Biological Products
- Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
- Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program (CTAP)
- Test to Treat Locator
- COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator
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SAN ANTONIO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cottonwood Group ("Cottonwood"), a private equity real estate investment firm, is pleased to announce that it has acquired a 636-unit multifamily portfolio (the "Portfolio") located in San Antonio, Texas with Dallas-based Texsun Holdings ("Texsun") for ownership and investment in San Mateo Apartments, located at 3787 Perrin Central Blvd. and Heights on Perrin Apartments, located at 2555 NE Interstate 410 Loop.
The Portfolio benefits from a desirable location in San Antonio's northeast submarket with proximity to some of the city's major employers, including Amazon, Rackspace and Southwest Airlines. The Portfolio is also proximate to an abundance of mixed-use, retail, entertainment and recreation destinations, including Alamo Heights, The Quarry, Terrell Plaza, multiple golf courses, resorts and parks.
"We acquired the Portfolio through our Cottonwood Real Estate Founders Fund, which targets opportunities with a special situation profile. This acquisition opportunity was particularly compelling due to its attractive cost basis, desirable location with positive demographic and employment drivers, and strong operating partner," said Mark Green, Cottonwood's Chief Investment Officer. "We are excited to partner with the Texsun team on this acquisition, a firm whose operational expertise and track record complement our capabilities on the capital markets side, and we look forward to a successful joint venture going forward."
The business plan includes a renovation and repositioning of the Portfolio, for which Cottonwood and Texsun have budgeted approximately $7 million, as well as transitioning management of the Portfolio to ResProp, a multifamily property management firm founded in 2010 that operates more than 9,500 units across 65 properties.
"We are enthusiastic about our partnership with Cottonwood and are eager to grow our footprint in a market supported by excellent growth fundamentals, favorable renter demographics, and limited new supply," said Sean Fogelman, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Texsun Holdings. "The Portfolio is extremely well located, has very evident operational upside, and with the implementation of our capex plan, we will be able to bring its performance up to the submarket and competitive set norms."
This is Texsun's eighth acquisition in the central Texas corridor, spanning from Dallas to San Antonio, and the firm is focused on expanding its Portfolio in the area.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Cottonwood is a private equity real estate investment firm focused on equity and debt opportunities across all property sectors and geographies. The firm's ability to act as a lender, investor, operator, and sponsor of real estate investments of all sizes and complexities is fundamental to delivering a risk-adjusted absolute return for investors. Investing out of its discretionary Cottonwood Real Estate Founders Fund and separate institutional accounts, Cottonwood targets U.S. real estate opportunities with a capitalization of up to $1 billion. For more information, visit www.cottonwoodmgmt.com.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texsun Holdings is a privately-owned real estate private equity firm offering commercial real estate solutions for both retail and institutional investors. Texsun applies a fundamental-oriented approach toward acquiring and managing core-plus and value-add multifamily assets throughout Texas. For more information, visit www.texsunholdings.com.
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A Native American community neighboring the only operating uranium mill in the U.S. is hoping a new study will answer longstanding questions about whether it is affecting their health.
Members of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe living in White Mesa, Utah, say they have seen an alarming increase in health problems in recent years.
"I am aware that there have been increased levels of cancer," says Scott Clow, the tribe's environmental director. "We don't have any evidence tying that to the mill at this point, but we have our concerns."
The Environmental Protection Agency in June gave the approximately 2,000 member tribe a $75,000 grant to design a study that will be conducted with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Clow says. It will analyze tribal members' health data and environmental conditions to see if any links can be made to the Energy Fuels uranium mill. Results are expected in 2025.
"We just want to know everything we can know to help the tribe understand the situation, and what the hazards may or may not be," he says.
Energy Fuels' White Mesa facility is also a disposal site for radioactive waste, some of which has been imported from overseas.
The company has plans to expand uranium milling as concerns about climate change are increasing demand for carbon free energy, including nuclear.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is driving demand for domestically produced fuel for U.S. nuclear plants, which have sourced nearly half of their fuel from Russia and former Soviet republics. In April Energy Fuels got a key permit from the state of Arizona to reopen an old uranium mine there.
The Ute Mountain Utes and their ancestors have called the region around the mill home for thousands of years. Bears Ears National Monument, a sacred site for the area's Indigenous people, is visible from the mill's property.
Longstanding tribal members oppose the production and storage of radioactive materials nearby
Michael Badback is a tribal member whose family has lived in the community of White Mesa, about five miles from the mill, for generations. But now they're increasingly worried they won't be able to preserve their way of life into the future.
"This is still virgin land, and we want it to remain that way," says Badback. "That's how our ancestors used to walk on this land. We want to walk on it like that and leave the legacy up to our grandchildren."
Badback and others are opposed to the production and storage of radioactive materials at the Energy Fuels site.
"We don't know the health issues that come along with this stuff," he says. "A lot of our people mysteriously started getting sick. Kids and other adults started to have asthma like they never had before."
Contaminants have been confirmed in the local groundwater. The Grand Canyon Trust, an advocacy group, says samples from the aquifer below the mill have concerning levels of acidity and chemicals like chloroform.
But definitively linking health conditions to environmental contamination is notoriously difficult. Energy Fuels says the contaminants in the aquifer are nothing to worry about.
"You will see very big fluctuations in naturally occurring elements," says company Vice President Curtis Moore. "That's what we're seeing right now."
According to Energy Fuels, the elements are not significant enough to pose a health risk. State regulators agree and have loosened rules, allowing Energy Fuels to store increasingly radioactive waste onsite, including waste imported from overseas.
"It's clearly not natural," counters the tribe's Clow. "Those are orders of magnitude higher than what we would find in there naturally."
Moore says the mill takes precautions. For example, radioactive waste is stored in specially-designed ponds called tailing cells. The cells have liners to prevent material from seeping into the ground.
Some also have leak-detection systems, but the older cells don't because they were built before the technology was standard. The Grand Canyon Trust says that means it's impossible to know if they're leaking or not.
The Ute Mountain Utes are also worried about air pollution.
The water in the tailing cells serves as a barrier that prevents radiation from escaping into the air. But in one 40-acre cell, radioactive material has been left above water for the last two years. The EPA says that's a violation of federal law.
The agency says the exposed cell could be emitting up to ten times more radiation than if it were under water, and requires that the mill's radioactive waste remain submerged at all times. In December, the agency told Energy Fuels it must fill the cell.
Moore says the company is working on it. But he also says filling the cell may take several months because there are limits on how much water at a time can be pumped from wells in the high desert area.
"At the end of the day, the Clean Air Act says that that thing should have liquid on it," Clow says.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A contract between shipping companies and 22,000 West Coast dockworkers expired over the weekend. But both sides continued to talk and said they want to avoid a strike that could savage an economy already stressed by soaring inflation and supply chain woes.
The contract that expired last Friday covered workers at ports from California to Washington state that handle nearly 40% of U.S. imports.
“While there will be no contract extension, cargo will keep moving, and normal operations will continue at the ports until an agreement can be reached,” said a joint statement from the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
The ILWU is the union representing Pacific dockworkers, and the Pacific Maritime Association is a trade group for cargo carriers and terminal operators. Its members include such global shipping giants as Maersk and Evergreen Marine.
The talks are so crucial that President Joe Biden even stepped in last month and met with both sides in Los Angeles. They are taking place against the backdrop of surging imports that left backlogs of ships anchored offshore, and declining exports.
Both sides said last month that they weren’t planning any work disruptions, but U.S. industries are clearly worried.
In a letter to Biden issued hours before the latest contract expired, about 150 trade groups ranging from truckers to agricultural, chemical and toy industries urged the administration to work with both parties to extend the current contract, negotiate in good faith and agree to avoid actions that further disrupt the ports.
The letter stressed that the groups are entering their peak season for imports as retailers stockpile goods for the fall holidays and back-to-school items.
“We continue to expect cargo flows to remain at all-time highs, putting further stress on the supply chain and increasing inflation,” the letter said. “Many expect these challenges to continue through the rest of the year.”
A major issue in the talks is automation of port facilities. The union argues that it will cost the jobs of crane operators and other workers, who can earn $100,000 or more per year. The Pacific Maritime Association argues that automation will actually will increase employment by enabling ports to move more cargo.
Ports already have been struggling to handle container traffic, much of it from Asia, where ports are heavily automated.
After the COVID-19 pandemic began to take hold in 2020, cargo traffic to ports slumped drastically. But then it recovered and has been booming since. Soaring demand has led to traffic jams at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which in 2021 alone moved some 20 million cargo containers. The ports, collectively known as the San Pedro Bay port complex, alone handle more than 30% of waterborne containerized imports and exports in the U.S.
In January, some 100 ships were waiting to get into the port complex, but that total is now down to 60 or even as low as 20 at times, Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero said Tuesday.
Cargo is loaded and unloaded 16 hours a day, on average, Cordero said. However, the ports need to have a “24-7 mindset” to deal with Asian traffic, where ports operate around the clock, he said.
Contracts are renegotiated every six years, and Cordero said most have concluded without disruptions.
However, a lockout in 2002 and an eight-day strike in 2015 cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars and forced the administrations of then-presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to intervene.
Cordero said he hadn’t seen any work slowdowns at the port and was optimistic that the current negotiations would end with a fairly quick resolution.
“The world’s looking at us to make sure that were moving the cargo,” he said. “I think the administration has made it clear that they expect a reasonable … outcome.”
Unionized dockworkers also are seeking a raise and argue that shipping lines can afford it. With global demand, overseas freight shipping firms are seeing record profits.
Last month, Biden signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act — meant to make shipping goods across oceans cheaper — and blasted the concentration of corporate shipping in the hands of nine foreign-owned companies.
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NEW YORK — Bruce Meyer was promoted to deputy executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association on Wednesday after leading the union’s negotiations during a 99-day lockout that ended in March.
Meyer led the union through contentious and often acrimonious negotiations to start the 2020 season following the pandemic, then headed strained talks during baseball’s ninth work stoppage, the first since the 1994-95 strike.
This year’s lockout ended with an increase in luxury tax thresholds (accompanied by a new highest tier of penalties), a boost in the minimum salary from $570,500 to $700,000, a new $50 million bonus pool for younger players, expansion of the designated hitter to the National League, 12 postseason teams instead of 10, advertisements on uniforms starting next year, a balanced schedule that reduces intradivision play starting in 2023 and measures aimed to incentivize competition and decrease rebuilding, such as an amateur draft lottery.
In other moves Wednesday, Ian Penny was promoted to senior adviser to union head Tony Clark and Matt Nussbaum replaced Penny as general counsel, a move up from his previous role as deputy general counsel. Jeff Perconte was promoted to deputy general counsel from assistant general counsel.
Penny, 58, joined the baseball union staff as a senior labor attorney in 2010 after working at the National Labor Relations Board from 1988-00 and the NHL Players Association for a decade. He succeeded David Prouty as general counsel in 2017.
Nussbaum, 44, was hired by the baseball union as assistant general counsel in 2011 after three years at the NHL union and was promoted to deputy general counsel in 2017.
Perconte, 44, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, was hired by the union in 2017 as an assistant general counsel.
Also, former pitcher Kevin Slowey was promoted to senior director of player services from director of player services, a role he had held since 2015. And former pitcher Chris Capuano to senior director of operations, business and strategy, up from the director of operations role he held since 2019.
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