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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dave Martinez writes Josh Bell's name on the Washington Nationals lineup card virtually every single game this season and plans to keep doing so.
“I look at it like that every day until something else happens,” Martinez said.
Something could happen to change that very soon. While Juan Soto could be the biggest star dealt before the Major League Baseball trade deadline next week, Bell is the Nationals player most likely to be on the move — and the veteran first baseman's value has rarely been higher since he's in the midst of one of his best seasons.
Bell, who turns 30 on Aug. 14, is batting .304 with 13 home runs and has driven in a team-leading 53 runs. A pending free agent after the season, he could be an ideal rental acquisition for a contender in need of a solid bat just about anywhere in the lineup.
“He’s been unbelievable," Martinez said recently. "I know he loves it here, and he tries to put everything behind him. Honestly, he’s really good about being where his feet are. I talk about that with him all the time, ‘Hey you can’t control what happens in this game, but you can control what you do,’ and he’s been amazing at that.”
Bell has shown a knack this season for getting hits in important situations. He has 37 RBIs when up with runners in scoring position and eight more with anyone on base.
Martinez has been impressed with what Bell has done with two strikes. That includes nearly half of his home runs.
“He’s really cut down his chases and is really trying to put the ball in play,” Martinez said. “When he gets a pitch to hit, he’s taking a good swing at it. But he’s been working all year long to be where he’s at right now.”
Bell spent his first five seasons in the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates and is in his second with the Nationals, so he has never gotten the chance to play in the postseason. His approach to big moments seems tailormade for October.
“I feel like it’s one of the things that you strive to be in as a kid,” Bell said. “It’s a scenario where the game’s on the line, you want the bat in your hands, you want the opportunity to win it. So, that’s what makes this game fun.”
Bell has given younger teammates advice about how to handle those scenarios and could even help as a mentor after succeeding in that role in Washington.
"He always thinks good things are going to happen," Martinez said. “He’s been great, he really has. I can sit here and talk for days about Josh not only on the field but off the field, as well, with his teammates. He’s awesome, and he’s playing the best I’ve seen him play."
Beyond Bell and Soto — who doesn't have to be traded right away because he's under team control for two more seasons — the Nationals have a handful of other players who could be moved at the deadline. That list includes infielders César Hernández, Maikel Franco, Ehire Adrianza and Alcides Escobar, right-handed starter Joe Ross and reliever Steve Cishek, all of whom are set to be unrestricted free agents.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – As the weekend approaches, foodies are invited to splurge on a snack that was made popular in the U.S. sometime between 1910 and 1929, the classic chili dog.
Thursday, July 29 is National Chili Dog Day and observers are encouraged to either make their own version of the meal or purchase one at a local restaurant.
The origins of the chili dog remain up for debate, but many historians feel there are three plausible options when it comes to pinpointing the inventor.
The earliest option goes back to 1910 and lands on two brothers from Detroit, Michigan named Bill and Gust Keros. They’re said to have invented the dog in their diner around that time.
Others believe the invention was the product of a man named George Todoroff in 1914. Also from Michigan, Todoroff is said to have come up with the dog upon creating his “famous Coney Island chili sauce” in his Jackson Coney Island eatery.
Still others credit a Los Angeles man named Art Elkind. It was supposedly 1929 when Elkind came up with the recipe by pouring chili on top of caseless hot dogs.
Regardless of the chili dog’s origins, it’s still widely popular in our day.
Chili dog fans in Baton Rouge can click here to purchase one with a coupon at Wienerschnitzel or click here to purchase one from Sonic.
But home chefs who prefer to spend a little time in the kitchen may want to try their hand at an Italian take on the classic recipe featured on the Today Show’s website earlier this month. So, if you’re feeling adventurous, check out the recipe for ‘Bolo Dogs’ here.
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Advenir partners with Jetty to reduce bad debt and attract new renters by offering a low-cost deposit alternative
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jetty, the financial services company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and flexible, announced a new partnership with Advenir, a multifamily and single-family real estate investment company. Jetty Deposit, the deposit replacement that dramatically lowers move-in costs by swapping traditional cash security deposits for a low-cost alternative, is now available across Advenir's entire portfolio of more than 13,000 apartments throughout 44 properties.
Advenir was seeking a solution to attract new renters without any added liability; and while they noticed multifamily communities often marketed move-in concessions to get prospective renters in the door, like a zero dollar security deposit at lease signing, they found a deposit alternative to be the best solution for their portfolio of properties. With Jetty Deposit, Advenir found a balance between helping renters save at move-in without foregoing the protection they needed.
"Jetty Deposit has helped us cut bad debt and convert more leases while giving prospective renters the flexibility to move into their home at a lower cost," said Joe Mendez, Chief Marketing Officer at Advenir. "It also gives us the comprehensive protection we need to cover lost rent and damages."
Jetty works with top property managers across the country to increase lease conversion rates, reduce bad debt and streamline operations—thereby increasing net operating income.
Jetty is on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and flexible for everyone. As a fintech company, Jetty's solutions help property managers increase lease conversion, reduce bad debt, and streamline operations. For renters, Jetty lowers the barrier to entry by saving thousands of dollars on move-in costs. To learn more about Jetty, visit www.jetty.com.
Advenir acquires, develops, and operates multi-family and single-family rental communities. Founded in 1996, Advenir is a real estate investment company headquartered in Aventura, Florida with over two decades of proven track record across multiple real estate cycles. More information is available at www.advenir.net.
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Mom charged after newborn tests positive for illegal drugs, sheriff says
JONES COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) – A Mississippi mother was arrested Tuesday on felony child abuse charges after her newborn tested positive for illegal narcotics.
According to the Jones County Sheriff’s Department, 25-year-old Tierra Lewis was arrested and charged after her baby tested positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine.
Lewis is being held at the Jones County Adult Detention Facility on a $10,000 bond.
Jones County Sheriff Joe Berlin said the department doesn’t tolerate these types of crimes and hopes to get justice for the child.
“History has proven that we don’t tolerate this type of behavior. This is a felony child abuse charge, and we will pursue justice,” Berlin said. “This type of criminal behavior involving a baby just makes me sick to my stomach.”
Officials did not say if the child suffered any injuries or health problems.
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10-year-old transgender girl can rejoin school’s softball team, federal judge orders
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Indianapolis Public Schools to allow a 10-year-old transgender girl to rejoin her school’s all-girls softball team while a lawsuit continues against a state law that bans transgender females from competing in girls school sports.
U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson in Indianapolis issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday on behalf of the girl, finding that she “has established that she has a strong likelihood of succeeding on the merits” of her claim.
“She has also established that she would suffer irreparable harm for which there is no adequate legal remedy,” Magnus-Stinson wrote in her order of the girl, who will be a fifth-grader when classes resume in August.
Indianapolis Public Schools had told the girl’s mother earlier this year that her daughter would no longer be able to play on the girls’ softball team because of the new law, the judge added.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed the lawsuit on behalf of the girl in hopes of blocking the law. The suit was filed in May, minutes after Republican state lawmakers voted to override Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of the legislation, and alleges that preventing the girl from rejoining her team because she is transgender is violation of Title IX and the U.S. Constitution.
That lawsuit continues against the law, which took effect on July 1 and which opponents have argued is a bigoted response to a problem that doesn’t exist.
Republican sponsors of the bill maintain it is needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarships but have pointed to no instances in Indiana of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.
ACLU of Indiana’s legal director, Ken Falk, said Tuesday in a statement that the group is pleased that the judge decided that the girl should “be allowed to play on her school’s softball team.”
“When misinformation about biology and gender is used to bar transgender girls from school sports it amounts to the same form of sex discrimination that has long been prohibited under Title IX, a law that protects all students – including trans people – on the basis of sex,” Falk said.
Magnus-Stinson wrote in her order that Indianapolis Public Schools has taken “no position regarding whether the Court should issue a preliminary injunction,” but that the state has intervened and opposes the request for the preliminary injunction.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said following Tuesday’s ruling that the transgender sports law “remains in effect across the state” and said his office will continue defending it.
“The court’s ruling allows only this particular plaintiff to play this particular sport at this particular elementary school,” he said in a statement to WXIN-TV.
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Phoenix police officers replace man’s stolen golf clubs
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Published: Jul. 28, 2022 at 9:55 AM MST|Updated: 13 minutes ago
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — When a man’s expensive golf clubs were stolen, Phoenix police officers banded together to buy him a new set. Check out the heartwarming video above!
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HEFEI, China, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 28, Gotion High -Tech Co., Ltd. (SZE: 002074 / SSE GDRs: GOTION), the world-leading Chinese power battery manufacturer, officially listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange by issued global depositary receipts(GDR), becoming the first group of Chinese companies that came to Swiss Stock Exchange.
The Swiss Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange held a simultaneous ceremony of China-Swiss Stock Connect Celebration and GDRs Listing Event in the 3 city.Mr. Fang Xinghai, Vice Chairman of CSRC, and Mr. Stoffel, State Secretary of the Swiss Ministry of Finance, announced the official opening of the GDR business for the connection of the Swiss and Chinese securities markets.
Gotion has placed 22,833,400 GDRs at an offer price of USD 30.00 per GDR, with one GDR representing an interest in five A shares of the Company, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately USD 685 million from the Offering.
The issue of GDR is the largest GDR project in terms of size of the underlying issue on the Swiss Stock Exchange since the implementation of the China-Europe Stock Connect rules. it is also the largest equity financing project issued in the Swiss market so far this year.
Gotion particularly to grow overseas production capacity of battery products and raw materials through investment in fixed assets, acquisition of equity interests or other means, to increase the Company's international footprint, to increase working capital and to match other general corporate uses, and to help the Company Contribute to the common goal of the world about carbon peaking eventually.
Mr. LI Zhen, Chairman of the Board and General Manager of Gotion, says: "We are delighted with the successful pricing of our offering of GDRs and the interest from domestic and international investors in our company. This is a major milestone in the history of Gotion. Our principal shareholders and I remain fully committed in the long-term to further driving Gotion's growth story."
Gotion High-tech is one of the earliest companies in China to engage in independent research and development, production and sales of EV lithium-ion batteries, and has grown into a world-leading and rapidly expanding provider of new energy solutions. Volkswagen officially became the largest shareholder of Gotion at the end of 2021.
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Around one in 12 businesses have defaulted on the Government-backed loans they took during the pandemic.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy revealed on Thursday that £414 million has so far been paid out to cover loans that have gone bad.
The data is still provisional and the final figures are likely to show much higher numbers.
By some estimates the Government might have to pay out to cover nearly 40% of the £77.1 billion that was lent during the pandemic.
During the early days of Covid-19, the Government launched three loan schemes to help out businesses as many were forced to close because of lockdowns.
Billions of pounds were paid out by banks.
To speed up the loans and to encourage banks to give them out, the Treasury said it would pay up if the businesses were unable to.
It would cover 80% of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans and Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loans, and 100% of the Bounce Back Loans, which were designed for smaller businesses.
For the first time the data shows what banks have claimed the most.
Metro Bank and Barclays were the two single biggest claimants so far, with the Government paying them £122 million and £88 million respectively for bounce back loans. These banks have claimed back 8.5% and 0.8% of the money they lent from the Government.
Two smaller lenders – Tide and Capital on Tap – have claimed back around a quarter of the money they lent to businesses.
The banks making the biggest claims were keen to stress that these are still early figures.
Tide said its electronic systems were likely quicker to identify and then make claims.
Tide said: “As a business, we offered bounceback loans to help our customers through lockdowns and to support the Government’s efforts to help the economy during the pandemic crisis.
“We have put in claims for NPLs (non-performing loans) more quickly compared to traditional banks which are likely to do so over the coming year.
“Furthermore, the businesses we serve are typically younger, so the risk of failure is much higher. The next 12 months will give a better picture of the NPLs across all the lenders.”
It also pointed out that its lending was “limited” and it has only claimed back £15 million so far. Capital on Tap claimed even less – just £4.7 million.
The data also shows that 85% of all loans have either been fully repaid or monthly payments are being met, while 8% of borrowers have defaulted. | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3539941/banks-ask-government-to-pay-1-in-every-9-for-covid-loans/ | 2022-07-28T17:08:54Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/politics/3539941/banks-ask-government-to-pay-1-in-every-9-for-covid-loans/ | false |
Nordic Fest begins in Decorah
DECORAH, Iowa (KTTC) – Nordic Fest is a weekend festival held annually in Decorah, Iowa.
The festival is focused on the traditional customs and culture of Scandinavian countries, especially Norway.
This year, Nordic Fest is July 28-30.
The event always occurs over the last weekend in July and draws estimated crowds of 50,000 to 75,000.
According to its website, the festival started in 1967 and there has been over 1.5 million visitors from all over the world who have attended.
The fesitval includes many things for the whole family including food, traditional crafts, a colorful parade, entertainment, sporting events, and a Saturday night fireworks display.
Vesterheim, the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, is also inviting visitors to the museum campus to enjoy folk art and living heritage demonstrations, music, Viking reenactors, genealogy, special exhibitions, and more.
The Main Building and Museum Store will be open daily from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Museum admission will be free on Thursday, July 28, with regular admission prices on Friday and Saturday. Find admission prices and more information on Vesterheim here.
Events begin with Thursday night’s opening ceremonies at 6:45 p.m.
The full Nordic Fest Program can be found below:
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PERTH, Australia, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vection Technologies, a premier provider of 3D and virtual reality (VR) solutions for enterprises, has published a first-of-its-kind metaverse embedded app in the Webex App Hub.
In the world of hybrid work, Vection Technologies has partnered with Webex to challenge the status quo of standard 2D presentations. The 3DFrame embedded app enables Webex Meeting participants to engage in virtual environments custom built in a simple, no-code interface without ever leaving the Webex Meeting.
From images, videos and PDF presentations to complex 3D objects like cars and furniture, 3DFrame brings Webex meetings' content to life. Users can conceptualize and collaborate on products from anywhere in real-time. This levels the playing field, drives inclusivity, and eliminates the lofty logistical costs of getting all the right people and products together face-to-face.
"With hybrid work on the rise, organizations must adopt new technologies to ensure inclusivity, flexibility and collaboration among the workforce," said Gianmarco Biagi, Managing Director of Vection Technologies. "3DFrame gives Webex Meetings participants the ability to join a shared 3D virtual environment, where they can naturally present and interact with objects and people, regardless of their physical location."
"The Webex Platform enables our customers to benefit from Cisco's technology partner network with innovative and workflow-ready solutions," said Jason Copeland, VP Product, Webex Platform. "Vection's 3DFrame technology enables use cases for industrial design, engineering, and virtual spaces in an integrated and secure way."
Learn more about getting started with the 3DFrame Embedded App now on the Webex App Hub.
About Vection Technologies
Vection Technologies is a growing enterprise-focused company that helps businesses bridge the physical and digital worlds. We help organizations leverage their 3D data via powerful extended reality (XR) interfaces that foster collaboration and learning, grow sales and more.
Vection Technologies is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with ticker code VR1, and trades on the U.S. over-the-counter (OTC) markets under the symbol VCTNY.
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Webex is a leading provider of cloud-based collaboration solutions which includes video meetings, calling, messaging, events, customer experience solutions like contact center and purpose-built collaboration devices. Webex's focus on delivering inclusive collaboration experiences fuels our innovation, which leverages AI and Machine Learning, to remove the barriers of geography, language, personality and familiarity with technology. Its solutions are underpinned with security and privacy by design. Webex works with the world's leading business and productivity apps – delivered through a single application and interface. Learn more at webex.com.
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Livingston manager David Martindale has praised Leigh Griffiths for his contribution during his training stint at West Lothian.
Free agent Griffiths is looking to revive his career after hitting a total of five goals last season during underwhelming spells with Dundee and Falkirk.
The 31-year-old former Celtic striker spent a week training with Livi for purely fitness reasons and Martindale feels his presence was of benefit to forward Bruce Anderson.
“Leigh has not been in (this week), I think he is talking to a club, I don’t know where but it’s not my place to say anyway,” Martindale said.
“I had him in last week, he was in doing extra shifts, me, him and Brucey.
“I know this about Leigh Griffiths, he is a fantastic boy in and around the club. I can’t comment on Leigh’s history, I can just comment on when he was here.
“He looked in good shape, had lost a lot of weight from the time I saw him in the Dundee game. His body fats were really low in comparison to that.
“We were doing some strikers’ drills, his quality is incredible, honestly. He is still needing a wee bit of match sharpness but some of his finishing and his touches were incredible.
“And even that wee hour we spent together, Brucey was able to pick up on a few points.
“As much as we gave Leigh somewhere to come and keep fit, I need to thank Leigh as well because he was genuinely very positive around the place and he was a pleasure to coach.” | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3540133/david-martindale-delighted-with-leigh-griffiths-livingston-training-stint/ | 2022-07-28T17:10:12Z | https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3540133/david-martindale-delighted-with-leigh-griffiths-livingston-training-stint/ | false |
Inside Botanica Restaurant and Gin Bar, something you wouldn't normally find at a restaurant is being prepped.
“They have a great flavor," said Brendan Vesey, the restaurant's chef and owner.
Vesey is talking about green crabs.
“We knew green crabs were a big problem here,” Vesey said.
He decided to put them on the menu. Not only because they are an invasive species in the U.S., but also because the population is growing, and harvesting them for food is one way to help keep those numbers at bay.
"Just having people think about it and hear about it is a reason to kind of try something new. It gets people excited about the restaurant, it gets them thinking more about their impact as a diner,” Vesey said.
These small crustaceans are also harming the oyster and mussel populations nearby.
“One green crab can eat about 40 mussels a day,” Vesey said.
It’s not just the green crab. Biologist Richard Primack said invasive species are becoming more of a problem everywhere.
“It’s a concern because these species are displacing native species and altering the ecosystem often in negative ways,” Primack, a professor of plant ecology at Boston University, said.
He said we are seeing more invasive species than before.
“In part, because people are moving around, plants and animals more than in the past,” he said. “But also the environment is being altered by human activity.”
The green crab is just one example.
“The green crab has been around for 200 years. Suddenly, in the last few decades, it has become a lot more common and that's because the conditions are changing,” Primack said.
“Our winters aren't getting that cold anymore and so their numbers are just magnifying,” Will Robinson, a distiller in product development at Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile, said.
So, Robinson took inspiration from other regions of the country.
“I was familiar with the lionfish effort that's been going on down in the Florida Keys, and Asian Carps in the Midwest. They're turning more and more toward local businesses to get them to offer these delectable invasive species,” he explained.
If you thought the idea of eating green crabs was exotic, Robinson took it a step further. With the help of chemistry, he infused green crab broth into whiskey.
“It was kind of a way to bring ick, something that feels good environmentally, all this stuff together to bring more awareness to an issue,” he said.
While Crab Trapper whiskey and elegant crab-featured dishes might not be for you, the hope of these local businesses is to educate more people on how they can help the immediate environment around them.
“We are not going to eat our way out of this problem, but maybe we can spread some information and someone else will come up with an interesting solution,” Vesey said. | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/green-crabs-an-invasive-species-used-in-local-food-and-drinks-to-help-reduce-their-population | 2022-07-28T17:13:47Z | https://www.kbzk.com/news/national/green-crabs-an-invasive-species-used-in-local-food-and-drinks-to-help-reduce-their-population | false |
William Shatner’s wallet found at fruit stand in California
GILROY, Calif. (KGO) - Workers at a fruit stand in California found an item lost by an acting legend.
William Shatner’s wallet was found inside a corn bin.
The owner of the fruit stand says the workers were too young to recognize Shatner, but when they found the wallet last week, he reached out to a friend to help return it.
“I thought about putting a sign up, ‘William Shatner was here,’” said Gary Tognetti, the fruit stand owner.
Tognetti said he told his friend, a police officer, “‘Hey, we found this wallet,’ and he wasn’t quite sure if I was telling a little joke.”
“Then I went to it and immediately phone, called Gary to try to figure out why Gary of all people has Mr. Shatner’s wallet in his possession,” said Gilroy Police Officer Mark Tarasco.
Officers said the wallet was mailed back to Shatner overnight.
The actor thanked the workers at the fruit stand and the officers involved in a post on Twitter.
What did the actor who portrayed “Captain Kirk” buy during his visit to the fruit stand?
They say Shatner bought four baskets of chilled cherries and $2 of corn.
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Saline County roofer fined, temporarily banned from doing business
SALINE COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) – A Saline County roofer and his business have been temporarily banned from performing roofing services in Kansas and ordered to pay $40,000 in penalties after being found in violation of consumer protection laws.
Shaun Costello, of Salina, and Low Overhead Exterior LLC, are banned from operating as roofing contractors in Kansas until they obtain a roofing contractor registration certificate from the attorney general, as required by Kansas law.
This week, Saline County District Court Judge Paul J. Hickman this week entered default judgment after Costello failed to respond to a lawsuit filed in June. The court also ordered the defendants to pay a $40,000 civil penalty.
The Kansas Attorney General’s Office said Costello and his company accepted payment from a customer for roofing services while not holding a valid roofing registration certificate. He also filed a mechanic’s lien against the customer’s property as a roofing contractor while not holding a valid roofing registration certificate. Costello was found in violation of both the Kansas Roofing Registration Act and the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. A copy of the judgment is available at www.ag.ks.gov/roofer-enforcement.
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ROME (AP) — Italy’s president, marking the 100th anniversary of one of the attacks that helped bring dictator Benito Mussolini to power, on Thursday encouraged Italians to reinvigorate their country’s democracy as a bulwark against fascism.
President Sergio Mattarella was commemorating the trashing and torching by fascist thugs of a farm cooperative building in the northeastern city of Ravenna 100 years ago. The violent attack was one in a series launched by fascist supporters of the dictator, whose iron-rule would last into World War II.
Italy’s fascist legacy faces increasingly scrutiny these days as the country holds an early parliamentary election on Sept 25. Opinion polls indicate the far-right Brothers of Italy, which has neo-fascist roots, would be the top vote-getter, with the party’s leader, Giorgia Meloni, eager to become premier.
She has never disavowed her party’s fascist roots but has distanced it from Mussolini’s racial laws targeting Jews.
Meloni is now the dominant force in an alliance with the right-wing League party led by Matteo Salvini and the center-right Forza Italia party led by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The two latter parties have seen their support erode in recent local elections.
Mattarella, as head of state, serves as a guarantor of the republic’s post-war Constitution. He called the Ravenna attack a “chapter of our history that would lead to the loss of freedom for Italians, with the start of the dark season of the fascist dictatorship.”
Mussolini took power in a march on Rome by his followers in October 1922.
In his speech, Mattarella said Italy’s democracy had survived World War I only to be rocked by “dramatic social emergencies, turbulence, strikes, the occupation of factories” and other violence in the immediate post-war period.
Mussolini came to power during a period of “weak” government, the president said, adding that democracy is born of the “widespread conscience of responsibility of each one of us in the defense of common freedoms.”
“It’s up to us to regenerate it every day,” Mattarella said, appealing to young people in particular to take up that responsibility.
After Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s wide-ranging coalition collapsed last week, Mattarella dissolved Parliament, triggering the early election.
Sinking Draghi’s pandemic unity government were Salvini, Berlusconi and the populist 5-Star Movement, all refusing to back him in a confidence vote.
Meloni was the only major leader to refuse to join Draghi’s pandemic unity government when it was formed in early 2021 after he was tapped by Mattarella. She argued that Italians should decide their leader in an election.
When it appeared that Berlusconi and Salvini were waffling at the prospect of Meloni becoming the next premier — and the first woman to hold that office — she demanded the three of them huddle to confirm the alliance’s long-standing rule: whoever gets the most votes becomes its pick for the premiership. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/italys-president-strong-democracy-crucial-against-fascism/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-07-28T17:16:24Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/italys-president-strong-democracy-crucial-against-fascism/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | true |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci and his tumultuous experience during the COVID-19 pandemic are the focus of a PBS “American Masters” documentary.
The film follows Fauci at home and at work during a 14-month period starting from President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, PBS announced Wednesday.
“Tony – A Year in the Life of Dr. Anthony Fauci” is set to debut on the PBS “American Masters” showcase in spring 2023, following a planned release in movie theaters.
It will show “a rarely seen side of the scientist, husband, father and public servant,” Paula Kerger, PBS president and CEO, told a TV critics’ meeting.
Fauci, 81, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said recently that he plans to retire by the end of Biden’s term in January 2025. He has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and advised seven presidents.
The pandemic represented an unprecedented challenge for Fauci, his work and his reputation despite his years of widely respected public health service. He’s led research in HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, Ebola, Zika and the coronavirus.
The film follows Fauci “at home, in his office and in the corridors of power as he battles the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the political onslaught that upends his life and calls into question” his long career as the nation’s leading public health advocate, according to the announcement.
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The leading decentralized derivatives exchange has surpassed $630.8B in cumulative volume and amassed over 59,000 users since its inception in July 2017
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- dYdX Trading Inc. ("the Company"), developer of the leading decentralized derivatives exchange, dYdX, today celebrates its five-year anniversary with its partners and community. During the Company's five-year tenure, over $630B in volume across 38 markets has been traded on dYdX, and over the last year dYdX has seen cumulative volume grow by 233x. The five-year milestone comes shortly after the Company announced dYdX V4, which will mark the full decentralization of the exchange.
dYdX Trading CEO Antonio Juliano commented, "Today is an incredible milestone for dYdX. I am extremely proud of the team's accomplishments over the last five years, while envisioning even more progress over the next five years, and beyond. As we've grown over the past half decade, our goals have never wavered - we want to be the premier decentralized exchange in the industry and look forward to continuing our pursuit to reach that objective."
Throughout its first five years of operation, dYdX has consistently worked to improve the protocol. Most recently, the Company's announced dYdX V4, developed as a standalone blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK, which will fully decentralize the protocol later this year. In addition to protocol improvements, dYdX launched perpetual trading on its exchange, introduced Trading Leagues, developed an iOS mobile app for the exchange, listed dozens of markets, and unveiled 'Hedgies', a unique collection of 4,200 collectable avatars represented as NFTs on Ethereum distributed to the dYdX community. Since 2017, dYdX closed three rounds of funding, most recently a $65M Series C round led by Paradigm in June 2021.
The exchange now has around sixty thousand users, ranging from institutional funds to sophisticated day traders, catering to both the most experienced traders and users new to the space. By leveraging the best elements of both centralized and decentralized exchanges, dYdX has created a premier trading platform that continues to attract traders across the world.
Juliano continued, "We believe that decentralized finance is the future and we've only scratched the surface of what dYdX can achieve. There will be many more advances for our product and our company, and I'm excited to see what dYdX looks like when we are celebrating a decade of operations."
About dYdX
dYdX is the developer of a leading decentralized exchange on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange.
For more information, visit: https://dydx.exchange/blog/dydx-chain
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Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a butterfly. My money says the fluttering insect you’re envisioning has black-veined, reddish-orange wings outlined with white specks — the iconic attributes of our beloved, American, monarch butterfly.
Unfortunately, the species, which populates many childhood memories, is in trouble.
The migrating monarch butterfly was added last week to the “red list” of threatened species and categorized as “endangered” for the first time by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. That's two steps from extinct in the wild.
Scientists blamed the monarchs' plummeting numbers on habitat loss, climate change, and pesticide and herbicide use.
What can home gardeners do to support the monarch?
If everyone reading this planted one milkweed plant, the benefit would be palpable. Milkweed (Asclepias spp.) is the only plant monarch caterpillars eat, and it’s where the adult butterflies lay their eggs. Without it, the species simply could not exist.
“But not all milkweed is the same,” says Dawn Rodney, chief innovation and growth officer at the National Wildlife Federation in Reston, Virginia. For instance, “there is an invasive species called tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) that we’re seeing more and more, and people are not understanding that it does more harm than good.”
The non-native plant is problematic because it blooms for longer and, in temperate regions, does not die back. That can prevent butterflies from recognizing when it’s time to migrate, and it can spread deadly parasites to the next year's generation of caterpillars.
To choose the right milkweed, use the National Wildlife Federation's Native Plant Finder ( https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder/ ).
Adult monarchs need other plants too, specifically ones with nectar-bearing flowers. The National Wildlife Federation also has a Monarch Nectar Plant List tool ( https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/Monarch-Nectar-Guides ), developed with Monarch Joint Venture and Xerces Society), to find plants appropriate for your location.
Choose plants native to your region for the highest-quality food source. Be sure to include late-season bloomers to provide monarchs with fuel for their annual fall migration.
Knowing the source of the plants you buy is important, too.
“There are a lot of growers that use different types of chemicals that are harmful to wildlife,” Rodney said, referring to pesticides and herbicides intended to keep plants attractive on retail shelves. When you bring treated plants home, and butterflies lay eggs on them, the caterpillars that follow will die when they munch the leaves.
Neonicotinoid pesticides are especially harmful to the species, Rodney said, as they can kill bees and adult butterflies that ingest the toxic pollen and nectar of treated plants.
Since treated plants aren’t labeled as such, Rodney advises asking garden center staff about their pest-management practices. Buying only from trusted, organic sources or growing your own plants from seed are other good options.
This brings me to pesticide use in the home garden. When we use chemicals on our plants, we accept beneficial insects, including monarchs, as collateral damage. We also endanger birds that eat those poisoned insects.
Even natural and organic pesticides can harm butterflies and other pollinators. But if you must use such a product, stick with insecticidal soaps, horticultural oils or Neem oil, and apply them only after dusk, when pollinators aren’t active. Unlike many synthetic chemicals, these products lose their effectiveness when dry, so the butterflies will be safer by morning.
Finally, consider going the extra mile by setting up a butterfly puddling station: Create a mud puddle (or add water to sand) in a sunny spot of the yard and set a flat stone within it. Butterflies will sun themselves on the stone to raise their temperatures, and will sip water from the puddle to supplement their nectar diets with the salts, vitamins and minerals they need.
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- Josef Newgarden wins his fourth 2022 INDYCAR Series race in the No. 2 Hitachi Dallara/Chevrolet at Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 at Iowa Speedway
- Hitachi Astemo provides fuel-system components for INDYCAR engines
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Josef Newgarden captured his fourth INDYCAR Series win of the year in Team Penske's No. 2 Hitachi Chevrolet at the Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 at Iowa Speedway.
The two-time INDYCAR Series champion's 24th victory of this season came in the first of two weekend races (July 23) at the speedway. Newgarden took the lead from Penske teammate Will Power on lap 23 for last Saturday's win. He is battling this year for his third INDYCAR Series title.
Newgarden is the all-time INDYCAR Series win leader at Iowa Speedway with his fourth career victory at the oval race track located near Des Moines, Iowa. His previous wins there came in 2016, 2019 and 2020.
The 31-year-old American led 208 of the 250 laps enroute to Saturday's victory despite temperatures nearing 100 degrees.
"This was a long game day, but I was really proud of our team," Newgarden said after the race. "Hitachi and Team Chevy really showed up for us. Iowa Speedway is one of my favorite tracks. To be able to win here again is always very special."
On Sunday, Newgarden's No. 2 Hitachi Chevrolet started second behind Power's No. 12 Chevrolet but took the lead on lap 85 and went on to lead 148 laps before being knocked out of the race following a mechanical problem. Over the two-race weekend, Newgarden led a total of 356 laps.
"Josef Newgarden and Team Penske turned in another outstanding INDYCAR performance at Iowa Speedway last Saturday," said Rob Sharpe, senior vice president, sales & marketing, Hitachi Astemo Americas. "Hitachi and Hitachi Astemo employees are among Josef Newgarden's biggest fans. We wish him the very best and look forward to seeing him in the winner's circle again in the very near future."
Sharpe pointed out that Hitachi Astemo is a technology partner with Chevrolet in the development of its highly successful INDYCAR engine program. Hitachi Astemo, for example, provides fuel-system components for all of its 2.2-liter, twin-turbocharged INDYCAR racing engines.
The iHhHitachi name also appears on the sides and rear wing of Team Penske's No. 2 car and Astemo appears on both front wings.
Hitachi will be the primary sponsor of Team Penske's No. 2 car for INDYCAR Series races at Portland International Raceway in Portland, Oregon, on Sept. 4 and at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, on Sept. 11.
More info is available at Hitachi Astemo's motorsports webpage: https://www.hitachiastemo.com/en/motorsports/sponsorship/indy.html
Hitachi Astemo is a global automotive technology company formed in 2021 by the merger of Hitachi Automotive Systems with Honda's Keihin, Showa and Nissin Kogyo groups. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company has approximately 90,000 employees and leadership positions in a wide range of product areas including AD/ADAS, software and powertrain, as well as chassis and motorcycle systems. Its headquarters for the Americas is in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Hitachi Astemo Americas, Inc. manufactures and markets engine management, electric powertrain and integrated vehicle controls for major automotive manufacturers worldwide, adhering to ISO/TS:16949:2009 industry standards. For more Hitachi Astemo corporate information, please visit www.hitachiastemo.com. Additional product information is available at www.hitachiastemo.com/en/products/.
Team Penske is one of the most successful teams in motorsports history with 18 Indianapolis 500 victories, two Daytona 500 Championships, a Formula 1 win and victories in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring. Josef Newgarden entered the 2022 INDYCAR season with 15 pole positions and 20 wins. Born in Hendersonville, Tennessee, he lives in Nashville. More information is available at www.teampenske.com.
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MIAMI — A popular Miami restaurant’s liquor license is on the line following a complaint filed by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration over kids attending drag shows at the venue.
The restaurant, identified by CBS Miami as the R House Wynwood, is under investigation by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation following a complaint filed by the state alleging the restaurant is exposing children to “sexually explicit drag shows.”
The restaurant could lose its liquor license if found in violation of local laws and codes, DeSantis said.
Primarily a Latin restaurant, R House owners have been showcasing drag artists since opening in 2014, the Miami Herald reports, and do not explicitly advertise their "Drag Brunch" as kid-friendly.
In a statement to the newspaper, R House Wynwood ownership said it was working with state regulators to resolve the situation.
The complaint appears to stem from a viral video originally posted to TikTok showing a toddler dancing with a drag queen.
“Having kids involved in this is wrong,” DeSantis said of the video and investigation during a Wednesday press conference on an unrelated topic.
DeSantis – who has promoted Florida as "the freest state" where every parent should have the right to choose what is best for their child – said parents choosing to take their children to a drag show is part of a “disturbing trend in our society” to sexualize kids.
“You protect children, you do not expose them to things that are inappropriate,” DeSantis said.
Others have criticized the governor, arguing his attacks are only geared toward LGBTQ+ content.
“Meanwhile no commentary from the Governor on bringing kids to Hooters,” tweeted Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando.
This follows a Dallas drag show that drew controversy in June after a similar video surfaced showing children participating in the performance during what the bar promoted as a family-friendly drag event.
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Hard-won progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk, according to an alarming report Wednesday on how the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises are jeopardizing efforts to end AIDS.
Worldwide, the years-long decline in new HIV infections is leveling off. Worse, cases began climbing in parts of Asia and the Pacific where they previously had been falling, according to the United Nations agency leading the global AIDS fight.
The number of people on lifesaving HIV treatments grew more slowly last year than it has in a decade. Inequities are widening. Every two minutes last year, a teen girl or young woman was newly infected — and in sub-Saharan Africa, they’re three times as likely to get HIV as boys and men the same age. And 650,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses last year, the report found.
“This is an alarm to the world to say that COVID-19 has blown the AIDS response significantly off track,” said Matthew Kavanagh, deputy executive director of UNAIDS.
The U.N. set a goal of fewer than 370,000 new HIV infections by 2025. Last year, there were about 1.5 million — meaning it would take a major turnaround to get anywhere near that target. Yet low- and middle-income countries are $8 billion short of the funding needed, as international aid also has dropped, the report found.
Things might be even worse considering that HIV testing slowed or even stopped in many places when COVID-19 hit, potentially leaving even more virus spread uncounted.
“People are exhausted with epidemics and pandemics,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s leading AIDS expert. “We have to fight twice as hard to get HIV back on the radar screen where it belongs.”
The sobering news comes as the International AIDS Conference begins this week in Montreal — where some promising science is being reported. Among the highlights:
— A man who had lived with HIV for about 30 years is in long-term remission and just might be one of only a handful of people worldwide ever considered cured, thanks to a special bone marrow-like transplant.
That rigorous treatment is only an option for HIV patients who also develop leukemia and need transplanted blood stem cells to fight the cancer. This man’s donor happened to carry a rare gene mutation that makes the newly transplanted cells resistant to HIV.
The man, now 66, underwent the transplant in 2019. Soon after, the COVID-19 pandemic began and he decided to stay on HIV medication until he could get vaccinated. He’s now been off anti-AIDS medication for 17 months with no signs of HIV, Dr. Jana Dickter of City of Hope, a California cancer research center, said Wednesday.
That makes him the oldest and longest-living person with HIV to undergo this potentially curative transplant. Scientists hope these rare cases might offer clues that eventually lead to better care for more people.
Also Wednesday, University of Barcelona researchers reported that a woman’s own immune system seems to have kept her HIV tamped down to an undetectable level for 15 years. The woman was part of a research study in 2006 that included some immune-boosting treatments but it’s not clear why she’s faring so well.
— Another study presented Wednesday found that taking an antibiotic after unprotected sex could reduce the chances of getting gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis.
Those sexually transmitted diseases are caused by different types of bacteria. They are a rising threat, especially among people who also have — or are at high risk for — HIV.
In Seattle and San Francisco, researchers gave study participants — gay men, bisexual men and transgender women — the antibiotic doxycycline with instructions to take a single dose within 72 hours whenever they had sex without using a condom. Those who did saw their risk of infection drop more than 60%, said Dr. Annie Luetkemeyer of the University of California, San Francisco.
Before experts recommend that strategy, they’ll need to know if it could worsen antibiotic resistance, making either the STDs themselves or other bacteria people encounter harder to treat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it will examine that carefully, but it posted online some cautions for anyone considering this use of doxycycline in the meantime.
— The UNAIDS report showed the public health fight against HIV is getting harder, but there are a few bright spots. Researchers reported Wednesday that Botswana, which is hard-hit by HIV, already has achieved a key 2025 goal: 95% of HIV-infected people know their status, more than 95% of those who know are getting treated, and more than 95% getting treated show signs their virus is being suppressed.
Kavanagh praised Botswana for strong policy changes that “helped more and more people into care,” including free HIV medications, pushing home HIV testing and decriminalizing same-sex relationships.
UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima said it’s not too late to get back on track despite the continued COVID-19 and economic crises.
“Ending AIDS would cost much less money than not ending AIDS,” she said. “The actions needed to end AIDS are also key for overcoming other pandemics.”
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Compound Eye's VIDAS™ software delivers per-pixel depth and semantic segmentation using automotive-grade cameras and computers.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compound Eye, a leading developer of software for 3D sensing and perception, announced early access to its VIDAS Development Kit. VIDAS generates dense 3D outputs and per-pixel semantic class across a diverse set of on-road and off-road environments using only scalable, passive sensors like automotive-grade cameras.
VIDAS measures accurate depth without requiring lidar or radar. VIDAS enables vehicles to understand their surroundings in dense 3D and in real time, with applications from in-dash displays to driver assistance and autonomy. The software runs on an off-the-shelf embedded computer, delivering ten times the resolution of lidar at a ready-to-scale cost.
VIDAS is the first system to fuse information from stereo parallax, motion parallax, and semantic cues in the environment, combining classical computer vision and modern machine learning.
Compound Eye's VIDAS is built atop industry standard hardware and is designed with OEMs and Tier 1s in mind. For ease of packaging and integration, cameras can be mounted almost anywhere on the vehicle. VIDAS is self-calibrating, can be adapted to work with a wide variety of automotive cameras, and works alongside OEM or third party software. Compound Eye's VIDAS perception software is the only dense 3D perception technology that does not require proprietary hardware.
The early access VIDAS DevKit includes two reference cameras, a compute module, a GPS antenna, two FAKRA cables, and a 12V power cable. Initial installation takes thirty minutes or less and perception outputs can be viewed immediately on a tablet or laptop.
The VIDAS SDK includes VIDAS Operator for viewing and recording data and VIDAS Inspector for analyzing perception outputs.
Compound Eye is a leading developer of software for 3D sensing and perception. The company 's VIDAS technology delivers dense depth and per-pixel semantic class using only cameras. VIDAS is a fully redundant alternative to lidar and radar in applications from remote 3D sensing to collision avoidance to fully autonomous driving. Compound Eye is based in Redwood City, California and is backed by tier 1 investors including Khosla Ventures and K9 Ventures.
Public contact info:
Tarani Duncan,
tduncan@compoundeye.com,
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New position will lead the charge in promoting a culture of personal and professional well-being.
DANVILLE, Pa., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering Geisinger's commitment to investing in the health and well-being of its employees, Susan Parisi, M.D., has been named the health system's first chief wellness officer.
In this new role, Dr. Parisi will champion and guide the implementation of a systemwide strategy to improve the mental health, professional fulfillment and overall well-being of the Geisinger family. She'll also oversee advocacy programs and initiatives aimed at enhancing shared decision making, professional satisfaction, autonomy and a culture of professionalism and respect.
"Our employees are the heart of everything we do," said Janet Tomcavage, Geisinger executive vice president and chief nursing officer. "As we strive to make better health easier for those we serve, we will continue to invest in our employees and create an engaging, supportive employee experience where every person feels motivated and connected to their professional purpose. We're incredibly fortunate to have gained such an experienced and committed leader with Dr. Parisi, and I'm confident she will help us strengthen our focus on the health and well-being of our Geisinger family."
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts were already underway at Geisinger to improve employee well-being with the establishment of the Center for Professionalism and Well-being — a team that offers Geisinger employees a variety of services related to mental health, burnout mitigation, community building, professionalism in the workplace and more. Throughout the pandemic, these efforts were accelerated as studies revealed that more than one in five healthcare workers had anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder.
In accepting the position, Dr. Parisi said, "The crisis of emotional exhaustion and burnout on the healthcare workforce is more important than ever — and it deserves our full attention. I'm thrilled to join Geisinger in this new role and partner with our Geisinger family to find new and better ways to build a culture that supports the well-being of everyone who commits their lives to this work. When we create a culture focused on allowing our teams to thrive personally and professionally, we create a world-class experience for everyone — our employees, our patients, and our members."
Dr. Parisi brings three decades of experience in healthcare, spending the earlier part of her career caring for patients in obstetrics and gynecology. She's held leadership roles in several organizations, most recently serving as the director of well-being for Nuvance Healthcare, where she worked to implement a strategic and collaborative well-being program that accommodates seven hospitals, a multispecialty group and 2,500 physicians across New York and Connecticut.
After supporting fellow physicians through their own experiences with burnout and emotional exhaustion, Dr. Parisi pursued the prestigious Stanford Chief Wellness Officer training, which she completed in 2019. In 2018, she completed a fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. She earned her Bachelor of Science with a concentration in genetics and development from Cornell University and her medical degree from New York Medical College. She serves on several boards and committees, and is an active member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Geisinger is committed to making better health easier for the more than 1 million people it serves. Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes 10 hospital campuses, a health plan with more than half a million members, a Research Institute and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Stocks decline as GDP report raises fears of recession
Stocks are falling early Thursday as investors reacted to news that the U.S. economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter, sharply raising rears that that the U.S. economy is already in or is heading for a recession.
The S&P 500 was down 0.4% as of 10 a.m. Eastern, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.4% and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 0.6%.
The U.S. economy shrank from April through June, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy — followed a 1.6% annual drop from January through March. Consecutive quarters of falling GDP constitute an informal, though not definitive, indicator of a recession.
The GDP report for last quarter pointed to weakness across the economy. Consumer spending slowed as Americans bought fewer goods. Business investment fell. Inventories tumbled as businesses slowed their restocking of shelves, shedding 2 percentage points from GDP.
The Federal Reserve is trying to slow the U.S. economy to fight inflation without tipping it into a recession. The central bank raised its key short-term interest rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday.
Shares of Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms are down 8% after the social media giant said its revenue fell last quarter for the first time ever, dragged down by a drop in ad spending.
Spirit Airlines shares rose 3%. JetBlue said it agreed to buy the budget airline for $3.8 billion to create the nation’s fifth largest airline, if approved by U.S. regulators. The agreement comes a day after Spirit’s attempt to merge with Frontier Airlines fell apart. | https://whyy.org/articles/stocks-decline-as-gdp-report-raises-fears-of-recession/ | 2022-07-28T17:29:51Z | https://whyy.org/articles/stocks-decline-as-gdp-report-raises-fears-of-recession/ | true |
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"The mobility of it makes it very, very difficult," said Matt Geller with the National Food Truck Association.
With inflation rates hitting 9.1% and the price of gas still above $4.30 nationally, he says food trucks are at a particularly tough crossroads.
"As far as inflation goes it's tough. It's not just the cost of goods that has gone up; in a lot of places, minimum wage has gone up," he added.
But it's not just high gas prices food trucks are contending with, they're also being hit with higher food costs and lower product availability.
Many food truck operators we spoke to for this story told us they've either had to cut back on menu items. Others are cutting back on the number of trips they're taking in hopes of offsetting fuel costs.
"Keeping a restaurant going is tough, but you don't have to do oil changes and make sure your tires are rotated," Geller said. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/food-trucks-navigating-high-gas-prices-increased-food-costs | 2022-07-28T17:31:07Z | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/food-trucks-navigating-high-gas-prices-increased-food-costs | false |
Schumer rallies Democrats after surprise deal on climate, economy with Manchin
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told fellow Senate Democrats on Thursday they now have an opportunity to achieve two "hugely important" priorities on health care and climate change, if they stick together and approve a deal he brokered with hold-out Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
Schumer spoke at a private caucus meeting after the startling turnaround over an expansive agreement he and Manchin struck that had eluded them for months. The Democratic leader's comments were relayed by a person familiar with the meeting at the Capitol complex and granted anonymity to discuss it.
The $739 billion package would address health care and climate, raising taxes on high earners and large corporations and reducing federal debt.
Schumer warned his colleagues in the 50-50 Senate that final passage will be hard. The Democrats face staunch opposition from Republicans and have no votes to spare, relying on their own razor-thin majority. Schumer said they would need to be disciplined in messaging and focus, but he believes they can get it done, the person said.
Two Democrats said the Senate would vote on the wide-ranging measure next week, setting up President Joe Biden and Democrats for an unexpected victory in the runup to November elections in which their congressional control is in peril. A House vote would follow, perhaps later in August, with unanimous Republican opposition in both chambers seemingly certain.
Just hours before the announcement late Wednesday, Schumer, D-N.Y., and Manchin, D-W.Va., seemed at loggerheads and headed toward a far narrower package limited — at Manchin's insistence — to curbing pharmaceutical prices and extending federal health care subsidies. Earlier Wednesday, numerous Democrats said they were all but resigned to the more modest legislation.
The reversal was stunning, and there was no immediate explanation for Manchin's abrupt willingness to back a bolder, broader measure. Since last year, he has used his pivotal vote in the 50-50 Senate to force Biden and Democrats to abandon far more ambitious, expensive versions. He dragged them through months of negotiations in which leaders' concessions to shrink the legislation proved fruitless, antagonizing the White House and most congressional Democrats.
"This is the action the American people have been waiting for. This addresses the problems of today — high health care costs and overall inflation — as well as investments in our energy security for the future," Biden said in a statement. He urged lawmakers to approve the legislation quickly.
Tellingly, Democrats called the 725-page measure "The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" because of provisions aimed at helping Americans cope with this year's dramatically rising consumer costs. Polls show that inflation, embodied by gasoline prices that surpassed $5 per gallon before easing, has been voters' chief concern. For months, Manchin's opposition to larger proposals has been partly premised on his worry that they would fuel inflation.
Besides inflation, the measure seemed to offer something for many Democratic voters.
It dangled tax hikes on the wealthy and big corporations and environmental initiatives for progressives. And Manchin, an advocate for the fossil fuels his state produces, said the bill would invest in technologies for carbon-based and clean energy while also reducing methane and carbon emissions.
"Rather than risking more inflation with trillions in new spending, this bill will cut the inflation taxes Americans are paying, lower the cost of health insurance and prescription drugs, and ensure our country invests in the energy security and climate change solutions we need to remain a global superpower through innovation rather than elimination," Manchin said.
Schumer called the bill Congress' "greatest pro-climate legislation." He said it would also cut pharmaceutical prices and "ensure the wealthiest corporations and individuals pay their fair share in taxes."
The measure would reduce carbon emissions by around 40% by 2030, Schumer and Manchin said. While that would miss Biden's 50% goal, that reduction, the measure's climate spending and the jobs it would create are "a big deal," said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., an environmental advocate who had been upset with the absence of those provisions until now.
The overall proposal is far less aspirational than the $3.5 trillion package Biden asked Democrats to push through Congress last year, and the pared-down, roughly $2 trillion version the House approved last November after Manchin insisted on shrinking it. Even then, Manchin shot down that smaller measure the following month, asserting it would fuel inflation and was loaded with budget gimmicks.
In summaries that provided scant detail, Democrats said their proposal would raise $739 billion over the decade in new revenue, including $313 billion from a 15% corporate minimum tax. They said that would affect around 200 of the country's largest corporations, with profits exceeding $1 billion, that currently pay under the current 21% corporate rate.
The agreement also contains $288 billion the government would save from curbing pharmaceutical prices. Those provisions would require Medicare to begin negotiating prices on a modest number of drugs, pay rebates to Medicare if their price increases exceed inflation and limit that program's beneficiaries to $2,000 annual out-of-pocket expenses.
The deal also claims to gain $124 billion from beefing up IRS tax enforcement and $14 billion from taxing some "carried interest" profits earned by partners in entities like private equity or hedge funds.
The measure would spend $369 billion on energy and climate change initiatives. These include consumer tax credits and rebates for buying clean-energy vehicles and encouraging home energy efficiency; tax credits for solar panel manufacturers; $30 billion in grants and loans for utilities and states to gradually convert to clean energy; and $27 billion to reduce emissions, especially in lower-income areas.
It would also aim $64 billion at extending federal subsidies for three more years for some people buying private health insurance. Those subsidies, which lower people's premiums, would otherwise expire at year's end.
That would leave $306 billion for debt reduction, an effort Manchin has demanded. While a substantial sum, that's a small fraction of the trillions in cumulative deficits the government is projected to amass over the coming decade.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., was still reviewing the agreement, said spokeswoman Hannah Hurley. Sinema backed Manchin last year in insisting on making the legislation less expensive but objected to proposals to raise tax rates, and the spokeswoman referred a reporter to her comments last year supporting a corporate minimum tax.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the Democratic agreement would be "devastating to American families and small businesses. Raising taxes on job creators, crushing energy producers with new regulations, and stifling innovators looking for new cures will only make this recession worse, not better."
But if Democrats can hold their troops together, GOP opposition would not matter. Democrats can prevail if they lose no more than four votes in the House and remain solidly united in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris can cast the tie-breaking vote.
"This agreement is a victory for America's families and for protecting our planet," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "In light of the discussions of the past year, this agreement is a remarkable achievement."
The bill lacks increased tax deductions for state and local taxes, which some Democrats from high-tax states have demanded as the price for their support. A spokesperson for Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., a leader of that group, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
In the Senate, Democrats are using a special process that will let them pass the bill without reaching the 60 votes required for most legislation there. To use that, the chamber's parliamentarian must verify that the bill doesn't violate the chamber's budget procedures, a review now underway.
Schumer and Manchin said leaders committed to revamp permitting procedures this fall to help infrastructure like pipelines and export facilities "be efficiently and responsibly built to deliver energy safely around the country and to our allies."
Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce said her group wanted to read the agreement's details but was glad Biden and Schumer "remained resolute in finding a path to pass once-in-a-generation investments in our communities, our economy, and our future.”
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CARY, N.C. -- Growing up Becca Alley always felt different from others. She just didn't have a label for herself.
"The Shania Twain song like 'I feel like a woman'. I'm like 'I don't know what that means really," said Alley. "I really enjoy makeup and my hair being long, but I don't necessarily feel the strong identity as a woman."
The 28-year-old North Carolina resident didn't fit in with her peers. She struggled socially with brutal honesty which caused a lot of her friendships to end.
"My friend came to school in high school with a brand new haircut. I told her it looked terrible. I thought that would be a way she could go get it fixed. I thought I was being helpful," she said.
Alley was diagnosed with autism at 23 years old. She identifies as gay and has a girlfriend.
People with autism are more likely to identify as LGBTQ+. According to the University of Cambridge, they are more likely to experience a wider diversity of sexual orientations. Numbers show males with autism are almost four times as likely to identify as bisexual. Females with autism are three times as likely to identify as gay.
"They are socialized slightly differently and this is in part due to autism but also being misunderstood and potentially marginalized," said Dr. Clare Harrop, UNC School of Medicine Assistant Professor.
According to Harrop, the rates of autism are increasing likely because there is more awareness with women more likely to be diagnosed in adulthood. She said there's a phenomenon in autism that's referred to as masking.
"Almost like pretending not to be autistic. So using strategies to appear 'normal' to fit in with peers. Really draining," she said.
Today Alley prides herself on being an advocate for the autism community. She wears noise canceling headphones when she leaves home and sunglasses because of her sensitivity to some lights. She's even been forward with colleagues and friends by sharing she is autistic and proud.
"I've gotten better at recognizing when I should just hold my tongue, but now I'm surrounded by people who are more accepting of when I am too blunt," said Alley. | https://abc30.com/autism-lgbtq-cary-nc-pride-month/12077009/ | 2022-07-28T17:31:41Z | https://abc30.com/autism-lgbtq-cary-nc-pride-month/12077009/ | false |
How did you fare trying to guess what Maine animal produced the track in our latest quiz?
The track may have been a tough one to guess, unless you’re a diehard outdoors enthusiast.
The answer: A woodchuck.
It is known as a groundhog in many places, but the woodchuck has carved out a definite niche here in Maine. For many folks, especially those who like to have a garden, the little mammals can be a nuisance.
Woodchucks are herbivores — which is no secret if you have ever had one living in close proximity to your vegetable garden. They eat grasses, dandelions, clover and garden crops of all types.
Last year, we had two living next door and visiting the yard frequently, but it appears as though only the younger one remains. It has been deterred thus far by the chicken wire fence around the garden.
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Woodchucks actually are members of the squirrel family, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. They have dark gray or brown fur and adults are about 2 feet long, with stout bodies and stubby legs.
Woodchucks live in underground burrows, often placed along a small hill, that can measure up to 5 feet deep and 30 feet long. When the woodchucks move out, the same tunnels are used as dens by opossums, raccoons, foxes and skunks.
Woodchucks are active in the morning and evening during the warmer months, but you won’t have to deal with them during the winter. The animals are true hibernators, lowering their body temperature from 97 degrees to 40 degrees for as long as six months. | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/27/outdoors/animal-track-quiz-reveal-n6hjn1me0n/ | 2022-07-28T17:31:44Z | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/27/outdoors/animal-track-quiz-reveal-n6hjn1me0n/ | false |
PARIS, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
GOAT, the global platform for the past, present and future, and Paris Saint-Germain, the fastest growing world sports franchise, today announce the launch of People of Paris, a joint visual campaign that captures the style and history of PSG with unique contributions from the Paris community. The campaign is also a celebration of the new Paris Saint-Germain experience that will go live on the GOAT platform in early August.
People of Paris celebrates people of all walks of life — from decades-long PSG fans, to legends and the players themselves. Styled in iconic PSG jerseys from the past and present, as well as archival PSG apparel and accessories and fashion from GOAT's wider offering, the campaign highlights the unique identities and styles that make up the greater Parisian community.
"As we continue to invest in our global community, we're pleased to introduce our People of Paris campaign," said Sen Sugano, Chief Brand Officer of GOAT Group. "We'll showcase the Parisian community by bringing together cultural figures, players, fans and everyday people. Through this campaign, we aim to highlight the common bond that brings this diverse group together: their love for the city and PSG."
"This first GOAT x PSG campaign, featuring players and fans marks the arrival of GOAT into the PSG family," said Marc Armstrong, Chief Partnerships Officer of Paris Saint-Germain. "GOAT is an iconic next generation brand and we are proud to show our fusion of style on the streets of Paris and all over the world. Together we celebrate the uniqueness of all those who represent Paris and PSG."
The first official billboard for 'People of Paris' will be revealed at the Louvre Rivoli on August 1. To coincide with the campaign, a curated collection of new and vintage apparel will be available on GOAT's dedicated Paris Saint-Germain in-app and web experience on GOAT.com/PSG from early August. Throughout the season, new experiences and limited edition products will be released through the platform and provide a destination for customers to be inspired through content and unique products.
Photographer: Thibaut Grevet
Stylist: Georgia Pendlebury
Production company: DIVISION PARIS
Casting: IKKI Casting
GOAT is the global platform for the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become the leading and most trusted sneaker marketplace in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 40 million members across 170 countries.
Paris Saint-Germain was founded in 1970 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020. Since its takeover by QSI in 2011, Paris Saint-Germain has gone on to become one of the world's top football clubs and sports brands. The club has won 28 trophies in the last 11 years and 46 since its foundation, making it the most successful in France, and has attracted many great players over the years, including Ronaldinho, David Beckham and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and latterly Lionel Messi, Neymar Jr and Kylian Mbappé, three of the best players in the world today. The club's
international popularity knows no bounds. In the last ten years, its community of social media followers has grown from zero to nearly 170 million and is now one of the largest in football. A forward-thinking club, Paris Saint-Germain added an eSports team to its men's football, women's football, handball, and judo teams in 2016. Committed to giving something back to the community, the club has significantly increased funding for its Foundation with the aim of developing far-reaching programs for disadvantaged young people.
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Biden, Xi talk more than 2 hours at time of US-China tension
President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping held the fifth conversation of their presidencies on Thursday, speaking for more than two hours as they chart the future of their complicated relationship at a time of simmering economic and geopolitical tensions.
The call began at 8:33 a.m. ET and ended at 10:50 a.m. ET, according to the White House. It took place as Biden aims to find new ways to work with the rising global power as well as strategies to contain China's influence around the world. Differing perspectives on global health, economic policy and human rights have long tested the relationship — with China's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine adding further strain.
"The two heads of state had in-depth communication and exchanges on China-U.S. relations and issues of mutual concern," China Central Television reported on its website.
The latest pressure point has been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's potential visit to Taiwan, the island that governs itself democratically and receives informal defensive support from the U.S., but which China considers part of its territory. Beijing has said it would view such a trip as a provocation, a threat U.S. officials are taking with heightened seriousness in light of Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
"If the U.S. insists on going its own way and challenging China's bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses," Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, told reporters earlier this week. "All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S."
Pelosi would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he was House speaker. Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was "not a good idea" for the speaker to visit the island at the moment.
John Kirby, a U.S. national security spokesman, said Wednesday that it was important for Biden and Xi to regularly touch base.
"The president wants to make sure that the lines of communication with President Xi remain open because they need to," Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing. "There are issues where we can cooperate with China on, and there are issues where obviously there are friction and tension."
Biden and Xi last spoke in March, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"This is one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world today, with ramifications well beyond both individual countries," Kirby said.
The conversation comes as Biden has moved to shift U.S. reliance off Chinese manufacturing, including Senate passage Wednesday of legislation to encourage semiconductor companies to build more high-tech plants in the U.S. Biden wants to marshal global democracies to support infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income nations as an alternative to China's "Belt and Road Initiative," which aims to boost China trade with other global markets.
Kirby listed a number of areas of U.S,-China friction that he said would be part of the conversation, including "tensions over Taiwan, tensions over ... China's aggressive course of behavior in the Indo-Pacific outside of Taiwan, tensions in the economic relationship" and over China's reaction to Russia's war in Ukraine.
Biden, who has kept in place Trump-era tariffs on many Chinese-manufactured goods in order to maintain leverage over Beijing, is weighing whether to ease at least some of them in a move to lessen the impact of soaring inflation on American households.
U.S. officials have also criticized China's "zero-COVID" policy of mass testing and lockdowns in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 in its territory, labeling it misguided and fretting that it will further slow global economic growth.
Other points of strain include China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, which the U.S. has declared a genocide, its militarization in the South China Sea, and global campaign of economic and political espionage. | https://www.wisn.com/article/joe-biden-and-chinas-xi-jinping-talk-more-than-2-hours-at-time-of-us-china-tension/40744230 | 2022-07-28T17:35:14Z | https://www.wisn.com/article/joe-biden-and-chinas-xi-jinping-talk-more-than-2-hours-at-time-of-us-china-tension/40744230 | true |
Cullman city leaders approve sports, entertainment facility
CULLMAN, Ala. (WBRC) - City leaders in Cullman have approved a new sports and entertainment building.
The building will sit right next to Cullman’s other new attraction, the Wildwater water park.
The Cullman Sports and Events Center will include eight basketball courts, 16 volleyball courts, and a gym for large concerts and other events.
“This facility will serve a massive need for the local community,” said Nathan Anderson, Cullman Parks, Recreation and Sports Tourism Executive Director. “It will draw hundreds of thousands to Cullman, and will have a tremendous impact on our community.”
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Modi, Stalin share bonhomie on Chess Olympiad stage
CM says presence of PM increased magnitude of event
The bonhomie between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at the inauguration of the 44 th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai was noticeable. Seated next to Mr. Stalin on the stage, Mr. Modi was, multiple times, seen initiating a conversation with him by touching his shoulder. Mr. Stalin sported a smile, and his body language indicated that he was in comfortable company.
Mr. Stalin, who had, as DMK president while in Opposition, made sharp attacks on Mr. Modi, hailed the Prime Minister on this occasion, saying, “Your presence has increased the magnitude of this event.”
Lauding Mr. Modi’s leadership, he recalled that as Gujarat Chief Minister, the former hosted a grand chess event in which over 20,000 players took part.
Besides speaking about the cultural richness of the Tamil language and Tamil Nadu, Mr. Modi also lauded the organisers for putting together the international sports event in a short span of time.
Mr. Stalin presented a copy of the English version of Tholkappiyam to Mr. Modi.
While it is natural to wonder if the bonhomie could be more than mere optics in the political game of chess, the fact that it was an official event and both leaders were present in their official capacities was not lost on those present.
Earlier, Mr. Stalin underlined the rich history and heritage value of Mamallapuram, the venue of the Chess Olympiad. He pointed out that 26 Indian chess grandmasters were from Tamil Nadu.
On Thambi, the mascot of the event, he said it indicated brotherhood, and that all were one family. “ Thambi [Brother] was how late DMK founder and former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai used to call any man he met,” Mr. Stalin said.
Referring to the archaeological excavations in Tamil Nadu, including in Keeladi, Mr. Stalin said the State had a long-standing association with chess. Chess was a game of intelligence and strategy, he said, and added that the Olympiad in Mamallapuram would help spread the popularity of chess in Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Stalin also described Chennai as the “Chess Capital of India”.
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NEW YORK and MIAMI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GenTrust, LLC (GenTrust), an employee-owned SEC-registered investment adviser, and Kudu Investment Management, LLC (Kudu), a provider of permanent capital solutions to independent asset and wealth managers, today announced that Kudu has acquired a minority passive interest in GenTrust. Terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 2011, GenTrust and its affiliates manage approximately $3 billion, providing customized investment and wealth advisory solutions to a global client base of ultra-high-net-worth families, institutions, and other registered investment advisers. The firm has 33 employees and offices in Miami, New York, and San Juan.
"Kudu is our ideal partner. They immediately understood our dedication to providing best-in-class investment management to our clients. We're thrilled to have their support," said Jim Besaw, GenTrust founding principal and chief investment officer. "GenTrust started out providing investment advice to hedge fund principals and expanded to serve other sophisticated investors. Kudu recognizes that the institutional-quality investment expertise we deliver to these clients has broad appeal and differentiates us in this hypercompetitive industry."
"We're excited to bring Kudu on board," said George Perez, GenTrust founding principal. "This partnership supports our commitment to being our clients' most trusted adviser while providing us with the strategic and financial resources to accelerate both organic and inorganic growth."
"GenTrust has a distinct and innovative approach to investment management," said Charlie Ruffel, Kudu managing partner. "We saw the opportunity to invest alongside the GenTrust team and support its continued growth as utterly compelling."
Since 2018, New York-based Kudu has acquired minority stakes in 19 asset and wealth managers headquartered in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia. Kudu-affiliated asset and wealth managers now collectively invest more than $70 billion on behalf of individual and institutional investors worldwide in traditional and alternative strategies and market segments. To date, Kudu has raised more than $800 million in equity and debt capital from White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual).
Seward & Kissel LLP served as legal adviser to GenTrust and Kudu.
GenTrust, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that provides a full range of wealth and asset management services. GenTrust is independent, employee-owned, and committed to upholding the fiduciary standard by putting clients' best interests first. GenTrust along with its affiliates manages approximately $3 billion in assets for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices and institutions, including sub advised relationships for other registered investment advisers. For more information, visit https://gentrustwm.com/.
Kudu provides long-term capital solutions—including generational ownership transfers, management buyouts, acquisition and growth finance, as well as liquidity for legacy partners—to independent asset and wealth managers globally. Kudu was founded in 2015 and is backed by capital partners White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (NYSE: WTM) and MassMutual. For more information, visit www.kuduinvestment.com
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New features, new partnerships, and ongoing growth mark the company's celebratory year
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Featuring expanded functionality, strong financial performance, and several new key strategic alliances, Greenshades Software marks its 20th year of continuous operations with accelerating momentum, innovation, and growth.
"When we launched Greenshades in the summer of 2002, calculating and filing payroll taxes electronically was still a relatively novel concept. Today, through our cloud-based Payroll and HR platform, we proudly continue the tradition of helping hardworking midmarket companies enhance their workplaces through technology," stated David Rosas, Greenshades' Co-Founder and CEO.
Today, the company serves nearly 4,000 customers across the United States and is a perennial "top performer" in all major crowdsourced review sites, including Capterra, G2, and GetApp.
In addition to impressive market adoption rates, Greenshades is also rapidly emerging as an "employer of choice" in the HR technology space. The Greenshades team comprises 160 people, 40% of which have been with the company for more than five years. The company also boasts a 4.4/5-star Glassdoor rating, a 97% CEO approval rating, and 94% of employees would recommend the company to a friend.
Through the first half of 2022, Greenshades has increased year-over-year revenue by 33%. This growth has been fueled by largescale adoption of the Greenshades Payroll/HR Platform. The Greenshades platform combines modern payroll and robust HR functionality with world-class customer support, providing an increasingly popular alternative for midsized US businesses.
"We are seeing more employers wanting greater flexibility, visibility, and control of their payroll dollars," said Andrew Roe, Greenshades' Chief Revenue Officer. "Greenshades combines the convenience and automation of outsourced payroll providers with the transparency and peace of mind that comes with managing it all in-house. When combined with our compliance and regulatory expertise, this flexibility is a perfect combination for addressing today's challenges."
Through a combination of in-house development efforts and an expanded slate of strategic alliances, Greenshades has recently introduced a host of expanded capabilities, including certifications and license management, earned wage access, advanced time tracking and data collection, and the ability for employees to pay for unforeseen healthcare expenses over time via payroll deduction. Each of these capabilities is designed to boost employee engagement, improve day-to-day operations, and help employers support workers in a more direct and complete way.
As part of the company's 20th-anniversary celebration, Greenshades has also announced its inaugural GLUG, Greenshades Live User Group. Slated for November 6 – 8 at the Red Rock Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, NV, the Greenshades Live User Group features two full days of hands-on learning, peer collaboration, and social events aimed at helping Greenshades users to get the most out of their Payroll and HR strategies and investments.
Greenshades will announce additional activities, promotions, and events throughout the year.
For more information, visit the Greenshades website.
Since 2002, Greenshades has been singularly devoted to helping hardworking companies fulfill the promises they make to their employees. With intuitive technology and best-in-class customer support, Greenshades empowers Payroll and HR departments to give their teams everything they need to thrive. Delivering accurate payroll, proactive compliance, automated tax calculations, and robust employee engagement through one powerful platform supported by world-class customer care.
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The Animal Welfare Department‘s “property kittens” are on a mission to help animals in shelters find forever homes. Marketing Manager Desiree Cawley stopped by to explain the kittens’ mission.
Cawley said the point of the mission is to help families find “the perfect cat or kitten for their home.” She also said adoption fees were “demolished,” meaning that cats and kittens are “just waiting for a family to come and pick them up.”
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The pizza chain celebrated 400 locations in Jefferson Park in Chicago, IL.
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. , July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jet's Pizza opened their 400th location in the pizza chain's franchise. The 400th store is in the neighborhood of Jefferson Park in Chicago, IL. This location is owned by Bryan Gilbert and Dan O'Donohue.
On Wednesday, July 27, John Jetts, the President and CEO of Jet's America, along with his business partners and cousin, Jeff Galloway, V.P. of store operations and Jim Galloway, V.P. of franchise sales went to Chicago to celebrate the 400th Jet's Pizza location.
Alongside the corporate owners, Gilbert and O'Donohue gave out free slices and customers could spin a prize wheel to win some Jet's merch.
As announced earlier this year, Jet's Pizza continues to grow with plans to open 30 new locations in 2022. The chain known best for its Detroit-Style Pizza will be introducing themselves in Utah, Kansas, New Mexico, Washington, and Nevada.
"It's incredible to think we just opened our 400th location when it feels like just yesterday, I was sitting on milk crates with my brother Eugene outside our first location, dreaming of this," said John Jetts, President and CEO of Jet's America, Inc. "We're so proud of the product we put out there and the family of franchisees we've formed who have all made this dream possible."
To find a Jet's Pizza near you, go to jetspizza.com.
Jet's Pizza® is based in Sterling Heights, Michigan. It was founded as Jetts Party Shoppe and Pizzeria in 1978 by brothers, John and Eugene Jetts. Since then, it has now grown to 400 stores in 19 states. Jet's Pizza® is known for its Detroit-style, deep-dish pizzas, and fresh, high-quality ingredients. Every morning the dough is prepared by hand, premium mozzarella is grated, vegetables are hand-cut, and sauce is made with fresh vine-ripened tomatoes mixed with Jet's proprietary spice and herb blend.
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A priest has told Lincolnshire County Council to “take back the funding, find the shredder, get your act together and come back later,” after planned changes to the A16 roundabout at the entrance to Kirton village. Hundreds of residents attended a meeting on Wednesday, July 27, at St Peter and Paul’s Church in Kirton for local community to air their concerns over the authority’s proposals to turn the highway into a fully-signalised crossroads, along widening the length of both A16 approaches.
LCC said the move will improve the A16 corridor between Boston and Spalding – a key route for the agri-food industry. However, residents fear the changes will lead to safety issues, as well as worsen existing traffic problems along the road, up to and through Boston.
During the meeting, Sam Edwards, head of highways at Lincolnshire County Council, said the plans, one of several A16 schemes funded by £20 million in Levelling Up Funding, would safeguard for future growth and infrastructure, including a planned dual carriageway expansion. He said the existing roundabout was “not big enough to allow the dual carriageway to be tacked on” to the existing feature.
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Residents feared the move would slow the traffic down and cause congestion in the village. They asked why the money wasn’t being spent on a bypass for Boston and why, if traffic lights would improve the road, why there was a roundabout built at the new Quadrant development.
After more than an hour of questioning, Father Alan Taylor closed the meeting with his statement. He said to officers: “take the funds back, find the shredder, get your act together and come back later with a revised plan and a proper consultation”.
Parish council chairman Councillor Peter Watson asked for the council to carry out a full consultation with residents. However, LCC’s executive portfolio holder for highways, Councillor Richard Davies, said a rule of thumb for such schemes is not “extensive consultation”.
He said the funding was a short-term opportunity and moved to reassure residents that there had been investigatory work carried out which identified the potential pinch-points. However, he urged residents to contact their county councillors adding: “If the community as a whole feels that this is a really bad idea (…) and the overwhelming feeling is, it isn’t needed, then we will go back to the drawing board.”
However, he said the scheme was not just about Kirton, but the wider A16 and South Lincolnshire route. He also told residents that the government was not willing to fund a full Boston Bypass, adding: “The reality is the days of £5/600million schemes are over, unless you live in London, unfortunately.
“The way we can deliver things in Lincolnshire… is you have to salami slice it, you have to draw down, you have to negotiate with government and you build up into the bigger schemes… our only option is to do it piecemeal – which has its challenges as well.” One resident, however, told him to a response of applause: “You say you’re willing to listen to us, well listen to this, we don’t want to remove the roundabout.”
Following the meeting, Councillor Watson said the gathering showed there had “not been sufficient communication or engagement directly with the public by LCC”. He called for public consultation on the plans, however, this was not accepted.
“LCC Highways seems to say that the A16 will get a dual carriageway at some point, however with the current bottleneck in Boston with no bypass, all that will achieve is drivers will reach the bottleneck sooner, and be queuing in Boston longer and thus is somewhat pointless.”
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PHILADELPHIA, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new alignment between NOCAP Sports and INFLCR will allow NOCAP to access INFLCR's extensive network of student-athletes to bring more vetted NIL opportunities to the table from both emerging brands and some of the biggest brands and agencies in the world. Student-athletes will be able to apply to NOCAP's campaigns as well as receive direct deals from NOCAP's roster of brand clients in an easy and compliant way through a seamless integration.
"We couldn't be more excited to join forces with INFLCR to bring our brand and agency relationships to the tens of thousands of student-athletes on the INFLCR platform," said NOCAP Co-Founder and CEO Nicholas Lord. "This partnership will allow us to maximize the success of our brand partners' NIL initiatives and bring the most value to athletes across the country."
INFLCR recently released their "Global Exchange" allowing a few select companies like NOCAP to easily and compliantly access their student-athletes for brand deals. After year 1 of NIL, it was clear that athletes didn't know who to trust and struggled to find quality deals with fair compensation while remaining compliant with school policies and state laws. The Global Exchange solves these problems by consolidating deals from trusted providers into one place.
"The focus NOCAP has placed on helping student-athletes from Day 1 makes them an important partner for INFLCR," said INFLCR Founder and President, Jim Cavale, "NOCAP's relationships with brands and their agencies, along with athlete activation experience, is going to be of great value to INFLCR student-athletes and partner institutions."
The surface has barely been scratched in the NIL industry. Brand's are no longer in the "wait and see" phase. There is now proof and thousands of case studies showing the value of engaging with athletes for marketing initiatives. Now that more and more advertising spend is getting allocated to collegiate athletes, this partnership has come at the perfect time.
About NOCAP Sports: Founded in 2020 in anticipation of rule changes regarding name, image and likeness (NIL), NOCAP is a leading marketplace and athlete development platform helping athletes safely and compliantly monetize their personal brand. NOCAP's best-in-class marketplace and compliance monitoring platform streamlines the deal process from start to finish by handling communication to all stakeholders involved in any deal. This allows the athletes to get paid what they deserve quickly so they can focus on what really matters, their school work and their sport.
NOCAP has worked with and executed NIL campaigns activating thousands of athletes for some of the world's biggest brands and agencies, proving the power of athlete marketing and what it can do for a brand. NOCAP's team takes pride in helping brand and agency partners build quality, meaningful and creative campaigns that benefit athletes financially and generate the highest return on investment possible.
Visit https://nocapsports.io/ for more information.
About INFLCR: INFLCR, a Teamworks product, is the leading athlete brand-building and NIL business management app for elite athletic organizations. The INFLCR athlete app educates collegiate student-athletes, coaches and staff for the NIL era in a safe and compliant environment, all powered by best-in-class content delivery for student-athletes to access and share content to their social media channels. INFLCR works with more than 250 collegiate and professional sports organizations.
Impactful new features like the INFLCR Local & Global Exchange, provide local and national companies with the ability to find, communicate, pay, and report NIL transactions with collegiate student-athletes, maximizing their NIL earning potential with streamlined reporting for their institution and their personal tax returns.
Visit https://www.inflcr.com/ for more information.
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JERSEYDALE, Calif. (AP) — At least 116 homes and other structures have been destroyed by a California forest fire near Yosemite National Park, officials said Thursday.
The Oak Fire in Mariposa County has charred more than 29 square miles (75 square kilometers) of trees and brush, with 39% containment, Cal Fire said in an incident update.
Assessment teams are moving through remote communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills looking for more damage.
As of Wednesday, about 2,200 residents remained under evacuation orders, fire spokesperson Chris Garcia said. Some 6,000 people fled their homes when the blaze erupted last Friday near the town of Midpines.
The fire's cause is under investigation.
Lower temperatures and increased humidity in recent days helped firefighters slow the fire's growth. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/116-homes-other-structures-burned-in-fire-near-17335327.php | 2022-07-28T17:43:36Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/116-homes-other-structures-burned-in-fire-near-17335327.php | false |
Industry-renowned insurance executive to lead 15,000 employees
SAN ANTONIO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- USAA today announced that Randy Termeer has been named President, Property and Casualty Insurance. Randy joined USAA in 2017 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Auto Insurance. Most recently, he led USAA's acquisition of Noblr, launched Small Business Insurance and the SafePilot program.
Randy brings more than 20 years of industry experience. Prior to joining USAA, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Chubb's International Accident and Health Division. He also led product management for personal lines for The Hartford.
"With deep insurance industry expertise and a strong track record of innovating to meet the needs of military families, Randy has demonstrated he's the right person to lead the P&C team into our second century," says Wayne Peacock, president and chief executive officer, USAA. "He knows what it means to serve military families well and his passion for our mission, our members and our employees is unmatched."
"Since the moment I walked out of orientation in 2017, I have seen my USAA teammates step up to serve our members through significant challenges time and time again," says Randy. "Whether it's the devastation of a hurricane or an unprecedented pandemic, this team has shown resilience and commitment to our noble mission. There is no team in the world that is comparable to the USAA team, and I am thrilled to lead this team into our second century of service."
Randy sits on several industry boards and is an active volunteer in the San Antonio community. He's also an Honorary Commander for the 37th Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Air Force Base.
USAA
Founded in 1922 by a group of military officers, USAA is among the leading providers of insurance, banking, and investment and retirement solutions to more than 13 million members of the U.S. military, veterans who have honorably served and their families. Headquartered in San Antonio, USAA has offices in eight U.S. cities and three overseas locations and employs more than 38,000 people worldwide. Each year, the company contributes to national and local nonprofits in support of military families and communities where employees live and work. For more information about USAA, follow us on Facebook or Twitter (@USAA), or visit usaa.com.
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Strong natural language capabilities, open semantic layer, and extensive customer support ecosystem noted as key strengths of Oracle Analytics
AUSTIN, Texas, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: U.S. Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2022 Vendor Assessment. This IDC MarketScape includes 16 select business intelligence and analytics (BIA) platform providers. Represented by Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) and Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), Oracle Analytics placed among the top platforms in the current BIA offering category.
"Oracle's innovation in AI-based automation across the entire analytics and business intelligence continuum accelerates insights, recommendations, and actions that help improve outcomes throughout the enterprise," said Dan Vesset, group vice president of Analytics and Information Management market research, IDC.
According to the report, "Consider Oracle BIA software if your organization has broad requirements for ad hoc data exploration, performance management, scenario analysis, and embedded analytics. By offering multiple-related BIA products, Oracle enables clients to take advantage of its capabilities in the environment and use cases of their choice."
IDC's assessment highlights several key OAC strengths, including its prebuilt capabilities that use machine learning for auto-generating and explaining insights in all data, as well as others that significantly improve user experience such as natural language (NL) and natural language query (NLQ). These strengths include:
- Strong NL capabilities that combine AI-based linguistics and semantic modeling of the data; NLQ-driven on-the-fly calculation and dashboard generation, negations, and expression filters.
- Open architecture that allows third-party data visualization tools to connect to OAC's semantic layer and analytics catalog services.
- Extensive customer support ecosystem of Oracle employees, partners, and customer peers connected to virtual and physical events and online communities.
"Our strategy is to empower everyone to make analytics-driven decisions that increase the benefit to their organization," said T.K. Anand, executive vice president, Oracle Analytics. "We're honored to have IDC validate our commitment to innovating for our customers."
Oracle Analytics is a complete cloud platform with ready-to-use services for a wide variety of workloads and data. Offering valuable, actionable insights from all types of data—in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid deployment—Oracle Analytics uses machine learning to empower business users, data engineers, and data scientists to access and process relevant data, evaluate predictions, and make quick accurate decisions.
Download a copy of the IDC MarketScape report here.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Analytics Cloud
- Read the blog post about the IDC MarketScape report
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.
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IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge said Thursday that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud," but did reveal contempt for the state's open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired.
Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn awarded about $98,000 in attorneys' fees to the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, bringing an end in circuit court to one of four lawsuits the group filed. Vos's attorney, Ron Stadler, said he was recommending that Vos appeal the ruling.
The fees will be paid by taxpayers, which is why the judge said she was not also awarding additional punitive damages against Vos. Costs to taxpayers for the investigation, including ongoing legal fees, have exceeded $1 million.
“I think the people of the state of Wisconsin have been punished enough for this case," Bailey-Rihn said. “I don’t think it does anyone any good to have punitive damages placed on the innocent people of this state.”
All of American Oversight's lawsuits stem from records requests it made to Vos and Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired by Vos in June 2021 to investigate the 2020 presidential election won by President Joe Biden. Vos ordered the investigation under pressure from election loser Donald Trump, who continues to falsely claim there was widespread fraud in Wisconsin and that Biden's win should be decertified, which is impossible and which Vos has repeatedly refused to support.
Even Gableman's attorney said decertification was “pointless.”
Biden's victory by nearly 21,000 votes has withstood recounts, multiple state and federal lawsuits, an audit by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau and a review by a conservative activist law firm, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. An Associated Press review of Wisconsin and other battleground states also found far too little fraud to have tipped the election for Trump.
Vos and Gableman have suffered a series of defeats at the circuit court level in the American Oversight lawsuits. Along the way, both were found to be in contempt for refusing to comply with court orders to turn over records. Bailey-Rihn, presiding over her last hearing before retiring, expressed frustration Thursday.
“This has been a long and torturous process to get here,” she said. "The reality is, whatever records there were, they were either destroyed or they weren’t kept. The problem for this court is no one knows when those records were destroyed.”
State law requires lawmakers like Vos to retain records after an open records request for them has been filed. They can, and do, delete records if there is no pending open records request.
Gableman testified in another case that he routinely deleted records that he thought were not a part of the investigation. That resulted in American Oversight filing a fourth lawsuit alleging those deletions were against the law. That case, along with two others, is still pending.
A judge next month was to consider whether Gableman had fulfilled requirements to vacate an earlier contempt order for not turning over records. And in another case, Vos faced an Aug. 4 deadline to turn over additional records requested by American Oversight.
“This whole case has been about trying to shine a light on government," Bailey-Rihn said. What it revealed, she said, was that in the early days of Gableman's probe, he was being paid $11,000 a month by taxpayers "to sit in the New Berlin library to learn about election law because he knows nothing about election law.”
“We’re all citizens of this state and this country, and we want our elections to be fair and not tainted by any sort of election fraud," the judge said. "We have absolutely found out from this case there was absolutely no evidence of election fraud.”
She said Vos and others have shown they believe they have no obligation to comply with the state open records law, they don't understand it, they don't follow the attorney general's guidance and they leave it to people who aren't trained on the law to deal with it.
“That’s one thing the citizens of this state have learned to their detriment," Bailey-Rihn said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-Wisconsin-probe-found-absolutely-no-17335290.php | 2022-07-28T17:44:56Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-Wisconsin-probe-found-absolutely-no-17335290.php | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University’s law school in the nation’s capital, following student protests and the university’s statement of support for the conservative justice’s role on campus.
“Justice Thomas informed GW Law that he is unavailable to co-teach a Constitutional Law Seminar this fall,” university spokesperson Josh Grossman said in an emailed statement Wednesday.
Thomas, 74, has taught at the private school since 2011. He was supposed to lead the seminar with Judge Gregory Maggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Maggs once served as a Supreme Court clerk to Thomas.
Thomas was part of the conservative majority that in late June overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion.
In the following days, thousands of students signed a petition calling for the school to sever its relationship with Thomas. But university officials refused.
Maggs will continue to offer the class, Grossman said.
Thomas’ withdrawal was first reported by the GW Hatchet, the campus newspaper, which obtained an email from Maggs to students, telling them of the “sad news” that Thomas would not be co-teaching the class.
Thomas did not respond to a request for comment made to the court’s Public Information Office. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/justice-thomas-cancels-plans-to-teach-at-dc-law-school/ | 2022-07-28T17:46:43Z | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/justice-thomas-cancels-plans-to-teach-at-dc-law-school/ | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin announced an expansive agreement Wednesday that had eluded them for months addressing health care and climate, raising taxes on high earners and large corporations and reducing federal debt.
The two Democrats said the Senate would vote on the wide-ranging measure next week, setting up President Joe Biden and Democrats for an unexpected victory in the runup to November elections in which their congressional control is in peril. A House vote would follow, perhaps later in August, with unanimous Republican opposition in both chambers seemingly certain.
Just hours earlier, Schumer, D-N.Y., and Manchin, D-W.Va., seemed at loggerheads and headed toward a far narrower package limited — at Manchin’s insistence — to curbing pharmaceutical prices and extending federal health care subsidies. Earlier Wednesday, numerous Democrats said they were all but resigned to the more modest legislation.
The reversal was stunning, and there was no immediate explanation for Manchin’s abrupt willingness to back a bolder, broader measure. Since last year, he has used his pivotal vote in the 50-50 Senate to force Biden and Democrats to abandon far more ambitious, expensive versions. He dragged them through months of negotiations in which leaders’ concessions to shrink the legislation proved fruitless, antagonizing the White House and most congressional Democrats.
“This is the action the American people have been waiting for. This addresses the problems of today — high health care costs and overall inflation — as well as investments in our energy security for the future,” Biden said in a statement. He urged lawmakers to approve the legislation quickly.
Tellingly, Democrats called the 725-page measure “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” because of provisions aimed at helping Americans cope with this year’s dramatically rising consumer costs. Polls show that inflation, embodied by gasoline prices that surpassed $5 per gallon before easing, has been voters’ chief concern. For months, Manchin’s opposition to larger proposals has been partly premised on his worry that they would fuel inflation.
Besides inflation, the measure seemed to offer something for many Democratic voters.
It dangled tax hikes on the wealthy and big corporations and environmental initiatives for progressives. And Manchin, an advocate for the fossil fuels his state produces, said the bill would invest in technologies for carbon-based and clean energy while also reducing methane and carbon emissions.
“Rather than risking more inflation with trillions in new spending, this bill will cut the inflation taxes Americans are paying, lower the cost of health insurance and prescription drugs, and ensure our country invests in the energy security and climate change solutions we need to remain a global superpower through innovation rather than elimination,” Manchin said.
Schumer called the bill Congress’ “greatest pro-climate legislation.” He said it would also cut pharmaceutical prices and “ensure the wealthiest corporations and individuals pay their fair share in taxes.”
The measure would reduce carbon emissions by around 40% by 2030, Schumer and Manchin said. While that would miss Biden’s 50% goal, that reduction, the measure’s climate spending and the jobs it would create are “a big deal,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., an environmental advocate who had been upset with the absence of those provisions until now.
The overall proposal is far less aspirational than the $3.5 trillion package Biden asked Democrats to push through Congress last year, and the pared-down, roughly $2 trillion version the House approved last November after Manchin insisted on shrinking it. Even then, Manchin shot down that smaller measure the following month, asserting it would fuel inflation and was loaded with budget gimmicks.
In summaries that provided scant detail, Democrats said their proposal would raise $739 billion over the decade in new revenue, including $313 billion from a 15% corporate minimum tax. They said that would affect around 200 of the country’s largest corporations, with profits exceeding $1 billion, that currently pay under the current 21% corporate rate.
The agreement also contains $288 billion the government would save from curbing pharmaceutical prices. Those provisions would also require Medicare to begin negotiating prices on a modest number of drugs, pay rebates to Medicare if their price increases exceed inflation and limit that program’s beneficiaries to $2,000 annual out-of-pocket expenses.
The deal also claims to gain $124 billion from beefing up IRS tax enforcement, and $14 billion from taxing some “carried interest” profits earned by partners in entities like private equity or hedge funds.
The measure would spend $369 billion on energy and climate change initiatives. These include consumer tax credits and rebates for buying clean-energy vehicles and encouraging home energy efficiency; tax credits for solar panel manufacturers; $30 billion in grants and loans for utilities and states to gradually convert to clean energy; and $27 billion to reduce emissions, especially in lower-income areas.
It would also aim $64 billion at extending federal subsidies for three more years for some people buying private health insurance. Those subsidies, which lower people’s premiums, would otherwise expire at year’s end.
That would leave $306 billion for debt reduction, an effort Manchin has demanded. While a substantial sum, that’s a small fraction of the trillions in cumulative deficits the government is projected to amass over the coming decade.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., was still reviewing the agreement, said spokeswoman Hannah Hurley. Sinema backed Manchin last year in insisting on making the legislation less expensive but objected to proposals to raise tax rates, and the spokeswoman referred a reporter to her comments last year supporting a corporate minimum tax.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said the Democratic agreement would be “devastating to American families and small businesses. Raising taxes on job creators, crushing energy producers with new regulations, and stifling innovators looking for new cures will only make this recession worse, not better.”
But if Democrats can hold their troops together, GOP opposition would not matter. Democrats can prevail if they lose no more than four votes in the House and remain solidly united in the 50-50 Senate, where Vice President Kamala Harris can cast the tie-breaking vote.
“This agreement is a victory for America’s families and for protecting our planet,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “In light of the discussions of the past year, this agreement is a remarkable achievement.”
The bill lacks increased tax deductions for state and local taxes, which some Democrats from high-tax states have demanded as the price for their support. A spokesperson for Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., a leader of that group, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
In the Senate, Democrats are using a special process that will let them pass the bill without reaching the 60 votes required for most legislation there. To use that, the chamber’s parliamentarian must verify that the bill doesn’t violate the chamber’s budget procedures, a review now underway.
Schumer and Manchin said leaders committed to revamp permitting procedures this fall to help infrastructure like pipelines and export facilities “be efficiently and responsibly built to deliver energy safely around the country and to our allies.”
Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce said her group wanted to read the agreement’s details but was glad Biden and Schumer “remained resolute in finding a path to pass once-in-a-generation investments in our communities, our economy, and our future.”
Manchin just last week said he would only agree to far more limited legislation this month on prescription drugs and health care subsidies. He said he was open to considering a broader compromise on environment and tax issues after Congress returned from a summer recess in September, an offer that many Democrats considered dubious because of lawmakers’ abbreviated pre-election schedule.
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1252 PM EDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHERN SENECA...NORTHEASTERN SCHUYLER...SOUTHEASTERN YATES...
SOUTHWESTERN CAYUGA AND NORTHWESTERN TOMPKINS COUNTIES...
At 1251 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Interlaken, or
12 miles northeast of Dundee, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Law enforcement has reported downed trees and wires.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Hector, Starkey, Lansing, Covert, Ledyard, Trumansburg, Aurora, Ovid,
Interlaken and Lodi.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
To report severe weather contact your nearest law enforcement agency.
They will send your report to the National Weather Service office in
Binghamton.
If on a lake, get away from the water and move indoors or inside a
vehicle. remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles from the
parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough
to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not be
caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
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Amicus Therapeutics (FOLD) Expected to Beat Earnings Estimates: Should You Buy?
Wall Street expects a year-over-year decline in earnings on higher revenues when Amicus Therapeutics (FOLD) reports results for the quarter ended June 2022. While this widely-known consensus outlook is important in gauging the company's earnings picture, a powerful factor that could impact its near-term stock price is how the actual results compare to these estimates.
The earnings report, which is expected to be released on August 4, 2022, might help the stock move higher if these key numbers are better than expectations. On the other hand, if they miss, the stock may move lower.
While management's discussion of business conditions on the earnings call will mostly determine the sustainability of the immediate price change and future earnings expectations, it's worth having a handicapping insight into the odds of a positive EPS surprise.
Zacks Consensus Estimate
This pharmaceutical company is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.23 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -21.1%.
Revenues are expected to be $85.12 million, up 10% from the year-ago quarter.
Estimate Revisions Trend
The consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has been revised 2.7% higher over the last 30 days to the current level. This is essentially a reflection of how the covering analysts have collectively reassessed their initial estimates over this period.
Investors should keep in mind that the direction of estimate revisions by each of the covering analysts may not always get reflected in the aggregate change.
Earnings Whisper
Estimate revisions ahead of a company's earnings release offer clues to the business conditions for the period whose results are coming out. Our proprietary surprise prediction model -- the Zacks Earnings ESP (Expected Surprise Prediction) -- has this insight at its core.
The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. The idea here is that analysts revising their estimates right before an earnings release have the latest information, which could potentially be more accurate than what they and others contributing to the consensus had predicted earlier.
Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. However, the model's predictive power is significant for positive ESP readings only.
A positive Earnings ESP is a strong predictor of an earnings beat, particularly when combined with a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold). Our research shows that stocks with this combination produce a positive surprise nearly 70% of the time, and a solid Zacks Rank actually increases the predictive power of Earnings ESP.
Please note that a negative Earnings ESP reading is not indicative of an earnings miss. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell).
How Have the Numbers Shaped Up for Amicus Therapeutics?
For Amicus Therapeutics, the Most Accurate Estimate is higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate, suggesting that analysts have recently become bullish on the company's earnings prospects. This has resulted in an Earnings ESP of +1.08%.
On the other hand, the stock currently carries a Zacks Rank of #3.
So, this combination indicates that Amicus Therapeutics will most likely beat the consensus EPS estimate.
Does Earnings Surprise History Hold Any Clue?
While calculating estimates for a company's future earnings, analysts often consider to what extent it has been able to match past consensus estimates. So, it's worth taking a look at the surprise history for gauging its influence on the upcoming number.
For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Amicus Therapeutics would post a loss of $0.24 per share when it actually produced a loss of $0.30, delivering a surprise of -25%.
Over the last four quarters, the company has beaten consensus EPS estimates just once.
Bottom Line
An earnings beat or miss may not be the sole basis for a stock moving higher or lower. Many stocks end up losing ground despite an earnings beat due to other factors that disappoint investors. Similarly, unforeseen catalysts help a number of stocks gain despite an earnings miss.
That said, betting on stocks that are expected to beat earnings expectations does increase the odds of success. This is why it's worth checking a company's Earnings ESP and Zacks Rank ahead of its quarterly release. Make sure to utilize our Earnings ESP Filter to uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they've reported.
Amicus Therapeutics appears a compelling earnings-beat candidate. However, investors should pay attention to other factors too for betting on this stock or staying away from it ahead of its earnings release.
An Industry Player's Expected Results
Among the stocks in the Zacks Medical - Biomedical and Genetics industry, Moderna (MRNA) is soon expected to post earnings of $4.50 per share for the quarter ended June 2022. This estimate indicates a year-over-year change of -30.3%. This quarter's revenue is expected to be $3.89 billion, down 10.7% from the year-ago quarter.
The consensus EPS estimate for Moderna has been revised 1.6% lower over the last 30 days to the current level. However, a lower Most Accurate Estimate has resulted in an Earnings ESP of -0.22%.
When combined with a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold), this Earnings ESP makes it difficult to conclusively predict that Moderna will beat the consensus EPS estimate. Over the last four quarters, the company surpassed consensus EPS estimates three times.
Stay on top of upcoming earnings announcements with the Zacks Earnings Calendar.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AvoMD, a next-generation, application-based clinical decision support platform, is working with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to transform algorithms developed by the AAFP journal American Family Physician (AFP) into actionable, instant guidance at the point-of-care. The partnership will begin with 20 commonly used algorithms from the AAFP's AFP, including those that focus on Hypothyroidism, Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in Premenopausal Women and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome.
Family physicians are among the busiest of all providers, having 82 patient encounters per week on average. In addition to comprehensive, preventive care, they perform a wide variety of services and procedures encompassing behavioral health care, chronic care management, pediatric and geriatric medicine, urgent care, skin procedures (e.g., biopsies), musculoskeletal injections and more. Because family physicians serve such a great volume of vastly different types of patients, having instant, point-of-care access to expert guidance in the form of algorithms is essential in ensuring patients receive the highest standard of care.
AvoMD's cloud-based solution - which will be available on AvoMD's web and mobile apps and accessible in the Electronic Health Record - supports and strengthens the ability of family physicians to provide critical services to patients of all ages. The tool empowers family physicians to deliver the best possible care tailored to individual patient needs. Healthcare organizations will have the ability to use AvoMD's no-code content management tool to customize the offering for local needs.
AvoMD co-founder and CEO Dr. Yair Saperstein commented, "We are thrilled to partner with the AAFP, the authority on family medicine and the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Combining the AAFP's clinical expertise with AvoMD's decision support technology furthers our shared mission of equipping primary care physicians and their support teams with the tools and expertise to provide high-quality, evidence-based care. We are excited to provide this offering to our growing base of health system customers and clinician users."
AvoMD is a no-code software platform that transforms clinical content – guidelines, algorithms, pathways, and checklists - into "virtual clinical consults" available instantly at the point-of-care on standalone web/mobile apps and in the EHR. Leading societies and health systems partner with AvoMD to transform authoritative clinical expertise into instant expert guidance at the bedside. Studies show that AvoMD improves outcomes, saves costs, and saves clinicians ~50% of their time in accessing and using information at the point-of-care.
Learn more: avomd.io
Email: info@avomd.io
Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 127,600 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians conduct approximately one in five office visits -- that's 192 million visits annually or 48 percent more than the next most visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.
Learn more: aafp.org
Email: aafp@aafp.org
Media inquiries: rbeeler@aafp.org
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By KEN SWEET
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the nation’s financial watchdog is having second thoughts about how useful fines are in deterring illegal behavior in the financial industry, saying some companies have gotten so big that the money makes little difference.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Rohit Chopra signaled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to deploy an array of tools that could limit the ability of a bank or financial firm to conduct business if they violate the law.
In less than a year at the helm of the CFPB, Chopra has moved to turn the agency back into the assertive regulator it was under President Obama. The bureau took far fewer enforcement actions during the Trump administration.
Some staff that had left the CFPB under President Trump have returned. The bureau has been adding enforcement staff and has reprioritized issues such fair lending that were set aside during the previous administration.
Chopra, in a video interview with The Associated Press, said that the changes at the bureau have been necessary because the financial services industry has been transformed dramatically. Apple is now one of the biggest payment processors and has a credit card, Facebook tried to launch its own digital currency, and Amazon acts a financial middle man between merchants and customers in a way unthinkable a few years ago.
There’s also been the rapid growth of buy now, pay later companies, which offer ways for borrowers to split up a purchase into a small number of equal installments. It’s a product that effectively did not exist in the U.S. even three or four years ago.
In some of his earliest moves, Chopra directed the bureau to investigate whether technology companies such as Apple, Amazon, PayPal, Square and others may be violating privacy laws when it comes to payments. The bureau is also investigating whether buy now, pay later companies are causing consumers to take on too much debt as well as how those loans should be reported on consumers’ credit reports.
“We are trying to make sure that we have a real-world understanding of today’s markets, not in light of what happened in the pandemic, but in light of banking has really changed in the past few years,” he said.
Banks and other businesses have taken notice of the bureau’s shift. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched an advertising campaign this summer deliberately targeting Chopra, who the business lobbying group has alleged is trying to “radically change” the financially services industry.
Chopra is re-evaluating some of the traditional tools at regulators’ disposal. Because of the size of some of these companies, he said that tools such as fines may no longer be sufficient to punish bad actors.
The CFPB is exploring other ways to rein in illegal practices, ranging from limitations on a firm’s growth or banning a company from opening new accounts, as well as imposing fines and liability on individuals instead of just the company.
One option now being considered for repeat gross violations would be to revoke a bank’s deposit insurance, under the premise it is operating in an unsafe and unsound manner. Revoking bank deposit insurance would be a crippling blow for any financial company.
In April, the CFPB sued TransUnion for allegedly engaging in deceptive marketing of credit products, in violation of a 2017 enforcement order. The bureau also sued one of TransUnion’s executives as part of its lawsuit, which is seeking monetary fines as well as an injunction to stop the practices.
“We’re shifting our enforcement focus to these larger actors who knew something was a violation of the law but made a calculated decision to violate that law,” Chopra said.
TransUnion has denied it violated the 2017 order and is fighting the CFPB’s lawsuit.
Chopra’s comments partly reflect his experience as one of the Democratic seats on the Federal Trade Commission under President Trump. During his tenure, Chopra was openly critical of the regulator’s history of big investigations into anticompetitive behavior that ultimately ended in an inconsequential fine against a large company.
In 2019, the FTC fined Facebook $5 billion for the social media company’s extensive privacy violations. While the fine was the largest ever imposed by the agency, it represented less than 10% of the company’s total sales that year, and less than one-third of the company’s annual profits. In the interview, Chopra reiterated that he believes the FTC’s actions did little to stem Facebook’s bad practices.
“It felt like there were two standards at the FTC: hammer the little guy when they break the law, but when a big firm engaged in repeat offenses, it felt like nothing happened,” he said.
Chopra publicly referenced the need for more forms of enforcement than just a fine Wednesday after a company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was found to have illegally discriminated against potential Black and Latino home owners.
“We will continue to seek new remedies to ensure all lenders meet and fulfill their responsibilities and obligations,” Chopra said.
Other financial regulators have also taken a multifaceted approach. Regulators have fined Wells Fargo billions of dollars for various bad practices, including pressuring its employees to illegally open millions of fake accounts in order to meet unrealistic sales goals.
But the Federal Reserve went further. Wells has remained under constraints set by the Fed since 2018, unable to grow its business until the central bank deems its culture problems to be resolved.
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NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AvoMD, a next-generation, application-based clinical decision support platform, is working with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to transform algorithms developed by the AAFP journal American Family Physician (AFP) into actionable, instant guidance at the point-of-care. The partnership will begin with 20 commonly used algorithms from the AAFP's AFP, including those that focus on Hypothyroidism, Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in Premenopausal Women and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome.
Family physicians are among the busiest of all providers, having 82 patient encounters per week on average. In addition to comprehensive, preventive care, they perform a wide variety of services and procedures encompassing behavioral health care, chronic care management, pediatric and geriatric medicine, urgent care, skin procedures (e.g., biopsies), musculoskeletal injections and more. Because family physicians serve such a great volume of vastly different types of patients, having instant, point-of-care access to expert guidance in the form of algorithms is essential in ensuring patients receive the highest standard of care.
AvoMD's cloud-based solution - which will be available on AvoMD's web and mobile apps and accessible in the Electronic Health Record - supports and strengthens the ability of family physicians to provide critical services to patients of all ages. The tool empowers family physicians to deliver the best possible care tailored to individual patient needs. Healthcare organizations will have the ability to use AvoMD's no-code content management tool to customize the offering for local needs.
AvoMD co-founder and CEO Dr. Yair Saperstein commented, "We are thrilled to partner with the AAFP, the authority on family medicine and the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Combining the AAFP's clinical expertise with AvoMD's decision support technology furthers our shared mission of equipping primary care physicians and their support teams with the tools and expertise to provide high-quality, evidence-based care. We are excited to provide this offering to our growing base of health system customers and clinician users."
AvoMD is a no-code software platform that transforms clinical content – guidelines, algorithms, pathways, and checklists - into "virtual clinical consults" available instantly at the point-of-care on standalone web/mobile apps and in the EHR. Leading societies and health systems partner with AvoMD to transform authoritative clinical expertise into instant expert guidance at the bedside. Studies show that AvoMD improves outcomes, saves costs, and saves clinicians ~50% of their time in accessing and using information at the point-of-care.
Learn more: avomd.io
Email: info@avomd.io
Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 127,600 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians conduct approximately one in five office visits -- that's 192 million visits annually or 48 percent more than the next most visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care.
Learn more: aafp.org
Email: aafp@aafp.org
Media inquiries: rbeeler@aafp.org
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Karnataka reports 1,889 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths
Karnataka on Thursday recorded 1,889 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number to 40,01,655.
With this, the day’s Test Positivity Rate (TPR) stood at 5.95% and the weekly TPR touched 5.54%. Of the new cases, 1,475 have been reported from Bengaluru Urban alone.
With three deaths, the State’s toll touched 40,097. Besides these, the death of 42 patients due to non-COVID-19 reasons has also been recorded so far.
As many as 1,587 people were discharged on Thursday, taking the total recoveries to 39,52,381. Active cases stood at 9,135.
As many as 31,706 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, including 26,110 RT-PCR tests. With this, the total number of tests rose to 6,77,03,537.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Icertis, the contract intelligence company that pushes the boundaries of what's possible with contract lifecycle management (CLM), announced today that former BMW CEO Harald Krüger has joined its Advisory Board. Mr. Krüger's exceptional career in the automotive industry, as well as board and advisory positions with global market leaders such as Deutsche Telekom AG Deutsche Lufthansa AG, and Salesforce (EMEA) offer Icertis invaluable expertise as the company transforms the foundation of commerce with the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform.
Contracts are the single source of truth for all commercial, operational, and legal entitlements and obligations of a company. The ICI platform digitizes the contracting process, extracts the critical structured and unstructured data in contracts, connects this data to operational surround systems, and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure the intent of every contract is correctly memorialized and fully realized.
"Icertis Contract Intelligence has emerged as the best-practice SaaS platform as enterprises navigate unprecedented market challenges and business disruptions," said Icertis Advisory Board member Harald Krüger. "Icertis is helping companies increase revenue, reduce cost, manage risk, and ensure compliance across functions. This enterprise-wide value is fueled by Icertis' award-winning ICI platform, tier-one technology partnerships, and deep alliances with top SIs around the world, positioning the company to further leapfrog CLM competitors. I expect to see Icertis accelerate growth exponentially and am excited to be part of their journey."
Mr. Krüger's three-decade-long tenure with BMW Group began in 1992 and includes more than 10 years serving on BMW's board of management, including four as CEO. Earlier in his career, he worked at the Institute for Dynamics of Flight Systems of the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen. He currently serves on top strategic boards across industries.
"Harald joins the Icertis Advisory Board as the company continues to see strong momentum in 2022 after posting ARR growth of above 50% in 2021, with record customer and partner growth across the world. When I first met Harald, I was impressed with his deep curiosity, grasp of details, and lean-in-to-make-an-impact attitude. In addition, his business values and approach to company culture perfectly align with Icertis' FORTE values and culture," said Samir Bodas, CEO and Co-founder of Icertis. "I am looking forward to Harald's tenured insight in shaping our business growth, from product and go-to-market strategy to managing and leading high-performance global teams."
Icertis has been consistently recognized for its record growth, market leadership, employer practices, and contract management software innovations. The company has earned numerous top-tier analyst, partner, and industry accolades and awards in recent years, such as inclusion on the Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte's Technology 500 List, and Inc.'s Best-Led Companies in America.
With unmatched technology and category-defining innovation, Icertis pushes the boundaries of what's possible with contract lifecycle management (CLM). The AI-powered, analyst-validated Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform turns contracts from static documents into strategic advantage by structuring and connecting the critical contract information that defines how an organization runs. Today, the world's most iconic brands and disruptive innovators trust Icertis to govern the rights and commitments in their 10 million+ contracts worth more than $1 trillion in 40+ languages and 90+ countries.
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LANSING, NY (WIVT/WBGH) – The New York State Police are investigating a break-in that occurred at a Lansing church between Sunday, July 24th, and Monday, July 25th.
Suspect(s) broke into All Saints Church on Ridge Road in the town of Lansing and stole a safe containing a large amount of cash.
The incident is currently under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact New York State Police at 607-347-4463 or 607-561-7400. Reference case 10958358. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/crime/police-looking-for-church-burglary-suspect/ | 2022-07-28T17:53:27Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/crime/police-looking-for-church-burglary-suspect/ | true |
(NEXSTAR) – So you’ve beaten the infinitesimal Mega Millions odds and are now staring down a life-changing influx of cash – but what you do next with that jackpot money will decide how rich you ultimately remain.
On Tuesday, the jackpot surpassed $1 billion. While many fantasize about spending the cash, the actual winners may be overwhelmed with a different feeling – anxiety.
“The biggest fear that pretty much all sudden wealth recipients have, and especially lottery winners, is that they’re going to screw it up,” Robert Pagliarini, author of “The Sudden Wealth Solution,” told Nexstar.
Pagliarini has been advising clients, including lottery winners, for over 20 years on how to handle large influxes of money. He says that the goal is always to turn that lump sum into lasting wealth, but added that for lottery winners there are some must-dos.
Protect the ticket
Holding a winning ticket and knowing that a single slip of paper could easily be lost or stolen can be a terrifying feeling.
Until it’s signed, a lottery ticket is a bearer instrument, meaning that whoever has the ticket can claim the money.
“That means that they really need to document that they are the owner of the ticket,” Pagliarini said. “So I would take a selfie with the ticket, I would take a video of me and the ticket, I would sign the ticket and I would keep that ticket in a very, very safe place.”
Over the years, there have been horror stories when it comes to this nerve-wracking period after a lottery win – there was a woman in California who said she lost a $26 million ticket in the laundry. A man in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina thought he lost his winning ticket forever – only to have his wife find it.
Build your team
For lottery winners, it can be their own friends and family – or complete strangers – who try to siphon away their money.
“They will want to try to separate you from your new lottery winnings, and that happens often,” Pagliarini said. “And so you need a team to insulate you and to protect you from that.”
He recommends hiring an attorney, tax advisor and a financial advisor, as well as keeping the lottery win a secret for as long as possible. If you live in a state where you have to disclose the victory, that adds a number of challenges “because now the entire world, especially this size of a jackpot, everyone’s going to be talking about.”
There’s going to be helicopters flying overhead when you go and collect the winnings like this. This stuff happens because the world gets excited. And now everyone knows that you’ve got a billion dollars that’s not good. In no circumstances is that a good thing.
Robert Pagliarini, founder, Pacific Wealth Advisors
Pagliarini recommends building a media plan, sharing the news with only one trusted family member at first and staying out of the public eye when possible.
The big decision
A monumental decision that Mega Millions jackpot winners face is how to receive their winnings – in a big lump sum or spread out over years in annuity payments.
If someone beats the 1-in-302,575,350 odds and wins the current Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, they will ultimately have to choose between taking the pot in 30 payments over 29 years, or the reduced lump cash sum of roughly $602 million.
The decision is ultimately a personal one, and what might be ideal for one could be disastrous for another.
“My gut is that 99-plus percent of people choose the lump sum because they want the money, but the problem with that is now that they’ve got this money, if they if they mess up, if they make some bad decisions, if they get the wrong people on their team, they spend too much and there’s no do-over button,” Pagliarini said. “With an annuity, you know, you can screw up year after year after year, and it’s OK because the next year you’re gonna get a new paycheck. And so maybe for the first seven or eight years, you just blow it. But by year eight or nine, you kind of got things figured out. That means you’ve got another 20 years of paychecks coming your way to just sort of redeem yourself.”
“You’ve got to see what is the best option for you,” echoed Steven Evensen, CFP, a financial advisor with Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management.
While the lump sum is more popular and would grant immediate access to the cash, it also means more taxes.
“You’d be taxed up to 37% federally, and then even more so depending on your state tax,” Evensen cautioned. “So I would speak to an accountant about that to make sure you aren’t kind of overspending in your head before you actually receive the money and receive your tax bill at the end of the day.”
Regardless of which payout plan you choose, Evensen recommends investing some of the money. What you invest in depends on your goals, but “low cost mutual funds, index funds are a great place to start.” | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/if-you-win-the-1-billion-mega-millions-jackpot-heres-what-experts-say-to-do-next/ | 2022-07-28T17:53:52Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/national-news/if-you-win-the-1-billion-mega-millions-jackpot-heres-what-experts-say-to-do-next/ | false |
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas won't be teaching at George Washington University's law school after a student-led petition sought for his removal.
A school spokesperson confirmed the news in a statement to the Associated Press, saying Thomas informed the school that he was "unavailable" this fall to teach.
According to the news outlet, Thomas has taught at the university since 2011.
Thomas and Judge Gregory Maggs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces were slated to co-teach a Constitutional Law Seminar, GW Hatchet, the campus newspaper, reported.
Maggs, who will still teach the class, informed students of the "sad news" in an email, which the school newspaper obtained.
News of the 74-year-old stepping down from teaching comes after he and several other Supreme Court justices overturned the Roe v. Wade decision.
Days after the landmark decision was overturned, thousands of students signed a petition pleading that the school end its relationship with Thomas, the AP reported.
According to the news outlet, the school refused to do that. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/justice-clarence-thomas-cancels-plans-to-teach-at-dc-law-school | 2022-07-28T17:54:04Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/justice-clarence-thomas-cancels-plans-to-teach-at-dc-law-school | false |
WASHINGTON — Dave Martinez writes Josh Bell’s name on the Washington Nationals lineup card virtually every single game this season and plans to keep doing so.
Bell, who turns 30 on Aug. 14, is batting .304 with 13 home runs and has driven in a team-leading 53 runs. A pending free agent after the season, he could be an ideal rental acquisition for a contender in need of a solid bat just about anywhere in the lineup.
“He’s been unbelievable,” Martinez said recently. “I know he loves it here, and he tries to put everything behind him. Honestly, he’s really good about being where his feet are. I talk about that with him all the time, ‘Hey you can’t control what happens in this game, but you can control what you do,’ and he’s been amazing at that.”
Bell has shown a knack this season for getting hits in important situations. He has 37 RBIs when up with runners in scoring position and eight more with anyone on base.
Martinez has been impressed with what Bell has done with two strikes. That includes nearly half of his home runs.
“He’s really cut down his chases and is really trying to put the ball in play,” Martinez said. “When he gets a pitch to hit, he’s taking a good swing at it. But he’s been working all year long to be where he’s at right now.”
Bell spent his first five seasons in the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates and is in his second with the Nationals, so he has never gotten the chance to play in the postseason. His approach to big moments seems tailormade for October.
“I feel like it’s one of the things that you strive to be in as a kid,” Bell said. “It’s a scenario where the game’s on the line, you want the bat in your hands, you want the opportunity to win it. So, that’s what makes this game fun.”
Bell has given younger teammates advice about how to handle those scenarios and could even help as a mentor after succeeding in that role in Washington.
“He always thinks good things are going to happen,” Martinez said. “He’s been great, he really has. I can sit here and talk for days about Josh not only on the field but off the field, as well, with his teammates. He’s awesome, and he’s playing the best I’ve seen him play.”
Beyond Bell and Soto — who doesn’t have to be traded right away because he’s under team control for two more seasons — the Nationals have a handful of other players who could be moved at the deadline. That list includes infielders César Hernández, Maikel Franco, Ehire Adrianza and Alcides Escobar, right-handed starter Joe Ross and reliever Steve Cishek, all of whom are set to be unrestricted free agents.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper.
A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to dismiss the charges against Bowman Monday, citing “insufficient evidence to support prosecution” and “credibility issues” with the officers who arrested him.
Former state trooper Jacob Brown faces a federal charge of violating Bowman's civil rights in connection with the beating in May 2019. He has pleaded not guilty. A trial date of March 20 was set Tuesday.
The federal indictment accuses Brown of beating Bowman with a flashlight that had a “tactical cap” designed to break glass.
Video and police records show Bowman was struck 18 times with a flashlight in 24 seconds. Records show it happened when he pulled into the driveway of his home in Monroe after police tried to pull him over for improper lane usage. He was not immediately taken into custody after the beating, but was arrested on a warrant issued a few days later.
The Attorney General’s Office took over prosecution of the charges against Bowman after his attorneys asked a court to recuse the local prosecutor, 4th Judicial District Attorney Robert Tew.
Bowman is suing state police and multiple Ouachita Parish agencies in civil court.
In the federal criminal case, Brown is charged with “deprivation of rights under color of law."
Bowman's case came to light as scrutiny of the Louisiana State Police intensified amid allegations of use of excessive force and racism.
The U.S. Justice Department last month announced a sweeping civil rights investigation of the agency amid mounting evidence of a pattern of looking away from beatings of mostly Black men, including the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, who died in custody after being beaten following a chase.
The announcement followed an Associated Press investigation that found at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, outright racism. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Beating-victim-cleared-as-Louisiana-trooper-17335596.php | 2022-07-28T17:56:34Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Beating-victim-cleared-as-Louisiana-trooper-17335596.php | false |
SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man and a woman described as his girlfriend have been arrested for the death of a young child whose burned body was found in central Oklahoma, authorities said.
Police in Seminole, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, were acting on a tip and found the child's burned body Wednesday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said.
Authorities haven’t specified the age of the child, which the OSBI said was a toddler.
Police later arrested Chad Jennings, 32, on murder, child abuse and conspiracy warrants and Katherine Penner, 31, on accessory to murder, child abuse and desecration of a body warrants.
Both were jailed Thursday and records didn't list an attorney who could speak on their behalf.
It was not clear how the couple and the child were connected and an OSBI spokesperson did not immediately return a phone call Thursday.
The child's body was sent to the state medical examiner's office to determine both the identity and the cause of death, the OSBI said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Oklahoma-pair-arrested-in-child-s-death-body-was-17335569.php | 2022-07-28T17:58:19Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Oklahoma-pair-arrested-in-child-s-death-body-was-17335569.php | false |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping held the fifth conversation of their presidencies on Thursday, speaking for more than two hours as they chart the future of their complicated relationship at a time of simmering economic and geopolitical tensions.
The call began at 8:33 a.m. EDT and ended at 10:50 a.m. EDT, according to the White House. It took place as Biden aims to find new ways to work with the rising global power as well as strategies to contain China’s influence around the world. Differing perspectives on global health, economic policy and human rights have long tested the relationship — with China’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine adding further strain.
“The two heads of state had in-depth communication and exchanges on China-U.S. relations and issues of mutual concern,” China Central Television reported on its website.
The latest pressure point has been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan, the island that governs itself democratically and receives informal defensive support from the U.S., but which China considers part of its territory. Beijing has said it would view such a trip as a provocation, a threat U.S. officials are taking with heightened seriousness in light of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine.
“If the U.S. insists on going its own way and challenging China’s bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses,” Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, told reporters earlier this week. “All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S.”
Pelosi would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he was House speaker. Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for the speaker to visit the island at the moment.
John Kirby, a U.S. national security spokesman, said Wednesday that it was important for Biden and Xi to regularly touch base.
“The president wants to make sure that the lines of communication with President Xi remain open because they need to,” Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing. “There are issues where we can cooperate with China on, and there are issues where obviously there are friction and tension.”
Biden and Xi last spoke in March, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“This is one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world today, with ramifications well beyond both individual countries,” Kirby said.
The conversation comes as Biden has moved to shift U.S. reliance off Chinese manufacturing, including Senate passage Wednesday of legislation to encourage semiconductor companies to build more high-tech plants in the U.S. Biden wants to marshal global democracies to support infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income nations as an alternative to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which aims to boost China trade with other global markets.
Kirby listed a number of areas of U.S,-China friction that he said would be part of the conversation, including “tensions over Taiwan, tensions over … China’s aggressive course of behavior in the Indo-Pacific outside of Taiwan, tensions in the economic relationship” and over China’s reaction to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Biden, who has kept in place Trump-era tariffs on many Chinese-manufactured goods in order to maintain leverage over Beijing, is weighing whether to ease at least some of them in a move to lessen the impact of soaring inflation on American households.
U.S. officials have also criticized China’s “zero-COVID” policy of mass testing and lockdowns in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 in its territory, labeling it misguided and fretting that it will further slow global economic growth.
Other points of strain include China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims, which the U.S. has declared a genocide, its militarization in the South China Sea, and global campaign of economic and political espionage. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/biden-xi-talk-more-than-2-hours-at-time-of-us-china-tension/ | 2022-07-28T17:59:38Z | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/biden-xi-talk-more-than-2-hours-at-time-of-us-china-tension/ | false |
The leading decentralized derivatives exchange has surpassed $630.8B in cumulative volume and amassed over 59,000 users since its inception in July 2017
NEW YORK, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- dYdX Trading Inc. ("the Company"), developer of the leading decentralized derivatives exchange, dYdX, today celebrates its five-year anniversary with its partners and community. During the Company's five-year tenure, over $630B in volume across 38 markets has been traded on dYdX, and over the last year dYdX has seen cumulative volume grow by 233x. The five-year milestone comes shortly after the Company announced dYdX V4, which will mark the full decentralization of the exchange.
dYdX Trading CEO Antonio Juliano commented, "Today is an incredible milestone for dYdX. I am extremely proud of the team's accomplishments over the last five years, while envisioning even more progress over the next five years, and beyond. As we've grown over the past half decade, our goals have never wavered - we want to be the premier decentralized exchange in the industry and look forward to continuing our pursuit to reach that objective."
Throughout its first five years of operation, dYdX has consistently worked to improve the protocol. Most recently, the Company's announced dYdX V4, developed as a standalone blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK, which will fully decentralize the protocol later this year. In addition to protocol improvements, dYdX launched perpetual trading on its exchange, introduced Trading Leagues, developed an iOS mobile app for the exchange, listed dozens of markets, and unveiled 'Hedgies', a unique collection of 4,200 collectable avatars represented as NFTs on Ethereum distributed to the dYdX community. Since 2017, dYdX closed three rounds of funding, most recently a $65M Series C round led by Paradigm in June 2021.
The exchange now has around sixty thousand users, ranging from institutional funds to sophisticated day traders, catering to both the most experienced traders and users new to the space. By leveraging the best elements of both centralized and decentralized exchanges, dYdX has created a premier trading platform that continues to attract traders across the world.
Juliano continued, "We believe that decentralized finance is the future and we've only scratched the surface of what dYdX can achieve. There will be many more advances for our product and our company, and I'm excited to see what dYdX looks like when we are celebrating a decade of operations."
About dYdX
dYdX is the developer of a leading decentralized exchange on a mission to build open, secure, and powerful financial products. dYdX runs on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, which eliminates the need to trust a central exchange while trading. We combine the security and transparency of a decentralized exchange, with the speed and usability of a centralized exchange.
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Spirit Airlines and JetBlue Airways announced that they have agreed to a merger Thursday, just a day after Spirit walked away from a proposed merger with budget airline Frontier.
Should the deal receive regulatory approvals, the merger would create the nation’s fifth largest airline. The decision ends one of the most contentious battles in the airline industry in years.
Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with transportation analyst Seth Kaplan.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Japan’s Unification Church is under the spotlight after the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Known as the “Moonies,” the group was apparently the target of the alleged assassin’s hatred.
NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports in Tokyo.
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ST-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRÉ, Quebec (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday at Canada’s national shrine and came face-to-face with a long-standing demand from Indigenous peoples: to formally rescind the papal decrees underpinning the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and resources.
Right before Mass began, two Indigenous women unfurled a banner at the altar of the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré that read: “Rescind the Doctrine” in bright red and black letters. The protesters were escorted away and the Mass proceeded without incident, though the women later marched the banner out of the basilica and draped it on the railing.
The brief protest underscored one of the lingering issues facing the Holy See following Francis’ historic apology for the Catholic Church’s involvement in Canada’s notorious residential schools, where generations of Indigenous peoples were forcibly removed from their families and cultures to assimilate them into Christian, Canadian society. Francis has spent the week in Canada seeking to atone for the trauma and suffering of First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples.
Beyond the apology, Indigenous peoples have called on Francis to formally rescind the 15th century papal decrees, or bulls, that provided European kingdoms the religious backing to expand their territories for the sake of spreading Christianity. Those decrees have been seen as underpinning the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal concept coined in a 1823 U.S. Supreme Court decision that has come to be understood as meaning that ownership and sovereignty over land passed to Europeans because they “discovered” it.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited the need for the Holy See to “address the Doctrine of Discovery,” as well as other issues including the return of Indigenous artifacts in the Vatican Museums, in his private talks with Francis on Wednesday, Trudeau's office said.
Several Christian denominations in recent years have formally repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery. The umbrella organization of U.S. female Catholic religious orders, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, formally asked Francis to do so in 2014, saying he should repudiate “the period of Christian history that used religion to justify political and personal violence against Indigenous nations and peoples and their cultural, religious, and territorial identities."
Murray Sinclair, the First Nations chairman of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, cited the doctrine in a statement this week welcoming Francis’ apology but calling on him to take responsibility for the full role of the church in the Canadian residential school system.
“Driven by the Doctrine of Discovery and other church beliefs and doctrines, Catholic leaders not only enabled the government of Canada, but pushed it even further in its work to commit cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples,” Sinclair said.
Church officials have insisted those papal decrees have long since been rescinded or superseded by other ones fully recognizing the rights of Indigenous peoples to live on their lands, and say the original bulls have no legal or moral bearing today. During the trip, Francis has reasserted repeatedly those rights and rejected the policies of assimilation that drove the residential school system.
But both the Vatican and Canadian trip organizers have confirmed that a new statement is being prepared to address demands for a current, formal repudiation, though it is not expected to be released during Francis’ visit.
“The Vatican has clarified that the papal bulls associated with the Doctrine of Discovery have no legal or moral authority in the Church,” Neil MacCarthy, in charge of communications for the papal visit, told The Associated Press in an email. “However, we understand the desire to name these texts, acknowledge their impact and renounce the concepts associated with them.”
Asked about the protest Thursday, MacCarthy said: "We recognize that there are very passionate feelings about a number of issues including the Doctrine of Discovery. The brief peaceful protest did not disrupt the service and the group had a chance to express their concerns.”
The service itself incorporated many Indigenous elements and peoples, including an emotional moment when a woman in Native dress wept in front of Francis as she brought him the offertory gifts. Francis didn’t mention the doctrine issue in his homily, which spoke in general terms about reconciliation and the need for hope.
The Vatican clearly anticipated that the issue would arise during the trip. In an essay in the current issue of the Vatican-vetted Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, the Rev. Federico Lombardi acknowledged that the issue remains an important one for Indigenous peoples, but stressed that the Holy See’s position in repudiating the discovery doctrine is clear.
Lombardi, the retired Vatican spokesman, cited the subsequent 1538 bull “Sublimis Deus” that asserted that Indigenous peoples “are by no means to be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, even though they be outside the faith of Jesus Christ; and that they may and should freely and legitimately enjoy their liberty and the possession of their property; nor should they be in any way enslaved.”
Felix Hoehn, a property and administrative law professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said any repudiation of papal bulls or doctrines would have no legal bearing on land claims today, but would have symbolic value.
“The Vatican doesn’t make Canadian law. Courts aren’t bound by papal bulls or anything of that notion but it would be symbolic,” Hoehn said. “It would add moral pressure.”
Philip Arnold, chair of the department of religion at Syracuse University in New York, which sits on Onondaga Nation territory, said the issue of the doctrine isn’t new nor “any less aggressively invasive today.”
“The Vatican’s role in justifying the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the 15th century is the origin story of transatlantic slave trade, land theft, and a settler-colonial extractive economies throughout Africa and the Americas,” he said in an email.
For its part, the Canadian conference of bishops in 2016 published a statement firmly repudiating the doctrine as well as the related concept “terra nullius.” That 19th century term is also understood as legitimizing the seizure of Indigenous lands, in that European settlers considered land “unused” if it didn’t show signs of European agricultural practices.
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Winfield reported from Quebec City.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas is coming off a 9-4 season and ESPN along with others have already declared they will face the toughest schedule in the nation again this fall.
Here’s an attempt to predict the outcome of each Arkansas game during the regular season.
Saturday, Sept. 3, Cincinnati, Fayetteville — The Bearcats made it to the College Football Playoffs last season where they lost to Alabama. The Hogs will get them on what will likely be a very hot Saturday afternoon in Fayetteville with a 2:30 p.m. kickoff. Prediction: Arkansas wins 1-0
Saturday, Sept. 10, South Carolina, Fayetteville — The Gamecocks look to be improved over last season’s 7-6 season. They added some talented transfers including quarterback Spencer Rattler from Oklahoma. This game will kickoff at 11 a.m. Prediction: Arkansas wins 2-0
Saturday, Sept. 17, Missouri State, Fayetteville — Bobby Petrino rolls back into Razorback Stadium on the opposite sideline. Petrino will have his team fired up and ready to play. They played a very good Oklahoma State very close last season. Prediction: Arkansas wins 3-0
Saturday, Sept. 24, Texas A&M, Arlington, Texas — The Hogs beat the Aggies last season for the first time since Petrino was coaching the Razorbacks. Much debate has gone into who is the second-best team in the SEC West behind Alabama. This game will help determine that. Prediction: Arkansas wins 4-0
Saturday, Oct. 1, Alabama, Fayetteville — The Crimson Tide have owned Arkansas since Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa. Just like they did against A&M last season, Arkansas will eventually break this streak. Will it be this season? Prediction: Alabama defeats Arkansas 4-1
Saturday, Oct. 8, Mississippi State, Starkville, Miss. — The first true road game of the season for Arkansas and it’s at a tough place to win. The Bulldogs are set to start their third year under Mike Leach. Prediction: Mississippi State defeats Arkansas 4-2
Saturday, Oct. 15, BYU, Provo, Utah — This is the best non-conference team Arkansas has played since Sam Pittman became coach. BYU has virtually its entire starting lineup back from last season missing only two starters. Prediction: BYU defeats Arkansas 4-3
Saturday, Oct. 29, Auburn, Auburn, Ala. — The Razorbacks get Auburn following a bye week and a tough stretch in their schedule. Pittman is 0-2 against Auburn. Prediction: Arkansas wins 5-3
Saturday, Nov. 5, Liberty, Fayetteville — Hugh Freeze brings his squad into Fayetteville in hopes of pulling off a big upset. Freeze was successful at Ole Miss and has been at Liberty as well. Prediction: Arkansas wins 6-3
Saturday, Nov. 12, LSU, Fayetteville — Brian Kelly will be visiting Arkansas for the first time as head coach at LSU. He has a couple of former Razorback defensive backs on his team. Should be a very good game. Pittman is 1-1 against LSU with each team winning on the road. Prediction: Arkansas wins 7-3
Saturday, Nov. 19, Ole Miss, Fayetteville — Lane Kiffin and Pittman are 1-1 against each other. Arkansas defeated them in 2020 in Razorback Stadium then lost a heartbreaker to the Rebels in Oxford last season. Ole Miss finished second in the SEC West last year with the Hogs third. This should be a great game. Prediction: Arkansas wins 8-3
Friday, Nov. 25, Missouri, Columbia, Mo. — Arkansas snapped a losing streak that was mostly against Barry Odom-coached teams last season when they blasted the Tigers in Fayetteville. Arkansas is hoping to start its own streak against Eliah Drinkwitz and the Tigers. Prediction: Arkansas wins 9-3
Few keys to schedule:
Arkansas really needs to be no worse than 3-1 after September considering how tough October is to them.
I suspect the Hogs will lose at least one of these three games, Auburn, Mississippi State and Texas A&M.
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Partnership to provide online betting education as nearly half of sports bettors are looking for guidance
PHILADELPHIA, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bankroll, a new luxury sports bar experience coming to Philadelphia this fall, and Betting Hero, the leading live activation and customer experience company in the sports betting industry, today announced a strategic partnership that will create a valuable sports betting concierge program for Bankroll's guests.
Bankroll, a premier entertainment and dining destination for the modern, invested sports fan, has partnered with Betting Hero to develop and build Bankroll's sports betting education. The partnership includes conducting market analysis and creating a concierge program featuring in-house sports betting experts who will guide Bankroll guests through the sports betting experience.
A recent study from Betting Hero's consulting and research arm – Betting Hero Research – and Epoxy.ai found that 47% of sports bettors said they want to place more bets but currently have a hard time navigating and finding the bets they want. These findings support consumer interest in Bankroll's guest experience and concierge program, which provides hands-on education around online betting, including setting up an account on a betting app, learning about the different types of bets they can place, and how to pay for their online gambling and withdraw their winnings. Additionally, 71% of sports bettors find it important or very important to be able to watch what they bet on – and Bankroll will offer dozens of screens for fans to watch their favorite games.
"We are thrilled to collaborate with Betting Hero and its team of seasoned sports betting experts to create the next generation of gaming catered to sports fans," said Padma Rao, CEO of Bankroll. "Our unique concierge service will provide customers customized content, coaching and community unlike any other venue or platform."
Betting Hero will also help build out Bankroll's sports betting-focused concierge team, focusing on VIP customer engagement, customer acquisition, and building relationships with gambling and sports betting companies.
"Betting has become an integral part of the sports fan experience," said Jai Maw, President of Betting Hero. "Creating a high-end betting experience at a venue like Bankroll gives guests more ways to engage with their favorite games and provides betting companies a truly differentiated way to engage customers. We're excited to deploy Betting Hero's sports betting expertise in partnership with Bankroll to create this unique venue experience catered toward bettors."
Bankroll is based in Philadelphia, where online sports betting was legalized in 2019. Betting Hero has partnered with more than 200 restaurants and bars nationally, many of which are individually owned and operated.
About Bankroll
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania's Democratic governor sued the state Legislature on Thursday over a package of proposed constitutional amendments that Republican lawmakers are pursuing, including one that would say the state constitution does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions.
The lawsuit filed in the state Supreme Court argues that the proposed abortion amendment would violate privacy protections. Wolf wants the high court to throw out the amendments, declaring that they are not constitutionally valid.
The lawmakers are attempting to circumnavigate Wolf’s power to veto legislation he does not support.
Wolf claims that bundling the abortion amendment together with four others in a bill that passed the General Assembly earlier this month as budget sessions were wrapping up runs afoul of a constitutional rule against passing legislation that addresses multiple, unrelated topics.
Wolf in a statement said the abortion-related amendment was part of GOP lawmakers' effort to “dismantle access to abortion and implement a radical agenda.”
The other four amendments would require voter ID, have gubernatorial candidates choose their own running mates, empower lawmakers to cancel regulations without facing a governor’s veto and establish election audits. Although the House and Senate voted for them as a package, mostly along partisan lines, voters would consider the questions individually.
House Republican spokesman Jason Gottesman said Wolf's lawsuit lacked merit and was an attempt to “subvert the power of the people's voice in the General Assembly.”
Constitutional amendments need to pass both chambers in two consecutive two-year legislative sessions before going to voters for the final say.
The package passed its first round of approvals on July 8, 28-22 in the Senate and 107-92 in the House. After the new session starts in January, lawmakers could vote to put the constitutional amendment referendums before voters as early as the spring primary on May 16, 2023.
A sixth question, which would allow civil lawsuits over child sexual abuse that would otherwise be too old to pursue, was voted separately and also awaits the second round of legislative votes starting next year.
Wolf said he took action Thursday because of a requirement that the Department of State advertise the language of proposed amendments after the first round of votes by the House and Senate and at least three months before a fall election. That advertising period starts Tuesday, he said, and is why he also included as a plaintiff his own acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman.
Republicans have increasingly turned to the constitutional amendment process to accomplish policy objectives that Wolf opposes. In 2021, they successfully got two amendments on the ballot to limit Wolf's authority during a pandemic emergency, and voters narrowly approved them.
The questions can be teed up for consideration during the spring primary, when Republican voters are more likely to turn out than Democrats. Amendments can pass with a simple majority — not the supermajorities required to override a veto — and the amendment process makes them much harder to reverse.
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Medical Home Network was recognized for a unique approach to data interoperability in health care that provides important patient information at the right time in the right place
CHICAGO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Home Network was honored in the 2022 Digital Health Awards, which recognize the world's best digital health resources. MHN received a Gold Award in the Connected Digital Health division for its cross-platform interoperable data solution, the MHN Baseball Card.
The MHN Baseball Card summarizes high-level patient health information and leverages technology for better care management. In 2022, MHN started integrating the at-a-glance data integration across different electronic medical record systems (EMRs) for 13 providers and more than 160,000 Medicaid safety net patients in the Chicago area.
For the spring 2022 Digital Health Awards, the Health Information Resource Center organized a judging panel of 57 experts in digital health media to select gold, silver, bronze and merit winners from among nearly 700 entries. The Connected Digital Health award evaluated resources aimed at health professionals.
"MHN is helping healthcare providers have more informed conversations with patients by enabling easy access to patient data in one place," said MHN Senior Director of eSolutions Laura Merrick. "With a timely and comprehensive view of patient information, providers can make more informed decisions and ultimately deliver better care."
Predictive Analytics Improve Care Management
MHN's gold award recognizes an interoperability technology solution that organizes and integrates disparate sources of data within the provider EMR workflows. The MHN Baseball Card gives providers a real-time view of hospital admissions and visits to emergency rooms, outpatient or skilled nursing facilities and home health visits, as well as predictive risk scores that help providers respond to their patients' needs.
"The MHN Baseball Card allows care managers to be more efficient," said MHN Vice President of Clinical Integration and Innovation Tina Spector. "They can instantly access the most up-to-date stats that are essential to their work with patients."
In Chicago, the MHN Baseball Card organizes hospitalization and emergency room visits for more than 30 area hospitals, plus pharmacy refill records that give providers a window into whether patients are taking medicines. Information is organized to guide more meaningful exam-room discussions with patients.
"I can get information in real time about medication adherence as well as any recent ER visits or in-patient hospitalizations," said Mary Dudek, a physician assistant at Heartland Health Centers in Chicago. "That's very valuable, as sometimes our patients don't always have the needed information to provide at their visit. I'm so glad that we have been able to move forward with this interoperability project so that all of the providers will have access to this valuable resource. It will really improve patient care."
Using artificial intelligence, MHN calculates a Risk Management Score to prioritize timely and critical cases. Frequent updates to the MHN Baseball Card allow care teams to monitor patient progress between appointments. Providers share patient history and treatment records through the secure MHNConnect care management platform. The technology-enabled care management model has helped provider partners reduce inpatient utilization by 36% and hospital admissions for its managed Medicaid patients.
"We use digital tools and real time information to enable connectivity, and data liquidity to support seamless and intelligent communication and coordination of patient care across all venues," said MHN President and CEO Cheryl Lulias. "We're honored that our peers have recognized our work to enable care management without boundaries."
About Medical Home Network
Medical Home Network (MHN) is a nationally recognized not-for-profit focused on transforming care in the safety net and building healthier communities. Based in Chicago, MHN powers the future of healthcare delivery by creating clinically integrated, digitally connected and community-based systems of care that focus on the whole person. MHN's innovative approach consistently delivers leading health outcomes, savings, and quality results under value-based arrangements. For the second year in a row, Modern Healthcare named MHN one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Learn more at medicalhomenetwork.org and on LinkedIn.
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MIAMI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last week Park-Equities announced the sale of the 102-unit Hospitality Inn located in Jacksonville, FL to California based VIVO Living an industry leader in hotel-to-residential conversions. This was Park-Equities 4th hotel sold as a multi-family opportunity with other closed deals located in cities across the country such as Austin, TX and Kansas City.
"Hotel conversions are something I pivoted my focus to as I see the affordable housing crisis continue to grow in the United States. VIVO Living is paving the way in this newly born niche of CRE and understands the complexities that come with these deals. They were a pleasure to work with from start to finish and I look forward to sourcing them more conversion opportunities." Grant said.
The property was an ideal conversion given the low per-unit basis, extended-stay build, and garden style lay-out. Buyer asked to keep purchase price confidential.
Park-Equities is a full-service real estate investment advisory firm with focus on the hospitality and multi-family markets. The firm is a subsidiary of Park Brokerage Inc. which has over 20 years of commercial brokerage experience. Together they have completed transactions in volume of over 1B.
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– Agreement to result in positive non-cash accounting adjustment of approximately $15.8 million –
OAKLAND, Calif. and TORONTO, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - StateHouse Holdings Inc. ("StateHouse" or the "Company") (CSE: STHZ) (OTCQX: STHZF), a California-focused, vertically integrated cannabis enterprise, is pleased to announce that it has reached a Partial Payment Installment Agreement (the "Agreement") with the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") related to the federal tax returns of its wholly-owned subsidiary Patients Mutual Assistance Collective Corporation ("PMACC") for the 2007 to 2012 fiscal years and the 2020 fiscal year.
At issue were federal taxes owed of approximately $22.1 million. Under the Agreement, StateHouse is resolving this liability through the payment of approximately $5.8 million, to be made through $50,000 per-month payments over an expected period of 116 months, beginning in August 2022. The monthly payment amount is subject to IRS review every two years. With each review, the payments may adjust up or down depending on PMACC's ability to pay at that time. The Company does not anticipate that these biennial reviews will result in a material increase to the payment plan.
The Company has maintained a provision on its balance sheet related to the taxes owed. This provision was approximately $21.6 million as at March 31, 2022 (the "Provision"). Given that the Provision is significantly higher than the anticipated repayments under the Agreement, the Company expects to record a positive non-cash accounting adjustment of approximately $15.8 million to reverse previous accruals in its financial results relating to the Provision. It is anticipated that the adjustment will be reflected in the Company's financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
In addition, the Agreement allows the Company to recategorize the majority of the related liability as a non-current liability, materially reducing the short-term obligations on its balance sheet.
"This is a landmark agreement for our Company," said Ed Schmults, StateHouse Chief Executive Officer. "By resolving this longstanding 280E obligation, and more recent federal tax obligations, in a satisfactory manner, StateHouse has demonstrated its leadership in the U.S. cannabis sector. This result provides significant clarity for investors on an issue of critical importance, and puts StateHouse in a much stronger competitive position. It is an important step on our path to building a flagship California cannabis company."
"We are grateful to the IRS for working with us to resolve this issue," Mr. Schmults continued. "The federal tax burden on legal cannabis businesses is highly punitive and very difficult to navigate while trying to achieve profitability. The Agreement demonstrates that we can successfully manage the challenging taxation issues arising from the IRS 280E Tax Code, until there is reform at the federal level. We believe the case for this reform is very strong, as it would create tax fairness for legal cannabis businesses and significantly weaken the illicit market, which would result in stronger tax collections for the federal government over the long term."
The Agreement primarily relates to PMACC's allocation of certain expenses to cost of goods sold in certain of its corporate tax returns. PMACC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harborside Inc. prior to Harborside's name change to StateHouse, was among the first cannabis companies to challenge the federal tax rule against such allocations and the historic litigation was closely followed by the industry in the hope that the U.S. Tax Court (the "Court") would find in favor of the Company and the resolution would pave the way for future tax relief for state licensed operators. On November 29, 2018, the Court disallowed these allocations, holding that they were instead deductions barred by the IRS 280E Tax Code.
StateHouse, a vertically integrated enterprise with cannabis licenses covering retail, major brands, distribution, cultivation, nursery and manufacturing, is one of the oldest and most respected cannabis companies in California. The Company was awarded one of the first six medical cannabis licenses granted in the United States. Today, the Company operates 14 dispensaries covering Northern and Southern California and one in Oregon, distribution facilities in San Jose and Los Angeles, California and integrated cultivation/production facilities in Salinas and Greenfield, California. StateHouse is a publicly listed company, currently trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE") under the ticker symbol "STHZ" and the OTCQX under the ticker symbol "STHZF". The Company continues to play an instrumental role in making cannabis safe and accessible to a broad and diverse community of California and Oregon consumers.
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation. To the extent any forward-looking information in this news release constitutes "financial outlooks" or "future-oriented financial information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates, and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to the amount of taxes to ultimately be paid under the Agreement, the amounts and timing of the monthly payments to be made under the Agreement, the outcomes of any subsequent IRS review of payments to be made under the Agreement, the impact of the Agreement on the Company's financial position, the competitive position of the Company following this resolution, the impact that the decision of the IRS will have on the Company and the cannabis sector as a whole, and the Company's future business prospects.
These forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of the Company to materially differ from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors, among other things, include: implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's operations; fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; expectations regarding the size of the cannabis markets where the Company operates; changing consumer habits; the ability of the Company to successfully achieve its business objectives; plans for expansion and acquisitions; political and social uncertainties; inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; employee relations; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on cultivation, production, distribution, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-related products in the markets where the Company operates; and the risk factors set out in the Company's management's discussion and analysis for the period ended March 31, 2022 and the Company's listing statement dated May 30, 2019, which are available under the Company's profile on www.sedar.com. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
The Company, through several of its subsidiaries, is directly involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where the Company operates permit such activities however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the United States Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable United States federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under United States federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United States. The Company's securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the CSE nor its Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper.
A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to dismiss the charges against Bowman Monday, citing “insufficient evidence to support prosecution” and “credibility issues”...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has dropped its case against a Black man whose severe beating before his arrest in 2019 led to criminal charges and lawsuits against a state trooper.
A traffic violation and charges of resisting an officer had been hanging over Aaron Bowman for two years. Court documents show the Louisiana Attorney General’s office moved to dismiss the charges against Bowman Monday, citing “insufficient evidence to support prosecution” and “credibility issues” with the officers who arrested him.
Former state trooper Jacob Brown faces a federal charge of violating Bowman’s civil rights in connection with the beating in May 2019. He has pleaded not guilty. A trial date of March 20 was set Tuesday.
The federal indictment accuses Brown of beating Bowman with a flashlight that had a “tactical cap” designed to break glass.
Video and police records show Bowman was struck 18 times with a flashlight in 24 seconds. Records show it happened when he pulled into the driveway of his home in Monroe after police tried to pull him over for improper lane usage. He was not immediately taken into custody after the beating, but was arrested on a warrant issued a few days later.
The Attorney General’s Office took over prosecution of the charges against Bowman after his attorneys asked a court to recuse the local prosecutor, 4th Judicial District Attorney Robert Tew.
Bowman is suing state police and multiple Ouachita Parish agencies in civil court.
In the federal criminal case, Brown is charged with “deprivation of rights under color of law.”
Bowman’s case came to light as scrutiny of the Louisiana State Police intensified amid allegations of use of excessive force and racism.
The U.S. Justice Department last month announced a sweeping civil rights investigation of the agency amid mounting evidence of a pattern of looking away from beatings of mostly Black men, including the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, who died in custody after being beaten following a chase.
The announcement followed an Associated Press investigation that found at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, outright racism.
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(AP) – A man has been charged with sexually abusing children at his wife’s Maryland day care, days after his wife was charged with shooting him at a Washington, D.C., hotel, authorities said.
Baltimore County police said Tuesday that they obtained an arrest warrant charging James S. Weems Jr., 57, of Randallstown, Maryland, with 13 sex crimes related to the abuse of at least three children at the day care in Owings Mills, news outlets reported.
Weems and his wife, Shanteari Weems, were at a hotel in Washington’s southwest on July 21 when the shooting occurred, that city’s Metropolitan Police Department said. She told investigators that they had argued over the abuse allegations, according to a court affidavit.
Detectives in Baltimore County began investigating James Weems earlier this month over allegations that he abused at least three children at the day care, police spokeswoman Joy Lepola-Stewart said. The warrant charges Weems with three counts each of sexual abuse of minor and second-, third- and fourth degree sex offense.
James Weems remains hospitalized with two gunshot wounds that aren’t considered life-threatening and is considered a fugitive from justice and is under guard, police in Washington said.
Shanteari Weems told police that she had “received multiple messages and phone calls from parents and teachers” about sexual abuse allegations at the day-care center and went to meet her husband of five years at the hotel, according to the affidavit. She repeatedly asked him about the accusations and it escalated into an argument, she told police.
Her lawyer, Tony N. Garcia, said his client started her business in the early 2000s and the allegations against her husband “were pretty earth-shattering.” She contends that she shot her husband when their argument turned violent and he started toward her, he said.
“She insists that she was defending herself,” Garcia said.
Shanteari Weems is charged with assault with intent to kill and handgun offenses and remains jailed in the nation’s capital. She pleaded not guilty in D.C. Superior Court and is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing on Friday.
In the hotel room, police found two handguns and a notebook included handwritten messages that Shanteari Weems intended to shoot her husband, but not to kill him and “I want these kids to get justice,” according to the affidavit. Garcia said one handgun belonged to his client, who is licensed to carry it in Maryland, and the other belonged to James Weems.
It’s not clear whether James Weems, who has not yet appeared in court, has an attorney. He was a Baltimore city police officer from 1996 to 2005 and then a “contract specialist” doing administrative work, until 2008, city police said. Garcia said James Weems assisted his wife at the day care and also did private security. | https://www.wane.com/news/woman-accused-of-shooting-husband-whos-charged-with-sex-abuse-at-her-day-care/ | 2022-07-28T18:26:06Z | https://www.wane.com/news/woman-accused-of-shooting-husband-whos-charged-with-sex-abuse-at-her-day-care/ | false |
Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, a new study demonstrates.
The study, published in Mucosal Immunology, has provided the strongest evidence so far that the long-observed connection between antibiotic exposure in early childhood and later development of asthma and allergies is causal.
The practical implication is simple: Avoid antibiotic use in young children whenever you can because it may elevate the risk of significant, long-term problems with allergy and/or asthma."
Martin Blaser, senior author, director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine at Rutgers
In the study, the researchers, who came from Rutgers, New York University and the University of Zurich, noted that antibiotics, "among the most used medications in children, affect gut microbiome communities and metabolic functions. These changes in microbiota structure can impact host immunity."
In the first part of the experiment, five-day-old mice received water, azithromycin or amoxicillin. After the mice matured, researchers exposed them to a common allergen derived from house dust mites. Mice that had received either of the antibiotics, especially azithromycin, exhibited elevated rates of immune responses -; i.e., allergies.
The second and third parts of the experiment tested the hypothesis that early exposure to antibiotics (but not later exposure) causes allergies and asthma by killing some healthy gut bacteria that support proper immune system development.
Lead author Timothy Borbet first transferred bacteria-rich fecal samples from the first set of mice to a second set of adult mice with no previous exposure to any bacteria or germs. Some received samples from mice given azithromycin or amoxicillin in infancy. Others received normal samples from mice that had received water.
Mice that received antibiotic-altered samples were no more likely than other mice to develop immune responses to house dust mites, just as people who receive antibiotics in adulthood are no more likely to develop asthma or allergies than those who don't.
Things were different, however, for the next generation. Offspring of mice that received antibiotic-altered samples reacted more to house dust mites than those whose parents received samples unaltered by antibiotics, just as mice that originally received antibiotics as babies reacted more to the allergen than those that received water.
"This was a carefully controlled experiment," said Blaser. "The only variable in the first part was antibiotic exposure. The only variable in the second two parts was whether the mixture of gut bacteria had been affected by antibiotics. Everything else about the mice was identical.
Blaser added that "these experiments provide strong evidence that antibiotics cause unwanted immune responses to develop via their effect on gut bacteria, but only if gut bacteria are altered in early childhood."
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Stocks turned higher on Wall Street in midday trading Thursday after shaking off an early slide following a report signaling the U.S. economy is either already in a recession or well on its way.
The S&P 500 was up 0.7% as of 12:03 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.6% and the Nasdaq was 0.5% higher. Smaller company stocks also rose, lifting the Russell 2000 by 0.7%.
The indexes fell in the early going after the Commerce Department reported that the economy shrank from April through June, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace. The latest decline in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy — followed a 1.6% annual drop from January through March. Consecutive quarters of falling GDP constitute an informal, though not definitive, indicator of a recession.
The GDP report for last quarter pointed to weakness across the economy. Consumer spending slowed as Americans bought fewer goods. Business investment fell. Inventories tumbled as businesses slowed their restocking of shelves, shedding 2 percentage points from GDP.
The Federal Reserve is trying to slow the U.S. economy to fight inflation without tipping it into a recession. The central bank raised its key short-term interest rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday, bringing it to the highest level since 2018.
The move sparked a broad market rally led by technology stocks that helped give the Nasdaq its biggest gain in over two years. The major indexes are now all on pace for a weekly gain, extending Wall Street’s strong July rally.
Technology stocks and retailers, restaurant chains and other companies that rely on direct consumer spending helped lift the S&P 500 Thursday. Microsoft rose 2%, Target gained 2.6% and McDonald’s was 1.1% higher.
Communication services stocks were the only laggards. Meta Platforms fell 5.3% after the social media giant said its revenue fell last quarter for the first time ever, dragged down by a drop in ad spending.
In a busy week of corporate earnings reports investors have focused on what companies are saying about inflation and the impact rising interest rates are having on their business and customers.
Markets were spooked Monday after retail giant Walmart warned that its profits are being hurt by rising prices for food and gas, which are forcing shoppers to cut back on more profitable discretionary items such as clothing.
Stanley Black & Decker slumped 12.7% Thursday after the tool maker’s second-quarter results fell short of Wall Street’s estimates. The company noted that demand significantly slowed in May and June.
Oshkosh fell 7.3% after the company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results and lowered its 2022 profit guidance, citing lingering supply chain disruptions and inflation.
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines shares rose 4.2% after JetBlue said it agreed to buy the budget airline for $3.8 billion to create the nation’s fifth largest airline. The agreement, which still requires regulator and shareholder approval, comes a day after Spirit’s attempt to merge with Frontier Airlines fell apart.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa still does not have a single dose of the monkeypox vaccine even though it’s the only continent to have documented deaths from the disease that’s newly declared a global emergency, its public health agency announced Thursday.
“Let us get vaccines onto the continent,” the acting head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ahmed Ogwell, said in a weekly media briefing. He described a situation where the African continent of 1.3 billion people is again being left behind in access to doses in an uncomfortable echo of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Less than a week ago, the World Health Organization declared monkeypox an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global health emergency.
To date, more than 20,000 cases have been reported in 77 countries. More than 2,100 monkeypox cases have been recorded in 11 African countries and 75 people have died, the Africa CDC director said.
Although monkeypox has been established in parts of central and west Africa for decades, it was not known to spark large outbreaks beyond the continent or to spread widely among people until May, when authorities detected dozens of epidemics in Europe, North America and elsewhere.
Now the global race is on to obtain monkeypox vaccine doses. The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, has secured the purchase of 160,000 doses of vaccines for the disease. On Wednesday, U.S. health regulators said nearly 800,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine will soon be available for distribution after what they described as weeks of delays.
Such delays are far more pronounced on the African continent, where the painful disease has been endemic in some countries for years.
Ogwell said the Africa CDC has engaged with international partners in attempts to obtain vaccines, and while he said “good news” is expected in the coming days, “we cannot be able to give you a timeline.”
Even doses of the smallpox vaccine, which has shown effectiveness against monkeypox, are not available in Africa, Ogwell said.
“The solutions need to be global in nature,” he said, in a warning to the international community. “If we’re not safe, the rest of the world is not safe.”
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global hoarding of vaccine doses were a jolt to African leaders, who quickly joined together in an unprecedented effort to obtain doses and establish the production of more vaccines on the continent.
Now, to their dismay, the monkeypox outbreak is again showing how the world’s richer countries hurry to protect their own people first.
WHO has said it is creating a vaccine-sharing mechanism for protection against monkeypox, but the organization has released few details, so there’s no guarantee that African countries will get priority. No countries have yet agreed to share any vaccines with the WHO.
WHO officials have emphasized that monkeypox can infect anyone in close contact with a patient or their contaminated clothing or bedsheets. Researchers are still exploring how it spreads but believe it’s mainly through close, skin-to-skin contact and through contact with bedding and clothing that touched an infected person’s rash or body fluids.
In Africa, monkeypox mainly spreads to people by infected wild animals like rodents in limited outbreaks that typically have not crossed borders. In Europe, North America and elsewhere, however, monkeypox is spreading among people with no links to animals or recent travel to Africa.
In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have happened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can contract the virus.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two documentaries detailing the punishing effects of Russia’s war on Ukraine will air on PBS’ “Frontline” investigative series.
The specials are part of an extensive collaboration between the series and The Associated Press that includes gathering, verifying and cataloging potential war crimes and co-publishing stories and videos from AP and “Frontline” war reporting.
“Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes,” will describe the toll of previous Russian conflicts and the invasion of Ukraine.
The film, from director Tom Jennings, producer Annie Wong and AP investigative reporter Erika Kinetz and colleagues, aims to expose “the challenges of trying to hold Russia to account,” according to the announcement Wednesday.
The second documentary, “20 Days in Mariupol,” will view Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian city through the work of AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov. He and two colleagues were the sole international journalists who remained in Mariupol to cover the attack, which included the bombing of a maternity hospital.
The two films are set to premiere on “Frontline” when it begins a new season in September. Specific airdates were not announced.
The “Frontline” and AP initiative, which includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience, has documented more than 300 incidents involving potential war crimes since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
“We hope our collaborative reporting efforts can expose the true toll of this war and preserve this moment in history,” Raney Aronson-Rath, executive producer and editor-in-chief of ”Frontline,” said in a statement.
During a virtual panel discussion with TV critics Wednesday, Chernov was asked how he weighs his personal safety against such critically important reporting.
“There is a constant feeling of danger. It’s impossible to get used to,” he said. “But again, this is something that pushes you to work and just motivates you to continue and to try to tell more.”
Alison Kodjak, AP deputy global investigations editor, and Beatrice Dupuy, AP news verification journalist, also took part in the panel. Kodjak said the collaborative effort with “Frontline” is documenting evidence of incidents, as opposed to individual counts of criminal activity.
“We aren’t law enforcement, so we’re not in a position to determine how many crimes those incidents account for,” Kodjak said. The number of criminal charges potentially could far exceed the hundreds of incidents tracked so far, she said.
“We have been able, through the hard work of people like Beatrice, to say, ‘This video is real. It happened at the time that it was claimed happened,’” Kodjak said. “This actually was a school. This actually was a hospital. It wasn’t being used by the military at the time that it was bombed.”
Dupuy said the process of assessing each possible incident is painstaking and includes examining the “flood of posts and video and photos on social media” emerging from Ukraine, verifying key images and corroborating the findings with AP reporting and other information.
“We’re really taking the time to verify each one of them and have the evidence to show each incident and what took place as well,” she said.
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A little boy reported missing by his parents in Spring was later found dead inside a washing machine in their home Thursday morning, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Seven-year-old Troy Khoeler had been missing for a few hours from the home on Rosegate Drive in the Birnam Wood subdivision, according to Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman.
Troy was found in the top-load machine in the garage of the same home he was reported missing from, an HCSO homicide detective said at the scene.
Investigators wouldn't comment on whether there was water inside the machine or whether the lid was closed, but did say Troy was clothed.
"We don't know what happened, but we intend to find out," HCSO Lt. Robert Minchew said.
The boy's body was found by Precinct 4 deputies when they searched the house. The boy's parents were taken in for questioning which is standard procedure, according to Minchew.
He wouldn't comment on whether there were any injuries or signs of foul play, and said it's too soon to determine if it was an accident.
"Whether he was killed by the washing machine or killed and placed in it, we're just so far from that, I can't comment," Minchew said.
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The parents told investigators Troy first turned up missing around 4 a.m., according to Minchew.
They reported it to the constable's office at about 5:20 a.m. After questioning the parents, deputies searched the neighborhood, but didn't find any sign of Troy. That's when they did a more thorough search of the house.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is taking over the investigation.
Troy lived in the home with both parents and no other siblings. Minchew said he had been a foster child and was adopted by the couple in 2019.
He said the boy's mother was wearing a work uniform but he doesn't know yet if she had returned from work to find the boy missing or if she was getting ready for work.
A neighbor, who's lived on the street for more than 40 years, said he'd often seen Troy playing in the neighborhood. Rudy Chupa was surprised when he learned the child's body had been found.
"It's bad, I mean, I've got great-grandkids, I don't know how they're coping with it," Chupa said. "It shouldn't happen to anybody. Wow.
Check back for updates on this developing story.
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LODI, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FitVine Wine, the maker of delicious, low-sugar, full bodied wines, is introducing the brand's new North Coast Cabernet Reserve. The silky smooth, high-quality Cabernet from the grapes of California's North Coast is now available online on FitVineWine.com. FitVine Wine was created for people who want to enjoy a balanced lifestyle filled with fun, fitness, relaxation, and of course, really good wine.
"Our North Coast Cabernet Reserve is a very special addition to the FitVine family of wines," said Tom Beaton, CEO and co-founder of FitVine Wine. "There are two factors that impact the flavor of wine: the grapes and the fermentation process. The grapes for this new variety come from the North Coast of California. They are picked at the perfect moment and go through the same fermentation process as our other varietals. We take an 'old world wine' approach and ferment our wines for as long as possible to get deep flavor while reducing residual sugar. That's how we get them to taste so good while maintaining low sugar content, no flavor additives, and only the good stuff!"
FitVine Wine is a pioneer of the better-for-you (BFY) wine category. Nevertheless, it could be said that the brand is in a category of its own. FitVine Wine is full-bodied and full-alcohol like traditional wines but contains no flavor additives and is processed to be gluten-free and is 100% vegan. So FitVine can really play to both sides of the coin and be enjoyed by people who like the flavor of traditional wines but want a wine that has no flavor additives and is transparent with their nutritional label. It's a win-win for wine lovers!
"Our new North Coast Cabernet Reserve is no exception to our really good, low-sugar, no-nonsense wines for people who want a high-quality, less pretentious wine at a good price," said Mark Warren, president and co-founder of FitVine Wine. "Our fans know that our wine contains the best possible ingredients and is crafted with the cleanest possible process. People deserve a good wine. That's why we do what we do."
Order your new favorite wine online on FitVineWine.com (Continental U.S.). The SRP for FitVine's new North Coast Cabernet Reserve is $19.99.
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FitVine was founded by friends Mark Warren and Tom Beaton who wanted to create a wine brand for people who care about living well. Established in 2015, FitVine Wine offers delicious, lower sugar, full-alcohol wines for people who seek adult beverages that taste good and fit their lifestyle without compromising on flavor or quality. FitVine offers red, white, and sparkling varieties that pair perfectly with all of life's best moments. FitVine wines are gluten-free and vegan friendly with no flavor additives. Learn more at FitVineWine.com.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GCG Advisory Partners ("GCG") is pleased to announce that it has received a strategic investment from LNC Partners ("LNC"), a private equity firm focused on founder-led middle-market financial and business services companies, to support its continued growth and acquisition strategy. GCG offers a differentiated platform that aims to provide liquidity and succession planning for established advisors, as well as flexible and best-in-class technology and tools to support entrepreneurial advisors desiring to accelerate the growth of their businesses. The investment will be used to accelerate GCG's acquisition pace, as well as enhance the company's "Monetize & Stay" platform strategy.
"LNC's tailored investment structure and deep experience in the financial services sector clearly differentiated their firm from other potential investors. We went through an exhaustive process interviewing numerous potential capital partners, and from our first interaction with LNC, we knew they were the ideal partners for GCG. We are excited for their partnership and support as GCG continues to become a leader in the wealth management space," said Joel Burris, Managing Partner at GCG Advisory Partners.
The investment from LNC provides GCG with significant resources to accelerate its growth strategy and the company is actively seeking like-minded owners who desire to monetize all or a portion of the practice they built. GCG employs a flexible partnership model and tailors deal structure to meet the unique needs of each advisor, whether that be a full exit and transition of their book of business to a junior advisor or gaining access to GCG's robust platform of back and middle office functions to focus on serving clients and growing revenue.
Matt Kelty, Managing Partner of LNC Partners, noted, "We have been very impressed with GCG Advisory Partners and their proven track record of growth, and believe the company is well-positioned to continue building a superior financial services platform for its clients and advisors. We are ecstatic about our partnership with GCG Advisory Partners and look forward to helping Joel and the entire team execute on their vision."
GCG Advisory Partners, LLC is an organization focused on legacy, succession, and M&A in the Hybrid and Independent RIA space. GCG provides capital, acquisition/succession strategies, and a robust technology platform for its partnering advisors. Additionally, GCG offers a support system and team environment to reduce advisors' operational headaches. GCG Advisory Partners is the parent company to GCG Wealth Management in addition to other financial services companies. With 9 office hub locations throughout the Southeast, the firms' advisors serve individual clients and small business owners throughout the country. For more information about GCG Advisory Partners or to value your practice, please visit www.GCGAP.com.
LNC Partners is a private equity firm focused on assisting middle market companies achieve their potential by offering strategic support and flexible capital in the form of equity (majority or minority positions) and debt. The firm is based in Northern Virginia and has over $500 million of capital under management. LNC Partners invests across a broad range of service industries and typically provides between $5 million to $35 million of capital to companies that generate at least $2 million of EBITDA. More information on LNC Partners can be found at www.LNC-Partners.com.
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By now, I should know better. When I first picked up Gabrielle Zevin's new novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I doubted I would stick with it. After all, it's about two childhood friends who become legendary names in the world of video game design.
I'm not a "gamer"; I know as much about expansion packs or terms like "adaptive tile refresh" as I do about harpooning a whale. You see where this is going. Because, whatever its subject, when a novel is powerful enough, it transports us readers deep into worlds not our own. That's true of Moby Dick, and it's certainly true of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, which renders the process of designing a great video game as enthralling as the pursuit of that great white whale.
Zevin's main characters, Sam Masur and Sadie Green, first meet in the game room of a children's hospital in Los Angeles when they're around 11 years old. Sadie is there because her sister has cancer; Sam has been in a horrific car accident, which killed his mother and crushed his left foot. Almost silently, they bond over the Super Mario Bros. game Sam has been playing.
Because Sam has been emotionally shut down, the nurses are thrilled and ask if Sadie might stop in again. Sadie's mother proposes that her visits could count for the community service she must perform for her upcoming bat mitzvah. Sadie returns to play with Sam for weeks, stealthily presenting the nurses with her time sheet at the end of every visit. Transactional, for sure, but also genuine. Here's how Zevin's omniscient narrator beautifully describes the intense connection between the two friends:
To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt. ... Many years later, as Sam would controversially say in an interview with [a] gaming website ... 'There is no more intimate act than play, even sex.'
The storyline of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow spans some 30 years. Sam and Sadie become estranged, then reconnect as college students in Boston. She's one of a minority of women at MIT in the late 1990s; Sam is an alienated scholarship kid at Harvard, whose Korean grandparents run a pizza place back in L.A. Though he tries to ignore his painful left foot held together by metal rods, Sam sometimes needs a cane that he fears "made him look affected, like a twenty-one-year-old Mr. Monopoly ..."
While still undergrads, they collaborate on designing a game called Ichigo, which becomes a blockbuster. The plot then leaps forward to the creation of Sadie and Sam's own company, called Unfair Games, and, eventually, to a stunningly depicted tragedy that's a byproduct of a good intention in one of their games.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is as intricate as the games that Sadie and Sam devise, all of them stories-within-stories inside this novel. This is a sweeping narrative about a male-female relationship that's not romantic, but, rather, grounded on shared passions and fierce arguments. For instance, Sadie wants to make art: She wants their games to be difficult and beautiful. Sam, a former sick kid who cherished escapism, prioritizes entertainment.
There are also smart ruminations here about cultural appropriation, given that the game, Ichigo, is inspired by Japanese artist Hokusai's famous painting The Great Wave at Kanagawa. But, above all, Zevin's novel explores the thrills and frustration of creative work. Here's a passage where Sadie struggles with the "look" of the game, Ichigo:
Like most twenty-year-olds, Sadie had never built a complicated graphics and physics engine before ... Sam and Sadie wanted the graphics to have the lightness of transparent watercolors, but Sadie could not achieve this lightness, no matter what she tried. When [the character] Ichigo ran, for instance, [Sadie] wanted the look to be less solid, almost watery ... [But] Ichigo only looked blurry and invisible — nothing like "water in motion." When [Sadie] approached the look she wanted, the game would, more often than not, abruptly crash.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow satisfies the aspirations of both Sadie and Sam: It's a big, beautifully written novel about an underexplored topic, that succeeds in being both serious art and immersive entertainment.
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Which Harrison’s bird food is best?
As much as 80% of pet bird illnesses are said to be attributed to malnutrition, which is why feeding your pet a balanced diet is so important. Harrison’s bird food is nutritionally complete, providing all the nourishment your bird needs to remain healthy.
Since there are only two main formulas, it’s easy to choose the right one for your bird once you know more about each. Harrison’s Adult Lifetime Fine is the top choice, as it suits most adult birds.
What to know before you buy Harrison’s bird food
High potency vs. adult lifetime
Harrison’s doesn’t make wild bird food, just food for pet birds. It has two formulas: adult lifetime and high potency. These are suitable for any pet bird. You just need to work out which formula is right for your pet bird.
- High potency: If you’re switching your bird from a seed-based diet, you should always start with the high potency formula to boost nutrient levels. It’s also better for young birds that are still developing, birds molting or with poor feathers and birds recovering from illness. Finally, it’s great for certain types of birds with high metabolic rates and need the extra energy, including African grays and large macaws.
- Adult lifetime: This is the best maintenance diet for most adult birds (excluding those mentioned above). This is also the best choice if you’re switching from another balanced pellet food or your bird has been eating the high potency formula for six months.
Piece sizes
Each Harrison’s formula comes in a range of consistencies or sizes. The right one depends on the size of the bird and how it feeds.
- Coarse: These big nuggets are suitable for large parrots that pick food up from their bowl with their feet.
- Fine: Fine pieces are small nuggets perfect for small parrots, such as Senegals, quakers and conures, that pick pieces from their bowl with their beak.
- Super fine: These tiny pieces are perfect for birds that peck from their bowls, such as doves, finches, budgies and canaries.
- Mash: This coarse powder can be mixed with water to make a mash or sprinkled on fruit or veg for picky birds. It’s also suitable for feeding dry to small birds that peck directly from bowls.
What to look for in quality Harrison’s bird food
Pepper
You can also find “pepper lifetime” and “high potency pepper” foods. These are the same as adult lifetime and high potency foods, respectively, but with added chili peppers. Some birds like the taste of spicy chiles in their food, but the nutritional content is the same.
Organic
All bird food from Harrison’s is certified organic by the United States Department of Agriculture. It follows that it’s also made without any genetically modified organisms.
Treats
In addition to its complete foods, Harrison’s also makes bird treats. These are great for training or adding different flavors and textures to a bird’s diet, but you should only feed them sparingly.
How much you can expect to spend on Harrison’s bird food
Small 1-pound bags cost around $16-$20, while mid-sized 5-pound bags cost roughly $45-$50 and extra-large 25-pound bags cost as much as $200-$220.
Harrison’s bird food FAQ
Is Harrison’s a good bird food?
A. Harrison’s is a formulated diet, which is a more nutritionally balanced alternative to seed mixes. Although many people feed their birds seed mixes, they’re not complete diets for birds, lacking essential nutrients your feathered friend needs to stay healthy.
Harrison’s is carefully balanced to contain all the nutrients birds need. Not only is it formulated by an avian specialist, but it’s also approved and recommended by veterinarians who specialize in birds.
While it’s completely nutritionally balanced, feeding a varied diet can enrich pet birds’ lives. Therefore, you should feed around 70% of Harrison’s food (or another quality bird food) and 30% fresh fruit, vegetables and omega-rich seeds.
How long does Harrison’s bird food stay fresh?
A. You must use it within eight weeks of opening the package. Therefore, don’t be tempted by the lower price per ounce of larger packages if you won’t be able to use them up in time. In a pinch, you can extend the shelf life by freezing the food once opened.
What’s the best Harrison’s bird food to buy?
Top Harrison’s bird food
Harrison’s Adult Lifetime Fine
What you need to know: Most adult birds will thrive on this food. The fine size is good for small parrots.
What you’ll love: It’s non-GMO and certified USDA organic. The 1-pound bag is small enough that it won’t spoil before you use it up, even if you only have one bird. Most birds find it palatable.
What you should consider: It’s fairly pricey, but many bird owners find there’s less wastage compared to seed mixes.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Harrison’s bird food for the money
Harrison’s Pepper Lifetime Coarse
What you need to know: This 5-pound bag costs significantly less per ounce than smaller bag sizes.
What you’ll love: It contains added chiles, which some birds love. It doesn’t contain any sweeteners or artificial colors or preservatives. This food meets the nutritional needs of most adult birds.
What you should consider: The coarse size is only suitable for large parrots who pick up their food with their feet.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Harrison’s High Potency Superfine
What you need to know: The high potency formula is suitable for birds that need a boost, including those that are molting or recovering from illness.
What you’ll love: The superfine consistency is suitable for small birds, like canaries, finches and budgies. It’s higher in calories than the adult lifetime food. It’s non-GMO and USDA organic.
What you should consider: It contains peanuts, so those with allergies should be careful.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Xi gives Biden fiery warning on Taiwan during call, Beijing says
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping spent more than two hours Thursday talking through the future of their complicated relationship, with the flashpoint of Taiwan once again emerging as a key point of tension.
According to a description of the call released by Beijing, Xi emphasized China's claim over the island, which has governed itself for decades.
"Those who play with fire will perish by it," said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "It is hoped that the U.S. will be clear-eyed about this."
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The White House has not yet released its own readout on the call, which began at 8:33 a.m. EDT and ended at 10:50 a.m. EDT.
As usual, China left no doubt that it blames the U.S. for the deteriorating relationship between the two countries.
"President Xi underscored that to approach and define China-US relations in terms of strategic competition and view China as the primary rival and the most serious long-term challenge would be misperceiving China-U.S. relations and misreading China’s development, and would mislead the people of the two countries and the international community," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
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The call took place as Biden aims to find new ways to work with China and contain its influence around the world. Differing perspectives on global health, economic policy and human rights have long tested the relationship — with China's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine adding further strain.
The latest pressure point has been House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan, which has a democratic government and receives informal defensive support from the U.S., but which China considers part of its territory. Beijing has said it would view such a trip as a provocation, a threat U.S. officials are taking with heightened seriousness in light of Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
"If the U.S. insists on going its own way and challenging China’s bottom line, it will surely be met with forceful responses," Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, told reporters earlier this week. "All ensuing consequences shall be borne by the U.S."
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Pelosi would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to travel to Taiwan since Republican Newt Gingrich visited the island in 1997 when he was House speaker. Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed it was "not a good idea" for the speaker to visit the island at the moment.
John Kirby, a U.S. national security spokesman, said Wednesday that it was important for Biden and Xi to regularly touch base.
"The president wants to make sure that the lines of communication with President Xi remain open because they need to," Kirby told reporters at a White House briefing. "There are issues where we can cooperate with China on, and there are issues where obviously there are friction and tension."
Biden and Xi last spoke in March, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"This is one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world today, with ramifications well beyond both individual countries," Kirby said.
Biden has moved to shift U.S. reliance off Chinese manufacturing, including Senate passage Wednesday of legislation to encourage semiconductor companies to build more high-tech plants in the U.S. Biden wants to marshal global democracies to support infrastructure investments in low- and middle-income nations as an alternative to China’s "Belt and Road Initiative," which aims to boost China trade with other global markets.
Biden has kept in place Trump-era tariffs on many Chinese-manufactured goods in order to maintain leverage over Beijing. But he is weighing whether to ease at least some of them to lessen the impact of soaring inflation on American households.
U.S. officials have also criticized China's "zero-COVID" policy of mass testing and lockdowns in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 in its territory, labeling it misguided and fretting that it will further slow global economic growth.
Other points of strain include China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims, which the U.S. has declared a genocide, its militarization in the South China Sea and its global campaign of economic and political espionage.
Associated Press writers Ken Moritsugu and Joe McDonald contributed from Beijing. | https://www.fox29.com/news/biden-xi-hold-fifth-talk | 2022-07-28T18:32:43Z | https://www.fox29.com/news/biden-xi-hold-fifth-talk | true |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Day" game were:
01-02-03-04-08-17-18-19-20-21-23-24
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It wouldn't be the Real Housewives without some chaotic feuds.
Many reality stars have fought across the Bravo franchise's many shows for one reason or another, from Bethenny Frankel to Lisa Vanderpump, Teresa Giudice and more. Bravoholics can soon see Housewives Dolores Catania and Caroline Manzo settle their mysterious feud on the new competition series Celebrity Beef, which premieres August 2 on E!.
Hosted by Joel McHale, celebs—including Bachelor Nation's Ben Higgins and Nick Viall; Total Bellas' Nikki and Brie Bella; and E!'s Justin Sylvester and Loni Love—will battle it out in a cook-off to win $10,000 for the charity of their choice and take home the Celebrity Beef trophy.
Also competing this season is The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Cynthia Bailey, who will face off against her Celebrity Big Brother opponent Todd Bridges.
Before Bravo fans catch Dolores, Caroline and Cynthia squash their beef on the cooking competition show, we're revisiting some of the most iconic Real Housewives feuds of all time.
See which frenemies made our list below.
Celebrity Beef premieres Tuesday, August 2, at 10 p.m. on E!.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has pleaded guilty to charges that she sold unapproved drugs on her website that claimed to be remedies and treatments for COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young said in a news release that Diana Daffin, 69, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling unapproved drugs with the intent to defraud or mislead the Food and Drug Administration.
Court documents and statements made in court showed that in March 2020, the FDA learned that she was selling unapproved drugs on her website. In April and August of that year, the FDA sent Daffin warnings asking her to correct the violation.
Although she told the FDA that she removed the products from her website and would stop distributing them, she continued to do so and took steps to defraud and mislead the agency, a news release said.
In February 2021, Daffin sold an undercover law enforcement officer a product advertised as a drug that could cure, mitigate, treat, and prevent COVID-19 in humans. Daffin later sold and shipped that drug and other unapproved drugs to the undercover agent, according to prosecutors.
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Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a butterfly. My money says the fluttering insect you’re envisioning has black-veined, reddish-orange wings outlined with white specks — the iconic attributes of our beloved, American, monarch butterfly.
Unfortunately, the species, which populates many childhood memories, is in trouble.
The migrating monarch butterfly was added last week to the “red list” of threatened species and categorized as “endangered” for the first time by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. That’s two steps from extinct in the wild.
Scientists blamed the monarchs’ plummeting numbers on habitat loss, climate change, and pesticide and herbicide use.
What can home gardeners do to support the monarch?
If everyone reading this planted one milkweed plant, the benefit would be palpable. Milkweed (Asclepias spp.) is the only plant monarch caterpillars eat, and it’s where the adult butterflies lay their eggs. Without it, the species simply could not exist.
“But not all milkweed is the same,” says Dawn Rodney, chief innovation and growth officer at the National Wildlife Federation in Reston, Virginia. For instance, “there is an invasive species called tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) that we’re seeing more and more, and people are not understanding that it does more harm than good.”
The non-native plant is problematic because it blooms for longer and, in temperate regions, does not die back. That can prevent butterflies from recognizing when it’s time to migrate, and it can spread deadly parasites to the next year’s generation of caterpillars.
To choose the right milkweed, use the National Wildlife Federation’s Native Plant Finder ( https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder/ ).
Adult monarchs need other plants too, specifically ones with nectar-bearing flowers. The National Wildlife Federation also has a Monarch Nectar Plant List tool ( https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/Monarch-Nectar-Guides ), developed with Monarch Joint Venture and Xerces Society), to find plants appropriate for your location.
Choose plants native to your region for the highest-quality food source. Be sure to include late-season bloomers to provide monarchs with fuel for their annual fall migration.
Knowing the source of the plants you buy is important, too.
“There are a lot of growers that use different types of chemicals that are harmful to wildlife,” Rodney said, referring to pesticides and herbicides intended to keep plants attractive on retail shelves. When you bring treated plants home, and butterflies lay eggs on them, the caterpillars that follow will die when they munch the leaves.
Neonicotinoid pesticides are especially harmful to the species, Rodney said, as they can kill bees and adult butterflies that ingest the toxic pollen and nectar of treated plants.
Since treated plants aren’t labeled as such, Rodney advises asking garden center staff about their pest-management practices. Buying only from trusted, organic sources or growing your own plants from seed are other good options.
This brings me to pesticide use in the home garden. When we use chemicals on our plants, we accept beneficial insects, including monarchs, as collateral damage. We also endanger birds that eat those poisoned insects.
Even natural and organic pesticides can harm butterflies and other pollinators. But if you must use such a product, stick with insecticidal soaps, horticultural oils or Neem oil, and apply them only after dusk, when pollinators aren’t active. Unlike many synthetic chemicals, these products lose their effectiveness when dry, so the butterflies will be safer by morning.
Finally, consider going the extra mile by setting up a butterfly puddling station: Create a mud puddle (or add water to sand) in a sunny spot of the yard and set a flat stone within it. Butterflies will sun themselves on the stone to raise their temperatures, and will sip water from the puddle to supplement their nectar diets with the salts, vitamins and minerals they need. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/science-and-technology/monarch-butterflies-are-in-trouble-heres-how-you-can-help/ | 2022-07-28T18:36:56Z | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/science-and-technology/monarch-butterflies-are-in-trouble-heres-how-you-can-help/ | true |
Alabama execution set despite opposition from victim’s family
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is set to execute a man Thursday evening who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago, despite a request from the victim’s family to spare his life.
Joe Nathan James Jr. is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT at a south Alabama prison. James was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1994 shooting death of Faith Hall, 26, in Birmingham. Hall’s daughters have said they would rather James serve life in prison. But Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Wednesday she planned to let the execution proceed.
Prosecutors said James briefly dated Hall and that he became obsessed after she rejected him, stalking and harassing her for months before killing her. On Aug. 15, 1994, after Hall had been out shopping with a friend, James forced his way inside the friend’s apartment, pulled a gun from his waistband and shot Hall three times, according to court documents.
A Jefferson County jury first convicted James of capital murder in 1996 and voted to recommend the death penalty, which a judge imposed. The conviction was overturned when a state appeals court ruled a judge had wrongly admitted some police reports into evidence. James was retried and again sentenced to death in 1999, when jurors rejected defense claims that he was under emotional duress at the time of the shooting.
Hall’s two daughters, who were 3 and 6 when their mother was killed, had said recently they would rather James serve life in prison.
“I just feel like we can’t play God. We can’t take a life. And it’s not going to bring my mom back,” one of the daughters, Terryln Hall, told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview.
“We thought about it and prayed about it, and we found it in ourselves to forgive him for what he did. We really wish there was something that we could do to stop it,” Hall had said, adding the road to forgiveness was long.
“I did hate him. I did. And I know hate is such a strong feeling word, but I really did have hate in my heart. As I got older and realized, you can’t walk around with hate in your heart. You still got to live. And once I had kids of my own, you know, I can’t pass it down to my kids and have them walk around with hate in their hearts,” she said.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall had urged Ivey to let the execution go forward, writing that “it is our obligation to ensure that justice is done for the people of Alabama.”
“The jury in James’s case unanimously decided that his brutal murder of Faith Hall warranted a sentence of death,” Marshall said.
In response to a reporter’s question, Ivey said Wednesday she would not intervene.
“My staff and I have researched all the records and all the facts and there’s no reason to change the procedure or modify the outcome. The execution will go forward,” she said.
James argued that Ivey’s refusal violates religious freedom laws because the Koran and the Bible “place the concept of forgiveness paramount in this situation.”
James has acted as his own attorney in his bid to stop his execution, mailing handwritten lawsuits and appeal notices to the courts from death row. A lawyer on Wednesday filed the latest appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court on his behalf.
James asked justices for a stay, noting the opposition of Hall’s family and arguing that Alabama did not give inmates adequate notice of their right to select an alternate execution method.
He argued that Alabama officials, after lawmakers approved nitrogen hypoxia as a new execution method, gave inmates only a brief window of time to select the new method and inmates did not know what was at stake when they were handed a selection form without any explanation. Alabama is not scheduling executions for inmates who selected nitrogen. The state has not developed a system for using nitrogen to carry out death sentences.
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WFO BUFFALO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, July 28, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
147 PM EDT Thu Jul 28 2022
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED...
The storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area.
Therefore, the warning has been allowed to expire.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM EDT for
central New York.
Remember, a new Severe Thunderstorm Warning still remains in effect
for the eastern portions of Jefferson County.
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
South central Madison County in central New York...
East central Cortland County in central New York...
Northern Chenango County in central New York...
* Until 245 PM EDT.
* At 150 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Solon, or 9
miles east of Cortland, moving east at 40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE... Damage was reported to a building in Cortland.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Norwich, Plymouth, North Norwich, Sherburne, Solon, Cincinnatus,
Otselic, McGraw, Preston and Earlville.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Tyshawn Sorey's 'Mesmerism' celebrates the everyday miracle of the jazz rhythm trio
Tyshawn Sorey's 'Mesmerism' celebrates the everyday miracle of the jazz rhythm trio
Each player in this trio addresses the beat in a spontaneous way, without constant chaos. A casual romp like this session makes for breezy listening. | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114236045/tyshawn-soreys-mesmerism-celebrates-the-everyday-miracle-of-the-jazz-rhythm-trio?ft=nprml&f= | 2022-07-28T18:42:19Z | https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114236045/tyshawn-soreys-mesmerism-celebrates-the-everyday-miracle-of-the-jazz-rhythm-trio?ft=nprml&f= | false |
John Travolta is summer loving and having a blast.
The Grease star shared a compilation video of moments from his latest vacation to places such as Iceland, Greece, Paris and more with his children Ella, 22, and Ben, 11, (who he shares with late wife Kelly Preston). He captioned the July 27 post, "Summer family and friends vacation with a bit of business too!"
Set to the song "Pump It" by the Black Eyed Peas, the video starts off with John's children and some of their pals hopping aboard their private jet—ready for their trip around the world. The clip then cuts to the 68-year-old spending some time in front with the pilot in the ultimate cool dad move.
The group is then shown visiting landmarks in Iceland, including what looks like the Blue Lagoon. Then, it's time for their next destination: Greece. But not before John takes a selfie video of himself and his daughter on the private jet.
After making another stop in Dubai and hanging out with some camels, the group sets off once again to an unknown tropical location, where they enjoy some thrills like parasailing.
The montage video ends by cutting to one more iconic guest on the trip: the family's dog, Mac & Cheese!
John and Ben adopted the dog after it made an appearance at the 2022 Oscars.
"Ben adopted this dog from last nights Oscar tribute to Betty White," the actor wrote on Instagram March 28. "Thank you @curtisleejamie & @pawworks." | https://www.eonline.com/news/1339843/john-travolta-shares-glimpse-inside-his-family-vacation-with-kids-ella-and-ben | 2022-07-28T18:43:29Z | https://www.eonline.com/news/1339843/john-travolta-shares-glimpse-inside-his-family-vacation-with-kids-ella-and-ben | true |
House Jan. 6 panel interviews Mnuchin, pursues Trump Cabinet
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee has interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and is in negotiations to talk to several other former members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet as it scrutinizes the days after the Capitol insurrection and discussions about whether to try and remove the then-president from office.
The negotiations come as the committee was interviewing Trump’s onetime chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, on Thursday. The former South Carolina congressman held that job until 2020 and later was special envoy for Northern Ireland, a post he resigned immediately after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The interviews and negotiations were confirmed by three people familiar with the committee’s work who were not authorized to discuss the developments publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The committee asked Mnuchin about discussions among Cabinet secretaries to possibly invoke the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump after the attack on the Capitol, according to one of the people, and is in active talks to interview former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is likely to appear in the coming days, the person said.
The committee had already interviewed former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller as it focuses on Trump and what he was doing in the days before, during and after the riot.
Lawmakers also are in discussions with John Ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence, according to two of the people, and are seeking interviews with several senior intelligence officials who had contact with the White House around that time.
Ratcliffe delivered a classified briefing on election security in late December 2020 at the request of Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official who promoted Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
A person familiar with the matter said Ratcliffe summarized the findings of an election security report that said intelligence agencies had “no indications that any foreign actors attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 U.S. elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.”
Trump and outside advisers who were pushing the false fraud claims had suggested that Venezuela had somehow tried to alter the count through voting machines.
The focus on the Cabinet is one of several threads the committee is pursuing after laying out much of its evidence in eight hearings this summer. After a yearlong investigation and more than 1,000 interviews, committee members say there is much more they want to learn.
The committee is expected to convene additional hearings in September.
Investigators have also reached out to former Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, who resigned in the days after the riot, and lawmakers could call in other Trump Cabinet officials.
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary at the time, previously told USA Today that she raised with Vice President Mike Pence the question of whether the Cabinet should consider invoking the 25th Amendment, which would have required the vice president and the majority of the Cabinet to agree that the president could no longer fulfill his duties.
DeVos resigned the day after the attack, blaming Trump for inciting the mob.
“There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” she wrote.
At a rally on the morning of Jan. 6, Trump had told a crowd of his supporters to “fight like hell” as Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, and the rioters were repeating Trump’s false claims as they broke into the Capitol and violently pushed past police.
Elaine Chao also quit as transportation secretary on Jan. 7. Chao, who is married to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the attack had “deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.”
Pompeo, who is now considering a 2024 presidential run, and Mnuchin were reported to have discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment, according to Jonathan Karl of ABC News in his book “Betrayal.”
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Two sisters-in-law have been released from the hospital after suffering critical injuries during a brutal attack near Glacier National Park in which two members of their family were shot and killed.
Christy Siau, 40, of the Syracuse, N.Y. area, was shot in the July 17 attack on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation and her 18-month-old daughter McKenzie and husband David were killed, according to authorities. Christina Siau, 30, of East Glacier Park,...
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Two sisters-in-law have been released from the hospital after suffering critical injuries during a brutal attack near Glacier National Park in which two members of their family were shot and killed.
Christy Siau, 40, of the Syracuse, N.Y. area, was shot in the July 17 attack on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation and her 18-month-old daughter McKenzie and husband David were killed, according to authorities. Christina Siau, 30, of East Glacier Park, was stabbed before managing to kill the assailant.
The sisters-in-law were released from a Montana hospital Tuesday, the Siau family’s pastor, Dan Werthman, told the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Authorities say a Montana man, Derick Amos Madden, plowed into the family with his pickup truck as they were walking along a sidewalk in the small tourist town of East Glacier Park, then shot three of them with a shotgun. McKenzie was shot as her mother tried to run away with the toddler in her arms, according to Glacier County officials.
Madden ran out of ammunition and attacked Christina Siau with a knife but she fought back and killed him, authorities said.
Two other children of David and Christy Siau were present but not injured.
Authorities have not released a motive but said Madden, originally of Goldsby, Oklahoma, had mental health issues and a prior relationship with Christina Siau.
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There are new fears that a recession has begun with the release of a new gross domestic product report Thursday — it shows a 0.2% GDP decline in the second quarter, after a 0.4% drop in the first.
The report comes a day after the Federal Reserve announced its fourth interest rate hike of the year — three-quarters of a percentage point. That’s a move it hopes will slow inflation, but many worry will make it harder for middle and low-income workers to save and get the credit they need to operate businesses.
White House Council of Economic Advisors economist Heather Boushey joins host Jane Clayson to discuss the Fed rate hike.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Max Verstappen supports banning abusive fans from races, but the reigning Formula One champion believes drivers have limited influence in curbing the boorish behavior seen at recent events.
Verstappen called on F1 and race promoters to implement stronger deterrents to the unruliness in the grandstands.
Abusive behavior from spectators overshadowed the Austrian Grand Prix two weeks ago and fans — particularly women — used social media to make F1 aware of rampant harassment, sexism, racism, and homophobia.
Verstappen’s Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez called for lifetime bans and team principal Christian Horner agreed that a zero tolerance policy is needed. Verstappen on Thursday told The Associated Press that increased security can help.
But when asked if Verstappen could directly calm fans himself, he pushed responsibility onto F1 and called for heightened security.
“I think that also needs to be up to the F1 organization, because they are the ones hosting and working together with the promoter to allow people in,” Verstappen told AP inside Red Bull’s motorhome at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
“I’m not in control of what fans are doing. It’s the same with any sport, you’re not in control of what the fans are going to do. But if you have a lot of security around, (they) might influence what people are doing in the grandstands. This is not only up to the drivers. It’s not only Austria, I think it’s happened all over the place.”
Verstappen believes the poor behavior of late is a deeper societal problem.
“You can put a lot of things in place, but at the end of the day it all comes down to education from a younger age: where you grew up, where you went to school,” Verstappen said. “That’s where it also already starts, because I don’t think these people got motivated by what we’re doing (in F1) to do these kind of things.
“This is something which has started from a younger age, and this is what they think is fine.”
He said banning fans from attending future races is “a strong penalty and I fully agree with that. But will you fully change that person? Probably not.”
Verstappen drew a parallel with bad behavior at F1 races to rowdy soccer fans, and said social media platforms should do “a lot more” to stem online abuse.
“It’s the same in football where people get stadium bans, that doesn’t mean that someone in five years’ time won’t do it again,” said Verstappen said. “They might risk a stadium ban, (because) some people just don’t think, or just do what they like.”
There is a month-long summer break after the Hungarian Grand Prix before a doubleheader in Belgium and the Netherlands. Those two races, like Austria, will be packed with legions of orange-shirted Verstappen fans dubbed “The Orange Army.”
Verstappen was asked earlier Thursday if he was concerned it is his supporters misbehaving, but he doesn’t think the Orange Army was responsible for all the issues in Austria.
“I think in general they all behave quite well, just a few individuals didn’t,” he said.
Verstappen, winner of seven of the first 12 races this season, has a 63-point lead over Charles Leclerc of Ferrari headed into Sunday’s race. The 24-year-old has tallied 27 career victories, but with a decade or more of racing potentially in his future, he could be eyeing Lewis Hamilton’s mark of 103 victories and the record seven championships shared by Hamilton and Michael Schumacher.
“You need a bit of luck, to be at the right team at the right time for a long time to be incredibly successful,” he said. “Of course (Hamilton’s) an amazing driver, arguably one of the best ever. But you need to have the team to be that dominant.”
Verstappen’s dramatic title win last year, where he passed Hamilton on the last lap, increased his huge popularity at home. But it didn’t change how he approaches his craft, which he learned from his father, former F1 driver Jos Verstappen.
“It’s great to have that support, but I know I’ll try to do my best anyway. That’s how I grew up, that’s how my dad always worked with me,” he said. “You have to look at yourself after the race weekend: ‘Did I extract everything I could out of it?’
“It doesn’t matter if you have millions of followers or not, you have to look at yourself first. They don’t put any extra pressure on me to perform.”
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Kyler Murray burst through the locker room door Thursday morning, marched up to the podium for an impromptu media session, and declared that there have been no “shortcuts” to success during his football career, no matter what strange addendums are on his new contract.
Then the Arizona Cardinals quarterback paused and grinned for a moment: “No pun intended.”
In a rare show of public emotion, the 5-foot-10 Murray vociferously defended his study habits a few days after the NFL Network reported there was a unique addendum to his $230.5 million, five-year contract that mandates at least four hours of “independent study” during game weeks each season.
It also says the quarterback can’t be distracted by “watching television, playing video games or browsing the internet.”
Murray — just like every quarterback who has ever played at a high level — is used to criticism about his game. That’s part of the territory. He’ll take heat for a bad throw, bad decision, bad body language or even his average genetics in the height department.
But his work ethic?
“To think I can accomplish everything I’ve accomplished in my career and not be a student of the game, and not have that passion and not take this serious, it’s disrespectful and almost a joke,” Murray said. “I’m honestly flattered that y’all think that, at my size, I can go out there and not prepare for the game and not take it serious.”
So that begs the question: Why was the addendum needed in the contract?
Murray didn’t really have a clear response.
“If you want to talk about football, we’ll talk about football,” Murray said.
The addendum was unexpected for several reasons, including that coach Kliff Kingsbury and teammates have never voiced public displeasure with Murray’s preparation for games. The quarterback has certainly had a few bad games during his three-year pro career, but knowledge of the playbook was never in question.
Even Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers was surprised when he heard about Murray’s study mandate.
“I think I just raised my eyebrows up like this,” Rodgers said, demonstrating. “That was the reaction. Yeah, I was happy to see him get paid. One thing I did see was I think his average salary per year was about on par with the salary cap of the Oakland Athletics, so I think he can definitely smile knowing he made the right choice.”
Murray — and the team — have endured a lot of criticism and jokes over the past few days. Fans and pundits have wondered why the Cardinals would spend nearly a quarter-billion dollars on a quarterback if there are questions about his study habits.
Murray said there’s nothing wrong with the way he prepares. Teammates seemed to agree, with tight end Zach Ertz saying that “Kyler knows the playbook better than anyone on this team.”
“There’s multiple different ways to watch film,” Murray said. “There’s many different ways to process the game, there’s many different ways quarterbacks learn the game and break the game down. Of course, I watch film by myself. That’s a given. That doesn’t even need to be said.
“But I do enjoy and love the process of watching the game with my guys, the quarterbacks, my coaches.”
The No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 draft out of Oklahoma, Murray took time Thursday to list his ample accomplishments on the football field over the past decade, from a 43-0 record in high school, to a Heisman Trophy at Oklahoma to his Pro Bowl selections in the NFL.
He said none of that would have happened if he didn’t have a good work ethic.
“I’m not 6-7, 230, and I don’t throw the ball 85 yards,” Murray said. “I’m already behind the 8-ball and can’t afford to take any shortcuts.”
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Nearly half of the Russian troops initially sent to invade Ukraine have been killed or wounded, a U.S. lawmaker told CNN.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., on Wednesday told CNN that more than 75,000 Russian soldiers have been either killed or wounded since President Vladimir Putin began the unprovoked invasion on Feb. 24.
Russia reportedly had amassed 150,000 soldiers along the Ukrainian border before the attack. The new casualty numbers would mean heavy losses for Putin’s forces.
Slotkin spoke after a classified briefing on the war in Ukraine with Biden administration officials who described the Russian military as drained.
Lawmakers also heard that the Russian military is fatigued, and that Ukrainians are looking for additional reinforcements to launch a counteroffensive in the south before the winter, CNN reported.
"We were briefed that over 75,000 Russians have either been killed or wounded, which is huge.You've got incredible amounts of investment in their land forces, over 80% of their land forces are bogged down, and they're tired,” Slotkin, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN.
"But they’re still the Russian military."
Slotkin told CNN there was bipartisan support for sending Ukraine long-range missiles, known as ATACMS, that can strike as far as 180 miles. The Ukrainians currently rockets that only can strike distances of less than 50 miles.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan, though, reiterated at last week’s Aspen Security Forum that the U.S. would not provide ATACMS because they could be used to strike into Russian territory, which would escalate the war further.
U.S. and Western officials believe Ukraine will try to reclaim the southern city of Kherson, which has been occupied by Russia since March.
"The sort of main conversation in the briefing was what more we can and should be doing for the Ukrainians, literally in the next three to six weeks, very urgently," Slotkin, who recently visited Ukraine, told CNN. "Ukrainians want to go to the south and do operations in the south. And we want them to be as successful as possible.
"I think that what we heard very firmly from President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy and reinforced today is that the Ukrainians really want to hit Russia in the teeth a few times before the winter comes, put them in the best position possible, particularly hitting them down south."
Richard Moore, head of the United Kingdom’s secret intelligence service MI6, said at the Aspen forum that he believes the Russians will begin to lose steam in the coming weeks because they are running out of troops.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BluE Nexus Corporation, AISIN Corporation, and DENSO Corporation today announced that they have jointly developed a new 1-motor hybrid transmission. This product is used for Toyota's new Crown CROSSOVER RS, which will be released around the fall of this year.
The 1-motor hybrid transmission developed by the three companies integrates the newly designed Direct Shift-6AT with a driving motor and an inverter. It is characterized by high acceleration performance and contributes to increasing fuel efficiency. In combination with the eAxle mounted at the rear of the vehicle, the 1-motor hybrid transmission achieves driving performance suitable for the premium vehicle by taking full advantage of the 2.4 L turbo engine, contributing to enhancing the attractiveness of Toyota's new Crown.
Key points of the development of this product
- Realization of direct response during driving and a high-quality driving feel
The quick response to start the vehicle moving forward has been attained by using a newly developed highly heat-resistant starting clutch and achieving advanced control. The high-torque assist effect is demonstrated due to a newly designed driving motor combined with the Direct Shift-6AT, realizing direct response and torqueful driving.
The clutches for starting the vehicle moving forward and disengaging the engine are subject to coordinated control so that the engine can be started and stopped smoothly and quietly when starting the vehicle moving forward and in all situations during driving.
The product achieves both direct response and smoothness and contributes to realizing the high-quality ride suitable for the premium vehicle by combining the latest technologies with world-class automatic transmission gear shift technology, which has been refined over many years.
- Improvement of vehicle mountability through downsizing technology and the electromechanical integration structure
The driving motor has been significantly downsized by reducing the stator shaft length, which has been achieved by newly developed production technologies, including the coil expansion assembly, as well as by cooling of the coil and optimization of the magnet layout. The large-diameter flat motor has enabled the placement of two clutches inside the motor rotor, making it possible to curb the increase in the overall length of the product. The vehicle mountability has also been improved by using the electromechanical integration structure, in which an inverter is mounted right above the transmission.
BluE Nexus, AISIN, and DENSO will continue to develop compact, highly efficient, and low-cost products by mobilizing their strengths and know-how. The three companies will also contribute to the realization of a carbon neutral society by installing their products in electric vehicles of every description through BluE Nexus.
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The City of Gunter says the downtown water well is maintaining the city's water levels, after concerns the city would be without water by Thursday morning, but residents are still being asked to severely restrict water usage.
In an update on Thursday afternoon, the city manager said the downtown water well is keeping the water flowing but Emergency Water Restrictions remain.
The city issued an emergency notification to all City of Gunter water customers on Wednesday night that said in part, "due to excessive water consumption, the city's water storage tanks are unable to refill."
Residents are asked to stop any non-essential water usage until further notice, which means no outdoor watering and not using dishwashers and washing machines. Residents have also been asked to restrict the use of showers and sinks.
The water emergency notification says Gunter Public Works is working to resolve issues.
On Wednesday, the city said notified residents of water restrictions because two of the city's three water wells had failed after running continuously because of the extreme heat and water demand.
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City Manager Rick Chaffin called the failure of the wells "disappointing, frustrating and frankly, embarrassing" as he called for residents to restrict water usage while crews worked 24-7 to get both wells fully functional.
Chaffin said the city can no longer rely on wells as a reliable water source, especially with the Grayson County town's growth. Chaffin said a proposal for a long-term solution for a reliable source of water would be presented to the City Council soon. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/emergency-water-restrictions-the-city-of-gunter-asks-residents-to-conserve-water/3033854/ | 2022-07-28T18:55:22Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/emergency-water-restrictions-the-city-of-gunter-asks-residents-to-conserve-water/3033854/ | false |
At least 4 dead in Kentucky as flooding hits Appalachia, officials say
(WKYT/WSAZ/Gray News) - Officials in Kentucky on Thursday reported four deaths related to the severe flooding, with concerns the toll will continue to rise.
Gov. Andy Beshear called it one of the “worst and most devastating flooding events” in the state’s history, saying hundreds of homes had been damaged or destroyed so far, per WKYT.
“The situation is dynamic and ongoing,” Beshear said. “In most places, we are not seeing receding water. In fact, in most places, it is not crested yet.”
He said during a news conference there had been two deaths in Perry County, including an 81-year-old woman. In Knott County, the coroner confirmed two deaths in the region with multiple people still missing, WSAZ reported.
Beshear also said there are a number of people unaccounted for, declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. He said he expected there will be more loss of lives.
“Hundreds will lose their homes, and this is going to be yet another event that it’s going to take not months but likely years for many families to rebuild and recover from,” the governor said.
Poweroutage.us reported more than 31,000 customers without electricity in eastern Kentucky, as well as affected areas in West Virginia and Virginia dealing with flash flooding and mudslides. Thunderstorms dumped several inches of water over the past few days.
Water service has been disrupted as well in some areas. Beshear said Kentucky has already ordered truckloads of water to assist.
Floyd County Sheriff John Hunt said many in his area are trapped by floodwaters and urged people in areas that may see more flooding to get out now.
“We had to rescue some on floating debris – a house door. We had to put a lady on a house door that would float,” Hunt said. “We are using all resources, anything that we have available to rescue these people.”
Rescue workers worked through the night and have plucked people off rooftops amid fast-rising water. Perry County Emergency Management Director Jerry Stacy described the situation as “catastrophic” as crews searched for stranded people.
“There are a lot of people in eastern Kentucky on top of roofs waiting to be rescued,” the governor added.
The storms hit an Appalachian mountain region where communities and homes are built on steep hillsides or down in the hollows between them, where the only flat land often shoulders creeks and streams that can rise in a hurry.
Roads in many areas weren’t passable after as much as 6 inches of rain had fallen in some areas by Thursday, and 1-3 more inches could fall, the National Weather Service said.
Three parks in the region were opened as shelters for displaced people.
In Kentucky’s Perry, Leslie and Clay counties, people in low areas were urged to seek higher ground after multiple swift water rescues. Breathitt County’s courthouse was opened overnight, and Emergency Management Director Chris Friley said the Old Montessori School would provide more permanent shelter once crews can staff it.
“It’s the worst we’ve had in quite a while,” Friley said. “It’s county-wide again. There’s several spots that are still not accessible to rescue crews.”
Perry County dispatchers said floodwaters washed out roads and bridges and knocked homes off foundations. The city of Hazard said rescue crews were out all night, urging people on Facebook to stay off roads and “pray for a break in the rain.”
Rescues were being done in West Virginia, and communities in southwest Virginia also were flooding. The National Weather Service office in Blacksburg, Virginia, warned of more showers and storms on Thursday.
In Buchanan County, which was hit by severe flooding two weeks ago, preliminary assessments of the previous flooding were postponed for safety amid the latest high water, according to Virginia Department of Emergency Management spokesperson Lauren Opett. Officials were determining whether its feasible to conduct the assessments virtually, she said.
And in Wise County, the Office of Emergency Management warned of imminent flooding and road closures in the Pound Bottom area on Thursday morning. Officials advised residents to shelter in place until floodwaters recede or evacuate to a shelter in an elementary school.
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Partners to renovate existing Aventura View office building and commence development of world-class mixed-use town center
MIAMI, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A joint venture between real estate leaders Related Group and BH Group have closed on the $51 million dollar acquisition of a four-and-a-half-acre parcel in the heart of the City of Aventura. Located at 2999 NE 191 Street, the site is home to the 107,000 square foot Aventura View office building, which is currently over 95% leased. As part of its plans, the buyers will renovate and upgrade the current office building as well as replace the existing surface parking with a major mixed-use project. Tere Blanca of Blanca Commercial Real Estate has been selected to handle the leasing and management of the office building.
"As Miami continues to grow and evolve, it is critical that every possible parcel is used to its maximum potential. Through this deal, we are not only adding class-A office supply, but also providing the Aventura community with additional commercial and recreational spaces," said Jon Paul Pérez, Related President. "We are big believers in the potential of the Aventura submarket and look forward to working once again with city officials to deliver a world-class project."
As currently planned, the mixed-use development will feature new class-A office space, luxury residential housing with top-tier amenities, prime ground-floor retail for entertainment and restaurant users, and a structured parking facility. The developers have selected Bernardo Fort-Brescia of the renowned architectural firm Arquitectonica to lead the design.
This is the latest in a series of high-profile acquisitions for the Related and BH joint venture, closely following other recent deals in West Palm Beach, Fisher Island, Downtown Miami, and North Miami. The two powerhouse firms continue to aggressively pursue additional development opportunities throughout South Florida.
For more information, please visit relatedgroup.com or bhgroup.miami.
Established in 1979, Related Group is Florida's leading developer of sophisticated metropolitan living and one of the country's largest real estate conglomerates. Since its inception more than 40 years ago, the company has built, rehabilitated, and managed over 100,000 condominium, rental, and commercial units. The firm is one of the largest privately owned businesses in the United States with a development portfolio worth more than $40 billion. Currently, Related Group has 90+ projects in varying phases of development.
The company has earned international status for its visionary designs and development of luxury condominiums, market-rate rentals, mixed-use centers, and affordable properties – all built with the goal of positively impacting neighborhoods and improving quality of life across all demographics. Related Group has redefined real estate by diversifying both its products and buyers, expanding internationally while also sponsoring public art installations that enhance cities' global culture and streetscapes. For more information, please visit relatedgroup.com.
BH Group is a Miami-based real estate development firm focused on the ground-up development of luxury projects throughout South Florida. BH has extensive experience in the acquisition, construction, design, capital structuring and asset management of complex developments. For the last 20 years, BH Group has been involved in many large-scale real estate transactions and developments by utilizing strong relationships to provide investors with opportunities not otherwise available in the real estate market. For more information, please visit bhgroup.miami
CONTACT: Lennie Gomez, Lennie.gomez@rbbcommunications.com
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NASA is planning to launch a mission to bring Mars samples back in 2033.
The Mars Sample Return Program is nearing the completion of the conceptual design phase. It would use NASA’s Perseverance rover in the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater to help collect the samples.
The Sample Retrieval Lander would include two sample recovery helicopters. The planned launch date for the Earth Return Orbiter will be Fall 2027. The sample retrieval lander is expected to launch in the summer of 2028.
“Bringing Mars samples to Earth would allow scientists across the world to examine the specimens using sophisticated instruments too large and too complex to send to Mars and would enable future generations to study them,” NASA said. “Curating the samples on Earth would also allow the science community to test new theories and models as they are developed, much as the Apollo samples returned from the Moon have done for decades.”
NASA said it is already in the process of deciding what to bring back. The Perseverance rover has collected 11 scientifically-compelling rock core samples and one atmospheric sample, NASA said. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/nasa-planning-mission-to-return-rocks-from-mars | 2022-07-28T19:02:36Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/nasa-planning-mission-to-return-rocks-from-mars | false |
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