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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s medical marijuana users face new rules for storage of edibles, smokables, and tinctures due to a newly published emergency rule form the Department of Health. While green still means go, for those prescribed the herb, the state will now apply supply limits and strength rules to what they can keep on them and at home.
Going forward, Floridians who have received a medical marijuana use card, allowing them to fill prescriptions for various marijuana products for treatment use, will have different supply limits based on the type of use they rely on.
For those who are prescribed marijuana with an edible prescription, the amount they’re allowed to retain will now be limited to a 70-day supply. For marijuana in smokable form, the limit is set to a 35-day supply.
According to the new emergency rule, “Marijuana in a form for smoking shall only be dispensed by an MMTC as usable whole flower, ground usable whole flower, or prerolled marijuana cigarettes. An MMTC may not dispense usable whole flower, ground usable whole flower, or prerolled marijuana cigarettes under any other route of administration (e.g., vaporization).” MMTCs are Medical Marijuana Treatment Clinics.
The new rule limits daily dosages, in addition to supply limits for THC amounts.
Florida will now also limit dosage strength per restricted supply. The emergency rule states “an aggregate 70-day supply limit of marijuana, other than marijuana in a form for smoking, shall not exceed 24,500 mg of THC.” THC, or Tetrahydrocannabinol, is the psychoactive chemical in marijuana.
The rule will set limits on how much marijuana can be prescribed by a qualified physician, though it does allow for the doctors to request an exception for the daily dose limits, the 35-day supply limit for smokable marijuana, and the 4-ounce possession limit of marijuana to smoke.
Exceptions for the ounce possession limit “will only be approved in conjunction with an approved exception to the 35-day supply limit for marijuana in a form for smoking,” the rule said. This means that only patients who have already had a 35-day supply limit exception approved may apply and potentially receive a possession limit exception.
Regulators will also now require measurement of day supply by the “date of each dispensation” rather than total dispensation history, according to the emergency rule. The regulatory changes took effect on Aug. 26. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/new-medical-marijuana-rules-in-effect-for-florida-patients/ | 2022-08-30T19:48:32Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/new-medical-marijuana-rules-in-effect-for-florida-patients/ | false |
INDIANAPOLIS — Planned Parenthood, along with other women’s health groups, have filed a lawsuit to block Indiana’s near-total ban on abortion from taking effect.
The lawsuit, which was filed in state court this week, argues that the new law violates the right to privacy and equal privileges protections under the Indiana Constitution. The suit was filed by Planned Parenthood’s Great Northwest group along with Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, Women’s Med Group Professional Corporation and All-Options, Inc.
Additionally, the lawsuit argues the abortion law does not provide doctors clarity on when abortions would be allowed. The suit also states that the three exceptions the law allows for abortion are “extremely limited” and unclear.
Senate Bill 1, a statewide, near-total ban on abortions, was passed by the Indiana Senate and signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb on Aug. 5. The first state to hold a special session on abortion following the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade, Indiana became a center of discussion on abortion rights following the bill’s passage.
If the Court chooses not to intervene regarding Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, the ban is set to take effect on Sept. 15. This, Planned Parenthood argues in the lawsuit, will “virtually eliminate abortion access across the state.”
“Unless this ban is blocked, patients seeking abortion will be unable to access timely and potentially life-saving care in their own communities,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “The abortion ban that the legislature rushed through during a special session — nearly immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — is both dangerous and incredibly cruel. We demand more for patients and providers, and we will continue fighting for everyone’s right to make their own decisions about their bodies, lives, and futures.”
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has repeatedly supported the Senate bill, fighting multiple lawsuits asking for dismissal of abortion regulations since the bill’s passage. Rokita released a statement Tuesday following the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging a state law that will require health care providers to report abortion complications to the state health department.
“We are making strong and steady progress in protecting women’s health and safeguarding unborn children,” AG Rokita said. “Day by day, we are building a culture that respects the lives and well-being of all Hoosiers.”
Two of Indiana’s largest employers, including Eli Lilly and Cummins, have publicly opposed the abortion ban, saying they will now look for growth opportunities outside of the state. Many advocacy groups, including the ACLU of Indiana, have also said the bill violates the state’s constitution.
“From its very inception, the Indiana Constitution has protected the right to privacy. Implicit in this right, is the right for a woman to make medical decisions regarding her own reproductive health,” said Ken Falk, legal director at the ACLU of Indiana. “This ban on abortion will force Hoosiers to carry pregnancies against their will, leading to life-altering consequences and serious health risks. Deeply private, personal, and unique decisions about reproductive health should be made by women in consultation with their doctors. Whether Indiana elected officials personally agree with abortion access or not, it is not up to the government to make these decisions for Hoosiers.”
To read a full copy of the filed lawsuit, click here. | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/planned-parenthood-other-groups-file-lawsuit-to-block-indiana-abortion-ban/ | 2022-08-30T19:50:32Z | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/planned-parenthood-other-groups-file-lawsuit-to-block-indiana-abortion-ban/ | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Any federal student loans used to attend the for-profit Westwood College from 2002 through 2015 will be canceled after federal officials found that the school greatly exaggerated the job prospects of its graduates, the Biden administration announced Tuesday.
The action will automatically erase $1.5 billion in federal student debt for 79,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct college, according to the Education Department.
It adds to the administration’s mounting effort to cancel federal loans for students who were defrauded by their colleges — more than $14 billion has been erased so far — and it follows President Joe Biden’s sweeping plan to cancel at least $10,000 in student debt for millions of Americans.
The Westwood College cancellation applies to all students who attended the chain from Jan. 1, 2002, through Nov. 17, 2015, when the college stopped enrolling new students before its 2016 closure. Students will not need to apply for the relief.
With help from attorneys general in Colorado and Illinois, federal officials found that the college routinely misled prospective students about their chances of getting good jobs after graduating.
In its marketing materials, the chain advertised employment rates and salary outcomes that were “grossly inflated,” the Education Department found. It also promised to help graduates pay their bills if they couldn’t find jobs within six months after graduating — a pledge officials say wasn’t kept.
In Illinois, the chain’s criminal justice programs told students they could expect law enforcement jobs in agencies including the Illinois State Police, but Westwood never had the accreditation needed to meet employment requirements for the state, authorities found.
“Westwood operated on a culture of false promises, lies, and manipulation in order to profit off student debt that burdened borrowers long after Westwood closed,” said James Kvaal, under secretary of education.
Kvaal said the administration is ramping up efforts to protect students and to “ensure that executives who commit such harm never work at institutions that receive federal financial aid again.”
Before its closure, Westwood operated 15 campuses in California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois and Virginia, along with online programs.
A group of students and civil rights organizations sued the Education Department in May demanding debt cancellation for Westwood students in Illinois based on findings of fraud there. It followed a settlement between the college and Illinois that erased institutional loans but not federal debt.
“It never should have taken this long — or litigation — for the Department of Education to do the right thing, but we are thrilled that the department has finally discharged the loans of defrauded Westwood College students,” said Dan Zibel, chief counsel at National Student Legal Defense Network, one of the groups behind the suit.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called it a victory for students but said more must be done “to crack down on for-profit colleges that lie and lead Illinoisans into mountains of student debt without a viable degree or career path.”
The cancellation is being granted through a federal rule known as borrower defense, which provides federal student debt cancellation to borrowers whose colleges misled them or defrauded them in other ways. The rule has mostly been used to erase debt used to attend for-profit colleges.
In similar actions, the Biden administration also moved to cancel nearly $6 billion for former students of Corinthian Colleges and nearly $4 billion for former students of ITT Technical institute.
After months of intense pressure for broader student debt cancellation, Biden last week unveiled a plan to forgive $10,000 in federal student debt for all borrowers with incomes less than $125,000 a year or $250,000 per household. Those who received a federal Pell Grant to attend college are eligible for an additional $10,000 in cancellation.
The plan, which is almost certain to be challenged in court, applies to federal student loans that were paid out before July 1 of this year. It applies to loans used to attend undergraduate and graduate programs.
Most borrowers will need to apply for cancellation through an application that the Education Department is expected to create by early October. Early applicants could see their student debt canceled before the start of next year, when a federal pause on student debt payments is set to expire.
The White House estimates the cancellation will cost $240 billion over the next 10 years, but outside analysts say it could be much higher. Official cost projections from the federal government are expected in coming weeks. | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/former-westwood-college-students-have-federal-debt-canceled/ | 2022-08-30T19:50:46Z | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/national-news/former-westwood-college-students-have-federal-debt-canceled/ | false |
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The remains of a young girl found dead in East Tennessee more than three decades ago have been identified through DNA analysis. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is now asking for the public’s help to determine what happened to her.
This week, the remains were positively identified as Tracy Sue Walker, who went missing from the Lafayette, Indiana area in 1978 when she was around 15 years old.
Skeletal remains were found in the Big Wheel Gap area of Campbell County on April 3, 1985.
Forensic anthropologists at the time determined that the skeletal remains were those of a white female, likely between the age of 10 and 15. Investigators were unable to determine her identity and she became affectionately known as ‘Baby Girl.’
Special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are working to determine what happened to Walker and how she ended up in Campbell County.
TBI shared a timeline showing how investigators confirmed her identity:
- In 2007, a sample of her remains was submitted to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) in hopes of identifying the victim. A DNA profile was developed for the victim and entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) as well as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System in hopes that she would eventually be identified.
- In 2013, a TBI agent and intelligence analyst revisited the case and began searching for new leads regarding the girl’s identity. It would be nine more years before they received a break in the case.
- Earlier this year, working with the University of Tennessee Anthropology Department, a sample of the child’s remains was sent to Othram, a private laboratory that analyzes human DNA. There, scientists conducted forensic genetic genealogy testing. In June, Othram provided a possible relative connected to the child who was living in Indiana. Using that information, a TBI intelligence analyst located potential family members in the Lafayette, Indiana area. A TBI agent made contact with those individuals and confirmed they had a family member go missing from that area in 1978. With the assistance of the Lafayette, Indiana Police Department, agents were able to obtain familial DNA standards for possible siblings of the girl, which were submitted to the TBI Crime Lab in Nashville for entry into CODIS.
- This week, the UNTCHI positively identified ‘Baby Girl’ as Tracy Sue Walker, born in June 1963, who was reported missing from the Lafayette, Indiana, area in 1978.
TBI Special Agents are now hoping the public can help give more information that could help determine the circumstances leading to Walker’s death. If you have information about this case or any knowledge about individuals Tracy may have been with before her death, you’re asked to call 1-800-TBI-FIND. | https://fox59.com/news/after-37-years-remains-of-baby-girl-identified-as-missing-indiana-teen/ | 2022-08-30T19:51:11Z | https://fox59.com/news/after-37-years-remains-of-baby-girl-identified-as-missing-indiana-teen/ | true |
One-third of Pakistan is inundated, as floods sweep through the country this summer. The catastrophic floods, resulting from monsoon rains that began in June, are unprecedented in scale and scope. So far, they have affected some 33 million people — about 14% of Pakistan's population — causing death, damage, displacement and loss whose effects will be felt for months and years to come.
More than 1,000 people have been killed. Agriculture, a mainstay of Pakistan's economy, has been overwhelmed as fields drown. Nearly half the cotton crop has been lost in southern Sindh province.
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman has called the flooding a "crisis of unimaginable proportions." Of Sindh — which is still bracing for more floods as rivers to the north swell and burst their banks — she tweeted: "The crops are gone, lives ruined, livelihoods wiped out, roads swept away, houses destroyed or barely standing ... Where to pump/drain the water? There's water everywhere."
Pakistani authorities estimate rebuilding will cost upward of $10 billion, and are pleading for help. The U.S. announced Tuesday that it's providing $30 million for shelter, food and sanitation. China, Turkey, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates also are sending aid.
The United Nations has launched a joint appeal with Pakistan's government for $160 million. "The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids — the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, who will visit the country on Friday. He referred to the flooding as a "climate catastrophe."
Here are images showing some of the extent of destruction and emergency response efforts.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | https://www.wdiy.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-08-30/photos-a-third-of-pakistan-is-under-water-in-catastrophic-floods | 2022-08-30T19:54:10Z | https://www.wdiy.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-08-30/photos-a-third-of-pakistan-is-under-water-in-catastrophic-floods | false |
Privacy screen protectors for your laptop
Whether you use your laptop for work or entertainment, a privacy screen protector is essential for hiding your screen from prying eyes. Even if you don’t have sensitive or confidential information on the screen, this accessory can give you extra security and privacy. Plus, similar to a standard screen protector, it can also cut down on glare and help prevent eye strain while using your computer.
How to use a privacy screen protector
Privacy screen protectors for laptops are similar to smartphone screen protectors in many ways. They’re designed to cover the main display and act as a physical filter to keep others from easily seeing what you have on the screen.
In terms of application methods, there are two main options:
- Attach it directly to the physical screen. Be sure to apply it evenly and carefully to avoid damaging the display.
- Position it on the frame and bezels of the laptop. If you’re concerned about messing with the display, apply the screen protector to the frame instead.
Some privacy screen protectors have an adhesive quality that lets you apply them without any tools or equipment. Others require strips along the borders or strategically placed suction cups. A few use clips or magnets are especially useful if you only want to remove the screen protector occasionally.
How privacy screen protectors for laptops work
Privacy screen protectors use the same technology found in polarized glasses. It keeps your computer’s screen hidden from nearby visual hackers.
The screen protector starts preventing visibility at around a 30-degree angle. This means you can still see whatever is on the screen while sitting in front of your laptop. However, anyone sitting nearby or beside you won’t be able to read the display.
Screen size and measuring
Laptops range in size, and so do privacy screen protectors. Before getting one, make sure it’s the right size, or it might not fit or work properly.
If you’re not sure what size to get, measure the height and width of your screen. Then, compare these dimensions with the screen protector you want. Some manufacturers also use diagonal measurements, so measure that, too.
Many laptops have raised bezels around the main display. Avoid including these in the measurement, as most screen protectors can’t be applied to them. Some laptops have very thin bezels, which can be included in the measurement as they add to the total viewable display area.
Common privacy screen protector sizes for laptops are:
- 13.3 inches
- 14 inches
- 15.6 inches
- 17.3 inches
Some manufacturers measure screen protectors by their aspect ratio instead of in inches. The most common aspect ratio for laptops is 16:9. Make sure to cross-reference this when determining the right size for your screen.
Construction
Most privacy screen protectors are made from thin, durable plastic such as polyethylene terephthalate. A few use tempered glass. If you plan to remove and reattach it repeatedly, go with a thicker one that can withstand handling. Otherwise, a thinner one blends in more easily with the computer screen.
Other main benefits
Besides keeping away unwanted eyes, here are the other main benefits of privacy screen protectors:
- Anti-glare: Many screen protectors have a coating that keeps environmental light from reflecting on the display. This is especially useful if your laptop is positioned near bright indoor lights or in the sunlight.
- Blue light protection: Blue light can cause blurred vision, eye strain and negatively affect sleep quality. Unfortunately, it’s prominent in many digital devices and certain types of light bulbs. Privacy screen protectors can often cut down on blue light exposure.
- Scratch-resistance: Having any kind of screen protector on your laptop or monitor can protect the display from scratches. Some screen protectors indicate how hard they are on the Moh scale, which ranges from 1 to 10. Most screen protectors are around 9H, meaning they’re durable and unlikely to tear.
- Smudge-resistance: Some privacy screen covers have a hydrophobic coating that makes them resistant to smudges or oils. This is helpful for those who use a touchscreen display, as it can keep marks from appearing on the screen and improve the image’s crispness.
Disadvantages
Privacy screen protectors are mostly beneficial, but they’re not meant for everyone. Here are the main disadvantages:
- They can slightly reduce the visual clarity or brightness of whatever is on the screen, especially if you don’t apply it correctly.
- Using one in a coworking space could be tricky if your colleagues need to view the screen next to you.
- They can get dirty, which can further affect the laptop’s display.
- Some are difficult to remove or may leave a slight residue.
Cleaning the privacy screen protector
Before cleaning the screen protector, carefully remove it from the laptop. Then, use a lint-free or microfiber cloth with some glass cleaner to wipe it down. Make sure the cleaner doesn’t have ammonia. Let it fully dry before reapplying.
Longevity
High-quality privacy screen protectors will last as long as your laptop does. Some should be replaced more often, though, especially if they have scratches or smudges you can’t remove.
8 best privacy screen protectors for laptops
This privacy screen protector is compatible with six different widescreen sizes, from 13.3 to 27 inches. It can shield the display from passersby while reducing blue light by up to 65%. It’s easy to attach to the display or the screen’s outer edges using double-sided tape.
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ProCase Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 and 1 12.4-Inch Privacy Screen Protector
Compatible with the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 12.4-inch and the Surface Laptop Go 12.4-inch displays, this tempered glass screen protector has a 9H surface hardness and is highly durable. It’s also resistant to oils and scratches. It’s only .2 millimeters thick, so you can open and close the laptop while it’s on.
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SightPro 14-Inch Laptop Privacy Screen Filter
This filter comes in 14 sizes, ranging from 13.3 to 27 inches. It’s compatible with many laptop brands, including Lenovo, Dell and Asus. It offers protection against glare and blue light to reduce eye strain. It’s easy to apply with either double-sided adhesive or mount tabs.
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Kensington MP13 MacBook Magnetic Privacy Screen
Made for 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air systems, this magnetic privacy screen protector is effective and easy to apply. It has one glossy side and one matte side. It can filter rays up to 22%, preventing headaches and easing eye strain.
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High Clarity Laptop Privacy Screen Filter for Widescreen Laptop Monitors
This filter is perfect for laptops ranging from 13.3 to 17.3 inches. It’s scratch-resistant, offers UV protection, filters out blue light and doesn’t have any pixelation. It can also prevent others from seeing the screen at around 30 degrees and beyond.
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Kensington MagPro 15.6-Inch Laptop Privacy Screen
Compatible with 12.5-, 13.3-, 14- and 15.6-inch laptop screens, this filter is easy to attach and remove with magnetic strips. It can reduce glare and prevent up to 22% of blue light. It’s also reversible and scratch-resistant.
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Stary Laptop Privacy Screen 14-Inch Widescreen Display Privacy Screen for Laptop
Resistant to scratches and glare, this screen protector comes in 14- and 15.6-inch sizes. It’s made from durable polyethylene terephthalate. It’s great for busy workplaces and can keep your display private at a 60-degree viewing angle.
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14-Inch Privacy Screen Filter for Widescreen Laptop
This privacy screen protector can reduce eye strain, keep your information safe from passersby and it cuts down on glare. It uses attachment strips and slide-mount tabs that are easy to apply and remove.
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Employee seriously injured after getting hit by roller coaster at New Hampshire amusement park
An employee was seriously injured by a park ride at Santa’s Village, a Christmas-themed amusement park in Jefferson, New Hampshire.
The employee and operator of the ride remained in a hospital as of Sunday night after being hit by a coaster car and falling off the ride platform, according to Fire Marshal Sean Toomey.
The incident happened on the Poogee Penguins Spin Out Coaster. The 51-year-old worker was the sole operator of the ride and was well trained, according to officials.
He was on the ride platform when he was hit by one of the coaster trains and fell roughly six to eight feet to the ground.
People were on the ride at the time, but no one else was injured, according to Toomey.
Officials are now working to find witnesses who were on the coaster at the time to better understand what happened.
“The ride remains safe,” Toomey said. “There was something that happened that made that operator step out on that platform in a unique way that wouldn't normally be the case. We'll do some follow-ups to figure out why, but the track record of Santa’s Village, the other facilities in the state, and the partnership with our inspectors do provide for a nice, safe environment for people visiting the parks."
The state tramway inspector did inspect the coaster Saturday and approved it for operation.
The ride remained closed again Sunday, but that decision was made by Santa’s Village. | https://www.wxii12.com/article/employee-injured-new-hampshire-amusement-park-recovering-82822/41031250 | 2022-08-30T20:02:41Z | https://www.wxii12.com/article/employee-injured-new-hampshire-amusement-park-recovering-82822/41031250 | false |
GENEVA (AP) — Independent U.N. human rights experts expressed concerns Tuesday about the adverse impact on the rights of racial and ethnic minorities from the U.S. Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for abortion in the United States.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also called on the Biden administration and state governments to do more to buttress those rights.
The committee, a group of independent experts who work with the U.N. human rights office, said it was concerned about higher rates of maternal mortality and morbidity — among many concerns about the rights of Blacks, Latinos, Indigenous peoples, foreign-born migrants and others in the United States.
The calls came as part of a regular review of U.N. member states by the committee. The U.S. was among seven countries to be considered this summer. A large delegation of U.S. officials, including Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, traveled to Geneva earlier this month for hearings that fed into the committee’s thinking about the rights of ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S.
“The committee was deeply concerned about the disparate impact on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of racial and ethnic minorities, particularly those with low income,” committee member Pansy Tlakula told reporters.
“It recommended that the state party should take further steps to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in sexual and reproductive health and rights.”
The committee said it received hundreds of submissions and comments from advocacy groups in the United States over issues like reproductive rights, police brutality, education, voting rights and reparations for slavery — an issue that was taken up for the first time by the panel amid signs that a push for such reparations may be gathering momentum.
“It would have been impossible to have an honest, interactive dialogue with the United States without including the issue of reparatory justice,” committee chairperson Verene Shepherd said, presenting the committee’s report. “I fully believe that with the pressure in the United States now around the question of reparatory justice, that the federal government will act.”
She also lamented “pushback” against critical race theory — the idea that racism is systemic in U.S. institutions that serve to perpetuate white dominance in society — and “the issue of refusal to have a conversation around slavery.” She said that issue was “impossible to ignore.”
Tlakula of South Africa, another of the committee’s 18 international members, said the United States hadn’t set any timetable for enactment of any reparations. But she did say the committee had asked the United States to report back within a year on any steps taken to mitigate the impacts of the abortion restrictions and gun violence on racial minorities.
In its report, the committee ran the gamut of concerns and assessments — including praise for recent legislation and executive orders to improve the rights of minorities, and calls for a “national action plan” to combat systemic racism and racial discrimination and an effort to limit the impact of gun violence on such minorities.
It urged consideration of new laws or a review of existing ones to help fight excessive use of force by law enforcement, and called on the U.S. to adopt “all necessary measures” — including at the federal level — to ensure that all people can vote. It expressed concerns about an increase in new legislation with a “disproportionate impact” on minorities.
While noting some steps by the White House to address high maternal mortality rates, it said: “the committee is concerned that systemic racism along with intersecting factors such as gender, race, ethnicity and migration status have a profound impact on the ability of women and girls to access the full range of sexual and reproductive health services in (the U.S.) without discrimination.”
The concerns came in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in June to strip away women’s constitutional protections for abortion that had been enshrined for nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade, which paved the way for abortion bans in some states.
The committee, referring to the recent court decision, called on the United States to adopt “all necessary measures” at both state and federal level “to address the profound disparate impact of (the decision) on women of racial and ethnic minorities, Indigenous women and those with low incomes,” and provide safe, legal access to abortion under existing U.S. commitments to human rights.
It called on the U.S. to ensure that women seeking an abortion — or the health care providers who assist them — “are not subjected to criminal penalties.”
Jamil Dakwar, director of the human rights program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the committee’s conclusions “should serve as yet another wake-up call for the United States to vigorously combat and eliminate systemic racism.”
“The U.N. provided a blueprint to address structural discrimination; now the Biden administration must act to build out our domestic human rights infrastructure,” he said.
The ACLU also hailed the committee’s call to provide redress for slavery, Dakwar added.
“The legacies of colonialism and slavery have a real-world lingering impact on present day racial disparities and injustices and we must address them head on,” he said. | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-un-experts-warn-of-impact-of-abortion-bans-on-us-minorities/ | 2022-08-30T20:04:11Z | https://cw33.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-un-experts-warn-of-impact-of-abortion-bans-on-us-minorities/ | false |
With the fall season just around the corner, Texans will soon have a plethora of autumn activities to choose from, and one southeast Texas city's event could deserve a second look for people planning ahead.
Winnie's Rice Festival was just named the best harvest festival in Texas in a food magazine's seasonal activities roundup.
The annual festival celebrates the rice harvest and cements Texas' claim to fame as a rice capital, according to the "Taste of Home" post.
Held each year at Winnie-Stowell Park, the event usually features a rice cooking contest, antique car show, livestock show, art exhibitions, parades, cook-offs, welding competitions and a pageant, the festival's website states.
This year, the festival will be held from Sept. 28 to Oct. 1.
Other fall festivals listed in the "Taste of Home" list include Louisiana's Pecan Festival in Colfax, Oklahoma's Pumpkin Festival in Cogar, and New Mexico's Spanish-influenced harvest festival in Santa Fe. | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/best-Texas-fall-festivals-Winnie-Rice-Harvest-17407539.php | 2022-08-30T20:04:45Z | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/best-Texas-fall-festivals-Winnie-Rice-Harvest-17407539.php | true |
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the pipes for people to use.
Parts of Jackson were without running water Tuesday because flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants. The city of 150,000 had already been under a boil-water notice for a month because the Health Department found cloudy water that could cause digestive problems.
“They are making it impossible for us to do business in Jackson, Mississippi,” restaurant owner Derek Emerson told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Emerson and his wife, Jennifer, own the upscale Walker’s Drive-In. He said they have been spending $300 a day for bottled water in the past month.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said late Monday that he’s declaring a state of emergency for Jackson’s water system, and he issued the proclamation Tuesday. The state will try to help resolve problems by hiring contractors to work at the treatment plant, which was operating at diminished capacity with backup pumps after the main pumps failed “some time ago,” Reeves said.
Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said Jackson’s water system is troubled by short staffing and “decades of deferred maintenance.”
Lumumba is Democrat and was not invited to the Republican governor’s Monday night news conference — another indication of tension between two politicians who are often at odds.
Like many cities, Jackson faces more water system problems that it can afford to fix. Its tax base has eroded the past few decades as the population decreased — the result of mostly white flight to suburbs that began after public schools integrated in 1970. The city’s population is now more than 80% Black, with about 25% of its residents living in poverty.
Low water pressure left some people unable to take showers or flush toilets and officials said the low pressure caused concern for firefighting. Those who did have water flowing from the tap were told to boil it to kill bacteria that could make them sick.
“The water is not safe to drink, and I’d even say it’s not safe to brush your teeth with,” the state health officer, Dr. Dan Edney, said Monday.
Jackson schools held classes online Tuesday, and some restaurants closed. Jackson State University brought in temporary restrooms for students, and Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders said the water crisis left his players without air conditioning or ice at their practice facility. In a video that one of his sons posted to social media, Sanders — also known as Coach Prime — said he wanted to move players into a hotel so they could shower.
“We’re going to find somewhere to practice, find somewhere that can accommodate every durn thing that we need and desire to be who we desire to be, and that’s dominate,” Sanders said. “The devil is a lie. He ain’t going to get us today, baby.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday that the federal government is prepared to help Mississippi respond to the water crisis.
“We stand ready and we are eager to assist further as soon as we receive an official request from the state,” she told reporters aboard Air Force One. She said the state has not asked FEMA for help with trucking in drinking water, and declined to say why.
“I cannot speak for the state of Mississippi. You would have to ask them,” she said. Jean-Pierre said White House officials have been in contact with local officials and the state Health Department, but had no details about calls between President Joe Biden and local or state officials.
Reeves said the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency will start distributing both drinking water and non-potable water, and he activated the National Guard to help.
The problems at the water treatment plant came after the city appeared to largely avoid widespread flooding from a Pearl River swollen by days of heavy rain. One home was flooded Monday but the mayor said the water did not rise as high as expected. Earlier projections showed about 100 to 150 buildings in the Jackson area faced the possibility of flooding.
The National Weather Service said the Pearl River crested Monday at about 35.4 feet (10.8 meters). That is short of the major flood stage level of 36 feet (10.97 meters). Parts of Jackson flooded in 2020 after the river rose above that level.
Jackson has two water-treatment plants, and the larger one is near a reservoir that provides most of the city’s water supply. The reservoir also has a role in flood control.
The mayor said low water pressure could last a few days.
“What I liken it to is if you were drinking out of a Styrofoam cup, someone puts a hole in the bottom of it, you’re steady trying to fill it while it’s steady running out at the bottom,” Lumumba said.
Jackson has longstanding problems with its water system. A cold snap in 2021 left a significant number of people without running water after pipes froze. Similar problems happened again early this year, on a smaller scale.
Lumumba said last week that fixing Jackson’s water system could cost $200 million. That is more than two times the $75 million the whole state is receiving to address water problems as part of a bipartisan infrastructure bill.
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Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones was not activated off the physically-unable-to-perform list on Tuesday and placed on the reserve/PUP list.
Jones will now be forced to sit the Dolphins’ first four games of the 2022 regular season after being held out of training camp and the team’s three preseason exhibitions.
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and general manager Chris Grier are expected to address Jones, along with the team’s cuts to get down to a 53-man active roster on Tuesday, in a late afternoon press conference on Tuesday. When McDaniel last updated Jones’ status on Sunday, he said the team had Tuesday “pinpointed” as the date for a potential return to the roster, “but it’s a fluid situation that has to do with him and a lot of other players.”
Jones underwent lower left leg surgery this offseason and has taken longer than expected to recover.
In his two seasons with the Dolphins, he has two interceptions in 30 starts with 95 total tackles and a pair of forced fumbles.
The Dolphins will be without their No. 2 cornerback for a tough four-game stretch to open the season against the New England Patriots, at the Baltimore Ravens, home against the Buffalo Bills and at the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Dolphins are likely to look for cornerback help on waivers. They have All-Pro Xavien Howard, Nik Needham, Keion Crossen, Noah Igbinoghene and undrafted rookie Kader Kohou as cornerbacks that made the team’s 53-man active roster on Tuesday, the NFL’s cut-down day. Safeties Eric Rowe and Elijah Campbell are also capable of playing cornerback.
Having Howard and Jones on the boundary and Needham available to cover the slot in man-to-man coverage is critical to the Dolphins’ blitz-heavy defense where extra linebackers and safeties are often rushing the passer.
Crossen signed with the Dolphins this offseason as a special teams ace, but he often impressed throughout camp with his pass coverage defensively. Igbinoghene, a first-round pick in 2020 who hasn’t seen much of the field in his first two NFL seasons, did not take advantage of his increased preseason opportunities with Jones out and Howard often sitting. Kohou is an upstart undrafted rookie out of Texas A&M-Commerce who could serve as Needham’s backup nickel corner, where he started in the preseason finale with Needham on the boundary.
Beyond Jones’ absence, the Dolphins’ cornerback depth in camp was devastated by the losses of Trill Williams and Mackensie Alexander following back-to-back exhibitions against the Buccaneers and Raiders. Alexander was signed in reaction to Williams’ season-ending knee ailment.
Tuesday practice report
Among the Dolphins not practicing in the part open to the media were Howard, wide receiver Jaylen Waddle, Rowe, Crossen, Needham, linebacker Andrew Van Ginkel, and tight end Tanner Conner.
McDaniel doesn’t typically reveal injuries. But Van Ginkel had his appendix removed last week, Conner has been wearing a brace on his left knee, and Waddle has been seen with a sleeve on his right leg and his right ankle taped.
Needham had been battling a hand injury. He went into the locker room briefly during Saturday’s preseason finale against Philadelphia but returned to the sideline.
This story will be updated.
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Trusted since 1885, California-based Morris & Garritano extends its decorated success and reputation with several new Advisors and an upcoming office location in Orange County.
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Morris & Garritano boasts a longstanding legacy of more than 137 years as an independent, full-service insurance agency focusing on business insurance, workers' compensation, employee benefits, personal lines, surety, and life insurance. A four-time winner of Insurance Journal's Best Agency to Work For, M&G is routinely recognized for their superior service, culture, and advocacy.
Headquartered in San Luis Obispo, the agency would like to introduce several new Advisors to the team representing their services and business relationships in their growing California territories.
With more than two decades of prior industry experience, Benefits Advisor Sara Cereghino is passionate about establishing, building, and nurturing client relationships. "I consistently give personal attention to achieving optimal results for my client's evolving business needs," she says, "as well as providing peace of mind as a strategic business partner." Sara joins the M&G team bringing further representation to clients in the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, continuing the agency's legacy in those territories.
Commercial Risk Advisor Mike Kane is new to the Morris & Garritano family and an Orange County local boasting two decades of industry involvement. Mike expresses his eagerness to represent the agency by saying, "I'm excited about the opportunity to build lasting relationships with businesses in the Orange County area. We have a lot to offer here at M&G and it's great to be a part of that journey."
Further up the coast, Benefits Advisor Kyle Falce brings his 13 years of industry experience to represent the agency and serve the business community of Northern Monterey and the Bay Area. "It's so rewarding to get to work with business owners pairing a strategic benefits plan with best-in-class service," he says. "This allows them to meet their growth goals and be the type of employer their employees are delighted to work for."
Providing coverage for businesses of all sizes, Morris & Garritano goes above and beyond by offering personalized education and advocacy for their clients regarding commercial coverages, employee benefits, workers' compensation, human resources, and compliance services.
With this growth and development, businesses throughout California will have increased access to the trusted, comprehensive services and resources offered by Morris & Garritano. To see how M&G can protect and strengthen your business, give their team a call today at (805) 543-6887 or learn more at morrisgarritano.com.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING
The National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Williamson County in south central Texas...
* Until 430 PM CDT.
* At 128 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 2 to 4 inches in 1
hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in
the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms
producing flash flooding.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams,
urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Georgetown, Serenada, Leander, Bartlett, Liberty Hill, Jarrell,
Sun City, Georgetown Dam, Theon, Walburg, Schwertner and Seward
Junction.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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What a jewel we have with David Fitzsimmons. Not only the really great cartoons he produces over and over again, but his weekly column and his Facebook page. Every single day he makes me laugh, makes me think and makes me glad we have him and a great daily newspaper. Thank you and David for making my day over and over again.
Bette E Richards
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week is expected to authorize the first updated versions of the COVID-19 boosters since the pandemic began.
The new shots are reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. They're known as "bivalent" vaccines because they are designed to protect against the original strain and the highly contagious omicron variant.
Specifically, the vaccines are programmed to target the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, which are the dominant strains infecting people and the most adept at sneaking around the immune system.
The hope is the shots will bolster peoples' waning immunity and provide stronger protection against catching the virus, spreading it and getting sick with COVID and long COVID.
The Biden administration is planning to start making the new shots available after Labor Day to help blunt the impact of what could be yet another surge of infections this fall and winter.
"This is a really important moment in this pandemic," Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator told NPR. "This is the first major upgrade of the vaccines — first major change in the vaccines — in the last two and a half years."
But the formulation of the boosters and the process for authorizing them has sparked debate among scientists.
For the first time, the FDA is judging how well the vaccines work without results from tests done directly in people. To save time, the FDA is initially evaluating the vaccines with tests in mice along with the results of tests that were done on people of an earlier version of a bivalent vaccine.
Some experts worry that mouse studies aren't very reliable at predicting how well vaccines work in people.
"It could be problematic if the public thinks that the new bivalent boosters are a super-strong shield against infection, and hence increased their behavioral risk and exposed themselves to more virus," says John Moore, an immunologist at Weill Cornell Medicine.
But federal officials defend the decision.
The mouse studies suggest the new vaccines may be about 20 times more protective against omicron than the original shots, and about five times more protective than the first attempt to create omicron-specific bivalent vaccines, Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, told NPR in an interview.
"That makes us feel confident that they will do what they are intended to do, which is to produce a good immune response against the BA.4/5 variant, as well as refresh our overall response given the original component of the vaccine as well," Marks says.
The decision to rely on mouse studies became necessary after the FDA in June rejected new boosters that targeted the original strain of omicron, known as BA.1, and instead asked the vaccine companies to develop new shots targeting the strains that had replaced it.
Some scientists think there's the possibility that the new shots could also give people immunity that lasts longer than the original shots, and maybe even protect against new variants that emerge. But more research is needed to confirm that.
Some experts say the data from the BA.1 boosters indicate any potential improvement could be pretty modest at best.
"We want a silver bullet. And the booster has become the silver bullet. And we're putting all our eggs in the vaccine basket," says Dr. Celine Gounder, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "I am very skeptical as to how much of an improvement these vaccines will yield in terms of population immunity and prevention of severe disease."
Gounder also worries that the country has given up on doing anything else to protect people, like wearing masks and improving ventilation.
But others are more optimistic about the new boosters.
"I personally am very excited about the bivalent vaccines," says Jenna Guthmiller, an assistant professor of immunology at the University of Colorado.
"We really need an updated vaccine to provide protection against the current omicron lineage viruses as well as potentially any future omicron variants," Guthmiller says. "I think it's going to be good."
After the FDA authorizes the vaccines, advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet Thursday and Friday to decide whether to recommend it and who should receive it. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky will then have to sign off on that recommendation.
Some experts says only people who are at high risk because of their age or underlying health problems need to get another booster since the first shots are still protecting most people against severe disease. Others say everyone age 12 and older who hasn't been infected or boosted recently should get a new shot.
"I would say that anyone who is longer than six months since their previous boost or previous infection should go get a boost," says E. John Wherry, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Any opportunity to get more boosters into the population to increase vaccine uptake is going to be a positive thing in helping us get through this pandemic," Wherry says.
The Biden administration has purchased more than 170 million doses of the the new boosters, which should start to become available after Labor Day.
It remains unclear how much of a demand there will be for the new boosters, given that many eligible people still haven't gotten their first or second boosters.
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Katie Hobs is a far left Democrat. I believe if elected Governor, she would be a threat to tens of thousands of law abiding gun owners in AZ. After the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling expanding individuals' right to defend themselves outside of their homes, Hobbs said she was "outraged" by the decision. She said that "we need common-sense gun safety reform right now...." What does that mean? Universal background checks is the Democrat mantra, but not one recent mass shooter bought their firearms through some gun show "loophole." They underwent and passed background checks. Hobb's web page is void of her position on firearms. What is she hiding? Does she support our Stand Your Ground law, which does not require "fleeing" first? Does she support our Permitless and Permitted Concealed Carry laws? Does she support the state Senate Democrats' extreme SB162 bill, that bans "assault weapons", aka, semi-automatic rifles, and all high capacity magazines, requires owners to make them inoperable, register them, or become a criminal?
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Wheat for Sep. dropped 31.75 cents at $7.9825 a bushel; Sep. corn fell 4 cents at $6.7975 a bushel, Sep. oats was off 13.75 cents at $4.0250 a bushel; while Sep. soybeans declined 21.75 cents at $15.13 a bushel.
Beef and pork higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aug. live cattle was up .95 cent at $1.4250 a pound; Sep. feeder cattle gained 2.25 cents at $1.8217 a pound; while Oct. lean hogs rose 1.35 cents at $.9360 a pound. | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/Grains-lower-Livestock-higher-17408072.php | 2022-08-30T20:15:35Z | https://www.mrt.com/business/article/Grains-lower-Livestock-higher-17408072.php | false |
The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it will discharge the remaining federal student loan balances for those who were enrolled at Westwood College.
To be eligible for the loan forgiveness program, the Department of Education says students must have been enrolled between 2002 and 2015.
The decision to discharge the loans comes after an investigation of the college's practices.
"The Department has analyzed the evidence related to Westwood and concluded that the school engaged in widespread misrepresentations about the value of its credentials for attendees' and graduates' employment prospects such that all borrowers who attended during the period described above are entitled to a full loan discharge," the department said in a statement.
The Department of Education says the action will result in $1.5 billion in discharges. It adds that 79,000 borrowers will benefit from the forgiveness program.
Last week, President Joe Biden announced that the federal government will forgive up to $10,000 worth of federal student loans for non-Pell Grant recipients and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. The relief is available for individuals making less than $125,000 per year. | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/biden-administration-cancels-student-debt-for-those-who-attended-westwood-college | 2022-08-30T20:16:30Z | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/biden-administration-cancels-student-debt-for-those-who-attended-westwood-college | false |
HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — Lady Gaga’s “The Chromatica Ball” tour made its stop at Hersheypark Stadium on Sunday and became the highest-grossing show in the venue’s history.
According to a press release, Hersheypark Stadium’s previous highest-grossing record was held by the Rolling Stones in 2005.
“Never thought I’d see the day,” remarked Gaga of the record-setting feat, which she shared in an Instagram post shortly after the show that played to a crowd of 30,000 fans.
Additionally, Lady Gaga’s Aug. 19 stop on “The Chromatica Ball” tour broke the attendance record at Boston’s Fenway Park, with over 37,200 coming to the performance.
The superstar singer’s current tour has made stops in Germany, Paris, London, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Boston, Tokyo, and more.
According to Billboard, The Chromatica Ball Tour was supposed to begin in 2020, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed a year — and then again until 2022.
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MIAMI (AP) — A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration, saying in a secretly recorded jailhouse message that he feels forgotten by the U.S. government as he faces criminal charges at the hands of one of the nation's top adversaries.
Eyvin Hernandez, who has been detained for five months, describes in the recording how he has dedicated the past 15 years to public service as an employee of the Los Angeles County public defender's office, seeking fair treatment for often penniless clients.
“No one should be abandoned at the time of their greatest need and when they're most vulnerable,” he said in the almost two-minute recording, which was provided to The Associated Press by Hernandez's family. “However, I don't feel like my government feels that way about me.”
In a calm if desperate-sounding voice, Hernandez said he and other Americans imprisoned in Venezuela — there are at least 10, including five oil executives and three veterans — feel “like our government has abandoned us.”
Hernandez's appeal comes as the Biden administration is under pressure to do more to bring home roughly 50 Americans it believes have been wrongfully detained by hostile governments around the world. Much of the focus is on Russia, where the U.S. has taken the unusual step of proposing a swap of a convicted arms dealer for WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner. U.S. officials have for months been quietly pursuing a separate deal with Nicolás Maduro's socialist government in Venezuela, which holds the largest contingent of Americans suspected of being used as bargaining chips.
Henry Martinez said his brother sent him the voice message Aug. 21. A copy was also provided to the State Department, which has been weighing whether to turn Hernandez's case over to the administration's special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Roger Carstens.
In the recording, Hernandez said it's been months since he or any of his fellow Americans have seen a courtroom, nor do they have any hopes of getting a fair trial.
“This place is meant to break you psychologically and spiritually,” he said of confinement at a maximum security prison housing many of Maduro's opponents. “We're all innocent, yet we're being charged and treated as terrorists.”
He said the uncertainty, isolation and human rights violations are taking a toll, with two Americans having already attempted suicide and a third on the brink with daily mental breakdowns.
“If you don’t get us out soon, then there might not be anyone left to save,” he said.
The AP was unable to verify Hernandez’s claims. But United Nations officials have long complained about the lack of independence for Venezuelan judges and prosecutors and about conditions at the facility where Hernandez and several other Americans are being held.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Hernadez’s case, citing privacy limitations, but said the agency continuously reviews the detentions of Americans overseas. He also noted that the U.S. government has issued an advisory warning Americans to avoid all travel to Venezuela due to the risk of wrongful detentions and threats from illegal armed groups, especially along the country’s porous borders.
Hernandez, who turned 44 in jail, was arrested March 31 along the Colombia-Venezuela border. His family says he traveled there from the city of Medellin with a Venezuelan friend who needed to get her passport stamped to resolve an issue with her migratory status in Colombia. His family said he never intended to enter Venezuela, and he was due to fly home three days later.
But the two apparently fell into the hands of criminal gangs.
Upon arrival by bus to the city of Cucuta, they hailed a taxi for the short drive to the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, according to an account Hernandez shared with his family. A fourth individual hopped in the front seat, purportedly offering his services as a guide who could help them navigate the confusion at the border, an area overrun by squatters, criminal gangs and a mass of people making their way back and forth in illegal crossings.
Before they knew it, the cab was stopped along a dirt path, and the two were ordered to get out and walk across the invisible border separating the two countries.
Once Hernandez realized his mistake, it was too late to turn back. A man carrying a rifle demanded he cough up $100, according to his family. When he protested that he didn’t have any cash, they put a hood over his head.
When his captors found his American passport, they told him he was in trouble and handed him over to security forces, who kept him incommunicado for weeks.
Adding to the Hernandez family’s anguish is the fact that he isn’t classified as wrongfully detained, a definition that covers Americans believed innocent or jailed for the purpose of exacting concessions from the U.S. Without such designation, a process that can take months, the U.S. government’s ability to push for his release is limited.
At least three of the 11 other Americans known to be detained in Venezuela are in a similar state of limbo. They include Jerrel Kenemore, a computer programmer arrested within a week of Hernandez, and two former Green Berets who took part in a blunder-filled beach attack in 2020 aimed at overthrowing Maduro.
Biden last month signed an executive order aimed at providing more information to families of Americans detained abroad and imposing stiff sentences on the criminals, terrorists and government officials holding them.
Maduro’s socialist government is a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy. But more recently, as the Biden administration has shown a willingness to review the Trump-era policy of punishing Maduro with sanctions and calling for regime change, the outlook for a possible release has improved.
In March, the Maduro government freed two Americans following a surprise trip to Caracas by senior White House and State Department officials, including Carstens, who met with Hernandez in a subsequent wellness check on detained Americans in June. Maduro also vowed to resume negotiations with his opponents, although has so far failed to follow through.
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Rayland Baxter Announces New Album 'If I Were A Butterfly'
Their new album will be released on November 4.
Rayland Baxter has announced his new album, If I Were A Butterfly out November 4th on ATO. To mark the occasion, the Tennessee-bred Baxter has released the album's title track and its companion video directed by Citizen Kane Wayne.
Steeped in psychedelia, the album opener features a lush collage of horns, flutes and strings and layered backing vocals from Lennon Stella and Sophia Rose. If I Were A Butterfly was produced by Baxter, Tim O'Sullivan and Kai Welch and is available for pre-order and pre-save today HERE.
If I Were A Butterfly is the fourth studio album from Rayland Baxter. The album examines loss and existential ruminations on happiness and freedom and was completed in the wake of his father, the legendary Bucky Baxter's (Bob Dylan's longtime pedal steel player and member of Steve Earle's Dukes) passing.
His late father appears on the album along with a host of collaborators including Shakey Graves, Zac Cockrell of Alabama Shakes, members of Cage the Elephant, Stella, Rose, Morning Teleportation's Travis Goodwin, and legendary Motown drummer Miss Bobbye Hall, among many others.
If I Were A Butterfly was in large part recorded while Baxter was living alone at Thunder Sound, an abandoned rubber-band factory turned studio in Kentucky with later sessions taking place in California, Tennessee, Texas and Washington.
The Nashville eccentric and ever-evolving journeyman's most recent release was Good Mmornin, a tribute to the late Mac Miller. Prior to that he released three full-length studio albums - Wide Awake, Imagainery Man, feathers & fishHooks and the EP ashkeLON. Rayland Baxter will be on tour throughout 2022 and 2023. Full tour dates are below.
"Baxter tends to keep his references oblique, working his commentary into the fabric of storytelling that leaves equal space for love songs and humorous vignettes," said Rolling Stone. Popmatters notes that "the amount of craft evident in Baxter's lyricism borders on breathtaking at times." It's this wit and songcraft that is so front and center on If I Were A Butterfly, Baxter's most fully evolved and wisest body of work to date, but it also bears the sonic freedom of someone who's got nothing left to lose.
Watch the new music video here:
Tour Dates
Nov 4 - Nashville, TN - Grimey's in-store
Nov 5 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
Nov 6 - Charleston, SC - The Windjammer
Nov 11 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl
Nov 16 - New York - Brooklyn Made
Nov 18 - Philadelphia, PA - Ardmore Music Hall
Nov 19 - Washington D.C - The Hamilton
Jan 14 - Portland OR - Portland's Folk Fest | https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Rayland-Baxter-Announces-New-Album-If-I-Were-A-Butterfly-20220830 | 2022-08-30T20:17:46Z | https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Rayland-Baxter-Announces-New-Album-If-I-Were-A-Butterfly-20220830 | true |
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WABC) -- Officials are investigating the death of a young child in New Jersey on Tuesday afternoon.
The incident was reported on Summerall Road around 3 p.m. in Somerset County.
It was not yet clear if the child was a boy or girl.
Few details have been released at this point. The circumstances surrounding the incident are not yet known.
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MIAMI, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) announced today its plan to implement SpaceX's Starlink – making the Group the first in the cruise industry to adopt its high-speed, low-latency connectivity for a better onboard experience for guests and crew fleetwide. The innovative broadband internet service will be installed on all Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and Silversea Cruises ships, along with all new vessels for each of the brands.
Deployment of the Starlink technology across the fleet will begin immediately, leveraging the insights obtained from the trial onboard Freedom of the Seas, which has received tremendous positive feedback from guests and crew. The installation is slated to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023.
"Our purpose as a company is to deliver the best vacation experiences to our guests responsibly, and this new offering, which is the biggest public deployment of Starlink's high-speed internet in the travel industry so far, demonstrates our commitment to that purpose," said Jason Liberty, president and chief executive officer of Royal Caribbean Group. "This technology will provide game-changing internet connectivity onboard our ships, enhancing the cruise experience for guests and crew alike. It will improve and enable more high-bandwidth activities like video streaming as well as activities like video calls. Using Starlink is one more example of our continued focus on innovation and excellence for our guests, our crew, the communities we visit and our shareholders."
Faster and more reliable internet will also make it easier for guests and crew to remain connected to work, family and friends – no matter where they are in the world.
"Royal Caribbean Group selecting Starlink to provide high-speed, low-latency internet across their fleet will make their passengers' getaways even more luxurious," said SpaceX Vice President of Starlink Sales Jonathan Hofeller. "We couldn't be more excited to work with Royal Caribbean Group to ensure travelers at sea can stay connected with a great internet experience."
"Our work with SpaceX is another example of how Royal Caribbean Group continues to lead the cruise industry in innovation and adoption of cutting-edge technology," Liberty added.
About Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) is one of the leading cruise companies in the world with a global fleet of 64 ships traveling to approximately 1,000 destinations around the world. Royal Caribbean Group is the owner and operator of three award winning cruise brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises and it is also a 50% owner of a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Together, the brands have an additional 10 ships on order as of June 30, 2022. Learn more at www.royalcaribbeangroup.com or www.rclinvestor.com
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CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago after presenting two weeks of evidence and testimony from four Kelly accusers in their bid to prove the singer enticed underage girls for sex, produced child pornography and successfully rigged his 2008 state trial.
Among the last prosecution witnesses was a 42-year-old woman who went by the pseudonym “Nia.” Taking the stand Tuesday morning, she was the fourth and final accuser to testify against Kelly at the trial in his hometown. A fifth accuser, who prosecutors had said would testify, never did. They didn't explain why.
The highlight of prosecutors’ case was testimony by a 37-year-old woman who used the pseudonym “Jane” and described Kelly sexually abusing her hundreds of times starting in 1998 when she was 14 and Kelly was around 30.
Jane’s testimony is vital to the charge accusing Kelly of fixing his 2008 child pornography trial, at which he was acquitted. She testified that Kelly and his associates threatened and paid off her and her parents to lie to a grand jury before the 2008 trial.
Legal teams for Kelly and two co-defendants now get their chance to attack the government’s case. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber told jurors they would have Wednesday off, then return to listen to the first defense witnesses Thursday. Closing arguments are in the middle of next week.
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Defense attorneys haven't said if Kelly might testify. He didn’t testify at his earlier federal trial in New York, where a judge sentenced him in June to 30 years in prison for convictions on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. A conviction in Chicago could add years to that sentence.
Kelly’s 2008 state trial revolved around a video prosecutors said showed him sexually abusing Jane. She did not testify at that trial, but told jurors this month that she was the child in the video and Kelly was the adult man.
Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations about his abuse of young girls began circulating publicly in the 1990s. Widespread outrage over his sexual misconduct didn’t emerge until after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants at the Chicago trial. McDavid, a longtime Kelly business manager, is accused of helping Kelly rig the 2008 case. Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have denied wrongdoing.
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Pittsburgh Pirates (48-80, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (68-59, second in the NL Central)
Milwaukee; Tuesday, 8:10 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Mitch Keller (4-10, 4.50 ERA, 1.48 WHIP, 97 strikeouts); Brewers: Adrian Houser (4-9, 5.15 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, 61 strikeouts)
FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Brewers -182, Pirates +155; over/under is 9 runs
BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers will try to keep a three-game home win streak alive when they play the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Milwaukee has gone 34-25 in home games and 68-59 overall. Brewers hitters have a collective .414 slugging percentage to rank eighth in MLB.
Pittsburgh has a 22-44 record in road games and a 48-80 record overall. The Pirates have a 37-20 record in games when they record eight or more hits.
Tuesday’s game is the 18th time these teams meet this season. The Brewers hold a 10-7 advantage in the season series.
TOP PERFORMERS: Rowdy Tellez has 21 doubles and 27 home runs for the Brewers. Willy Adames is 15-for-41 with three doubles, three home runs and 10 RBI over the last 10 games.
Ben Gamel has 18 doubles, two triples, six home runs and 39 RBI for the Pirates. Rodolfo Castro is 11-for-31 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.
LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 5-5, .245 batting average, 5.06 ERA, even run differential
Pirates: 2-8, .225 batting average, 5.79 ERA, outscored by 36 runs
INJURIES: Brewers: Rowdy Tellez: day-to-day (knee), Jonathan Davis: 10-Day IL (elbow), Alex Jackson: 60-Day IL (wrist), Michael Brosseau: 10-Day IL (oblique), Aaron Ashby: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Rosenthal: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Trevor Gott: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jandel Gustave: 15-Day IL (forearm), Miguel Sanchez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Perdomo: 15-Day IL (elbow)
Pirates: Colin Holderman: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler Heineman: day-to-day (undisclosed), Yerry De Los Santos: 60-Day IL (lat), David Bednar: 15-Day IL (back), Dillon Peters: 15-Day IL (elbow), Max Kranick: 60-Day IL (elbow), Canaan Smith-Njigba: 60-Day IL (wrist), Roberto Perez: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Blake Cederlind: 60-Day IL (elbow)
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Student loan borrowers who make less than $125,000 per year will be eligible to have between $10,000 and $20,000 of federal student loan debt forgiven, President Joe Biden announced on Aug. 24.
Even though the forgiveness plan may be a sigh of relief for many student loan borrowers, some GOP leaders, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) claimed this would have a negative impact on the average U.S. taxpayer.
“Let’s be clear - there is no way to ‘cancel’ student debt. This will cost every taxpayer an average of $2100 … This administration is exceeding its legal authority and illegally burdening hard-working Americans with debts they didn’t take on themselves,” a release from Cruz’s office said.
A VERIFY viewer also asked us on Instagram to find out if his taxes would go up because of the federal student loan forgiveness program.
THE QUESTION
Will the average taxpayer have to pay $2,100 to cover the cost of student loan forgiveness?
THE SOURCES
- Andrew Lautz, National Taxpayers Union Foundation's director of federal policy
- Dave Vasquez, press secretary for Sen. Ted Cruz
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax code
THE ANSWER
No, the average taxpayer will not have to pay $2,100 to cover the cost of student loan forgiveness. Individual taxes are not increasing at all due to the loan forgiveness plan.
The $2,100 cost estimate was based on a hypothetical scenario that divides the cost of the program by the number of taxpayers, which is not how income taxes are determined.
WHAT WE FOUND
For taxes to be raised to pay for the debt forgiveness package, Congress would have to pass a bill amending the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), the governing law of federal tax collection. That hasn’t happened nor has it been proposed.
Dave Vasquez, Cruz’s press secretary, told VERIFY the taxpayer estimate Cruz used in his statement condemning the student loan forgiveness plan came from a National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTU) blog penned by Andrew Lautz, NTU’s director of federal policy.
The NTU is a nonpartisan research and educational organization that shows Americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them.
Lautz’s blog post was published on Aug. 23, prior to Biden announcing the student loan plan, with an estimate on the cost per taxpayer if the taxpayer were the only means of paying for this plan. But this is not how the funding for government programs work, and Lautz acknowledged this.
“Some on social media have misinterpreted our analysis to mean that their taxes are literally going up to pay for this,” Lautz told VERIFY.
But that’s not the case.
The NTU came up with that number by taking the total cost of the plan divided by the number of taxpayers in America, though that calculation doesn’t take into account differences in tax brackets, which would decrease the average for taxpayers with lower incomes.
“It's hard for anyone to conceptualize $400 billion, let alone $1 trillion, but plenty of people can conceptualize that the cost comes out to $2,500 for each one of the 158 million taxpayers in America,” Lautz told VERIFY.
The Aug. 23 blog post said the average taxpayer would pay $2,085.59 to pay for the plan. The figures used originally didn’t account for debt cancellation promised for up to 27 million Pell Grant recipients. The NTU published a later blog post on Aug. 25 with updated figures that brought the average cost to y $2,503.22 per taxpayer.
More from VERIFY: Yes, there is a way to check if you received a Pell Grant
It’s not unusual for different agencies to use models to describe the average cost of something federally funded based on the cost per taxpayer, Lautz said.
For example, Congress requires the Department of Defense to report on the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq each year based on the cost per taxpayer – in 2021, the wars cost the average taxpayer $184.
There are several organizations that keep track of the nation’s debt and divide that by the average taxpayer to show how much each person would have to pay. But these models don’t actually change the amount of income taxes people pay.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
405 PM EDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY...
At 405 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Whitehall,
moving northeast at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Whitehall, Comstock, Putnam, Wright, Hampton, Lock Twelve Marina,
Dresden Center, South Bay, Chipman Point, Putnam Station, North
Granville, South Bay Village, Snody Dock, Clemons, Truthville,
Hampton Flats, Grays Corner, West Granville, East Whitehall and
Chipmans Point.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Hamilton County in eastern New York...
Northwestern Fulton County in eastern New York...
Southern Herkimer County in eastern New York...
* Until 445 PM EDT.
* At 406 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Middleville,
or 9 miles north of Herkimer, moving northeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Ilion, Herkimer, Mohawk, Frankfort, Dolgeville, Ohio, Newport,
Stratford, Middleville, Poland, Cold Brook, Russia, Fairfield,
Norway, Arietta, Nobleboro, Curtis, Farrel Corner, Countryman and
North Ilion.
Please report hail size...damaging winds and reports of trees down to
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...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY
NIGHT...
* WHAT...Strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions
expected.
* WHERE...Beaches of Chautauqua and Southern Erie counties.
* WHEN...Through late Wednesday night.
* IMPACTS...Strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions.
Stay out of the water to avoid dangerous swimming conditions.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...
* WHERE...Beaches of Niagara and Orleans counties.
* WHEN...From 11 PM EDT this evening through Thursday morning.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM EDT WEDNESDAY
THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...
* WHERE...Beaches of Jefferson county.
* WHEN...From 2 AM EDT Wednesday through late Wednesday night.
* WHERE...Beaches of Monroe, Wayne, Northern Cayuga, and Oswego
counties.
* WHEN...From 2 AM EDT Wednesday through Thursday morning.
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The University of Georgia held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the second phase of the Interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (I-STEM) Research Complex recently.
ATHENS — The University of Georgia held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the second phase of the Interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (I-STEM) Research Complex recently.
The 101,000-square-foot, $64 million I-STEM Research Building 2, which was funded by a combination of university and state funds, will support collaborative research in chemistry, engineering and other scientific disciplines.
Paired with Building 1, which opened last fall, the completed I-STEM Research Complex adds more than 200,000 square feet of new space for research and instruction.
“The completion of this facility brings us a step closer to fulfilling a multiyear capital plan to build, renovate and modernize hundreds of thousands of square feet devoted to research and innovation on our campus,” UGA President Jere W. Morehead said. “We are very grateful for the strong support of the governor, the Georgia General Assembly and the Board of Regents, which made this project possible.”
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Dean Alan Dorsey, College of Engineering Dean Donald Leo and student speakers Lori Estes Bright and Christian Freeman addressed the audience, which included Sen. Frank Ginn, Rep. Houston Gaines and Rep. Marcus Wiedower.
“The discipline of engineering really exists at the interface of the basic sciences and the technologies and practices that improve our world,” Leo said. “And the I-STEM research buildings embody that ideal. I-STEM Phase 2 has already helped us attract some of the best and brightest faculty and students to UGA.”
The building features three levels of flexible, open lab space as well as an 88-seat classroom. It will be home to dozens of faculty and graduate students working in STEM fields.
In addition to the new I-STEM building, the university is modernizing existing facilities on South Campus, including the original Chemistry Building and the Biological Sciences Building, to support the institution’s growing research enterprise.
“As we celebrate the newest I-STEM research building and the collaborative learning and spirit of discovery it represents, we are elated about where the work inside this great facility will take us next,” Dorsey said. “It’s a new view from this spot on our campus. A view not fixed in a geographical direction per se, but toward a future we can imagine with the progress and improvements of cures, new products, new materials and new knowledge.”
Those attending the ceremony were invited to take a self-guided tour of the new facility, where students and staff from the Franklin College and the College of Engineering provided information about research projects taking place in the labs.
Bright, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering from Canton, told the audience how the I-STEM Building 2 will support her research on medical device materials that reduce the risk of infections and blood clots.
“As an engineering graduate student at UGA, I get to work with polymer chemists, microbiology specialists and tissue culture and virology experts, who each hold a unique and invaluable perspective on the problems that we face, leading us to develop more effective solutions,” Bright said. “And now we have a space that allows those collaborations to not only continue but to expand.”
Freeman, a doctoral student in analytical chemistry from Conyers, works in a lab that relocated to I-STEM Building 1 last year. He studies the role of cell membranes in the development of antibiotic resistance to increase the effectiveness of antibiotics in the future.
“This type of research requires a lot of room, and thanks to the space available in STEM-1, we’ve been able to create a dedicated work flow to facilitate our research,” Freeman said. “With its instrument venting system, customizable lab spacing, functioning in-house gases, countless integrated fume hoods, expansion of complex instrument use, and collaboration space, this facility will help students and faculty accomplish amazing feats in research.”
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A three-story building under construction collapsed Tuesday in northwestern Nigeria, trapping shoppers in a busy neighborhood. Emergency response workers told the Associated Press that at least eight people have been pulled from the rubble and they were searching for more.
The building in Kano state, northern Nigeria’s commercial hub, was being constructed as a business center though businesses were already operating on the ground floor, said Nura Abdullahi, head of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency in Kano.
So far, “no casualties yet (and) eight people have been rescued” from the rubble with varying injuries, Abdullahi said, adding that the rescue operation was continuing. Abdullahi said authorities have not yet confirmed the number of people trapped inside the structure.
Videos apparently recorded at the scene showed a large crowd trying to catch a glimpse of the debris pile as rescue workers arrived with tools.
Resident Stephen Enoch told the AP the building crumbled just minutes after he left.
“Five minutes after I left there, I was under there, it just came down. I just thank God I am alive now,” said Enoch.
Rescue operations continued late Tuesday with excavators and assistance from dozens nearby.
On social media, Nigerians urged authorities to take action against the trend of building collapses across the country.
In the last year, there have been more than 10 building collapses in this West African nation, often with authorities being accused of failing to enforce building safety regulations. Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, recorded five such collapses last year, including in November when more than 40 people died when a high rise still being constructed crumbled on workers. | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/building-collapses-in-nigeria-8-people-pulled-from-rubble/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-08-30T20:26:22Z | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/building-collapses-in-nigeria-8-people-pulled-from-rubble/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | true |
Since 1997, Houston-based trial boutique has forged a national practice representing clients from the boardroom to the courtroom
HOUSTON, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty-five years after the Hick Thomas law firm opened its doors, the founders' original vision has held firm: To improve the client experience by focusing on business-first solutions to legal problems, taking advantage of emerging technology, and reducing overhead costs by working smarter and more efficiently. Today, Hicks Thomas represents plaintiffs and defendants across the country from offices in Houston, Austin, Sacramento, Amarillo, and Beaumont.
"From day one, we realized that the key to success was doing good work for our clients," says firm co-founder Taylor Hicks. "We made our mark as a firm by trying cases and had a tremendous amount of success."
Founded by attorneys Taylor Hicks, Jr., John B. Thomas, and O. Clayton Lilienstern, who passed away in 2021, the firm has expanded more than five-fold and continues to grow strategically through lateral hires and by attracting young talent from prestigious law schools. Recently, Hicks Thomas moved into state-of-the-art offices in Houston's central business district.
"It's been a great run," says firm co-founder John Thomas. "But we don't take it for granted. We'll continue to build this firm on two questions we ask every client: 'What can we do to help?' and 'What can we do better?'"
Hicks Thomas has consistently delivered successful results in highly complex cases involving energy, environmental and toxic torts, antitrust and anti-competitive practices, employment and labor disputes, and product liability. Some highlights include:
- The 120-year-old King Ranch Case: Hicks Thomas is well-known in Texas for successfully defending the world-famous King Ranch, the largest ranch in the continental United States with approximately 825,000 acres. In this dispute, the heirs of a former business partner claimed that King swindled them out of their rights to a portion of the ranch. The Texas Supreme Court put to rest the more than a century-old dispute over the rightful ownership of the land, which had become the centerpiece of the King Ranch empire.
- Landmark Dry-Cleaning Decision: In a landmark defense verdict, the firm represented dry cleaning equipment manufacturer R.R. Street & Co., which was being sued by Pilgrim, the largest independent dry-cleaning company in the U.S. Dry cleaners across the country watched the case, which was the first of its kind to be tried in the U.S. After nearly seven years of briefing and argument, Hicks Thomas won a unanimous decision by the Texas Supreme Court. The ruling had far-reaching effects on a wide range of manufacturers and suppliers of chemicals and equipment, especially those involving hazardous substances and waste.
- Massive Litigation Management on Behalf of Mattress Firm: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hicks Thomas worked around-the-clock in partnership with in-house counsel to manage and coordinate wide-ranging litigation resulting from pandemic-related lockdowns. The litigation involved retail lease disputes in 36 states ultimately involving hundreds of disputes.
- Union Pacific Traffic Interruption Cases: Hicks Thomas defended railroad giant Union Pacific when it faced an onslaught of business interruption cases following the merger of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads and efforts to merge the two companies' operations.
- Big Arbitration Awards: Hicks Thomas represented an offshore drilling company in a dispute with a major oil company that refused to take a drilling rig following the Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. An arbitration panel awarded $136 million in damages, plus interest and attorney's fees, for breach of contract for the failure to comply with the agreement.
Hicks Thomas has won numerous accolades, including recognition by the prestigious Chambers & Partners, which has described the firm as having "an incredibly strong work ethic and an unfailing drive to win." The firm has also been named among the Best Law Firms by U.S. News – Best Lawyers in America for the last six years. Its attorneys are regularly recognized by Best Lawyers, Texas Super Lawyers, and Benchmark Litigation and have been named to the American Board of Trial Advocates.
To mark its 25-year anniversary, Hicks Thomas will hold a special charitable initiative in September. The official anniversary celebration will be held on October 27.
"We are eager to say thank you to those who have supported us all these years," said partner Stephen Loftin, one of the original lawyers to join the firm from Andrews & Kurth. "And we look forward to the next phase of our business as we groom the next generation of fine trial lawyers."
Founded in 1997, Texas-based Hicks Thomas LLP is a premier litigation firm representing plaintiffs and defendants across the nation. With offices in Houston, Austin, Beaumont, Amarillo, and Sacramento, California, the firm provides in-depth experience in cases involving oil and gas, environmental, complex commercial, toxic tort, construction, products liability, corporate governance, securities, banking, insurance coverage, transportation, trade secrets, and business litigation. Learn more: http://www.hicks-thomas.com.
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Few people are blessed to do what they love while doing it with their friends. Comedian Jordan Carlos is among the few who work with people he admires and calls friends.
Proudly claiming the sidekick mantle, Carlos hosts a funny and insightful podcast along with the effervescent Michelle Buteau. The dynamic duo is well into the second act of their hit podcast “Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos.”
Put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Buteau and Carlos are back and in precisely the right place on the Exactly Right network. Not only is the “Adulting” podcast on its season two victory lap, the show returned with in-person live shows.
There’s no sugar coating it. Adulting sucks.
Carlos recently spoke with NewsOne about relaunching the podcast and the joy of working with people he calls friends. Losing friends and loved ones during the pandemic took its toll but put life in perspective for the team.
“I don’t take doing the shows with her lightly anymore,” he began. “Because we just don’t know. We lost people during COVID, and it’s a funny show. I have so much fun, and we live in a crazy time. But when we’re there doing the show together, it’s just like all that just disappears at least for an hour or so.”
The beauty of their podcast is that it’s just a conversation between two old friends, covering all the bases of living life. From talking with Carlos, it’s clear he has the same energy on and off stage.
Carlos’ energy and wit shine even over a Zoom interview. Showing off his hip hop chops during the interview, Carlos dropped a well-placed OutKast lyric from the classic “Elevators” when talking about the creative grind.
If you don’t move your feet then I don’t eat, so we like neck-to-neck
Anyone who can drop a well-placed classic hip-hop verse in a conversation is worth a listen.
Laughter is medicine for the soul
Comedy can serve as a vehicle for healing, even more so when it is grounded in everyday relatable experiences and not focused on punching down on others. His imprint can be seen in shows such as “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore,” “Divorce” and BET’s “First Wives Club. He also hosts a show on AMC+ called “Can We Talk About This?” where guests explore problematic old movies.
Carlos said the podcast guest helped have engaging conversations and weave in humor. The humor doesn’t come at the expense of genuine conversation.
“I feel like people aren’t afraid anymore, especially funny people, to go there on some topics because it’s like hey, if not now, when?” he said. “It doesn’t always have to be funny every moment because we know it’s gonna be funny at some point.”
Carlos says allowing a natural conversation between the comedians gives the payoff of being entertained and informed simultaneously. He also reflected on the recent losses of young Black comedians like Jack Knight and the need for more than casually checking in with people we admire every once in a while.
“All too often, we don’t get catharsis as comedians,” he said. “We just live with darkness, and we just lost another comedian Jack Knight, a very funny Black comic in LA so funny. We have to have a candid conversation with each other.”
Those are the moments Carlos has tried to capture, whether as a stand-up comedian, show writer or actor. And despite the world being a dumpster fire and everything being trash, including the person who didn’t pick him for the high school improv team his freshman year, the “Adulting” team breaks through the noise.
Carlos also stars in the Freeform show “Everything’s Trash” alongside the phenomenal Phoebe Robinson, Nneka Okafor and Toccarra Cash. He recalled watching Robinson manifest opportunities over the years. He said she would proclaim something and then make it come true.
“She made it all happen,” he said. “And it was just very kind of her to consider me for that part. Then on top of that, it’s just fun watching your friends make their dreams come true.”
“Everything’s Trash” features the antics of the main character played by Robinson, a provocative podcast host named Phoebe Hill. Carlos plays her older brother, Jordan Hill, a Brooklyn Obama type running for the state legislature. The hijinx ensues, and gems are dropped in each episode.
Robinson made space for her dear friend to join the show. According to Carlos, they were looking for a “Jordan Carlos” type to fill the role. Well, who better for a “Jordan Carlos” type of role than the man himself?
But something special about both “Adulting” and “Everything’s Trash” is the focus on brilliant Black creatives making magic out of the mundane nature of everyday living. Carlos says one of the great things about “Everything’s Trash” is the depiction of varying Black experiences.
“Within that circle, there’s definite variety, and we have each other’s back and nothing but like love coursing through it,” he said. “Maybe somebody’s struggling. Then they’re also cool with somebody doing better. And maybe someone’s a little farther along emotionally and in their path. I love the show for that. Plus, it’s just wacky goofball, hilarious.”
Whether he’s the spunky sidekick always down to ride shotgun or the big brother turned political candidate on a new comedy show, Carlos is showing up as his full self. He again credited Robinson with providing space for the team to create the show they wanted, not just something to be on a network.
Not only is he a cast member and social media hype man, but Carlos is also behind the scenes in the writer’s room. His writing and witty AMC show “Can We Talk About This?” Ca
“This is just a journey that started long ago,” he said. “And it’s nice to have this kind of affirmation and faith in your own talents.”
You can catch season one of Freeform’s “Everything’s Trash” on Hulu or the Freeform app. And “Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos” is available on apple podcast, Spotify and more.
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
200 PM CDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Brazos, Burleson and Grimes.
* WHEN...Until 315 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Water over
roadways. Overflowing poor drainage areas. Some low-water
crossings may become impassable. River or stream flows are
elevated. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring or
is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 158 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to slow
moving showers and thunderstorms thunderstorms. Minor
flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the
advisory area. Between 2 and 4 inches of rain have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
College Station, Bryan, Caldwell, Snook, Kurten, Wixon
Valley, Millican, Kyle Field, Wellborn and Chriesman.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Urban and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of central Texas, including the following
counties, Bell, Coryell, McLennan and Milam.
* WHEN...Until 500 PM CDT.
- Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. This
will likely cause urban and small stream flooding. Low lying
and/or poor drainage areas will experience minor flooding in
the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have
fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are
possible.
Killeen, Waco, Temple, Fort Hood, and surrounding areas.
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DETROIT (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board has reversed a Trump-era decision by finding that Tesla can’t stop factory employees from wearing clothing with union insignia while on the job.
The board, in a 3-2 decision released Monday, overruled a 2019 NLRB decision involving Walmart and union clothing. The board wrote that a 1945 Supreme Court decision established the precedent for allowing the clothing.
It ordered Tesla to stop enforcing an “overly broad” uniform policy that effectively stops production workers at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory from wearing black shirts with the United Auto Workers union’s logo.
The board said by ruling against Tesla, it reaffirmed a longstanding precedent that it is “presumptively unlawful” for employers to restrict union clothing without special circumstances that justify the ban.
The board majority determined that Tesla failed to establish any special circumstances that would allow banning the UAW clothing.
“The board reaffirms that any attempt to restrict the wearing of union clothing or insignia is presumptively unlawful and — consistent with Supreme Court precedent — an employer has a heightened burden to justify attempts to limit this important right,” Chairman Lauren McFerran said in a statement.
Messages were left Monday seeking comment from Tesla and the auto workers union.
It’s the second defeat at the NLRB for Tesla and CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla is appealing a ruling from last year that found the company and Musk engaged in unfair labor practices in 2018.
A year ago, the labor relations board found that in a May 20, 2018 tweet, Musk unlawfully threatened employees with loss of stock options if they chose to be represented by the UAW.
Board members ordered Tesla to make Musk delete the tweet and stop threatening employees with loss of benefits for supporting a labor organization.
Tesla also was required to post a notice addressing unfair labor practices at the 10,000-worker Fremont plant, and post a notice dealing with the tweet at all its facilities nationwide.
In April of 2021, Tesla appealed the NLRB ruling to a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
Among other things, the lengthy March 2021 NLRB ruling also ordered Tesla to reinstate an employee who was fired for union-organizing activity and to give him back pay.
Musk tweeted in May of 2018: “Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted. But why pay union dues and give up stock options for nothing? Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare.”
In Monday’s ruling, the NLRB wrote that Tesla had a policy requiring “team wear” for production workers that included black cotton shirts with the Tesla logo and black cotton pants with no buttons, rivets or exposed zippers. Tesla provided clothing for the workers.
During a UAW organizing campaign in the spring of 2017, some production workers began wearing black cotton shirts with a small union logo on the front and a larger one on the back. Before August of 2017, workers often wore shirts that weren’t black or had logos that weren’t related to Tesla. But at that time, the company began to strictly enforce the team-wear policy, the NLRB wrote.
On Aug. 10, 2017, supervisors threatened to send two workers home for wearing union clothing, the board wrote. Tesla did allow workers to wear union stickers on the required clothing. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-labor-board-rules-tesla-must-let-workers-wear-union-clothing/ | 2022-08-30T20:32:15Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/business/ap-labor-board-rules-tesla-must-let-workers-wear-union-clothing/ | false |
More than 1 million construction workers across the U.S. won’t have to comply with a federal COVID-19 vaccination requirement, but an appeals court cleared the way for President Joe Biden’s administration to potentially enforce the mandate on some federal contractors.
Biden’s Office of Management and Budget said Monday that federal attorneys were still reviewing the ruling issued Friday and that no immediate steps have been taken to implement it.
The vaccine requirement for employees of federal contractors has been on hold nationwide since a U.S. district judge in Georgia issued an order in December barring its enforcement.
A split ruling by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta lifted that nationwide injunction but continues to bar enforcement of the vaccine mandate against seven states that sued — Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia. It also bars enforcement against members of Associated Builders and Contractors — which joined the lawsuit — or any of their subcontractors on federal projects.
The association, which has about 21,000 member companies employing more than 1 million workers, called the ruling a “huge victory” even though it narrows the scope of the previous injunction.
“A lot of the contractors were concerned about the record-keeping” and the potential to lose workers, said Ben Brubeck, the association’s vice president of regulatory, labor and state affairs. “There’s a lot of employees who didn’t want to get vaccinated in the construction industry.”
Taking into account previous court orders stemming from lawsuits by other states, the vaccine mandate now is blocked for federal contracts involving half the states but allowed in the other half. It’s unclear whether, when or how Biden’s administration will seek to enforce the mandate.
The contractor requirement had been part of Biden’s broader plan to fight COVID-19 by boosting vaccination rates. Separate orders had mandated vaccinations for health care employers participating in Medicare or Medicaid and had mandated employers with at least 100 workers to either require vaccinations or make employees wear masks and get regularly tested for COVID-19.
The vaccine mandates spawned a bevy of lawsuits, primarily from Republican-led states, but also from some employers. The U.S. Supreme Court in January blocked the vaccine requirement for large private employers but allowed it to proceed for most health care workers.
In requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for federal contractors, Biden’s administration contended that a federal procurement law gives the president broad authority to implement workplace safety guidelines. The appeals court panel disagreed and said Biden likely exceeded his authority. But it said the lower court judge also pushed the boundaries of judicial power by applying an injunction nationwide instead of limiting it only to those involved in the lawsuit.
The appellate decision was written by Circuit Judge Britt C. Grant, who was appointed by former Republican President Donald Trump in 2018. Senior Circuit Judge J. L. Edmondson, an appointee of former Republican President Ronald Reagan, concurred in the decision.
Senior Circuit Judge R. Lanier Anderson III, an appointee of former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, wrote that he believes Biden had the legal authority to issue the vaccine requirement. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-court-narrows-hold-on-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-contractors/ | 2022-08-30T20:32:35Z | https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/ap-court-narrows-hold-on-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-contractors/ | true |
All across the country, local animal shelters are at or near capacity. Overall, the rate of owners relinquishing both dogs and cats is only slightly up, according to a report created by the organization, Shelter Animals Count.
Stephanie Filer, the executive director at Shelter Animals Count, says there are fewer animals leaving shelters. Filer says shelters are reporting the reasons people give for dropping off their pets include financial challenges, housing and food insecurity.
“We always have the shelter population that represents what’s going on in the community,” Filer said.
There are other shifts happening inside animal shelters. Prior to the pandemic, more cats were entering shelters and staying behind. Now, cats are surpassing dogs in adoptions.
Other factors are pushing shelters to the brink.
“Typical space is limited because we’re having a shortage of staff as well, in particular frontline animal care,” Filer said. “It’s a combination of factors between staffing shortages, veterinarian shortages, and too many animals coming in and not enough animals going out.”
The good news is adoptions are still higher than pre-pandemic. Many animal welfare organizations have also been transitioning to providing more support to families with pets. They are providing resources to help keep animals in homes like dog and cat food, temporary crisis fostering, routine care and emergency care.
So far this year, 6% more animals have entered shelters than have left. Shelter Animals Count is forecasting that without some big change, the animal population imbalance in shelters will reach 10% nationally by the end of the year. That’s the highest in four years. | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/shelters-see-more-people-surrendering-pets-due-to-financial-hardships | 2022-08-30T20:33:50Z | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/shelters-see-more-people-surrendering-pets-due-to-financial-hardships | true |
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona judge has ordered three Republicans, including secretary of state nominee Mark Finchem and U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, to pay $75,000 in attorney fees for filing a defamation suit against a former Democratic lawmaker “primarily for purposes of harassment.”
The Republicans filed the lawsuit last year against former Democratic state Rep. Charlene Fernandez after she called for an investigation of their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The judge dismissed the lawsuit in April, saying Fernandez’s request was protected by the First Amendment’s rights to free speech and to petition the government.
The lawsuit was “groundless and not made in good faith,” Yuma County Judge Pro Tem Levi Gunderson ruled on Monday, adding that it appeared to have been “written for an audience other than the assigned trial court judge.”
Gunderson said legal filings by the Republicans made irrelevant references to open borders and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The lawsuit “was brought for an improper purpose, having been filed against a political opponent primarily for purposes of harassment,” he added.
Fernandez and 41 other Democratic lawmakers signed a letter on Jan. 12, 2021, urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Finchem, Gosar, then-state Rep. Anthony Kern and U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, all Republicans from Arizona. Finchem and Kern were outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, while Gosar and Biggs are under scrutiny for their roles in supporting protests leading up to the counting of electoral votes that day. All have denied wrongdoing.
Finchem and Kern, who is running for the state Senate this year, sued Fernandez and were later joined in the suit by Gosar. They claimed the letter was a smear and that Fernandez “baselessly” accused them of the “highest possible crimes against the Government of the United States.”
Finchem said in a text message that he is evaluating his options. A person who answered a cell phone number that Kern has previously used hung up when a reporter identified himself and did not respond to a text message. A spokesman for Gosar did not respond to an email seeking comment.
Of the 42 Democrats who signed the letter, Fernandez was the only one who was sued. She was previously the House Democratic leader but was not in Democratic leadership at the time the letter was signed and publicly released. Fernandez resigned from the Legislature last year to take a job in President Joe Biden’s administration.
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GREEN BAY, Wis., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. (NYSE: NIC) ("Nicolet") completed its merger with Charter Bankshares, Inc., ("Charter"), as a result of which, Charter merged with and into Nicolet, with Nicolet being the surviving corporation. Immediately following the merger, Charter's wholly owned bank subsidiary, Charter Bank, was merged with and into Nicolet National Bank.
Based on initial financial data, the addition of Charter added approximately $1.1 billion in assets to increase Nicolet's total assets to approximately $8.5 billion. Total loans of the combined company will increase to approximately $5.8 billion and total deposits will increase to approximately $7.2 billion.
The systems integration was completed, and the four branches of Charter Bank opened as Nicolet National Bank branches, expanding Nicolet's presence to Western Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Mike Daniels, President and CEO of Nicolet, said, "Our team has worked hard to ensure that a complicated project plan turned into a smooth integration for our customers and the communities. What is important now is turning the promise of this merger into tangible actions that show what a good community bank can do. We will trust the people who are closest to our customers to do just that."
About Nicolet Bankshares, Inc.
Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. is the bank holding company of Nicolet National Bank, a growing, full-service, community bank providing services ranging from commercial and consumer banking to wealth management and retirement plan services. Founded in Green Bay in 2000, Nicolet National Bank operates branches in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. More information can be found at www.nicoletbank.com.
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Multi-Year Transformation to Culminate in 2023 with Debut of Destination Resort Experience
AUBURN, Wash., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To a resounding cheer, the final steel beam for Muckleshoot Casino's highly anticipated resort tower was hoisted into place on Friday, August 26, 2022 in Auburn, Washington.
The 1,000-pound, 25-foot-long beam, adorned with the signatures of Muckleshoot Indian Tribal members as well as the men and women who built the 18-story structure, glided into place accompanied with a splash of fireworks. Hundreds of onlookers, from Tribal leadership and casino executives to community partners and construction workers, witnessed the milestone which included a blessing and cultural dance of celebration.
With the welding of the final beam into place, Muckleshoot Casino's resort tower is already reshaping the economic and visual landscape of the South Sound before its anticipated debut in the fall of 2023. Powered by almost 500 local workers under the management of general contractor Swinerton, the project now stands proud as the tallest structure between Seattle and Tacoma.
"Under the stewardship of the Muckleshoot Tribe, we're creating a resort destination where memories will be made," stated Muckleshoot Casino Chief Executive Officer John James. "Our commanding hotel tower, already drawing regional attention with its proud silhouette against the skyline, will be a beacon for the exceptional. From the excitement of more ways to play to the warmth of elevated guest service, we will be the preferred central gathering point to dine, play and stay."
The glass tower—which will boast approximately 400 guestrooms, expanded gaming, an indoor pool, spa services, and a rooftop steakhouse among its amenities—will be the pinnacle of an exciting multi-phase evolution for Muckleshoot Casino. Earlier phases added a 20,000-square-foot technologically advanced events center, a trio of fast-casual dining destinations, a high-energy center bar, increased smoke-free gaming and, most recently, Caesars Sportsbook at Muckleshoot.
Muckleshoot Casino Chief Operating Officer Tyrone Simmons said, "Piece by piece, we are building towards an exciting new standard for regional tourism. The addition of a dynamic resort experience to Muckleshoot Casino exemplifies the Muckleshoot Tribe's commitment and dedication to developing unmatched destinations."
Once complete in the fall of 2023, Muckleshoot Casino Resort will take its reputation as the "Biggest and Best in the Northwest" to an unparalleled level with 157,000 square feet of continuous gaming, 29,000 total square feet of event space, almost a dozen dining choices, and more.
View a video reel of the project and ceremony here.
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- 18 stories
- On a clear day, Mt. Rainier, Olympic Mountain range, and Seattle skyline visible
- Expected completion in fall of 2023
- Project features:
The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe is composed of descendants of the Native people who inhabited the Duwamish and Upper Puyallup watersheds of central Puget Sound for thousands of years before non-Indian settlement. The word, Muckleshoot, is derived from the Native name for the prairie on which the tribe's reservation was established in 1857.
Today, the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe is a major contributor to the local economy and community providing resources to other governments, schools, nonprofits, and churches throughout Washington. The benefits of the Muckleshoot Tribe's economic revival go well beyond financial contributions. From landmark agreements protecting fish and wildlife habitats and innovative educational programming to hundreds of partnerships with organizations serving those in need throughout the state, the Muckleshoot Tribe is committed to improving the quality of life of its citizens, neighbors and work force while preserving its culture and laying the groundwork for a bright future.
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Medical Waste Containers Market To Witness Comprehensive Growth During Forecast Period 2021 – 2031
Posted on 2022-08-30 by Fact.MR in Healthcare // 0 Comments
The global medical waste containers market is scheduled to be valued at US$ 20 Bn in 2021, according to a recently published research report by Fact.MR. Long-term projections appear further optimistic, with an anticipated CAGR of 6% from 2021-2031, and an expected valuation of US$ 36 Bn. Rapid expansion of healthcare infrastructure and the consequent increase in medical waste generation is likely to drive future demand.
Sales of medical waste containers expanded significantly throughout the historical period 2016-2020, clocking a CAGR of over 5%. Implementation of stringent waste disposal guidelines to prevent community spread further accelerated growth prospects for medical waste containers throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prominent players, including Daniels Health, have come to the fore, offering highly specialized and safe approaches for disposing off COVID-19 waste.
According to the World Health Organization, 85% of all medical waste generated is non-hazardous in nature. Much of this is disposed-off in the conventional way- open burning and incineration. This has raised a considerable number of eyebrows, as they are responsible for bulk of all particulate matter, dioxins and furans emissions. Hence, countries are looking to incorporate medical waste containers and reduce their environmental footprint.
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Medical Waste Containers Market- Scope of Report
A recent study by Fact.MR on the medical waste containers market offers a 10-year forecast for 2021 to 2031. The study analyzes crucial trends that are currently determining the growth of the market. This report explicates on vital dynamics, such as the drivers, restraints, and opportunities for key market players along with key stakeholders as well as emerging players associated with offering medical waste containers.
The study also provides the dynamics responsible for influencing the future status of the medical waste containers market over the forecast period. A detailed assessment of value chain analysis, business execution, and supply chain analysis across regional markets has been covered in the report. A list of prominent companies operating in the medical waste containers market, along with their product portfolios, enhances the reliability of this comprehensive research study.
Key Competitors Covered In Medical Waste Containers Market
Key players involved in the market are rigorously investing in the development and launches of new products to gain a competitive advantage and expand their consumer base. Mergers & acquisitions along with diversification of product portfolios are key business strategies implemented by participants in the industry.
- For instance, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers the NalgeneTM Biohazardous Waste Containers, which feature a convenient one-step sterilization, involving no need to remove the bag. A port opening in the cover allows for one-handed disposal of materials, limiting exposure to infectious waste. The containers hold standard sized autoclave bags
- Likewise, EnviroTain LLC offers medical waste containers for biohazardous, chemotherapy, pharmaceutical, RCRA and sharps containers respectively. The company has partnered with leading distributors, including Mauser Packaging, the National Waste & Recycling Association and the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
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Key Segments Covered
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Product Type
- Chemotherapy Medical Waste Containers
- Biohazard Medical Waste Containers
- RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) Medical Waste Containers
- Pharmaceutical Waste Containers
- Medical Sharps Waste Containers
- Patient Room Sharps Containers
- Phlebotomy Sharps Containers
- Multipurpose Sharps Containers
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Waste Type
- Infectious & Pathological Waste
- Non-infectious Waste
- Radioactive Waste
- Sharps Waste
- Pharmaceutical Waste
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Usage Type
- Disposable Medical Waste Containers
- Reusable Medical Waste Containers
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Medical Waste Generators
- Medical Waste Containers for Hospitals
- Medical Waste Containers for Clinics & Physicians’ Offices
- Medical Waste Containers for Pharmaceutical Companies
- Medical Waste Containers for Long Term Care & Urgent Care Centers
- Medical Waste Containers for Pharmacies
- Medical Waste Containers for Other Generators
Key Reports from the Market Study:
- By product type, the pharmaceutical containers to secure around 30% of the market share
- By waste type, the non-infectious medical waste segment is poised to capture 2/5th of global demand
- Chemotherapy medical waste containers to experience a CAGR of 5% until 2031
- Hospitals to account for at least 2 out of 5 medical waste container sales
- North America to register a CAGR of 5% across the forecast period
- Asia to expand at 6.1% CAGR, capturing a fifth of the global market share
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- Digi Communications N.V. reports the upsize and successful pricing of the offering of senior secured notes by RCS & RDS S.A., its Romanian subsidiary
- RCH To Present New Smart ECR, Robust and Vintage POS Systems at EuroShop 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 20 – 24 Jan 2020
- Digi Communications N.V.: (i) launch of an offering by RCS & RDS S.A. of senior secured notes; (ii) issuance of a notice of conditional full redemption of all outstanding €550.0m 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023 issued by the Company and (iii) restatement by the Company of its unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the 9-month period ended 30 Sep 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 13 – 17 Jan 2020
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in December 2019 or in other period but effective in December 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 6 – 10 Jan 2020
- SuitePad Announced as the Best Guest Room Tablet in the 2020 HotelTechAwards
- Wildlife Safari Vacations in Kenya Travel with Cruzeiro Safaris Kenya
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Dec 2019 – 3 Jan 2020
- Axiom Prepaid Holdings Caps Off Banner Year with a Prestigious Accolade for Its CEO
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23 and 27 December 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the publishing of the Financial Calendar for 2020
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol 16-20 Dec 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Dec 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in November 2019 or in other period but effective in November 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- American Hemp Processing To Roll Out Mobile Extraction Units
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 2-6 Dec 2019
- Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch Zwangskonvertierungen – Ein internationales Problem
- XPAND has launched “XPAND Code Generator”, a website that automatically issues XPAND Code that can be read from 200 meters/700 feet
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 25-29 Nov 2019
- RCS & RDS S.A., Digi Communications N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania, entered into agreements to operate the telecommunications networks of the Romanian companies Digital Cable Systems S.A., AKTA Telecom S.A. and ATTP Telecommunications S.R.L
- Crafting qualifications to accelerate adoption of Additive Manufacturing
- 100,000 Graduation Ceremony of Shincheonji Theology Center Held over 112 countries
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 18 – 22 Nov 2019
- PDA GMP for APIs Education Webinar Now an "ICH Recognised Training Programme"
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 11 – 15 Nov 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in October 2019 or in other period but effective in October 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2019 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 4 – 8 Nov 2019
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 28 Oct – 1 Nov 2019
- Medis to Launch an Innovative 4D Flow Module for Clinical Practice
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21-25 Oct 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14-18 Oct 2019
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in September 2019 or in other period but effective in September 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 7-11 Oct 2019
- RCH to Launch WALLE 8T POS for Real-time Access to Data in the Cloud
- ASI Drives Launches Mark 600, Poised to Replace Internal Combustion Engines
- Now The Cash For Gold Is Reliable Old Gold Jewelry Buyers
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 30 Sep – 4 Oct 2019
- Il noto Brand di Prodotti Promozionali Personalizzati National Pen lancia il Nuovo Sito Italiano
- Un nouveau look pour Universal Pen relançant son site Web de produits de marque promotionnels
- First non-melanoma skin cancer patients treated with the Rhenium-SCT® in Germany
- Finalyse welcomes Dublin as a new entity to the Group
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 23-27 September 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 16-20 Sep 2019
- VIAJES: LOS 5 DESTINOS MÁS BARATOS PARA ESCAPADAS URBANAS
- TRAVEL NEWS: Malaga tops the list of best value city break destinations in Spain
- Dr. Kurt Lauk, prominent business leader, former chairman of Economic Council in Germany (Wirtschaftsrat), former advisor to Angela Merkel, joins Tachyum
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 9-13 Sep 2019
- DIGI Communications N.V.: Decision regarding the participation to the auction procedure related to wireless broadband services supporting the introduction of 5G in Hungary
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in August 2019 or in other period but effective in August 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Fight To Fame Expands Its Search for the Next Action Film Star to Europe
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of Investor’s presentation on the company’s website
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 19 – 23 August 2019
- All occasion personalised pens produced by specialist company Camaloon
- Nicht nur für Messen: Werbemittel Kugelschreiber
- Stylos personnalisés : Camaloon pense à tout
- Camaloon: una Penna da personalizzare per ogni occasione
- Experterna på tryck erbjuder profilerande bläckpennor för varje tillfälle
- Gepersonaliseerde pennen kiezen voor al uw behoeften
- MÁS DE 20 MILLONES DE PRODUCTOS DE PAPELERÍA SON COMPRADOS CADA DÍA
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 12 -16 August 2019
- XPAND K.K. will exhibit at the IFA 2019 as a Japanese cutting-edge IT company
- Reporting of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in July 2019 or in other period but effective in July 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Digi Communications N.V. Announces the availability of H1 2019 Financial Report (for the six month period ended 30 June 2019)
- PDA Announces Six Regulatory Authorities Speaking at Biomanufacturing in Munich
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 5 and 9 August 2019
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for the Half-year ended 30 June 2019
- Customer Data Platform Industry Grew 71% in One Year; Will Reach $1 Billion Revenue in 2019
- Central European Online Travel Agency Group Szallas.hu PLC. further strengthens its international presence
- With The Lure Of High Threadcount Sheets After A Day Trekking, Luxury Travel Blogger THE BOUTIQUE ADVENTURER Champions Chic Solo Explorations
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Syndicated facility agreement concluded between the Digi Group and a syndicate of banks
- LA SCULPTURE DE CEDRIC KOUKJIAN, « LIAISON », SERA EXPOSÉ EN PUBLIC PAR LA COMMISSION CULTURELLE DE COLOGNY, EN SUISSE
- CEDRIC KOUKJIAN’S SCULPTURE, “LIAISON” TO BE EXHIBITED IN PUBLIC BY CULTURAL COMMISSION OF COLOGNY IN SWITZERLAND
- Digi Communications N.V.: Independent Limited Assurance Report issued by the external auditor regarding the information included in the current reports under Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- Il 18° tour del lago Qinghai si conclude con la celebrazione della "maggiore età"
- La 18ª Vuelta al Lago Qinghai concluye con la celebración de su “mayoría de edad”
- 18e ‘Tour of Qinghai Lake’ wordt afgesloten met een ‘coming-of-age’-viering
- Digi Communications N.V.: Rectification of reports published on 15 Feb, 15 Mar, 15 Apr, 15 May and 14 Jun 2019 regarding legal documents in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 22 and 26 July 2019
- GEANGO at ENSO ANGO - Summer Culture Retreat in Kyoto 2019
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol (15-19 July 2019)
- Nanto Cleantech Inc victorious in BYK-Altana patent opposition lawsuit
- Mono Solutions Joins Bauer Media Group to Strengthen SME Marketing Services Across the Globe
- UK Investors File Lawsuit in the Canaries Against Blue Explorers for Misleading Shareholders
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 8 – 12 July 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 11 July 2019
- OFERTA de casas vacacionales de lujo para menos de €25 por persona por noche este verano
- Noticias de Turismo: este verano sacarás más partido de tu presupuesto vacacional encontrando precios más competitivos
- TRAVEL NEWS: Your holiday spending money stretches even further this summer in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1 – 5 July 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program approved by the GSM from 30 April 2019 and the duration of this program
- Global Software Innovator, AnyDesk, Announces Record 100 Million Downloads
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 24 and 28 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the launch by RCS & RDS S.A., its subsidiary in Romania, of the Digi Mobil 5G Smart service
- Tauschen Sie Ihren Dripper aus und verändern Sie den Geschmack Ihres Kaffees! HARIO veröffentlicht den Double Mesh Metal Dripper.
- Change your dripper and change the flavor of your coffee! HARIO launches the Double Mesh Metal Dripper
- Matvil Corp. противостоит беспределу судебных властей Молдовы
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17 – 21 June 2019
- Matvil Corp. Fights the Illegal Actions of the Legal System of Moldova
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10 and 14 June 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in May 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol between 3 – 7 June 2019
- PDA Explores the Transformation of Healthcare at 4th Annual European Meeting
- ASI President John Cross Named AGMA Chairman
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 27 – 31 May 2019
- Breakthrough on laser powder bed fusion technology brings effective production of larger componentscloser to mainstream
- PDA Announces All-Star Speaker Lineup for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products Conference
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by the Executive Directors of the Company
- Digi Communications N.V. announces DIGI Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of the Company, launches mobile telephony services in Hungary
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 21 and 24 May 2019
- ZYXEL READY WITH 5G SAMPLES IN AUGUST 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the initiation of the share buy-back program as authorized by the Company’s GSM on 30 April 2019
- Digi Communications N.V Q1 2019 Financial Report and the report regarding legal documents for April 2019, in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 released
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the new date of the Conference Call for the presentation of the Q1 2019 Financial Report. Update to the Company’s 2019 Financial Calendar.
- Rhenium-SCT® (SCT= Skin Cancer Therapy) now being offered in Hanau, Germany
- Project consortium aims at driving the adoption of selective laser melting (SLM) for large scale metal parts printing
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the availability of the instructions on the 2018 share dividend payment
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 April 2019 – 1 May 2019, under the class B shares buy-back program
- Biodiversity Report Is Urgent Call to Action Beyond Fixes; Geneva Global Initiative Calls on World Community to Focus on Concrete Actions
- Digi Communications N.V.’s general Shareholders’ meeting resolutions from 30 Apr 2019 approving, amongst others, the 2018 Annual Accounts and the availability of the adopted Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec 31, 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions occurred under DIGI symbol, 22 – 26 April 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 15 April 2019 – 19 April 2019s
- XPAND Code was successfully scanned from 200 meters/700 feet at Olympics stadium
- Wasser eingießen, Warten und Einschalten
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in March 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8 and 12 April 2019
- Snowman releases new EP
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 1 – 5 April 2019
- Streamlining adoption of high-speed and high-resolution surface texturing delivered with the Prometheus project
- Customer Data Platform Institute Launches RealCDP to Reduce CDP Confusion
- ASI Technologies Focuses on the future as ASI Drives, and New AGV Pallet Robot, FRED2500
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 March 2019 – 29 March 2019
- Towards a Europe of Stakeholder Nations
- Associazione Veneta Lotta alla Talassemia (AVLT) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) Clarification on European Regulatory Status of LENTIGLOBIN™
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19 March 2019 – 22 March 2019
- A new flagship project on Additive Manufacturing skills aims to maintain Europe leading position in industrial competitiveness
- Consultancy Partnership Revolutionizes Agile Project Management
- Jeroen Schouten Named Regional Manager, Europe of AeroGo, Inc.
- Digi Communications N.V. Convocation of the Company’s general shareholders meeting for 30 April 2019 for the approval of, among others, the 2018 Annual Report and of the 2018 Financial Statements
- España arrasa con la competencia y es nombrado como el país ideal para estudiar en el extranjero
- Xverify targets European Email Verification market with local data processing, Dublin office
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the resignation by Mr. Sambor Ryszka from his position as non-executive director of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: Reporting of legal documents concluded by the company in February 2019 in accordance with article 82 of Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 published
- New Services Larry Hurt income Tax Services
- Admission of Digi Communications N.V. €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023 to the listing on the Official List and trading on Irish Stock Exchange’s Main Securities Market
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the appointment of Dan Ioniță as a non-executive director of RCS & RDS S.A., the Romanian subsidiary of the Company
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 4 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 25 February – 1 March 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces share transaction made by an executive director of the Company with class B shares on 1 march 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 18 and 22 February 2019
- Digi Communications N.V.: finalization and registration by the Company of the conversion of 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan for the Group’s Romanian employees
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 11 and 15 February 2019
- Dearly Beloved, The Latest Single By Alternative Urbane Artist Expands Up-And-Coming ADN Lewis's Global Fan Base
- Report of legal documents concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in January 2019 or in other period but effective in January 2019
- Digi Communications N.V. announces Availability of Preliminary Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2018 for Digi Communications N.V. Group
- Mono Solutions launches a new interface to drive the ultimate do-it-with-me (DIWM) experience
- Digi Communications NV Announces Investor Call on the Preliminary Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2018
- Digi Communications NV: New date of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results; Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 4 and 8 February 2019
- R.W. Chelsea Holdings Ltd Starts To Hold Fixed Income Investor Meetings In Vienna, Zurich, Geneva and London
- Digi Communications N.V. successfully increased and priced its Offering at €200,000,000 5.0% additional senior secured notes due 2023
- Digi Communications N.V. to offer additional €125,000,000 5.0% senior secured notes due 2023; new notes will be consolidated and treated as its existing €350,000,000; adjustment on interim unaudited consolidated financial statements for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2018
- World's largest superhero statue to be built in Central Europe
- The resignation of Mr. Bendei Ioan – VP and executive director of RCS&RDS S.A., DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V.’s subsidiary in Romania
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 28 January 2019 – 1 February 2019
- RCH Group to Showcase Integrated Selling Solutions at EuroCIS
- Mono and bfound partner to expand digital offerings for small businesses in the Middle East
- Digi Communications N.V. publishes the Independent Limited Assurance Report in accordance with Law 24/2017 (Article 82) and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018
- ERRATA of the reports dated 15 Jan 2019 and 15 Oct 2018 regarding the legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in Dec 2018 and Sep 2018
- REVEALED: Experts reveal the best dates to book your summer holiday in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 21 – 25 January 2019
- Céline Dion visite son premier concept store de vêtements CELINUNUNU à Paris
- Anytime, anywhere tailored learning opportunities for welding professionals and apprentices alike
- i5invest открива офис в България
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 14 - 18 January 2019
- Mono helps Fonecta strengthen their digital presence offering for SMBs
- The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision regarding the investigation conducted by the Romanian National Anti-corruption Directorate with respect to RCS & RDS S.A., Integrasoft S.R.L. and certain of their directors
- Digi Communications N.V.: Exercise of stock options by a PDMR in accordance with the stock option plan approved by the Company for the Romanian employees of the Group in 2017
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for December 2018
- Digi Communications N.V.: resolution of the Board of Directors to convert class 1,200,000 A shares into an equal number of class B shares for the purpose of the ongoing employees and directors stock option plans
- CELINUNUNU OUVRE SON PREMIER POP-UP À PARIS
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 07 – 11 January 2019
- Digi Communications NV: Announcement of the Conference Call for the 2018 Preliminary financial results. Update to the 2019 Company’s Financial Calendar
- A new Government Emergency Ordinance imposing additional corporate taxes with impact on the telecommunications sector in Romania
- DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 31 December 2018-04 January 2019
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Dec 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 17-21 Dec 2018
- US Customer Data Platform authority David Raab to Host First CDP Workshop in Belgium
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Dec 2018
- US-amerikanischer Customer-Data-Platform-Experte David M. Raab leitet ersten gemeinsamen CDP-Workshop mit b.telligent in München
- Arriva Designflows, la prima competizione di mobile design in Italia
- BWW 2018 – Best Wine Critics of World have been selected – Jancis Robinson MW is the Winner!
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 December 2018
- Farming by Satellite Prize is won by Teagasc from Ireland
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 26-30 Nov 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 19-23 November 2018
- First Non-Melanocytic Skin Cancer Patients treated with Rhenium-SCT® in South Africa
- Notification shares buy-back: Digi Communications N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 12-16 November 2018
- Base Element and Cognigy Announce Strategic Partnership
- Digi Communications N.V. announces the Hungarian Competition Council’s decision to formally withdraw and reassess the Invitel merger decision on certain limited aspects
- Amerikaanse Customer Data Platform authoriteit David M. Raab leidt eerste CDP Workshop in Nederland
- Digi Communications NV announces the release of the Q3 2018 Financial Results
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 5-9 November 2018
- Cobots and RPA Gain Centerstage in Automotive Robotics Space; Labor Issues Prevail as a Key Challenge
- Digi Communications NV announces Investor Call on the Financial Results for Q3 2018
- Food Waste Recycling Machine Sales to Reach 10,890 units in 2018 on the Back of Growing Investments in Sustainable Solutions
- SMEs Accounted for Nearly 60% Share of SAP Cloud Platform Services Market in 2017, Finds New Fact.MR Study
- China’s Dominance of Pneumatic Rollers Production and Demand Continues, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 29 October-2 November 2018
- ILC Dover to Open New Production Facility in Blarney, Ireland for Added Capabilities, Capacity and Jobs
- OEMs Hold 90% Share of Automotive Switches Sales Channel, Finds Fact.MR
- US$ 3 Billion RF Power Amplifiers Market Driven by Growing Cellular Applications, Finds Fact.MR Study
- Kidney Stone Management Device Sales to Surpass 340,000 Units in 2018 with Lithotripsy Devices Leading the Rally, Finds Fact.MR
- Fact.MR Study Finds Contractor Preference Shifting from Skid Steers to Compact Track Loaders in Lucrative Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 22-26 October 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches into the European Market
- Hungarian coding bootcamp opens in Prague in order to train career changers looking to enter the IT industry
- Gasoline Vehicles Accounted for 8 in 10 Automotive Fuel Injector Sales in 2018, finds Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Finds Global Demand for Crawler Cranes to Reach 3,648 Units in 2018, Greater China Leads with 30% Share
- Surplus Supply Reflects Growing Avidity in the Europe Cocoa Market – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study Shows Declining Demand for Tilapia in US Offset by Encouraging Gains in Domestic Markets
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 15-19 October 2018
- Europe Home Diagnostics Market Driven by Burgeoning Glucose Monitoring Device Sales, Consumer Demand for Non-Invasive Kits Largely Unmet – Fact.MR Study
- Europe Bicycle Parking Racks Market Driven by Consumer Focus on Sustainability and Carbon Consciousness
- Halloumi Cheese Popularity Soars in Europe as UK Maintains its Lead as the Largest Market – Fact.MR Study
- Vehicle Interior Air Quality (VIAQ) Takes Centerstage in US$ 6.5 Million Europe Automotive Headliners Market
- Report of legal acts concluded by DIGI Communications N.V. in accordance with Romanian Law no. 24/2017 and FSA Regulation no. 5/2018 for September 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 8-12 Oct 2018
- Europe Emulsifier and Co-Emulsifier Market Witnessing a Shift Towards Bio-based Variants – Fact.MR Study
- Fact.MR Study on IBM Watson Services Market Lists Business Agility and Customer Service Transformation as Key Motivations to Adoption
- Europe Non-Dairy Toppings Market Riding on the Coattails of Growing Vegan Revolution, Finds a New Fact.MR Study
- Blockchain Cyber-security Firm Privus Raises $635k in Late Stage Seed Funding
- Smart Scale Co. Unveils World's First IoT Smart Scale Container, Stashaweigh™, at New West Summit
- ‘Sustainability’, ‘Functionality’ and ‘Cost-Effectiveness’ Among Key Expectations of European Consumers from Automotive Tow Bars Industry
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 1-5 Oct 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol, 24-28 Sept 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 17-21 Sept 2018
- New Study Reconfirms Effectiveness and Safety of Fotona Dynamis Laser Treatment for Minimally-Invasive Urinary Incontinence
- New study reveals that hate speech is becoming the ‘new normal’ on social media
- The launch of fixed broadband and fixed telephony services by Digi Communication N.V.’s subsidiary in Spain
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 10-14 Sept 2018
- coMakeIT appoints Durga Prakash Kone as Head of Global Sales
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 3-7 Sept 2018
- 80% Satisfaction Rate in Europe for Customer Data Platform Early Adopters
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 27-31 Aug 2018
- Notification shares buy-back: DIGI COMMUNICATIONS N.V. reports to the regulated market the transactions which occurred under the DIGI symbol between 20-24 Aug 2018
- DB CyberTech Launches GDPR Continuous Monitoring Solution with the First to Market Advanced Data Classification
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OncoBeta® chosen as a 2019 Red Herring North America Top 100 Winner | https://express-press-release.net/news/2022/08/30/1241770 | 2022-08-30T20:37:09Z | https://express-press-release.net/news/2022/08/30/1241770 | true |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates will grant visas to those holding tickets to the World Cup in neighboring Qatar, the country announced Tuesday.
The UAE said in a statement those registered for Qatar’s Hayya fan card will be able to apply for multiple-entry visas 19 days before the tournament starts. Those granted visas will be able to stay for up to 90 days in the UAE, home to flashy Dubai and oil-rich Abu Dhabi.
Many fans are planning to base themselves in the UAE and neighboring countries for the monthlong tournament, as organizers expect a tight accommodation squeeze in tiny Qatar that has never hosted an event on this scale.
Hotels in the tourism hub of Dubai say some fans are booking rooms and planning to commute to matches by air. Dozens of flights will leave from the UAE to the host city of Doha each day. Saudi Arabia has also announced that those registered for the fan card can apply for multiple-entry visas to the kingdom.
The Hayya card is mandatory for ticket holders going to the World Cup in November and December.
The UAE's website for visas is www.icp.gov.ae. | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/UAE-to-grant-visas-to-World-Cup-ticket-holders-17407976.php | 2022-08-30T20:37:15Z | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/UAE-to-grant-visas-to-World-Cup-ticket-holders-17407976.php | false |
'Quit sending naked pictures!': Moment Southwest Airlines pilot threatens to pull flight to Cabo 'back into the gate' after passenger used AirDrop to send nude images to fellow fliers
- A TikTok video taken by passenger Teighlor Marsalis recorded the captain scolding the raunchy traveler
- The Southwest captain warned that 'this vacation is going to be ruined'
- This is the second TikTok video from a Southwest Airlines flight that has gone viral since June of this year
- The practice, called cyber-flashing, has been criminalized in Texas and carries a $500 fine
A Southwest Airlines pilot threatened cancel a vacation flight from Houston, Texas, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico after a passenger sent nude photos via AirDrop to fellow travelers.
A TikTok video taken by passenger Teighlor Marsalis of the captain's announcement has gone viral.
'So here's the deal,' the pilot, giving off 'major dad vibes,' says, 'While we're on the ground, I'm going to have to pull back to the gate, everybody's going to have to get off.
Teighlor Marsalis, 30, nearly missed her trip to Cabo San Lucas after a passenger AirDropped naked photos to fellow travelers
Teighlor Marsalis, left, and her husband Blaine Marsalis, made to Cabo San Lucas after her flight was almost canceled by a cyber-flasher
Marsalis recorded the second known incident of Cyber-flashing this year on Southwest Airlines, the first happened in June on a flight from Detroit to Denver
We're going to have to get security involved and this vacation is going to be ruined. So, you folks, whatever that AirDrop thing is quit sending naked pictures and let's get yourself to Cabo.'
The video, which has racked up more than 100,000 likes, was posted August 25.
Commenters on the social media platform seemed to find the video hilarious.
'This feels like my mom turning around in the car to me and my twin sister,' Nikki Marie posted under the video.
In June, a man referred to in this video still as 'Larry' reportedly sent indecent photos of himself to the entire flight bound for Denver from Detroit
Another poster, Walsami, agree. 'Haha major dad vibes,' he wrote.
It's not the first time that a Southwest airline passenger in Texas has shared photos au natural on a plane.
And not everyone thinks it's funny.
In June, TikTok-er @DaddyStrange333 posted a video taken during a flight from Detroit to Denver about another passenger who AirDropped photos of his privates to the entire flight, according to the New York Post.
'Meet Larry who just airdropped a whole flight photos of his peepee,' according to the post. 'Thankfully, I accepted it, saw who was sending it, and immediately started speaking up. Stay tuned for the police escort.'
Southwest Airlines has not responded to requests for comment on the Cabo pervert, but in June they confirmed that 'Larry' had sent inappropriate photos to the passengers.
'We can confirm this unfortunate incident occurred on a recent flight from Detroit to Denver,' a Southwest Airlines spokesperson told The Post. 'Our Flight Attendants immediately addressed the situation and the Crew requested local law enforcement officers meet the flight upon arrival, which they did and subsequently apprehended the individual responsible.
Southwest Airlines maintains zero tolerance for this obscene and unacceptable behavior, and we offer our sincere apologies to the other Customers onboard.'
Last year, Texas became one of the first states to outlaw the practice, referred to as Cyber-flashing.
It's now a crime, punishable by a $500 fine to send dirty pics unrequested over a digital format.
New York State Sentor James Skoufis has introduced legislation, with the support of dating app Bumble, the National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus, to outlaw the act.
'These images are frequently conveyed anonymously between mobile phones via text or digital file sharing services, and often on mass transit or in large public settings — violating the recipient's personal space and undermining their sense of safety,' Skoufis said when he introduced the measure in May.
His law would require sexual harassment training to those found to have violated the law, but there's stricter measures being offered in England and Wales.
Lawmakers in those countries are contemplating the Online Safety Bill, which would punish offenders with up to two years in prison for sending 'd**k pics.'
Scotland already passed such a bill in 2009. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11161493/Southwest-pilot-threatens-halt-flight-Cabo-passenger-used-AirDrop-send-nude-images.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-08-30T20:37:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11161493/Southwest-pilot-threatens-halt-flight-Cabo-passenger-used-AirDrop-send-nude-images.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
WFO BURLINGTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
The National Weather Service in Burlington has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Essex County in northern New York...
Northwestern Addison County in central Vermont...
* Until 500 PM EDT.
* At 410 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Crown Point
Center, moving northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect wind
damage to trees and powerlines.
* Locations impacted include...
Vergennes, Moriah, Crown Point, Westport, Ferrisburg, Weybridge,
Waltham, New Haven, Panton, Port Henry, Addison, Kingsland Bay
State Park, D A R State Park, Crown Point Center, Bridport,
Ferrisburgh, Bristol, Shoreham, Monkton and Cornwall.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BURLINGTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17408197.php | 2022-08-30T20:38:28Z | https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-BURLINGTON-Warnings-Watches-and-17408197.php | true |
(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden is traveling to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday afternoon to deliver remarks on his Safer America Plan, specifically gun safety in America.
Biden’s plan moves to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and ghost guns; require background checks for all gun sales with some exceptions; clear court backlogs and improve pretrial supervision of criminal cases; and invest in recruiting and training 100,000 additional police officers for community policing over the next five years.
The White House said Biden will use his Tuesday visit to call out Republicans for opposing his proposal to restore a ban on assault-style weapons. Both parties worked together in a rare effort to pass bipartisan gun safety legislation earlier this year after massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, but Biden has repeatedly said more needs to be done.
The president is expected to deliver remarks at Wilkes University at 3:15 p.m. local time. NewsNation will live stream the article in the player above.
Biden’s visit to the university was rescheduled from his original visit date in July after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Following his remarks in Wilkes-Barre, Biden is slated to deliver a prime-time address Thursday in Philadelphia. The president will speak on “the continued battle for the soul of the nation” while outside Independence Hall.
“He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack,” the White House told The Associated Press. “And he will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms and fighting for our democracy.”
Biden’s speech at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre comes as Democrats try to blunt Republican efforts to use concern about crime to their advantage in the midterms, which are two months away.
It’s a particularly fraught issue in Pennsylvania, a key swing state where a U.S. Senate seat and the governor’s office are up for grabs. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/live-president-biden-speaks-on-gun-safety/ | 2022-08-30T20:43:00Z | https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/live-president-biden-speaks-on-gun-safety/ | true |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
316 PM CDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
counties, Blanco and Llano.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 316 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Kingsland, Blanco, Round Mountain, Granite Shoals, Horseshoe
Bay, Johnson City, Highland Haven, Sandy, Rocky Creek, Hye,
Cypress Mill, Pedernales Falls State Park, Blowout, LBJ State
Park, Flugrath and Sunrise Beach Village.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AUSTIN-SAN-ANTONIO-Warnings-Watches-and-17408207.php | 2022-08-30T20:43:21Z | https://www.ncadvertiser.com/weather/article/TX-WFO-AUSTIN-SAN-ANTONIO-Warnings-Watches-and-17408207.php | true |
Tony Stewart will announce NHRA's U.S. Nationals on TV
Indianapolis Star
Two-time Brickyard 400 champion and Hoosier native Tony Stewart will dip his toe into drag racing this weekend.
Stewart will join the Fox television booth to call the U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Stewart will join Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon for eliminations from 2-5 p.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 5.
The Columbus native joined NHRA as a team owner this year with three-time Funny Car world champ Matt Hagan and Top Fuel star Leah Pruett, Stewart's wife. | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2022/08/30/tony-stewart-of-nascar-to-announce-nhra-u-s-nationals/65464682007/ | 2022-08-30T20:44:39Z | https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2022/08/30/tony-stewart-of-nascar-to-announce-nhra-u-s-nationals/65464682007/ | false |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine for people in the hungriest parts of the world has docked at the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti as areas of East Africa are badly affected by deadly drought and conflict.
Food security experts call it a drop in the bucket for the vast needs in the worst-hit Horn countries of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, the nation where this first shipment is going. But the flow of grain from Ukraine for other hungry parts of the world is expected to continue, with another ship departing Tuesday for Yemen. The U.N. World Food Program has said it is working on multiple ships.
WFP says this first shipment of grain will be shipped overland to northern Ethiopia, where millions of people have been affected by the country’s Tigray conflict, which has now flared up again.
How any of the grain will reach Tigray is now in question as humanitarian deliveries by road and air have been suspended amid the fighting that sparked again last week between Tigray forces and Ethiopian ones. But Ethiopia’s neighboring Amhara and Afar regions also are expected to benefit.
WFP has said the 23,000 metric tons of grain on the first ship are enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month. But the U.N. has said 2.4 million in Tigray alone are severely food insecure and that 20 million people across Ethiopia face hunger.
Millions of other people in the Horn of Africa region are going hungry because of drought, and thousands have died. Somalia has been especially hard hit because it sourced at least 90% of its grain from Ukraine and Russia before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Millions of tons of food are needed for the Horn of Africa, WFP said. “In Ethiopia alone, three-quarters of everything that we used to distribute originated from Ukraine and Russia,” regional director Michael Dunford said.
Food security experts have said it will take weeks for people in African countries to see grain from Ukraine arrive and even longer to see it bring down high food prices that have been a source of despair and protests in multiple nations.
Far more ships carrying grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports have been going to richer places like Europe as existing business contracts are fulfilled. As of Sunday, 114 ships carrying more than 1.2 million metric tons of food commodities had left Ukraine, WFP said, but “export volumes remain far below pre-conflict averages.” | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-1st-ukraine-grain-ship-for-horn-of-africa-reaches-djibouti/ | 2022-08-30T20:45:23Z | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-1st-ukraine-grain-ship-for-horn-of-africa-reaches-djibouti/ | false |
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VACAVILLE, Calif. — A big-rig truck carrying tomatoes crashed on a California interstate Monday morning, spilling its cargo on the busy roadway.
The California Highway Patrol said on Twitter that the truck went through the center divide on Interstate 80 in Vacaville, scattering the tomatoes and closing multiple lanes.
CHP told the Associated Press that the initial crash was a collision involving the truck and two other vehicles. Four more vehicles crashed after skidding across the mess.
Three people had minor injuries, the New York Times reported, and one person was hospitalized with a broken leg. Lanes remained closed for hours as crews cleaned up the tomatoes and put down absorbent powder.
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AUSTIN (KXAN/NEXSTAR) — Which restroom will take the throne in a competition for America’s ‘Best Restroom’? The suspense is leaving the country on the edge of its seat.
Cintas — a corporation that supplies uniforms, cleaning products and restroom supplies to businesses — is currently accepting votes for the America’s Best Restroom Contest, an annual celebration of the most eye-catching or otherwise interesting facilities in the country. Now in its 21st year, the contest aims to crown 2022’s “Best Restroom” from a pool of finalists that include restaurant restrooms, watering-hole washrooms and even airport lavatories.
“The public holds higher standards for the cleanliness and technology used in public restrooms which is why we’re proud to recognize these businesses that maintain clean and exceptional facilities,” said Julia Messinger, the marketing manager at Cintas, in a recent press release.
The bathrooms selected as finalists were deemed to be especially elegant or eclectic, and chosen for their cleanliness and aesthetic allure, according to Cintas.
This year’s finalists, in alphabetical order, are located at:
- Delaware Botanic Gardens, in Dagsboro, Delaware, where the bathroom incorporates garden elements and floor-to-ceiling windows to showcase the outdoors
- Eberly, a restaurant in Austin, Texas, with bathrooms that feature a “vacancy” light on the exterior of each stall door
- Headlands Lodge and Spa, in Pacific City, Oregon, where restroom visitors are treated to a “spa-like feel,” according to Cintas
- La Patisserie, a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, which earned a spot thanks to its bathrooms’ chandeliers and fully enclosed stalls
- Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, where the all-gender restroom in Terminal B offers “potty parity for all,” Cintas says
- No. 5 Bistro and Bar, in Sedalia, Missouri, where the bathrooms are said to pay homage to a historic building
- North Hollywood Recreation Center, in California, with lavatories that feature self-cleaning capabilities
- Stone Mountain Public House, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where the washroom takes on a “fun, prohibition theme”
- Tampa International Airport, in Florida, in the Airside C section, where the bathroom is decorated with images of Florida’s fauna
- Tori Tori, a restaurant in Orlando, which features restroom flower arrangements perfect for “mirror selfies and photos,” Cintas says
Voting for America’s “Best Restroom” is open through Aug. 31 at BestRestroom.com. The winner will be honored with a place in the America’s Best Restroom Hall of Fame, as well as a restroom cleaning service and $2,500 in facility services or future restroom cleanings.
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BEIJING (AP) _ 21Vianet Group Inc. (VNET) on Tuesday reported a loss of $56.3 million in its second quarter.
The Beijing-based company said it had a loss of 36 cents per share.
The provider of carrier-neutral internet data center services posted revenue of $257.5 million in the period.
21Vianet expects full-year revenue in the range of $1.08 billion to $1.13 billion.
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BEIJING, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- VNET Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNET) ("VNET" or the "Company"), a leading carrier- and cloud-neutral Internet data center services provider in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022.
"We delivered solid results in the second quarter amid macro uncertainties and tightened restrictions to contain COVID resurgences," said Samuel Shen, Chief Executive Officer of VNET and Executive Chairman of VNET's Retail IDC. "Notably, our wholesale business continued making good progress. We extended our contract with a leading social platform in China in the second quarter, generating a capacity of approximately 14MW, and recently signed a new contract generating a capacity of 15MW with a leading cloud service provider in China. Our retail business also achieved impressive results driven by rising digital demand from various industries. With our strong operating capabilities, deep industry experience and proven technology expertise, we are confident our compelling value proposition will enable us to seize new growth opportunities and create additional value for all of our stakeholders."
Tim Chen, Chief Financial Officer of VNET, commented, "Fueled by our dual-core growth strategy, this quarter we delivered a robust financial performance with a year-over-year growth 15.2% and 14.5% in revenue and adjusted EBITDA, respectively. Our solid financial position provides a firm foundation from which to drive long-term, sustainable growth as we continue to leverage our scalable service offerings, build our customer base across a wider variety of industries and maximize the opportunities ahead."
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights
- Net revenues increased by 15.2% to RMB1.72 billion (US$257.5 million) from RMB1.50 billion in the same period of 2021.
- Adjusted cash gross profit (non-GAAP) increased by 11.5% to RMB713.7 million (US$106.6 million) from RMB640.2 million in the same period of 2021. Adjusted cash gross margin (non-GAAP) was 41.4%, compared to 42.8% in the same period of 2021.
- Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP) increased by 14.5% to RMB486.9 million (US$72.7 million) from RMB425.1 million in the same period of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA margin (non-GAAP) was 28.2%, compared to 28.4% in the same period of 2021.
Second Quarter 2022 Operational Highlights
- Total cabinets under management increased by 1,867 in the second quarter of 2022 to reach 80,831 as of June 30, 2022, compared to 62,876 as of June 30, 2021.
- Cabinets utilized by customers increased by 1,468 in the second quarter of 2022 to reach 44,500 as of June 30, 2022, compared to 36,625 as of June 30, 2021.
- Overall utilization rate of cabinets[1] was 55.1% as of June 30, 2022, compared to 58.2% as of June 30, 2021.
- Retail IDC MRR[2] per cabinet reached RMB9,186 in the second quarter of 2022, compared to RMB9,015 in the second quarter of 2021.
Update on the Non-binding Acquisition Proposal
The Company has retained Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited as its financial advisor and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as its legal counsel to assist it in review and evaluation of the previously announced preliminary non-binding proposal letter dated April 6, 2022 to acquire all of the outstanding ordinary shares of the Company (the "Proposal") and any alternative strategic option that the Company may pursue.
The Board of Directors (the "Board") cautions the Company's shareholders and others considering trading the Company's securities that the Board has not made any decisions with respect to the Proposal or any alternative strategic option that the Company may pursue. There can be no assurance that any definitive offer will be made, that any agreement will be executed or that this or any other transaction will be approved or consummated. The Company does not undertake any obligation to provide any updates with respect to this or any other transaction, except as required under applicable law.
Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
NET REVENUES: Net revenues in the second quarter of 2022 were RMB1.72 billion (US$257.5 million), representing an increase of 15.2% from RMB1.50 billion in the same period of 2021. The year-over-year increase was mainly due to the increased demand from both wholesale and retail IDC customers, as well as the growth of revenue from cloud business.
GROSS PROFIT: Gross profit in the second quarter of 2022 was RMB357.8 million (US$53.4 million), compared with RMB359.5 million in the same period of 2021. Gross margin in the second quarter of 2022 was 20.7%, compared to 24.0% in the same period of 2021.
ADJUSTED CASH GROSS PROFIT, which excludes depreciation, amortization, and share-based compensation expenses, was RMB713.7 million (US$106.6 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared to RMB640.2 million in the same period of 2021. Adjusted cash gross margin in the second quarter of 2022 was 41.4%, compared to 42.8% in the same period of 2021.
OPERATING EXPENSES: Total operating expenses in the second quarter of 2022 were RMB321.7 million (US$48.0 million), compared to RMB262.5 million in the same period of 2021. As a percentage of net revenues, total operating expenses in the second quarter of 2022 were 18.7%, compared to 17.5% in the same period of 2021.
Sales and marketing expenses in the second quarter of 2022 were RMB80.4 million (US$12.0 million), compared to RMB59.6 million in the same period of 2021.
Research and development expenses in the second quarter of 2022 were RMB76.7 million (US$11.5 million), compared to RMB38.3 million in the same period of 2021.
General and administrative expenses in the second quarter of 2022 were RMB167.0 million (US$24.9 million), compared to RMB154.2 million in the same period of 2021.
ADJUSTED OPERATING EXPENSES, which exclude share-based compensation expenses, compensation for postcombination employment in an acquisition and impairment of loan receivable to potential investee, were RMB250.7 million (US$37.4 million) in the second quarter of 2022, compared to RMB235.6 million in the same period of 2021. As a percentage of net revenues, adjusted operating expenses in the second quarter of 2022 were 14.5%, compared to 15.7% in the same period of 2021.
ADJUSTED EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2022 was RMB486.9 million (US$72.7 million), representing an increase of 14.5% from RMB425.1 million in the same period of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter of 2022 excluded share-based compensation expenses of RMB47.5 million (US$7.1 million). Adjusted EBITDA margin in the second quarter of 2022 was 28.2%, compared to 28.4% in the same period of 2021.
NET PROFIT/LOSS: Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders in the second quarter of 2022 was RMB377.2 million (US$56.3 million), compared to a net profit of RMB455.9 million in the same period of 2021. Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders in the second quarter of 2022 included a foreign exchange loss of RMB319.9 million (US$47.8 million), compared to a foreign exchange gain of RMB78.0 million in the same period of 2021.
PROFIT/LOSS PER SHARE: Basic and diluted loss per share in the second quarter of 2022 were both RMB0.43 (US$0.06) which represented the equivalent of both RMB2.58 (US$0.36) per American depositary share ("ADS"). Each ADS represents six Class A ordinary shares. Diluted profit/loss per share is calculated using adjusted net profit/loss attributable to ordinary shareholders divided by the weighted average number of diluted shares outstanding.
As of June 30, 2022, the aggregate amount of the Company's cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash was RMB3.62 billion (US$539.9 million).
Net cash generated from operating activities, in the second quarter of 2022, was RMB942.7 million (US$140.7 million), compared to RMB314.8 million in the same period of 2021.
Business Outlook
In consideration of COVID-related disruptions in the second quarter 2022 and softer economic conditions, the Company currently expects net revenues for the full year of 2022 to be in the range of RMB7,250 million to RMB7,550 million, and adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of RMB1,800 million to RMB1,950 million.
The forecast reflects the Company's current and preliminary views on the market and its operational conditions, which does not factor in any of the potential future impacts caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and is subject to change.
Conference Call
The Company's management will host an earnings conference call at 9:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, or 9:00 AM Beijing Time on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.
For participants who wish to join the call, please access the link provided below to complete the online registration process and dial in 5 minutes prior to the scheduled call start time.
Event Title: VNET Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call
Registration Link: https://register.vevent.com/register/BIe1ecf9e092d04400b0020b258448551c
Upon registration, each participant will receive a set of dial-in numbers by location, a personal PIN and an email with further detailed instructions, which will be used to join the conference call.
A simultaneous audio webcast and replay of the conference call will be accessible on the Company's investor relations website at http://ir.vnet.com.
Non-GAAP Disclosure
In evaluating its business, VNET considers and uses the following non-GAAP measures defined as non-GAAP financial measures by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a supplemental measure to review and assess its operating performance: adjusted cash gross profit, adjusted cash gross margin, adjusted operating expenses, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. For more information on these non-GAAP financial measures, please see the table captioned "Reconciliations of GAAP and non-GAAP results" set forth at the end of this press release.
The non-GAAP financial measures are provided as additional information to help investors compare business trends among different reporting periods on a consistent basis and to enhance investors' overall understanding of the Company's current financial performance and prospects for the future. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, U.S. GAAP results. In addition, the Company's calculation of the non-GAAP financial measures may be different from the calculation used by other companies, and therefore comparability may be limited.
Exchange Rate
This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars ("USD") at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise stated, all translations from RMB to USD were made at the rate of RMB6.6981 to US$1.00, the noon buying rate in effect on June 30, 2022, in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board. The Company makes no representation that the RMB or USD amounts referred could be converted into USD or RMB, as the case may be, at any particular rate or at all. For analytical presentation, all percentages are calculated using the numbers presented in the financial statements contained in this earnings release.
Statement Regarding Unaudited Condensed Financial Information
The unaudited financial information set forth above is preliminary and subject to potential adjustments. Adjustments to the consolidated financial statements may be identified when audit work has been performed for the Company's year-end audit, which could result in significant differences from this preliminary unaudited condensed financial information.
About VNET
VNET Group, Inc. is a leading carrier- and cloud-neutral Internet data center services provider in China. VNET provides hosting and related services, including IDC services, cloud services, and business VPN services to improve the reliability, security, and speed of its customers' internet infrastructure. Customers may locate their servers and equipment in VNET's data centers and connect to China's internet backbone. VNET operates in more than 30 cities throughout China, servicing a diversified and loyal base of over 6,500 hosting and related enterprise customers that span numerous industries ranging from internet companies to government entities and blue-chip enterprises to small- to mid-sized enterprises.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "target," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, quotations from management in this announcement as well as VNET's strategic and operational plans contain forward-looking statements. VNET may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about VNET's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: VNET's goals and strategies; VNET's expansion plans; the expected growth of the data center services market; expectations regarding demand for, and market acceptance of, VNET's services; VNET's expectations regarding keeping and strengthening its relationships with customers; VNET's plans to invest in research and development to enhance its solution and service offerings; and general economic and business conditions in the regions where VNET provides solutions and services. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in VNET's reports filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and VNET undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
Investor Relations Contact:
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Tel: +86 10 8456 2121
Email: ir@vnet.com
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PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball Players Association head Tony Clark is confident that at least 30% of minor league players will sign recently distributed union authorization cards in the coming days and weeks, paving the way for thousands more players to potentially join the organization.
“There was tremendous response,” Clark told the AP on Tuesday. “That’s probably not surprising.”
Signed cards from 30% of minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a union authorization election, which would be decided by majority vote. Minor league players would have a separate bargaining unit from their big league counterparts.
While the average major league salary is above $4 million, players with minor league contracts earn as little as $400 a week during the six-month season.
Clark said that while there’s been a lot of action over the past two days, the efforts to push forward with minor league unionization have been in the works for a few years. Clark, who played 15 years in the major leagues, credited the minor league players for “finding their voice.”
“This is the right time, because they say it is,” Clark said.
“I think we’re early in the process, albeit a lot of progress has been made in a short time,” he added. “Oftentimes, these drives are anything but a straight line. We’ll navigate accordingly.”
MLB estimates that there are 5,000 to 6,500 U.S.-based minor leaguers at any given time, with the number increasing when new players sign each summer. It’s a diverse group of players that includes teenagers and others in their 30s at the higher levels.
The 1,200 players on major league contracts are already represented by the union, which since the 1981 strike settlement also has negotiated terms for those on option to the minor leagues. Clark stressed that if the minor league players decide to form a bargaining unit, it wouldn’t siphon resources from the union’s major league staff.
“We’d be looking at this as one big tent, if you will, with two different tables,” he said.
MLB raised weekly minimum salaries for minor leaguers in 2021 to $400 at rookie and short-season levels, $500 at Class A, $600 at Double-A and $700 at Triple-A. For players on option, the minimum is $57,200 per season for a first big league contract and $114,100 for later big league contracts.
In addition, MLB this year began requiring teams to provide housing for most minor leaguers.
Clark said that if the minor leaguers decide to unionize, dues “will be minimal at most,” acknowledging their current low compensation. The MLBPA declined to say how much it was spending on the drive. Clark said in an earlier statement that the cost was an “investment in the future of our game and our Player fraternity.”
The big league union had long declined to represent minor leaguers, though its labor contract specifies terms for the amateur draft and signing bonuses for amateur players. There were 128 draft picks this year who agreed to signing bonuses of $500,000 and up, including 82 for at least $1 million.
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By SCOTT McFETRIDGE
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S. farmers could do to meet the new demand.
But that may be changing.
Earlier this summer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture instituted new policies to encourage American farmers to begin growing two crops on one piece of land, one after the other, a practice known as double-cropping. By changing insurance rules to lessen the risk of growing two crops, the USDA hopes to significantly increase the amount of wheat that U.S. farmers could grow every year, lessening the reliance on big wheat producers like Ukraine and Russia and eliminating bottlenecks.
The idea is an intriguing development from the Ukraine war that hasn’t received widespread attention. As fall approaches, it’s unclear how many farmers will actually try the new system, but some who already grow two crops say it’s something farmers should consider.
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Illinois farmer Jeff O’Connor, who has double-cropped for years and hosted President Joe Biden at an event in May to promote efforts to increase food production. “How successful it will be, I don’t know.”
Even if the effort is only moderately successful, agriculture groups are hoping for new ways of meeting a growing global demand for food while generating more profit for farmers amid high fertilizer and fuel costs. As Andrew Larson with the Illinois Soybean Association put it, “It removes some of the hurdles and provides a lot more flexibility.”
In 2020, the U.S. exported wheat valued at $6.3 billion. The U.S. along with Russia, Australia and Canada usually lead the world in wheat exports, with Ukraine typically ranked fifth, though its shipments will drop this year due to the war.
Double-cropping isn’t new in parts of the South and southern Midwest, which have the key advantage of longer growing seasons. Those warmer temperatures let farmers squeeze in a fall planting of one crop — usually winter wheat — that is dormant over the winter and then grows and can be harvested in late spring, just as farmers plant a second crop — typically soybeans.
The problem comes when cool weather delays the spring harvest of wheat, which in turn delays the planting of soybeans. And that’s where the USDA’s new effort could ease the risk of a costly planting backup.
The USDA’s Risk Management Agency would streamline crop insurance approvals for farmers planting a second crop in more than 1,500 counties where double-cropping seems viable. The agency also would work with crop insurers and farm groups to promote a greater availability of coverage in other counties.
In announcing its effort, the USDA said it was aiming to “stabilize food prices and feed Americans and the world amidst continuing challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions, and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.”
The USDA didn’t mention climate change, but the agency and other experts have long said warming temperatures will spur farmers to rethink what they grow and how.
The new program is focused more on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is a leading supplier of wheat to people in Africa and the Middle East. After the invasion, wheat prices nearly doubled to over $12 a bushel, though since then prices have steadily dropped as supply concerns have eased, in part because of agreements that have allowed for the export of some Ukraine wheat.
The USDA didn’t respond to a request for details about how many farmers the agency hopes will begin double-cropping or how much U.S production could increase.
Farmers who double-crop often have smaller crops, but two smaller crops would still be significantly larger than an individual crop.
A study published in August by the University of Illinois and Ohio State University found that was certainly the case this year, as high wheat prices resulted in double-cropped land in southern Illinois bringing a projected $251 per acre return for wheat and soybeans, which is $81 higher than a stand-alone soybean crop. The double-crop benefit was less dramatic in other parts of the state and could be less if wheat prices drop.
Mark Lehenbauer, who raises livestock and grows row crops near Palmyra, Missouri, said he’s double-cropped for years and finds it reliably profitable. Still, he cautions that there is a years-long learning curve as farmers learn how to accomplish the task of planting one crop just as they need to harvest another.
And Lehenbauer acknowledged that many farmers may simply be reluctant to take on the added risks or extra workload.
“There are a lot of extra steps in there,” Lehenbauer said. “It adds some complexity.”
Ultimately, the biggest factor behind whether farmers begin growing an extra crop of wheat is what price they can get for the crop, said Pat Westhoff, director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri. Although prices have dropped from the peaks soon after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, they remain at the still profitable level of nearly $8 a bushel.
“It really comes down to where wheat prices go in the future,” he said. “Even with the drop in prices we’ve seen, wheat prices are pretty high so there should be a little more incentive for wheat double cropping in this next year than there has been.”
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Clark says push to unionize minor leaguers off to good start
By DAVID BRANDT
AP Sports Writer
PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball Players Association head Tony Clark is confident that at least 30% of minor league players will sign recently distributed union authorization cards in the coming days and weeks, paving the way for thousands more players to potentially join the organization.
“There was tremendous response,” Clark told the AP on Tuesday. “That’s probably not surprising.”
Signed cards from 30% of minor leaguers in the bargaining unit would allow the union to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board asking for a union authorization election, which would be decided by majority vote. Minor league players would have a separate bargaining unit from their big league counterparts.
While the average major league salary is above $4 million, players with minor league contracts earn as little as $400 a week during the six-month season.
Clark said that while there’s been a lot of action over the past two days, the efforts to push forward with minor league unionization have been in the works for a few years. Clark, who played 15 years in the major leagues, credited the minor league players for “finding their voice.”
“This is the right time, because they say it is,” Clark said.
“I think we’re early in the process, albeit a lot of progress has been made in a short time,” he added. “Oftentimes, these drives are anything but a straight line. We’ll navigate accordingly.”
MLB estimates that there are 5,000 to 6,500 U.S.-based minor leaguers at any given time, with the number increasing when new players sign each summer. It’s a diverse group of players that includes teenagers and others in their 30s at the higher levels.
The 1,200 players on major league contracts are already represented by the union, which since the 1981 strike settlement also has negotiated terms for those on option to the minor leagues. Clark stressed that if the minor league players decide to form a bargaining unit, it wouldn’t siphon resources from the union’s major league staff.
“We’d be looking at this as one big tent, if you will, with two different tables,” he said.
MLB raised weekly minimum salaries for minor leaguers in 2021 to $400 at rookie and short-season levels, $500 at Class A, $600 at Double-A and $700 at Triple-A. For players on option, the minimum is $57,200 per season for a first big league contract and $114,100 for later big league contracts.
In addition, MLB this year began requiring teams to provide housing for most minor leaguers.
Clark said that if the minor leaguers decide to unionize, dues “will be minimal at most,” acknowledging their current low compensation. The MLBPA declined to say how much it was spending on the drive. Clark said in an earlier statement that the cost was an “investment in the future of our game and our Player fraternity.”
The big league union had long declined to represent minor leaguers, though its labor contract specifies terms for the amateur draft and signing bonuses for amateur players. There were 128 draft picks this year who agreed to signing bonuses of $500,000 and up, including 82 for at least $1 million.
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AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
307 PM CDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Atascosa and
southwestern Wilson Counties through 345 PM CDT...
At 306 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 8
miles southeast of Pleasanton, moving north at 10 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Pleasanton, Poth, Leming, Coughran, Espey, Graytown and McCoy.
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 2881 9850 2913 9854 2908 9809 2890 9816
2888 9819 2887 9817 2880 9820
TIME...MOT...LOC 2006Z 179DEG 7KT 2889 9838
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Brazos, Burleson and Grimes.
* WHEN...Until 415 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Water over
roadways. Overflowing poor drainage areas. Some low-water
crossings may become impassable. River or stream flows are
elevated. Ponding of water in urban or other areas is occurring or
is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 305 PM CDT, Rainfall rates have eased. However, rainfall
has remained persistent enough to extend the flood advisory.
Any ongoing flooding issues should gradually improve.
- Additional rainfall amounts of up to 1 to 2 inches are
possible. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
College Station, Bryan, Caldwell, Snook, Kurten, Wixon
Valley, Millican, Kyle Field, Wellborn and Chriesman.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of southeastern Bailey,
northeastern Cochran, northwestern Hockley and southwestern Lamb
Counties through 345 PM CDT...
At 308 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles east of Pep, or 11 miles southwest of Littlefield, moving west
at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.
Morton, Enochs, Pep and Bula.
LAT...LON 3388 10237 3371 10241 3371 10280 3398 10274
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 099DEG 18KT 3381 10249
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
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Shamima Begum: Spy for Canada smuggled schoolgirl to Syria
By Josh Baker
BBC News
- Published
Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada.
Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum's passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to fight for IS.
Ms Begum's lawyers are challenging the removal of her citizenship, arguing she was a trafficking victim.
Canada and the UK declined to comment on security issues.
Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to Syria to join the terrorist group IS in 2015.
At the main Istanbul bus station, the girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their journey to IS-controlled Syria.
A senior intelligence officer, at an agency which is part of the global coalition against IS, has confirmed to the BBC that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to IS.
The BBC has obtained a dossier on Rasheed that contains information gathered by law enforcement and intelligence, as well as material recovered from his hard drives, which provide extraordinary detail about how he operated.
He told authorities that he had gathered information on the people he helped into Syria because he was passing it to the Canadian embassy in Jordan.
Rasheed, who was arrested in Turkey within days of smuggling Ms Begum to IS, told authorities he had shared a photo of the passport the British schoolgirl was using.
The Metropolitan Police were searching for her, although by the time Canada received her passport details, Ms Begum was already in Syria.
The dossier shows that Ms Begum was moved to Syria through a substantial IS people-smuggling network that was controlled from the group's de-facto capital in Raqqa.
Rasheed was in charge of the Turkish side of this network and facilitated the travel of British men, women and children to IS for at least eight months before he helped Ms Begum and her two friends.
Ms Begum told the BBC's forthcoming I'm Not A Monster podcast: "He organized the entire trip from Turkey to Syria… I don't think anyone would have been able to make it to Syria without the help of smugglers.
"He had helped a lot of people come in… We were just doing everything he was telling us to do because he knew everything, we didn't know anything."
Rasheed kept information about the people he helped, often photographing their ID documents or secretly filming them on his phone.
One recording shows Ms Begum and her friends get out of a taxi and into a waiting car not far from the Syrian border.
Rasheed also gathered information about IS, mapping the locations of the homes of Western IS fighters in Syria, identifying IP addresses and locations of internet cafes in IS-controlled territory, and taking screenshots of conversations he was having with IS fighters.
In one conversation, Rasheed spoke to a man believed to be notorious British IS fighter and recruiter, Raphael Hostey, who says to him: "I need you to work under me. Officially… I want you to help us bring people in."
In a follow-up text, Rasheed asks Hostey: "Can you explain a little, please?"
Hostey says: "Same thing that you're doing now, but you work for us bringing equipment, bringing in brothers and sisters". Mohammed Al Rasheed replies: "I am ready, brother."
Rasheed was arrested in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa not long after he had facilitated the girl's journey to Syria.
In a statement to law enforcement, he said that the reason he had gathered information on everyone he had helped, including Shamima, was because "I was passing this information to the Canadian embassy in Jordan".
Rasheed said that in 2013 he had gone to the Canadian Embassy in Jordan to try to apply for asylum. He said: "They told me they were going to grant me my Canadian citizenship if I collect information about the activities of ISIS."
The BBC has been able to confirm that Rasheed passed in and out of Jordan multiple times between 2013 and his arrest in 2015.
Tasnime Akunjee, the former lawyer for the Begum family, said there will be a legal hearing in November to challenge the removal of Ms Begum's citizenship and "one of the main arguments" will be that then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid did not consider that she was a victim of trafficking.
"The UK has international obligations as to how we view a trafficked person and what culpability we prescribe to them for their actions," he said.
Mr Akunjee said it was "shocking" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation - "someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone".
"Intelligence-gathering looks to have been prioritised over the lives of children," he said.
Shamima Begum is now held in a detention camp in north-east Syria, her citizenship was taken away in 2019 after she emerged from the ashes of the ISIS caliphate.
A Canadian Secret Intelligence Service spokesperson said he could not "publicly comment on or confirm or deny the specifics of CSIS investigations, operational interests, methodologies or activities".
A British government spokesperson said: "It is our long-standing policy that we do not comment on operational intelligence or security matters."
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big box office.
But after the tumult of the pandemic, can the fall movie season just go back to way it was? Many are hoping it can. After two springtime editions, the Academy Awards have returned to a more traditional early March date. The Golden Globes, after near-cancellation, are plotting a comeback. Some movies, too, are trying to recapture a before-times spirit. At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” has booked the same theater “Knives Out” premiered to a packed house almost exactly three years ago.
“Seems like yesterday,” Johnson says, laughing. “OK, a few things have happened.”
After an all-but-wiped-out 2020 autumn and a 2021 season hobbled by the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants, this fall could, maybe, just maybe be something more like the normal annual cultural revival that happens every fall, when most of the year’s best movies arrive.
“We’re all, I think, just trying to will it into existence as at least some version of what we knew before,” says Johnson. “As with everything, you kind of just have to dive into the pool and see what the water’s like. I’m really hoping that at least the illusion of normalcy holds. I guess that’s all normalcy is.”
But “Glass Onion,” with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in a new mystery, is also a reminder of how much has changed. After “Knives Out” was a box-office hit for Lionsgate, grossing $311 million worldwide for Lionsgate, Netflix shelled out $450 million to snap up the rights to two sequels. And while exhibitors and the streaming company discussed a larger theatrical release for “Glass Onion” — a surefire hit if it did — a more modest rollout in theaters is expected before the films lands Dec. 23 on Netflix.
The balance between theatrical and streaming remains unsettled. But after a summer box-office revival and an evolving outlook for streaming by Wall Street, theatrical moviegoing — with its billions in annual ticket sales and cultural footprint — is looking pretty good. For the first time in years, moviegoing has a strong wind at its back. Or at least it did until an especially slow August sapped momentum due largely to a dearth of new wide releases.
“If you look at how many movies we had compared to what business we did, we were operating at 2019 levels,” says John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. “We had 70% of the supply of wide-release movies in the first seven months and we did 71% of the business we did in the same period in 2019. Moviegoers are back in pre-pandemic numbers, it’s just we still need more movies.”
That will be less of an issue as the fall season ramps up. “Wakanda Forever” (Nov. 11) and “The Way of the Water” (Dec. 16) may each vie with the summer smash “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.36 billion worldwide and still counting) for the year’s top film. Less clear, though, is if the fall’s robust slate of adult-driven films and Oscar contenders can once again drive moviegoing. Last year’s best-picture winner, “CODA,” from Apple TV+, ran the awards gauntlet without a cent of box office.
Among the most anticipated films hitting the fall festival circuit and theaters are Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” (Nov. 23); “Blonde” (Sept. 16), starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe; Todd Fields’ “TÁR” (Oct. 7), with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” (Dec. 9); “The Son” (Nov. 11), Florian Zeller’s follow-up to “The Father”; Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till saga “Till” (Oct. 14); Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Oct. 21); James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” (Oct. 28); and the Cannes Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness” (Oct. 7).
Superhero films (“Black Adam,” Oct. 21, starring Dwayne Johnson), kids movies (“Lyle Lyle Crocodile,” Oct. 7), horror flicks (“Halloween Ends,” Oct. 14) rom-coms (“Ticket to Paradise,” Oct. 21, with Julia Roberts and George Clooney) and more high-flying adventures (“Devotion,” Nov. 23) will also mix in, as will prominent titles from streamers. Those include Amazon’s “My Policeman” (Oct. 21), with Harry Styles; and Netflix releases “Bardo” (in theaters Nov. 4), by Alejandro González Iñárritu; “White Noise” (in theaters Nov. 25) by Noah Baumbach; and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (streaming Dec. 9).
But if much of the fall movie season is about restoring what was lost the last few years, for some upcoming movies, change is the point. “Woman King” (Sept. 16), directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood and starring Viola Davis, is muscular fact-based epic about a West African army of female warriors. To Prince-Blythewood, the filmmaker of “Love & Basketball” and “The Old Guard,” “Woman King” represents “the chance to reframe what it means to be female and feminine.”
“I don’t think we have ever seen a movie like this before. So much of our history has been hidden or ignored or erased,” says Blythewood. “‘Braveheart,’ ‘Gladiator,’ ‘Last of the Mohicans.’ I love those movies. Now, here was our chance to tell our story in this genre.”
“Bros” (Sept. 30), too, is something different. The film, starring and co-written by “Billy on the Street” comedian Billy Eichner, is the first gay rom-com by a major studio (Universal). All of its principal cast members are LGBTQ. Comedies have struggled in theaters in recent years but “Bros,” produced by Judd Apatow, hopes a new perspective will enliven a familiar genre.
“It’s a historic movie in many ways,” says Eichner. “That’s not something we thought about when we were first developing it. Nobody sits down and says, ‘Let’s write a historic movie.’ We said, ‘Let’s make a hilarious movie.’ It will make people laugh but it’s unlike anything the vast majority of people have seen.”
“Bros” and “Woman King” are productions meant to challenge the status quo of Hollywood. That’s also part of the nature of “She Said” (Nov. 18), a dramatization of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” (Dec. 2) likewise chronicles a real-life female uprising. It’s based on events from 2009, when Bolivian Mennonite women gathered together after having been drugged and raped by the men in their colony.
Olivia Wilde’s buzzed-about “Don’t Worry Darling,” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a married couple living in a 1950s-style suburban nightmare-slash-male fantasy, approaches some similar themes through a science-fiction lens.
“I want to make something that is just really entertaining and fun and interesting, but actually is my way of provoking conversations about real issues like body autonomy,” says Wilde. “I didn’t know it would be as timely as it is right now. Never in my wildest nightmares did I believe Roe would have been overturned right before the release of this film.”
Other movie production timelines seem to exist almost apart from our earthly reality. James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of the Water” will debut 13 years after 2009’s “Avatar” (still the highest grossing film ever), a follow-up originally scheduled for release in 2014. Since then, so many dates have come and gone that the sequels — four films are now slated to launch in the next five years — have sometimes seemed like blockbuster Godots that might forever wait in the wings.
Speaking from the New Zealand where “The Way of the Water” was being mixed and scored, producer Jon Landau promised the wait is, in fact, nearly over.
“This is finally happening,” said Landau. “Those delays, as you would call them, were really about us creating a foundation for a saga of movies. It wasn’t about going: ‘Let’s get one script right.’ It was about: ‘Let’s get four scripts right.’”
Measuring the change in the movie industry is even harder when it comes to the span in between “Avatar” installments. When the first “Avatar” was in theaters, 3-D was being billed (again) as the future. Barack Obama was in the first year of his first term. Netflix was renting DVDs by mail.
“A lot has changed but a lot hasn’t,” says Landau. “One of the things that has not changed is: Why do people turn to entertainment today? Just like they did when the first ‘Avatar’ was released, they do it to escape, to escape the world in which we live.”
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ELK VALLEY, TN (WLFI) — The body of a Lafayette girl who was reported missing 44 years ago has been identified.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations used DNA to identify a body that was discovered in Elk Valley, Tennessee, in 1985, as Tracy Sue Walker. Walker was about 15 years old when she was reported missing in Lafayette.
Her skeletal remains were initially called "Baby Girl" by investigators.
A sample of the remains was sent to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification in 2007.
The break came this year when a sample was sent to a private laboratory that analyzes human DNA.
In June the company identified potential relatives still living in Indiana.
A TBI agent contacted them, and learned they had a family member go missing in 1978.
This week, the Center for Human Identification positively identified "Baby Girl" as Tracy Sue Walker.
But, the circumstances surrounding her death are still a mystery.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is asking for information about people Tracy may have been with before her death.
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AUSTIN (KXAN/NEXSTAR) — Which restroom will take the throne in a competition for America’s ‘Best Restroom’? The suspense is leaving the country on the edge of its seat.
Cintas — a corporation that supplies uniforms, cleaning products and restroom supplies to businesses — is currently accepting votes for the America’s Best Restroom Contest, an annual celebration of the most eye-catching or otherwise interesting facilities in the country. Now in its 21st year, the contest aims to crown 2022’s “Best Restroom” from a pool of finalists that include restaurant restrooms, watering-hole washrooms and even airport lavatories.
“The public holds higher standards for the cleanliness and technology used in public restrooms which is why we’re proud to recognize these businesses that maintain clean and exceptional facilities,” said Julia Messinger, the marketing manager at Cintas, in a recent press release.
The bathrooms selected as finalists were deemed to be especially elegant or eclectic, and chosen for their cleanliness and aesthetic allure, according to Cintas.
This year’s finalists, in alphabetical order, are located at:
- Delaware Botanic Gardens, in Dagsboro, Delaware, where the bathroom incorporates garden elements and floor-to-ceiling windows to showcase the outdoors
- Eberly, a restaurant in Austin, Texas, with bathrooms that feature a “vacancy” light on the exterior of each stall door
- Headlands Lodge and Spa, in Pacific City, Oregon, where restroom visitors are treated to a “spa-like feel,” according to Cintas
- La Patisserie, a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, which earned a spot thanks to its bathrooms’ chandeliers and fully enclosed stalls
- Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, where the all-gender restroom in Terminal B offers “potty parity for all,” Cintas says
- No. 5 Bistro and Bar, in Sedalia, Missouri, where the bathrooms are said to pay homage to a historic building
- North Hollywood Recreation Center, in California, with lavatories that feature self-cleaning capabilities
- Stone Mountain Public House, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, where the washroom takes on a “fun, prohibition theme”
- Tampa International Airport, in Florida, in the Airside C section, where the bathroom is decorated with images of Florida’s fauna
- Tori Tori, a restaurant in Orlando, which features restroom flower arrangements perfect for “mirror selfies and photos,” Cintas says
Voting for America’s “Best Restroom” is open through Aug. 31 at BestRestroom.com. The winner will be honored with a place in the America’s Best Restroom Hall of Fame, as well as a restroom cleaning service and $2,500 in facility services or future restroom cleanings.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former pro tennis player and Tennis Channel commentator Chanda Rubin about Serena Williams' legacy on and off the court.
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By BRIAN MAHONEY
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Iga Swiatek remembers when she was hardly noticed, so she was excited to see a photo of herself pictured on an advertisement in Times Square.
Once little-known, it’s now bright lights, big city for the No. 1 women’s tennis player.
“Just trying to enjoy that because I remember times where it was pretty hard for anybody to see me or hear me,” Swiatek said. “Yeah, it just shows how much progress I have done on court, but also off court that I am in such a spot.”
Think how much bigger she’ll be in New York if she wins the U.S. Open.
The top seed took the first step Tuesday, beating Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-0 in a little more than an hour.
Swiatek knows it won’t be easy to regain the form that led her to 37 straight victories this year. But all it takes is seven to win another Grand Slam title.
Swiatek is just 5-4 since her winning streak that included a second French Open crown. But she looked sharp in rolling through the second set in front of red-dressed Polish fans inside Louis Armstrong Stadium.
“For sure in first set at the beginning, you know, I played a pretty solid game, but I needed to take it up to another level,” Swiatek said. “I did that at the end and in second set, so I’m pretty proud of that.
Other straight-set winners early on the second day of the tournament included No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 8 Jessica Pegula and No. 9 Garbiñe Muguruza.
Venus Williams was in action later Tuesday afternoon, a night after younger sister Serena opened what could be the final tournament of her career with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Danka Kovinic.
The U.S. Tennis Association announced Tuesday that Williams would lead off the night session again Wednesday in Arthur Ashe Stadium against No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit.
Swiatek said she watched only two games of Williams’ victory Monday, with an early start ahead of her. She is trying to become the first player to win seven or more titles in a season since Serena did it in 2014.
Swiatek may be toughest to beat on the red clay of Roland Garros, but she’s already shown she can handle the hard courts, winning titles at Indian Wells and Miami earlier this year.
“She’s still No. 1 in the world and still going to compete really well and going to be tough to beat no matter what,” said Pegula, who lost to Swiatek in the French Open quarterfinals.
No. 22 seed Karolina Pliskova, the 2016 U.S. Open runner-up, needed a third-set tiebreaker to edge Magda Linette, but No. 16 Jelena Ostapenko was ousted by China’s Zheng Qinwen.
No. 7 Cam Norrie and 17th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov won in straight sets on the men’s side, with No. 2 Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz also in action Tuesday.
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No. 20 Kentucky shorthanded in opener against Miami of Ohio
No. 20 Kentucky will be without All-SEC running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. when it hosts Miami of Ohio on Saturday night in Lexington, Ky., after he was among several players suspended for at least the season opener by coach Mark Stoops.
Stoops refused Monday to divulge the length of the suspensions.
"I will be extremely loyal to Chris forever because nobody's perfect and people make mistakes here and there," Stoops said. "I think everybody's human, but we all appreciate what Chris has done for this university."
Those suspended include senior outside linebacker Jordan Wright. In nine games last season, Wright had 30 tackles, six pass breakups and four tackles for loss.
Stoops said he suspects "one will be back next week" when the Wildcats open SEC play at Florida.
Rodriguez was arrested on charges of DUI and careless driving in May and has another unresolved incident that hasn't been public, according to reports.
Rodriguez ran for 1,379 yards and nine touchdowns last season. He is 1,134 rushing yards away from breaking Benny Snell's school record for career rushing yards, but a multi-game suspension could hinder his chances of setting the mark.
Senior Kavosiey Smoke, who has rushed for 1,306 yards and 12 touchdowns in his career, likely will replace Rodriguez. Ramon Jefferson, who transferred from Sam Houston after running for 1,155 yards and 13 touchdowns last season, also is an option.
"We have great depth at that position," Stoops said. " ... We have others, and guys will step up and they'll compete and we'll play and we won't miss a beat."
J.J. Weaver, who had 34 tackles, six sacks and two interceptions last year, is listed atop the depth chart at outside linebacker.
With Rodriguez's absence, quarterback Will Levis will be counted on even more heavily to get the Wildcats off to a good start.
Levis completed 66 percent of his passes last season for 2,827 yards and 24 touchdowns, with 13 interceptions. He also ran for 376 yards and nine scores on 107 carries.
Expectations are high for Kentucky, which is ranked in the preseason for just the fifth time in school history and for the first time since starting at No. 15 in 1978. Kentucky finished 10-3 and in second place last season in the SEC East Division, behind national champion Georgia.
"First games are always unique because you have a pretty good idea of what you have but you don't know until you go play a football game," Stoops said. "I have confidence in this team, I have confidence in the leadership, I have confidence in the preparation that we've done to this point. Now it's time to go put it on the field."
Kentucky could be tested by what is expected to be a potent Miami of Ohio offense. The RedHawks were picked to finish second in the MAC's East Division, just behind Kent State.
Quarterback Brett Gabbert completed 59.5 percent of his passes last season for 2,648 yards and 26 touchdowns, with six interceptions.
Miami returns four starters along the offensive line, as well as four running backs -- Tyre Shelton, Keyon Mozee, Kevin Davis and Kenny Tracy -- who combined to run for 1,448 yards and 12 touchdowns last year.
"The opportunity to play on Saturday night against an SEC team on the road is quite an opportunity and is thrilling for everyone involved," RedHawks coach Chuck Martin said. "They are a really good team, probably the best Kentucky team ever."
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Humane Society of Sarasota County working to find homes for Beagles
Many of the dogs were saved from a life in animal testing laboratories
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Humane Society of Sarasota County is combing through applications after the organization received 18 beagles from a massive breeding facility.
HSSC in partnership with the Humane Society of the United States, took possession of 4,000 beagles from Envigo, a mass breeding facility that has received multiple violations for issues such as inadequate veterinary care and insufficient food.
HSSC said that many of the dogs had been bound to animal testing facilities. Of the 4,000 beagles, HSSC saved 18 of the beagles. Other Humane Societies across the country have taken in the rest of the dogs and will work on finding them a good home.
“We just welcomed ‘home’ 18 beagles who will never be subjects in a lab for medical research thanks to the combined efforts of animal groups all over the country. The dogs are settling in nicely and are enjoying their soft beds and toys after a very long and messy journey to get to South Florida. We are so excited to be able to give them a home life, something they would have previously been denied,” said Anna Gonce, HSSC’s Executive Director.
HSSC will be accepting online applications and will review the applications for compatibility and will notify potential adopters after Labor Day weekend. The adoption fee will be $200 for these dogs.
All beagles adopted from HSSC are neutered, microchipped, dewormed, heartworm tested, current on vaccinations and flea, tick, and parasite preventatives.
Help fund the beagle rescue effort by visiting: www.hssc.org/give/donate/donate-now
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
246 PM CDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northeastern Austin,
Grimes, eastern Brazos, eastern Washington, north central Fort Bend,
western Montgomery, southwestern Madison, northern Waller,
southwestern Walker and northwestern Harris Counties through 345 PM
CDT...
At 244 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles west of Hempstead to Waller to near
Katy. Movement was north at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and heavy rainfall.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Heavy rain could result in localized
flooding.
Locations impacted include...
Southeastern College Station, Katy, Navasota, Hempstead, Prairie
View, Pinehurst, southwestern Eldridge / West Oaks, Washington,
Hockley, Waller, Magnolia, Pine Island, Bedias, Millican, Anderson,
Todd Mission, Cinco Ranch, Iola, Dobbin and Dacus.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
To report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement
agency. They will relay your report to the National Weather Service
office in League City.
LAT...LON 3090 9624 3084 9583 3057 9573 2969 9572
2997 9592 3007 9627
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 186DEG 37KT 3012 9618 3004 9591 2982 9576
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
county, Wilson.
* WHEN...Until 445 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 248 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Floresville, Poth, Stockdale, Kosciusko, Nixon, La Vernia,
Sutherland Springs and Pandora.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
county, Kinney.
* WHEN...Until 600 PM CDT.
Dangerous flows over low-water crossings. Water over roadways.
- At 246 PM CDT, Heavy rainfall from earlier this morning has
produced an estimated 2 to 4 inches of rainfall across
southeastern Kinney county. Runoff from earlier heavy rains
combined with light rain through this afternoon will lead to
arroyo and small stream flooding.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
Brackettville, Spofford, Anacacho, Fort Clark Springs, Turkey
Mountain and Laughlin AFB Aux Field.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikiesha Thomas was on her way to work one day when she told her sister that she was thinking about getting involved with domestic violence prevention.
The idea gave Keeda Simpson pause. Her younger sister had never mentioned anything like that before, and she was bringing it up in a phone call just days after filing for a protective order against her ex-boyfriend.
It was their last conversation.
Less than an hour later, Thomas’ ex-boyfriend walked up to her parked car in a southeastern neighborhood of the nation’s capital and shot through her passenger window, killing the 33-year-old.
It’s cases like hers, where warning signs and legal paperwork weren’t enough to save a life, that lawmakers had in mind this summer when they crafted the first major bipartisan law on gun violence in decades.
The measure signed by President Joe Biden in June was part of a response to a harrowing string of shootings over the summer, including the slaying of 19 children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The package included tougher background checks for the youngest gun buyers and help for states to put in place “red flag” laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons from people adjudged dangerous.
Also tucked into the bill was a proposal that will make it more difficult for a convicted domestic abuser to obtain firearms even when the abuser is not married to or doesn’t have a child with the victim.
Nearly a decade in the making, lawmakers’ move to close the “boyfriend loophole” received far less attention than other aspects of the legislation. But advocates and lawmakers are hopeful this provision will save lives and become a major part of the law’s legacy.
“We have so many women killed — one every 14 hours, from domestic partners with guns in this country,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a longtime advocate for the proposal, said before passage of the bill in June. “Sadly, half of those involve dating partners, people who aren’t married to someone, but they are in a romantic relationship with them in some way.”
Federal law has long barred people convicted of domestic violence or subject to a domestic violence restraining order from being able to buy a gun. But that restriction had only applied to an individual who is married to the victim, lived with the victim or had a child with the victim. As a result, it missed a whole group of perpetrators — current and former boyfriends or intimate partners — sometimes with fatal consequences.
At least 19 states and the District of Columbia have taken action on this issue, according to data compiled by Everytown for Gun Safety. Klobuchar and domestic violence advocates have worked for years to do the same on the federal level, with little success.
The struggle over defining a boyfriend in the law remained difficult to the end. Negotiations in Congress nearly broke down over the provision. The same thing happened in March when a similar bipartisan effort to reauthorize a 1990s-era law that extended protections to victims of domestic and sexual violence passed only after Democratic lawmakers took out the loophole provision to ensure Republican support.
“That was the toughest issue in our negotiations,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., a lead negotiator of the gun package, said of the loophole proposal. “The biggest discussion that took us a long time at the end was around the question of how you would get your rights back after you had been prohibited.”
Murphy and other Democratic negotiators were able to persuade Republicans by including a narrow path to restoring access to firearms for first-time offenders after five years, only if they are not convicted of another misdemeanor for violent crime. For married couples, and those who have had a child together, the firearm ban is permanent.
To some advocates, more change is still needed. The legislation only partially closes the loophole because dating partners subject to a domestic violence restraining order, as in Thomas’ case, are still able to buy and maintain access to firearms.
“It will for sure save lives. But also to be clear, this is a partial closure of what’s known as the boyfriend loophole. There’s still a lot of work to be done,” Jennifer Becker, the legal director and senior attorney for Legal Momentum, a legal defense and education fund for women, told The Associated Press.
Federal crime data for 2020 showed that out of all murder victims among intimate partners — including divorced and gay couples — girlfriends accounted for 37%, while wives accounted for 34%. Only 13% of the victims were boyfriends, and 7% were husbands.
In 2018, a group of researchers who looked at intimate partner homicides in 45 states from 1980 to 2013 found that when firearm prohibitions linked to domestic restraining orders included people who were dating, deaths dropped by 13%.
“It suggests that when you cast that wider net, by covering boyfriends, you are able to cover people who are more dangerous and potentially save more lives,” April Zeoli, a researcher at the University of Michigan who was part of that study, told the AP.
Thomas’ family hopes the changes in the law will save lives and ensure their daughter’s death wasn’t in vain. They say Thomas was doing everything she could to protect herself when she left her yearslong relationship with 36-year-old Antoine Oliver in late September 2021.
It was only after her death in October that her family members found out that the protective order Thomas had filed three days earlier, detailing how her former partner had access to firearms and she felt unsafe, was never served. Sheriff’s deputies in Prince George’s County, Maryland, where Oliver lived, had been trying to reach him by phone.
When law enforcement finally reached Oliver, he told them he would come to accept service of the judicial order the following day. Instead, authorities said, he killed Thomas that day before fatally shooting himself.
“Some days I just sit and review the paper she had filed with the court just a few days prior and just think, what else could she have done to protect herself?” said Nadine Thomas, her mother. Gilbert Thomas, her father, said his daughter did everything she was supposed to do, but it was the system that failed her.
“She feared for her life and what did the police do? They called him and made arrangements for him to come to pick up the order,” he said. “There was no urgency placed on it.”
But now the family is bracing for the anniversary of Thomas’ killing. The weight of grief is heavy, particularly for her 11-year-old daughter, Kylei, whom Thomas had from a relationship before she met Oliver.
In the months before her death, Thomas had been making plans to buy a home for her and her daughter. She was saving up from her job with the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education, where she was assigned to an intervention program to help some of the district’s most challenged students.
“We really were starting to map out some things and it just got taken away,” her sister, Keeda Simpson, said. “One of the last things we talked about was her wanting to evoke change for other women.”
“I’m going to do whatever it takes — even if it’s a small thing — to help someone else that’s in her situation, not to lose their life,” she added.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s long-running power struggle between rival Shiite camps devolved into bloody street violence this week – the culmination of months of simmering tensions and a political vacuum.
For 24 hours, loyalists of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr transformed the country’s government Green Zone into a front line, trading fire with security forces and rival militias, and bringing the capital to a standstill. Just as quickly, with a single word — “withdraw” — from the cleric in a speech Tuesday, the fighting came to a stop.
His supporters put down their weapons and left.
It was a powerful message to al-Sadr’s Iran-backed rivals and the political elite of the cleric’s enduring power over his hundreds of thousands of followers and an equally dangerous example of the damage they are capable of doing to the embattled country.
Following his calls for withdrawal, Iraqi leaders, including the caretaker premier, expressed their thanks to al-Sadr and praised his restraint.
Al-Sadr has long derived his political influence from his ability to to both command his mass following to destabilize the street, and just as quickly bring them into line. His announcement Monday that he would exit politics showed Iraqis what could happen when that voice of restraint is taken away: chaos, devastation and death.
The protests and heavy clashes that have so far left 30 killed and over 400 wounded may have come to a close, but the political impasse that brought on this chapter of unrest is far from over.
So, what does al-Sadr want and is there an end to Iraq’s crisis?
WHO IS MUQTADA AL-SADR?
Al-Sadr is a populist cleric who emerged as a symbol of resistance against the U.S. occupation of Iraq after the 2003 invasion. He formed a militia, the Mahdi Army, that eventually disbanded and renamed it Saraya Salam — the Peace Brigades.
He has presented himself as an opponent of both the U.S. and Iran and has fashioned himself a nationalist with an anti-reform agenda. In reality, he is an establishment figure with deep influence in Iraq’s state institutions through the appointments of key civil servants.
Al-Sadr derives much of his appeal through his family legacy. He is the son of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, who was assassinated in 1999 for his critical stance against Saddam Hussein. Many of his followers say they are devoted to him because they were once devotees of his father.
Al-Sadr eventually entered politics and garnered a reputation for being unpredictable and theatrical by frequently calling on his followers to gain political leverage over his rivals. His powerful rhetoric infused with religion and calls for revolution resonated deeply with his disenfranchised following.
Through these strategies he has become a powerful player with a fiercely devoted grassroots following concentrated in Iraq’s most impoverished quarters. Most of his loyalists who stormed the Green Zone were unemployed and blamed the Iraqi political elite.
In 2021, al-Sadr’s party won the largest share of seats in October parliamentary elections but not enough to secure a majority in government. His refusal to negotiate with his Iran-backed Shiite rivals on forming a government plunged Iraq into an unprecedented political vacuum now in its tenth month.
WHAT DO AL-SADR’S FOLLOWERS WANT?
The political crisis escalated in July when al-Sadr’s supporters broke into parliament to deter his rivals in the Coordination Framework, an alliance of mostly Iran-backed Shiite parties, from forming a government.
Hundreds staged an ongoing sit-in outside the building for over four weeks. Frustrated when he was not able to corral enough lawmakers to form a government that excluded his rivals, al-Sadr also ordered his bloc to resign their parliamentary seats and called for early elections and the dissolution of parliament.
That call was embraced and reiterated by his following, many of whom have long felt marginalized by the ruling elite.
In Sadr City, the Baghdad suburb where al-Sadr’s followers are highly concentrated, most complain of inadequate basic services, including electricity in the scorching summer heat. The majority have roots in the rural communities of southern Iraq and have little education. Most face enormous challenges finding work.
Most of those who stormed parliament in July and the government palace on Monday were young men for whom it was their first glimpse inside Iraq’s halls of power, where they seldom feel welcome.
Angered by deep class divides and a history of dispossession, al-Sadr’s followers say they believe the cleric will revolutionize a political system they believe has forgotten about them. But in reality, in Iraq’s power-sharing political system, al-Sadr holds significant power and sway.
WHY ARE THE CLASHES SO DANGEROUS?
Monday’s clashes brought Iraq on the precipice of street warfare and was the product of months of political tensions and power struggles between al-Sadr and the Iran-backed Shiite camp over the formation of the next government.
Al-Sadr’s rivals in the Coordination Framework have shown signs they would not be against early elections but both camps disagree over the mechanism. The judiciary has rejected al-Sadr’s call to dissolve parliament as unconstitutional.
With the roots of the political impasse still unresolved, conflict can flare up again. The greatest threat to Iraq’s stability is protracted armed fighting between the paramilitary forces of the rival Shiite camps.
This occurred outside of the capital as the clashes wore on in the Green Zone on Monday night. Militiamen loyal to al-Sadr stormed the headquarters of Iran-backed militia groups in the southern provinces, a move that could have escalated into tit-for-tat attacks as has happened in the past.
It’s a scenario that neighboring Iran, which wields much influence in Iraq, dreaded most. Iranian officials, including Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali-Khamenei, have repeatedly called for Shiite unity and attempted to broker dialogue with al-Sadr. But the cleric has refused, firm in his resolve to form a government without Iran-backed groups.
Members of Iraq’s majority Shiite Muslim population were oppressed when Saddam Hussein ruled the country for decades. The 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam, a Sunni, reversed the political order. Just under two-thirds of Iraq is Shiite, with a third Sunni.
Now, the Shiites are fighting among themselves, with those backed by Iran and those who consider themselves Iraqi nationalists jockeying for power, influence and state resources. | https://whnt.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-what-spurred-the-bloody-armed-clashes-in-baghdad/ | 2022-08-30T21:16:36Z | https://whnt.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-explainer-what-spurred-the-bloody-armed-clashes-in-baghdad/ | false |
HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — Lady Gaga’s “The Chromatica Ball” tour made its stop at Hersheypark Stadium on Sunday and became the highest-grossing show in the venue’s history.
According to a press release, Hersheypark Stadium’s previous highest-grossing record was held by the Rolling Stones in 2005.
“Never thought I’d see the day,” remarked Gaga of the record-setting feat, which she shared in an Instagram post shortly after the show that played to a crowd of 30,000 fans.
Additionally, Lady Gaga’s Aug. 19 stop on “The Chromatica Ball” tour broke the attendance record at Boston’s Fenway Park, with over 37,200 coming to the performance.
The superstar singer’s current tour has made stops in Germany, Paris, London, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Boston, Tokyo, and more.
According to Billboard, The Chromatica Ball Tour was supposed to begin in 2020, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was postponed a year — and then again until 2022.
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WACO, Texas (Fox 44) – You might have noticed more lemonade stands around Waco on August 20. This was in honor of Lemonade Day.
Lemonade Day is a free and fun learning program which teaches youth how to start, own and operate their own businesses by using lemonade stands.
Lemonade Day Waco empowers youth to take ownership of their lives and become productive members of society – such as the business leaders, social advocates, volunteers, and forward thinking citizens of tomorrow.
Six young entrepreneurs set up individual lemonade stands featuring different products in front of Natasha Jarmon’s bakery. Each child was able to practice creating budgets, setting profit-making goals, and serve customers. Most of them ran out of their product before the day was over.
Along the way, they acquired skills in goal-setting, problem solving, and gain self-esteem critical for future success. They keep all the money they make, and all of them exceeded their goal of $50.
The national organization’s website says Lemonade Day is a great way to meet people in your city, sip on a refreshing beverage and put your money to a good cause. | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/lemonade-day-waco-empowers-local-youth/ | 2022-08-30T21:17:20Z | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/texas/lemonade-day-waco-empowers-local-youth/ | false |
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) _ A-Mark Precious Metals Inc. (AMRK) on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $37.3 million.
The El Segundo, California-based company said it had net income of $1.52 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $2.06 per share.
The precious metals trading company posted revenue of $2.09 billion in the period.
For the year, the company reported profit of $132.5 million, or $5.45 per share. Revenue was reported as $8.16 billion.
A-Mark shares have climbed 16% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Tuesday, shares hit $35.30, a climb of 45% in the last 12 months.
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British Open champion Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann are among six players to leave the PGA Tour for Saudi-funded LIV Golf, which returns this week for a fourth tournament, this time outside of Boston.
The signing of Smith, who had been deflecting questions about his imminent departure since the day he won the claret jug, gives Greg Norman his first player from the top 10 in the world.
Smith, a 29-year-old from Australia, rose to No. 2 in the world ranking after winning at St. Andrews. He could have reached No. 1 with a victory at the start of the FedEx Cup playoffs. Now, that opportunity is gone. LIV Golf does not get ranking points, though it filed an application last month.
The PGA Tour is suspending members as soon as they put a ball in play at LIV Golf events.
Others to sign are Marc Leishman, a six-time PGA Tour winner from Australia who at age 38 has dropped out of the top 50 in the world, and three others who leave without ever having won on the PGA Tour — Americans Harold Varner III and Cameron Tringale and Anirban Lahiri of India.
Smith and Niemann, who is from Chile, were among the eight qualifiers for the International team at the Presidents Cup, which will be played in a month at Quail Hollow. Leishman and Lahiri previously have played in the matches.
Because the PGA Tour exclusively operates the Presidents Cup — unlike the Ryder Cup, which Europe operates on home soil — players who join LIV Golf are not eligible.
Niemann, 23, considered joining the rival league in February until Phil Mickelson’s disparaging comments about the Saudis and the PGA Tour stalled the launch of LIV Golf. Niemann then won the Genesis Invitational at Riviera and cited the competition and history as reasons he wanted to stay on the PGA Tour.
But all his best friends in golf have joined the rival series — Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer of Mexico, Sergio Garcia of Spain — and they often shared a house and brought in their own chef for the week. His manager, Carlos Rodriguez of GSE Worldwide, said Niemann still had not signed a LIV Golf deal when he flew to Boston on Monday.
Along with winning the British Open for his first major, Smith won The Players Championship in March by one shot over Lahiri. Paul Casey was two shots behind, and now all three players have joined LIV Golf.
Along with big signing bonuses — The Daily Telegraph reported $150 million for Smith — players complete for $25 million in prize money at each of the LIV Golf Invitational events.
The Boston event is at The International, which about 45 minutes west of Boston. LIV Golf takes off next week because of the European tour flagship event at Wentworth in England, and then returns Sept. 16-18 to the Chicago suburbs.
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Kentucky reached another stage in developing an electric vehicle battery sector Tuesday, with groundbreaking for a $2 billion plant by a Japanese company that will create 2,000 full-time jobs.
“The EV batteries will be in vehicles all around the world, and we’re pretty proud they’re going to be made right here in Kentucky,” Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said at the groundbreaking event with state and local officials.
Envision AESC U.S. Managing Director Jeff Deaton said the state and local support reflects a “shared ambition to be national leaders in the e-mobility transformation in the United States.”
The Bowling Green operation is expected to power up to 300,000 vehicles annually by 2027.
Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne, a Republican, said Tuesday that the project strengthens the Bluegrass State’s place in the emerging electric vehicle market.
Envision AESC announced it had picked the fast-growing college town last April. The sprawling factory will be built at the Kentucky Transpark at Bowling Green.
Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon called the groundbreaking a “monumental event.” At full employment, the project will generate more than $233 million in new spending in the community annually, he said.
The project represents one of the largest economic development investments ever in Kentucky and followed an even larger battery production announcement last year.
Ford and its battery partner, SK Innovation of South Korea, will build twin battery plants outside Glendale in central Kentucky. That $5.8 billion megaproject in Hardin County will create 5,000 jobs to produce batteries for the automaker’s next generation of electric vehicles.
The emerging EV battery segment will “reverberate” across many Kentucky communities, as battery producers attract suppliers opening plants in the state, Beshear said Tuesday. Deaton said the Envision AESC factory will provide “a catalyst for further investment in the local supply chain.”
The sector’s development already is paying dividends elsewhere, the governor said.
Last week, Advanced Nano Products, a supplier of carbon battery nanomaterials used in EV battery production, said it will locate a plant in Hardin County to supply EV battery plants throughout the region. The project will create 93 jobs.
Ascend Elements Inc., a producer of advanced battery materials made from recycled lithium-ion batteries, said recently it will invest $310 million and create 250 full-time jobs in Christian County in western Kentucky. Ascend’s Kentucky operation will serve a range of EV-related customers.
Beshear is expected to make his management of the state’s economy a cornerstone of his reelection campaign message in 2023. Kentucky last year posted records for job creation and investments and has posted record low unemployment rates for four consecutive months.
Kentucky’s ability to land projects like the Envision AESC factory show that despite policy disagreements, the governor and legislature “pull together in the same direction when it comes to delivering economic opportunities for the commonwealth,” Osborne said. Republicans have supermajorities in both legislative chambers.
Osborne and Republican Senate Pro Tem David Givens also pointed to GOP-backed measures they said helped fuel the state’s economic growth: state tax code changes, reduced regulations and the so-called “right-to-work” measure that prohibits requiring workers to join unions or pay union dues as a condition of employment.
Based on the company’s investment and employment projections, Envision AESC is eligible for a performance-based, forgivable loan from the state up to $116.8 million, the governor’s office said in a news release. The company also is eligible for training funds. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/groundbreaking-advances-emerging-vehicle-battery-production/2022/08/30/f33cbe5a-28a4-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-08-30T21:21:51Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/groundbreaking-advances-emerging-vehicle-battery-production/2022/08/30/f33cbe5a-28a4-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | true |
LINCOLN, Neb. — Embattled Nebraska coach Scott Frost said Tuesday there is no tension between him and new offensive coordinator Mark Whipple following the Cornhuskers’ season-opening loss to Northwestern in Ireland.
His comments were interpreted in some quarters as criticism of Whipple, who took over the play-calling duties from Frost when he was hired away from Pittsburgh.
Asked at his weekly news conference if he and Whipple were at odds, Frost said, “No, not at all. He’s really smart. Really good at what he does. We have a lot of other coaches who are really smart and good at what they do. We need to find our rhythm of putting all the best stuff together. I thought it was good on Saturday. It can be better.”
Whipple is scheduled to meet with the media Wednesday. The Huskers play North Dakota this weekend.
Frost had called plays for nearly a decade, since his time as an assistant at Oregon, and he understands the singular focus the task requires.
“Simply said, if I was calling a game, I wouldn’t want somebody else shoving a lot of stuff down my throat,” he said. “You get in a rhythm as a play-caller. That’s the approach I took. Whip’s an elite play-caller. I think that showed up in the first two-and-a-half quarters. You see what can be done with this offense.”
In the first half, the Huskers’ offense was as sharp as it’s been at any point in the Frost era. But it bogged down in the middle of the third quarter and never recovered, and the running game did next to nothing besides Anthony Grant’s 46-yard touchdown run.
Frost has taken full blame for his ill-advised call for an onside kick when the Huskers led Northwestern 28-17 in the third quarter. The Wildcats recovered at the Nebraska 44, seized the momentum and scored two touchdowns while the Huskers’ offense went dormant.
Frost raised eyebrows with two postgame comments. First, he said, “I think we’re going to have to learn as an offensive staff that you’ve got to be a little creative in this league.”
Later, he acknowledged it’s been difficult for him to give up play-calling.
“I’ve said this, there’s no one way to do things, but I think we can cooperate a little bit more,” he said.
The Huskers rushed for only 110 yards, mostly on plays run between the tackles.
“In the Big Ten it’s hard to just turn around and hand it to a back and think you’re going to be real consistent,” he said Tuesday. “I think I was referring (in the Saturday postgame) to having a few more things in the run game that are schemed for the particular opponent.”
There was one designed run for quarterback Casey Thompson, his 1-yard touchdown in the second quarter, and backup Logan Smothers entered for one play and carried for 7 yards.
Asked if he would have liked to run the quarterback more, Frost said, “We did run some of it. If I was calling it, maybe we’d call a little more, but I also wouldn’t have been able to call the things (Whipple) did to score us the first 28 points. It’s going to have to be a marriage of different things and I think we’ll continue to get better at that.”
The Huskers finished with 465 yards, but they netted just 84 on their last six possessions.
“It was 75 plays on offense, and not a lot of complaints about the play calls from my end,” said Thompson, who passed for 355 yards. “I think every run and pass play we could have executed. We have to make a few changes and adjustments.”
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When opponents line up across from Little Rock Parkview's defensive line, they will see two Division-I-type prospects in junior Alex Martin and sophomore Landon Canady.
“They’re going to be hard to deal with inside at this level and I think both are going to be college football players,” Parkview defensive coordinator Bobby Bolding said.
Martin (6-3, 280 pounds) recorded 6 tackles, 3 quarterback hits and 3 quarterback hurries in Parkview’s 48-26 season-opening victory over Class 7A Springdale Har-Ber. Canady (6-3, 300) had 5 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack, 3 quarterback hits and 2 quarterback hurries.
“Alex moves well, he has great feet, uses his hands better because he’s more mature,” Bolding said. “Alex probably more so on the defensive side of the ball. Landon may end up being an offensive guy.
"They both play both ways. Landon is still learning to use his hands. His feet have to get better.”
Both visited Arkansas on June 12 with teammate and sophomore safety Omarion Robinson, who has an offer from the Razorbacks. Arkansas, Oklahoma and other programs visited the school during the spring evaluation period to check on Martin and Canady.
“We had a lot of D-I people come in and look at them both this spring,” Bolding said. "They’re D-I on the hoof.”
Canady wowed Patriots coaches with his incline bench press.
“Landon incline presses like 320,” Bolding said. “That’s a lot of incline weight. Usually an amount like that is done by a senior, and he did it this spring as a ninth grader.”
Bolding bragged on the personalities of Martin and Canady.
“They’re both really good kids,” Bolding said. “Landon’s mom is an administrator in the district. Alex is one of our leaders. He’s a real vocal kind of kid.
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BLUFFTON, OH (WLIO) - Today was a special day for some local non-profit organizations as they received donations to support their respective missions!
The Bluffton American Legion Post 382 awarded donations to 9 non-profits raised from the annual Fred Arnold Charitable Golf Scramble. The recipients included the Allen County based Abilities Baseball League and Veterans Food Pantry of Northwest Ohio, the American Legion Operation Comfort Warriors, five Bluffton based groups including the Boy Scout Troop 256, Diamond Sports, Family Recreation, Food Pantry, and Girl Scouts as well as the Flag City Honor Flight Group from Findlay. Each year, the Bluffton Legion hosts the Golf Scramble with the passion to help local non-profits achieve their goals.
"American Legion prides ourselves in trying to help the community, and we try to keep all of our funds local. The non-profit organizations in the area do a phenomenal job in the Bluffton area. We reach out into the extended communities as well, so it's the donations to these non-profits are very beneficial," says Kurt Emans, Vice Commander & Chairman of Golf Scramble, Bluffton American Legion Post 382.
This is the 11th year of the golf scramble, and approximately $69,000 have been raised and donated to local non-profit organizations.
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NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Avatar: The Way of Water,” are poised for big box office.
But after the tumult of the pandemic, can the fall movie season just go back to way it was? Many are hoping it can. After two springtime editions, the Academy Awards have returned to a more traditional early March date. The Golden Globes, after near-cancellation, are plotting a comeback. Some movies, too, are trying to recapture a before-times spirit. At the Toronto Film Festival in September, Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” has booked the same theater “Knives Out” premiered to a packed house almost exactly three years ago.
“Seems like yesterday,” Johnson says, laughing. “OK, a few things have happened.”
After an all-but-wiped-out 2020 autumn and a 2021 season hobbled by the delta and omicron COVID-19 variants, this fall could, maybe, just maybe be something more like the normal annual cultural revival that happens every fall, when most of the year’s best movies arrive.
“We’re all, I think, just trying to will it into existence as at least some version of what we knew before,” says Johnson. “As with everything, you kind of just have to dive into the pool and see what the water’s like. I’m really hoping that at least the illusion of normalcy holds. I guess that’s all normalcy is.”
But “Glass Onion,” with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc in a new mystery, is also a reminder of how much has changed. After “Knives Out” was a box-office hit for Lionsgate, grossing $311 million worldwide for Lionsgate, Netflix shelled out $450 million to snap up the rights to two sequels. And while exhibitors and the streaming company discussed a larger theatrical release for “Glass Onion” — a surefire hit if it did — a more modest rollout in theaters is expected before the films lands Dec. 23 on Netflix.
The balance between theatrical and streaming remains unsettled. But after a summer box-office revival and an evolving outlook for streaming by Wall Street, theatrical moviegoing — with its billions in annual ticket sales and cultural footprint — is looking pretty good. For the first time in years, moviegoing has a strong wind at its back. Or at least it did until an especially slow August sapped momentum due largely to a dearth of new wide releases.
“If you look at how many movies we had compared to what business we did, we were operating at 2019 levels,” says John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners. “We had 70% of the supply of wide-release movies in the first seven months and we did 71% of the business we did in the same period in 2019. Moviegoers are back in pre-pandemic numbers, it’s just we still need more movies.”
That will be less of an issue as the fall season ramps up. “Wakanda Forever” (Nov. 11) and “The Way of the Water” (Dec. 16) may each vie with the summer smash “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.36 billion worldwide and still counting) for the year’s top film. Less clear, though, is if the fall’s robust slate of adult-driven films and Oscar contenders can once again drive moviegoing. Last year’s best-picture winner, “CODA,” from Apple TV+, ran the awards gauntlet without a cent of box office.
Among the most anticipated films hitting the fall festival circuit and theaters are Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical “The Fabelmans” (Nov. 23); “Blonde” (Sept. 16), starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe; Todd Fields’ “TÁR” (Oct. 7), with Cate Blanchett; Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” (Dec. 9); “The Son” (Nov. 11), Florian Zeller’s follow-up to “The Father”; Chinonye Chukwu’s Emmett Till saga “Till” (Oct. 14); Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Oct. 21); James Gray’s “Armageddon Time” (Oct. 28); and the Cannes Palme d’Or winner “The Triangle of Sadness” (Oct. 7).
Superhero films (“Black Adam,” Oct. 21, starring Dwayne Johnson), kids movies (“Lyle Lyle Crocodile,” Oct. 7), horror flicks (“Halloween Ends,” Oct. 14) rom-coms (“Ticket to Paradise,” Oct. 21, with Julia Roberts and George Clooney) and more high-flying adventures (“Devotion,” Nov. 23) will also mix in, as will prominent titles from streamers. Those include Amazon’s “My Policeman” (Oct. 21), with Harry Styles; and Netflix releases “Bardo” (in theaters Nov. 4), by Alejandro González Iñárritu; “White Noise” (in theaters Nov. 25) by Noah Baumbach; and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” (streaming Dec. 9).
But if much of the fall movie season is about restoring what was lost the last few years, for some upcoming movies, change is the point. “Woman King” (Sept. 16), directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood and starring Viola Davis, is muscular fact-based epic about a West African army of female warriors. To Prince-Blythewood, the filmmaker of “Love & Basketball” and “The Old Guard,” “Woman King” represents “the chance to reframe what it means to be female and feminine.”
“I don’t think we have ever seen a movie like this before. So much of our history has been hidden or ignored or erased,” says Blythewood. “‘Braveheart,’ ‘Gladiator,’ ‘Last of the Mohicans.’ I love those movies. Now, here was our chance to tell our story in this genre.”
“Bros” (Sept. 30), too, is something different. The film, starring and co-written by “Billy on the Street” comedian Billy Eichner, is the first gay rom-com by a major studio (Universal). All of its principal cast members are LGBTQ. Comedies have struggled in theaters in recent years but “Bros,” produced by Judd Apatow, hopes a new perspective will enliven a familiar genre.
“It’s a historic movie in many ways,” says Eichner. “That’s not something we thought about when we were first developing it. Nobody sits down and says, ‘Let’s write a historic movie.’ We said, ‘Let’s make a hilarious movie.’ It will make people laugh but it’s unlike anything the vast majority of people have seen.”
“Bros” and “Woman King” are productions meant to challenge the status quo of Hollywood. That’s also part of the nature of “She Said” (Nov. 18), a dramatization of New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” (Dec. 2) likewise chronicles a real-life female uprising. It’s based on events from 2009, when Bolivian Mennonite women gathered together after having been drugged and raped by the men in their colony.
Olivia Wilde’s buzzed-about “Don’t Worry Darling,” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as a married couple living in a 1950s-style suburban nightmare-slash-male fantasy, approaches some similar themes through a science-fiction lens.
“I want to make something that is just really entertaining and fun and interesting, but actually is my way of provoking conversations about real issues like body autonomy,” says Wilde. “I didn’t know it would be as timely as it is right now. Never in my wildest nightmares did I believe Roe would have been overturned right before the release of this film.”
Other movie production timelines seem to exist almost apart from our earthly reality. James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of the Water” will debut 13 years after 2009’s “Avatar” (still the highest grossing film ever), a follow-up originally scheduled for release in 2014. Since then, so many dates have come and gone that the sequels — four films are now slated to launch in the next five years — have sometimes seemed like blockbuster Godots that might forever wait in the wings.
Speaking from the New Zealand where “The Way of the Water” was being mixed and scored, producer Jon Landau promised the wait is, in fact, nearly over.
“This is finally happening,” said Landau. “Those delays, as you would call them, were really about us creating a foundation for a saga of movies. It wasn’t about going: ‘Let’s get one script right.’ It was about: ‘Let’s get four scripts right.’”
Measuring the change in the movie industry is even harder when it comes to the span in between “Avatar” installments. When the first “Avatar” was in theaters, 3-D was being billed (again) as the future. Barack Obama was in the first year of his first term. Netflix was renting DVDs by mail.
“A lot has changed but a lot hasn’t,” says Landau. “One of the things that has not changed is: Why do people turn to entertainment today? Just like they did when the first ‘Avatar’ was released, they do it to escape, to escape the world in which we live.”
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AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr contributed.
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From 1953 through the '90s the record producer Creed Taylor, who died Monday at the age of 93, brought a regal touch to jazz, showcasing its players like aristocrats. Employed at the Verve label in the '60s, Taylor backed pianist Bill Evans with a symphony orchestra; he took bossa nova, a music created by the Rio de Janeiro elite, and gave it to the world. He packaged his artists' work in stylishly illustrated gatefold jackets that bespoke class. His death was confirmed in a statement from Verve Records.
Taylor's productions sent numerous jazz stars, including saxophonist Stan Getz and organist Jimmy Smith, onto the pop charts. "He was a visionary," says trumpeter and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert, who along with the Snapshots Foundation is helping to finance a forthcoming Taylor documentary.
At his own company, CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) — whose daring and grandiosity defined jazz at its most extravagant — Taylor produced impactful work by George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Wes Montgomery, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Airto Moreira and other masters.
"I credit my career to Creed," says keyboard player Bob James, a pillar of smooth jazz and fusion; Taylor had launched him on CTI with four albums and made him a house arranger. "Every time I go anyplace to tour," James says, "I have instant credibility because I was so involved with the CTI sound."
To Herb Alpert, Taylor looked "like an accountant"; his speech was measured and soft. "But he was hands-on," notes James, "with very definite ideas about how he wanted his projects to go."
Growing up in rural Virginia, Taylor sat by the radio, addicted to late-night broadcasts from Birdland. After earning a degree in psychology he headed to New York, eager to join the jazz scene. In 1954 he volunteered to produce records for a floundering label, Bethlehem.
From there, says jazz historian Dan Morgenstern, Taylor "proceeded according to his own taste."
He gave the company a lifesaving boost when he launched Chris Connor, a frosty-voiced ex-band singer, as Bethlehem's First Lady of cool jazz. After producing other budding greats, including Charles Mingus and Carmen McRae, he moved on to a startup company, ABC-Paramount. There he spotlighted Quincy Jones as a big-band arranger and launched a historic singing trio, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In 1960, ABC-Paramount allowed him to start a subsidiary, Impulse, where he signed John Coltrane and produced Ray Charles.
The next year, Taylor traded Impulse for Verve, where his love of Brazilian music burst forth. "Without Creed," says his colleague Arnaldo DeSouteiro, a Rio-based music producer, "the world would probably never have become aware of bossa nova." In 1962, Taylor produced Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba, America's breakthrough album of Brazilian jazz. Out of it came "Desafinado," a Grammy-winning single.
The next year, Taylor teamed the saxophonist with singer-guitarist João Gilberto, one of bossa's creators, on the album Getz/Gilberto. Taylor opted to release "The Girl from Ipanema," an unknown song in the U.S., as a single. It shot to No. 5, won a Record of the Year Grammy, and made Getz a household name. The track also brought global renown to its pianist and composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and to João and his wife Astrud Gilberto, whose languid, deadpan vocal epitomized the beach nymph in the song.
In 1967, Herb Alpert and his business partner, Jerry Moss, invited Taylor to launch CTI as an A&M subsidiary. Quickly he helped launch another Brazilian legend when he released Milton Nascimento's American debut, Courage.
CTI went independent in 1970, and the jazz that Taylor released there began to cross bridge after bridge. Bop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made his fusion debut with the album Red Clay. Brazilian pianist Eumir Deodato's bombastic funk treatment of the Richard Strauss composition "Also Sprach Zarathustra" became a Grammy-winning No. 2 single. Yusef Lateef, who played world music on an array of wind instruments, recorded Autophysiopsychic — "a laid-back rap record," said Taylor. R&B/jazz singer Esther Phillips scored a disco hit with the Dinah Washington trademark "What a Difference a Day Makes." Jackie & Roy, a married jazz vocal duo whom Taylor had recorded for years, received the grandest production of their lives: Time and Love, a symphonic album whose arrangements, by Don Sebesky, quoted Debussy and Bach. But for all of its successes, CTI was hemorrhaging funds; in the late '70s the company went bankrupt and fell into messy litigation. Taylor revived the label for a few years in 1989; thereafter he devoted himself to reissues of its classics. Hip-hop artists have also brought Taylor into the present — recordings he produced have been sampled thousands of times.
Seen from a distance, Taylor's contribution becomes clearer: "He brought elegance to jazz," says Herb Alpert. "He was a soulful guy, caring about the musicians and wanting the best for them. Money wasn't the issue with him. He went with his gut."
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MIAMI (AP) — A Los Angeles attorney detained in Venezuela is pleading for help from the Biden administration, saying in a secretly recorded jailhouse message that he feels forgotten by the U.S. government as he faces criminal charges at the hands of one of the nation’s top adversaries.
Eyvin Hernandez, who has been detained for five months, describes in the recording how he has dedicated the past 15 years to public service as an employee of the Los Angeles County public defender’s office, seeking fair treatment for often penniless clients.
“No one should be abandoned at the time of their greatest need and when they’re most vulnerable,” he said in the almost two-minute recording, which was provided to The Associated Press by Hernandez’s family. “However, I don’t feel like my government feels that way about me.”
In a calm voice, Hernandez said he and other Americans imprisoned in Venezuela — there are at least 10, including five oil executives and three veterans — feel “like our government has abandoned us.”
Hernandez’s appeal comes as the Biden administration is under pressure to do more to bring home roughly 50 Americans it believes have been wrongfully detained by hostile governments around the world. Much of the focus is on Russia, where the U.S. has taken the unusual step of proposing a swap of a convicted arms dealer for WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner. U.S. officials have for months been quietly pursuing a separate deal with Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in Venezuela, which holds the largest contingent of Americans suspected of being used as bargaining chips.
Henry Martinez said his brother sent him the voice message Aug. 21. A copy was also provided to the State Department, which has been weighing whether to turn Hernandez’s case over to the administration’s special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Roger Carstens.
In the recording, Hernandez said it’s been months since he or any of his fellow Americans have seen a courtroom, nor do they have any hopes of getting a fair trial.
“This place is meant to break you psychologically and spiritually,” he said of confinement at a maximum security prison housing many of Maduro’s opponents. “We’re all innocent, yet we’re being charged and treated as terrorists.”
He said the uncertainty, isolation and human rights violations are taking a toll, with two Americans having already attempted suicide and a third on the brink with daily mental breakdowns.
“If you don’t get us out soon, then there might not be anyone left to save,” he said.
The AP was unable to verify Hernandez’s claims. But United Nations officials have long complained about the lack of independence for Venezuelan judges and prosecutors and about conditions at the facility where Hernandez and several other Americans are being held.
A State Department spokesman declined to comment on Hernadez’s case, citing privacy limitations, but said the agency continuously reviews the detentions of Americans overseas. He also noted that the U.S. government has issued an advisory warning Americans to avoid all travel to Venezuela due to the risk of wrongful detentions and threats from illegal armed groups, especially along the country’s porous borders.
Hernandez, who turned 44 in jail, was arrested March 31 along the Colombia-Venezuela border. His family says he traveled there from the city of Medellin with a Venezuelan friend who needed to get her passport stamped to resolve an issue with her migratory status in Colombia. His family said he never intended to enter Venezuela, and he was due to fly home three days later.
But the two apparently fell into the hands of criminal gangs.
Upon arrival by bus to the city of Cucuta, they hailed a taxi for the short drive to the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, according to an account Hernandez shared with his family. A fourth individual hopped in the front seat, purportedly offering his services as a guide who could help them navigate the confusion at the border, an area overrun by squatters, criminal gangs and a mass of people making their way back and forth in illegal crossings.
Before they knew it, the cab was stopped along a dirt path, and the two were ordered to get out and walk across the invisible border separating the two countries.
Once Hernandez realized his mistake, it was too late to turn back. A man carrying a rifle demanded he cough up $100, according to his family. When he protested that he didn’t have any cash, they put a hood over his head.
When his captors found his American passport, they told him he was in trouble and handed him over to security forces, who kept him incommunicado for weeks.
Adding to the Hernandez family’s anguish is the fact that he isn’t classified as wrongfully detained, a definition that covers Americans believed innocent or jailed for the purpose of exacting concessions from the U.S. Without such designation, a process that can take months, the U.S. government’s ability to push for his release is limited.
At least three of the 11 other Americans known to be detained in Venezuela are in a similar state of limbo. They include Jerrel Kenemore, a computer programmer arrested within a week of Hernandez, and two former Green Berets who took part in a blunder-filled beach attack in 2020 aimed at overthrowing Maduro.
Biden last month signed an executive order aimed at providing more information to families of Americans detained abroad and imposing stiff sentences on the criminals, terrorists and government officials holding them.
Maduro’s socialist government is a harsh critic of U.S. foreign policy. But more recently, as the Biden administration has shown a willingness to review the Trump-era policy of punishing Maduro with sanctions and calling for regime change, the outlook for a possible release has improved.
In March, the Maduro government freed two Americans following a surprise trip to Caracas by senior White House and State Department officials, including Carstens, who met with Hernandez in a subsequent wellness check on detained Americans in June. Maduro also vowed to resume negotiations with his opponents, although has so far failed to follow through.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (WIVB) — Tuesday at 4 p.m. was the deadline for NFL teams to announce their 53-man rosters. The Bills released a total of 18 players to get their roster down to size.
On Monday, the team released six players, and followed up with an announcement of final cuts on Tuesday. Additionally, the Bills announced cornerback Tre White is being put on the Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list. Linebacker Andre Smith has been placed on the Reserve/Suspended list.
The team does not currently have a player designated to punt this season.
The full list of those released from the team Tuesday includes:
Offense
- Alec Anderson (OL)
- Matt Barkley (QB)
- Raheem Blackshear (RB)
- Tanner Gentry (WR)
- Isaiah Hodgins (WR)
- O.J. Howard (TE)
- Duke Johnson (RB)
- Greg Mancz (OL)
- Luke Tenuta (OL)
Defense
- Eli Ankou (DT) — released with injury settlement
- C.J. Brewer (DT)
- Brandin Bryant (DT)
- Prince Emili (DT)
- Joe Giles-Harris (LB)
- Ja’Marcus Ingram (DB)
- Kingsley Jonathan (DE)
- Mike Love (DE)
- Nick McCloud (DB)
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first ship carrying grain from Ukraine for people in the hungriest parts of the world has docked at the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti as areas of East Africa are badly affected by deadly drought and conflict.
Food security experts call it a drop in the bucket for the vast needs in the worst-hit Horn countries of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, the nation where this first shipment is going. But the flow of grain from Ukraine for other hungry parts of the world is expected to continue, with another ship departing Tuesday for Yemen. The U.N. World Food Program has said it is working on multiple ships.
WFP says this first shipment of grain will be shipped overland to northern Ethiopia, where millions of people have been affected by the country’s Tigray conflict, which has now flared up again.
How any of the grain will reach Tigray is now in question as humanitarian deliveries by road and air have been suspended amid the fighting that sparked again last week between Tigray forces and Ethiopian ones. But Ethiopia’s neighboring Amhara and Afar regions also are expected to benefit.
WFP has said the 23,000 metric tons of grain on the first ship are enough to feed 1.5 million people on full rations for a month. But the U.N. has said 2.4 million in Tigray alone are severely food insecure and that 20 million people across Ethiopia face hunger.
Millions of other people in the Horn of Africa region are going hungry because of drought, and thousands have died. Somalia has been especially hard hit because it sourced at least 90% of its grain from Ukraine and Russia before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Millions of tons of food are needed for the Horn of Africa, WFP said. “In Ethiopia alone, three-quarters of everything that we used to distribute originated from Ukraine and Russia,” regional director Michael Dunford said.
Food security experts have said it will take weeks for people in African countries to see grain from Ukraine arrive and even longer to see it bring down high food prices that have been a source of despair and protests in multiple nations.
Far more ships carrying grain from Ukraine’s reopened ports have been going to richer places like Europe as existing business contracts are fulfilled. As of Sunday, 114 ships carrying more than 1.2 million metric tons of food commodities had left Ukraine, WFP said, but “export volumes remain far below pre-conflict averages.” | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-1st-ukraine-grain-ship-for-horn-of-africa-reaches-djibouti/ | 2022-08-30T21:30:47Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/world-news/ap-international/ap-1st-ukraine-grain-ship-for-horn-of-africa-reaches-djibouti/ | true |
IONIA COUNTY, MI – It was a matter of seeing is believing for U.S. Department of Education leaders Tuesday.
James Kvaal, under secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, and other federal education officials got an up-close view a relatively new initiative that gives certain prisoners an opportunity to earn a college degree.
Following a four-hour tour on the grounds of Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility on Aug. 30, Kvaal came away feeling “impressed” with the Calvin Prison Initiative (CPI) program, which is conducted in partnership with the Michigan Department of Corrections.
CPI is a five-year program, run through Calvin University, that gives an opportunity for a Christian liberal arts education to prisoners.
Kvaal and his office were interested in how Second Chance Pell grants have affected the program as the department is reinstating Pell eligibility for prisoners in 2023.
“One of the things that having permanent Pell grant funding will do is ensure there is a source of financial support for programs like this,” he said. The grants help incarcerated individuals access educational programs.
Prisoners who successfully complete CPI will earn a bachelor’s degree in faith and community leadership from Calvin University. After three successful years in the program, each prisoner will also earn an associate degree.
Officials saw first-hand how the program operates, engaged with students and observed a few classes in session as they walked throughout the Ionia prison.
The first stop of the day was inside the MTU First Education building to witness a classroom in session – on the first day of a new semester. Calvin professor Stacia Hoeksema was teaching a class, The Helping Interview.
From there, the tour shifted over to the prison’s library – stocked with 4,500 books – where education leaders interacted with the prisoners to better understand how the program is working for them.
Related: Prisoners receive college degrees at graduation ceremony inside a Michigan prison
Robert Hine, a sophomore in CPI, said every course is different when it comes to challenges, but overall the program has allowed him to make a dynamic shift in his life. Hine, 48, is serving a life sentence from a 1996 homicide case in Calhoun County, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.
“I grew up in a violent home where violence was encouraged,” Hine told MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. “If you got into a fight, you better win.”
But now, with a 3.9 GPA, he has a new outlook on life. He’s not the only one to see it either.
“My family, especially my mom, has been very supportive and has noticed a change in my attitude,” he said.
The program is available to prisoners, like Hine, through donor and grant funding. It costs about $9,000 per student annually to operate with about $6,900 being covered by a Second Chance Pell grant. The additional money is funded through donors.
The U.S. Department of Education is in the process now of finalizing Pell grants, which will allow colleges and universities to create campuses inside prisons and jails and retain Pell eligibility, Kvaal said.
“For our part, we expect to see a lot of colleges and universities across the country creating new programs to serve incarcerated students,” he said. “We want to be in a position where we’re visiting, we’re listening, we’re connecting people so we make the most out of these new investments.”
As Tuesday’s tour continued, officials made their way through the Vocational Village building. Inside, prisoners worked on various skilled trades like automotive work, carpentry and electrical, and welding.
The Vocational Village is operated by the MDOC, but Calvin students and graduates volunteer as trades tutors to ensure successful completion by their peers who are in the trades programs, Kary Bosma, director of operations for CPI, said.
Calvin leaders said they are beginning to see its college degree program for prisoners reach full operation now. To date, 14 prisoners who began in the CPI program have been paroled. All 14 have not only remained out of prison, but are gainfully employed, program officials said.
The overall goal, they said, is to have a program similar to CPI in every Michigan prison.
“This is about giving people an opportunity to be the people they were meant to be,” Kvaal said, reciting prisoner Raymond Potts’ words.
In order to be selected for the program, candidates must have seven years remaining on their sentence until their first eligibility for parole. Offenders serving life sentences are also eligible to apply. Candidates must also have a high school diploma or GED, and the desire to study and serve others.
In May, the program hosted its first graduation ceremony, highlighting the classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022.
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From 1953 through the '90s the record producer Creed Taylor, who died Monday at the age of 93, brought a regal touch to jazz, showcasing its players like aristocrats. Employed at the Verve label in the '60s, Taylor backed pianist Bill Evans with a symphony orchestra; he took bossa nova, a music created by the Rio de Janeiro elite, and gave it to the world. He packaged his artists' work in stylishly illustrated gatefold jackets that bespoke class. His death was confirmed in a statement from Verve Records.
Taylor's productions sent numerous jazz stars, including saxophonist Stan Getz and organist Jimmy Smith, onto the pop charts. "He was a visionary," says trumpeter and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert, who along with the Snapshots Foundation is helping to finance a forthcoming Taylor documentary.
At his own company, CTI Records (Creed Taylor Incorporated) — whose daring and grandiosity defined jazz at its most extravagant — Taylor produced impactful work by George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Wes Montgomery, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Airto Moreira and other masters.
"I credit my career to Creed," says keyboard player Bob James, a pillar of smooth jazz and fusion; Taylor had launched him on CTI with four albums and made him a house arranger. "Every time I go anyplace to tour," James says, "I have instant credibility because I was so involved with the CTI sound."
To Herb Alpert, Taylor looked "like an accountant"; his speech was measured and soft. "But he was hands-on," notes James, "with very definite ideas about how he wanted his projects to go."
Growing up in rural Virginia, Taylor sat by the radio, addicted to late-night broadcasts from Birdland. After earning a degree in psychology he headed to New York, eager to join the jazz scene. In 1954 he volunteered to produce records for a floundering label, Bethlehem.
From there, says jazz historian Dan Morgenstern, Taylor "proceeded according to his own taste."
He gave the company a lifesaving boost when he launched Chris Connor, a frosty-voiced ex-band singer, as Bethlehem's First Lady of cool jazz. After producing other budding greats, including Charles Mingus and Carmen McRae, he moved on to a startup company, ABC-Paramount. There he spotlighted Quincy Jones as a big-band arranger and launched a historic singing trio, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In 1960, ABC-Paramount allowed him to start a subsidiary, Impulse, where he signed John Coltrane and produced Ray Charles.
The next year, Taylor traded Impulse for Verve, where his love of Brazilian music burst forth. "Without Creed," says his colleague Arnaldo DeSouteiro, a Rio-based music producer, "the world would probably never have become aware of bossa nova." In 1962, Taylor produced Stan Getz and guitarist Charlie Byrd's Jazz Samba, America's breakthrough album of Brazilian jazz. Out of it came "Desafinado," a Grammy-winning single.
The next year, Taylor teamed the saxophonist with singer-guitarist João Gilberto, one of bossa's creators, on the album Getz/Gilberto. Taylor opted to release "The Girl from Ipanema," an unknown song in the U.S., as a single. It shot to No. 5, won a Record of the Year Grammy, and made Getz a household name. The track also brought global renown to its pianist and composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and to João and his wife Astrud Gilberto, whose languid, deadpan vocal epitomized the beach nymph in the song.
In 1967, Herb Alpert and his business partner, Jerry Moss, invited Taylor to launch CTI as an A&M subsidiary. Quickly he helped launch another Brazilian legend when he released Milton Nascimento's American debut, Courage.
CTI went independent in 1970, and the jazz that Taylor released there began to cross bridge after bridge. Bop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made his fusion debut with the album Red Clay. Brazilian pianist Eumir Deodato's bombastic funk treatment of the Richard Strauss composition "Also Sprach Zarathustra" became a Grammy-winning No. 2 single. Yusef Lateef, who played world music on an array of wind instruments, recorded Autophysiopsychic — "a laid-back rap record," said Taylor. R&B/jazz singer Esther Phillips scored a disco hit with the Dinah Washington trademark "What a Difference a Day Makes." Jackie & Roy, a married jazz vocal duo whom Taylor had recorded for years, received the grandest production of their lives: Time and Love, a symphonic album whose arrangements, by Don Sebesky, quoted Debussy and Bach. But for all of its successes, CTI was hemorrhaging funds; in the late '70s the company went bankrupt and fell into messy litigation. Taylor revived the label for a few years in 1989; thereafter he devoted himself to reissues of its classics. Hip-hop artists have also brought Taylor into the present — recordings he produced have been sampled thousands of times.
Seen from a distance, Taylor's contribution becomes clearer: "He brought elegance to jazz," says Herb Alpert. "He was a soulful guy, caring about the musicians and wanting the best for them. Money wasn't the issue with him. He went with his gut."
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Arizona Cardinals bolster cornerback position with trade for Trayvon Mullen Jr.
TEMPE — The Arizona Cardinals desperately needed help at cornerback, and they addressed that need just prior to Tuesday's 1 p.m. NFL deadline to cut their roster down to 53 players by trading for former Las Vegas Raider Trayvon Mullen Jr.
Pending the passing of a physical, Arizona would acquire Mullen in exchange for a 2023 draft pick. ESPN reported that the pick is a 2023 conditional seventh-round selection which could become a sixth-round pick.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Mullen was a second-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft out of Clemson, where he played with current Cardinals defensive back-linebacker Isaiah Simmons. Mullen made 31 starts in 37 games the past three seasons with the Raiders and had 134 tackles, four interceptions, 28 pass breakups and two tackles for loss.
The south Florida native started all 16 Raiders games in 2020, and made five starts last season. Mullen was the Defensive Most Valuable Player in the 2018 CFP National Championship Game.
Mullen joins a depleted cornerbacks corps that saw only three players practice at the position Tuesday for the Cardinals. Antonio Hamilton could be out through Week 1 of the regular season due to an undisclosed matter.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — When you build a powerhouse program, it’s inevitable that others will try to copy your success.
That means hiring people who work for you.
Georgia coach Kirby Smart will see another familiar face on the opposing sideline Saturday when the reigning national champion Bulldogs open the season against No. 11 Oregon.
Smart’s former defensive coordinator, Dan Lanning, is now guiding the Ducks. In his head coaching debut, he’ll take on the No. 3 Bulldogs in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game in Atlanta.
“There’s definitely some feelings of excitement for me to go play a team I care about and was a big part of for a long time,” Lanning said. “But that’s not the focus. My job, as well as the players’ job, is to focus on the task at hand.”
As Smart heads into his seventh season as the Bulldogs’ boss, the list of assistants-turned-head coaches is growing.
He is 2-0 against his ex-offensive line coach, Arkansas’ Sam Pittman, and last year beat South Carolina’s Shame Beamer, who was on Smart’s staff in 2016 and ’17.
Now, the 36-year-old Lanning will become the third of Smart’s former staffers to take a shot at knocking off the old boss.
There won’t be a bunch of warm, fuzzy feelings at the reunion.
“I don’t think the game has anything to do with that,” Smart said. “Neither Dan nor I will be worried about each other during the game.”
The opener, which will be played before what figures to be a very pro-Georgia crowd at 75,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium, will be an early indicator of where both programs stand.
Georgia is looking to make another run at the national championship despite losing a record 15 players in the NFL draft — five of them first-rounders off a stellar defensive unit that carried the Bulldogs to their first title since 1980.
With the Pac-12 in turmoil and speculation that they could soon be headed to the Big Ten, the Ducks hope to build on the success they had during Mario Cristobal’s four-year tenure, which featured a pair of conference championships.
When Cristobal left for Miami, the Ducks quickly turned to Georgia’s co-defensive coordinator.
They made a good choice, according to Smart, whose relationship with Lanning goes back to 2015 when both were on Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama.
“I had a great relationship with Dan when he worked at University of Alabama, and had a lot of respect for how he went about doing his job,” Smart said. “He didn’t try to be somebody he wasn’t. He didn’t try to impress people. He just worked and he grinded, and he really did a good job of just doing what you asked him to do. I always thought he would be successful.”
When Smart left for his first head coaching job at Georgia in 2016, he kept an eye on Lanning. The Bulldogs had an opening on their staff two years later and hired him as the outside linebackers coach.
“It ended up being a no-brainer for us to bring Danny in because I knew the value he had,” Smart recalled.
Lanning was promoted to co-defensive coordinator a year later after Mel Tucker left for Colorado, receiving much of the credit for building one of college football’s greatest defenses.
“I knew he was going to do a great job,” Smart said.
Lanning’s co-coordinator, Glenn Schumann, is still at Georgia. He’ll continue in that role along with former Florida and South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp.
Smart said it’s been a smooth transition, especially because Muschamp was already on the staff as special teams coordinator.
“Dan would be the first to tell you he never would’ve had the success he had here if not for Glenn Schumann,” Smart said. “I felt comfortable Glenn would be able to take it over along with Will. It’s great when we have two guys that know the system and two guys that can share that responsibility.”
Before he even coached a game, Lanning had to deal with tragedy within his new team.
Tight end and social media star Spencer Webb died last month in an accidental fall at a popular swimming lake. The Ducks will wear a special decal on their helmets this season featuring Webb’s No. 4 inside a spider web.
“Our team has a void,” Lanning said. “It’s something you certainly cannot replace. I’ve talked to our players about that moment and Spencer, how on your tombstone there’s a day you were born and a day when you passed, but what made Spencer special was how he lived that dash in between those two numbers.”
In addition to an entirely new coaching staff, the Ducks have a bunch of newcomers on their roster. They brought in 21 players through the transfer portal, 15 of them from Power Five schools.
Lanning has plenty of familiarity with Georgia’s defense.
Of course, that works both ways.
“Kirby Smart is not going to play a single snap on Saturday, and neither is Dan Lanning,” the Oregon coach said. “It doesn’t really matter what I know. It’s what my players know and how well they can execute.”
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GREEN BAY, Wis., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. (NYSE: NIC) ("Nicolet") completed its merger with Charter Bankshares, Inc., ("Charter"), as a result of which, Charter merged with and into Nicolet, with Nicolet being the surviving corporation. Immediately following the merger, Charter's wholly owned bank subsidiary, Charter Bank, was merged with and into Nicolet National Bank.
Based on initial financial data, the addition of Charter added approximately $1.1 billion in assets to increase Nicolet's total assets to approximately $8.5 billion. Total loans of the combined company will increase to approximately $5.8 billion and total deposits will increase to approximately $7.2 billion.
The systems integration was completed, and the four branches of Charter Bank opened as Nicolet National Bank branches, expanding Nicolet's presence to Western Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Mike Daniels, President and CEO of Nicolet, said, "Our team has worked hard to ensure that a complicated project plan turned into a smooth integration for our customers and the communities. What is important now is turning the promise of this merger into tangible actions that show what a good community bank can do. We will trust the people who are closest to our customers to do just that."
About Nicolet Bankshares, Inc.
Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. is the bank holding company of Nicolet National Bank, a growing, full-service, community bank providing services ranging from commercial and consumer banking to wealth management and retirement plan services. Founded in Green Bay in 2000, Nicolet National Bank operates branches in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. More information can be found at www.nicoletbank.com.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A years-old sexual assault conviction isn’t normally the subject of a political campaign, particularly when the candidate is not the one who was charged. However, in the Florida governor’s race, a 2020 conviction of a teacher for sexual abuse was brought into the coming election, due to comments by Gov. Ron DeSantis aimed at his Karla Hernández-Mats, the newly-named running mate for Rep. Charlie Crist, who is running to unseat DeSantis.
Hernández-Mats, is president of the Miami-Dade teachers’ union, United Teachers of Dade. Governor DeSantis, at an event in St. Lucie County, said UTD had protected former teacher and physical education coach Wendell Nibbs, while he was accused of sexually abusing multiple minors in Miami.
Nibbs, according to reporting by the Miami-Herald and NBC 6 South Florida, pleaded guilty to abuse in 2020 and was sentenced to eight years in prison. He resigned after being charged back in 2016. Part of the negotiation over his guilty plea included multiple charges being dropped, according to reporting by the Herald and NBC 6.
The Miami-Dade County School Board also paid more than $9 million to five students who were abused by Nibbs, according to court documents and reporting by the Herald. Their reporting said that over 15 years as a teacher in the county, Nibbs allegedly abused nine female students while at Brownsville Middle School. Some allegations date back to 2004, but investigation by the district found them to be “unsubstantiated,” according to reporting by NBC 6.
Miami law firm Ratzan & Faccidomo broke down the details of the Miami settlement, highlighting multiple teaching suspensions of Nibbs as allegations came and went. According to their breakdown, Nibbs first started teaching at Brownsville Middle School in 2002. From 2004 to 2013, Ratzan & Faccidomo say four students told the school Nibbs had “made inappropriate sexual advances toward them.” He was investigated, but not disciplined, and returned to teaching.
Not only a teacher and member of the UTD, Nibbs was an elected UTD building steward while at Brownsville, according to reporting by the Herald. The paper reported that “while his students filed complaint after complaint against him, Nibbs rose into the teachers union’s inner circle. He spent eight years as a building steward and was a forceful advocate for the current UTD leadership.”
In 2015, “accusations had become so numerous and the alleged misconduct so egregious that police began an investigation into the allegations,” the law firm said.
Among the accusations, the law firm lists the following examples:
- A 15-year-old student began confiding in Nibbs about the fact that other students at the school were bullying her. They exchanged phone numbers, and soon he began asking her for nude photos. They had several sexual encounters in his classroom during school hours. When the student transferred to another school, Nibbs sent messages to her phone and told her not to tell anyone what had happened, because it would ruin his career.
- In 2014, Nibbs began asking a 14-year-old student to undress in his presence, but she refused. The following year, when she was 15, he lured her into the office behind his classroom and tried to rape her, but she refused.
- A student had several sexual encounters with Nibbs off campus while she was enrolled at the school. She became pregnant and gave birth to a child; she believes that Nibbs is the child’s biological father.
Following the allegations, Nibbs was fired from the school district in 2017, according to the Miami Herald. He was later arrested again in 2019, according to the Herald, after two more students accused him of rape. At the time, he was already awaiting trial on the previous charges.
Nibbs pleaded guilty in 2019 and sentenced in 2020. He’ll have to register as a sex offender and be on sex offender probation for 10 years, according to the law firm. He’ll remain on the sex offender registry for life. He maintained his teaching license until April 2019, despite the allegations and investigations, according to reporting by NBC 6.
NBC 6 obtained school records from the Miami-Dade School Board showing they’d sent a letter to the FDOE back in February 2016, but the department did not sanction, then cancel, Nibbs’ teaching certification until April 11, 2019.
Former Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran told NBC 6 there were multiple reports about multiple teachers that did not get a notification to the Department of Education, meaning they did not immediately lose their teaching licenses.
The 2015 investigation was what culminated in Nibbs being arrested and charged in 2016. His guilty plea to those charges ended with his conviction and sentencing.
“We had numerous responses and reports of teachers that we didn’t get a notification that we’d revoked their licenses right away and make sure they are not in a classroom and they are not a threat to our students,” Corcoran told NBC 6 in July. “We are going to do what we have done in the last six months that we immediately revoke, upon notice.”
NBC 6 reported Nibbs’ certificate was cancelled at the direction of Corcoran.
Now, two years into his prison sentence, where he pleaded guilty to just three counts of sexual activity with a child, Nibbs’ case was brought into state politics during what is considered a heated governor’s race.
WFLA.com reached out to the Crist campaign for comment on the governor’s statement that Hernandez-Mats, who has served as president of UTD since 2016, had protected Nibbs while he was employed by Miami-Dade County Schools.
“It’s a lie. And to top it off, it’s coming from a governor whose own campaign was led by accused child sexual predator Matt Gaetz, and whose disgusting actions DeSantis still refuses to condemn,” Crist campaign communications director Samantha Ramirez said in response. “While Ron DeSantis shields sexual predators in his own party, Karla Hernández is a former special needs teacher who has devoted her life to serving the people of her community.”
The campaign denies Hernández-Mats had any involvement in the case.
In terms of timing, Hernández-Mats was elected to her position of president of UTD in mid-2016. The Nibbs investigation began officially in 2015, with the allegations ranging in time from 2003 to 2016. Before that, Hernández-Mats served as an organizer and secretary-treasurer for the union. | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/desantis-says-crist-running-mate-protected-miami-child-abuser-crist-camp-says-its-a-lie/ | 2022-08-30T21:39:55Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/desantis-says-crist-running-mate-protected-miami-child-abuser-crist-camp-says-its-a-lie/ | false |
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TORONTO and PARK CITY, Utah, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DW Healthcare Partners ("DWHP") a healthcare-focused private equity firm, announced the closing of its sale of Med-Pharmex Holdings, Inc ("Med-Pharmex", or the "Company") to Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC ("Dechra"). Med-Pharmex is a leading, fully-integrated veterinary pharmaceutical manufacturer focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing animal health drugs.
"It has been a pleasure to work with Med-Pharmex over the years. Med-Pharmex represents DWHP's first investment in the animal health space, and since then, we have added three additional animal health investments to our portfolio." said Andrew Carragher Co-Founder and Managing Partner. "Dechra is the perfect buyer for Med-Pharmex, and we look forward to watching the Company continue to grow and scale under Dechra's ownership."
"Med-Pharmex has a rich history, built over nearly 40 years, of efficiently developing, manufacturing, and distributing animal health products that are valued by our customers. Our recent investments in people, processes, technologies, and facilities have strengthened our quality foundation enabling us to now support significant growth", said Paul Hays, Med-Pharmex's CEO. "I am so proud of our people and what they have accomplished in the last few years. Dechra's investment, capabilities, and vision for the business will build on this foundation and leverage the ability of our people and site to provide even more value to customers and stakeholders alike."
"The speed at which the Company improved operationally over the last couple of years was the highlight of our investment" said Eric Moore, Principal at DWHP. "What the Med-Pharmex team has accomplished is nothing short of remarkable. We would like to thank them for all of their hard work and dedication."
Stifel acted as exclusive financial advisor to Med-Pharmex for the transaction.
DW Healthcare Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthcare industry. The firm manages over $1.3 billion in aggregate capital commitments and invests in leading healthcare companies with proven management teams. DW Healthcare Partners is led by seasoned healthcare executives with more than 120 years of combined industry experience. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and acquisition expertise to help mid-stage companies grow and scale. For more information, please visit: dwhp.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding our future business expectations, which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release, including statements regarding future results of the operations and financial position of the Company, including financial targets, business strategy, and plans and objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results predicted. New risks emerge from time to time. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this press release may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated.
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PELOTON MINERALS CORPORATION
Management's Discussion and Analysis
Period Ended June 30, 2022
Dated August 29, 2022
(Form 51-102F1)
This Management Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A") of Peloton Minerals Corporation (the "Company") is provided for the purpose of reviewing the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and comparing results to the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. The MD&A was prepared as of August 29, 2022 and should be read in conjunction with the Company's unaudited condensed interim consolidated financial statements and corresponding notes for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 as well as the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021. The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards appropriate in the circumstances. All monetary amounts are expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise indicated.
Additional information related to the Company is available for view on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and at the Company's website located at www.pelotonminerals.com.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS
The Company is a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and exploration of mineral resource properties, primarily gold and silver prospects in the US States of Nevada and Montana.
The Company is a reporting issuer in the Provinces of British Columbia and Ontario and its common shares trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange ("CSE") under the symbol PMC, and on the OTCQB Market in the United States under the trading symbol PMCCF.
CORPORATE ACTIVITIES
MINERAL EXPLORATION PROJECTS
First & Second Quarter:
During the first quarter, the company reported that substantial progress was being made on the Boulder Copper Porphyry Project near Butte, Montana (the "Boulder Property") through subsidiary Celerity Mineral Corporation ("Celerity").
The Boulder Property is located approximately 16 miles (26 km) north-northeast of Butte, Montana, home of the historic Butte mining district. The Boulder Property is also approximately 20 miles (32 km) south- southwest of the Montana Tunnels, another large-scale former base and precious metal producer. The Boulder Property is known to contain a large copper-molybdenum porphyry system within the Boulder Batholith and coeval Elkhorn Mountains Volcanics. The Butte, the Boulder Property and Montana Tunnels are all situated within a major magnetic low that occurs in the Boulder Batholith and along the axis of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone. Each property is further characterized by a more distinct magnetic low immediately to the SW of each.
Since acquiring the Boulder Property in August 2021, Celerity's executive and technical team has worked to build the foundation to prepare and support Celerity's plan for a) extensive geophysical work in 2022;
1). 2022 Geophysical Plan - Big Sky Geophysics of Bozeman, Montana was retained to conduct a thorough review and assessment of considerable historical geophysical data on the Boulder Property
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including a Furgo DIGHEM and magnetic airborne geophysical survey, a Quantec Titan 24 IP survey and two detailed Matrix IP surveys. This review is expected to guide follow-on geophysical surveys planned for this summer.
2). 2022 Celerity Public Listing - A draft NI 43-101 report has been prepared in anticipation of Celerity plans to file a prospectus and seek a Canadian listing as its own self-funding public company later this year. The report will be finalized upon completion of geophysical surveys planned for this summer and
will be made available on SEDAR and at http://www.celeritymineral.comor http://www.pelotonminerals.com. The appropriate legal counsel, auditors and transfer agent have been identified or retained.
3). 2023 Drill Program - An initial application for drilling has been prepared and filed with the US Forestry Service with drilling proposed to start in 2023 if approved. This application mirrors a permit previously issued to a prior operator that has lapsed.
Third Quarter:
On August 15, 2022 the Company announced that it had selected the Crone Geophysics DEEPEM geophysical system to survey portions of the Boulder Property as a means of prioritizing numerous drill targets within a large IP anomaly that in plan, is several thousand meters in diameter and is associated with a known mineralized Cu-Mo porphyry system based on limited drilling by Anaconda and Molycorp in the late 1960's and a junior company in the early 2000's. The survey was underway at the time of the announcement and will likely take until September, 2022 to complete.
On August 25, 2025 the Company and Celerity announced that a US$600,000 payment due August 25, 2022 as part of the acquisition of the Boulder Porphyry Property, Montana ("Boulder Property") has been extended for up to three years.
Under an amended agreement between the Boulder Property vendors (the "Vendors") and Celerity, Celerity has agreed to pay the Vendors the US$600,000 in three installments of US$200,000 due on August 25, 2023 and August 25, 2024 and August 25, 2025. The Vendors may also elect to receive one or all of the payments in common share units of Celerity priced at CAD $0.30 per unit, with each unit comprising one common share and one full warrant to purchase a second common share at an exercise price of CAD $0.50 during the first year after Celerity begins trading and at an exercise price of $0.75 during the second year after Celerity begins trading. The amended agreement stipulates that if the full US$600,000 is not paid by August 25, 2023 a one-half (1/2) percent NSR shall be granted to the Vendors, or if the remaining balance is not paid by August 25, 2024 a further one-half (1/2) percent NSR shall be granted to the Vendors. If Celerity defaults on any of the minimum US$200,000 payments the Boulder Property reverts back to the Vendors.
CORPORATE
The Company modified the expiry time of certain outstanding warrants of the Company held by previous private placement investors as follows:
Corporate Activity Subsequent to the End of the Quarter
In August, 2022, the Company closed a private placement in the amount of CDN$280,651.90 for 5,613,038 units with an ascribed value of CDN$0.05 per unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one common share purchase warrant exercisable for three years. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at a price of CDN$0.10.
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OVERALL PERFORMANCE
The Company's financial condition has changed over the six months ended June 30, 2022 with the working capital deficiency increasing from ($324,540) at December 31, 2021 to ($644,494) at June 30, 2022. The Company's financial condition has changed over the three months ended June 30, 2022, with the working capital deficiency increasing by $141,716 from ($502,778) at March 31, 2022 to ($644,494) at June 30, 2022. The difference is mainly attributable to changes in the timing of financing activities.
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Refer to the Corporate Activities section above.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 (COMPARED WITH THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2021)
For the three months ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021, the Company had no revenue.
Expenses incurred during the three months ended June 30, 2022 (compared to expenses incurred during the three months ended June 30, 2021) consisted of:
i.Office and administrative costs of $146,360 (2021 - $127,588); ii.Professional Fees of $10,529 (2021 - $14,221);
iii.Foreign exchange gain of $14,465 (2021 Loss - $6,532); iv.Depreciation of $2,270 (2021 - $2,270); v.Stock-based compensation of $55,964 (2021 - Nil)
vi.Gain on revaluation of foreign currency warrants of $128,246 (2021 Loss - $188,763); vii.Gain on revaluation of derivative liability of $16,448 (2021 Loss - $27,633); and viii.Fair value of warrants extended of $4,830 (2020 - $33,870).
There were considerable changes in some line items between the three months ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021. The changes from revaluation of foreign currency warrants and derivative liability and the fair value of warrants extended are book entries resulting from fluctuations in currency and stock price, and can swing considerably from quarter to quarter. There is no effect on the company's cash position. Expenses for stock-based compensation relate to the grant of stock options and have no effect on the company's cash position.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 (COMPARED WITH SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2021
For the six months ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021, the Company had no revenue. Exploration and claim maintenance expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2022 were $29,640 compared to $250,642 during the six months ended June 30, 2021. The larger expenditure in 2021 was due to an exploration drilling program conducted on the Company's Golden Trail Project.
Expenses incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2022 (compared to expenses incurred during the six months ended June 30, 2021) consisted of:
i.Office and administrative costs of 274,632 (2021 - $243,779); ii.Professional Fees of $23,423 (2021 - $29,218); iii.Foreign exchange Gain of $7,741 (2021 Loss - $9,752); iv.Depreciation of $4,540 (2021 - $4,540);
v.Gain on revaluation of foreign currency warrants of $168,129 (2021 - Gain of $572,123); vi.Gain on revaluation of derivative liability of $13,776 (2021 - Gain of $17,273); vii.Accretion expense of $Nil (2021 - $2,663); and
viii. Fair value of warrants extended of $20,863 (2021 - $33,870).
There were considerable changes in some line items between the six months ended June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2021. The changes from revaluation of foreign currency warrants and derivative liability and the
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fair value of warrants extended are book entries resulting from fluctuations in currency and stock price, and can swing considerably from quarter to quarter. There is no effect on the company's cash position. Expenses for stock-based compensation relate to the grant of stock options and have no effect on the company's cash position.
Total assets as at June 30, 2022 were $127,250 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $402,212) and consisted of cash $11,317 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $219,554), HST receivable of $4,584 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $13,600) prepaid expenses of $30,713 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $83,882), equipment $36,319 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $40,859) and reclamation bonds of $44,317 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $44,317).
Total current liabilities as at June 30, 2022 were $691,108 (Dec. 31, 2021 - $641,576) consisting primarily of trade payables and amounts due to directors and officers. Included in this amount is $551,397 (December 31, 2021 - $485,992) owing to directors of the Company for management and directors fees.
The Company's long-term financial liabilities are:
The Company has no sales and has never earned revenues with the exception of non-material interest revenue. Raising capital through sales of its common shares funds the Company's exploration operations.
Summary of Quarterly Results
Description
June
Mar
Dec
Sept
30/22
31/22
31/21
30/21
31/20
30/20
$
Sales/Revenue
Nil
Net Income/Loss
(60,086)
(159,330)
(154,312)
344,589
(426,815)
441,747
(628,715)
(754,367)
(0.001)
0.003
(0.004)
0.004
(0.007)
(0.008)
Per share
- Basic & Diluted
LIQUIDITY
As at June 30, 2022, the Company had cash in the amount of $11,317 (June 30, 2021 - $174,119) and current liabilities of $691,108 (June 30, 2021 - $567,127). As at June 30, 2022, the Company had a working capital deficiency of $644,494 (June 30, 2021 - deficiency $381,105). Included in this amount is $551,397 owing to directors of the Company for management and director fees. As a result, the Company has liquidity risk and is dependent on raising capital. The directors have agreed that all director fees that remain unpaid after two years be written-off at the end of each fiscal year of the Company, starting with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013. All base fees that remain unpaid to management after two years will be written-off at the end of each fiscal year of the Company, starting with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
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CAPITAL RESOURCES
For its long-term business objectives, the Company will require funds for ongoing exploration work on its current mineral projects, to work on any other mineral projects that it acquires, as well as to meet its ongoing day-to-day operating requirements and will have to continue to rely on equity and debt financing during such period. There can be no assurance that financing, whether debt or equity, will be available to the Company in the amount required at any particular time or for any particular period or, if available, that it can be obtained on terms satisfactory to the Company. The Company does not have any other commitments for material capital expenditures over either the near or long term, and none are presently contemplated other than as disclosed above and/or over normal operating requirements.
The Company is not in default of its obligations on any of its mineral properties at this time.
OFF BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
At August 29, 2022, the Company had no off-balance sheet arrangements such as guarantee contracts, contingent interest in assets transferred to an entity, derivative instruments obligations or any obligations that trigger financing, liquidity, market or credit risk to the Company.
TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PARTIES
Related parties include the Officers, Directors, close family members and enterprises which are controlled by these individuals as well as certain persons performing similar functions.
Related party transactions conducted in the normal course of operations are measured at the exchange value (the amount established and agreed to by the related parties).
Management and director fees in the amount of $174,957 were incurred in the period ended June 30, 2022. This amount was included in office and administrative costs in the consolidated statements of loss and comprehensive loss, however the amounts were accrued since the directors did not wish to divert the limited available funds from the advancement of the mineral projects. The fair value of stock options granted to management and directors is $40,601.
PROPOSED TRANSACTIONS
There are no transactions proposed at this time other than as disclosed herein.
ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
Accounting Policies
The Company prepares its financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB") and interpretations of the IFRS Committee.
The significant accounting policies of the Company are summarized in Note 2 to the Company's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Critical Accounting Estimates
The Critical Accounting Estimates of the Company are discussed in Note 2 to the Company's audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021.
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WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
322 PM CDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of south central Texas, including the following
county, Atascosa.
* WHEN...Until 515 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Water over roadways.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 322 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 2 inches are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Pleasanton, Jourdanton, Charlotte, Christine, Campbellton,
Coughran, McCoy, Dobrowolski, Graytown, Davis and Hindes.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Arroyo and small stream flooding caused by excessive
rainfall is expected.
county, Maverick.
* WHEN...Until 615 PM CDT.
Dangerous flows over low-water crossings. Water over roadways.
- At 316 PM CDT, Heavy rainfall from earlier this morning has
produced widespread 2 to 4 inches of rainfall across
northwestern Maverick county, with a small area in north
central Maverick county estimated between 4 and 9 inches.
Runoff from earlier heavy rains combined with light rain
through this afternoon will lead to arroyo and small stream
flooding.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
Darling, State Highway 131 and Farm to Market Road 1908.
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Could the key to fighting climate change be lying beneath our feet?
Vast underground fungal networks sequester carbon and sustain much of life on Earth. Yet they have so far been overlooked by efforts to tackle the climate crisis. A new fungi-focused non-profit is working to change that.
If you'd like to get involved in the fight to save fungi, check out this initiative that is specific for Australians: https://www.digupdirt.net/
Guest:
Dr. Toby Kiers - Professor of Evolutionary Biology based at the Free University of Amsterdam, Executive Director & Chief Scientist at the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)
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INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary championship-winning racecar driver and team owner Tony Stewart is headed to the FOX broadcast booth for the biggest race of the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season, this weekend's prestigious Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
Stewart will join the NHRA on FOX team of Brian Lohnes and Tony Pedregon for eliminations on Monday, Sept. 5 at the Big Go, with eliminations set to air from 2-5 p.m. ET on FOX.
"Tony Stewart is one of the racing world's most versatile drivers, celebrating success at the highest levels," said Frank Wilson, FOX Sports VP Event & Studio Production. "He is now bringing that versatility to the broadcast booth, first in the NASCAR Cup Series on FOX earlier this year, and now as part of the NHRA on FOX for drag racing's most iconic event. Along with two-time Funny Car champ, Tony Pedregon, the two Tonys will no doubt provide some entertaining and insightful analysis beginning this weekend from Indy."
Stewart added NHRA team owner to his impressive, Hall of Fame resumé this season with the introduction of Tony Stewart Racing. The two-car nitro team features three-time Funny Car world champ Matt Hagan and Top Fuel star Leah Pruett, as the standout duo and title contenders have combined for four wins during the 2022 season.
Stewart, who also called action during select NASCAR on FOX broadcasts this season, will now join the NHRA on FOX broadcast booth on drag racing's grandest stage, offering his unique insight and adding another must-see incentive for fans at a critical juncture of the season. Along with the prestige of the annual race in Indy, the 68th annual Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals is the last race before the Countdown to the Championship playoffs, giving NHRA a huge platform on FOX to close the regular season with Stewart in the booth as well.
"It's a great opportunity to have a motorsports icon and a new NHRA owner like Tony to join the NHRA on FOX broadcast during the U.S. Nationals," NHRA Vice President of Broadcast Steve Reintjes said. "Tony is passionate about the NHRA, and he brings his experience from his recent role as an analyst during select NASCAR on FOX events to the NHRA broadcast booth. It's a natural fit for Indy, our highest-profile NHRA event."
The race on the FOX network comes during a stretch that features eight of nine NHRA races on FOX, a string that started in June in Bristol. The coverage on FOX has yielded impressive viewership numbers throughout, including the most recent broadcast in Brainerd on Aug. 21. Coverage of the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals registered 813,000 viewers, up more than 10 percent over last year's Brainerd race on FOX.
Television coverage of the prestigious Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals includes racing action on Fox Sports 1 (FS1) from 1-3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, and coverage of the Pep Boys NHRA All-Star Funny Car Callout from 4-5:30 p.m. Qualifying action will continue from 5:30-7 p.m. on Sunday on FS1. On Monday, live coverage from eliminations will begin at 12 p.m. on FS1 and continue on FOX from 2-5 p.m.
For more information on NHRA, please visit www.nhra.com.
UPCOMING NHRA ON FOX SCHEDULE
August 31-Sept. 5: Dodge Power Brokers NHRA U.S. Nationals, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Indianapolis. MONDAY, SEPT. 5: 2:00-5:00 P.M. ET on FOX
Sept. 15-18: Pep Boys NHRA Nationals, Maple Grove Raceway, Reading, Pa. SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 2:00-4:00 P.M. ET or 4:30-6:30 P.M. ET on FOX (NFL adjacent broadcast, check local listings)
Qualifying action at each race will air on Fox Sports 1 (FS1). For the full NHRA broadcast schedule on FOX and FS1, please visit www.nhra.com.
Camping World Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, (together with its subsidiaries) is America's largest retailer of RVs and related products and services. Our vision is to build a long-term legacy business that makes RVing fun and easy, and our Camping World and Good Sam brands have been serving RV consumers since 1966. We strive to build long-term value for our customers, employees, and shareholders by combining a unique and comprehensive assortment of RV products and services with a national network of RV dealerships, service centers and customer support centers along with the industry's most extensive online presence and a highly trained and knowledgeable team of associates serving our customers, the RV lifestyle, and the communities in which we operate. We also believe that our Good Sam organization and family of programs and services uniquely enable us to connect with our customers as stewards of the RV enthusiast community and the RV lifestyle. With RV sales and service locations in 42 states, Camping World has grown to become the prime destinations for everything RV. For more information, visit www.CampingWorld.com
Headquartered in San Dimas, Calif., NHRA is the primary sanctioning body for the sport of drag racing in the United States. NHRA presents 22 national events featuring the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, FuelTech NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series presented by D-Wagon, Constant Aviation Factory Stock Showdown™ and Top Fuel Harley Series. NHRA provides competition opportunities for drivers of all levels in the NHRA Summit Racing Series and NHRA Street Legal™. NHRA also offers the NHRA Jr. Street® program for teens and the Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing League® for youth ages 5 to 17. With 120 Member Tracks, NHRA allows racers to compete at a variety of locations nationally and internationally. NHRA's Youth and Education Services® (YES) Program reaches over 30,000 students annually to ignite their interest in automotive and racing related careers. NHRA's streaming service, NHRA.tv®, allows fans to view all NHRA national events as well as exclusive features of the sport. In addition, NHRA owns and operates three racing facilities: Gainesville Raceway in Florida; Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park; and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in Southern California. For more information, log on to www.NHRA.com, or visit the official NHRA pages on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
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WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, September 6, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
218 PM PDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING
THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING...
* WHAT...An extended period of dangerously hot conditions with
record temperatures up to 115 possible.
* WHERE...Sacramento Valley, northern San Joaquin Valley, Delta,
and adjacent foothills and mountains.
* WHEN...From Saturday morning through Tuesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities over the
holiday weekend.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Hottest days forecast to occur Sunday and
Monday. There will be limited overnight relief from the heat,
with lows in the upper 60s to mid 80s.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates on this
situation. Be prepared to 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. This is especially true during
warm or hot weather when car interiors can reach lethal
temperatures in a matter of minutes.
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Russian media: Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91.
The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that Gorbachev died after a long illness. No other details were given.
Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes. But they quickly overtook him and resulted in the collapse of the authoritarian Soviet state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Russian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.
His decline was humiliating. His power hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later.
A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using widespread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in a nuclear country.
“The country was loaded to the brim with weapons. And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war,” he said.
Many of the changes, including the Soviet breakup, bore no resemblance to the transformation that Gorbachev had envisioned when he became the Soviet leader in March 1985.
By the end of his rule he was powerless to halt the whirlwind he had sown. Yet Gorbachev may have had a greater impact on the second half of the 20th century than any other political figure.
“I see myself as a man who started the reforms that were necessary for the country and for Europe and the world,” Gorbachev told The AP in a 1992 interview shortly after he left office.
“I am often asked, would I have started it all again if I had to repeat it? Yes, indeed. And with more persistence and determination,” he said.
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War and spent his later years collecting accolades and awards from all corners of the world. Yet he was widely despised at home.
Russians blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union — a once-fearsome superpower whose territory fractured into 15 separate nations. His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.
His run for president in 1996 was a national joke, and he polled less than 1% of the vote.
In 1997, he resorted to making a TV ad for Pizza Hut to earn money for his charitable foundation. His former allies deserted him and made him a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.
“In the ad, he should take a pizza, divide it into 15 slices like he divided up our country, and then show how to put it back together again,” quipped Anatoly Lukyanov, a one-time Gorbachev supporter.
Gorbachev never set out to dismantle the Soviet system. What he wanted to do was improve it.
Soon after taking power, Gorbachev began a campaign to end his country’s economic and political stagnation, using “glasnost” or openness, to help achieve his goal of “perestroika” or restructuring.
In his memoirs, he said he had long been frustrated that in a country with immense natural resources, tens of millions were living in poverty.
“Our society was stifled in the grip of a bureaucratic command system,” Gorbachev wrote. “Doomed to serve ideology and bear the heavy burden of the arms race, it was strained to the utmost.”
Once he began, one move led to another: He freed political prisoners, allowed open debate and multi-candidate elections, gave his countrymen freedom to travel, halted religious oppression, reduced nuclear arsenals, established closer ties with the West and did not resist the fall of Communist regimes in Eastern European satellite states.
But the forces he unleashed quickly escaped his control.
Long-suppressed ethnic tensions flared, sparking wars and unrest in trouble spots such as the southern Caucasus region. Strikes and labor unrest followed price increases and shortages of consumer goods.
In one of the low points of his tenure, Gorbachev sanctioned a crackdown on the restive Baltic republics in early 1991.
The violence turned many intellectuals and reformers against him. Competitive elections also produced a new crop of populist politicians who challenged Gorbachev’s policies and authority.
Chief among them was his former protege and eventual nemesis, Boris Yeltsin, who became Russia’s first president.
“The process of renovating this country and bringing about fundamental changes in the international community proved to be much more complex than originally anticipated,” Gorbachev told the nation as he stepped down.
“However, let us acknowledge what has been achieved so far. Society has acquired freedom; it has been freed politically and spiritually. And this is the most important achievement, which we have not fully come to grips with in part because we still have not learned how to use our freedom.”
There was little in Gorbachev’s childhood to hint at the pivotal role he would play on the world stage. On many levels, he had a typical Soviet upbringing in a typical Russian village. But it was a childhood blessed with unusual strokes of good fortune.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born March 2, 1931, in the village of Privolnoye in southern Russia. Both his grandfathers were peasants, collective farm chairmen and members of the Communist Party, as was his father.
Despite stellar party credentials, Gorbachev’s family did not emerge unscathed from the terror unleashed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin: Both grandfathers were arrested and imprisoned for allegedly anti-Soviet activities.
But, rare in that period, both were eventually freed. In 1941, when Gorbachev was 10, his father went off to war, along with most of the other men from Privolnoye.
Meanwhile, the Nazis pushed across the western steppes in their blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union; they occupied Privolnoye for five months.
When the war was over, young Gorbachev was one of the few village boys whose father returned. By age 15, Gorbachev was helping his father drive a combine harvester after school and during the region’s blistering, dusty summers.
His performance earned him the order of the Red Banner of Labor, an unusual distinction for a 17-year-old. That prize and the party background of his parents helped him land admission in 1950 to the country’s top university, Moscow State.
There, he met his wife, Raisa Maximovna Titorenko, and joined the Communist Party. The award and his family’s credentials also helped him overcome the disgrace of his grandfathers’ arrests, which were overlooked in light of his exemplary Communist conduct.
In his memoirs, Gorbachev described himself as something of a maverick as he advanced through the party ranks, sometimes bursting out with criticism of the Soviet system and its leaders.
His early career coincided with the “thaw” begun by Nikita Khrushchev. As a young Communist propaganda official, he was tasked with explaining the 20th Party Congress that revealed Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s repression of millions to local party activists. He said he was met first by “deathly silence,” then disbelief.
“They said: ‘We don’t believe it. It can’t be. You want to blame everything on Stalin now that he’s dead,’” he told The Associated Press in a 2006 interview.
He was a true if unorthodox believer in socialism. He was elected to the powerful party Central Committee in 1971, took over Soviet agricultural policy in 1978, and became a full Politburo member in 1980.
Along the way he was able to travel to the West, to Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and Canada. Those trips had a profound effect on his thinking, shaking his belief in the superiority of Soviet-style socialism.
“The question haunted me: Why was the standard of living in our country lower than in other developed countries?” he recalled in his memoirs. “It seemed that our aged leaders were not especially worried about our undeniably lower living standards, our unsatisfactory way of life, and our falling behind in the field of advanced technologies.”
But Gorbachev had to wait his turn. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died in 1982, and was succeeded by two other geriatric leaders: Yuri Andropov, Gorbachev’s mentor, and Konstantin Chernenko.
It wasn’t until March 1985, when Chernenko died, that the party finally chose a younger man to lead the country: Gorbachev. He was 54 years old.
His tenure was filled with rocky periods, including a poorly conceived anti-alcohol campaign, the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
But starting in November 1985, Gorbachev began a series of attention-grabbing summit meetings with world leaders, especially U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, which led to unprecedented, deep reductions in the American and Soviet nuclear arsenals.
After years of watching a parade of stodgy leaders in the Kremlin, Western leaders practically swooned over the charming, vigorous Gorbachev and his stylish, brainy wife. But perceptions were very different at home. It was the first time since the death of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin that the wife of a Soviet leader had played such a public role, and many Russians found Raisa Gorbachev showy and arrogant.
Although the rest of the world benefited from the changes Gorbachev wrought, the rickety Soviet economy collapsed in the process, bringing with it tremendous economic hardship for the country’s 290 million people.
In the final days of the Soviet Union, the economic decline accelerated into a steep skid. Hyper-inflation robbed most older people of their life’s savings. Factories shut down. Bread lines formed.
And popular hatred for Gorbachev and his wife Raisa grew. But the couple won sympathy in summer 1999 when it was revealed that Raisa Gorbachev was dying of leukemia.
During her final days, Gorbachev spoke daily with television reporters, and the lofty-sounding, wooden politician of old was suddenly seen as an emotional family man surrendering to deep grief.
Gorbachev worked on the Gorbachev Foundation, which he created to address global priorities in the post-Cold War period, and with the Green Cross foundation, which was formed in 1993 to help cultivate “a more harmonious relationship between humans and the environment.”
Gorbachev took the helm of the small United Social Democratic Party in 2000 in hopes it could fill the vacuum left by the Communist Party, which he said had failed to reform into a modern leftist party after the breakup of the Soviet Union. He resigned from the chairmanship in 2004.
He continued to comment on Russian politics as a senior statesman — even if many of his countrymen were no longer interested in what he had to say.
“The crisis in our country will continue for some time, possibly leading to even greater upheaval,” Gorbachev wrote in a memoir in 1996. “But Russia has irrevocably chosen the path of freedom, and no one can make it turn back to totalitarianism.”
Gorbachev veered between criticism and mild praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been assailed for backtracking on the democratic achievements of the Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras.
He said Putin had done much to restore stability and prestige to Russia after the tumultuous decade following the Soviet collapse. He did, however, protest growing limitations on media freedom, and in 2006 bought one of Russia’s last investigative newspapers, Novaya Gazeta, with a businessman associate.
“We should — this is one of our goals — promote the newspaper’s qualitative development in the interests of democratic values,” he said, tacitly criticizing the Kremlin’s efforts to bring Novaya Gazeta and other independent media outlets to heel.
Gorbachev ventured into other new areas in his 70s, winning awards and kudos around the world. He won a Grammy in 2004 along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Italian actress Sophia Loren for their recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, and the United Nations named him a Champion of the Earth in 2006 for his environmental advocacy.
Gorbachev had a daughter, Irina, and two granddaughters.
The official news agency Tass reported that Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy cemetery next to his wife.
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Vladimir Isachenkov and Kate de Pury in Moscow contributed.
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albany NY
426 PM EDT Tue Aug 30 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN HAMILTON...NORTHWESTERN FULTON AND SOUTHEASTERN
HERKIMER COUNTIES...
At 425 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles northwest of
Stratford, or 14 miles north of Little Falls, moving northeast at 30
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Dolgeville, Ohio, Stratford, Fairfield, Norway, Arietta, Oregon,
Nobleboro, Curtis, Clockmill Corners, Knappville, Shaker Place,
Burrell Corners, Wilmurt Corners, Shedd Corners, Morehouseville,
Hoffmeister, Hurricane, Gray and Powley Place.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
ponding of water on roadways. Do not drive your vehicle through
flooded roadways.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL ESSEX AND NORTHWESTERN ADDISON COUNTIES...
At 428 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Craig Harbor,
moving northeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Public.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines.
Vergennes, Moriah, Crown Point, Westport, Ferrisburg, Weybridge,
Waltham, New Haven, Panton, Port Henry, Addison, Kingsland Bay State
Park, D A R State Park, Bridport, Ferrisburgh, Bristol, Monkton, Fort
Cassin Point, Owls Head Bay and North West Bay.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — A Proud Boys member and Jan. 6th rioter was sentenced to more than four years behind bars on Monday, which comes after two men received seven-year sentences for their roles in the insurrection earlier this year.
Joshua Pruitt, 40, who told the judge that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, was sentenced to 55 months in prison.
“The sentence is disproportionate to what other defendants who were involved in Jan. 6th actually received,” said Pruitt’s attorney Robert Jenkins. “I don’t think Mr. Pruitt intended to physically assault or attack any legislator.”
Leading up to the Capitol riot, Pruitt was part of a group chat with other Proud Boys members who were planning violence, with Pruitt’s he was “Battle ready.”
Videos and photos show Pruitt forcing his way into the Capitol and throwing wooden objects, and prosecutors said Pruitt came within feet of Senator Chuck Schumer.
Earlier in August, Thomas Robertson, a former Virginia police officer, and Guy Reffitt, who brought a gun into the Capitol and was turned in by his teenage son, were sentenced to seven years in prison.
“It’s political persecution. We are patriots, Guy was a patriot that day. He will always be a patriot,” said Reffitt’s wife Nicole.
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OAKVILLE, ON, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. ("AQN" or "the Company") (TSX: AQN) (NYSE: AQN) is pleased to announce that it has appointed Darren Myers Chief Financial Officer. This follows the decision of Arthur Kacprzak to step down from this role effective immediately. Mr. Kacprzak has agreed to remain with the Company in an advisory capacity through the end of 2022 to support a smooth transition to his successor.
"I am delighted to have a financial executive with Darren's proven leadership join Algonquin as the company continues to lead the decarbonization transformation in the energy and water industries. Darren has served as CFO for two premier Canadian public corporations and has significant capital markets experience in Canada and the US," said AQN Chief Executive Officer Arun Banskota. "The Company will benefit from his breadth and depth of experience in finance, his strategic leadership, and commitment to ensuring a strong balance sheet as we continue to grow both our regulated and renewable businesses and provide strong returns to our shareholders."
Mr. Myers most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Loblaw (TSX: L), Canada's largest retail company. During his tenure, he improved capital discipline, elevated the performance management system, and balanced long-term investments and earnings growth while the Company navigated challenges with market disruption and the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to Loblaw, Mr. Myers spent 16 years at Celestica (NYSE and TSX: CLS), a global supply chain and manufacturing company. He was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2012 to 2017 including responsibility for Global Business Services and IT. As CFO, he helped the company shift its strategy to grow in new markets, drive operational execution and generate cash flow and reduce debt.
"I want to take this opportunity to thank Arthur for his service over the last 10 years and most especially for his support when I joined Algonquin in February 2020 as President and through my transition to CEO," said Mr. Banskota. "I know I speak for everyone at Algonquin in saying how grateful we are to him for his many contributions during a period of significant change at the Company."
"I am confident that Darren will be instrumental in delivering the strong financial results shareholders expect from Algonquin", said Board Chairman Ken Moore. "I also want to express my appreciation for Arthur's dedication to the Company's stellar performance. He has been an outstanding colleague and friend to the Company and the Board. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours."
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., parent company of Liberty, is a diversified international generation, transmission, and distribution utility with over $17 billion of total assets. Through its two business groups, the Regulated Services Group and the Renewable Energy Group, AQN is committed to providing safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable energy and water solutions through its portfolio of electric generation, transmission, and distribution utility investments to over one million customer connections, largely in the United States and Canada. AQN is a global leader in renewable energy through its portfolio of long-term contracted wind, solar, and hydroelectric generating facilities. AQN owns, operates, and/or has net interests in over 4 GW of installed renewable energy capacity.
AQN is committed to delivering growth and the pursuit of operational excellence in a sustainable manner through an expanding global pipeline of renewable energy and electric transmission development projects, organic growth within its rate-regulated generation, distribution, and transmission businesses, and the pursuit of accretive acquisitions and value enhancing recycling of assets.
AQN's common shares, Series A preferred shares and Series D preferred shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols AQN, AQN.PR.A, and AQN.PR.D, respectively. AQN's common shares, Series 2018-A subordinated notes, Series 2019-A subordinated notes and equity units are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols AQN, AQNA, AQNB, and AQNU, respectively.
Certain written statements included herein constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws in each of the provinces of Canada and the respective policies, regulations and rules under such laws and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). The words "will", "expects", "intends", "plans", "should" and similar expressions are often intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Specific forward-looking statements contained herein include, but are not limited to statements regarding the expectations regarding the CFO transition and the expected performance of AQN, including leadership in the decarbonization transformation and the delivery of growth and strong returns to shareholders. These statements are based on factors or assumptions that were applied in drawing a conclusion or making a forecast or projection, including assumptions based on historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments. Since forward-looking statements relate to future events and conditions, by their nature they rely upon assumptions and involve inherent risks and uncertainties. AQN cautions that although it is believed that the assumptions are reasonable in the circumstances, actual results may differ materially from the expectations set out in the forward-looking statements. Material risk factors and assumptions include those set out in AQN's most recent annual and interim Management Discussion and Analysis and most recent Annual Information Form, filed with securities regulatory authorities in Canada and the United States. Given these risks, undue reliance should not be placed on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of their dates. Other than as specifically required by law, AQN undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, subsequent or otherwise.
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Sudbury police rescue impaired driver upside-down in swamp
A 49-year-old man is facing charges after being rescued by Sudbury police when his vehicle ended up upside-down in a swamp Monday night.
Greater Sudbury police said the call came in around 7:30 p.m. about the single-vehicle crash at Paris Street near Centennial Drive, right in front of the health unit.
Officers arrived to find the vehicle on its roof submerged in a few feet of water with the driver still inside, police said in a news release Tuesday morning.
They quickly jumped into the swamp and pulled the man from the vehicle as water was pouring into the SUV.
The accused sustained minor injuries in the crash and was assessed by paramedics at the scene.
"While speaking with the man, he displayed obvious signs of impairment and as a result, he was arrested for impaired driving and dangerous driving," police said.
Adding, a breathalyzer given to the man at police headquarters confirmed he was over the legal limit for alcohol.
He was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 2.
At least two lanes of Paris Street in Sudbury were closed Monday night after a single-vehicle collision.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
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Keiron Gregory sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter death of alleged Liberian warlord
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Lost kayakers rescued from Minesing swamp: OPP
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Garth Brooks reacts to Riders' rendition of 'Friends in Low Places'
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Memorial honouring Nova Scotians lost to COVID-19 hangs at Province House
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