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Conference Call to be Webcast Live at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET
SEATTLE, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) today announced that its second quarter 2022 financial results will be released after market close on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. The company will host a conference call and webcast to discuss its results that afternoon at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET.
Information about Zillow Group's financial results, including a link to the live webcast and recorded replay, will be made available on the company's Investor Relations website at: https://investors.zillowgroup.com/investors/financials/quarterly-results/default.aspx
Please register in advance to access the live conference call at:
https://ige.netroadshow.com/registration/q4inc/11212/zillow-group-second-quarter-2022-earnings-call/ to receive emailed instructions. This pre-registration process is designed to reduce delays due to operator congestion when accessing the live call.
For more information about Zillow Group please visit https://investors.zillowgroup.com.
About Zillow Group
Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z and ZG) is reimagining real estate to make it easier to unlock life's next chapter. As the most visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates offer customers an on-demand experience for selling, buying, renting or financing with transparency and ease.
Zillow Group's affiliates and subsidiaries include Zillow®, Zillow Premier Agent®, Zillow Home Loans™, Zillow Closing Services™, Trulia®, Out East®, ShowingTime®, Bridge Interactive®, dotloop®, StreetEasy® and HotPads®. Zillow Home Loans, LLC is an Equal Housing Lender, NMLS #10287 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org).
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have arrived in the Big Apple.
The Duke of Sussex is confirmed to appear at the UN General Assembly on Monday in New York City, delivering the keynote address for its Nelson Mandela Day celebration. South Africa's U.N. Mission said Friday in a statement that his remarks "will be around the memories and legacy of Mandela and what has been learned from his struggle and his life that can help up face the new challenges in the world today."
The couple looked professional in all-black ensembles as they arrived at the event, Harry in a classic suit and Meghan in a short-sleeved frock with her hair slicked back.
Harry and Meghan made a historic joint appearance in New York City less than a year ago when they visited One World Trade Center two weeks after the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terror attack.
That trip marked the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have publicly visited New York City together since tying the knot in 2018. It was also the first time Meghan had been seen in New York since her 2019 baby shower ahead of the birth of the couple's son, Archie.
The pair's current appearance comes amid a media frenzy surrounding royal biographer Tom Bower's new book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors. In excerpts published by The Times of London, the actress' 2017 Vanity Fair cover reportedly sparked outrage and disdain for Meghan and the royal family.
Catch up on Harry and Meghan's latest moves, below.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HASI) resulting from allegations that Hannon Armstrong may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Hannon Armstrong securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7529 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 12, 2022, market analyst Muddy Waters Research published a report entitled "HASI: 'ESG' is for Exaggerating, Scamming, and Grifting" which stated several issues with Hannon Armstrong's financial statements, summarizing the issues as "HASI misleadingly inflates GAAP earnings three ways: 1) Through a loophole in the arcana of accounting for renewables subsidies, HASI books non-cash unrealizable income relating to third parties' tax credits that will be reversed; 2) HASI produces non-cash income by manipulating the discount rate it applies to residual assets to implausibly low levels, thereby inflating its gains on securitizations; and, 3) HASI books interest income from non-cash 'Paid in Kind' ('PIK') interest payments, which are essentially IOUs from stressed borrowers."
On this news, Hannon Armstrong's stock price fell $6.92 per share, or 19%, to close at $29.41 per share on July 12, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume, damaging investors.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials have ended their search for a woman whose 2-year-old grandchild was found alone last week in a locked car that stuck in mud on a rural Alaska road, authorities said.
No clues to the whereabouts of Mary Dawn Wilson, 69, have emerged since her Ford Focus was found last Thursday with the child and personal items believed to belong to Wilson, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said in a statement on Saturday.
Authorities believe the child was alone in the car for two days.
The search was changed from “active” to “reactive," meaning that a search could be launched again if officials receive new information or evidence, the statement said.
The statement added that at "this time, there is no evidence of foul play associated with Wilson’s disappearance.”
Wilson's car was found Thursday on Stampede Road, off the Parks Highway just outside the small community of Healy. Officials believe her vehicle got stuck on Tuesday and that she started walking away from the highway instead of toward it.
The toddler was initially handed over to the state Office of Children’s Services and appeared to be in good health, officials have said.
The child was later reunited with their mother, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Wilson had been watching the child while the mother was working in rural Alaska.
Stampede Road is famous for being the main thoroughfare that adventurers used to retrace the steps of Christopher McCandless, a young idealist whose journey on the Stampede Trail ended with his death.
The trail road eventually ends at treacherous Alaska backcountry, where McCandless took shelter in an abandoned city bus after he became trapped by the swollen Teklanika River.
He died of starvation in 1992 and his life and death were made famous by the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer and then by the movie directed by Sean Penn.
Over the years, people trying to reach the bus that was located about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Healy to pay pilgrimage to McCandless had to be rescued or died. That prompted state officials to remove the bus from the backcountry in 2020.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Zacatecas Silver Corp. ("Zacatecas Silver" or the "Company") (TSXV: ZAC) (OTC: ZCTSF) (Frankfurt: 7TV) is pleased announce the appointment of Mr. Jorge Ramiro Monroy as Advisor and receives overwhelming share approval of all matters at the Annual General Meeting held on July 15, 2022.
Highlights:
- founder and Director of Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
- founder of Silver Council of Asia
- extensive business experience in Mexico
Mr. Ramiro Monroy is the Founder and Managing Director of Emerging Markets Capital, an investment firm based in Hong Kong and investing primarily in mining exploration equities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
He was a founding member of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and a Founder of the Silver Council of Asia.
Having spent the majority of his career in Asia, Mr. Ramiro Monroy has founded a number of businesses with Asian capital doing business in North America. He is the CEO and Founder of Reyna Silver, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed company with silver exploration projects in Mexico and the US.
Mr. Ramiro Monroy currently serves in the boards of Sierra Madre Gold and Silver and Arabian Shield Resources. He is a former director of Prime Mining and a Director of Garra Esports, a private company looking to build an Esports business in Latin America.
Prior to founding Emerging Markets Capital, Jorge worked for Frontier Securities, a Japanese owned investment advisory and securities brokerage. He was part of the natural resources investments advisory team, advising and capital rising for mining and infrastructure companies with projects in Mongolia looking for investors in Asia and the Middle East.
Mr. Ramiro Monroy holds a Bachelor's degree from the State University of New York, an MBA in Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Jorge is fluent in English, Hindi, Spanish and Portuguese and has passed the level III HSK Chinese Fluency Exam.
Zacatecas CEO and Director Bryan Slusarchuk, states, "Jorge has an excellent track record of successfully doing business in Mexico and has also done a great job introducing international sources of capital to various Mexican ventures. He is a promoter of Mexico, through his work within such entities as the Mexican Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. We are pleased to welcome Jorge to the Zacatecas team as we advance the Esperanza Gold Project towards gold production while concurrently exploring the high grade Zacatecas Silver Project."
Voting Results from Annual General Meeting
Zacatecas is pleased to announce that shareholders overwhelmingly approved all motions put forth at the Annual General Meeting held on July 15, 2022, including the re-election of Bryan Slusarchuck, John Lewins, Christopher Wilson, Nancy La Couvee, Jonathan Richards and Charles Hethey as well as the appointment of previously announced Dr. Luis Chavez Martinez. Dr. Chavez is the Senior Vice President, Mexico, Alamos Gold Inc., is current Director of the Mexican Chamber of Mines, former President of the Mexican Mining Association and former General Director Mexican Geological Survey.
The shareholders also approved the appointment of Davidson & Company LLP as the auditors of Zacatecas and the 10% rolling stock option plan of Zacatecas.
The votes cast for each matter was as follows:
A total of 22,596,743 common shares, being 27.4% of the issued and outstanding, were voted at the Annual General Meeting.
Stock Option Grant
In conjunction with the appointment of Mr. Ramiro and Dr. Chavez as well as other grants to consultants, a total of 1,100,00 stock options have been granted, having an exercise price of $0.70 and a five year term. Of these options, 400,000 were issued to Dr. Chavez, who is now a director of the Zacatecas.
Qualified Person
The contents of this news release have been reviewed and approved by Chris Wilson, B.Sc. (Hons), PhD, FAusIMM (CP), FSEG, Chief Operating Officer of Zacatecas Silver. Dr Wilson is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and is responsible for all technical information in this news release.
About Zacatecas Silver Corp.
Zacatecas is a mineral resource company with the gold focused advanced stage Esperanza Gold Project and the silver focused advanced stage Zacatecas Property. The Zacatecas Property is located in Zacatecas State, Mexico, within the highly prospective Fresnillo Silver Belt, which has produced over 6.2 billion ounces of silver. The Company holds 7,826 ha (19,338 acres) of ground that is highly prospective for low and intermediate sulphidation silver-base metal mineralization and potentially low sulphidation gold-dominant mineralization. On December 14, 2021, Zacatecas Silver announced a mineral resource estimate at the Panuco Deposit consisting of 2.7 million tonnes at 187 g/t AgEq (171 g/t Ag and 0.17 g/t Au) for 16.4 million ounces AgEq (15 million ounces silver and 15 thousand ounces gold) (see Company's news release dated December 14, 2021).
The Zacatecas Property is 25 km south-east of MAG Silver Corp.'s Juanicipio Mine and Fresnillo PLC's Fresnillo Mine. The Zacatecas Property shares common boundaries with Pan American Silver Corp. claims and El Orito which is owned by Endeavour Silver Corp. There are four main high-grade silver target areas within the Zacatecas Property concessions: the Panuco Deposit, Muleros, El Cristo and San Manuel-San Gill. The Zacatecas Property also includes El Oro, El Orito, La Cantera, Monserrat, El Peñón, San Judas and San Juan silver-base metal vein targets, and such targets are relatively unexplored and will be the focus of rapid reconnaissance.
The advanced stage Esperanza Gold Project, comprising 14,337.83 hectares), is located in Morelos State, Mexico. To date, significant core and reverse circulation drilling has occurred at the Esperanza Gold Project resulting in a total of 389 drill holes for 69,716 metres.
Alamos Gold Inc. reported in its most recent annual information form a resource estimate of a measured and indicated resource of 34,352,000 tonnes at 0.98 g/t gold and 8.09 g/t silver for 1,083,366 ounces of gold and 8,936,201 ounces of silver and inferred resource of 718,000 tonnes at 0.80 g/t gold and 15.04 g/t silver for 18,375 ounces of gold and 347,192 ounces of silver. The Company considers this to be an historical resource for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101. Resource blocks were defined using with dimensions of 10 metres (m) by 10 m by five m. The estimation of grades was performed with the ordinary kriging method on capped composites. An added step in the estimation strategy was the utilization of the dynamic anisotropy technique in Vulcan's unfolding options. This added capability allows for a more realistic outcome of the estimated grade's spatial distribution as it follows the folded shape of the deposit. Assumptions used in the resource include the following metal prices: gold price of $1,400 (U.S.) per ounce (oz) and silver price of $22 (U.S.) per oz. The resource assumed the following economic assumptions: recovery of 60.4 per cent at 0.2 g/t to 71.9 per cent at 1.6 g/t for gold, 25 per cent for silver, $2.60-per-tonne mining costs, 64-cents-per-tonne general and administrative costs, $4.20-per-tonne milling costs and a pit slope of 45 degrees. The Company considers the resource relevant due to its identification and modelling of the Esperanza deposit.
The Company has not done sufficient work to classify the resource as a current mineral resource or mineral reserves and the Company is not treating the historical estimate as current mineral resources or mineral reserves. Although the resource estimate is considered reliable, the Company will resample a portion of the drill core for the purpose of carrying out a new resource estimate. Furthermore, additional data verification, including resurveying of select diamond drill holes collars; review of graphic drill core logs, comparison of these logs with remaining half-cut core and a cross check of select geological logs agonist database entries; and a check of original assay certificates against the assays and drill hole database.
On behalf of the Company
Bryan Slusarchuk
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Forward-Looking Statements
Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on assumptions as of the date of this news release. These statements reflect management's current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations. They are not guarantees of future performance. Zacatecas Silver cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by many material factors, many of which are beyond their respective control. Such factors include, among other things: risks and uncertainties relating to Zacatecas Silver's limited operating history, its proposed exploration and development activities on its properties and the need to comply with environmental and governmental regulations. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Zacatecas Silver does not undertake to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Norman OK
328 PM CDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS
EVENING...
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TO 9 PM CDT
TUESDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot
conditions with heat index values up to 109. For the second
Excessive Heat Warning, dangerously hot conditions with heat
index values up to 112 expected.
* WHERE...In Oklahoma, Tillman and Cotton Counties. In Texas,
Baylor, Archer, Foard, Wilbarger, Wichita, Knox, Hardeman and
Clay Counties.
* WHEN...For the first Excessive Heat Warning, until 9 PM CDT
this evening. For the second Excessive Heat Warning, from noon
to 9 PM CDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly
increase the potential for heat related illnesses,
particularly for those working or participating in outdoor
activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
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rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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Tractor-trailer driver let 70 cows loose onto Florida Turnpike after vehicle began to catch fire
A large group of cows created a traffic hiccup in Florida on Monday afternoon.
It happened on the northbound Florida Turnpike at mile marker 226 in Saint Cloud, Osceola County.
Watch chopper footage over the turnpike in the video player above.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, the cab of a cattle hauler carrying about 70 cows began to catch fire at 11:38 a.m.
The driver, a 47-year-old man from Samson, Alabama, pulled off to the side of the road and opened the cattle trailer so the animals could escape the smoke and flames.
The fire department was able to extinguish the fire.
FHP troopers say the man driving the vehicle was not injured and stayed at the scene.
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Giving Season Already in Full Swing as Virtual Toy Drive Platform Encourages Others to Support Children in Need
FAIRFIELD, N.J., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DonateAToy.org just contributed over 5,300 toys to Toys for Tots, hoping to inspire others to support the millions of children in need throughout the US. In 2021, DonateAToy.org donated more than $275,000 in toys benefitting Toys for Tots with the help of corporate sponsors and individual donors.
One of the primary features that make their online donation platform so impactful is the Toy Match Program. DonateAToy.org matches every toy donation made on their website, doubling the number of toys delivered to less fortunate children.
Citi, a DonateAToy.org corporate sponsor for the past two years and a long-time supporter of Toys for Tots, loves how simple they make it to contribute to their vital cause.
"The most important reason we've continued to work with DonateAToy.org is their Toy Match Program," said Reem Aliessa, Program Manager at Citi Volunteers. "It encourages our colleagues to give back to the community which is something that is core to who we are as a firm. After last year's virtual toy drive, we were astonished when looking at the number of toys everyone donated—and knowing Donate-A-Toy doubles that number makes it that much more impactful."
DonateAToy.org's Christmas in July promotion encourages businesses and organizations to sign up as sponsors early, hoping to make an even bigger impact in 2022. Donate-A-Toy is donating an additional 100 toys on behalf of anyone who signs on as a sponsor before August 15. "It's never too early to kick off your corporate giving initiatives," said Marc McDonald, President of DonateAToy.org. "Our mission has always been to drive as many toys as possible into the hands of children in need. Our Christmas in July promotion solidifies the commitment to that cause, reminding everyone that supporting less fortunate children is crucial year-round."
DonateAToy.org, a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, offers businesses, organizations, and individuals a virtual toy drive platform benefitting Toys for Tots. The website features a range of high-quality toys gifted by program participants. Since its inception, DonateAToy.org's platform has contributed over $600,000 in toys to children in need. DonateAToy.org has partnered with sponsors such as Citi, T-Mobile, Indeed, Deloitte, and LexisNexis. Make a donation today or learn more about becoming a sponsor at https://DonateAToy.org.
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It started raining before dinner! I hope my sister has some extra dry food pack because our rice might drench...\nLaholera was already busy preparig to cook for davaiwos that day when I arrived Lahol at the pier. But ofcoruses you always take out ur cookpad ready and also an additional pan so everything goes perfect for guests at times when there are more number than one in cooking.... the cooker for sure cannot boik up so FAYETTEVILLE, Ar. (KNWA) – Former Arkansas shortstop Jalen Battles was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth round as the 164th overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft.
Battles came back to Arkansas for a second year and posted a .289/.364/.480 slash line this season with the Razorbacks.
He also had 10 home runs and helped this Razorbacks team win the Regionals and Super Regionals and head back to Omaha.
He’s the fourth Razorback to hear his name called in this year’s draft after Cayden Wallace, Peyton Pallette and Robert Moore. | https://www.kark.com/news/jalen-battles-drafted-by-tampa-bay-rays-in-2022-mlb-draft/ | 2022-07-18T21:49:52Z | https://www.kark.com/news/jalen-battles-drafted-by-tampa-bay-rays-in-2022-mlb-draft/ | true |
Lia Thomas was nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award by the University of Pennsylvania. In March, Thomas became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division 1 history.
Justine Kenin is an editor on All Things Considered. She joined NPR in 1999 as an intern. Nothing makes her happier than getting a book in the right reader's hands – most especially her own.
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Erika Ryan is a producer for All Things Considered. She joined NPR after spending 4 years at CNN, where she worked for various shows and CNN.com in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Ryan began her career in journalism as a print reporter covering arts and culture. She's a graduate of the University of South Carolina, and currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her dog, Millie. | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-07-18/lia-thomas-nominated-for-ncaa-woman-of-the-year | 2022-07-18T21:50:49Z | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-07-18/lia-thomas-nominated-for-ncaa-woman-of-the-year | false |
In-built erosion control reduces land requirements by half
CLEVELAND, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roll-A-Rack has developed a gutter-like solar racking system that captures rain falling on solar panels. Current racking systems require a large distance between rows of panels to grow vegetation to prevents erosion. The compact Roll-A-Rack has only eleven inches between rows of panels and requires half the land to produce the same amount of energy. Harvested water can also be used for irrigation.
The Roll-A-Rack rain harvesting solution will be presented as a technical poster "Collecting Rainwater Falling on Solar Arrays" at RE+ 2022, North America's largest renewable energy event, Sept. 17-22, 2022, in Anaheim, Calif. Roll-A-Rack president Don Scipione will present an invited paper "Stormwater Management for Solar Arrays" at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources 2022 Ohio Statewide Floodplain Management Conference, Aug. 24-25, in Columbus, Ohio.
Roll-A-Rack is seeking developers and solar installers to help commercialize the installation processes. For more information about Roll-A-Rack or becoming a beta tester, visit roll-a-rack.com, email beta@roll-a-rack.com., or download the informational flyer.
Roll-A-Rack's development research is funded in part by a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office.
About Acme Express, Inc. dba as Roll-A-Rack
Acme Express, Inc. is a technology company that develops technologies for the transportation, finance, education healthcare and renewable energy industries. The company has been awarded multiple innovation grants from Ohio Third Frontier, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Research Resources, National Library of Medicine, and U.S. Department of Energy.
About the Solar Energy Technologies Office
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Nationally and internationally, Northwood University is known as America’s Free Enterprise University.
Locally, we are honored to be called Midland’s University.
On Wednesday, July 20, these two identities come together as we host “An Evening with Your Candidates” on our campus.
As a not-for-profit institution of higher learning, Northwood is providing this nonpartisan forum for voters to educate themselves about the candidates vying to represent Midland and the Great Lakes Bay Region. As a business university, we will focus on economic issues, including tax, fiscal and energy policy; infrastructure; housing; and the business climate. Our economics and political science faculty crafted the questions, and we believe attendees will leave the event with newfound knowledge ahead of casting their ballots in Michigan’s primary election on August 2.
We have invited candidates from five races that include all or part of Midland County, and 19 of the 20 candidates have confirmed their participation. These races also include Bay, Genesee, Gladwin and Saginaw counties. The featured races are:
• 2nd District U.S. House Representatives: Jerry Hilliard (D), John Moolenaar (R), Thomas J. Norton (R).
• 8th District U.S. House of Representatives: Dan Kildee (D), Matthew Seely (R), Paul Junge (R), Candice Miller (R).
• 34th District State Senate: Christine Gerace (D), Roger Hauck (R) and Lisa Sowers (R).
• 35th District State Senate: Kristen McDonald Rivet (D), Tim Kelly (R), Martin Blank (R), Annette Glenn (R) and Christian Velasquez (R).
• 95th District State House of Representatives: Matthew Dawson (D), Larry Grell (D), Ann Manary (R), Charles A. McGinnis Jr. (R) and Bill G. Schuette (R).
Your vote this year may be more important than ever given the redistricting finalized last year. Redistricting always spawns debate about perceived winners and losers but we will not know the full impact of redistricting until the election. At Northwood, we emphasize individual freedom and personal responsibility. Correspondingly, we urge voters to exercise their freedom to vote and to take the personal responsibility to make informed decisions at the polls.
All are welcome to “An Evening with Your Candidates.” We hope voters will appreciate this opportunity to get past campaign rhetoric and focus on substantive issues, particularly those that affect our economy.
If you wish to attend, please save the date for July 20. Doors will open at 5 p.m., and the program begins at 5:30 p.m. in our Bennett Sports Center. Admissions is free, and our event capacity is 1,500. The first 500 who register will be guaranteed VIP seating and the following 700 registrants will receive preferred seating. If you plan to attend, please register online at bit.ly/3PuFIvW
This is the first event of its kind we’re hosting here at America’s Free Enterprise University, and we hope to see you there, Midland and beyond!
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CHICAGO, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During the first day of its annual International Conference, The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) – the internal audit profession's leader in standards, certification, education, research, and technical guidance worldwide – introduced two new global reports in front of an audience of roughly 1,500 internal audit professionals from around the world.
New Research Takes Global View of Internal Audit Profession
- The IIA debuted its 2022 Premier Global Study, Internal Audit: A Global View. The extensive report collected feedback from 3,600 internal audit professionals representing 159 international locations. The study shows regional differences within a diverse profession that is broadly involved in traditional activities like risk and fraud but also demonstrates that the profession is adding ever-increasing value to stakeholders through environmental and social issues, cybersecurity engagements, and other emerging and evolving issues.
- The results offer a snapshot of the global profession and demographic trends:
IIA Partners with World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to Issue New Guidance on Embedding ESG and Sustainability Considerations in the Three Lines Model
- The IIA has partnered with the WBCSD on new guidance aimed at helping organization's future-proof their business.
- The paper, "Embedding ESG and Sustainability Considerations into the Three Lines Model," outlines key roles and responsibilities for the governing body, management, and internal audit to build structures and processes that support the achievement of business objectives to create and protect value for the organization.
- Recent actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the creation of the new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) underscore the importance of embedding material sustainability issues into business decision-making practices. It is also vital that governance mechanisms are in place to ensure effective oversight of risk management and controls.
- The insights in the paper are intended for corporate boards, C-suite representatives within large corporations, and senior management to provide information and understanding on the role of the respective lines in overseeing the effectiveness of risk management and internal audit processes.
2022 Professional Achievement Award Recipients Announced
Also at the first day of the conference, The IIA awarded five Professional Achievement Awards, recognizing recipients from around the world who have excelled in research, education, publishing, advocacy, and other activities in the field of internal auditing and related professions. Click here for a full list of awards, recipients, bios and photos.
Victor Z. Brink Award for Distinguished Service
- W. Charles Johnson - Senior Manager, Forvis Enterprise Risk Solutions
- Doris Yi Hsin Wang - Chairman, Accounting Research and Development Foundation, Taiwan and Professor, Department of Accountancy, National Taipei University
Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award
- Lal Balkaran - Risk, Governance, and Internal Audit Consultant, LBA Consulting
- Brian Christensen - Executive Vice President, Global Managed Solutions and Collaboration, Protiviti
William G. Bishop III, CIA Lifetime Achievement Award
- Carman L. Lapointe – International Consultant. Former Under-Secretary-General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
About The IIA
The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is an international professional association that serves more than 215,000 global members and has awarded 180,000 Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certifications worldwide. Established in 1941, The IIA is recognized as the internal audit profession's leader in standards, certification, education, research, and technical guidance throughout the world. For more information, visit https://www.theiia.org.
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Saudi leaders viewed their summit with President Biden as a success, but human rights advocates worry about the message it sent to the kingdom.
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Dozens of prospective jurors filed into a federal courthouse just down the street from the U.S. Capitol on Monday on the first day of the trial of former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon, who's charged with contempt of Congress for flouting subpoenas from the House select committee investigating January 6th.
They were asked a lot of questions about Bannon, a conservative media star, such as whether they've written or said anything about him, and also about the committee, which is expected to wrap up its summer hearings on its investigation into the Capitol attack this week.
As spectators and press crammed into the courthouse for the high-profile case, the potential jurors patiently waited in hallways, reading their phones, or books or magazines.
With jury selection taking up most of Monday, opening arguments are expected on Tuesday in what appears to be a speedy trial. The whole government case could take just one day, as prosecutors have only a few witnesses, including an FBI agent and the general counsel of the House Select Committee on January 6th. It is still not clear if Bannon will testify in his defense.
Bannon faces two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for blowing off the House panel's demands for documents and testimony about the January 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol. Trump supporters, including members of extremist groups, broke through barricades that day with the aim of overturning the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost.
Bannon has said that when he did not honor the subpoenas he was following orders from former President Donald Trump who asserted executive privilege. But Judge Carl Nichols, Trump appointee , didn't see it that way.
First, Trump's lawyer says that isn't what happened and Trump did not assert the privilege when it came to Bannon. The privilege is supposed to protect confidential conversations among people in the government, but Bannon had been gone from the White House for over a year.
Also, President Joe Biden has said that the privilege should not hield information about the Capitol rioters or those who may have helped plot the worst attack on the government since the war of 1812.
Even though he didn't comply with the subpoena, the Jan. 6 committee has still shown footage of Bannon and discussed him at its hearings this summer.
The House panel found phone records suggesting Bannon had at least two calls with Trump on Jan. 5, 2021, the day before the attack. The panel wants to dig into remarks he made on his podcast after the first conversation, when he said that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow" and called Jan. 6 "game day."
The committee also is looking into whether he was more involved in the planning of the riot, which left more than 140 law enforcement officers injured and several people dead in the days that followed.
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(The Hill) – Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who fiercely defended Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, is gearing up to be the star witness against the former president as the House Jan. 6 committee winds down its public hearings with a detailed look at Trump’s three hours of inaction as the Capitol riot unfolded.
Cipollone has been a reluctant participant in the investigation, rebuffing initial requests for an under-oath interview with the House select committee, which was able to secure his eleventh-hour cooperation only via subpoena.
His marathon deposition on July 8, however, has proven a gold mine for the panel, providing confirmation for some of the core allegations to emerge from the yearlong probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection and Trump’s role in provoking it.
Not only did Cipollone tell investigators that Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud were fallacious, but also that the president’s legal team told him repeatedly that the election was lost and he should concede defeat.
Cipollone also verified a White House visit on Dec. 18, 2020, from several prominent figures in the Stop the Steal movement — including Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney; Sidney Powell, another conspiracy-minded lawyer; Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser; and Patrick Byrne, former CEO of Overstock.com — who sought to convince Trump to have the Pentagon seize voting machines in battleground states.
Many of those details had been presented publicly in earlier hearings, including just days earlier when Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, had described Jan. 6 as a chaotic day of tension and infighting at the White House, where Cipollone had scrambled to convince a resentful president to intervene while the Capitol was sacked.
Still, to have Cipollone — a Trump loyalist and the public face of his first impeachment defense — siding with the critics in debunking Trump’s claims of a “stolen” election has been something of a coup for the select committee. It’s an unusual alliance that the panel members have been only happy to forge.
“In general, Pat Cipollone was able to corroborate every major element of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election results in 2020. He was aware of all of it, and he tried to throw up some legal guardrails at different points,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a constitutional lawyer who sits on the select committee.
“It’s a remarkable thing that the lawyer who defended Trump in the first impeachment trial had to try to talk Donald Trump down from the ‘big lie’ and to play defense against this group of outside advisers who really wanted to stage a military coup by having the U.S. military take over election machines.”
Cipollone’s interactions with Democrats weren’t always so welcome.
In 2019 and 2020, when Cipollone fought to defend Trump from charges that he’d abused his powers in dealings with Ukraine, Democrats in Congress railed against the reserved White House counsel, not least for his argument that the administration had no obligation to cooperate with the congressional investigation.
“I don’t know how they can retain their lawyer status, in the comments that they’re making,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said at the time.
More than two years later, the Jan. 6 committee had been similarly frustrated with Cipollone’s refusal to participate under oath. In its public pleas for Cipollone’s cooperation, investigators stressed that they saw him as one of the few voices in the White House that day pushing for Trump to take some kind of action.
“Our evidence shows that Mr. Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right — they tried to stop a number of President Trump’s plans for Jan. 6,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), vice chair of the committee, said during a hearing last month. “But we think the American people deserve to hear from Mr. Cipollone personally.”
That sentiment grew exponentially following the explosive June 28 testimony from Hutchinson, who relayed Cipollone’s escalating frustration as other officials, notably Meadows, declined to confront Trump while a mob of his supporters stormed violently into the Capitol.
“I remember Pat saying to him something to the effect of, ‘The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark. We need to go down and see the president now,’” Hutchinson said.
When Meadows responded that Trump “doesn’t want to do anything,” Cipollone lost patience, Hutchinson testified.
“Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your effing hands,” Cipollone responded, according to Hutchinson. “This is getting out of control. I’m going down there.”
It was Hutchinson’s remarkable narrative that led the committee to get more aggressive in pursuing Cipollone’s testimony — cooperation they won by issuing him a subpoena shortly after her appearance.
“Without Cassidy Hutchison, I’m not sure if Pat Cipollone would have been in when he was,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), the second of the two Republicans on the nine-member committee. “She was very heroic in what she did. And she’s compelled at least him and other witnesses to come forward.”
Cipollone’s fly-on-the-wall insights will likely be featured in Thursday’s prime-time hearing on Capitol Hill, where the committee is promising to explore the 187 minutes between the start of the Capitol attack and the release of Trump’s message for the mob to stand down.
Cipollone was one of the few to speak directly with Trump that day, allowing him to fill gaps left by Meadows, who turned over his text messages but refused to sit down for a deposition with the panel’s investigators, even under subpoena.
In December, the House voted to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, though the Justice Department declined to bring charges.
Cipollone told the committee that he pushed back on White House plans to seize voting machines during the Dec. 18, 2020, meeting.
“That’s a terrible idea for the country,” he said. “I don’t understand why we even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea for the country.”
Other witnesses who may be featured in the next hearing include Ivanka Trump, who is said to have spoken with her father at least twice on Jan. 6, according to earlier testimony.
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser Keith Kellogg said Ivanka Trump had characterized Pence as “a good man” after overhearing her father’s angry call with his vice president. And she returned to Trump’s office later that day amid encouragement from other aides, who hoped her close relationship with her father would help her to reach him in a way other staffers couldn’t.
“I think she went back in there because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious,” Kellogg told the committee behind closed doors.
Sarah Matthews, a former White House deputy press secretary, is also reportedly in negotiations with the committee to appear publicly.
In a portion of her videotaped deposition already shown by the committee, she criticized Trump for attacking Pence in a 2:24 p.m. tweet — after the Capitol had already been breached.
“The situation was already bad, and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire,” Matthews told the committee privately.
Yet the featured witness is expected to be Cipollone, who spent a full day with the committee behind closed doors, only a sliver of which has been revealed publicly. Leading the discussion in Thursday’s hearing will be Reps. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and Kinzinger, who characterized Cipollone as a crucial figure in the wide-ranging investigation.
“He’s able to corroborate some folks; he’s got kind of unique perspectives. It’s all going to be important,” he said.
“I’m not going to reveal anything from the upcoming hearing because we want to keep that ’til we’re there,” he added. “But … I think his interview was key.” | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/ex-trump-counsel-gears-up-for-starring-appearance-in-jan-6-hearing/ | 2022-07-18T21:56:33Z | https://www.pahomepage.com/uncategorized/ex-trump-counsel-gears-up-for-starring-appearance-in-jan-6-hearing/ | true |
Global heat records are outpacing cold records by 10-1, data shows
Published: Jul. 18, 2022 at 5:32 PM EDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
(CNN) - Heat records are far outpacing cold records across the globe so far this year.
It comes as the U.S. and Europe brace for a wave of dangerously high temperatures.
According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, around the world, 188 all-time heat records have been broken so far in 2022, compared with just 18 cold records.
A climate scientist at Princeton University says the record imbalance is a sign of climate change.
Studies have shown extreme heat will increase in frequency, intensity and duration because of global warming, and that extremes will occur more frequently on the hot side compared to cold.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-6-2
(two, six, two)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
2-6-2
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
512 PM EDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central Ulster
and northwestern Dutchess Counties through 600 PM EDT...
At 512 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
High Falls, or 7 miles southwest of Kingston, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Kingston, Rhinebeck, Hurley, Red Hook, High Falls, Lake Katrine,
Staatsburg, Tillson, Olivebridge, Port Ewen, Esopus, Rosendale,
Marbletown, Milan, Rolling Meadows, Norrie Heights, Kerleys Corners,
Maple Hill, Atwood and Pacama.
This includes Interstate 87 near exit 19.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM EDT for
east central New York.
LAT...LON 4178 7421 4195 7423 4205 7382 4204 7380
4183 7375
TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 256DEG 30KT 4187 7413
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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NASSAU NEW YORK ORANGE
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ROCKLAND SULLIVAN ULSTER
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Since its first 17,573 square foot space signed in 2017, iCapital has grown by 123,651 square feet
NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) announced today that iCapital will increase its office space with ESRT for an additional two full floors which total 59,228 square feet in its fourth expansion at One Grand Central Place, for a total of 141,224 square feet across six full floors in a long term lease. iCapital is a leading global fintech company that drives access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries. Since its first signed lease in 2017, iCapital has expanded four times with ESRT.
"We are delighted to extend our five-year partnership with ESRT and continue expanding our domestic footprint in the heart of New York City with added space at One Grand Central Place," said Lawrence Calcano, chairman and chief executive officer of iCapital. "Our ongoing expansion has allowed us to drive innovation in a contemporary workspace and operate in an environment that invites collaboration. We look forward to making room for talented individuals to join our team, empowering us to better serve our clients and continue on our trajectory of rapid growth in an unmatched location."
One Grand Central Place offers premier tenant office spaces and amenities which include a tenant-only conference center, multiple dining options, and in-building access to Grand Central Station's five subway lines, commuter trains, and retailers.
"Convenient location, unmatched amenities, and premier indoor environmental quality contributed to iCapital's decision to make its fourth expansion at One Grand Central Place," said Thomas P. Durels, executive vice president, real estate at Empire State Realty Trust.
Lauren Crowley Corrinet, Al Golod, and Christopher Hogan of CBRE represented iCapital in the lease negotiations. Jordan Berger of ESRT and Erik Harris, Neil Rubin, Scott Klau, and William Cohen of Newmark represented the property owner.
More information about One Grand Central Place, and current availabilities, can be found online.
About Empire State Realty Trust
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) is a REIT that owns and manages office, retail, and multifamily assets in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area. ESRT owns the Empire State Building – the World's Most Famous Building – and Tripadvisor's 2022 Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Awards #1 attraction in the U.S. and #3 attraction in the world, in the newly reimagined and iconic Empire State Building Observatory. The company is a leader in healthy buildings, energy efficiency, and indoor environmental quality, and has the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per square foot of any publicly traded REIT portfolio in New York City. As of Mar. 31, 2022, ESRT's portfolio is comprised of approximately 9.4 million rentable square feet of office space, 700,000 rentable square feet of retail space and 625 units across two multifamily properties. More information about Empire State Realty Trust can be found at esrtreit.com and by following ESRT on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kirkland's, Inc. (Nasdaq: KIRK) ("Kirkland's Home" or the "Company"), a specialty retailer of home décor and furnishings, has announced that Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Nicole Strain will be leaving the Company, effective August 31, 2022.
With support from the board of directors, Kirkland's Home has initiated an executive search process for a new CFO. Until the Company names a successor, it will rely on a newly-established Office of the CFO, which will be co-led by Anna Wilhoit, the Company's controller, and Jessica Tatum, senior director of financial planning and analysis. The functions within the COO role have been assigned to other senior members of the operations team. The Company will provide updates as they become available.
"Nicole's executive leadership has been instrumental in transforming our company into a specialty home furnishings retailer," said Steve "Woody" Woodward, president and CEO of Kirkland's Home. "As we begin the process of selecting her successor, we are in experienced hands with our current corporate finance and operations teams remaining in place. On behalf of Kirkland's Home and the board of directors, we wish Nicole the very best in her next endeavor."
With the CFO transition plan in place, the Company anticipates reporting its fiscal second quarter 2022 results in late August 2022.
About Kirkland's, Inc.
Kirkland's, Inc. is a specialty retailer of home furnishings in the United States, currently operating 359 stores in 35 states as well as an e-commerce website, www.kirklands.com, under the Kirkland's Home brand. The Company provides its customers an engaging shopping experience characterized by a curated, affordable selection of home furnishings along with inspirational design ideas. This combination of quality and stylish merchandise, value pricing and a stimulating online and store experience allows the Company's customers to furnish their home at a great value. More information can be found at www.kirklands.com.
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Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this release, including all statements related to future initiatives, financial goals and expectations or beliefs regarding any future period, are forward-looking and made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to the finalization of the Company's quarterly financial and accounting procedures. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause Kirkland's Home actual results to differ materially from forecasted results. Those risks and uncertainties include, among other things, risks associated with the Company's progress and anticipated progress towards its short-term and long-term objectives including its brand transformation, the timing of normalized macroeconomic conditions from the impacts of global geopolitical unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's revenues, inventory and supply chain, the effectiveness of the Company's marketing campaigns, risks related to changes in U.S. policy related to imported merchandise, particularly with regard to the impact of tariffs on goods imported from China and strategies undertaken to mitigate such impact, the Company's ability to retain its senior management team, continued volatility in the price of the Company's common stock, the competitive environment in the home décor industry in general and in Kirkland's Home specific market areas, inflation, fluctuations in cost and availability of inventory, interruptions in supply chain and distribution systems, including our e-commerce systems and channels, the ability to control employment and other operating costs, availability of suitable retail locations and other growth opportunities, disruptions in information technology systems including the potential for security breaches of Kirkland's Home or its customers' information, seasonal fluctuations in consumer spending, and economic conditions in general. Those and other risks are more fully described in Kirkland's Home filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 25, 2022 and subsequent reports. Forward-looking statements included in this release are made as of the date of this release. Any changes in assumptions or factors on which such statements are based could produce materially different results. Except as required by law, Kirkland's Home disclaims any obligation to update any such factors or to publicly announce results of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future events or developments.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says he will step down from his current position before the end of President Biden's term, but is far from making an official announcement.
Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the president and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said before that there is a "finite element to his tenure," but an interview with Politico sparked reports of retirement for the nation's top infectious disease expert.
Fauci told NPR that when asked about his current position, he told Politico that he doesn't see himself in the job past the end of Biden's first term in January 2025.
"I plan to step down from my current position sometime between now and then and to go on and pursue other directions in my professional career," Fauci said. "That has somehow been interpreted as my announcing my retirement. When I do decide on the date of stepping down I will make a formal announcement."
Fauci, 81, told NPR that does not have an exact date in mind for his decision but that it may come "sooner rather than later." As for what's next, he said he is not sure what he will do after leaving his position partially because he hasn't decided when he will be leaving.
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CHICAGO, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- During the first day of its annual International Conference, The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) – the internal audit profession's leader in standards, certification, education, research, and technical guidance worldwide – introduced two new global reports in front of an audience of roughly 1,500 internal audit professionals from around the world.
New Research Takes Global View of Internal Audit Profession
- The IIA debuted its 2022 Premier Global Study, Internal Audit: A Global View. The extensive report collected feedback from 3,600 internal audit professionals representing 159 international locations. The study shows regional differences within a diverse profession that is broadly involved in traditional activities like risk and fraud but also demonstrates that the profession is adding ever-increasing value to stakeholders through environmental and social issues, cybersecurity engagements, and other emerging and evolving issues.
- The results offer a snapshot of the global profession and demographic trends:
IIA Partners with World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to Issue New Guidance on Embedding ESG and Sustainability Considerations in the Three Lines Model
- The IIA has partnered with the WBCSD on new guidance aimed at helping organization's future-proof their business.
- The paper, "Embedding ESG and Sustainability Considerations into the Three Lines Model," outlines key roles and responsibilities for the governing body, management, and internal audit to build structures and processes that support the achievement of business objectives to create and protect value for the organization.
- Recent actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the creation of the new International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) underscore the importance of embedding material sustainability issues into business decision-making practices. It is also vital that governance mechanisms are in place to ensure effective oversight of risk management and controls.
- The insights in the paper are intended for corporate boards, C-suite representatives within large corporations, and senior management to provide information and understanding on the role of the respective lines in overseeing the effectiveness of risk management and internal audit processes.
2022 Professional Achievement Award Recipients Announced
Also at the first day of the conference, The IIA awarded five Professional Achievement Awards, recognizing recipients from around the world who have excelled in research, education, publishing, advocacy, and other activities in the field of internal auditing and related professions. Click here for a full list of awards, recipients, bios and photos.
Victor Z. Brink Award for Distinguished Service
- W. Charles Johnson - Senior Manager, Forvis Enterprise Risk Solutions
- Doris Yi Hsin Wang - Chairman, Accounting Research and Development Foundation, Taiwan and Professor, Department of Accountancy, National Taipei University
Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award
- Lal Balkaran - Risk, Governance, and Internal Audit Consultant, LBA Consulting
- Brian Christensen - Executive Vice President, Global Managed Solutions and Collaboration, Protiviti
William G. Bishop III, CIA Lifetime Achievement Award
- Carman L. Lapointe – International Consultant. Former Under-Secretary-General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services
About The IIA
The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is an international professional association that serves more than 215,000 global members and has awarded 180,000 Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) certifications worldwide. Established in 1941, The IIA is recognized as the internal audit profession's leader in standards, certification, education, research, and technical guidance throughout the world. For more information, visit https://www.theiia.org.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) - Several Mississippi State players have been selected already in the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft.
Landon Sims (P) – Arizona Diamondbacks, Competitive Balance A round, No. 34 overall pick.
Logan Tanner (C) - Cincinnati Reds, second round, No. 55 overall pick.
Preston Johnson (P) - Baltimore Orioles, seventh round, No. 197 overall pick.
Brad Cumbest (OF) - Colorado Rockies, ninth round, No. 266 overall pick.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HASI) resulting from allegations that Hannon Armstrong may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Hannon Armstrong securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. The Rosen Law Firm is preparing a class action seeking recovery of investor losses.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the prospective class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7529 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
WHAT IS THIS ABOUT: On July 12, 2022, market analyst Muddy Waters Research published a report entitled "HASI: 'ESG' is for Exaggerating, Scamming, and Grifting" which stated several issues with Hannon Armstrong's financial statements, summarizing the issues as "HASI misleadingly inflates GAAP earnings three ways: 1) Through a loophole in the arcana of accounting for renewables subsidies, HASI books non-cash unrealizable income relating to third parties' tax credits that will be reversed; 2) HASI produces non-cash income by manipulating the discount rate it applies to residual assets to implausibly low levels, thereby inflating its gains on securitizations; and, 3) HASI books interest income from non-cash 'Paid in Kind' ('PIK') interest payments, which are essentially IOUs from stressed borrowers."
On this news, Hannon Armstrong's stock price fell $6.92 per share, or 19%, to close at $29.41 per share on July 12, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume, damaging investors.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
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STAMFORD, Conn., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.40 per share on its common stock.
The dividend on common shares will be payable August 17, 2022, to shareholders of record as of August 2, 2022.
On its Series F Preferred Stock, Webster declared a quarterly cash dividend of $328.125 per share ($0.328125 per each depositary share, 1,000 of which represent one share of Series F Preferred Stock), payable September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on September 1, 2022.
On its Series G Preferred Stock, Webster declared a quarterly cash dividend of $16.25 per share ($0.40625 per each depositary share, 40 of which represent one share of Series G Preferred Stock), payable October 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on October 1, 2022.
About Webster
Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank Division. Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits solutions. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with more than $65 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com.
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Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence have thrown their weight behind competing GOP candidates in the Arizona race for governor in a move that further highlights the distance between two factions of the Republican following.
On Monday Pence announced an endorsement for Karrin Taylor Robson, a former developer and Republican lobbyist, in a last-minute move ahead of the Aug. 2 primary.
"Karrin Taylor Robson is the only candidate for Governor that will keep Arizona's border secure and streets safe, empower parents and create great schools, and promote conservative values," Pence said in a statement.
Last fall, Trump endorsed Kari Lake, a former local TV news anchor. Lake has centered her campaign around the false belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen — claims not embraced by the state's current Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and other members of the party, including Robson.
Over the weekend, Ducey told CNN's Dana Bash that Lake is "misleading voters with no evidence," noting that he is also backing Robson.
This is not the first time the two former running mates have backed opponents this election cycle. Earlier this year Pence rallied for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ahead of the state primary, while Trump backed challenger David Perdue.
The move from Pence to rally for Kemp was seen at the time as the most outward effort to block Trump's influence. Kemp ultimately won the nomination.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
233 PM PDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern
Monterey County through 300 PM PDT...
At 233 PM PDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles east of Bradley, or 14 miles north of Paso Robles, moving
northwest at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 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.
Locations impacted include...
San Lucas, San Ardo and Bradley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3615 12108 3622 12068 3618 12065 3616 12067
3611 12065 3610 12063 3610 12060 3607 12059
3605 12055 3585 12040 3579 12052 3579 12073
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 141DEG 19KT 3584 12064
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in older adults across the country — with a 386% increase in chlamydia cases in older Virginians.
A former sales associate for Virginia ABC and another man have been indicted in what authorities described as a conspiracy to obtain internal ABC inventory data on high-demand and limited-availability bourbons, and provide that insider information to interested parties for a price.
UVA was one of more than 50 colleges removed from one of the publication's influential rankings, U.S. News said last week.
Kappa Alpha Order is disappointed by UVa’s decision.
“Our chapter at the University of Virginia has enjoyed an impeccable reputation and has not had any known conduct violation in recent memory. This unfortunate outcome could have been avoided and instead resulted in a positive collaborative and educational effort.”
He won't say whether he supports protecting such unions in state law.
Ms. Budzinski was recalled as teenager with a fondness for sunsets, and a loyal friend who loved to laugh.
The cleanup continued Sunday in Tappahannock where a fast-moving fire swept through numerous downtown buildings on Friday.
Friends and family gathered Friday on the second floor of Richmond’s Main Street Station to celebrate the life of 36-year-old Kyle Stoner.
We knew Richmond was a great party town. Now, it’s official.
The new policies break with CDC guidance, which recommends unvaccinated people quarantine after an exposure and all people wear masks indoors during periods of high transmission.
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LIVERMORE, Calif. (KRON) — Police are searching for a man who is suspected of shooting and killing one man and injuring two others at the Granada Bowl, according to Livermore Police Department (LPD).
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The suspect has been identified as Roger Aleman Garcia, 27, also known as Roger Aleman. Garcia is a convicted felon with a criminal history that includes assault with a deadly weapon. As a felon Garcia is prohibited from owning a firearm.
Garcia is the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of Antonio Vargas, 28, of Livermore. According to police, Vargas was with a group of friends near the bar area of Granada Bowl at 6 p.m. on Saturday night. It was there that Vargas and his friends got into a verbal fight with Garcia, which escalated to a physical fight.
Garcia pulled out a handgun and shot Vargas and another 28-year-old from Livermore. Throughout the shooting a 30-year-old friend of Garcia’s was also struck by gunfire. Vargas died from his injuries at the scene. Police performed life-saving measures on the other two gunshot victims who were then taken to a local hospital.
LPD’s Criminal Investigations Unit completed search warrants over the weekend related to this shooting. LPD considers this suspect to be at large, armed, and dangerous. | https://www.kron4.com/news/police-release-mugshot-of-suspect-in-granada-bowl-shooting/ | 2022-07-18T22:15:20Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/police-release-mugshot-of-suspect-in-granada-bowl-shooting/ | false |
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Albanian government on Monday said its webpage and all those of the public institutions have been shut down following a cyberattack from an undisclosed source.
A statement said a “wide and complex” cyberattack started Friday afternoon following which all government infrastructure and systems were isolated.
It started as a ransomware attack in which the hackers tried to hit critical systems, aiming to get them functionless, it said.
The statement said the “method used by the hackers was identical with the last year’s attacks seen in the international cyberspace,” mentioning those in Ukraine, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, Netherland and Belgium.
Fortunately the early detection allowed the government’s critical systems to close, adding they are all “backed-up and safe,” the statement said. It said Albanian authorities were collaborating with experts from Microsoft and the U.S.-based Jones Group International to solve the situation “and bring it back to normalcy.”
Blocking public services has affected many individuals and companies. The Interior Ministry said police and main civic services would be temporarily offered in person at their offices.
Albania, a NATO member since 2009, is expecting to launch full membership negotiations with the European Union shortly. In the last two years, Albania has also been a temporary member of the U.N. Security Council. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/cyberattack-blocks-albanias-public-online-services/ | 2022-07-18T22:19:09Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/cyberattack-blocks-albanias-public-online-services/ | false |
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — A funeral service was held Monday afternoon for the last of seven people killed by a gunman at an Independence Day parade, as family and friends gathered in suburban Chicago to remember Kevin McCarthy.
Attendees at McCarthy's funeral filled up nearby parking lots before heading inside the funeral home in Skokie. Unlike the services last week for McCarthy's wife, Irina, the services were not livestreamed.
In an obituary, the 37-year-old was described as a father, husband, brother, uncle and son who “brought the fun to every situation.”
The couple were killed at the parade in nearby Highland Park. They left behind a 2-year-old son, Aiden, whose story prompted thousands of people to donate money for the orphaned boy. In all, an online fundraiser has raised more than $3.2 million for the boy.
“Kevin’s irrepressible zest for life and his family and friends will remain with us always,” his family wrote in the obituary. “We love you.”
Services for the five other victims have been held since the shooting. They have been identified as: 64-year-old Katherine Goldstein, 63-year-old Jacquelyn Sundheim, 88-year-old Stephen Straus and 78-year-old Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza and 69-year-old Eduardo Uvaldo.
Prosecutors have charged 21-year-old Robert E. Crimo III with seven counts of murder and said they expect to present attempted murder charges representing the people wounded in the attack.
Also on Monday, the family of Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy who was paralyzed with a spinal cord injury in the shooting, said in a statement that the boy remains in critical condition but is making some “hopeful progress.”
According to the statement, the boy is no longer on a ventilator, but is breathing on his own. And the boy took his first brief ride in a wheelchair over the weekend.
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CAUGHT ON CAM: Car falls on firefighter’s leg during rescue
Published: Jul. 18, 2022 at 5:28 PM EDT|Updated: 52 minutes ago
NEW YORK (CNN) – An SUV fell onto a firefighter in New York City on Sunday.
The frightening and graphic moment was caught on camera.
The SUV crashed and ended up on top of a car in Midtown.
The firefighter was helping brace and stabilize the SUV, so that people could get out of the car.
Authorities say that’s when the driver of the SUV hit the gas, which caused it to suddenly move forward and roll onto the firefighter’s leg.
Others worked quickly to free the pinned firefighter.
He was rushed to the hospital with a severe leg injury.
At last check, he was in serious condition but stable.
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With access to abortion flickering in Louisiana, the legal battle over the statewide ban continues with a court hearing scheduled to begin Monday morning.
State District Judge Donald Johnson issued a temporary order last week blocking enforcement pending the hearing in a lawsuit that claims the state law is unconstitutionally vague.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry's office will argue that the state ban is constitutional and should no longer be blocked. Attorneys for a north Louisiana abortion clinic and other supporters of legal abortion want Johnson to keep blocking enforcement as their lawsuit plays out.
“The courts are an extremely important avenue for this fight,” Joanna Wright, an attorney for the north Louisiana clinic that is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, said last week. “I think that this is a national moment and a national dialogue, and the courts are one way that we are having that dialogue.”
Johnson's order last week freed Louisiana's three abortion clinics in Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans to resume operations. One, Hope Medical Group for Women clinic in Shreveport, said it would continue abortion procedures. A spokeswoman for the two others said the clinics are open but would not schedule new patients until after Monday's hearing.
The statewide abortion ban, which does not have exceptions for victims of rape and incest, has taken effect twice and been blocked twice since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its historic Roe v. Wade ruling on June 24. Louisiana's law includes “trigger language” designed to make it effective when the Supreme Court reversed abortion rights.
In the suit, which originated in New Orleans, plaintiffs don’t deny that the state can now ban abortion. But they contend that Louisiana now has multiple, conflicting trigger mechanisms in the law. They also argue that the state law is unclear on whether it bans abortion before a fertilized egg implanting in the uterus.
And while the law provides an exception for “medically futile” pregnancies in cases of fetuses with fatal abnormalities, the plaintiffs note it gives no definition of the term and that state health officials haven’t yet provided a list of conditions that would qualify.
Landry, in a filing last week, argued that the law “needs only to delineate what is illegal — not define what is legal.”
“The rule of law must be followed, and I will not rest until it is,” Landry recently tweeted.
A New Orleans judge issued a temporary order blocking enforcement of the ban on June 27, but nearly two weeks later, a second New Orleans judge sent the case to Baton Rouge, saying state law required that it be heard in the capital.
Johnson issued a second temporary restraining order on July 11.
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Many OB-GYNs, including some who perform abortions, are celebrating a decision that allows them to avoid traveling to Texas for certifying board exams.
Some feared gathering en masse would make them vulnerable to violence. Others who are pregnant themselves worried about developing complications and being forced to seek care in a state with strict abortion limits.
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology exams are voluntary, but certification lends respect to doctors’ credentials, indicating they graduated from an accredited medical school and passed written and oral competency exams. Some employers also require the tests.
The Dallas-based board had held virtual exams during the pandemic but planned to have the upcoming fall oral exams in-person. On Thursday, the board announced a reversal, saying the exams would be virtual.
The decision was made “due to the increase in COVID-19 cases across the country and concerns regarding the U.S. Supreme Court opinion” that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the board said.
The switch came after many OB-GYNs — including some taking the tests and others administering the exams — objected to traveling to Texas.
“They’re scared. They have nothing to lose but their own personal safety,” said Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald, a Pennsylvania OB-GYN, who signed a petition against in-person exams.
The three-hour exams test skills, knowledge and ability to treat different conditions. The examiners also review cases related to patients whom doctors have treated during the past year, the board website says.
Doctors can start the certification process in their fourth year of medical residency training.
Fitzgerald, who has taken board exams in person and virtually, said the setup for both is similar and she could see no advantage to an in-person exam.
The board did not return calls and emails requesting comment.
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CLEVELAND, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roll-A-Rack has developed a gutter-like solar racking system that captures rain falling on solar panels. Current racking systems require a large distance between rows of panels to grow vegetation to prevents erosion. The compact Roll-A-Rack has only eleven inches between rows of panels and requires half the land to produce the same amount of energy. Harvested water can also be used for irrigation.
The Roll-A-Rack rain harvesting solution will be presented as a technical poster "Collecting Rainwater Falling on Solar Arrays" at RE+ 2022, North America's largest renewable energy event, Sept. 17-22, 2022, in Anaheim, Calif. Roll-A-Rack president Don Scipione will present an invited paper "Stormwater Management for Solar Arrays" at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources 2022 Ohio Statewide Floodplain Management Conference, Aug. 24-25, in Columbus, Ohio.
Roll-A-Rack is seeking developers and solar installers to help commercialize the installation processes. For more information about Roll-A-Rack or becoming a beta tester, visit roll-a-rack.com, email beta@roll-a-rack.com., or download the informational flyer.
Roll-A-Rack's development research is funded in part by a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The J. M. Smucker Company "Outset" or the "Company") (NYSE: SJM). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Outset and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around May 20, 2022, Smucker's issued a voluntary recall of "select Jif® peanut butter products sold in the U.S. due to potential Salmonella contamination", affecting nearly 50 types of Jif peanut butter products sold in the United States.
On June 7, 2022, Smucker's disclosed that the recall is expected to cost the Company $125 million in fiscal year 2023.
On this news, the price of Smucker's stock fell $3.06 per share, or 2.35%, over the following two trading sessions, to close at $127.25 per share on June 9, 2022.
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(KTLA) – Never mind the Walking Dead. Count Toys “R” Us as a brand that refuses to die.
The once-ubiquitous toy store — which went bankrupt and closed all outlets in 2018 — is poised for a big comeback.
Toys “R” Us will spring to life in every Macy’s department store over the next few months.
The stores-within-stores will range in size from 1,000 square feet in smaller locations to sprawling 10,000 square feet in larger Macy’s, including in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Macy’s recognized an opportunity in revitalizing Toys “R” Us when it agreed last year to sell goodies under the Toys “R” Us brand on its website.
Macy’s then started opening stores-within-stores in about 400 locations to gauge customer reaction.
The response was apparently warm enough that Macy’s is now going all-in on the toy brand.
Toys “R” Us is owned by WHP Global, which acquired the brand from Tru Kids Inc., which snapped up the Toys “R” Us name in a liquidation sale.
Tru Kids opened Toys “R” Us stores in New Jersey and Texas, but then closed them last year because of the pandemic.
Macy’s says Toys “R” Us “will come to life in-store with playful colored fixtures as well as hands-on demonstration tables for customers to interact with various toy assortments.”
“Macy’s cannot wait to bring the Toys ‘R’ Us experience to life in our stores,” Nata Dvir, Macy’s chief merchandising officer, said in a statement.
“We hope Toys ‘R’ Us kids of all ages discover the joy of exploration and play within our shops and families create special memories together.”
Macy’s clearly is seeking to be more to more people at a time when the retail industry is struggling to return to pre-pandemic strength and to compete with online rivals such as Amazon.
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New £100m Oxford research will build global readiness against the 'next Covid'... and experts say future pandemic could be down to traffic jams or GARLIC
Somewhere in the world the next pandemic bug is silently evolving, getting set to burst upon us unawares — spreading faster and more lethally, perhaps, than even Covid-19.
But where, when and how will this deadly pathogen emerge? And what will it be? These are questions that confront infectious disease scientists who are already certain of one thing: Covid is but a harbinger of further global contagions.
So the race is on to develop new early warning systems that involve looking for danger signs in everything from traffic jams and sewage to old museum exhibits and even sales of garlic.
Earlier this month, Oxford University launched its new Pandemic Sciences Institute, a £100 m initiative dedicated to building global readiness to thwart new infectious threats.
It pools the university’s rich expertise that enabled Oxford scientists to start the first human trials of its game-changing Covid-19 vaccine four months after the pandemic virus’s genome was first decoded in 2020. Best known as the AstraZeneca vaccine, more than two billion doses have been given worldwide.
The race is on to develop new early warning systems that involve looking for danger signs in everything from traffic jams and sewage to old museum exhibits and even sales of garlic
The onus will be on tracking viral threats in order to develop new drugs and vaccines at maximum speed. But that means identifying new pandemic bugs before they get the chance to run wild, says Christophe Fraser, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology and a key figure in the new institute.
‘If Covid could have been contained at the start [when the first cases emerged in China], I think we would have avoided it,’ he told Good Health.
This could have been achieved, for example, by rapidly applying local lockdowns and bans on international travel, while scientists worked on developing new vaccines and drugs.
The 2003 SARS outbreak, which began in China and resulted in around 8,000 cases in 26 countries, was contained by lockdowns and travel bans that were instituted more rapidly than with Covid.
‘We know from tests that if the SARS virus had been allowed to run uncontrolled, it would have evolved to become more infectious,’ says Professor Fraser.
‘Ebola was also a close call in 2014. But Nigeria successfully contained the virus, which causes lethal haemorrhaging, within two months.
‘Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (or MERS) in 2012 was a bit easier to contain [not least because it did not transmit easily from person to person], but that containment was not inevitable,’ he adds.
‘We will have more pandemics,’ he warns, ‘but we can reduce how many we have in future by getting early data of newly emerging pathogens so that people can act on it in the right way.’
Professor Fraser’s fears are amply supported, with the UK government saying there’s a 50 per cent chance of another pandemic on the scale of Covid-19 in the next 25 years.
The threat is rising, experts say, because large-scale human expansion into previously virgin habitats — such as forests — puts us into ever-closer contact with wild animals that harbour previously unknown pathogens.
But what are the vital early clues to an emerging pandemic?
‘Often, we see the signs of a new outbreak before we see people getting sick,’ says David Bray, director of GeoTech Centre, a U.S. body that champions the use of technology to improve our lives.
As an example, he explains how, 20 years ago, while working in global monitoring for U.S. health authorities, they noticed that in China the price of garlic — which is viewed as a cure-all for illness by a number of Asian cultures — had risen tenfold’.
Professor Fraser’s fears are amply supported, with the UK government saying there’s a 50 per cent chance of another pandemic on the scale of Covid-19 in the next 25 years. London's Oxford Circus is seen above in lockdown in April 2020
This spiralling demand suggested a sudden rush to buy the herbal folk remedy to salve fast-emerging respiratory problems. ‘This was the first sign of SARS, the predecessor to Covid,’ says David Bray. ‘We spotted it five months before China revealed that it was experiencing an outbreak of a new respiratory coronavirus.’
The same thing happened in early 2020, when the price of garlic again surged in China — an early sign of Covid-19 emerging.
And there were other early warning signs that were largely ignored at the time. Between August and December 2019, several months before most of us had heard of the virus, satellite images picked up a surge in road traffic outside hospitals in Wuhan, China, where the virus originated.
The 67 per cent increase in traffic was reported in a 2020 study by scientists at Harvard University, who found roads near five hospitals in the city had been much busier than usual — a pattern researchers attributed to patients sick with Covid-19 being rushed to emergency care.
With hindsight, the traffic images were crucial because they suggest the virus was spreading in the community three months before the first cases were confirmed by the Chinese authorities in November 2019.
The same study also picked up a steep rise, around the same time, in online searches in China for information on symptoms such as ‘cough’ and ‘diarrhoea’, both of which are common Covid symptoms.
Meanwhile, scientists are panning for epidemiological gold in cities’ sewage systems. For if we become infected with pathogens, we excrete them in the loo. In 2020, a national wastewater monitoring programme was set up in England to monitor Covid traces in untreated sewage from around 40 million people.
It came after a pilot scheme in key cities such as Cardiff, Manchester and Liverpool found local levels of viral DNA in sewage from Covid-19 matched infection rates — which meant sewage testing could be a valuable flag for local outbreaks.
Now investigators want to use this approach as an alarm system for emerging new pandemics.
An associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University, Susan De Long, reported in the journal Modern Sciences in May that wastewater entering treatment plants can be sampled for levels of viral DNA that will show if a new threatening infection is emerging.
‘It can provide an early warning that public health measures [such as mask wearing, vaccination and working from home] may be warranted,’ De Long says.
‘If wastewater monitoring had been part of the established public health infrastructure in late 2019, it could have provided an earlier warning that Covid-19 was becoming a global threat.’
Social media trends may also help us spot pandemics early. When researchers at the University of Calabria in Italy analysed social media from late 2019, they detected rising concern about cases of pneumonia across Europe, before Covid-19 was widely identified.
Their study, in the journal Scientific Reports last year, focused on tweets related to pneumonia because it is the most severe Covid-induced condition, and also because the flu season in 2020 was milder than normal, which should have meant pneumonia cases were falling.
The scientists said monitoring social media may be a way to track signs of emerging pandemics.
Far away from social media, another way to predict pandemics is being pioneered. Curators at the National History Museum in London are uploading all their records of samples of bats and other potential animal sources of pandemic viruses to a worldwide database for scientists.
Three-quarters of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic — transmitted from animals to humans. Examples include rabies caught from dogs; HIV from apes; and Covid-19, thought to have originated in bats. The museum has already digitised more than 30,000 records for bat specimens and another 6,000 are being processed. Samples are made up of skins, skeletons and preserved bodies. Last year, similar work at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris revealed previously unidentified coronaviruses closely related to the Covid-19 virus lurking in the samples of two Rhinolophus shameli bats that had been taken in Cambodia in 2010. Museum specimens such as these have already helped to identify a mysterious infectious disease outbreak that claimed 13 lives in the U.S. in 1993.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome kills nearly 40 per cent of infected people by filling their lungs with fluid. Researchers at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico analysed hantavirus-infected deer-mice exhibits and identified the rodents as the species from which the lethal strain emerged.
Crucially, the researchers were also able to show that the virus had been circulating in local rodent populations for years and that its emergence in humans was linked to El Niño climate cycles.
These occur when the ocean currents warm in the Pacific, causing a heavy increase in rainfall in the Southwestern parts of the U.S. — thought to have driven virus-carrying creatures into closer contact with humans.
But Sir Peter Horby, director of the Pandemic Sciences Institute at Oxford University, is convinced doctors on the frontline will still have a vital role in highlighting emerging viral threats.
Pandemic alerts usually happen, Sir Peter says, ‘when a clinician sees a cluster of cases and sees this is odd. If they push the “red button” and alert colleagues worldwide then the new pathogen can be detected further’.
The chances of this happening may now be improved by using cheap technology, such as giving doctors in poorer countries free apps for recording data on novel illness symptoms. ‘The technology is out there to do all this,’ he says. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11025905/Experts-say-future-pandemic-traffic-jams-GARLIC.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-18T22:28:38Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11025905/Experts-say-future-pandemic-traffic-jams-GARLIC.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | false |
'He's judging the US from his lectern': Prince Harry is slammed for 'virtue-signaling' UN speech where 'he tried to make America sound like a mess' by saying it was 'rolling back constitutional rights'
- Meghan McCain has blasted the Duke of Sussex for not offering 'any solutions'
- Prince Harry made a thinly-veiled dig on the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling
- The 37-year-old said it was part of a 'global assault on democracy and freedom'
- He and wife Meghan, 40, attended the UN General Assembly hand in hand today
- Republican politicians have accused the royal couple of 'sticking their nose in'
Prince Harry has been slammed for 'virtue-signaling' as he waded into US politics yet again during his speech at an informal meeting of the UN General Assembly.
DailyMail.com columnist Meghan McCain blasted the Duke of Sussex for 'not offering any solutions' to the issues in America.
The Duke of Sussex, who was accompanied by Meghan Markle, launched a thinly-veiled attack on the Supreme Court's Roe v Wade ruling last month that handed abortion rights back to individual states.
The 37-year-old claimed it was part of a 'global assault on democracy and freedom' as he also cited Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine among problems facing the world.
The comments, heard by a mostly-empty room at the United Nations for Nelson Mandela Day on Monday morning, were the latest broadside at US politicians.
It comes after his wife Meghan described how the Duke had a 'gutteral' reaction to the Supreme Court's bombshell overturning of Roe v Wade last month.
Protesters also stood outside of the UN General Assembly in New York, with one holding up a sign which said 'why are they here'.
McCain said: 'Today was a missed opportunity to keep the focus on one of the truly great global leaders of all time, Nelson Mandela.
The Duke of Sussex made a thinly veiled slight on the US constitution during his speech at the UN on Monday, and has been slammed by American politicians
Protestors outside of the event in New York could be seen holding signs which demanded to know why the royal couple had attended the event
US Rep Buddy Carter said he thought that the Duke of Sussex, pictured entering the UN with wife Meghan Markle, comparing American abortion laws to the Ukraine war was 'sick and perverse'
Meghan later stepped out with activist Gloria Steinem after the pair had lunch together at the Crosby Hotel in Soho
'The speech should have been entirely a tribute to this man. But Prince Harry can't help himself. He has to get in his virtue-signaling.
'He wants you to know that he thinks America is a mess and he is judging it from his lectern.
'He's not offering solutions of any kind, mind you, just making a speech and getting back on his private jet to return to his mansion in California.'
Meghan and Harry arrived hand-in-hand ahead of his speech to delegates on climate change and poverty during the two hour meeting at the UN.
It marks the first time the couple have been seen in public since jetting to the United Kingdom to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee last month, where they kept a low profile.
Despite the event meant to be in celebration of Nelson Mandela Day, the Prince launched an attack on American politics during his keynote speech.
He said: 'This has been a painful year in a painful decade. We are living through a pandemic that continues to ravage communities in every corner of the globe.
'Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet with most vulnerable suffering most of all. The few weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the many.
'And from the horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional rights in the US we are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom the cause of Mandela's life.'
Royal biographer Robert Jobson also hit out at Harry, saying that he 'knew it would cause controversy' when giving his speech.
He said: 'I, like all right thinking people, believe in free speech. It is the core of democracy.
'Now that Prince Harry he had given up his royal role has the same right to speak out as the next man.
It is not the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have waded into American politics, finding themselves in hot water after commenting on the US election
The couple were all smiles as they attended the event, but have now been slammed for some of the comments made
The couple have been slammed by Meghan McCain who said the father-of-two couldn't help his 'virtue signaling' during his speech
Prince Harry has been accused of knowing that his comments would cause 'controversy', despite agreeing to honor the Queen's stance of staying away from anything political when they stepped down
'So in that respect I commend him for a well thought out keynote address.
'That said, when the Queen gave her blessing to him to quit as a front line working royal and live with his wife in the US he promised not to bring the Royal Family into disrepute.
'He knows that his grandmother, our monarch, must remain above politics.
'He knows too when his father, The Prince of Wales, and brother, William, Duke of Cambridge make public addresses that they must remain non partisan, thus avoiding embarrassing the Queen and the institution of monarchy.
'Harry chose to speak about political issues at the UN. He knew it would cause controversy. He knew it would lead to criticism.
'It is his right now as a private citizen to make speeches - good luck to him.
'But had he not been a famous prince, from the privileged House of Windsor I mount very much he would not have been asked to make such an address.'
Both the Duke and Duchess of Sussex ignored questions about the impact of Tom Bower's book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsor's
Members of the UN watched on as the Duke of Sussex gave his speech, with some taking photos and videos as the royal spoke
The couple got into their black Suburban Chevrolet as they left the UN building, heading further south in the back of the car
Harry and Meghan met with the President of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Ahahid as well as the two winners of the 2020 Nelson Mandela prize
Republican politicians were also quick to condemn the comments made by the Duke of Sussex during his keynote speech.
US Rep Buddy Carter said: 'The U.S. is protecting the lives of unborn children. Russia is killing innocent Ukrainians.
'We are not the same and comparing the two is sick and perverse. I would remind Prince Harry that spreading disinformation is incredibly damaging to the 'democracy and freedom' he is so concerned about.'
Rep. Lisa McClain added: 'Yet again, the Duke and Duchess are sticking their nose into American politics by attacking the U.S. rule of law.
'I think it's time we buy them a history book on the Revolutionary War to remind them that our government stopped caring about the 'royals' opinion back in 1776.'
Editor Amber Athey wrote for the Spectator: 'I can't help but laugh at the same guy who called the First Amendment 'bonkers' fretting about an alleged erosion of constitutional rights.
'Presumably, if Prince Harry had his way, we'd be policing speech à la the UK, where you can be thrown in jail for supposed 'hate speech.'
This would constitute a much greater threat to freedom and democracy than anything referred to in Prince Harry's UN address.
'Prince Harry previously admitted that he does not fully 'understand' the US Constitution, having only been here a 'short time.' It's no surprise that he's made no attempt to rectify that in the past year.
'Harry hasn't got the American spirit. Red-blooded colonials once took up arms against the Duke of Sussex's ancestors; comparatively, Prince Harry sold his gun collection to appease his spoiled wife.'
It is not the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have waded into American politics, finding themselves in hot water after commenting on the US election.
During a Time 100 video in September 2020 they called on American voters to 'reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity' in 'the most important election of our life.'
Members of the royal family are supposed to be politically neutral, when they stepped back from their roles the Sussex's vowed that 'everything they do will uphold the values of Her Majesty'.
'Just like Madiba, he's been through a lot': Prince Harry is mercilessly mocked by South African newspaper for preachy keynote speech honoring Nelson Mandela
BY JENNIFER SMITH
The choice of Prince Harry as the keynote speaker at the UN event honoring Nelson Mandela was mocked by many around the world, including a South African newspaper which sarcastically compared the prince's plight to that of the civil rights hero.
Harry was invited to speak at the UN in New York City by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the charitable organization run by Mandela's family.
He was joined by wife Meghan, who showed up in a glamorous designer outfit worth some $3,000.
Harry used his 15-minute speech to lecture the sparse crowd on climate change, disinformation, the war on Ukraine, COVID and the decision by SCOTUS to reverse Roe vs Wade.
He might have resisted the chance to compare himself to Mandela, but South African newspaper The Sunday Times jumped at the opportunity.
South African columnist Aspasia Karras pokes fun at Prince Harry in a column on Sunday, before Harry spoke. She compared Harry's Montecito mansion to Robben Island and the icy treatment of Harry and Meghan by the royal family to the hardships of apartheid
'He's in exile. Just like Madiba. No, sorry, of course, he was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island. Same, same-ish. Harry is imprisoned in his gilded pleasure palace in Montecito with a podcast schedule and documentary team following him around,' wrote Sunday Times columnist Aspasia Karras
Harry was invited to speak at the UN in New York City by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the charitable organization run by Mandela's family, some of whom Harry maintains friendships with.
In a column on Sunday, before Harry spoke, Editor-at-Large Aspasia Karras wrote: 'He's in exile. Just like Madiba.
'No, sorry, of course, he was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island. Same, same-ish.
'Harry is imprisoned in his gilded pleasure palace in Montecito with a podcast schedule and documentary team following him around.'
She labeled him the 'self-styled Duke of L.A.' and said: 'Just like Mandela, he's been through a lot.
'As told to Oprah in his cri du coeur interview, his family and the British press have been giving him and his lovely wife Meghan such a hard time. All they wanted was to represent. And bring some fast paced LA management style to the fuddy-duddy palace.
They clapped as they listened along to the speakers, as two winners of the Nelson Mandela Prize were awarded in person
'You know what? They just had to leave. It was too much to bear.'
'I think Harry is a perfect fit, what with the UN being such a very effective organization for world peace.
'I'm really pleased he can grab hold of the global spotlight on such an important day, when we remember the sacrifices Mandela made for all of us and our rights. OK?
'But especially for Harry's right to a security entourage. That will show them,' she wrote.
Other critics asked why Harry, who regularly uses private jets, had been chosen to give a speech on climate change.
'Our world is on fire!' he told the UN on Monday after arriving in New York City with Meghan, who wore more than $3,000 in designer clothes.
It's unclear whether the couple arrived in New York City on a private jet.
Representatives for the pair did not immediately respond to inquiries about their travel, nor did spokespeople for The Nelson Mandela Foundation. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11025847/Prince-Harry-slammed-virtue-signaling-speech-comments-constitutional-rights.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-18T22:29:25Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11025847/Prince-Harry-slammed-virtue-signaling-speech-comments-constitutional-rights.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
MEXICO CITY, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Santander México, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero Santander México (NYSE:BSMX; BMV:BSMX) ("Santander México"), one of the leading banks in Mexico, announced today that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results after market close on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
A conference call will be held on July 29, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. ET (9:00 a.m. Mexico City Time). The conference call can be accessed by dialing 1-877-407-4018 (U.S. & Canada) or 1-201-689-8471 (International) and ask for "Banco Santander México's Earnings Call".
A presentation will also be available for download from the company's IR site after market close on July 28, 2022. Additionally, a simultaneous webcast of the conference call will be available at https://viavid.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1560370&tp_key=7a78a116e4
A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available between 1:00 p.m. U.S. ET on July 29 and 11:59 p.m. U.S. ET on August 5, 2022. The replay can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (U.S. & Canada) or for international & Mexico callers 1-412-317-6671. The access code for the replay is 13731663. The audio of the conference call will be archived on the company's website at www.santander.com.mx
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Banco Santander México, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero Santander México (Banco Santander México), one of Mexico's leading banking institutions, provides a wide range of financial and related services, including retail and commercial banking, financial advisory and other related investment activities. Banco Santander México offers a multichannel financial services platform focused on mid- to high-income individuals and small- to medium-sized enterprises, while also providing integrated financial services to larger multinational companies in Mexico. As of March 31st, 2022, Banco Santander México had total assets of Ps.1,734 billion under Mexican Banking GAAP and more than 20.1 million customers. Headquartered in Mexico City, the Company operates 1,345 branches and offices nationwide and has a total of 25,342 employees.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Major League Baseball is considering a pitch clock for next year along with shift limits, larger bases, and restrictions on pickoff attempts.
A clock experiment in the minor leagues cut the average this year to 2 hours and 37 minutes from 3 hours and 4 minutes at a similar point for non-clock games last year.
The average time of nine-inning MLB games increased from 2 hours, 43 minutes in 2003 to 3 hours, 13 minutes in 2020 before dropping to 3 hours and 2 minutes so far this season.
An 11-person competition committee with six management representatives, four players and one umpire will make the decisions.
Limited use of robot plate umpires is possible as early as 2024.
In the minor leagues, a clock is being used this season.
In Triple-A, it takes 14 seconds with the bases empty and 19 seconds with runners on. | https://www.wtvr.com/sports/pitch-clocks-shift-limits-larger-bases-in-mlbs-future | 2022-07-18T22:33:52Z | https://www.wtvr.com/sports/pitch-clocks-shift-limits-larger-bases-in-mlbs-future | false |
L.A.’s 2028 Olympics will go from July 14 to July 30
The 2028 Summer Olympics are now — officially — six years away as Los Angeles organizers have set the dates for the massive international competition that will take place at venues throughout Southern California.
The Games will begin with a dual opening ceremony at the Coliseum and SoFi Stadium on July 14 and continue through July 30. The Paralympics will follow, starting on Aug. 15.
The announcement was made at a Monday afternoon news conference attended by Mayor Eric Garcetti and International Olympic Committee leaders.
“Los Angeles is a special place for sport,” IOC executive Nicole Hoevertsz said in a statement. “The confirmation of the Games dates now gives L.A. a firm deadline when it will need to be ready to welcome the world.”
As preparations continue for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, here are a few of the most pressing issues for L.A. residents and the answers we have.
So far, the LA28 organizing committee has spent most of its time pursuing deals with corporate sponsors such as Delta, Deloitte and Nike to help cover an estimated $6.9-billion budget.
Preparations will not include any major construction as organizers seek to trim costs by using existing venues such as Crpyto.com Arena, Pauley Pavilion and Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson.
A balanced budget will be crucial because city and state legislators have agreed to serve as a financial backstop, meaning that taxpayers will have to pay for any cost overruns. Organizers have vowed to use privately raised funds only, insisting they can buck a trend that has seen previous host cities amass substantial deficits.
Speaking at a public pool beside the Coliseum, Garcetti said the city is “ready and excited” for its third Games.
After first hosting in 1932, L.A. played a critical role in Olympic history in 1984, when organizing chairman Peter Ueberroth revolutionized the recruitment of corporate sponsors, not only balancing the Games’ budget but also finishing with a considerable surplus. The city was named as 2028 host during an unusual bid competition that ended with the IOC striking a compromise between the finalist cities, giving 2024 to Paris and asking L.A. to wait four years in return for financial considerations.
The world championships begin with what USA Track & Field officials call a critical window for hopes of becoming the fifth-most popular sport in the nation.
With the world track championships underway in Eugene, Ore., IOC president Thomas Bach stopped in Southern California to meet with organizers, tour several venues and see youth sports programs being funded by $160 million in donations from LA28 and the IOC.
“I have been really impressed by the progress and creativity of the LA28 team,” Bach said.
The 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will encompass 800 events in at least 40 sports, totaling more than 3,000 hours of competition. Some 15,000 athletes from around the world are expected to gather in Southern California.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Voting rights groups asked a judge on Monday to block a provision of a new Georgia law that is not necessarily the most consequential, but one that has certainly attracted the most outrage: a ban on handing out food and water to voters waiting in line.
The ban is just one piece of a 98-page bill containing dozens of changes to state voting law, including shortening the time to request a mail ballot, rolling back the pandemic-driven expansion of ballot drop boxes and reducing early voting before runoff elections.
But it is perhaps the easiest to understand and one that critics call especially punitive. The groups argued that it illegally infringes on their free speech rights and should be blocked immediately, even before any broader case challenging other areas of the law goes to trial.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee didn’t immediately rule on the request for a preliminary injunction.
Lawyers for the state described the provision as a “bright line" drawn to prevent circus-like conditions around polling places that could spur concerns over the possibility of illegal campaigning or vote-buying. But former Richmond County elections director Lynn Bailey called the measure “harsh.”
The U.S. Justice Department has also sued trying to overturn Senate Bill 202, arguing that it's racially discriminatory, but it was not among the groups seeking an injunction Monday.
The hearing came just months before the narrowly politically divided state holds highly contested elections in November. Democrat Stacey Abrams is challenging incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, while Republican Herschel Walker is trying to unseat incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.
The state argued that it’s too late, under earlier court decisions, for Boulee to make changes to the November election. The plaintiffs cited multiple examples of when changes were made up to the eve of elections.
Many Democrats pledge to roll back Senate Bill 202 while protecting election results from attacks. Republicans argue that smooth balloting in May primaries with relatively high turnout and short lines showed the new law doesn't restrict voting. But opponents warn the law puts up roadblocks to marginalized voters, an effect they say will become more evident in November.
It was in that context Monday that groups asked Boulee to block the food and beverages ban, known as “line relief” or “line warming,” saying it violates their free speech right to encourage people to vote.
“Line relief constitutes core expressive conduct,” said Davin Rosborough, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. “Its meaning is well understood in communities where plaintiffs provide it."
He said that Georgia “stands alone” as the only state to ban and criminalize the practice.
Rhonda Briggins of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, said her historically African American group had been among those offering food and water to voters in previous elections, but halted the activity when the new law was passed.
“We've been doing it for years,” Briggins said. “It is to encourage people to stay in line. We're the cheerleaders.”
But state witnesses argued that such activity spun out of control in the 2020 election, with clearly partisan groups providing elaborate food and other goods. State Election Board member Matt Mashburn, a Republican poll watcher before he was named to the board, said he witnessed Democrats not only providing food but apparently controlling the line outside a Cobb County polling place during early voting.
“My reaction to that is, we’ve completely lost control of the precincts," Mashburn said. "And when the voters see the poll workers have lost control, it makes them very nervous for their own safety and makes them nervous that somebody’s cheating.”
The judge asked hypothetically whether it would be acceptable for groups to give steaks to voters.
“Is that a bottle of water because someone is thirsty, or is that a bottle of Gatorade to determine control of the U.S. Senate?” Boulee asked.
The plaintiffs noted that electioneering within 150 feet (45 meters) of a voting place was illegal before and after the new law, as was giving someone a thing of value in exchange for voting, and the state should enforce those laws to prevent improper campaigning.
They also argued that Georgia could have more narrowly tailored its law by limiting the value of what can be given to voters. But Ryan Germany, the chief lawyer for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, said that forcing overburdened poll workers to police whether gifts were illegally tied to voting or whether people were illegally campaigning was “a tricky proposition" that depended on the facts of each instance.
The state argued that an outright ban makes poll workers’ jobs simpler.
“It’s a bright line rule,” said lawyer Gene Schaerr. “No one has to decide how much is too much.”
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STAMFORD, Conn., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.40 per share on its common stock.
The dividend on common shares will be payable August 17, 2022, to shareholders of record as of August 2, 2022.
On its Series F Preferred Stock, Webster declared a quarterly cash dividend of $328.125 per share ($0.328125 per each depositary share, 1,000 of which represent one share of Series F Preferred Stock), payable September 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on September 1, 2022.
On its Series G Preferred Stock, Webster declared a quarterly cash dividend of $16.25 per share ($0.40625 per each depositary share, 40 of which represent one share of Series G Preferred Stock), payable October 15, 2022, to shareholders of record on October 1, 2022.
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Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank Division. Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits solutions. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with more than $65 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Democrats are elevating calls to pass legislation to protect the health of expecting mothers following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
They say the ruling disproportionately harms Black women, who already die from pregnancy-related issues at higher rates.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications compared to white women. A study from the University of Colorado Boulder found pregnancy-related deaths among Black women could spike 33% after many states outlaw abortion.
Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., said it’s vital Congress take action to protect Black mothers.
“Lives are at stake,” Kelly said. “This will determine who lives and who doesn’t.”
Kelly said one way to help reduce harm is the MOMMA’s Act, which would ensure mothers on Medicaid have permanent access to postpartum care for a full year. Congress extended postpartum coverage last year but Kelly said it’s only temporary.
She said she’s hoping to have the MOMMA’s Act included in a larger package Senate Democrats are currently negotiating. Senators say they are hoping to pass that package before the year is over.
While speaking at the NAACP convention on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris pledged to close that gap, not just for Black women but also for rural and low-income mothers who all die at higher rates.
“It will be a national priority,” Harris said at the convention.
Last year, Democrats tried but failed to pass similar maternal health reforms inside their Build Back Better plan.
Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., say the best way to improve outcomes for mothers is by lowering the cost of health care.
“Right now it is absolutely unaffordable for working people in this country, no matter what their racial background or geographic background, it is simply not tenable,” Hawley said. | https://www.localsyr.com/washington/washington-dc/democrats-overturning-of-roe-harms-black-women-more/ | 2022-07-18T22:41:39Z | https://www.localsyr.com/washington/washington-dc/democrats-overturning-of-roe-harms-black-women-more/ | true |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Water services at a Little Rock apartment complex will soon be shut off, according to flyers distributed to residents. The apartment manager said the issue will be resolved.
The Big Country Chateau apartment complex has been in the news several times in recent years. Residents said mold and unsafe living conditions are common, and shootings happen relatively often.
Last Friday, the Central Arkansas Water company distributed flyers to residents that said water services will be indefinitely discontinued after Sept. 1. The flyer said there are no plans to resume services.
“For the people that already struggle out here, you just made it 10x worse,” said one resident who did not wish to be identified. “We struggle to pay you the rent.”
The resident said he has multiple children who live with him, and the family has already been unhappy with living conditions.
“How do you expect to run an apartment complex with no water, gas, or lights?” the resident said.
An apartment manager who requested to not be identified said the ownership group, located out of state, has gotten behind on paying certain bills, including water. Residents’ water and utilities are included in their rent.
“The tenants found out at the same time we did,” the manager said. “As the property management, we only knew that as of Friday when the water company was putting out the flyers.”
The manager said the ownership group will be responsible for correcting this problem, and one owner said he plans to fly to Little Rock and meet with the water company. Attempts to reach Central Arkansas Water for comment were not returned Monday.
“At no point would they allow the water to get shut off,” the manager said. “They would do whatever they had to to make sure there was no disruption in the water service.”
The manager said he plans to distribute new flyers telling residents the problem is being solved. Several residents expressed support for property managers Monday.
Officials from CAW responded Monday evening by email saying:
“CAW Management staff are actively monitoring this matter and will continue to work with the account holder to assist with an optimal solution for all involved parties.
The account holder’s privacy rights are protected under Arkansas Act 186 pertaining to customer-protected data which “prohibits disclosure of public water system customers.”
Some residents said the water debacle only furthered their resolve to move out. They said they want to be reimbursed for rent so they can find a new place to live. “You can give us something to be able to move out of here in a good enough time,” one man said. | https://www.fox16.com/news/investigates/water-to-be-shut-off-at-big-country-chateau-water-company/ | 2022-07-18T22:52:43Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/investigates/water-to-be-shut-off-at-big-country-chateau-water-company/ | false |
As climate change warms the planet, volunteers mapped heat in Jacksonville, Fla., in a federal research project. The city will use data collected to help neighborhoods threatened by extreme heat.
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As climate change warms the planet, volunteers mapped heat in Jacksonville, Fla., in a federal research project. The city will use data collected to help neighborhoods threatened by extreme heat.
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‘The bloke’s in trouble’: Tim, Nikita Tszyu take down Horn brothers with brutal truth bomb
It may be the ‘Battle of the Brothers’, but there is no rivalry between the Tszyu and Horn families.
At least, not on the side of the Tszyus, who “have one over them”, and are about to “have two over them.”
“If he comes from the same boxing school as Jeff, then I sort of know the prediction,” Tim Tszyu told foxsports.com.au ahead of brother Nikita’s showdown with Ben Horn on Wednesday, July 20.
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In what will be his third professional fight, Nikita is considered an overwhelming favourite, with the 24-year-old ending his debut in two rounds, and his second fight in less than a round.
Ben’s foray into pro boxing has been far rockier. The 32-year-old younger brother of former world champion Jeff is 4-4 over eight fights, and has lost his last two outings.
But still, he answered the call.
As others avoided No Limit’s number, Ben Horn picked up, to set up another Tszyu vs. Horn card, and give himself a shot at avenging Jeff’s 2020 defeat at the hands of Tim.
Will that happen, though?
Not if you ask Tim, or Nikita.
“I think Horn will make a lot of mistakes,” Tim said. “That’s how his style is... he’s probably [going to be in] a rush to move forward.
“With mistakes comes punishment. And in boxing, you’re gonna get punished. Especially since you’ve got a fresh Nikita who’s got dynamite in his hands.
“The bloke’s in trouble.”
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Nikita, who last week said he was yet to watch any Ben Horn fight vision, isn’t getting ahead of himself, but “doesn’t really feel like there’s much of a family rivarly” after Tim forced Jeff’s team to throw in the towel.
As for what he thought of Ben at their introductory press conference, Nikita said he was a “nice guy”... with a punchable face.
“He has a face that I really just want to punch,” he said. “Nothing against him or anything.
“... But he has one of those faces that I really just want to get in there, make messy.”
While Nikita was understandably more reserved, Tim was less worried about saying the wrong thing.
“There isn’t a rivalry,” Tim said. “We’ve got one over them, and we’re going to have two over them. That’s what it is,” he added, laughing.
Tim made clear that neither Nikita, nor the Tszyu camp, are looking past Ben, but replied with a simple, “Yeah”, when asked if the team knew what was going to happen Wednesday.
The aim of the game for Nikita is to learn and grow, but right now, just finding an opponent who can survive in the ring for long enough for him to do that seems difficult.
“Look, it depends. He could be tough and be able to stick it out,” Tim said. “But I can’t see it man. I really can’t. Just being honest.”
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Walensky pushes back on Gottlieb’s criticism of CDC monkeypox response
By Katherine Dillinger, CNN
Former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb’s interview in which he criticized the federal response to the ongoing monkeypox outbreak was “misinformed and off base,” says Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Gottlieb said Sunday that it may be too late to control and contain the virus and compared the response to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the US is making “a lot of the same mistakes,” such as a lack of testing early on and not enough vaccines distributed to the community.
“We could have gotten control of this if we had been more aggressive up front,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“I think the window for getting control of this and containing it probably has closed. If it hasn’t closed, it’s certainly starting to close,” he said.
But Walensky defended her agency’s work Monday.
“It is true that we have work to do — here and internationally — and are likely to see more monkeypox cases in the near term, but it is possible to significantly decrease the number of cases and contain the current monkeypox outbreak through education and increased testing and access to vaccines — all priorities we’ve made dramatic progress on,” she said in a statement to CNN.
Walensky said the CDC has expanded the monkeypox case definition to encourage health care providers to test for the virus, and it’s ramped up communications on the outbreak. Federal health officials have also “dramatically increased availability of vaccines, with more than 130,000 doses already delivered and thousands more on the way.”
Gottlieb emphasized the need for monkeypox testing as the global outbreak continues to spread.
“We’re probably detecting just a fraction of the actual cases because we had, for a long time, a very narrow case definition on who got tested, and by and large, we’re looking in the community of men who have sex with men and at STD clinics. So we’re looking there, we’re finding cases there, but it’s a fact that there’s cases outside that community right now. We’re not picking them up because we are not looking there.”
CDC data shows that there are 1,814 probable or confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States as of Friday evening. A majority of those cases have involved men who have sex with men. The CDC said Friday that there have been eight cases of monkeypox diagnosed among people who were assigned female at birth and that no cases have been reported in children or adolescents.
Gottlieb said on CBS that he believes monkeypox “has spread more broadly in the community” and that he would not be surprised if there are “thousands of cases right now.”
“Now this is firmly embedded in the community. And while it’s not going to explode because it’s harder for this virus to spread, it’s probably going to be persistent. You’ll have this as a sort of a fact of life, maybe spreading as a sexually transmitted disease but also breaking out of those settings,” he said.
Walensky said in her statement that the CDC has increased testing capacity from 6,000 initially to up to 80,000 specimens per week with the help of five commercial laboratories in addition to the agency’s own laboratory response network.
“Having commercial labs testing for monkeypox makes it more convenient for providers to access tests by using existing provider-to-lab relationships,” she said.
“We continue to update the public, partners, and the community about how to protect themselves through daily outreach on our website, media briefings, and partner calls,” which involve “90+ partner organizations, including state, tribal, local or territorial partners, public health organizations, clinical, community, LGBTQ+ organizations that forward to their members,” she said.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Investcorp, a leading global alternative investment firm, today announced it has agreed to sell its stake in United Talent Agency ("UTA" or "The Company"), a global talent and entertainment company, to EQT Private Equity. The sale will represent a highly successful investment for Investcorp and its institutional investors.
As a leading champion of entertainers, content creators and artists, UTA partners with the most influential talent across sports, entertainment, media, and technology sectors and with major corporate brands. Investcorp invested in UTA in 2018 alongside the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) and other institutional co-investors. Since Investcorp's investment, UTA more than tripled its EBITDA through exceptional organic growth and several strategic acquisitions driven by its mission of always providing clients outstanding service and staying at the forefront of the industry. Investcorp supported UTA's management team as they expanded their services and geographic footprint amid rapidly evolving innovation in content creation and distribution. The Company entered sports representation through its acquisition of KLUTCH Sports, digital influencer management through its acquisition of DBA and brand consulting through its acquisition of MediaLink. The Company also entered the European market through its recent acquisition of Curtis Brown Group.
"Our partnership with Jeremy Zimmer and the management team was outstanding and demonstrates our commitment to working closely with our companies to help them achieve their strategic objectives," said Dave Tayeh, Head of Private Equity – North America at Investcorp. "We are proud to have been part of UTA's consistent innovation and substantial growth over the past four years and we look forward to their continued success. Our North American Private Equity business will continue to invest in exceptional founder-led companies."
"Working with Investcorp and Dave Tayeh has been a great experience for the leadership at UTA," said Jeremy Zimmer, CEO and Co-Founder of UTA. "They have supported our growth in every way and were a thoughtful and steady hand as we navigated the pandemic. I'm grateful to them and look forward to achieving continued success in future partnerships."
"Over the past four years, UTA has continued to build on its best-in-class reputation and platform, and it has been a great pleasure to support them as they've evolved to meet the massive demand for quality content and creative talent in an increasingly digital world. We believe this remains an attractive industry and we look to build on our experience in future opportunities," added Steve Miller, Managing Director, Private Equity – North America at Investcorp.
Investcorp's Private Equity North America team has been investing in North American mid-market businesses for over 35 years. The firm has a deep history of investing in founder-led and professional services businesses like UTA.
The transaction is expected to close later this month.
About Investcorp
Investcorp is a global investment manager, specializing in alternative investments across private equity, real estate, credit, absolute return strategies, GP stakes, infrastructure and insurance asset management. Since our inception in 1982, we have focused on generating attractive returns for our clients while creating long-term value in our investee companies and for our shareholders as a prudent and responsible investor.
We invest a meaningful portion of our own capital in products we offer to our clients, ensuring that our interests are aligned with our stakeholders, including the communities that we operate within, towards driving sustainable value creation. We take pride in partnering with our clients to deliver tailored solutions for their needs, utilizing a disciplined investment process, employing world-class talent and combining the resources of a global institution with an innovative, entrepreneurial approach. In January 2022, Investcorp issued its 2021 Responsible Business Report which outlines its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) highlights for 2021 and specific initiatives the Firm implemented to meet its goals: https://www.investcorp.com/esg/.
Investcorp has today 13 offices across the US, Europe, GCC and Asia, including India, China and Singapore. As of March 31, 2022, Investcorp Group had US $41.2 billion in total AUM, including assets managed by third party managers, and employed approximately 480 people from 50 nationalities globally across its offices.
For further information, visit www.investcorp.com and follow us @Investcorp on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
About UTA
UTA unites ideas, opportunities and talent. The company represents some of the world's most iconic, barrier-breaking artists, creators and changemakers—from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers and digital influencers. One of the most influential companies in global entertainment, UTA's business spans talent representation, content production, as well as strategic advisory and marketing work with some of the world's biggest brands. Affiliated companies include Digital Brand Architects, KLUTCH Sports Group, Curtis Brown Group, and MediaLink. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London.
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Ruben Bustamante, 60, passed away on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born October 21, 1961, in El Paso, Texas, to Ruben Vincente and Margarita Martinez Bustamante. He worked 26 years in the foam industry as a factory worker. He moved to Mantachie from Texas in 1988. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mantachie. He was a veteran of the United States Army. He enjoyed fishing and helping others. A Celebration of Life will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, at Tina Harris's house, 1106 RD 1498, Tupelo, MS. Everyone is invited to attend. McNeece-Morris Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Survivors include his beloved wife of 33 years, Sonya Harris Bustamante; one son, Ruben Thomas Bustamante of Colorado Springs, CO; the brothers and sisters he grew up with, Rodolfo Martinez and Daniel Briones; sisters, Gloria Pescrillo, Irene Silva, Estella DeReamer (Darryl), and Guadalupe Briones; other brothers, Amador Bustamante (Veronica), Ruben Bustamante, Jr., Luke Pierce (Erika); other sisters, Elma Foreman, Bertha Bustamante, Idalia Bustamante, Lori Tate (Lance), Becky Sanders; a niece he loved like a daughter, Kaci Cox Wood (Matthew); a great nephew, Brooks Wood; three brothers he made when he moved to Mantachie, Chad Cooley, Jerry Jones, and Greg Nolan; his step-mother, Carleene Bustamante of Springtown, TX; several nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews. He was preceded in death by his mother and stepfather, Emilo Briones and Margarita Martinez Briones; his father, Ruben Vincente Bustamante; his mother-in-law, Nell Walton; his father-in-law, C.V. Harris, Jr.; and his brother-in-law, Phillip Cox. Condolences may be shared with Ruben's family at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. (WISH) — Union Jack Pub in Speedway announced in a Facebook post Monday, its doors will close for good on Monday evening after being in business for 41 years, according to Union Jack Pub-Speedway Facebook post.
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WTA roundup: Sara Sorribes Tormo wins in three sets at Palermo
No. 4 seed Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain dropped the first set before charging back to defeat Ana Bogdan of Romania 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 Monday in the first round of the Palermo Ladies Open in Italy.
Sorribes Tormo converted five of nine break-point opportunities to win the three-hour, 19-minute match despite not serving a single ace.
No. 3 seed Shuai Zhang of China had to put in some work to win her first-round match, beating Spain's Rebeka Masarova 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7). Sixth seed Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania also needed three sets to beat Spaniard Marina Bassols Ribera 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
Italy's Jasmine Paolini and Frenchwomen Leolia Jeanjean and Oceane Dodin also won Monday.
Hamburg European Open
Anastasia Potapova of Russia took down sixth seed and countrywoman Varvara Gracheva 7-5, 6-3 in the first round in Germany.
Third seed Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic, fourth seed Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus and eighth seed Andrea Petkovic of Germany all had easier times, winning their opening matches in straight sets.
Misaki Doi of Japan wore down Russian opponent Oksana Selekhmeteva to win 7-6 (10), 6-0. Poland's Magdalena Frech advanced when Russia's Anna Kalinskaya retired after losing the first set 6-1.
Other winners Monday included Alexandra Cadantu-Ignatik of Romania, Rebecca Peterson of Sweden and Maria Carle of Argentina.
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MEXICO CITY, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Santander México, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero Santander México (NYSE:BSMX; BMV:BSMX) ("Santander México"), one of the leading banks in Mexico, announced today that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results after market close on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
A conference call will be held on July 29, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. ET (9:00 a.m. Mexico City Time). The conference call can be accessed by dialing 1-877-407-4018 (U.S. & Canada) or 1-201-689-8471 (International) and ask for "Banco Santander México's Earnings Call".
A presentation will also be available for download from the company's IR site after market close on July 28, 2022. Additionally, a simultaneous webcast of the conference call will be available at https://viavid.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1560370&tp_key=7a78a116e4
A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available between 1:00 p.m. U.S. ET on July 29 and 11:59 p.m. U.S. ET on August 5, 2022. The replay can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (U.S. & Canada) or for international & Mexico callers 1-412-317-6671. The access code for the replay is 13731663. The audio of the conference call will be archived on the company's website at www.santander.com.mx
ABOUT BANCO SANTANDER MÉXICO, S.A., INSTITUCIÓN DE BANCA MÚLTIPLE, GRUPO FINANCIERO SANTANDER MÉXICO (NYSE:BSMX; BMV:BSMX)
Banco Santander México, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero Santander México (Banco Santander México), one of Mexico's leading banking institutions, provides a wide range of financial and related services, including retail and commercial banking, financial advisory and other related investment activities. Banco Santander México offers a multichannel financial services platform focused on mid- to high-income individuals and small- to medium-sized enterprises, while also providing integrated financial services to larger multinational companies in Mexico. As of March 31st, 2022, Banco Santander México had total assets of Ps.1,734 billion under Mexican Banking GAAP and more than 20.1 million customers. Headquartered in Mexico City, the Company operates 1,345 branches and offices nationwide and has a total of 25,342 employees.
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Life Enrichment Group programming now available at Tacoma facility
TACOMA, Wash., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The rechristened Community Home at Beacon Center now offers more aid to young adults experiencing homelessness and new programming with a mental health focus to serve young adults ages 18-24 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week. The Day Program opened on July 11. The new programming expands activities at the center which also serves as an overnight shelter from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.
Life Enrichment Group (L.E.G.) oversees the day-to-day management of the center and builds on their long-standing legacy of offering a safe space and structured programming to enrich the lives of young people and their families.
"It is a privilege to expand our services and provide a safe space for young people experiencing homelessness or who are in need of support," said Monika Mathews, founder of L.E.G. "We will ensure all those who enter the doors are treated with dignity, respect, and know their value to our community."
Mental health and social services advocates will be available to aid guests with personal, family, and adjustment issues that interfere with the effectiveness of their plan of care. Young adult programming includes resources to live and thrive independently with an emphasis on health and wellness, life skills trainings, workforce development, employment training, and housing.
"We are excited to introduce innovative mental health approaches that focuses the voice of young adults and provides genuine care and concern for the well-being of the individual," said Mathews.
The facility is also undergoing renovations and modernizations to upgrade amenities including an enhanced resource center, computer lab, lounge area, and interior cosmetic improvements like painting and floor refinishing. The center supplies basic needs support, access to showers, and laundry facilities in addition to breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Community Home at Beacon Center is located on the corner of 415 South 13th & Fawcett Street in Tacoma, Washington.
Imagined in 2003 and incorporated in 2006, L.E.G. supplies culturally relevant programs focused on academic achievement and social/emotional support for young adults across the greater Seattle and Tacoma areas, with a focus on the success of those most often overlooked in society. Visit Life Enrichment Group for more information.
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Senate panel examining abuse and corruption subpoenas federal prisons director to testify
The outgoing director of the Bureau of Prisons has been subpoenaed to testify before a Senate committee examining abuse and corruption in the beleaguered federal agency.
Michael Carvajal was served a subpoena to appear at a hearing later this month. The subpoena was announced Monday by Sen. Jon Ossoff, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
The committee’s subpoena follows an investigation by The Associated Press exposing systemic issues in the agency, including widespread criminal activity by staff and rampant sexual assault at a women’s prison in California.
The Justice Department announced last week it was replacing Carvajal with Colette Peters, the director of Oregon’s prison system. That announcement came about seven months after Carvajal submitted his resignation amid mounting pressure from Congress after the AP’s investigation.
Though Carvajal is a holdover from the Trump administration, the issuance of the subpoena to compel him to appear before the Senate panel is rare, in part because Democrats have control of both the Senate and the White House. The decision to issue a subpoena exemplifies the lengths members of Congress and congressional investigators are going to bring additional oversight to the embattled agency that has long skirted intense public attention.
Ossoff and Sen. Ron Johnson, the committee’s top Republican, said the subpoena was issued after the Justice Department refused to make Carvajal available to testify voluntarily.
In a statement, the Justice Department said it was disappointed that Ossoff issued the subpoena and said officials had cooperated extensively with the subcommittee’s work and had offered to provide a lower-level official in Carvajal’s place.
The department said it was “committed to focusing” Carvajal’s last days on preparing for Peters to take over and said having him prepare for a congressional hearing days before Peters takes control of the agency would be distracting.
“As the Department has previously explained to the Subcommittee, we believe that preparation for testimony just five business days before this critical leadership transition may distract Director Carvajal’s time and attention away from this goal,” the Justice Department’s statement said. “Nevertheless, we continue to work with the Subcommittee to find an agreeable solution.”
Carvajal has been at the center of myriad crises within the federal prison system. His tumultuous tenure included the rampant spread of coronavirus inside federal prisons, a failed response to the pandemic, dozens of escapes, deaths and critically low staffing levels that have hampered responses to emergencies.
The committee's investigation has included examination of abuse, misconduct and corruption both at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta — Osoff's home state — and more broadly in the federal prison system.
“To date, the Subcommittee has been provided no legal basis that would prevent Director Carvajal’s testimony before the Subcommittee, and the Department of Justice continues to refuse to make him available to testify,” Ossoff and Johnson said in a joint statement.
The Biden administration had faced increasing pressure to remove Carvajal and do more to fix the federal prison system after President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to push criminal justice reforms. The Bureau of Prisons is one of the largest Justice Department agencies, budgeted for around 37,500 employees and over 150,000 federal prisoners. It has an annual budget of around $8 billion.
Peters is set to take over the agency in August. | https://www.wisn.com/article/senate-panel-subpoenas-federal-prisons-director/40644189 | 2022-07-18T23:09:32Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/senate-panel-subpoenas-federal-prisons-director/40644189 | true |
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A controversial Orlando amusement park ride is on pause after receiving backlash for being “insensitive,” according to a statement from the park.
ICON Park announced Thursday it would be adding a game called “Bullseye Blast” to The Wheel ride – a 400-foot tall observation wheel that offers views of the Orlando area. According to previous reports, the game was described as a competition for riders to use infrared laser blasters to hit colorful targets positioned on rooftops around Orlando that can be seen from the ride.
According to the park, “the Bullseye Blast game satisfied guests who enjoy gaming, arcades and virtual reality.”
In a statement issued Saturday, park officials said that while the ride had been “well-received” by customers, some had questioned whether it was appropriate following mass shootings at a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
Officials also addressed online criticism describing the game as a “mass shooting simulator.”
“Some non-guests and community members expressed that they considered the toy shooting device used to be insensitive,” the park said. “The attractions industry has many similar games which use similar shooting devices, so that is what we were limited to when exploring the game. However, we believe that a device can and should be designed which does not offend anyone in the community.”
The park said Saturday it would pause the “current version” of the game until it can pursue a new design that delivers the same level of fun for guests,” in a way that the entire community can embrace.”
Controversy has surrounded the park, which is located along Orlando’s International Drive, since 14-year-old Tyre Sampson of Missouri fell from the Free Fall tower and died earlier this year. An autopsy later found he fell more than 70 feet, which caused internal injuries and injuries to his head, neck and torso.
The free-fall ride has been closed since the death, and Sampson’s family has called for it to be permanently shut down. Sampson’s parents have also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the ride owner, manufacturer and landlord, alleging product liability and negligence. The owners of ICON Park and its affiliated companies filed a motion earlier this month to dismiss the lawsuit.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/florida-amusement-park-pauses-controversial-target-shooting-game/ | 2022-07-18T23:11:52Z | https://cw33.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/florida-amusement-park-pauses-controversial-target-shooting-game/ | true |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) will host its second quarter earnings conference call on Thursday, August 4 at 9:00 a.m. CT (10:00 a.m. ET). Financial results will be released before the NYSE market opens.
The Company invites investors and other interested parties to listen to the live webcast of the conference call at www.vulcanmaterials.com. To participate by phone, call 800-225-9448 approximately 10 minutes before the scheduled start. For international calls, the number is 203-518-9708. The conference ID is 2021457.
A replay of the webcast will be available after the call at the Company's website.
Vulcan Materials Company, a member of the S&P 500 index with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation's largest supplier of construction aggregates – primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel – and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials, including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. For additional information about Vulcan, go to www.vulcanmaterials.com.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The smiling face of Kristin Smart still looks out from a billboard in front of attorney James Murphy Jr.’s law office more than 25 years after the college freshman vanished from a campus on California’s picturesque central coast.
It once offered a $75,000 reward to help find the college student, but these days the billboard simply says: “Justice For Kristin.”
Smart is still missing, but the man last seen with her at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in 1996 is on trial more than a year after he was arrested on a murder charge along with his father, who is accused of helping hide her body.
Opening statements are scheduled Monday in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas in the trial of Paul Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, who is charged as an accessory. Both men have pleaded not guilty.
The younger Flores, now 45, killed the 19-year-old during an attempted rape on May 25, 1996 in his dorm room at Cal Poly, where both were first-year students, prosecutors said. His father, now 81, allegedly helped bury the slain student behind his home in the nearby community of Arroyo Grande and later dug up the remains and moved them.
Paul Flores had long been considered a suspect in the killing, but prosecutors only arrested him and his father in 2021 after the investigation was revived.
San Luis Obispo Sheriff Ian Parkinson acknowledged missteps by detectives over the years and he credited a popular podcast about Smart’s disappearance called “Your Own Backyard” for helping unearth new information and inspiring witnesses to speak with investigators.
Smart’s remains have never been found and the mystery of how she vanished from the scenic campus tucked against a verdant coastal mountain range is likely to be central to the trial.
Investigators have conducted dozens of searches over two decades, but turned their attention in the past two years to Ruben Flores’ home about 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Cal Poly in the community of Arroyo Grande.
Behind lattice work beneath the deck of his large house on a dead end street off Tally Ho Road, archaeologists working for police in March 2021 found a soil disturbance about the size of a casket and the presence of human blood, prosecutors said.
The blood was too degraded to extract a DNA sample. While a blood expert said it was human blood, the test used did not rule out the possibility it was from a ferret or ape, though court records said no remains of such an animal were found there.
Murphy, who has sued the father and son on behalf of Smart’s parents, scoffed at the idea that it was anything other than human blood.
“The size of the area in which the blood was found would make it a prehistoric ferret that would be in Jurassic Park,” Murphy said. “When was the last time you drove down Tally Ho Road in Arroyo Grande and saw a primate?”
The lawsuit Murphy filed against Ruben Flores alleged that “under cover of darkness,” the father and unnamed accomplices moved the body four days after investigators searched his house in February 2020. Investigators didn’t conduct their dig beneath the deck until more than a year later.
San Luis Obispo Superior Court Judge Craig Van Rooyen ordered the pair to trial after a 22-day preliminary hearing in which he found a “strong suspicion” the father and son committed the crimes they were charged with, that a grave existed under Ruben Flores’ deck and it once held Smart’s remains.
Prosecutors, defense lawyers and San Luis Obispo sheriff’s deputies are constrained by a court order prohibiting them from discussing the case.
Attorney Harold Mesick, who represents Ruben Flores, previously said the evidence unearthed was ambiguous. He said that soil under the deck had been dumped there after being excavated to lay a foundation nearby.
“It was a hot mess because it’s been previously excavated,” Mesick said. “If we even call it evidence, it is so minimal as to shock the conscience.”
Paul Flores was the last person seen with Smart on May 25, 1996 as he walked her home from an off-campus party where she got intoxicated.
He downplayed his interactions with her when he first spoke with police three days later, saying she walked to her dorm under her own power, though other witnesses said that she had passed out earlier in the night and Flores helped hold her up as they walked back to campus.
Flores had a black eye when investigators interviewed him. He told them he got it playing basketball with friends, who denied his account, according to court records. He later changed his story to say he bumped his head while working on his car.
At a preliminary hearing last year, prosecutors presented evidence that four cadaver dogs stopped at Flores’ room and alerted to the scent of death near his bed.
Van Rooyen prohibited prosecutors from presenting evidence alleging Paul Flores had a history of stalking, inappropriate touching and aggressive sexual behavior toward women, including allegations he drugged and raped four women in the Los Angeles area years after Smart disappeared. Over the years, women called him “Chester the molester” and “psycho Paul,” according to a court document.
Van Rooyen ruled in favor of a defense request to move the trial out of San Luis Obispo County because it was unlikely the Flores’ could receive a fair trial with so much much notoriety in the city of about 47,000 people.
The case was moved 110 miles (177 kilometers) north to Salinas, a small city in the agricultural region where John Steinbeck set some of his best-known novels.
Defense lawyer Robert Sanger previously said the evidence remained the same as it did in the 1990s when Paul Flores was the prime suspect but never charged with a crime.
“The evidence then and now is based on speculation and not proof of facts,” Sanger said in court documents.
Sanger has tried to pin the killing on someone else — noting that Scott Peterson, who was later convicted at a sensational trial of killing his pregnant wife and the fetus she was carrying — was also a Cal Poly student at the time.
Trial Judge Jennifer O’Keefe — who is a year younger than Kristin Smart would be today — however, has barred suggestions of alternate suspects unless Sanger can provide evidence of their direct involvement.
Separate juries were selected to weigh the evidence against each defendant. The trial is expected to last about four months. | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/prosecutors-try-to-prove-1996-killing-with-body-missing-2/ | 2022-07-18T23:20:05Z | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ap-us-news/prosecutors-try-to-prove-1996-killing-with-body-missing-2/ | false |
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Four people died Sunday after two small planes collided at North Las Vegas Airport, authorities said.
The Federal Aviation Administration said a single-engine Piper PA-46 and a single-engine Cessna 172 collided around noon Sunday.
“Preliminary information indicates that the Piper PA-46 was preparing to land when it collided with the Cessna 172,” the FAA said in a statement. “The Piper crashed into … a field east of Runway 30-Right and the Cessna fell into a water retention pond.”
Two people were in each plane and all four died, according to city fire department officials.
The names, ages and hometowns of the victims weren’t immediately released.
The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA will investigate the cause of the crash. | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/4-dead-after-small-planes-collide-at-north-las-vegas-airport/ | 2022-07-18T23:21:37Z | https://www.kron4.com/top-stories/ap-top-headlines/4-dead-after-small-planes-collide-at-north-las-vegas-airport/ | true |
NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Investcorp, a leading global alternative investment firm, today announced it has agreed to sell its stake in United Talent Agency ("UTA" or "The Company"), a global talent and entertainment company, to EQT Private Equity. The sale will represent a highly successful investment for Investcorp and its institutional investors.
As a leading champion of entertainers, content creators and artists, UTA partners with the most influential talent across sports, entertainment, media, and technology sectors and with major corporate brands. Investcorp invested in UTA in 2018 alongside the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) and other institutional co-investors. Since Investcorp's investment, UTA more than tripled its EBITDA through exceptional organic growth and several strategic acquisitions driven by its mission of always providing clients outstanding service and staying at the forefront of the industry. Investcorp supported UTA's management team as they expanded their services and geographic footprint amid rapidly evolving innovation in content creation and distribution. The Company entered sports representation through its acquisition of KLUTCH Sports, digital influencer management through its acquisition of DBA and brand consulting through its acquisition of MediaLink. The Company also entered the European market through its recent acquisition of Curtis Brown Group.
"Our partnership with Jeremy Zimmer and the management team was outstanding and demonstrates our commitment to working closely with our companies to help them achieve their strategic objectives," said Dave Tayeh, Head of Private Equity – North America at Investcorp. "We are proud to have been part of UTA's consistent innovation and substantial growth over the past four years and we look forward to their continued success. Our North American Private Equity business will continue to invest in exceptional founder-led companies."
"Working with Investcorp and Dave Tayeh has been a great experience for the leadership at UTA," said Jeremy Zimmer, CEO and Co-Founder of UTA. "They have supported our growth in every way and were a thoughtful and steady hand as we navigated the pandemic. I'm grateful to them and look forward to achieving continued success in future partnerships."
"Over the past four years, UTA has continued to build on its best-in-class reputation and platform, and it has been a great pleasure to support them as they've evolved to meet the massive demand for quality content and creative talent in an increasingly digital world. We believe this remains an attractive industry and we look to build on our experience in future opportunities," added Steve Miller, Managing Director, Private Equity – North America at Investcorp.
Investcorp's Private Equity North America team has been investing in North American mid-market businesses for over 35 years. The firm has a deep history of investing in founder-led and professional services businesses like UTA.
The transaction is expected to close later this month.
About Investcorp
Investcorp is a global investment manager, specializing in alternative investments across private equity, real estate, credit, absolute return strategies, GP stakes, infrastructure and insurance asset management. Since our inception in 1982, we have focused on generating attractive returns for our clients while creating long-term value in our investee companies and for our shareholders as a prudent and responsible investor.
We invest a meaningful portion of our own capital in products we offer to our clients, ensuring that our interests are aligned with our stakeholders, including the communities that we operate within, towards driving sustainable value creation. We take pride in partnering with our clients to deliver tailored solutions for their needs, utilizing a disciplined investment process, employing world-class talent and combining the resources of a global institution with an innovative, entrepreneurial approach. In January 2022, Investcorp issued its 2021 Responsible Business Report which outlines its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) highlights for 2021 and specific initiatives the Firm implemented to meet its goals: https://www.investcorp.com/esg/.
Investcorp has today 13 offices across the US, Europe, GCC and Asia, including India, China and Singapore. As of March 31, 2022, Investcorp Group had US $41.2 billion in total AUM, including assets managed by third party managers, and employed approximately 480 people from 50 nationalities globally across its offices.
For further information, visit www.investcorp.com and follow us @Investcorp on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
About UTA
UTA unites ideas, opportunities and talent. The company represents some of the world's most iconic, barrier-breaking artists, creators and changemakers—from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers and digital influencers. One of the most influential companies in global entertainment, UTA's business spans talent representation, content production, as well as strategic advisory and marketing work with some of the world's biggest brands. Affiliated companies include Digital Brand Architects, KLUTCH Sports Group, Curtis Brown Group, and MediaLink. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London.
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Which camera and lens backpack is best?
There’s no denying that photography can be an incredibly expensive activity. Whether you do it as a hobby or a professional career, it’s rather easy to spend thousands of dollars on the latest lenses, camera bodies or accessories.
So, simply throwing your gear into a makeshift backpack before going to a photoshoot definitely won’t do. To keep your camera and lenses as safe as possible while easily accessible, you’re going to need a good-quality photography backpack.
The Lowepro Flipside Backpack 300 AW III is an excellent choice if you need a backpack that can take a punch without compromising your equipment.
What to know before you buy a camera and lens backpack
Consider what gear you want to take
Traveling with photographic gear, you rarely only have the camera body and one lens. There are other gadgets and accessories to consider, in addition to which lenses will be best suited for your trip.
So ultimately, the right backpack for you will be determined by the gear. You might decide only to take a few lenses but want to pack a laptop, some chargers, a flash and maybe an SD card reader. If that’s the case, a backpack with more storage for smaller items will be excellent.
However, you’ll need a roomier backpack if you take half of your lens collection, a secondary camera body and other miscellaneous accessories and gadgets. If you also have a tripod, you’ll need somewhere to store that.
The main compartment is customizable
While the size of the backpack largely determines what you can and can’t take on your trip, the main compartment is often customizable. There are several inner padded walls with Velcro on the ends so that you can shift and move them around to create more space.
Depending on how they are designed, some of the walls are easily manipulated to conform exactly to the shape of your camera body or lens. This creates a snug fit that not only protects it from bumps but also ensures that it doesn’t rattle on the inside.
Durable materials are a must
There is no point in buying a backpack that looks great but falls apart on the first assignment. Look for a backpack made from durable materials that won’t rip or tear easily. And even if it does, it shouldn’t allow your lenses or camera to fall out.
The same goes for any fasteners, zips or buckles. Nothing is more fear-inducing than your world going into slow-motion as the straps on the backpack fail and your expensive equipment crashes to the ground.
What to look for in a quality camera and lens backpack
Front zipper for easy access
When speed is of the essence, you can’t afford to fumble with buckles, clasps or dig through your bag. That is why a good-quality camera backpack has an easily accessible front compartment with a sturdy zipper. This lets you grab your gear quickly, and there is no need to shift gear out of the way.
Some backpacks do this differently by designing the lid to open completely. This is a great alternative if you want to put your bag down, open it and have all your gear immediately available.
Water-resistant
As a photographer, you’ll never know when you’ll get caught in the rain. But just because your clothes get wet doesn’t mean your gear should suffer the same fate. And it’s not just in thunderstorms either. If you decide to take your camera backpack on a hike and you slip, your bag might end up in a river or stream.
A good-quality backpack has a special lining on the inside to protect your camera and lenses from any moisture. If it doesn’t have a lining, it should at least be coated with a water-resistant material that will buy you enough time to retrieve your bag or get out of the rain.
A lot of padding
Photography equipment is heavier than most people realize. The camera body alone is a good few pounds, and when you pair it with several lenses, it can quickly become an unbearable burden.
That is why a good-quality backpack has thick padding on the shoulder straps and the carry handle. Some larger bags might even have some form of back support so that the weight is distributed evenly.
How much you can expect to spend on a camera and lens backpack
The average price of a camera backpack depends on the manufacturer, bag size, and material. An affordable backpack with a modestly sized main compartment retails for $30-$40. However, a larger backpack with padded shoulder straps and a water-resistant coating retails for $100-$300.
Camera and lens backpack FAQ
Can you squeeze a drone in there, too?
A. That depends on the size of the main compartment and the configuration of the dividers. If you plan it carefully, you may be able to fit a drone into the backpack if you pack one fewer lens.
Can you take a camera backpack onto an airplane?
A. In most cases, you can do that, but it’s advisable to check with the airline first. Usually, the airline won’t have a problem if it complies with the carry-on luggage measurements.
What’s the best camera and lens backpack to buy?
Top camera and lens backpack
Lowepro Flipside Backpack 300 AW III
What you need to know: A rugged backpack, it’s an excellent option for keeping your gear safe and dry.
What you’ll love: The back panel opens completely so you can lay it down on the ground. The internal compartments are customizable, and it has solid padding on the shoulder straps.
What you should consider: It has limited space for smaller gadgets.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top camera and lens backpack for the money
Amazon Basics Backpack for SLR Cameras and Accessories
What you need to know: This backpack is an affordable option for protecting your camera and lenses.
What you’ll love: The spacious interior is customizable with several padded walls, ample space for smaller gadgets, and thick foam padding on the shoulder straps and waistband.
What you should consider: It’s large enough to protect a camera body and up to two lenses, but carrying more will be a struggle.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Vanguard Alta Sky 66 Camera Backpack
What you need to know: This backpack is an excellent choice if you want to keep your lens attached to your camera but safe at the same time.
What you’ll love: With thick foam padding on the inside, this outdoor backpack has two quick-access openings. There are several smaller pockets, a slot for a 9-inch tablet and sturdy buckles.
What you should consider: The included rain cover isn’t large enough to cover the backpack when a tripod or drone is attached to it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Monday was a relief with temperatures in the upper 80s across much of the valley after a cold front swept through the state Sunday night with gusty breezes.
If you liked the "cooler" weather Monday afternoon you may like Tuesday morning when temperatures will drop into the mid to upper 50s for a cool, comfortable start to the day. You will want to get outside early though since it will be back into the upper 90s by afternoon. Expect sunshine and lighter wind on Tuesday.
Wednesday and Thursday will be sunny, very hot, and dry with temperatures topping 100 valleywide!
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DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor, Heidi Ganahl, on Monday selected as her running mate a Navy veteran who has claimed President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president in 2020.
Danny Moore lost a previous position due to his stance on the presidential election. His fellow commissioners on the state’s independent congressional redistricting commission voted him out of his chairmanship role last year after Facebook posts surfaced in which he claimed Biden was “elected by the Democrat steal.”
Moore’s language echoed false claims by President Donald Trump and his supporters that mass voter fraud threw the election to Biden, something Trump’s own Department of Justice said was not true.
Multiple election deniers lost Republican primaries in Colorado last month, including Greg Lopez, a former suburban Denver mayor who challenged Ganahl for the nomination for governor. A member of the Colorado University Board of Regents, Ganahl has not previously emphasized election denial during her campaign, refusing to answer questions about whether Biden was legitimately elected and instead focusing on economic and safety issues.
She continued to do so in announcing her selection of Moore as her lieutenant governor candidate.
“Danny is a wonderful addition to our winning team,” Ganahl said in a release. “We share a common vision to lower Colorado’s soaring cost of living, gas prices, crime rates, and a commitment to making our children the priority.”
Election deniers have won Republican primaries to oversee elections in states such as Alabama, New Mexico and Nevada, and a prominent election denier won the party’s nomination to become governor in Pennsylvania, where he would appoint the state’s top election official if he wins in the fall.
In Colorado, the lieutenant governor position is mainly a ceremonial role. That person becomes the chief executive when the governor leaves the state or if the governor becomes incapacitated or dies in office. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/gop-colorado-governor-hopeful-puts-election-denier-on-ticket/ | 2022-07-18T23:30:47Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/top-stories/gop-colorado-governor-hopeful-puts-election-denier-on-ticket/ | false |
Blue Angels announce selection of first female fighter jet demonstration pilot
The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's elite flight demonstration squadron, has selected the first female fighter jet demonstration pilot for their upcoming season.
Related video above: Blue Angels perform over Annapolis, Maryland, for USNA Commissioning Week
Lt. Amanda Lee was selected to be a F/A-18E/F demonstration pilot along with Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Zimmerman, a release from the Blue Angels states. While Lee has been selected, she will still need to complete an intensive five-month training program with the Blue Angels, which all new members are required to complete.
The F/A-18E/F is one of the six aircraft that fly during most of the Blue Angels demonstrations.
The Blue Angels announced six new team members overall. The other new members include an events coordinator, a C-130J Super Hercules pilot, an aviation maintenance officer and a flight surgeon "to replace outgoing team members," the Blue Angels release states.
While Lee is set to be the first woman to serve in this role on the team, "For over 55 years, hundreds of women have served with the Blue Angels representing the very best of the Navy and Marine Corps," the release states.
"We had an overwhelming number of applicants from all over the globe this year," Capt. Brian Kesselring, commanding officer and flight leader of the Blue Angels, said in the release. "We look forward to training our fantastic new team members, passing on the torch, and watching the incredible things this team will accomplish in 2023."
These six new team members were chosen to be interviewed at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida, during the week of the Pensacola Beach Air Show, which took place July 6-9, the release said.
The new team members will report to the squadron in September and begin the five-month training program in November at NAS Pensacola, Florida and Naval Air Facility El Centro, California, the release said.
The Blue Angels' mission is to "showcase the teamwork and professionalism of the United States Navy and Marine Corps through flight demonstrations and community outreach," the release states. The Blue Angels were founded in 1946 and perform multiple showcases across the U.S. every year. | https://www.wesh.com/article/blue-angels-first-female-fighter-jet-demonstration-pilot/40642768 | 2022-07-18T23:34:35Z | https://www.wesh.com/article/blue-angels-first-female-fighter-jet-demonstration-pilot/40642768 | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — One of The Chainsmokers’ latest hits is “High” and they’re hoping to live up to their lyrics.
The hit-making duo of Drew Taggart and Alex Pall have signed up to get into a pressurized capsule tethered to a stratospheric balloon in a few years and perform some 20 miles above the Earth.
The feat would make Taggart and Pall the first musical artists to perform at the edge of space, said Ryan Hartman, chief executive officer at fledgling space tourism company World View, to The Associated Press.
World View says The Chainsmokers will be on one of the company’s inaugural flights slated for 2024 and will record a performance from inside the capsule, giving viewers the ability to experience the music and the trip firsthand.
“We have always dreamed of going to space and are stoked to collaborate with World View to have this adventure and experience,” said The Chainsmokers in a statement. “We know the views of both Earth and space are going to be incredible and inspiring and we hope to leverage this flight for creativity on future projects.”
The Chainsmokers have had five Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “Closer” “Paris,” “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Something Just Like This” with Coldplay in 2017.
Hartman said that while most of the people who have made space flights are scientists and engineers, World View hopes sending up artists might “inspire them to do something different than they would have otherwise done.”
“We think about inspiring new perspectives and how those new perspectives can lead to a radically improved future for our Earth,” said Hartman. “To be able to reach the audience of The Chainsmokers through Alex and Drew’s work contributes to our mission as well. It’s something that I’m personally inspired by and excited about.”
World View is part of a new wave of private space exploration firms offering seats to the public, a list that includes Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX. Each World View balloon capsule is planned to seat eight passengers and reach a peak altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). Each flight will last six to 12 hours.
Picking The Chainsmokers for the honor was, in part, a personal decision as well as an attempt to excite a younger audience. Hartman said he watched as his youngest son belted out lyrics from the duo’s songs and was inspired by the band’s popularity. He explained the flight to the pair over dinner.
“I have just seen firsthand and personally how their music reaches a lot of different groups, a lot of different age groups and just how passionate they are about their music and their art. It matches our passion for what we do,” he said.
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WFO LAS VEGAS Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 18, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Las Vegas has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
West central San Bernardino County in southern California...
* Until 400 PM PDT.
* At 321 PM PDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 9 miles northwest
of Newberry Springs, or 10 miles northeast of Daggett, moving
northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated. Gusts to 60 mph was measured at the
Daggett-Barstow airport and dime size hail was reported
by trained spotters.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Daggett and Yermo.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 15 in California between mile markers 81 and 105.
Interstate 40 in California between mile markers 6 and 19.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Many OB-GYNs, including some who perform abortions, are celebrating a decision that allows them to avoid traveling to Texas for certifying board exams.
Some feared gathering en masse would make them vulnerable to violence. Others who are pregnant themselves worried about developing complications and being forced to seek care in a state with strict abortion limits.
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology exams are voluntary, but certification lends respect to doctors’ credentials, indicating they graduated from an accredited medical school and passed written and oral competency exams. Some employers also require the tests.
The Dallas-based board had held virtual exams during the pandemic but planned to have the upcoming fall oral exams in-person. On Thursday, the board announced a reversal, saying the exams would be virtual.
The decision was made “due to the increase in COVID-19 cases across the country and concerns regarding the U.S. Supreme Court opinion” that overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the board said.
The switch came after many OB-GYNs — including some taking the tests and others administering the exams — objected to traveling to Texas.
“They’re scared. They have nothing to lose but their own personal safety,” said Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald, a Pennsylvania OB-GYN, who signed a petition against in-person exams.
The three-hour exams test skills, knowledge and ability to treat different conditions. The examiners also review cases related to patients whom doctors have treated during the past year, the board website says.
Doctors can start the certification process in their fourth year of medical residency training.
Fitzgerald, who has taken board exams in person and virtually, said the setup for both is similar and she could see no advantage to an in-person exam.
The board did not return calls and emails requesting comment.
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EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon football program and the family of Spencer Webb will hold a public memorial service Thursday to celebrate his life. Webb, 22, died last week from a head injury after an accidental fall near Triangle Lake, west of Eugene.
The memorial will be held at Autzen Stadium at 6 p.m. Thursday, according to a tweet from the Oregon football program.
"Spencer blessed many lives throughout his journey as a dear friend and source of inspiration," a photo graphic with the tweet reads. "The Webb family, and the Oregon Football Program, lovingly invite you to attend a memorial service in celebration of Spencer's life. All are welcome to attend."
Webb fell and hit his head near Triangle Lake on Wednesday, July 13. The fall appeared to be accidental and there was no evidence of foul play, the Lane County Sheriff's Office said.
After Webb's death, Ducks football coach Dan Lanning tweeted about Webb, saying how much he would be missed. "So full of life in every moment of the day. Your smile and energy will be missed Spencer. I love you!," Lanning tweeted.
The Oregon football Twitter account tweeted the following: "We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Spencer Webb. Our hearts go out to his family, teammates, and friends at such a difficult time. We will miss Spencer greatly."
Webb grew up in Sacramento, where he attended Christian Brothers High School. He was a junior at the University of Oregon. In three seasons with the Ducks, Webb had 31 catches for 296 yards and four touchdowns. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/spencer-webb-memorial-service-autzen-stadium-oregon/283-dc917bab-33b6-4d7c-a98a-4d9e85d6212c | 2022-07-18T23:43:14Z | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/spencer-webb-memorial-service-autzen-stadium-oregon/283-dc917bab-33b6-4d7c-a98a-4d9e85d6212c | false |
MIAMI, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEO Coaching International, the leading executive coaching firm for growth-focused CEOs and entrepreneurs globally, is pleased to announce Randy Dewey as its newest Partner and Coach.
Dewey has over 30 years of experience delivering rapid growth and expansion in many countries worldwide. He assisted Blackstone with many turnarounds to successful seven-figure exits in the first half of his career. In the second half of his CEO career, he worked in a private family office environment and within the public markets. The organizations ranged from start-ups to $750M in revenue.
"Randy has excelled as a CEO by bringing a blend of operational expertise, strategic vision, and financial foresight into every opportunity," said Mark Moses, CEO and Founding Partner of CEO Coaching International. "He is a great addition to our team of world-class coaches and will be the right fit for any CEOs and executives striving to Make BIG Happen at their companies."
Some additional highlights of Dewey's career include:
- Revenue Growth – Dewey attained more than 350% growth over the past two decades, by developing a unique ability to align company core capabilities with organic market opportunities to rapidly expand the customer base.
- Capital and Financial Partnerships – Dewey kept the capital plan and financial foundation solid and sustainable as a critical stakeholder in businesses. He raised several hundred million dollars in debt and equity, combined with exceptional financial performance that has created over $1.8B in new corporate value.
- Crisis Management and Turnarounds – Dewey led several companies through very hostile situations, including Chapter 11 restructurings, and assisted many highly levered private equity situations through insolvency to triumph, then on to a successful exit.
"CEO Coaching International has an amazing vision to provide immense value to CEOs and executive teams and Make BIG Happen in business. This vision, coupled with their great tools and game-changing methodologies, makes us a hand-in-glove fit," Dewey said. "Furthermore, CEO Coaching International has an incredible coaching development process that sharpens its amazing staff of successful CEOs to be successful CEO coaches to provide a world-class offering; it sets them apart from any other coaching organization. I am looking forward to driving value together in the world of business."
Dewey is the author of the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling business book, "When the Unthinkable Happens: How to Lead Your Team and Pivot Your Business for Growth and Opportunity."
He has sat on 13 boards and participated in many nonprofit organizations that have focused on helping the less fortunate. He has invested in several companies and been an advisor to private equity firms.
Dewey received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Baker Center for Graduate Studies in Flint, Michigan. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and 11 children, most of whom are raised and living independently around North America.
To schedule a complimentary introduction call with Randy Dewey or another one of the CEO Coaching International coaches, visit: CEOCoachingInternational.com/Coach/Randy-Dewey/
CEO Coaching International works with CEOs and their leadership teams to achieve extraordinary results quarter after quarter, year after year. Known globally for its success in coaching growth-focused entrepreneurs to meaningful exits, CEO Coaching International has coached more than 1,000 CEOs and entrepreneurs in more than 60 countries and 45 industries. The coaches at CEO Coaching International are former CEOs, presidents, or executives who have made BIG happen. The firm's coaches have led double-digit sales and profit growth in businesses ranging in size from startups to over $10 billion, and many are founders that have led their companies through successful eight, nine, and ten-figure exits. Companies working with CEO Coaching International for three years or more have experienced an average EBITDA CAGR of 30.4% during their time as a client, more than three times the U.S. average and a revenue CAGR of 18.6%, nearly twice the U.S. average. For more information, please visit: https://www.ceocoachinginternational.com.
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Night Sky is a star gazer's dream. It's also one of the first smartphone apps that made us go wow.
If you're one of the 40 million people who've downloaded it over the years, it's worth re-visiting.
The latest version released on its 10th anniversary is amazing.
Aim your phone's camera to the skies and it shows you what you're looking at. Night Sky maps the universe and uses the phone's accelerometer, magnetometer, and your GPS location and then labels stars, planets, moons and constellations, and satellites.
As you move the camera to scan the sky, the app does the same, showing on the screen what's above you. Since you can't see much from this angle I recorded the screen as I used it outside.
There's Saturn and the constellation Capricornus. If I have a telescope I can use the app to know where I'm looking at what I might be able to see.
It's called Night Sky but you can use it indoors. Using augmented reality the app turns the ceiling into your own private planetarium.
Packed with information, Night Sky has new special features that show what time star gazing is optimal based on cloud cover. It's also packed with news, images, and the opportunity to connect and chat about celestial things with other stargazers and astronomers.
Night Sky is a free app but $30 a year gives you more features. It's only available for iPhones, iPads, and yep, the Apple Watch. If you're always wondering "What's Up?", you'll love this app. | https://www.wfmz.com/features/what-the-tech/what-the-tech-app-of-the-day-night-sky/article_7c7adaac-06c8-11ed-bbf9-f76b96e80023.html | 2022-07-18T23:51:39Z | https://www.wfmz.com/features/what-the-tech/what-the-tech-app-of-the-day-night-sky/article_7c7adaac-06c8-11ed-bbf9-f76b96e80023.html | true |
Top Global Investment Firm to Become UTA's Largest Outside Shareholder
Move Will Further Accelerate UTA's Growth Trajectory
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. and NEW YORK, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global talent, entertainment and sports company, United Talent Agency (UTA or the company), and global investment organization, EQT, today announced that the EQT X fund (EQT Private Equity) has agreed to become a strategic investor in UTA. The move recognizes UTA's artist-first approach and recent growth trajectory and will help fuel the next phase of investments in talent, innovation and international expansion.
Under the transaction, the UTA partnership and leadership continue to hold the controlling interest in the company, with EQT becoming the largest outside shareholder. As part of the transaction, Investcorp, a global alternative investment firm, which invested in UTA in 2018, will sell its full minority stake to EQT, and EQT will also purchase a portion of existing stakes from continuing shareholders including PSP Investments.
Co-founded in 1991 by CEO Jeremy Zimmer, UTA represents iconic talent across a broad range of categories including TV, film, music, sports, digital media, publishing, podcasts, and more. It also provides advisory and marketing services to leading global brands. UTA has undergone a dramatic strategic expansion over the past few years, including the acquisition of top European publishing and talent agency, The Curtis Brown Group, in June of this year, and the purchase of MediaLink, the leading strategic advisory firm for entertainment and media companies, in December 2021. The company also vaulted into the upper echelon of sports representation through its 2019 strategic investment in KLUTCH Sports Group. Over four years, the number of employees at the company has almost doubled to nearly 1,900 employees.
Media and entertainment continue to benefit from long-term tailwinds such as increased content distribution platforms, including streaming and the globalization of content and fandom. UTA sits at the nexus, uniting ideas, opportunities, and talent across its growing platform of capabilities. With this new partnership, EQT's financial resources, expertise in capital markets, in-house digital team and global footprint will support UTA's continued growth plans, further accelerating growth through investments in its core businesses as well as expansion into adjacent opportunities.
Jeremy Zimmer, CEO of UTA, said, "EQT is the perfect partner for UTA's next phase of growth. They have deep international capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and most importantly they truly appreciate and respect the culture that we have built at UTA. David Kramer and I led this process, and we made sure to listen to our instincts about who we felt would really help us drive growth while protecting our culture. We believe that we found the right partner to maintain that balance."
Kasper Knokgaard, EQT Partner and Global Head of the Services Sector Team, said, "EQT invests in industry leading platforms that are well situated for strong and sustained growth across economic cycles, are aligned with our values, and where we know we can create significant value - UTA checks all the boxes. We are excited to partner with Jeremy Zimmer and the entire team to accelerate UTA's growth trajectory and enable more opportunities across entertainment and media."
Dave Tayeh, Head of Private Equity – North America at Investcorp, said, "Our investment in UTA was highly successful and we are proud to have partnered with the UTA team as they achieved exceptional growth over the past four years. The company has strengthened its position as a market leader and we wish the team and EQT continued success."
Martin Longchamps, Managing Director, Head of Origination and Execution at PSP Investments, said, "Since our original investment in 2018, PSP Investments and Investcorp have been working closely with Jeremy Zimmer and his management team to continue to strengthen UTA's exceptional market position. During this time, UTA has proven its abilities to perform, innovate and diversify as a leading entertainment company. We are excited to continue this journey with UTA and to welcome EQT. Together, we will be a driving force in supporting UTA's long-term growth."
The transaction is expected to close later this month.
UTA was advised by Moelis & Company (exclusive financial advisor) and Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (legal). EQT Private Equity was advised by Weil, Gotshal & Manges (legal) and Bain & Company (commercial).
With the investment in UTA, EQT X (target fund size of EUR 20.0 billion and hard cap of EUR 21.5 billion) will be 5-10 percent invested based on its target fund size. EQT X will be activated and start charging management fees upon the closing of its first transaction, currently expected to be the closing of the investment in UTA. EQT IX is currently 85-90 percent invested and continues to be in its commitment period but management fees will, following activation of EQT X, be based on net invested capital.
Contacts
UTA
Richard Siklos, Richard.Siklos@unitedtalent.com, 310-385-2800
EQT
Stephanie Greengarten, press@eqtpartners.com, +46 8 506 55 334
About UTA
UTA unites ideas, opportunities and talent. The company represents some of the world's most iconic, barrier-breaking artists, creators and changemakers—from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers and digital influencers. One of the most influential companies in global entertainment, UTA's business spans talent representation, content production, as well as strategic advisory and marketing work with some of the world's biggest brands. Affiliated companies include Digital Brand Architects, KLUTCH Sports Group, Curtis Brown Group, and MediaLink. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London.
More info: www.unitedtalent.com
About EQT
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 77 billion in assets under management across 36 active funds. EQT funds have portfolio companies in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas with total sales of approximately EUR 29 billion and more than 280,000 employees. EQT works with portfolio companies to achieve sustainable growth, operational excellence and market leadership.
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SAN ANTONIO — Vanessa Franco was ready for a new rental to live with her three children and granddaughter.
“I was applying for a place to move since my lease was up,” she said.
She used online rental marketplace TurboTenant to apply to lease a home.
“The homeowner reached out to me and asked me if I was interested in a property for rent,” Franco said. “He told me he would grant me access to the property and to view it.”
Rental schemes often mimic the actual rental process and can be hard to spot. Franco took all the steps she should, including going to see the home in person. The landlord told her to download the OpenDoor app to get access inside the home. OpenDoor is a home sales app that does not list rentals, but the landlord told her the home was rent-to-own. Franco got the app and went inside to view the home. Afterwards, she signed a lease, spending $3,500 for rent and fees.
She moved in. A home security officer showed up shortly after with some disturbing news: “He asked me what I was doing there with my family," Franco said. “He told me I was part of a rental scam.”
She was unlawfully occupying the property. The lease was fake and she cannot locate the real home owner.
“I did not trespass into the property,” Franco said. “They gave me access to it. That’s how I moved in.”
Even though she was living there with her family, people would continue to show up and go into the home, getting access the same way she did. She told several people who entered that home is not really for rent.
“Random people come into the home that I paid my monthly rent on,” Franco said. “My biggest concern is the safety of my family.”
She is able to live in the home, for now, after filing reports with the police, FBI, Attorney General, Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau (BBB). Police eventually gave her permission to change the locks so others cannot come into the home without her permission. But, her time there is running out.
“I have no idea where I’m going to go with my family. The savings that I invested to move is gone,” Franco said.
Turbo Tenant said it blocked the account that listed the home after other renters complained. A spokesperson said TurboTenant has no affiliation with OpenDoor. TurboTenant’s policy is to review the account when someone reports a fraudulent listing. Renters are refunded their application fee if the account is blocked for fraud. It also includes a link at the bottom of every page on how to avoid fraud.
“It’s an unfortunate reality of the rental market that fraudsters will always try to use platforms like ours to take advantage of renters, but we’re very proactive in catching them and making things right when it’s in our power to do so,” said Johnathan Forisha of TurbroTenant.
OpenDoor did not reply to a request for comment.
A common tactic of schemers is to use rental platforms and post fake listings.
“They usually try to tie a legitimate organization into the middle to legitimize their scheme,” said Jason Meza of the Better Business Bureau.
Rental apps and websites are designed to make moving easier, but in reality, they can make extra work for renters since listings are easy to clone.
“Then you’ve got to into open public records," Meza said. "You’ve got to do your own searches, find out who the real owner is. Maybe make contact with landlords in advance around their system just to make sure you are speaking with real, legit people.”
Franco is left to make another move without the money required to rent.
“I’m the victim that is stuck in the middle,” Franco said. “I don’t know if I’m going to be there tomorrow.”
Franco said she is so far unable to get any of her money back.
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After being largely under the radar for three years, Hollywood actor Constance Wu broke her silence last week, opening up about her mental health, and in doing so, admitting there's still a lot of work left to do to for and within the Asian American community.
It all started back in 2019, when Wu's ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat announced it would be renewed for a sixth season. Wu responded to the news with frustration, writing on Twitter: "So upset right now that I'm literally crying. Ugh. F***" and "F***ing hell."
Wu, who has also starred in the movies Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers, later clarified that her grievances were related to a missed work opportunity. Despite her explanation, users on social media still condemned Wu's comments, branding her as ungrateful, selfish and a diva. The backlash led her to a mental health crisis and a suicide attempt, Wu revealed on Twitter last week.
"I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it," Wu wrote. "[Asian Americans] don't talk about mental health enough. While we're quick to celebrate representation wins, there's a lot of avoidance around the more uncomfortable issues within our community."
When Asian American women try to be ambitious, it's often been met with pushback
In her statement, Wu wrote, "I'm not poised or graceful or perfect. I'm emotional. I make mistakes."
Asian American experts say while that confession may not appear profound to some, for others, it spoke volumes about the pressures typically felt by Asian American women.
"Asian American women want to be their authentic selves but their image and behavior are prescribed by society and family expectations," says Hyeouk Chris Hahm, an associate dean of research at Boston University's School of Social Work, who has extensively studied mental health disparities in the Asian American community.
While no two experiences are alike, Hahm points out that in spaces like the workplace, many Asian American women are stereotyped to be soft-spoken, respectful and followers rather than leaders. When they try to break out of that mold by speaking up for themselves, they can be met with pushback, Hahm added.
"When Asian American women try to be autonomous, ambitious, self-fulfilling, it's been historically perceived as threatening the social order and social norm," Hahm said.
Recently, Twitter users have pointed out that double standard after comparing Wu's backlash to actors such as Robert Pattinson, who received a more positive reception after bad-mouthing his breakout film, Twilight.
"The harshness behind the overall reaction to Wu's tweets demonstrates the implicit yet widely-held hostility towards Asian women," said culture writer Roslyn Talusan in a 2019 Playboy article. "As it stands, humanity isn't afforded to angry, insubordinate Asian women."
For many people of Asian descent, individual reputation is tied to their community's reputation
In her tweet, Wu said it wasn't just the online harassment, but shame from other Asian American acquaintances that felt traumatizing.
According to Wu, a fellow Asian American actress — who she didn't name — privately condemned her, calling Wu a "blight" to their community.
"I started feeling like I didn't even deserve to live anymore. That I was a disgrace to [Asian Americans], and they'd be better off without me," she wrote.
Words like "blight" and "disgrace" can be especially hurtful to Asian Americans, said Jenn Fang, the founder and editor of Reappropriate, an Asian American-centered race and gender blog.
"Being a public figure, especially on social media, criticism happens," Fang said. "But for Asian Americans, this thread of criticism is particularly personal and difficult to bear because it suggests we don't belong and we should leave the Asian American community."
Hahm points out that it's not just people of Asian descent — many immigrants of all backgrounds can relate to the burden that comes when an individual's reputation is seen as a reflection of their family or community's reputation.
"Reputation is important for many immigrants because it creates trust and trust becomes a foundation for immigrants rebuilding their wealth, social networks, and resources," Hahm said.
Hollywood is only one of the places where representation matters
To Fang, part of Wu's online criticism also had to do with fans' staunch loyalty to Fresh Off the Boat, and the pressure for Asian American representation in media.
When the sitcom first aired, there was a lot of anticipation amongst Asian Americans, Fang recalled, mainly because it was the first time in roughly two decades that network television focused on an Asian American family.
"There's a sense within the community that if we can see more of ourselves in media, we will feel more like we belong," Fang said. "Common among Asian Americans is this question of where we fit, where do we belong?"
According to Fang, that's why on-screen representation matters, and why there's still a lot of room for improvement — whether that's forgoing harmful stereotypes or accurately reflecting the experiences of South Asians and Pacific Islanders. But she also underscores that Hollywood is only one avenue where representation matters for Asian Americans.
"The problem, however, is that when we focus exclusively on issues of media representation without addressing it alongside other issues, we run the risk of forgetting that improved media representation is not by itself a solution to anti-Asian racism," she said.
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Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend at the National Gallery
Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend at the National Gallery
An early painting by 19th century American artist James McNeill Whistler is the focus of an exhibition at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art. The big and fascinating show does not feature his most famous work — a picture of Whistler's closest relative: his formidable mother.
I've known Whistler's Mother for years. So do you, if you've ever had an art class, or seen a book of art classics. Old lady in profile, wearing a really black dress, white lace cuffs, white bonnet, sitting by a gray wall. Mean looking. Judgmental.
Click here to meet Anna McNeill Whistler.
This exhibition — "The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler" — is about the artist's relationship with a much younger woman. He painted her 10 years before his mother.
Hiffernan was Whistler's model, muse, and more.
Did Muse and Mom know each other? "Oh yes!" says curator Margaret MacDonald, who unearthed new information about the model. She says Mama didn't seem to think much of Joanna. "She was a bit dubious about models. The danger of a model possibly being seduced made her not respectable."
Victorian morals. Were they lovers? "Oh yes! Absolutely."
Joanna Hiffernan may not have been too crazy about Anna McNeill Whistler with good reason. Hiffernan lived with James Whistler "until Mother came, and she had to move out," MacDonald says. Still, model and artist continued their relationship for decades. Hiffernan ran his studio, kept track of the books, even raised a son Whistler had with another woman.
Letters and diaries show Joanna Hiffernan to have been great company, says MacDonald. "She was passionate, had a quick temper, was quite funny," she says. "She was jolly."
Whistler painted and sketched and etched his muse again and again. The National Gallery exhibits three paintings of Hiffernan in white.
In Symphony No. 1; the White Girl, she's larger than life, with long red hair. (X-rays show Whistler fooled around with the length.) She wears a long white dress. (Lots of laundresses in 1861). She's standing on a polar bear rug. (Stylish, then, in middle class homes). A distant gaze in her eyes, staring into space.
In Symphony In White No. 2: the Little White Girl, she's still dreamy, still wearing white. Proper lady, with a nice mantlepiece!
In Symphony in White No. 3, she's got company. Two lovely women in white. Maybe having a heart-to-heart.
What's with those titles? Well, the famous painting of Whistler's Mother is officially called Arrangement in Grey and Black. He was exploring variations in those colors, how they sat together, echoed one another. He's doing the same thing in his Symphonies. Whistler's white wasn't just white. He mixed several colors into it. "So it had a warmth," MacDonald explains. "It isn't cold white."
Painters like working with white. Nice texture. Fun to use.
"Whistler got a big brush, got enough paint on it, and slams is down like a mosaic of colors. It all feels good. If you're an artist, you enjoy that!" she says.
So do art lovers. Although Joanna Hiffernan wrote a friend about some 19th century reactions to Whistler's Symphony No. 1, the centerpiece of the National Gallery's exhibition: "The White Girl has made a great sensation, for and against. Some stupid painters don't understand it at all. The old duffers may refuse it altogether."
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Partnership positions Chartwells to expand into previously untapped college and university markets
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chartwells Higher Education, a sector of Compass Group and recognized leader in contract food service management, today announced its acquisition of Fresh Ideas, a food service management company based out of Columbia, Missouri. The acquisition allows Chartwells Higher Education to expand into more regional college and university markets while Fresh Ideas continues to build upon their strong client partner relationships.
Chartwells and Fresh Ideas share the belief that no two campuses are alike and that dining programs should be customized to match every campus' culture. That's why Fresh Ideas will continue to operate under the same brand, culture, and leadership. For over 20 years, Fresh Ideas has been providing clients with exceptional localized foodservice, and now, the added benefits of Chartwells' network of tools and resources ensures their top-tier service will continue moving forward.
"As an organization focused on creating strong collaborative relationships with their clients, the Fresh Ideas team is a perfect match for our Chartwells culture," says Andrea Johnson, President of Operations and Growth for Chartwells.
"We look forward to the partnership and the learnings both companies will bring as we continue to create one of kind dining experiences on the campuses we serve," added Chartwells Higher Education CEO, Lisa McEuen.
Fresh Ideas is a dynamic regional foodservice company serving clients based mostly in the Midwest, South and Southeast. They will continue to operate under the Fresh Ideas name as they, together with Chartwells, continue to seek out opportunities to expand.
"At Fresh Ideas, we are passionate about serving great food and cultivating a culture of caring," says Matt Clervi, Chief Executive Officer and President. "We are thrilled to join Chartwells and work together to provide exceptional dining programs for students across the country."
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Chartwells is the recognized leader in contract food service management, hospitality, and award-winning guest service within over 300 college and university dining environments throughout academic institutions across the U.S. Chartwells' nutritious cuisine not only satisfies the unique appetites, lifestyles, and dietary needs of every guest dining on campus, but it also brings people together to promote the high-intensity relationships that will prepare students for the future. For more information, visit www.ChartwellsHigherEd.com, www.ChartwellsMonthly.com, www.DineonCampus.com.
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — An earthquake shook a remote area of eastern Afghanistan on Monday, injuring at least 10 people, a Taliban official said. It struck in the same region where an earthquake last month killed hundreds of people and caused widespread devastation.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Monday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 5.1.
Abdul Wahid Rayan, director of the Taliban news agency Bakhtar, said the quake struck in the Gayan district of the eastern Paktika province.
Last month’s more powerful earthquake ignited yet another crisis in the struggling country, further underscoring the Taliban’s limited capabilities and isolation. U.N. officials said at the time that 770 people were killed, while the Taliban put the death toll at 1,150.
Overstretched aid groups already keeping millions of Afghans alive had rushed supplies to victims of the June quake, but most countries responded tepidly to Taliban calls for international help.
The international cut-off of Afghanistan’s financing has deepened the country’s economic collapse and fueled its humanitarian crises.
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We’ve often celebrated when a Black man, or any person of color, has their conviction overturned after a discovery that proves they shouldn’t have been imprisoned in the first place.
However, a recent case in Portland may polarize many after an accused child murderer saw his conviction get overturned when it was revealed that prosecutors dismissed jury members based on simply being Black.
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As FOX 12 Oregon reporter Marilyn Deutsch tweeted live from the courtroom back in 2018 (seen above), Darian L. McWoods was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 25 years for the death of his 15-month-old daughter, Kamaya Flores. The toddler tragically died due to a methadone overdose, and a further autopsy revealed that she had signs of abusive injuries consistent with compression asphyxia in addition to “illicit drugs” in her system.
The three-year investigation resulted in McWoods being found guilty on two counts of murder by abuse, three counts of first-degree manslaughter and counts on criminally negligent homicide, criminal mistreatment plus tampering with a witness.
More details in this unsettling case and overturned conviction below, via AP News:
“The jury, which had no Black members, found Darian L. McWoods, a Black man, guilty of murder by abuse in the death of his 15-month-old daughter, Kamaya Flores, in Multnomah County Circuit Court, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
In the ruling released Wednesday, Presiding Judge Josephine Mooney found that Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Amanda Nadell offered race-neutral reasons to strike both prospective jurors, but those arguments were only a ‘pretext.’
Mooney wrote that the state did not seek to strike similarly situated jurors who were not Black.
‘Racial discrimination in the selection of jurors is harmful,’ Mooney wrote.”
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Josephine Townsend, defense attorney for McWoods, cited the “Batson” rule to challenge the dismissals by referring to a Supreme Court decision from 1986 that prohibits excluding prospective jurors based on their race. The case will return to Circuit Court and either be retried or dismissed, that is unless the the Oregon Department of Justice appeals the overturned conviction with the state Supreme Court.
McWoods continues to stress that he’s innocent of what he’s being accused of, although prosecutors painted him as a drug user who’d often mix his narcotics with kid-friendly drinks like Capri Sun. This is how they say baby Kamaya got in contact with the methadone that killed her, although Townsend has suggested the drugs were left in a shared bedroom by another family member.
While racial discrimination in the judicial system on any level shouldn’t be tolerated, we hope a technicality doesn’t let yet another alleged criminal off the hook.
To Kamaya Flores, R.I.P baby girl.
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Andrea Blackbird is the chief financial officer for Venice Family Clinic, a nonprofit that delivers high-quality, comprehensive medical care plus supportive programs and services to families and individuals who might otherwise go without the care they need. At the nonprofit, she oversees the clinic’s accounting, budgeting, financial reporting and analysis, tax and audit, grants management, billing, cash flows, banking and investments.
As CFO for a nonprofit, Blackbird’s goal is to leverage all available funding opportunities to provide for the organizational growth and expanded reach of Venice Family Clinic’s services for local communities. In the past 24 months, she has explored various CARES Act and ARP Act funding opportunities for the clinic, including Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, Provider Relief Funds and CARES Act HRSA funds. Over the past eight years, she has also paid close attention to maximizing the clinic’s reimbursement rates, which has led to significant increases in patient care revenues. | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/c-suite-2022/finalist-andrea-blackbird | 2022-07-19T00:05:59Z | https://www.latimes.com/b2b/c-suite-2022/finalist-andrea-blackbird | false |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors plan to charge a Los Angeles man in connection with three murders across Southern California, calling the suspect a “stone-cold serial killer,” as part of a deadly robbery crime spree last week at a half-dozen 7-Elevens and a doughnut shop.
Investigators have linked Malik Patt, 20, to the fatal shooting of a homeless man in Los Angeles on July 9, as well as the July 11 deaths of a 7-Eleven clerk in Brea and a man who intervened in a robbery in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Santa Ana.
Three other people were shot and wounded in the July 11 violence, one of whom remained gravely injured on Monday, according to Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. Patt faces a slew of charges that, if convicted, could result in the death penalty or a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
“Malik Patt is a stone-cold serial killer,” Spitzer said Monday in a news conference announcing the filing of criminal charges. “There’s no other way to describe him. He executed innocent people and shot others.”
The July 11 robberies occurred within five hours in San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties, setting off an intensive manhunt that resulted in the arrests of the two men in Los Angeles on Friday. Authorities say Jason Payne, 44, was Patt’s accomplice but was not involved in the killings.
Both men are being held in jail and are expected to be arraigned Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether they had attorneys who could speak on their behalf.
Matthew Hirsch, a 40-year-old clerk, was shot and killed at the Brea store, and Matthew Rule, 24, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Santa Ana store while trying to intervene in the robbery of someone else. The identify of the homeless man who was slain in Los Angeles has not been made public.
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LONDON (AP) — It was the most striking moment so far in the U.K. Conservative Party’s contest for a new leader. The five remaining candidates were asked during a televised debate to raise their hands if they would let Boris Johnson serve in their Cabinet. Not a single hand went up.
The contenders to replace Johnson are scrambling to distance themselves from the scandal-tainted politician who has resigned as party leader but remains Britain’s prime minister for a few more weeks — despite the fact that most of them have served in his government over the past three years.
Johnson, meanwhile, has largely disappeared from the scene. He has not attended any government emergency meetings about a heat wave that is forecast to bring temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to Britain.
On Friday, Johnson visited a Royal Air Force base and took a ride in a Typhoon fighter jet, with “Top Gun”-style footage released by his office. He spent the weekend at Chequers, the country house that comes with the prime minister’s job, throwing a farewell barbecue for staff and friends.
Johnson returned to Parliament on Monday for one of his final times as prime minister for a largely symbolic vote of confidence called by the government — chiefly to give Johnson a chance to extol his own accomplishments.
To jeers from opposition lawmakers, Johnson said his “three dynamic and exhilarating years in the cockpit” had seen the British government “overcoming adversity on a scale we haven’t seen for centuries” in the shape of the coronavirus pandemic.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer accused Johnson of being “a vengeful squatter” in 10 Downing St.
Steven Fielding, professor of political history at the University of Nottingham, likened Johnson to “a sulky teenager in the bedroom, just doing what he wants and shouting at the parents once in a while.”
Political and media attention has turned to his would-be successors, who are slinging dirt at one another as they try to convince Conservative Party members they can rebuild trust in politics and defeat the opposition Labour Party at the next election, due to be held by 2024.
The field of contenders shrank from five to four on Monday as Conservative lawmakers held another elimination ballots. Lawmaker Tom Tugendhat was ousted from the race after receiving the lowest number of votes.
Rishi Sunak, who served as Treasury chief under Johnson until he resigned earlier this month, remains the front-runner but is under attack by Conservative rivals for spending billions to keep U.K. workers and businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, and raising taxes to help pay for it.
In a televised debate Sunday, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss accused Sunak of hiking taxes to the highest level in 70 years. Sunak argued the hikes were necessary to damp down soaring inflation, and accused Truss, who has promised immediate tax cuts, of peddling “something-for-nothing economics.”
Penny Mordaunt, a trade minister who has emerged as a strong challenger, has appealed in vain for an end to “mudslinging,” much of which has been directed at her. She has been accused by opponents of wanting to make it easier for people to change gender — a hot-button issue for some Conservatives — and of neglecting her government duties to prepare her leadership bid.
Conservative lawmakers will hold another elimination vote Tuesday to reduce the number of leadership candidates to three. Former Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch, currently in fourth place, is the most likely evictee.
A vote Wednesday will produce two finalists who will then face a runoff by about 180,000 Conservative Party members across the country. The winner is to be announced Sept. 5 and will automatically become prime minister, without the need for a national election.
Fielding said that may prove problematic for the new leader, because he or she will be chosen by a Conservative membership — “primarily white, southern, very well-off” — with political priorities very different than the general electorate.
Johnson lead the Conservatives to a commanding parliamentary majority in 2019, but he has been plagued by scandals since then, including being accused of misleading Parliament about government parties that broke COVID-19 lockdown rules.
Johnson clung to power despite being fined by police over “partygate,” but finally quit on July 7 after one scandal too many — appointing a politician accused of sexual misconduct — drove his ministers to resign en masse.
Cabinet Office Minister Kit Malthouse, a long-time Johnson ally, argued that the party’s testy debate was healthy, and predicted Conservatives would reunite in a “spirit of harmony” after the leadership campaign.
But Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said that was overly optimistic.
“The manner of Johnson’s departure unfortunately injected quite a lot of poison into the (party) bloodstream,” he said. “It will take time to work its way out.”
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The Weeknd went out of his way to console a disappointed six-year-old fan who was unable to see him in concert in Toronto.
The Grammy winner’s tour is finally up and running after a rocky false start in the Canadian city, which was hit by a massive network outage. The Weeknd was forced to cancel the July 8 show at Rogers Centre and that devastated Phoenix Prince, who had dressed up like the “Save Your Tears” hitmaker to see him in concert.
A photo of him crying outside the venue went viral and The Weeknd retweeted it, asking his fans to “please find him for me.” His supporters went to work, and soon enough, Phoenix and his dad boarded a flight to Philadelphia to see him in concert at Lincoln Financial Field.
Phoenix’s dad shared photos of his son embracing the “Blinding Lights” singer backstage, being given the grand tour of the venue and having his little red tux signed by the hitmaker.
“I wouldn’t be able to put this last week into words if I tried. We are forever grateful for this moment. We are beyond thankful to Abel and his beautiful crew for their friendship, hospitality, generosity and for spending day with Phoenix and I,” he wrote on Instagram. “He will cherish this experience forever. Thank you a million times over.”
In other Weeknd news, the official teaser trailer for his HBO Max show The Idol is finally here! Teased as “the sleaziest love story,” the show stars Lily-Rose Depp as an aspiring pop star who falls in love with The Weeknd’s character, a cult leader.
The spicy teaser promises plenty of drama and HBO-worthy scenes. Although the show is “coming soon,” the official release date is forthcoming.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers promised another 500 millions euros in military aid to Ukraine’s war chest to beef up the defense of the nation as the bloc’s foreign policy chief exhorted member states not to waver in their commitment to sanctions against Russia.
The aid decision came after a video debriefing on the latest developments by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who said he was “grateful” for the new funds, which brings the EU total to 2.5 billion euros but still urged the 27 nations to provide more.
“If anything needs to be continued, it is weapons deliveries,” said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, insisting it was also essential to secure the port of Odesa enough to make sure grain shipments could resume. “And anybody who can who can do that, obviously, this is the main industrial countries of of the Western world. They have to step up with that.”
What remains essential within the bloc, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said, was a unity of purpose to believe that the major package of sanctions targeting Moscow will work, even if the immediate effects on the battleground aren’t always visible.
“Ukraine needs more arms,” Borrell said. “We will provide them. The war will continue.”
Borrell lashed out at critics claiming that measures on anything from oil sanctions to monetary measures were counterproductive and hurting the EU more than Russia itself.
So even after he pleaded over the weekend for “strategic patience” when it came to sanctions to take hold, Borrell clearly lost patience with critics like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who last week claimed the EU had not only shot itself in the foot but also in the lungs with the six packages of sanctions.
“There is a big debate about “are the sanctions effective? Are the sanctions affecting us more than Russia,” Borrell said. ”Some European leaders have been saying that the sanctions were an error, were a mistake.”
“They don’t have eyes? They don’t look to the graphs? They don’t consider figures,” Borrell asked in staccato rhythm, pointing to economic figures showing that the impact on Russia was bigger than on the EU.
The EU is struggling with the circumstances because the imposition of sanctions against Russia comes at a time of surging inflation, runaway energy and food prices and the continued impact of the pandemic, all of which already dampen the EU’s economic outlook.
He said Russian President Vladimir Putin was using such narratives to try to spread division within the bloc.
“I am sure Putin is counting on the democratic fatigue. I’m sure he believes that democracies are weak,” Borrell said.
“European societies cannot afford fatigue,” Borrell said. “They took the decisions on restrictive measures on the Russian economy, and they have to stick to it.”
At the same time the EU is finetuning existing sanctions and assessing a ban on Russian gold, which is Moscow’s second-largest export industry after energy. The Group of Seven leading industrial nations last month already committed to a gold ban, arguing that Russia has used its gold to back up its currency to circumvent the impact of several rounds of sanctions that nations around the world had already imposed on Moscow after its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
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Tasmania's West Coast has been the focus of a new research project, with a series of workshops held recently to dive into the health outcomes of the region.
Doctoral candidate Michelle Morgan, who also works as a policy officer with the Tasmanian Department of Health, said her research was centred around how to use "system thinking approaches as a way to improve health and wellbeing".
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A particular focus of the research is targeting preventable chronic diseases.
"I think the West Coast is interesting, because it's a rural area," she said. "I was keen to go there and to see what worked, and how it could be relevant to other rural areas."
To assist with her research, which in part saw Ms Morgan evaluate the health outcomes for West Coast residents against Tasmania as a whole, a range of workshops were run, bringing together about 15 stakeholders together at Queenstown.
There, the focus was building collaboration and seeing where there was overlap both in the services provided and the challenges faced, and what this meant for overall health outcomes.
Ideally, she said, this will foster better cohesion between service providers and give local government more tools to reach their community.
"What systems thinking offers is that it encourages people not to jump to solutions but to think about causes," she said. "It's big picture thinking."
West Coast Council general manager David Midson said it was exciting to see a project like this happening in the region.
"The West Coast Council has made it really clear that health and wellbeing is really important, and we're trying to come up with innovative solutions," he said.
"We don't think it's right... that just because you live on the West Coast you have worse health outcomes, or less access to services."
Mr Midson said one of the things that surprised him was just looking at some of the risk factors of the West Coast - such as 39 per cent of residents being regular smokers, versus the Tasmanian average of 12 per cent.
"There are some things that council and others, as community leaders, can do to change health outcomes that don't have to do with service delivery," Mr Midson said.
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Uber Technologies Inc. is set to pay over $2 million to settle a lawsuit based on allegations in the U.S. that the ride-share giant has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Department of Justice made the announcement on Monday, and Uber has vowed to wave wait time fees as well, Reuters reported.
As Forbes reported, Uber was charging fees to passengers with disabilities who took longer than two minutes to get to awaiting Uber vehicles. The Department of Justice filed the lawsuit in November based on allegations that Uber charged wait time fees in multiple cities in the U.S. in 2016 but didn't amend their policy for those with disabilities who require more time to get to the vehicle.
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JACKSONVILLE — It’s official. Jacksonville State University’s brand new Merrill Hall is open for business.
The university hosted a dedication event Monday afternoon for the newly constructed building after its summer Board of Trustees meeting.
JSU students faculty, staff members, Board of Trustee members, and even a few politicians attended the dedication ceremony, filling the event space on the second floor.
In 2018, a devastating tornado swept through Jacksonville, damaging much of the JSU campus. The old Merrill Hall building was completely destroyed.
Home of the College of Business and Industry, the new building boasts of sweeping light beaming from floor to ceiling windows, winding staircases and impressive technology labs.
The building is named after Hugh D. Merrill, of Anniston, “who was instrumental in helping to change the status of JSU from a teachers’ college to a state college and ultimately to a respected university,” the university’s Director of Strategic Communications Buffy Lockette said in a recent press release.
Representing the Merrill family, Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill — cousin of Hugh Merrill — spoke at the dedication.
“This is an exciting time for our family but even more-so it’s an exciting time for the university,” Merrill said.
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Delta is ordering 100 737 Max 10 airplanes, the largest of the line produced by Boeing, potentially giving the manufacturer additional momentum after a troubled rollout of its most advanced aircraft.
Delta has an option to purchase 30 more of the aircraft as the airline looks to keep up with surging travel demand.
Boeing has struggled to keep up with its European rival Airbus after a pair of 737 Max aircraft crashed in a short span of time, killing 346 passengers and crew members.
Shares of Boeing Co. rose 3% and Delta Air Lines Inc., based in Atlanta, gained 5% in early trading.
Airlines are aggressively trying to reduce costs and the 737 Max can help them do that. Delta Air Lines said Monday that the airplanes, which can seat up to 230 people, will reduce fuel consumption and emissions by 20% to 30% compared with the planes it will replace.
However, the Max 10 has not been certified by federal regulators.
Boeing is rushing to get that approval before a year-end deadline, when new standards enacted after two crashes of Max jets would require that the planes have a cockpit-alert system that warns pilots about some malfunctions on the plane. Boeing is also lobbying Congress for an exemption to the standard, according to published reports.
Financial terms of the order were not disclosed. The plane carries a list price of $134.9 million, according to Boeing’s website, but airlines routinely receive deep discounts.
Airlines have attempted to absorb surging demand for flights. While they struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic amid lockdowns and quarantines, they’re now experiencing extremely high demand from millions eager to travel now that vaccines are readily available and restrictions have eased.
Last week Delta reported that it earned $735 million in the second quarter as packed planes and higher fares boosted revenue close to pre-pandemic levels. But rising fuel prices and the cost of canceling more than 4,000 flights in May and June were a drag.
The deal with Delta, announced at the Farnborough International Air Show near London, provides an additional shot in the arm for Boeing. The manufacturer announced last week that it delivered 51 passenger and cargo planes in June, its best month for deliveries in more than three years. Of those deliveries, 43 were for its 737 Max airliners.
Regulators around the world grounded Boeing’s 737 Max jets in March 2019, after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet, five months after another Max flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cleared Boeing’s 737 Max for flight in November 2020.
Delta has a fleet of more than 850 mainline aircraft, including more than 450 Boeing 717s, 737s, 757s and 767s.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Pop artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned the mundane into the monumental through his outsized sculptures of a baseball bat, a clothespin and other objects, has died at age 93.
Oldenburg died Monday morning in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Maartje Oldenburg. He had been in poor health since falling and breaking his hip a month ago.
The Swedish-born Oldenburg drew on the sculptor’s eternal interest in form, the dadaist’s breakthrough notion of bringing readymade objects into the realm of art, and the pop artist’s ironic, outlaw fascination with lowbrow culture — by reimagining ordinary items in fantastic contexts.
“I want your senses to become very keen to their surroundings,” he told the Los Angeles Times in 1963.
“When I am served a plate of food, I see shapes and forms, and I sometimes don’t know whether to eat the food or look at it,” he said. In May 2009, a 1976 Oldenburg sculpture, “Typewriter Eraser,” sold for a record $2.2 million at an auction of post-war and contemporary art in New York.
Early in his career, he was a key developer of “soft sculpture” made out of vinyl — another way of transforming ordinary objects — and also helped invent the quintessential 1960s art event, the “Happening.”
Among his most famous large sculptures are “Clothespin,” a 45-foot steel clothespin installed near Philadelphia’s City Hall in 1976, and “Batcolumn,” a 100-foot lattice-work steel baseball bat installed the following year in front of a federal office building in Chicago.
“It’s always a matter of interpretation, but I tend to look at all my works as being completely pure,” Oldenburg told the Chicago Tribune in 1977, shortly before “Batcolumn” was dedicated. “That’s the adventure of it: to take an object that’s highly impure and see it as pure. That’s the fun.”
The placement of those sculptures showed how his monument-sized items — though still provoking much controversy — took their place in front of public and corporate buildings as the establishment ironically championed the once-outsider art.
Many of Oldenburg’s later works were produced in collaboration with his second wife, Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch-born art historian, artist and critic whom he married in 1977. The previous year, she had helped him install his 41-foot “Trowel I” on the grounds of the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands.
Van Bruggen died in January 2009.
Oldenburg’s first wife, Pat, also an artist, helped him out during their marriage in the 1960s, doing the sewing on his soft sculptures.
Oldenburg’s first blaze of publicity came in the early ’60s, when a type of performance art called the Happening began to crop up in the artier precincts of Manhattan.
A 1962 New York Times article described it as “a far-out entertainment more sophisticated than the twist, more psychological than a séance and twice as exasperating as a game of charades.”
One Oldenburg concoction, cited in the 1965 book “Happenings” by Michael Kirby, juxtaposed a man in flippers soundlessly reciting Shakespeare, a trombonist playing “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” a young woman laden with tools climbing a ladder, a man shoveling sand from a cot and other oddities, all in one six-minute segment.
“There is no story and the events are seemingly meaningless,” Oldenburg told the Times. “But there is a disorganized pattern that acquires definition during a performance.” He said the sessions — unscripted but loosely planned in advance — should be a “cathartic experience for us as well as the audience.”
Oldenburg’s sculpture was also becoming known during this period, particularly ones in which objects such as a telephone or electric mixer were rendered in soft, pliable vinyl. “The telephone is a very sexy shape,” Oldenburg told the Los Angeles Times.
One of his early large-scale works was “Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks,” which juxtaposed a large lipstick on tracks resembling those that propel Army tanks. The original — with its undertone suggestion to “make love (lipstick) not war (tanks)” — was commissioned by students and faculty and installed at Yale University in 1969.
The original version deteriorated and was replaced by a steel, aluminum and fiberglass version in another spot on the Yale campus in 1974.
Oldenburg’s 45-foot steel “Clothespin” was installed in 1976 outside Philadelphia’s City Hall. It evokes Constantin Brancusi’s 1908 “The Kiss,” a semi-abstract depiction of a nearly identical man and woman embracing eyeball to eyeball. “Clothespin” resembles the ordinary household object, but its two halves face each other in the same way as Brancusi’s lovers.
The Chicago “Batcolumn” was funded by the federal government as part of a program to include a budget for artworks whenever a big federal building was put up. It took its place not far from Chicago’s famed Picasso sculpture, dedicated in 1967.
“Batcolumn,” Oldenburg told the Tribune, “attempts to be as nondecorative as possible — straightforward, structural and direct. This, I think, is also a part of Chicago: a very factual and realistic object. The final thing, though, was to have it against the sky, that’s what it was made for.”
He had considered making it red, but “color would have simply distracted from the linear effect. Now, the more buildings they tear down around here, the better it will get.”
Chicagoans weren’t uniformly pleased. At around the same time as the sympathetic Tribune interview, another Tribune writer, architecture critic Paul Gapp, decried the trend toward “idiotic public sculpture” and called Oldenburg “a veteran put-on man and poseur who long ago convinced the Art Establishment that he was to be taken seriously.”
Among Oldenburg’s other monumental projects: “Crusoe Umbrella,” for the Civic Center in Des Moines, Iowa, completed in 1979; “Flashlight,” 1981, University of Las Vegas; and “Tumbling Tacks,” Oslo, 2009.
Oldenburg was born in 1929 in Stockholm, Sweden, son of a diplomat. But young Claes (pronounced klahs) spent much of his childhood in Chicago, where his father served as Swedish consul general for many years. Oldenburg eventually became a U.S. citizen.
As a young man, he studied at Yale and the Art Institute of Chicago and worked for a time at Chicago’s City News Bureau. He settled in New York by the late 1950s, but at times has also lived in France and California.
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BERLIN (AP) — Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on fighting the increasing impacts of climate change while the world reels from the economic fallout of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The U.N. secretary general admonished countries to take action instead of playing a “blame game.”
European nations vowed to fulfill their climate targets even as the war in Ukraine prompts some to seek new fossil fuel sources and turn at least temporarily to coal to make up for shortfalls in Russian energy deliveries, something viewed with suspicion by developing countries.
Organizers have billed the two-day gathering in Berlin as an opportunity to rebuild trust between rich and poor nations ahead of November’s U.N. climate summit in Egypt, after technical talks last month achieved little progress on key issues such as climate aid for developing nations.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the global warming limit of 1.5 Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) agreed in the 2015 Paris climate accord was slipping further out of reach even as more people are being hit by extreme floods, droughts, storms and wildfires.
“No nation is immune,” he said. “Yet we continue to feed our fossil fuel addiction.”
Guterres, appearing by video, criticized countries for continuing “to play the blame game instead of taking responsibility for our collective future,” and urged rich nations to keep the promises they have made to the poor.
Developing countries are still waiting for rich nations to provide $100 billion in climate aid each year, a target they were meant to reach by 2020.
“At the minimum, stop paying lip service to the $100 billion a year pledge,” Guterres said. “Give clarity through deadlines and timelines and get concrete on its delivery.”
The issue of “loss and damage ” plays a prominent role in the Berlin meeting, where ministers will break into small groups for discussions in hopes of building trust ahead of the U.N. climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November.
Antiguan Environment Minister Molwyn Joseph, speaking for small-island developing nations that are among those most at risk, underlined the urgency of the issue.
“What it is described as crisis, for us it is catastrophe,” he told delegates. “There are small islands that are disappearing.”
Big polluters, however, have long resisted the idea that they should pay for the destruction their greenhouse gas emissions are causing around the world.
Meanwhile, scientists say the extreme heat slamming large parts of the northern hemisphere in recent weeks could become the new normal in summer if global warming continues.
“As this meeting is taking place, parts of Europe are baking, indeed they’re burning. And sadly, it’s an experience that is all too familiar to many millions across the globe,” said Alok Sharma, the British official who led last year’s climate talks in Glasgow. He told delegates: “My plea to you all is, please, let’s speed up our work.”
His successor for the upcoming climate talks, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, said it’s essential to ensure that “the current state of affairs is not taken as a pretext to backtrack or renege on previous commitments, especially those related to supporting developing countries.”
The question of energy sources endangered by Russia’s war in Ukraine looms over the Berlin meeting — in which China was participating, but Russia wasn’t invited.
Environmental activists warn that recent efforts by countries such as Germany to tap new sources of fossil fuels such as gas could undermine countries’ already fragile climate actions.
Germany’s climate envoy, Jennifer Morgan, acknowledged that “the Russian war of aggression is forcing us to take short-term decisions we don’t like, including the increased use of coal for a very limited period of time.”
“But we are not only sticking rock-solidly to our climate goals — we are accelerating the energy transition and will phase out the use of fossil energy even faster,” she told The Associated Press, citing a newly approved plan to ramp up solar and wind power generation in Germany.
Some appeared skeptical. South African Environment Minister Barbara Creecy said that “we cannot have backtracking” on coal by rich nations.
“Developed countries must continue taking the lead with ambitious action,” she said. “The ultimate measure of climate leadership is not what countries do in times of comfort and convenience, but what they do in times of challenge and controversy.”
The vice president of the European Union’s executive Commission, Frans Timmermans, responded that even if “some of our member states have to increase the use of fossil fuels now … this will not take us away from the goals we’ve set.”
The U.S. also comes to the talks following setbacks for President Joe Biden in his efforts to regulate pollution and boost renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
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