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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities say they have busted an organized crime racket reminiscent of the Mafia’s heyday, involving illegal gambling parlors in New York City and Long Island and a police detective accused of helping to protect the lucrative schemes.
Two indictments unsealed Tuesday charged nine people, including the detective, with crimes such as racketeering, illegal gambling, money laundering conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Nicknames of the defendants included “Joe Fish,” “Sal the Shoemaker” and “Joe Box.”
The top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said the racketeers operated from fronts including a coffee bar, a soccer club and a shoe repair shop.
“Today’s arrests of members from two La Cosa Nostra crime families demonstrate that the Mafia continues to pollute our communities with illegal gambling, extortion and violence while using our financial system in service to their criminal schemes,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said.
He called the detective’s alleged conduct “shameful.”
The Nassau County Police Department detective, Hector Rosario, is accused of accepting money from the Bonanno crime family in exchange for steering police raids toward competing gambling clubs.
A lawyer for Rosario did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment about Rosario and the charges against him, which include obstructing a grand jury investigation and lying to the FBI.
While the heyday of organized crime is long past in New York — and many types of gambling that were once the exclusive domain of the Mafia are now legal in the state — Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly said the indictments were proof that “organized crime is alive and well in our communities.”
She said the Genovese and Bonanno organized crime families were alleged to have operated secret underground gambling parlors since 2012 in local businesses, “generating substantial amounts of money in back rooms while families unknowingly shopped and ate mere feet away.”
Michael Driscoll, head of New York’s FBI office, said members of the five organized crime families “demonstrate every day they are not averse to working together to further their illicit schemes, using the same tired methods to squeeze money from their victims.”
“Our active investigations show the Mafia refuses to learn from history,” Driscoll added, “and accept that at some point they will face justice for their crimes.” | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/feds-9-indicted-in-mafia-led-racket-including-detective/ | 2022-08-17T18:53:11Z | https://phl17.com/us-news/ap-us-news/feds-9-indicted-in-mafia-led-racket-including-detective/ | false |
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, one in five people in the U.S. learns differently compared to the rest of the population. That's often due to conditions such as dyslexia or ADHD.
There's been a lot of attention lately on diversity, equity and inclusion, but people who identify as neurodiverse say they often feel overlooked. Eye to Eye, a national nonprofit that supports a mentoring program among neurodiverse youth, gathered hundreds of students from across the country.
"So we have over 150 people from different parts of the country, all with different experiences and backgrounds," said David Flink, CEO and founder of Eye to Eye.
Everyone at the gathering identified as having a learning difference. That's many people's preferred term for what they used to call learning disabilities.
James Jackson is a student and mentor at the event.
"I don't have to make any adjustments for anybody because everybody understands," Jackson said. "Everybody here is neurodiverse. No one's going to judge me or ask what's going on or stare at me when I get up because I can't sit still for long enough. Or I go and fidget or you know, walk around."
Flink's mission is to ensure the next generation feels less isolated by building community and a mentoring program.
"As somebody who has dyslexia and ADD, I did not grow up in a culture that was celebratory of that," Flink said. "This is the late 90s."
Alyssa Tundidor oversees 25 mentoring chapters across the U.S.
"We want to make sure that they know it's not something to overcome," Tundidor said. "It's something to embrace. And then also just learning self-advocacy skills. So, learn how to speak up for yourself. Say, 'This is what I need in order to be successful,' because it's one thing to have things be equal, but it's a completely different thing to have education to be equitable."
James says he will be a teacher to make the changes he'd like to see in education.
"I grew up being the outcast," he said. "I grew up getting kicked out of schools, or rather, as they put it, asked to leave just because I was disruptive and they didn't know how to support me."
He says the teachers that stood out were teachers who would pull him aside to talk one-on-one and ask him what he needs to excel.
"And reminded me of the things that I'm good at, that I'm very creative as many of us were learning differences are," James said.
Discovering who their allies are, their rights, and how to self-advocate, everyone at the gathering says it's a relief to be back in person with people who have similar life experiences.
"Being here is just euphoric," James said. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/hundreds-of-neurodiverse-youth-gather-to-learn-how-to-mentor-and-self-advocate | 2022-08-17T18:55:29Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/hundreds-of-neurodiverse-youth-gather-to-learn-how-to-mentor-and-self-advocate | false |
The latest addition to The Collective's growing portfolio reopens with European-Inspired bistro & garden and live music programming
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proper Hospitality announces today the addition of the iconic Culver Hotel to The Collective - a growing portfolio of independent, design-driven boutique hotels managed and operated by the Los Angeles-based hospitality group.
Located in the heart of Downtown Culver City, The Culver Hotel is a nationally landmarked flatiron-style building which first opened its doors in 1924 after being designed by architects Curlett & Beelman - the city's pioneer of lavish Beaux-Arts architecture—and the visionary City founder Harry H. Culver.
In 2007, the property was acquired and redesigned by hotelier Maya Mallick who thoughtfully restored the 46-room boutique hotel with inspiration from the building's rich history, the distinct elegance of the 1920s and a passion for vintage. The decor and European ambiance found throughout reflects an artistic, romantic approach, with its rooms and event spaces layering a happy pastiche of deep colors, rich textures, classic design pieces, and rare vintage furniture. The hotel's creative spirit includes an in-house art gallery with works by established and emerging local talent.
"Over the last 15 years, I have had the privilege of reimagining and reviving a beautiful piece of history, and creating an artful and lively destination in Los Angeles. I look forward to continuing the magic, together with Proper Hospitality as we approach our 2024 Centennial," said Maya Mallick, Owner and Creative Director of The Culver Hotel.
Today, The Culver Hotel continues to act as an enchanting community-gathering place and neighborhood beacon for the new energy coursing through downtown Culver City as it is uniquely situated next to The Culver Steps, The Culver Studios, Amazon Studios and walkable to a vibrant mix of dining, shopping and entertainment destinations. As part of its reopening, the property meets the bustling energy of its locale with a new on-site bistro and garden Lillie's, named in homage to Harry Culver's wife Lillian, which takes shape across three distinct spaces within the property - the grand lobby, dining room and outdoor garden.
Grounded in a sense of place, the menu—led by Proper Hospitality's culinary team and Executive Culinary Director Ned Elliott—reflects a thoughtful blend of modern French cuisine and California's seasonal bounty. Working closely with LA-based farmers and producers, the evolving menu includes an expansive raw bar program; classic and specialty cocktails; and a focus on natural and biodynamic wines. The menu mixes classic dishes like Steak Frites, grilled whole Branzino and French Onion Soup with standout signatures such as the Grand Aioli which pairs poached shrimp with a rich saffron aioli, Roasted Sea Scallops Amandine, Chilled Maine Lobster, and a luxurious and comforting Chicken dinner for two.
Further highlighting the ownership's dedication to curated cultural programming, the introduction of Lillie's will be accompanied by the awaited return of the property's signature lineup of live music - an element of European cafe culture which hotel guests and the community have enjoyed for the last decade. Later this fall, The Culver Hotel will reopen its speakeasy bar and private lounge for the most intimate of experiences.
With a range of approachable, all-day dining options, dynamic programming, exclusive amenities, a modern exercise room and over 5,500 square feet of meeting and indoor-outdoor event spaces, The Culver Hotel continues to be a timeless and luxury-minded destination for guests and locals alike to experience an authentic and distinctly Hollywood history through various touch points, warm hospitality and a tailor-made approach for every occasion.
"We are grateful that Maya and her family have put their trust in Proper Hospitality to take this special hotel to the next level while honoring its storied history," said Brian De Lowe, Co-Founder and President of Proper Hospitality. "Culver City is a coveted Westside destination and The Culver Hotel will showcase how we are able to create a feeling of belonging and connection for our clientele through our inspired dining concepts, signature style of service, and dynamic guest experiences."
Accommodations and special events at the national historic landmark hotel can be booked now by visiting www.culverhotel.com. Reservations for new on-site, European-inspired bistro and bar Lillie's can be booked through OpenTable here. Live music programming, featuring a rotating line up of contemporary jazz, folk and independent artists, will take place from Wednesday - Sunday from 7-10pm, starting August 17, 2022.
The Culver Hotel is located at 9400 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232.
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KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK: Malaysia plans to learn from the cannabis policy of neighbouring Thailand in its effort to legalise use of the drug for medical purposes, a health ministry official said on Wednesday, in a country where possession can bring the death penalty now.
The comments came after the Thai health minister said he would meet his Malaysian counterpart during a meeting of APEC health ministers next week where Thailand will showcase its work in legalising medicinal marijuana.
With a tradition of using cannabis to calm pain and fatigue, Thailand legalised medicinal marijuana in 2018, becoming in June the first Asian nation to decriminalise cultivation of marijuana and its consumption in food and drink.
“We are developing our own framework for the usage of cannabis for medical purposes, and want to learn from Thailand,“ the Malaysian official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The Malaysian government was interested in learning from Thailand’s framework for medical use, he added.
The cultivation and recreational use of marijuana is now illegal in Malaysia, and possession of more than 200 grams (7 oz) of the drug entails a mandatory death sentence.
But Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has said the import and use of medical marijuana under a doctor’s prescription is permissible if it is registered and licensed with the Drug Control Authority.
In April, Khairy said the government welcomed clinical studies for the medical use of cannabidiol, a chemical in cannabis that does not impart a “high” to users.
Last month, state news agency Bernama said the health ministry aimed to start registering some cannabidiol products next year after studying their safety, although approval for cultivation is still far off.
There was no immediate comment from Malaysia’s law minister.
Thai Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, the main driver behind his country’s legalisation of cannabis for medical purposes, estimates the industry could be worth more than $3 billion within five years.
“Topics of discussion will be on how to jointly move forward this kind of policy in order to create benefits, economically and medically,“ he told a news conference in Bangkok.
“We want everyone to recognise the property of this cannabis plant,“ he said on Wednesday. “The more people are interested in this field, more development and research (it) will create.”
Thailand has said its cannabis policy covers medical and health purposes but not recreational use, although hastily issued laws have created space for such uses. - Reuters | https://www.thesundaily.my/home/m-sia-looking-at-thai-policy-on-medical-use-of-cannabis-IN9609930 | 2022-08-17T18:57:33Z | https://www.thesundaily.my/home/m-sia-looking-at-thai-policy-on-medical-use-of-cannabis-IN9609930 | false |
Come, take a seat with the accomplished William C. Goodridge
Kelly Summerford, in top hat and suit portraying William C. Goodridge, sat on a bench beside a newly unveiled sculpture of the noted 19th-century York businessman.
Meanwhile, cellphone cameras captured the scene, the Pennsylvania Past Players member and a statue of the man he portrays. Goodridge, formerly enslaved and later an Underground Railroad station master, knew a thing or two about cameras. Some of the earliest American cameras sat in his house.
His three sons were pioneering American photographers, and his oldest, Glenalvin, operated a studio in the house serving as a backdrop for Goodridge’s life-sized statue at 123 E. Philadelphia St.
In that busy house, Goodridge (1806-1873) stood at the confluence of early photography and the Underground Railroad. He did business as a Black man in a Northern border county that shared many ideas with the South. And he was a Republican in a county that was majority Democrat, whose voters opposed the GOP’s Abraham Lincoln in the elections of 1860 and 1864.
When he left York after 40 years amid such difficult challenges, he was a much-respected man.
And now his life and times are commemorated with a statue outside his former town house, the Goodridge Freedom Center, which explores his Underground Railroad story and includes a replica pre-Civil War photo studio.
Noted sculptor Gary Casteel molded his subject to bring forth these contributions: Goodridge is shown with a box camera and a lantern used to guide freedom seekers. Barber tools, from Goodridge’s primary day job, are tucked into his vest pocket. Bottles represent Goodridge’s business venture of making and selling medicinal liquids.
And one foot is on the trapdoor under his kitchen where freedom seekers were hidden.
Goodridge, cemetery linked
The day after the Goodridge statue unveiling, the Friends of Lebanon Cemetery’s monthly restoration and cleanup day took place at the historically Black cemetery, a few miles to the north of Goodridge’s house.
This work came with a special event in view. On Aug. 27, the Friends will host a 150th anniversary celebration at this historically Black cemetery, 1412 N. George St.
That celebration, free and open to the public, will include walking tours at 10 and 11:30 a.m.
Later that day, a commemoration of the cemetery is set for 3 p.m. at York’s Small Memorial AME Zion Church, 401 S. Queen St.
These memory-making events — the Goodridge statue and anniversary — represent the latest steps in the community’s discovery of York County’s African American past.
It’s a story in which Black people have grown from substantial enslavement; York County was second in number of enslaved people in Pennsylvania in 1790 with a total of 499. In addition, 837 freedmen, mostly Blacks and some Native Americans, lived in the county.
In the past decade, African Americans have held some of the community’s most influential positions. It’s been an upward, often uphill climb.
Interestingly, there’s a connection between these two community icons: the Goodridge family and Lebanon Cemetery.
During and after the Civil War, the Goodridge family left York to live in Michigan and Minnesota. Glenalvin, William C. and Evalina Goodridge’s oldest son, operated a photo studio in the Goodridge House and is recognized by the Smithsonian as a pioneering American photographer. He left York in 1865, ill from incarceration on a trumped-up rape charge, and died in 1867 in Minneapolis.
William C. Goodridge, living with his daughter, Emily, died in Minneapolis six years later.
Two Goodridge sons, Wallace and William O., operated a photo studio in East Saginaw, Michigan, until 1922, ending an almost 75-year family business.
William’s grandson, Glen J. Goodridge, later returned to York, took up the barbering business of his grandfather and became a leader in Faith Presbyterian Church, a Black congregation. When he died in the 1920s, he was buried in Lebanon Cemetery with his mother, Rhoda C. Rayno. His wife, Virginia, later was buried in the cemetery.
In coming years, at least three other county projects will join Lebanon Cemetery and the Goodridge Freedom Center with the prime mission of exploring county Black history.
Crispus Attucks Community Association, parent of the Goodridge Center, has a Black history and culture center in the planning stage. Hellam Township’s Mifflin House will serve as a hub for a welcome center with an Underground Railroad emphasis.
As a follow-up to his curriculum about Black military veterans from the county, Bryan Wade of Keystones Oral Histories is producing another documentary about abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in south-central Pennsylvania.
The Goodridge statue links up with another milestone. Black history research in York County started in earnest, in part, with John V. Jezierski’s 1999 “Enterprising Images,” a scholarly book about William C. Goodridge’s three photographer sons. The work thoroughly explored Goodridge family history.
Enjoying Goodridge’s company
Sculptor Gary Casteel designed the Goodridge sculpture in a way that William C. Goodridge would have appreciated. Goodridge was a master marketer, his ads noteworthy for their creativity in promoting his emporium and barbering business.
Casteel intentionally made the bench Goodridge is sitting on long enough for people to sit next to this historic York County figure.
“I wanted to show Mr. Goodridge in period clothing seated on a bench so that others could come by, sit and enjoy being part of the overall historical concept,” Casteel said in an interview this year.
That seat was a favorite place for photos at the Aug. 12 unveiling. Gov. Tom Wolf, the Friends of Lebanon Cemetery’s Samantha Dorm and a host of others joined Summerford in posing for photos next to the sculpture of this accomplished man.
In so doing, they likely created the next popular place for photo ops in York County, akin to the Rocky Steps at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia.
Why are William Goodridge and the statue in his memory so significant? His life and times are an integral part of the African American story in York County. In fact, the statue is a symbol of how York County’s Black community has emerged from enslavement to reach the highest levels of public life.
“He started with virtually nothing,” Casteel said, “and, in the end, was a successful American to remember!”
Upcoming presentations
For those who ask about James McClure’s public presentations, here are three new courses in the OLLI at Penn State York catalog (https://olli.psu.edu/york), “York County’s Growing Diverse People Come from Deep Roots,” Sept. 19 (includes a discussion about Goodridge); “Iconic Pictures from York County and the Stories They Tell,” Oct. 19; and “When Tropical Storm Agnes’ Wrath Struck York County,” Nov. 14.
Jim McClure is the retired editor of the York Daily Record and has authored or co-authored nine books on York County history. Reach him at jimmcclure21@outlook.com. | https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/2022/08/17/come-take-a-seat-in-york-pa-with-the-accomplished-william-c-goodridge/65407358007/ | 2022-08-17T18:58:10Z | https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/2022/08/17/come-take-a-seat-in-york-pa-with-the-accomplished-william-c-goodridge/65407358007/ | false |
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Opinions on how much water you should try to drink each day vary. Some people swear by eight eight-ounce glasses each day. Others recommend using a formula to determine your water needs by calculating half of your body weight and then changing that number into ounces. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends 3.7 liters (about 91 ounces) of fluids daily for men and 2.7 liters (about 125 ounces) of fluids daily for women. But no matter how much you strive to drink, a motivational water bottle can help you reach your goals.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge in Cleveland awarded $650 million in damages Wednesday to two Ohio counties that won a landmark lawsuit against national pharmacy chains CVS, Walgreens and Walmart, claiming the way they distributed opioids to customers caused severe harm to communities.
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster said in the ruling that the money will be used to abate a continuing opioid crisis in Lake and Trumbull counties, outside Cleveland. Attorneys for the counties had put the price tag at $1 billion for the damage done to each of the counties.
Lake County is to receive $306 million over 15 years. Trumbull County is to receive $444 million over the same period. Polster ordered the companies to pay nearly $87 million to cover the first two years.
In his ruling, Polster admonished the three companies, saying they “squandered the opportunity to present a meaningful plan to abate the nuisance."
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Walmart issued a statement saying the counties' attorneys “sued Walmart in search of deep pockets, and this judgment follows a trial that was engineered to favor the plaintiffs’ attorneys and was riddled with remarkable legal and factual mistakes. We will appeal.”
A Walgreens spokesperson also said the company would appeal.
“The facts and the law did not support the jury verdict last fall, and they do not support the court’s decision now,” said spokesperson Fraser Engerman. “The court committed significant legal errors in allowing the case to go before a jury on a flawed legal theory that is inconsistent with Ohio law and compounded those errors in reaching its ruling regarding damages.”
CVS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The news today means that we will soon have the long-awaited resources necessary to extend aid to properly address the harms caused by this devastating epidemic,” Trumbull County Commissioner Frank Fuda said in a statement.
Lake County Commissioner John Hamercheck in a statement said: “Today marks the start of a new day in our fight to end the opioid epidemic.”
A jury returned a verdict in November in favor of the counties after a six-week trial. It was then left to Polster to decide how much the counties should receive from the three pharmacy companies. He heard testimony in May to determine how much in damages the counties should receive.
In his ruling, Polster admonished the three companies, saying they “squandered the opportunity to present a meaningful plan to abate the nuisance.
CVS is based in Rhode Island, Walgreens in Illinois and Walmart in Arkansas.
The counties convinced the jury that the pharmacies played an outsized role in creating a public nuisance in the way they dispensed pain medication into their communities.
It was the first time pharmacy companies completed a trial to defend themselves in a drug crisis that has killed a half-million Americans since 1999.
Attorneys for the pharmacy chains maintained they had policies to stem the flow of pills when their pharmacists had concerns and would notify authorities about suspicious orders from doctors. They also said it was doctors who controlled how many pills were prescribed for legitimate medical needs not their pharmacies.
The pharmacy chains said after the trial they would appeal the jury's verdict.
Two chains — Rite Aid and Giant Eagle — settled lawsuits with the counties before trial. The amounts they paid have not been disclosed publicly.
Mark Lanier, an attorney for the counties, said during trial that the pharmacies were attempting to blame everyone but themselves.
The opioid crisis has overwhelmed courts, social services agencies and law enforcement in Ohio’s blue-collar corner east of Cleveland, leaving behind heartbroken families and babies born to addicted mothers, Lanier told jurors.
Roughly 80 million prescription painkillers were dispensed in Trumbull County alone between 2012 and 2016 — equivalent to 400 for every resident. In Lake County, some 61 million pills were distributed during that period.
The rise in physicians prescribing pain medications such as oxycodone and hydrocodone came as medical groups began recognizing that patients have the right to be treated for pain, Kaspar Stoffelmayr, an attorney for Walgreens, said at the opening of the trial.
The problem, he said, was “pharmaceutical manufacturers tricked doctors into writing way too many pills.”
The counties said pharmacies should be the last line of defense to prevent the pills from getting into the wrong hands.
The trial before Polster was part of a broader constellation of about 3,000 federal opioid lawsuits consolidated under the his supervision. Other cases are moving ahead in state courts.
Kevin Roy, chief public policy officer at Shatterproof, an organization that advocates for solutions to addiction, said in November the verdict could lead pharmacies to follow the path of major distribution companies and some drugmakers that have reached nationwide settlements of opioid cases worth billions. So far, no pharmacy has reached a nationwide settlement. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/judge-pharmacies-owe-2-ohio-counties-650m-in-opioids-suit/article_b5b0ddd7-0413-57c6-be4e-0e588346b7f4.html | 2022-08-17T19:01:18Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/judge-pharmacies-owe-2-ohio-counties-650m-in-opioids-suit/article_b5b0ddd7-0413-57c6-be4e-0e588346b7f4.html | false |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A defense attorney raised questions Wednesday about the mental health of his client, a California man accused of causing panic early Sunday during his second arrest in two days at busy Harry Reid International Airport.
Stefan Mathias Hutchison, 33, of Oakland, stood in shackles as a Las Vegas judge granted his lawyer's request to have him undergo a competency evaluation. The judge said Hutchison will remain jailed without bail and set another court appearance Sept. 9.
The attorney, Michael Troiano, declined additional comment outside court but issued a statement saying Hutchison had “absolutely no criminal intent” and calling it “evident that a mental health episode” led to his arrests Saturday and Sunday.
Hutchison faces misdemeanor airport misconduct and resisting arrest charges after allegedly walking past Transportation Security Administration screeners on Saturday, and two felony burglary charges stemming from his Sunday arrest. In Nevada, burglary includes entering a building with intent to commit a crime.
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Hutchison was freed from jail Saturday with a promise to appear in court in October.
Hours later, police said two airline ticket agents were hurt, not seriously, when Hutchison pushed through an airport security door about 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
Police said Hutchison told arresting officers that he wanted to go home immediately, not wait for a flight on Monday.
A police officer reported hearing about 10 “loud banging sounds” in the airline ticketing area, and said he learned that metal line-dividing stanchions fell to the floor as “hundreds of frightened citizens” fled, trampling each other and rushing past TSA checkpoints.
Airline flights were canceled and delayed throughout the day as passengers were rescreened through security checkpoints before boarding flights. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/mans-mental-health-questioned-in-vegas-airport-panic-case/article_1fa7e444-63f7-5589-a039-4c462d8f1dbb.html | 2022-08-17T19:01:38Z | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/mans-mental-health-questioned-in-vegas-airport-panic-case/article_1fa7e444-63f7-5589-a039-4c462d8f1dbb.html | false |
Woman in Tennessee charged with murder for slipping inmate meth 'during prison visit kiss'
Rachel Dollard's kiss of death passed the inmate half an ounce of meth
A prison visitor accused of smuggling drugs into a Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) facility finds herself behind bars for a fatal kiss that led to an inmate’s death.
Rachel Dollard, 33, visited inmate Joshua Brown, who was serving an 11-year sentence on drug-related charges, at the Turney Center Industrial Complex Prison in February.
During the visit, the pair exchanged a kiss in which Dollard slipped the inmate a balloon pellet containing half an ounce of methamphetamine, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
Brown died from an overdose shortly after swallowing the pellet. His sentence was set to expire in 2029.
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Dollard was taken into custody this weekend on charges of second-degree murder and introduction of contraband into a penal facility.
"This incident points to the real dangers of introducing contraband into prisons and the consequences that follow," said David Imhof, director of TDOC’s Office of Investigations and Conduct.
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The TDOC reportedly employs a variety of tools to prevent the introduction of contraband into prisons including "pat searches of anyone entering a facility, vehicle and cell searches, and drug detection dogs."
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"Our agency will pursue prosecution against any individual who threatens the safety and security of our staff, the men and women in our custody, and our facilities," Imhof said.
Body scanners are currently being installed in all correctional facilities. | https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-tennessee-charged-murder-slipping-inmate-meth-prison-visit-kiss | 2022-08-17T19:10:57Z | https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-tennessee-charged-murder-slipping-inmate-meth-prison-visit-kiss | true |
DETROIT, Mich. (WXYZ) — It was all smiles for residents at Jewish Senior Life's campuses in Michigan.
They were treated Tuesday to a parade of classic cars.
"I just love seeing the old cars," Pat George said. "I just love it."
Jewish Senior Life had previously held the event at their West Bloomfield location, but this year they expanded it to the location in Oak Park.
The owners of the cars say they have just as much fun as the residents.
"I like people who can't get out and about and I like showing off my cars," a driver said.
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Brian Kotlyar joins Hightouch as VP Marketing and Growth to help marketers everywhere fix their customer data challenges
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightouch, the Data Activation platform for businesses with modern data warehouses, today announced two major milestones: the company tripled revenue in the first half of 2022 and added veteran software industry leader Brian Kotlyar to further accelerate growth.
Fortune 500 companies have been investing in their data warehouses and data tools for years, but are struggling to unlock value for their business teams. Hightouch helps more than 1,000 companies move the data from their warehouse to more than 100 SaaS applications automatically and without engineering. Despite signs of a broader economic slowdown, adoption of Hightouch continues to accelerate due to the platform's simple implementation and time to value, its ability to displace expensive legacy tools, and the value it creates for non-technical teams by activating customer data otherwise locked in the warehouse.
"People are waking up to the fact that they don't need custom integrations or months long implementations to activate their data. If they have a data warehouse and Hightouch, then every single person in the company can take action on their data— with the blessing of their data team, and without complicated engineering heavy roll-outs. It's a no-brainer." Kashish Gupta, Co-CEO of Hightouch
Brian Kotlyar, formerly of New Relic, Intercom, and Sprinklr joins the company to lead Marketing and Growth. He brings a track record of helping create billions of dollars in enterprise value at the fastest growing software businesses in the world, most recently helping New Relic triple its growth rate after 6 quarters of decline.
"The time for Data Activation is right now. I've spent almost 20 years trying to solve the exact problems that Hightouch was invented to address—and I'm not alone. Thousands of companies have adopted the modern data warehouse, but still struggle to unlock value for their marketing, sales, success, finance, and operations teams. Honestly, Hightouch empowers business teams so effectively it should probably cost ten times more than it does. As a buyer, it feels like you're getting away with something." - Brian Kotlyar, VP Marketing and Growth of Hightouch
Every business team needs relevant, consistent, and fresh customer data synced to the SaaS tools they use daily to interact with customers. Hightouch is the easiest way to bring data into those tools, all without tedious set-up or specialized engineering help.
In addition to these milestones, in the first half of 2022, Hightouch launched dozens of new platform features, integrations, and destinations, further bolstering its position as a leader in the Data Activation industry:
- Traits: Create calculated fields to supercharge personalization campaigns…no code required
- Sync logs: Log sync data back to the warehouse to dig deeper with the full flexibility of SQL
- Live debugger: Troubleshoot sync issues with complete visibility into errors
- Hightouch Notify: Get notified of important customer events directly in your messaging tools
- dbt exposures: Get end-to-end visibility for how data is flowing between dbt and Hightouch
- Advanced user permissions: Enforce platform governance with granular role- and label-based controls
- Datadog integration: Configure customized sync alerts with Datadog
- Dagster integration: Orchestrate Hightouch syncs from a single operational pane of glass
- Auto-mapping: Map to destination fields faster with smart suggestions
- Snowflake Partner Connect: Launch Hightouch directly from Snowflake
- Databricks Partner Connect: Launch Hightouch directly from Databricks
- Leading the industry in native destinations: Sync data to over 100 SaaS tools that business teams rely on
Visit: http://www.hightouch.com to learn more or sign up for a free trial.
Founded by early employees of Segment, Hightouch is the world's leading Data Activation platform, which syncs data from data warehouses to over 100 SaaS tools. Hightouch was founded on the notion that every business team—sales, marketing, support, success—needs relevant, accurate, and real-time customer data in the software they use to talk to customers including CRM, email, and support platforms. With data warehouses as the hub for customer data, Hightouch has pioneered the concept of Reverse ETL, which is the easiest way to get data out of data warehouses and into those customer-facing operational systems. Hightouch is based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors such as ICONIQ Growth, Amplify Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Afore Capital. For more information, visit www.hightouch.com.
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MILWAUKEE, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TKO Miller is pleased to announce that GLK Foods, LLC (GLK), a world-leading producer of premium food products including sauerkraut and Oh Snap! pickled vegetable products, has divested its Sauerkraut Division to Fermented Food Holdings, Inc. (FFH).
GLK Foods is headquartered in Appleton, WI and has been a family-owned operation for four generations since 1900. GLK's Sauerkraut Division is the largest producer of sauerkraut in the world, serving grocery, foodservice, and industrial co-pack markets. The Sauerkraut Division produces in-house brands such as Cortland Valley, Flanagan, Silver Floss, and Saverne, and co-packages the majority of all North American sauerkraut brands including privately labeled and other industrial co-packaged brands. In addition to its market-leading sauerkraut business, GLK Foods also produces and markets the popular Oh Snap! line of pickled vegetables. This business will be retained by GLK Foods.
FFH is a food company dedicated to bringing together high-quality fermented food brands to reach a broader group of consumers and introduce them to the benefits of fermented foods. Founded in 2021 by Oliver Joost and Marcelo Marim, FFH seeks to leverage its partners' deep industry expertise to accelerate the growth of its portfolio, as well as the fermented foods category. For more information, visit fermentedfoodholdings.com.
TKO Miller, LLC is an independent, advisory-focused, middle-market investment bank. With over 130 years of collective transaction experience, TKO Miller provides merger and acquisition and financial advisory services for privately held and private equity-owned businesses nationwide, with a special focus on family- and founder-held businesses.
TKO Miller aims to bring value to clients by combining outstanding people with a results-oriented, flexible approach to transactions. Our services include company sales, recapitalizations, asset divestitures, and management buyouts. TKO Miller has a generalist focus but has served clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, business services, consumer products, and industrial products and services. For more information, visit our website www.tkomiller.com
Contact: Katie Yde, (414) 375-2660
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DENVER, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta is one of the most widely revered saints in the world, and one of the greatest spiritual giants of the 20th century. She is a powerful witness of authentic Christian charity and a guidepost for all who seek hope in our turbulent times. "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" is a unique film that reveals not just who Mother Teresa was, but how her singular vision to serve Christ through the poor is realized to this day, through the religious order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity.
Twenty-five years after Mother Teresa's death, Fathom Events will present an exclusive two-day only event, "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love," in theaters Monday, Oct. 3 and Tuesday, Oct. 4. The film is part of Fathom Events' "Saint Series," a curated collection of films chronicling the lives of Catholic saints.
"Mother Teresa taught us that there are no expendable people," Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly said. "Everyone we encounter is made in the image of God. So, when she was feeding the hungry or holding the hands of someone as they lay dying, she was treating them as she would the most important person in her life, Jesus Christ himself. And, in all of this, she was teaching us to have a heart that sees, and if we can learn to see as she did, the world would be a radically different and, I would say, better place."
Produced by the Knights of Columbus, filmed on five continents and featuring unprecedented access to both institutional archives and the apostolates of the Missionaries of Charity, "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" chronicles the life of Mother Teresa and the profound spiritual and physical impact she and the Missionaries of Charity have had — and continue to have — on Catholics and non-Catholics alike throughout the world. The documentary also addresses Mother Teresa's admitted periods of spiritual darkness while serving the poorest of the poor, and her friendship with another revered saint, Pope John Paul II.
"Mother Teresa's incredible acts of kindness changed the world," said Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. "We are proud to partner with the Knights of Columbus to bring this film to theaters nationwide and hope that it can not only shine a light on this saint of our times but to change lives in the process."
Watch the "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" trailer: https://youtu.be/kcIr9pOXtv8.
"Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" is produced by David Naglieri of the Knights of Columbus and features commentary from prominent Catholics, such as Patrick E. Kelly, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus; Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire; Jim Wahlberg, filmmaker and humanitarian; Fr. Donald Haggerty, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York; Jim Towey, a trusted advisor and personal friend of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and author of "To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa"; and Fr. Brian Kolodiejchuk, postulator of Mother Teresa's cause of canonization and author of three books on Mother Teresa.
Tickets for "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love" can be purchased online by visiting Fathom Events or at participating theater box offices. For a complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom Events website (theaters and participants are subject to change). Groups of 25 or more can reserve tickets, including entire showtimes in select cities, here.
For artwork/photos related to "Mother Teresa: No Greater Love," please visit www.motherteresamovie.com.
About Fathom Events
Fathom is a recognized leader in the entertainment industry as one of the top distributors of content to movie theaters in North America. Owned by AMC Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: AMC); Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK); and Regal, a subsidiary of the Cineworld Group (LSE: CINE.L). Fathom operates the largest cinema distribution network, delivering a wide variety of programming and experiences to cinema audiences in all of the top U.S. markets and to more than 45 countries. For more information, visit www.FathomEvents.com.
About The Knights of Columbus
In 1882, Blessed Michael McGivney, a young parish priest in New Haven, Conn., founded the Knights of Columbus to serve the needs of a largely immigrant Catholic community. What began as a small fraternal benefit society has since grown into one of the world's leading international charitable organizations, with 2 million members in more than 16,000 local councils. From July 2021 to June 2022, Knights around the world donated nearly 48 million service hours and nearly $154 million for worthy causes in their communities. The Knights of Columbus also offers extensive life insurance products to members and their families. Knights of Columbus Insurance currently has more than $119 billion of life insurance policies in force and was named by Forbes as one of America's Best Insurance Companies 2022. In addition, the Knights provides investment services in accord with Catholic social teaching through Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors, which holds total assets of more than $28 billion in assets under management. Based on the founding principles of charity, unity and fraternity, the Order remains committed to strengthening Catholic families and parishes and to practicing faith in action through service to all in need. To learn more or to join the Knights of Columbus, please visit kofc.org/join.
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Queensland's monkeypox vaccine stockpile is so small it's not meeting demand, GP says
By Alexander LewisQueenslanders at risk of catching monkeypox are trying to get vaccinated before travelling to overseas hotspots, but the state's stockpile is so small they're unable to access it.
Key points:
- Europe has recorded more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox
- A Brisbane GP says more infections in Australia were "inevitable"
- Queensland Health was not able to say when more doses would arrive
Just 300 doses have arrived in the state, but they've been kept for close contacts and new cases, Queensland Health said.
Brisbane student Karl Townsend, 27, has been trying to get vaccinated before travelling to Italy for an exchange on Sunday, but has had "no luck".
"I don't have the option to even try and protect myself," Mr Townsend said.
"It's a bit frustrating."
Europe has recorded 16,495 monkeypox cases, according to the World Health Organization's latest situation report, which was published last week. More than 10,800 cases were confirmed in the Americas.
Wendell Rosevear — a general practitioner at a Brisbane clinic specialising in LGBTQI+ healthcare — urged authorities to vaccinate Australians in high-risk categories before travelling overseas.
"We need to actually be proactive to help them avoid bringing it back to Australia," Dr Rosevear said.
Queensland has so far recorded three monkeypox cases – all caught overseas.
But Dr Rosevear said transmission here was "inevitable" as more Australians dusted off their passports.
He is calling for the state to source more doses urgently, and expand access beyond close contacts and cases.
"The need, the demand and the expectation is much greater than the 300 vaccines that are available," he said.
"There are probably 3,000 vaccines coming in late September or October, but that's not going to meet expectation, need or demand."
Infection can be 'debilitating'
The clinic's manager, Arian Waldock, said the centre was receiving daily calls about the vaccine.
"We tell [patients] that we know that it's coming but unfortunately we don't have any firm information," he said.
"People are just wanting to be proactive and keep themselves safe, and if they can get vaccinated early they're hoping to achieve that.
"There are a lot of people who are travelling who want to get it either before they travel or upon their return."
Dr Rosevear said anyone could catch monkeypox and it was not classified as a sexually transmitted infection, though most of the spread was between men having sex with each other.
He said the infection was rarely fatal but could be "debilitating", and could cause painful legions, fever, headaches and lethargy.
"It can immobilise people for three weeks. You need to isolate," he said.
"So if we're going to prevent spread, we need better access."
Dr Rosevear said private GPs should be able to offer the vaccine.
"Some people really value their health and they'd be willing to pay for the vaccine."
What vaccines are available?
Only one company makes Australia's preferred vaccine, JYNNEOS, and it is in short supply amid surging global demand.
It is also used for smallpox and manufactured by the Danish company Bavarian Nordic.
The other vaccine approved in Australia, ACAM2000, uses older technology and requires specialised training to administer.
Because it contains the live virus, it is not suitable for immunocompromised people, pregnant women, and even eczema sufferers.
Queensland Health has confirmed the state has received an "initial allocation" of 300 doses and did not say when more would arrive.
"We are working closely with the federal government to secure additional vaccines over the coming weeks, although it is anticipated that global demand may influence supply," a Queensland Health spokesperson told the ABC.
"Those who are eligible for vaccination will be contacted."
The Australian government has secured 450,000 third-generation vaccines for monkeypox in what it described as a "highly-contested" global market for the jabs.
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CHICAGO — Life is pretty sweet for 12-year-old Brooklyn Tissiere, but it hasn't always been this way.
"I was skipping on my kitchen floor with socks, and I fell," she recalled.
That was the first time Brooklyn broke her arm. In all, her fragile bone snapped five times.
Her father, Mark Tissiere, remembers another incident.
"She had just stepped off a low diving board at our local pool, and when she pushed herself up, her arm broke," he said.
Brooklyn had a unicameral bone cyst.
"It's a fluid-filled cyst that expands bone and makes the bone thinner. So, then, the walls essentially become as thin as an eggshell," explained Dr. Shanker Rajeswaran, chief of pediatric interventional radiology at Lurie Children's Hospital.
Six years ago, doctors used a more invasive surgery on Brooklyn, making a large incision, scraping the cyst wall, and then grafting it with bone. Unfortunately, the cyst came back. Then, Brooklyn became the first person to undergo a new, minimally invasive technique developed at Lurie Children's Hospital.
"Through two small pokes, we get two needles into the cyst, and we inject a medicine to destroy the cyst," Rajeswaran said.
Doctors inject the cyst with doxycycline to destroy it, and then inject a bone graft to strengthen the bone.
Brooklyn hasn't had any breaks in the last four years and enjoys playing a host of sports she never thought she would be able to enjoy again.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
3-3-0-8, SB: 6
(three, three, zero, eight; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
3-3-0-8, SB: 6
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Tenant fears eviction months after applying for relief funds
By Barry Simms
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MIDDLE RIVER, Maryland (WBAL) — A Baltimore County tenant who owes thousands in back rent said her landlord has been great in helping her get assistance, but she remains fearful she could get evicted — and both want answers.
Kristina Smith and her landlord, Bob Posterli, are working together to try to prevent eviction. They said they applied for rental assistance funding through Baltimore County, but months later, they are worried because they still don’t know whether they’ll receive the funds.
“It’s stressful just knowing we’re waiting for help and it hasn’t come yet,” Smith said.
Smith lost her job in February because of COVID-19-related issues. In April, she and Posterli applied for emergency rental assistance under Baltimore County’s emergency eviction relief program. Four months later, she’s still waiting.
“Oh my goodness, I’ve told them about the whole situation. We’re behind in rent. We need help with rent,” Smith said.
“If I evict her, all that’s going to do is add to homelessness for her and her family,” Posterli said.
Posterli said Smith and her children are good tenants and have lived at the property for more than three years. Both are frustrated. After numerous calls and checking online, all they get is, “Your case has been submitted and will be reviewed by a case auditor,” and, “Caseworker unassigned.”
Posterli said his tenant owes about $5,800 in back rent.
“She’s made magnificent attempts to pay, but unfortunately, not the full amount,” Posterli said.
“I go grocery shopping for other people and get paid that way just to make a little extra income right now,” Smith said.
Baltimore County’s emergency rental assistance program told the 11 News I-Team in an email that almost 5,200 people have applied since January, and the county assisted more than 1,700 people so far.
Joy Roberts, director of housing stability for the Baltimore County Department of Housing and Community Development, said: “A high volume of cases are referred to nonprofit providers. The average application processing time is about a week. Still, it can take some time to process each individual application.”
In June, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced an additional $17 million in rental assistance funding. But according to the county’s website, the county is not accepting new applications as of July 8. Existing intake forms are still being processed.
“We thought this was going to be a lifesaver for everybody,” Posterli said.
Smith and Posterli still hope to preserve their relationship and prevent eviction with help from relief funds.
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Electric vehicle credits just completely changed. Here’s what it means for car buyers
By Matt McFarland, CNN Business
The newly signed Inflation Reduction Act will have big implications for electric vehicle buyers. Some popular electric vehicles may become eligible for a tax credit once again, while other cars that were eligible this month will not be for the foreseeable future. Here’s what you need to know as a consumer.
What changed?
The old credit offered $7,500 for new electric vehicle buyers until their automaker hit a 200,000 limit for available tax credits. Plug-in hybrid buyers received a smaller credit.
The Inflation Reduction Act’s new credit immediately replaces the prior system and removes the 200,000 limit, but it creates new restrictions that are being phased in related to assembly, batteries, and supply chains. Plug-in hybrids will continue to be eligible for a partial credit.
The new law also imposes new restrictions on the price of vehicles, as well as limits on the income of the buyer.
How can I qualify for the tax credit?
There are plenty of stringent requirements for electric vehicles to receive the tax credit under the new law, which fully takes effect on January 1, 2023. Vehicles must be assembled in North America. Much of their battery components and battery minerals production must be in North America. Beginning in 2023, 40% of the critical minerals used to create a vehicle’s battery must be extracted or processed in the United States, or a country that has a free trade deal with the US, for the vehicle to qualify. By 2027, that number will rise to 80% of the battery minerals. The battery component requirement calls for 50% to be manufactured or assembled in North America starting in 2023 and 60% in 2024 and 2025. That number will gradually grow to 100% in 2029.
Under the new credit system, the MSRP of a pickup or SUV must not be over $80,000, and other vehicles like sedans must not surpass $55,000. A buyer’s income must not exceed $150,000 if single, $225,000 if the head of a household, or $300,000 if married.
Buyers purchasing a used electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid can for the first time receive as much as $4,000.
You also must purchase a vehicle before December 31, 2032.
How large is the tax credit?
New vehicles are eligible for as much as $7,500, provided their final assembly happens in North America. Half of the credit — $3,750 — depends on meeting the battery minerals requirement, and the other half depends on the battery component requirement.
There is a new credit for some buyers who purchase a used electric vehicle of up to $4,000. The credit may not exceed 30% of the vehicle’s sale price.
What vehicles are eligible to receive the $7,500 tax credit?
No electric vehicles currently available for purchase will qualify for the full tax credit when sourcing requirements go into effect in 2023, according to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents automakers like Ford, GM, Hyundai, Toyota and Volkswagen. The new tax credit significantly reduces how many vehicles are eligible. Seventy percent of electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles eligible for purchase in the US are now ineligible for any credit, including partial, according to the trade group.
Popular electric models like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 will lose their eligibility under the new rules unless manufacturers make changes like where the vehicles are assembled.
Teslas, including the popular Model 3 and Y, was ineligible for a credit under the past structure since Jan. 2020, when the company reached the previous 200,000-vehicle limit per automaker. However, that limit will lift on Jan. 1, 2023, and Teslas will once again qualify for a tax credit, provided the company meets all other new requirements.
Consumers can enter a vehicle’s vehicle identification number into a US Department of Transportation website to see where its final assembly occurs to determine if the vehicle is eligible for tax credit under the new law.
Are there any exceptions?
Some electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids remain eligible until year’s end due to a quirk in the bill. The North American assembly provision took effect when Biden signed the bill, but nothing else. Consumers interested in electric vehicles manufactured in North America may want to consider a purchase before January 1, when the more demanding requirements begin.
Nissan confirmed to CNN Business that the Leaf will remain eligible for the full credit through the end of 2022. Volvo expects the S60 Recharge to continue to qualify to year’s end given guidance from the Department of Energy.
The Mercedes-Benz EQS SUV is expected by the automaker to be eligible until year’s end, but not the EQS sedan because, unlike the SUV, it is not assembled in the United States. BMW says the X5 plug-in hybrid and 3-series plug-in hybrid will both be eligible for the rest of 2022.
Ford says its electric and plug-in vehicles, including the Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning and Escape plug-in hybrid will be eligible for the rest of the year.
These vehicles would need to be delivered by year’s end.
Rivian vehicles are made in North America, but any new orders placed in the final months of the year are unlikely to get the credit as the automaker has an order backlog that exceeds its production goal for the year, so customers wouldn’t take delivery before 2023.
Automakers and consumers are in a state of limbo for 2023 as the government finalizes the tax credit. It’s unclear, for example, how the government will determine if a vehicle meets the battery minerals and battery component thresholds. Ultimately, the IRS will provide a list of vehicles to consumers that shows how much money they’re eligible to receive.
Why are there so many more restrictions?
Sen. Joe Manchin, a critical vote, had concerns about US reliance on foreign countries for electric vehicle components. Manchin noted that the US built its own gas-powered vehicles and engines, suggesting the country should be able to do the same with electric vehicles and batteries. The tax credits may incentive automakers to shift battery metals extraction and processing, as well as vehicle assembly, to North America. Some experts have cautioned about national security risks associated with the reliance on foreign countries for electric vehicles.
If I find an eligible vehicle, how soon can I get the tax credit money?
Initially, buyers will need to wait to receive the tax credit when they file their taxes. But starting in January 1, 2024, electric vehicle buyers will be able to receive the money immediately, at the point of sale, if they agree to transfer the credit to their dealership.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-7-6-2
(one, seven, six, two)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
1-7-6-2
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The Sal6830 provides non-invasive COVID-19 results in under 30 minutes
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroGEM, a U.S.-based molecular biology company, today announced that Medline, a manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies to healthcare providers across the continuum of care, is now offering the MicroGEM Sal6830 Point of Care PCR System and SARS-CoV-2 Saliva Test.
The partnership comes as the nation continues to average more than 100,000 new cases and nearly 500 COVID-related deaths a day, with new cases and hospitalizations driven by the Omicron BA.5 variant, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"Sal6830 is transforming the 'new normal' of living and working with COVID-19 by providing an easy, convenient saliva test that eliminates the discomfort of nasal swabs," said Geoff Stein, Director of Channel Partner Sales for MicroGEM. "Medline is a terrific choice as a partner, joining us in sharing the message that 'sticks up the nose' can be a thing of the past, and providing their deep and proven technical knowledge, support, and flexibility to quickly respond to customer needs and demands."
The Sal6830 leverages MicroGEM's proprietary point of care technology, which combines enriched intact virus, thermophilic enzymatic RNA extraction, and microscale high-speed RT-PCR to capture whole virus to detect SARS-CoV-2 in under 30 minutes. Sal6830's non-invasive saliva sampling, simple on-screen instructions, fast on-the-spot results, and portability provide an invaluable tool to quickly and accurately detect COVID-19 in settings ranging from healthcare centers, film production sets, and government and academic facilities, to mobile testing sites, retirement homes and long-term care communities.
Medline is well-positioned to introduce the Sal6830 to healthcare organizations and vulnerable communities, such as assisted living facilities, that have existing and emerging needs to quickly test and protect their staff, visitors, residents, and patients.
"It is important that we continue to look at new ways to help customers drive efficiency around the ebb and flow of COVID-19 testing," said Nicole Krpan, vice president of Medline's laboratory division. "Our partnership with MicroGEM expands our product portfolio to offer a saliva-based test for the first time. We expect this to help expand our partnerships with lab leaders to optimize their performance."
The Sal6830 SARS-CoV-2 Saliva Testing Kit's innovative cartridge design allows new targets to be added or replaced quickly, significantly reducing both assay and product development time. The company plans on seeking authorization to expand the test menu and ruggedize the system to address austere field conditions presented in military and disaster medicine use cases, and adapt the system for the precision medicine healthcare market with quantitative gene expression panels used as biomarkers.
MicroGEM has established a U.S.-based supply chain, with R&D pilot manufacturing facilities in Charlottesville, Virginia, large-scale test kit production facilities in Ogden, Utah, and instrument production facilities in Hudson, New Hampshire.
The MicroGEM Sal6830 Point of Care PCR System and the MicroGEM Sal6830 SARS-CoV-2 Saliva Test recently received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and have been funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx®) initiative to expedite the launch of the test with federal funds from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. 75N92020C00015.
The MicroGEM Sal6830 SARS-CoV-2 Saliva Test has not been FDA cleared or approved, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA under an EUA for use by authorized laboratories. This product has been authorized only for the detection of nucleic acid form SARS-CoV-2, not for any other viruses or pathogens. The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner.
To learn more about Sal6830, visit www.microgembio.com/covid-19/contact.
About Medline
Medline is a healthcare company; a manufacturer, distributor, and solutions provider focused on improving the overall operating performance of healthcare. Partnering with healthcare systems and facilities across the continuum of care, Medline provides the clinical and supply chain resources required for long-term financial viability in delivering high-quality care. With the scale of one of the country's largest companies and the agility of a family-led business, Medline is able to invest in its customers for the future and rapidly respond to a dynamically changing market with customized solutions. Headquartered in Northfield, Ill., Medline has 30,000+ employees worldwide and does business in more than 125 countries and territories. Learn more about Medline at www.medline.com.
About MicroGEM
MicroGEM is democratizing molecular diagnostics by moving molecular techniques out of conventional, highly skilled laboratories to non-laboratory settings. The company's innovative enzymatic approach to nucleic acid extraction provides the foundation for efficient sample preparation suitable for PCR analysis. Recently awarded over $50 million by the National Institutes of Health, Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, MicroGEM has leveraged its RNA extraction capabilities to develop the MicroGEM Sal6830 Point of Care PCR System and SARS-CoV-2 Saliva Test, representing the next generation of point-of-need solutions for the management of infectious diseases and other personalized medicine applications.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party as well as her own family legacy, the most high-profile political casualty yet as the party of Lincoln transforms into the party of Trump.
The fall of the three-term congresswoman, who has declared it her mission to ensure Donald Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was vividly foreshadowed earlier this year, on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
As the House convened for a moment of silence, Cheney, who is leading the investigation into the insurrection as vice chair of the 1/6 committee, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, stood almost alone on the Republican side of the House floor.
Democratic lawmakers streamed by to shake their hands. Republicans declined to join them.
“Liz Cheney represents the Republican Party as it used to be. … All of that is gone now,” said Geoff Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the center-right Niskanen Center.
What comes next for Liz Cheney is still to be determined.
“Now the real work begins,” she said in an election night concession speech in Wyoming, summoning the legacy of both Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War-era military and presidential successor Ulysses Grant in her campaign against Trump.
Cheney could very well announce her own run for the White House — unlikely to win a hostile Republican Party’s nomination but to at least give those opposed to Trump an alternative.
Overnight, she transferred leftover campaign funds into a new entity: “The Great Task.” That’s a phrase from The Gettysburg Address.
“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office,” Cheney told NBC’s “Today” show early Wednesday, adding that running for president “is something I’m thinking about and I’ll make a decision in the coming months.”
Whether she runs or not, her belief that Trump poses a danger to democracy is a conviction that runs deep in her family.
But it’s a view that has no home in today’s GOP.
Trump is purging the Republican Party, ridding it of dissenters like Cheney and others who dare to defy him, shifting the coast-to-coast GOP landscape and the makeup of Congress.
Of the 10 House Republicans including Cheney who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, at the Capitol, only two remain candidates for re-election. The others have bowed out or, like Cheney, have been defeated by Trump-backed challengers.
If Republicans gain control of the House and Senate in the November elections, the new Congress is destined to be remade in Trump’s image. However, his influence may in fact cut two ways, winning back the House for Republicans but costing the party the Senate if his candidates fail to generate the broader appeal needed for statewide elections.
“It’s just a party of Donald Trump’s fever dreams,” said Mark Salter, a former longtime Republican aide to the late Sen. John McCain.
“It’s just Donald Trump’s club.”
For 50 years, the Cheneys have had important influence in Washington, from the time Dick Cheney first ran for Congress — later being elected vice president — to the arrival of his daughter, elected in 2016 alongside Trump’s White House victory.
Identified with the hawkish defense wing of the Republican Party, the Cheneys with the Presidents Bush represented a cornerstone of the GOP in the post-World War II era, when it thrived as a party of small government, low taxation and muscular foreign policy.
Liz Cheney never wavered, chosen by House GOP colleagues to the same position her father held, the No. 3 Republican in the House, its highest-ranking woman.
But the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol changed all that.
Cheney was unequivocal, laying blame for the attack on the defeated president and his false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election.
Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” she said at the time, announcing her vote to impeach.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy initially defended Cheney but quickly reversed as Republicans booted her from party leadership. When Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Cheney to the 1/6 panel, her exile was all but complete.
Trump gloated at Cheney’s GOP primary defeat Tuesday night, deriding her as “sanctimonious” and a “fool” for suggesting his claims of a rigged election were false.
Trump had swooped into the Cowboy State to rally for Harriet Hageman, who was once highly critical of him but beat Cheney by embracing the former president, backed by McCarthy and other party leaders.
Cheney’s defeat follows that of the last Bush in public office, Jeb’s son George P. Bush, who was defeated in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general by Trump-backed Ken Paxton in May.
On Fox News, conservative author Charlie Kirk called Tuesday’s election a “mass repudiation” of the Bush-Cheney-McCain era.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who replaced Cheney in House GOP leadership and endorsed Hageman, said in a statement she was glad to see Pelosi’s “puppet” defeated.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming who served in Congress alongside Dick Cheney and has known Liz Cheney since she was a child, says he can no longer recognize the party that he joined, casting his first presidential vote for Dwight Eisenhower.
“What’s happened to our party is a fear of Donald J. Trump,” Simpson said.
Founded in the mid-19th century, the Republican Party’s core conservative values have shifted in the Trump era into a strain of politics that is more inward focused on grievances at home and isolationism abroad.
Those running for Congress include many Republican incumbents who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election, amplifying Trump’s relentless false claims of a rigged election and fueling the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
And many of the new GOP candidates for Congress are also election deniers, according to a tally by Democrats.
“The House is — should be — the people’s House,” said former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida. Instead, he said, “It’s controlled by Mr. Trump,”
Cheney walks alone many days at the Capitol, flanked by plain-clothes Capitol police who guard her amid an onslaught of violent threats.
Her mission of denying Trump a return to the presidency can be seen in her daily schedule, much of her time devoted to the 1/6 committee deepening and completing its work.
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'It's repugnant': Minneapolis school district is slammed by former Republican candidate for governor who says the policy to oust white teachers over black harks back to the discrimination of the 50s and 60s
- Kendall Qualls, a former Republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota, called the school board and teachers deal 'an infinity loop of evil' on Wednesday
- Speaking on Fox and Friends, Qualls and attorney Kofi Montzka rebuked the deal, saying it perpetuated racism and made black people look 'dumb'
- Also on Wednesday, Minneapolis Public Schools defended the contract which promotes laying off white teachers over teachers of color
- The deal was struck last spring after a two week strike spearheaded by Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union president Greta Callahan
A former candidate for Minnesota governor compared the deal between the Minneapolis public schools and teachers union - which promotes laying off white teachers ahead of those of color - to racist Jim Crow-era laws.
Former Republican candidate Kendall Qualls called the deal 'repugnant' on Fox and Friends this morning, characterizing it as 'unamerican.'
'It's just repugnant,' Qualls, who is black, said, 'You it you think about the discrimination that we faced in this country back in the 50's and 60's, it was wrong then. It's wrong now regardless of who is the victim it's wrong. And we shouldn't stand for it as a country.'
The deal was struck between Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers union after a two week strike spearheaded by union president Greta Callahan last spring.
It states that instead of teacher layoffs or relocations being decided based on seniority – as is typical – schools can ignore that protocol and dismiss senior staff members if otherwise a teacher of color would be laid off.
Also speaking on Fox and Friends was Kofi Montzka, a Minnesota attorney who is also black. She said the new policy would only foster more discrimination.
'You cannot solve past discrimination with more discrimination. Racism in and of itself is evil, it's wrong, and it's illegal,' Montzka said, 'These policies, no matter what their intent, make it look like we are stupid and dumb and we can't compete in the marketplace, and make people more racist and life harder for me and my kids and people who look like me.'
Kendall also pointed out the policy closely reflected ideas in author Ibram X. Kendi's book How to Be an Antiracist, which Qualls said calls for new and future discrimination to make up for past discrimination.
'It's an infinity Loop of evil, it's unamerican, and it's really in a place where get no forgiveness. Any forgiveness at all,' Qualls said, 'That's not what we stand for as a country and we need to fight back against it.'
Former Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota Kendall Qualls (left) called school board and teachers union the deal 'repugnant' on Fox and Friends this morning. Attorney Kofi Montzka (left) also spoke out against the agreement
Qualls' and Montzka's comments as the the Minneapolis school board defended the new deal, which it said was being used to 'remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination.'
'Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) mutually agreed to contract language that aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups as compared to the labor market and to the community served by the school district,' it said in a statement to the Washington Times.
Many have called the deal unconstitutional, and accused it of addressing past racism with more racism.
It reads: 'If excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the district shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population.'
The prioritizing of teachers of color over senior educators may also apply to re-hiring after layoff.
Minneapolis Public Schools defends its upcoming contract that promotes laying off white teachers over teachers of color. It said it is a 'remedy to the continuing effects of past discrimination'
A new contract between public schools and the teachers' union in the city of Minneapolis is causing outrage because it may see white teachers laid off at the expense of teachers of color
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers President Greta Callahan
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers President Greta Callahan (third from left) posed for a photo with far left Representative Ilhan Omar, along with fellow squad members Rashida Tliab, Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush while supporting Omar's nearly ill-fated primary bid last week
The move was met with a swift backlash, with an economics professor branding it 'racism in action.'
Constitutional Lawyer Hans Bader characterized the deal as unconstitutional in an editorial in Liberty Unyielding on Sunday, saying the 'race-based layoff provision' violated portions of the Civil Rights Act.
'When it comes to termination an employer can't racially discriminate even against whites,' Bader wrote, 'The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 1996 that a school district can’t consider race even as a tie-breaker, in deciding who to lay off, even to promote diversity.'
Republicans representative to the Minnesota House of Representatives Jeremy Munson said on Facebook that while he was never a supporter of protecting employees exclusively based on seniority, the union's deal was 'racist.'
'The Minneapolis teachers Union has taken a racist approach and agreed to protect your job based on your skin color, over your job performance or seniority,' he wrote, 'I don't know who needs to hear this, but racist employment contracts have no place in our society.'
In the comments on Munson's post one user quipped, 'Sounds like discrimination lawsuits are on the horizon.'
Other users on social media said they were inflamed and unsettled by the deal, with one saying it 'did not sit well with me.'
'All I can say is wow. All of my teacher friends, how does this sit with you?' wrote Anthony Dunne in a Facebook post, 'Looking from the outside in, this does not sit well with me. We are hiring and firing based upon skin color. So in my simplified view point, fighting past racism with new racism.'
Dinah Salman warned teachers in a Facebook post that Minneapolis schools would not protect them no matter how long they'd been teaching in the system.
'If you're white, and you work in the Minneapolis public schools, know that your Union will not protect you from layoffs in spite of your seniority,' she wrote, 'This is racism. It's also unconstitutional.'
The contract states: 'The District shall deprioritize the more senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population, in order to recall a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers.'
Both school district and teachers' union leaders say this makes the city one of the only in the country that does what's called 'seniority-disrupting.'
The agreement could prove important very soon, given that the district is likely to cut jobs because of budget reductions due to lower enrollments, according to ABC News 4.
The new contract also calls for the development of 'anti-bias, anti-racist' staff advisory councils.
They are supposed to focus, according to the contract, on: 'reducing inequitable practices and behaviors in our learning places and spaces as well as supporting educators, specifically educators of color, in navigating and disrupting our district as a predominantly white institution.'
The stipulation was first hinted at back in March when an agreement was struck, citing the fact that most senior teachers in Minneapolis are majority white and people of color were typically the first on the chopping block when layoffs happened.
Union reps told MPR News at the time that this protected about 'half' of the teachers of color in the district.
Some conservative activists were outraged, including public school reform activist Christopher Rufo.
He tweeted: 'This is the inevitable endpoint of "equity."'
On Fox News' Hannity Monday night, contributors Leo Terrell and Clay Travis both hammered the agreement.
Terrell, a civil rights attorney who is black, said: 'It's racist. It's discriminatory, it's illegal. It should be invalidated immediately. I read what the union says. They said they want students to have teachers that look like them. Wrong. The students need teachers who will educate them. Educate. Not what they look like!'
Sportswriter Travis, who runs the website Outkick the Coverage, agreed: 'Yeah, of course it would. And I agree with everything Leo said. Look, the foundation of the Democrat party now is two things, Sean. It is everything is racist, and America is an awful place. That is basically everything that the Democrats believe, and if you drill down essentially every policy that they advocate for, that's what it is at its essence'.
Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker also criticized the deal, tweeting: 'This is racist. This is illegal. This is another example of why government unions should be eliminated'.
The 1776 Project Pac, a conservative political action committee, called the agreement: 'Breathtakingly racist and outright unconstitutional.'
Mark J. Perry called it: 'Racism in action'.
A spokesperson for the school district said: 'To remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination, Minneapolis Public Schools and the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) mutually agreed to contract language that aims to support the recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups as compared to the labor market and to the community served by the school district.'
It's the latest instance of teachers' unions espousing left wing ideals in education.
The AFT and the NEA have both endorsed the controversial 1619 project for inclusion in school curriculum. The project which had its inception as a New York Times opus was hailed a 'corrective history' of slavery in America. But it has been fraught with criticism for ignoring facts in favor of a revisionist narrative that skews left.
Meanwhile, though the official stance of Randi Weingarten - president of the American Federation of Teachers labor union - is that Critical Race Theory is not taught in classrooms, she recently pushed back against parents who spoke out against it. Yet a myriad of reports suggests that those parents' fears that it has seeped into classrooms are well founded.
In Buffalo, New York, students are told that 'all white people' perpetuate systemic racism. The Arizona Department of Education has created an 'equity' toolkit which claims that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children become full blown racists at five.
President of the American Federation of Teachers labor union Randi Weingarten often mixes with Democratic politicians. Then-Senator Kamala Harris appeared with her at the AFT's 2019 conference
Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers labor union, was with then-candidate Joe Biden at a town hall in Houston as part of his presidential election campaign
Weingarten was the first union boss to endorse Hillary Clinton in 2016. Clinton announced her candidacy to the Senate at the United Federation of Teachers – which Weingarten then headed – in 1999
Weingarten campaigned for progressive candidate Elizabeth Warren in 2019 as the Massachusetts senator vied for the Democratic presidential nomination
In Cupertino, California, third graders are asked to deconstruct their racial identities and rank themselves according to their 'power and privilege.'
The principal of a school in New York City sent white parents a 'tool for action' which tells them they must become 'white traitors' and advocate for 'white abolition.'
And in Seattle there are training sessions for teachers in which schools were deemed guilty of 'spirit murder' against black children.
All these notions are central to CRT as presented by radical proponents Bettina Love and Ibram X. Kendi. In its latest handbook for a return to school post COVID the Department of Education included a link to Love's Abolitionist Teaching Network's Guide to Racial and Restorative Justice, a work that accuses white teachers of the 'spirit murder' of minority children and advocates for all white teachers to be given 'anti-racist therapy.'
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- Deal reached to end Minneapolis teachers strike; classes expected to restart Tuesday | MPR News
- Minneapolis schools will lay off white teachers first, violating the Constitution and Title VII - Liberty Unyielding
- Minneapolis school district defends deal to lay off White teachers ahead of minority teachers - Washington Times | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11120581/Former-Republican-candidate-Minnesota-governor-compares-new-public-school-policy-Jim-Crow.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T19:28:56Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11120581/Former-Republican-candidate-Minnesota-governor-compares-new-public-school-policy-Jim-Crow.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
OELWEIN — An Oelwein man has been arrested for allegedly running an unlicensed tattoo parlor.
Fayette County sheriff’s deputies arrested Skylar Joseph Buhr, 33, on Aug. 8 on a warrant for operating a tattoo parlor without a permit, a misdemeanor, and an unrelated charge of failure to pay child support.
According to court records, one of Buhr’s customers went to authorities in May after she was unable to get a refund for a tattoo where something was wrong with the ink he used.
The tattooing had been done at a home in the 800 block of Second Street N.E., and authorities allege Buhr didn’t have a tattoo permit from the Iowa Department of Public Health.
PHOTOS: Doggie Dip at The Falls 2022
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Photos from the Doggie Dip at The Falls Aquatic Center in Cedar Falls on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022.
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Dogs and their owners head for the water at The Falls Aquatic Center in Cedar Falls on Monday to participate in the annual Doggie Dip.
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People and their pets plunged into the pool Monday at The Falls Aquatic Center during the Doggie Dip.
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Happy scenes of pets and their people happened all over The Falls Aquatic Center Monday during the Doggie Dip.
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People and their pets plunged into the pool Monday at The Falls Aquatic Center during the Doggie Dip.
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This World War I flying ace made a stop at The Falls Aquatic Center Monday for the Doggie Dip.
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Furry friends filled the water Monday during the Doggie Dip at The Falls Aquatic Center.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana residents have been seeing some relief at the pump with falling gas prices. That relief will be increased in September when one of the gas taxes drops.
On Wednesday, the Indiana Department of Revenue recently published the gasoline use tax calculation for September. The calculation shows the rate starting September 1 will be 24 cents per gallon, down from 29.4 cents per gallon in June.
The department calculates the gasoline use tax by taking the average retail price per gallon of gasoline in the prior month and multiplying it by the state retail tax of .07 cents. The state said the average retail cost was $3.4215.
September’s gasoline use tax will be more than 5 cents less than August’s tax. This is the largest drop in gasoline use tax since 2014. The next largest drop happened in February 2015, when the gasoline use tax dropped 4.3 cents. It will be at the same level Indiana was at in June 2022.
In addition to the gasoline tax, people buying gasoline pay additional state and federal taxes. As of July, people pay 33 cents per gallon in gas excise tax, which goes towards infrastructure projects, and a federal tax of about 18 cents per gallon.
If the average retail cost of gasoline remains at $3.4215 in September, people would end up paying around $3.93 at the pump. As of August 17, AAA reports the average cost of gas in Indiana is about $3.945.
AAA reports the national average for a gallon of regular gas fell 10 cents in the past week due to stable oil prices and fewer drivers than usual fueling up.
“Falling pump prices may eventually lead to more drivers hitting the road again,” said Andrew Gross, AAA spokesperson. “But that hasn’t happened yet. Instead, many drivers are waiting for prices to fall further before reverting to their typical driving habits.”
Although gasoline demand has risen and supplies have tightened, AAA says easing oil prices have helped lower pump prices. If oil prices edge lower, drivers will likely see falling pump prices. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indiana-seeing-largest-gas-tax-drop-since-2014/ | 2022-08-17T19:33:32Z | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indiana-seeing-largest-gas-tax-drop-since-2014/ | false |
HAMPTON, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Old Point Financial Corporation declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share on its common stock to be paid on September 30, 2022 to shareholders of record as of September 7, 2022. The dividend amount is the same as the prior quarter's dividend and based on the stock's closing price of $23.50 on August 16, 2022, the dividend yield is approximately 2.2%.
ABOUT OLD POINT FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Old Point Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: OPOF) is the parent company of Old Point National Bank and Old Point Wealth Management, which serve the Hampton Roads and Richmond regions of Virginia as well as operate a mortgage loan production office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Old Point National Bank is a locally owned and managed community bank which offers a wide range of financial services from checking, insurance, and mortgage products to comprehensive commercial lending and banking products and services. Old Point Wealth Management is the largest wealth management services provider headquartered in Hampton Roads, Virginia, offering local asset management by experienced professionals. Additional information about the company is available at oldpoint.com.
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Progress made on decades-long innovation project with new building dedication
LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - The Phase III Expansion Facility at KU’s Innovation Park was dedicated by the Kansas Governor on Wednesday marking progress on the decades-long project.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly says on Wednesday, Aug. 17, she celebrated the dedication of the Phase III Expansion Facility at the University of Kansas Innovation Park.
Formerly known as the Bioscience and Technology Business Center, Gov. Kelly said the KU Innovation Park is an economic development organization and business incubator which provides lab, office and co-working facilities to support innovation-driven and technology-focused companies.
“By providing direct access to world-class research and talent, the KU Innovation Park and this new facility will incentivize companies to make their technological breakthroughs right here in Kansas,” Kelly said. “I’m pleased to celebrate this campus’ expansion, which will continue to drive business success and provide opportunities for graduates in the Lawrence community and across our state.”
Kelly said the KU Innovation Park’s network of more than 60 companies makes up more than 500 jobs and $35 million in annual payroll. She said the Phase III building will encompass 66,000 square feet of lab and office space adjacent to the main facility.
Kelly noted that the building’s opening kicks off a 15-year plan for the development of a major research and business park in KU’s West District.
By 2036, the Governor said 10 buildings and 800,000 square feet of buildout will make way for more than 4,000 direct jobs in high-growth sectors to help develop, recruit and retain the next generation of innovative companies that drive the state’s long-term economic growth.
“Kansas is at the cutting edge of research across a wide range of industries, and this fuels the new businesses and jobs of tomorrow,” said Lieutenant Governor and Commerce Secretary David Toland. “Our state’s innovation ecosystem and strong talent pipelines will continue to spark new business investment and create new jobs for highly skilled Kansans to put down roots in our state.”
More than a physical location, Kelly said the park is a regional ecosystem of facilities, services, people and partners who are dedicated to creating a more diverse, resilient and equitable Kansas economy. She said the independent, nonprofit organization is meant to transform the regional economic landscape through the support of innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization of new tech.
“We were very excited to find out that the Innovation Park received $5 million in SPARK funds allocated by the state, which further advanced the Phase III expansion and also helped begin planning for Phase IV,” said Douglas Girod, Chancellor of the University of Kansas. “We want to thank the State of Kansas for recognizing the value of the Innovation Park and how important it is for the economic development of Lawrence, Douglas County and the state as a whole.”
The Governor said the four founding stakeholders in the park include the University of Kansas, the City of Lawrence, Douglas County and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. She said the four work closely to maximize the park’s economic development potential and retain skilled graduates.
With the support of an underlying coalition of public and private stakeholders - and alongside a vast community network - Kelly said the park will leverage the region’s strengths and assets to build high-growth, innovation-focused industry clusters driving the state’s economic growth, sustainability and prosperity.
For private industry firms interested in collaborative research with KU, using its facilities and intellectual property or accessing its pipeline of skilled students and graduates, Kelly said the KU Innovation Park serves as a gateway and a chance to operate in highly-specialized, privately-owned facilities adjacent to campus.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-4-0-2
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
0-4-0-2
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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have had an accomplice.
A team of researchers, including one from the University of Arizona, have found evidence of a second large impact crater at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that appears to be from the same time period, roughly 66 million years ago.
University of Arizona research scientist Veronica Bray said the newly discovered crater could have been made by the “little sister asteroid to Chicxulub,” the 6-mile-wide space rock that wiped out 75% of the Earth’s plant and animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs.
Uisdean Nicholson, a geologist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, found the crater by accident in 2020, during unrelated seismic exploration of the Atlantic seabed about 250 miles off the coast of Guinea in West Africa.
The crater is more than five miles wide and buried roughly 950 feet below the seabed.
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“I’ve interpreted lots of seismic data in my time but had never seen anything like this,” Nicholson said in a written statement. “It has particular features that point to an asteroid. It has a raised rim and a very prominent central uplift, which is consistent for large impact craters.”
He also found signs of a chaotic debris field extending away from the crater for more than 10 miles, suggesting material that was violently ejected by the impact and tossed around in the churning water.
Nicholson named the feature Nadir crater after a nearby underwater mountain.
He brought in Bray, fellow impact expert Sean Gulick from the University of Texas at Austin and research scientist Benedict Aduomahor from Heriot-Watt University to help analyze the discovery. Their findings were published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
Based on her computer simulations, Bray said the crater is consistent with an asteroid about a quarter of a mile wide crashing down in water some 2,500 feet deep.
The impact would have caused widespread devastation in its corner of the globe, vaporizing everything in the immediate area, triggering a magnitude-7 earthquake and generating a series of tsunamis hundreds of feet high, she said.
“If you were standing on the west coast of Africa, you would have seen the sea go out and the sand stretch for miles” before the first giant wave hit, Bray said.
She estimates the energy released by the strike was about 1,000 times greater than the January 2022 eruption and tsunami in the South Pacific island chain of Tonga or about 300,000 greater than the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima.
Nicholson has already applied for funding to drill into the seabed and confirm that what he found is an asteroid crater. Bray said that work is slated to happen in 2024 as part of another seismic investigation off the coast of Africa.
During the trip, researchers also hope to collect core samples containing rock melted by the asteroid impact, so they can use the material to determine the precise age of the crater, plus or minus about 11,000 years. “It’s the best style of dating that we have,” Bray said.
If the two impacts turn out to be separated by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, it could point to a cluster of apocalyptic asteroid impacts that brought the Cretaceous period crashing to a halt.
But if the date of the Nadir sample matches up with the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub event, it would suggest that the smaller asteroid broke off from the larger one before they both slammed into the Earth roughly 3,400 miles apart.
Or, as Bray put it: “It's a chip off the old block.”
“This would have helped finish off the dinosaurs,” she said, before laughing at her use of the word “helped.” “As an impact modeler, I think of what’s good for the crater,” Bray said.
Not that Chicxulub needed any help.
When that asteroid slammed into what is now the western Caribbean and the Yucatan Peninsula, it blasted a crater 110 miles wide and 12 miles deep, launching debris into space and shrouding the planet in hot dust, ash and rocks that set fire to most of the world’s forests as they rained down from the sky.
It also produced “megatsunamis” nearly a mile high and a seismic event of magnitude-10 or greater that “would have left the Earth ringing like a bell for days,” Bray said.
The discovery of the Nadir crater is significant whether it’s directly linked to Chicxulub or not, said Gulick, the impact expert from the University of Texas.
“Despite four billion years of impactors hitting Earth, only 200 have been discovered,” he said in a written statement. “It is thus exciting news whenever a new potential impact is discovered, especially in the hard-to-explore marine environment.”
To date, fewer than 20 marine impact craters have been confirmed across the globe.
Bray said the sediment cores due to be collected from the Nadir site in 2024 could also help shed light on how life recovered from the cataclysm and how long that might have taken.
Bray joined the U of A’s world famous Lunar and Planetary Laboratory 13 years ago, after earning her doctorate degree in the United Kingdom.
In addition to her work as an impact modeler, Bray logs time as a spacecraft operations engineer, assisting with the Cassini mission to Saturn, the New Horizons mission to Pluto and NASA’s HiRISE camera, which is operated from the U of A campus as it circles the red planet onboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Work on the Nadir crater has been a nice change of pace.
“I’m usually out in the solar system,” Bray said. “It’s interesting to be doing terrestrial modeling.”
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University of Arizona astronomers have been involved with the Webb Space Telescope from the start, and even they were stunned by the first images.
New journal papers reveal how close a University of Arizona-led space mission came to sinking into the unexpectedly soft surface of the asteroid Bennu in 2020.
A team including scientists from the University of Arizona have revealed the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope is in the home stretch of testing, with science observations expected to begin in July, astronomers said Monday.
The University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory will oversee both efforts
University of Arizona scientist Jessica Tierney won the prestigious prize for her research on climate change in the distant past and the future.
For Star subscribers: Hoping to help close STEM achievement gaps, the University of Arizona's Colleen Kelley is producing a comic book series. It's called M.C. Detective Agency: Chemical Solutions Required.
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The University of Arizona team's discovery marks the first time the debris cloud from such a collision has been observed and measured.
A tiny native fish was reintroduced to the Santa Cruz River in Tucson on Wednesday, thanks to efforts to restore the river's flow using treated wastewater.
If the James Webb Space Telescope "were sitting here in Tucson, you could take a picture of a basketball in Albuquerque, New Mexico," a University of Arizona scientist said in describing its power.
By the time three-fourths of women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it’s in an advanced stage with a devastating prognosis.
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Trump supporters interviewed by Tim Steller at the polls expressed beliefs that because of Democrats, the country is headed towards communism, socialism, and a host of other ills. One elderly couple stated they know their votes in 2020 were not counted. How do they know this? Why, someone told them so! A letter writer described these beliefs as "sad". Sad, yes - but it goes far beyond sad. It is frightening and dangerous that a significant number of seemingly otherwise intelligent people have, against all reason, bought the lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories set forth by Trump. They are unwavering in support of a twice-impeached, serial lying dictator wanna-be. They support the extremist candidates who bow to Trump, no matter that these extremists are set on destroying the fabric of our country. Our democracy hangs on a precipice - not because of Democrats, but because Trump has succeeded in brainwashing and weaponizing gullible, easily led people who, like their cult leader, have no interest in truth or facts.
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Detroit-Orlando isn’t exactly a marquee matchup to open the NBA regular season, but it will feature the past two No. 1 overall picks – Cade Cunningham and Paolo Banchero.
The NBA scheduled was released today and the Pistons open against the Magic Oct. 19 at Little Caesars Arena.
Cunningham, the top selection in 2021, missed the start of his rookie season due to an ankle sprain. He finished third in rookie of the year balloting behind Scottie Barnes of Toronto and Evan Mobley of Cleveland.
The game marks the potential NBA debut of Banchero, the 6-10 forward from Duke taken first overall this year.
The Pistons’ lone appearance on national television is Jan. 10 at Philadelphia (TNT). They will not appear on ESPN. They have three games on NBA-TV (Dec. 1 vs. Dallas, Jan. 19 vs. Chicago in Paris and March 27 vs. Milwaukee).
Following the season-opener, the Pistons play three on the road (Oct. 21 at New York, Oct. 22 at Indiana, Oct. 25 at Washington).
Detroit’s longest road trip is a six-game western swing from Nov. 17-25.
The NBA announced on Tuesday that no games will be played on Election Day, Nov. 8, due to the league’s focus on promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and encouraging fans to plan to vote during midterm elections.
Some highlights of the Pistons’ schedule:
Oct. 30 vs. Golden State: The reigning NBA champion Warriors make their lone visit to LCA. Golden State has won four titles in the past eight seasons, advancing to the Finals six times.
Jan. 19 vs. Chicago in Paris: The NBA announced this game in May, the Pistons’ first international contest since facing Dallas in Mexico City in 2019 and their first game in Europe since playing the Knicks in London in 2013.
Dec. 11 vs. L.A. Lakers: LeBron James makes his lone Detroit visit (unless it’s not a load management game).
Pistons 2022-23 schedule
Wed. Oct. 19 vs. Orlando 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Oct. 21 at New York 7:30 p.m.
Sat. Oct. 22 at Indiana 7:00 p.m.
Tue. Oct. 25 at Washington 7:00 p.m.
Wed. Oct. 26 Atlanta 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Oct. 28 Atlanta 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Oct. 30 Golden State 6:00 p.m.
Mon. Oct. 31 at Milwaukee 8:00 p.m.
Wed. Nov. 2 at Milwaukee 8:00 p.m.
Fri. Nov. 4 Cleveland 7:00 p.m.
Mon. Nov. 7 Oklahoma City 7:30 p.m.
Wed. Nov. 9 at Boston 7:30 p.m.
Fri. Nov. 11 at New York 7:30 p.m.
Sat. Nov. 12 Boston 7:00 p.m.
Mon. Nov. 14 Toronto 7:00 p.m.
Thu. Nov. 17 at L.A. Clippers 10:30 p.m.
Fri. Nov. 18 at L.A. Lakers 10:30 p.m.
Sun. Nov. 20 at Sacramento 6:00 p.m.
Tue. Nov. 22 at Denver 9:00 p.m.
Wed. Nov. 23 at Utah 9:00 p.m.
Fri. Nov. 25 at Phoenix 9:00 p.m.
Sun. Nov. 27 Cleveland 6:00 p.m.
Tue. Nov. 29 New York 7:00 p.m.
Thu. Dec. 1 Dallas 7:00 p.m. NBA TV
Sun. Dec. 4 Memphis 6:00 p.m.
Tue. Dec. 6 at Miami 7:30 p.m.
Wed. Dec. 7 at New Orleans 8:00 p.m.
Fri. Dec. 9 at Memphis 8:00 p.m.
Sun. Dec. 11 L.A. Lakers 6:00 p.m.
Wed. Dec. 14 at Charlotte 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Dec. 16 Sacramento 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Dec. 18 Brooklyn 6:00 p.m.
Tue. Dec. 20 Utah 7:00 p.m.
Wed. Dec. 21 at Philadelphia 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Dec. 23 at Atlanta 7:30 p.m.
Mon. Dec. 26 L.A. Clippers 7:00 p.m.
Wed. Dec. 28 Orlando 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Dec. 30 at Chicago 8:00 p.m.
Sat. Dec. 31 at Minnesota 8:00 p.m.
Mon. Jan. 2 at Portland 10:00 p.m.
Wed. Jan. 4 at Golden State 10:00 p.m.
Fri. Jan. 6 at San Antonio 8:00 p.m.
Sun. Jan. 8 Philadelphia 3:00 p.m.
Tue. Jan. 10 at Philadelphia 7:30 p.m. TNT
Wed. Jan. 11 Minnesota 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Jan. 13 New Orleans 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Jan. 15 New York 1:00 p.m.
Thu. Jan. 19 Chicago* 3:00 p.m. NBA TV
Mon. Jan. 23 Milwaukee 7:00 p.m.
Thu. Jan. 26 at Brooklyn 7:30 p.m.
Sat. Jan. 28 Houston 7:00 p.m.
Mon. Jan. 30 at Dallas 8:30 p.m.
Wed. Feb. 1 Washington 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Feb. 3 Charlotte 7:00 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 4 Phoenix 7:00 p.m.
Mon. Feb. 6 Boston 7:00 p.m.
Wed. Feb. 8 at Cleveland 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Feb. 10 San Antonio 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Feb. 12 at Toronto 3:00 p.m.
Wed. Feb. 15 at Boston 7:30 p.m.
Thu. Feb. 23 at Orlando 7:00 p.m.
Sat. Feb. 25 Toronto 12:00 p.m.
Mon. Feb. 27 at Charlotte 7:00 p.m.
Wed. Mar. 1 Chicago 7:00 p.m.
Sat. Mar. 4 at Cleveland 8:00 p.m.
Tue. Mar. 7 Portland 7:00 p.m.
Thu. Mar. 9 Charlotte 7:00 p.m.
Sat. Mar. 11 Indiana 7:00 p.m.
Mon. Mar. 13 Indiana 7:00 p.m.
Tue. Mar. 14 at Washington 7:00 p.m.
Thu. Mar. 16 Denver 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Mar. 19 Miami 6:00 p.m.
Tue. Mar. 21 at Atlanta 7:30 p.m.
Fri. Mar. 24 at Toronto 7:30 p.m.
Mon. Mar. 27 Milwaukee 7:00 p.m. NBA TV
Wed. Mar. 29 at Oklahoma City 8:00 p.m.
Fri. Mar. 31 at Houston 8:00 p.m.
Sun. Apr. 2 at Orlando 6:00 p.m.
Tue. Apr. 4 Miami 7:00 p.m.
Wed. Apr. 5 Brooklyn 7:00 p.m.
Fri. Apr. 7 at Indiana 7:00 p.m.
Sun. Apr. 9 at Chicago 12:00 p.m.
* Accor Arena, Paris
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ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: PTNR) (TASE: PTNR), a leading Israeli communications operator, reports that on August 17, 2022, the Company received a lawsuit filed by Lapidot Capital Ltd. (the "Plaintiff"), that hold 2,173,126 of the Company's shares (the "Plaintiff's Shares"), in the Central District Court in Lod (the "Lawsuit").
The Plaintiff's Shares are currently registered under the Plaintiff's name in the Company's shareholder registry as Founding Israeli Shareholder shares, as defined in the Company's Articles of Association. As part of the Lawsuit, the Plaintiff claims that due to changes to the Company's MRT license, the Company's Articles of Association no longer require the registration of the Plaintiff's Shares under the Plaintiff's name in the Company's shareholder registry. Therefore, the Plaintiff is petitioning the Court to grant an order to the Company instructing it to register the Plaintiff's Shares in the Company's shareholder registry under the Company's nominee company (Mizrahi Tfahot Nominee Company Ltd.), as regular and free shares, in a manner that will allow trading the Plaintiff's Shares on the stock exchange and a declaratory relief according to which the Plaintiff is entitled to receive damages from the Company in the amount equal to the value of the Plaintiff's Shares according to the share price on the date the Lawsuit was filed, in addition to interest and linkage differences from the date the Lawsuit was filed until the day the damages are granted, to be offset by the value of the shares on the day the Plaintiff's Shares will be registered under the nominee company.
The Company is reviewing the Lawsuit. Due to the preliminary stage of the proceeding, the Company is unable to evaluate the probability of success of the Lawsuit.
About Partner Communications
Partner Communications Company Ltd. is a leading Israeli provider of telecommunications services (cellular, fixed-line telephony, internet and television services). Partner's ADSs are quoted on the NASDAQ Global Select Market™ and its shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (NASDAQ and TASE: PTNR).
For more information about Partner see: http://www.partner.co.il/en/Investors-Relations/lobby
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine under a wartime deal appears to have ended up in Syria — even as Damascus remains a close ally of Moscow, satellite images analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press show.
The arrival of the cargo ship Razoni in Syria comes after the government in Kyiv praised the ship’s initial departure from the port of Odesa as a sign that Ukraine could safely ship out its barley, corn, sunflower oil and wheat to a hungry world where global food prices have spiked in part due to the war.
But its arrival in Syria’s port of Tartus shows how complicated and murky international trade and shipping can be. Syria has already received Ukrainian grain taken from Russian-occupied territory amid Moscow’s war on Kyiv.
Images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by the AP showed the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni at port just before 11 a.m. Monday. The vessel was just next to the port’s grain silos, key to supplying wheat to the nation.
Data from the Razoni’s Automatic Identification System tracker shows it had been turned off since Friday, when it was just off the coast of Cyprus, according to ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com. Ships are supposed to keep their AIS trackers on, but vessels wanting to hide their movements often turn theirs off. Those heading to Syrian ports routinely do so.
The Razoni could be identified in the satellite image by its color, length and width, as well as the four large white cranes on its deck. Samir Madani, co-founder of the oil-shipment website TankerTrackers.com and an expert on following ships via satellite images, similarly identified the vessel from the image.
The Financial Times first reported on the satellite image.
The Razoni, loaded with 26,000 tons of corn, left Odesa on Aug. 1. The cargo ship was the first to leave a Ukrainian-controlled port in the country since Russia launched the war in February. As part of the deal, a United Nations coordination center in Istanbul staffed by Turkey, Russia and Ukraine oversees the shipments to make sure they safely travel through the Black Sea, which has mines in some areas and has seen combat during the conflict.
But Lebanon, which was Razoni’s presumed destination, ended up not taking the shipment, even as it struggles with its own economic crisis. Lebanese media had reported that after a monthslong delay due to the war in Ukraine, the merchant who had bought the shipment no longer wanted it.
The vessel sat off Mersin, Turkey, before heading to Syria.
Asked about the Razoni, the U.N. Joint Coordination Center said in a statement that “after outbound vessels clear inspection in Istanbul, the JCC ceases monitoring them.”
“The cleared vessels proceed then to their final destinations, whatever those may be,” the center said.
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut referred to an earlier statement that Razoni’s cargo was no longer Kyiv’s responsibility.
“Our task has been to reopen seaports for grain cargo and it has been done,” the statement said.
In Washington, State Department spokesperson Ned Price similarly said that America didn’t “determine who buys the grain shipments or their final destinations.”
“What matters most to us are a couple things,” Price said. “One: That Ukraine is appropriately compensated for the grain, the foodstuff, for the crops that it is in this case providing. And that the food gets to where it is needed most.”
An official reached by telephone Tuesday at the Tartus port declined to comment. Syria’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment.
Tartus, on the Mediterranean Sea, lies about 320 kilometers (200 miles) northwest of Syria’s capital, Damascus.
Syria remains sanctioned by the West over killing and abuses of civilians during the civil war, though food supplies have been exempted by the West. Russian military support has been key to Syrian President Bashar Assad remaining in power. Syria has recognized the Russian-backed breakaway eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as sovereign entities, leading to Kyiv severing diplomatic ties with Damascus.
Since earlier this year, ships have carried Ukrainian foodstuffs from Russian-occupied territory to Syria. In May, satellite images showed the Russian-flagged Matros Pozynich at dockside in Latakia, Syria. Ukraine said the ship had 27,000 tons of grain Russia stole from it and initially tried to sell to Egypt, which refused to take the cargo.
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PETERSBURG, Va. -- School is about to start or has started for kids across Central Virginia, but in a big dusty barn in Petersburg, the learning has been horse-powered all summer for kids like Skyler Petras.
Skyler loves horses.
"Their personality. And like, I love to ride them, spending time with them. And I love how beautiful they are," Petras said.
But these aren't just horses at Cockade Stables. Owner Amy Grieco will tell you that they're also teachers.
"The kids are taking the labels of the parts of the horse that they learned yesterday and they're attaching them to the actual parts of the horse," Grieco said.
Amy said students develop confidence and critical reading skills in a fun and exciting way with a horse as their listening partner.
"They're reading directions to the horse and they're following the directions of the game they're going to do with the horse," Grieco said.
It's a barrel of fun that could help lead to better grades.
"The goal is to get them to understand that learning can be fun. It's fun to learn," Grieco said.
Amy said equine-assisted learning can be used to reengage students in academics as well as with high-risk adolescents in alternative school programs.
And she's not kidding about the horses being teachers too.
"They're a mirror to our emotions and our energy. And so they immediately give us feedback. We may not want that feedback, but they're telling us what we need to know about ourselves," Grieco said. | https://www.wtvr.com/building-better-minds/how-these-students-are-learning-through-a-saddle-august-17-2022 | 2022-08-17T19:44:54Z | https://www.wtvr.com/building-better-minds/how-these-students-are-learning-through-a-saddle-august-17-2022 | false |
Three-year sponsorship will produce fun and engaging activities and opportunities for little learners
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tech Interactive has announced plans to create delightful and engaging resources for families to explore critical thinking and problem-solving skills through a new sponsorship from Stanford Medicine Children's Health. As part of the three-year program, The Tech will create a STEAM activity guide available at libraries and healthcare practices later this month. The agreement will also build new and exciting ways to encourage visitors to enjoy Climb The Cascade, presented by Stanford Medicine Children's Health, and develop another exciting attraction for visitors next year.
"We're thrilled to support such a creative and entertaining way to help kids discover their problem-solving potential," said Les Lifter, Chief Marketing Officer of Stanford Medicine Children's Health. "This sponsorship provides a winning opportunity for our shared community and creates a fantastic environment to help more kids and their families get excited about science."
Prior sponsorship from Stanford Medicine Children's Health made possible one of The Interactive's most popular attractions, Climb the Cascade. The engineering design activity encourages families to build a device that delivers a ball onto platforms of varying heights. Visitors put on hard hats, choose fun materials and explore mechanical engineering concepts by tweaking their designs over and over. It's not unusual to see innovators of all ages spend hours perfecting their device.
"We are grateful for this support at a time when so many families are looking for fun ways to enrich their kids' education during the pandemic," said Katrina Stevens, President and CEO of The Tech and learning sciences expert. "Delivering hands-on STEM activities anyone can do at home to waiting rooms and libraries will also go far in helping families fall in love with learning."
The activity guide will be available in English and Spanish starting this month.
About The Tech Interactive
The Tech Interactive is a family-friendly science and technology center in the heart of downtown San Jose. Our hands-on activities, experimental labs and design challenge experiences empower people to innovate with creativity, curiosity and compassion. The Tech is a world leader in the creation of immersive STEAM education resources to develop the next generation of problem-solvers locally, nationally and globally.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
116 PM CDT Wed Aug 17 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of west central
Harrison, southeastern Upshur and central Gregg Counties through 200
PM CDT...
At 116 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Diana, or 7 miles north of Longview, moving southeast at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Longview, White Oak, Hallsville, East Mountain, Diana, Lakeport and
Judson.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional information
and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
LAT...LON 3276 9474 3254 9444 3237 9468 3237 9475
3263 9490
TIME...MOT...LOC 1816Z 316DEG 10KT 3263 9474
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Level 1 Children's Surgical Verification recognizes CHOC's commitment to optimal surgical care
ORANGE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CHOC Hospital has been granted Level 1 Children's Surgical Verification by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This notable achievement acknowledges CHOC's steadfast commitment to quality improvement and patient safety efforts for children requiring surgical services. CHOC is the first hospital to earn this distinction in Southern California and one of only four in the state.
To become verified, centers must meet rigorous criteria for staffing, training and facility infrastructure. They must also demonstrate excellent protocols for care to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients undergoing surgery, as well as participate in a national data registry that yields semiannual reports on the quality of its processes and outcomes. The application process for verification is followed by an extensive site visit by an ACS team of surveyors that include experienced pediatric surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses.
ACS established the Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program to improve the quality of children's surgical care by creating a system that allows for a prospective match of every child's individual surgical needs with a care environment that has optimal pediatric resources. The program is based on other nationally recognized ACS quality improvement programs that have measurably improved surgical quality.
"When a child needs a surgery, that child's needs are very different than those of an adult patient needing the same or similar procedure," said CHOC Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sandip Godambe. "Our nationally recognized surgeons perform the latest procedures, using equipment that is customized to pediatric patients all the way from newborns to young adults—in operating and procedure rooms designed for safety, precision and efficiency."
The Tidwell Procedure Center at CHOC features seven operating rooms and advanced technology and information systems including the daVinci Si robotic surgical system with Firefly fluorescence imaging; full operating room data, imaging and video integration and video conferencing; the ROSA robotic device for neurological procedures; StealthStation surgical navigation and O-arm imaging technology; and a patient tracking system that allows families to track a patient's progress throughout the surgical procedure. Using the technology integration system iSuite by Stryker, CHOC was the first children's hospital in the region to have a fully integrated operating room.
The center also features three state-of-the-art endoscopy procedure rooms, two surgical procedure rooms and a Gastrointestinal Motility Lab. The center provides procedural care for patients of multiple specialties such as gastroenterology, pulmonology, oncology, dentistry and other surgical specialties. An 18-bed pre-operative unit includes all private rooms, and an 18-bed post-anesthesia care unit is configured to meet the unique needs of a wide variety of patients. Two isolation rooms are available for patients with contagious conditions, and other glass-enclosed rooms are for critical care patients who require specialized technology and ventilators.
Also featured is a cardiac catheterization lab—a biplane lab with hybrid capabilities—where invasive and neuroradiology procedures are offered as well. The center also includes a dedicated electrophysiology suite for patients with abnormal heart rhythms, offering both radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation, as well as 3D mapping.
CHOC Hospital is part of a pediatric healthcare system based in Orange County, California that is committed to being a leading destination for children's health by providing exceptional and innovative care. The growing healthcare system includes two state-of-the-art hospitals in Orange and Mission Viejo and a regional network of primary and specialty care clinics serving children and families in four counties. CHOC offers several clinical programs of excellence providing the highest levels of care for the most serious pediatric illnesses and injuries, physical and mental. CHOC's research and innovation institutes are focused on translating real patient needs into real-world treatments so every child can live the healthiest and happiest life possible.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (Natixis CIB) led the financing of approximately US$360 million for a portfolio of solar photovoltaic PMGD plants in Chile with expected capacity of approximately 360MWdc sponsored by Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure (CC&L Infrastructure) and CarbonFree Technology (together, the "Sponsors"). The financings are comprised of a $19 million letter of credit facility, a $71 million bridge-loan facility which will be used to fund ongoing construction costs, and an approximate $270 million private placement facility whose proceeds will be used primarily to refinance existing bank debt and repay the bridge-loan facility once projects complete construction.
Natixis CIB acted as Lead Placement Agent and Green Issuance Coordinator for the private placement and as Sole Bookrunner, Sole Underwriter and Green Loan Coordinator for the bridge-loan and the letter of credit facilities.
This represents the largest PMGD portfolio financed to date both in terms of installed capacity and number of projects.
The Sponsors' portfolio consists of 53 solar projects which operate under Chile's special regime for distributed generation projects (known as "PMGD"), entitling the projects to sell their energy output at the regulated stabilized price.
"We are excited to complete this refinancing, one of the largest solar project private placements in Chile to date," said Matt O'Brien, President of CC&L Infrastructure. "The aggregation, de-risking and successful construction of individual, small-scale projects is the culmination of a multi-year strategy, allowing us to secure long-term financing at competitive rates and create value for our investors. Our base of Chilean solar assets is part of our large and rapidly growing energy transition portfolio that aggregates over 1.5 gigawatts of renewable assets across a range of clean energy technologies."
"This is Natixis' twelfth PMGD financing in three years and the PMGD portfolio financing the largest installed capacity ever arranged by any institution. In aggregate, Natixis has financed approximately US$1.5 billion to support the development of PMGD renewable power generation projects in Chile. This successful series of transactions builds on our extensive track record of innovation in Latin America and solidifies our position as the "one-stop-shop" for PMGD project developers seeking creative financing solutions. We look forward to continuing to support the Sponsors in their growth in the region and to support Chile's continuous efforts toward energy transition", said Aitor Alava, Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure & Energy Finance, Latin America at Natixis CIB.
"Chile is making excellent progress towards the country's 2030 clean energy and decarbonization targets, in addition to their overarching goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We're pleased that our portfolio of solar projects can contribute to this leadership on climate action, as well as provide Chilean citizens with affordable electricity for years to come," said David Oxtoby, CEO of CarbonFree.
Anthony Ferraro, Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets, Americas, Natixis CIB, said: "We are honored to have advised the Sponsors as a trusted partner in leading this important capital markets financing milestone in the U.S. private placement bond market for this PMGD portfolio with the largest installed capacity developed in Chile to date. Despite a more challenged market environment, several leading institutional investors in the U.S. private placement market participated in this transaction. The result is truly a testament to the quality of the sponsorship and transaction structuring, and illustrative of the value and flexibility that can be delivered to equity sponsors by partnering with long-term minded USPP infrastructure investors with the ability to transact through short-term volatility."
The PMGD regime was created in 2005, with the goal of incentivizing more distributed and greener electricity generation. The projects in the portfolio will contribute to Chile's broader energy transition as the country gradually retires coal plants on its way towards the long-term goal of carbon-neutrality. Once all projects in the Sponsors' portfolio enter operations, the facilities will be capable of producing more than 750,000 MW hours of clean electricity annually.
About Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.
Our teams of experts in 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. We are committed to supporting the environmental transition by aligning our financing balance sheet with a +1.5°C trajectory by 2050.
As part of the Global Financial Services division of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group's financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A, Moody's: A1, Fitch: A+, R&I: A+).
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Tech-Enabled Recruitment Process Reduces Time and Cost to Source Quality Candidates
LEHI, Utah, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IsoTalent announces closing a $5 million seed round to launch its global, on-demand hiring marketplace. The investment round was co-led by Crocker Ventures and Ad Ventures, and included Sweater Ventures and several high-profile angel investors.
With this new funding, IsoTalent aims to expand its tech-enabled global hiring marketplace: on-demand recruiter services, an international hiring division (IsoGlobal) and a free applicant tracking system (IsoConnect ATS).
"IsoTalent has built a global hiring marketplace that allows any company, regardless of size, to recruit and hire an employee anywhere in the world." says Paul Ahlstrom, CEO and co-founder of IsoTalent. "We level the playing field for small and medium companies by connecting jobseekers, recruiters, and hiring managers. The legacy industry needs a hard reset to keep up with global demand, solve talent shortages, and weather the economy. Our model provides businesses with competitive pricing, tech, and scalable solutions for teams."
COO and co-founder, Robb Lifferth, explains, "Business leaders are retooling hiring strategy in response to the 'Great Resignation' and economic upheavals to come. IsoTalent has the tools and expertise to become the integrated recruitment solution for businesses of any scope and size to hire at scale."
IsoTalent's new marketplace offers three innovations to meet hiring needs of high-growth businesses:
- Commission-free recruiting. IsoTalent puts an army of recruiters to work for you in an innovative and cost-effective model, saving clients thousands of dollars compared to the traditional contingent-fee recruiting model.
- Global employer of record (EOR). IsoTalent can recruit candidates anywhere in the world, then legally employ on a business's behalf through the EOR.
- Free Applicant tracking system (ATS). A free ATS hiring platform available to all businesses, IsoConnect is the center of IsoTalent's hiring marketplace. The platform powers the hiring process and allows companies to manage account activities and communicate with recruiters.
"We serve clients at any phase of hiring strategy," says Austin Miller, CRO and co-founder. "Our on-demand model gives business leaders access to a free product, builds their recruiting, and expands local and global search, all while reducing costs."
If you'd like more information on IsoTalent's global hiring and recruitment solutions, please visit www.isotalent.com
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A nonprofit in Oklahoma is helping those who've lost limbs in Ukraine during their ongoing war with Russia.
Limbs for Life Foundation, located in Oklahoma City, specializes in making prosthetic limbs, ABC affiliate KOCO reported.
The nonprofit told the news outlet they wanted to help after hearing about thousands losing limbs amid the fighting.
"About half of the country is inaccessible. Clinics have been destroyed," said Shelley Dutton, the nonprofit's development director. "The other half is partially functioning and are in desperate need of teams to come and help and also (for) parts and components to fabricate prosthetic limbs."
According to the news outlet, the nonprofit helps amputees who don't have insurance that'll cover prosthetics.
The news outlet reported that the first shipment of prosthetics was shipped overseas three weeks ago and is expected to make it to Ukraine this week. | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/oklahoma-nonprofit-making-prosthetics-for-those-whove-lost-limbs-in-ukraine | 2022-08-17T19:49:07Z | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/oklahoma-nonprofit-making-prosthetics-for-those-whove-lost-limbs-in-ukraine | false |
- Company completes new battery storage sites in Alachua and Hamilton counties to maximize benefits to customers and the grid
- New sites demonstrate Duke Energy's increasing investment in advanced technology and clean energy
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy Florida today announced two new lithium-ion battery sites in Alachua and Hamilton counties to enhance grid operations, increase efficiencies and improve overall reliability for surrounding communities.
"At Duke Energy, we are always looking ahead for innovative technologies that can help us better serve Florida customers," said Melissa Seixas, Duke Energy Florida state president. "These battery sites will help us continue to improve local reliability for our customers and provide significant energy services to the power grid."
As the grid manager and operator, Duke Energy Florida can optimize the versatility of battery technology to provide multiple customer and electric system benefits, to include balancing energy demand, managing intermittent resources such as solar energy, increasing energy security and deferring traditional power grid upgrades.
- The recently completed Micanopy battery site in Alachua County is 8.25 megawatts and is located 15 miles southwest of Gainesville. The site provides a cost-effective solution for focused power quality and reliability for the town of Micanopy and nearby neighbors.
- Completed in April, the second site is 5.5 megawatts and is located 1.5 miles south of the Florida-Georgia border in the town of Jennings in Hamilton County. This site will continue to improve power reliability through energy storage as an alternative solution to installing new and more costly distribution equipment.
Duke Energy Florida's continued investment in battery technology reflects the company's belief that energy storage plays a significant and evolving role in how energy is delivered to customers now and in the future.
Earlier this year, Duke Energy Florida announced the completion of three battery projects in Gilchrist, Gulf and Highlands counties. The new sites are part of Duke Energy's commitment to have six battery sites, totaling 50 megawatts, in operation in Florida this year.
Duke Energy Florida's commitment to renewable energy
With a combined investment of more than $2 billion, Duke Energy Florida's solar generation portfolio will include 25 grid-tied solar power plants that will benefit all Florida customers and provide 1,500 megawatts of emission-free generation and approximately 5 million solar panels in the ground by 2024.
Duke Energy remains committed to the deployment of battery technology in Florida. A 3.5-megawatt solar plus storage microgrid site will be added at Pinellas County's John Hopkins Middle School. The microgrid will support grid operations and provide backup electric power to the school when it must operate as a special needs hurricane evacuation shelter. The microgrid consists of a 1-megawatt solar parking canopy array, a 2.5-megawatt battery and associated controls, which will store and deploy clean, renewable energy to the school and grid. The project enhances electric service and grid operations for customers.
In addition to expanding its battery storage technology and solar investments, Duke Energy Florida is investing in transportation electrification to support the growing U.S. adoption of electric vehicles (EV) through the addition of 627 EV charging stations, including 52 DC Fast Chargers, and a modernized power grid to deliver diverse and reliable energy solutions to best serve our customers.
Duke Energy Florida
Duke Energy Florida, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, owns 10,300 megawatts of energy capacity, supplying electricity to 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers across a 13,000-square-mile service area in Florida.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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Elevation, consecration at DaySpring
A dozen members of DaySpring Baptist Church were elevated to new positions to continue doing the working of God.
They were recognized in front of a packed sanctuary during a convocation and elevation service held Sunday at the church at 1945 NE Eighth Ave. Below are the members who were honored during the service.
• Deborah Sharpe was consecrated as a minister.
• Winnette Dunbar, Heather Mann, Melissa Ware and Deacon Michael Perkins were consecrated as servant leaders.
• Louise Lesene was consecrated as a church mother.
• Jonell Mann and Gilbert Means Jr. were consecrated as deacons.
• Veronica Albright and Willie Nell Teague were consecrated as deaconesses.
• Lenton "Pop" Herring was consecrated as an elder.
Dr. David E. Richardson II, founder and pastor of TOPROC Church of God in Christ, presided over the service.
"It's a wonderful celebration," Richardson said. "It's great to attend the elevation service because God is welcoming more to his kingdom."
Minister Reshone Flanders led the opening and consecration prayers.
"We thank you for what you've done," Flanders said. "We thank you for being with us and not passing us by. We thank you for your grace and mercy. We may plan it out but we ask you to stay in control."
After Minister Gilbert Means Sr. read Acts 2:16-21, Apostle Willie King Jr, pastor of Showers of Blessings Harvest Center, preached a sermon about elevation and impartation.
"An elevation service is when they measure you by your servitude, not if you're a relative or how much tithe you give," King said. "Your love of God must match your servitude. They have chosen you to lead and weigh the burden of ministry. Keep on being faithful consistently and watch God promote you."
A person who is elevated must be a trustworthy servant to carry on the mission, King said.
"This is the season of shifting," King said. "You might not be in the same position you were in. Sometimes you have to shift in order to move the mission."
The Rev. Dr. Marie Herring, pastor of DaySpring, thanked King for his message and began the consecration service that featured pastors and religious leaders praying over the newly-elevated.
"The Lord chose Apostle King because he's not scared to say what God told him to say," Herring said.
After those being elevated were consecrated, Herring shared an uplifting message.
"The church is composed of members who have many gifts," Herring said. "We thank you for what you are doing for the lives at DaySpring. We pray that you are protected and that the Lord will continue guiding youin each and every way." | https://www.gainesville.com/story/lifestyle/2022/08/17/12-members-dayspring-baptist-church-were-elevated-ministry-sunday/10328962002/ | 2022-08-17T19:51:55Z | https://www.gainesville.com/story/lifestyle/2022/08/17/12-members-dayspring-baptist-church-were-elevated-ministry-sunday/10328962002/ | true |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
10-13-23-25-30
(ten, thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
10-13-23-25-30
(ten, thirteen, twenty-three, twenty-five, thirty) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Take-5-Midday-game-17379943.php | 2022-08-17T19:53:57Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Take-5-Midday-game-17379943.php | false |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
9-0-1, Fireball: 2
(nine, zero, one; Fireball: two)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
9-0-1, Fireball: 2
(nine, zero, one; Fireball: two) | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Midday-game-17379825.php | 2022-08-17T19:55:30Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Midday-game-17379825.php | true |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as East Africa’s most stable democracy awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga.
Ruto spoke to journalists on Wednesday after meeting with members of his political alliance. He declared that his administration “will have nothing to do with the blackmail we have seen, the threats we have seen, the fear sown around the country” amid differing political views. “We are having our democratic country back,” he said.
Ruto, Kenya’s deputy president, was declared the winner of last week’s close election on Monday, but the electoral commission publicly split minutes before the declaration. Four of the seven commissioners, who were appointed last year by President Uhuru Kenyatta, asserted that the commission chair excluded them from the final steps before his declaration.
On Wednesday, commission chairman Wafula Chebukati in a statement responding to the allegations asserted that the four dissenting commissioners “demanded that the chairperson moderates the results for purpose of forcing an election re-run contrary to their oath of office. This is tantamount to subverting the Constitution and the sovereign will of the people of Kenya.”
Odinga, an opposition figure in his fifth attempt at the presidency, has said his campaign will pursue “all constitutional and legal options” to challenge the election results. He met with his team behind closed doors Wednesday. They have seven days from Monday’s declaration to file at the Supreme Court, which then has 14 days to rule on it.
It is not clear on what grounds Odinga would challenge the results in an election widely described by Kenyans and observers as more transparent and peaceful than ever. He has urged his often passionate supporters to remain calm.
“Ours is victory deferred, but it’s coming home,” Odinga’s running mate, Martha Karua, told journalists Wednesday. “We’ll not let you down.”
In a political twist, Kenyatta backed his longtime rival Odinga in this election after falling out with his deputy, Ruto, years ago. Kenyatta has not spoken publicly since he cast his vote last Tuesday, and his spokeswoman Kanze Dena didn’t respond when asked when he would make a statement to the country.
Ruto on Wednesday said there will be “no room for exclusion of any part” of Kenya and hoped to “eliminate ethnicity from the equation from the leadership or governance” of the country. He also vowed public servants will be professional and would be under no pressure to carry out political work for any party. | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/kenyas-president-elect-will-engage-in-any-court-challenge/ | 2022-08-17T19:55:44Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/kenyas-president-elect-will-engage-in-any-court-challenge/ | true |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976 in what a prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history” is being released by the state's parole board.
Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the board to reconsider its decision to parole Frederick Woods, 70, on Tuesday after two commissioners recommended his release in March when previous panels had denied him parole 17 times. But the board affirmed that decision.
Woods and his two accomplices, brothers Richard and James Schoenfeld, were from wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families when they kidnapped 26 children and their bus driver near Chowchilla, about 125 miles (201 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco.
The three buried the children, ages 5 to 14, along with their bus driver in an old moving van east of San Francisco with little ventilation, light, water, food or bathroom supplies. The victims were able to dig their way out more than a day later.
Newsom said Woods “continued to engage in financial related-misconduct in prison,” using a contraband cellphone to offer advice on running a Christmas tree farm, a gold mining business and a car dealership. The governor couldn't block Woods' release because he's not convicted of murder, and could only urge the parole board to take a closer look.
Woods' behavior “continues to demonstrate that he is about the money,” Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno said in opposing his parole.
Moreno said after the decision that she was angry and frustrated “because justice has been mocked in Madera County" and she fears for the state of society “if you can kidnap a busload of school children, abandon them buried alive and still get out of prison after committing that crime and spending your time in prison flouting the law.”
Woods wasn't eligible to attend in person on Tuesday, but said during his parole hearing in March that he felt he needed money to have acceptance from his parents and “was selfish and immature at that time,” while his more recent violations were to benefit the trust fund left him by his late parents.
“I didn't need the money. I wanted the money,” Woods said of the ransom attempt.
His attorney, Dominique Banos, said Wednesday that the parole board recognized that Woods “has shown a change in character for the good” and “remains a low risk, and once released from prison he poses no danger or threat to the community.”
Three former inmates who served time with Woods urged parole officials to free him, while four victims or their relatives said Woods' misbehavior in prison shows he still views himself as privileged. Several of Woods’ victims have previously supported his release.
Lynda Carrejo Labendeira, who was 10 at the time, recalled how the children struggled to escape as a flashlight and candles flickered out while “the makeshift, dungeonous coffin was caving in.”
“I don’t get to choose the random flashbacks every time I see a van similar to the one that we were transported in,” she told the board.
“Insomnia keeps me up all hours of the night,” she said. “I don’t sleep so that I don’t have to have any nightmares at all.”
Jennifer Brown Hyde, who was 9 at the time, recalled “the lifetime effects of being buried alive and being driven around in a van for 11 hours with no food, water or a bathroom in over 100-degree weather.”
“His mind is still evil and he is out to get what he wants,” she told the board. “I want him to serve life in prison, just as I served a lifetime of dealing with the PTSD due to his sense of entitlement.”
She said Wednesday that her family is disappointed, but it is “time to close this chapter and continue living the blessed life I have been given.” She praised her fellow hostages as “true survivors and not victims.”
An appeals court ordered Richard released in 2012 and then-Gov. Jerry Brown paroled James in 2015.
Newsom acknowledged that Woods is eligible for consideration both because he was just 24 when he committed the crime and because he is elderly now. He said Woods, who once studied policing at a community college, has also taken steps to improve himself in prison.
The governor’s late father, state Judge William Newsom, was on an appellate panel in 1980 that reduced the men’s life sentences to give them a chance at parole. He pushed for their release in 2011, after he retired, noting that no one was seriously physically injured during the kidnapping. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Parole-granted-to-last-1976-California-school-bus-17379957.php | 2022-08-17T19:56:05Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Parole-granted-to-last-1976-California-school-bus-17379957.php | false |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lincoln Harris, in partnership with the Real Estate business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs), today announced they have closed on the sale of the 367,000-square-foot building at 650 South Tryon in Charlotte's Legacy Union mixed-use development to Highwoods Properties Inc. (NYSE: HIW).
"The vision for Legacy Union has always been to create a dynamic gateway for Uptown Charlotte, and with three first-class office towers totaling more than 1.5 million square feet of space, that vision is certainly becoming a reality," said Johno Harris, president of Charlotte-based Lincoln Harris. "Legacy Union is a nod to our community past, present and future, and we look forward to watching the city of Charlotte continue to transform and thrive."
The asset, Legacy Union SIX50, represents the third sale following Honeywell's Global Corporate Headquarters which was sold in December 2021 and Bank of America Tower which was sold in November 2019.
"The success of SIX50 is a testament to the strength of the partnership between Goldman Sachs and Lincoln Harris to build a best-in-class, ESG focused trophy office building. This is the culmination of more than seven years of effort to entitle, develop, lease, and sell more than 1.5 million square feet of mixed-use commercial real estate on the former Observer site which has redefined Charlotte's skyline. We're excited for the next phase of office development at Legacy Union currently underway, and congratulate Highwoods on their acquisition as they expand their footprint in Charlotte," said Chris Nelson, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
The 18-story building features a cantilevered glass façade, covered executive parking and convenient access to dining, retail, light-rail transit and all the other amenities in the surrounding Brooklyn Village Avenue Corridor. The building is leased to prominent tenants such as Deloitte, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, and JLL.
"We entered Charlotte in 2019 via a tremendous asset and partnership with Lincoln Harris and Goldman Sachs at Legacy Union with our purchase of Bank of America Tower. The success we've had together continues to bear fruit as we've expanded our presence and partnership with our acquisition of 650 South Tryon," noted Highwoods CEO Ted Klinck.
Lincoln Harris will retain management and leasing for the building.
Located at the southeast corner of Hill and South Tryon streets, Legacy Union SIX50 was the second tower completed at Legacy Union. The 10-acre project comprises two city blocks on the historic former site of The Charlotte Observer. Other elements of the property include the 33-story Bank of America Tower; Honeywell's 23-story Global Corporate Headquarters; a new 24-story, 415,000-square-foot office building currently under construction; a 14-level parking garage; and a street-level public plaza.
Lincoln Harris, together with Lincoln Property Company, provides clients with a national platform and unparalleled institutional resources, including commercial real estate development, investment and property management. Based in Charlotte, Lincoln Harris takes great pride in its reputation as one of the region's most accomplished full-service commercial real estate companies. Lincoln Harris' multi-disciplinary team has a long history of working through complex transactions and adopting innovative approaches to real estate problems. We develop and implement comprehensive national real estate programs for our clients and cultivate a sense of trust in the communities we serve and the individual transactions we service. To learn more about Lincoln Harris properties and services, please visit www.lincolnharris.com.
Highwoods Properties Inc., headquartered in Raleigh, is a publicly-traded (NYSE:HIW) real estate investment trust ("REIT") and a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index. The Company is a fully integrated office REIT that owns, develops, acquires, leases and manages properties primarily in the best business districts (BBDs) of Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Richmond and Tampa. For more information about Highwoods, please visit our website at www.highwoods.com.
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investing area within Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), we deliver investment and advisory services for the world's leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from our deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across every region and market—overseeing more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide as of June 30, 2022. Driven by a passion for our clients' performance, we seek to build long-term relationships based on conviction, sustainable outcomes, and shared success over time. Goldman Sachs Asset Management invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. Established in 1991, the Real Estate business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the largest investors in real estate with over $50 billion in assets invested since 2012 across the spectrum of investment strategies from core to opportunistic. Our global team invests across all sectors with deep expertise across the capital structure, in assets ranging from single properties to large portfolios, through senior mortgages, mezzanine debt and equity. Follow us on LinkedIn.
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Reds ninth. Matt Reynolds strikes out swinging. Albert Almora Jr. walks. Aristides Aquino strikes out swinging. Alejo Lopez singles to left center field. Albert Almora Jr. to second. Jose Barrero singles to shallow center field. Alejo Lopez to second. Albert Almora Jr. scores.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of federal judges face the same task every day: review an affidavit submitted by federal agents and approve requests for a search warrant. But for U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the fallout from his decision to approve a search warrant has been far from routine.
He has faced a storm of death threats since his signature earlier this month cleared the way for the FBI to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a probe into whether he inappropriately removed sensitive materials from the White House. Reinhart's home address was posted on right-wing sites, along with antisemitic slurs. The South Florida synagogue he attends canceled its Friday night Shabbat services in the wake of the uproar.
Trump has done little to lower the temperature among his supporters, decrying the search as political persecution and calling on Reinhart to recuse himself in the case because he has previously made political donations to Democrats. Reinhart has also, however, contributed to Republicans.
The threats against Reinhart are part of a broader attack on law enforcement, particularly the FBI, by Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the search. But experts warn that the focus on a judge, coming amid an uptick in threats to the judiciary in general, is dangerous for the rule of law in the U.S. and the country’s viability as a democracy.
“Threats against judges fulfilling their constitutional responsibilities strike at the very core of our democracy,” U.S. Second Circuit Judge Richard J. Sullivan, chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Security, said in a statement issued recently in the aftermath of the search. “Judges should not have to fear retaliation for doing their jobs.”
A phone message left in Reinhart's chambers was not immediately returned. He will preside over a hearing Thursday on a request by media organizations, including The Associated Press, seeking to unseal the underlying affidavit the Justice Department submitted when it asked for the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.
The vitriol directed at him, while striking, is becoming increasingly common. In 2014, the U.S. Marshals Service handled 768 incidents that it classified as “inappropriate communications” aimed at judges and court employees. Last year, it reported more than 4,500.
At one point “virtually everyone recognized how inappropriate it was to threaten the life or security of a judge because of a disagreement with the judge’s decision,” said Barbara Lynn, chief judge for the northern district of Texas. “Now I think there are a lot of people that don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”
Lynn is one of many judicial officials pushing Congress to approve the Daniel Anderl bill, named for the 20-year-old son of District Judge Esther Salas. He was killed in 2020 when a gunman came to their New Jersey home. His father was wounded. The bill, which has the support of groups ranging from the American Bar Association to the National Association of Attorneys General, would keep more of judges’ personal information private.
In June, a retired Wisconsin county circuit judge, John Roemer was killed in his home in what authorities said was a targeted killing by a gunman, who fatally wounded himself as well. Later that month, protesters converged on the homes of conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices after they overturned a 49-year-old ruling that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. Police arrested a man with knives, zip ties and a gun near the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and he said he planned to kill the conservative justice. Congress rapidly approved money to bolster security at the justices' homes and provide 24-hour protection to their families.
The increased targeting of judges comes as trust in public institutions plummets and partisan rhetoric escalates. It's part of a pattern that Steven Levitsky has seen before.
“This is a classic precursor of a democratic breakdown,” said Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and co-author of How Democracies Die. “To call this a warning sign is an understatement.”
Trump’s initial presidential campaign — during which he personally condemned a judge who ruled against him in a lawsuit over his now-defunct Trump University — changed the ground rules governing threats and explosive rhetoric, said Matthew Weil, executive director of the Democracy Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC.
“There are threats everywhere now, it’s become more normalized because he changed what was allowed in public discourse,” Weil said, who said both the right and the left have turned to threatening the judicial branch.
Nathan Hall, a principal consultant with the National Center for State Courts, noted that the combination of lagging public trust, coupled with access to judges’ addresses and personal information impacts everyone from nationally-known Supreme Court justices to otherwise anonymous state judges.
“This gets to the core issue of having equal access to justice, a core foundational principle of our ability to function as a third and independent branch of government. It’s really shaken to the core,” Hall said. “Judges are just people at the end of the day. They put on a robe, but they still go home to their families.”
The most recent warning sign came after last week's search of Mar-A-Lago, Trump's Florida resort and political and personal headquarters. FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified information as part of an investigation of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act, according to court records.
Trump accused the government of abuse of power in targeting him, and his supporters railed against the search online, targeting the FBI and Department of Justice. An armed man who posted threats against the FBI on Trump's Truth Social network was killed by authorities after trying to storm the agency's Cincinnati office.
Still, Trump and his supporters have waged rhetorical war against the FBI for years since the investigation into whether his initial campaign was aided by Russia in 2016. The intense focus on an individual judge like Reinhart is relatively new.
Gretchen Helmke, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, said Trump's action mirrors what demagogues have done in other countries where democracy has collapsed. “A popularly elected leader targeting a judiciary is often one early indicator of democratic erosion,” Helmke said in an email.
Helmke cited Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru as places where an incoming administration vowed to clean up the judiciary, then stocked it with its followers. “The public never develops any real trust or confidence in the judiciary, and it is essentially costless for each incoming administration to use the previous government’s manipulation of the judiciary as a pretext to create the court it wants, Helmke said. ”The end result is no judicial independence and no rule of law."
Hall said people can look at other countries and see what happens when public servants fear reprisals, places where “the rule of law has suffered. I guess you probably get a lot of differences of opinions on how far down that road we’re already hitting, but it raises the important question.”
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Riccardi reported from Denver.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
254 PM EDT Wed Aug 17 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of east central
Rensselaer and southwestern Bennington Counties through 330 PM EDT...
At 254 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Bennington, moving southwest at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Bennington, Pownal, Petersburg, North Pownal, Pownal Center,
Petersburg Junction, East Grafton, Babcock Lake, Stillham and North
Petersburg.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4282 7314 4274 7322 4275 7327 4268 7329
4266 7331 4281 7346 4288 7320
TIME...MOT...LOC 1854Z 055DEG 11KT 4284 7323
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
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The latest addition to The Collective's growing portfolio reopens with European-Inspired bistro & garden and live music programming
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proper Hospitality announces today the addition of the iconic Culver Hotel to The Collective - a growing portfolio of independent, design-driven boutique hotels managed and operated by the Los Angeles-based hospitality group.
Located in the heart of Downtown Culver City, The Culver Hotel is a nationally landmarked flatiron-style building which first opened its doors in 1924 after being designed by architects Curlett & Beelman - the city's pioneer of lavish Beaux-Arts architecture—and the visionary City founder Harry H. Culver.
In 2007, the property was acquired and redesigned by hotelier Maya Mallick who thoughtfully restored the 46-room boutique hotel with inspiration from the building's rich history, the distinct elegance of the 1920s and a passion for vintage. The decor and European ambiance found throughout reflects an artistic, romantic approach, with its rooms and event spaces layering a happy pastiche of deep colors, rich textures, classic design pieces, and rare vintage furniture. The hotel's creative spirit includes an in-house art gallery with works by established and emerging local talent.
"Over the last 15 years, I have had the privilege of reimagining and reviving a beautiful piece of history, and creating an artful and lively destination in Los Angeles. I look forward to continuing the magic, together with Proper Hospitality as we approach our 2024 Centennial," said Maya Mallick, Owner and Creative Director of The Culver Hotel.
Today, The Culver Hotel continues to act as an enchanting community-gathering place and neighborhood beacon for the new energy coursing through downtown Culver City as it is uniquely situated next to The Culver Steps, The Culver Studios, Amazon Studios and walkable to a vibrant mix of dining, shopping and entertainment destinations. As part of its reopening, the property meets the bustling energy of its locale with a new on-site bistro and garden Lillie's, named in homage to Harry Culver's wife Lillian, which takes shape across three distinct spaces within the property - the grand lobby, dining room and outdoor garden.
Grounded in a sense of place, the menu—led by Proper Hospitality's culinary team and Executive Culinary Director Ned Elliott—reflects a thoughtful blend of modern French cuisine and California's seasonal bounty. Working closely with LA-based farmers and producers, the evolving menu includes an expansive raw bar program; classic and specialty cocktails; and a focus on natural and biodynamic wines. The menu mixes classic dishes like Steak Frites, grilled whole Branzino and French Onion Soup with standout signatures such as the Grand Aioli which pairs poached shrimp with a rich saffron aioli, Roasted Sea Scallops Amandine, Chilled Maine Lobster, and a luxurious and comforting Chicken dinner for two.
Further highlighting the ownership's dedication to curated cultural programming, the introduction of Lillie's will be accompanied by the awaited return of the property's signature lineup of live music - an element of European cafe culture which hotel guests and the community have enjoyed for the last decade. Later this fall, The Culver Hotel will reopen its speakeasy bar and private lounge for the most intimate of experiences.
With a range of approachable, all-day dining options, dynamic programming, exclusive amenities, a modern exercise room and over 5,500 square feet of meeting and indoor-outdoor event spaces, The Culver Hotel continues to be a timeless and luxury-minded destination for guests and locals alike to experience an authentic and distinctly Hollywood history through various touch points, warm hospitality and a tailor-made approach for every occasion.
"We are grateful that Maya and her family have put their trust in Proper Hospitality to take this special hotel to the next level while honoring its storied history," said Brian De Lowe, Co-Founder and President of Proper Hospitality. "Culver City is a coveted Westside destination and The Culver Hotel will showcase how we are able to create a feeling of belonging and connection for our clientele through our inspired dining concepts, signature style of service, and dynamic guest experiences."
Accommodations and special events at the national historic landmark hotel can be booked now by visiting www.culverhotel.com. Reservations for new on-site, European-inspired bistro and bar Lillie's can be booked through OpenTable here. Live music programming, featuring a rotating line up of contemporary jazz, folk and independent artists, will take place from Wednesday - Sunday from 7-10pm, starting August 17, 2022.
The Culver Hotel is located at 9400 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA), Inc. is pleased to announce that Michelle Howell has joined the executive leadership team as Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Howell will oversee efforts to attract, retain, and develop SPA's growing workforce on three continents. She brings over two decades of experience shaping domestic and international talent strategies for several defense contracting companies while in senior leadership positions.
Ms. Howell is known for creating and strengthening a people-focused workplace culture and accelerating the digital work experience. Recognized for her leadership roles in workforce development and scaling HR functions, Ms. Howell counts among her professional accolades a special focus on women in leadership, employee engagement initiatives, and leadership development programs. She is an active member of the national Society for Human Resource Management and is also active in numerous charities and community programs.
SPA President and CEO William Vantine commented, "Since day one of SPA's 50-year history, our people have been our greatest asset. The values we share as we assist our clients with complex national security decisions continue to attract incredibly talented professionals. Adding Michelle to the team enables us to deepen our investment in the employee experience during a key time in SPA's expansive growth."
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. is a premier international provider of innovative, leading-edge solutions in support of complex National Security programs and defense priorities. SPA's capabilities include Advanced Analytics, Software Tool Development, System Engineering, Strategy, Policy and Compliance, and Integrated Program Management. SPA employees are subject matter experts in numerous domains, including Land, Undersea, Surface and Air Warfare Operations; Intelligence Community, Radar and Sensor Systems; Unmanned Systems and Counter Systems; Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Safety and Security; Defense Industrial Base; Space Systems; Ballistic Missile Systems; Cybersecurity policy; and Hypersonics.
Media Contact: Sue Nelowet, Director of Communications, snelowet@spa.com
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West Virginia women’s soccer kicks off its 27th season of competition on Thursday when it hosts the Indiana Hoosiers.
Here’s everything you need to know as the Mountaineers eye a return to the postseason:
Indiana at WVU women’s soccer game information
- Date: Aug. 18, 2022
- Time: 7 p.m. ET
- Location: Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia
- Where to watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+
- How to listen: U92 FM
- Indiana’s 2021 record: 9-5-4 (3-4-3 Big Ten) – missed NCAA Tournament
- West Virginia’s 2021 record: 10-5-5 (3-3-3 Big 12) – missed NCAA Tournament
- All-time series: First meeting
Hoosiers at Mountaineers match preview
Nikki Izzo-Brown has always put together a difficult non-conference schedule, and the 2022 slate kicks off against Indiana. 2021 was the Hoosiers’ best campaign in nearly a decade, earning nine wins and recording a winning season for the second time since 2013. Like WVU, though, they missed the NCAA Tournament.
Despite the similar results from the previous season, the two teams likely have vastly different attitudes. Indiana will look to build off its winning campaign and return to the NCAA Tournament after a lengthy hiatus. WVU enters the season angry after its disappointing 2021 and hungry to reclaim its place atop the Big 12.
If you ask WVU All-American center-back Jordan Brewster, 2022 will be a “revenge tour.”
The Mountaineers return most of their starting lineup, including Brewster and Lauren Segalla, the squad’s leading goalscorer in 2021. Segalla’s inclusion was a surprise to Izzo-Brown, who learned of the fifth-year senior’s return in July.
Indiana returns seven starters, as well as senior Paige Webber, who led the Hoosiers with five goals off the bench. | https://www.wowktv.com/goldandbluenation/wvu-hosts-indiana-to-kick-off-2022-revenge-tour/ | 2022-08-17T20:01:05Z | https://www.wowktv.com/goldandbluenation/wvu-hosts-indiana-to-kick-off-2022-revenge-tour/ | true |
Gov. Janet Mills toured local businesses in Lewiston this week, showcasing companies that her office said benefited from state programs funded by federal pandemic relief monies.
Mills visited guitar manufacturer Bourgeois Guitars and footwear maker Quoddy, two companies that received grants through the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan. The Pandemic Recovery for an Innovative Maine Economy (PRIME) selected a total of 174 Maine companies statewide to receive more than $23 million in funding from the federal American Rescue Plan.
According to a statement from Mills’ office, Bourgeois received $266,677 and Quoddy received $190,000.
“Maine small businesses like Bourgeois and Quoddy employ hardworking Maine people in good-paying jobs and manufacture iconic products used all around the world,” Mills said. “The PRIME Fund is making direct, strategic investments in innovative businesses like Bourgeois and Quoddy, ensuring that Maine businesses are not only positioned to bounce back from pandemic, but also thrive in Maine and the global marketplace for years to come.”
Two more rounds of PRIME grants are expected later this year. Eligible businesses must work in Maine’s designated technology sectors, employ no more than 250 employees and demonstrate that they have been adversely impacted by the pandemic.
Funds may be used for a variety of purposes including payroll, rent or mortgage payments for business facilities, business-related equipment purchases, start-up costs for new programs and/or new markets which may require capital investment. | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/08/17/mills-tours-companies-helped-by-federal-relief-funds | 2022-08-17T20:02:45Z | https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2022/08/17/mills-tours-companies-helped-by-federal-relief-funds | false |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as East Africa’s most stable democracy awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga.
Ruto spoke to journalists on Wednesday after meeting with members of his political alliance. He declared that his administration “will have nothing to do with the blackmail we have seen, the threats we have seen, the fear sown around the country” amid differing political views. “We are having our democratic country back,” he said.
Ruto, Kenya’s deputy president, was declared the winner of last week’s close election on Monday, but the electoral commission publicly split minutes before the declaration. Four of the seven commissioners, who were appointed last year by President Uhuru Kenyatta, asserted that the commission chair excluded them from the final steps before his declaration.
On Wednesday, commission chairman Wafula Chebukati in a statement responding to the allegations asserted that the four dissenting commissioners “demanded that the chairperson moderates the results for purpose of forcing an election re-run contrary to their oath of office. This is tantamount to subverting the Constitution and the sovereign will of the people of Kenya.”
Odinga, an opposition figure in his fifth attempt at the presidency, has said his campaign will pursue “all constitutional and legal options” to challenge the election results. He met with his team behind closed doors Wednesday. They have seven days from Monday’s declaration to file at the Supreme Court, which then has 14 days to rule on it.
It is not clear on what grounds Odinga would challenge the results in an election widely described by Kenyans and observers as more transparent and peaceful than ever. He has urged his often passionate supporters to remain calm.
“Ours is victory deferred, but it’s coming home,” Odinga’s running mate, Martha Karua, told journalists Wednesday. “We’ll not let you down.”
In a political twist, Kenyatta backed his longtime rival Odinga in this election after falling out with his deputy, Ruto, years ago. Kenyatta has not spoken publicly since he cast his vote last Tuesday, and his spokeswoman Kanze Dena didn’t respond when asked when he would make a statement to the country.
Ruto on Wednesday said there will be “no room for exclusion of any part” of Kenya and hoped to “eliminate ethnicity from the equation from the leadership or governance” of the country. He also vowed public servants will be professional and would be under no pressure to carry out political work for any party. | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-news/ap-international/kenyas-president-elect-will-engage-in-any-court-challenge/ | 2022-08-17T20:04:20Z | https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/world-news/ap-international/kenyas-president-elect-will-engage-in-any-court-challenge/ | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Epiphany Systems, the Exposure Management company, rolled out the new "Decision Intelligence Center" feature. This new capability of the Epiphany Intelligence Platform provides valuable insight and enables customers to more efficiently and effectively address vulnerabilities in their environment.
The Decision Intelligence Center provides the full context and potential impact of vulnerabilities in the environment to empower security teams to effectively address issues to minimize exposure. The Decision Intelligence Center addresses crucial questions like whether the vulnerability is being actively targeted by threat actors, or whether there is an attack path that could allow a threat actor to compromise a critical system.
"Organizations need to shift the way they think about security. Rather than answering 'Are we vulnerable to this?' they need to understand 'Is this exploitable and what would the impact be?'. That is what we are solving with the Decision Intelligence Center," explained Rob Bathurst, co-founder and CTO of Epiphany Systems.
This new capability provides crucial insight to understand everything security teams need to know about a vulnerability to make effective decisions. Delivering all necessary context in one place on if a vulnerability is exploitable or being actively targeted, how many affected devices are part of attack paths, CVSS scores, and other details provides the information needed to effectively address the issues that matter most.
"Security teams are stretched thin and need actionable intelligence that helps them manage their exposure efficiently," said Dan Singer, co-founder and CEO of Epiphany Systems. "We are giving customers the full context of not only the adversary's view and how exploitable a given vulnerability could be in terms of causing an impact, but also the business perspective of why they should care about a specific vulnerability on a given system."
The Decision Intelligence Center capability is available now for Epiphany Intelligence Platform customers. Visit our website to learn more about the Epiphany Intelligence Platform and the Decision Intelligence Center.
Epiphany Systems is the Exposure Management company, enabling customers to minimize exposure to material risk. The Epiphany Intelligence Platform harnesses the power of existing infrastructure and security tools to automatically and continuously determine the most likely attack paths and proactively defend against the most critical threats. Epiphany helps customers know the possible, detect the exploitable, prioritize the exposure, and prevent the material impact.
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LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people in Britain who contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and 1980s will receive 100,000 pounds ($120,000) in compensation, the U.K. government said Wednesday.
Survivors welcomed the payment, which came after years of campaigning, but said it should be expanded to include more people whose lives were blighted by the scandal.
The payment will be made by October to survivors and bereaved partners of the dead but not to other family members, such as parents or children. A decision on compensation for them is not expected until a public inquiry concludes next year.
“The parents feel so disheartened and despondent that they can’t get recognition,” said Rosemary Calder, whose 25-year-old son Nicky received an infected blood product and died in 1999 with HIV. Calder said the approved payments were “a step in the right direction, but there’s a long way to go.”
Thousands of hemophiliacs and other hospital patients in Britain were infected with HIV or Hepatitis C through tainted blood products, largely imported from the United States. Some 2,400 people have died as a result of the scandal, which has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of Britain’s health care system.
The contaminated blood was linked to supplies of a clotting agent called Factor VIII, which British health services bought from the U.S. Some of the plasma used to make the blood products was traced to high-risk donors, including prison inmates, who were paid to give blood samples.
After years of pushing from victims, an inquiry began in 2019. The inquiry’s chairman, retired judge Brian Langstaff, said earlier this month that survivors should not have to wait any longer for compensation because of the “profound physical and mental suffering” caused by the tragedy.
Mark Fox, who contracted Hepatitis C after being treated with a contaminated blood product for hemophilia as a child, said he welcomed the announcement as an acknowledgement of wrongdoing by the authorities.
“It’s not about compensation, it’s about someone saying sorry,” he said. “It’s that they tried to hide it, and so many people tried to brush it under the carpet.
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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. , Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston Heart Diagnostics, part of the Eurofins network of companies, announces the launch of LipidSeq™, a revolutionary genetic test for cardiovascular disease. This saliva-based NGS test identifies the most common genetic causes of lipid and lipoprotein disorders. These disorders are associated with premature cardiovascular, pancreatic, kidney, and neurological diseases.
When patients have very high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, or plasma sterols and/or very low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, there is a likelihood of a genetic mutation. Conditions detected by this 23-gene test include familial forms of hypercholesterolemia, lysosomal acid lipase deficiency, sitosterolemia, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, dysbetalipoproteinemia, hypertriglyceridemia, and HDL deficiency states including ApoA-I deficiency, Tangier disease, and LCAT deficiency, as well as other disorders. If there is a genetic basis for the patient's condition, understanding the specific mutation and associated disease can help guide treatment considerations, educate the patient about health risks, and encourage relatives to seek testing to determine if they, too, may be at risk. Boston Heart is the only commercial laboratory able to test biochemical and genetic contributors when diagnosing inherited disorders of lipid metabolism (Reference: Schaefer EJ, Geller AS, Endress G. The biochemical and genetic diagnosis of lipid disorders. Current Opinion in Lipidology 2019; 30:56-62.)
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LipidSeq was developed in collaboration with Eurofins laboratory partner Clinical Enterprise, which performs the genetic sequencing, and in consultation with Dr. Robert A. Hegele of Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario.
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By mid-January, LeBron James could be the NBA’s scoring king.
The NBA schedule was released Wednesday, all 1,230 games that are set between Oct. 18 and April 9 taking place in four countries with Mexico and France playing host to regular-season contests along with the U.S. and Canada.
There are the usual highlights — Stephen Curry and Golden State will raise another title banner on opening night, as is the NBA's customary perk for champions; a five-game slate of games on Christmas yet again; the traditional games in Atlanta and Memphis as part of the leaguewide commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year brought a twist, with Election Day now a newly created off day in the NBA.
And now that the list of games is out, the numbers show that James could catch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the final two weeks of January — assuming James doesn’t have to miss games and scores at his usual pace. James enters this season No. 2 on the all-time list, 1,325 points behind Abdul-Jabbar.
“We have obviously a very large ecosystem of league office staff, team staff, players, arena staff that are truly driving to this process,” said Evan Wasch, who, along with Gene Li and Tom Carelli, is on the NBA team of executives who build the schedule. “So, we are just one small piece.”
Wasch, Li and Carelli spent weeks putting a 1,230-piece jigsaw puzzle together, mindful of things like team wishes to have games on certain dates, total miles traveled, even carbon footprint.
The big headline from their work: Teams will travel a bit less, about 5% fewer miles in the air on average over last season.
The NBA made that happen by adding to the instances of teams having no travel between road games, something that’ll happen 88 times this season — up 66% from last season. There are 55 instances of teams playing consecutive road games against the same opponent, and 33 instances of teams playing two games in a row against the two teams from Los Angeles or New York.
Add it all up, and NBA teams will combine to fly about 50,000 fewer miles this season.
“There’s a player health component, and there’s also a sustainability component there,” Wasch said. “That’s a 5% decrease from where we’ve been. We’ll take it.”
Among the countless storylines entering the season is James, and his pursuit of more NBA history.
If he continues scoring at his typical pace — 27 points per game for his career, 30 points per game last season for the Los Angeles Lakers — he would need between 44 and 49 games to pass Abdul-Jabbar.
Games 44 through 49 for the Lakers fall in the second half of January. They happen to be at home for most of that stretch, a coincidence since it precedes the annual spot in the calendar where the Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers need to vacate their home arena while it gets ready to play host to the Grammy Awards.
Other revelations from the schedule:
BACK-TO-BACKS
Minimizing the instances of having games on back-to-back days is still a point of emphasis for the NBA, and the average number of them dipped another 1.5% this season — the average going from 13.5 per team last season to 13.3 per team this season.
Since 2014, the average is down 31.1%. Teams faced an average of 19.3 of them per season then.
No team has fewer than 12 back-to-backs this season. No team has more than 15.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
The San Antonio Spurs’ magic number on Jan. 13 — 62,047.
If the Spurs’ game against Golden State that night draws at least that many fans, it’ll set an NBA regular-season record. The Spurs will play that game in San Antonio’s Alamodome, not their typical arena, and it’ll be set up to accommodate at least 65,000 fans.
The biggest crowd at an NBA regular-season game is 62,046, who gathered to watch Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls meet the Atlanta Hawks at the Georgia Dome on March 27, 1998.
The biggest crowd in league history was 108,713, that group gathering for the 2010 All-Star Game at the home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys in North Texas.
The Alamodome record for an NBA game is 39,554 on June 18, 1999, when New York visited San Antonio for Game 2 of that year’s NBA Finals.
INTERNATIONAL REACH
The NBA has scheduled 45 games that will be shown live in prime time across Europe, the Middle East and Africa on Saturdays and Sundays.
Many of those games feature at least one prominent international player, including two-time reigning MVP Nikola Jokic of Denver, two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of Milwaukee, reigning scoring champion Joel Embiid of Philadelphia and All-NBA first-teamer Luka Doncic of Dallas.
INTERNATIONAL GAMES
San Antonio has a “home" game against Miami in Mexico City on Dec. 17. Detroit has a “home" game with Chicago in Paris on Jan. 19.
WELCOME BACK
Some prominent NBA names missed the entirety of last season for a variety of reasons. Among those who were in that group and are expected back this year, assuming they’re ready to go when their teams play Game 1:
Kawhi Leonard and John Wall, now teammates with the Clippers, would open their season Oct. 20 — a “road” game against the Lakers.
Denver’s Jamal Murray would return Oct. 19 at Utah. Brooklyn’s Ben Simmons and New Orleans’ Zion Williamson also would be in line to come back Oct. 19 when the Nets host the Pelicans.
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Investors eye Aussie jobs data, digest Fed minutes
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An insight into health of Australia's labor market is the main focal point for markets in Asia on Thursday, with an otherwise light regional macro and corporate calendar allowing investors to digest the latest incoming signals from the United States.
Wall Street ended in the red on Wednesday, but stocks initially pared losses after minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting were published.
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There is always something for everyone in these releases, but investors' initial take tilted towards the dovish side.
Will Asia's interpretation be the same?
The most immediate issue for markets is whether the Fed raises rates next month by 75 basis points for a third straight meeting, or by 50 bps. At the U.S. close on Wednesday, the CME's "Fedwatch" tool showed around a 60% chance of 50 bps, and 40% chance of 75 bps.
That was little changed from 24 hours earlier.
Meanwhile, investors await Australia's employment figures for July. They are expected to show the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.5% and a ninth straight month of job creation.
The Aussie dollar could be poised for a decent bounce if the numbers beat forecasts. It has fallen 2.5% this week, following a 3% surge the week before. It is on track for its biggest decline since January, and a soft jobs report could easily push it towards its worst week in a year.
China is scheduled to release July's foreign direct investment data this week, so that could come on Thursday.
Later in the U.S. session on Thursday, investors may get some clarity on the Fed minutes from Kansas City and Minneapolis Fed presidents Esther George and Neel Kashkari, who are scheduled to speak at separate events.
Key developments that should provide more direction to markets on Thursday:
Australia employment data (July)
Fed's George and Kashkari speak
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By BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
BEIRUT (AP) — The stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has laid bare divisions in Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim community, pitting a few denouncing the violence against fervent followers of the Iran-backed Shiite militant Hezbollah group who have praised the attack. One Rushdie defender received death threats.
The attack struck close to home among Lebanon’s Shiites. The assailant, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, is a dual Lebanese-U.S. citizen, and his father lives in a village in Hezbollah-dominated southern Lebanon. Matar’s mother has said she believes her son’s visit to the village of Yaroun in 2018 turned him into a religious zealot.
The religious edict, or fatwa, urging Muslims to kill Rushdie was issued in 1989 by Iran’s then-spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who accused the author of blasphemy for his portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad in the novel “The Satanic Verses.”
Iran, a close Hezbollah ally, has praised Friday’s attack but denied direct involvement. Hezbollah officials have been tight-lipped since the attack on the 75-year-old Rushdie as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. A Hezbollah official declined comment when contacted by The Associated Press.
Most Lebanese Shiites support Hezbollah and the more secular allied Amal movement of Parliament Speaker Nabih, which won all 27 seats allocated to the sect during this year’s parliamentary elections. Parliament and Cabinet seats are divided in Lebanon in accordance with religious affiliations.
Still, there is a vocal minority of Hezbollah critics among Shiites. Several were attacked and one was shot dead last year.
As the controversy swirled, an old video of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah resurfaced on social media. In it, Nasrallah said that “no one would have dared to attack Islam’s Prophet Muhammad again” if Rushdie had been killed immediately after the fatwa.
Some Hezbollah critics have accused the group and its supporters of teaching their children to kill in the name of religion,
Matar’s mother, Silvana Fardos, told the local Al-Jadeed TV late Tuesday that her son had lived all his life in the United States until he visited Lebanon for the first and last time in 2018. That trip changed him forever, she said.
“After he returned from Lebanon he was a different human being … I knew that he had a long depression and I was expecting one day to wake up and find out that he had committed suicide,” Fardos said, alleging that her son was mistreated by his father.
Asked if she asked herself whether she had raised a terrorist or an extremist, the mother said: “No. I raised an angel.”
Journalists have been prevented from entering Yaroun, and Matar’s father has not spoken to the media.
Despite Hezbollah’s official silence, the group’s supporters on social media are praising the attack.
Some released threats against prominent journalist Dima Sadek after she posted on her Twitter account a photo of Khomeini and Gen. Qassim Soleimani, a top Iranian general killed in a U.S. strike in 2020, describing the two as “satanic verses.”
Since then, death threats on social media and through messages on her cell phone haven’t stopped, with one man warning her, “I will rape you in public,” and another saying that “her blood should be shed.” She received a text message in which the sender told her where she lives.
Sadek said despite the public threats, she has not been contacted by the authorities with offers for protection.
“This is the first time I feel I am in danger,” Sadek, a harsh Hezbollah critic for years, told the AP. She alleged that the social media campaign against her is orchestrated by Nasrallah’s son, Jawad.
She said she is restricting her movements for the first time.
The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the Lebanese authorities to launch an investigation and protect Sadek.
Shiite journalist Mohamad Barakat, managing editor of the Asas Media news website, also came under attack after he wrote that by stabbing Rushdie, Matar “stabbed Shiites who live in Europe and America.”
In the other camp, Lebanese journalist Radwan Akil of the renowned local daily An-Nahar said in seemingly contradictory remarks that he condoned the fatwa against Rushdie, but not the killing of anyone, including writers.
“I am of course with political freedoms and freedom of expression … but I’m not for criticizing the greatest man in history the Prophet Muhammad, and I also reject the criticism of Jesus Christ,” Akil said in a televised interview with Lebanese media.
An-Nahar issued a statement, headlined “adopting a call to murder contradicts our policies.” It said that Akil’s views were his own. Two journalists who had worked for the paper and were outspoken critics of Hezbollah and the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, another Iran ally, were killed in car bombings in 2005.
The debate may eventually fizzle out because most Lebanese are preoccupied with the country’s economic meltdown and lack of services. “They have lots of other concerns,” said Hilal Khashan, political science professor at the American University of Beirut.
Lebanese political leaders have not commented on the Rushdie attack.
However, caretaker Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada denounced Rushdie’s depiction of the prophet .
“Freedom of speech should be polite,” tweeted Mortada, a Shiite minister close to Hezbollah’s allies. “Insults or holding dark grudges has nothing to do with morals.”
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A West Belfast man has thanked those who have supported his business over the last nine years, as he announced a stall closure.
John Mallon owns Beauty On Our Doorstep, a photography stall which has been in the heart of the Kennedy Centre in Andersonstown. It was set up to promote positive mental health through the lens of a camera.
Each week, John was there to signpost people in need of mental health support, to the appropriate charities and organisations. His yearly calendar, which showcases the beauty of Belfast and beyond, supported local food banks and the homeless community.
Read more: Belfast man launches calendar to raise mental health awareness
Speaking to Belfast Live as he announced his plans, John said: "It is with a very heavy heart I announce the closure of my Beauty on our Doorstep stand in the Kennedy Centre.
"I originally went in there for four days, to promote positive mental health, and now it is almost nine years. I know that I can walk away knowing that a lot people got mental health help and support.
"Since I posted about the closure of the stand, my phone hasn't stopped, and I don't even want to begin reading them. The support from people has been incredible over the years. Not only has the calendar saved lives, but it has also helped food banks.
"It is all positive, and I am not walking away feeling negative at all. The reason for closing is entirely down to the cost of materials in the present climate but my heart goes out to those with young families, who are struggling.
"We will still be operating online, but unfortunately we won't have that presence in the Kennedy Centre anymore."
John says they are still intending on producing a Beauty on our Doorstep calendar for 2023 and that he will continue to do what he, and other love him doing - taking pictures.
He thanked his friends, family and community for being there over the last number of years.
"We do hope to reopen in the near future," he added.
"The Kennedy Centre has been extremely good to us over the years and I have to give a massive thanks to John Jones, the general manager and the Kennedys themselves. My dear friend Mary Creaney too, who on many occasions provided help and advice to anyone seeking it.
"None of this would ever have been possible without the kindness of others."
Fonehouse Belfast, who is also situated in the Kennedy Centre, paid tribute to John for his company, and passion for mental health in West Belfast.
They said: "We are sorry to see our neighbour and on multiple occasions our customer John Mallon close his stall. John's mental health message is a vital one but specifically in our own community in West Belfast.
"I'm sure this wont be the last time we'll see 'Beauty on our Doorstep' on our doorstep and we look forward to seeing the 2023 calendar coming out."
You can view John's work on his Facebook page here.
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American Nurses Credentialing Center Accreditation Demonstrates a Commitment to Delivering High-Quality Continuing Nursing Professional Development
PITTSFORD, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, the Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing at St. John Fisher University's Wegmans School of Nursing earned accreditation for nursing continuing professional development from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The work of the Golisano Institute, including the accreditation process, is made possible with support from the Golisano Foundation.
This accreditation demonstrates the Golisano Institute's commitment to using evidence-based criteria when developing high-quality educational activities that promote the professional growth of nurses. With the accreditation, the Institute joins an influential global community of accredited organizations.
"The ability to offer continuing education credits will have a transformative impact on the reach of the Golisano Institute," said Executive Director Dr. Dianne Cooney Miner. Although the number of hours required varies by state, nurses are required to continue their education in order to maintain their professional certifications. The Institute's continuing education program will offer nurses across the country an opportunity to engage in high-impact, evidence-based learning activities focused on intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) health care for an interprofessional health care workforce.
"By becoming an ANCC-accredited continuing education provider, the Institute is now able to offer critical content focused on the care of individuals with IDD while helping nurses maintain their professional credentials," Cooney Miner explained.
NCPD accreditation from ANCC elevates educational offerings that benefit nurses, and the patients and communities they serve by enhancing the professional nursing practice and improving curricula to reflect an evidence-based education for nurses, among other aspects.
Through this work, the Institute will also help meet the increasing demand for continuing professional development contact hours that are essential to building professional portfolios, and maintaining certification and accreditation from ANCC as well as other licensing boards and regulatory bodies.
To learn more about St. John Fisher University, visit, www.sjf.edu.
St. John Fisher University is a liberal arts institution that provides a transformative education to approximately 3,800 undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students each year. Across its five Schools, Fisher offers nearly 40 majors in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, business, education, and nursing; 11 pre-professional programs; and master's and doctoral programs in business, nursing, education, pharmacy, and public health. Located just beyond Rochester, New York, the University's residential campus boasts a robust living and learning community and a successful intercollegiate athletics program.
An independent institution today, the University was founded by the Congregation of St. Basil in 1948 and remains true to its Catholic tradition. As Fisher moves forward into the next 75 years, it celebrates its Basilian heritage by embracing their motto, "Teach Me Goodness, Discipline, and Knowledge."
The Golisano Institute for Developmental Disability Nursing, made possible with support from the Golisano Foundation, was established in 2018 to generate an international cadre of health care professionals prepared with the knowledge, professional skills, and competencies to effectively support people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) throughout the lifespan and across settings.
Housed in the Wegmans School of Nursing at St. John Fisher University, the Institute is the first of its kind in the United States and is designed to transform the health care and support of people with IDD through the integration of specialized curriculum into nursing undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. It also works to coordinate and strengthen nursing thought leadership, to foster the creation of a collaborative system of centers of excellence in IDD care, to strengthen expert practice, and to advocate for social justice to improve the quality of life and health outcomes for the IDD population.
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- Sponsorship is part of Agency's sustainability initiatives
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IRTH Communications, a full-service provider of investor relations, financial marketing and strategic consulting services to high-growth small-cap companies, announced its sponsorship of Heal the Bay's "Suits on the Sand" program, a broad initiative dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds in Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy, and clean.
On August 19th 2022, IRTH employees will participate in a private beach cleanup in Venice Beach, CA. Joined by a Heal the Bay educator, the event will encompass interactive team-building activities and beach cleanup activities that will be carried out along several miles of coastline, to benefit the natural area and local inhabitants.
"Sustainability has always been a key issue for our agency, which is reflected in our name," said Andrew Haag, Managing Partner of IRTH Communications. "We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Heal the Bay and align our mission to create a positive environmental impact for our planet and our future generations."
In addition to the cleanup initiative, IRTH plans to take actions to reduce carbon emissions and identify recoverable waste to give it a new life through recycling. The agency recognizes the critical issues of climate change, resource depletion, environmental pollution, and ecosystem destruction and pledges its continued commitment to being part of the solution.
IRTH Communications provides investor relations, financial communications and strategic consulting services to companies with new technologies, processes, products and services within their respective industries. IRTH assists its clients through the early stages of development in burgeoning new sectors. Its clients' industries span across technology, healthcare, cannabis, industrials, intellectual property (IP), telecommunications, entertainment, consumer goods and beverages, exploration and development of natural resources, as well as alternative energy and energy efficiency.
About Heal the Bay
Heal the Bay is an environmental nonprofit established in 1985 that is dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds in Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy, and clean. We use science, education, community action, and advocacy to fulfill our mission. For more information, please visit www.healthebay.org.
About IRTH Communications
IRTH Communications assists entrepreneurs, corporate executives and investors in realizing their visions and achieving their goals by delivering effective investor relations, financial marketing and strategic consulting services. IRTH supports companies focused in a broad range of sectors by providing advisory services and direct access to investment funds and other industry professionals. The result is clients with better access to capital and more time to focus on their missions. To learn more about IRTH Communications, visit www.irthcommunications.com.
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By PAUL WISEMAN
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials saw signs that the U.S. economy was weakening at their last meeting but still called inflation “unacceptably high’’ before raising their benchmark interest rate by a sizable three-quarters of a point in their drive to slow spiking prices.
In minutes from their July 26-27 meeting released Wednesday, the policymakers said they expected the economy to expand in the second half of 2022. But many of them suggested that growth would weaken as higher rates take hold. The officials noted that the housing market, consumer spending, business investment and factory production had decelerated after having expanded robustly in 2021.
Slower growth, they noted, could “set the stage’’ for inflation to gradually fall to the central bank’s 2% annual goal, though it remained “far above’’ that target. But the policymakers made clear that for now, they intend to continue raising rates enough to slow the economy.
In both June and July, the Fed sought to curb high inflation by raising its key rate by an unusually large three quarters of a percentage point twice. At their meeting last month, the policymakers said it might “become appropriate at some point to slow the pace of policy rate increases.’’
It remains unclear whether the Fed will announce yet another three-quarter-point rate hike when it next meets Sept. 20-21 or instead impose a more modest half-point hike then. Since the Fed’s meeting three weeks ago, the economy has sent mixed signals — unexpectedly strong hiring, a deterioration in the housing market and a surprising drop in inflation. Before the policymakers reconvene in September, they will see another monthly jobs report and another monthly report on consumer prices.
Compounding the challenge for the central bank is that it was slow to respond to a resurgence of inflation in the spring of 2021 as the economy roared back from the 2020 pandemic recession. For many months, Chair Jerome Powell characterized high inflation as “transitory,” mainly a result of supply chain backlogs that would soon unsnarl and ease inflationary pressure. They didn’t, and year-over-year inflation hit a 40-year high of 9.1% in June before edging lower last month.
So the Fed has had to play catch-up with a series of sharp rate increases. It raised its benchmark rate in March and again in May, June and July. Those moves have raised the central bank’s key rate, which influences many consumer and business loans, from near zero to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018.
Powell has said the Fed will do what it will take to tame inflation, and more rate hikes are expected. But many economists worry that the Fed will end up overdoing it in the other direction by tightening credit so much as to trigger a recession.
Concerns about a potential recession have been eased, for now, by the ongoing strength of the job market. Employers added a robust 528,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate has hit 3.5%, matching a half-century low that was reached just before the pandemic erupted in 2020.
In the minutes released Wednesday, the Fed’s policymakers acknowledged the strength of the job market. But they also noted that hiring tends to be a lagging indicator of the economy’s health. And they pointed to signs that the job market might be cooling, including an increase in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, a drop in Americans quitting their jobs and a reduction in job openings.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Former Philadelphia Phillies manager Joe Girardi has joined Marquee Sports Network as an game analyst for the Chicago Cubs, one of his former teams.
Marquee said Wednesday that Girardi will join Jon Sciambi and former big league pitcher Jim Deshaies in the booth for this weekend’s series against Milwaukee. He also will work next month’s series at Miami.
“Growing up a Cubs fan and then having the chance to play for the team for a number of years, I’m honored to now have the opportunity to broadcast from the historic television broadcast booth,” Girardi said in a statement.
Marquee Sports Network is jointly owned by the Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group.
The 57-year-old Girardi was the manager in Philadelphia before he was fired in June. He had a 132-141 record over three years with the Phillies.
Girardi also has managed the Marlins and New York Yankees. He skippered the Yankees to a 910-710 record in 10 seasons, including the franchise’s last World Series championship in 2009.
The Peoria, Illinois, native played college ball at Northwestern before he was selected by the Cubs in the fifth round of the 1986 amateur draft. The catcher made his big league debut with Chicago in 1989 and spent 15 years in the majors, finishing with a .267 batting average, 36 homers and 422 RBIs.
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FLOYD, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parkway Acquisition Corp. ("Parkway" or the "Company") (OTC QX: PKKW) – the holding company for Skyline National Bank ("Skyline"), announces a cash dividend on the Company's common stock of $0.17 per share, payable September 19, 2022 to shareholders of record on September 9, 2022. The Parkway Board of Directors declared the dividend on August 16, 2022.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Lawyers Association (CLA) congratulates President Jeremy M. Evans on his recent appointment to the Executive Council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents (NCBP).
Evans was elected this month to a three-year term on the council, which serves as the governing body for the organization. NCBP's mission is to provide high-quality programming to bar leaders across the country.
In 2021, Evans was elected to a two-year term as president of the California Lawyers Association. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the secretary of CLA's charitable arm and partner, the California Lawyers Foundation. In 2021, the California Supreme Court appointed him to the Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Bar Exam, which will make recommendations on the exam and whether to adopt alternative or additional testing or tools to ensure minimum competence to practice law.
"The California Lawyers Association commends Jeremy on this new role, which will allow him to share ideas and collaborate with bar association presidents across the country," said Oyango A. Snell, CLA's CEO and Executive Director. "We appreciate Jeremy's leadership, partnership, and support and are excited for the new opportunities his involvement in NCBP will bring to our organization and the California legal community."
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WILMINGTON, N.C. , Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, Inc. Magazine has named Vantaca to the publication's annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. Vantaca, an industry-leading software provider for association management companies, earned spot #628 on the list with record-breaking growth this past year. Over the past three years, Vantaca reported consistent fast-paced growth at a rate of 994%.
"Receiving this recognition again in 2022 is a reflection of another year of outstanding effort by the Vantaca team," said Ben Currin, CEO of Vantaca. "At Vantaca, we believe in and foster a culture of continuous innovation, unwavering commitment to our customers' experience, and winning as a team. I firmly believe that our team and culture were the primary drivers of another year of amazing growth and further, that these components are what will help us continue to accelerate our growth into the future."
Vantaca expects their hyper-growth to continue into 2023. Currin stated "we are excited to grow our team to nearly 150 employees by year-end, most of whom are based in our Wilmington, NC office." The Vantaca CEO attributes future growth and success to smart people, hard work, great leadership, and amazing customers.
The annual Inc. 5000 list represents a unique look at the most successful, private companies in the United States. Complete results of the Inc. 5000 can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
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(WJW) — A 2-year-old took life into her own hands recently when a snake bit into her lip.
Rather than letting the reptile get the best of her, the child bit back, killing the animal, Newsweek reported.
Neighbors in the small village near Bingol, Turkey, reportedly heard the child screaming in her backyard during the attack on Aug. 10. Running to her aid, they found a 20-inch snake in her teeth and a bite mark on her mouth.
Newsweek said the child is recovering well after a 24-hour stint in the hospital. Her father told news outlets she had been playing with the snake prior to the bite.
The kind of snake involved in the incident is unknown at this time but there are 12 types of venomous snakes found in the country. The World Health Organization says venomous snake bites can affect children much more quickly than adults. | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/snake-bites-2-year-old-kid-bites-back-killing-it/ | 2022-08-17T20:26:21Z | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/snake-bites-2-year-old-kid-bites-back-killing-it/ | true |
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Philadelphia Phillies manager Joe Girardi has joined Marquee Sports Network as an game analyst for the Chicago Cubs, one of his former teams.
Marquee said Wednesday that Girardi will join Jon Sciambi and former big league pitcher Jim Deshaies in the booth for this weekend’s series against Milwaukee. He also will work next month’s series at Miami.
“Growing up a Cubs fan and then having the chance to play for the team for a number of years, I’m honored to now have the opportunity to broadcast from the historic television broadcast booth,” Girardi said in a statement.
Marquee Sports Network is jointly owned by the Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group.
The 57-year-old Girardi was the manager in Philadelphia before he was fired in June. He had a 132-141 record over three years with the Phillies.
Girardi also has managed the Marlins and New York Yankees. He skippered the Yankees to a 910-710 record in 10 seasons, including the franchise’s last World Series championship in 2009.
The Peoria, Illinois, native played college ball at Northwestern before he was selected by the Cubs in the fifth round of the 1986 amateur draft. The catcher made his big league debut with Chicago in 1989 and spent 15 years in the majors, finishing with a .267 batting average, 36 homers and 422 RBIs.
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‘Missing’ Aussie actress who vanished after LA date has been released from jail charged with a misdemeanor after drunkenly throwing her drink at a child, 2, and biting police officers who tried to arrest her
- Actress and singer Laura McCulloch, 37, was reported missing in Los Angeles by her family
- She was believed to have gone on a 'Bumble or Tinder' date on August 12 and had not been seen since
- McCulloch was arrested in Santa Monica for allegedly throwing a drink at a child and their parents
- She has now been released and will have to appear at Los Angeles Superior Court to face the charges next month
An Australian actress who was arrested after vanishing when she went on a date in Los Angeles has been released from jail after being charged with a misdemeanor.
Laura McCulloch, 37, had told her family she was meeting up with a man from a dating app, and even sent them a picture of her outfit before leaving on August 12.
But after she didn't show up to work, yoga class and her other regular commitments, her family raised the alarm and sparked an online manhunt for the actress.
They said that she was last seen at trendy Japanese chain-restaurant Gyu-Kaku in Los Angeles and was due to meet someone she contacted on 'Bumble or Tinder'.
She was arrested on Friday, shortly before her family raised the alarm that she had apparently vanished.
McCulloch was released from custody on August 16, four days after she was reported missing by her family.
Santa Monica police said that she threw a drink at a child and restaurant patron before ‘charging’ at officers and ‘biting one’.
According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department she was released on her own recognizance and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest.
McCulloch will have to appear at Los Angeles Superior Court to face the charges next month.
Laura McCulloch, 37, was arrested on Friday after allegedly throwing a drink at another restaurant patron and their child. She has since been released after being arraigned on charges of public intoxication and resisting arrest
According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department she was released on her own recognizance and charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest. McCulloch will have to appear at Los Angeles Superior Court to face the charges next month
An arrest report claims that McCulloch' charged the at the officers while yelling expletives' after the police were called to the scene. She had been due to meet someone for a date at a Japanese restaurant in LA, arranged on either ' Bumble or Tinder ' on Friday August 12
McCulloch was pictured in her mugshot wearing the same top that she wore to her date, which her sister, Clare, shared on social media. She later confirmed on social media that her sister had been freed
Officers were called to reports of McCulloch throwing a drink at a fellow restaurant goer and their two-year-old child.
McCulloch was reportedly showing ‘obvious signs of intoxication' while shouting at the officers and ‘charging’ at them.
Her family, who launched a missing persons appeal on social media, were unaware that she had been arrested when contacted by DailyMail.com.
Clare McCulloch, her sister, posted a picture of the pair embracing online with the caption: 'She is safe. She is free. She’s is ok. Thank you to everyone who helped us find my precious sister.'
McCulloch was pictured in her mugshot wearing the same top that she wore to her date, which her sister shared on social media.
In a statement the Santa Monica Police Department said: ‘On Friday, August 12, 2022 at approximately 8:30pm Santa Monica Police Department Officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Arizona for what was reported as a battery.
Australian actress Laura McCulloch was last seen dining on a Tinder or Bumble date at Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ, located at 231 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA
Her friends and family started their own missing person search, claiming that the LAPD did not yet consider her a missing person case when contacted
Frustrated at the lack of help from LA investigators the family has started a GoFundMe page to help pay for a private detective. McCulloch's sister and friends shared the last photo taken before she disappeared
‘According to the reporting party, a female, later identified as Laura McCulloch, threw a drink at a restaurant patron and their 2-year-old child.
'Upon arrival, officers contacted Ms. McCulloch who showed obvious signs of intoxication.
‘While conducting the investigation, McCulloch charged the at the officers while yelling expletives.
‘Despite efforts to calm her, McCulloch continued to display aggressive behaviors. During efforts to detain her, she became physically combative, kicked at officers and bit one officer on the shoulder.
‘Laura McCulloch, 37 years old from Australia, was arrested, transported to the Santa Monica Jail and booked for public intoxication and resisting arrest.’
The actress is understood to be at Los Angeles County Superior Court, and will be dealt with accordingly.
Her cousin Merrie McCulloch told DailyMail.com: ‘Yes, I can confirm she’s in safe hands and have also been asked to please help update media with the information that she’s been located, and thank you for your support.
‘It’s all very slim details at the moment but until we ascertain Laura’s current state and what her wishes are going forward in terms of media coverage we are just scaling back for now and focusing on her well-being.’
Her sister Clare posted on Instagram saying: ‘She has been found safe and well.
'The family want to thank everyone for your help and support in what has been a traumatic time.’
Her friends and family started their own missing person search, claiming that the LAPD did not yet consider her a missing person case.
The family has also claimed that the Santa Monica restaurant - Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ - where she had arranged to meet her date, had refused to release any security footage without a police order.
A staff member at the restaurant claims that the incident took place outside of the property, and no one inside contacted the police.
Her sister Clare, left, launched a missing persons appeal on social media after McCulloch failed to contact them after her date
Her family, who launched a missing persons appeal on social media, were unaware that she had been arrested when contacted by DailyMail.com
The family has claimed the Santa Monica restaurant - Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ - where she had arranged to meet her date, had refused to release any security footage without a police order
Frustrated at the lack of help from LA investigators the family has started a GoFundMe page to help pay for a private detective - which has currently raised $1,000 AUD.
The page updated those looking for the actress, saying she had been found, adding: ‘According to multiple sources in the US, Laura has been successfully located!
‘At this current stage we are unable to confirm what state she is in, and if any further financial support is needed, but I will do my best to provide an update as soon as it is available.
‘In the mean time, I can confirm that it was only through the efforts of her amazing friends and family that she was successfully located and I’m sure they would want to pass on their heartfelt appreciation for your contributions and incredible support so far.’
Laura McCulloch moved to LA after being based in New York in 2021 where she worked as an actor, singer, voice-over artist, writer and producer.
Her only screen credit in 2022 is an indie short film called 'Covid Support Group' and directed by an American filmmaker Abigail Bogle.
In March 2021 she played Madame Le Farge in an American stage version of A Tale of Two Cities at Bob Jones University in South Carolina.
She has also worked as a nanny in between roles.
In 2010 she appeared in an Australian short film called The Black Sheep and in 2009 she had a supporting role in a film version of classic ballet The Nutcracker. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11121053/Missing-Aussie-actress-vanished-LA-date-released-jail.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T20:29:10Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11121053/Missing-Aussie-actress-vanished-LA-date-released-jail.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | true |
DENVER, Colo. — In the last eight years, the number of kids diagnosed with ADHD has jumped by 30%, according to a study. But greater than that, a study published in JAMA found that adult ADHD diagnoses are growing at a rate four times faster than kids' diagnoses.
Still, millions of adults may be living with ADHD without knowing they have it. That’s where psychologist Andrew Fields steps in. Fields has dedicated his career to studying mental health and helping families get assessed for ADHD. His passion comes from personal experience. He was diagnosed with ADHD at 35 years old.
“I think the stereotype in most people's mind for ADHD is a child, usually a boy bouncing off the walls, and that's actually one of the least common types of ADHD,” said Fields. “I have a real soft spot in my heart for the adults who have been missed.”
Research by the Journal of Global Health Shows worldwide, 6.76% of adults, that’s 366 million people, have significant ADHD symptoms. The problem is it’s easy for adults to be missed. Symptoms can be subtle.
“You see this pattern of, ‘I get easily distracted, I can't stay on task. I am blurting stuff out. I'm interrupting people. I can't stay on something. I go to do something and I get distracted.’ And, if that's happening so much that it's impairing your life, that's what we'd call sort of the stereotypical symptoms,” said Fields of ADHD in adults.
Fields said adult ADHD can also show up as:
- Struggling with memory. You could have trouble recalling conversations or details, or you lose things often.
- Impulsive decision-making. That could mean buying something you don’t need or making a big decision without thinking it through.
- Getting overly frustrated at the small stuff. That could mean feelings of road rage or anger at the slightest disruption to your day.
Adult ADHD is also tougher to spot because it may not become disruptive until a major life change.
“New parents. New jobs. Every degree of schooling is when it shows up,” said Fields.
Fields said another common way adults find out they have ADHD: they see symptoms in their kids first.
“It's very genetic, and so, I oftentimes will have parents, you know, justifiably so, concerned for their child or teen. And we do an evaluation, and then they will reach out to me and say, ‘Hey, I might need to get looked at as well.’”
Fields said it can help a child get mentally on track if their parent is caring for their own mental health too. Getting evaluated and starting treatment can be life-changing. It was for Fields.
“I was driving somewhere and I said, ‘I feel vaguely patient.’ I said that out loud and I went, ‘Huh.’ And what I realized was happening is I still wanted all the traffic to go faster, but I didn't feel that ‘rawr’ feeling inside of me anymore. I started…I pulled over and started crying. I realized this is something I could never control about my brain before,” said Fields.
Left untreated, ADHD can lead to other health problems, substance abuse, and even decreased life expectancy. That’s why Fields wants people to know that help is out there, and there is no shame in wanting to be mentally well.
“It has nothing to do with who you are as a person; it has to do with what you're able to execute on. If you're struggling, don't wait,” said Fields.
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ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine has announced an interim athletic director as it conducts a national search to fill the position permanently.
Samantha Hegmann-Wary, associate athletic director for compliance and senior woman administrator at the University of Maine, has been named UMaine interim athletic director, effective Sept. 1, the university said in a release Wednesday.
The announcement comes after the university's previous athletic director, Ken Ralph, left earlier this month to serve as athletic director at Division III Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
Hegmann-Wary has been a member of the UMaine community since 2019. Prior to that, she worked at Monmouth University and Hofstra University.
In her current position as associate athletic director for compliance, Hegmann-Wary oversees the implementation of NCAA rules and regulations for UMaine sports. She also serves as sports supervisor for baseball and field hockey, and as co-supervisor for women’s basketball, according to the university.
“I appreciate the opportunity to be interim AD for this department,” Hegmann-Wary said in Wednesday's release. “The coaches and people we have here at Maine are so special and they make our student-athletes experience so much better. I am so lucky to be a Black Bear and get to work with such amazing people.”
She holds a master’s degree in physical education and sports management from Adelphi University.
“I look forward to working with Samantha in the months ahead,” UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy said. “I have appreciated the leadership and vision she has provided as senior woman administrator in UMaine Athletics and in our compliance office, and will rely on her experience, knowledge, and perspective as we continue to advance the state’s only Division I program during this exciting, transformative era made possible by the Harold Alfond Foundation’s challenge grant.”
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs can be held responsible for damages awarded to a Montana woman who became pregnant after an on-duty BIA officer used the threat of criminal charges to coerce her into having sex, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled.
The woman, identified by the initials L.B. in court documents, sued former BIA officer Dana Bullcoming and his employer for the October 2015 sexual assault on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation that resulted in the birth of a child, who is now 7, said her attorney, John Heenan.
“This is a woman that had the courage to report a federal law enforcement officer for sexually assaulting her and then had the courage to go through the entire process, including agents there to collect DNA when the child was born,” Heenan said Wednesday. She pursued the case on behalf of people living on reservations to show “that they should have the same rights as Montanans do on this issue.”
U.S. District Judge Susan Watters of Billings awarded the woman $1.6 million in damages in May 2020, but had ruled earlier that the BIA could not be held responsible for paying them because under federal law, the coercion and sex were outside the scope of Bullcoming's duties.
The woman appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in turn asked the Montana Supreme Court to determine whether the federal agency could be held accountable under state law.
Since a 2009 court ruling, Montana law has held that an employer is responsible for the action of employees when they have a duty to provide protection, Heenan said.
On Tuesday, the Montana Supreme Court ruled 5-2 that the facts in the case establish that "Officer Bullcoming was not, as a matter of law, acting outside the scope of his employment when he sexually assaulted L.B.,” Justice Laurie McKinnon wrote.
The conduct at issue here, the court wrote, “is the BIA officer's abuse of his official authority by expressly or implicitly threatening L.B. with arrest and criminal prosecution with the intent and purpose to coerce her into engaging in sexual intercourse with him.”
The BIA did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
Heenan said he expected the case to be returned to Watters’ court for an order holding the BIA financially liable.
“It’s a great day for Native women in Montana,” April Youpee-Roll, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Tribes and an attorney who represented some Montana tribes who filed briefs in support of L.B., said in a statement. “The Montana Supreme Court closed the gap and provided us the same remedy for on-duty sexual assault by law enforcement as Montana already afforded our neighbors.”
In this case, L.B. called dispatchers to report that her mother was driving while intoxicated after they returned from a bar off the reservation. After finding the woman's mother was OK, Bullcoming went to the woman's house in Lame Deer and asked her if she had been drinking. She was home with her two children.
He then took her to his patrol car and performed a breath test, which revealed she was legally intoxicated and thus in violation of a tribal law that prohibits intoxication on the southeastern Montana reservation, court records said.
She asked Bullcoming not to arrest her or call tribal social services out of fear of losing custody of her children and her job. Bullcoming responded that “something has to be done," according to court records.
The woman asked if that meant sex and Bullcoming said it did, court records said. The woman got pregnant.
After a DNA test confirmed Bullcoming was the father of the child, he pleaded guilty to depriving the woman of her rights using the power and authority granted to him by the BIA. He was sentenced to three years in federal prison. | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Court-BIA-owes-damages-for-officer-impregnating-17380042.php | 2022-08-17T20:32:44Z | https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Court-BIA-owes-damages-for-officer-impregnating-17380042.php | true |
BATON ROUGE, La. – The full schedule for the upcoming LSU Women’s Basketball season was released Wednesday morning in conjunction with the Southeastern Conference.
This season will be the second for Head Coach Kim Mulkey at LSU as she is coming off the best turnaround by a first-year head coach in SEC history, helping her win AP National Coach of the Year. Under Coach Mulkey’s first year of leadership the Tigers went 26-6, finished second in the SEC and hosted first- and second-round games in the NCAA Tournament, but after losing a load of seniors that included WNBA draft picks Khayla Pointer and Faustine Aifuwa, the Tigers will look to numerous first-year players at LSU to keep the Mulkey momentum rolling.
Coach Mulkey brought in a star-studded freshmen class of Flaujae Johnson, Sa’Myah Smith, Alisa Williams and Izzy Besselman. LSU also added the top transfer in this year’s cycle, Angel Reese (Maryland), as well as the top Juco player in the nation, Last-Tear Poa (Northwest Florida State College). Jasmine Carson (West Virginia), Kateri Poole (Ohio State) and LaDazhia Williams (Missouri) were three other roster additions in the transfer portal. The nine newcomers will look to mesh with key contributors from last year’s squad such as Hannah Gusters, Alexis Morris and Ryann Payne.
The Tigers’ non-conference schedule is highlighted by trips to Bimini, Bahamas for the Goombay Splash over Thanksgiving to take on George Mason and UAB as well as a trip to Maui a week before Christmas. The Tigers will face Oregon State at the Maui Classic plus another team still to be announced.
LSU’s sole true road game of non-conference play will come on December 3 when the Tigers travel to New Orleans for a matchup against Tulane.
The Tigers are set to host their first five games of the season in the PMAC, beginning on November 7 against Bellarmine. Mississippi Valley will travel to Baton Rouge on November 11, followed by Western Carolina on November 13, Houston Baptist on November 16 and Northwestern State on November 20.
Following LSU’s Thanksgiving trip to the Bahamas against George Mason and UAB, LSU will return home to host Southeastern on November 29 before the trip to Tulane on December 3. LSU’s final two non-conference home games will be on December 11 against New Orleans and December 14 against Lamar. The Tigers will complete the non-conference portion of their schedule in Maui against Oregon State and one additional opponent still to be announced on December 17-18.
To begin conference play LSU will travel to Fayetteville on December 29 to take on Arkansas in Bud Walton Arena. LSU’s first home game in the SEC will be on New Year’s Day as LSU is set to welcome Vanderbilt to Baton Rouge followed by another home game against Texas A&M on January 5.
LSU will take to the road for its next two matchups in Memorial Coliseum on January 8 at Kentucky and in Columbia against Missouri on January 12. The Tigers will return home for games against Auburn on January 15 against Auburn and January 19 against Arkansas. A trip to Tuscaloosa will follow on January 23 before a bye week.
Following the bye, LSU will be home to take on Tennessee on January 30. The Tigers will stay home to face Georgia on February 2.
As the season begins to wind down, LSU will finish with four of its final six games on the road. The Tigers will take on Texas A&M in College Station on January 5 before another bye week gearing up to face the defending National Champion South Carolina Gamecocks on February 12 in Colonial Life Arena.
LSU will be back in the PMAC to host Ole Miss on February 16 before, once again, hitting the road to Gainesville against Florida on February 19 and in Nashville against Vanderbilt on February 23. The regular season will wrap up in Baton Rouge on February 26 when the Tigers host Mississippi State.
The SEC and SEC Network will announce the television broadcast schedule at a later date.
This year’s SEC Tournament will take place from March 1-5 at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina.
The 2023 NCAA Women’s Basketball Selection Show will take place on Sunday, March 12 with play for March Madness set to begin later that same week.
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HENDERSON, Nev., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grove Inc. (NASDAQ: GRVI), a market leader in Amazon and eCommerce brand ownership and aggregation, announces that today, August 17, 2022, its trading name on the Nasdaq officially changed from "Grove Inc." to "Upexi, Inc." and its ticker symbol changed from "GRVI" to "UPXI". This accompanies previous press releases notifying investors of this change.
CEO Allan Marshall stated, "Last month, we announced our growth strategy in a letter to shareholders that focused on our acquisition plan to bring more, profitable eCommerce brands in various industries under our umbrella. Moving to a new name and stock ticker is a reflection of the progress we have made and our goal for continued growth."
No action is required by the company's current shareholders as a result of this change, and the change in its ticker symbol will have no effect on its business goals, strategy, or fees and expenses.
Upexi Inc., is an innovator in aggregation, accelerating Amazon and eCommerce businesses by combining consumer data and vertical integration to scale brands in multiple industries, while lowering costs with a growing distribution network. Through strategic acquisitions, Grove continues to expand into numerous consumer markets, and utilizes its in-house, SaaS programmatic ad technology to help achieve a lower cost per acquisition and accumulate consumer data for increased cross-selling between its growing portfolio of brands.
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NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Pasco County on Tuesday to discuss teacher recruitment efforts. But while in New Port Richey, DeSantis spoke about Florida’s new curriculum and efforts to keep certain ideology out of the state’s schools and pushed back on medical board efforts to include gender dysphoria care for minors.
“Obviously in the classroom, we’ve battled a lot of ideologies. What I’ve said is the state of Florida is the place where woke goes to die,” DeSantis said Tuesday. “We are not going to let this state descend into some type of woke dumpster fire. We’re going to be following common sense, we’re going to be following facts,” he claimed.
During a news conference, DeSantis touted Florida reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the state’s pushback on forcing vaccination requirements for students. He also alleged that Florida was focusing on science and data when considering pandemic safety protocol, rather than political ideology or partisan strategies.
The governor did not provide specific data or statistics to support his claims at the event on Tuesday.
In June, DeSantis made similar claims about children and vaccination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, still promote vaccination and still say the vaccines are safe and effective. Neither agency claims the vaccines are 100% effective, but they stand by the vaccines as a way to mitigate infection and symptoms.
During a question-and-answer session portion of Tuesday’s press conference, DeSantis also discussed efforts to recruit teachers to the profession, saying he hoped to put qualified “Floridian” candidates and “Americans” first, rather than “go with a foreigner over somebody that’s from our communities.”
He also blamed the teacher shortage on fewer students pursuing the career and claimed that some colleges and universities did not have effective teaching programs.
“I think these schools of education and the specific way they go about, I don’t think is the right way to do it,” said DeSantis, who instead suggested a system whereby people who “have proficiency in core academic disciplines” are enticed to become teachers, rather than having students learn the profession at “schools of education,” which he called “magnets for ideology.”
DeSantis further claimed that most people who choose teaching as a profession do it to help students, not to be “a cog in some indoctrination machine.”
“It’s something you can’t judge on an academic transcript,” he said. “Certainly, we would prefer people with real-world experience and academic proficiency in the core subjects they’re teaching, English, math, science. Not saying ‘oh I went to the school of education somewhere and they taught me kind of how to teach.'”
Tuesday’s press conference also touched on DeSantis’ views of the “medical establishment” and the Florida Health Department’s guidance that gender-affirming care should not be available to minors.
“If you look what’s happening in our society, you see institutions being infected with ideology at the expense of facts and reality,” DeSantis claimed. “We’re fighting this thing with the medical board because they want to do sex change operations for minors,” DeSantis said. “A 14-year-old cannot get a tattoo, but they are talking, they will do mastectomies and things at the bottom which are very problematic and irreversible. These are kids going through a growing time in their life, there’s a lot of different factors, most of the dysphoria resolves itself by the time they become adults. So why would you disfigure a minor to be able to do?”
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NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (Natixis CIB) led the financing of approximately US$360 million for a portfolio of solar photovoltaic PMGD plants in Chile with expected capacity of approximately 360MWdc sponsored by Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure (CC&L Infrastructure) and CarbonFree Technology (together, the "Sponsors"). The financings are comprised of a $19 million letter of credit facility, a $71 million bridge-loan facility which will be used to fund ongoing construction costs, and an approximate $270 million private placement facility whose proceeds will be used primarily to refinance existing bank debt and repay the bridge-loan facility once projects complete construction.
Natixis CIB acted as Lead Placement Agent and Green Issuance Coordinator for the private placement and as Sole Bookrunner, Sole Underwriter and Green Loan Coordinator for the bridge-loan and the letter of credit facilities.
This represents the largest PMGD portfolio financed to date both in terms of installed capacity and number of projects.
The Sponsors' portfolio consists of 53 solar projects which operate under Chile's special regime for distributed generation projects (known as "PMGD"), entitling the projects to sell their energy output at the regulated stabilized price.
"We are excited to complete this refinancing, one of the largest solar project private placements in Chile to date," said Matt O'Brien, President of CC&L Infrastructure. "The aggregation, de-risking and successful construction of individual, small-scale projects is the culmination of a multi-year strategy, allowing us to secure long-term financing at competitive rates and create value for our investors. Our base of Chilean solar assets is part of our large and rapidly growing energy transition portfolio that aggregates over 1.5 gigawatts of renewable assets across a range of clean energy technologies."
"This is Natixis' twelfth PMGD financing in three years and the PMGD portfolio financing the largest installed capacity ever arranged by any institution. In aggregate, Natixis has financed approximately US$1.5 billion to support the development of PMGD renewable power generation projects in Chile. This successful series of transactions builds on our extensive track record of innovation in Latin America and solidifies our position as the "one-stop-shop" for PMGD project developers seeking creative financing solutions. We look forward to continuing to support the Sponsors in their growth in the region and to support Chile's continuous efforts toward energy transition", said Aitor Alava, Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure & Energy Finance, Latin America at Natixis CIB.
"Chile is making excellent progress towards the country's 2030 clean energy and decarbonization targets, in addition to their overarching goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We're pleased that our portfolio of solar projects can contribute to this leadership on climate action, as well as provide Chilean citizens with affordable electricity for years to come," said David Oxtoby, CEO of CarbonFree.
Anthony Ferraro, Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets, Americas, Natixis CIB, said: "We are honored to have advised the Sponsors as a trusted partner in leading this important capital markets financing milestone in the U.S. private placement bond market for this PMGD portfolio with the largest installed capacity developed in Chile to date. Despite a more challenged market environment, several leading institutional investors in the U.S. private placement market participated in this transaction. The result is truly a testament to the quality of the sponsorship and transaction structuring, and illustrative of the value and flexibility that can be delivered to equity sponsors by partnering with long-term minded USPP infrastructure investors with the ability to transact through short-term volatility."
The PMGD regime was created in 2005, with the goal of incentivizing more distributed and greener electricity generation. The projects in the portfolio will contribute to Chile's broader energy transition as the country gradually retires coal plants on its way towards the long-term goal of carbon-neutrality. Once all projects in the Sponsors' portfolio enter operations, the facilities will be capable of producing more than 750,000 MW hours of clean electricity annually.
About Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.
Our teams of experts in 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. We are committed to supporting the environmental transition by aligning our financing balance sheet with a +1.5°C trajectory by 2050.
As part of the Global Financial Services division of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d'Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group's financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A, Moody's: A1, Fitch: A+, R&I: A+).
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THERMOVEX 150™ boasts the same sought-after ingredient roster but with a lower caffeine profile
HENDERSON, Nev., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past decade, countless dedicated athletes, fitness lovers, and everyone in between have made Thermovex™ by EVOchem Nutrition® a necessary and favorite staple in their everyday routine. This metabolic/thermogenic powerhouse has even garnered its own hashtag on social media: #ThermovexThursday. When requests started coming in for a lower stimulant version, the formulators at EVOchem answered the call. Today, Nutrishop proudly announces the recent launch of Thermovex 150™, which boasts all the same sought-after metabolic-support ingredients found in the original formula, but with only 150mg of caffeine. Thermovex 150 is now available in two flavors, Tropical Shaved Ice and Pink Lemon Squeeze, online and at your local Nutrishop store.
"At Nutrishop, we're always striving to give our customers what they want. Some of our customers want all the benefits of a potent thermogenic/metabolic formula but don't need or desire a huge energy boost because they prefer to get it from their favorite pre-workout or they're not really into that super-charged, revved-up feeling. We get it!" said Bryon McLendon, founder and CEO of Nutrishop, a national nutrition, wellness and supplement retail franchise. "Thermovex is arguably one of the best metabolic formulas on the market and has been a top-ranking product for us since its inception a decade ago. We're excited to offer the same incredible ingredient roster in Thermovex 150 but with less caffeine."
Keep in mind, less caffeine doesn't mean zero energy. Thermovex 150 still packs a punch. For comparison, a 16 oz. cup of coffee contains approximately 145 mg of caffeine, which is plenty for some consumers who are looking to kickstart their day or hop on the treadmill for an hour after work and still want to sleep soundly at night. Abbie Anderson, 20, said she is excited about taking Thermovex 150 to help her power through those late-night lifts while supporting her weight-management goals.
"Thermovex 150 gives me the energy I need to knock out my workouts without the huge caffeine spike, not to mention the crazy good flavor that comes with it!" said Anderson, a full-time student and avid fitness fanatic from Corsicana, TX. "Tropical Shaved Ice is definitely among the best-tasting supplement flavors I have ever tried! I highly recommend giving this product a shot!"
Thermovex 150™ contains 30 servings of a powerhouse blend of metabolic-support ingredients, including the following:
- B Vitamins
- L-Carnitine L-Tartrate
- Choline Bitartrate
- Alpha-GPC
- Advantra Z Bitter Orange Extract
- Dynamine™
- Green Tea Extract
- Guarana Extract
- 8g Dietary Fiber
- 150mg Caffeine
"I love the wellness benefits of fiber and the warming thermogenic effects Thermovex 150 offers," said 30-year-old Christina Hubacek, a firefighter/paramedic from Mesquite, TX. "My husband prefers it before working out because he's not a fan of heavy stimulants."
EVOchem Nutrition is a trusted brand exclusive to Nutrishop, catering to those "in the know." In addition to Thermovex and Thermovex 150, this elite line offers a variety of top-quality, advanced products ranging from great-tasting proteins and superior essential amino acids to patented muscle recovery technology and even night-time metabolic formulas.
To learn more or to purchase Thermovex 150, visit NutrishopUSA.com or stop by any Nutrishop location nationwide.
Since 2003, NUTRISHOP® has helped countless individuals live a fit, healthy, happy lifestyle. Nutrishop stores offer customers a low-price guarantee on a wide array of cutting-edge dietary supplements along with exceptional, individualized customer service, easy-to-follow meal plans, body composition assessment tools, and sound nutritional guidance. The Nutrishop business model focuses primarily on franchisee-owned and operated stores that provide consumers with the tools required to achieve their health and fitness goals. For more information, visit NutrishopUSA.com and follow on Instagram @NutrishopUSA.
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How a dehumidifier works
Too much moisture in the air can quickly make your home uncomfortable. It can lead to health problems, too.
High levels of water vapor in the air, known as humidity, are common during hotter months because warm air can hold more moisture than cold air. While location and season influence humidity, a home’s layout and construction also may create spaces where humidity is high.
To lower humidity and make spaces more comfortable and safe, you need a suitable dehumidifier.
How humidity works
The amount of water vapor in the air at any given moment is referred to as humidity. When the air is dry, humidity is low, and when the air feels wet and heavy, the humidity level is high. Too much or too little humidity leads to discomfort and health concerns.
In cold, dry winter months, a lack of humidity can cause itchy, cracked skin and breathing problems. Too much humidity, however, can exacerbate asthma or allergies and create an atmosphere suited for harmful organisms, including mold and mites. Some people may have trouble sleeping in both situations.
When most people discuss humidity, they are referring to relative humidity, which is the measure of moisture in the air compared to how much the air can actually hold. This measurement is expressed as a percentage.
While everyone has preferences, most people desire a relative humidity of 35% to 50% throughout the year. To add moisture to the air, you need a humidifier; to remove the water vapor and lower relative humidity, you need a dehumidifier.
Where humidity comes from
Water vapor comes from a variety of sources within and without the house. The simple act of breathing adds water to the air. However, inside an enclosed space, appliances such as dishwashers and dryers expel warm air and moisture. Hot showers, tea kettles and even fish tanks are contributors to humidity too.
When paired with seasonal high temperatures, these devices and activities exacerbate relative humidity.
How to measure humidity
Humidity is measured by a hygrometer. They’re handy to have, particularly if you’re concerned about water vapor in the air and its consequences. Some weather stations measure relative humidity and other key metrics from outside your home.
However, you don’t need such devices to determine if you need a dehumidifier. Sometimes the weather or season will dictate that. You also may be able to tell the air is too moist by how it feels on your skin, or if you notice condensation in certain spaces.
How dehumidifiers work
A dehumidifier draws in warm air from the immediate area, bringing it in contact with cool coils within the machine. When they make contact, condensation forms and is collected.
Dehumidifier pros
By removing moisture from the air, a dehumidifier provides short- and long-term comfort and health benefits.
- Dehumidifiers prevent the growth and spread of mold and mildew.
- Insects such as silverfish and cockroaches are attracted to warm spaces, particularly where there is mold. A dehumidifier can help prevent their spread.
- While dehumidifiers don’t cool the air, dry air is more comfortable.
- Too much humidity may exacerbate breathing conditions such as asthma. A dehumidifier eases these.
- Dehumidifiers may reduce allergens causing itchiness, sneezing or chest pain.
Dehumidifier cons
It’s harder to remove moisture from the air than it is to add it. While most humidifiers are small, quiet and inexpensive, the most powerful dehumidifiers are bulky, noisy and pricey.
How much a dehumidifier can cover
Dehumidifiers have a limited range from which they can draw moisture. Some are designed for small bedrooms while others are suited for large common areas. Consider what room or rooms need attention and how best to use your resources. Some spaces, particularly basements, may require a regularly running machine, while others may only temporarily need a dehumidifier.
Capacity
A dehumidifier removes water from the air and places it into a reservoir, which needs to be emptied regularly. Note the size of the reservoir, which indicates how much water it can hold, as well as the machine’s power, which informs the rate at which it fills up.
While smaller dehumidifiers may remove 1 liter or less of water from the air a day, the biggest ones extract up to 30.
Location
Basements, especially if they house washers and dryers, and bathrooms where you enjoy a hot shower or bath are two spaces most often in need of a dehumidifier. Attics — or any room with poor ventilation or a lack of air conditioning — also may require a dehumidifier.
How to use a dehumidifier
There are some precautions to take before and while using dehumidifiers, as well as useful features to enjoy.
- Clean the space before use, paying special attention to dust and dirt. The machine can spread around particles, which can also clog the filter.
- Position the dehumidifier at least a foot from any walls or flat surfaces so as not to block inflow or outflow.
- Close windows and doors so air doesn’t continually circulate and bring in more moisture.
- A humidistat identifies the current relative humidity in the space. On most dehumidifiers, you can set your desired humidity.
- Programmable dehumidifiers let you set a specific time to run, such as during the day when you are out, or overnight to conserve energy.
- Continuous drainage lets a hose expel water into a nearby sink or drain so you don’t need to empty a container.
- Clean the air filter at least once a month.
Cost
Compact dehumidifiers for bathroom or bedroom use cost $30-$60. To cover the average common space or living room, however, expect to pay from $150-$250.
Best dehumidifiers
Frigidaire 22-Pint Dehumidifier
This mid-size dehumidifier comes from a trusted name and offers plenty of value for most spaces. It features an automatic shut-off and a rear spigot for continuous drainage, as well as caster wheels for easy movement.
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For smaller spaces, this compact, quiet dehumidifier creates a comfortable atmosphere with easy operation. An automatic shut-off and full water tank light provide convenience.
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Black and Decker 1,500-Square-Foot Dehumidifier
This Energy Star-certified dehumidifier is good for medium to large spaces such as basements. It’s portable and removes up to 20 pints a day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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The U.S. women’s basketball team will have a lot of new faces when the Americans play in the FIBA World Cup next month in Australia.
Gone to retirement are Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles, who were key parts of the Americans’ dominance over the last two decades of international competition. Diana Taurasi was not on the training camp roster, but told The Associated Press before she injured her quad that she was a “maybe” to compete in Sydney.
South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston was the lone college player among the 29 invited to the USA Basketball training camp that will begin next month in Las Vegas. She helped South Carolina win its second national championship and was the AP Player of the Year.
The camp will be from Sept. 6-12 with an intrasquad game set for Sept. 10. The Americans will then travel to Australia to train before the World Cup begins.
Joining Boston are nine players from the Tokyo Olympics, including A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart. Players will report to camp at the conclusion of their WNBA seasons. The playoffs begin Wednesday and if the WNBA Finals goes five games it would end on Sept. 20 — right before the World Cup begins.
“That’s the plan. The plan is to take care of business here, continue to play for Seattle as long as possible and then going to Australia for the worlds,” Stewart said. “We are hopping on a plane, that’s what we are doing.”
The World Cup roster is due about 48 hours before the start of the tournament, which runs from Sept. 22-Oct. 1.
“Everything’s on the table,” said USA national team director Briana Weiss, who took over that role from longtime executive Carol Callan. “I think when we’re dealing with a tight timeframe like this, all options are available to you.”
Ariel Atkins, Chelsea Gray and Jewel Loyd were also on the Tokyo Olympic team that won a seventh straight 5-on-5 gold medal. Kelsey Plum, Allisha Gray, Stefanie Dolson and Jackie Young were part of the gold medal-winning squad for the inaugural 3-on-3 competition in Tokyo. They are also part of the training camp roster.
“I am looking forward to welcoming this amazing group of athletes to a productive training camp as we prepare for the 2022 FIBA World Cup,” coach Cheryl Reeve said. “These athletes will report to camp having just completed their WNBA seasons and it says a lot about their competitive drive and commitment to USA Basketball that they will come to Las Vegas prepared to participate at the highest level.”
Elena Delle Donne and Angel McCoughtry also have Olympic and World Cup experience, winning gold at each. Both missed the Tokyo Games because of injuries and are on the U.S. camp roster. McCoughtry started the season with the Minnesota Lynx before having her contract bought out at the start of the season.
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FLOYD, Va., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parkway Acquisition Corp. ("Parkway" or the "Company") (OTC QX: PKKW) – the holding company for Skyline National Bank ("Skyline"), announces a cash dividend on the Company's common stock of $0.17 per share, payable September 19, 2022 to shareholders of record on September 9, 2022. The Parkway Board of Directors declared the dividend on August 16, 2022.
Skyline is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Parkway and serves southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina with 25 branches.
For more information contact:
Blake Edwards, President & CEO – 276-773-2811
Lori Vaught, EVP & CFO – 276-773-2811
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Dodge ending production of Charger, Challenger in 2023
(Gray News) - Production of the current Dodge Charger and Challenger is ending in 2023.
Representatives with parent company Stellantis confirmed the decision this week in a news release, saying the company is ending production of those models in their current form next year.
Dodge shared that its iconic muscle cars would be celebrated in their final year with several new 2023 models, all including a commemorative “Last Call” under the hood plaque.
“We are celebrating the end of an era — and the start of a bright new electrified future — by staying true to our brand,” said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer.
The muscle cars first appeared in the 1960s and 1970s before being revived in the early 2000s.
Dodge said it plans to offer seven 2023 heritage-influenced models, celebrating the company’s history of its Charger and Challenger vehicles.
The new models will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis once they are available at top-selling Dodge dealerships. The automaker said it will give customers a guide for locating the vehicles at DodgeGarage.com.
According to Dodge, ordering and pricing information for the new 2023 models are expected to be released closer to the on-sale date.
Dodge’s announcement comes as automakers move away from gas-powered cars and invest more in electric vehicles.
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Papa Johns is offering a new take on pizza, without the crust.
The new Papa Bowls are all toppings, with three different varieties. Customers can choose between Garden Veggie, Chicken Alfredo, and Italian Meats Trio.
According to CNN, the bowls are available to the company's loyalty members this week and will roll out nationally Monday, Aug. 22. They will cost $7.99.
Papa Johns allegedly wants to eliminate the "veto vote" with this move. Targeting families who won't visit the chain because of a lack of options. The bowl is a new alternative for those who don't want pizza, according to CNN.
Papa Bowls were reportedly slated to release about six months ago, but the company was unable to get the necessary packaging, which delayed the release. Other than that, the company already has everything needed for the bowls- ingredients-wise.
This is the latest in recent announcements the company has made. Last year, Papa Johns redesigned its logo, dropping the apostrophe in Johns. More recently, the chain announced limited-time stuffed crust pizza options and New York-style pizza. | https://www.fox43.com/article/life/food/papa-johns-announces-new-pizza-bowls-that-are-just-toppings-pennsylvania/521-82390136-b2a8-4e42-82fd-e565bea763f8 | 2022-08-17T20:48:39Z | https://www.fox43.com/article/life/food/papa-johns-announces-new-pizza-bowls-that-are-just-toppings-pennsylvania/521-82390136-b2a8-4e42-82fd-e565bea763f8 | false |
DENVER (KDVR) — Across the country, kids are headed back to school for the new school year. That means your social media feed is probably getting flooded with first day of school photos.
You have also likely seen a lot of photos with kids holding chalkboard signs that show:
- Name
- The school they’re attending
- Age
- Teacher’s name
- Height/weight
- Favorite activities
But officials warn this can actually be dangerous. A sheriff’s office in Woodstock, Illinois started a campaign called “Think Before You Share.”
The campaign is warning parents that the popular back to school photos could be used by predators, scammers, and other people looking to endanger your child, family, or finances. The sheriff’s office said it doesn’t matter if your privacy settings are set to share with your friends only.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said families should also avoid sharing overly personal information, like words or phrases related to your passwords or security answers. Additionally, details about your kid’s favorite things (colors, TV shows, etc.) could be used as an “in” by predators pretending they know a child.
While you might want to share out all the exciting details, the sheriff’s office suggests thinking about how anything you add to photos of your kids could be used by bad actors.
It’s also important for families to be aware of how and when children are most likely to be abducted or fall prey to child predators.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children explains attempted abductions happen more often when children are going to or from school. School-age children are more likely to experience an attempted abduction are school days from 7 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. | https://who13.com/news/national-news/back-to-school-chalkboard-photos-could-be-an-invite-for-predators-scammers/ | 2022-08-17T20:49:50Z | https://who13.com/news/national-news/back-to-school-chalkboard-photos-could-be-an-invite-for-predators-scammers/ | false |
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (Natixis CIB) led the financing of approximately US$360 million for a portfolio of solar photovoltaic PMGD plants in Chile with expected capacity of approximately 360MWdc sponsored by Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure (CC&L Infrastructure) and CarbonFree Technology (together, the "Sponsors"). The financings are comprised of a $19 million letter of credit facility, a $71 million bridge-loan facility which will be used to fund ongoing construction costs, and an approximate $270 million private placement facility whose proceeds will be used primarily to refinance existing bank debt and repay the bridge-loan facility once projects complete construction.
Natixis CIB acted as Lead Placement Agent and Green Issuance Coordinator for the private placement and as Sole Bookrunner, Sole Underwriter and Green Loan Coordinator for the bridge-loan and the letter of credit facilities.
This represents the largest PMGD portfolio financed to date both in terms of installed capacity and number of projects.
The Sponsors' portfolio consists of 53 solar projects which operate under Chile's special regime for distributed generation projects (known as "PMGD"), entitling the projects to sell their energy output at the regulated stabilized price.
"We are excited to complete this refinancing, one of the largest solar project private placements in Chile to date," said Matt O'Brien, President of CC&L Infrastructure. "The aggregation, de-risking and successful construction of individual, small-scale projects is the culmination of a multi-year strategy, allowing us to secure long-term financing at competitive rates and create value for our investors. Our base of Chilean solar assets is part of our large and rapidly growing energy transition portfolio that aggregates over 1.5 gigawatts of renewable assets across a range of clean energy technologies."
"This is Natixis' twelfth PMGD financing in three years and the PMGD portfolio financing the largest installed capacity ever arranged by any institution. In aggregate, Natixis has financed approximately US$1.5 billion to support the development of PMGD renewable power generation projects in Chile. This successful series of transactions builds on our extensive track record of innovation in Latin America and solidifies our position as the "one-stop-shop" for PMGD project developers seeking creative financing solutions. We look forward to continuing to support the Sponsors in their growth in the region and to support Chile's continuous efforts toward energy transition", said Aitor Alava, Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure & Energy Finance, Latin America at Natixis CIB.
"Chile is making excellent progress towards the country's 2030 clean energy and decarbonization targets, in addition to their overarching goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We're pleased that our portfolio of solar projects can contribute to this leadership on climate action, as well as provide Chilean citizens with affordable electricity for years to come," said David Oxtoby, CEO of CarbonFree.
Anthony Ferraro, Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets, Americas, Natixis CIB, said: "We are honored to have advised the Sponsors as a trusted partner in leading this important capital markets financing milestone in the U.S. private placement bond market for this PMGD portfolio with the largest installed capacity developed in Chile to date. Despite a more challenged market environment, several leading institutional investors in the U.S. private placement market participated in this transaction. The result is truly a testament to the quality of the sponsorship and transaction structuring, and illustrative of the value and flexibility that can be delivered to equity sponsors by partnering with long-term minded USPP infrastructure investors with the ability to transact through short-term volatility."
The PMGD regime was created in 2005, with the goal of incentivizing more distributed and greener electricity generation. The projects in the portfolio will contribute to Chile's broader energy transition as the country gradually retires coal plants on its way towards the long-term goal of carbon-neutrality. Once all projects in the Sponsors' portfolio enter operations, the facilities will be capable of producing more than 750,000 MW hours of clean electricity annually.
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Our teams of experts in 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. We are committed to supporting the environmental transition by aligning our financing balance sheet with a +1.5°C trajectory by 2050.
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Get ready to sink your teeth into Vampire Academy's official trailer.
On Aug. 17, Peacock released the wickedly sexy full trailer for their highly anticipated new sci-fi series based on the best-selling book series by Richelle Mead.
From executive producers Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries) and Marguerite MacIntyre (The Originals), the show follows the unlikely friendship between Rose Hathaway (Sisi Stringer) and her guardian Lissa Dragomir (Daniela Nieves) as they prepare to complete their education and enter vampire society. The new preview teases friendship, action-packed fights, terrifying monsters and plenty of steamy sex scenes.
Nieves' Lissa also promises to bring about change for her kind. "I'm the royal princess that needs protecting," she says in the sneak peek. "I can be a leader who ruled not just for the royals, but for all citizens."
Meanwhile, Hathaway's Rose vows to do whatever it takes to keep Lissa out of harm's way. "She's my family," she says. "I would die for her."
Plec and MacIntyre promise Vampire Academy has "never been more timely," adding in a joint statement, "A brilliant exploration of an inherently unbalanced class-based society, with pampered Royals on one end, and a Guardian class whose sole purpose is to protect them on the other, as well as an ugly dynastic change on the horizon, it's a world teetering on the edge."
Check out the full trailer below, plus more newly released first-look photos from the show.
Vampire Academy premieres Thursday, Sept. 15 on Peacock.
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Walmart beats Q2 earnings estimates
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US retail giant Walmart has topped analysts’ earnings estimates in the second quarter of the year, which it lowered last month as it warned of inflationary pressures.
In the three months to July 29, adjusted earnings per share was 1.77 dollars, just one cent lower than a year ago, and higher than analysts’ estimates of 1.62 dollars, according to data from Refinitiv.
The results come after Walmart last month lowered its profit outlook for the second quarter and full year as consumers cut back on spending amid rising inflation.
It said at the time it expected FY adjusted earnings per share to decline by around 11 percent to 13 percent - against a previous estimate of just a 1 percent drop.
Based on its Q2 results, it now expects that decline to be slightly smaller, by between 9 percent to 11 percent.
Walmart’s total Q2 revenue came in at 152.9 billion dollars, up 8.4 percent from a year ago, or up 9.1 percent in constant currency.
Walmart CEO and president Doug McMillon told investors: “We’re pleased to see more customers choosing Walmart during this inflationary period, and we’re working hard to support them as they prioritize their spending.
“The actions we’ve taken to improve inventory levels in the US, along with a heavier mix of sales in grocery put pressure on profit margin for Q2 and our outlook for the year. We made good progress throughout the quarter operationally to improve costs in our supply chain, and that work is ongoing.”
Walmart now expects consolidated net sales growth of around 4.5 percent for the full year, while it expects Walmart US comparable sales growth, excluding fuel, of about 3 percent. | https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/walmart-beats-q2-earnings-estimates/2022081764690 | 2022-08-17T20:52:00Z | https://fashionunited.uk/news/business/walmart-beats-q2-earnings-estimates/2022081764690 | true |
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grown by the community, for the community, eight gardens across the Inland Empire – including one that involves fish – are providing access to fresh fruits and vegetables for neighbors facing food insecurity.
For the last year, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) has worked closely with community partners to support these gardens, including an inspiring collaboration with Music Changing Lives (MCL) Chief Executive Officer Josiah Bruny, to bring a new community garden to San Bernardino.
Located on the corner of Electric Avenue and North 40th Street in San Bernardino – once one of the largest dumping sites in the city – the land has been transformed into MCL's Urban Garden. In addition to addressing food insecurity, the garden aims to provide a safe space where neighbors can come together to learn, exercise, eat, explore, relax and have fun.
Home to Soulful Sunday events every fourth Sunday of the month, local residents are invited to visit the garden for gardening workshops and various volunteer opportunities, while enjoying music, food and more. Information on Soulful Sunday events can be found on MCL's Facebook page.
"The best part about this project is that it's all led by the community," said Bruny. "Working together, we can bring more love to the region and those who need it most. We look forward to leveling up in our efforts to make the Inland Empire a better place for us all."
In addition to sponsorship, IEHP supports the garden by providing volunteers through the company's team member Helping Hearts program and Health Education team. Volunteers work alongside program leaders pulling weeds, planting trees, spreading mulch, building garden beds and irrigating crops.
"Through the right partnerships, compassion and drive to heal and inspire the human spirit, these gardens are thriving and bringing a diversity of wellness opportunities to our neighbors," said IEHP Senior Community Health Director Cesar Armendariz. "We appreciate the love Music Changing Lives has for the Inland Empire and the people who live here and look forward to continuing to plant and harvest more gardens for a healthier community."
The health plan also provided sponsorship to "Jardín Comunitario de la Salud" – Spanish for "Community Garden of Health" – to help support a large aquaponics garden at the Loma Linda University Health SACHS clinic in San Bernardino.
The first of its kind in the Inland Empire, the garden is home to a large quantity of fish that work symbiotically, nourishing garden beds and working to create food that can be harvested and consumed by the community.
Gardens are located in Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Jurupa, Perris and San Bernardino. For more information on local community gardens, visit: riversidefoods.org.
To our media friends, IEHP is happy to help arrange photo, video and interview opportunities at any of these garden sites – yes, including the garden that has put fish to work!
With a mission to heal and inspire the human spirit, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) is one of the top 10 largest Medicaid health plans and the largest not-for-profit Medicare-Medicaid plan in the country. In its 26th year, IEHP is supporting more than 1.5 million residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties who are enrolled in Medicaid or Cal MediConnect Plans and has a growing network of over 7,800 providers and nearly 3,000 team members. Through dynamic partnerships with providers and community organizations, paired with award-winning service and a tradition of quality care, IEHP is fully committed to their vision: We will not rest until our communities enjoy optimal care and vibrant health. For more information, visit iehp.org.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $2.82 billion.
The San Jose, California-based company said it had net income of 68 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense and non-recurring costs, were 83 cents per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 82 cents per share.
The seller of routers, switches, software and services posted revenue of $13.1 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $12.75 billion.
For the year, the company reported profit of $11.81 billion, or $2.82 per share. Revenue was reported as $51.56 billion.
For the current quarter ending in November, Cisco expects its per-share earnings to range from 82 cents to 84 cents.
The company expects full-year earnings in the range of $3.49 to $3.56 per share.
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Level 1 Children's Surgical Verification recognizes CHOC's commitment to optimal surgical care
ORANGE, Calif., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CHOC Hospital has been granted Level 1 Children's Surgical Verification by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). This notable achievement acknowledges CHOC's steadfast commitment to quality improvement and patient safety efforts for children requiring surgical services. CHOC is the first hospital to earn this distinction in Southern California and one of only four in the state.
To become verified, centers must meet rigorous criteria for staffing, training and facility infrastructure. They must also demonstrate excellent protocols for care to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients undergoing surgery, as well as participate in a national data registry that yields semiannual reports on the quality of its processes and outcomes. The application process for verification is followed by an extensive site visit by an ACS team of surveyors that include experienced pediatric surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nurses.
ACS established the Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program to improve the quality of children's surgical care by creating a system that allows for a prospective match of every child's individual surgical needs with a care environment that has optimal pediatric resources. The program is based on other nationally recognized ACS quality improvement programs that have measurably improved surgical quality.
"When a child needs a surgery, that child's needs are very different than those of an adult patient needing the same or similar procedure," said CHOC Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sandip Godambe. "Our nationally recognized surgeons perform the latest procedures, using equipment that is customized to pediatric patients all the way from newborns to young adults—in operating and procedure rooms designed for safety, precision and efficiency."
The Tidwell Procedure Center at CHOC features seven operating rooms and advanced technology and information systems including the daVinci Si robotic surgical system with Firefly fluorescence imaging; full operating room data, imaging and video integration and video conferencing; the ROSA robotic device for neurological procedures; StealthStation surgical navigation and O-arm imaging technology; and a patient tracking system that allows families to track a patient's progress throughout the surgical procedure. Using the technology integration system iSuite by Stryker, CHOC was the first children's hospital in the region to have a fully integrated operating room.
The center also features three state-of-the-art endoscopy procedure rooms, two surgical procedure rooms and a Gastrointestinal Motility Lab. The center provides procedural care for patients of multiple specialties such as gastroenterology, pulmonology, oncology, dentistry and other surgical specialties. An 18-bed pre-operative unit includes all private rooms, and an 18-bed post-anesthesia care unit is configured to meet the unique needs of a wide variety of patients. Two isolation rooms are available for patients with contagious conditions, and other glass-enclosed rooms are for critical care patients who require specialized technology and ventilators.
Also featured is a cardiac catheterization lab—a biplane lab with hybrid capabilities—where invasive and neuroradiology procedures are offered as well. The center also includes a dedicated electrophysiology suite for patients with abnormal heart rhythms, offering both radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation, as well as 3D mapping.
CHOC Hospital is part of a pediatric healthcare system based in Orange County, California that is committed to being a leading destination for children's health by providing exceptional and innovative care. The growing healthcare system includes two state-of-the-art hospitals in Orange and Mission Viejo and a regional network of primary and specialty care clinics serving children and families in four counties. CHOC offers several clinical programs of excellence providing the highest levels of care for the most serious pediatric illnesses and injuries, physical and mental. CHOC's research and innovation institutes are focused on translating real patient needs into real-world treatments so every child can live the healthiest and happiest life possible.
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Companies plan $2.6B investment in major Alaska oil project
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two oil and gas companies have announced plans to invest $2.6 billion into developing a major oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. The Anchorage Daily News reports that Australia-based Santos and Spain-based Repsol made the announcement Tuesday. The announcement was cheered by state political leaders. Santos has a 51% stake in the Pikka project, and the company says its investment will be $1.3 billion. Santos last year acquired Oil Search of Papua New Guinea, which had been working to advance the project. If developed, the field on state land east of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could significantly boost the flow of oil through the trans-Alaska pipeline system. | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/17/companies-plan-2-6b-investment-in-major-alaska-oil-project/ | 2022-08-17T20:56:06Z | https://kion546.com/news/2022/08/17/companies-plan-2-6b-investment-in-major-alaska-oil-project/ | true |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper A$AP Rocky has pleaded not guilty to felony assault with a firearm charges stemming from a 2021 confrontation in Hollywood.
He is accused of drawing a gun and firing it twice in the direction of a former friend during an argument in Hollywood in November 2021. He pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and ordered to return to court on Nov. 2.
Los Angeles Superior Court Victoria B. Wilson ordered the rapper, whose legal name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, to stay away from the former friend.
Mayers and two other men fled after he fired the gun, police said. He was first arrested in the incident at Los Angeles International Airport on April 20, and was released on bail the same day.
A member of the Harlem hip hop collective A$AP Mob, A$AP Rocky first made his mark in music with the single “Peso” in 2011. His 2013 debut album, “Long. Live. A$AP,” went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as did its 2015 follow-up, “At. Long. Last. A$AP.” He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards.
He is in a relationship with Rihanna, and the two had a son in May. Both have become as known for fashion trendsetting as for their music. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/A-AP-Rocky-pleads-not-guilty-to-firearm-assault-17380034.php | 2022-08-17T20:56:50Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/A-AP-Rocky-pleads-not-guilty-to-firearm-assault-17380034.php | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party as well as her own family legacy, the most high-profile political casualty yet as the party of Lincoln transforms into the party of Trump.
The fall of the three-term congresswoman, who has declared it her mission to ensure Donald Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was vividly foreshadowed earlier this year, on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
As the House convened for a moment of silence, Cheney, who is leading the investigation into the insurrection as vice chair of the 1/6 committee, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, stood almost alone on the Republican side of the House floor.
Democratic lawmakers streamed by to shake their hands. Republicans declined to join them.
“Liz Cheney represents the Republican Party as it used to be. … All of that is gone now,” said Geoff Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the center-right Niskanen Center.
What comes next for Liz Cheney is still to be determined.
“Now the real work begins,” she said in an election night concession speech in Wyoming, summoning the legacy of both Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War-era military and presidential successor Ulysses Grant in her campaign against Trump.
Cheney could very well announce her own run for the White House — unlikely to win a hostile Republican Party’s nomination but to at least give those opposed to Trump an alternative.
Overnight, she transferred leftover campaign funds into a new entity: “The Great Task.” That’s a phrase from The Gettysburg Address.
“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office,” Cheney told NBC’s “Today” show early Wednesday. Pressed, she said that running for president “is something I’m thinking about and I’ll make a decision in the coming months.”
Whether she runs or not, her belief that Trump poses a danger to democracy is a conviction that runs deep in her family.
But it’s a view that has no home in today’s GOP.
Trump is purging the Republican Party, ridding it of dissenters like Cheney and others who dare to defy him, shifting the coast-to-coast GOP landscape and the makeup of Congress.
Of the 10 House Republicans including Cheney who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, at the Capitol, only two remain candidates for re-election. The others have bowed out or, like Cheney, have been defeated by Trump-backed challengers.
If Republicans gain control of the House and Senate in the November elections, the new Congress is destined to be remade in Trump’s image. However, his influence may in fact cut two ways, winning back the House for Republicans but costing the party the Senate if his candidates fail to generate the broader appeal needed for statewide elections.
“It’s just a party of Donald Trump’s fever dreams,” said Mark Salter, a former longtime Republican aide to the late Sen. John McCain.
“It’s just Donald Trump’s club.”
For 50 years, the Cheneys have had important influence in Washington, from the time Dick Cheney first ran for Congress — later being elected vice president — to the arrival of his daughter, elected in 2016 alongside Trump’s White House victory.
Identified with the hawkish defense wing of the Republican Party, the Cheneys with the Presidents Bush represented a cornerstone of the GOP in the post-World War II era, when it thrived as a party of small government, low taxation and muscular foreign policy.
Liz Cheney never wavered, chosen by House GOP colleagues to the same position her father held, the No. 3 Republican in the House, its highest-ranking woman.
But the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol changed all that.
Cheney was unequivocal, laying blame for the attack on the defeated president and his false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election.
Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” she said at the time, announcing her vote to impeach.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy initially defended Cheney but quickly reversed as Republicans booted her from party leadership. When Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Cheney to the 1/6 panel, her exile was all but complete.
Trump gloated at Cheney’s GOP primary defeat Tuesday night, deriding her as “sanctimonious” and a “fool” for suggesting his claims of a rigged election were false.
Trump had swooped into the Cowboy State to rally for Harriet Hageman, who was once highly critical of him but beat Cheney by embracing the former president, backed by McCarthy and other party leaders.
Cheney’s defeat follows that of the last Bush in public office, Jeb’s son George P. Bush, who was defeated in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general by Trump-backed Ken Paxton in May.
On Fox News, conservative author Charlie Kirk called Tuesday’s election a “mass repudiation” of the Bush-Cheney-McCain era.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who replaced Cheney in House GOP leadership and endorsed Hageman, said in a statement she was glad to see Pelosi’s “puppet” defeated.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming who served in Congress alongside Dick Cheney and has known Liz Cheney since she was a child, says he can no longer recognize the party that he joined, casting his first presidential vote for Dwight Eisenhower.
“What’s happened to our party is a fear of Donald J. Trump,” Simpson said.
Founded in the mid-19th century, the Republican Party’s core conservative values have shifted in the Trump era into a strain of politics that is more inward focused on grievances at home and isolationism abroad.
Those running for Congress include many Republican incumbents who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election, amplifying Trump’s relentless false claims of a rigged election and fueling the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
And many of the new GOP candidates for Congress are also election deniers, according to a tally by Democrats.
“The House is — should be — the people’s House,” said former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida. Instead, he said, “It’s controlled by Mr. Trump,”
Cheney walks alone many days at the Capitol, flanked by plain-clothes Capitol police who guard her amid an onslaught of violent threats.
Her mission of denying Trump a return to the presidency can be seen in her daily schedule, much of her time devoted to the 1/6 committee deepening and completing its work.
Fellow Wyoming Republican Simpson said he has no doubt what’s next for Cheney: “She’ll mount a new set of horses and ride to the finish line.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/cheneys-defeat-end-of-an-era-for-gop-trumps-party-now/ | 2022-08-17T20:58:00Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/cheneys-defeat-end-of-an-era-for-gop-trumps-party-now/ | false |
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria denied on Wednesday it is holding U.S. journalist Austin Tice or other Americans after President Joe Biden accused the Syrian government of detaining him.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Damascus “denies it had kidnapped or is holding any American citizen on its territories.”
“The U.S. issued last week misleading and illogical statements by the American president and secretary of state that included baseless accusations against Syria that it had kidnapped or detained American citizens including former U.S. Marine Austin Tice,” the statement said.
Biden’s comments last week came in a statement released by the White House to mark the 10th anniversary of Tice’s abduction, which took place when he was in Syria covering its lengthy conflict. Biden’s remarks were the clearest indication so far that the U.S. is certain Tice is being held by the government of President Bashar Assad.
“We know with certainty that he has been held by the Government of Syria,” Biden said in his statement last week. “We have repeatedly asked the government of Syria to work with us so that we can bring Austin home.”
State Department Spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Tuesday that the U.S. government has pushed Syria to return every American. On Tice’s case specifically, he said, the Biden administration has “engaged extensively – and that includes directly – with Syrian officials and through third parties.”
“Syria has never acknowledged holding him,” Price said of Tice, adding that “we are not going to be deterred in our efforts. We are going to pursue every avenue for securing Austin’s safe return.”
The Syrian Foreign Ministry denied in its statement having any secret contacts with U.S. officials on the missing Americans, adding that “any official dialogue with the American government will only be public based on the respect of Syria’s sovereignty.”
In May, top Lebanese security official Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim met with U.S. officials in Washington as part of mediation efforts between the U.S. and Syria for Tice’s release. Ibrahim, the chief of Lebanon’s General Security Directorate, has mediated complicated hostage releases in the past.
In May, Biden met Tice’s parents and reiterated his commitment to working toward “Austin’s long overdue return to his family.”
In the final months of the Trump administration, two U.S. officials — including the government’s top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, a former Army Special Forces officer — made a secret visit to Damascus to seek information on Tice and other Americans who have disappeared in Syria. It was the highest-level talks in years between the U.S. and Assad’s government, though Syrian officials offered no meaningful information on Tice.
Tice went missing shortly after his 31st birthday on Aug. 14, 2012 at a checkpoint in a contested area west of the capital of Damascus. A video released a month later showed him blindfolded and held by armed men, saying, “Oh, Jesus.” He has not been heard from since.
Tice is one of two Americans who went missing in Syria. The other is Majd Kamalmaz, a psychologist from Virginia, who vanished in Syria in 2017.
Tice is from Houston and his work had been published by The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers and other outlets. He went to Syria to cover the conflict that started in 2011. The war has left hundreds of thousands dead and displaced nearly half of the pre-conflict population of 23 million. More than 5 million of those are outside the country.
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Mroue reported from Beirut. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/syria-denies-it-is-holding-american-journalist-austin-tice/ | 2022-08-17T20:58:29Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/syria-denies-it-is-holding-american-journalist-austin-tice/ | true |
Terrifying moment girl, 13, suffers deadly fall off carnival ride in Honduras: Spokesperson for company that operates the ride claimed the girl 'fainted' and it's not their fault
- WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
- Britany Fernández was killed after falling off a carnival ride in Santa Bárbara, Honduras on Sunday night
- The 13-year-old was sitting on the ride with her mother and friends when she fell off a spinning wheel that was upside down
- Video footage showed Fernández falling from her seat before she landed on the ride platform; she was declared dead at the scene by paramedics
- A spokesperson for the company operating the amusement park ride said the girl 'fainted' and that they are not at fault
This is the horrific moment a teenage girl fell to her death from a carnival ride in the western Honduras province of Santa Bárbara on Sunday.
Britany Fernández, 13, can be seen in the video sitting with other family members as the pendulum of the ride known as 'Jupiter' moved back and forth, swinging the spinning wheel from the air to a couple of feet just above the platform as her family recorded.
The wheel was positioned upside down when Fernández suddenly slips from her seat and crashes to the platform.
Loud screams can be heard in the background with an adult moving a child back before the video comes to an end.
Fernández was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
Britany Fernández was killed Sunday night in Santa Bárbara, Honduras, after falling from a carnival ride. The 13-year-old was accompanied by her mother and family members when the security bar on her seat loosened, which caused her to slip out and land on a platform below
Still image of the Honduran carnival ride that 13-year-old Britany Fernández was on moments before she suffered a deadly fall after the security bar of her seat loosened
Santa Bárbara police spokesperson Jesús Pineda said her death was ruled as an accident and that investigators had filed a report with the prosecutor's office.
Local media outlets reported that some of the locks on the seats of the ride were rusty and did not function properly.
A representative for the company that operates the rides at the fairground spoke with a local television network and said the incident 'was an accident.'
'The girl got on (the ride) accompanied by her mother. But she fainted. It's not our fault. We have operation permits,' the agent spokesperson said.
A spokesperson for the company that operated the rides at a carnival in Honduras told a local television station that Britany Fernández 'fainted' and that the accident was not their 'fault'
Adults huddle over Britany Fernández moments after she fell from the spinning wheel ride
Oscar Trimino, spokesperson for the Santa Bárbara fire department, said the town of Chinda, where the festival was held, does not have a fire station, which would have had a role in issuing a permit for the operation of the rides.
'It is recommended that the mayor's office request support from fire stations that are nearby, in this case to the Santa Bárbara station to send equipment and carry out electrical, mechanical and all security levels checks,' Trimino said.
The fairground has been shut down since Sunday.
Fernández was a seventh grader at the Juan Lindo Institute. Classmates and a school administrator remembered her as a 'sweet girl' who was 'very charismatic, very humble.' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11121071/Terrifying-moment-girl-13-suffers-deadly-fall-carnival-ride-Honduras.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-08-17T21:00:00Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11121071/Terrifying-moment-girl-13-suffers-deadly-fall-carnival-ride-Honduras.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
ORONO, Maine (AP) — Samantha Hegmann-Wary, associate athletic director for compliance, will serve as acting athletic director at the University of Maine starting next month, officials said Wednesday.
The appointment was announced after the departure of Athletic Director Ken Ralph, who is headed to Division III Southwestern University.
Hegmann-Wary will lead the department during a transformative era marked by a $90 million grant from the Harold Alfond Foundation to upgrade sports facilities, said UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy.
Hegmann-Wary was hired by UMaine in 2019. She oversees the implementation of NCAA rules and regulations for all 17 varsity programs. She also serves as supervisor for several sports. | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/UMaine-appoints-interim-athletic-director-17380148.php | 2022-08-17T21:00:08Z | https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/article/UMaine-appoints-interim-athletic-director-17380148.php | true |
WFO SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 19, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Hanford CA
1247 PM PDT Wed Aug 17 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS
EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO
8 PM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...For the Excessive Heat Warning, high temperatures 103
to 108 degrees in the San Joaquin Valley and maximum
temperatures 98 to 103 degrees in the Lower Sierra Nevada
foothills, Kern River Valley, and Coastal Range. For the Heat
Advisory, high temperatures 101 to 106 degrees in the San
Joaquin Valley and maximum temperatures 96 to 101 degrees in
the Lower Sierra Nevada foothills, Kern River Valley, and
Coastal Range.
* WHERE...San Joaquin Valley, Lower Sierra Nevada foothills,
Kern River Valley, and Coastal Range.
* WHEN...For the Excessive Heat Warning, until 11 PM PDT this
evening. For the Heat Advisory, from 11 PM this evening to 8
PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat and humidity will significantly
increase the potential for heat related illnesses,
particularly for those working or participating in outdoor
activities.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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