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Calls for Government to `reconsider´ Rwanda deal
A group of MPs and peers has called on Priti Patel to “reconsider” the plan to send migrants to Rwanda.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) wrote to the Home Secretary warning of safety concerns and questioning the legality of the deal.
In the letter, dated July 21 and published on Monday, committee chairman Joanna Cherry said: “The Joint Committee on Human Rights hopes that the Government will demonstrate commitment to human rights and the protection of refugees and reconsider the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP).”
She said the JCHR was “concerned that the agreement has been put in place without adequate assurances as to the safety of those removed to Rwanda.”
The letter said: “Removing asylum seekers to a state where they face a real risk of serious human rights abuses, or of being sent on to a dangerous third country as a result of an inadequate asylum system, is inconsistent with the UK’s human rights obligations.
“While we have received mixed reports on the safety of Rwanda, particularly for vulnerable groups, and the adequacy of its asylum system, we are not satisfied that it is a sufficiently safe destination to be a partner in this kind of asylum agreement.”
The agreement could be seen as “outsourcing of the UK’s own obligations under the Refugee Convention to another country”, it added.
The committee said it shared the Home Office’s desire to curb the number of Channel crossings but said it was “unconvinced” the plan is an “appropriate, or indeed effective, way to achieve this aim”.
The MPs and peers also warned it was “unclear” from evidence heard by the committee so far whether those selected to be sent to Rwanda will have “adequate opportunity to challenge their removal.”
Last week, a High Court hearing revealed the Foreign Office advised the UK Government against sending asylum seekers to the east African nation and that the country had been accused of recruiting refugees for military conflicts.
But Rwandan government officials defended its human rights recorded and said the information was inaccurate.
The first deportation flight was grounded in June after a series of legal challenges, and another attempt is yet to be scheduled.
Both governments have insisted the plan is legally sound.
The letter comes after the Commons Home Affairs Committee found there was “no evidence” the Rwanda policy was acting as a deterrent.
More than 15,300 people have reached the UK after navigating busy shipping lanes from France in small boats such as dinghies since the start of this year, according to provisional Government figures. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11047047/Calls-Government-reconsider-Rwanda-deal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-25T17:54:06Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-11047047/Calls-Government-reconsider-Rwanda-deal.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
Germany's DAX falls on gas supply worries; mixed earnings cast shadow on growth
By Susan Mathew
July 25 (Reuters) - Germany's DAX index fell on Monday after Russia's Gazprom said a new turbine halt will further cut gas to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, stoking supply worries, while a mixed batch of earnings raised concern about overall economic growth.
The DAX erased afternoon gains to end 0.3% lower after Gazprom said it was halting the operation of another Siemens gas turbine at Nord Stream 1's Portovaya compressor station, taking into account the technical condition of the engine.
It said throughput from 0400 GMT on Wednesday would therefore fall to 33 million cubic metres per day - just half of the current flows, already at just 40% of normal capacity.
"The uncertainty there is still the name of the game..., which is hanging over the markets and equity prices so much because no one really knows what's going to happen," said Stuart Cole, head macro economist at Equiti Capital.
"We are just in a bit of no man's land at the moment until the Fed decision is out of the way. Until we see firm signs that we are approaching a bottoming out in economic data, or that the Fed's position is changing in favour of a more dovish tone, equity markets will remain pressured."
Germany's Ifo institute showed high energy prices and the threat of gas shortages weighed on business sentiment in Europe's largest economy in July.
This comes after a survey over the weekend showed a number of industrial companies in Germany are cutting production in reaction to soaring energy prices. Last week, euro zone-wide data showed PMIs unexpectedly shrank in July.
Investors widely expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by another 75 basis points when it concludes a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday.
This would come after the European Central Bank's bigger-than-expected 50 basis points hike last week.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed up 0.1% after struggling for direction in the entire session.
Banks, which benefit in a high interest rate environment, rose 1.7% and helped lender-heavy main indices in Spain and Italy rise, outperforming regional peers.
They were followed by gains in oil producers and miners.
Dutch medical equipment maker Philips tumbled 7.7% on a worse-than-expected drop in second-quarter core earnings, citing supply shortages and lockdowns in China.
Pharma company Almirall SA fell 2.9% on missing core earnings expectations.
Faurecia rose 2.8% after Forvia, the cart parts maker born from its takeover of German rival Hella, confirmed its FY guidance and reported upbeat sales in the first half of the year.
Bechtle gained 4.8% after the German IT-systems provider reported upbeat preliminary second-quarter earnings, with growth back to pre-COVID levels. (Reporting by Susan Mathew and Devik Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Mark Heinrich) | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11046917/Germanys-DAX-falls-gas-supply-worries-mixed-earnings-cast-shadow-growth.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-25T17:55:34Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-11046917/Germanys-DAX-falls-gas-supply-worries-mixed-earnings-cast-shadow-growth.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden was released from a Des Moines hospital on Monday and returned to his Tennessee home, where he will wait for an evaluation to determine if he can race this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Team Penske named Santino Ferrucci as its standby driver in case Newgarden is not medically cleared to compete on the road course at Indianapolis. Newgarden collapsed in the motorhome lot Sunday at Iowa Speedway following a late crash in a race he had dominated.
Although the American was cleared by the IndyCar medical staff after his crash, he later lost consciousness and fell to the ground in the bus lot, striking the back of his head. He was airlifted from the track in Newton to MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center to speed the 45-minute journey and avoid traffic from the postrace Blake Shelton concert.
Team Penske said Sunday night that all tests on Newgarden had been negative but he was hospitalized overnight for further evaluation.
Newgarden was already scheduled for a Thursday evaluation in Indianapolis to determine if he can compete Saturday. Per IndyCar regulations, a driver receives a secondary evaluation when a crash registers more than 80 G-forces.
There was no immediate word from IndyCar or Team Penske on the force of Newgarden’s hit, but the scheduled second medical check would indicate his hit exceeded the threshold.
Newgarden, who won Saturday's race, dominated and led 148 of the 300 laps while trying to sweep the doubleheader weekend. But something on his Team Penske car broke with 64 laps remaining, and the 31-year-old from Tennessee spun hard into the outside wall — creating an opening for Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren SP to win the race.
Newgarden was visibly rattled after his mandatory check in the infield care center after the crash. He said the crash into the wall “definitely rocked me. I got a little bit shaken from it, but I’m OK.
“Definitely was a bit of a shot. I want to cry, so sad for my team. I don’t know what happened,” Newgarden said. “Everything felt fine to me. Totally unexpected and it caught me by my surprise. Team Penske is the best. I never have this stuff, so maybe we were due.”
Chevrolet’s initial diagnosis was that the suspension broke on Newgarden’s car.
Newgarden was showing as the IndyCar points leader at the time of his crash; he's now tied for third in the standings with Scott Dixon.
Ferrucci was the replacement driver for Jack Harvey at Texas Motor Speedway earlier this year when Harvey suffered a concussion. He also ran the Indianapolis 500 and finished 10th.
Ferrucci is also scheduled to race the Xfinity Series event this shared weekend between NASCAR and IndyCar.
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You can help choose the name of this zoo’s newborn rhino
CLEVELAND (WOIO/Gray News) - An Ohio zoo is asking for help naming one of its youngest residents, a female eastern black rhino calf.
Since July 9, when the adorable newborn made her grand debut at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, the mother and baby have spent time bonding, according to a news release.
Zoo officials said there are three options for her name: Ali – meaning supreme, Anika – meaning sweet, or Dalia – meaning gentle. Each of the names are connected to the Eastern black rhino’s native regions in Africa, according to the zoo.
Make your pick: Ali, Anika or Dalia?
To cast your vote, you will need to make a donation supporting conservation efforts before midnight on Aug. 5, according to the release. The name chosen by the zoo will be the name with the highest total donation.
Zoo officials said eastern black rhinos are a critically endangered species, and there are fewer than 750 living in the wild.
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President Biden's symptoms from COVID-19 "have now almost completely resolved," according to a letter from his physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor.
O'Connor says Biden reports "residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness" after four full days of Paxlovid treatment. He also notes Biden's pulse, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and temperature are all normal.
Biden is due to remain in isolation through Tuesday. If he tests negative after that and is feeling well beyond his five-day course of Paxlovid, he may resume normal activities on Wednesday.
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Cheetahs set to return to India
Eight cheetahs will be zooming around the plains of India next month, 70 years after the big cats became extinct in the country.
The cheetahs will be taken from Namibia in Africa and released in Kuno-Palpur National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
Did you know that India is home to the only remaining population of lions outside Africa? Several hundred of the animals live in the Gir Forest.
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PAULTONS PARK FUN
By Amelie Henderson
While my family were on a trip to the New Forest, we spent a great day at Paultons Park.
I’ve been before, but now I’m older, it was the first time I was brave (and tall!) enough to try
out some of the faster, more exciting rides!
I really loved the rollercoasters, and my favourite was the Farmyard Flyer, which is shaped like an aeroplane and zooms around an old-fashioned American farmyard. It was so much fun, although I felt like I left my tummy behind!
After that, my little sister wanted to go to Peppa Pig World, so I relaxed on a couple of more gentle rides with her. We ended the day at the splash park (even though it was a pretty cold day!), so we went home with wet hair and big smiles.
DIARY DATES
Love Parks Week
29 July – 5 august
A chance to celebrate the UK’s amazing parks and green spaces.
Kids Week
1-31 August
Loads of West End shows are taking part in this year’s Kids Week, which sees children aged 17 and under go free to any participating show when accompanied by an adult paying full price. You can see Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Horrible Histories and Wicked to name but a few. Check out the full list of shows at www.kidsweek.co.uk.
WOW!
A medieval shipwreck known as the Mortar Wreck has been given the highest level of legal protection. The vessel, which was found off the Dorset coast, is made from timber dating back to between 1242 and 1265. It is now the oldest protected wreck in English waters. | https://www.farminglife.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/first-news-cheetahs-set-to-return-to-india-3781080 | 2022-07-25T18:00:09Z | https://www.farminglife.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/first-news-cheetahs-set-to-return-to-india-3781080 | false |
Indiana legislature convening special session to consider abortion ban
By Veronica Stracqualursi and Chandelis Duster, CNN
Indiana lawmakers are reconvening on Monday to consider more restrictions on abortion, the first state to hold a special session with the goal of potentially curtailing abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month.
A special Indiana General Assembly committee will meet at 1 p.m. ET Monday to discuss Senate Bill 1, which would prohibit abortion unless the procedure was necessary to prevent a “substantial permanent impairment” to the life of the mother. Republicans control the state legislature.
The GOP-authored bill would also bar abortion clinics from performing surgical abortions and require in-person dispensation of an abortion-inducing drug used in a medication abortion. It would include exceptions in cases of rape or incest so long as the pregnant woman provides the physician with an affidavit attesting to the rape or incest.
Although many states nationwide are examining their laws in the wake of last month’s Supreme Court ruling, particular attention has been paid to Indiana after a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio crossed state lines to get an abortion. Indiana presently allows abortions up to 20 weeks after fertilization (or 22 weeks after the mother’s last menstrual period).
And last week, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Indiana to try to implement a law that restricts access to abortion for minors that had been blocked by lower courts.
Senate Republican leaders have said that they hope to have a final vote on SB1 by Friday to send it to the state House for consideration. If passed, the bill would go into effect September 1.
While Indiana is the only state as of now to hold a special session to consider restrictive abortion legislation in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, a few other states either plan to or have opened the door to possibly returning for a special legislative session. New York and Wisconsin have already held special sessions that had abortion-related legislation on the agenda.
Abortion rights have become a focal point among Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections in November.
Vice President Kamala Harris is in Indianapolis on Monday for a meeting with state lawmakers about the issue. In a meeting with lawmakers in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, Harris pledged the Biden administration’s support for protecting abortion rights while also hitting Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin for pledging to sign an anti-abortion legislation into law.
“The governor of Virginia, I’ve read, says he will, quote ‘gleefully’ sign a law to take away reproductive rights. So I would also like to be clear that I’m fully aware of the context in which we meet, in terms of what this will mean to the people of Virginia,” Harris told a group of state delegates on Saturday. “And what is at stake directly in this state, in terms of their rights, and their rights in particular as it relates to a governor who is apparently prepared to restrict and even ban abortion based on an interpretation of the words he spoke.”
Elsewhere, Kansas will allow voters to consider the issue on August 2 during its primary election, making it the first state to vote on a state constitutional amendment related to abortion, which is currently legal up to 20 weeks after fertilization (or 22 weeks after the mother’s last menstrual period). It is also one of several states to which people from Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri travel for abortion services.
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Newgarden out of hospital, Ferrucci on standby for IndyCar
By JENNA FRYER
AP Auto Racing Writer
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden has been released from a Des Moines hospital and returned to his Tennessee home, where he will wait for an evaluation to determine if he can race this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Team Penske named Santino Ferrucci as its standby driver in case Newgarden is not medically cleared to compete on the road course at Indianapolis. Newgarden collapsed in the motorhome lot Sunday at Iowa Speedway following a late crash in a race he had dominated. He was airlifted to a Des Moines hospital and held overnight for observation. | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/25/newgarden-out-of-hospital-ferrucci-on-standby-for-indycar/ | 2022-07-25T18:01:22Z | https://kion546.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/07/25/newgarden-out-of-hospital-ferrucci-on-standby-for-indycar/ | false |
INI-512/22
NLB, d. d., Ljubljana
Janja Žabjek Dolinšek, a member of the Supervisory Board - workers' representative terminated her mandate
Pursuant to the Rules of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange and Article158 of the Market in Financial Instruments Act, NLB d.d., Trg republike 2, 1000 Ljubljana announces:
The mandate of the member of the Supervisory Board of NLB d.d. - workers' representative Janja Žabjek Dolinšek ended on July 8, 2022, due to her leaving the bank, as she no longer met the conditions for managing the function. Her mandate began on November 20, 2020.
The Supervisory Board thanks the former member for her cooperation and wishes her plenty of success on her career path.
This announcement will be available on the NLB's website (www.nlb.si) as of 25 July 2022 for a period of at least 5 years.
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Date: 25.07.2022
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INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) – Indiana state lawmakers are set to return to the Statehouse on Monday, as the special session kicks off.
Among the topics to be discussed, lawmakers will debate a newly proposed abortion bill. Vice President Kamala Harris is also set to speak with legislators regarding abortion on Monday.
The issue has garnered quite a bit of attention nationwide after the Supreme Court overturned its ruling on Roe v. Wade.
Following that monumental decision, Indiana Senate Republicans released their plan for the special session, including a bill that would prohibit most abortions.
The proposed bill would ban all abortions except in cases of rape, incest, and “permanent substantial impairment” to the mother’s health.
“While it’s important to have these exceptions, at the end of the say it is still a ban,” Women4Change CEO Rima Shahid said. “And it is still the state and elected officials that are interfering and controlling the most difficult and private decisions that a woman should be able to privately make with her health care provider.”
State senators say the rape and incest exception would require an affidavit. Criminal charges would not be required. Under the proposal, surgical abortions could not be performed by abortion clinics, rather they could only be performed in licensed hospitals or ambulatory outpatient surgical centers, except for medical emergencies.
Shahid said she feels the bill could also lead to serious health and safety issues as well.
“Banning abortions won’t stop abortions,” she said. “But it could make it much more dangerous and it could impact brown and black women at a much higher rate.”
Pro-life groups across central Indiana also have their concerns with the newly proposed legislation.
“Our advice was completely ignored in the drafting of this legislation,” said Mike Fichter, the president and CEO of Indiana Right to Life. “The intent of this legislation could not be made more clear than when you look at the section that requires the Department of Health to create new rules for existing abortion clinics as well as future abortion clinics. It makes it very clear.”
Fichter said he feels the legislation is “completely unacceptable.”
“This legislation is not intended to end abortions in the state of Indiana, it’s intended to facilitate abortions in Indiana, based upon polling results and in complete disregard to voters who helped establish these republican supermajorities,” he said.
Senate Republicans say the legislation would not affect access to the morning after pill or any other method of birth control.
Under the bill, women would not face criminal charges for receiving abortions. Doctors who perform an illegal abortion could be at risk for losing their license.
The proposal will need approval both in the senate and house before reaching the governor’s office, leaving quite a bit of time for possible changes and amendments to the bill.
A senate committee will hear testimony on the bill on Monday, and a committee will debate the bill on Tuesday.
A number of rallies on both sides of the issue are also scheduled to take place at the statehouse on Monday. | https://wgntv.com/news/roe-v-wade-overturned/rallies-and-visit-from-vice-president-harris-expected-ahead-of-indiana-special-session/ | 2022-07-25T18:02:17Z | https://wgntv.com/news/roe-v-wade-overturned/rallies-and-visit-from-vice-president-harris-expected-ahead-of-indiana-special-session/ | true |
Humane Society of Manatee County thanks community for supporting ‘Wilbur’ the puppy
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - The Humane Society of Manatee County is so grateful for the outpouring of support they have received after issuing a plea to help a newborn puppy with a mysterious backstory.
The puppy, named Wilbur, is now 22-days-old. No one knows where he came from, other than he was found near a rural shelter site by a good Samaritan. After being transferred to HSMC, he received tons of care and outpouring of support. HSMC posted a request for formula, blankets and wash cloths and they received enough.
Once he received a clean bill of health, he was sent to a foster home, where he now receives round-the-clock love and care. Wilbur was named for his “piggy” appetite. He receives bottle feedings every few hours, and he is VERY excited for meal times. He is a healthy, well-fed boy, who has gained over a whole pound.
If you would like to support Wilbur’s care, please visit HSMC’s Wish List: Wilbur is currently eating PetAg “Esbilac” Puppy Formula. Wilbur is not yet old enough to start potty training, so his bedding is changed frequently throughout the day. Donations of micro-fleece baby blankets Due to Wilbur’s “piggy” appetite, he is in need of newborn face cloths, which can also be found on HSMCWish List.
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MIAMI, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EZ Blockchain will be attending the Mining Disrupt conference scheduled for July 26-28 in Miami. The green Bitcoin mining solutions company will meet with people to discuss its already complete and readily available low-emission hosting all-inclusive services. The hosting services are currently available in Kansas, Texas, Colorado and South Carolina.
At these challenging times, EZ Blockchain prides itself on having reliable and profitable crypto mining hosting solutions for crypto mining investors. The company also plans to use the oncoming world's largest Bitcoin mining expo to share more details about its upcoming availability of 1.5mW mobile immersion mining container solutions. The mining container will be available for pre-sale orders, although deliveries are anticipated for the 4th quarter.
For more details about EZ Blockchain solutions or networking and meeting inquiries, please contact sales@ezblockchain.net
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New school year means big spending for back-to-school supplies
Families spend an average of $840 per year
InvestigateTV - It’s time for kids to head back to school and according to the National Retail Federation, families with school-aged children averaged more than $840 on school supplies last year.
Cherry Dale, a financial coach with the Virginia Credit Union, said sticking to the specific items on the list will help keep costs down. She also urged parents to reach out to the school if they’re running short on supplies.
“If a parent has a hard time funding those back-to-school items, I would highly encourage them to contact the school directly,” Dale said. “Many schools partner with community partners that provide backpacks and provide school supplies for free for parents that need them.”
If you’re not worried about being able to afford supplies, Dale mentioned this is also a good time to teach your child about the importance of giving back.
She suggested that while shopping with your child for their supplies, ask them to pick out something for another student who might need it. You could then donate it to the school together.
Dale encouraged parents to spread out the cost over the summer to avoid using credit cards to pay for them.
If you need help getting supplies for your child, try contacting your local school district or community organization, like the United Way or the Boys & Girls Club of America.
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STUART, Va., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As many Americans in both rural and urban communities know, vital healthcare services can be hard to come by in areas where there are either no hospitals, like our rural communities, or areas where there aren't enough physicians to meet healthcare demands, like our urban communities. Foresight Health, an entreprenuerial healthcare company, is looking to fix that disparity in rural and urban communities across the nation.
Foresight Health is beginning this ambitious endeavour in the rural community of Patrick County, Virginia, where Foresight Health plans to open a brand new hospital.
"Over the course of my youth and the beginning of my career when I started my clinical rotations, I saw just how stark healthcare disparities can be for rural and urban communities," Dr. Sameer Suhail, CEO of Foresight Health, said. "This inspired me to start Foresight Health, a company dedicated to providing the most cost-effective healthcare services for underserved communities.
"I'm looking forward to partnering with Patrick County, Virginia, in combatting these disparities. The public response towards re-opening a hospital in Patrick County has been overwhelmingly positive," Dr. Suhail continued. "Since the closure of their last hospital in 2017, most residents have had to travel across state lines to receive critical care. Obviously, this presented a huge problem to the Southside and Southwest Virginia communities in the event of serious medical emergencies. Bringing healthcare back to this community will help grow Southside and Southwest Virginia and revitalize the local community's fiscal and physical health. We also aim to continue bringing vital healthcare services wherever they are needed."
Foresight Health is projecting that it will eventually hire 200-300 new employees to service the opening of its Patrick County hospital, drawing medical talent back into the area. Instead of crossing state lines, Virginians in one of the most rural parts of Virginia will be able to access healthcare at an affordable cost.
As an entrepreneurial healthcare company, Foresight Health plans to bring new and innovative approaches in order to continue its healthcare outreach across Southwest Virginia and the rest of the nation.
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Competitive bidding process saves about 4.7% of buyout costs as of June 30
SEATTLE , July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the latest results of its Milliman Pension Buyout Index (MPBI). As the Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) market continues to grow, it has become increasingly important to monitor the annuity market for plan sponsors that are considering transferring retiree pension obligations to an insurer.
During June, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process decreased from 98.6% of a plan's total liabilities to 98.3% of those liabilities. For these plan sponsors, the estimated retiree PRT cost is now 98.3% of those plans' retiree accumulated benefit obligation (ABO). During the same time period, the average annuity purchase costs across all insurers climbed from 102.5% to 103.0%. This means that the competitive bidding process is estimated to save plan sponsors on average around 4.7% of PRT costs as of June 30.
"Competitive buyout rates have stayed below 100% for nine months, signaling that this may be the "new normal" in a competitive bidding process," says Mary Leong, a consulting actuary with Milliman and co-author of the MPBI. "With the 200-basis point jump in rates during the first half of 2022, we suspected the index might rise; but insurers kept up, raising their interest rates at the same pace."
The MPBI uses the FTSE Above Median AA Curve, along with annuity purchase composite interest rates from eight insurers, to estimate the competitive and average costs of a PRT annuity de-risking strategy. Individual plan annuity buyouts can vary based on plan size, complexity, and competitive landscape.
To view the complete Milliman Pension Buyout Index, go to https://www.milliman.com/mpbi. To receive regular updates with Milliman's pension buyout analysis, contact us at pensionbuyout@milliman.com.
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe. For further information, visit milliman.com.
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Assembly Members of the Ellembelle District Assembly in the Western Region have overwhelmingly endorsed Mr. David Enu for the second time as the Presiding Member (PM) of the District Assembly.
Fifty (50) out of the fifty-two (52) members of the Assembly who were present voted and Mr. David Enu polled 47 "YES" votes representing 94 percent as against 2 "NO" votes and 1 rejected.
He was a sole candidate who contested for the position.
The election was officiated by the Ellembelle District Director of Electoral Commission (EC), Madam Pearl Klustse during the General Meeting of the Assembly.
The oaths of office, allegiance and secrecy to Mr. David Enu were administered by the Ellembelle Magistrate.
In his acceptance remarks, Mr. David Enu thanked his colleague Assembly Members for the confidence reposed in him.
He said his re-election was the sign of unity and development.
"I'm overwhelmed, any institution, it becomes very difficult when going for re-election but today what has happened here, indeed is a sign of unity, a sign of development, I want to bring it to the house that what we have shown today will continue unabated so that in the near future, the whole country, Western Region, our name will be mentioned when it comes to election," he expressed happiness.
He pledged to empower the Area Councils in the District to work effectively.
"We started by doing one or two things for the development of the District Assembly, the first one we did was, we trained our Unit Committee Members, we trained the Assembly Members to form the Area Councils, it is time for us to revamp them for the development of the Ellembelle District Assembly," he stated.
He took the opportunity to appeal to his colleagues and the entire District Assembly to come together as one people to develop the District.
"I want to take this opportunity to bring to the House that there are a whole lot we have to do, we need unity, oneness for such development, without unity, there is nothing that we can do to develop Ellembelle District, so we have to be united to fight for our national cake," he called.
Mr. David Enu promised to discharge his duties without being partisan.
He called on the central government to complete all the abandoned projects in the Ellembelle District.
On his part, the District Chief Executive of Ellembelle, Mr. Kwasi Bonzoh thanked the Assembly Members for retaining Mr. David Enu as the Presiding Member of the Assembly.
"I'm very happy that for the first time in history of Ellembelle District Assembly, a Presiding Member seeking re-election has obtained 94 percent, this is unprecedented and this tells us that the Assembly Members have seen his good works," he said.
He called on the good people of Ellembelle District to rally behind the Presiding Member to fight for the welfare of the Assembly.
He also pledged to work tirelessly with the Presiding Member of the Assembly to develop the District. | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/David-Enu-maintained-as-Ellembelle-Presiding-Member-1589720 | 2022-07-25T18:04:42Z | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/David-Enu-maintained-as-Ellembelle-Presiding-Member-1589720 | true |
(The Hill) — Former President Donald Trump cut lines from a Jan. 7, 2021, address condemning the rioters who entered the Capitol the day prior as not representing him or “our movement.”
A draft of the speech marked up by Trump, shared by Jan. 6 committee member Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), includes additional evidence not shown by the panel during its Thursday hearing, its final one expected this summer.
The draft shows Trump used a sharpie to cross out a line saying, “I want to be very clear. You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.”
A number of top White House aides say they were unsure why Trump made the changes he did, but they did oppose them.
“That needed to be stated forcefully,” Pat Cipollone, Trump’s White House counsel, said in an interview with the committee.
Trump also cut other lines dealing with the consequences rioters should face.
The prepared draft said he would encourage the Justice Department to prosecute rioters “to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message. Not with mercy, but with justice. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.”
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, said the primary motivation for the address was to get out a stronger message condemning the riot than the administration had given had the day before. But there was also concern that the Cabinet might seek to remove Trump from office.
“The secondary reason for that was think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don’t do this. There’s already talks about invoking the 25th Amendment. You need this as cover,” she said in video shared by the committee.
The committee on Thursday showed Trump struggled while filming the video address to say the election is over, cutting himself off while reading from a teleprompter.
“But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results — I don’t want to say the election’s over, I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election’s over, OK?” Trump said.
The committee showed two outtakes of Trump becoming frustrated after reading the line, “My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote.”
In one clip, he pointed his index finger down before starting over, and in the second, he slammed the podium. | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/trump-removed-lines-from-jan-7-speech-saying-rioters-did-not-represent-our-movement/ | 2022-07-25T18:05:03Z | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/trump-removed-lines-from-jan-7-speech-saying-rioters-did-not-represent-our-movement/ | true |
Expansion into ETFs provides the potential for a more tax-efficient, cost competitive and transparent way to access Touchstone's investment strategies
CINCINNATI, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Touchstone Investments, known for its Distinctively Active® mutual funds, announced the launch of its first of four new actively managed exchange traded funds (ETFs) trading on the New York Stock Exchange Arca and Cboe BZA. The ETFs mark the natural expansion of Touchstone's Distinctively Active investment philosophy through an ETF structure, providing shareholders with more investment options.
Each of the four ETFs has a corresponding Touchstone mutual fund that shares a similar core investment strategy. The inception date for the first of the ETFs, Touchstone Strategic Income Opportunities ETF, was July 21, 2022, with the others to follow in the weeks ahead.
- Touchstone Strategic Income Opportunities ETF (SIO: NYSE Arca) -- The expanded opportunity set of this multi-sector bond strategy provides the flexibility to invest effectively in a variety of different markets and is focused on providing a high and consistent level of income and total return. (Inception: July 21, 2022)
- Touchstone US Large Cap Focused ETF (LCF: Cboe BZX) -- This Fund seeks capital appreciation by investing in U.S.-listed equity securities that have a market capitalization at the time of purchase above $5 billion and focuses on investing in companies with reasonable valuations combined with distinctive barriers to entry in their respective markets. (Inception: July 27, 2022)
- Touchstone Dividend Select ETF (DVND: NYSE Arca) -- This Fund seeks a high level of current income and capital appreciation by investing primarily in a portfolio of dividend-paying, large-capitalization equities which have the potential to support reliable, growing dividends along with reasonable valuations. (Inception: August 2, 2022)
- Touchstone Ultra Short Income ETF (TUSI: Cboe BZX) -- This Fund seeks maximum total return consistent with the preservation of capital by primarily investing in a diversified portfolio of investment grade fixed income securities; its portfolio is managed to maintain an effective duration of one year or less under normal market conditions. (Inception: August 4, 2022)
"Distinctively Active management has long been the hallmark of Touchstone's investment philosophy, and we are excited to extend that to investors through our ETF offerings," said Blake Moore, president and chief executive officer of Touchstone Investments. "ETFs have grown in popularity among investors in recent years, so extending our Distinctively Active approach into ETFs is a natural expansion of our core competencies."
Touchstone's ETFs have the potential to provide excess returns and complement most investment portfolios; seek to reduce unintended risks and offer the flexibility to capture upside potential and limit downside risk relative to an index; and provide the potential for a more tax-efficient, cost competitive and transparent way to access Touchstone investment strategies with no investment minimum.
Touchstone's commitment to being Distinctively Active means executing a fully integrated and rigorous process for identifying and collaborating with best-in-class asset managers to sub-advise the firm's funds. The four new Touchstone ETFs will be sub-advised by Fort Washington Investment Advisors, a long-time sub-advisor of the Touchstone Funds.
"We are excited to continue our relationship with Touchstone through the launch of four ETFs," said Maribeth S. Rahe, president and chief executive officer of Fort Washington. "We believe specialization is required in increasingly complex markets, and we look forward to employing uncompromised focus with Touchstone to bring these investments forward."
For more information about these Touchstone ETF offerings, please visit: Touchstone ETFs
Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.
Fixed-income securities can lose their value as interest rates rise and are subject to credit risk which is the risk of deterioration in the financial condition of an issuer and/or general economic conditions that can cause the issuer to not make timely payments of principal and interest also causing the securities to decline in value and an investor can lose principal. When interest rates rise, the price of debt securities generally falls. Longer-term securities are generally more volatile. Investment grade debt securities may be downgraded by a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization (NRSRO) to below investment grade status. Non-investment grade debt securities, which are considered speculative with respect to the issuers' ability to make timely payments of interest and principal, may lack liquidity and can have more frequent and larger price changes than other debt securities.
Equities are subject to market volatility and loss. Large-cap companies which may be unable to respond quickly to new competitive challenges. There is no guarantee that dividend-paying companies will declare dividends in the future or that dividends, if declared, will remain at current levels or increase over time. Securities that pay dividends may be sensitive to changes in interest rates, and as interest rates rise or fall, the prices of such securities may fall. Mid-cap companies may be subject to more erratic market movements than stocks of larger, more established companies. Funds that focus their investments in specific sectors may have greater risk that adverse circumstances will have greater impact on a fund that does not do so. A fund which is non-diversified, which means that it may invest a greater percentage of its assets in the securities of a limited number of issuers, may be subject to greater risks.
Touchstone exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are actively managed and do not seek to replicate a specific index. ETFs are bought and sold through an exchange at the then current market price, not net asset value (NAV), and are not individually redeemed from the fund. Shares may trade at a premium or discount to their NAV when traded on an exchange. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns. There can be no guarantee that an active market for ETFs will develop or be maintained, or that the ETFs' listing will continue or remain unchanged.
Investment return and principal value of an investment in a Fund will fluctuate so that investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the ETF carefully before investing. The prospectus and the summary prospectus contain this and other information about the Fund. To obtain a prospectus or a summary prospectus, contact your financial professional or download and/or request one at TouchstoneInvestments.com/resources or call Touchstone at 833.368.7383. Please read the prospectus and/or summary prospectus carefully before investing.
Touchstone Investments' commitment to being Distinctively Active has purposeful intent. Recognizing that not all fund companies are created equal, we actively apply an integrated and rigorous approach for identifying and partnering with highly-skilled asset managers who act in a sub-advisory capacity. Their expertise, disciplined investment processes and employment of active management provide the differentiation required for robust portfolio construction. Touchstone offers a full breadth of investment options across styles and asset classes, including U.S. equity, international, income and multi-asset funds. Touchstone Funds and Touchstone ETFs are advised by Touchstone Advisors, Inc., a registered investment adviser. Touchstone mutual funds are distributed by Touchstone Securities, Inc., a registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Touchstone ETFs are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC, a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA. Touchstone, Touchstone Funds and Touchstone Investments are federal service mark registrations and applications owned by IFS Financial Services, Inc. Touchstone Securities, Inc., Touchstone Advisors, Inc., and IFS Financial Services, Inc., are members of Western & Southern Financial Group. For more information, please visit TouchstoneInvestments.com.
Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. (Fort Washington) is a diversified asset management firm offering a wide range of investment solutions to a diverse set of clients and valued partners, including insurance companies, endowments, foundations, religious orders, not-for-profits, public employee retirement systems, Taft-Hartley entities, corporations operating in numerous industries, as well as individuals and families. The firm applies well-defined investment values across the diverse lineup of strategies that we offer covering asset classes and solutions within both public and private equity, cash and short duration fixed income, investment grade fixed income, asset-liability management, leveraged credit, multi-sector fixed income, private placements, private debt, midstream energy, securitized credit, and others. For more information, please visit FortWashington.com.
Founded in Cincinnati in 1888 as The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the parent company of a group of diversified financial services businesses. Its assets owned ($66 billion) and managed ($35 billion) totaled $101 billion as of June 30, 2022. Western & Southern is one of the strongest life insurance groups in the world. Its seven life insurance subsidiaries (The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western-Southern Life Assurance Company, Columbus Life Insurance Company, Gerber Life Insurance Company, Integrity Life Insurance Company, The Lafayette Life Insurance Company, and National Integrity Life Insurance Company) maintain very strong financial ratings. Other member companies include Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;1 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;1 Touchstone Securities, Inc.;2 W&S Brokerage Services, Inc.;1,2 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc. Western & Southern is the title sponsor of seven major community events every year, including the Western & Southern Open, a premier event in the U.S. Open Series played each August by the world's top-ranked professional male and female tennis players.
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Azamgarh (UP), Jul 25 (PTI) Samajwadi Party MLA Ramakant Yadav surrendered before an MP-MLA court here in a 24-year-old case related to election violence and was sent to judicial custody for two weeks.
Yadav represents Phulpur Pawai assembly seat in Azamgarh district.
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Yadav's advocate Adya Shankar Dubey said that the case is related to an incident on the evening of February 17, 1998 during the Lok Sabha election.
He said there was a scuffle and exchange of firing between supporters of Ramakant Yadav (the then SP candidate) and Akbar Ahmed Dumpy (the then BSP candidate).
Dubey said that after the incident, a sub-inspector at Phulpur police station, Ved Prakash Singh, had registered a case against Ramakant Yadav, Akbar Ahmed Dumpy and others.
After completing the probe in October 1998, police submitted a charge sheet against 79 persons, including Ramakant Yadav and Akbar Ahmed Dumpy.
He said that on the petition of Yadav, the Allahabad High Court had stayed the action of the lower court. In December 2021, the High Court directed Yadav and all other accused to surrender in court.
Owing to Assembly elections, Yadav could not surrender, following which the MP-MLA court issued a non-bailable warrant against all the accused.
On Monday, Ramakant Yadav surrendered before the court.
Apart from this, the SP MLA also surrendered in a six-year-old case related to road blocking.
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MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “devastating” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.
“I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples,” Francis said near the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School, now largely torn down, on lands of four Cree nations south of Edmonton, Alberta.
The long-awaited apology opened Francis’ weeklong “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada, which is meant to help the church on its path of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and help victims heal.
Francis’ words on Monday went beyond his earlier apology for the “deplorable” acts of missionaries and instead took responsibility for the church’s institutional cooperation with the “catastrophic” assimilation policy, which Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has said amounted to a “cultural genocide.” | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/pope-apologizes-for-devastating-school-abuses-in-canada | 2022-07-25T18:06:30Z | https://www.wtvr.com/news/national/pope-apologizes-for-devastating-school-abuses-in-canada | true |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
6-8-3-4
(six, eight, three, four)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
6-8-3-4
(six, eight, three, four) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17327527.php | 2022-07-25T18:07:12Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17327527.php | true |
U.S. software company grows its European presence via partnership with leading university medical center
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today InsightRX, a precision dosing intelligence company, announced that Amsterdam UMC, a large university medical center in the Netherlands, is using its InsightRX Nova platform to practice model-informed precision dosing at the point of care. The center implemented InsightRX Nova across two hospital locations for inpatient therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) as well as use in outpatient clinics. InsightRX Nova delivers dosing guidance for patients who are prescribed one of four common antibiotics, in addition to patients who are receiving busulfan as part of a conditioning regimen before a bone marrow or stem cell transplant. The medical center is also serving as an InsightRX research partner for tacrolimus, mycophenolate, and cyclosporin, which are used to combat solid organ transplant rejection.
InsightRX Nova provides a preferred pharmacokinetic (PK) model for each drug as well as a selection of alternative models for key subgroups, such as obese patients or those in intensive care. The platform also provides simultaneous analysis of data at the population level as well as at the individual level; errors and outliers are transparent to users. The platform's PK models are improved over time, and can be updated to account for specific characteristics of patients within the institute.
InsightRX Nova also allows for the exploration of new covariates based on clinical hypotheses. The platform has already helped Amsterdam UMC recognize abnormally high predicted renal function levels and underpredicted vancomycin exposure among an immobile patient population, leading the team to adjust its covariate-model to correct for underprediction.
"We selected InsightRX Nova because we wanted to move to a state-of-the-art system which uses more sophisticated pharmacokinetic models, as that leads to better dosing recommendations," said Imke Bartelink, PharmD, PhD, hospital pharmacist at Amsterdam UMC. "Now, we no longer face restrictions on adding covariates or estimating variability within the PK models, which means we are better able to improve predictions for an individual patient."
InsightRX Nova has self-certified CE marking in six European countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The platform's CE mark was a key consideration in Amsterdam UMC's selection process, as it confirms that InsightRX Nova meets applicable health, safety and environmental requirements and has passed European regulatory requirements and conformity procedures.
Since implementing the platform in March 2022, Amsterdam UMC has trained approximately 40 clinical pharmacists on six InsightRX Nova modules, and plans to add three additional modules in the near future. An integration between Epic and InsightRX is also planned to facilitate and reduce copy errors.
"We are pleased to support Amsterdam UMC's pharmacists as they practice model-informed precision dosing in both the inpatient and outpatient setting," said Sirj Goswami, CEO and co-founder of InsightRX. "We look forward to continuing to grow our presence in Europe. We are eager to work with institutions like Amsterdam UMC to expand the benefits of model-informed precision dosing to other therapeutic areas, such as mycophenolate and cyclosporin."
InsightRX is a healthcare technology company that has developed a cloud-based platform for precision medicine and clinical analytics designed to individualize treatment at the point of care. The platform leverages patient-specific data, pharmacology models, and machine learning to understand each patient's unique pharmacological profile, and can be integrated seamlessly within a clinical workflow.
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MILWAUKEE — A 29-year-old man arrested in connection with the shooting of a six-year-old girl in Milwaukee Sunday morning, according to the Milwaukee Police Department.
Police say the shooting occurred at 49th and Meinecke and the girl is facing life-threatening injuries.
Neighbors told TMJ4 they heard several gunshots around 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. The noise led them outside to witness a young girl being loaded into an ambulance.
Mayor Cavalier Johnson’s office issued a statement on the incident.
“When someone causes death, harm, or destruction in Milwaukee,” Johnson said “they should be held accountable for their actions. I hold that same expectation in this horrifying incident.” | https://wtmj.com/news/2022/07/25/29-year-old-man-in-milwaukee-charged-in-shooting-of-6-year-old-girl/ | 2022-07-25T18:10:28Z | https://wtmj.com/news/2022/07/25/29-year-old-man-in-milwaukee-charged-in-shooting-of-6-year-old-girl/ | true |
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Competitive bidding process saves about 4.7% of buyout costs as of June 30
SEATTLE , July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the latest results of its Milliman Pension Buyout Index (MPBI). As the Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) market continues to grow, it has become increasingly important to monitor the annuity market for plan sponsors that are considering transferring retiree pension obligations to an insurer.
During June, the estimated cost to transfer retiree pension risk to an insurer in a competitive bidding process decreased from 98.6% of a plan's total liabilities to 98.3% of those liabilities. For these plan sponsors, the estimated retiree PRT cost is now 98.3% of those plans' retiree accumulated benefit obligation (ABO). During the same time period, the average annuity purchase costs across all insurers climbed from 102.5% to 103.0%. This means that the competitive bidding process is estimated to save plan sponsors on average around 4.7% of PRT costs as of June 30.
"Competitive buyout rates have stayed below 100% for nine months, signaling that this may be the "new normal" in a competitive bidding process," says Mary Leong, a consulting actuary with Milliman and co-author of the MPBI. "With the 200-basis point jump in rates during the first half of 2022, we suspected the index might rise; but insurers kept up, raising their interest rates at the same pace."
The MPBI uses the FTSE Above Median AA Curve, along with annuity purchase composite interest rates from eight insurers, to estimate the competitive and average costs of a PRT annuity de-risking strategy. Individual plan annuity buyouts can vary based on plan size, complexity, and competitive landscape.
To view the complete Milliman Pension Buyout Index, go to https://www.milliman.com/mpbi. To receive regular updates with Milliman's pension buyout analysis, contact us at pensionbuyout@milliman.com.
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. The firm has consulting practices in healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe. For further information, visit milliman.com.
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Industry leaders collaborating to expand advanced operating room technology, infrastructure solutions for hospitals, surgical centers
NAPLES, Fla., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthrex, a global leader in minimally invasive surgical technology, and Skytron, a health care safety and efficiency company specializing in capital equipment, announced a partnership to offer a broad array of total room solutions designed to address the future needs and challenges of operative care facilities.
"Arthrex and Skytron share a common goal to improve surgical quality and patient care. This partnership allows us to offer the most advanced technology and operating room infrastructure in one package, a comprehensive suite of complementary products that will help surgeons treat their patients better," said Arthrex Director of Imaging and Resection Sales Ryan Papa.
Arthrex's Synergy brand is the fastest-growing surgical imaging solution in operating rooms worldwide. This innovative system allows health care professionals to experience the value of interconnectivity, high-quality 4K image clarity and dynamic patient-engagement applications to improve quality of care while driving efficiency and controlling costs.
As a trusted industry leader in health care efficiency, Skytron provides innovative solutions of capital equipment, architectural systems and real-time clinical business intelligence for surgical, sterile processing and inpatient settings. This partnership will align and streamline each other's offerings to better serve the needs of our customers and ensure a keen focus on improving surgical quality and patient care.
"This collaboration will allow Skytron and Arthrex to offer a complete package of industry-leading solutions for both the hospital and surgery center spaces. No one can bring a more comprehensive package to the market," said Skytron VP of Sales Operations Scott Martin. "We are truly excited about this partnership because we know that it will enable our customers, and their patients, to be better served."
For more information about this partnership, please click here.
Arthrex Inc., headquartered in Naples, Florida, is a global leader in orthopedic surgical device design, research, manufacturing and medical education. Arthrex develops and releases more than 1,000 new products and procedures every year to advance minimally invasive orthopedics worldwide. For more information, visit www.arthrex.com.
Skytron is the Healthcare Efficiency Specialist, providing full-room solutions of capital equipment, architectural, and real-time information systems for Medical, Surgical, Sterile Processing, and Infection Prevention. Our solutions enhance the utilization of people, facilities, and capital because they are designed with the user in mind and have a low, long-term cost of ownership.
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Olivia Rodrigo‘s journey on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series comes to an end in the new season, creator Tim Federle confirms.
Olivia plays Nini in the beloved Disney+ series. While she started off as a main character in the first season, her meteoric rise to fame has called for Federle to rewrite what happens to her character.
Speaking to ABC Audio, Federle explained what it was like balancing Olivia’s commitment to the show while making sure she can still pursue her dreams and busy new schedule.
“It was a challenge, but a really fun one,” he revealed. “Ultimately, I would never want this series to stand in the way of anyone’s dream!”
Federle couldn’t be prouder of Olivia and raved, “She’s had this once-in-a-lifetime [and] once in a generation album release.” With the success of Olivia’s debut album, SOUR, which launched a sold-out world tour, Federle had to go back to the drawing board and decide what to do with Nini.
“It was about working closely with Olivia to say, ‘Let’s give you a meaningful sendoff’ and also pay tribute to our fans who have kind of now grown up with Nini,” Federle explained.
While Olivia does say goodbye this season, Federle knows the show and its cast will be okay.
“I so believe in the talent of this entire cast and these new characters, played by Saylor Bell and Adrian Lyles. I have every confidence that the audience will stick with us,” he declared. “I think while Olivia’s success is meteoric, I think this entire cast is so loveable and talented.”
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series‘ third season premieres Wednesday, July 27 on Disney+.
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VANCOUVER, Wash., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Driver education teachers from Minnesota, Missouri, Vermont, Virginia and Washington have been selected by their peers nationwide as Teachers of Excellence. The honor, with a cash stipend, comes from the The National Road Safety Foundation and the American Driver & Traffic Safety Education Association (ADTSEA).
The Teachers of Excellence for 2022 are Jennifer Sletten, who teaches in the Rothsay, MN public schools; Thomas Iffrig, a teacher in the Pattonville School District in Saint Ann, MO; Richard Kearney, who teaches at Woodstock Union High School in Woodstock, VT; JoEllen Suter, an online teacher for the Virginia Department of Education; and Alexander Hansen, who teaches in the Eatonville School District in Eatonville, WA.
Teacher of Excellence honoree Jennifer Sletten has taught driver education in Minnesota since 2012, in Fergus Falls and Rothsay, VA, where she also teaches business and social studies. A board member of ADTSEA and past president of the Minnesota Driver & Traffic Safety Education Association, she recalls the pain of close family members being seriously injured or killed in crashes, which made her want to help prevent others from experiencing trauma "due to making bad decisions with a motor vehicle." Around the time of a crash where one of her brothers almost died after being thrown from a car that rolled over when the driver, high on drugs, lost control, she saw her school district was looking for a driver education teacher and she began the certification process. "A challenge facing driver education teachers today," she said, "is the need to keep up with new car technology and incorporate it into what we teach our students."
Thomas Iffrig had been teaching physical education and health in Pattonville, MO for 12 years and wanted to change to an area where he felt he could make more of an impact on the lives of his students. Since becoming involved in traffic safety education in 2007, he said he's poured his heart into becoming a better driver education teacher, attending conferences and taking courses. He also now teaches as a part-time driving instructor in a neighboring school district. He's brought many innovations in driver instruction to his schools, teaching about new technology in cars and also using simulators. He encourages his students to be active in community service, leading by example with his involvement in the annual Seat Belt Challenge in Pattonville.
Richard Kearney teaches driver education at Woodstock Union High School in Woodstock, VT. He also owns the Upper Valley Driving Academy in nearby Newbury. He began teaching driver education in 2014, after nearly 30 years in law enforcement in Massachusetts and Vermont. "During my tenure as a police officer," he recalled, "I embraced the community policing concept in its infancy and established one of the first school resource officer positions in the state. At the end of my criminal justice career, I revisited the idea of education as a second career and there's been no looking back." Kearney, a past president of the Vermont Driver Training and Education Association, sees technology as both a big challenge and a big opportunity facing driver educators. "Educators need to adopt and embrace technology in the classroom to deliver fresh content to Generation Z students," he said, "while keeping up with new automotive technologies to properly educate the student drivers of tomorrow."
JoEllen Suter has been teaching driver education since 1979 in the Prince William County (VA) public schools, and since 2004 has also been an online driver education trainer of teachers for the Virginia Department of Education. She served as president of the Virginia Association for Driver Education and Traffic Safety and also served several years on the Board of ADTSEA. "Driver and traffic safety education is an important life skill, where a mistake can cost a life," she said. She feels more emphasis should be placed on recruiting and training good driver education teachers. "The opportunities to promote careers in driver and traffic safety education are out there, but the safety community must take the first step by making a solid plan of action to bring people in."
Alexander Hansen has been teaching driver education in Washington public schools including at the Eatonville Public Schools for 20 years and at Defensive Driving School in Seattle for more than 30 years. He also has spent summers since 2008 teaching courses for driver education certification at Central Washington University. He is a past president of the Washington Traffic Safety Education Association. One of his passions is getting parents involved in the traffic safety education process. He's developed a parent handbook, a parental involvement guide for teachers, a behind-the-wheel parent practice guide and a Powerpoint presentation that traffic safety educators use in parent involvement sessions.
"These outstanding teachers we are recognizing represent our best, and they inspire their peers to be passionate and effective teachers of this important life skill," said Harold Fleming, a past ADTSEA president who heads the selection committee. "We are proud to honor them as the 2022 Teachers of Excellence."
All five Teachers of Excellence were honored today at the ADTSEA national conference here, where they will present innovative lesson plans to their peers.
"Driver education teachers are dedicated to the young people they serve and often serve as role models in ways that go far beyond driver training," said David Reich of The National Road Safety Foundation and a member of the ADTSEA Board of Directors. "These Teachers of Excellence have demonstrated true passion for the important work they do to make driving safely a lifelong experience."
The Teacher Excellence Awards, given by The National Road Safety Foundation, are named in memory of Dr. Francis Kenel, a traffic safety engineer, former director of the AAA, author of driver ed teacher training materials and a mentor to countless driver education instructors.
The American Driver and Traffic Safety Education is the professional association that represents traffic safety educators throughout the United States. As a national advocate for quality traffic safety education, the group creates and publishes policies and guidelines for driver ed and conducts conferences and workshops for teachers. It was instrumental in creating the new driver education curriculum standard issued recently by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF), a non-profit organization, has supported ADTSEA's Teacher Excellence Awards program for ten years. For 60 years, NRSF has created driver education programs and materials for free distribution to teachers, police, traffic safety agencies, youth advocacy groups and others. NRSF has programs on distraction, speed and aggression, impairment and drowsy driving. The group also sponsors contests for teens in partnership with SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), FCCLA and Scholastic, as well as regional teen contests in partnership with auto shows in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. To view and download free programs and for more information, visit www.nrsf.org.
Contact: David Reich, 914-325-9997, david@nrsf.org
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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National Weather Service New York NY
112 PM EDT Mon Jul 25 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HUDSON...SOUTHEASTERN
BERGEN...SOUTHEASTERN ESSEX...QUEENS...BRONX AND NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 115 PM EDT...
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and has exited the warned area. Therefore, the warning will
be allowed to expire. However gusty winds are still possible with
this thunderstorm.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
northeastern New Jersey...and southeastern New York.
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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — A South Texas man has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for smuggling bricks of drugs across the border inside the tires of his pickup.
Abiel Geronimo Fernandez, 20, of Rio Grande City, was sentenced to 140 months in federal court in McAllen, Texas, after pleading guilty to smuggling methamphetamines from Mexico via the Rio Grande City Port of Entry, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.
According to court documents, Fernandez was driving a Chevrolet Silverado truck on Nov 28 from Mexico into Rio Grande City, Texas, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials referred him to secondary inspection. Hidden inside all four tires of his pickup were a total of 24 bricks of meth, ICE said in a news release.
The drugs totaled 59 kilograms and have an estimated street value of $236,000, ICE officials said.
Fernandez reportedly told officials that he was recruited the day before to smuggle three kilograms of meth into the United States in exchange for $3,000 in payment.
U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez issued the prison sentence on Friday in McAllen. During that time, Alvarez also noted that Fernandez had been arrested on Nov. 27 — the day before the drug-related arrest — on charges related to the smuggling of undocumented migrants, ICE officials said.
The arrest was a dual investigation by CBP and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigators. The lengthy sentence “sends a clear message to criminal organizations that there are serious consequences for trafficking narcotics,” Alejandro Amaro, acting special agent in charge of HSI in San Antonio said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/south-texan-convicted-of-bringing-meth-across-border-inside-trucks-tires/ | 2022-07-25T18:15:19Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/border-report/south-texan-convicted-of-bringing-meth-across-border-inside-trucks-tires/ | true |
Terrified passengers hide under chairs at Dallas Love Field Airport after female shooter opens fire in baggage area before she is shot and injured by cops
- The female shooter, 37, fired multiple shots 'into the air' in the baggage check in area of the airport
- Terrified passengers were seen hiding under chairs amid the airport chaos
- A police officer at the scene then engaged with the female shooter - injuring her
- She was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she remains following the active shooting
- The suspect was the only person injured in the shooting at the airport, police confirmed
- The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all flights at the Texas airport as police continue their investigation
A woman fired several shots in the air at the baggage check-in area near a ticket counter in Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas, before she was shot by a police officer.
The suspect, 37, opened fire and shot several rounds of a handgun just before 11am this morning as terrified passengers hid under chairs and were evacuated amid the active shooting.
Shortly after opening fire, a police officer at the scene confronted the woman - shooting and injuring her.
She was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she remains, police said. The Federal Aviation Administration also issued a ground stop at the airport.
Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia said that the 37-year-old woman went into the restroom at the airport before emerging with a gun and firing most of the shots at the ceiling.
Police are investigating the scene today after a shooter 'fired into the air' in the baggage check in area of the airport
Passengers were seen ducking to the ground after the woman, 37, opened fire at the airport and shot at the ceiling multiple times
All flights were grounded and those waiting to land have been redirected following the active shooting. Stock image of Dallas Love Field Airport in Texas
The only person injured was the suspect, police said. They confirmed that the terminal 'is secure at this time.'
It's not yet know what her motivation was. The shooter was taken into custody before being taken to hospital.
All flights inbound to Dallas Love are currently being held at their departure location until 1.30pm. Flights that have already landed are not yet proceeding to the gates.
Max Geron, Chief of Police in Rockwall, was at the airport at the time and told his followers that he was evacuated following the shooting.
He praised Transportation Security Administration for doing a 'great job.'
Dallas Chief of Police Eddie Garcia confirmed the details of the shooting at a press conference this morning
He wrote: 'Just got evacuated out of Love Field after an apparent shooting. Family is safe. TSA did a great job.'
One witness, posting a video of the chaotic scenes on social media, wrote: 'What just happened?
'A group of people were running and yelling 'run' and we all immediately took cover. Nothing has been communicated to us.
'Everything seems to be calm now. It was most certainly a scary experience for all.'
Another witnesses said: 'Shots were fired in the air. People began to take cover and run. Within minutes Dallas PD handled the situation. I don't believe anyone, but the shooter was injured.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047025/Passengers-Dallas-Love-Field-Airport-Texas-hide-chairs-reports-shooter.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-25T18:16:24Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047025/Passengers-Dallas-Love-Field-Airport-Texas-hide-chairs-reports-shooter.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
Initiative to test biofuels represents another major milestone in company's decarbonization strategy, with AIDAprima from AIDA Cruises becoming first larger-scale cruise ship to be bunkered with blend of marine biofuel, made from 100% sustainable raw materials
GENOA, Italy, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A few weeks after announcing a new decarbonization function, Costa Group – Europe's leading cruise operator with its two companies, Costa Cruises and AIDA Cruises, and part of Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL;NYSE: CUK), the world's largest cruise company – today announced it will start testing biofuel aboard one of its AIDA Cruises ships, another major step forward in its ongoing sustainability effort.
As part of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions reduction efforts, and with Dutch biofuel pioneer GoodFuels as its partner on the project, AIDAprima on July 21 became the first larger-scale cruise ship to be bunkered with a blend of marine biofuel, which is made from 100% sustainable raw materials, such as waste cooking oil, and marine gas oil (MGO), during its layover in Rotterdam. AIDAprima is currently sailing on seven-day voyages from Rotterdam to popular destinations in Western Europe and to Norway from/to Hamburg.
The current project represents an important milestone in Costa Group's decarbonization strategy, which includes testing technologies and processes to improve the efficiency of the existing fleet.
With the successful start of biofuel usage, the initiative aims to demonstrate that gradual decarbonization is possible, even on ships already in service. At the same time, a key prerequisite for using biofuels is that it can become widely available on an industrial scale and at marketable prices.
In addition to the use of biofuels, Costa Group's efforts include the installation of the first fuel cell on board a cruise ship (AIDAnova) and the commissioning of what is currently the cruise industry's largest battery storage system with a capacity of 10 megawatt hours on board AIDAprima. Costa Group is also focusing on the expansion and increased use of shore power in ports where the shore-side infrastructure is available.
Costa Group had previously tested the use of regenerated biofuels in marine diesel engines together with research partners at the University of Rostock. Now that the first rollout has taken place in regular ship operations, the cooperation with GoodFuels will be developed on a long-term basis.
With several short-, medium- and long-term strategic initiatives, Costa Group is making an active contribution towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal decarbonization objectives.
Over the years, Costa Group has been leading sustainable innovation in the global cruise industry by steadily pioneering advanced technologies on board its new and existing ships. The company was the first to introduce liquefied natural gas (LNG) propulsion – the most advanced fuel technology available to reduce emissions – with four ships already in service in the Costa Group fleet. The majority of Costa Group ships are equipped with shore power capabilities to be zero emissions in ports where the technology is available.
Overall, Carnival Corporation continues its ongoing energy efficiency investment program and efforts to reduce fuel consumption, including over $350 million invested in energy efficiency improvements since 2016, along with the company's fleet optimization strategy and design of more efficient itineraries. Together, these ongoing efforts are expected to drive a 10% reduction in fuel consumption per available lower berth day (ALBD) in the company's first full year of guest cruise operations compared to 2019, along with a 9% reduction in carbon emissions per lower berth distance traveled.
As part of its longer-term sustainability plan and vision, Carnival Corporation has committed to significant investments to achieve its 2030 sustainability goals and 2050 aspirations, which incorporate six critical sustainability focus areas overall. These areas include climate action; circular economy; sustainable tourism; good health and well-being; diversity, equity and inclusion; and biodiversity and conservation.
Among these priorities, the company has committed to reducing carbon emission intensity by 20% from its 2019 baseline by 2030, supporting its efforts and aspirations to achieve net carbon-neutral ship operations by 2050. Overall, the company's highest responsibility and top priority is compliance, environmental protection and the health, safety and well-being of its guests, the people in the communities its ships visit, and its shipboard and shoreside personnel.
More information on the company's sustainability efforts is available at www.CarnivalSustainability.com.
About Carnival Corporation & plc
Carnival Corporation & plc is one of the world's largest leisure travel companies with a portfolio of nine of the world's leading cruise lines sailing to all seven continents. With operations in North America, Australia, Europe and Asia, its portfolio features Carnival Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, Seabourn, P&O Cruises (Australia), Costa Cruises, AIDA Cruises, P&O Cruises (UK) and Cunard.
Additional information can be found on www.carnivalcorp.com, www.carnival.com, www.princess.com, www.hollandamerica.com, www.seabourn.com, www.pocruises.com.au, www.costacruise.com, www.aida.de, www.pocruises.com and www.cunard.com.
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99-year-old woman’s medic alert necklace saves her from home invasion attack, officials say
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ/Gray News) – A 99-year-old woman has her medic alert necklace to thank for potentially saving her life during a home invasion that left her wounded.
The Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a 911 call around 10:15 p.m. Saturday.
When they arrived at the home, deputies found the 99-year-old victim with a stab wound to the hand.
They said someone broke into her home, robbed and assaulted her. During the attack, the suspect also cut the cord to the victim’s house phone, preventing her from calling for help. That’s when her medic alert necklace came in handy.
The victim pressed the help button on the necklace, which alerted 911.
“The call actually came in from a medic alert necklace. The victim was able to make the call herself,” said Corey Webb with the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman was flown to a Roanoke hospital where she received seven stitches in her hand. She is now back home safely with her family.
Wallace Wimbush, the victim’s son, said he hopes his mother can get over the trauma.
“She’s hurt. She doesn’t understand why someone would do something to her, and she’s 99 years old. She doesn’t bother anyone,” Wimbush said. “You’re going to come in and mess up her entire life where she’s going to be hurt, anxiety that’s going to follow her for a lot of days.”
The suspect is still on the loose. K-9 units are helping with the investigation.
“Whoever you are, I hope we find you. I’m going to be out there. I’m putting money out there for reward. Whoever did this, we want to catch you,” Wimbush said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Pittsylvania County Crime Stoppers at 800-791-0044. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest.
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Carroll County to host Bassmaster Junior National Championship this week
CARROLL COUNTY, Tenn. — The Bassmaster Junior National Championship returns to Carroll County this week.
Around 70 teams are expected to be fishing at the Carroll County Thousand Acre Recreational Lake as part of the event.
Teams will begin practicing at the lake on Tuesday, with the tournament kicking off on Friday, July 29 and running through Saturday.
Boats will launch at 5:45 a.m. each day and weigh-in will be held at 1:45 p.m. at Billy Cary Park in downtown Huntingdon.
A news release states that Carroll County is honored to be the only location to host the championship, with the 2022 event being the eighth time the tournament will held in the county.
The public is invited to attend the launch as well as the weigh-in ceremonines.
For more information, contact the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce at (731) 986-4664.
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Journal Star readers will want to keep an eye out for the Capital City's newspaper on two different cable television series Monday night.
The newspaper will be used as a prop in the AMC hit series "Better Call Saul," and also featured in the HBO documentary "Mind Over Murder," which wraps up Monday night.
As the sixth and final season of "Better Call Saul" was being filmed last summer, a member of the production team reached out to the Journal Star about using the paper as a prop for the show.
The "Breaking Bad" universe has already detailed a few connections to the Cornhusker state.
Saul Goodman, the sleazy lawyer who helped Walter White in his transformation from mild-mannered science teacher in Albuquerque to meth kingpin in the original series, ended the original series working at a Cinnabon in an Omaha mall.
"Better Call Saul," which began airing in 2015 on AMC, has briefly shown Saul's life in hiding in Nebraska following the events of "Breaking Bad."
Meanwhile, the origin story for Kim Wexler (played by the Emmy-nominated Rhea Seehorn), one of the prequel series' main characters, begins in Red Cloud in Webster County.
A fifth-season episode showed Wexler being picked up in a 45-county vehicle at a fictionalized version of "Red Cloud Junior High School" in a flashback scene.
Monday's episode, which will air at 8 p.m., features a main character reading through the October 13, 2010, sports pages of the Journal Star.
The issue previewed the upcoming game between the fifth-ranked and 5-0 Huskers, led by quarterback Taylor Martinez, and the Texas Longhorns (3-2).
It's unclear how much of the paper will be visible in the show. A member of the production said some of the photos on the original page were changed to stock photos.
Some other Journal Star papers were also used as background props.
Also airing Monday night is "Mind Over Murder," an HBO-produced documentary series examining the wrongful conviction and exoneration of six people in a 1985 Beatrice rape and murder of Helen Wilson. The series will conclude Monday night. The episode will air at 9 p.m.
The six-part series from Nanfu Wang has shown the Journal Star's masthead and bylines of former and current reporters throughout its run, highlighting the paper's coverage of the case for more than three decades.
"Mind Over Murder" has also featured reporting from the Beatrice Daily Sun, also a Lee Enterprises-owned newspaper, as well as several local television stations.
The cold case investigation into 68-year-old Helen Wilson's murder in her downtown Beatrice apartment eventually led to the arrest and conviction of six people -- Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, James Dean, Debra Shelden and Kathy Gonzalez.
Together, the so-called Beatrice 6 spent a combined 75 years in prison before DNA evidence showed another man -- Bruce Allen Smith, an original suspect in the case who died in an Oklahoma prison in 1992 -- committed the crime.
The six were released and cleared of wrongdoing, and in 2016, a federal jury ruled Gage County officials violated their civil rights and awarded them $28.1 million.
The county continues to make payments to the six.
"Mind Over Murder" has told the story of the mishandled case through interviews with some of the six, their attorneys, as well as law enforcement officers who investigated the murder and members of the Wilson family.
The documentary also features actors and actresses from the Beatrice Community Players, who in 2021 put on a stage production reenacting key moments from the investigation for a Beatrice audience.
Because so much happened while shooting the second season of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” creator Tim Federle didn’t want to overthink the third.
Stephen Curry hosts the ESPYS, honoring achievement in sports. One of the night’s special honorees, broadcaster Dick Vitale, is also the subject of an ESPN Films documentary.
After playing his way into the finals of season 4 of “Holey Moley,” an extreme putt-putt contest created by NBA superstar Stephen Curry, Dylan Bohlke narrowly missed the grand prize.
Baseball’s best players face off in the annual All-Star Game from Dodgers Stadium. The emotionally charged documentary "Aftershock" explores racial disparity in maternal mortality.
The lives and careers of long-married movie stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward are the focus of an enthralling six-part HBO Max docuseries from Ethan Hawke.
Reportedly Netflix’s most expensive movie to date, "The Gray Man" pits on-the-lam Ryan Gosling against a psycho Chris Evans. On a more intimate scale, Billy Porter makes his film directing debut in the teen romance "Anything’s Possible." | https://journalstar.com/entertainment/television/journal-star-to-feature-in-two-different-cable-tv-series-monday-night/article_d8a116b6-f8d4-53b7-8b6b-a57eeb785aba.html | 2022-07-25T18:27:02Z | https://journalstar.com/entertainment/television/journal-star-to-feature-in-two-different-cable-tv-series-monday-night/article_d8a116b6-f8d4-53b7-8b6b-a57eeb785aba.html | false |
NPSx draws on Bain & Company's decades of industry leadership in developing the most capable customer experience leaders
BOSTON, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today launches NPSx, the first customer experience (CX) training and certification by the leader and inventors of the Net Promoter Score and the Net Promoter System (NPS). NPSx is a new Bain venture to help companies create leading customer experiences through world-class CX technology and training.
NPSx courses reflect Bain & Company's extensive client experience, including over 1,600 Net Promoter System and CX projects across regions and industries, and the best of Bain's learning approach. Each of the CX courses are online, self-paced, on-demand and interactive and take a few hours to complete. After the successful completion of a minimum of five core courses and a certification exam, participants can register to become a Bain-certified CX practitioner.
NPSx's courses enable organizations and individuals to develop deep expertise in the most critical CX disciplines including:
- CX and Net Promoter Score fundamentals
- Customer insights and analytics
- Earned growth and customer economics
- Customer experience design
- CX build and execution
As a course participant and Bain-certified practitioner, participants also get access to an extensive online community of peers and expert practitioners. These communities help participants to solve real customer challenges with the support of other CX leaders from Bain and beyond.
"We want to provide customer-obsessed individuals and brands with the very best in innovative CX and NPS training, empowering our customers to deliver great experiences for their own customers," said Darci Darnell, a Bain & Company partner and global head of its Customer practice. "Our content builds on decades of Bain's best practice cross-industry experience and follows on the tremendous success of our recent book, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers."
"In today's world, customer expectations are changing rapidly and the CX function is evolving at the same pace," said Stanford Swinton, executive vice president and the founder of NPSx. "We want to enable practitioners and organizations to stay ahead of competition and drive growth through customer and employee advocacy. Our courses help companies build a purpose-led culture, set the right corporate standards and develop the most capable customer experience leaders in the industry."
Editor's Note: For questions or to arrange an interview, please contact Kirstin Simons at kirstin.simons@bain.com or tel. +31 20 708 6712.
NPSx offers standard or customizable packages for your teams or individual practitioners who are looking to upskill or fully certify their organization. To learn more about NPSx's Training and Certification program and register for the courses, visit NPSx.com or contact us at customersuccess@npsx.com.
NPSx is the latest digital venture from Bain & Company's Customer Experience practice. Other ventures include NPS Prism, a CX benchmarking platform that provides actionable insights and analysis to guide the creation of game-changing customer experiences.
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A long-time rock stalwart is coming to the Little Rock metro this fall.
Chicago, famous for its “rock with horns” sound, will be live in concert with a 7:30 p.m. show Oct. 22 at the Simmons Bank Arena. The multi-Grammy winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band is touring in support of its thirty-eighth studio album “Born for this Moment,” released July 15. The concert marks the band’s fifty-fifth year of touring.
Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. July 29 at Ticketmaster.com or the Simmons Arena box office.
Chicago has won two Grammy awards and two American Music Awards. Billboard Magazine has ranked Chicago number 13 of its “Hot 100 bands of All Time” and is the highest charting American band in the magazine’s “Top 125 Artists of All Time.”
Chicago is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/arkansas-news/chicago-brings-its-horn-driven-rock-n-roll-to-simmons-bank-arena-oct-22/ | 2022-07-25T18:30:21Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/arkansas-news/chicago-brings-its-horn-driven-rock-n-roll-to-simmons-bank-arena-oct-22/ | false |
The London Stock Exchange’s FTSE 100 index rose slightly on Monday but bleak economic outlooks and rising rates continue to cause market jitters.
The FTSE index closed at 7,306.30 on Monday, up by 0.41%, or 29.93 points, kicking off a busy week of company results.
Markets remained resilient against economic worries with high energy prices and expected gas shortages meaning Germany is reportedly close to recession.
And traders will be preparing for Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision where another hike in interest rates is anticipated.
Despite rate hike fears, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% and Dow Jones was up by 0.3% by the time European markets closed.
Joshua Mahony, senior market analyst at online trading platform IG, said: “Recent risk-on moves appear to be on thin ice as markets gear up for another bout of earnings and a crucial Fed rate decision.
“As we have seen with the ECB and BoC (Bank of Canada), central banks are happy to push rates faster than most expect, with governors seeking to act swiftly before recessionary pressures kick in.
“In Europe, the latest German Ifo survey highlighted that the country is on the brink of an energy-driven recession.”
Worries over gas flow weighed on business confidence, which dragged the regular survey reading to a new two-year low.
The Dax index fell by 0.33% and the CAC 40 index was up 0.33%.
Meanwhile, the pound reached 1.1791 against the euro and 1.2037 against the dollar.
London’s banking sector had a strong start to a busy week for stock updates.
Barclays, which will update investors on Wednesday, gained 1.8%, while Natwest and Standard Chartered, which will both post figures on Friday, made even stronger rises.
In company news, online wine retailer Naked Wines dropped in value after its finance boss quit.
The group told shareholders on Monday morning that Shawn Tabak stepped down from his role as chief financial officer on Friday “by mutual agreement”.
It came weeks after the company’s shares plunged almost 40% after warning that sales could fall by up to 4% due to customers tightening their belts. It closed 3.8p lower at 161.2p on Monday.
Elsewhere, Vodafone reported rising first-quarter sales as price rises in the UK helped it offset a weaker German market.
The group said total revenues rose by 1.6% over the quarter, with service revenues up 2.5%.
Shares were flat at 129p following the session, as the update failed to stir significant reaction with traders.
Meanwhile, the price of oil benefited from weakness in the dollar but could see this swing again after Wednesday’s Fed decision.
Brent crude increased by 1.77% to 105.03 US dollars per barrel when the London markets closed.
The biggest risers of the FTSE 100 were Standard Chartered, up 18.2p at 591p, Glencore, up 10.6p at 432.8p, Anglo American, up 63.5p at 2,729p, Airtel Africa, up 3.9p at 168.6p, and Natwest Group, up 5.1p at 230.2p.
The biggest fallers of the day were Endeavour Mining, down 73p at 1,546p, Ocado, down 32p at 759.6p, Haleon, down 11.5p at 305p, Fresnillo, down 21.4p at 648.6p, and Dechra Pharmaceuticals, down 112p at 3,594p. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/business-environment/business/3529726/ftse-100-edges-higher-despite-german-recession-fears/ | 2022-07-25T18:30:47Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/business-environment/business/3529726/ftse-100-edges-higher-despite-german-recession-fears/ | false |
The European Commission has warned that the drought facing much of Europe is becoming more severe in terms of its impact on agriculture.
It says 45% of the EU is subject to drought warnings, while alerts apply in an additional 11%, and its drought observatory says parts of the UK are also affected.
Yield forecasts for the EU cereal harvest have already been reduced and the Commission is warning this strengthens the case for action to mitigate climate change.
Among the areas most affected by a combination of drought and high temperatures are France, Spain, Romania, Portugal and Italy.
Meanwhile, EU farm ministers have put a shot across the bows of the European Commission’s green plans to reduce the use of chemical pesticides by 50%.
Green Deal
This is a central plank of its Green Deal and nature restoration policies. But at their last farm council before the August break in Brussels, ministers were more concerned about the impact of drought on current yields and the importance of improving levels of EU food security.
On that basis most welcomed the concept of reduced pesticide use, but made clear legislation should not be imposed until it could be shown that practical non-chemical alternatives were available and effective. Their clear message to the Commission was that sustainability must not be pursued at the expense of food security or competitiveness.
Ukraine
This underlines the degree to which events in Ukraine, as a result of the Russian invasion, have changed priorities in favour of the absolute importance of a secure and affordable food supply.
Already grappling with drought, European agriculture is facing an even more chilling prospect for the winter months. The European Commission has warned that gas supplies across the EU could be rationed as it seeks to move away from years of dependence on Russian gas. Brussels is suggesting a 15% cut from late August until at least the end of March, using the slogan “save gas, for a safe winter”.
The farming and agri-supply industry has stressed the implications for food security, and Copa, the umbrella body for European farm unions, has called for agriculture to be made a priority after schools, hospitals and consumers. The fertiliser industry has also warned that gas availability is key to production and that any interruption will have consequences for prices and availability.
Meanwhile, there has been a general welcome from the industry for a Commission decision to suspend anti-dumping duties on urea and ammonia, but COPA says this should be extended to end to all duties, including on imports from the US and Caribbean. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-environment/farming/3529963/richard-wright-drought-adds-to-fears-on-eu-food-security/ | 2022-07-25T18:30:52Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-environment/farming/3529963/richard-wright-drought-adds-to-fears-on-eu-food-security/ | true |
Tattie growers will be urged to sign up to two separate producer groups at next month’s Potatoes in Practice (PiP) event at Invergowrie.
The need for at least one representative body follows the demise of the former levy-funded AHDB Potatoes, and two potential groups have sprung up in recent months – the Seed Potato Organisation (SPO), and GB Potatoes, which has proposed a broader, all-sector remit.
SPO is now calling on growers to give feedback on their proposals at the annual PiP event which will take place on the James Hutton Institute’s Balruddery Farm on the outskirts of Dundee on August 11.
New model
Black Isle seed grower and SPO steering group member, Jonnie Martin, said: “The AHDB model was rejected by growers. Having identified its failings, we now need to create an organisation specifically run by growers to benefit growers.”
Meanwhile, GB Potatoes, which will also have a presence at PiP, is about to ask all interested growers and processors to declare their acreages or the tonnages they purchase in order to assess the level of support and likely available funding for their organisation.
GB Potatoes steering group member, Archie Gibson, said: “There needs to be an organisation that is the voice of the industry which can handle any issues around reputation or food scares, for instance, and without it the industry will be rudderless.
“If the seed industry wants a wholly seed- focused research base and to put their money towards those things, then that’s fine, but that won’t necessarily help with a voice when we’re challenging new trade regulations or the Chemicals Regulation Directorate, so we should work together.”
SPO says recent meetings and responses to its survey have reaffirmed the group’s commitment to setting up a body that represents seed potato growers and provides representation to governments, pursues market development and funds research services.
Priorities
The group is drafting a budget and programme to meet growers’ priorities.
Kincardineshire producer, Rodney Harrison, added: “We need to listen to people. If we do our own thing and don’t get growers and the wider industry on board, we’re on a hiding to nothing.”
SPO says potato supply chain organisations can also support the sector by becoming associate members of the group and ware growers are also welcome.
Members of both groups will be at PiP, which will also feature the latest industry research and industry trials.. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-environment/farming/3529987/industry-event-is-opportunity-for-feedback-on-proposed-potato-organisations/ | 2022-07-25T18:30:58Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/business-environment/farming/3529987/industry-event-is-opportunity-for-feedback-on-proposed-potato-organisations/ | true |
The US government is conducting a review of four dams on a Maine river that could result in a lifeline for the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country.
The last of the wild salmon live in a group of rivers in Maine and have been listed under the Endangered Species Act since 2000.
One of the rivers is the Kennebec River, where Brookfield Renewable US owns dams.
Brookfield wants to amend federal licences for four dams and receive a new 40-year operating licence for one of them.
That requires a review of the dams’ impacts on salmon, representatives for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
The federal review could result in mitigation measures Brookfield would need to take to protect the salmon, NOAA officials said. The review comes as the Biden administration is also looking at changes to dams in other parts of the country.
The administration released reports earlier this month that said removing dams on the lower Snake River may be needed to adequately restore salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest.
In Maine, Brookfield views the review as a step towards building new fish passages on the Kennebec, which will help the fish migrate and spawn, said David Heidrich, a spokesman for the company.
Brookfield plans to spend at least 40 million dollars (£33 million) on structural modifications to its projects, and will incorporate changes required by the federal review, Mr Heidrich said.
The review “is a critical regulatory approval that moves Brookfield one step closer to the construction and operation of new, state-of-art fishways on the Lower Kennebec,” he said.
The last wild Atlantic salmon have long been a focus of conservation advocates in New England.
Environmental groups have raised alarms that counters found fewer fish on the Penobscot River in 2021 than in any year since 2016.
The fish were once abundant in Maine rivers but factors such as dams, overfishing, habitat loss and pollution dramatically reduced their populations.
In May Brookfield said it would use seasonal shutdown procedures for the Kennebec River dams to help the salmon migrate.
The best way to help the salmon population recover would be to remove the dams altogether, said Nick Bennett, staff scientist with the Natural Resources Council of Maine.
That would open up access to the Sandy River, a tributary of the Kennebec that is prime salmon habitat, he said.
“If we could get those four dams removed, the best big chunk of Atlantic salmon spawning and rearing habitat, which is the Sandy River and its tributaries, would be direct free swim from the ocean,” Mr Bennett said. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3529819/us-could-demand-action-on-dams-to-save-last-atlantic-salmon/ | 2022-07-25T18:32:34Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/3529819/us-could-demand-action-on-dams-to-save-last-atlantic-salmon/ | false |
'Titanic' and 'The Omen' actor David Warner dies at 80
David Warner, a versatile British actor whose roles ranged from Shakespearean tragedies to sci-fi cult classics, has died. He was 80.
Warner's family said he died from a cancer-related illness on Sunday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for entertainers in London.
Often cast as a villain, Warner had roles in the 1971 psychological thriller "Straw Dogs," the 1976 horror classic "The Omen," the 1979 time-travel adventure "Time After Time" — he was Jack the Ripper — and the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," where he played the malicious valet Spicer Lovejoy.
Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Warner became a young star of the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing roles including King Henry VI and King Richard II. His 1965 performance in the title role of "Hamlet" for the company, directed by Peter Hall, was considered one of the finest of his generation.
Gregor Doran, the RSC's artistic director emeritus, said Warner's Hamlet, played as a tortured student, "seemed the epitome of 1960's youth, and caught the radical spirit of a turbulent age."
Warner also starred in Hall's 1968 film of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," opposite Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg.
Despite his acclaim as a stage actor, chronic stage fright led Warner to prefer film and TV work for many years.
He was nominated for a British Academy Film Award for the title role in Karel Reisz's Swinging London tragicomedy "Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment," released in 1966. He later won an Emmy for his role as Roman politician Pomponius Falco in the 1981 TV miniseries "Masada."
He had a prolific career on film and TV in both Britain and the United States, and became beloved of sci-fi fans for roles in Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits," computer movie "Tron," Tim Burton's remake of "Planet of the Apes," and the "Star Trek" franchise, where he made several appearances in different roles.
Warner returned to theater in 2001 after almost three decades to play Andrew Undershaft in a Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara." In 2005 he starred in Shakespeare's "King Lear" at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and in 2007 returned to the RSC to play Shakespeare's comic buffoon Falstaff.
One of his final film roles was as retired naval officer Admiral Boom in "Mary Poppins Returns," released in 2018.
Warner's family said he would be remembered "as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years."
"We are heartbroken," the family said.
They said Warner is survived by his partner Lisa Bowerman, his son Luke, daughter-in-law Sarah, "his good friend Jane Spencer Prior, his first wife Harriet Evans and his many gold dust friends." | https://www.4029tv.com/article/david-warner-dies-at-80-titanic-and-the-omen-actor/40708330 | 2022-07-25T18:32:46Z | https://www.4029tv.com/article/david-warner-dies-at-80-titanic-and-the-omen-actor/40708330 | true |
Bones McCoy was at his ruthless best when he stormed to an impressive victory in a race billed as the ‘Short-course Showdown’ at Mandurah last Friday night.
The star chaser from Glen Currie’s kennels made it look easy against a quality field, which included the red hot Rage On Zatara, in the 405m Free To All.
Bones McCoy came into the race on the back of five straight wins but he conceded favouritism to Rage On Zatara, a greyhound that had won his previous seven attempts and had recently broken the 302m track record, which had stood for six years.
After a moderate start from box two, Bones McCoy took a couple of strides to find top gear but then he surged to the front along the rail and didn’t look back.
Rage On Zatara emerged from the pack as the lead pursuer but he couldn’t make up ground as Bones McCoy set a cracking pace on the lure.
Bones McCoy kicked away in the home straight to score by more than four lengths in a very slick 22.35.
The classy black speedster has now racked up 33 wins from 67 starts and pushed his career prizemoney past $138,000.
In other racing on the night, Nambeelup-based trainer Corey White scored a treble with Who Told Spider, Poppa Monno and Entry Level.
Poppa Monno overcame a poor start to charge home and claim the 490m Free To All while Entry Level collected back-to-back wins for the first time in his career with his success in the 490m Grade 5. | https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/mandurah-coastal-times/bones-mccoy-secures-impressive-win-in-mandurahs-short-course-showdown-c-7634110 | 2022-07-25T18:35:45Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/mandurah-coastal-times/bones-mccoy-secures-impressive-win-in-mandurahs-short-course-showdown-c-7634110 | true |
NPSx draws on Bain & Company's decades of industry leadership in developing the most capable customer experience leaders
BOSTON, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company today launches NPSx, the first customer experience (CX) training and certification by the leader and inventors of the Net Promoter Score and the Net Promoter System (NPS). NPSx is a new Bain venture to help companies create leading customer experiences through world-class CX technology and training.
NPSx courses reflect Bain & Company's extensive client experience, including over 1,600 Net Promoter System and CX projects across regions and industries, and the best of Bain's learning approach. Each of the CX courses are online, self-paced, on-demand and interactive and take a few hours to complete. After the successful completion of a minimum of five core courses and a certification exam, participants can register to become a Bain-certified CX practitioner.
NPSx's courses enable organizations and individuals to develop deep expertise in the most critical CX disciplines including:
- CX and Net Promoter Score fundamentals
- Customer insights and analytics
- Earned growth and customer economics
- Customer experience design
- CX build and execution
As a course participant and Bain-certified practitioner, participants also get access to an extensive online community of peers and expert practitioners. These communities help participants to solve real customer challenges with the support of other CX leaders from Bain and beyond.
"We want to provide customer-obsessed individuals and brands with the very best in innovative CX and NPS training, empowering our customers to deliver great experiences for their own customers," said Darci Darnell, a Bain & Company partner and global head of its Customer practice. "Our content builds on decades of Bain's best practice cross-industry experience and follows on the tremendous success of our recent book, Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers."
"In today's world, customer expectations are changing rapidly and the CX function is evolving at the same pace," said Stanford Swinton, executive vice president and the founder of NPSx. "We want to enable practitioners and organizations to stay ahead of competition and drive growth through customer and employee advocacy. Our courses help companies build a purpose-led culture, set the right corporate standards and develop the most capable customer experience leaders in the industry."
Editor's Note: For questions or to arrange an interview, please contact Kirstin Simons at kirstin.simons@bain.com or tel. +31 20 708 6712.
NPSx offers standard or customizable packages for your teams or individual practitioners who are looking to upskill or fully certify their organization. To learn more about NPSx's Training and Certification program and register for the courses, visit NPSx.com or contact us at customersuccess@npsx.com.
NPSx is the latest digital venture from Bain & Company's Customer Experience practice. Other ventures include NPS Prism, a CX benchmarking platform that provides actionable insights and analysis to guide the creation of game-changing customer experiences.
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world's most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today's urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
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MIAMI, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EZ Blockchain will be attending the Mining Disrupt conference scheduled for July 26-28 in Miami. The green Bitcoin mining solutions company will meet with people to discuss its already complete and readily available low-emission hosting all-inclusive services. The hosting services are currently available in Kansas, Texas, Colorado and South Carolina.
At these challenging times, EZ Blockchain prides itself on having reliable and profitable crypto mining hosting solutions for crypto mining investors. The company also plans to use the oncoming world's largest Bitcoin mining expo to share more details about its upcoming availability of 1.5mW mobile immersion mining container solutions. The mining container will be available for pre-sale orders, although deliveries are anticipated for the 4th quarter.
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SWFL 2022: Kicking spree powers momentous Busselton Magpies victory over Carey Park Panthers
The Busselton Magpies continue to soar, taking down Carey Park at home this week in a huge 49-point victory.
The Round 16 clash took place amid trying conditions but ultimately Busselton prevailed in a get-away final quarter where they collected five goals to affirm the 11.11 (77) to 4.4 (28) win.
The Magpies were hot out of the gate, with Liam Creighton sealing the opening major for the black and white outfit.
Panthers forward Rory O’Brien soon responded with a goal of his own — the team’s only score for the first term, as they struggled to gain possession of Busselton’s clean ball movement.
Play featured heavily in the midfield in the second quarter, Carey Park turning up their defensive pressure, laying several tackles and proving a challenge for the Magpies.
Their change in strategy led to a major from ruckman Zane Verhaaf.
Despite the added heat, Busselton continued to stretch their lead with majors from Creighton, Mitchell Howlett and a ripping set shot from Dylan Patterson who sent the ball sailing through the big sticks from well beyond the 50-metre line, giving them a 15-point lead at the main break.
The third quarter continued the trend, Carey Park only managing to add two behinds to their bill, while Busselton collected another two goals.
It seemed the Panthers were taking chances on long kicks in attempts to clear the ball out and enter their forward 50 rather than retaining possession with short passes which proved a strong strategy of their competition.
Busselton’s ability to mark the ball in their forward half proved the downfall of Carey Park in the final term, their clean hands and straight kicking leading to an additional 34 points for the side.
The scoring spree resulted in back-to-back goals from Jed Kemp and Howlett, while Creighton converted his third for the match.
Redemption for the Panthers came in the form of O’Brien, claiming two goals for the blue and red resulting in a final score of 11.11 (77) to 4.4 (28).
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A New York man fired shots at store workers at a North Carolina mall when they confronted him about stolen merchandise, not long after he had stolen items from a home improvement store, police said Monday.
Winston-Salem police said in a news release that Carlton McCrimmon, 33, of Port Washington, New York, tried to steal items from the store at Hanes Mall on Sunday.
According to police, McCrimmon dropped the stolen items when the workers confronted him and ran out of the store. Moments later, he returned to the store and fired a gun at the store workers before fleeing in a white vehicle, police said. There were no reports of injuries.
Police said McCrimmon was stopped by deputies with the Iredell County Sheriff's Office for multiple traffic violations. An investigation turned up stolen items and a gun, police said.
Multiple charges were filed by Winston-Salem police against McCrimmon, including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, discharging a firearm within the city limits and discharging a firearm within an enclosure to incite fear. He is being held in the Iredell County jail under a $1 million bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-Man-fires-shots-at-workers-at-North-17327435.php | 2022-07-25T18:41:19Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-Man-fires-shots-at-workers-at-North-17327435.php | false |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 37th home run, fellow All-Star Nestor Cortes pitched six sharp innings and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-0 on Sunday.
Jose Trevino, another Yankees All-Star, had the first four-hit game of his career. New York, with the best record in the big leagues, took two of three and has won 22 of 32 series this year.
“It’s always big to win a series,” Yankees manager Aaron Judge said. “You don’t take that for granted whether you’re in a hot streak like we’ve been at times this year or you’re struggling a little bit. Series wins are not to be taken lightly.”
Judge has seven home runs in his last nine games and leads the majors with 81 RBIs. He also raised his batting average to .294, which has been a key area of focus.
“I saw a lot of the greats — Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera — they always hit above .300 and the power just came with it,” Judge said. “That’s always been a goal of mine to hit above .300 and we’ll keep working towards it.”
Cortes (8-3) allowed six hits, struck out seven and walked none while lowering his ERA from 2.63 to 2.48. The 27-year-old lefty began his MLB career with the Orioles in 2018. He has gone 2-0 with a 0.46 in four appearances (three starts) against Baltimore at Oriole Park in his career.
“I go out there every fifth day like I do against any other team but for some reason, I have more success against the Orioles,” Cortes said. “It feels good to do that.”
Clarke Schmidt pitched three innings and earned his first career save.
New York scored three times in the third on a double by DJ LeMahieu and a two-run drive by Judge off Dean Kremer (3-2). Judge has nine homers in his last 12 games against Baltimore and 36 over his career — his most against any opponent.
“I don’t think anybody should pitch to him,” Orioles catcher Robinson Chirinos said. “The guy is unbelievable. He’s hitting good pitches. He’s hitting mistakes. Normally when a guy’s hot, he’s hitting doubles and singles. He’s hitting the ball out of the ballpark, and it’s crazy. He’s a good hitter. What can you say?”
The Yankees lead the majors with 166 homers, the most they’ve hit through the first 96 games of a season in franchise history.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa extended his hitting streak to 12 games with an RBI single and Trevino followed with a double that increased the lead to 5-0 in the sixth. Aaron Hicks drove in the sixth run with a single in the ninth.
VACCINATION
Every member of the Orioles’ 40-man roster is now vaccinated, the club said. That means the entire team can travel to division rival Toronto on Aug. 15-17.
SCORING CHANGE
The Yankees used four outfielders in the second against Adley Rutschman, who hit a fly ball to left that was dropped by second baseman Gleyber Torres on the warning track. The official scorer initially charged Torres with an error but later awarded Rutschman his 18th double in 19 games.
STACKING WINS
The Yankees have won at least 66 of their first 97 games for the 10th time in franchise history.
MOVES
Yankees: RHP Shane Greene was designated for assignment. Greene made his first appearance for the Yankees since he was a rookie in 2014 on Saturday and gave up a home run.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: RHP Ron Marinaccio (shoulder inflammation) was reinstated from the 15-day injured list. … OF Giancarlo Stanton is feeling “beat up” but he could be back in the lineup Tuesday. … RHP Michael King will need surgery to repair his fractured elbow. He could be ready for spring training if he doesn’t require Tommy John surgery, manager Aaron Boone said.
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Yankees: LHP Jordan Montgomery (3-2, 3.24 ERA) will start the series opener Tuesday against the Mets and RHP Taijuan Walker (7-2, 2.55 ERA).
Orioles: RHP Austin Voth (1-1, 6.38 ERA) is starting Monday against the Rays and RHP Corey Kluber (6-5, 3.73 ERA)
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SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Scottish golfer Richie Ramsay claimed his fourth European tour title by winning the Cazoo Classic by one shot on Sunday.
The No. 329-ranked Ramsay punched the air and roared with delight after holing a par putt from 10 feet at the last hole at Hillside near Liverpool, northwest England.
He shot 3-under 69 and finished on 14-under 274 overall, earning his first title since the Trophee Hassan II in March 2015.
Englishman Paul Waring, who led after the first two rounds, shot 70 and was alone in second place. Five players were tied for third place another shot back: Sweden’s Marcus Kinhult (67) and Robin Petersson (68), Dutch player Daan Huizing (69), Scotland’s Grant Forrest (70) and France’s Julien Guerrier (72).
Guerrier led by one shot heading into the final round as he sought his first professional win.
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Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing them to die, as a way of studying the disease.
On this date:
In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army of the United States, the first officer to hold the rank.
In 1943, Benito Mussolini was dismissed as premier of Italy by King Victor Emmanuel III, and placed under arrest. (However, Mussolini was later rescued by the Nazis, and re-asserted his authority.)
In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.
In 1956, the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; 51 people — 46 from the Andrea Doria, five from the Stockholm — were killed. (The Andrea Doria capsized and sank the following morning.)
In 1960, a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, that had been the scene of a sit-in protest against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy.
In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first “test tube baby,” was born in Oldham, England; she’d been conceived through the technique of in-vitro fertilization.
In 1980, the film “Caddyshack” was released in theaters.
In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (YIT’-sahk rah-BEEN’) and Jordan’s King Hussein (hoo-SAYN’) signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.
In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet.
In 2010, the online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.
In 2016, on the opening night of the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, Bernie Sanders robustly embraced his former rival Hillary Clinton as a champion for the same economic causes that enlivened his supporters, signaling it was time for them to rally behind her in the campaign against Republican Donald Trump.
In 2019, President Donald Trump had a second phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he solicited Zelenskyy’s help in gathering potentially damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden; that night, a staff member at the White House Office of Management and Budget signed a document that officially put military aid for Ukraine on hold.
In 2020, federal agents fired tear gas to break up rowdy protests in Portland, Oregon, that continued into the early morning, demonstrations had been taking place in Portland every night for two months in the aftermath of the Minneapolis death of George Floyd.
Ten years ago: President Barack Obama embraced some degree of control on the sale of weapons but also told the National Urban League in New Orleans he would seek a national consensus on combating violence. NBC announced it had topped the $1 billion mark in advertising sales for the upcoming Olympic Games in London, topping the $850 million in ad sales for the Beijing games in 2008.
Five years ago: A bitterly-divided Senate voted to move forward with Republican legislation to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” Sen. John McCain, returning to the Capitol for the first time since he was diagnosed with brain cancer, cast a decisive “yes” vote. (Three days later, McCain joined with two other Republican senators and Democrats in defeating the repeal effort.) House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice on June 14, was released from a Washington hospital.
One year ago: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named a second Republican critic of Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to a special committee investigating the Capitol riot; he joined Rep. Liz Cheney as the committee’s two Republicans, both selected by Democrats. Golfers Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm, who’d won the past two U.S. Open golf tournaments, dropped out of the Tokyo Games after testing positive for COVID-19.
Today’s Birthdays: Folk-pop singer-musician Bruce Woodley (The Seekers) is 80. Rock musician Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds) is 79. Rock musician Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 71.
Singer-musician Jem Finer (The Pogues) is 67. Model-actor Iman is 67. Cartoonist Ray Billingsley (“Curtis”) is 65. Rock musician Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) is 64. Celebrity chef/TV personality Geoffrey Zakarian is 63. Actor-singer Bobbie Eakes is 61. Actor Katherine Kelly Lang is 61. Actor Illeana Douglas is 57. Country singer Marty Brown is 57. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 55. Actor Wendy Raquel Robinson is 55. Rock musician Paavo Lotjonen (PAH’-woh LAHT’-joh-nehn) (Apocalyptica) is 54. Actor D.B. Woodside is 53. Actor Miriam Shor is 51. Actor David Denman is 49. Actor Jay R. Ferguson is 48. Actor James Lafferty is 37. Actor Shantel VanSanten is 37. Actor Michael Welch is 35. Actor Linsey Godfrey is 34. Classical singer Faryl Smith is 27. Actor Mason Cook is 22. Actor Meg Donnelly (TV: “American Housewife”) is 21. Actor Pierce Gagnon is 17. | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2022/07/25/today-in-history-today-is-monday-july-25-the-206th-day-of-2022/ | 2022-07-25T18:46:00Z | https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2022/07/25/today-in-history-today-is-monday-july-25-the-206th-day-of-2022/ | false |
After running for nearly 9000 episodes over thirty years, the famous Australian soap Neighbours is finally coming to an end. Plenty of big Hollywood names have starred in the show since its first episode was broadcast back in
It was recently announced that a host of the show's most famous alumni would return for the final few episodes. This means stars like Jason Donavan, Margot Robbie and Kylie Minogue will be reprising their characters (joining regular cast members like Jackie Woodburne, Alan Fletcher, Natalie Bassingthwaite, and Ian Smith), in many instances, decades after their characters were last seen in the show.
As many fans look back over the history of one of the longest-running soaps on television, we've put together a list of ten stars of music, stage, and screen that spent time on Ramsay Street at some point in their career.
Read more: Neighbours' soap icon Mark Little who played Joe Mangel now lives in a forest near the Midlands
Margot Robbie (Donna Freedman)
Now known for countless big-screen Hollywood epics like Suicide Squad, The Wolf of Wall Street, I, Tonya and Birds of Prey, as well as the much anticipated Barbie movie, Margot Robbie played Donna Freedman, a stalker of musician Ty Harper, in 2008.
Alan Dale (Jim Robinson)
Appearing on Ramsay Street from 1985 to 1993, Alan Dale has starred in an incredible amount of television over the years, from legendary series like The West Wing and Lost, to The OC and Entourage, with stops in musical comedy Flight of the Conchords and BBC Doctor Who Sci-Fi Spin-off Torchwood along the way.
Chris Hemsworth (Jamie Kane)
The second of three Hemsworth brothers to appear on the show (with Luke having played Nathan Tyson for ten episodes), Chris Hemsworth played Jamie Kane, a garage worker alongside Steph Scully. While he only appeared in one episode back in 2002, it's safe to say that Chris Hemsworth has done okay out of his post-Neighbours years, most obviously as Thor, but also in Rush, Red Dawn, and many others.
Liam Hemsworth (Josh Taylor)
Completing the set, Liam Hemsworth first appeared in Neighbours in 2007 as Josh Taylor. Now, he's most obviously to be seen alongside Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games, as well as appearing in The Expendables 2, Paranoia, and many other films.
Russell Crowe (Kenny Larkin)
Legend of Hollywood, Russell Crowe played ex-con Kenny Larkin for four episodes in 1987. While listing all of his popular credits is an almost impossible task, Robin Hood, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, and Les Misérables are perhaps some of his most notable roles.
Kylie Minogue (Charlene Robinson)
Perhaps the most famous alumni to never quite shake off their association with Neighbours is the popstar Kylie Minogue, who played mechanic Charlene Robinson from 1986-1988. While she has appeared in films like Moulin Rouge and Street Fighter, she will no doubt be more recognisable for her musical hits "Can't Get You Out Of My Head", "In Your Eyes", and "Spinning Around", as well as a certain duet with…
Jason Donovan (Scott Robinson)
Ahead of beginning his music career in 1988, Jason Donovan played Scott Robinson on Neighbours from 1986. His character famously had an onstage romance with Minogue, and the two would release "Especially For You" in 1989. Donovan and Minogue are both confirmed to return to Neighbours and reprise their roles in the show's final episodes.
Natalie Imbruglia (Beth Brennan)
Yet another huge musical star to have once appeared in the show is "Torn" singer Natalie Imbruglia. She played Beth Brennan in the early 90s and, while she is now mainly known for her musical career, Imbruglia has acted in Underdogs, Beyond Ravens, and Johnny English.
Holly Valance (Flick Scully)
Going on to have parts in DOA: Dead Or Alive, Prison Break and Taken, Holly Valance starred as Flick Scully in Neighbours from 1999 to 2002. Another one of the Neighbours cast to have dabbled in a musical career, she had some success with the single "Kiss Kiss" in 2002 from her album Footprints.
Jesse Spencer (Billy Kennedy)
Recognisable to fans of big American dramas like House and Chicago Fire, Jesse Spencer played Billy Kennedy from 1994 to 2000. He made a small cameo return in the 2005 Neighbours Anniversary show but is another one of the many stars now set to return for the show's finale.
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July 28
Mark Lilley's Singalong. Wirksworth Town Hall.
July 29
Towards The Sun, The Royal Deficiency. Real Time Live, Chesterfield.
Doghouse. The Spotted Frog, Brampton, Chesterfield.
Warren Ireland. The Fishpond, Matlock Bath.
ModSkas. Oakfield Farm Sausage and Cider Festival, Stanley Common.(from 8pm).
The Beat Hounds. New Inn, Duffield Road, Little Eaton.
Litterbug, Subalternos, Dedo Podre. The Hairy Dog, Derby.
Ramblin' Preachers. The Flowerpot, Derby.
July 30
Brew Droop (1pm), More and Byrne (3pm), Eddie Huntley Band (5pm), What Katie Did Next (7pm). The Old Poets Corner, Ashover.
Mr Wolf (2pm), Toolbox (6pm). Oakfield Farm Sausage and Cider Festival, Stanley Common.
Fordzy, Charlotte Lunn, Ichabod Wolf, Mr Bunny. Chesterfeld Labour Club, Saltergate, Chesterfield.
The Nutty Boys. Boythorpe Inn, Chesterfield.
Dogboy, Mancuso. Barley Mow, Bonsall.
Rainer. The Fishpond, Matlock Bath.
The Beat Hounds. The Boat Inn, Cromford.
The Franchise. The Beehive Inn, Ripley.
Fuzzy Felt World. The Cheshire Cheese, Buxton.
Lil Jim. The Flowerpot, Derby.
Venomous Rose, Harrison Rimmer, 28 Double, Silkrates, Smskara. The Hairy Dog, Derby.
Fauves, Tinseltown Rebellion, Paul Carter and The Destroid. Dubrek Studios, Bridge Street, Derby.
Deadblooms, Hex Poseur, The Collide. The Maypole Cafe Bar and Theatre, Brooke Street, Derby.
Rock It. Half Moon Inn, Burton Road, Derby.
July 31Ricky Fleming (1pm), Sue Barron Jazz (3pm). The Old Poets Corner, Ashover.
Bootleg Weller (2pm). Oakfield Farm Sausage and Cider Festival, Stanley Common.
Steve Case (guitarist/vocalist). The Whitecotes, Boythorpe Road, Chesterfield.
Molly-May open mic. The Fishpond, Matlock Bath.
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LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. — A man taken to an eastern Pennsylvania hospital last week after police shot a boa constrictor that was around his neck has died of his injuries, authorities said.
The Lehigh County coroner's office said Monday that 27-year-old Elliot Senseman died Sunday morning at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Cedar Crest. The cause of death was was listed as anoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation by constriction and the manner of death was ruled accidental.
“A boa constrictor-type snake approximately 18 feet in length constricted around the neck of Mr. Senseman, thus causing the anoxic brain injury (complete lack of oxygen to the brain)," the coroner's office said.
Police were called to the Fogelsville home shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday on a report of a man in cardiac arrest with a snake wrapped around his neck. Police said an officer was able to shoot the snake’s head without hurting him and he was given medical aid and taken to the hospital.
Upper Macungie Township police and the coroner's office are investigating. Police told FOX29 that the snake was the man’s pet and several other snake enclosures were found inside the home.
Lt. Peter Nickischer said Monday that investigators don't know the circumstances of the attack because “the dire situation" precluded “extended interviews ... about the snake, its origin, or anything along those lines." | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/regional/boa-constrictor-attack-death-fogelsville-lehigh-county/521-f7c7ffef-4c65-4c9d-8def-5b974a3132ff | 2022-07-25T18:57:57Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/regional/boa-constrictor-attack-death-fogelsville-lehigh-county/521-f7c7ffef-4c65-4c9d-8def-5b974a3132ff | false |
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-4-3
(seven, four, three)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-4-3
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More Than 5000 Participants Attended the Event in Edison, NJ
Over 300 Entrepreneurs from the Satmar Community Had Booths Showing How They Employ Thousands of People, Serving Customers Worldwide With an Economic Footprint Reaching Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
EDISON, N.J., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders of New York and New Jersey's Satmar community today announced the final numbers of its first every Satmar Business Expo.
More than five thousand participants attended the expo which was held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ.
The expo consisted of booths with over 300 entrepreneurs from the Satmar community who own and manage businesses from dozens of different industries. The businesses at the Expo employ thousands of people, serve customers around the world and pump upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy.
"This event truly shows the success of the Satmar community as well as the success of a yeshiva education. From the financial sector to insurance to real estate to hospitality to winemaking, the Satmar Expo had it all and allowed entrepreneurs to come together to share ideas, to network, and to talk about their latest innovations and success stories. This expo highlighted the hundreds of Satmar businesses that employ thousands of people from every community and that generate millions in economic activity across the country," said Rabbi David Niederman, Executive Director of the United Jewish Organizations.
"I grew up in a neighborhood and in a yeshiva where I learned from an early age the value of community. Therefore, when it came to my business, I made it my mission statement to be able to say that we service our customers in their communities. Skyscraper Insurance Services has helped families and businesses across the United States to protect what matters most to them, at every stage of their lives. We are ready, willing, and able to help anyone and everyone with their insurance needs, no matter where life has taken them. That means the recent college graduate looking for a simple renters insurance policy receives the same level of service and care as the national brand with 500 employees who needs someone to protect their business. It was a great honor for Skyscraper Insurance to be part of this historic Expo," said Chaim Berkovic, President of Skyscraper Insurance.
"Some of the most successful life insurance agents in the industry are based out of our firm Mass Mutual Brooklyn with headquarters in Brooklyn. Most of our advisors are Yeshiva graduates and we are looking to expand and find more of the right talent to join our team," said Naftali Elias with Mass Mutual, a sponsor of the Expo.
"I am a graduate of yeshiva, a native of Brooklyn and now a mortgage loan originator at ABC Mortgage. We have 15 employees who service the five boroughs. In 2021, Scotsman's Guide ranked one of our originators the 2nd top broker in the state. It was an honor and privilege to talk about our award at the Satmar Expo and it just highlights another financial success story out of a yeshiva education," said Hershy Silberstein from ABC Mortgage.
"This was an amazing event, I met so many professionals from across every segment in the business world, past and current clients. My education in yeshiva taught me the importance of community, partnership and how to properly analyze a deal or business venture. The vibe in the air is something that had to be witnessed first-hand to understand, and to see that the entire exhibition hall was occupied by professionals all with the same yeshiva education was an amazing sight to behold," said Meyer Tauber, Entrepreneur and Owner of Metrex Realty.
"I am raised in Brooklyn, educated in Brooklyn and now I own and manage a business based out of Brooklyn with 2000 employees with a footprint in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and expanding to even more states. I feel the opportunities for our generation of young entrepreneurs is stronger than it has ever been before," said Yidel Falkowitz, Owner and Founder of QFS, Quality Facility Solutions. "With young professionals pushing themselves in every market and using what they have learned while being educated in yeshivas, I see a bright and prosperous future on all fronts."
"The expo gave me an opportunity to share new ideas with hundreds of other entrepreneurs. I am a Brooklyn native who is a graduate of the yeshiva school system. I am the founder of 3 businesses including a tile company that handles projects in homes and high rise buildings from coast to coast. It was an honor to be part of the event and I look forward to attending more," said Shaya Liebowitz, Founder and CEO of US Tiles.
"My yeshiva education taught me about problem solving and thinking out of the box. I took those skills to the construction industry and founded my own firm with eight employees and offices in New York and New Jersey, where we have designed over 3000 homes throughout the Tri-state area. I was honored to talk about my success at the Satmar Expo last week, and I look forward to future events," said Shimon Ostreicher CEO and founder of Bluepro Layouts Inc.
"I founded Scanovator Delivery Systems in 2017. We help over 130 local businesses in the tri-state area and beyond manage their orders, drivers, and deliveries in an efficient and cost-effective way. We are growing fast. Our algorithm optimizes best routes for drivers and notifies end-customers a few minutes prior to delivery. Drivers can sign or snap pictures of their deliveries all of which is recorded and stored for future reference as needed. As a student of the Satmar yeshiva system, studying the Talmud and other historical texts gave me the knowledge and the power to tackle online system structures and database languages head on. I created a mobile app completely on my own, which is still the core of our business today. I will forever remain grateful to my great teachers in the Yeshiva system for empowering me with such important life skills," said Chaim Friedman, Founder of Scanovator Delivery Systems.
"We handle nationwide warehouse shelving and racking from design to sales to installation. We employ 35 people. We attended the 'Satmar Business Expo' to network with the thousands of entrepreneurs, business, and salespeople, and were truly amazed by the dynamic business opportunities that exist within the Satmar orthodox community as well as the spectrum of businesses that are owned and managed by members of the Satmar community," said Marty Weiss, CEO of Bob's Commercial Material Handling and Shelving, Inc.
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PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Boaters and whale watchers off Massachusetts got a surprise over the weekend when a humpback whale breached and landed on the bow of a 19-foot vessel.
The boat operator reported no injuries and no damage that affected the seaworthiness of the vessel, according to officials in Plymouth, on Cape Cod Bay.
Several boats were around the whale Sunday when it made the jump. Video footage shows it launching its body out of the water and its head slamming onto the front of a boat, tipping the rear of the vessel out of the water as it slid back into the ocean.
Humpback whales can grow up to 62 feet long and weight up to 53 tons. They are popular with whale watchers because of their acrobatic displays — including spectacular breachings in which they launch their school-bus-size bodies entirely out of the water and slap the surface with their pectoral fins or tails.
The Plymouth harbormaster said collisions like that off Plymouth are rare and can be dangerous for both boaters and whales. The harbormaster recommends that boaters stay at least 100 yards from humpbacks to minimize such meetings. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/whale-whomping-jumping-humpback-lands-on-boat-no-one-hurt/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-07-25T19:00:35Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/whale-whomping-jumping-humpback-lands-on-boat-no-one-hurt/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | true |
Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in “Goodfellas” and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on “Law & Order,” has died. He was 83.
His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning in Indiana of natural causes. Sorvino had dealt with health issues over the past few years.
“Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage,” his wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, said in a statement. She was by his side when he died.
In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s “Reds,” Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s “Nixon” and mob boss Eddie Valentine in “The Rocketeer.” He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell for the theater. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in “Bajour” and his film debut in Carl Reiner’s “Where’s Poppa?” in 1970.
With his 6-foot-4-inch stature, Sorvino made an impactful presence no matter the medium. In the 1970s, he acted alongside Al Pacino in “The Panic in Needle Park” and with James Caan in “The Gambler,” reteamed with Reiner in “Oh, God!” and was among the ensemble in William Friedkin’s bank robbery comedy “The Brink’s Job.” In John G. Avildsen’s “Rocky” follow-up “Slow Dancing in the Big City,” Sorvino got to play a romantic lead and use his dance training opposite professional ballerina Anne Ditchburn.
He was especially prolific in the 1990s, kicking off the decade playing Lips in Beatty’s “Dick Tracy” and Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” who was based on the real-life mobster Paul Vario, and 31 episodes on Dick Wolf’s “Law & Order.” He followed those with roles in “The Rocketeer,” “The Firm,” “Nixon,” which got him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” as Juliet’s father, Fulgencio Capulet. Beatty would turn to Sorvino often, enlisting him again for his political satire “Bulworth,” which came out in 1998, and his 2016 Hollywood love letter “Rules Don’t Apply.” He also appeared in James Gray’s “The Immigrant.”
Sorvino had three children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. He also directed and starred in a film written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino and featuring his son Michael Sorvino.
When he learned that Mira Sorvino had been among the women allegedly sexually harassed and blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein in the midst of the #MeToo reckoning, he told TMZ that if he had known, Weinstein, “Would not be walking. He’d be in a wheelchair.”
He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for “Mighty Aphrodite” in 1996. He the Los Angeles Times that night that he didn’t have the words to express how he felt.
“They don’t exist in any language that I’ve ever heard — well, maybe Italian,” he said.
But he wanted to be seen for more than what he was on screen and took particular pride in his singing. In 1996, “Paul Sorvino: An Evening of Song” was broadcast on television as a part of a PBS fundraising campaign. Songs performed included “Torna A Sorriento,” “Guaglione,” “O Sole Mio,” “The Impossible Dream” and “Mama.”
“I’m a pop singer in the sense Mario Lanza was,” Sorvino said in an interview the Tampa Tribune. “It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?”
The weight of his voice, he thought, made it difficult to train.
“It’s like trying to park a bus in a VW parking space,” he said.
He also ran a horse rescue in Pennsylvania, had a grocery store pasta sauce line based on his mother’s recipe, and sculpted a bronze statue of the late playwright Jason Miller that resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Sorvino had starred in Miller’s Tony and Pulitzer-winning play “That Championship Season” on Broadway in 1972 and its film adaptation.
In 2014, he married political pundit Dee Dee Benkie and said that a goal of his later life was to “disabuse people of the notion that I’m a slow-moving, heavy-lidded thug.”
As with most who starred in “Goodfellas,” the image would follow him for the rest of his life which he had complex feelings about.
’Most people think I’m either a gangster or a cop or something,” he said. “The reality is I’m a sculptor, a painter, a best-selling author, many, many things — a poet, an opera singer, but none of them is gangster…. It would be nice to have my legacy more than that of just tough guy.” | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/goodfellas-law-order-actor-paul-sorvino-dies-at-83/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-07-25T19:01:01Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/goodfellas-law-order-actor-paul-sorvino-dies-at-83/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | true |
WATCH: Security tackles angry Kid Rock fan on stage after last-minute concert cancellation
Published: Jul. 25, 2022 at 1:57 PM CDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
MINOT, N.D. (CNN) – Kid Rock fans in North Dakota had a violent reaction to the cancellation of his concert Friday night.
One angry fan rushed the stage before being tackled by security, while others threw cups from the audience.
Promoters at the North Dakota State Fair canceled the show due to the danger posed by high winds. The state fair’s general manager says that the band’s speakers and monitors were swaying in the wind.
Kid Rock tweeted, “I know it sucks but none of us can control mother nature. Please be safe leaving and take care of each other.”
State fair officials said ticketholders would get full refunds.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Three people were shot and injured Monday on the city’s near east side, according to police.
Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department were called just before 2:15 p.m. Monday to the 1000 block of Churchman Avenue, near the intersection of Churchman Ave. and Woodlawn Ave. There, they found three victims with apparent gunshot wounds.
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As part of its commitment to accelerating infectious disease diagnostics, HealthTrackRx will deliver next-day monkeypox results to physicians and patients.
DENTON, Texas, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthTrackRx, the nation's leading PCR diagnostic testing lab, is now offering a molecular test for detection of the human monkeypox virus. The test was developed by the company's research and development team and is available to the thousands of HealthTrackRx customers across the country in response to this rapidly growing public health emergency.
Martin Price, CEO and Chairman of HealthTrackRx stated, "In light of The World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency and the proliferation of cases in our communities, we're pleased to deploy a means of rapidly detecting this virus. Applying molecular diagnostics to detect infectious diseases and getting those results in healthcare providers' hands by the next day is our mission and is where we can make a difference in containing this crisis."
The HealthTrackRx assay is a pan-monkeypox test that detects both the West African and Congo basin strains of the virus, using the TaqMan® multiplex real-time PCR technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Dr. Vijay Singh, who led the research and development teams' effort to develop and validate the assay stated, "Testing is one of the first and most crucial strategies for containment of an infectious disease outbreak or pandemic. The non-endemic spread of human monkeypox is an urgent public health threat. The rapid development of the pan-Monkeypox Assay at HealthTrackRx, alongside our industry partners, demonstrates our commitment to public health by delivering solutions that accelerate results to patients."
Healthcare providers will be able to order the pan-Monkeypox Assay as a stand-alone test or in combination with other lesion/ulcer causative pathogens that may be confused with human monkeypox. While the virus is predominantly being spread in the United States from sexual transmission, the clinical presentation does not fit with many traditional sexually transmitted infections. The intended use only includes pathogens that have the clinical manifestation of lesions, ulcers, or other skin abnormalities. Specimens that test positive for human monkeypox will be reported to the physicians who order the test. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health authorities will be notified of positive tests for surveillance purposes.
The widespread availability of a human monkeypox test follows the company's announcement last week that it has been working in partnership with the CDC to conduct an epidemiologic study that will contribute to understanding the spread of human monkeypox within the United States. The study will be accruing critical data regarding the spread of human monkeypox across the United States.
The latest CDC information on monkeypox is available at cdc.gov/monkeypox.
HealthTrackRx is the nation's leading PCR-based infectious disease laboratory, delivering industry-leading testing turnaround times to healthcare providers nationwide. For more than 20 years, the company has enabled accurate clinical decisions through its testing platform, advancement in pathogen detection and identification, antimicrobial stewardship leadership, and value-based care programs. For more information, visit HealthTrackRx at healthtrackrx.com
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-4-3
(seven, four, three)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Iowa Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
7-4-3
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More Than 5000 Participants Attended the Event in Edison, NJ
Over 300 Entrepreneurs from the Satmar Community Had Booths Showing How They Employ Thousands of People, Serving Customers Worldwide With an Economic Footprint Reaching Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
EDISON, N.J., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders of New York and New Jersey's Satmar community today announced the final numbers of its first every Satmar Business Expo.
More than five thousand participants attended the expo which was held at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ.
The expo consisted of booths with over 300 entrepreneurs from the Satmar community who own and manage businesses from dozens of different industries. The businesses at the Expo employ thousands of people, serve customers around the world and pump upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy.
"This event truly shows the success of the Satmar community as well as the success of a yeshiva education. From the financial sector to insurance to real estate to hospitality to winemaking, the Satmar Expo had it all and allowed entrepreneurs to come together to share ideas, to network, and to talk about their latest innovations and success stories. This expo highlighted the hundreds of Satmar businesses that employ thousands of people from every community and that generate millions in economic activity across the country," said Rabbi David Niederman, Executive Director of the United Jewish Organizations.
"I grew up in a neighborhood and in a yeshiva where I learned from an early age the value of community. Therefore, when it came to my business, I made it my mission statement to be able to say that we service our customers in their communities. Skyscraper Insurance Services has helped families and businesses across the United States to protect what matters most to them, at every stage of their lives. We are ready, willing, and able to help anyone and everyone with their insurance needs, no matter where life has taken them. That means the recent college graduate looking for a simple renters insurance policy receives the same level of service and care as the national brand with 500 employees who needs someone to protect their business. It was a great honor for Skyscraper Insurance to be part of this historic Expo," said Chaim Berkovic, President of Skyscraper Insurance.
"Some of the most successful life insurance agents in the industry are based out of our firm Mass Mutual Brooklyn with headquarters in Brooklyn. Most of our advisors are Yeshiva graduates and we are looking to expand and find more of the right talent to join our team," said Naftali Elias with Mass Mutual, a sponsor of the Expo.
"I am a graduate of yeshiva, a native of Brooklyn and now a mortgage loan originator at ABC Mortgage. We have 15 employees who service the five boroughs. In 2021, Scotsman's Guide ranked one of our originators the 2nd top broker in the state. It was an honor and privilege to talk about our award at the Satmar Expo and it just highlights another financial success story out of a yeshiva education," said Hershy Silberstein from ABC Mortgage.
"This was an amazing event, I met so many professionals from across every segment in the business world, past and current clients. My education in yeshiva taught me the importance of community, partnership and how to properly analyze a deal or business venture. The vibe in the air is something that had to be witnessed first-hand to understand, and to see that the entire exhibition hall was occupied by professionals all with the same yeshiva education was an amazing sight to behold," said Meyer Tauber, Entrepreneur and Owner of Metrex Realty.
"I am raised in Brooklyn, educated in Brooklyn and now I own and manage a business based out of Brooklyn with 2000 employees with a footprint in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and expanding to even more states. I feel the opportunities for our generation of young entrepreneurs is stronger than it has ever been before," said Yidel Falkowitz, Owner and Founder of QFS, Quality Facility Solutions. "With young professionals pushing themselves in every market and using what they have learned while being educated in yeshivas, I see a bright and prosperous future on all fronts."
"The expo gave me an opportunity to share new ideas with hundreds of other entrepreneurs. I am a Brooklyn native who is a graduate of the yeshiva school system. I am the founder of 3 businesses including a tile company that handles projects in homes and high rise buildings from coast to coast. It was an honor to be part of the event and I look forward to attending more," said Shaya Liebowitz, Founder and CEO of US Tiles.
"My yeshiva education taught me about problem solving and thinking out of the box. I took those skills to the construction industry and founded my own firm with eight employees and offices in New York and New Jersey, where we have designed over 3000 homes throughout the Tri-state area. I was honored to talk about my success at the Satmar Expo last week, and I look forward to future events," said Shimon Ostreicher CEO and founder of Bluepro Layouts Inc.
"I founded Scanovator Delivery Systems in 2017. We help over 130 local businesses in the tri-state area and beyond manage their orders, drivers, and deliveries in an efficient and cost-effective way. We are growing fast. Our algorithm optimizes best routes for drivers and notifies end-customers a few minutes prior to delivery. Drivers can sign or snap pictures of their deliveries all of which is recorded and stored for future reference as needed. As a student of the Satmar yeshiva system, studying the Talmud and other historical texts gave me the knowledge and the power to tackle online system structures and database languages head on. I created a mobile app completely on my own, which is still the core of our business today. I will forever remain grateful to my great teachers in the Yeshiva system for empowering me with such important life skills," said Chaim Friedman, Founder of Scanovator Delivery Systems.
"We handle nationwide warehouse shelving and racking from design to sales to installation. We employ 35 people. We attended the 'Satmar Business Expo' to network with the thousands of entrepreneurs, business, and salespeople, and were truly amazed by the dynamic business opportunities that exist within the Satmar orthodox community as well as the spectrum of businesses that are owned and managed by members of the Satmar community," said Marty Weiss, CEO of Bob's Commercial Material Handling and Shelving, Inc.
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
2-1-4, WB: 7
(two, one, four; WB: seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
2-1-4, WB: 7
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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball made what was termed a “final offer” for an international draft, increasing proposed money for the first year in 2024 by $10 million on Sunday to $191 million.
The move came one day after the players’ association made a proposal that remained at $260 million and left the sides far apart heading into a Monday night midnight EDT deadline for a deal.
Because an international draft was tied in the March lockout settlement to dropping direct draft-pick compensation for qualified free agents, these negotiations will start to determine the market for a free agent group that includes Anthony Rizzo, J.D. Martinez, Chris Sale and Charlie Morton.
While the loss of draft picks hasn’t inhibited teams from chasing top free agents since the current system began in 2012 — this year’s group includes Aaron Judge, Jacob deGrom and Trea Turner — a slightly lesser level has been impacted. Craig Kimbrel and Dallas Keuchel delayed signing in 2019 until June, after the draft pick compensation no longer was attached.
“We want to do whatever it takes for those guys to make sure they get good deals and get good contracts,” New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, part of the union’s eight-man executive subcommittee, said Sunday. “But also we want to make sure that the guys that are entering the game, as well, are taken care of, are are put in a good situation in a good spot.”
The negotiating moves were disclosed to The Associated Press by two people familiar with the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity because public comments were not authorized.
MLB proposed last July 28 that a 2024 international draft include spending of $181 million for the top 600 players and $190 million in total, up from $166 million in the 2021 signing period. MLB’s proposal contained hard slots, which for 2024 would assign $5,512,500 for the top pick to $2,625,000 for the 10th overall.
Players waited until early this July to make a counteroffer. They proposed a draft be allocated $260 million for the 2024 signing period, with teams having to guarantee slot values while having the flexibility to exceed them within bonus pools, the people said.
The union estimates spending on the amateur draft will be over $300 million by 2024. Players also proposed a deal include a guaranteed number of jobs and signings for international amateurs.
“Players have been willing to have a conversation, despite the fact that there are players on each side of the equation,” union head Tony Clark said before the All-Star Game. “But everyone can agree that the system that would need to be considered here, particularly in a draft world, needs to be much better than what is otherwise been contemplated to this point.”
An amateur draft was established for residents of the United States and Canada in 1965 and extended to residents of U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico in 1990. The players’ association agreed to a structure of signing bonus pools with penalties that started in 2012, and international amateurs have been subject to a similar though different bonus pool system.
MLB pushed for an international draft in bargaining, arguing it would reduce corruption, especially in the Dominican Republic. MLB hopes a draft would eliminate players reaching agreements in advance of their eligibility to sign — either 16 or 15 if the player turns 16 later in the signing period.
“Our concern and I think this has been well documented over time is situations where clubs make commitments to players before they’re technically age eligible to sign, that there are individuals involved in those negotiations that take a piece of the really significant piece of the compensation that really should be going to the player off the top,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said.
The Atlanta Braves lost 13 prospects and former general manager John Coppolella was banned for life by Major League Baseball in 2017.
“You have two ways to deal with rules violations,” Manfred said. “You can investigate and try to find out what happened in each individual situation. We’ve tried that for a number of years — hasn’t worked very well. It’s just a lot of dealings that you have to chase down. The other way is through transparency, and that’s why we like the draft idea. If you don’t know which club is going to get the rights to the player, there’s no point in making an early deal, right?”
Union officials have said corruption is partially caused by teams willing to pay money in violation of the rules.
“It’s easy to say that it’s the people that cut the check, that they’re engaged in corruption,” Manfred said. “But somebody’s taking the check, right?”
If an international draft is not agreed to, a team signing a qualified free agent still would forfeit one or more picks in the next amateur draft and have its international signing bonus pool reduced.
No matter what, a team losing a free agent could gain an additional draft pick, depending on several conditions.
Some older players could find their markets limited if they refuse qualifying offers — last year’s figure was $18.4 million, the average of the top 125 contracts by average annual value.
A resolution is not expected until just ahead of the deadline.
“At least from my point of view, we’re still not there,” Lindor said.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
247 PM EDT Mon Jul 25 2022
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN UNION,
RICHMOND, HUDSON, KINGS, NEW YORK (MANHATTAN), QUEENS, AND BRONX
COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT...
At 242 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Edison, or near Perth Amboy, moving northeast at 45 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.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Linden and Huguenot around 255 PM EDT.
Todt Hill, Port Richmond and Oakwood around 300 PM EDT.
Bayonne, Bay Ridge and Tompkinsville around 305 PM EDT.
Jersey City, Flatbush, Park Slope, and Bensonhurst around 310 PM.
Crown Heights, Canarsie, Lower East Side, East Village and
Brooklyn Heights around 315 PM.
Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, Howard Beach, Ozone Park and Long
Island City around 320 PM.
Jamaica, Flushing, Laguardia Airport, Kennedy Airport and
Whitestone around 325 PM.
The Throgs Neck Bridge, Bayside and Little Neck around 330 PM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 4055 7425 4056 7422 4059 7421 4059 7429
4060 7430 4061 7429 4068 7415 4068 7414
4087 7377 4084 7375 4082 7379 4075 7370
4073 7370 4072 7373 4067 7373 4058 7402
4059 7403 4060 7403 4056 7407 4051 7426
TIME...MOT...LOC 1842Z 242DEG 38KT 4054 7434
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-03-05-12-13-15-16-18-19-20-21
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DALLAS, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Harwood International has announced the acquisition of The Luminary, a 169,005 square foot, Class A office building located at the intersection of Harwood District, Downtown, Arts District, and Victory Park in Dallas. The state-of-the-art creative office building was completed in 2019 and is 67 percent leased.
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Harwood International's David Roehm, Executive Vice President, led negotiations of the deal alongside Christopher Cauthen, Vice President of Acquisitions. Harwood International's Morgan Staub, Vice President of Capital Markets, arranged the acquisition financing. This marks the global real estate firm's second value-add office acquisition in the past few years; the first being Citymark on the Katy Trail. Having developed over 5 million square feet in the Harwood District, the firm is leveraging its operational leasing and property management expertise to acquire Class A office properties outside of its current portfolio.
"We are thrilled to acquire an institutionally-developed asset like The Luminary in the urban core of Dallas," said Cauthen.
Leasing will be handled by Harwood International's Kelly Whaley, Director of Leasing, and Hannah Mesh, Leasing Manager. Harwood International's Leasing team has maintained over 90 percent occupancy across the company's existing portfolio and have pre-leased its latest tower, Harwood No. 14, to approximately 70 percent after breaking ground just over a year ago. Harwood No. 14 is scheduled to deliver mid-year 2023.
The Luminary was built "by creatives, for creatives" in 2019 by anchor tenant, Corgan, a leading architecture and design firm. The building's other tenant includes advertising agency, Lerma. The building stands seven stories at the intersection of two of Dallas' primary freeways and offers unmatched visibility and views of Downtown and Uptown. Amenities include a rooftop terrace, bike racks, shower facilities, lobby lounge, and 14' floor-to-ceiling, electronically tinted SageGlass.
Harwood International's acquisition plans are initially focused on Dallas/Fort Worth with an eye towards expanding in other parts of Texas and the Sun Belt region.
"Our Capital Markets team secures $300-$400 million in debt per year across our portfolio," says Roehm. "This acquisition is the first of several to come. We are targeting two to three acquisitions per year going forward and will continue to grow."
The real estate market in Texas continues to be the epicenter of demand, and Harwood International's deep experience in the Class A and AA office sector is a perfect fit for tenants desiring a flight-to-quality; whether in one of the firm's acquisitions or a building in its signature Harwood District.
Within its flagship development, the 19-city block Harwood District, the firm has continued extensive progress to its master plan development. In addition to its Harwood No. 14 Class AA office tower, the firm is underway on its own boutique hotel concept, several new restaurants, and prospecting tenants for over six million square feet in development opportunity.
About Harwood International
Founded in 1988, Harwood International is an international real estate firm with offices and developments in select niche markets including Dallas, Geneva, and London's West End. Harwood is organized by four verticals: Asset Management & Leasing, Capital Markets, Development, and Hospitality. The company has received numerous design and community awards, including recognition by ENR for the Best Office Project in the World for its Rolex Building. Please visit harwoodinternational.com for more information.
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OREGON CITY, Ore., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Following a competitive procurement process, Clackamas County has selected Fengate PCL Progress Partners (FP3) as the preferred proponent to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a much-needed new courthouse through a public-private partnership.
The FP3 consortium comprises:
- Developer: Fengate Asset Management (Fengate) and PCL Investments Inc.
- Design-Build Contractor: PCL Construction Services Inc. (PCL)
- Services Provider: Honeywell
- Design Services: DLR Group
Fengate is managing this investment as part of the firm's infrastructure strategy on behalf of its investors, including an investment fund owned by the LiUNA Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada.
The current Clackamas County courthouse is in urgent need of replacement. Built in 1936 to serve 50,000 residents, the facility can no longer handle the demands of a population of 420,000 that continues to grow. The gap between space availability and judicial needs of the growing population in the County has led to delays in trials and incarceration and affected child support hearings and civil litigation trials.
The current facility has been determined functionally obsolete and seismically unsound, causing safety concerns. A capacity shortage highlights the need for separate building circulation zones: there is currently a lack of separate paths for victims, witnesses, and prisoners/defendants. Jurors have no sequestration room on site, increasing potential improper communications.
The new Clackamas County Courthouse will be built on the County's Red Soils Campus in Oregon City and by moving here, courthouse users will be able to quickly access County departments including Social Services; Behavioral Health; Public Health; Juvenile; Veterans Services; and the Family Justice Center. Currently, residents need to drive to multiple buildings to access the various functions of County government. The County owns this land and utility infrastructure is already installed as a part of the master plan for the campus. The new 241,073 sq. ft. courthouse will feature 16 courtrooms, 17 judicial chambers, space for the District Attorney's Office, secure loading and staging areas, enhanced prisoner transfer facilities, jury assembly and grand jury spaces, safe corridors for courthouse users, and secure holding cells for violent offenders.
"We are honored to be selected to deliver this new, safe and secure courthouse with the features and services that the growing population of Clackamas County needs," said Mac Bell, Managing Director, Infrastructure Investments, Fengate. "We look forward to working closely with the County and bringing our team's deep experience to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the new facility for the community."
"We're thrilled to have the chance to partner with DLR, Fengate and Honeywell on this project," said Tyler Kautz, district manager for PCL Construction's Pacific Northwest group. "This public-private partnership project delivery model provides a unique opportunity to look at the goals for Clackamas County in order to build a courthouse that is not only iconic at completion but has long-term sustainability and lower operations lifecycle cost in mind."
In May 2021, Clackamas County Commissioners approved a plan to pursue a public-private partnership for the new courthouse, the first of its kind for Oregon, as this approach provides the best value in keeping with the County's commitment to affordability. The public-private partnership approach was determined to be the most cost-effective plan based on extensive analysis of alternatives and the new courthouse building will be built without any additional tax increases.
FP3 will design and build the new courthouse, then operate and maintain the facility over a 30-year period. FP3 is dedicated to fostering and enhancing the construction industry through supporting local and regional small and historically underutilized businesses by providing education, support, relationship building, networking and opportunities. The consortium's goal is to meet or exceed subcontracting goals utilizing local Disadvantaged Minority-Owned/Women-Owned/Emerging Small Businesses/Service-Disabled Veterans Business (D/M/W/ESB/SDVBE), Small Business Utilization goals and Construction Career Pathways Project (C2P2) initiatives. FP3 is committed to engaging in a substantial good faith effort to provide opportunities to Oregon certified local and D/M/W/ESB/SDVBEs, Small Businesses and C2P2s in the surrounding community and foster ongoing relationships with these businesses.
The County owns the courthouse and the State and the County will not make any payments until the building is completed and ready for occupancy. Upon completion, the State's contribution will be applied as a lump sum payment towards the private financing with the remainder repaid by the County over the remaining 30-year term of the project agreement. For more information, please visit the Clackamas County website.
About Fengate
Fengate is a leading alternative investment manager focused on infrastructure, private equity and real estate strategies. With offices in Ontario and Texas and team members across North America, Fengate is one of the most active real asset investors in North America and the firm has been investing in and developing public-private partnerships and infrastructure since 2006. Learn more at www.fengate.com
About PCL Investments
PCL Investments is the development and equity arm of the PCL family of companies, one of North America's most prolific public-private partnership (P3) general contractors. PCL Investments supports PCL's P3 bids through committed capital ensuring interests are aligned between clients and PCL.
About PCL Construction
PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and in Australia. These diverse operations in the civil infrastructure, heavy industrial, and buildings markets are supported by a strategic presence in more than 30 major centers. Together, these companies have an annual construction volume of more than $6 billion USD, making PCL one of the largest contracting organizations in North America. Watch us build at www.PCL.com.
About Honeywell
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
About DLR Group
DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse. Our promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients; local communities; and our planet. DLR Group is 100 percent employee-owned and fully supports the initiatives and goals of the 2030 Challenge, and is an initial signatory to the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A Colombian soccer fan who came to the U.S. as a political refugee is creating a training camp for young people in New Mexico with former players from Colombia as the instructors.
David Certain, who owns a coffee company, hopes one day to expand the program in the United States and also take it back to his home country.
Former Philadelphia Union player Carlos Valdés and ex-Colombia midfielder Víctor Pacheco are among those teaching the skills and disciplines of soccer to young people in Albuquerque this week, along with former midfielder Jorge Bolaño and ex-goalkeeper Julián Viafara.
Certain wants to create a physical but also emotional and mental training camp for young people who like to play soccer.
“You see a lot of talent that looks very robotic. We want to focus a lot on the emotional part, so that they can control their emotions a little more and know that, when there are emotions, it is normal”, the 42-year-old Colombian said. “It is totally normal to feel failure when the goal is not scored, but how do you manage the moment after that? After that, a lot of kids get stuck.”
The daily camp, which is the first project of the new Alianza Sports, ends Friday in Albuquerque. New Mexico United forward Devon Sandoval will also be involved.
Certain says he is working with companies to provide scholarships for the camp. Sessions are for 10-14-year-olds and the 15-20 age group.
Certain and his family fled Cali, Colombia, in 1999 after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) tried to kidnap him when he was 19.
Certain had an aunt in New Mexico and, after living in Miami for a while, the family moved to Albuquerque. Certain’s 11-year-old son, who plays soccer, inspired him to create the program.
During work trips to Colombia, Certain was able to contact the former players, some of whom already teach soccer and have helped create the program.
“We are very excited, really, we are very happy with everything that has been happening,” Valdés said from Colombia during a telephone interview. “It has not been an easy job, but I know that everyone who is part of it, and those who will go through this experience, will love it.”
Valdés hopes that young people learn not only soccer techniques but also values such as discipline, respect, tolerance and teamwork.
“Getting involved in something in which everyone must go in the same direction helps develop skills that make you a better person,” Valdés said.
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EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The conversation about what track sensation Sydney McLaughlin will do next involves more than the clock.
Yes, she brought the record in her 400-meter hurdles race down by nearly three-quarters of a second at the world championships, to a once-unthinkable mark of 50.68 seconds. But it was her run in the women's 4x400 relay that might really get people wondering.
The Paris Olympics start two years and two days from Sunday's close of the world championships in Eugene, Oregon. McLaughlin is 22, with plenty of work yet to do in the hurdles, she said. But she also hinted that the 400-flat, or even the 100 hurdles, could be in her future.
How far in her future will be one of the most intriguing storylines between now and Paris. What feels certain is that she can be a top contender in any discipline she chooses.
McLaughlin ran her anchor lap in Sunday's gold-medal 4x400 in 47.91 seconds — more than a second faster than any other runner in the race.
“Take the hurdles away, it's a little bit easier,” she said.
By the way, her 50.68 in the hurdles would've been good for seventh in the regular 400, where they didn't have to traverse the 10 barriers.
Here a few other things to look forward to in track and field between now and the meet at the Stade de France in 2024:
LYLES VS KNIGHTON
The quiet and humble Erriyon Knighton vs. the charismatic and confident Noah Lyles. This is shaping up to be a 200-meter rivalry that could last for quite some time.
In one lane, there’s Knighton, the 18-year-old from Florida who could’ve been a standout football player but chose track. He prefers to do his talking with his spikes.
In another, there’s two-time world 200-meter champion Noah Lyles, the 25-year-old from Virginia by way of Florida who’s dealt with mental health issues in a public way and just broke the American record. He’s not afraid to stir the pot, like when he pointed at Knighton after beating him at nationals.
Both have the speed to be the next big thing in American track.
“Noah Lyles told me I will be one of the greatest in the sport,” said Knighton, who finished third in the 200. “It feels good coming from him.”
But Lyles won't go down quietly. He ran 19.31 seconds in the 200 final, topping one of the most hallowed records on the books: Michael Johnson’s American mark of 19.32 that had stood since the 1996 Olympics.
“There’s no pressure,” Lyles said. “There’s pure fun out here.”
JAMAICAN SPRINT SUPREMACY
The order may change on the podium, but the destination of the medals does not. Jamaican women continue to own the sprints.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce led the island country’s sweep of the 100 meters. Led by Shericka Jackson and her second-fastest time ever, the first nation of speed also took gold and silver in the 200.
“I came out and put on the show,” Jackson said.
The Jamaicans have a knack for that. When Usain Bolt hung 'em up after the 2017 worlds, the focus on the island shifted back to the women, who had dominated in the pre-Bolt era, too, with the likes of Merlene Ottey and Veronica Campbell-Brown.
“We’re finally getting the recognition that we deserve,” Fraser-Pryce said. “I’m glad we’re able to do that and to show the world, as women, we’re strong.”
The latest women's sweep came on the heels of a 1-2-3 finish in the 100 at the Tokyo Games.
And all of it came with Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time Olympic champion in both the 100 and 200, having a subpar meet. She finished third in the 100 and seventh in the 200.
Thompson-Herah will try for a pair of three-peats in Paris. The world will wait to see if the 35-year-old Fraser-Pryce will hang on for two more years, as well. She certainly seemed to be having fun in Oregon.
UKRAINE
Ukraine brought 22 athletes to Oregon and they left with two medals — a silver from high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh that came an evening after her high jump compatriot, Andriy Protsenko, won bronze.
For these athletes, simply being here was a massive victory. Displaced from their homes after the Russian invasion of their country, they trained in faraway countries while often having to worry about their families, who were fighting or sheltering in Ukraine.
Russian athletes were not allowed in the meet. World Athletics President Seb Coe explained there was no way to justify allowing athletes from an invading country to compete against Ukrainian athletes who had to risk their lives simply to make it this far.
In a best-case scenario, the war will be over by 2024. If not, each sport sets requirements for participating in events, including the Olympics, but the IOC will certainly have a say about whether Russians can compete against Ukrainians in Paris.
AROUND THE WORLD
Armand Duplantis, the Louisiana-born pole vaulter who represents Sweden, said he felt room between himself and the bar when he cleared a world-record 6.01 meters in the last jump of the last event to wrap up Sunday night at this year's worlds.
Hurdler Karsten Warholm of Norway, whose world record of 45.94 in the 400 hurdles was not touched, had his training hindered by injury this year and finished seventh. Still, Alison Dos Santos of Brazil ran in a world-championship-record time of 46.29. American Rai Benjamin will be back, as well, in what remains one of the most stacked events on the program.
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Tim Giago, trailblazing Native American journalist, dies
Tim Giago, the founder of the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States, has died at age 88, his former wife said.
Giago, who died at Monument Health in Rapid City on Sunday, created an enduring legacy during his more than four decades of work in South Dakota journalism, his colleagues said.
Giago founded The Lakota Times with his first wife, Doris, in 1981, and quickly showed that he wasn't afraid to challenge those in power and advocate for American Indians, she said.
Launching the paper, even years after the 1973 Wounded Knee siege between U.S. marshals and the American Indian Movement, was challenging because wounds still existed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and in South Dakota, Doris Giago said.
Tim Giago blamed the American Indian Movement for violence on the reservation. Windows at the paper were broken and the office was firebombed.
"And through it all, Tim never backed down," said Doris Giago, who was married to him from 1979 to 1986.
The Lakota Times was eventually renamed Indian Country Today. In a July 2021 interview with the paper, Giago recounted that tense period and "some of the hard things that came out of work."
"One night got in my pickup and somebody put a bullet through my windshield and just missed my head," Giago told the newspaper. "So, I mean, if that´s what it took to get the freedom of the press going on the reservation, I guess that´s what it took."
Giago, a 1990 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, wrote years later that while he was working as a reporter for the Rapid City Journal, he was bothered by the fact that although he had been born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, he was seldom given an opportunity to do news stories about the people of the reservation.
"One editor told me that I would not be able to be objective in my reporting. I replied, `All of your reporters are white. Are they objective when covering the white community?"'
The Giagos started the Lakota Times in a former beauty shop on the reservation, with no real training on the business side of newspapering, Doris Giago recalled.
"They gave us six months to succeed. They didn't think we would last after that. We learned from our mistakes," she said.
In 1992, he changed the paper´s name to Indian Country Today to reflect its national coverage of Indian news and issues. He sold the paper to the Oneida Nation in 1998.
Two years later he founded The Lakota Journal and in 2009, he founded the Native Sun News, based in Rapid City, South Dakota.
"He always pushed for more, reaching for an even better way to serve Indian people with news. So after Lakota Times it was Indian Country Today. Then Lakota Journal. Then Native Sun News. He never lost his vision about how important it is for a community to have a journalistic recording of itself," said Mark Trahant, Indian Country Today's editor-at-large.
Giago founded the Native American Journalists Association and served as its first president. He was also the first Native American to be inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Even though Giago's work had critics, they still respected him "for doing his job and protecting Native people," Indian Country Today editor Jourdan Bennett-Begaye said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Sorvino, who acted on both sides of the law in 'Goodfellas' and on 'Law & Order,' has died at age 83.
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As part of its commitment to accelerating infectious disease diagnostics, HealthTrackRx will deliver next-day monkeypox results to physicians and patients.
DENTON, Texas, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthTrackRx, the nation's leading PCR diagnostic testing lab, is now offering a molecular test for detection of the human monkeypox virus. The test was developed by the company's research and development team and is available to the thousands of HealthTrackRx customers across the country in response to this rapidly growing public health emergency.
Martin Price, CEO and Chairman of HealthTrackRx stated, "In light of The World Health Organization (WHO) declaring the monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency and the proliferation of cases in our communities, we're pleased to deploy a means of rapidly detecting this virus. Applying molecular diagnostics to detect infectious diseases and getting those results in healthcare providers' hands by the next day is our mission and is where we can make a difference in containing this crisis."
The HealthTrackRx assay is a pan-monkeypox test that detects both the West African and Congo basin strains of the virus, using the TaqMan® multiplex real-time PCR technology from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Dr. Vijay Singh, who led the research and development teams' effort to develop and validate the assay stated, "Testing is one of the first and most crucial strategies for containment of an infectious disease outbreak or pandemic. The non-endemic spread of human monkeypox is an urgent public health threat. The rapid development of the pan-Monkeypox Assay at HealthTrackRx, alongside our industry partners, demonstrates our commitment to public health by delivering solutions that accelerate results to patients."
Healthcare providers will be able to order the pan-Monkeypox Assay as a stand-alone test or in combination with other lesion/ulcer causative pathogens that may be confused with human monkeypox. While the virus is predominantly being spread in the United States from sexual transmission, the clinical presentation does not fit with many traditional sexually transmitted infections. The intended use only includes pathogens that have the clinical manifestation of lesions, ulcers, or other skin abnormalities. Specimens that test positive for human monkeypox will be reported to the physicians who order the test. In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health authorities will be notified of positive tests for surveillance purposes.
The widespread availability of a human monkeypox test follows the company's announcement last week that it has been working in partnership with the CDC to conduct an epidemiologic study that will contribute to understanding the spread of human monkeypox within the United States. The study will be accruing critical data regarding the spread of human monkeypox across the United States.
The latest CDC information on monkeypox is available at cdc.gov/monkeypox.
HealthTrackRx is the nation's leading PCR-based infectious disease laboratory, delivering industry-leading testing turnaround times to healthcare providers nationwide. For more than 20 years, the company has enabled accurate clinical decisions through its testing platform, advancement in pathogen detection and identification, antimicrobial stewardship leadership, and value-based care programs. For more information, visit HealthTrackRx at healthtrackrx.com
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Two Team England members test positive for Covid at Commonwealth Games
Two Team England members have tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the host nation’s federation has confirmed.
Team England said of the two positive cases, one has subsequently tested clear and the second is “an asymptomatic case who will follow a test-to-release process.”
The PA news agency understands that both positive tests involve athletes rather than members of the wider support team, something Team England would not officially confirm.
A Team England spokesperson added: “We can confirm two positive Covid cases out of 422 Team England delegates that have been through the welcome centre so far – 0.5%, which is below the UK average rate.”
Team England said it backed the processes put in place by the organising committee, maintaining: “The [organising committee] have our full support with their management of any positive cases should they be identified.”
Nevertheless, the news will come as a blow after Team GB managed to negotiate rigorous testing processes at both the Tokyo Olympics and Beijing Winter Olympics without recording a single in-country positive.
The news comes one day after the New Zealand delegation confirmed one of its athletes had tested positive upon arrival at the Games and is currently in an isolation facility.
Meanwhile, athletes have been facing delays of over five hours in the testing and accreditation process, with all competitors required to submit to PCR tests and await the results.
Tension has been rising at the Athletes’ Village over the length of the delays, with some delegations resorting to sending parcels of food and water to their athletes who are stuck in the snaking queues.
Officials from Birmingham 2022 confirmed the length of the delays but said they were no greater than had been communicated to delegations prior to their arrival.
A spokesperson told PA: “The current average length of time for this process is in line with the estimated time which was communicated to the Commonwealth Games Associations in advance of their arrival.”
The spokesperson confirmed that the organising committee does not currently have any plans to follow Tokyo and Beijing in revealing daily totals of positive results.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
8-2-1, Fireball:
(eight, two, one; Fireball: zero)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
8-2-1, Fireball:
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DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers for Michigan's former health director asked a judge Monday to sanction prosecutors who are trying to instantly turn invalid indictments into a fresh round of charges in the Flint water scandal.
It's the latest salvo since the Michigan Supreme Court in June said a one-person grand jury had no authority under state law to return indictments against Nick Lyon, former Gov. Rick Snyder and seven other people.
The attorney general's office insists that the indictments can simply be reinstated as common criminal complaints in Genesee County. That request by prosecutors is pending.
“The solicitor general urges this court to wave a magic wand. ... This is a court, not the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, and this court should not engage in the practice of wizardry,” attorneys Chip Chamberlain and Britt Cobb wrote in a filing, referring to the “Harry Potter” books.
A judge has set a Sept. 13 hearing for Lyon and others. Snyder faces a different judge on Aug. 23.
They will be the first hearings since the state Supreme Court unanimously said the indictments were invalid.
Lyon's legal team said state prosecutors should be sanctioned for a “frivolous” attempt to save the cases. He and former chief medical executive Eden Wells were charged with involuntary manslaughter for Flint-area deaths related to Legionnaires' disease when the city was using the Flint River.
Some experts believe bacteria in the water contributed to an outbreak. Lyon and Wells were accused of not doing enough to timely warn the public.
Snyder was charged with misdemeanors.
Managers appointed by Snyder stopped using water from a Detroit supplier in 2014 and tapped the Flint River. But the corrosive water wasn't properly treated, and lead from old pipes contaminated the system.
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Police: Woman opened fire in Dallas airport; cop shot her
DALLAS (AP) — A 37-year-old woman fired several gunshots, apparently at the ceiling, inside of Dallas’ Love Field Airport on Monday before an officer shot and wounded her, authorities said.
The woman was dropped off at the airport at about 11 a.m., walked inside near the ticketing counters and then entered a bathroom, Dallas police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference. She emerged wearing a hooded sweatshirt or some other clothing that she hadn’t arrived in, pulled a gun and fired several shots, apparently at the ceiling, he said.
“At this point, we don’t know where exactly the individual was aiming,” Garcia said.
An officer who was nearby shot the woman in her “lower extremities,” wounding her and enabling her to be taken into custody, Garcia said. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
“No other individuals were injured in this event other than the suspect,” Garcia said.
He didn’t release the woman’s name or speculate as to what her motive might have been.
“We wanted to ensure that our community knows that this is not an active situation,” the chief said.
Karen Warner told The Dallas Morning News that she was checking in for her flight when she heard a loud argument about 20 feet (6 meters) behind her, followed by a gunshot. Then she started running.
“I heard about 10 more shots while I was running away,” said Warner, who couldn’t discern what the argument was about.
An airport spokeswoman said early Monday afternoon that airport operations were suspended and would resume once police finished investigating. A spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration told the newspaper that a ground stop it had in place for all flights at Love Field was set to be lifted at 2:30 p.m. local time.
Love Field, which serves as a hub for Southwest Airlines, is one of two major airports in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It is located just north of downtown Dallas.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas combed shorelines and open waters on Monday in hopes of finding more survivors after a boat carrying up to an estimated 60 Haitian migrants apparently capsized.
Divers have found the bodies of 15 women, one man and a toddler, while another 20 men and five women have been rescued since Sunday, according to Bahamian officials.
The U.S. government is helping with the ongoing search as local authorities deploy drones, planes and submersibles, said Capt. Shonedel Pinder, deputy commander of the Bahamas Defense Force.
“It’s a combined effort using all available resources…to see if there are any potential survivors…as well as to recover any remains,” he told reporters.
Two Bahamian men are in custody, although it wasn’t immediately clear if they have been charged as officials launch a criminal investigation into a suspected human smuggling operation.
The twin-engine speed boat named “Bare Ambition” apparently capsized about seven miles from New Providence after leaving the Bahamas around 1 a.m. on Sunday, likely bound for Miami. It became the latest deadly voyage for Haitian migrants as they flee a deepening economic crisis and a spike in gang-related violence in their country, which is struggling to recover from the assassination last year of President Jovenel Moïse.
In May, at least 11 people died and 38 others were saved near Puerto Rico, while another boat carrying 40 migrants went down near Florida, with only one man rescued and another found dead. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/bahamian-officials-search-for-survivors-after-boat-sinks/ | 2022-07-25T19:32:02Z | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/bahamian-officials-search-for-survivors-after-boat-sinks/ | true |
MILAN (AP) — The first of some 300 Afghan refugees arrived in Rome on Monday along a new humanitarian corridor organized by the Italian government, charities and international organizations, Italy’s Foreign Ministry announced.
The humanitarian corridor aims to give “additional refugees and persecuted Afghans the possibility of a future in dignity and security” following the U.S. withdrawal last August and the Taliban’s reassertion of control, the ministry said.
Thousands of Afghan citizens were evacuated after the fall of Kabul, but many who risked Taliban retribution were left behind. The Foreign Ministry said the corridor, which envisions the transfer of 1,200 Afghan refugees from Iran, Pakistan and other neighboring countries, would give priority to women and children.
The first nine Afghan refugees arrived on a flight from Tehran. Another 200 are flying from Islamabad on Wednesday with a third group arriving from Tehran on Thursday.
At the same time, the number of Afghan refugees taking smuggling routes is growing, with some 3,280 arriving in Italy by sea so far this year, according to the U.N. refugee agency. The International Organization for Migration said Afghans are the top nationality daring the perilous central Mediterranean Sea route to European shores, with 8,121 arrivals through last Friday.
Both organizations were involved in organizing the corridor transfers, along with Italy’s foreign and interior ministries and charities including the Community of Sant’Egidio and Caritas.
Italy has tried for several years to arrange humanitarian corridors so people fleeing conflict, persecution or other grave situations would have an alternative to being smuggled by human traffickers. But the numbers of those being able to reach other countries through these corridors are small compared to the tens of thousands of people who resort to smugglers to reach Europe.
In Sicily, Italian authorities, including border police, detained for investigation of people smuggling five Egyptians who were among 674 survivors aboard an overcrowded fishing boat that was aided last week off southern Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA said Monday. Rescuers found five bodies aboard the fishing boat. Those who died suffered from dehydration and excessive heat, ANSA said.
The suspects were being investigated in the Sicilian port of Messina for allegedly facilitating illegal migration and death as result of another crime, ANSA said. Many of the rescued migrants were transferred Sunday to Messina.
Some survivors told authorities that the smugglers beat them with clubs and belts during the sea voyage and sharply rationed drinking water on the boat, ANSA said.
In all, Italian authorities and charity ships reported rescuing over 1,100 people in the Mediterranean Sea last weekend.
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Amy DuRoss joins CSafe Global as President, Cell & Gene Therapy to drive innovation and solution development
MONROE, Ohio, July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CSafe Global, the innovation leader in temperature-controlled shipping solutions for the transport of life-enhancing pharmaceuticals, announced today that Amy DuRoss has joined the company as President, Cell and Gene Therapies (CGT).
In her new role, DuRoss will lead CSafe's CGT solutions portfolio to support intelligent transport of high-value personalized therapies and vaccines to meet the unprecedented global supply chain transport complexity of CGT products.
Ms. DuRoss brings more than 25 years' experience to her new position. Prior to joining CSafe, she was the co-founder and CEO of Vineti, an enterprise software platform used to digitize chain of identity and chain of custody requirements for CGT products. Earlier in her career, DuRoss held several prestigious positions including, Chief Business Officer at Navigenics, Chief of Staff for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Co-Founder, Co-Author, and Executive Director of California's $3B stem cell research ballot initiative.
"We are delighted to have Amy leading our CGT team. Her diverse experience in both corporate development, patient advocacy and entrepreneurship is exactly the right mix to drive innovation and superior solutions in this deeply complex supply chain," said CSafe CEO, Patrick Schafer. "We expect to see significant strides forward in this portfolio under Amy's strategic guidance."
"I'm honored to have the opportunity to collaborate with the world-class team at CSafe Global in bringing a new standard of high-quality, high-value supply chain transport to the most exciting innovation area in personalized medicine, cell and gene therapies," Ms. DuRoss said, "CSafe Global's outstanding worldwide service network and proven expertise in robust and actionable analytics to drive supply chain efficiencies will hasten the industrialization of an emergent market that offers critical hope for an increasing number of patients in need."
Ms. DuRoss earned her bachelor's and two master's degrees, including her MBA, from Stanford University. She serves on the boards of Biolife Solutions (BLFS), MJH, Americans for Cures, and the ARM Foundation and is a member of the Aspen Institute Global Network.
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LONDON (AP) — The parents of a 12-year-old boy who was left in a comatose state after suffering “catastrophic” brain damage lost a court appeal Monday to stop doctors from ending life support for their son.
Three Court of Appeal judges delivered a ruling about what was in the best interests of Archie Battersbee, who was found unconscious at home on Apr. 7. His mother has said she believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge.
Doctors treating the teen at the Royal London Hospital believe he is brain dead, and say continued life-support treatment is not in his best interests.
His parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, launched their appeal after two High Court judges agreed with the doctors.
One of the judges, Justice Anthony Hayden, described what had happened to Archie as a “tragedy of immeasurable dimensions” but said medical evidence was “compelling and unanimous” and painted a “bleak” picture. He said continuing treatment would only protract his death.
The three appeal judges on Monday dismissed the parents’ attempt to overturn the lower court’s ruling.
Dance argued that she had seen indications that Archie, who is attached to a ventilator, had twice tried to breathe independently in the past few days.
But appeal judge Andrew McFarlane said medical staff had seen “no signs of life” in Archie.
McFarlane and his two fellow appeal judges said they would delay the ending of Archie’s treatment for 48 hours after his parents said they wanted to ask the European Court of Human Rights to consider the case. | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-parents-lose-life-support-battle-over-12-year-old-son/ | 2022-07-25T19:33:49Z | https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/uk-parents-lose-life-support-battle-over-12-year-old-son/ | true |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Α major fire has broken out in southern Greece, burning homes in villages not far from the famous archaeological site of Ancient Olympia and prompting the evacuations of six villages.
The fire broke out Sunday afternoon near the villages of Krestena and Skillountia, which are south and southeast of Ancient Olympia. Authorities messaged residents there and in four other villages to evacuate quickly.
Fire Service spokesman Yannis Artopoios said 125 firefighters and 43 fire engines were operating in the area, as well as four planes and four helicopters, but the aircraft can’t operate at night. On a positive note, the prevailing northwesterly winds were pushing the fire to the southeast, up a mountain and away from Ancient Olympia, authorities said.
At least six more significant fires were burning across the country Sunday, according to the fire service, with three of those burning for several days. Artopoios said 141 wildfires had started in Greece over the past three days.
The fire on the Greek island of Lesbos, which required the evacuation of over 450 tourists and locals Saturday, is slowly being controlled, with only scattered blazes late Sunday afternoon, local authorities said.
But two fires still threaten Greek nature reserves, one in the northeastern region of Thrace, close to the Turkish border, and another in the region of Western Macedonia.
Three other fires erupted Sunday, one in Western Macedonia, another in central Greece and the third on the island of Crete.
In the Dadia Forest, which hosts a number of rare bird species, firefighters and aid workers rescued injured animals and took them in for treatment. Late Sunday that blaze expanded again, forcing residents of the village of Dadia to evacuate for the second time in three days.
Hot and dry conditions, along with gusty winds, have prevailed for weeks in Greece. A heat wave that arrived Saturday pushed temperature past 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in some places. The heat is expected to persist for several days.
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Woman shot by police after firing handgun inside Dallas Love Field Airport
Posted/updated on: July 25, 2022 at 12:41 pm(DALLAS) -- A 37-year-old woman was shot by police after allegedly firing a handgun inside Dallas Love Field Airport Monday morning, police said.
The shooting took place near a ticket counter and the woman was apparently aiming her gun at the ceiling when she fired, authorities said.
An officer shot the woman in the lower extremities and she was taken to a hospital, Dallas Police Chief Edgardo Garcia told reporters.
No one else in the airport was injured, the chief said.
Police said that "the terminal is secure."
A ground stop was put in place at the airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
0-4-1
(zero, four, one)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
0-4-1
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Hollywood film producer Dan Lin — known for movies such as Disney’s live action “Aladdin” and “The Two Popes” — is launching a nonprofit with more than $1 million from the Ford and MacArthur foundations as well as several other philanthropies. His goal is to help more people of color create and produce film, television, digital, and audio projects.
“There’s no shortage of talented, diverse creators, artists, and entrepreneurs,” said Lin, founder and CEO of the film and television company Rideback. “The only scarcity is opportunity, the funding and the risk-taking that’s always existed at the center of this Hollywood content machine. We’re really determined to break through these restricted access points, enlarge the funnel, and activate more creatives of color.”
Just three in 10 film directors are Black, Latino, Asian-American, multiracial, or Native American. And only a third of film writers are people of color, according to a recent study by the University of California at Los Angeles.
Rideback Rise, the company’s nonprofit arm, which hopes to raise $2 million in total this year, will oversee a fellowship program for writers, directors, podcast creators, and other artists of color selected each year who want to launch a project.
Each fellow will receive a $50,000 stipend plus access to a fund that will allow creators to obtain material to adapt for their projects, such as books that could become screenplays and support to market their projects to potential buyers. Lin says it’s important to help creators use content from existing materials because some financial backers of film and other projects believe that content by diverse artists and for diverse audiences might not generate significant profits.
While developing their projects, fellows will receive coaching and mentoring from filmmakers and other professionals in the entertainment industry through Rideback, while also collaborating with other fellows. Fellows can then bring their projects to either Rideback or another production company with the nonprofit’s support.
Once projects are completed and become commercially viable, Rise will receive royalties ranging from 2% to 10% on each project, depending on its budget and format. Lin hopes that, over time, those fees will eventually help make Rideback Rise a self-sustaining organization.
“A typical film can take three to five years,” Lin said. “A TV show could take a similar amount of time. Why we went to the nonprofit space (was) that we really need that funding for the runway to build this organization.”
The Ford Foundation, which gave $600,000 to Rideback Rise, made the grant in large part because it wants to help ensure mid career creators can get greater opportunities and because of Rideback Rise’s Intellectual Property Fund, which allows participants to obtain rights to use certain content for their projects.
“We saw this as an opportunity to not only support these creators but to support a pretty novel approach to how to lift POC content more broadly in the Hollywood industry,” said Chi-hui Yang, a senior program officer at Ford Foundation who oversees grants for filmmaking.
For the MacArthur Foundation, the grant to the new nonprofit moves the organization in a new direction from largely supporting only nonfiction media.
“For us to make a direct grant to something like Rideback Rise, this is a little bit of a departure for us and one of the first of its kind,” said Kathy Im, who oversees the foundation’s journalism and media program. The grant maker, which contributed $200,000 to Rideback Rise, may use this as a pilot to evaluate whether it wants to support similar efforts in the future.
“We have come to realize and recognize that all forms of popular culture, including mainstream fiction films and scripted television shows, in addition to journalism and documentary films, which is our sweet spot, have a huge educational value and social impact,” Im said.
Other grant makers include the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Zelnick Belzberg Charitable Trust, and UTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills. Rideback also plans to donate $100,000 to the nonprofit in the next few weeks, after having contributed $50,000 to Rideback Rise earlier.
People of color remain underrepresented among film directors and writers, according to an annual report on diversity in Hollywood from UCLA.
“People in positions of authority in Hollywood, because of the fast-paced nature of production and so forth, tend to feel more comfortable hiring people that they’ve worked with before, who they’re familiar with, who kind of thought like them and could crank out projects at a pace that the industry demanded,” said Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences at UCLA and co-author of the Hollywood diversity report. “So you had this self-perpetuating machine whereby the door revolved opportunities for the same people over and over again. Typically, those people were white males.”
Rideback Rise hopes to select its first five fellows by this fall and has plans to gradually increase the number each year. By its fifth year of operation, Rideback Rise wants to have a total of 25 fellows.
The nonprofit will also reach a greater number of creators through the Rise Circle, a group of more than 500 writers, filmmakers, and other people working in entertainment who will have access to career-building and networking events. The nonprofit held its first event in October, inviting the comedian Hasan Minhaj to give advice to Circle members. The nonprofit plans to host a two-night event soon focused on emerging and established comedians of color.
“We’ll do inspiring talks, but we also want to have more kind of tactical, practical training,” Lin said. He said it was important for people to be “able to ask questions that you may think are dumb questions, but they’re basic questions that you just don’t get educated on because Hollywood does not have a set training system the way some other industries do.”
Comedian Karan Menon attended last year’s event with Minhaj, where he made connections that ultimately landed him an internship at Rideback Rise. He also met someone who helps him do research for his sketch comedy videos online and other comedians to join his stand-up shows.
“People after the event were really into getting each others’ numbers and talking because there’s only so much you can do on your own when you try to make it as a comedian or a creator,” he said.
Hunt, the UCLA dean, said he sees value in philanthropic dollars funding programs that help aspiring creators of color but that more needs to be done by the entertainment industry to improve diversity.
“Attention needs to be paid to the industry itself and the way it’s structured and the types of opportunities that it’s making available for that new rich pipeline that’s being developed,” he said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An original script for Donald Trump’s speech the day after the Capitol insurrection included tough talk ordering the Justice Department to “ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" and stating the rioters “do not represent me." But those words were crossed out with thick black lines, apparently by Trump, according to exhibits released by House investigators.
Virginia Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democratic member of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, tweeted out a short video Monday that included testimony from White House aides discussing Trump’s speech on Jan. 7 and a screenshot of the speech, with notes and with lines to be deleted. In one of the clips, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, confirms to the panel the document “looks like a copy of a draft of the remarks for that day” and the writing “looks like my father’s handwriting.”
When the committee asked White House aide Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband, why Trump crossed out specific lines, he responded, twice: “I don’t know.”
The panel released the 3:40-minute video as a follow up to its final summer hearing last week, in which the investigators showed outtakes from Trump's videotaping of the speech. In the outtakes, Trump becomes frustrated and discusses the wording with the staff present, including Ivanka. At one point, he tells them “I don’t want to say the election is over.” Angry, he pounds his fist.
The committee is releasing the additional material in an effort to push out even more evidence after eight summer hearings laid out findings from more than 1,000 interviews in its yearlong investigation. Members of the committee say the investigation continues, and they will hold more hearings in the fall.
They are aiming to convey a consistent message about Trump and his actions before, during and after the insurrection — that he repeatedly lied about widespread fraud, even against the advice of his closest aides, and sparked the violent actions of his supporters. And when the rioters broke into the Capitol, he did nothing to stop them.
In her Monday tweet, Luria said, “It took more than 24 hours for President Trump to address the nation again after his Rose Garden video on January 6th in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. There were more things he was unwilling to say.”
The Jan. 7 speech was seen by his aides as an effort to make up for his inaction the day before when he waited hours to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol – and when he did, in a video filmed in the Rose Garden, he told the rioters that they were “very special.” In the video released by Luria, Trump aide Jared Kushner says he had spoken with other aides and they were trying to put remarks together for the president. “We felt like it was important to further call for de-escalation,” Kushner testified to the committee.
It is unclear who wrote the original text in the document.
In the original line “I am outraged and sickened by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem” the word “sickened” is crossed out. So are the later lines, “I want to be very clear you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.” But he left in, "You do not represent our country.” The line “you belong in jail” was replaced with “you will pay.”
These lines also deleted: “I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message – not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.”
In recent testimony, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson – who also testified in person in a surprise hearing last month – said the scramble to get Trump to speak again on Jan. 7 was partly because of “large concern” within the White House that some of his Cabinet officials might try to invoke the constitutional process of the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.
The newly released video includes testimony from John McEntee, then the director of the White House presidential personnel office and one of Trump's closest aides at the time. McEntee says that Kushner asked him to “nudge this along” to make sure that Trump delivered the speech. McEntee confirmed that Trump was reluctant to give the speech.
Pat Cipollone, the top White House lawyer, also testified that he believed Trump should have forcefully laid out the consequences for the rioters.
“In my view, he needed to express very clearly” that the rioters “should be prosecuted, and should be arrested."
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7-4-3, SB: 9
(seven, four, three; SB: nine)
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Adele has announced the rescheduled dates for her much-anticipated Las Vegas residency.
"Weekends With Adele" at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace will now kick off Nov. 18, with shows planned each weekend through March 25, 2023.
The Vegas residency was initially supposed to begin earlier this year, but Adele delayed the run of shows on the eve of its planned debut, announcing that it was because the show simply wasn't ready.
"But after what feels like an eternity of figuring out logistics for the show that I really want to deliver, and knowing it can happen, I’m more excited than ever! Now I know for some of you it was a horrible decision on my part [to delay the residency], and I will always be sorry for that, but I promise you it was the right one," Adele said in a tweet. To be with you in such an intimate space every week has been what I’ve most been looking forward to and I’m going to give you the absolute best of me."
The Las Vegas residency includes 24 rescheduled shows and 8 additional performances. Tickets for the rescheduled and newly added shows will go on sale next month, with priority given to those who previously bought tickets but had them refunded and to those who were waitlisted for the initial Verified Fan Presale on Ticketmaster.
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Paul Sorvino, 'Goodfellas,' 'Law & Order' actor, dies at 83
Paul Sorvino, an imposing actor who specialized in playing crooks and cops like Paulie Cicero in "Goodfellas" and the NYPD sergeant Phil Cerretta on "Law & Order," has died. He was 83.
His publicist Roger Neal said he died Monday morning of natural causes at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Sorvino had dealt with health issues over the past few years.
"Our hearts are broken, there will never be another Paul Sorvino, he was the love of my life, and one of the greatest performers to ever grace the screen and stage," his wife, Dee Dee Sorvino, said in a statement. She was by his side when he died.
FILE - Paul Sorvino during 2003 Toronto International Film Festival - "Mambo Italiano" Press Conference at Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (James Devaney/WireImage)
In his over 50 years in the entertainment business, Sorvino was a mainstay in films and television, playing an Italian American communist in Warren Beatty’s "Reds," Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone’s "Nixon" and mob boss Eddie Valentine in "The Rocketeer." He would often say that while he might be best known for playing gangsters, his real passions were poetry, painting and opera.
Born in Brooklyn in 1939 to a mother who taught piano and father who was a foreman in a robe factory, Sorvino was musically inclined from a young age and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he fell for the theater. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in "Bajour" and his film debut in Carl Reiner’s "Where’s Poppa?" in 1970.
With his 6-foot-4-inch stature, Sorvino made an impactful presence no matter the medium. In the 1970s, he acted alongside Al Pacino in "The Panic in Needle Park" and with James Caan in "The Gambler," reteamed with Reiner in "Oh, God!" and was among the ensemble in William Friedkin’s bank robbery comedy "The Brink’s Job." In John G. Avildsen’s "Rocky" follow-up "Slow Dancing in the Big City," Sorvino got to play a romantic lead and use his dance training opposite professional ballerina Anne Ditchburn.
FILE - Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, and Joe Pesci publicity portrait for the film 'Goodfellas', 1990. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)
He was especially prolific in the 1990s, kicking off the decade playing Lips in Beatty’s "Dick Tracy" and Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese’s "Goodfellas," who was based on the real-life mobster Paul Vario, and 31 episodes on Dick Wolf’s "Law & Order." He followed those with roles in "The Rocketeer," "The Firm," "Nixon," which got him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination, and Baz Luhrmann’s "Romeo + Juliet" as Juliet’s father, Fulgencio Capulet. Beatty would turn to Sorvino often, enlisting him again for his political satire "Bulworth," which came out in 1998, and his 2016 Hollywood love letter "Rules Don’t Apply." He also appeared in James Gray’s "The Immigrant."
Sorvino had three children from his first marriage, including Academy Award-winning actor Mira Sorvino. He also directed and starred in a film written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino and featuring his son Michael Sorvino.
When he learned that Mira Sorvino had been among the women allegedly sexually harassed and blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein in the midst of the #MeToo reckoning, he told TMZ that if he had known, Weinstein, "Would not be walking. He’d be in a wheelchair."
He was proud of his daughter and cried when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for "Mighty Aphrodite" in 1996. He the Los Angeles Times that night that he didn’t have the words to express how he felt.
"They don’t exist in any language that I’ve ever heard — well, maybe Italian," he said.
But he wanted to be seen for more than what he was on screen and took particular pride in his singing. In 1996, "Paul Sorvino: An Evening of Song" was broadcast on television as a part of a PBS fundraising campaign. Songs performed included "Torna A Sorriento," "Guaglione," "O Sole Mio," "The Impossible Dream" and "Mama."
"I’m a pop singer in the sense Mario Lanza was," Sorvino said in an interview the Tampa Tribune. "It astonishes me that no American male singer sings with a full voice anymore. Where have all the tenors gone?"
The weight of his voice, he thought, made it difficult to train.
"It’s like trying to park a bus in a VW parking space," he said.
He also ran a horse rescue in Pennsylvania, had a grocery store pasta sauce line based on his mother’s recipe, and sculpted a bronze statue of the late playwright Jason Miller that resides in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Sorvino had starred in Miller’s Tony and Pulitzer-winning play "That Championship Season" on Broadway in 1972 and its film adaptation.
In 2014, he married political pundit Dee Dee Benkie and said that a goal of his later life was to "disabuse people of the notion that I’m a slow-moving, heavy-lidded thug."
As with most who starred in "Goodfellas," the image would follow him for the rest of his life which he had complex feelings about.
’Most people think I’m either a gangster or a cop or something," he said. "The reality is I’m a sculptor, a painter, a best-selling author, many, many things — a poet, an opera singer, but none of them is gangster.... It would be nice to have my legacy more than that of just tough guy." | https://www.fox13news.com/news/paul-sorvino-goodfellas-law-order-actor-dies-at-83 | 2022-07-25T19:42:49Z | https://www.fox13news.com/news/paul-sorvino-goodfellas-law-order-actor-dies-at-83 | true |
Parkland school shooter’s AR-15 rifle shown to jurors
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz got their first view Monday of the AR-15-style rifle he used to murder 17 students and staff members four years ago at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, staring intently as it was carried to the front of the courtroom.
Lead prosecutor Mike Satz removed the black semi-automatic Smith & Wesson from a cardboard box and carried it to Broward sheriff’s Sgt. Gloria Crespo, who said it was found on the landing of a third-floor stairwell. Video seen by jurors previously showed Cruz placed it there along with the black shooter’s vest he had been wearing before fleeing the school.
The defense objected to the weapon’s introduction, saying without explanation that it lacked relevance and was unfairly prejudicial. The defense also objected to Satz placing the gun on the floor behind him in easy view of the jurors instead of placing it on an evidence table away from them. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer rejected the objections.
David S. Weinstein, a Miami criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor who is not involved in the case, said the defense believes that since Cruz pleaded guilty, the gun and other evidence such as surveillance video and crime scene photos are no longer relevant and serve to inflame the jurors’ emotions.
Prosecutors have successfully argued that such evidence is necessary to prove the murders included at least one aggravating factor such as being committed in a cruel or heinous manner or during a crime that endangered the lives of many people.
Crespo also testified that Cruz, then 19, had five gun magazines remaining in the vest, containing 160 total bullets. He had fired more than 100 shots as he stalked the three-story building for seven minutes, firing down hallways and into classrooms. The former Stoneman Douglas student, who had been expelled a year earlier, wounded 17 in addition to the 14 students and three staff members.
Inside a vest pocket, Cruz, now 23, also had a police identification card his late father had been issued by a New York department. Roger Cruz died when Nikolas Cruz was 5, succumbing to a heart attack in front of him. Prosecutors did not say if Roger Cruz had been a police officer or if it were some other type of ID.
The jurors also were shown photos Crespo took of the bodies of five students and a teacher who died on the third-floor, all with multiple wounds from being shot at close range. Those were not shown to the gallery, where several parents and family members sat. Last week, jurors saw their first graphic crime scene and autopsy photos.
Earlier Monday, the seven-man and five-woman jury and their 10 alternates heard from Uber driver Laura Zecchini, whom Cruz hired to drive him to the school. She said he appeared nervous during the 13-minute ride and was carrying a large black soft-sided carrying case. Cruz told Zecchini he was going to his music lesson.
Cruz pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder, so the jury will only decide if he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
His is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history to reach trial. Nine U.S. gunmen besides Cruz who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in a 10th, the 2019 slaying of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
When jurors eventually get the case, probably in October or November, they will vote 17 times, once for each of the victims, on whether to recommend capital punishment.
For each death sentence, the jury must be unanimous or the sentence for that victim is life. The jurors are told that to vote for death, the prosecution’s aggravating circumstances for that victim must, in their judgment, “outweigh” the defense’s mitigators. A juror can also vote for life out of mercy for Cruz. During jury selection, the panelists said under oath that they are capable of voting for either sentence.
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Associated Press writer Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale contributed to this report.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. congressman from Indiana, technology company executives, a man training to be an FBI agent, and an investment banker were among nine people charged in four separate and unrelated insider trading schemes revealed on Monday with the unsealing of indictments in New York City.
It was one of the most significant attacks by law enforcement on insider trading in a decade, and a prosecutor and other federal officials pledged fresh enthusiasm for similar prosecutions in the future. They said the cheating resulted in millions of dollars of illegal profits for defendants situated on both coasts and in middle America.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams told a news conference that the cases, in addition to several other recently announced crackdowns on insider trading, represent a follow through on his pledge to be “relentless in rooting out crime in our financial markets.”
“We have zero tolerance, zero tolerance for cheating in our markets,” said Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the SEC Enforcement Division.
An indictment identified Stephen Buyer as someone who misappropriated secrets he learned as a consultant to make $350,000 illegally. Buyer served on committees with oversight over the telecommunications industry while a Republican congressman from 1993 through 2011, the indictment said.
Buyer, arrested Monday in Indiana, was accused in court papers of engaging in insider trading during a merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, among other deals. Documents said he leveraged his work as a consultant and lobbyist to make illegal profits.
His lawyer, Andrew Goldstein, said in a statement: “Congressman Buyer is innocent. His stock trades were lawful. He looks forward to being quickly vindicated.”
In a civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in Manhattan federal court against Buyer, he was described as making purchases of Sprint securities in March 2018 just a day after attending a golf outing with a T-Mobile executive who told him about the company's then-nonpublic plan to acquire Sprint.
“When insiders like Buyer — an attorney, a former prosecutor, and a retired Congressman — monetize their access to material, nonpublic information, as alleged in this case, they not only violate the federal securities laws, but also undermine public trust and confidence in the fairness of our markets,” Grewal said.
He told the news conference that the arrests were not only meant to send a signal to financial industry professionals to protect secrets and follow the law, but also were “intended to send an equally strong message to the investing public” that regulators and law enforcement were focusing on keeping the markets clean.
In a second prosecution, three executives at Silicon Valley technology companies were charged with trading on inside information about corporate mergers that one of them learned about from his employer.
In a third case, a man who was training to be an FBI agent allegedly stole inside information from his then-girlfriend who was working at a major Washington D.C. law firm. According to court papers, he and a friend made more than $1.4 million in illegal profits after he learned that Merck & Co. was going to acquire Pandion Therapeutics.
In a fourth indictment, an investment banker based in New York was charged with sharing secrets about potential mergers with another with an understanding that the pair would share illegal profits of about $280,000. | https://www.wlfi.com/news/ex-us-congressman-among-9-charged-in-insider-trading-cases/article_80e0d5a2-0c44-11ed-9535-33d44fb92ac7.html | 2022-07-25T19:43:38Z | https://www.wlfi.com/news/ex-us-congressman-among-9-charged-in-insider-trading-cases/article_80e0d5a2-0c44-11ed-9535-33d44fb92ac7.html | true |
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