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Dear Future Gaylord: Residents encouraged to submit letters to citizens of 2072
GAYLORD — If you could talk to a Gaylord resident in 50 years about what life is like now, how would you describe it? What would you tell them about your family, friends, job and the fun things you like to do?
Residents have a chance to discuss life in 2022 with those who will be around in 2072. In conjunction with Gaylord's official centennial celebration, a time capsule has been set up to accept letters, pictures and other commemorative items about the size of a deck of cards.
The idea is to allow everyone an opportunity to present a portrait of life in Gaylord's past and present to residents of the city in 2072.
"Anything that has relevance to the year 2022 or in the past and things that someone would want people to be aware of or remember in 2072," Erika Peters, the city's human resources officer who is coordinating the 100th anniversary of Gaylord attaining city status, said about time capsule submissions.
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At the annual Alpenfest celebration (running July 12-16), Peters and others will be manning a booth in the Alpenstrasse to gather letters, pictures and other items for the time capsule. Forms will be available for everyone to submit their thoughts on just about anything that reflects the community and its achievements over the last 100 years.
"What was your favorite song or what was a memory that happened in 2022," Peters said in offering a suggestion of what to discuss in a letter to the future.
She said 50 years was chosen as the time to open the capsule because children who write letters to themselves or others now will likely be around in 2072 to view it and share it with others. Grandparents have written letters to their future grandchildren, said Peters.
Those in specific occupations may choose to write letters to whomever is holding their position in 2072. For example, city manager Kim Awrey and police chief Frank Claeys could write letters to the person occupying their jobs in 50 years and a teacher could write a letter to the teacher of the future.
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So far, the capsule has over 30 submissions. Peters said there is no limit on the number of submissions.
Time capsule submissions will be accepted until Aug. 13. That's when a parade through downtown will make its way into city hall for an open house and the official centennial celebration. Mayor Todd Sharrard and other officials will give remarks.
On March 13, 1922, Gaylord achieved city status by a vote of 114-93. | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2022/07/12/dear-future-gaylord-residents-encouraged-submit-letters-citizens-2072/7832536001/ | 2022-07-12T19:00:35Z | https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/news/local/gaylord/2022/07/12/dear-future-gaylord-residents-encouraged-submit-letters-citizens-2072/7832536001/ | false |
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TK Maxx has issued a product recall for a garden egg chair that presents "risk of injuries" from use. The retailer has asked people to stop using the garden chair immediately but has said the issue does not affect any other styles of its hanging chairs.
The Office for Product Safety and Standards has said the product has been identified as presenting a risk of injuries as it is possible for the chair to tip over or collapse during use. If the product fails during use, the user may experience injuries, the government body added.
It also said the garden egg chair does not meet the requirements of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005. The chair - also sold in Homesense - was on sale at branches of the two retailers between May 2021 and June 2022.
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Those who have purchased the chair will be issued a full refund once it is returned to any TK Maxx or Homesense store. In a safety notice shared on its website, the retailer said: "We have identified a quality issue with the Gardener’s Eden Blue Egg Chair.
"It is possible for the chair to tip over or collapse during use which may cause an injury. This issue does not affect any other styles of hanging chairs. The safety of our customers is very important to us and we are taking this action as a precaution.
"The product was on sale in TK Maxx and Homesense stores between May 2021 and June 2022. The product code shown on your receipt will be either 013077, 035896, 035904, 035908 or 035912.
"If you purchased the product, please stop using it immediately and return to any TK Maxx or Homesense store for a full refund. For further enquiries, please contact Customer Service on: UK – 01923 473561 customerservice@tjxeurope.com."
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CLEVELAND (AP)Following his memorable home debut, Nolan Jones introduced himself to the Guardians’ clubhouse staff. He wanted to make sure he knew all their names.
This rookie’s going to be around for a while.
Jones drove in four runs in his first game at Progressive Field, leading Cleveland to an 8-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series between the AL Central rivals.
A 24-year-old outfielder with a sweet left-handed swing, Jones hit a two-run single in the first inning off Lance Lynn (1-2). He then chased the right-hander by driving home two more runs with a double in the fifth.
”Really cool,” Jones said of his first game in Cleveland. ”I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. Obviously getting drafted here, got to come sign my contact here and then got to play in the Futures Game here, so I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time.”
Jones is batting .538 (7 for 13) with a homer – a 457-footer that splashed into Kansas City’s famous fountains on Saturday – and eight RBIs in four games since coming up from Triple-A Columbus.
Back from a 1-6 road trip to Detroit and Kansas City, the Guardians staked Cal Quantrill (5-5) to a five-run lead in the first and moved back to .500 (42-42).
Yoan Moncada hit a three-run homer as the White Sox began an eight-game trip leading into the All-Star break.
Jones, who has climbed through Cleveland’s organization since being drafted in 2016, came to the plate with the bases loaded for his first at-bat. He then delivered a broken-bat single as the Guardians scored five times off Lynn – all with two outs – in the first.
It was the kind of moment the Guardians envisioned for Jones, who has been slowed by injuries the past few seasons.
”He was rated our No. 1 prospect for a couple years,” manager Terry Francona said. ”He just couldn’t stay healthy. Now, the hope is he can because when he got to Triple-A, he worked really hard on shortening his stroke because he was always able to kind of leverage the ball, but it was a little longer.
”Now, it’s shorter and he’s to the ball. It gets a little exciting.”
Cleveland’s big inning was triggered by Josh Naylor hustling down the line to beat out an infield single with two down. Franmil Reyes followed with an RBI single and Andres Gimenez walked before Jones, who was called up from the minors on Friday in Kansas City, blooped his single to center to make it 3-0.
Two batters later, Myles Straw brought in two more runs with a single off Lynn, who settled down but only lasted four innings.
”I don’t think he got beat up in that first inning,” Sox manager Tony La Russa said. ”He got the ground balls, they just found holes. It’s different if they’re centering it, but they didn’t. We hung in there. We came back. I like the way we competed.”
In the fifth, Reyes singled and Gimenez, a first-time All-Star, was hit by a pitch before Jones ripped his double to right-center. Straw followed with a hard comebacker that struck reliever Matt Foster and caromed into right field for an RBI.
Jones hasn’t needed long to make a strong impression on his teammates.
”Nolan has been like a lot of the rookies who have come up for us,” Quantrill said. ”He’s been professional. Prepared to play at this level, committed to the approach that we bring and really just doing a good job.
”Just from what I’ve seen in these last three or four games, a really professional at-bat.”
STRAINED SOX
La Russa labeled the latest report about trouble inside the team’s clubhouse as ”irritating.”
La Russa conceded the White Sox haven’t played up to expectations. However, he’s confident his ”very tight” team is united and has the right leaders.
”I like the veterans and I like the way our young guys respond to their responsibilities and their willingness to step forward,” he said. ”I think it’s a terrific mix. … Everybody has their own opinion. It’s like strategy. You win more arguments when you win.”
TARGET PRACTICE
Gimenez was one of three Cleveland batters hit by pitches. The second baseman has been hit seven times in the past 13 games.
STAR POWER
Francona held a meeting in Kansas City on Sunday to introduce the team’s three All-Stars – Jose Ramirez, Emmanuel Clase and Gimenez. While Ramirez is making his fourth trip, this will be the first for Gimenez and Clase.
Francona could see the emotion in Clase’s face at learning of his selection. Gimenez’s teammates erupted when his choice was revealed.
”The place went bananas,” Francona said. ”In the midst of a really tough road trip, that was a nice minute.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Guardians: Naylor was back in the lineup after being scratched Sunday with lower back discomfort.
UP NEXT
The Guardians play their seventh doubleheader at home – and fourth overall since June 28 – on Tuesday. RHP Shane Bieber (3-5, 3.44 ERA) starts the first game for Cleveland against Davis Martin (1-2, 4.29 ERA). Rookie Konnor Pilkington (1-1, 4.08 ERA) goes in the nightcap against White Sox RHP Dylan Cease (7-4, 2.45 ERA).
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(WXIN) – There’s no better price than “free.”
McDonald’s and Wendy’s are both giving away fries this week in celebration of “National French Fry Day” on July 13.
On Wednesday, guests can get a free order of large fries at McDonald’s, no purchase necessary. There is one caveat, though: They have to claim the offer through the McDonald’s app.
Wendy’s, on the other hand, is observing “Fry Week” with new deals each day, offering free orders of fries with select mobile purchases.
Similar to the McDonald’s offer, customers must also use the app to order.
Here’s what Wendy’s is offering for each day of “Fry Week”:
- Tuesday, 7/12: Free medium fry with any mobile order purchase of a salad
- Wednesday, 7/13: Free fry order (any size) with any mobile order purchase
- Thursday, 7/14: Free small breakfast seasoned potatoes with any mobile order purchase
- Friday, 7/15: Free medium fry with the mobile order purchase of any size fry
Burger King customers, meanwhile, can currently get free fries each week with purchases made through the BK app. The deal lasts through the end of 2022. | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/score-free-fries-from-mcdonalds-wendys-for-national-french-fry-day/ | 2022-07-12T19:07:47Z | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/score-free-fries-from-mcdonalds-wendys-for-national-french-fry-day/ | false |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
08-12-16-21-27
(eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
08-12-16-21-27
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TOKYO (AP) — Assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was perhaps the most divisive leader in recent Japanese history, infuriating liberals with his revisionist views of history and his dreams of military expansion. He was also the longest serving and, by many estimations, the most influential.
For current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, this complicated legacy will loom large as he considers taking up his mentor’s unachieved policy goals after a big win for their ruling Liberal Democratic Party in parliamentary elections Sunday, just days after Abe’s death.
Kishida has gained considerable political strength, riding a surge of emotion and vows of resilience from voters after the assassination, but he’s also lost the most powerful force in his party — Abe.
“Kishida now faces an increasingly murky political situation,” the liberal-leaning Asahi newspaper said in an editorial. “The death of Abe, who headed the largest LDP wing, will certainly change the party’s power balance.”
Kishida made his immediate priorities clear after the election: “Party unity is more important than anything else.”
But he must also make quick progress on growing worries over rising prices and a stagnant economy even as he tries to figure out how to boost Japan’s defense in the face of an aggressive China, Russia and North Korea.
And then there’s Abe’s polarizing nationalistic agenda, much of which was left unfinished, including his attempts to boost patriotism in schools, to revoke the apologies made in the 1990s over Japanese aggression during World War II and the controversial and divisive plan to revise Japan’s war-renouncing constitution to give the military more power.
How Kishida deals with Abe’s still considerable political presence may determine his success as leader.
At the heart of Abe’s lingering influence — he left the top job in 2020 — is a paradox.
He alienated many in Japan, as well as war victims China and the Koreas, with his hawkish foreign and security policies, as well as his ultraconservative — sometimes revisionist — stance on the so-called history issues related to Japan’s wartime actions.
Abe pushed back against postwar treaties and the verdicts of the tribunal that judged Japanese war criminals and was a driving force in efforts to whitewash military atrocities and end apologies over the war.
The Japanese electorate, however, carried him to power in six elections. And his work to strengthen the alliance with the United States and to unify like-minded democracies as a counterweight to China’s assertiveness endeared him to U.S. and European elites.
His long grip on power even amid criticism over his more extreme views can be explained by voters’ desire for stability and an improved economy, Abe’s stranglehold on the conservative wing of his party and the haplessness of the opposition.
His first period as prime minister, which began in 2006, ended in failure after a year, partly because of a backlash to his nationalist policy goals.
After three years of opposition rule, a rare interruption in decades of LDP dominance, Abe returned to power with a landslide victory in 2012.
“After his first stint failed, he learned that his nationalistic agenda of building a ‘beautiful nation’ cannot move forward unless he has another agenda to balance it out, like two wheels of a cart,” said Koichi Nakano, a Sophia University professor of international politics.
While still chipping away at enacting his nationalist policies, Nakano said, Abe also began championing economic revitalization and compromised on issues such as promoting women’s advancement and accepting unskilled foreign labor to help boost a dwindling workforce — moves that allowed him to be seen as a realist.
He understood in his second term that “he needed to improve his narrative and policy focus on the economy. He convinced much of the public that ‘Abenomics’ was a necessary reform path,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Abe also “exercised institutional discipline over the government bureaucracy and his political party in ways that no opposition leader has yet been able to match.”
Abe was the grandson of rightwing former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, which helped him win support from rightwing groups. He also was favored by younger people, experts say, many of whom are more conservative than their counterparts in other parts of the world because of their deep interest in a steady economy so they can get work at major companies.
“It seems that voters preferred the stability Abe promised over the disorganized leadership that the (opposition party) provided” during its three years in power, said Jeffrey Hall, a professor at Kanda University of International Studies specializing in Japanese politics and nationalism. “To international observers, Abe’s support for historical revisionism looms larger than it did for domestic voters.”
While Abe’s eagerness to boost Japan’s military power was more than most Japanese citizens wanted, according to Easley, “he was right about Tokyo having to adjust to a challenging security environment that includes China, Russia and North Korea.”
Kishida enjoys something of a political mandate after Sunday’s election, and will likely be in office until scheduled elections in 2025. He has said he wants to explore ways to make more progress on Abe’s push for constitutional revision, but there’s no detail now about what, exactly, that means or how he’ll try to do it.
Changing the constitution is a top party platform that Kishida will not want to risk, according to Ryosuke Nishida, a sociology professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, so he may delay the effort until he can forge a compromise with rightwing party members on the best way to proceed.
“Abe was one of the strongest voices for constitutional revision and a more proactive security policy. Now that he is gone, others will try to fill his shoes, but it will be difficult,” Hall said. | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/abes-complicated-legacy-looms-large-for-current-japan-pm/ | 2022-07-12T19:08:30Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/abes-complicated-legacy-looms-large-for-current-japan-pm/ | false |
(The Hill) – Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges rebuked Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, accusing him of peppering her with a line of transphobic questioning.
Bridges during an exchange with Hawley at the hearing cited suicides by trans people, and accused Hawley of asking questions that could lead to violence against that community. Hawley appeared annoyed with those accusations, and eventually asked Bridges if this was how she treated her students.
The dispute began when Hawley began asking questions about pregnancy.
“You’ve referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy, would that be women?” the senator asked Bridges during a Senate Judiciary Hearing on abortion rights.
“Many cis women have the capacity for pregnancy, many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy,” Bridges responded. “There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy.”
Seemingly unsatisfied with Bridges’ answer, Hawley asked her “your view, the core of this right is about what?”
“I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence,” Bridges responded.
“Wow. Are you saying that I’m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women can have pregnancies,” Hawley asked her.
Bridges, an academic expert on race, class and reproductive rights, noted that studies have shown one in five trans people have attempted suicide.
Hawley stopped the professor after she offered that statistic, interjecting: “Because of my line of questioning? So we can’t talk about it?”
Bridges again said Hawley’s questions were “denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist.”
“Do you believe that men can get pregnant?” she pointedly asked the senator.
“No, I don’t think men can get pregnant,” Hawley responded.
“So you’re denying that trans people exist,” Bridges said, to which Hawley asked again “and that leads to violence?”
“Is this how you run your classroom, are students allowed to question you or are they also treated like this ..” Hawley said.
“We have a good time in my class, you should join,” she said. “You would learn a lot.”
Tuesday’s Senate hearing was focused on the legal consequences of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. | https://www.wane.com/news/berkeley-professor-to-hawley-your-line-of-questioning-is-transphobic/ | 2022-07-12T19:10:45Z | https://www.wane.com/news/berkeley-professor-to-hawley-your-line-of-questioning-is-transphobic/ | false |
Hidalgo County reports one coronavirus-related death and 1,550 cases of COVID-19
Hidalgo County on Tuesday reported one coronavirus-related death and 1,550 cases of COVID-19, according to the report from the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Department.
The report covers a three-day period from July 8 through July 11, 2022.
The people who reportedly tested positive are in the following age groups:
The county also reported that 86 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, including 77 adults and nine children.
Of the 86 people hospitalized with COVID-19, 15 are in intensive care units. They include 12 adults and three children.
Since the pandemic began, 3,931 people have died due to the virus in the county.
There are currently 2,600 reported active cases of COVID-19 in the county. | https://www.krgv.com/news/hidalgo-county-reports-one-coronavirus-related-death-and-1-550-cases-of-covid-19 | 2022-07-12T19:11:02Z | https://www.krgv.com/news/hidalgo-county-reports-one-coronavirus-related-death-and-1-550-cases-of-covid-19 | false |
The premier event in Europe for open source code and community contributors features 200+ sessions across 13 micro-conferences, covering the pivotal topics and technologies at the core of open source.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit Europe, the leading conference for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders. The event is taking place September 13-16 in Dublin, Ireland and virtually. The schedule can be viewed here.
OS Summit Europe will feature a robust program of 325+ talks across 13 micro-conferences covering the most essential and cutting edge topics in open source: Linux Systems, Supply Chain Security, AI + Data, OSPOs, Community Leadership, Embedded IoT, Cloud, Diversity, Containers, Embedded Linux and more.
2022 Conference Session Highlights Include:
- LinuxCon
- Embedded Linux Conference
- CloudOpen
- OSPOCon
- Critical Software Summit
- Emerging OS Forum
- SupplyChainSecurityCon
- Diversity Empowerment Summit
- Open Source On-Ramp
- Open AI + Data Forum
- ContainerCon
- Community Leadership Conference
- Embedded IoT Summit
Keynote speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Registration (in-person) is offered at the early price of $850 through July 17. Registration to attend virtually is $25. Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code.
Applications for diversity and need-based scholarships are currently being accepted. For information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here. The Linux Foundation's Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to attend events that they would otherwise be unable to attend due to a lack of funding. To learn more and apply, please click here.
Health and Safety
In-person attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and will need to comply with all on-site health measures, in accordance with The Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. To learn more, visit the Health & Safety webpage.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Warren County in east central New York...
Northern Saratoga County in east central New York...
* Until 245 PM EDT.
* At 141 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Day Center,
or 14 miles northwest of Saratoga Springs, moving east at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Glens Falls, Corinth, Edinburg, West Glens Falls, Lake Luzerne
Campground, Day Center, Glens Falls North, Queensbury, South Glens
Falls, Lake Luzerne, Hadley, Lake George, Beartown, French
Mountain, Fourth Lake, Conklingville, Oneida Corners, Paradise
Beach, Brayton and Hartman.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Please report hail size...damaging winds and reports of trees down to
the National Weather Service by email at Alb.Stormreport@noaa.gov...
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NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
BROOME CHEMUNG CHENANGO
CLINTON CORTLAND DELAWARE
ESSEX FRANKLIN FULTON
HAMILTON HERKIMER MADISON
MONTGOMERY ONEIDA OTSEGO
SARATOGA SCHENECTADY SCHOHARIE
SULLIVAN TIOGA TOMPKINS
WARREN WASHINGTON
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southwestern Broome
and central Tioga Counties through 215 PM EDT...
At 143 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Spencer, or 11 miles northwest of Owego, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Binghamton, Johnson City, Endicott, Maine, Nanticoke, Berkshire,
Newark Valley, Candor, Spencer and Greater Binghamton Airport.
This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 86/Route 17 between 69 and 71 South.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 PM EDT for
central New York.
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4231 7592 4209 7592 4216 7650 4228 7650
TIME...MOT...LOC 1743Z 270DEG 34KT 4221 7643
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
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(The Hill) — A progressive grassroots organization that supported Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2016 and 2020 White House bids announced on Monday that it will launch a campaign to oppose President Joe Biden’s reelection in 2024.
RootsAction wrote in a press release that Biden has been “neither bold nor inspiring” since taking office early last year. And because his “prospects for winning re-election appear to be bleak,” it will launch the #DontRunJoe campaign on Nov. 9, one day after the midterm elections.
“In 2024 the United States will face the dual imperatives of preventing a Republican takeover of the White House and advancing a truly progressive agenda. The stakes could not be higher,” RootsAction wrote in the release. “The threat of a neofascist GOP has become all too obvious. Bold and inspiring leadership from the Oval Office will be essential.
“With so much at stake, making [Biden] the Democratic Party’s standard-bearer in 2024 would be a tragic mistake,” the progressive group added.
Since taking office last year, Biden has struggled with a cascading series of crises, from supply chain disruptions and high inflation to a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Supreme Court overturning the nearly 50-years-old constitutional right to abortion.
The Biden administration has been criticized, especially by the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party, for failing to address the crises with strong action.
The president has also not heeded progressive calls on student loan debt and failed to pass a comprehensive federal voting rights bill into law, while his social spending and climate change package has stalled in Congress.
RootsAction was founded in 2011 to galvanize voters against what they call a rising extremist Republican Party. Members also want to dramatically address social, economic and environmental issues. The liberal group supported Biden as the nominee in 2020 but has since taken issue with the president’s more moderate agenda.
On Monday, the organization said moderate policies “have failed to truly address such pressing concerns as the climate emergency, voting rights, student debt, health care, corporate price-gouging, and bloated military spending in tandem with anemic diplomacy.”
Poll after poll has shown Biden’s job approval ratings remain at abysmally low levels ahead of the midterms. Around 71 percent of Americans do not want Biden to run for reelection, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll.
On Monday, a New York Times-Siena College poll showed 64 percent of Democrats would prefer a Democratic candidate other than Biden in the 2024 race. More than two-thirds of respondents in the poll cited age — Biden is 79 — and job performance, while about 10 percent said he was not progressive enough.
Biden won in 2020 with a historic amount of votes, with more than 81 million Americans supporting him in the election. He has said he will run again in 2024 if his health allows, and Vice President Kamala Harris has affirmed the same.
Popular liberals who have sought the White House, such as Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have said they will not run against Biden if he chooses to seek reelection.
“Biden triumphed over Donald Trump in 2020 with vital help from extraordinary grassroots efforts in swing states by progressive organizations,” RootsAction wrote on Monday. “A president is not his party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination. Joe Biden should not seek it. If he does, he will have a fight on his hands.” | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/pro-bernie-sanders-group-launches-campaign-urging-biden-not-to-run-for-reelection/ | 2022-07-12T19:16:48Z | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/pro-bernie-sanders-group-launches-campaign-urging-biden-not-to-run-for-reelection/ | true |
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Through July 11
- Shelton student-athletes choose schools
- Shelton earns SCC boys volleyball title
- SCC West Section champions
- Anna Leone smacks 100th career hit
- Volleyball team honors seniors
- Shelton’s Pjatak helps Mercy to Division II men’s lacrosse semifinals
- Shelton plans tribute to McGrath at lacrosse game vs. Fairfield Prep
- HS update: Softball, tennis, golf teams triumph
- Driven Alexis Resto to play at Western Connecticut
- Shelton’s Villalobos captaincy inspires greater calling
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TPS finally fully accredited by Kansas system following 5-year climb
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - After a half-decade uphill climb for full accreditation, Topeka Public Schools has finally reached the milestone for Kansas Educational Systems.
Topeka Public Schools USD 501 says the Accreditation Review Council convened in May and June to review systems for KESA Accreditation for the upcoming school year.
TPS said the ARC has decided to recommend it be accredited as a result of the district’s continuous improvements and growth. It said the accreditation was gained after half a decade of highlighting progress in multiple areas.
When Superintendent Dr. Tiffany Anderson started in 2016, the District said she led the effort to create and implement a new strategic plan which led to the 2022 full accreditation recommendation.
USD 501 noted that the Kansas State Board of Education will take action on the move at its July 12 meeting with Dr. Anderson and other TPS officials in attendance.
“Receiving full accreditation status is a testament to the continued hard work, dedication, and support from the Topeka Public School District Board of Education, staff, students, and families who are committed to providing a high-quality education for all students,” Dr. Anderson said. “We are grateful for the recognition and are already working on the added gains ahead over the following years.”
TPS indicated some of the achievements it has attained over the past five years include, but are not limited to:
- Doubled college course offerings
- Increased student attendance, academic performance and graduation rates
- Implementation of a district-wide social-emotional curriculum that has improved mental health services
Most recently, TPS said it received its fifth national Magna Award from the National School Board Association for its PreK - 12 Dual Language Program.
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Will Cost Headwinds Dampen Danaher's (DHR) Q2 Earnings?
Danaher Corporation DHR is scheduled to release second-quarter 2022 earnings numbers on Jul 21, before market open.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for DHR’s second-quarter earnings has been revised downward by 5.2% in the past 90 days. However, the company has an impressive earnings surprise history, having outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the trailing four quarters, the average beat being 11%.
Let’s see how things are shaping up for Danaher this earnings season.
Danaher Corporation Price and EPS Surprise
Danaher Corporation price-eps-surprise | Danaher Corporation Quote
Factors to Note
Healthy demand for bioprocessing products is expected to have aided Danaher’s Life Sciences segment. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Life Sciences segment’s total sales in the second quarter indicates a 4% increase from the year-ago reported figure.
The Diagnostics segment revenues are likely to have been driven by healthy demand for products related to molecular testing and higher non-COVID testing volumes. Healthy consumables business and solid demand for equipment areexpected to have boosted revenues of the Environmental & Applied Solutions segment. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for second-quarter Environmental & Applied Solutions’ total sales hints at a 1.4% rise from the second-quarter 2021 reported figure.
Danaher expects year-over-year core revenue growth in the range of low-single digits for the second quarter. The company expects the impact of COVID-related testing to have boosted sales in the low-single digits in the to-be-reported quarter.
However, inflationary pressure and supply chain woes might have impacted Danaher’s margin performance in the second quarter. High cost of sales, selling, general and administrative expenses and research and development expenses might have impeded DHR’s bottom-line performance.
What Does the Zacks Model Say?
Our proven model does not conclusively predict an earnings beat for Danaher this time around. The combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) increases the chances of beating estimates, which is not the case here, as elaborated below. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Earnings ESP: Danaher has an Earnings ESP of 0.00% as both the Most Accurate Estimate and the Zacks Consensus Estimate are pegged at $2.36. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they’re reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Zacks Rank: Danaher carries a Zacks Rank #3.
Highlights of Q1 Earnings
Danaher’s first-quarter adjusted earnings of $2.76 per share surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.65. The bottom line increased 9.5% from the year-ago quarter’s figure of $2.52, primarily on sales growth. The company’s net sales of $7,688 million surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $7,546 million. Solid segmental performances boosted DHR’s top line on a year-over-year basis.
Stocks to Consider
Here are some companies that you may want to consider as, according to our model, these have the right combination of elements to beat on earnings in this reporting cycle.
Crane Holdings CR has an Earnings ESP of +6.98% and a Zacks Rank #2. The company is slated to release second-quarter 2022 financial numbers on Jul 25.
Crane Holdings’ earnings have surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the preceding four quarters, the average beat being 22.2%.
Zebra Technologies ZBRA has an Earnings ESP of +2.15% and a Zacks Rank #3. The company is scheduled to release second-quarter 2022 earnings numbers on Aug 2.
Zebra Technologies’ earnings have trumped the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the trailing four quarters, the average beat being 8.8%.
Stay on top of upcoming earnings announcements with the Zacks Earnings Calendar.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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On Tuesday, the Jan. 6 committee held another hearing in which it attempted to tie former president Donald Trump to the most violent extremists leading the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — and pressed their argument that Trump knew what he was doing and should be held responsible.
Here are three early takeaways from the hearing, focused on the nexus between extremism and Trump’s attempts to stay in power. We’ll update with more as the hearing continues.
1. ‘Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by arguing he is willfully blind’
Did Trump know he lost the election and lie about it anyway, or was he deluded into thinking he won? The House Jan. 6 committee thinks it’s the former, but either way, they’re pushing for him to be punished for claiming widespread election fraud and inciting an insurrection. On Tuesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) argued that Trump was, at the very least, “willfully blind” to the facts that his own advisers were telling him.
Cheney acknowledged that some of Trump’s defenders have argued that he was misled by others, and tried to knock that down.
“The strategy is to blame people his advisers called ‘the crazies’ for what Donald Trump did,” Cheney said Tuesday. “This, of course, is nonsense. President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child. Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices. … Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by arguing he is willfully blind.”
“Willfully blind” is a legal term. As The Post’s Aaron Blake has reported, “As recently as 2011, the Supreme Court has reiterated that people who choose to remain willfully blind ‘are just as culpable as those who have actual knowledge.’”
If the committee can’t prove Trump knowingly lied to stay in power, then they will try to prove he chose to look the other way when presented with the fact that he lost the election. It suggests the committee is very much still thinking of referring Trump to the Justice Department for prosecution.
2. A throw down fight between Trump advisers over election fraud — leading to a crucial step forward for Jan. 6
“The crazies” that Cheney referred to in her opening remarks is how Trump advisers described those who, by December, still believed there was widespread election fraud and a legal pathway to keep Trump in power — even though his legal team had lost dozens of court cases around the nation, including by Trump-appointed judges.
That team included lawyers Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. And on Dec. 18, 2020, a few days after the electoral college confirmed President Biden won, this trio — alongside former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne — somehow made it into the Oval Office to talk to Trump alone, right as they were pushing an idea that he could seize voting machines.
According to Powell’s testimony, White House counsel Pat Cipollone came racing into the Oval Office to try to intervene. And that led to a six-hour meeting that turned into a screaming match between outside Trump advisers promoting election fraud claims and White House advisers who were trying to convince the president that he lost and should concede.
As Cipollone said, in recently-taped testimony shared by the committee today: “We were asking one simple question, as a general matter. Where is the evidence?”
He said Powell responded to the effect of, “What do you mean, ‘Where is the evidence?’ You should know,” and that her responses had “a general disregard, I would say, for the importance of actually backing up what you say with facts.”
At one point, Giuliani said he called White House advisers weak (though he used much more explicit terms). As White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson described the meeting, in a text message displayed by the committee: “The west wing is UNHINGED.”
This went on for six hours, finally ending after midnight.
It ended with Trump saying he’d appoint Powell as a special counsel — White House advisers’ worst nightmare. (Powell and others had proposed that Trump give her the authority to seize voting machines.) But Trump appeared to back off that in the next few days, and instead issued the tweet that the committee argues would lead to the attack.
3. What happened after Trump’s “Be there, will be wild” tweet
On Dec. 19, hours after that meeting, Trump tweeted what the committee has argued was a call to arms to his supporters to overturn his election loss: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
He was referring to the “Stop the Steal” rally one of his supporters was organizing on the day that Congress and Vice President Mike Pence were certifying the electoral college results.
It was clear nearly two months earlier, after all the votes had been tallied, that Trump had lost — but he and his supporters spent the normally quiet election-certification process trying to challenge results in the courts. When that failed, pressured Republican lawmakers to help overturn his losses in key states, and Justice Department officials to lend legitimacy to the false election fraud claims.
When all that failed — and after White House lawyers angrily put an end to people putting conspiracy claims in Trump’s ear in that Dec. 18 meeting — the president turned his attention to Congress, the last step in the certification process.
It almost worked, said the committee.
In the hours after “will be wild” tweet, one pro-Trump group, Women for America First, requested to move their rally permit from Inauguration Day, on Jan. 22, to Jan. 6, the committee showed.
The next day, Raskin said, Ali Alexander, the leader of the Stop the Steal organization and organizer of its Jan. 6 rally, registered wildprotest.com. Trump supporters including Alex Jones called Jan. 6 a “historic day.” And numerous others chimed in with violent threats: “Jan. 6, kick that f — ing door open.” “It ‘will be wild’ means we need volunteers for the firing squad.”
What the committee is trying to do is connect Trump to the most extreme, violent elements of the insurrection. They have argued Trump had a direct influence on their decision to storm the Capitol, and cheered them on. The committee also recently alleged that he knew that armed protesters were coming to the rally, and encouraged them to come to the Capitol anyway — and even tried to physically wrestle his Secret Service agent to let him join them..
In this hearing, the committee also shared evidence that Trump may have spent the next few weeks after this tweet helping plan for rally attendees to march to the Capitol — suggesting his call to do so in his speech wasn’t impromptu. The committee shared a never-before-seen draft tweet that Trump had seen (but didn’t send) encouraging people to march to the Capitol, and raised the question of whether Trump allies in the White House communicated with rally organizers about this plan.
That’s potentially a politically and legally perilous position for the president, given that the leaders of two main militia groups there that day, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, have been charged with seditious conspiracy.
This post will be updated as the hearing unfolds. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/12/january-6-hearing-extremism-trump/ | 2022-07-12T19:23:22Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/12/january-6-hearing-extremism-trump/ | false |
Man dies after cliff jumping near Slide Rock State Park in Sedona
A cliff diving accident near Slide Rock State Park left a man dead Saturday, according to the Sedona Fire District.
The man jumped from an area near Manzanita Campground frequently used for cliff and did not resurface, according to Chief Dori Booth, of the Sedona Fire District.
Crews responded to the location around 3:45 p.m. and found the man submerged after an hour of searching.
The unidentified man was estimated to be in his 30s, Booth said.
The Coconino County Sheriff's Office and Coconino County Medical Examiner took over the investigation.
This has been an "incredibly busy" season for the Sedona Fire District due to drownings, near drownings and injuries in popular recreation areas, according to Booth.
Reach breaking news reporter Angela Cordoba Perez at Angela.CordobaPerez@Gannett.com or on Twitter @AngelaCordobaP.
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
105 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Schleicher, southwestern Menard and northeastern Sutton Counties
through 130 PM CDT...
At 105 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Fort Mckavett. This storm was nearly stationary.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Fort Mckavett.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3073 10040 3088 10030 3090 10007 3073 10007
3058 10032
TIME...MOT...LOC 1805Z 072DEG 2KT 3080 10012
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Dallas 4-year-old girl reportedly dies from a multiple-dog attack
Lea Janae Freeman's family has started a GoFundMe to help with funeral costs
A 4-year-old girl suffered from a fatal dog attack in Dallas on Saturday as the owner reportedly watched it happen. Neighbors tell Fox 4 Dallas that the girl was outside when another neighbor's three dogs attacked her.
The girl, identified as Lea Janae Freeman, was transported to the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office where she was later pronounced dead. Michael Pennington, who lives nearby, says the attack was "messed up."
"The baby was messed up, man," he tells FOX 4 Dallas. "I don’t like to talk about it because I can’t hold myself in.
The family created a GoFundMe upon Lea's death, describing her as "a bright star who loved to bake cookies, play with her sisters, and would give a first-class fashion show."
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"She could ease the greatest of pain and her laugh was contagious. She would flip and split her way into your heart," the GoFundMe page reads.
Freeman's mother arrived home after the dog attack. Neighbors reportedly believe that three dogs attacked Freeman, but Dallas Animal Services only took one into custody.
Pennington recalled a previous incident, where his niece was attacked by the same neighboring dogs.
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"One day me and my niece pulled up out here and she came up by the garage. She was coming up the driveway and the dog came from over there and grabbed her by the jacket, but he didn’t get a chance to actually bite her because he grabbed her jacket," added his wife, Lorie Pennington.
A representative from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services told Fox 4 Dallas that Freeman's family was involved with Child Protective Services in the past as the agency investigates her death. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/dallas-4-year-old-girl-reportedly-dies-multiple-dog-attack | 2022-07-12T19:29:15Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/dallas-4-year-old-girl-reportedly-dies-multiple-dog-attack | true |
PHILADELPHIA, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger Montague is investigating violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of investors who purchased Solana ($SOL) cryptocurrency tokens issued by Solana Labs, Inc. ("Solana Labs" or the "Company") between March 24, 2020, and the present, inclusive (the "Class Period").
If you purchased $SOL during the Class Period, would like to discuss Berger Montague's investigation, or have questions concerning your rights or interests, please contact attorneys Andrew Abramowitz at aabramowitz@bm.net or (215) 875-3015, or Michael Dell'Angelo at mdellangelo@bm.net or (215) 875-3080 or visit: https://investigations.bergermontague.com/solana-labs/
Whistleblowers: Anyone with non-public information regarding Solana Labs is encouraged to confidentially assist Berger Montague's investigation or take advantage of the SEC Whistleblower program. Under this program, whistleblowers who provide original information may receive rewards totaling up to thirty percent (30%) of recoveries obtained by the SEC. For more information, contact us.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Solana Labs, Inc., is a blockchain network and cryptocurrency operator. Solana Labs began issuing and offering $SOL cryptocurrency to U.S. investors on or about March 24, 2020.
According to a lawsuit recently filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Solana Labs and its co-defendants issued and sold $SOL without registering the tokens with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as required under the federal securities laws . The suit alleges that throughout the Class Period, Solana Labs and its co-defendants promoted and sold unregistered $SOL securities to investors, and that such investors have suffered losses as a consequence of the Defendants' misrepresentations and omissions.
Berger Montague, with offices in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and San Diego, has been a pioneer in securities class action litigation since its founding in 1970. Berger Montague has represented individual and institutional investors for over five decades and serves as lead counsel in courts throughout the United States.
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In Arizona, there are more than 160,000 children living in homes that are headed by grandparents or other relatives.
Research indicates that children in kinship care experience greater stability than those in traditional foster care. Kinship care is when a child is raised by a family member who’s not their biological parent, typically because of concerns about safety.
Leslie Pemberton is the non-biological grandmother of two children. She recalls the day the children ended up in her care.
“I went to the door and the kids were here with a note, and the note said, ‘Take care of my kids please for 90 days.’ That’s pretty much, that was it. And they left,” she said. “The first couple nights that they were here, I’d wake up and Bella was standing over me, just staring at me. Well, she was there to make sure that I was still there and that I wasn’t leaving in the middle of the night.”
Parenting a child when you know their biological parents and their struggles requires layers of support.
Fadwa Elnabulsi, a kinship navigator for Arizona Children’s Association, runs a kinship support group in Tucson.
“They provide love, they provide stability, they provide permanency, they provide support,” Elnabulsi said.
The program provides support, laughter and a time to share.
Elnabulsi knows that programs like hers are a necessity.
There are currently more than 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S. The system has more children than available homes for placement.
Pemberton knows the road ahead for her family will be tough, but she wouldn't change it for the world.
“I love having the kids. I’m not going to lie, it gets very stressful sometimes, and I think, ‘What am I doing?’ But I love having them and helping them and seeing them grow,” she said. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/the-importance-of-supporting-families-that-provide-kinship-care | 2022-07-12T19:32:51Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/the-importance-of-supporting-families-that-provide-kinship-care | true |
PAM Wayfinding discusses how marketing digital signage is more powerful when it connects visitors with destinations, events and brands.
LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- We typically think of digital signage as serving a few roles. First, it's an advertising medium. We're all familiar with the ubiquitous large-format digital screens found in most public places – and we're all aware how good we've become at blocking those out. Lesson One is that if signage of any kind doesn't serve a very clear and specific purpose, it's no longer an effective means of either advertising or communications.
More commonly we find value in informational digital signage. For the most part, this kind of sign does provide information we want to know, such as movie listing times, building directory information or perhaps a list of upcoming events. Customers already have this basic level of information available on their mobile devices. Most marketing digital signage fails to connect information with an action.
Customers expect digital signage to provide more than a starting point. They want and need a conclusion if they're going to make the most of their precious time. Not providing this information is a huge opportunity missed, costing immediate sales and longer term customers.
So how do we create that connection?
Customers are at their most attentive when they're planning. We're all aware of this scenario – we've arrived and are planning our trip around the district. We're a little lost and want clarity. We're in a heightened state of attention due to this stress.
A customer who can quickly see a sign with SPECIFIC, PERSONALIZED information is a happy customer. A sign can point to a restaurant name, but a sign saying "Fish Tales Happy hour" is more likely to win customers. That's the power of well-executed marketing digital signage.
Done well, it will pay huge dividends for sales.
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Adults under the age of 50 may soon be able to receive a second dose of the COVID-19 booster shot.
The Biden Administration suggested the second dose to help battle the newest strain of the omicron variant.
The shot still needs to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA and Center for Disease Control are expected to discuss a potential second booster shot within the next week.
Individuals ages 50 or older became eligible for a second booster dose in March.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-1-3-6, FIREBALL: 1
(nine, one, three, six; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Day" game were:
9-1-3-6, FIREBALL: 1
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
08-12-16-21-27
(eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
08-12-16-21-27
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Teledyne LeCroy's OakGate R300 and DE200 PCIe Gen5 Test Appliances, 8-Bay Modules, and 16-Bay Enclosures are Available to be Ordered
LOOMIS, Calif., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test and measurement solutions, announces availability of validation test appliances for PCIe Gen5 based Solid State Drives. The OakGate R300 3U rackmount test appliance and the OakGate DE200 desktop test appliance offer scalable validation and conformance testing of the latest generation of solid-state drives (SSDs).
To support demand for faster, more efficient SSDs, SSD manufacturers are taking advantage of the 5th generation of PCI Express (PCIe), which doubles throughput with data transfer rates of up to 32GT/s. SSD quality and reliability needs to be high, but demand is also high. So, it is also critical that the manufacturing process is not slowed unnecessarily for testing. The OakGate R300 and the OakGate DE200 test appliances provide design and test engineers the means to test the performance and specification compliance of these PCIe Gen5 quickly and efficiently based SSDs. The new modular 8-Bay system provides customers the flexibility to easily interchange all popular SSD connector types and form factors. The new 16-Bay Expansion Enclosures enables the creation of large test configurations, reducing test time.
"Western Digital is committed to SSD portfolio excellence in markets utilizing high performance systems that incorporate PCI Express 5.0 and NVM Express storage. We are confident that strategic partners like Teledyne LeCroy will continue enabling Western Digital and the high-performance storage ecosystem with test solutions that foster rapid industry adoption," said Anuj Awasthi, Senior Director, System Design & Firmware Verification Engineering at Western Digital.
OakGate's PCIe Gen5 test solutions push the boundary for performance and functionality by providing:
- Products for any size project – Systems can be configured to match your requirements.
- Next generation system performance – Operation supports even large, complex test plans.
- Double the module density – Save rack space and improve power efficiencies with a 33% increase in density of expansion enclosures.
- Larger configurations options – Test up to 48 devices with a single rackmount appliance.
- Support for all standard SSD connectors, types, and form factors - including U.2, U.3, M.2, E3.S/L, E1.S/L and CEM.
- Flexibility and simplicity – Fully swappable modules.
- New advanced power features – lowering total overall cost by removing the need for additional power Interposers.
- Single/Dual-port software switching for U.2 and EDSFF SSDs.
"In the past decade, Teledyne LeCroy has pioneered the industry's most advanced SSD validation solutions and we continue to lead with the first validation solution supporting end-to-end PCIe Gen5." said Roy Chestnut, Vice President of Test Appliance Products. "Our PCIe Gen5 test solutions are powered by the industry's most widely used software suite, SVF Pro/Enduro. The 5th generation test software is packed full of advanced power measurement and management features."
OakGate R300 rackmount test appliances and the OakGate DE200 desktop test appliances for PCIe Gen5 SSD can be ordered now. For additional information, contact Teledyne LeCroy at 1-800-5LeCroy (1-800-553-2769) or visit Teledyne LeCroy's OakGate web site at https://www.oakgatetech.com/platform/gen-5-overview
Visit Teledyne LeCroy's at the Flash Memory Summit 2022 in booth #919 from Aug 2-4 in Santa Clara, California to experience our OakGate PCIe Gen5 SSD Test Solutions!
Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance "Time-to-Insight". Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy's website at teledynelecroy.com.
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LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP announced that Partners Debra James, Pooja Nair, and Vanja Habekovic have been selected as nominees for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards," honoring them for their impact and accomplishments within their firm and among the Los Angeles business community.
"We are grateful to have some of the top women attorneys in the profession," said Co-Managing Partner Randall Leff. " We laud their commitment to clients, to the firm and to the business community as a whole."
James, a Partner in the Real Estate Department, was selected as a "Mentor of the Year" nominee for her commitment to bettering the careers of women. In her law practice, she concentrates her practice on solving problems on a wide range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, development and construction, title work, real estate tax appeals and entity formation and structuring.
Nair, a Partner in the Litigation Department and Chair of the Firm's Food, Beverage and Hospitality Practice, is selected as a nominee for the "Women to Watch" category. She is a go-to attorney for the food, beverage, and hospitality industries and handles partnership disputes, false advertising claims, contract disputes.She also helps clients deal with cities and other local government bodies , including the Brown Act and California Public Records Act issues. Nair focuses on finding strategic, creative solutions to disputes that make business sense.
Habekovic, a Partner in and Co-Chair of the Corporate and Tax Departments, is also selected as a nominee for the "Women to Watch" category. Her clients rely on her dynamic counsel to establish, grow, maintain and sell their businesses and to navigate the important tax consequences that arise when making deals. Habekovic has a reputation of not only working closely and collaborating with her clients on existing matters, but looks long term to further develop strategies to advance a company's future endeavors.
Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP is a full-service firm that provides a broad range of business-related legal services including corporate law; litigation; intellectual property & technology law; real estate transactions and finance; construction & environmental law; tax planning and controversies; employment law; health care law; bankruptcy, receivership and reorganization; and estate planning. For more information, visit http://www.ecjlaw.com/
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DALLAS, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) will issue its second quarter 2022 results on Tuesday, July 26 with a news release issued via PR Newswire and First Call at approximately 6:30 a.m. CDT.
In addition to the news release, the company will make available prepared management remarks from Kimberly-Clark's Chairman and CEO Mike Hsu and CFO Nelson Urdaneta at approximately 7 a.m. CDT. These materials, as well as a link to the company's live question and answer webcast for analysts at 9 a.m. CDT, will be provided through the Investors section of Kimberly-Clark's website at www.kimberly-clark.com.
Kimberly-Clark will continue to post the date of future quarterly earnings releases and related webcasts on its website. Interested stockholders and others should monitor the website for these announcements.
About Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what's important to them. Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Neve, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. We use sustainable practices that support a healthy planet, build stronger communities, and ensure our business thrives for decades to come. To keep up with the latest news and to learn more about the company's 150-year history of innovation, visit kimberly-clark.com.
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The premier event in Europe for open source code and community contributors features 200+ sessions across 13 micro-conferences, covering the pivotal topics and technologies at the core of open source.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit Europe, the leading conference for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders. The event is taking place September 13-16 in Dublin, Ireland and virtually. The schedule can be viewed here.
OS Summit Europe will feature a robust program of 325+ talks across 13 micro-conferences covering the most essential and cutting edge topics in open source: Linux Systems, Supply Chain Security, AI + Data, OSPOs, Community Leadership, Embedded IoT, Cloud, Diversity, Containers, Embedded Linux and more.
2022 Conference Session Highlights Include:
- LinuxCon
- Embedded Linux Conference
- CloudOpen
- OSPOCon
- Critical Software Summit
- Emerging OS Forum
- SupplyChainSecurityCon
- Diversity Empowerment Summit
- Open Source On-Ramp
- Open AI + Data Forum
- ContainerCon
- Community Leadership Conference
- Embedded IoT Summit
Keynote speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Registration (in-person) is offered at the early price of $850 through July 17. Registration to attend virtually is $25. Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code.
Applications for diversity and need-based scholarships are currently being accepted. For information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here. The Linux Foundation's Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to attend events that they would otherwise be unable to attend due to a lack of funding. To learn more and apply, please click here.
Health and Safety
In-person attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and will need to comply with all on-site health measures, in accordance with The Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. To learn more, visit the Health & Safety webpage.
Event Sponsors
Open Source Summit Europe 2022 is made possible thanks to our sponsors, including Diamond Sponsors: AWS, Google and IBM, Platinum Sponsors: Huawei and Intel, and Gold Sponsors: Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Codethink, Docker, Mend, Red Hat, and Styra. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email us.
Press
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ABOUT THE LINUX FOUNDATION
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at https://linuxfoundation.org/.
The Linux Foundation Events are where the world's leading technologists meet, collaborate, learn and network in order to advance innovations that support the world's largest shared technologies.
Visit our website and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook for all the latest event updates and announcements.
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Flooding in south central Montana has closed the north and northeast entrances to Yellowstone National Park, hindering tens of thousands of people's summer trips. But for Red Lodge, a small city not far from the park's north entrance, the disaster has reshaped their livelihoods and entire community.
Kristen Cogswell had been mayor of Red Lodge, which had a population of under 2,300 in the 2020 census, for only about five and a half months when the flooding began late on June 12.
With a background as a teacher and attorney, she spent those months trying to learn the additional skills needed to be an effective mayor. Knowing how to respond to floods wasn't one she anticipated.
Flooding isn't known to be a problem in the region. Carbon County commissioner Bill Bullock talked with families who have roots in the area going back to the 1800s, and said there's never been an event like this.
"Tell me who has experience in dealing with a 500 year flood? Besides Noah," Cogswell told NPR over the phone.
Rock Creek runs alongside and through the city, and rises every spring because of snowmelt from the nearby Beartooth Mountains and Absorka Range, according to Bullock.
On June 12, Cogswell and her husband drove around looking at how high the water was with no idea what was to come. She was watching a movie that evening when she got a call from a city council member advising her to get down to the flooding site.
Later, she was in meetings with other officials when the roads started caving in. They had to decide who to evacuate. It was "go go go" until there was nothing more they could do, Cogswell said, and she didn't get home until after 3 a.m.
"One of the things that I'll never forget is listening to the boulders in the river bash into each other, like some bowling lanes to the gods or something," Cogswell told NPR. "You could hear hundreds of them that never stopped when that river was pulsing through."
Gena Burghoff, 46, owns the restaurant PREROGATIvE Kitchen in Red Lodge. She said she woke up to that same sound at around 3:30 a.m.
Burghoff said the water was moving so quickly that 40 foot fir trees were being carried down Broadway, a main street in Red Lodge, at 15 to 20 miles per hour.
"Broadway looked like a riverbed," Cogswell said. Her husband even encountered a man who was catching fish to put them back in the river.
A vulnerable community
The flooding, which President Biden declared a disaster on June 16, has slowed, but locals say it hasn't fully stopped. It's made Cogswell aware of how vulnerable Red Lodge is.
With only one highway, U.S. 212, running through the city, even a single bridge or road out of commission could leave residents isolated from outside resources. Bullock, the Carbon County commissioner, said eight to 10 public bridges and between 12 and 15 private bridges have been washed away in the flood.
Metalsmith Kristin Groener, 37, has lived in Red Lodge for two years. Her downstairs neighbor had to kick out a window to escape the water filling his apartment — the force of the rushing water on his door made it impossible to open.
"It feels to me that the recent snowstorms in the mountains, combined with the warm weather and heavy rainfall, would have implicated the possibility of heavy flooding," Groener told NPR. She knows it was an abnormal event, but wonders if it could have been better anticipated.
Cogswell said the people of her town have been tough about what they've lost in the flood, from old family photos to their favorite clothing. All of Groener's journals were destroyed, which she describes as years of memories lost.
"When you drive down over to the flood affected areas, you know, there's a lot of broken homes and broken futures," Cogswell said.
In the second of many town meetings held at Red Lodge High School after the initial disaster, Groener said a local man stood up and asked the attendees to raise their hand if they didn't have flood insurance. Everyone raised their hands. Many in Red Lodge didn't have renter's insurance either.
The town had been among the many Montana communities suffering from a housing crisis. Homes are expensive and hard to find. The average rent for a single bedroom apartment is $1,610, according to the site Apartment Home Living, and Realtor.com reports the median listing home price as $580,000, and "trending up 35.2% year-over-year."
This in a city where the median household income was $49,286 in 2020, according to Montana demographics by Cubit.
This flood could create opportunity for more housing, Cogswell said. The locals largely support affordable housing, and changes in the last zoning review mean that a more diverse range of living units, such as garage apartments, are now an option.
Cogswell also hopes to incorporate more sustainable development while rebuilding.
"For the creek to rise up and just knock us down," she said, "even those of us who are trying to be good stewards — you know, it's saying, 'That's not enough people! You're gonna have to do more.'"
A long road ahead
In order to rebuild, many locals need the economy to recover. Cogswell says the flooding was a crushing blow to their tourism industry, which Red Lodge almost completely relies on.
Kristin Groener said the flooding split up the town between those who want to let tourists in to support the local economy and those who fear the presence of tourists may get in the way of rebuilding efforts. Ultimately, tourists have been welcomed back to give businesses a chance at survival.
"We have to make X amount of money by the end of September, when [the Beartooth] pass generally closes, mid-October, to make it through winter," restaurant owner Burghoff said. "If we don't hit those numbers, we will not make it."
A friend of Burghoff's owns five restaurants in the area, and told her they were out $100,000 in lost business in just two weeks. Even the tip money from those profits alone, Burghoff points out, is tens of thousands of dollars that didn't enter the local economy.
For the past two years, with COVID-19 and then wildfires, Burghoff said it was extremely common for business owners to take out loans to stay afloat. Continuously asking for help has been emotionally exhausting.
A small group of locals make up the "economic recovery team," Burghoff said, which aims to figure out how to market the city as a destination in itself, instead of a stopover for those visiting Yellowstone.
With celebrated restaurants, Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary and the oldest operating movie theater in the state all up and running again, Cogswell said the Red Lodge community wants people to come back and see not only that they're okay, but they're going to be better than they were.
A week after the flooding, Cogswell considered Red Lodge to be in pretty good shape, which is why she's confident they'll be able to hold every event they had scheduled for the coming months.
Some good may come out of the flooding: Over the years, Burghoff said, residents of Red Lodge may have had their differences, but they've been able to work together for the greater good of their city.
"When this flood hit, it 100% replaced my faith in society. Everyone came out to help," Burghoff said. "No one even thought about talking about politics. ... And I think it was really important for that to happen in this community. Because the past couple of years have been pretty painful."
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The premier event in Europe for open source code and community contributors features 200+ sessions across 13 micro-conferences, covering the pivotal topics and technologies at the core of open source.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Open Source Summit Europe, the leading conference for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders. The event is taking place September 13-16 in Dublin, Ireland and virtually. The schedule can be viewed here.
OS Summit Europe will feature a robust program of 325+ talks across 13 micro-conferences covering the most essential and cutting edge topics in open source: Linux Systems, Supply Chain Security, AI + Data, OSPOs, Community Leadership, Embedded IoT, Cloud, Diversity, Containers, Embedded Linux and more.
2022 Conference Session Highlights Include:
- LinuxCon
- Embedded Linux Conference
- CloudOpen
- OSPOCon
- Critical Software Summit
- Emerging OS Forum
- SupplyChainSecurityCon
- Diversity Empowerment Summit
- Open Source On-Ramp
- Open AI + Data Forum
- ContainerCon
- Community Leadership Conference
- Embedded IoT Summit
Keynote speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.
Registration (in-person) is offered at the early price of $850 through July 17. Registration to attend virtually is $25. Members of The Linux Foundation receive a 20 percent discount off registration and can contact events@linuxfoundation.org to request a member discount code.
Applications for diversity and need-based scholarships are currently being accepted. For information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here. The Linux Foundation's Travel Fund is also accepting applications, with the goal of enabling open source developers and community members to attend events that they would otherwise be unable to attend due to a lack of funding. To learn more and apply, please click here.
Health and Safety
In-person attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and will need to comply with all on-site health measures, in accordance with The Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. To learn more, visit the Health & Safety webpage.
Event Sponsors
Open Source Summit Europe 2022 is made possible thanks to our sponsors, including Diamond Sponsors: AWS, Google and IBM, Platinum Sponsors: Huawei and Intel, and Gold Sponsors: Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Codethink, Docker, Mend, Red Hat, and Styra. For information on becoming an event sponsor, click here or email us.
Press
Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact Kristin O'Connell.
ABOUT THE LINUX FOUNDATION
Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 2,950 members. The Linux Foundation is the world's leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world's infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, Hyperledger, RISC-V, and more. The Linux Foundation's methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at https://linuxfoundation.org/.
The Linux Foundation Events are where the world's leading technologists meet, collaborate, learn and network in order to advance innovations that support the world's largest shared technologies.
Visit our website and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook for all the latest event updates and announcements.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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THE BRONX, N.Y. (WPIX) – A New York family has been repeatedly disappointed after a father, who is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, was denied by his insurance company three times for what they say is a life-saving operation.
Despite the denials, they’re not losing hope — but they say time is running out for Anthony Di Laura.
“I’m sitting here and I’m suffering,” Di Laura told Nexstar’s WPIX in an exclusive interview. “Every day is a battle.”
For two years, he has been fighting Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, or PMP. The National Organization of Rare Diseases said two in every 1 million people are diagnosed.
Di Laura’s wife, Jackie Cucullo, has been fighting alongside him.
“It originated as a tumor in the appendix and then spread to additional abdominal organs,” Cucullo said.
Mucin developed in Di Laura’s stomach, so he had major surgery to remove the infected stomach organs. Still, the cancer did not go away. Chemotherapy did not heal him either.
Di Laura’s family said he has been approved for a lifesaving surgery by doctors at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, yet their insurance has denied the multi-organ transplant three times.
“How is this possible?” Di Laura questioned. “We were approved for all the testing at the clinic to lead up to the transplant.”
A denial letter from Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield said the surgery is “investigational.”
“[It says] that this has not been done many times,” Cucullo said. “They continue to ask for more documentation, which I know has been provided.”
The Ohio surgeon, Dr. Anil Vaidya, successfully completed the surgery on one other patient in that state. Di Laura’s family said the operation is their last hope after a different surgeon told them the mucin in his stomach is becoming cement-like.
They’re optimistic that they will get over this hurdle, though, because they’ve dealt with challenges before. Cucullo was told she’d never be able to get pregnant, but a few months after Di Laura’s diagnosis, the couple welcomed a baby boy.
“We just decided that this was God’s plan,” Cucullo said. “We had one miracle, and that’s it. We’re totally happy and ready to move on.”
That was until the second miracle happened and Cucullo got pregnant again. Their baby girl is just 2 weeks old.
They believe their third miracle will be receiving approval for the surgery. In the meantime, they are leaning on each other.
“You don’t see this in this day and age, this type of love,” Di Laura cried. “I wouldn’t be here, I really wouldn’t, if it wasn’t for her taking care of me.”
Because Di Laura and Cucullo exhausted their three appeals with the insurance company, an independent external review with New York State is their next and final shot at getting approved. The family said Cleveland Clinic hospital was submitting the paperwork on Tuesday and an expedited decision was expected about five days later.
The family has raised over $100,000 on GoFundMe, but they say the operation could cost anywhere from $500,000 to $1 million without insurance.
WPIX reached out to the insurance company for comment but had not received a statement at the time this story was published. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/ny-father-rejected-3-times-for-cancer-surgery-im-suffering/ | 2022-07-12T19:42:10Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/national-news/ny-father-rejected-3-times-for-cancer-surgery-im-suffering/ | false |
NIA searches multiple locations in Udaipur murder case
New Delhi, July 12: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) Tuesday conducted searches at nine locations in Udaipur district of Rajasthan in connection with the killing of tailor Kanhaiya Lal last month, officials said "During the searches conducted today at the premises of accused and suspects in the case, digital devices (mobile phones, laptop and SIM cards) and other incriminating materials have been seized. Further investigations in the case are in progress," an NIA spokesperson said.
Kanhaiya Lal (48) was killed with a cleaver inside his tailoring shop on June 28. The gruesome attack by Riaz Akhtari, also referred to as Riyaz Attari, on the tailor was recorded on a phone by his accomplice Ghouse Mohammad, and the video was posted online. They said in a different video later that they hacked Lal to death to avenge an alleged insult to Islam.
They were arrested within hours of the killing. Besides the two, against whom the evidence is their self-shot video, security agencies nabbed two more -- identified Mohsin and Asif -- who are alleged to be a part of the conspiracy to spread terror amongst the public at large. Two more persons -- Mohammed Mohsin and Wasim -- were arrested subsequently for allegedly being part of the criminal conspiracy and helping the two main accused in carrying out a recce of the tailor's shop.
Udaipur killing: All 7 accused to be produced in NIA court today
A seventh accused, named Farhad Mohammad Sheikh, was the last man to be arrested so far in the case. The probe agencies claimed they have found several Pakistani numbers on the accused's WhatsApp accounts and said that one of the accused was part of some secret groups ostensibly meant for objectionable activities.
The NIA had on June 29 re-registered the case under the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after taking it over from the Rajasthan Police. The case was initially registered at Dhanmandi police station in Udaipur.
The NIA had said that the accused persons had circulated a video of the criminal act in the social media to trigger panic and strike terror among the masses across the country. On Tuesday, a Jaipur court extended the police custody of Riaz Akhtari, Ghouse Mohammad and Farhad Mohammad Sheikh up to Saturday and sent the remaining four to judicial custody till August 1.
All seven accused were produced by the National Investigation Agency before the designated NIA court amid tight security on Tuesday. | https://www.oneindia.com/india/nia-searches-multiple-locations-in-udaipur-murder-case-3432924.html | 2022-07-12T19:42:25Z | https://www.oneindia.com/india/nia-searches-multiple-locations-in-udaipur-murder-case-3432924.html | false |
Newly Created Organization a Spinoff from the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School
BOSTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI), a spinoff from the Impact-Weighted Accounts (IWA) project at Harvard Business School, held its inaugural board meeting this past weekend to launch the organization.
The goal of the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts is to drive the global integration of impacts in financial analysis to promote effective resource allocation and achieve long-term financial stability. To do so, IFVI will develop methodologies and valuation estimates, conduct research needed to support impact valuation, increase awareness about the feasibility and importance of full impact disclosure, and build market uptake of impact valuation among corporates, investors, and policy-makers.
The IFVI will build on the IWA's impact frameworks, methodologies, and datasets published to date. Since its inception in 2019, IWA has demonstrated that impact-weighted accounts are feasible, valuable, and scalable. It has published 22 papers, conducted over 2 dozen pilots, and released four open source data sets comprising thousands of companies. It has also drafted key principles underlying the display of impact-weighted accounts in conjunction with the Impact Economy Foundation, building on the internationally accepted frameworks, the Natural Capital Protocol (2016) and the Social and Human Capital Protocol (2018). The IFVI has been launched as an independent organization to implement the recommendation of the G7 Impact Taskforce and its December 2021 report, Time to Deliver, which notes:
"Investment decisions are being taken today with incomplete information. We should be working towards a world in which such decisions are thoroughly informed by risk, return, and impact. For this reason, the ITF urgently calls for mandatory accounting for impact as a destination, stressing that the journey towards this goal must be underpinned by greater transparency, harmonised global standards and strong mechanisms to ensure integrity of data and analysis…. The ITF recommends that the G7 countries and partners collaborate with the private sector, standard-setters and academia on approaches to impact valuation. This work is needed to deepen our understanding of how to value impact in a way that allows a meaningful comparison of the impacts and profits of companies, while also revealing the relationship between the two."
IFVI aims to establish a close partnership agreement with the Value Balancing Alliance to provide efficient scale to accomplish the goals set out by the G7 Taskforce. IFVI and the Value Balancing Alliance will continue to work closely within the valuation ecosystem, through the Capitals Coalition's Value Accounting Network and Value Commission. IFVI will accelerate progress through partnerships that promote speed and scale, and will build upon and amplify existing robust research.
Work on teaching, case studies, and executive education will continue at Harvard Business School under the leadership of IWA project faculty co-chairs George Serafeim and Ethan Rouen.
The initial Board of Directors of IFVI comprises five directors; additional representatives will be named once the establishment of the entity has been completed. The directors are:
Sir Ronald Cohen (Interim Board Chair)
Co-founder and Chair, Impact-Weighted Accounts; Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG); G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force; Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, Bridges Fund Management, Big Society Capital. Co-founder British and European Venture Capital Associations, Social Finance
Saori Dubourg
Chair, Value Balancing Alliance Steering Committee; Member, BASF SE Board of Executive Directors
Conor Kehoe
Chairperson, International Integrated Reporting Council; Member, Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) Board, Member, G7 Impact Taskforce; Senior Advisor, McKinsey and Blackrock
George Serafeim
Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Co-Chair, Impact-Weighted Accounts, Harvard Business School
Robert Herz
Former Chair, FASB; Former Founding Member, IASB Board; current member of the Boards of Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, and Workiva, served for many years on the Boards of the SASB (and its successor the Value Reporting Foundation) and as an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School
The Board has appointed the following as Officers of IFVI:
T. Robert Zochowski III
President and Chief Executive Officer
Katie Panella
Treasurer and Corporate Secretary
Sir Ronald Cohen, Interim Board Chair, remarked "This is a tremendous step forward in creating more inclusive and sustainable economies based on impact transparency. IFVI will drive the global establishment of standardized monetary valuation of impacts created by businesses and investors to complement existing efforts to standardize physical metrics. We are ushering in the era of impact and profit, where both drive resource allocation and the valuation of companies."
Media contact information – Please contact T. Robert Zochowski III at impactweightedaccounts@hbs.edu with questions. The existing IWA team and their email addresses will remain at Harvard Business School until December 2022 while IFVI's operations are fully established.
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 460
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
213 PM EDT TUE JUL 12 2022
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 460 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
BROOME CHEMUNG CHENANGO
CLINTON CORTLAND DELAWARE
ESSEX FRANKLIN FULTON
HAMILTON HERKIMER MADISON
MONTGOMERY ONEIDA OTSEGO
SARATOGA SCHENECTADY SCHOHARIE
SULLIVAN TIOGA TOMPKINS
WARREN WASHINGTON
The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northeastern Warren County in east central New York...
Northern Washington County in east central New York...
* Until 245 PM EDT.
* At 213 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Huletts
Landing, or 9 miles northwest of Whitehall, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Hague, Rogers Rock Campground, Huletts Landing, Putnam, Dresden
Center, Putnam Station, Silver Bay, Snody Dock, Clemons, Sabbath
Day Point, Indian Kettles, Hampton Flats, Graphite, Glenburnie and
Ottenburgs Ramp.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
If on or near Lake George, get away from the water and move indoors
or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
Please report hail size...damaging winds and reports of trees down to
the National Weather Service by email at Alb.Stormreport@noaa.gov...
On Facebook at www.facebook.com/nwsalbany or twitter @nwsalbany
Southeastern Warren County in east central New York...
East central Saratoga County in east central New York...
Central Washington County in east central New York...
Northwestern Bennington County in southern Vermont...
* Until 315 PM EDT.
* At 214 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Fort Edward,
or over Hudson Falls, moving east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
Glens Falls, Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Granville, Hartford,
Comstock, Glens Falls North, West Glens Falls, Queensbury,
Kingsbury, Porter, South Glens Falls, Rupert, Fort Ann, Argyle,
Dunham Basin, Smiths Basin, Goose Island, Adamsville and North
Granville.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY...
At 216 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Huletts
Landing, or 10 miles northwest of Whitehall, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Brant Lake, South Horicon and Graphite.
or inside a vehicle. remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
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TAMPA, Fla. and BASEL, Switzerland, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nilogen Oncosystems, a leading Oncology drug development Company; and Scailyte, a single cell AI biomarker discovery company, announced today a strategic partnership to increase the success rate of novel cancer therapies in the clinic, as well as to advance personalized cancer treatment.
This long-term strategic partnership aims at integrating Nilogen Oncosytems' proprietary 3D-EXplore Platform of fresh patient tumor tissue with Scailyte's AI Platform ScaiVision™ to develop a robust cutting-edge omics engine for personalized drug-tumor interactions to understand drug MoA and predict tumor response in patients for clinical trials enrichment.
The joint platform will unlock new paradigms in drug discovery and development thanks to Nilogen Oncosytems' unique 3D EXplore tumoroid technology retaining the intact tumor microenvironment, and to the ability of ScaiVision™ to detect complex, ultra-sensitive, and predictive molecular signatures in biological samples.
"Nilogen Oncosystems' capability to generate omics and multi-modal data from each therapeutic option and for each patient is unique. This capability in combination with Scailyte's ability to unlock molecular insights with single cell resolution creates an unprecedented level of personalized information and precision. This will not just change the way we discover and develop novel therapies, but more importantly will save more lives", said Juana Lucia Flores-Candia, VP Strategy & Business Development at Scailyte.
"We are pleased to be working with Scailyte since I believe our integrated solutions will not only support our BioPharma clients for faster, data-driven decision making throughout their drug development process but will also allow us to advance precision medicine applications for the treatment of cancer patients" said Soner Altiok, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Nilogen Oncosystems.
Founded in 2013, Nilogen Oncosystems, LLC is an Oncology drug development company with CLIA certified facilities in Tampa, FL. At Nilogen, we appreciate the complexity of cancer and use fresh patient tumor samples with intact tumor immune microenvironment in our 3D-EXplore preclinical drug testing platform. This holistic approach allows us to develop integrated solutions for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance. Our goal is to enable the development of more effective drug and drug combinations, and reduce the cost and risk associated with clinical trials. Nilogen's commitment to testing and customizing cancer drug development is proven and yields unparalleled results for its clients.
For more information, visit www.nilogen.com and connect on social media @LinkedIn.
Scailyte AG is a spin-off of ETH Zurich and combines single-cell technologies, high-quality datasets and machine learning methods to identify disease-specific biomarkers, with focus on oncology and immunology. Scailyte's proprietary best-in-class data analysis platform ScaiVision associates multimodal single-cell datasets (RNA-/TCR-/BCR-seq, proteomics, etc) with clinical endpoints, such as disease diagnosis, progression, severity, treatment response, in order to identify ultra-sensitive biomarker signatures. Thanks to the single-cell resolution and AI-driven approach, ScaiVision is the most powerful and cutting-edge approach to precise diagnosis and prediction of therapy response. Scailyte leverages a broad network of top clinicians to identify clinical indications with high unmet clinical needs and collaborates with global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to translate the novel biomarkers into ultra-sensitive companion diagnostics (CDx) or IVD assays.
For more information, visit www.scailyte.com and connect on social media @LinkedIn and @Twitter.
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Save-the-Date for Goleta’s Dam Dinner on Saturday, August 20
One of Goleta’s favorite events is back! We are so excited for the return of the Annual Goleta Dam Dinner on Saturday, August 20th! It’s been three long years since we were last able to hold this event, and we hope you will mark your calendars and join...
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(NewsNation) — Only half of Americans think the economic benefits of a college education outweigh the costs, according to a USA Today/Public Agenda poll released Monday.
The new report, based on a survey of 1,662 American adults, found young people without degrees are particularly skeptical of the economic upside of attending college.
That skepticism appears to be driven by the rising cost of higher education rather than a perceived decline in the value of a degree — 86% of respondents agreed that a college education can help working adults advance their careers, and about 70% said a college education helps people become better informed.
So is college still worth the price of admission? NewsNation asked Kevin Miller, the associate director of education at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“In general, the research shows that going to college pays off,” Miller said.
He pointed out that a student’s choice of major and the institution they attend can impact the extent to which that’s true.
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median weekly earnings for a worker with a bachelor’s degree is $1,334, compared to $809 for those with only a high school diploma. And there is evidence that the gap is growing.
Despite the earnings gap, wages have not kept pace with rising tuition costs, and that’s led many to reconsider advancing their education.
Since 1980, the average price tag for undergraduate education has increased nearly 170%, while earnings for workers ages 22-27 have only gone up 19%, according to a 2021 report from Georgetown University.
Today, the average student loan debt for recent college graduates is about $30,000.
“I think the student debt crisis is certainly decreasing morale and is giving people a lot of concern, which is fair,” Miller said.
Research suggests outcomes vary widely depending on the type of school students attend.
In a report published earlier this year, Miller found the vast majority of public and private nonprofit institutions provide a positive return on investment for their students but a third category, private for-profit institutions, were far less likely to do so.
College graduates also face lower unemployment rates on average, BLS data shows.
Monday’s survey results suggest a broader decline in college attendance could be set to continue.
Undergraduate enrollment is down nearly 1.4 million students since the start of the pandemic, according to National Student Clearinghouse data. It remains to be seen whether those numbers will rebound to pre-pandemic levels.
As recently as 2013, 70% of Americans said a college education was “very important” but by 2019 the proportion who said the same was just 51%, according to Gallup polling. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/is-college-worth-the-cost-only-half-of-americans-think-so/ | 2022-07-12T19:49:50Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/is-college-worth-the-cost-only-half-of-americans-think-so/ | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-7-5
(seven, four, seven, five)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-7-5
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Three Americans were quietly jailed in Venezuela earlier this year for allegedly trying to enter the country illegally and now face long prison sentences in the politically turbulent nation, The Associated Press has learned.
None of the arrests has previously been reported. Two of the men — a lawyer from California and a computer programmer from Texas — were arrested in late March, just days after President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government freed two other Americans.
Venezuelan security forces nabbed lawyer Eyvin Hernandez, 44, and computer programmer Jerrel Kenemore, 52, in separate incidents in the western state of Tachira, according to a person familiar with investigations into the arrests. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the cases publicly.
Hernandez is from Los Angeles; Kenemore is from the Dallas area, but had lived in Colombia since 2019.
A third American was arrested in January, also for allegedly entering the country illegally along its lengthy border with Colombia. AP is withholding his name at the request of his family.
At least eight more Americans — including five oil executives and three veterans — remain imprisoned in Venezuela, and U.S. officials insist they are being used as political bargaining chips.
The latest arrests come amid efforts by the Biden administration to unwind the Trump-era policy of punishing Maduro for what they consider his trampling on Venezuela’s democracy. Instead, Biden officials are trying to lure him back into negotiations with the U.S.-backed opposition to pave the way for free and fair elections.
As part of that still-early outreach, the U.S. has dangled the possibility of easing sanctions on the OPEC nation — a move that, over time, could also help lower oil prices, which spiked following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The release of two Americans on March 8 was celebrated in Washington, giving a boost to the Biden administration’s outreach to Maduro. It’s not clear what impact, if any, the jailing of three more Americans will have on relations with Maduro, a close ally of Russia whom the U.S. has sanctioned and indicted on narcotics charges.
The State Department confirmed the three arrests and a spokesperon said officials are advocating for the immediate release of all wrongfully detained Americans in Venezuela.
Beyond any political fallout, the arrests point to what U.S. officials consider an alarming trend: the arrest of unsuspecting Americans along the Colombia-Venezuela border, a lawless area dominated by criminal gangs and leftist rebels. Americans trying to enter Venezuela without a visa are especially vulnerable.
Despite Maduro’s often fiery rhetoric against the U.S. “empire,” there’s no indication he is targeting Americans for arrest.
But with the South American country torn apart after years of political unrest, hyperinflation and devastating food shortages, Maduro’s grip on his poorly paid security forces is constrained. That’s created an opening for criminal elements and hardliners looking to spoil Maduro’s talks with the U.S.
“There’s a lot of different centers of power in Venezuela and not all of them are aligned with Maduro or share his goal of seeing talks with the U.S. advance,” said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based analyst for the International Crisis Group.
In one arrest report seen by the AP, Venezuelan military counterintelligence agents justified their actions by citing the U.S.’s “constant threats, economic blockade, and breaking of diplomatic relations.”
Some top Venezuelan officials also justify the arrest of Americans. In a June 13 press conference announcing the arrest of another, unnamed American, Socialist party leader Diosdado Cabello said: “They have their plans against our country.”
Hernandez, who was arrested March 31, was supposed to appear in court on Monday but the hearing was postponed.
Hernandez migrated to Los Angeles as a toddler with his parents, who were fleeing civil war in El Salvador. After graduating from the University of California Los Angeles law school, he turned down lucrative jobs to instead work as a public defender representing indigent and sometimes homeless defendants, a sign of his charitable spirt, friends and relatives said.
Like Maduro, Hernandez loves salsa music and has a history of labor activism. An avid traveler, Hernandez was taking a short break from work when he traveled to Colombia, where he’s been several times before, his brother said. Right before he was due home, he accompanied a Venezuelan friend to the border. His family said it was never his intention to go to Venezuela, nor would he knowingly break the law.
Hernandez’s friend is also being held and faces the additional charge of migrant smuggling, according to the person familiar with investigation.
“My entire family deeply misses my brother,” Henry Martinez, who also lives in Los Angeles, said in a statement. “He has worked his entire career serving marginalized people and he is truly the best of us. We hope and pray that Eyvin can return home very soon from this mistaken arrest.”
Two weeks before Hernandez’s arrest, Kenemore was taken into custody in similarly murky circumstances.
According to Kenemore’s family, he had been living in Colombia for over a year with a Venezuelan woman he met online when both were getting over divorces. The two shared a small apartment where Kenemore was working remotely for a client in the U.S., but had decided to relocate to Venezuela, where his girlfriend had a home.
Kenemore’s family said he was detained by migration officials upon entering Venezuela, according to a GoFundMe page they set up to pay for his defense. They posted on the crowdfunding platform what they said was the last photo of him before his arrest, near a Colombian border checkpoint on the Simon Bolivar international bridge.
Prosecutors allege that Kenemore, his girlfriend and three others entered the country on a nearby dirt trail, one of hundreds of irregular crossings used daily by Venezuelans shuttling between the countries for groceries, medical appointments and to visit family. They said he was carrying three laptops and was accompanied by a captain in the Venezuelan navy, something that also raised suspicions.
Like Hernandez, Kenemore was charged with criminal association and conspiracy — crimes punishable with up to 16 years in jail. His girlfriend is also being held.
“Jerrel is a good American, Christian man,” Jeana Kenemore Tillery, his sister, said in a phone interview. “All he wanted to do was be with the woman he loved. His sisters, children and grandson miss him very much and we just want him home.”
In April, the State Department warned about threats to Americans along the Colombia-Venezuela border. It recommended Americans avoid all travel to Venezuela, and never enter without a visa, which is nearly impossible to obtain since the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Maduro in 2019.
According to Venezuelan law, foreigners found in the country without a visa are to be immediately deported.
But for reasons that are unclear, all three men arrested earlier this year were transferred hundreds of miles away to the capital, Caracas, to a maximum security prison housing many of Maduro’s opponents.
Americans jailed in Venezuela are at a disadvantage when it comes to seeking help from their government. The U.S. closed its hilltop Embassy in Caracas in 2019, after recognizing opposition lawmaker Juan Guaidó as the nation’s legitimate leader.
The United Nations has long complained about the lack of independence for Venezuelan judges as well as the facility where the Americans are being held.
“It’s not a legal system one wants to get trapped in,” said Gunson of the International Crisis Group.
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Nicholas Braun is more than a sprinkle.
In fact, the Succession star is now a two-time Emmy nominee, nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor In a Drama Series at the 2022 Emmys. However, as Braun exclusively told E! News, this news is even sweeter thanks to his co-star Matthew Macfadyen being honored alongside him in the category.
"He deserved it completely," Braun raved. "Just one of my favorite actors I've gotten to work with and just in the world. He's an amazing guy to learn from and we have something really special."
Macfadyen, who plays Braun's devious mentor Tom in the HBO drama, shared several scenes with Braun's Cousin Greg this season, including one in the finale where he convinced the up-and-comer to double-cross the Roy siblings. And while these characters may have a totally toxic dynamic on-screen, Braun revealed that his friendship with Macfadyen is the key to pulling it off.
"Our friendship helps us get even nastier with one another," he explained. "Because you're like, 'Oh my god, what's he gonna do? I'm gonna give him some he's gonna give me something.'"
For those who need a reference, Macfadyen's Tom uttered the following to Braun's Greg in season three: "I'd castrate you and marry you in a heartbeat."
While some might be shocked by this line, Braun made it clear that he loves these Tom-Greg moments, adding, "Anything he wants to do to any degree, I'm here for it."
As for what we can expect from season four? Braun stayed mostly tight-lipped, but did tease, "I would say some even nicer suits. He's moving in the direction that he wants to. He is continuing to try to thrive in this world."
Hopefully that doesn't mean Greg is leading a round of "Boar on the Floor."
Find out if either Braun or Macfadyen take home the Emmy when the award show airs on NBC and Peacock Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. ET.
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
6-9-7-5
(six, nine, seven, five)
BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Massachusetts Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
6-9-7-5
(six, nine, seven, five) | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17300058.php | 2022-07-12T19:56:14Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Midday-game-17300058.php | true |
PHILADELPHIA, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Berger Montague is investigating violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of investors who purchased Solana ($SOL) cryptocurrency tokens issued by Solana Labs, Inc. ("Solana Labs" or the "Company") between March 24, 2020, and the present, inclusive (the "Class Period").
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
222 PM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN WARREN COUNTY...
At 221 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Huletts
Landing, or 9 miles northwest of Whitehall, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Graphite.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
If on or near Lake George, get away from the water and move indoors
or inside a vehicle. remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Broome, west
central Delaware and southern Chenango Counties through 315 PM EDT...
At 224 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Sanitaria Springs, or 10 miles east of Greater Binghamton Airport,
moving east at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Sidney, Walton, Coventry, Port Dickinson, Bainbridge, Masonville,
Afton, Franklin, Chenango Forks and East Sidney.
This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 88 between 1 and 11.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 PM EDT for
central New York.
LAT...LON 4207 7510 4214 7590 4231 7588 4233 7540
4231 7540 4232 7538 4231 7534 4232 7531
4234 7529 4235 7508
TIME...MOT...LOC 1824Z 270DEG 41KT 4222 7579
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
The National Weather Service in Burlington has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Essex County in northern New York...
Southwestern Addison County in central Vermont...
Northern Rutland County in southern Vermont...
Northwestern Windsor County in southern Vermont...
* Until 315 PM EDT.
* At 225 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Benson
Landing, moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines.
* Locations impacted include...
Rutland, Castleton, West Castleton, Sudbury, Hubbardton,
Killington, Orwell, Stockbridge, Proctor, Benson, Brandon,
Chittenden, Mendon, Pittsfield, Pittsford, West Haven, Fair Haven,
West Rutland, Rutland City and Goshen.
Boaters on Lake Champlain should seek safe harbor now! Strong winds
will cause higher waves and sudden wind shifts may overturn boats.
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Govt. rolls out schemes for aiding entrepreneurs hit by COVID-19
Subsidy-linked credit scheme will help to reestablish businesses; the incentive scheme will help in modernisation of enterprises
The Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned ₹50 crore for implementing the COVID Assistance and Relief to Entrepreneurs (CARE) Scheme during 2022-23 with two components — a subsidy-linked credit scheme and an incentive scheme.
The subsidy-linked credit scheme is aimed at entrepreneurs whose businesses were affected by the pandemic to re-establish them or to start a new enterprise either by themselves or through their legal heirs. The incentive scheme is meant for those who undertake technology upgrade/modernisation of their enterprises.
Individuals/proprietary and partnership units whose business was affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic in 2020-21 and 2021-22 are eligible for the scheme, which may cover manufacturing and service sector enterprises. “The scheme may be implemented for one year, i.e., 2022-2023,” a government order said.
The maximum project cost may be ₹5 crore and the maximum cap on the capital subsidy will be ₹25 lakh. Since these entrepreneurs are experienced, training under the entrepreneurship development programme may not be mandatory for the subsidy-linked credit scheme.
As for the incentive scheme, the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which have taken up technology upgrade/modernisation by adding machinery and equipment, are eligible only for subsidy, provided they are affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic in 2020-21 and 2021-22.
“The MSMEs are eligible to avail themselves of 25% on the value of plant and machinery subject to a maximum of ₹25 lakh as capital subsidy,” said the order issued by V. Arun Roy, Secretary of Department of MSMEs. “Re-establishment of plant and machinery will be eligible in exceptional cases with the specific approval of the Industries Commissioner and the Director of Industries and Commerce.”
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(NewsNation) — Homebuyers are backing out of sales at the highest rate since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from Redfin says.
Nationwide, about 60,000 home-purchase agreements fell through in June, which is equal to 14.9% of homes that went under contract that same month, according to Redfin. This is the highest percentage on record, the report said, excluding March and April 2020, when the housing market slowed immensely after the onset of the pandemic. Before the pandemic, the highest rate of cancellations was about 11%, NewsNation business contributor and New York Post reporter Lydia Moynihan said.
Redfin partly attributes the contract cancellations to a slowing housing market that gives buyers more room to negotiate deals.
“Buyers are increasingly keeping rather than waiving inspection and appraisal contingencies,” Redfin Deputy Chief Economist Taylor Marr said. “That gives them the flexibility to call the deal off if issues arise during the homebuying process.”
People are also being forced to cancel contracts because they can’t afford higher mortgage rates. The New York Times reported that the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates in an attempt to contain rising inflation has pushed up mortgage costs and pushed out many first-time buyers.
“If rates were at 5% when you made an offer, but reached 5.8% by the time the deal was set to close, you may no longer be able to afford that home or you may no longer qualify for a loan,” Marr said.
CNBC said Lennar, which is one of the United States’ largest homebuilders, had a cancellation rate that increased sequentially to 11.8%, although that is still below its long-term historical average. To make up for falling demand due to these rising interest rates, Lennar has reported increasing its incentives, CNBC said.
Moynihan said all this underscores how nervous people are about making a big purchase these days.
“They don’t know if we’re going to go into a recession. They’re worried they could lose their jobs. There are just too many question marks to make this kind of a commitment,” she said. “People are paring back on little purchases. So how much more are they going to pare back on big purchases?”
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
319 PM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WARREN AND
NORTHEASTERN SARATOGA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 700 PM EDT for
east central New York...and southern Vermont.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM EDT
FOR CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND NORTHWESTERN BENNINGTON COUNTIES...
At 317 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located about 10 miles
northwest of Salem, moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Hudson Falls, Fort Edward, Granville, Hartford, Comstock, Kingsbury,
Porter, Hampton, Fort Ann, Argyle, Middle Granville, Braymer School,
Dunham Basin, Smiths Basin, Goose Island, Adamsville, North
Granville, East Hebron, South Granville and Truthville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Updated July 12, 2022 at 3:46 PM ET
The committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack holds its seventh public hearing Tuesday, focusing on the role right-wing extremist groups – such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers – played in planning the deadly siege.
Expect the committee to try to connect the dots between these groups and the effort to overturn the 2020 election – and also to show how a tweet from former President Donald Trump spurred some in those groups to organize around Jan.6, 2021.
This story will be updated throughout the hearing.
Update 3:46 p.m. ET
Trump's former campaign manager blamed his rhetoric: The impact of Trump's speech at the ellipse was apparent to his former campaign manager Brad Parscale, according to copies of texts he exchanged with rally organizer Katrina Pierson on the evening of Jan. 6.
He described the situation as "a sitting president asking for civil war," adding that "This week I feel guilty for helping him win" in 2016.
Pierson responded that he did what he felt right at the time, to which Parscale replied, "Yeah. But a woman is dead."
"If I was Trump and knew my rhetoric killed someone," he later wrote. Pierson responded that it wasn't the rhetoric.
"Katrina," he texted. "Yes it was."
Update 3:42 p.m. ET:
Trump's last-minute speech revisions escalated tensions: The committee reconstructed how Trump edited his Ellipse speech up until the last minute and then went off-script, based on documents from the National Archives and testimony from witnesses.
Trump made changes to the script the night before and the morning of Jan. 6, according to Rep. Stephanie Murphy. One of his first changes was to insert the lines "Together we will stop the steal," and "All of us ... here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical left Democrats. Our country has had enough, we will not take it anymore."
The next morning, he spoke to chief speechwriter Stephen Miller for nearly half an hour, after which he inserted this line: "We will see whether Mike Pence enters history as a truly great and courageous leader. All he has to do is refer the illegally submitted electoral votes back to the states that were given false and fraudulent information where they want to recertify."
Speechwriters cut that line after then-Trump senior adviser Eric Herschmann and others objected to it. But later that morning, after the famously tense phone call in which Trump pressured Pence not to certify the election results — and erupted in anger when Pence refused — speechwriters were instructed to "reinsert the Mike Pence lines," Murphy said.
Trump made changes to his speech even as he delivered it, ad-libbing references to fighting and the need for people to have courage and be strong. The word "peacefully" was in the written version and used only once, Murphy pointed out, adding that this rhetoric stoked tensions and riled up supporters even more.
"A single scripted reference in the speech to Mike Pence became eight, a single scripted reference to rally-goers marching to the Capitol became four, with President Trump ad-libbing that he would be joining the protesters at the Capitol."
Update 3:30 p.m. ET:
Trump's intent to call for the march to the Capitol was a secret: Rep. Stephanie Murphy expanded on the committee's case showing that Trump and some White House officials knew about the potential for violence on Jan. 6 but didn't attempt to cancel or modify their plans.
They aired testimony from Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign spokesperson and an organizer of the Jan. 6 rally. She grew increasingly apprehensive after learning that the proposed speaking lineup included far-right activists including Roger Stone, Infowars founder Alex Jones and "Stop the Steal" founder Ali Alexander.
She reached out to Meadows on Jan. 2, writing that "Things have gotten crazy and I desperately need some direction." Phone records show Meadows called her eight minutes later. Pierson recounted that she had expressed her concerns to Meadows, mentioning the heated rhetoric of Jones and Alexander in particular and noting that they had already entered the Georgia state capitol to protest results of the 2020 election.
Despite such concerns, White House officials and rally organizers did not modify their plans or attempt to lower the temperature among Trump supporters. Murphy presented evidence showing that Trump had decided to call on protesters to march to the Capitol, but chose not to announce it until his speech on the morning of Jan. 6.
Pierson wrote in an email that Trump's plan was to hold an "intimate" rally at the Ellipse before calling on everyone to march to the Capitol. And the committee obtained access to a draft tweet telling people to arrive early and march to the Capitol after — which the president saw but never sent. It also showed texts from two people involved in the rally to others, saying that there were plans to order protesters to march to the Capitol, but that they had to be kept under wraps.
The committee showed an undated draft tweet that went unsent from Trump where he would have publicly said that there would be a march to the Capitol and a text message from rally organizer Kylie Kramer on Jan. 4 in which she told My Pillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell that Trump would "call for it unexpectedly" but that they didn't want word to get out so there wouldn't be a counter march. A Jan. 5 text from rally organizer Ali Alexander said to be to a conservative journalist that said Trump intended to call on supporters to march to the Capitol.
Murphy painted Trump's speech as "not a spontaneous call to action, but a deliberate strategy decided upon in advance by the president."
Update 3:17 p.m. ET:
GOP House members who met with Trump: Rep. Stephanie Murphy said that the Trump administration worked closely with a group of members of Congress to contest the results of the 2020 election and to "encourage members of the public to fight the outcome on Jan. 6."
The former president's schedule obtained by the committee shows a private meeting with members on Dec. 21. White House visitor logs also obtained by the committee show members present for that meeting included Republican Reps. Brian Babin, of Texas; Andy Bigg of Arizona; Matt Gaetz of Florida; Louie Gohmert of Texas; Paul Gosar of Arizona; Andy Harris of Maryland; Jody Hice of Georgia; Jim Jordan of Ohio; Scott Perry of Pennsylvania; and Republican Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia.
Murphy said part of discussion focused on the role of the vice president in the certification of the votes.
Update 3:03 p.m. ET:
Extremist groups' coordination raised red flags: The Jan. 6 committee presented evidence of coordination among far-right groups whose leaders have been charged with seditious conspiracy, the organizer of President Trump's "stop the steal" rally on Jan. 6, 2021, and outside Trump allies in the leadup to the attack on the Capitol.
In the hours after former Trump sent a tweet on Dec. 19, 2020, summoning supporters to Washington for Jan. 6, Kelly Meggs, the head of the Florida Oath Keepers, posted a Facebook message stating that his group would "work together" with the Three-Percenters and Proud Boys, other right-wing extremist groups.
Rep. Jamie Raskin said that Meggs called Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio for several minutes on Dec. 19.
Raskin showed messages from an encrypted chat he said was launched by the Proud Boys on Dec. 20 with operational details for Jan. 6 planning.
Six days before one-time Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn participated in an Oval Office meeting focused on overturning the election, he was photographed with key members of the Oath Keepers outside the Capitol.
The committee revealed an encrypted chat called F.O.S. (Friends of Roger Stone) that included Tarrio, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and Ali Alexander, organizer of Trump's Stop the Steal rally at the Ellipse. The former lawyer for the Oath Keepers said the three were at the center of organizing post-election protests in Washington.
Donell Harvin, former D.C. homeland security chief, said his agency had intelligence of operational coordination among violent individuals organizing to come to the city for Jan. 6.
"All the red flags went up," he said.
Update 2:46 p.m. ET:
Two witnesses sit for live testimony: Stephen Ayres, who faced a number of charges for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and pleaded guilty to one charge of disorderly and disruptive conduct, has taken his seat to testify at today's hearing, alongside former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove. The committee did not disclose the identity of witnesses in advance for security and to avoid intimidation.
Van Tatenhove worked for the group starting in 2014 for about two years. He was "only an employee," not a member of the group, and "purged my life of that world years ago," he said in an interview with KDVR TV in Denver.
Federal investigators say Ayres, who is 38 years old from Champion, Ohio, and two unidentified friends filmed a video in their hotel room to "share what really happened" at the Capitol and posted it on YouTube following the riot. According to an FBI affidavit, at some point during the video, Ayres' male friend claimed that "Antifa breached" the Capitol and that police "escorted" them into the building. In response, Ayers agreed that the entire incident was "definitely planned out," according to the FBI report.
Ayres pleaded guilty to one charge, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. Sentencing is set for Sept. 13.
Update 2:33 p.m. ET:
Right-wing media stoked 'wild' protest: On Dec. 19, the former president tweeted "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election. Big protest in D.C. on january 6th. Be there, will be wild!"
This tweet and its message proliferated across right-wing media platforms from print to broadcast, Rep. Jamie Raskin said.
"He is now calling for we the people to take actions and to show our numbers," said Alex Jones, a far-right radio host, in a video. "The time for games is over. The time for action is now."
A right-wing commentator told viewers: "We will only be saved by millions of Americans moving to Washington, occupying the entire area, if necessary, storming into the Capitol..."
A pro-Trump Youtuber repeated that Jan. 6 would be a "red wedding," a reference to "mass slaughter," Raskin said.
A former Twitter employee testified anonymously to the committee that they, and other Twitter employees, were concerned about Trump's use of the social media platform to directly communicate with right-wing extremist groups.
"If former President Donald Trump was any other user, he would have been permanently suspended a very long time ago," the employee said.
Update 2:21 p.m. ET:
An 'unhinged' meeting in the White House: Rep. Jamie Raskin outlined the details of an unplanned, contentious Dec. 18 meeting that began in the Oval Office and – some increasingly tense six hours later – wound up in the president's private residence.
As he described it, attorney Sidney Powell, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne showed up at the White House, gained access from a junior staffer and made their way to the Oval Office, where they were able to speak with the president alone for more than 10 minutes before White House officials learned of the gathering and ran into the room.
"What ensued was a heated and profane clash between this group and President Trump's White House advisers, who traded personal insults, accusations of disloyalty to the president and even challenges to physically fight," Raskin said, adding that the meeting was best described by the testimony of those who were in the room — as well as those outside who could hear the shouting coming from inside.
The outside advisers met with Trump for 10 to 15 minutes before, as Powell put it, "I bet Pat Cipollone set a new land speed record" trying to intervene. Cipollone testified that he didn't think they were providing the president with good advice and wasn't sure how they got into the building (He recalled the first thing he said to the "Overstock person" was "Who are you?"
Former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann said Flynn brought diagrams to show a conspiracy theory involving Venezuela and communications via internet-connected thermostats. He recalled siding with Cipollone against the outside advisers, asking repeatedly for them to provide evidence for their claims and testifying that they showed "a general disregard for the importance of backing up what you say with the facts."
The rhetoric and volume escalated. Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, recalled telling the White House officials that they weren't tough enough, calling them a pejorative term. After the meeting finally ended around midnight, Cassidy Hutchinson, the Meadows aide who testified at the most recent hearing, wrote in a text message that "the West Wing is UNHINGED," and captured a photo of Meadows escorting Giuliani off the grounds.
It was in the hours after this meeting that Trump tweeted that his supporters should come to Washington on Jan. 6, telling them: "Be there, will be wild!"
Update 1:54 p.m. ET:
'That's a terrible idea': Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told the committee that he was "vehemently opposed" to the potential appointment of Sidney Powell as special counsel to oversee seizing voting machines and potential criminal charges as part of a plan to overturn the results of the election.
"To have the federal government seize voting machines? That's a terrible idea for the country," Cipollone said during his taped interview, noting that there is already an established way to contest elections.
"I don't understand why we even have to tell you why that's a bad idea for the country, it's a terrible idea."
Update 1:44 p.m. ET:
Top White House aides were ready to concede: Those closest to Trump in the White House considered the 2020 election over — and lost — by mid-December, according to new video testimony released on Tuesday.
Dozens of lawsuits had failed to find evidence of voter fraud widespread enough to affect the outcome by the time the Electoral College formally cast its votes in favor of Biden on Dec. 14, 2020. The following day, Republican Mitch McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, congratulated Biden as the president-elect and announced that "the Electoral College has spoken."
In his testimony on Friday played at Tuesday's hearing, Cipollone said that he also believed at the time that there was no evidence of widespread fraud and that Trump should have conceded the election, saying "That would be in line with my thinking on these things."
He also said then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows shared that view, too, adding he had heard him express that sentiment around the same time and not as a one-time statement.
Update 1:24 p.m. ET:
A sneak peek of future hearings: Cheney said in opening remarks that former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone's testimony behind closed doors to the committee last week "met expectations."
The next hearing will focus on Trump's behavior during the violence of Jan. 6, according to Cheney. That hearing, per committee aides, is expected to be scheduled for next week.
But Cipollone's testimony will not be saved for that hearing; segments of his interview will be featured today.
Update 1:22 p.m. ET:
Cheney opens: Committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo, said in opening remarks that over the course of the seven hearings, the strategy for defending Trump has changed among his supporters.
"Now the argument seems to be that President Trump was manipulated by others outside the administration," Cheney said. "President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child."
Cheney recapped the argument that Trump was shown evidence that the election was not stolen and debunking voter fraud conspiracies.
The vice chair said that in this hearing, viewers will see committee evidence that Trump's legal team knew that they lacked "actual evidence sufficient to prove the election was stolen. But they went ahead by January 6 anyway" and, second, Trump's deception of Americans across the country who did not have access to the same data that he did.
Original story posted at 5 a.m. ET:
The House Jan. 6 committee holds its seventh hearing on its months-long investigation Tuesday, focusing on the involvement of extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and the QAnon movement and the groups' possible connection to Trump associates, including Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.
Former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove will testify. Van Tatenhove left the organization well before the Capitol insurrection and will appear as a live witness to give a historical perspective on the group.
Check back here for live updates throughout Tuesday's hearing, and watch the livestream here beginning at 1 p.m. ET:
The hearing will also look at a Dec. 19 tweet from former President Donald Trump that read: "Big protests in D.C. on January 6. Be there. Will be wild!" The tweet is viewed as "a pivotal moment that spurred a chain of events, including a pre-planning by the Proud Boys," according to a committee aide.
Tuesday's hearing will be led by Reps. Stephanie Murphy and Jamie Raskin.
Beyond Van Tatenhove, committee aides declined to provide insight into other witnesses or how many will appear, citing security and harassment concerns.
"We'll give the American public a more complete understanding of the final phase of President Trump and his supporter's use of radical measures to prevent the peaceful transfer of power and overturn the 2020 election," a committee aide told reporters, adding that there will also be a focus on a pressure campaign from members of Congress on the vice president to not certify the election.
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers members have faced charges in connection with the Jan. 6 attack
Since its first hearing on its investigation last month, the panel has pointed to the involvement of both the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6.
"In our hearings to come, we will show specifically how a group of Proud Boys led a mob into the Capitol building on January 6," committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said during opening statements.
Van Tatenhove, the former Oath Keepers spokesman testifying Tuesday, started working for the group in 2014 for about two years. He was "only an employee," not a member of the group, and "purged my life of that world years ago," he told Denver TV station KDVR in an interview that aired on CNN Monday.
Members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have faced charges in connection with the Jan. 6 attack over the past year and, most recently, federal prosecutors have alleged that an Oath Keeper member brought explosives into D.C. on that day.
That first panel hearing featured testimony from Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who was following the Proud Boys in the days leading up to the insurrection. As a part of interviews for the hearing, the committee reached out to some members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who said they went to the Capitol that day because they believed that's what Trump asked them to do.
And when the panel last met, Cheney said the Trump White House had received information about planned demonstrations for Jan. 6 that included organizing and planning by the Proud Boys to attend related events that day.
The warnings included details about the events including that "unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters as they were previously, but Congress itself if the target on the 6th," according to reports shown by the committee.
At that hearing, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she heard the words "Proud Boys" and "Oath Keepers" more often on the days leading up to Jan. 6 and there were intelligence reports warning of the potential for violence that week. Some of the reports included listings for events such as "Fight for Trump" which described the "need to flood" the Capitol and "show America, and the senators and representatives inside voting that we won't stand for election fraud!"
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Committee aides specifically mentioned the hearing will discuss the extremist groups' alleged ties to Stone and Flynn.
Stone, a longtime Trump ally, was charged by the Justice Department in 2020 with witness tampering and lying to Congress in a case resulting from the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump pardoned him later that year.
Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, was also pardoned by Trump from crimes also in connection to the Mueller investigation.
Those watching the hearings have already heard from Flynn. In a videotaped deposition when he was asked if the violence on Jan. 6 was legal, he invoked the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Both Stone and Flynn have come up at past hearings as links between Trump and the people beyond the White House wanting to keep him in power after he lost the 2020 presidential election.
Two other names that could come up are Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes. Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, is one of the five charged with seditious conspiracy related to Jan. 6. He wasn't at the Capitol on that day, but prosecutors argue he helped coordinate the efforts. Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, attempted to be put in contact with the White House leading up to Jan. 6, according to NBC.
Another hearing to come
The committee is eyeing next week for a hearing that had been expected to take place this Thursday evening during prime time, according to select committee aides. That hearing will be led by Reps. Elaine Luria and Adam Kinzinger.
Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the nine-member committee, told ABC News on Sunday that the hearing would focus on the hours in the middle of the insurrection that Trump was seemingly absent.
The panel had originally planned on issuing a final report in September. However, committee aides told reporters that the timeline has shifted as the committee has received additional information. The report is still expected to be released sometime this fall though there is no specific timing.
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Lawyer's unique background includes engineering expertise and in-depth knowledge of government operations
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Martensen IP Law (www.martensenip.com), a leading Colorado intellectual property law firm, has announced that Cody P. Fowler has joined its team. An expert in government contracts and compliance, administrative law, aviation law and national security law, she brings that experience to bear on intellectual property cases following a distinguished 20-year military career.
"Cody's background as flight test engineer, Air Force staff judge advocate and litigator makes her highly qualified to assist companies of all kinds, including those in the aerospace, aviation and engineering industries," said Martensen IP Law Founder and Principal Mike Martensen. "She's a proven leader with a remarkable record of success who will provide our clients with valuable insights and representation."
A U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, Fowler began her military career as a flight test engineer focusing on helicopters. She shifted her focus to law when selected for the Air Force Funded Legal Education Program and attended the University of North Carolina School of Law. Her legal experience while serving included handling government contracts, aviation law and national security issues for an Air Force Special Operations unit.
"We're excited to have Cody join our team," added Martensen. "Her background is a perfect fit for our firm and our clients, as is her work ethic, tenacity and attention to detail."
Based in Colorado Springs, CO, and operating at the intersection of business, law and technology, Martensen IP Law provides legal solutions to companies and investors worldwide that are facing complicated intellectual property (IP) issues. The firm possesses a unique combination of legal, business, technology and military contracting experience that enables it to assess an organization's IP and develop a strategy for protecting and capitalizing on those assets. Learn more at martensenip.com.
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Keen to immerse himself in the history of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Jon Rahm attempted to pick the brains of the great Lee Trevino at the home of golf this week.
Rahm was fascinated to learn, for example, that the storied course was meant to play clockwise rather than the other way round.
“A little bit of interesting history,” Rahm said on Tuesday, before adding with a smile: “I don’t know if it’s true.”
Indeed, Rahm would love to use some of his down time at the British Open to visit a couple of the bookstores in St. Andrews in a search for more golf history. He said there are too many people around town to do that, though, so is relying on some of his own memories to fire him up ahead of a bid for a second major title.
And it’s no surprise that one stands out.
“I don’t want to go with the obvious,” he said, “but 1984 was very special for Spanish people. I’m going to go with that — that image of Seve celebrating. It’s an iconic image not only for us but for the world of golf.”
That image, of the much-loved Seve Ballesteros twice thrusting his arm into the air before walking off the 18th green with his arm around his caddie, marked the second of his three wins at golf’s oldest major championship.
No Spaniard has won it since. Rahm has long dreamed of emulating his compatriot and idol.
“This is truly the pinnacle of golf,” he said. “I don’t think it gets any better than winning at St. Andrews.
“No offense to any other tournament in the world. It’s the oldest championship on the oldest course and where it all started.”
Rahm’s first — and so far only — competitive rounds at the Old Course were during the Dunhill Links Championship on the European tour in 2019. He learned about the vagaries of the wind off St. Andrews Bay, the risk-and-reward element of the course, and — of course — to not hit it right.
Since then, he has become the world’s top-ranked player and validated that status by winning his first major title at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2021.
A second major looked like being in reach in his title defense at Brookline last month, when he went into the final round a shot off the lead even though he was “searching for his swing.”
A closing 74 dropped him into a tie for 12th, and he arrives at St. Andrews at No. 3 in the world ranking and on the back of a tie for 55th place at the Scottish Open last week over the links at The Renaissance Club.
Finishing third at Royal St. George’s last year was his best performance in five British Opens and, for Rahm, there would be nowhere better to lift the claret jug than at St. Andrews on the 150th staging of the event.
Jack Nicklaus, who won at St. Andrews in 1970 and 1978, once said: “If you’re going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.”
Rahm can see where Nicklaus is coming from.
“It can almost put your career to another level,” he said, “just because how great of a venue this one is.”
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Family Property (OFP Real Estate, LLC or "OFP"), is pleased to announce the acquisition of a multi-tenant real estate portfolio containing thirty-five properties valued at more than $85,000,000.
The portfolio includes net-leased real estate properties located across five states throughout the Midwest and Northeast. These properties are predominately leased to investment-grade tenants including: CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Advance Auto Parts, O'Reilly Auto Parts and Sherwin-Williams.
The acquisition of this portfolio is part of One Family Property's robust pipeline in excess of $175,000,000 for the remainder of the 2022 calendar year. OFP is committed to providing its partners, investors and clients with unparalleled investment opportunities.
One Family Property is a real estate investment firm based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The company is primarily engaged in the acquisition of properties leased to industry-leading tenants with a focus on essential businesses.
Since One Family Property's inception in early 2020, the company and its affiliates have acquired more than $120,000,000 of net-leased investments and seeks to acquire an additional $250,000,000 of real estate assets over the next 24-36 months.
One Family Property is led by its co-founders and managing partners, Jason Fisher and Aaron Baum. Jason Fisher serves as the firm's Chief Executive Officer, where he oversees all aspects of investment strategy, portfolio and asset management, acquisitions, financing and due diligence. Prior to forming OFP, Jason Fisher was a real estate attorney for 10 years and was a partner at Honigman LLP. Aaron Baum serves as the firm's Chief Acquisitions Officer, where he leads all the firm's acquisitions, including identifying, analyzing and acquiring real estate opportunities, portfolio strategy, portfolio management and managing tenant relationships. Prior to forming OFP, Aaron Baum was a founding partner of SAB Capital, a real estate investment sales brokerage firm based out of New York City.
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Saving Guatemala's poisonous 'Sleeping Child' lizard
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Cabañas (Guatemala) (AFP) – With its sharp claws, scaly skin and venomous bite, Guatemala's "Sleeping Child" lizard has earned itself few human friends.
One of them, forest ranger Juan Alvarado, has spent the last 17 years of his life trying to save the much-maligned creature from extinction.
Alvarado, 68, works at a forest reserve in Guatemala's Zacapa department that is dedicated to saving the Guatemala Beaded Lizard (Heloderma charlesbogerti), dubbed Nino Dormido (Sleeping Child) by locals for its lethargic gait.
He expertly handles one specimen, rescued from a nearby village, holding it deftly by the head and body and placing it gently on the ground.
Seemingly nonplussed, the lizard slinks off into the undergrowth.
"People used to say that if you see a Heloderma, you're dead," Alvarado said of the reptile's foul reputation.
While the lizard does pack a painful bite, it is rarely deadly to humans who nevertheless view it as a mortal enemy.
Projects to save the critter include encouraging villagers to bring lost specimens to the park -- sometimes in exchange for payments of food.
Its venom, explained Alvarado, was being studied for possible use in cures for diseases such as diabetes and cancer.
Yet the creature has a fearful reputation, and individuals who stray into areas inhabited by humans are frequently killed.
Sleeping Child lizard numbers have been further decimated by human encroachment on its ever-shrinking habitat, climate change, and capture for sale as exotic pets.
At one point, they could fetch as much as $2,000 apiece in Europe, said Alvarado.
Given the multitude of threats, Guatemalan conservation officials estimate there are only about 600 individuals left in the world -- an increase from 200 two decades ago.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the lizard as endangered.
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Teledyne LeCroy's OakGate R300 and DE200 PCIe Gen5 Test Appliances, 8-Bay Modules, and 16-Bay Enclosures are Available to be Ordered
LOOMIS, Calif., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teledyne LeCroy, the worldwide leader in protocol test and measurement solutions, announces availability of validation test appliances for PCIe Gen5 based Solid State Drives. The OakGate R300 3U rackmount test appliance and the OakGate DE200 desktop test appliance offer scalable validation and conformance testing of the latest generation of solid-state drives (SSDs).
To support demand for faster, more efficient SSDs, SSD manufacturers are taking advantage of the 5th generation of PCI Express (PCIe), which doubles throughput with data transfer rates of up to 32GT/s. SSD quality and reliability needs to be high, but demand is also high. So, it is also critical that the manufacturing process is not slowed unnecessarily for testing. The OakGate R300 and the OakGate DE200 test appliances provide design and test engineers the means to test the performance and specification compliance of these PCIe Gen5 quickly and efficiently based SSDs. The new modular 8-Bay system provides customers the flexibility to easily interchange all popular SSD connector types and form factors. The new 16-Bay Expansion Enclosures enables the creation of large test configurations, reducing test time.
"Western Digital is committed to SSD portfolio excellence in markets utilizing high performance systems that incorporate PCI Express 5.0 and NVM Express storage. We are confident that strategic partners like Teledyne LeCroy will continue enabling Western Digital and the high-performance storage ecosystem with test solutions that foster rapid industry adoption," said Anuj Awasthi, Senior Director, System Design & Firmware Verification Engineering at Western Digital.
OakGate's PCIe Gen5 test solutions push the boundary for performance and functionality by providing:
- Products for any size project – Systems can be configured to match your requirements.
- Next generation system performance – Operation supports even large, complex test plans.
- Double the module density – Save rack space and improve power efficiencies with a 33% increase in density of expansion enclosures.
- Larger configurations options – Test up to 48 devices with a single rackmount appliance.
- Support for all standard SSD connectors, types, and form factors - including U.2, U.3, M.2, E3.S/L, E1.S/L and CEM.
- Flexibility and simplicity – Fully swappable modules.
- New advanced power features – lowering total overall cost by removing the need for additional power Interposers.
- Single/Dual-port software switching for U.2 and EDSFF SSDs.
"In the past decade, Teledyne LeCroy has pioneered the industry's most advanced SSD validation solutions and we continue to lead with the first validation solution supporting end-to-end PCIe Gen5." said Roy Chestnut, Vice President of Test Appliance Products. "Our PCIe Gen5 test solutions are powered by the industry's most widely used software suite, SVF Pro/Enduro. The 5th generation test software is packed full of advanced power measurement and management features."
OakGate R300 rackmount test appliances and the OakGate DE200 desktop test appliances for PCIe Gen5 SSD can be ordered now. For additional information, contact Teledyne LeCroy at 1-800-5LeCroy (1-800-553-2769) or visit Teledyne LeCroy's OakGate web site at https://www.oakgatetech.com/platform/gen-5-overview
Visit Teledyne LeCroy's at the Flash Memory Summit 2022 in booth #919 from Aug 2-4 in Santa Clara, California to experience our OakGate PCIe Gen5 SSD Test Solutions!
Teledyne LeCroy is a leading manufacturer of advanced oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and other test instruments that verify performance, validate compliance, and debug complex electronic systems quickly and thoroughly. Since its founding in 1964, the Company has focused on incorporating powerful tools into innovative products that enhance "Time-to-Insight". Faster time to insight enables users to rapidly find and fix defects in complex electronic systems, dramatically improving time-to-market for a wide variety of applications and end markets. Teledyne LeCroy is based in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. For more information, visit Teledyne LeCroy's website at teledynelecroy.com.
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The Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Steve Dettelbach as President Joe Biden's pick to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Successful confirmation of the nominee is a victory for the Biden administration and comes in the wake of a string of recent mass shootings -- in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas and Highland Park, Illinois -- that have shocked the nation and led to calls for further action to address gun violence in America.
The confirmation vote marks a major milestone since the ATF has operated under a series of acting directors since its last Senate-confirmed leader stepped down in 2015, and the Senate last confirmed an ATF nominee in 2013.
Dettelbach is a former federal prosecutor and was previously unanimously confirmed by the Senate to serve as the US attorney for the Northern District of Ohio under President Barack Obama.
During his confirmation hearings, he vowed he would not be influenced by political considerations, saying he is dedicated to upholding the law free from political interference and would do so in the post of ATF director if confirmed.
"Politics can play no role in law enforcement. None at all," he said at the time.
"I have lived that credo and I vow to continue to do it because people need to have confidence that people in law enforcement's only agenda is to enforce the law -- and if you're at the ATF to catch the bad guys and protect the public," he said.
"I vow to never let politics in any way influence my action as ATF director," he added.
The White House suffered an embarrassing setback in its efforts to confirm a nominee to head the bureau last fall.
In September 2021, the White House withdrew David Chipman's nomination to lead the bureau. Biden put the blame on Republicans for the inability to get Chipman confirmed, but there were concerns over the nomination from moderate Democrats, independent Sen. Angus King of Maine and GOP senators, over the nominee's past record on gun control.
The incident highlighted the challenge of securing successful confirmation of an ATF director given the contentious political nature of gun control policy.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-7-5
(seven, four, seven, five)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
7-4-7-5
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Harmanpreet, Smrithi rise in ICC Women’s ODI rankings after splendid show in Sri Lanka
Veteran pacer Jhulan Goswami, who did not feature in the white-ball assignments against Sri Lanka, held on to her sixth position in the bowler’s list
Indian women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur climbed one place to 13th while her deputy Smriti Mandhana was placed ninth in the ICC Women’s ODI rankings released on Tuesday.
Harmanpreet scored 119 runs at an average of 59.50 and picked three wickets in India’s 3-0 sweep of Sri Lanka in the recently- concluded ODI series. She was also named the Player of the Series for her solid all-round performance.
Mandhana also had a decent show against the Lankans, having scored 104 runs in three matches at an average of 52.
The other Indian batters who have progressed in the rankings chart are Shafali Verma (three places to 33rd), Yastika Bhatia (up one place to 45th) and bowling-all rounder Pooja Vastrakar (up eight places to 53rd).
Among the bowlers, Rajeshwari Gayakwad was up three places to joint-ninth while Meghna Singh (up four places to 43rd) and Vastrakar (up two places to joint-48th) have also made some progress.
Veteran Indian pacer Jhulan Goswami, who did not feature in the white-ball assignments against Sri Lanka, held on to her sixth position in the bowler’s list.
The batting chart is headed by Australian Alyssa Healy followed by England’s Natalie Sciver, while Englishwoman Sophile Ecclestone and South African Shabnim Ismail continue to take the first and second spots respectively in bowling.
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WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
146 PM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of eastern Schleicher
and eastern Sutton Counties through 230 PM CDT...
At 145 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking scattered strong
thunderstorms in eastern Schleicher and Sutton Counties, moving west
at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
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Adams, I-10 Near The Sutton-
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This includes Interstate 10 between Mile Markers 411 and 433.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
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We can do other services for customers who are looking for some kind information online , the other name \"google searching and googlesharkers\", or it is \"looking for some things on internet\".. or \"I like internet\" We try, to put some new skills to a customer that he don 'nt know the search engine and his site to earing from there! or get them out online from here LAS ANIMAS, Colo. — The need for what Steven Martinez and his team do at RESADA, a substance disorder treatment center, is growing exponentially.
"In the last couple years, we've definitely seen a dramatic increase, especially in fentanyl use," he said.
RESADA is located in Las Animas, Colorado, a city of nearly 2,300 people, but for what it's experiencing, it could be anywhere in rural America.
"That's the hardest piece that RESADA fights all the time is the counselors. Being in a rural area, there's not a lot of people that leave high school thinking I'm gonna be an addiction counselor," he said.
The CDC says rural areas have been disproportionately hit by the opioid epidemic, made worse by the burgeoning use of fentanyl.
In a 2019 study, the CDC says the rate of opiate overdose deaths in rural areas surpassed those in urban areas – and that differences in socioeconomic factors, health behaviors and access to health services contribute to these.
The waitlist at RESADA has gone from one week last year to now three weeks. Martinez says the lack of counselors and services has led to collaborations with other services in surrounding counties which has helped, but it still involves clients traveling far distances, which is a barrier that metro areas don’t face.
"We have to try a little harder to get clients what they need," he said.
A glimmer of hope is the start of money coming in from the $26 billion opioid settlement. Each state government is in charge of divvying up the money to different efforts throughout their state.
John Galusha is a county commissioner in nearby Huerfano County, another rural area and the first county in the state to sign onto the lawsuit.
The money from the settlement is going to slowly trickle in over 18 years. While any money is welcomed, he fears the timed payout does not match the urgency of the situation.
Originally the county wanted to build a new health department to meet the need, but he doubts that will be able to happen. It's projected to cost $25 million.
"That's not really realistic because $30,000 a year, it's going take a long time," said Galusha.
What he is optimistic about is money coming in to help statewide messaging.
"If the state can develop the, the right messages, the right educational programs to get into all of the schools and and to really saturate the environment with a consistent message that helps everybody understand the problem better could be as big of a boon or bonus for us as anything else," he said.
While Martinez doesn’t know yet how the money will shake out and benefit his community, he knows that, with or without it, RESADA is still going to be there for the people who need it.
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – A leaked video appearing to show Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies beating a detainee is the latest controversy surrounding the embattled law enforcement department.
As many as six deputies appear to pummel 32-year-old Jesus Soto Jara in footage recorded last week at the Inmate Reception Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Lawyers for Soto Jara are accusing the deputies of using excessive force and violating his civil rights.
Jose Romero, one of Soto Jara’s lawyers, says his client is suffering from serious injuries inflicted during the scuffle with deputies.
“He is suffering from injuries to his back, his head and left eye sustained this past Monday,” Romero told KTLA.
Soto Jara had just been arrested on drug possession while holding a firearm charges on July 3.
His attorneys allege Sota Jara was compliant as a deputy started to handcuff him, but video shows that was when the violence began.
During the struggle, several other deputies arrived and started throwing punches.
Soto Jara’s attorney says he was eventually pushed to an area that is off-camera and further assaulted.
“After taking his beating, he was given some medical attention but unfortunately sequestered from family and friends,” Romero said. “To this date he has not spoken to family, including his wife and son.”
Romero also says his client is in need of additional medical attention.
Prior to the incident, there was a scuffle with another inmate and deputy seen in the background of the leaked video. Soto Jara’s attorney says his client was not involved in that altercation.
However, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department adamantly disputes those claims.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva released a statement Monday evening that reads in part: “Mr. Sotojara [sic] was involved in an argument with another inmate and had removed his shirt to fight the other inmate. Mr. Romero claimed the contact with Mr. Sotojara was ‘unprovoked’ and he was 100% not involved. This was inaccurate.”
Villanueva also disputed Romero’s assertions that Soto Jara was moved out of view of cameras, saying that the inmate holding area has cameras that shoot the entirety of the area, including other cameras that captured the incident.
The Sheriff’s Department also said Soto Jara was treated by multiple medical professionals for the injuries he sustained during the fight with deputies.
An internal investigation was launched following the incident to determine if the use of force was proper and justified.
Jose Perez, a civil rights attorney who is working as part of Soto Jara’s legal team, said this latest incident is another example of the Sheriff’s Department under Villanueva violating the rights of those who are in their care.
“I counted about 12 to 15 punches and Mr. Soto does not resist at all,” Perez said. “This is a pattern that’s been going on in the Sheriff’s Department.”
Perez continued to describe the actions of LASD deputies as a “pattern of unaccountability” that he says “starts at the top.”
Villanueva’s department in recent months has faced other allegations of excessive use of force, including a March 2021 incident in which a deputy kneeled on an inmate’s neck for several minutes after they were put into handcuffs.
Video of that incident, which was also leaked to the press, led to accusations by some of his own employees that alleged Villanueva had direct knowledge of the video for several months, but tried to keep the details from leaking following months of civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
Villanueva has denied having previous knowledge of the video and said the matter was investigated and handled internally and swiftly immediately after he was informed about the use-of-force incident. The Sheriff’s Department said the deputy involved was relieved of duty.
The sheriff has also said that his department launched an investigation to determine who leaked the video and accused the Los Angeles Times of attempting to use the video to hurt his political campaign during an election year.
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Casey White, an Alabama inmate who escaped prison with the help of a corrections officer and led law enforcement on an 11-day manhunt, was charged in murdering Vicky White, CNN reported.
Authorities said Vicky White was found dead inside a car in Evansville, Indiana. Despite having the same last name, the two are unrelated, but authorities said they had a “jailhouse romance.”
Officials said Vicky White died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“The Felony Murder indictment alleges that during the course of and in furtherance of committing Escape in the First Degree, White caused the death of Vicky White, who died from a gunshot to the head,” Chris Connolly Lauderdale County District Attorney Chris Connolly said in a news release to CNN on Tuesday. | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/escaped-convict-casey-white-charged-with-murder-of-vicky-white | 2022-07-12T20:19:28Z | https://www.3newsnow.com/news/national/escaped-convict-casey-white-charged-with-murder-of-vicky-white | true |
KABUL, Afghanistan – Inside a small room in a house on Kabul's outskirts, about ten teenage girls are defying their Taliban rulers who have banned them from attending secondary school. "Let's learn," one student slowly reads to another as they review English lessons from a textbook. "Learn the words: Yellow, blue, red, green."
The girls attend a secret school run by a young woman barely older than her students, 21-year-old Nazanin, whose lavender headscarf matched her nail polish on the day we visited.
"When the Taliban said girls can't go to secondary school anymore, I thought to myself, 'what can I do?'," she tells NPR. "How can I raise the morale of the girls around me?" She and the young students requested they only be referred to by their first names, to avoid being identified by Taliban officials.
It's been nearly a year since the Taliban seized power and stopped some 850,000 Afghan girls from attending secondary school, according to UNICEF figures. The regime had promised to allow girls to return on March 23. But it appears a minority of senior hardliners had a change of heart. Teenage girls arrived to their old classrooms only to be sent home again, many in tears.
The Taliban have been pressured to reverse their decision by the international community, Afghan women, girls — even prominent Afghan clerics known for their loyalty to the Taliban. An Education Ministry spokesman tells NPR they're ready to open those schools whenever their leadership says they can. But hopes are slim. At a nationwide conference of Taliban loyalist clerics and traders that took place from June 30 to July 2, local media reported that girls education was only mentioned by two of the 3,000 male attendees. The communique issued at the gathering's end called on the international community to recognize the Taliban administration but contained only a vague reference to education.
Secret schools and loopholes
Many Afghan girls aren't waiting for the Taliban government to change their minds. Nor are their teachers.
In Kabul, the rural province of Parwan and the western city of Herat alike, women are running secret schools like Nazanin's. They're also finding loopholes around the Taliban's ban on girls attending secondary education, by operating girls madrassas — religious schools — or tutoring centers that essentially replicate high school courses.
"The fact that people have found all of these different ways to try to work around the Taliban ban is an indication of how desperately people want education for themselves, for their daughters, for the for the girls in their families," says Heather Barr, who for Human Rights Watch closely tracks violations against women and girls in Afghanistan.
While some governments may let poor girls fall through the cracks of the school system or have educational or general policies that discriminate against girls, only Afghanistan has banned girls' secondary education outright, she says. "The Taliban should be deeply ashamed that they've made Afghanistan the only country in the world that's denying girls access to education based on their gender."
After the Taliban reneged on their promise to let girls return to secondary school in late March, Nazanin decided to open her small school. Those close to her pitched in. She described her thinking at the time: "If we follow the Taliban, we'd just stay home. No. We have to do something."
Her family helped transform a spare room in their house and painted it a warm yellow. Her grandmother donated a rug. Friends handed over books. Nazanin g-teaches grades seven and eight as well as art. Her cousin teaches the older grades. A friend handles the English class.
Word of mouth has filtered across the alleyways in Nazanin's hardscrabble, working-class area. Her class is filled with students like 14-year-old Leila.
Leila pulls out a black pen from her Barbie-themed pencil case, opens her notebook and hunches over the low table she shares with the other girls. She copies English sentences off the whiteboard. "She is pretty," she whispers as she writes. "Our classroom is hot."
The Taliban's ban is just the latest barrier to Leila's education. During the pandemic, Leila missed a year of schooling. Last year, after she returned, tragedy struck: militants targeted teenage girls at her school, Sayed al-Shuhada, as they were streaming out of the gate, detonating a vehicle rigged with explosives that killed more than 80.
Leila was still inside her school when the attack occurred, but she lost many of her friends. And yet she returned three days later, expecting to resume studies. The school hadn't even reopened. Weeks later, her parents pulled her out, fearing another attack. Then, the Taliban swept to power.
Now, Leila walks to her secret school from her house nearby.
To avoid suspicion, she tucks her notebooks behind whatever novel she's borrowed from Nazanin's modest book collection. This week, it's a book of Persian poetry. The girls think if they're seen reading, that's okay. But studying — that could get them into trouble.
Even the Taliban isn't 100% opposed to schooling for teen girls
The Taliban, as a group, don't all agree on banning girls' secondary education. One senior Taliban bureaucrat requested anonymity to explain the ban to NPR because of the subject's sensitivity. He says the Taliban's hardcore loyalists demanded the ban in accordance with the conservative tradition that girls should stay home.
There are exceptions: The ban isn't applied in a handful of provinces where community leaders, typically men, voice support for girls' education.
The ban, paradoxically enough, does not apply to colleges either.
That has led to a surreal situation in Afghanistan where teenage girls must stay home, but a young woman lucky enough to have been in college when the Taliban seized power can still legally pursue her degree. A lack of professors to teach the women alongside strict dress codes appears to have kept many college-age women home, however.
The Taliban official says that in places where the ban is in effect, girls and their families can pay to attend privately run tutoring centers, where students typically go to improve their grades.
It's not clear how many Afghan girls are in secret schools or otherwise finding ways to educate themselves, but it almost certain that it is only a fraction of the some 850,000 girls who live in parts of Afghanistan where secondary schools have closed. According to UNICEF figures from 2019, which was the last time a school census was conducted, there were 1.1 million girls in secondary school. Some 250,000 of those girls live in provinces where secondary schools are still operational.
In Kabul, some of the luckiest girls end up in a basement on a quiet Kabul street, where 34-year-old Zainab set up a tutoring center in April to keep girls learning. She conducts online language lessons for Afghans abroad to raise money and is seeking external sponsors as well. "We cover secondary school subjects. We even hired teachers who lost their jobs. It's all free. I don't [want] the girls to miss out on an education."
Zainab says Taliban authorities have informally allowed her to run the center, provided the girls obey strict dress codes. And they do: The teenagers filter in wearing black robes, headscarves and face masks.
The center offers classes for English and Quran memorization. The most popular course prepares girls for the college admissions test. It's unclear, however, if the Taliban will allow new female college entrants.
One top achieving student at Zainab's center, 17-year-old Sahar, says her current situation is not like school.
She's meant to be in grade 11. She goes to three different tutoring centers to round out her education. She leaves home at 6 a.m. each morning and races between classes. She worries her bag, filled with books, might attract hostility. "I get really scared when the Taliban guys see me. I change my routes," she says.
Some days, Sahar says, her morale collapses. "I've always wanted to be a doctor and until the Taliban took over, I was getting top marks. Now I've got no chance. She and her mother cry together sometimes, Sahar says, "because our future is so dark."
It's a deep sadness she says her mother shares. Because when the Taliban were last in power, her mother was a teenager. And she couldn't attend school either.
Additional reporting by Khwaga Ghani from California.
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(CNN) — A beach in Iowa is closed after a rare life-threatening infection of the brain was confirmed in a visitor who recently went swimming there.
The beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park in Taylor County will be closed temporarily to swimmers, the Iowa Department of Public Health said Friday.
“The closure is a precautionary response to a confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri in a Missouri resident with recent potential exposure while swimming at the beach,” according to a release from the health department.
Naegleria fowleri is a “microscopic single-celled free-living amoeba that can cause a rare life-threatening infection of the brain called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM),” said the agency.
“PAM is extremely rare. Since 1962, only 154 known cases have been identified in the United States,” the release said.
Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in soil and in fresh warm water such as lakes, rivers and hot springs, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It can also be found in poorly maintained or unchlorinated pools.
Infections caused by Naegleria fowleri may occur when water where the amoeba is present enters the body through a person’s nose, then travels up to the brain where it destroys brain tissue, the health department said. The infection isn’t contagious and can’t be caused by swallowing contaminated water.
The health department is working with the CDC to test the lake water and “confirm the presence of Naegleria fowleri,” which will take several days, the release said.
No additional suspected cases of are currently being investigated in Missouri or Iowa, the agency said.
Although rare, PAM is “devastating” and “usually fatal,” according to the CDC. “Among well-documented cases, there are only five known survivors in North America,” the CDC said.
In September 2021, a child in North Texas died after contracting the rare brain-eating amoeba at a city splash pad. In 2020, a 6-year-old boy in Lake Jackson, Texas, died after exposure to the amoeba that was found in the water of splash fountain where he had played.
A 10-year-old Texas girl died in 2019 after battling the brain-eating amoeba for more than a week.
Symptoms begin with sever headaches, fever, nausea, and vomiting before escalating to seizures, hallucinations, and a coma, according to the CDC.
It takes about five days after infection for initial symptoms of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis to show up, according to the CDC. The disease progresses rapidly and usually causes death between one and 18 days after symptoms begin.
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Maple Leafs take massive gamble with Murray trade
Toronto was able to grab Matt Murray at a cheap cost. Ottawa not only retained salary, but also gave the Maple Leafs a pair of draft picks to take on the final two seasons of his contract. On paper, the deal is as low risk as it gets for Leafs. But it's still a huge gamble. Travis Yost has more.
By Travis Yost
Murray on joining the Leafs: 'I think I have a lot to prove'
To say the Toronto Maple Leafs are taking a risk in net after the acquisition of Matt Murray would be an understatement. Challenged by underperformance and durability, Murray’s two seasons with Ottawa were, in a word, grim.
That’s not to say Murray is incapable of producing – we’ve seen him post fantastic seasons behind better hockey teams, notably in 2016-17 (92.3 per cent stop rate) and 2018-19 (91.9 per cent stop rate) with the Pittsburgh Penguins. But those seasons seem like eons ago. And for a Maple Leafs team that has been a bit desperate to address a need in net, Murray doesn’t seem like the type of player to get this team over the proverbial hump.
There are a few pertinent details beyond Murray the player. For starters, a flat cap and changing economic landscape has dried the goaltender market out. Look around at who is available, and the options are thin.
Darcy Kuemper and Jack Campbell are probably two of the most notable names. Kuemper’s rumoured price is a bit too much considering Toronto’s current cap situation, and the team appears prepared to move on from Campbell, a player who may also be a bit too expensive and who did himself and the organization few favours with an ugly postseason performance.
Toronto was able to grab Murray, a goaltender the front office is familiar with at a cheap cost. Ottawa not only retained salary, but also gave the Maple Leafs a pair of draft picks to take on the final two seasons of his contract. On paper, the deal is as low risk as it gets for Toronto – there’s hardly any serious investment in Murray, and if he bombs out, it’s not something that will hang over the organization long-term.
But that also discounts, perhaps significantly so, where the Maple Leafs are right now. This team has shown, repeatedly, it can score with the best of the best. But when the team needed saves in the postseason, Campbell couldn’t thwart Lightning attackers. Can Murray be the guy?
Setting aside durability concerns with Murray, I think there’s a belief – there must be, to some degree – that playing behind a better team will yield better results. It remains to be seen if that’s the case. But I do think there are serious questions Murray can be that goaltender.
If we take into consideration both the shot volumes Murray faced and the quality of those shots (we will use Goals Saved Above Expectations here) compared to Campbell, it’s hard to see the trade as anything other than a likely downgrade in net. Murray’s performances were weaker when adjusting for shot volumes and quality over the past three seasons:
Murray was a well below-average goaltender over the past three seasons, while Campbell was closer to league average. Murray was also much more likely to lose games for his team, whereas Campbell had plenty of performances where he stole the show.
Consider both in contrast to a goaltender like Kuemper, who clearly has a better track record and will command more money when free agency opens. Kuemper is following up a shaky postseason in his own right, but we should have much more confidence in his ability to deliver next season than Campbell, and in Campbell more than Murray.
Perhaps Murray can set aside the injury history, and perhaps behind a better skater group he can inch closer to what he was during his Pittsburgh years. But if you were wagering on the direction of Toronto’s goaltending situation year-over-year, smart money would be on it heading south.
That may mean very little in a regular season where the Maple Leafs, still possessing one of the deadliest skating lineups in the league, can blow teams most off the ice. But against tougher competition, goaltending is always a consequential factor.
That’s not something I need remind Maple Leafs fans. But it underscores how intriguing this bet is by Kyle Dubas and the rest of the Toronto front office.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Emmy Award nominations announced Tuesday included some snubs and surprises. “This Is Us” walked away forever without a top nomination and Nathan Lane made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history.
Here's our rundown.
NOT JUST A GAME
“Squid Game,” the brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to escape debt, won in its bid to become the first non-English-language drama series ever nominated for top drama.
In the bleak and disturbing series from South Korea, hundreds of men and women on the brink of financial ruin compete in a deadly battle for roughly $38 million in cash. Every game is a traditional Korean children’s game such as Red Light, Green Light, but the consequence of losing is death. The winner is the person who outlasts all opponents.
It remains Netflix’s most popular series. “Squid Game” became the first series to cross the streamer’s 1 billion hours-viewed mark and was awarded 14 Emmy nods in its freshman year. The cultural impact of the show was nearly immediate. People dressed as the pink-jumpsuited “Squid Game” guards for Halloween, TikTok challenges launched and memes filled social media.
The success of “Squid Game” comes three years after the South Korean film “Parasite” won best picture at the Oscars, overcoming what its director Bong Joon-ho called the “one-inch barrier of subtitles.”
FAREWELL, US
This may make “This Is Us” fans cry: The show will go into the TV sunset without ever having won the Emmy for outstanding drama series.
The NBC tearjerker has won Emmys for actors Gerald McRaney, Sterling K. Brown and Ron Cephas Jones but has never been crowned best drama. This past season was the show’s sixth and final one, and it picked up a single nomination this time, for outstanding original music and lyrics, not exactly a rousing goodbye.
“This Is Us” tells the story of the Pearson family across multiple generations via flashbacks, present-day stories and flash-forwards. It premiered on NBC in 2016 starring Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz, Justin Hartley and Brown.
While some groused that the series was manipulative and overly soap opera-ish, it dealt with real issues like the loss of a parent, struggles with pregnancy, depression, drug addiction, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, coming out and interracial adoption.
The show has been nominated multiple times for best drama — 2021, 2019, 2018 and 2017 — but lost to shows like “Game of Thrones,” “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Crown.”
LAUGHING MATTER?
Dave Chappelle’s 2021 special “The Closer” which included anti-transgender comments, was nominated for best variety special and directing for a variety special.
Netflix ran into a buzz-saw of criticism not only with the special but in how internal memos responded to employees’ concerns. Netflix employees at one point walked out in protest.
But co-CEO Ted Sarandos wrote that Netflix doesn’t allow titles that are “designed to incite hate or violence, and we don’t believe ‘The Closer’ crosses that line.”
Critics said that while the streaming service offers positive fare for the LGBTQ community, Netflix is having it both ways by also offering a show like Chappelle’s that includes disparaging comments about trans women.
Louis C.K.’s “Sorry” in 2021 was his second self-released special since his career slowed down after admitting to sexual misconduct. It did not move Emmy voters.
LASSOING NODS STAYS STEADY
A dip this year after a romp last year was perfectly understandable, but “Ted Lasso,” the most nominated freshman comedy series in history, kept up the scoring with Emmy voters.
The Jason Sudeikis-led comedy earned 20 nods, the same number of nominations for “Ted Lasso” last year in its debut season, on its way to eventually winning seven trophies, including outstanding comedy series and lead actor for Sudeikis.
The show centers on an American football coach who takes charge of an elite British soccer team in England despite having little knowledge of the game. Sudeikis’ Lasso may be a fish out of water, but he’s relentlessly optimistic and kind, armed with homespun wisdom in the face of hostility.
If the first season established the characters and the tone, the second was about deepening and exploring what the creators have already built, with many secondary characters finding their voices. The dedication to fleshing out characters meant the second season largely abandoned the overall plot machine of the club’s success. The third season — expected to be the last — is already in the works.
The show’s success may be due in part because the world is reeling from the devastating effects of COVID-19 and Lasso’s homespun slogans and kindness in the face of adversity seem to touch a nerve.
‘ONLY MURDERS’ KILLS IT
Hulu’s buzzy true crime satire “Only Murders in the Building” was eligible for the first time this year and slayed with 17 nominations, including writing and outstanding comedy.
It may have helped that stars Martin Short, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez were already appearing in the show’s second season during much of Emmy voting. Short and Martin earned acting nods; Gomez didn't get one of those but has a producer credit nomination.
In the first season, the three played true crime podcast fans who solved a murder in their apartment building on New York City’s Upper West Side, creating a popular podcast in the process. In the second season, Gomez’s character has been accused of killing the building’s board president. Martin, who plays a washed-up actor, and Short, a faded stage director, want to prove her innocence
Helping the show along are plenty of guest stars, including Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jaboukie Young-White, Jackie Hoffman, Jayne Houdyshell, Nathan Lane, Amy Ryan, Ali Stroker and Sting. But much of the show’s success is due to the chemistry between the three leads, what BuzzFeed called “the terrific trio we never knew we needed.”
STAYING IN HIS LANE
Nathan Lane has made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history.
The three-time Tony winner outmuscled the late Fred Willard for the most nominations in the category for his work on “Only Murders in the Building,” leaving him with six nods to Willard’s five.
Lane has yet to win a Primetime Emmy, though he is the recipient of two Daytime Emmys for his voice work in “Timon and Pumbaa” and “Teacher’s Pet.” He has been nominated for best comedy guest actor six times and best drama guest actor once. The previous comedy bids were for his work on sitcoms “Frasier,” “Mad About You” and “Modern Family.”
In “Only Murders in the Building,” Lane plays a deli chain owner/podcast sponsor who is harboring dark secrets.
Lane has won Tonys for the Broadway shows “Angels in America,” “The Producers” and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” He also has a Screen Actors Guild for his work in “The Birdcage.”
AN ELEMENTARY CHOICE
Network TV is dead — or is it? “Abbott Elementary″ once again proves it is not.
The hilarious mockumentary became ABC’s first comedy to quadruple its ratings since its premiere, and it nabbed seven nominations. “Abbott Elementary″ follows a documentary crew while they film the lives of teachers and students at a struggling, underfunded Philadelphia school.
It earned nominations for outstanding comedy series, comedy writing, casting and acting for Tyler James Williams, Janelle James and Sheryl Lee Ralph.
It was created and written by comedian Quinta Brunson, who plays Janine Teagues and also earned an acting nod Tuesday. She previously appeared in “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Big Mouth,” and is currently working on the script for the second season of “Abbott Elementary.″ It airs on ABC and Hulu.
“Abbott Elementary″ is a true workplace comedy in the vein of “The Office” or “Superstore” and achieved ABC’s highest ratings since the “Modern Family” finale. At one point, it was the most tweeted-about TV comedy of the year.
TV Guide in June called it the best show on television right now, saying it is “revitalizing the network sitcom by shrinking the distinction between broadcast and streaming.”
BROADWAY SATIRE FINDS NO LOVE
The musical theater valentine “Schmigadoon!” didn’t make Emmy voters whip out their jazz hands.
The series starring Cecily Strong with Keegan-Michael Key found hilarity in the clash between modern sensibilities and classic Broadway musical theater norms. But it didn't get any big Emmy nods, earning nominations for production design, choreography, music composition and original music and lyrics.
The town of Schmigadoon is stuck in the overly cheery Technicolor age, where two hotel rooms cost $1 — unmarried couples should never sleep in one bed, of course — and residents suddenly sing about corn pudding. Strong and Key star as doctors who have grown tired in their relationship and decide to go on a camping retreat, ending up lost in Schmigadoon.
The six-part limited series that premiered on the streaming service last July was filled with some of the best and brightest of Broadway, including Tony winners Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Jane Krakowski and Aaron Tveit, plus Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose and legend Martin Short.
Musical television series haven’t always hit the high notes with viewers and critics. “Smash,” a look behind the scenes at a Broadway musical was cancelled after two seasons and won a single Emmy. The CW’s “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” ran from 2015-2019 and won four Emmys, while NBC’s “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” which ran from 2020-2021, won a single statuette, for choreography.
Apple TV+ announced in June that there will be a second season of “Schmigadoon!,” which will parody the musicals of the ’60s and ’70s.
A SAD GOODBYE-ISH
Fans of “black-ish” may feel aggrieved that Emmy love never came, even at the end.
The show — a vehicle for nuanced chapters about racism, parenthood, sexism and police violence all within a comedy — ended its eight-season run this year without ever winning the outstanding comedy series crown or trophies for lead actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson.
The series earned a prestigious Peabody Award and other awards – including multiple NAACP Image Awards — but top Emmys remained out of reach. It got one, for hairstyling, in 2020. This year it got two nominations: hairstyling and costumes.
The series was a network TV rarity: A depiction of a prosperous, tight-knit family of color, the Johnsons, with Black creators shaping their stories.
Anderson did score an impressive seven best comedy actor nominations in a row, plus four additional bids for producing when “black-ish” earned best comedy series nominations in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021.
‘SEVERANCE’ NOT CUT OFF
“Severance,” Apple TV+’s vicious satire of office culture, managed to charm Emmy voters with 14 nominations.
“Severance” is set in a shadowy corporate headquarters where employees have agreed to get a chip implanted in their brains that separates the personal life from office life. Though conceived before the pandemic, it arrived just as many white-collar workers were making their first tentative steps back to the office — and questioning why.
The show — written by newcomer Dan Erickson, with all episodes directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle — is drenched in paranoia about what corporate work does to people and became one of the most acclaimed series of the year.
Adam Scott stars as the leader of a group who work under bright florescent lights and wander down endless antiseptic corridors, cut off from the world outside. In Season One, the series morphs from satire to thriller as some employees start questioning what is happening to them.
Among the show’s nominations are a berth in top drama series and a best writing honor. Scott earned a lead actor nod, Patricia Arquette got one as a supporting actor and Stiller for directing the episode “The We We Are.”
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EXTON, Pa., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST), a global leader in innovative solutions for injectable drug administration, has recently released its 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report, reporting on the Company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance in 2021.
This is West's 6th annual CR Report, and highlights ESG successes from over the past year, including progress on environmental sustainability goals, diversity and inclusion, and success around the Company's philanthropic efforts. It also highlights some of the recognition received for its ESG performance, including placement in Barron's Top 100 Most Sustainable Companies, Corporate Social Responsibility Programme of the Year from Pharma Industry Awards in Ireland, and a Silver Stevie Award for Corporate Social Responsibility.
"At West, we are driven by our purpose to improve patient lives. We know that to fulfill this purpose effectively, we must consider our broader corporate responsibilities to the wide range of stakeholders we serve," said Eric M. Green, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board. "Much of our long-term success can be credited to our focus on building a diverse team, putting quality at center stage, operating with integrity, giving back to our communities, managing our environmental footprint, and caring for the health and safety of our team members – all of these combined makes for a better performing company now and into the future."
Some of the key 2021 highlights include:
- ESG Governance changes, including the establishment of an ESG Steering Committee, new areas of priority focus for the future and additional oversight by West's Board of Directors
- Global waste to landfill for all West manufacturing sites continued to improve, with 85% of global waste diverted from landfill, up from 77% the prior year
- Both water and energy intensity ratios improved over prior year, meaning less energy and water is being used for each product produced
- 64% of West's Executive Team is made up of women and/or U.S. minorities
- 7 of West's manufacturing sites had zero recordable safety incidents in 2021
- Total employee giving increased by 72% from 2020
- Team member donations to West's Annual Global Food Drive increased by 56% over prior year
In addition to the CR Report, West also provides transparency in disclosure through alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Index, and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
Please read the full CR Report here to learn more about West's commitment to ESG.
About West
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. is a leading provider of innovative, high-quality injectable solutions and services. As a trusted partner to established and emerging drug developers, West helps ensure the safe, effective containment and delivery of life-saving and life-enhancing medicines for patients. With approximately 10,000 team members across 50 sites worldwide, West helps support our customers by delivering over 45 billion components and devices each year.
Headquartered in Exton, Pennsylvania, and in business for nearly a century, West in its fiscal year 2021 generated $2.83 billion in net sales. West is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: WST) and is included on the Standard & Poor's 500 index. For more information, visit www.westpharma.com.
All trademarks and registered trademarks used in this release are the property of West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. or its subsidiaries, in the United States and other jurisdictions, unless otherwise noted.
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LITHONIA, Ga. — A Georgia man became trapped while trying to crawl down through a vent from a strip mall roof into a pizza restaurant on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to slice open the vent to free him, police said.
Police told local news outlets that emergency responders cut open the vent where it extended upward from a pizza oven at a Little Caesars outlet in suburban Lithonia, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) east of downtown Atlanta.
Brittany Davis, a U.S. Army recruiter, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she could hear the man yelling for help when she arrived for work at a neighboring recruiting office.
“I looked on the roof but couldn’t see anybody,” Davis said. She called 911.
Davis said a Little Caesars employee told her he could hear the man’s voice coming from inside the oven. Davis said she went inside the pizza restaurant and spoke to the man, who reported he was in pain and having a panic attack.
“I’m not sure what time the restaurant closes at night but the oven still gives off heat after they close I imagine,” DeKalb County Fire Cpt. Jason Daniels told WXIA-TV. “For him to get down into the pipe ... he had to do it in a certain window of time when the oven was cool enough and obviously nobody was there.”
The man walked to an ambulance shortly after being removed and was taken to a hospital. Police did not identify him or announce any criminal charges.
Photographs showed the vent broken off and laying on the roof and firefighters cutting away the sheet metal vent while standing atop the oven. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-man-cut-loose-after-crawling-down-pizza-oven-vent/2022/07/12/f4cd45d6-021c-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | 2022-07-12T20:47:07Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/police-man-cut-loose-after-crawling-down-pizza-oven-vent/2022/07/12/f4cd45d6-021c-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | false |
Regenerative farm-to-table event co-hosted by NACE Capital Area of Wisconsin and Egg Innovations
LAKEWOOD, Colo., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers® is proud to participate in the upcoming Sustainability Showcase on July 21st, 2022, co-hosted by the National Association for Catering & Events (NACE) - Capital Area of Wisconsin and Egg Innovations. The farm-to-table event will showcase how regenerative agriculture balances nature to create harmony and sustainability for farm and flock.
Set on the pastures of the Teunissen Farm in the Dutch Heritage Acres of Cedar Grove, WI, this special event celebrates how suppliers, retailers and consumers have the power to give back to the planet through the businesses they support.
Attendees' registration includes a property tour of a working regenerative farm, experiential event setup, gourmet hors d'oeuvres, an open bar and an incredible multi-course feast crafted by Nadi Plates, featuring Helpful Hens and Blue Sky Family Farms pasture-raised eggs. After dinner there will be a casual educational program including expert industry panelists.
Natural Grocers' Christie Zimmerman will be joining the panel discussion. "We're thrilled to have Christie join us for this year's Sustainability Showcase," said Sarah Davidson, President of NACE Capital Area of Wisconsin. Davidson continued, "We'll have the best of both worlds for our attendees: they'll not only see (and taste) regenerative farming practices in person, but they'll also have the opportunity to learn and converse with top professionals in the regenerative agriculture space. Sifting through all the information that's out there on this subject can be daunting. This premier event will inform attendees what they need to know both as consumers and as premium food service providers, and show the power of impact that their everyday personal and professional choices have."
The panel, moderated by Sarah Davidson, will include:
- John Brunnquell, Ph.D. Brunnquell, PhD - Founder & CEO, Egg Innovations
- Matthew Teunissen, Owner & Operator, Dutch Heritage Acres
- John H. H., Industry Consultant
- Christie A. Zimmerman, MBA - Product Standards Manager, Natural Grocers
"We're proud to support one of our key laying hen partners at this farm-to-table event. Being able to tour the farm and see the impact the birds have on the land, pollinators and the whole farm ecosystem is a unique opportunity. Natural Grocers is committed to educating the public on the powers of regenerative agriculture as well as the power of their purchase dollars. Bringing people into a closer relationship to where their food comes from matters because it empowers consumers to make better and more informed decisions," said Zimmerman.
Registration for the event closes at 11:59pm Friday, July 15th.
- To register for the upcoming event click here.
- Visit www.naturalgrocers.com/sustainability to learn more about the Natural Grocers' sustainability practices.
- For media requests, or to request a guest speaker from Natural Grocers, contact media@naturalgrocers.com
About Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, safe, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations
About NACE Capital Area of Wisconsin
The National Association for Catering and Events is the premier resource for regional catering and event professionals. NACE meetings are a platform for networking and education that allows members to build valuable relationships and bring their businesses to the next level. Visit www.madisonnace.com for more information.
Egg Innovations
Egg Innovations is proud to be the industry leader in regenerative egg farming, and is on a mission to help chickens, people and the planet lead healthier lives. They aim to combat climate change and improve the ecosystem of the planet through sustainable farming practices.Visit www.egginnovations.com for more information.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (WFRV) – MToxins, a venom lab, and educational institution have a wide variety of different animals such as raccoons and snakes.
The company has added a new member to its family, a 5-year-old sloth from Costa Rica. The sloth is currently in transition to a zoo but will be making a stop at MToxins for a couple of weeks before moving to her forever home.
Nathaniel Frank, the owner of MToxins says visitors will be able to come to take a look at the sloth until “roughly the second week in August.”
Sloths are typically found in Central and South America and are usually calling the tropical rainforests their homes. Sloths love trees and do not move very far, amounting to only around 40 yards per day.
“You can give us a call at (920) 267-8773. Mondays through Thursdays are for private tours and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is general admission,” explained Frank.
Alongside the sloth, those interested in owls, eagles, raccoons, foxes, snakes, and lizards, MToxins is the perfect experience for you.
To find out more about MToxins and its newest member, the sloth, you can visit its website here. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/a-sloth-in-wisconsin-one-local-institute-is-housing-the-animal-for-the-next-few-weeks/ | 2022-07-12T20:49:11Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/local-news/a-sloth-in-wisconsin-one-local-institute-is-housing-the-animal-for-the-next-few-weeks/ | false |
TUPELO • The Major Thoroughfare Committee is weighing options for Jackson Street after approving engineers to start the prep to widen the eastern section of the road.
In a unanimous vote among present members Monday evening, the committee voted to authorize city engineers to start the groundwork for the widening project of Jackson Street between Madison and Front streets. Members Terry Bullard and Drew Robertson were absent.
“I think (the project) will be a good thing for the city," Committee chair Greg Pirkle said. "I keep hearing so many positive comments for Jackson from Clayton to Madison, and getting it all the way down will make a big difference.”
Jackson Street has been a large focus of the Major Thoroughfare Committee practically since Tupelo voters formed the program through a majority vote in 1991. Pirkle said the three main projects for this phase of the program were widening Eason Boulevard, Jackson Street at Airpark Road and Lumpkin Avenue, and Jackson Street from Madison to Front.
“We don’t have the money to do three projects, but we do have the money to go ahead and do the engineering,” he said.
The committee previously voted to start engineering work for Jackson from Airpark to Lumpkin. City Engineer Dennis Bonds said the city began the process of procuring easements from residents of Jackson in the area, but there would be about 30 property owners who needed to agree to terms with the city for the right of way.
Committee members asked if the program had enough money in the budget to support that many easements, and Pirkle said it was possible.
“In Phase II, it took 25% of our budget to do the quick take,” he said. A quick take is a process in which the city can pay property owners for a portion of their land. “We can do it. We have the authority, but if there is any way to do it and avoid buying land, it is preferable.”
Though the easements were an issue, the actual widening of Jackson from Madison to Front will not be without challenges either. Bonds said there would be a lot of underground utility work to contend with in that section of Jackson.
Tupelo Water and Light Director Johnny Timmons told the Daily Journal that converting from overhead to underground utility was difficult, but he said the previous work on Jackson from Clayton Avenue to Madison Street prepared the area for the process.
“This section will go much better than (Clayton to Madison),” he said, noting the road was already naturally wider than the previous stretch. “It is ready to go. Once the conversion is started, the hard part is over.”
Meanwhile, construction on Eason Boulevard started, and Bonds said the contractors were rapidly progressing due to the bout of mostly clear weather the city had over the last month. When asked when the contractors would finish the project, he gave a conservative estimate of about a year but hoped for a quicker turnaround.
“If we have a dry summer and fall, it could be done by Christmas,” he said. | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/major-thoroughfare-committee-want-engineers-to-tackle-east-jackson-street/article_cbe9b3c9-4167-576d-bb6f-bfb1e9c0754a.html | 2022-07-12T20:49:16Z | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/major-thoroughfare-committee-want-engineers-to-tackle-east-jackson-street/article_cbe9b3c9-4167-576d-bb6f-bfb1e9c0754a.html | true |
TAMPA, Fla. and BASEL, Switzerland, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nilogen Oncosystems, a leading Oncology drug development Company; and Scailyte, a single cell AI biomarker discovery company, announced today a strategic partnership to increase the success rate of novel cancer therapies in the clinic, as well as to advance personalized cancer treatment.
This long-term strategic partnership aims at integrating Nilogen Oncosytems' proprietary 3D-EXplore Platform of fresh patient tumor tissue with Scailyte's AI Platform ScaiVision™ to develop a robust cutting-edge omics engine for personalized drug-tumor interactions to understand drug MoA and predict tumor response in patients for clinical trials enrichment.
The joint platform will unlock new paradigms in drug discovery and development thanks to Nilogen Oncosytems' unique 3D EXplore tumoroid technology retaining the intact tumor microenvironment, and to the ability of ScaiVision™ to detect complex, ultra-sensitive, and predictive molecular signatures in biological samples.
"Nilogen Oncosystems' capability to generate omics and multi-modal data from each therapeutic option and for each patient is unique. This capability in combination with Scailyte's ability to unlock molecular insights with single cell resolution creates an unprecedented level of personalized information and precision. This will not just change the way we discover and develop novel therapies, but more importantly will save more lives", said Juana Lucia Flores-Candia, VP Strategy & Business Development at Scailyte.
"We are pleased to be working with Scailyte since I believe our integrated solutions will not only support our BioPharma clients for faster, data-driven decision making throughout their drug development process but will also allow us to advance precision medicine applications for the treatment of cancer patients" said Soner Altiok, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Nilogen Oncosystems.
Founded in 2013, Nilogen Oncosystems, LLC is an Oncology drug development company with CLIA certified facilities in Tampa, FL. At Nilogen, we appreciate the complexity of cancer and use fresh patient tumor samples with intact tumor immune microenvironment in our 3D-EXplore preclinical drug testing platform. This holistic approach allows us to develop integrated solutions for a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance. Our goal is to enable the development of more effective drug and drug combinations, and reduce the cost and risk associated with clinical trials. Nilogen's commitment to testing and customizing cancer drug development is proven and yields unparalleled results for its clients.
For more information, visit www.nilogen.com and connect on social media @LinkedIn.
Scailyte AG is a spin-off of ETH Zurich and combines single-cell technologies, high-quality datasets and machine learning methods to identify disease-specific biomarkers, with focus on oncology and immunology. Scailyte's proprietary best-in-class data analysis platform ScaiVision associates multimodal single-cell datasets (RNA-/TCR-/BCR-seq, proteomics, etc) with clinical endpoints, such as disease diagnosis, progression, severity, treatment response, in order to identify ultra-sensitive biomarker signatures. Thanks to the single-cell resolution and AI-driven approach, ScaiVision is the most powerful and cutting-edge approach to precise diagnosis and prediction of therapy response. Scailyte leverages a broad network of top clinicians to identify clinical indications with high unmet clinical needs and collaborates with global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to translate the novel biomarkers into ultra-sensitive companion diagnostics (CDx) or IVD assays.
For more information, visit www.scailyte.com and connect on social media @LinkedIn and @Twitter.
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'My body went completely numb': Kentucky woman nearly dies after picking up $1 bill from McDonald's floor she suspects was laced with fentanyl - just weeks after cops warned against picking up money
- Renne Parson's body suddenly went numb after she picked up a one dollar bill she suspects was laced with fentanyl
- Parson was waiting to use the restroom at a McDonalds in Nashville, Tennessee, when she spotted the dollar laying on the floor
- Parson's symptoms began when she had contact with the dollar in the car, immediately sending various symptoms throughout her body
- Officers later determined the dollar didn't contain traces of the deadly drug
A Kentucky woman was hospitalized after she picked up a dollar bill she suspected was laced with fentanyl on Sunday.
'My body went completely numb, I could barely talk and I could barely breathe. I was fighting to stay awake,' Renne Parson wrote on Facebook.
Parson says she was driving with her husband, Justin, and children through Nashville, Tennessee, when the family stopped at a local McDonald's to use the restroom.
Renne was holding her three-month-old baby while waiting to use the restroom when she spotted a dollar bill on the ground.
'Thinking nothing of it - I picked it up,' Renne wrote.
Once the family got into the car, Renne began experiencing symptoms as she placed the dollar in the interior of the car.
'All of a sudden I felt it start in my shoulders and the feeling was quickly going down my body and it would not stop,' she explained.
Renne Parson suspects she was poisoned with a dollar bill laced with fentanyl. Parson was waiting to use the restroom at a McDonald's in Nashville, Tennesee, when she spotted the dollar on the floor
Renne grabbed her husband's arm when her body suddenly went numb.
She added, 'I could barely talk and I could barely breathe. I was fighting to stay awake as Justin was screaming at me to stay awake and trying to talk to 911 and find the closest Fire Station or Hospital. I passed out before we arrived at the hospital, but thankfully they worked almost as quickly as my husband did to get me there.'
Renne's husband, Justin, drove to the hospital at nearly 100 mph to help his wife who had passed out
Justin drove nearly 100 mph in a 35 mph zone, running every red light to get his wife to the nearest hospital.
Justin recalled the incident to WKRN News 2 saying, 'She looked like she was dying. She certainly was unconscious and very pale.'
Justin later revealed that he felt side effects after his wife touched him.
'My lips started going numb and my arm broke out in a rash,' he said.
Justin's symptoms subsided after an hour while Renne was starting to feel 'somewhat normal' within a few hours and with the help of medication.
She was later discharged by medical experts claiming it was an accidental overdose.
An officer who arrived at the hospital to take a police report suspected the bill did have traces of fentanyl, according to Renne. However, police later said no traces of fentanyl were found on the dollar
The Perry County Sherriff's Office warned locals to not touch any folded dollar bills that are found on the floor after two reported incidents of fentanyl appearing in the printed currency
The couple speculates the dollar was laced in fentanyl. Renne shared Justin had previously warned her about picking money off the ground for the exact reason.
An officer arrived to take a police report and told the couple the dollar bill was either used to store or cut drugs and accidentally dropped, or it was purposely left there for someone to find, according to Renne.
However, a Metro Nashville Police spokesperson later told News 2 on Monday that there were no traces of fentanyl on the bill and it was taken to be destroyed.
Meanwhile, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center fentanyl expert told WSMV News 4 that it is 'really unlikely' Renne contacted fentanyl.
'It is much more likely for her to have a reaction if she had inadvertently rubbed her nose and exposed that drug to some of the blood vessels in her nose or licked her fingers or rubbed her eyes,' Dr. Rebecca Donald said.
In June, Tennessee Perry County Sheriff's Office warned about two incidents involving dollar bills laced with fentanyl.
In both cases, the money was found on the floor of a gas station with a 'white powdery substance inside,' the sheriff's department wrote on Facebook, while urging parents to warn their children.
They sheriff's office added, 'This is very dangerous, folks! Please share and educate your children to not pick up the money.'
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), fentanyl 'a synthetic opioid that is 50-100 times stronger than morphine.' The narcotic is also up to 50 times stronger than heroin, the agency further reported.
It is commonly mixed up with other drugs, most commonly cocaine.
More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation's escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in May.
The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every five minutes. It marked a 15 percent increase from the previous record, set the year before. The CDC reviews death certificates and then makes an estimate to account for delayed and incomplete reporting.
Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, called the latest numbers 'truly staggering.'
The White House issued a statement last month calling the accelerating pace of overdose deaths 'unacceptable' and promoting its recently announced national drug control strategy. It calls for measures like connecting more people to treatment, disrupting drug trafficking and expanding access to the overdose-reversing medication naloxone.
U.S. overdose deaths have risen most years for more than two decades. The increase began in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves of deaths led by other opioids like heroin and — most recently — illicit fentanyl.
Last year, overdoses involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids surpassed 71,000 up 23 percent from the year before. There also was a 23 percent increase in deaths involving cocaine and a 34 percent increase in deaths involving meth and other stimulants. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11006947/Kentucky-woman-nearly-dies-picking-1-bill-suspects-laced-fentanyl.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-12T20:49:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11006947/Kentucky-woman-nearly-dies-picking-1-bill-suspects-laced-fentanyl.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
MIDLAND COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- A Midland man was found guilty Monday on four counts of sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, and one count of assault/family violence. Thomas Anthony Gutierrez received the maximum prison and a fine on each count.
According to a news release, Judge Leah G. Robertson stacked each of Gutierrez’s four life sentences, meaning he will not be eligible for parole for 120 years.
Gutierrez was first arrested in late 2018 after a child made an outcry of abuse. The child spoke with a nurse at Midland Memorial Hospital and then interviewed with forensic investigators and detailed a long history of abuse. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/midlander-sentenced-to-4-life-sentences-in-child-sexual-assault-case/ | 2022-07-12T20:52:30Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/midlander-sentenced-to-4-life-sentences-in-child-sexual-assault-case/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") (Nasdaq: GBDC, www.golubcapitalbdc.com), a business development company, today announced that it originated $449.6 million in new middle-market investment commitments during the three months ended June 30, 2022. Approximately 93% of the new middle-market investment commitments were one stop loans, 2% were senior secured loans and 5% were equity and other securities. Of the new middle-market investment commitments, $350.0 million funded at close.
Total investments at fair value are estimated to have increased by approximately 3.5%, or $187.5 million, during the three months ended June 30, 2022 after factoring in debt repayments, sales of securities, net fundings on revolvers and net change in unrealized gains (losses).
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL BDC, INC.
Golub Capital BDC, Inc. ("GBDC") is an externally-managed, non-diversified closed-end management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. GBDC invests primarily in one stop and other senior secured loans to middle market companies that are often sponsored by private equity investors. GBDC's investment activities are managed by its investment adviser, GC Advisors LLC, an affiliate of the Golub Capital LLC group of companies ("Golub Capital").
ABOUT GOLUB CAPITAL
Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced credit asset manager. The firm specializes in delivering reliable, creative and compelling financing solutions to companies backed by private equity sponsors. Golub Capital's sponsor finance expertise also forms the foundation of its Late Stage Lending, Broadly Syndicated Loan and Credit Opportunities investment programs. Golub Capital nurtures long-term, win-win partnerships that inspire repeat business from private equity sponsors and investors.
As of April 1, 2022, Golub Capital had over 620 employees and over $50 billion of capital under management, a gross measure of invested capital including leverage. The firm has lending offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and London. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized, and the Company has declared, a monthly cash dividend of $0.234 per common share. The monthly dividend reflects an annualized dividend amount of $2.808 per common share, representing a 7.8% increase over the annualized dividend amount of $2.604 per common share from the third quarter of 2021. The dividend is payable August 12, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 29, 2022.
Additionally, the Company's Board of Directors has authorized, and the Company has declared, a monthly cash dividend on its 4.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock of $0.08854 per depositary share, which is equivalent to $1.0625 per annum. The dividend is payable August 1, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 22, 2022.
About Agree Realty Corporation
Agree Realty Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that is RETHINKING RETAIL through the acquisition and development of properties net leased to industry-leading, omni-channel retail tenants. As of March 31, 2022, the Company owned and operated a portfolio of 1,510 properties, located in 47 states and containing approximately 31.0 million square feet of gross leasable area. The Company's common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ADC". For additional information on the Company and RETHINKING RETAIL, please visit www.agreerealty.com.
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Alex Murdaugh lawyer says murder charges expected
Alex Murdaugh already faces a number of criminal charges as his lawyer now says he expects murder charges
Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney facing a slew of criminal charges on multiple fronts, is expected to be charged with the killing of his wife and son, his attorney said.
Murdaugh's lawyer, Jim Griffin, said in a statement Tuesday, "We have not been advised by anyone associated with law enforcement or the Attorney General's office that Alex will be charged with murder. However, he added, "I am aware that SLED advised the family that they intend to seek murder indictments from a grand jury later this week. We won't have any comment until charges are actually brought against Alex."
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division told Fox News that it's investigation into the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh is still "active and ongoing," adding that "agents are committed to the integrity of the investigation, thus no additional information from SLED will be provided at this time."
Maggie, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were killed at the family's home on June 7, 2021. They were found near dog kennels on the residence grounds. No suspects have been named.
"I need police and ambulance immediately! My wife and child have been shot badly," Alex Murdaugh frantically told a dispatcher during a 911 call. "I’ve got up to it now – it’s bad."
Investigators have noted that the two were shot with two different guns – Paul at close range with a shotgun, and Maggie with an assault rifle while running, The State newspaper reported. Maggie’s phone was found on a nearby roadway, but investigators have not offered any explanation.
At the time of his death, Paul Murdaugh was facing pending boating under the influence charges for the February 2019 boat crash that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach and injured several other passengers.
Alex Murdaugh has denied involvement in their deaths.
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In addition, he faces charges related to allegations that he embezzled millions from clients of his former law firm, from which he resigned.
On top of that, Murdaugh allegedly hired someone to shoot him so his living son could collect on his life insurance policy. Murdaugh also faces charges related to insurance settlements in connection with the death of his family's housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield.
Fox News' Danielle Wallace and Adam Sabes contributed to this report. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/alex-murdaugh-lawyer-says-murder-charges-expected | 2022-07-12T20:58:44Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/alex-murdaugh-lawyer-says-murder-charges-expected | false |
Chisholm TAFE students left without lessons, assessments and teachers for mental health courses
By Jessica LongbottomRachel Scanlon should be working as a mental health support worker by now.
Key points:
- Students enrolled in the one-year Certificate IV in Mental Health say they were left with missing and inadequate coursework and assessments
- They have faced delays attaining their qualifications, leading to lost employment opportunities
- Chisholm TAFE said it had suspended some subjects to ensure they met industry requirements, and acknowledged the frustration this had caused students
Having battled her own mental health issues in the past, she enrolled last year in an online course at one of Victoria's leading TAFEs to get the skills to help others.
But since January, Chisholm Online has failed to provide her with lessons, assessments and, in some cases, even teachers.
Students the ABC has spoken to say the meagre coursework that has been available has been woefully inadequate – giving them little expertise to help people in their darkest hours.
"I've been very agitated. It's affected every part of my life," Ms Scanlon said.
She and more than 100 other students enrolled in a one-year Certificate IV in Mental Health have been at a standstill, unable to complete any subjects.
Some students say they have been delayed attaining their qualification by six months, leaving them unable to join the mental health frontline where workers are desperately needed.
"I was meant to finish in June," Ms Scanlon said.
"I've been offered three jobs, and I was unable to accept them because I don't feel competent to work in the industry, because I don't have the foundation skills that Chisholm online were meant to provide to me."
Industry compliance issues
Students doing the Certificate IV can go on to become mental health support workers and peer workers in community-based organisations.
Chisholm Online — part of the Chisholm Institute of TAFE — told students in February the course delays were because it had to urgently overhaul the course so it was compliant with industry standards.
The ABC has learned that despite knowing there were issues well before that, it still took in an intake of more than 60 new students in January.
Brody Posthuma quit a full-time job so he could start his Certificate IV in Mental Health at the start of the year.
"I think it's ridiculous that they accepted people to start off with if they knew it wasn't up to standard, it shouldn't have happened," he said.
"That took from me the opportunity to find somewhere else because by the time all these issues were actually brought up with us, nowhere around me was accepting students at the time."
He has decided to continue his studies elsewhere, and has been told he may not be able to get any study credit, or have his Austudy payments extended past the 12 months that it is meant to take to do the course.
"I will not be able to start the course again until August so that's, by that point, a good seven months that I have nothing to show for," he said.
In a statement to the ABC, Chisholm said the issues affected 200 students in three online courses: the Certificate IV in Mental Health, the Diploma in Mental Health and the Diploma in Alcohol and Other Drugs.
"A recent courseware review of these mental health Chisholm Online courses identified that several assessment items needed an urgent update to reflect the latest requirements of the sector," the statement read.
"Current students … were immediately advised of the situation and have been regularly updated throughout the process."
Despite students telling the ABC they have been set back many months — Chisholm said students who continue with them will only be delayed by approximately eight weeks.
They also had the option to transfer to on-campus equivalents, which have not been affected.
Serious questions over course
Students say it is not only the delay that has been concerning — but the "deep flaws" with the subject material and assessments they have been provided while the overhaul is taking place.
The coursework uploaded between January and April was filled with dozens of broken web links and unavailable webinars, while assessments did not align with the available teaching.
Sentences in learning materials and assessments sometimes did not make sense.
One assessment question provided to students studying Certificate IV in Mental Health reads:
"Documented your contribution in the discussion post. By sharing how you will work within your role to ensure you were following policies and procedures in each one of the situations faced and gaining and sharing feedback with supervisors and colleagues while considering what improvements you would make?"
Alarm bells rang for student Leigh Lambert when no teacher turned up for a unit on dealing with people with suicidal thoughts.
They had access to a 13-minute slide presentation, instead of the 15 hours of teaching over five weeks that Chisholm told them they would receive.
"Having come from recovering from [similar mental health] issues, I could see how inadequate it all was," Mr Lambert said.
"If it wasn't adequate for someone who had an intimate understanding of issues around suicide, how's it going to help … someone who's [just] come out of high school and wants to get involved in this?"
Chisholm Online has told students they will be able to pass subjects they were meant to finish once it has uploaded all the new assessments.
But many students remain concerned they have not actually received the training and learning they should have.
"It's no wonder that a lot of the level of care and expertise that a lot of people [in the mental health system] receive isn't really good if this is the kind of thing that's going on," Mr Posthuma said.
"You're going to have people going into the workforce in caring roles who just might not properly know how to support their clients."
They are are also questioning the worth of subjects they completed last year, and the qualifications of previous graduates of the three Chisholm courses under question.
"The urgency with which they apparently had to change everything is concerning. So that brings to mind for me the question, 'Well, how long has there been an issue?'", Mr Lambert said.
Chisholm said it had suspended subjects in Certificate IV in Mental Health in April and severely limited subject options for those enrolled in the Diploma of Mental Health and Diploma of Alcohol and Other Drugs.
It has promised it will have subjects back up and running for enrolled students this week, and has suspended new enrolments for now to focus on existing students.
"Chisholm acknowledges that the process of releasing assessments as they are updated has caused some frustration with students, but it means that the assessments are now improved and better aligned with the latest industry requirements," it said.
Students feel 'betrayed'
Students studying the three online courses have their fees paid by the state government under the "Free TAFE" initiative to get workers into understaffed sectors.
TAFEs are paid for every unit of work students complete, meaning Chisholm would not have received government-funding for students in affected courses for the first half of this year.
A spokesperson for the Department of Education and Training said they were disappointed that the Chisholm Institute of TAFE's online material for some courses had not been updated for industry currency.
"The Department understands that Chisholm has conducted reviews to ensure that students receive the training they deserve and is working to ensure that these issues are resolved as quickly as possible," they said.
Ms Scanlon, Mr Lambert and Mr Posthuma still want to work in mental health, but say they are none the wiser about when they will actually be qualified to join the sector's frontline.
"I feel betrayed by them, you know?" Mr Lambert said. | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/chilsholm-tafe-mental-health-certificate-questions/101223854 | 2022-07-12T20:59:08Z | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-13/chilsholm-tafe-mental-health-certificate-questions/101223854 | true |
LAS ANIMAS, Colo. — The need for what Steven Martinez and his team do at RESADA, a substance disorder treatment center, is growing exponentially.
"In the last couple years, we've definitely seen a dramatic increase, especially in fentanyl use," he said.
RESADA is located in Las Animas, Colorado, a city of nearly 2,300 people, but for what it's experiencing, it could be anywhere in rural America.
"That's the hardest piece that RESADA fights all the time is the counselors. Being in a rural area, there's not a lot of people that leave high school thinking I'm gonna be an addiction counselor," he said.
The CDC says rural areas have been disproportionately hit by the opioid epidemic, made worse by the burgeoning use of fentanyl.
In a 2019 study, the CDC says the rate of opiate overdose deaths in rural areas surpassed those in urban areas – and that differences in socioeconomic factors, health behaviors and access to health services contribute to these.
The waitlist at RESADA has gone from one week last year to now three weeks. Martinez says the lack of counselors and services has led to collaborations with other services in surrounding counties which has helped, but it still involves clients traveling far distances, which is a barrier that metro areas don’t face.
"We have to try a little harder to get clients what they need," he said.
A glimmer of hope is the start of money coming in from the $26 billion opioid settlement. Each state government is in charge of divvying up the money to different efforts throughout their state.
John Galusha is a county commissioner in nearby Huerfano County, another rural area and the first county in the state to sign onto the lawsuit.
The money from the settlement is going to slowly trickle in over 18 years. While any money is welcomed, he fears the timed payout does not match the urgency of the situation.
Originally the county wanted to build a new health department to meet the need, but he doubts that will be able to happen. It's projected to cost $25 million.
"That's not really realistic because $30,000 a year, it's going take a long time," said Galusha.
What he is optimistic about is money coming in to help statewide messaging.
"If the state can develop the, the right messages, the right educational programs to get into all of the schools and and to really saturate the environment with a consistent message that helps everybody understand the problem better could be as big of a boon or bonus for us as anything else," he said.
While Martinez doesn’t know yet how the money will shake out and benefit his community, he knows that, with or without it, RESADA is still going to be there for the people who need it.
"It's about giving back what you have to other people, trying to be a part of the solution, if we don't do it, who's gonna do it?" he said. | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/as-money-trickles-in-rural-areas-hope-to-get-much-needed-help-from-opioid-settlement | 2022-07-12T20:59:37Z | https://www.ksby.com/news/national/as-money-trickles-in-rural-areas-hope-to-get-much-needed-help-from-opioid-settlement | false |
Patient charged after nurse, paramedic stabbed at Missouri hospital
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) – A patient was arrested and charged after two people were stabbed at a Missouri hospital.
Just before 11:30 a.m. Monday, officers were called to DePaul Hospital near St. Louis for a stabbing. Upon arrival, they found two victims – a nurse and a paramedic – being treated for injuries.
The condition of those injured has not been released.
Jimissa Rivers, 30, was taken into custody and charged with two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action. Her bond was set at $2 million.
Jakayla Palmer was in the emergency room waiting area and witnessed the attack.
“I heard somebody say, ‘She has a knife,’ so I looked up and I’ve seen a woman. She was stabbing the nurse; and everybody, all the workers, they just rushed to her, all the paramedics and everybody, and the knife was just going everywhere,” Palmer said.
SSM Health later released a statement that read, in part:
“We are deeply saddened and shaken by the tragic incident at SSM Health DePaul Hospital today. Our thoughts and prayers are with our injured colleagues, their loved ones and all of those who have been affected. Our priority is the health and safety of all our team members, patients and the community we serve… As we continue to gather information and partner with the police in their investigation, we will provide updates as appropriate.”
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BENTON, Ky., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 37th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Cade Flatt of Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky. is the 2021-22 Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Player of the Year. Flatt won the prestigious award for his accomplishments on and off the field, joining an impressive group of former Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Players of the Year who have combined for 19 gold medals and 14 National Championships.
Flatt was surprised with the trophy by his family, coaches and teammates at school. Check out a video of the announcement here.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Flatt as the nation's best high school boys track and field player. The Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others to evaluate candidates, selected Flatt from more than half a million other student-athletes who compete in boys track and field nationwide.
Competition for the national award was fierce. Flatt topped the list of state winners in boys track and field who collectively boast an incredible list of accomplishments, including 25 who have volunteered with 2+ organizations, 8 returning state Gatorade Players of the Year in either Boys Cross Country or Boys Track & Field and 29 with a GPA of 3.75 and above.
"Competing at the most demanding event in the sport, Cade Flatt embodied pure mastery at the 800-meter distance (in 2022)," said Rich Gonzalez of PrepCalTrack. "Unbeaten both indoors and outdoors against scholastic competition, he recorded the No. 3 time in prep history to win a title at New Balance Nationals Outdoor and solidified his unprecedented outdoor ledger. While chasing one of the oldest records in the books, amazingly, Cade notched the No. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 outdoor times in history to rule a single track prep event like no other high schooler in history—he was absolutely masterful."
The 6-foot-1, 160-pound senior set a state record in winning the national championship in the 800-meter run at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor this past season. Flatt's clocking of 1:46.48 was 0.03 seconds shy of the national high-school record that has stood since 1996 and it ranks No. 2 all-time. He also owns the all-time No. 3, 4, 6 and 7 outdoor 800 performances by a high-schooler, an unequaled level of single-event Top-10 dominance in prep track history. Flatt produced five of this century's top six 800 times this spring and ran a 1:46.53 in a qualifying round for the 800 at the elite, all-ages USATF Outdoor Championships, finishing ninth overall and missing the final by one slot. Flatt won the 400-meter dash and the 800 at the Class AAA state meet, leading the Marshals to a third-place finish as a team. His best 400 time of 46.89 seconds ranked No. 25 nationally among prep competitors in 2022 at the time of his selection.
A member of the Marshall County High Gifted and Talented program, Flatt has volunteered as part of multiple community service initiatives through his school's Leadership Class, including elementary-school tutoring and literacy-outreach programs. He is also a four-year member of the Marshall County Pep Club.
Flatt has maintained a weighted 4.13 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at the University of Mississippi this fall.
"Gatorade understands how sports translate into lifelong skills, which is why we continue to recognize and celebrate student-athletes who are incredible role models for future generations," said Gatorade Chief Marketing Officer Kalen Thornton. "Cade Flatt is an undisputed leader on the field of play and a role model in his community, which is why he earned the Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Player of the Year award."
Each year, a selection committee evaluates the nation's top talent to choose one state winner from each of the 50 states as well as Washington D.C., in 12 different sports: football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls track & field. In all, 608 athletes are honored each year. From the pool of state winners, one national winner is selected in each of the 12 sports.
Gatorade has a long-standing history of serving athlete communities and understands how sports instill valuable lifelong skills on and off the field. Since the program's inception in 1985, Gatorade Player of the Year award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships, and many have also turned into pillars in their communities, becoming coaches, business owners and educators. Previous winners include a distinguished list of athletes, such as Peyton Manning, Abby Wambach, Jayson Tatum, Elena Delle Donne and many other sports icons.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media on Facebook at facebook.com/GatoradePOY, Instagram at instagram.com/Gatorade and Twitter at twitter.com/Gatorade.
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PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
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New Report Details Economic Impact Across 43 States
Webinar on July 14th to Review Findings
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As many small towns and rural communities across America face shrinking populations and growing economic challenges, a new report finds that a positive economic contributor to these communities is the flow of benefit dollars from public pension plans. In 2018, public pension benefit dollars represented between one and three percent of GDP on average in the 2,922 counties in the 43 states studied.
These findings are detailed in a new study released today by the National Institute on Retirement Security, Fortifying Main Street: The Economic Benefit of Public Pension Dollars in Small Towns and Rural America. The report is authored by Dan Doonan and Tyler Bond from NIRS, along with Nathan Chobo from Linea Solutions Inc.
The research illustrates the impact of benefit dollars from public pension plans according to several different measures: as a percentage of GDP by county; as a percentage of total personal income by county; and by categorizing counties as metropolitan, small town (micropolitan), or rural. This study builds on previous research, adding significantly more states and examining data in 43 states from a majority of public pension plans in the states.
Download the research here.
Register here for a webinar on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 2:00 PM ET for a review of the findings with the report authors.
This newly-expanded report finds that public pension benefit dollars account for significant amounts of total personal income in counties across the 43 states studied. For all 2,922 counties in this study, pension benefit dollars represent an average of 1.25 percent of total personal income, while some counties experience more than six percent of total personal income derived from pension dollars.
The analysis indicates that less populated counties with smaller economies experience a greater relative economic benefit from the flow of public pension benefit dollars into the county as compared to more populated, urban counties. This larger relative impact helps to sustain the economies of small towns during this period of economic transition in rural America.
"National economic trends coupled with population declines have had a devasting impact on many small towns and rural areas across America. Often, the largest employer in these smaller towns is a public entity like a school system or municipality that employs teachers, nurses, firefighters, and public safety officials. These public employees spend their career serving their communities at a time when a growing number of young workers are leaving their hometowns for job opportunities in urban areas," said Dan Doonan, NIRS executive director.
"Eventually, public employees in rural and smaller communities retire and typically stay in their hometown. Retired public employees spend their pension income in their towns on goods and services like housing, food, medicine and clothing, which serves as a stable source of economic activity in smaller communities. Our analysis clearly indicates that pension spending provides a substantial economic impact on struggling small towns and rural communities across the nation," Doonan explained.
The report's key findings are as follows:
- Public pension benefit dollars represent between one and three percent of GDP on average in the 2,922 counties studied.
- Rural counties have the highest percentages of their populations receiving public pension benefits.
- Small town counties experience a greater relative impact in terms of both GDP and total personal income from pension benefit dollars than rural or metropolitan counties.
- Rural counties see more of an impact in terms of personal income than metropolitan counties, while metropolitan counties and rural counties see an equivalent impact in terms of GDP.
- Counties that contain state capitals are outliers from other metropolitan counties, likely because there is a greater density of public employees in these counties, most of whom remain in these counties in retirement.
- On average, rural counties have lost population while small town counties and metropolitan counties have gained population in the period between 2000 and 2018, but the connection between population change and the relative impact of public pension benefit dollars is weak.
To ensure accuracy, the data for this report was collected directly from each pension plan.
The National Institute on Retirement Security is a non-profit, non-partisan organization established to contribute to informed policymaking by fostering a deep understanding of the value of retirement security to employees, employers and the economy as a whole. Located in Washington, D.C., NIRS' diverse membership includes financial services firms, employee benefit plans, trade associations, and other retirement service providers. More information is available at www.nirsonline.org. Follow NIRS on Twitter @NIRSonline.
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LOS ANGELES, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP announced that Partners Debra James, Pooja Nair, and Vanja Habekovic have been selected as nominees for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women's Leadership Awards," honoring them for their impact and accomplishments within their firm and among the Los Angeles business community.
"We are grateful to have some of the top women attorneys in the profession," said Co-Managing Partner Randall Leff. " We laud their commitment to clients, to the firm and to the business community as a whole."
James, a Partner in the Real Estate Department, was selected as a "Mentor of the Year" nominee for her commitment to bettering the careers of women. In her law practice, she concentrates her practice on solving problems on a wide range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, development and construction, title work, real estate tax appeals and entity formation and structuring.
Nair, a Partner in the Litigation Department and Chair of the Firm's Food, Beverage and Hospitality Practice, is selected as a nominee for the "Women to Watch" category. She is a go-to attorney for the food, beverage, and hospitality industries and handles partnership disputes, false advertising claims, contract disputes.She also helps clients deal with cities and other local government bodies , including the Brown Act and California Public Records Act issues. Nair focuses on finding strategic, creative solutions to disputes that make business sense.
Habekovic, a Partner in and Co-Chair of the Corporate and Tax Departments, is also selected as a nominee for the "Women to Watch" category. Her clients rely on her dynamic counsel to establish, grow, maintain and sell their businesses and to navigate the important tax consequences that arise when making deals. Habekovic has a reputation of not only working closely and collaborating with her clients on existing matters, but looks long term to further develop strategies to advance a company's future endeavors.
Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP is a full-service firm that provides a broad range of business-related legal services including corporate law; litigation; intellectual property & technology law; real estate transactions and finance; construction & environmental law; tax planning and controversies; employment law; health care law; bankruptcy, receivership and reorganization; and estate planning. For more information, visit http://www.ecjlaw.com/
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Researchers Transplant Pig Hearts In 2 Brain Dead Patients
Doctors transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two brain dead patients at NYU Langone Health, the researchers announced Tuesday, in an encouraging step for the growing medical field.
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HARTFORD, Conn., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTS) today reported preliminary assets under management of $155.4 billion as of June 30, 2022. The decrease from March 31, 2022 primarily reflected market depreciation and net outflows in open-end funds and retail separate accounts, partially offset by positive net flows in institutional accounts. In addition, the company provided services to $3.0 billion of other fee-earning assets, which are not included in assets under management.
About Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.
Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS) is a distinctive partnership of boutique investment managers singularly committed to the long-term success of individual and institutional investors. We provide investment management products and services from our affiliated managers, each with a distinct investment style and autonomous investment process, as well as select subadvisers. Investment solutions are available across multiple disciplines and product types to meet a wide array of investor needs. Additional information about our firm, investment partners, and strategies is available at virtus.com.
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ROCKVILLE, Md., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA) has announced that it has corrected the date for its second quarter 2022 earnings release to August 9, 2022 before the NASDAQ market opens. Following the release, CEVA management will conduct a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the operating performance for the quarter.
The previous announcement incorrectly stated that CEVA would announce results for the second quarter 2022 on August 10, 2022 and conduct a conference call on the same date.
The conference call will be available via the following dial in numbers:
- U.S. Participants: Dial 1-844-435-0316 (Access Code: CEVA)
- International Participants: Dial +1-412-317-6365 (Access Code: CEVA)
The conference call will also be available live via webcast at the following link: https://app.webinar.net/Wq3Dd84dpw6. Please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes prior to the call to register, download and install any necessary audio software.
For those who cannot access the live broadcast, a replay will be available by dialing +1-877-344-7529 or +1-412-317-0088 (access code: 6812163) from one hour after the end of the call until 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) on August 16, 2022. The replay will also be available at CEVA's web site www.ceva-dsp.com.
CEVA is the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and integrated IP solutions for a smarter, safer, connected world. We provide Digital Signal Processors, AI engines, wireless platforms, cryptography cores and complementary software for sensor fusion, image enhancement, computer vision, voice input and artificial intelligence. These technologies are offered in combination with our Intrinsix IP integration services, helping our customers address their most complex and time-critical integrated circuit design projects. Leveraging our technologies and chip design skills, many of the world's leading semiconductors, system companies and OEMs create power-efficient, intelligent, secure and connected devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, robotics, industrial, aerospace & defense and IoT.
Our DSP-based solutions include platforms for 5G baseband processing in mobile, IoT and infrastructure, advanced imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low-power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For sensor fusion, our Hillcrest Labs sensor processing technologies provide a broad range of sensor fusion software and inertial measurement unit ("IMU") solutions for markets including hearables, wearables, AR/VR, PC, robotics, remote controls and IoT. For wireless IoT, our platforms for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode), Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E (802.11n/ac/ax), Ultra-wideband (UWB) and NB-IoT are the most broadly licensed connectivity platforms in the industry.
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TORONTO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Waste Connections, Inc. (TSX/NYSE: WCN) ("Waste Connections" or the "Company") today announced that it will report financial results for the second quarter of 2022 after the close of the stock market on August 2, 2022. The Company will be hosting an investor conference call related to this release on August 3rd at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
A live audio webcast of the conference call can be accessed by visiting investors.wasteconnections.com and selecting "News & Events" from the website menu. Alternatively, listeners may access the call by dialing 800-747-0365 (within North America) or 212-231-2939 (international) approximately 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time; a passcode is not required. A replay of the conference call will be available until August 10, 2022, by calling 800-633-8284 (within North America) or 402-977-9140 (international) and entering Passcode #22019767.
Waste Connections also announced that executives of the Company currently plan to participate in the following events during the third quarter of 2022:
During the 24-hour period prior to any scheduled presentations, the Company will post any presentation slides on its website at investors.wasteconnections.com under News & Events.
Waste Connections is an integrated solid waste services company that provides non-hazardous waste collection, transfer and disposal services, along with resource recovery primarily through recycling and renewable fuels generation. The Company serves more than eight million residential, commercial and industrial customers in mostly exclusive and secondary markets across 43 states in the U.S. and six provinces in Canada. Waste Connections also provides non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several basins across the U.S., as well as intermodal services for the movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest. For more information, visit Waste Connections at www.wasteconnections.com.
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BENTON, Ky., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its 37th year of honoring the nation's most elite high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Cade Flatt of Marshall County High School in Benton, Ky. is the 2021-22 Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Player of the Year. Flatt won the prestigious award for his accomplishments on and off the field, joining an impressive group of former Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Players of the Year who have combined for 19 gold medals and 14 National Championships.
Flatt was surprised with the trophy by his family, coaches and teammates at school. Check out a video of the announcement here.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Flatt as the nation's best high school boys track and field player. The Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others to evaluate candidates, selected Flatt from more than half a million other student-athletes who compete in boys track and field nationwide.
Competition for the national award was fierce. Flatt topped the list of state winners in boys track and field who collectively boast an incredible list of accomplishments, including 25 who have volunteered with 2+ organizations, 8 returning state Gatorade Players of the Year in either Boys Cross Country or Boys Track & Field and 29 with a GPA of 3.75 and above.
"Competing at the most demanding event in the sport, Cade Flatt embodied pure mastery at the 800-meter distance (in 2022)," said Rich Gonzalez of PrepCalTrack. "Unbeaten both indoors and outdoors against scholastic competition, he recorded the No. 3 time in prep history to win a title at New Balance Nationals Outdoor and solidified his unprecedented outdoor ledger. While chasing one of the oldest records in the books, amazingly, Cade notched the No. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 outdoor times in history to rule a single track prep event like no other high schooler in history—he was absolutely masterful."
The 6-foot-1, 160-pound senior set a state record in winning the national championship in the 800-meter run at the New Balance Nationals Outdoor this past season. Flatt's clocking of 1:46.48 was 0.03 seconds shy of the national high-school record that has stood since 1996 and it ranks No. 2 all-time. He also owns the all-time No. 3, 4, 6 and 7 outdoor 800 performances by a high-schooler, an unequaled level of single-event Top-10 dominance in prep track history. Flatt produced five of this century's top six 800 times this spring and ran a 1:46.53 in a qualifying round for the 800 at the elite, all-ages USATF Outdoor Championships, finishing ninth overall and missing the final by one slot. Flatt won the 400-meter dash and the 800 at the Class AAA state meet, leading the Marshals to a third-place finish as a team. His best 400 time of 46.89 seconds ranked No. 25 nationally among prep competitors in 2022 at the time of his selection.
A member of the Marshall County High Gifted and Talented program, Flatt has volunteered as part of multiple community service initiatives through his school's Leadership Class, including elementary-school tutoring and literacy-outreach programs. He is also a four-year member of the Marshall County Pep Club.
Flatt has maintained a weighted 4.13 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at the University of Mississippi this fall.
"Gatorade understands how sports translate into lifelong skills, which is why we continue to recognize and celebrate student-athletes who are incredible role models for future generations," said Gatorade Chief Marketing Officer Kalen Thornton. "Cade Flatt is an undisputed leader on the field of play and a role model in his community, which is why he earned the Gatorade National Boys Track and Field Player of the Year award."
Each year, a selection committee evaluates the nation's top talent to choose one state winner from each of the 50 states as well as Washington D.C., in 12 different sports: football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, baseball, softball, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls track & field. In all, 608 athletes are honored each year. From the pool of state winners, one national winner is selected in each of the 12 sports.
Gatorade has a long-standing history of serving athlete communities and understands how sports instill valuable lifelong skills on and off the field. Since the program's inception in 1985, Gatorade Player of the Year award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships, and many have also turned into pillars in their communities, becoming coaches, business owners and educators. Previous winners include a distinguished list of athletes, such as Peyton Manning, Abby Wambach, Jayson Tatum, Elena Delle Donne and many other sports icons.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media on Facebook at facebook.com/GatoradePOY, Instagram at instagram.com/Gatorade and Twitter at twitter.com/Gatorade.
The Gatorade Company, a division of PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP), meets the needs of consumers who participate in sports and fitness, through brands that include Gatorade, Propel, Muscle Milk, and Evolve. The solutions they provide are driven by a deep understanding of the unique occasions and needs across athletic activity. Gatorade, their marquee brand, is underpinned by a 56-year history of studying the best athletes in the world, and sports nutrition research by the Gatorade Sport Science Institute, allowing it to provide scientifically formulated products that meet athletes' needs both on and off the field. For more information and a full list of products, please visit www.gatorade.com.
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.
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CHRIS WHEELER: Man United players are clearly buying into Erik ten Hag's methods after demolishing Liverpool... but he knows this result is far removed from the cold reality of the Premier League
- Manchester United thrashed arch-rivals Liverpool in their pre-season friendly
- It is quite the start for Erik ten Hag in what was his first game as United manager
- The United players are clearly buying into his philosophy and methods
- Anthony Martial and Eric Bailly both seized rare opportunities in Bangkok
- And while it is a positive result, the Dutch manager won't be getting carried away
Erik ten Hag stood clutching the Bangkok Century Cup with Bruno Fernandes as the music thumped and the confetti pumped and the staged celebrations got underway.
Above him, the giant scoreboard at the Rajamangala National Stadium read: Manchester United 4-0 Liverpool. Ten Hag’s first game as United manager and here was his first trophy. It was quite the start.
The expressionless look on Ten Hag’s face told a rather different story. He knows that events here on a sticky night in Bangkok are far removed from the cold reality of Premier League football. When United face Liverpool at Old Trafford next month, it will be in very different circumstances.
Erik ten Hag (right) stands holding the Bangkok Century Cup with Bruno Fernandes (left) after Manchester United's 4-0 demolition job of arch-rivals Liverpool on Tuesday
It was an impressive performance and the players are clearly buying into Ten Hag's methods
Jurgen Klopp said before this game that there are no friendlies between these two clubs, but there actually are and this was one of them.
Klopp played three different teams, changing all 10 outfield players after half an hour and 60 minutes. Ten Hag also made 10 changes at half-time, so we should only read so much into the result.
But 4-0 against any Liverpool team these days is not to be sniffed at, and Ten Hag would certainly have faced some serious questions if the score was the other way round.
When he shook hands with his assistant Steve McClaren at the final whistle and was met with raised eyebrows, it suggested that even they were surprised by the margin of victory.
Jadon Sancho was among the scorers which will please Ten Hag, who is without Ronaldo
Anthony Martial (left) and Eric Bailly (right) both impressed and seized rare opportunities
Ten Hag doesn’t come across as a man who will get easily carried away, though. ‘We will not over-estimate this result,’ he said. ‘It will take time and I have seen a lot of mistakes. We have to work hard to cut them out but, of course, we are happy.’
The Dutchman will be encouraged that United had four different scorers in the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo. Jadon Sancho, Fred and Anthony Martial were on target before half-time and Facundo Pellistri added a fourth.
If Ten Hag can coax more finishes from Fred like his exquisite chip over Allison then he really is a special coach.
While it is a positive result for his first game in charge, Ten Hag won't be getting carried away
The players are clearly buying into his philosophy. Martial isn’t known for his work ethic, but the way he robbed the ball from Rhys Williams before scoring a solo effort demonstrated the benefits of the pressing game Ten Hag demands.
Eric Bailly seized a rare opportunity in the second half by showing the new manager just how good a defender he can be, although this is likely to be one of the Ivorian’s last appearances for United.
For Liverpool, this result felt much less significant. Klopp won’t dwell on it too long as they head to Singapore for a match against Crystal Palace on Friday.
‘The game came too early,’ he said. ‘United had a week longer with their core group and they did really well. The result is there, we have to accept it.’
Liverpool looked jaded but will be a different beast when the Premier League returns
It may have turned out differently had the impressive Luis Diaz, Fabio Carvalho and Mo Salah not all hit the post.
More worrying, perhaps, was the sight of record £85million signing Darwin Nunez firing over an unguarded goal on his debut when Salah’s effort rebounded to him.
Nunez can blame those blisters. Ten Hag’s problem now might be keeping everyone’s feet on the ground. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11007157/Manchester-United-eastern-promise-Erik-ten-Hag-thrashing-Liverpool.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-12T21:11:21Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11007157/Manchester-United-eastern-promise-Erik-ten-Hag-thrashing-Liverpool.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
Experienced Gaming Executive Increases Depth of AGS Board
LAS VEGAS, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AGS (NYSE: AGS) (or the "Company") today announced that David Jacques Farahi has been elected to AGS' Board of Directors, and will serve on the Company's Nominating and Governance, Compensation and Audit committees.
Farahi serves as Executive Chairman of Quick Custom Intelligence since his appointment in 2022. Previously he served as Chief Operating Officer of Monarch Casino & Resort (Nasdaq: MCRI) from 2012 to 2021. Starting his gaming career at Monarch in 1998, Farahi held several additional roles including Director of Investor Relations, FP&A Analyst, as well as numerous positions within the slot and gaming operations departments. From 2004 to 2007 he held various finance industry roles with HSBC Bank PLC in London, Geneva, and New York. Farahi served four terms as President of the Colorado Gaming Association, from 2015 to 2021, where he spearheaded the industry's legislative agenda, including three successful state-wide ballot initiatives. In 2022, Farahi became an Adjunct Professor at Metropolitan State University Denver, teaching an introductory course on gaming and sports book management.
AGS President and Chief Executive Officer David Lopez said, "David is a seasoned industry executive with extensive experience in both the gaming operator and gaming regulator space. He has a proven track record of leading teams to operational improvements, integrating and scaling a substantial acquisition, and effectively communicating with the investment community. We believe his strong industry experience will be extremely valuable as we continue to grow, improve our operational efficiency, and strengthen our relationships with our casino operator partners."
Farahi said, "I have long admired the passion, grit, and ingenuity of the AGS team. Since its inception, AGS has uniquely approached operators as a true partner, developing products from slots to table games and beyond that delight players. I'm honored to be joining their board at such an exciting time for the business. I have tremendous respect for David Lopez, his executive team, and the other board members, and I look forward to collaborating with them to the benefit of our team, customers, and shareholders."
Farahi earned an MBA from Columbia Business School with concentrations in both Real Estate and Finance. He also holds a BA in Economics and International Studies from Northwestern University. He earned Dean's List honors from both institutions.
About AGS
AGS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Our roots are firmly planted in the Class II tribal gaming market, but our customer-centric culture and remarkable growth have helped us branch out to become one of the most all-inclusive commercial gaming equipment suppliers in the world. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an expansive table products portfolio, highly rated social casino, real-money gaming solutions for players and operators, and best-in-class service, we offer an unmatched value proposition for our casino partners. Learn more at playags.com.
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Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough shares heartbreaking tribute to her brother Benjamin on the two year anniversary of his tragic death
Riley Keough jumped to her Instagram earlier on Tuesday to remember her younger brother who passed away by suicide exactly two years ago.
The two siblings appeared to have had a close bond and relationship, and his sudden death came as a painful shock to the star and her family.
The Zola actress, 33, typed out a loving caption, writing, 'I still can't believe you're not here.' Her brother was only 27-years-old at the time of his death.
Sad loss: Riley Keough, 33, uploaded a tribute post on her Instagram on Tuesday to remember her younger brother on the two-year anniversary since his tragic death
The actress shared a photo on her Instagram of herself and her brother posing for a picture on her wedding day in 2015.
Riley added below the picture, 'Not an hour goes by where I don't think of you and miss you.'
She continued with, 'It's been two years today since you left and I still can't believe you're not here. You are so loved my Ben Ben.'
At the time of his death, TMZ reported that the L.A. County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office informed the publication that his death was being ruled a suicide caused by a shotgun.
After an autopsy, Extra reported that traces of alcohol and cocaine were found in his system.
Close siblings: The actress and her younger brother appeared to have had a good relationship
Remembering her brother: The Zola actress posts about her brother since his death, stating how much she misses him
During an interview with InStyle, one year after Benjamin's passing, the filmmaker opened up about how she was moving on following the tragedy.
'I'm just generally trying to be grateful for everything at the moment, trying to operate in love, and keep my heart open, and give and receive love,' Riley explained.
'And not in a woo-woo way, because I definitely have hard days, and all kinds of pain and suffering and all that,' she added.
The Girlfriend Experience star also got a tattoo of Benjamin's name near her collarbone to always have him close, although his physical presence was no longer there.
'You are so loved': After two years since his death, Benjamin is still remembered and missed by his family and friends
Incredible memories: Riley and Benjamin were pictured in high spirits at the actress's wedding day in 2015
Following the news of his death, Benjamin's mother, Lisa Marie Presley, expressed her shock.
According to TMZ, her manager, Roger Widynowski, told the publication that, 'She is completely heartbroken, inconsolable and beyond devastated but trying to stay strong for her 11 year old twins and her oldest daughter Riley.'
He ended the statement by adding, 'She adored that boy. He was the love of her life.'
Brandon Howard, a close friend to Benjamin, opened up to People not long after his passing about some of the struggles his pal was going through.
Difficult times: Riley shared a post around Christmas time, sharing how much she missed her brother and how is absence was 'painful'
Brother and sister: The actress shared a photo on her social media of the two siblings when they were younger
'Sometimes he struggled with depression, which is a serious thing with the coronavirus and everything happening right now and everybody locked in the house,' he stated.
Brandon also explained how Benjamin felt a lot of 'pressure' to be someone great due to being the grandson of Elvis.
'It's a tough thing when you have a lot of pressure with your family and living up to a name and an image,' he revealed to the publication. 'It's almost like you're pressured into having to be a musician, having to be an actor.'
He talked about how his friend had a big heart and was the type of person to always be there for others.
'In any kind of situation, he would be the one who would come crash with you on the couch for weeks until you're actually feeling better.'
Close bond: Riley and Benjamin were often pictured together, showing that they had a good relationship
Always in their memories: Benjamin is survived by his mother, Lisa Marie, Riley, his twin sisters, and father, Danny Keough
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Michael Gove has denied that he is a “snake” after being described as such by No 10 sources after being sacked as communities secretary by Boris Johnson last week.
The Prime Minister dramatically fired Mr Gove last Wednesday after his Cabinet rival told him that it was time for him to quit, with the insult ensuing from Downing Street.
Mr Gove said Mr Johnson was “very equable, very polite” in sacking him, after the Prime Minister did not heed his call to step down in a “dignified and appropriate” way as support for his leadership crumbled at Westminster.
The former Cabinet minister replied “no” and laughed when asked by the BBC in an interview: “Are you a snake?”
“I’ve been called all sorts of things in my political life, but no, I think I’m just a regular guy.”
Following Mr Gove’s removal from his Government post, a No 10 source told the BBC: “You cannot have a snake who is not with you on any of the big arguments who then gleefully briefs the press that he has called for the leader to go.”
Mr Gove said he had not given “a second thought” to why someone in the Prime Minister’s team had said that, and that he puts “spicy, salacious” comments to one side.
The pair’s relationship has long been troubled, with the Prime Minister’s leadership campaign in 2016 derailed when his rival withdrew support and decided to run himself.
Although Mr Gove was among a slew of Cabinet ministers who told Mr Johnson to stand down, he was the only one to be removed.
But Mr Gove said he is still an “admirer” of the Prime Minister.
The Surrey Heath MP said: “When he sacked me, he was as he’s always been in conversation with me, very equable, very polite, and obviously I’m not surprised because earlier in the day, I’d gone to see him privately.
“I’d explained to him that, while I regretted it, there was a grim political reality facing us…
“My advice to him, which I offered as a friend and in candour and in private, was that if he chose to step down that day, that Wednesday, he could take control of the situation and he could do so in a way that was dignified and appropriate.
“Now obviously Boris took a different view and I respect that.”
Mr Gove, who was in charge of Mr Johnson’s levelling up agenda, is now the most heavyweight supporter of former minister for equalities Kemi Badenoch in the contest to replace the Prime Minister. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3486268/michael-gove-rejects-no-10-snake-label-after-sacking-by-johnson/ | 2022-07-12T21:12:24Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3486268/michael-gove-rejects-no-10-snake-label-after-sacking-by-johnson/ | false |
TAMPA, Fla. — A 12-year-old Wimauma girl, who has been fighting for her life at a hospital in Mexico, is being flown back to the Tampa Bay region for treatment of critical injuries she suffered when her family's pick-up truck was hit by a charter bus late last month.
The head-on crash killed her parents and grandparents, leaving Jasmin Cervantes-Garcia as the only survivor. It happened while the family was vacationing in Leon – located in the state of Guanajuato.
Tampa-based air ambulance company Jet ICU is transporting Cervantes-Garcia back to Florida. The medical flight comes after Cervantes-Garcia's aunt launched a GoFundMe page, raising more than $31,000 for the girl's care.
The flight is expected to land in Tampa around 4:20 p.m. Tuesday. At that point, Cervantes-Garcia's older brother and aunt plan to provide an update on her condition.
Cervantes-Garcia will then be taken to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Pete. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/wimauma-mexico-jasmin-cervantes-garcia/67-ee88ee82-fb9c-48a3-b632-c457cc0fd625 | 2022-07-12T21:12:35Z | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/wimauma-mexico-jasmin-cervantes-garcia/67-ee88ee82-fb9c-48a3-b632-c457cc0fd625 | false |
ORLANDO, Fla., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) announced today that it will release its second quarter financial results before the market opens on Thursday, August 4, 2022. In conjunction with the release, the Company has scheduled a conference call, which will be broadcast live over the internet on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. The release and the conference call can be accessed via the Company's website at www.SeaWorldInvestors.com.
For those unable to participate in the live webcast, a replay will be available beginning at approximately 12 p.m. Eastern Time on August 4, 2022 under the "Events & Presentations" tab of www.SeaWorldInvestors.com. A replay of the call can also be accessed telephonically from 12 p.m. Eastern Time on August 4, 2022 through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on August 11, 2022 by dialing (877) 344-7529 from anywhere in the U.S., (855) 669-9658 from anywhere in Canada, or (412) 317-0088 from international locations and entering the conference code 2771718.
About SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc.
SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) is a leading theme park and entertainment company providing experiences that matter, and inspiring guests to protect animals and the wild wonders of our world. The Company is one of the world's foremost zoological organizations and a global leader in animal welfare, training, husbandry and veterinary care. The Company collectively cares for what it believes is one of the largest zoological collections in the world and has helped lead advances in the care of animals. The Company also rescues and rehabilitates marine and terrestrial animals that are ill, injured, orphaned or abandoned, with the goal of returning them to the wild. The SeaWorld® rescue team has helped over 40,000 animals in need over the Company's history. SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. owns or licenses a portfolio of recognized brands including SeaWorld®, Busch Gardens®, Aquatica®, Sesame Place® and Sea Rescue®. Over its more than 60-year history, the Company has built a diversified portfolio of 12 destination and regional theme parks that are grouped in key markets across the United States, many of which showcase its one-of-a-kind zoological collection. The Company's theme parks feature a diverse array of rides, shows and other attractions with broad demographic appeal which deliver memorable experiences and a strong value proposition for its guests.
Copies of this and other news releases as well as additional information about SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. can be obtained online at www.seaworldentertainment.com. Shareholders and prospective investors can also register to automatically receive the Company's press releases, SEC filings and other notices by e-mail by registering at that website.
Contact:
Investor Relations Inquiries:
Matthew Stroud
Investor Relations
(855) 797-8625
Investors@SeaWorld.com
Media Inquiries:
Lisa Cradit
SVP – Head of Communications
(646) 245-2476
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Top Prime Day deals under $100
Although many people leverage Prime Day for deep discounts on big-ticket items, there is no shortage of deals under $100. By our early estimates, these bargains are shaping up to be the bestselling products of the mega sales event.
From affordable tech to popular branded apparel, Prime Day shoppers have thousands of budget-priced deals to choose from. Some of the hottest offers we’ve seen so far are on Levi’s jeans, air fryers and premium hair products. Even the baby and kids category has a range of deep discounts today, particularly on baby monitors, art supplies and toys.
Because prices and availability on Prime Day deals are subject to change today — especially with so many deep discounts on already affordable items — we’ll update this list frequently to keep you up to date. We organized this $100 and below roundup by popular categories so you find what you’re looking for quickly.
Trending deals under $100 from Samsung, Braun and other top brands
Kohler Puretide Toilet: 52% off
This bidet seat is easy to install and operate, making it one of the most user-friendly options on the market. It has a few customizable settings so you can enjoy a personalized spray experience.
Redken All Soft Shampoo: 30% off
The bestselling Redken shampoo nourishes overstressed hair and leaves it shiny and silky. It’s a particularly popular formula among people who use heat styling tools and want to minimize long-term damage and dryness.
Amazon Echo Show 8: 42% off
The Echo Show 8 has an optimized touchscreen and improved camera for high-quality video calls and streaming. It’s also a top choice for a smart home hub and integrates seamlessly with other Alexa devices.
Braun Electric Hand Mixer: 30% off
A true workhorse of a mixer, this powerful Braun model has nine speeds and can combine even the thickest ingredients. It has the brand’s signature craftsmanship, which means it withstands the test of time.
Samsung Galaxy Buds Live: 53% off
With up to 29 hours of playback time, these Samsung wireless earbuds are suitable for all-day use. They’re compatible with most iOS and Android devices, and users can make the most of their listening with the Galaxy companion app.
Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote: 58% off
Get the most out of your TV with an Amazon Fire TV Stick which includes access to favorite streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and Peacock. Stream music, watch sports and enjoy all your favorite subscriptions at the click of a button.
Ray-Ban Stories Wayfarer Smart Glasses: 20% off
Combine style and smart technology with these Ray-Ban smart glasses. Access functionality such as video recording, make phone calls using voice control, or control your device audio with a light touch of the frames.
Colgate Optic White Pro Series Teeth Whitening: 38% off
With a teeth whitening pen and LED light tray, this powerful at-home teeth whitening kit provides overnight results and professional-level whitening over repeated use. One gel pen is included and the LED mouth tray is rechargeable.
Bissell PowerFresh 2-in-1 Lightweight Swivel Steam Mop: 38% off
This multi-tasking steam cleaner can remove up to 99.9% of germs and bacteria from your floors and above-floor surfaces. It can produce steam in less than a minute and has a removable water tank for refills at the sink.
23andMe Health + Ancestry: 50% off
Learn about where you come from and gain key insights into your health with this at-home DNA kit. It requires just a saliva sample and provides a detailed report on your health and ancestry in six weeks.
Cuisinart 3-Quart Electric Fondue Pot: 32% off
This electric fondue pot can take your dinner parties to the next level. The elegant brushes stainless steel design looks impressive on your table, and the nonstick, dishwasher-safe interior allows for easy cleanup.
18 discounts that caught our eye
- Now 43% off, the Schwinn Balance Toddler Bike is at one of the lowest prices ever.
- This Ninja Professional Blender is a real deal at $69.95.
- Upgrade your shower for 75% off with the Moen Engage Magnetix Showerhead.
- Pick up the Signature Design by Ashley Bonell Firm Hybrid Mattress for only $99.47.
- Get comfortable in your home office with 30% off the Flash Furniture Office Task Chair.
- Hit the water in style with 40% off the Intex Explorer Inflatable Boat.
- Provide hours of fun for the kids with the LOL Surprise JK Queen Bee Doll at just $11.49.
- Now 59% off, the Cuisinart PerfecTemp Programmable Coffeemaker is a top deal.
- Get the Adidas Men’s Lite Racer Running Shoe with 25% off today.
- Now 30% off, keep everything cool with the Igloo BMX 25 Quart Cooler.
- Stream your favorite shows with the Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite, now only $11.99.
- For those who enjoy paddling trips, this Intex Challenger Kayak is available for 36% off.
- Score this LOL Surprise Queens Doll for less than $7.
- This Coleman Xtreme Portable Cooler is a great value at $55.99.
- Grab a pair of Beats Studio Buds for 33% off.
- This Greenworks Cordless Leaf Blow is just $76.41.
- This Razer DeathAdder V2 Gaming Mouse is a steal at 57%.
- This set of two Instant Pot Mesh Steamer Baskets is just $17.42.
Home and kitchen markdowns from Ninja, Sodastream and more
Dash Tasti-Crisp Electric Air Fryer Oven: 20% off
This entry-level air fryer has a redesigned fryer basket that maximizes usable space so you can add more food to each batch. It scores extra points for simple operation and a sleek, modern design.
Instant Pot Vortex Plus Air Fryer: 38% off
This 6-in-1 air fryer has a capacity of six quarts. The digital touch screen makes it easy to use and the baskets are non-stick and dishwasher safe, making it a popular investment for quick and easy meals for busy people.
Ninja Foodi Pressure Cooker And Air Fryer: 31% off
The 9-in-1 Ninja Foodi touted as a beginner-friendly model, has several one-touch controls and an easy-to-read LCD panel. It cooks chicken dishes in as little as 10 minutes, making it a popular investment for quick-and-easy meals for busy people.
Black+Decker Cordless Dustbuster: 40% off
This handheld vacuum makes quick work of tidying up messes around the home, office and even vehicles. The ergonomic design allows for easy maneuvering in tight spaces and hard-to-reach areas.
Germ Guardian True HEPA Filter Air Purifier: 25% off
Improve indoor air quality with this efficient air purifier that removes more than 99% of microscopic allergens, including dander, dust and smoke. It also has a built-in UV-C light that helps keep germs, bacteria and viruses at bay.
SodaStream Art Sparkling Water Maker Bundle: 39% off
Instead of spending big bucks on carbonated beverages, make them at home with this sparkling water maker. It comes with reusable BPA-free bottles and a glass carafe, so it’s an eco-friendly investment, too.
Cuisinart Automatic 1.5-Quart Frozen Yogurt, Ice Cream and Sorbet Maker: 30% off
Create your own custom flavors with this home ice cream maker. It does all the work for you, so you only have to freeze the bowl and insert your ingredients to enjoy delicious ice cream or other frozen treats in 30 minutes.
Hamilton Beach Electric Vegetable Chopper: 40% off
This handy chopper can take the hassle out of prep work in the kitchen. It can hold up to 3 cups of ingredients but has a compact design that doesn’t take up much countertop space.
KRUPS Simply Brew Compact Filter Drip Coffee Maker: 38% off
This modern-looking drip coffee maker can brew up to 5 cups at a time, making it ideal for a small household. It doesn’t require paper filters and has a Keep Warm function to keep your coffee fresh.
15 discounts that caught our eye
- Invest in the Lodge Enameled Cast-Iron Dutch Oven for a low $67.90 today.
- It’s wise to pick up the Shark Steam Pocket Mop now that it’s 46% off.
- Get the 11-piece NutriChef Non-Stick Pots & Pans Set at 45% off today.
- We’re surprised the Keurig K-Elite Coffeemaker dropped to a mere $144 today.
- Get 30% off the Wockoder Record Player today.
- The Dezin Electric Water Kettle is a steal with a 48% price reduction.
- Cozy up with 20% off the Cosybay All Season Quilted Comforter.
- The Coop Home Goods Original Loft Pillow is a great deal with 20% off.
- The GE LED+ Outdoor Sensor Light Bulbs are a must-buy at 43% off.
- Chop like a pro with the Hamilton Beach Electric Mini Food Processor, which is currently 40% off.
- The Swiffer Ceiling Fan Dust, a convenient cleaning tool, is currently 23% off.
- Grab this Keurig K-Slim Single Serve Coffee Maker for 54% off.
- This PowerXL 7-Quart Air Fryer is available for 42% off.
- At $48.98, this Victrola Vintage 3-Speed Bluetooth Portable Suitcase Record Player is a steal.
- Upgrade cookware with this NutriChef 13-Piece Nonstick Set for just $57.87.
Tech and gadgets from Anker and Blink
Amazon Kindle: 50% off
If you’re an avid reader, the Amazon Kindle lets you bring your entire library with you. The updated model has a glare-free screen and a built-in front light, both of which make reading much easier on the eyes.
Blink Outdoor Security Camera: 39% off
Harden your home’s perimeter with this wireless outdoor camera, a weatherproof model whose battery lasts up to two years on two AA batteries. The camera is easy to control through the Blink app and has two-way audio so you can interact with visitors.
Anker USB-C Power Bank: $25 off
Power up smartphones on the go with this Anker charging bank, which offers as many as three charges for select models. The travel-friendly option has a durable design and comes with a carry case.
myQ Smart Garage HD Camera: 53% off
Take your garage door to the next level with this smart Wifi-enabled HD Camera that lets you check to see all activity around your garage. The companion app allows you to view footage from your smartphone and offers video storage options.
TP-Link AX1800 WiFi 6 Router: 30% off
Improve your home WiFi’s speed, performance and capacity with this super-fast router. It supports 4K/HD streaming and allows you to connect up to four times the devices as other routers without sacrificing speed.
HyperX Cloud Flight Wireless Gaming Headset: 39% off
You’ll never miss any of the action when playing your favorite games with this wireless headset. It offers up to 30 hours of battery life and a detachable noise cancellation microphone for gaming with friends.
Amazon Smart Thermostat: 30% off
This smart thermostat can help you keep your home comfortable and reduce your energy costs. It’s Energy Star-certified and allows you to control the temperature and settings anywhere via the Alexa app.
17 discounts that caught our eye
- The Kasa Smart Bulb fell to only $10.99 today.
- Keep your food fresh with 20% off the Gavasto Vacuum Sealer Machine.
- The Dogain Stylus works with almost any tablet and is just $11.04 today.
- Track and find your lost items with Samsung Electronics Galaxy SmartTag+, just $29.99 today.
- Get 36% off the Alpha Grillers Instant Read Meat Thermometer to keep your cooking safe.
- Enjoy a whopping 71% off the Tavool Stud Finder Sensor today.
- Try the ColourNoise Sound Machine for better sleep—it’s reduced to just $19.99.
- Get precise measurements with the Taylor Digital Bathroom Scale at a 41% discount.
- Maintain top hygiene and get 34% off the Secura 500ml Touchless Soap Dispenser.
- At 25% off, the Ring Wired Video Doorbell is one of the best deals we’ve seen.
- The Amazon Echo Dot, now 55% off, is a steal of a deal.
- Now only $59.99, the Blink Indoor Wireless Camera is a great deal.
- The Langkou Digital Air Quality Monitor, which was $95.99, is currently $63.99.
- Grab this ThermoPro Digital Meat Thermometer for 44% off.
- This Tavool Stud Finder is available for just $14.38.
- This Etekcity Digital Body Weight Scale is an excellent value at $14.35.
- Secure your home with Veise Keyless Entry Door Lock for $55.99.
Deals from Crest, Waterpik and other beauty and personal care brands
Waterpik ION Professional Cordless Water Flosser: 55% off
The Waterpik Water Flosser is a viable option for people who don’t like traditional flossing. The efficient device uses a powerful yet gentle stream of water to blast away plaque and bacteria around teeth without irritating sensitive gums.
Withings Thermo Smart Thermometer: 31% off
This high-precision, no-touch forehead thermometer is a popular investment for homes, offices and child care settings. It logs readings from multiple users and automatically syncs to the companion app, which earns high marks for its user interface.
Amplim Medical Grade Infrared Forehead Thermometer: 50% off
This high-precision, no-touch forehead thermometer is a popular investment for homes, offices and child care settings. It logs readings from multiple users and automatically syncs to the companion app, which earns high marks for its user interface.
Urban Decay Naked2 Basics Eyeshadow Palette: 50% off
If you’re in the market for a versatile palette, this Urban Decay collection has six neutral shades of browns and taupe for a warm and natural finish. Shades include both matte and shimmer pigments and the palette is travel-sized for convenience.
Color Studio 35-Shade Eyeshadow Palette: 33% off
This extensive palette has all the shades you need to pull off any look, from a neutral “barely there” daytime look to full glam. Choose between matte and shimmers in the palette across a range of bold, vibrant shades.
Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects: 35% off
Instead of spending big bucks on teeth whitening at the dentist’s office, whitening strips are affordable and convenient alternatives. The at-home treatments, which are comfortable to wear, leave teeth a couple of shades brighter and whiter.
Infinitipro By Conair The Knot Dr. Dryer Brush: 49% off
A versatile investment, Revlon’s all-in-one hot air brush that earns high marks for big results. It smooths and detangles hair, and it takes the hard work out of styling bangs and layers.
LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask: 30% off
This luxurious leave-on lip mask delivers moisture and antioxidants to your lips while you sleep. It’s available in several scents and is hydrating enough to banish chapped lips in just 8 hours.
Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner: 30% off
Perfect your cat eye with this waterproof liquid liner. It dries quickly and doesn’t smudge, so it can last all day. The micro tip allows for precise application, too.
Mario Badescu Silver Powder for Oily Skin: 30% off
This oil-absorbing powder can help with clogged pores, blackheads and other acne issues. It contains natural ingredients like kaolin clay and zinc oxide and only requires a 10-minute treatment to see results.
16 discounts that caught our eye
- The Hum by Colgate Smart Electric Toothbrush is now $34.94.
- Pick up the popular Paul Mitchell Pro Tools Express Curling Wand for 30% off today.
- The Braun Epilator Silk-Epil is currently 38% off today.
- Get 20% off the moisturizing Sigma Beauty Kismatte Lip Trio.
- For long lasting makeup, pick up the L’Oreal Paris Infallible 24 Hour Powder Foundation for only $9.75.
- Pick up some spare razor blade refills—get Gillette Venus Deluxe Smooth Swirl Blade Refills at a 26% discount.
- Get the popular BaBylissPRO Nano Titanium Hair Dryer for $75.99 today.
- Amope Pedi Perfect Wet & Dry Foot File finally dropped to $40.49.
- At 35% off, it’s hard to pass up the Conair Jumbo And Super Jumbo Hot rollers.
- The PMD Clean Mini Smart Facial Cleansing Device is now only $41.40.
- Now 44% off, it’s worth adding the Bic Flex 3 Titanium Disposable Razors to your cart.
- This Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo is available for 30% off.
- Take your oral hygiene to the next level for just $59.99 with this Oral-B Pro 5000 Smartseries Electric Toothbrush.
- Score the MANSCAPED Lawn Mower 4.0 for 30% off.
- The Burt’s Bees Pregnancy Skin Care Gift Set is only $17.
- Get a great deal on the Obagi Professional C Serum at 35% off.
Apparel and accessories from Levi’s and Under Armour
Levi’s Women’s Original Trucker Jacket: 48% off
This timeless jacket is a seasonal staple that coordinates well with most pieces, including leggings, dresses and even slacks. It features signature Levi’s styling and details and gets progressively softer with wash and wear.
Under Armour Men’s Tech 2.0 Short-Sleeve T-Shirt: 25% off
This newer version of the bestselling Under Armour tee is now available in both regular and big-and-tall sizes. The breathable tee, made with soft and lightweight polyester, is a workout and loungewear favorite.
Vera Bradley Small Vera Tote: 59% off
This classic tote from a much-loved brand is often used as a commuter bag or everyday carry-all, given its spacious design. It’s available in a few colors and designs to suit your style.
Vera Bradley Women’s Twill Tote Bag: 29% off
This classic tote from a much loved brand is perfect as a commuter bag or everyday carry all. It’s compact but spacious enough to carry the essentials and is available in multiple colors and patterns.
Adidas Women’s Studio 7/8 Tights: 47% off
These premium leggings are loungewear and workout favorites for their comfortable, flexible fit. They have soft seams that won’t chafe skin, and they hold up to regular washing and wear better than lower-priced options
Hurley Men’s Board Shorts: 15% off
If you’re looking for versatile shorts you can wear on or off the beach, invest in this pair with a relaxed fit and smooth waistband. The lightweight material is breathable and dries quickly.
Champion Men’s Everyday Fitted Ankle Cotton Pants: 55% off
These comfortable sweatpants have an elasticized waist with a drawcord that lets you customize the fit. They have side-seam pockets for carrying your essentials and are machine-washable for easy cleaning.
SheIn Women’s Casual Slit Wrap Asymmetrical High Waist Skirt: 32% off
Made of a soft polyester/spandex blend, this skirt has plenty of stretch to provide a comfortable fit. The high-waist design provides coverage for the stomach, while the high-low cut shows off just enough of the legs.
Invicta Men’s Pro Diver Quartz Watch: 65% off
This stylish stainless steel diver watch is the ideal finishing touch to any outfit. It’s water-resistant up to 200 feet for use in and around the water. The band can be adjusted by removing or adding links, too.
13 discounts that caught our eye
- Starting at 38% off, it’s a great time to buy the Columbia Women’s Switchback Jacket.
- The Marmot Women’s Jena Jacket is now 30%, dropping the price down to just $140.
- The Adidas Men’s Standard Essentials Big Logo Hoodie is only $33 after 40% off.
- Keep cozy with 63% off this Columbia Men’s Full Zip Fleece Jacket.
- Get the Timberland Men’s Leather Passcase Wallet for $9.49 today.
- If you’ve been looking for a Columbia hat, the Unisex Bora Bora Booney is only $16.96 today.
- Get an amazing 31% off Docker’s Straight Fit Workday Khaki Pants.
- This Coach Metallic Mini ID Skinny Credit Card Holder is available with 20% off today.
- The gorgeous Alex & Ani Evil Eye II Bracelet is a steal at just $15.64.
- This Timberland Men’s Leather RFID Blocking Security Wallet is a fabulous deal at just $9.49.
- This Alex and Ani Expandable Crystal Paw Prints of Love Bangle is a must-have for all pet lovers at 69% off.
- This Levi’s Unisex Classic Knit Cuffed Beanie is available for only $7.56.
- Score this Jessica McClintock Gwen Ball Mesh Ring Wristlet for 67% off.
Baby and kids brands with deals on toys, games and apparel
Mustela Gentle Cleansing Gel: 40% off
This sensitive skin-friendly formula for babies is infused with nourishing ingredients, including avocado and vitamin B5. It only requires a couple of pumps to lather up, and it rinses off easily without leaving any residue.
Simple Joys by Carter’s Baby Bodysuits Set: 27% off
This affordable set, made with 100% cotton, includes coordinating tops and bottoms, featuring fun designs and bright colors. Each piece holds up well to plenty of wear and offers the most bang for your buck.
Hot Wheels Unleashes For Nintendo Switch: 46% off
Drive the car of your dreams in this Hot Wheels game and race around dozens of challenging tracks with razor-sharp turns. Besides single- and two-player modes, you can always play with up to 12 other people online.
Melissa & Doug Examine and Treat Pet Vet Play Set: 40% off
Kids can enjoy hours upon hours of imaginative play as a veterinarian with over 24 realistic pieces, including a stethoscope, thermometer and bandages. All pieces pack neatly inside a soft carry case.
Melissa & Doug Disney Magnetic Dress-Up Doll Play Set: 48% off
Kids can enjoy hours upon hours of dress-up play with these wooden Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck dolls. With 40+ pieces, the magnetic outfits can easily be applied by kids as young as three for hours of entertainment.
Graco DuetConnect LX Swing and Bouncer: 39% off
This swing seat doubles a portable bouncer, so you can move around while still keeping an eye on your little one. It offers six swing speeds and plays classic music to help soothe baby throughout the day.
Play-Doh 24-Pack Modeling Compound: 31% off
This Play-Doh set contains all the colors your children could possibly want. Each can contains 3 ounces and has easy-to-open lids, so little hands can do it on their own.
Bentgo Kids Unicorn Print 5-Compartment Bento-Style Lunch Box: 50% off
Your kids will get a kick out of taking their lunch to school in this leak-proof bento-inspired lunch box. It features two kid-friendly latches and boasts a drop-free design that prevents breakage if you have an active little one.
15 discounts that caught our eye
- The Amazon Echo Glow dropped in price to only $16.99.
- Pick up the Exploding Kittens Card Game for 30% off today.
- Now 27% off, the Tommee Tippee Advanced Bottle Warmer is a bargain.
- Save $60 off the Kindle Kids today, which drops the price down to $49.99.
- The Barbie Cook ‘n Grill Restaurant Playset is currently 44% off for a limited time.
- Kids can sing their hearts out for only $39.99 with the Kidzlane Kids Karaoke Machine.
- Dress up an American Girl doll with the Zita Element 24-Piece Clothing and Accessories Set for just $24.63.
- Pick up this Mountaintop Kids Backpack at 20% off as an elementary school bookbag.
- Roll around town in style with the Century Stroll On Lightweight Stroller at just $97.49 today.
- Teach young kids the basics of spelling with the SpringFlower See & Spell Matching Letter Toy—46% off today.
- Pick up the Hooroor Ninja Slackline Pulley for just $69.99 to let older kids blow off steam in the backyard.
- This Burt’s Bees Baby Healing Ointment is a steal at 29% off.
- Grab this Summer Infants 3Dlite Convenience Stroller for just $79.99.
- This Bentgo Kids Prints 2-in-1 Backpack & Insulated Lunch Bag is a great value at 44% off.
- This Toy Store Animal Bean Bag Toss Game is available for 35% off.
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ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Keen to immerse himself in the history of the Old Course at St. Andrews, Jon Rahm attempted to pick the brains of the great Lee Trevino at the home of golf this week.
Rahm was fascinated to learn, for example, that the storied course was meant to play clockwise rather than the other way round.
“A little bit of interesting history,” Rahm said on Tuesday, before adding with a smile: “I don’t know if it’s true.”
Indeed, Rahm would love to use some of his down time at the British Open to visit a couple of the bookstores in St. Andrews in a search for more golf history. He said there are too many people around town to do that, though, so is relying on some of his own memories to fire him up ahead of a bid for a second major title.
And it’s no surprise that one stands out.
“I don’t want to go with the obvious,” he said, “but 1984 was very special for Spanish people. I’m going to go with that — that image of Seve celebrating. It’s an iconic image not only for us but for the world of golf.”
That image, of the much-loved Seve Ballesteros twice thrusting his arm into the air before walking off the 18th green with his arm around his caddie, marked the second of his three wins at golf’s oldest major championship.
No Spaniard has won it since. Rahm has long dreamed of emulating his compatriot and idol.
“This is truly the pinnacle of golf,” he said. “I don’t think it gets any better than winning at St. Andrews.
“No offense to any other tournament in the world. It’s the oldest championship on the oldest course and where it all started.”
Rahm’s first — and so far only — competitive rounds at the Old Course were during the Dunhill Links Championship on the European tour in 2019. He learned about the vagaries of the wind off St. Andrews Bay, the risk-and-reward element of the course, and — of course — to not hit it right.
Since then, he has become the world’s top-ranked player and validated that status by winning his first major title at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in 2021.
A second major looked like being in reach in his title defense at Brookline last month, when he went into the final round a shot off the lead even though he was “searching for his swing.”
A closing 74 dropped him into a tie for 12th, and he arrives at St. Andrews at No. 3 in the world ranking and on the back of a tie for 55th place at the Scottish Open last week over the links at The Renaissance Club.
Finishing third at Royal St. George’s last year was his best performance in five British Opens and, for Rahm, there would be nowhere better to lift the claret jug than at St. Andrews on the 150th staging of the event.
Jack Nicklaus, who won at St. Andrews in 1970 and 1978, once said: “If you’re going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.”
Rahm can see where Nicklaus is coming from.
“It can almost put your career to another level,” he said, “just because how great of a venue this one is.”
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WFO DALLAS / FT. WORTH Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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AIR QUALITY ALERT
...OZONE ACTION DAY...
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued
an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Wednesday,
July 13, 2022.
Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing
high levels of ozone air pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
on Wednesday. You can help prevent ozone pollution by sharing a
ride, walking, riding a bicycle, taking your lunch to work,
avoiding drive-through lanes, conserving energy, and keeping your
vehicle properly tuned.
For more information on ozone:
Ozone: The Facts (www.tceq.texas.gov/goto/ozonefacts)
Air North Texas: (www.airnorthtexas.org)
EPA Air Now
(www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action.local_state&STATEID=45&TAB=0)
Take care of Texas (www.takecareoftexas.org)
North Central Texas Council of Governments Air Quality
(www.nctcog.org/trans/air/index.asp)
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