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Additional valet service creates more capacity at some of the busiest stations and complements City of Boston's free 30-day pass offer
BOSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To help support Metro Boston residents during the upcoming Orange and Green Line shutdowns, Bluebikes title sponsor Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) will sponsor additional valet service at four Bluebikes stations, expanding accessibility to the public bike share system at peak usage times. Bluebikes is owned by the system's 11 municipalities and operated by Lyft.
With an expected increase in Bluebikes ridership during the Orange and Green Line closures, the valet service will help expand bike and dock availability at some of the busiest stations and provide an accessible and alternative mode of transportation during the shutdowns. The additional valet support, sponsored by Blue Cross and in partnership with the City of Boston, will be available to riders at select Bluebikes stations weekdays from Monday, August 22, through Friday, September 16, during the hours of 7-11 am and 3-7 pm. To find real-time valet service locations, please visit the System Map on the Bluebikes website or the Bluebikes app and look for the Valet icon at your destination station to confirm service is active.
"We're committed to promoting accessible, healthy transit options in our communities, including through continued collaboration with our partners across the Bluebikes municipalities," said Jeff Bellows, vice president of corporate citizenship and public affairs at Blue Cross. "We hope that our support of Bluebikes will help support greater Boston residents through the MBTA shutdowns."
In conjunction with the additional valet support during this time, the City of Boston has also announced free 30-day Bluebikes passes during the MBTA closures to further support the community. To access free passes, which are available beginning August 19, residents can download the Bluebikes app or navigate to Bluebikes.com/join and select a Monthly Membership. Existing Bluebikes users can log into their online account and select "Renew Membership." Current monthly members with auto-renew turned on will not be charged for the new pass this month.
Blue Cross is in the fifth year of a six-year Bluebikes title sponsorship, which launched in May 2018. Through its partnership with the municipal owners of Bluebikes, Blue Cross continues to support system growth and accessibility, including station expansions, upgrades, and additional bikes, and is pleased to be able to support the city of Boston during this scheduled MBTA maintenance.
Bluebikes is public transportation by bike. The system is jointly owned and managed by the Cities of Boston, Cambridge, Everett, Salem and Somerville and the Town of Brookline. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is the system's title sponsor. Riders can find 400 stations and 4,000 bikes across 11 municipalities in Metro Boston. Since 2011, more than 14 million trips have been taken by bike share. For more information about Bluebikes, visit bluebikes.com.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (bluecrossma.org) is a community-focused, tax-paying, not-for-profit health plan headquartered in Boston. We are committed to the relentless pursuit of quality, affordable and equitable health care with an unparalleled consumer experience. Consistent with our promise to always put our members first, we are rated among the nation's best health plans for member satisfaction and quality. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Three-time AL MVP Mike Trout intends to return to the Los Angeles Angels’ lineup on Friday in Detroit.
Trout hasn’t played since July 12, missing the Angels’ past 30 games with an injury to his upper back and ribcage. He faced live pitching Monday and worked out Wednesday, leaving him confident he will be able to play against the Tigers when the Angels open a 10-game trip.
“Ultimately, I want to be out there with the guys,” Trout said Wednesday before the Angels hosted the Seattle Mariners. “I miss it. I think with downtime, you come to the field, go home. It’s good to spend time with your son and your wife. That was good. But ultimately, you want to be out on the field. I’m excited. If everything goes well, hopefully I’ll be in there Friday.”
Trout earned an All-Star selection this summer while batting .270 with 24 homers and 51 RBIs in 79 games, but he has missed significant playing time — and the All-Star Game — due to injuries for the second straight season. The center fielder played only 36 games last season before he was sidelined for the year in mid-May by a calf strain.
“We really don’t have that much time left in the season,” Trout said. “I talked to the front office and I talked to the training staff just to get some at-bats here to see how I felt, and I felt really good.”
Last season’s disappointment seems to be a motivation for Trout to return with only seven weeks left in another lost season for the Angels (51-66), who haven’t made the playoffs since 2014. Los Angeles has plummeted out of the postseason picture again this summer despite being in first place in the AL West on May 11.
After Angels athletic trainer Mike Frostad said last month that Trout’s current injury might be something he must monitor for the rest of his career, Trout rushed to assure fans that his career isn’t over.
A return to the lineup underlines that commitment by Trout, who is in the fourth season of a 12-year, $426 million contract. He also said he plans to develop a workout plan to strengthen his back during another long offseason for the Angels.
Although his injury might benefit from some light days of action, Trout says he’ll keep playing center field to allow AL MVP Shohei Ohtani to remain the Angels’ designated hitter.
“I think we have a pretty good DH,” Trout said with a grin.
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By RAHIM FAIEZ and EBRAHIM NOROOZI
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 33 others, eyewitnesses and police said Thursday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on Wednesday night, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power. Several children were reported to be among the wounded.
The Islamic State group’s local affiliate has stepped up attacks against the Taliban and civilians since the former insurgents took over the country last year as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their withdrawal. Last week, the extremists claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul.
The mosque bombing comes just two days after the anniversary of the fall of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021.
Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for Kabul’s Taliban police chief, gave the latest figures to The Associated Press for the bombing at the Siddiquiya mosque in the city’s Kher Khanna neighborhood. An eyewitness told the AP the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.
The slain cleric was Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, the eyewitness said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid condemned the explosion and vowed that the “perpetrators of such crimes will soon be brought to justice and will be punished.”
There were fears the casualty numbers could rise further. On Thursday morning, one witness to the blast who gave his name as Qyaamuddin told the AP he believed as many as 25 people may have been killed in the blast.
“It was evening prayer time, and I was attending the prayer with others, when the explosion happened,” Qyaamuddin said. Some Afghans go by a single name.
AP journalists could see the blue-roofed, Sunni mosque from a nearby hillside. The Taliban parked police trucks and other vehicles at the mosque, while several men carried out one casket for a victim of the attack.
During their previous, 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, the Taliban imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic laws, severely restricting individual freedoms and especially the rights of women. A U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban, who had also hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Since regaining power, the former insurgents have faced a crippling economic crisis as the international community, which does not recognize the Taliban government, froze funding to the country. On Thursday, the Taliban hosted a gathering of 3,000 tribal elders, religious scholars and others in Kandahar, their state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported. It wasn’t immediately clear what topics they planned to discuss.
Since sweeping to power in August 2021, the Taliban have been battling the surging Islamic State affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province or IS-K, which is proving to be an intractable security challenge for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government.
The group has attracted many militants to its violent and extreme ideology, including promises of a caliphate to unite the Islamic world — a goal never espoused by the Taliban. Also, IS calls for a worldwide jihad, or holy war, against non-Muslims, while the Taliban have confined their struggle to Afghanistan.
In another development, the Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that they had captured and killed Mehdi Mujahid in western Herat province as he was trying to cross the border into Iran.
Mujahid was a former Taliban commander in the district of Balkhab in northern Sar-e-Pul province, and a rare member of the minority Shiite Hazara community among the Taliban ranks.
Mujahid had turned against the Taliban over the past year, after opposing decisions made by Taliban leaders in Kabul.
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Faiez reported from Islamabad.
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MASON, Ohio (AP) — Borna Coric spoiled Rafael Nadal’s return from a six-week layoff, beating the Spanish star 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-3 on Wednesday night in the Western & Southern Open.
The winner of a men’s record 22 Grand Slam championships, including two this year, hadn’t played since July 6 after an abdominal tear forced him to withdraw from a semifinal match against Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon. He was hoping to start putting the final touches on prepping for the upcoming U.S. Open.
“With a week-and-a-half to New York, it’s sad to not play here,” Nadal said. “I need to get into Grand Slam mode.”
The second-seeded and third-ranked Nadal, 36, showed no signs of the injury that mostly plagued his serve. He reached 121 mph with one serve and needed several awkward body movements to return some of Coric’s shots.
“I need to practice,” Nadal said. “I need to return better. I need days. It’s better to come back when you’ve spent a period of time outside and win your first match. I wasn’t ready enough to win the match today. The big thing is to stay healthy. It’s a difficult injury to manage. I need to take it step-by-step.”
The match lasted 2 hours, 51 minutes, not including a rain delay of 1 hour, 25 minutes in the first set.
Earlier in women’s play, U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu routed Victoria Azarenka 6-0, 6-2.
The 19-year-old Raducanu won the final seven games against Serena Williams on Tuesday and the first 10 against Azarenka. Seeded 13th, Raducanu set up a match against No. 8 Jessica Pegula.
“I try not to think about the score,” Raducanu said. “I just try to focus on collecting points. I’m always concerned when things are going well. I always feel like something could go wrong.”
Sixth-ranked Simona Halep withdrew because of a right thigh injury before facing Veronica Kudermetova. Halep won last week in Toronto.
In an all-English men’s second-round match, 11th-ranked Cameron Norrie outlasted three-time Grand Slam-champion Andy Murray 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Also, Taylor Fritz beat Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios 6-3, 6-2, and 19-year-old wild-card Ben Shelton upset fifth-ranked Casper Ruud. Shelton is the youngest American to defeat a top-five opponent since Andy Roddick beat No. 1 Gustavo Kuerten in 2001.
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This marks the second Oregon property under Blue Water Management
OCEAN CITY, Md., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocean City, Maryland-based outdoor hospitality specialist Blue Water continues its rapid expansion by taking over management of Rising River RV Resort & River House in Roseburg, Oregon, in new partnership with Torres Capital.
This picturesque waterfront property in Oregon's countryside is ideally situated on 1,100 feet of South Umpqua River frontage. At Rising River RV Resort & River House, guests can enjoy riverfront recreation including fishing, kayaking, tubing, and swimming. With world-class wineries close by, hiking and beautiful scenic waterfalls, Crater Lake, the Oregon Coast, several casinos, and the Wildlife Safari, this resort has something for everyone.
"Rising River RV Resort & River House is a property rich in natural beauty that offers unlimited family experiences and activities to enjoy," said Todd Burbage, CEO of Blue Water. "We look forward to offering our guests even more exciting destinations as we expand, keeping our roots and our commitment to the guest experience at the forefront of everything we do."
The pet-friendly property features 91 sites, with over half available for monthly or extended stays. RV sites are full hook-up and come with free Wi-Fi and cable television. Resort amenities include a state-of-the-art laundry facility, recreation room, enclosed area for pets, and a well-outfitted general store. The large Sequoia trees at Rising River RV Resort create shade and beautiful views at every site.
In addition to RV Sites, Rising River also offers The River House. This three-bedroom, one full-bath home boasts a big country kitchen with a large comfortable living room and dining area. The house sleeps up to eight guests and has four designated parking spaces. Guests of The River House have access to an on-site professional team to meet their needs seven days a week.
All staff on board at the time of the transition have been retained. Returning guests can count on friendly and familiar faces continuing to provide great customer service. Military and First Responders can enjoy 10% off the daily rate by showing their card at check-in, as a thank you for their service.
Rising River RV Resort & River House is conveniently located close to Interstate 5, for easy access on and off the highway. Guests can enjoy a short day's trip to the Oregon Coast, to Crater Lake, up to Washington, or down to California.
Rising River RV Resort & River House is open year-round. Photos of the property can be viewed here. For more information on Rising River RV Resort & River House, please visit https://www.risingriverrv.com/ and follow the property on Facebook and Instagram.
Founded in 2002, Blue Water specializes in investing, developing, and managing RV resorts, campgrounds, hotels, and attractions. Blue Water's integrated approach to marketing, revenue management, and operations has quickly established itself as a hospitality industry leader. With dozens of resort-area properties in East Coast states from Maine to Florida, and new additions out west in Texas, Montana, and Oregon, the Blue Water family is committed to creating elite assets, delivering exceptional guest experiences, and enhancing the communities we serve. To learn more, visit BWDC.com. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blue-water-development-corp/ | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlueWaterDev/
Torres Capital acquires, develops, and manages manufactured home communities, RV resorts and short-term rental properties. We focus on both high-income generation and long-term value creation. Christian & Brooke Torres, founders and CEO, created Torres Capital to provide 1 million people an active lifestyle experience. The Torres family has been investing in real estate for over 16 years in Washington, Oregon, Florida and expanding.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James has agreed to a two-year, $97.1 million contract extension through the 2024-25 season with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent announced Wednesday.
Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul said the league-maximum deal makes James the highest-paid player in NBA history. His new deal includes a player option that would keep the second-leading scorer in NBA history with the Lakers past his 40th birthday in December 2024.
The 37-year-old James is headed into the final year of his most recent contract with the Lakers, who signed the four-time NBA Most Valuable Player and four-time league champion in July 2018. The new deal means the 18-time All-Star will make $46.7 million this season.
Barring injury, James is likely to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s career scoring king this winter. James and the Lakers also still hope to be in contention for another title if James and Anthony Davis can return at full health after an injury-plagued 2021-22 ended without a playoff appearance.
James’ new deal syncs with Davis’ most recent contract extension with the Lakers, allowing both to leave the Lakers or to negotiate new deals in 2024. Both superstars are represented by Klutch.
James’ recommitment to the Lakers also silences persistent talk of his possible departure as a free agent or in a trade. James hasn’t appeared to be going anywhere on social media or in his public appearances, and he praised the hiring of new Lakers coach Darvin Ham.
James has missed significant portions of the season due to injury in three of his four years with the Lakers. He was largely healthy in the elongated 2019-20 season when the Lakers won the franchise’s 17th NBA title in the Florida bubble, and he has been every bit the dominant player of his prime when at full strength in the ensuing two years.
Although his contract status inspired plenty of offseason chatter, James seemed unlikely to relocate after spending the past four seasons of his 19-year career with the storied Lakers. His family is settled in Los Angeles, where his eldest son, Bronny, is a 17-year-old senior and college basketball prospect playing at Sierra Canyon High School in Chatsworth.
James has occasionally said he intends to play on the same team with Bronny when his son reaches the NBA. Although plenty of obstacles remain between the younger James and the NBA, he could be draft-eligible in the summer of 2024.
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RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital Square, one of the nation's leading sponsors of tax-advantaged real estate investments and a developer of multifamily communities, has been named one of Inc. 5000's fastest-growing private companies in America for the sixth consecutive year.
"We are thrilled that Capital Square has been named to the Inc. 5000 list for the sixth year in a row in recognition of the firm's continued growth as a sponsor of tax-advantaged real estate investments and developer of multifamily communities," said Louis Rogers, founder and chief executive officer of Capital Square. "This is a testament to the skill, talent and dedication of Capital Square's team and the tremendous work that has been accomplished since our founding in 2012, which has firmly established Capital Square as one of the leading real estate firms in the nation."
With an annual growth rate of 282%, Capital Square ranked 2,117 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list, which is comprised of the 5,000 fastest-growing private firms in America based on a three-year percentage of revenue growth rate. Founded in 2012, Capital Square was first named to the Inc. 5000 list in 2017.
Capital Square is a national real estate firm specializing in tax-advantaged real estate investments, including Delaware statutory trusts for Section 1031 exchanges, qualified opportunity zone funds for tax deferral and exclusion and a real estate investment trust (REIT). In recent years the company has become an active developer of mixed-use multifamily properties in the southeastern US, with eight current projects totaling approximately 2,000 apartment units with a total development cost in excess of $600 million. Since 2012, Capital Square has completed more than $6.0 billion in transaction volume. Capital Square's related entities provide a range of services, including due diligence, acquisition, loan sourcing, property/asset management, and disposition, for a growing number of high-net-worth investors, private equity firms, family offices and institutional investors. Since 2017, Capital Square has been recognized by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation for six consecutive years. In 2017, 2018 and 2020, the company was also ranked on Richmond BizSense's list of fastest growing companies. Additionally, Capital Square was listed by Virginia Business on their "Best Places to Work in Virginia" report in 2019 and their "Fantastic 50" reports in 2019 and 2020. To learn more, visit www.CapitalSq.com.
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ATLANTA (AP) — What a debut for Brett Baty!
The 22-year-old third baseman became the fifth player in New York Mets history to homer in his first big league at-bat Wednesday night, launching a two-run shot into the right-field seats against the Atlanta Braves.
With a runner aboard and the Mets already up 2-0 in the second inning on back-to-back homers in the opening frame, Baty took a ball from Jake Odorizzi before connecting with a hanging curve.
Ronald Acuña Jr. peeled off, looking to play the ball off the tall brick wall in right, but the 377-foot drive dropped into the seats.
Baty’s mother, father, sister and other relatives who flew in on short notice for the occasion leaped from their seats at Truist Park. Baty was swarmed by his teammates in the dugout.
The last Mets player to homer his first time up in the majors was Mike Jacobs on Aug. 21, 2005, at Washington.
One of the Mets’ top prospects, Baty batted eighth in his major league debut. He took over for Eduardo Escobar, who went on the 10-day injured list with a strained left oblique.
Baty was called up from Syracuse just a week after being promoted to the Triple-A club. Before the game, he insisted he wasn’t thinking about coming up the big leagues this quickly.
“It wasn’t on my mind at all,” Baty said. “I was just thinking about winning ballgames for Syracuse. But now I’m here, so it’s about winning ballgames for the New York Mets.”
Escobar was scratched from the lineup for Tuesday’s game after working out on the field before batting practice. Manager Buck Showalter said Escobar’s injury had taken a turn for the worse and he didn’t want to risk a long-term issue.
The No. 12 overall pick in the 2019 draft, Baty was hitting a combined .315 with 19 homers and 60 RBIs for Double-A Binghamton and Syracuse.
His offensive numbers — especially his power — have greatly improved this season over his first two years in the minors.
“I’m not putting any expectations on myself,” Baty said. “I’m just gonna go out there and play to the best of my ability. I’m here for a reason. I’ll let it show and do my best out there.”
Escobar went on the IL, retroactive to Tuesday, clearing the way for Baty to join the club.
Showalter got a chance to work with Baty in spring training. He challenged the native of Round Rock, Texas, a few times, eager to see how he would react to what the manager coyly called “constructive criticism.”
Baty passed that test.
“I trust the way I play baseball, and I trust myself out on the field,” the rookie said. “They were getting on me, but I was kind of responding.”
Center fielder Brandon Nimmo pulled Baty aside after the team arrived at Truist Park. He knows the highly touted player will be facing intense scrutiny joining a first-place team that’s trying to claim its first division title since 2015.
“Nimmo just took me aside and he was like, ‘Hey, man, slow it down. It’s gonna be a pretty big atmosphere for sure. But we all trust you out there. We have your back,'” Baty said. “That’s what I wanted to hear.”
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Chery SUV model, with Cipia's driver monitoring system integrated, will be sold globally
TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cipia (TASE: CPIA), an AI computer vision in-cabin automotive solutions provider, today announced that the company had secured a design win for a sport utility vehicle (SUV) from automaker Chery. The SUV will be sold globally, in Europe, South America, Australia, Middle East and Africa, with an expected start of production (SOP) during Q3 2023.
"Driver Sense DMS is robust, computationally lean and enables OEMs and Tier 1s to meet the strict regulatory and safety requirements that the EU and other markets demand of new vehicles," said Yehuda Holtzman, CEO of Cipia. "We're proud to be working with Chery to deliver a safer driving experience for all road users."
The model will integrate Cipia's Driver Sense DMS running on Ambarella's CV28 SoC. The CV28 - Driver Sense integration utilizes neural networks to offer robust driver monitoring capabilities, complying with highest global automotive regulatory standards while maintaining the lightest possible computing requirements.
Cipia's Driver Sense software uses computer vision and AI to monitor the driver's state in real-time. The DMS detects signs of drowsiness, distraction, phone use, seatbelt and more, enabling lifesaving alerts to the driver.
The latest win increases the total number of design wins for Cipia globally to 25 vehicle models, on 8 different platforms across 5 car manufacturers. Cipia's OEM customers currently include an electric car manufacturer in the US, SAIC Motors, Chery, an American car brand in China, and one additional leading car manufacturer in China.
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Cipia is a leading provider of intelligent sensing solutions that use edge-based computer vision and AI for safer and better mobility experiences. The company focuses on the automotive in-cabin environment, offering Driver Sense - driver monitoring system, Cabin Sense - occupancy monitoring systems and Cipia-FS10 - a driver monitoring and video telematics device for fleets and telematics system providers (TSPs). Over a decade of research and development stands behind the company's proprietary market-leading computer vision technology. Cipia is constantly pushing the boundaries of what intelligent sensing solutions can see and accomplish, for better and safer mobility.
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By ED WHITE
Associated Press
Prosecutors have rested their case against two men on trial for a second time in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
The jury heard seven days of testimony before prosecutors finished Thursday in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. are on trial on conspiracy charges. A jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict but acquitted two other men.
One of the last government witnesses was an FBI agent who was working undercover. Tim Bates, known as “Red,” said he got inside the group when talk turned to obtaining an explosive to destroy a bridge near Whitmer’s vacation home in Elk Rapids, Michigan.
The defense argues that Fox and Croft were entrapped by agents and informants who fed their wild anti-government views.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
An FBI agent who was working undercover told jurors Thursday about a stop at a bridge near Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home during a night ride by anti-government extremists to continue planning a kidnapping.
Tim Bates, simply known as “Red” to the group, said he encouraged Adam Fox to take a picture of the bridge after they got out of a pickup truck. The government alleges that destroying it was part of a scheme to get Whitmer.
“They wanted to slow down law enforcement response,” Bates testified.
No kidnapping took place in Elk Rapids. In October 2020, about a month later, Fox, Barry Croft Jr. and four others were arrested and accused of being domestic terrorists.
Fox and Croft are on trial for a second time on conspiracy charges. A jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict but acquitted two other men.
Bates said he pitched himself to the group as someone who could get explosives. By fall 2020, he said there was talk about buying bomb components, and the FBI wanted to stay on top of it. Another agent as well as informants already had infiltrated the group.
Bates said Fox also talked about destroying a second bridge in the Elk Rapids area, though the government didn’t offer any evidence of it on secretly recorded conversations. The agent also admitted during cross-examination that he hadn’t disclosed it during the first trial last spring.
“You were wearing a recorder the entire trip, correct? And the recorder functioned, true?” Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons said.
“I can’t speak to how all of them functioned,” Bates replied, “but I believe a recorder was on the entire time.”
The defense argues that Fox and Croft were entrapped by government operatives who fed their wild views. Prosecutors say the group wanted to trigger a national revolt and was especially furious over COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Whitmer during the early stages of the pandemic.
Defense lawyers have tried to make their case by sharply cross-examining the government’s witnesses. Like Gibbons, Croft attorney Joshua Blanchard picked at the lack of a recording about Fox talking about destroying a second bridge.
“We should be able to hear that, right?” Blanchard said.
Croft, 46, is from Bear, Delaware. Fox, 39, was living in the basement of a vacuum shop in the Grand Rapids area.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees placed All-Star closer Clay Holmes on the injured list Wednesday because of back soreness, part of a flurry of moves for the struggling AL East leaders.
“Not real concerned,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We’re hoping that it’s just the 15 days.”
New York also recalled rookie right-hander Ron Marinaccio, infielder Oswaldo Cabrera and outfielder Estevan Florial from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Utilityman Miguel Andújar and outfielder Tim Locastro were sent down.
The Yankees had dropped 11 of 13 heading into Wednesday night’s game against Tampa Bay.
Following a 3-1 loss to the Rays on Tuesday, Holmes said he is experiencing some back tightness.
“There’s some stuff going on with my back and we’re just trying to figure out the best way to go about it,” he said.
The 29-year-old Holmes said his back locked up after his last outing, when he allowed a tying RBI single to J.D. Martinez on Friday night in Boston. His back tightened up again when he tried to throw Tuesday.
“The smartest and best way to go about it is maybe to give it a break,” Holmes said. “We’ll see. We’ll play it smart and not try to push it through something that maybe could be a lot worse.”
Holmes is 1-2 with an 8.22 ERA in eight appearances since the All-Star break. He is 5-3 with 17 saves and a 2.39 ERA in 49 appearances this year.
Cabrera started at third base and Florial was in center field on Wednesday. The 23-year-old Cabrera hit .262 with eight homers and 29 RBIs at Triple-A, and Florial batted .286 with 14 homers and 39 RBIs in 89 games for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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The Go-to List of Leaders who Positively Impact the State of Colorado
DENVER, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CiviCO, a nonprofit that cultivates civic-minded leaders, announced 29 Colorado business executives and community leaders as 2022-23 Colorado Governor's Fellows. The Colorado Governor's Fellowship program prepares private and nonprofit sector leaders for opportunities to deepen their understanding of Colorado state government and statewide public policy issues.
"I am thrilled to welcome the newest cohort of Governor's Fellows through the continued partnership between CiviCO and the Colorado Governor's Office. These fellows will gain valuable experience from this program and go on to help ensure Colorado is the best place to live, work and run or start a business," said Governor Jared Polis.
This year's Governor's Fellows are:
- Betsy Bair, Community Hospital
- Mara Brosy-Wiwchar, Onward Energy
- Jamie Brown, Colorado Springs Health Foundation
- Patrick Byrne, Denver Kids, Inc.
- Briah Carey, DaVita Kidney Care
- Karen Cheser, Durango School District
- Tyescha Clark, Inside Out Youth Services
- Scott Michael Clements, Retired Executive
- Charles Gilford III, City and County of Denver
- Antonio Huerta, Southern Colorado Regional Director for U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper
- Andrew Klosterman, Peak Beverage
- Sam Knaizer, BPX Energy
- Stephanie Knight, Senior Hub
- Byron Kominek, Jack's Solar Garden Developments
- Lulu Lantzy, Emily Griffith Technical College
- Marvin Lee, PureLee Redefined
- Sid Makkar, Arrowmark Partners
- Sarah Jane Maxted, Deloitte
- Nicole Milo, Centura Health
- Latrina Ollie, Solid Rock Community Development Corporation
- Alexandra Peterson, Markle Foundation
- Sarah Plastino, Sarah Plastino Consulting
- Paul Reich, The Center for Mental Health
- Scott Richardson, South Metro Fire Rescue
- Nathaniel Robinson, Leaf Global Fintech
- Andrew Rubin, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Sharon Schneider, Integrated Capital Strategies, LLC
- David Thurow, Prosono
- Megan Wilson, Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation
Since 2016, CiviCO has graduated 122 fellows who are now leading and serving predominantly across the state of Colorado. The program enables participants to shadow members of the Polis Administration and various statewide agencies, while working on real-time public policy projects.
"The program is committed to creating platforms for leaders to grow from a place of seeking to understand Colorado's rural/urban divide, and the value of diversity of thought, civic engagement and multi-sector leadership," said Ryan Heckman, co-chairman of CiviCO.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The University of Missouri-Kansas City is taking steps to make college more affordable.
The university announced a new scholarship that will make college free for certain students in need. UMKC also unveiled a new award that will provide in-state tuition rates to out-of-state students who meet certain criteria.
The Roo Advantage Scholarship will be available for full-time Missouri and Kansas first-time and transfer students who are Pell Grant-eligible.
Federal Pell Grants usually are awarded to undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need. The amount of a student’s grant depends on family finances, the cost of attendance and more.
UMKC’s new scholarship will cover any remaining full-time tuition and fees not covered by other scholarships or grants.
The Roo Nation Award will extend in-state tuition rates to non-Missouri residents.
But to qualify, students must be a U.S. citizen and a newly enrolled nonresident undergrad with a high school GPA of at least a 3.0. The in-state tuition rate will not apply for medical, pharmacy, dentistry and law students.
The Roo Advantage Scholarship is available beginning with the fall 2022 semester. The Roo Nation Award will begin in fall 2023. Both can renew each year. Find more information on the university’s website.
“We are committed to making higher education affordable to the Kansas City community, all of Missouri and Kansas and beyond,” Jenny Lundgren, UMKC provost and executive vice chancellor, said in a news release.
“These programs remove financial barriers that stand in the way of people earning the credentials needed to launch a professional career.”
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27, an eyewitness and police said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power. Several children were reported to be among the wounded.
The Islamic State group’s local affiliate has stepped up attacks targeting the Taliban and civilians since the former insurgents’ takeover last August as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their withdrawal from the country. Last week, the IS claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul.
According to the eyewitness, a resident of the city’s Kher Khanna neighborhood where the Siddiquiya Mosque was targeted, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber. The slain cleric was Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, the eyewitness said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
He added that more than 30 other people were wounded. The Italian Emergency hospital in Kabul said that at least 27 wounded civilians, including five children, were brought there from the site of the bomb blast.
Khalid Zadran, the Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief, confirmed an explosion inside a mosque in northern Kabul but would not provide a casualty toll or a breakdown of the dead and wounded.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also condemned the explosion and vowed that the “perpetrators of such crimes will soon be brought to justice and will be punished.”
There were fears the casualty numbers could rise further. On Thursday morning, one witness to the blast who gave his name as Qyaamuddin told The Associated Press he believed as many as 25 people may have been killed in the blast.
“It was evening prayer time, and I was attending the prayer with others, when the explosion happened,” Qyaamuddin said. Some Afghans go by a single name.
AP journalists could see the blue-roofed, Sunni mosque from a nearby hillside. The Taliban parked police trucks and other vehicles at the mosque, while several men carried out one casket for a victim of the attack.
A U.S.-led invasion toppled the previous Taliban government, which had hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Since regaining power, the former insurgents have faced a crippling economic crisis as the international community, which does not recognize the Taliban government, froze funding to the country.
Separately, the Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that they had captured and killed Mehdi Mujahid in western Herat province as he was trying to cross the border into Iran.
Mujahid was a former Taliban commander in the district of Balkhab in northern Sar-e-Pul province, and the only member of the minority Shiite Hazara community among the Taliban ranks.
Mujahid had turned against the Taliban over the past year, after opposing decisions made by Taliban leaders in Kabul.
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Leading IT Services Franchise Reaches $100 Million Revenue Milestone
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CMIT Solutions, the nation's leading managed service provider (MSP) of information technology (IT) services to the small and medium-sized business community, has achieved a significant milestone. The company has reached $100 million in systemwide revenue.
In 2019, CMIT Solutions had $68 million in systemwide revenue and was on a growth trajectory to reach $100 million by 2026. In 2020, the then new CEO, Roger Lewis, rallied the organization around a new vision statement. Lewis says, "We set a goal to become a $100 million MSP servicing the IT needs of small and medium-sized businesses as a unified brand by the end of 2023." For this to become a reality, Lewis implemented a series of growth strategies, including pivoting marketing to focus extensively on lead generation by creating in-depth marketing programs which measure influenced revenue. Next, the company brought MSP sales training in house and introduced repeatable, scalable processes throughout the organization. The entire system's mindset shifted to marketing and growing the business. These programs paid huge dividends resulting in CMIT Solutions' achievement of this milestone within the third quarter of 2022, more than a year ahead of the vision statement timeline Lewis set for the system.
In his congratulatory speech to the system franchisees, Lewis stated, "I'm incredibly inspired by each and every one of you. Your perseverance, your heart, and the many, many ways you support one another. It is unbelievable. It is unstoppable! You've earned this moment. $100 million dollars! Congratulations!"
According to Paul Dippell, an MSP industry analyst, reaching $100 million in revenue puts CMIT Solutions within the ranks of the top 25 revenue-grossing MSPs, specifically for small and medium-sized businesses.
"This achievement is the direct result of our franchisees' dedication to their customers. Every day, CMIT Solutions' local teams go the extra mile to support the businesses in their communities," said Lewis. "I'm looking forward to continuing this momentum and seeing how far we go in the coming years as we strengthen our reputation as the leading brand within the IT MSP space."
The system has honed its focus on continued growth with strategic marketing and sales programs combined with strong technology provider partnerships. A monthly marketing playbook was introduced to the system to provide franchisees with a fully developed guide to assist in further spreading awareness of CMIT Solutions within each local community. These efforts aid in the brand's ability to connect with clients and motivate franchise candidates.
A proven franchise model has contributed to the triumph that CMIT Solutions has achieved in recent years. So far within 2022, the company has been recognized as a Top 500 Franchise by Entrepreneur magazine and several of its women franchise owners were recognized in CRN's Women of the Channel list. With 250-plus locations nationwide, CMIT Solutions' momentum shows no signs of slowing down.
CMIT Solutions is widely recognized as the frontrunner among IT service providers for the small and mid-sized organizations in the United States and Canada. Offering a broad spectrum of proactive computer maintenance, monitoring, cybersecurity, and virtual technology packages, along with quick response support when unexpected crises occur, CMIT Solutions has carved out its niche as an industry innovator specializing in working with businesses in franchisees' local communities.
To learn more about CMIT Solutions and its services, please visit: www.cmitsolutions.com.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Firefighters say they don’t know what started the fire that destroyed three homes under construction earlier this year.
Firefighters responded to the massive fire near W. 172nd Terrace and Barton Street on Feb. 28.
Investigators determined the fire started on the outside of one of the houses and spread to the other two adjacent homes. Firefighters said wind helped spread embers to the other homes.
They looked into all possibilities from small warming fires used by construction crews under certain conditions to arson, but could not find conclusive evidence to rule out any possible causes.
Overland Park Fire Department said its investigation into the fire ended, but it can be reopened at any time if new information or additional evidence surfaces.
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SEDALIA, Mo. — An investigation into a Sedalia police shooting is now in the hands of prosecutors.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol investigated after a Sedalia police officer shot and killed a 22-year-old man. Investigators said they’ve turned the case over to the Pettis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Officers responded to a call about a man with a gun at a home near U.S. 50 Highway and S. Harrison Avenue on May 29.
A man, later identified as Masen T. Moore of Sedalia, tried to leave as officers arrive.
Officers said Moore shot at them. A Sedalia police officer returned fire, hitting and killing Moore. No officers were injured.
The prosecutor’s office will now review the case to determine if any charges should be filed.
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By ED WHITE
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An FBI agent who was working undercover told jurors Thursday about a stop at a bridge near Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s vacation home during a night ride by anti-government extremists to continue planning a kidnapping.
Tim Bates, simply known as “Red” to the group, was one of the last government witnesses as prosecutors rested their case after seven days of testimony.
Bates said he encouraged Adam Fox to take a picture of the bridge after they got out of a pickup truck. The government alleges that destroying it was part of a scheme to get Whitmer.
“They wanted to slow down law enforcement response,” Bates testified.
No kidnapping took place in Elk Rapids. In October 2020, about a month later, Fox, Barry Croft Jr. and four others were arrested and accused of being domestic terrorists.
Fox and Croft are on trial for a second time on conspiracy charges. A jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict but acquitted two other men.
Bates said he pitched himself to the group as someone who could get explosives. By fall 2020, he said there was talk about buying bomb components, and the FBI wanted to stay on top of it. Another agent as well as informants already had infiltrated the group.
Bates said Fox also talked about destroying a second bridge in the Elk Rapids area, though the government didn’t offer any evidence of it on secretly recorded conversations. The agent also admitted during cross-examination that he hadn’t disclosed it during the first trial last spring.
“You were wearing a recorder the entire trip, correct? And the recorder functioned, true?” Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons said.
“I can’t speak to how all of them functioned,” Bates replied, “but I believe a recorder was on the entire time.”
The defense argues that Fox and Croft were entrapped by government operatives who fed their wild views. Prosecutors say the group wanted to trigger a national revolt and was especially furious over COVID-19 restrictions imposed by Whitmer during the early stages of the pandemic.
Defense lawyers have tried to make their case by sharply cross-examining the government’s witnesses. Like Gibbons, Croft attorney Joshua Blanchard picked at the lack of a recording about Fox talking about destroying a second bridge.
“We should be able to hear that, right?” Blanchard said.
Croft, 46, is from Bear, Delaware. Fox, 39, was living in the basement of a vacuum shop in the Grand Rapids area.
Whitmer, a Democrat, has blamed then-President Donald Trump for stoking mistrust and fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn hate groups and right-wing extremists like those charged in the plot.
Trump recently called the kidnapping plan a “fake deal.”
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BHOLA, Bangladesh (AP) — When the Mehgna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum’s tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village.
The couple fled the next morning with their four young boys to the capital, Dhaka, over a hundred kilometers (62 miles) away from their home in Ramdaspur village in the Bhola district, one of the hardest-hit coastal areas where many villagers regularly lose their houses and land to rivers flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
“We have grown up seeing the river, we live on the river by catching fish. But now it has taken everything from us,” Jewel said.
“My heart aches when I think of my village, my ancestors, my old days. I had no choice but to leave my birthplace.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of an ongoing series exploring the lives of people around the world who have been forced to move because of rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other things caused or exacerbated by climate change.
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The mighty rivers that run through Bangladesh, such as the Mehgna, originate in the Himalayas or in Tibet, and run through northern and northeastern regions of the country before flowing down to the sea in the south. More than 130 rivers criss-cross through the low-lying nation, some of them prone to severe flooding.
Experts say climate change is causing erratic weather conditions in the country, resulting in a rapid collapse of riverbanks and the destruction of village after village. During the monsoon season, which runs from June to October, many rivers change course, devouring markets, schools, mosques and homes near their banks.
Millions are at risk of being displaced and becoming “climate refugees” because of sea level rise, river erosion, cyclonic storms and salty water creeping inland, scientists say. Bangladesh is expected to have about a third of South Asia’s internal climate refugees by 2050, according to a World Bank report published last year.
When Jewel and Begum visited their family’s old home in Ramdaspur a year later, even more homes were washed away, the river surging through new lands. Jewel said the river never felt that close by as a child, but it inched nearer every year.
“By the time we grew up, all the land and houses were destroyed by the river. The place we are standing now will also be eroded in the river in a few days,” he added, just feet away from their old family home.
He said the village was once brimming with small shops and tea stalls, markets and green spaces. The land was fertile. But over the years, people were forced to abandon their homes. He estimates that no more than 500 people now live in the once 2,000-strong village.
Walking through the remnants of their former community, his wife Arzu Begum also feels pain, even though the abundant water in recent years made life difficult for the family.
“I raised my youngest child by tying his legs with a rope attached to the door of my house because of the fear of drowning. During the tide the house got filled with water and my youngest child always moved toward water,” remembers Begum.
“All these got destroyed in the river erosion and people got scattered,” she said, pointing to the homes of friends and neighbors.
“Some are living on raised platforms, some in rented homes, some in makeshift shelters at the side of dams and so on. I moved to Dhaka. We lived in a large community. Now all you can see is the river and nobody living there.
“We have become homeless,” she said.
It’s estimated that more than 2,000 migrants arrive in the capital Dhaka every day, with many fleeing coastal towns.
In the northern part of Bangladesh’s capital, officials are building shelters for climate migrants and improving the water supply, but Jewel and Begum’s family are one of many unable to benefit from these projects. Officials also are working with smaller cities to be designated “climate havens” that welcome migrants.
Experts say that limiting planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the high-emitting nations like the U.S., China and India, will help limit more drastic weather events around the world.
Now in Dhaka’s poor Mirpur area, living in a one-room hut raised over a swamp, Begum and Jewel may be away from the swelling Mehgna, but say they can’t adjust to the difficult city life.
“We had a place of our own and didn’t have to pay any rent. Our monthly income was sufficient to run our family,” recalled Begum, referring to their life back in Ramdaspur.
“Now we are forced to pay home rent and spend such an amount of money for food that what we earn isn’t enough for the family,” she said.
Her husband earns 12,000 takas ($136) a month by doing a “dirty job” going door-to-door and sorting household waste while Begum earns another 4,000 takas ($45) as a cleaner for two different houses. Her income pays the family’s rent and Jewel’s barely covers the rest of the family’s outgoings.
Jewel, who used to catch fish in his village, says they lived there joyfully and thought of giving a better life to their children.
“I had a plan to raise my children properly, to send them to school. But now, everything is so uncertain that I don’t know how we would survive. My children are growing up but I cannot take care of them,” he said.
“My job is very dirty, I don’t feel good sorting out all the nasty stuff I collect from households in my wealthy neighborhood,” he added.
“I hate my job. But when I think how can I survive without a job, I stay calm. Life is not easy.”
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission announced that sports betting will go live in Kansas just in time for the NFL season.
Sports betters will be able to make their first wagers at four state-owned casinos on Sept. 1, two months after legal sports betting went into effect on July 1. Sportsbooks will officially open on Sept. 8.
“Legalizing sports betting is a common-sense solution that keeps Kansans’ money in Kansas and drives business to sporting events, casinos, restaurants, and other entertainment venues,” Governor Laura Kelly said. “I want to thank all our partners for working with us to get this done in time for football season.”
The four casinos with contracts to receive bets are:
- Boot Hill Caisno & Resort – Dodge City
- Kansas Star Casino – Mulvane
- Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway – Kansas City
- Kansas Crossing Casino & Hotel – Pittsburg
Gov. Kelly signed the law on May 12, making Kansas the latest in a growing number of states to make it legal.
Owned by the state and operated by the Kansas Lottery, each contracted casino will offer sports wagers through different independent platforms.
“The process to bring this to fruition has moved at an unbelievable pace,” Stephen Durrell, Executive Director of the Kansas Lottery, said. “We are excited to be bringing sports betting to Kansas players and adding more fun and exciting play options to the Sunflower State.”
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas City Current are gearing up to host the largest NWSL crowd in Kansas City history on Friday when they host Angel City FC.
According to the team, the amount of tickets sold for the matchup would already surpass the previous record of 7,954 set on June 4 when the club hosted the San Diego Wave to a 2-2 draw.
That game was the second in their unbeaten run that continued after a road victory on Saturday over the North Carolina Courage.
The Current set the goal of bringing 10,000 fans to Children’s Mercy Park to watch the club put their 10-game unbeaten streak on the line as they continue to climb the standings.
The club said they close and will continue to push the #ShowUpKC message up until kickoff.
The Current and Angel City are set to kickoff at 7 p.m. Tickets can purchased online via Seat Geek.
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN
AP Business Writer
A federal judge is ordering Starbucks to reinstate seven employees in Memphis who were fired earlier this year after leading an effort to unionize their store.
In a decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sheryl Lipman agreed with the National Labor Relations Board, which had asked the court to intervene in May.
Lipman’s decision requires Starbucks to offer to reinstate the employees within five days. Starbucks will also be required to post the court order in the Memphis store.
The case has been among the most closely watched in the unionization effort at Starbucks, which began late last year. Since then, more than 220 U.S. Starbucks stores — including the Memphis store — have voted to unionize. Starbucks opposes the unionization effort.
Starbucks fired the seven employees in early February, citing safety. The Seattle coffee giant said the employees violated company policy by reopening a store after closing time and inviting non-employees — including a television crew — to come inside and move throughout the store.
The NLRB had begun administrative proceedings against Starbucks, saying the company was unlawfully interfering in workers’ right to organize. But those proceedings can take so long that the NLRB asked the federal court for an immediate injunction requiring Starbucks to reinstate the workers.
“Today’s federal court decision ordering Starbucks to reinstate the seven unlawfully fired Starbucks workers in Memphis is a crucial step in ensuring that these workers, and all Starbucks workers, can freely exercise their right to join together to improve their working conditions and form a union,” the labor board’s General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said in a statement. “Starbucks, and other employers, should take note that the NLRB will continue to vigorously protect workers’ right to organize without interference from their employer.”
A message seeking comment from Starbucks was left by The Associated Press.
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Construction Risk Partners (CRP), a subsidiary of BRP Group, Inc. ("BRP Group" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: BRP), is pleased to announce the addition of Mark Gloriod to the team as a Partner.
Mr. Gloriod will lead CRP's geographic expansion into the mid-west. He will be responsible for building a team and book of business while collaborating with colleagues from CRP and BRP. He brings more than 25 years of experience in construction and insurance to CRP, and expertise in multiple lines of insurance coverage with an emphasis on property/casualty placements, wrap-ups, and builders' risk. He also has an extensive background in broking, underwriting, and claims management.
Most recently, Mr. Gloriod led Aon's Central Region Broking Team in addition to being an Account Executive on a $2M+ revenue book of business. He was responsible for program design, risk management, and broking of large construction clients and projects in casualty and builder's risk.
"Mark has the perfect mix of experience, culture, and entrepreneurship to help CRP expand our geographic footprint. We are extremely proud to welcome Mark to the CRP and BRP family," said Joe Charczenko, Partner, Construction Risk Partners.
"I am extremely excited to join CRP and start the next chapter of my career to help them expand into the Midwest," said Mr. Gloriod.
Construction Risk Partners is the leading specialist broker for owners, developers, general contractors, engineers, and subcontractors that need to mitigate financial risks related to construction activity. Our expertise and specialization in construction allows us to tailor our financial products and services to align perfectly. We offer insurance, surety, bonding, default insurance as well as our industry's most respected Loss Prevention and Wrap-Up services. Learn more at www.constructionriskpartners.com.
BRP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRP) is an independent insurance distribution firm delivering tailored insurance and risk management insights and solutions that give our Clients the peace of mind to pursue their purpose, passion and dreams. We are innovating the industry by taking a holistic and tailored approach to risk management, insurance and employee benefits, and support our Clients, Colleagues, Insurance Company Partners and communities through the deployment of vanguard resources and capital to drive our growth. BRP Group represents over 1,200,000 Clients across the United States and internationally. For more information, please visit www.baldwinriskpartners.com.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, eroding protections in one of the South’s few remaining safe havens for reproductive freedom.
U.S. District Judge William Osteen reinstated an unenforced 20-week abortion ban, with exceptions for urgent medical emergencies, after he said the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade erased the legal foundation for his 2019 ruling that placed an injunction on the 1973 state law.
His decision defies the recommendations of all named parties in the 2019 case, including doctors, district attorneys and the attorney general’s office, who earlier this month filed briefs requesting he let the injunction stand.
“Neither this court, nor the public, nor counsel, nor providers have the right to ignore the rule of law as determined by the Supreme Court,” wrote Osteen, who was appointed to the court by Republican President George W. Bush.
Unable to pass abortion restrictions that would survive Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, the Republican General Assembly leaders urged Osteen to restore the ban in a July 27 friend-of-the-court brief after the state’s Democratic attorney general, an outspoken abortion rights supporter, rejected their demand that he bring the ban before a judge himself.
“I am encouraged that, although our attorney general has failed to do his duty, today we have a ruling that upholds the law,” House Speaker Tim Moore said, referring to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.
Osteen’s ruling adds fuel to an already contentious midterm election year after the Supreme Court ruling propelled state-level politics into the spotlight. North Carolina Republicans in November will aim to clinch the five additional seats they need for a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature as Democrats stave off their challenges to preserve Cooper’s power.
Republican lawmakers say a successful election season could open the door to further abortion restrictions when the General Assembly reconvenes early next year. Moore told reporters on July 26 that he would like to see the legislature consider banning abortions once an ultrasound first detects fetal cardiac activity — typically around six weeks after fertilization and before some patients know they’re pregnant.
Cooper and other Democrats have already elevated abortion access as a key campaign issue. The governor signed an executive order on July 6 shielding out-of-state abortion patients from extradition and prohibiting state agencies under his control from aiding other states’ prosecutions of those who travel for the procedure.
“Denying women necessary medical care in extreme and threatening situations, even if rare, is fundamentally wrong, and we cannot let politicians mislead people about the real-world implications of this harmful law,” Cooper said Wednesday.
North Carolina has become a refuge for residents of its more restrictive neighboring states, like South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, where abortions are now illegal after six weeks.
Before Osteen’s ruling, abortions were legal in North Carolina until fetal viability, which generally falls between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy, or in certain medical emergencies.
As other Southeastern states continue to chip away at abortion access, Alison Kiser, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic, said limiting treatment in “a critical access point state” like North Carolina will have ripple effects across the region.
The number of out-of-state patients at North Carolina’s Planned Parenthood health centers has tripled since the Supreme Court ruling, Kiser said. So far in August, 36% of abortion patients traveled from other states, up from 14% in June.
But Republicans argue little will change with the 20-week ban back in place. In 2019, fewer than 1% of abortions nationwide were performed after 20 weeks of gestation, consistent with data from previous years when abortion access was protected at the federal level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Abortions after 20 weeks are rare, but it’s still incredibly important that people have access to this care,” Kiser said. “The two primary reasons people need abortion care later in pregnancy is because they’ve received new medical information or, and ever more so now, they’re facing barriers that have delayed their care.”
The main delay, she said, is North Carolina’s 72-hour mandatory waiting period to receive an abortion after an initial doctor’s visit. The General Assembly extended the waiting period in 2015, making North Carolina the fifth state to require counseling three days before an abortion — one of the longest waiting periods in the country.
The 2015 bill also amended the state law that Osteen reinstated Wednesday, narrowing the criteria for medical emergencies that could warrant an abortion after 20 weeks.
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Hannah Schoenbaum is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/H_Schoenbaum.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine recently released that HumanN, an industry leader in functional nutrition and life sciences, was named for the eighth consecutive year on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are honored that HumanN has achieved the rarified air of being named to the Inc. 5000 for 8 consecutive years!" says CEO and Co-Founder, Joel Kocher. "One of our company's values is to perpetually adapt to the new challenges every new year brings. Our supremely talented team has done that again and again, every year since HumanN was founded."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000. The top 500 companies are featured in the September issue of Inc. magazine, which will be available on August 23.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Strategic innovation propels the team at HumanN to continue to adapt, developing new markets and opportunities each year. Says Kocher, "Our team simply understands that what got you here will never get you there [to the next phase of growth]."
A groundbreaking functional nutrition and life sciences company, HumanN was founded in affiliation with a leading academic research program and is committed to promoting healthy circulatory and blood flow function for optimal living. The innovators at HumanN bring forth smart, plant-based, and nutrition-forward science in the form of supplements in innovative form factors (powders, chews, gummies, tablets), to meet the demands of modern, health-conscious consumers. Its products are widely used by physicians, consumers, and athletes alike, including over 120 Professional and Division One Collegiate sports teams. HumanN's product line includes leading product brands such as SuperBeets, BeetElite, and Neo40. SuperBeets is the leading superfood brand sold at GNC and is also sold at leading U.S. retailers such as CVS Pharmacy, Publix, Target.com, and Sprouts.
The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana’s wilds for the first known time in more than 75 years, officials said Wednesday.
“Louisiana was largely written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles decades ago, but this determination demonstrates why barrier island restoration is so important,” Chip Kline, chairman of the Louisiana Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority, said in a news release.
Crews monitoring the Chandeleur Islands — a chain 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of New Orleans — to help design a restoration project found tracks of females going to and from nests and of hatchlings leaving a nest.
The first tracks were found by a crew surveying birds “before the sea turtle nesting season really kicked off,” said Matthew Weigel, coastal resources scientist manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
After that crew brought back a photo of a sea turtle “crawl,” the two agencies began weekly flights over the island to look for more. Weigel said he and Todd Baker of the restoration agency were walking between two that they’d sighted from the plane on July 29 when they stumbled on hatchling tracks on the beach.
“There was some high-fiving going on,” he said. They followed those tracks back to a nest they hadn’t known about. There, they found two tiny, newly emerged turtles, which they followed back to the beach.
Weigel said aerial surveys found 52 sets of tracks that experts identified as Kemp’s ridley, though some were “false crawls” where no nest was made.
“The endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle has returned to nest on the Chandeleur Islands, highlighting the need to protect this sensitive habitat so it can continue to be home to ocean and coastal wildlife in the future,” said Beth Lowell, vice president for the United States of the environmental nonprofit Oceana.
The Louisiana agencies said threatened loggerhead sea turtles also are nesting on the Chandeleurs, which are part of the nation’s second-oldest national wildlife refuge, called Breton National Wildlife Refuge.
Loggerhead nests found in 2015 on Grand Isle — roughly 70 miles (112 kilometers) southwest of the Chandeleurs — were the first confirmed sea turtle nests in Louisiana in more than 30 years, according to the statement.
All six sea turtle species found in U.S. waters are protected under the Endangered Species Act. Tens of thousands of Kemp’s ridleys, which grow to about 2 feet (0.6 meter) long, once nested in Mexico, but in the 1980s a low of only about 250 did so, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Wednesday’s announcement came less than two weeks after officials reported the first sea turtle nest since 2018 on Mississippi’s mainland.
That location in Pass Christian Harbor is roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of the Chandeleurs, the easternmost part of Louisiana. The chain has been eaten away by erosion, tropical storms including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the BP oil spill in 2010.
The two agencies have been closely monitoring the islands since May as part of work to restore the islands using oil spill money.
The discovery of nesting sea turtles will help ensure sea turtle nesting habitat is preserved and improved, officials said.
Most Kemp’s ridley nests are along the western Gulf of Mexico, 95% of them in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, according to NOAA. “Occasional nesting has been documented in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama,” according to its website about the species.
Juvenile Kemp’s ridleys feed in Louisiana’s estuaries. Many species of sea turtles gather around the Chandeleur Islands, feeding in and around the state’s only marine seagrass meadows, the news release said.
“It is well known that the Chandeleur Islands provide key habitats for a host of important species; however, with the recent discovery of a successful Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatching, the islands’ value to the region has been elevated,” Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Jack Montoucet said.
Additional nests may be discovered on the Chandeleur Islands as monitoring continues and hatchlings emerge, the news release said. The nesting season peaks in June and July, and eggs take 50 to 60 days to hatch, it said.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Elevation Gold Mining Corporation (TSX.V: ELVT) (OTCQX: EVGDF) (the "Company" or "Elevation Gold") is pleased to announce that all matters submitted to shareholders for approval as set out in the detail of the Company's Management information Circular dated July 13, 2022, were approved by the requisite majority of votes cast at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM"). A total of 36,024,003 common shares of the Company were represented by shareholders in person or by proxy at the AGM, representing 32.63% of the Company's issued and outstanding common shares as at the record date of July 13, 2022.
Specifically, shareholders voted to approve:
- Election of the Board of Directors nominated;
- Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants, as the Company's external auditors for 2022; and
- Approval of the Company's new 10% rolling equity incentive plan.
Detailed results of the voting are set out below:
The directors will serve on the Board of Directors until the Company's next AGM of shareholders.
Full details of all proposals are described in the Company's Management Information Circular available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Additionally, the Company has entered into an arrangement that provides Elevation Gold with a US $6 million revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility"). The net proceeds will be used for operating and capital expenditures at its wholly-owned gold and silver producing Moss Mine in Arizona and for general working capital purposes. Under the terms of the Credit Facility, interest accrues on any unpaid principal at an interest rate of 12% per annum compounded on a monthly basis, with all accrued interest and principal payable on or before December 31, 2023. On closing, Elevation Gold was advanced a principal amount of US $3 million (the "Initial Advance"). Additional advances following the Initial Advance will be made available to the Company at the discretion of the lender. The Company may, at its option, at any time and from time to time, prepay without penalty or premium the Credit Facility, in whole or in part.
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Tim J. Swendseid, President of Elevation Gold Mining Corporation
Elevation Gold is a publicly listed gold and silver producer, engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and operation of mineral properties located in the United States. Elevation Gold's common shares are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") in Canada under the ticker symbol ELVT and on the NASDAQ OTC in the United States under the ticker symbol EVGDF. The Company's principal operation is the 100% owned Moss Mine in the Mohave County of Arizona. Elevation also holds the title to the Hercules exploration property, located in Lyon County, Nevada.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Certain of the statements made and information contained herein is "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this document constitute forward-looking information, including but not limited to statements regarding the Company's plans with respect to appointing a new President. Words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "contemplate", "target", "plan", "goal", "aim", "intend", "continue", "budget", "estimate", "may", "will", "can", "could", "should", "schedule" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. All of the forward-looking statements made in this document are qualified by these cautionary statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated, forecast or intended and readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive of all factors and assumptions which may have been used. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking information. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be accurate and forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance. Readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The forward-looking information contained herein speaks only as of the date of this document. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise forward–looking information or to explain any material difference between such and subsequent actual events, except as required by applicable law.
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Hyde will lead ERIE's diversity, equity and inclusion team, bringing experience from Koppers, Inc., where he led global inclusion and diversity initiatives
ERIE, Pa., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance (ERIE) has named Lance Hyde to the role of Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), effective August 22. Hyde will report to ERIE's Chief Diversity and Community Development Officer Chris Marsh in the position and lead the company's DEI team and related enterprise initiatives.
Hyde brings more than 15 years of experience in diversity and inclusion practices, including significant supplier diversity and sustainability expertise, to the leadership role at ERIE. He joins the company after serving as Director of Global Inclusion and Diversity at Pittsburgh-based Koppers International.
"I am excited to welcome Lance to the ERIE Family and the Erie community," said Marsh. "With his demonstrated collaborative work style and results-driven approach, I'm confident Lance is well-equipped to help lead ERIE through our next evolution of DEI."
At Koppers, Hyde helped develop the company's global inclusion and diversity strategy while partnering with business unit leaders to create a robust supplier diversity program. Prior to joining Koppers, Hyde served in various leadership positions at EQT Corporation, including diversity manager and director of supplier diversity. While at EQT, he managed all D&I functions, including building HR diversity responsibilities, expanding and supporting Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and serving on the EQT Foundation. He worked closely with human resources to create and implement a successful "D&I Recruit and Retain" strategy and participated in global industry conferences to attract diverse talent to the industry and company.
Recognized nationally for his DEI thought leadership and supplier diversity expertise, Hyde has participated in more than 50 panel discussions on a variety of topics throughout his career and has been featured in national and regional media.
Hyde earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from California State University, East Bay in Hayward, Calif. and a master's in Business Administration from Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pa. He received the Timothy and Caroline Thyreen Service Leadership Award from Waynesburg University in 2021 and the Supplier Diversity Professional of the Year Award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council in 2019 for his accomplishments in supplier diversity initiatives with EQT.
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 19th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
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MOSCOW (AP) — People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: a nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.
The name’s almost the same: Stars Coffee. The logo could be the separated-at-birth twin of the Starbucks mermaid, with flowing hair, a small enigmatic smile and a star atop her head — though instead of a Starbucks crown she wears a Russian headdress called a kokoshnik.
The menu, judging by the company app introduced a day before the store’s formal opening Friday, would look familiar to any Starbucks customer.
Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of the wave of foreign companies that pulled out of Russia or suspended their operations in response to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. Others include McDonald’s, IKEA and fast-fashion giant H&M.
The departure of these companies was a psychological blow to Russians who had become used to the comforts of Western-style consumer culture. But Russian entrepreneurs saw opportunity in suddenly unoccupied stores.
Former McDonald’s outlets are reopening and attracting sizable crowds under the name Vkusno — i Tochka. Though the name doesn’t roll off the tongue easily and is a little awkward to translate (roughly: It’s Tasty — Period), the menu is a testament to imitation being the most sincere form of flattery.
Yunus Yusupov, a popular rap artist who uses the stage name Timati, and restaurateur Anton Pinsky partnered to buy the Starbucks assets and took the imitation strategy a step further by giving the operation an English-language name.
At a news conference Thursday, they vowed to reopen all the former Starbucks under their new identity and even expand the business. The U.S. company had built its Russian operation to about 130 stores since entering the country in 2007.
While the close resemblance of the new operations to their predecessors could be seen as riding someone else’s inspiration and effort, the Starbucks and McDonald’s successors also fit a national-pride concept. Since Russia was walloped by sanctions and foreign pullouts, officials frequently assert that Russia will overcome by relying on its own resources and energies.
“Now the economic situation is difficult, but this is a time of opportunity,” Oleg Eskindarov, president of the holding company that partnered in the Starbucks deal, told the state news agency Tass. “For the past four months, we have been very actively looking at exiting companies following the example of Starbucks. There are several more similar examples, but we cannot talk about them yet.”
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Breaking through the limits of traditional diagnostics, a new experience for technicians and DIYers of OBDII diagnostic device is now official available. An effective device with excellent user experience has been refined with the Mucar CDE900, and a limited time special offer for half price on the Mucar CDE900 is available on August 22nd . The first 100 customers will also get an extra gift.
Most traditional OBD devices can only perform the basic functions.
After in-depth investigating, MUCAR brought out a comprehensive design on product positioning, user habits, software optimization, and operation experience, to create a brand new product for our users: CDE900.
CDE900 adopts Android 6.0 intelligent system. The device runs faster with 2G memory and 16G storage. It also supports up to 256G expanded memory card. Equipped with 1500mAh capacity battery without OBD interface power supply, users can turn on the device to check the historical diagnosis report. It's ready for the next repair and maintenance anytime.
It supports 16 languages, full function of OBD2 and EOBD2 optimizing communication protocol to cover vehicles after 1996, lifetime free OTA upgrade with WiFi function. The CDE900 also offers an optional life-time extension function beyond traditional OBDII and EOBD devices: ECM+SRS+TCM+ABS. When you need it, you can pay for the additional functions anytime. Even if you choose to pay for the additional 4 system features, this product is still more cost-effective than its peers.
In the past, OBD devices only adopted physical buttons and ordinary LCD screen, which cannot be used after the buttons are damaged in the complex diagnostic environment. CDE900 optimizes this situation with modifications:
1. A 4-inch capacitive touch screen, maximizing the proportion. Users can operate on the screen directly.
2. Physical buttons are maintained, to ensure stable operation while using it.
CDE900 adopts a color screen display with a new icon UI design to manage functions, making the function display more intuitive and vivid. Up to 120 data streams can be read at the same time, without missing abnormal data of multidimensional data comparison.
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Combined with donations from FirstEnergy Corp., initiative has collectively gifted $7 million to organizations since 2020
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The FirstEnergy Foundation awarded more than $3.43 million to nearly 100 organizations across its six-state service territory for the final round of "Investing with Purpose," an initiative focused on supporting nonprofit organizations that advance health and safety, workforce development, educational and social justice initiatives. In addition, FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) provided $220,000 to five organizations as part of the initiative. The grants build on $3.3 million in charitable contributions the Foundation awarded in December 2020 as part of the initial round of giving, which has collectively gifted $7 million to nearly 200 nonprofit organizations making a difference in the communities served by FirstEnergy's 10 electric companies.
"Investing with Purpose" was developed in response to the COVID pandemic, which created health, financial and educational hardships for customers across FirstEnergy's footprint, and in response to the events of 2020 that highlighted racial and social injustices impacting our nation. With those issues in mind, the Foundation identified philanthropic opportunities through nonprofit organizations across its service territory that are responding to needs of vulnerable populations. The "Investing with Purpose" initiative represents an additional commitment on top of the company's annual charitable giving, which averages approximately $10 million per year.
"Many of our communities are still facing a significant hardship due to the pandemic. Nonprofit organizations on the frontline of our current health and economic crisis have realigned to support current needs in the community, including housing, workforce development and training, and the continued support of our healthcare workers," said Lorna Wisham, vice president of Corporate Affairs & Community Involvement and president of the FirstEnergy Foundation. "We've witnessed the positive impact these grants made for deserving organizations in 2020, and we look forward to seeing how the second round of contributions will help strengthen the communities we serve."
"Investing with a Purpose" grants were presented to organizations that support initiatives in four key areas:
- Health & Safety – Approximately $1 million was presented to organizations that provide food and shelter, disaster relief, protective equipment, financial assistance, health screenings and other important services to underserved populations and to those active in the fight against COVID. Recipients include hospitals, youth organizations, shelters and other organizations across FirstEnergy's footprint.
- Workforce Development – To assist those impacted by job loss and to continue to foster a viable workforce in the community, approximately $993,000 was presented to organizations working to enhance job training, mentorship and opportunities for non-traditional workers. Grant recipients include organizations such as technical schools and programs, disability services, economic development agencies and job resource programs.
- Education – The Foundation granted nearly $682,000 to organizations supporting learning initiatives, including resources for parents and teachers, and to those who are working to combat the challenge of the digital divide. Recipients include schools, libraries and community education programs, among others.
- Social Justice – Approximately $448,200 was granted to social justice organizations that help advance multicultural awareness, equality and inclusion. Grants were provided to both national and local nonprofits actively assisting minority business development, LGBTQ cultural programming and other important causes, including a donation to The Tri-State Diversity Council to conduct unconscious bias training and assist formerly incarcerated individuals with training to return to the workplace in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
For a full list of "Investing with Purpose" grant recipients, visit the FirstEnergy Foundation on the company's website.
The FirstEnergy Foundation is funded solely by FirstEnergy Corp. and provides support to non-profit, tax-exempt health and human services agencies; educational organizations; cultural and arts programs and institutions; and civic groups in areas served by FirstEnergy's 10 electric operating companies and in areas where the company conducts business.
FirstEnergy is dedicated to safety, reliability and operational excellence. Its ten electric distribution companies form one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, serving customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland and New York. The company's transmission subsidiaries operate approximately 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Follow FirstEnergy online at www.firstenergycorp.com. Follow FirstEnergy and its utilities on Twitter @FirstEnergyCorp, @ToledoEdison, @IlluminatingCo, @OhioEdison, @MonPowerWV, @JCP_L, @Penn_Power, @Penelec, @Met_Ed, @PotomacEdison, @W_Penn_Power.
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Vera Farmiga and Cherry Jones on confronting calamity in ‘Five Days at Memorial’
Chicago - "It was not only a calamity for New Orleans, but a calamity for this country."
Cherry Jones is talking about Hurricane Katrina, the costliest hurricane ever recorded in the United States and the monumental disaster that sits at the heart of the Apple TV+ series "Five Days at Memorial." Based on actual events (and people) and adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink’s book of the same name, "Memorial" begins as Katrina sweeps in, placing the caregivers at a local hospital in an impossible situation — one that, for most people, would be utterly unimaginable.
Jones plays Susan Mulderick, the hospital’s director of nursing and incident commander for Katrina. And like many Americans, she followed the unfolding catastrophe at home.
"I, of course, was well aware of the people on the rooftops and the people wading through the water," she tells FOX Television Stations in an interview. "But what I didn’t really know that much about were any of the hospitals and what was going on inside of those hospitals during those two weeks after Katrina, before the waters really were gone again."
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Cherry Jones in "Five Days at Memorial," now streaming on Apple TV+.
"I closely followed [the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina] as well back in 2005," adds Vera Farmiga, who plays cancer surgeon Dr. Anna Pou. "And yet we were safely on our couches watching the television. It’s a whole other thing to internalize it and really put yourself in these characters’ shoes — and put the audience there, and force them to have our characters’ perspectives on the matter."
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Those perspectives can be difficult to comprehend. When the storm ruptured the cities’ levees, unprecedented flooding occurred, stranding 2,000 people at Memorial Hospital without power as the water level — and the temperature — rose. Memorial’s dedicated staff was confronted with a series of terrible choices as they fought to care for their patients.
A scene from "Five Days at Memorial," now streaming on Apple TV+.
As executive producer Carlton Cuse put it in promotional materials for the series, "It's a horrible circumstance when doctors are forced to play God. That's part of what we explore here: the ethics of what happens in a crisis when tough decisions have to be made about who gets resources and who doesn’t."
Indeed, in many ways this is a story with an incredibly tight focus — these people, this hospital, these five days in August 2005 — but the implications are far-reaching and the echoes of recent events become impossible to miss.
"Because it’s in a hospital," Jones says, "it covers so many, so many issues."
Vera Farmiga in "Five Days at Memorial," now streaming on Apple TV+.
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Farmiga, too, was compelled by the scope of the story and its resonance today. "You know these hurricanes and natural disasters — Katrina or [the COVID-19] pandemic — they roll right in and they take away that surface of society and [...] they take off that layer, the very settled ways that we have been functioning. And what it exposes underneath is all that bony soil, that unhealthy, the ways that we are not functioning well, the ways that our system is failing. Whether it’s socio-economic inequalities, corruption, prejudice, power structures, ineptitude in our health care systems [or] in disaster plans."
As she delved deeper into the story, it became increasingly personal for Farmiga.
"I’m a New Yorker. Cherry’s a New Yorker. Seeing the chaos in New York City [during the early days of the pandemic] was an incredible example of how a vibrant, powerful, successful city, you know, what can happen in the absence of a national strategy and a plan. I was watching, I mean, our health care workers, our doctors, our nurses, our caretakers, completely exhausted, overwhelmed, having to make these same choices: Who gets a bed, who doesn’t? Scrambling for PPE, scrambling for ventilators."
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Jones also found resonance between the story of "Five Days at Memorial" and the experiences of the pandemic. "They’re our frontline soldiers, now, our health care workers. And in my small county in West Tennessee, where I come from, pre-pandemic there were 800 people on staff at that little regional hospital. There are now 300 people on staff." Given that reduced staff still has to serve four counties surrounding it, Jones emphasizes the importance of "Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure."
Adepero Oduye and Cherry Jones in "Five Days at Memorial," now streaming on Apple TV+.
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While Jones and Farmiga both highlight the heroic work of healthcare workers in the face of unprecedented challenges, their work positioned them to empathize with not just those in the profession as a group, but with the specific people they’re playing — fictionalized versions of real people, but real people all the same.
"Look, I felt an enormous responsibility here," Farmiga says of her experience portraying Dr. Anna Pou. And though she’s yet to meet Dr. Pou ("I’m looking forward to that moment," Farmiga notes), she found a different way into understanding her character: "My greatest source, my bible through all this was Sheri Fink’s investigative journalism, the details that she mined for me. All the work had already been done because not only had she interviewed Anna, she had interviewed Anna’s family and friends and patients. You know, you want to know what the doctor is like, talk to the patients."
"And so I had a lot of information, but yeah, there’s an enormous responsibility, and I felt the weight on my shoulders. I wanted the audience to have her perspective, to understand her perspective [about] what she went through."
"What I wanted to spell out, too, is that she is a woman of great faith, of great stamina, of great skill as a surgeon in her field of otolaryngology. She’s an extraordinary woman who was put up against extraordinary circumstances and had to make impossible choices."
"I had an obligation, Farmiga says, "to capture her essence."
"Five Days at Memorial" is a limited series streaming via Apple TV+. The series will conclude at the eight-episode mark. The cast includes Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Robert Pine, Julie Ann Emery, Michael Gatson, Cornelius Smith Jr., Adepero Oduye, Molly Hager and W. Earl Brown, among others. It is written and executive produced by Carlton Cuse and John Ridley, and directed by Cuse, Ridley and Wendey Stanzler.
Your next TV binge watch: "The Fall," streaming free on Tubi
The Fall (2013-2016): Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan lead this detective series about a brutal serial killer operating in Belfast, Ireland. She’s Superintendent Stella Gibson and he’s Paul Spector, a seemingly respectable family man with a murderous secret. The point here isn’t to figure out who did the crime, but why Paul feels an impulse to torture and kill. With its psychological angle and exploration of doubling and mirror images, "The Fall" is a brooding, slow-burn series perfect for a binge watch. Rated TV-MA. Three seasons, 17 episodes. Also featuring Aisling Franciosi, John Lynch, Niamh McGrady.
"The Fall" is streaming free on Tubi — get the app
How to watch "Five Days at Memorial"
The first three episodes of "Five Days at Memorial" are currently streaming on Apple TV+. New episodes arrive weekly on Fridays through Sept. 19.
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Attorneys earn Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch honors
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Four attorneys from the Houston-based litigation boutique Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP, have earned recognition among the nation's top lawyers.
Name partners David Bissinger, Jason Williams, and John Strasburger were selected to the 2023 Best Lawyers in America legal guide, with associate Erin Bullard recognized on the companion Ones to Watch listing.
Messrs. Bissinger, Williams, and Strasburger, along with Ms. Bullard, were all honored for their commercial litigation practices. Mr. Strasburger earned additional recognition in the areas of bankruptcy litigation and mass tort defense.
Mr. Bissinger represents clients in litigation related to energy and technology matters, securities, trade secrets and employment covenants, executive compensation, corporate fiduciary, banking, and real estate. He also serves as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. His work has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers and America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators.
Mr. Williams' practice focuses on energy, corporate fiduciary, securities, and construction litigation, and he also has experience in mergers and acquisitions litigation. He has also earned Texas Super Lawyers recognition. A former chairman of the Houston Bar Association's Securities Litigation and Arbitration Section and co-chair of the LegalLine Committee, he also serves on the board of Houston Achievement Place.
Mr. Strasburger has unique experience in complex commercial disputes involving private equity, trade secrets and employment covenants, and trading and supply-contract matters. His practice also includes corporate-governance matters. He has handled banking, real estate, and construction litigation, successfully defending numerous catastrophic tort cases and litigated related insurance-coverage disputes arising from these cases.
Ms. Bullard represents corporate clients and individuals in a wide range of complex civil litigation, including claims of covenants not to compete, trade secrets, financial fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraudulent transfer, and negligence. Her work has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
The oldest peer-review attorney guide in the country, Best Lawyers® also is among the most respected. Selection is made by the Best Lawyers research team, with decisions based in part upon feedback from lawyers within the same geographical region with a shared practice focus. Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recognition is reserved for attorneys who have been in private practice for five to nine years.
About Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger
Bissinger, Oshman, Williams & Strasburger LLP is a Houston-based business trial and transaction firm focused on providing impactful, cost-effective solutions to complex disputes and transactions requiring careful attention, extensive experience, and a high level of sophistication. For more information, visit https://www.bowslaw.com.
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Man killed in shooting at Prince George's County apartment complex
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. - Police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened in the District Heights area of Prince George's County Wednesday evening.
Prince George's County Police say around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday officers responded to a shooting in the 2100 block of Rochelle Avenue.
Once at the scene, officers found a 28-year-old man who had been shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the area. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators identified the victim as Stanley Ramey of District Heights.
Police say they are still working to identify a suspect and what led up to the shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call 301-516-2512. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- G.H. Smart & Company, LLC, a preeminent Leadership Advisory firm, earned certification by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture. This was the first year ghSMART participated in the qualifying Trust Index© Employee Survey, earning Certified™ recognition on their first attempt.
Ninety-six percent of ghSMART employees think that ghSMART is a great place to work compared to 57% of typical US-based companies.
Founder and Chairman, Dr. Geoff H. Smart shared his enthusiasm, "Twenty-seven years ago, I set-out to build a special kind of firm where wildly-talented and good-hearted people could do meaningful work by solving some of the highest-stake leadership challenges in the world while still having a balanced life outside of work. I think our colleagues' feedback celebrates our success in building a firm with a rewarding and flexible culture."
Ninety-nine percent of ghSMART employees surveyed agreed, 'When I look at what we accomplish, I feel a sense of pride.' The same 99% agree, 'People care about each other here.' And over 90% feel 'encouraged to balance their work and personal lives.'
President Jeff McLean reacted, "I am especially proud to be recognized as a great place to work as the certification is based entirely on team member feedback. It reflects our colleagues' real experiences working at ghSMART. I work with incredibly talented colleagues who have a deep commitment to each other and to our clients. And it is a privilege to work with those clients, some of the world's most influential leaders and investors, helping them use talent to drive their organizations' strategies."
About ghSMART
A preeminent Leadership Advisory firm, ghSMART was founded on the idea that leadership is the ultimate lever for change. Today, ghSMART is the trusted advisor to F500 and non-profit CEOs, boards and large private equity investors. ghSMART consultants are each charged with helping their 'top of the house' clients achieve their business goals and personal aspirations, build the most effective teams and align purposeful organizations. With more than fifty consultants, the team's unique mix of former strategy consultants from the top strategy firms and Psychology PhD professionals present a collective capability to connect business objectives to human behavior. Their rigorous assessments serve as the basis for all their work that ranges from leadership selection and development, portfolio performance to board effectiveness and CEO succession.
Consultants choose ghSMART for the impact of their work, connection with their influential clients and outstanding colleagues. They stay for the freedom and flexibility. Connect with ghSMART on LinkedIn.
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
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Child dies from brain-eating amoeba after swimming in Nebraska river
A Nebraska child died this week from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba typically found in warm freshwater rivers and lakes.
According to the Douglas County Health Department, the child was infected with primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a disease caused by the brain-eating ameba Naegleria Fowleri, after swimming in the Elkhorn River Sunday.
The organism is typically found in warmer freshwater sources, though officials warn it’s being identified farther north "as previously cooler regions become warmer and drier."
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Naegleria Fowleri enters the body through the nose, usually while swimming or diving. You can reduce your risk by plugging your nose, keeping your head above water and avoiding freshwater sources in late summer when water temperatures are at their highest.
"We can only imagine the devastation this family must be feeling, and our deepest condolences are with them. We can honor the memory of this child by becoming educated about the risk and then taking steps to prevent infection," Health Director Dr. Lindsay Huse said in a news release.
What is Naegleria Fowleri?
Naegleria Fowleri is a single-celled amoeba that lives in warm freshwater and soil. When it enters the body through the nose, it causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis, or PAM.
The amoeba cannot enter your body by drinking contaminated water, and it doesn’t spread from person to person.
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PAM is rare but deadly, health officials said. Since 1965, 154 people have been infected in the United States. Of those, 150, or 97%, have died, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Testing for it is futile, officials said, because it’s "present in so many places."
Primary amebic meningoencephalitis symptoms
Symptoms start to appear between one and 12 days after infection, according to the CDC. They can include:
- headache
- fever
- nausea
- vomiting
- stiff neck
- confusion
- seizures
- other neurological symptoms
On average, people infected with PAM die within five days of diagnosis.
The CDC says two people with recent Naegleria infections survived after being treated with a new drug that was given along with other drugs to manage brain swelling.
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WINTER GARDEN, Fla., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Store Space Self Storage is proud to announce the hiring of Stephen Harris as President of Construction at Store Space. Harris, an award-winning commercial construction executive and developer with more than 25 years of experience, has actively built and developed more than 14 million sq. ft. of retail, hospitality, office, residential, and mixed-use projects during his career.
"It's great to welcome Stephen into the Store Space family," said Rob Consalvo, COO, and President of Store Space. "Having someone with his extensive background and past history of success to head our construction division will prove invaluable as we continue to scale our development pipeline."
Harris, who joined Store Space in May, cited the company's growth trajectory and plans for increased ground-up development as one of the driving factors in his decision. In addition to Harris, the Store Space Construction Division has also added Shimon Kanter, Vice President of Development, J. Scott Masterson, Vice President of Construction, and Scott Claflin, Senior Director of Cap-Ex.
"This is a very dynamic company, with opportunities for growth and expansion on the immediate horizon," Harris said. "I'm really excited to be here."
Prior to joining Store Space, Harris was Vice President of Development at Washington Prime Group Inc. in Columbus, OH, where he directed multiple top-tier redevelopment projects valued at up to $1.2 billion while working closely with executive leadership to create strong returns on investment.
He was the executive developer of the $550 million expansion project of the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, which boosted the value of the property to approximately $6 billion, making it the most valuable shopping center in America in 2019.
Harris' awards include the 2018 Best Retail Architecture in USA, International Property Award, Ala Moana Center (Associated with General Growth Properties/Brookfield), as well as multiple awards from the NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties) and ICSC (Innovating Commerce Serving Communities).
Throughout his career, Harris has consistently been a top producer and leader in construction and development. He is an avid reader, a licensed architect, and graduated cum laude from San Diego State University.
Store Space is a self-storage operator and third-party management company. Located in Winter Garden, FL, the Company currently owns, has under purchase agreement, and operates more than 100 properties in 20 states. The Company fuels growth and value with its experience-driven operations, state-of-the-art proprietary platforms, and strategic digital marketing programs. If you have an acquisition opportunity or would like to discuss third-party management, contact us at inquiries@storespace.com, or visit us at www.storespace.com.
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NBC News' Richard Engel's son Henry dies at age 6
Longtime NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel announced Thursday that his 6-year-old son Henry had died after a lifelong battle with a rare brain disorder.
"Our beloved son Henry passed away. He had the softest blue eyes, an easy smile and a contagious giggle. We always surrounded him with love and he returned it, and so much more. Mary and Richard," Engel wrote on Twitter.
Henry Engel had Rett Syndrome, which slows development or causes loss of "purposeful use of the hands, distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and head growth, problems with walking, seizures, and intellectual disability," according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. It is more often found in girls and there is no cure.
"Researchers are making amazing progress using Henry’s cells to help cure RETT Syndrome so others don’t have to endure this terrible disease," Engel added on Thursday, sharing a link where donors could support research at the Texas Children's Hospital.
NBC NEWS' RICHARD ENGEL SHARES HEARTBREAKING NEWS ABOUT YOUNG SON, ANNOUNCES HE'S DEVELOPED DYSTONIA
Dr. Huda Zoghbi shared a tribute to Henry at the donor site, having studied his mutation and worked with him at the Texas hospital's Duncan Neurological Research Institute.
"Henry was special in so many ways," Zoghbi wrote. "His loving and endearing smile, and the way he connected with his eyes, stole my heart from the time I met him. His quiet fight against this terrible disease was incredible. What is most amazing, however, is the impact Henry had on so many of us at the Duncan NRI and on our Rett research. We will continue to push as hard as possible to develop treatments. This is how we will honor his life."
Tributes and condolences poured in for Engel on Twitter after he shared the heartbreaking news.
Engel had been open about his son's condition and updated the public at times about Henry. Born in 2015, Henry began to miss important developmental milestones and their doctor later informed them after a genetic scan that he had the disorder due to a mutation in his MECEP2 gene. In June, Engel said Henry had taken a turn for the worse, developing dystonia, characterized by shaking and stiffness.
Henry and his parents appeared on "Today" in 2018 to discuss the devastating illness and how they were handling it, as well as the potential for future treatments.
"No matter what's coming, we want Henry to know he's loved," Richard Engel said in the segment.
The award-winning Engel has been with NBC News since 2003 and became its chief foreign correspondent in 2008. His reporting appears across NBC and MSNBC platforms.
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Pair of Engagements to Premiere September 18th (Paris) and October 30th (Venice) in Select IMAX Theaters Globally
Fleming to Participate in an Exclusive One-Night-Only Live Conversation Hosted by Kelsey Grammer Across IMAX LIVE Connected Network
Tickets for RENÉE FLEMING'S CITIES THAT SING - PARIS Available for Purchase August 30th
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and Stage Access today announced a pair of film experiences featuring Grammy®-award winning soprano Renée Fleming, as she performs iconic favorites and tours some of the greatest musical cities of the world. Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris and Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Venice will premiere in select IMAX® theaters globally on September 18th and October 30th, respectively.
Both films are Stage Access productions, Filmed for IMAX using IMAX-certified cameras and feature exclusive performances showcasing these great cities as never before seen through the eyes of one of the world's greatest opera stars. Stroll along with Fleming and her contemporaries as they explore unique art, history, cuisine, and music.
On September 18th, one time only, Renée Fleming will participate in a live conversation, which will be simultaneously broadcast across the IMAX LIVE connected network to participating theaters globally. Audiences from around the world will have the opportunity to ask questions of Fleming live. Actor and producer Kelsey Grammer will moderate the discussion with Fleming at 3PM ET from New York's AMC Lincoln Square IMAX® theater. Additional showtimes for Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris will occur on September 21.
Tickets for all Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris showtimes will be available for purchase beginning August 30th at tickets.imax.com. Tickets for the Venice engagement will go on sale at a later date. The trailer can be found here.
Additional details for Venice along with additional Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing destinations to be announced in the coming months.
"My life has taken me to some of the most magical cities around the globe, with legendary opera houses and centuries of musical history," said Renée Fleming. "It's thrilling to bring these places — and their glorious music — to audiences with the immersive power and scale of IMAX."
Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris will feature a performance from Fleming at the historic Théâtre du Châtelet. Fleming is joined on stage by special guest star, the world-renowned tenor Piotr Beczala and featured performers Axelle Fanyo and Alexandre Duhamel as they perform well-known opera selections with connections to Paris. As they tour famous locations in Paris, Fleming takes audiences through the beloved city to locations that influence arts and culture and most importantly those with a personal connection to her. She is joined by leading Couturier Alexis Mabille and acclaimed Director Robert Carsen in this love-letter to the culture of Paris and the music born from it. Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris is directed by François-René Martin and produced by Tripp Hornick and Elmar Kruse. Executive Producers are Jason Richmond, John Turner and Bruce H. Lipnick.
In Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Venice, Fleming welcomes star Italian tenor Francesco Meli, with baritone Mattia Olivieri and mezzo Paola Gardina on the world-famous stage of Venice's Teatro La Fenice. Home to many well-known opera premieres, La Fenice - or The Phoenix - is the backdrop for some of opera's most famous and enduring works. Set amongst the romantic canals, Fleming explores the city's incomparable landscape and visits some of her favorite Venetian destinations, both by land and by sea. Along her journey she is joined by La Fenice's Artistic Director, Fortunato Ortombina, and the orchestra's Conductor, Riccardo Frizza. François-René Martin returns as Director as well as Producers Tripp Hornick and Elmar Kruse. Executive Producers are Jason Richmond, John Turner and Bruce H. Lipnick.
"We are honored to have been able to create this remarkable series reinventing how classical music can be enjoyed and connected to culture in the most immersive of experiences with the incomparable Renée Fleming," said Bruce H. Lipnick, Founder and CEO of Stage Access, which produced both unique film experiences. "Fleming's ability to connect with audiences as both a performer and host is unmatched along with the intimacy and scale of IMAX."
"It is an honor to collaborate with Renée Fleming on this groundbreaking series that will bring the grandeur of her music and these unforgettable cities to life in IMAX for the first time," said Megan Colligan, President of IMAX Entertainment. "We can't wait to take Ms. Fleming's fans on an immersive musical journey across some of the world's most richly historied cities through the unrivaled sight and sound of IMAX."
American soprano Renée Fleming is one of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time. Winner of four Grammy® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, Renée has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. She is the only classical artist ever to have performed the US National Anthem at the Super Bowl.
IMAX LIVE is bringing a differentiated offering to the market by connecting IMAX® theatres via a high-speed network capable of simultaneously broadcasting events and experiences of all kinds worldwide. Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris and Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Venice are the latest in IMAX LIVE's music series, following a presentation of Halsey's musical film If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power; and two sold-out concert experiences in support of Kanye West's latest studio albums Donda and Donda 2. IMAX LIVE has also hosted a number of exclusive film screenings featuring conversations with participating filmmakers and talent, including Peter Jackson (The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert); Jordan Peele (Nope); Frances McDormand and Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth); and Colin Trevorrow, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum, and DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion). This year, IMAX LIVE expanded into the gaming landscape, with Summer Game Fest Live! and the upcoming The Game Awards airing live in IMAX® theatres for the first time in December.
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About IMAX Corporation
IMAX is a premier global technology platform for entertainment and events. Through its proprietary software, theater architecture, patented intellectual property, and specialized equipment, IMAX offers a unique end-to-end solution to create superior, immersive content experiences for which the IMAX® brand is globally renown. Top filmmakers, movie studios, artists, and creators utilize the cutting-edge visual and sound technology of IMAX to connect with audiences in innovative ways. As a result, IMAX is among the most important and successful global distribution platforms for domestic and international tentpole films and, increasingly, exclusive experiences ranging from live performances to interactive events with leading artists and creators.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of June 30, 2022, there were 1,694 IMAX theater systems (1,610 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 72 institutional) operating in 87 countries and territories. Shares of IMAX China Holding, Inc., a subsidiary of IMAX Corporation, trade on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code "1970."
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About Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses and concert halls. Honored with four Grammy® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, Renée has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. A ground-breaking distinction came in 2008 when Renée became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala. In 2014, she brought her voice to a vast new audience as the only classical artist ever to sing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. Known for bringing new audiences to classical music and opera, Renée has starred in and hosted an array of television and radio broadcasts. She has sung with great artists ranging from Andrea Bocelli and Luciano Pavarotti to Elton John, Sting, Paul Simon, Josh Groban, and Joan Baez. Renée's voice is featured on the soundtracks of Best Picture Oscar winners The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings. In November, she will star in the world premiere staging of The Hours, a new opera based on the award-winning novel and film, at the Metropolitan Opera.
About Stage Access
Stage Access is defining the performing arts in the digital era as the only company in North America that produces, distributes, and licenses classical arts programming across multiple platforms, including a theatrical relationship with IMAX. With a mission of Bringing the Stage to You®, the company's own fast-growing STAGE ACCESS on-demand streaming service is available online and for iOS, Android, AppleTV, Amazon Fire and Roku, and is a leading producer of acclaimed original programs, including Yo-Yo Ma, Six Solo Bach Cello Suites from the Odeon, Athens; and The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World, The 30th Anniversary Documentary. Across all Stage Access platforms, Emmy® Award-winning performer Kelsey Grammer serves as host for new major programming, including such exclusive collections as the Rossini Opera Festival. Stage Access was founded by CEO Bruce H. Lipnick, and Tripp Hornick serves as the company's COO. For more details, visit www.StageAccess.com.
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New Tubi series ‘TMZ NO BS’ to kick off with Britney Spears episode
For at least one episode, the BS in "TMZ No BS" will stand for Britney Spears.
The latest soon-to-be addition to Tubi’s swiftly growing library of Tubi Originals, "TMZ No BS" is a new unscripted docuseries from executive producers Harvey Levin, Charles Latibeaudier and Ryan Regan. The 12-episode series aims to "give an honest, unfiltered look at some of the biggest names in pop culture, across entertainment, sports, politics and more."
And biggest, in this case, is not an overstatement: The series will kick things off with an episode centered on Spears, an iconic pop star whose stratospheric rise was marred by a decade-long conservatorship that was only terminated by a judge in November 2021. Per a press release, "TMZ No BS: Britney Spears" is "an unfiltered look at the fascinating and tumultuous life of one of pop culture’s biggest and most scrutinized stars. Through inside stories from the reporters who covered her every step of the way, and exclusive footage from the TMZ vault, Harvey, Charles and the gang discuss Britney’s rise to fame and the shocking events that led to a decade-long conservatorship."
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"TMZ NO BS is a must watch on Tubi for any avid TMZ follower and all pop culture enthusiasts," said Adam Lewinson, Tubi’s Chief Content Officer. "We’re excited to have fans discover this new docuseries where Harvey Levin and his team sit down for a stripped down roundtable conversation, and examine some of the biggest celebrity moments through a new lens."
That lens is linked to TMZ’s ubiquity in celebrity culture. "Over the last 17 years, TMZ has been a leader in reporting pop culture events, and with that kind of history, reporting and assets, the new unscripted series is uniquely positioned to provide a 360 degree look at the subjects of the documentaries — starting with Britney Spears," Tubi explained in a press release.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 12: Protestors are seen at the #FreeBritney Termination Rally on November 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
After its episode on Spears, "TMZ No BS" will turn its gaze toward people and topics such as Jennifer Lopez, Conor McGregor and "Wildest Celebrity Arrests."
Tubi recently announced the launch of the TMZ FAST channel, one of more than 145 entertainment, sports and local news channels on its free streaming platform.
About TMZ: TMZ breaks the biggest stories in entertainment as only it can—with accuracy, irreverent humor and youthful energy. TMZ connects with the public across its broadcast and digital platforms by providing a fresh, unvarnished, and honest take on celebrities and their real lives. TMZ is the first national television show to launch as an extension of a successful website and now has multiple sites and shows, including TMZ Sports and TMZ Live. In addition to TV and Web, TMZ now has an additional way for fans to interact with the franchise — "The TMZ Celebrity Tour." It’s a show on wheels! The TMZ brand is the most trusted, the most talked about, and the highest quality entertainment news outlet in the world.
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About Tubi: Tubi has more than 40,000 movies and television series from over 250 content partners, including every major studio, in addition to the largest offering of free live local and national news channels in streaming. The platform gives fans of entertainment, news and sports an easy way to discover new content that is available completely free.
Tubi is available on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, Cox Contour, and on OTT devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X | S, and soon on Hisense TVs globally. Consumers can also watch Tubi content on the web at http://www.tubi.tv/.
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Part of human foot, in a shoe, found floating in Yellowstone hot spring
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday.
Tuesday's discovery at Abyss Pool led to the temporary closure of the West Thumb Geyser Basin and its parking lot. The area has since reopened.
The park did not have any other information about the investigation to make public on Thursday, park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said.
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Abyss Pool, located west of the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit, park officials said. It is on the south side of the southern loop through the park.
In such hot springs, superheated water cools as it reaches the surface, sinks, and is replaced by hotter water from below. The circulation prevents the water from reaching the temperature needed to set off an eruption like happens with geysers in the park, according to the park's website.
RELATED: Yellowstone National Park to partly reopen after catastrophic flooding
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With Triple Digit Revenue Growth, Incline P&C Group Ranks Among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Incline P&C Group, the premier insurance program market services firm, today announces they ranked on the Inc. 5000 annual list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment – its independent businesses.
"We could not have grown so tremendously without our amazing team here at Incline," said Chris McClellan, President, and CEO, Incline P&C Group. "We fostered an innovative and effective environment to help our partners navigate their program insurance needs, with an amazing team of experts in the tech, legal and insurance fields."
This growth comes on the heels of many exciting partnerships over the past year, including a partnership with MGA Sensa, Truist Insurance Services, Strategic Insurance Underwriters, and others. Incline P&C Group also ranked on this year's Inc. 5000 Regionals Southwest list, ranking no. 61 on the list of the fastest-growing private companies based in Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid.
"The accomplishment of building one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., in light of recent economic roadblocks, cannot be overstated," says Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Inc. is thrilled to honor the companies that have established themselves through innovation, hard work, and rising to the challenges of today."
Bringing over 75 years of combined industry experience, Incline P&C Group is the premier insurance program market services firm. Privately owned and operated with an exclusive focus on the program insurance market, the executive team's experience and expertise combined with effective underwriting discipline and risk management provides each client with various platforms and associated services to meet almost any need in the industry. Partnering with a team that has a wealth of experience and the financial strength is critical when choosing the right program carrier. Incline brings those qualifications and more. Key services include active program management, disciplined underwriting process, risk management, reinsurance expertise, and economic alignment. Founded in 2015, Incline has a team of over 40 employees; headquartered in Austin, TX with offices in Dallas, TX, Fort Worth, TX, and Stamford, CT. To learn more about Incline P&C Group, visit: https://inclinepc.com/.
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YSL rapper Young Thug, alleged gang members appear in court on new charges
ATLANTA - Jeffery Williams, better known by his stage name Young Thug, appeared in court with several others who were re-indicted on additional charges into a street gang investigation in Fulton County.
An attorney for Williams objected to a portion of the indictment on the basis of a speedy trial motion he filed in a prior hearing.
"I'm still going to leave the case on a 9 January 2023, posture for trial," Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville said.
Glanville went through legal waivers with Williams, ensuring he understood his case had been re-indicted. Williams said he spoke with his attorneys about the new indictment.
A prosecutor asked Williams to swear the statements he made in court on Thursday were truthful.
Jeffery Williams, better known by his stage name Young Thug, appeared in court with several others who were re-indicted on additional charges into a street gang investigation in Fulton County.
Williams or Young Thug is in the Cobb County Detention Center.
A judge denied bond for other suspects and heard several motions filed by the state on Thursday.
Christian Eppinger, an alleged gang member accused of shooting an Atlanta police officer and other crimes in the indictments, will have another hearing on Sept. 8 due to an issue with his previous attorney.
Prosecutors say Young Thug, the founder of Young Stoner Life Records, is also a leader of the alleged street gang, YSL. The indictment gives a detailed account of various violent crimes alleged members of YSL are accused of, and documents social media posts and rap lyrics by Williams that reference YSL. Months after the initial indictment, investigators charged Williams with illegally possessing multiple firearms, including a modified machine gun, in addition to street gang activity and drug trafficking.
The 31-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, and 27 other people, were indicted along with fellow Atlanta rapper Gunna in May using Georgia’s RICO Act. The 88-page indictment claims they are part of the Young Slime Life, or YSL, a subset of the Bloods street gang. Prosecutors allege those named in the indictment have engaged in violent criminal activity in the city since 2012.
Young Thug, Martinez Arnold (also known as Duke), and Deamonte Kendrick (also known as Yak Gotti) are accused of possessing and attempting to sell marijuana and cocaine in May 2022. The indictment says they were possessing multiple guns: a GLOCK 357, a FN firearm, a GLOCK 19, a Smith & Wesson M&P, and a GLOCK 45 with a "converter switch and extended magazine." The GLOCK 45 modified into a machine gun resulted in another gun possession charge.
The total list of charges against 28 accused is up to 65 counts. The re-indictment accused three additional people — Deamonte Kendrick, also known as Yak Gotti; Shannon Stillwell, AKA Shannon Jackson or SB; and Quamarvious Nichols, AKA Qua — of separate gun charges.
RAPPER YOUNG THUGS' RICO ACT CHARGES EXPLAINED
In June, a judge denied bond and an elaborate house arrest plan. Several factors were taken into consideration including a threat introduced to the court attributed to Williams from 2015 that states "Anybody goes into courtroom and tells the god's honest truth, they'll be f---ing killed." The judge said the validity of that threat would need to be proven in court, but it speaks to his possibly being a danger to the community.
If convicted of a RICO charge, Williams could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Gunna, whose name is Sergio Kitchens, had his bond denied in May.
A judge set his court date for January 2023.
What is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act?
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, was developed to fight organized crime. It was enacted in 1970 after being signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
Federally, RICO was originally intended to be used to combat the Mafia. It draws from a list of 27 federal crimes and eight state crimes committed and repeated over a 10-year period. Those crimes can include fraud, theft, computer crimes, embezzlement, credit scams, investment schemes, human trafficking, illegal gambling, bribery, kidnapping, murder, money laundering, counterfeiting, and various drug charges.
The Justice Department has used RICO to dismantle multiple crime families and weed out corruption in several city police departments. Prosecutors have also used RICO to try to dismantle several street gangs and helped in prosecuting businesses that break federal law.
Georgia’s RICO statutes are similar to the federal version but are much broader in that the criminal "enterprise" does not have to be around as long. Georgia is one of only 33 states that have its own RICO statutes. However, in both state and federal laws, a pattern of criminal enterprise has to be established.
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Evergreen Climate Innovations, Nicor Gas partner to support entrepreneurs who are making a positive environmental impact in Illinois
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kazadi Enterprises is the recipient of the 2022 Nicor Gas Multicultural Innovator Award. This is the second annual award presented by Nicor Gas and Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, to support clean energy technology startups with a minority founder or CEO.
Nicor Gas, Evergreen Climate Innovations partner to support entreprenuers who are making a positive environmental impact
"Kazadi Enterprises is at the intersection of innovation and diversity, and we are proud to work with Evergreen Climate Innovations to support this Illinois startup," said Wendell Dallas, president and CEO of Nicor Gas. "This is another way we are fueling innovation and investing in our communities and businesses while reducing our environmental footprint and helping our customers do the same."
Kazadi is the second recipient of the Nicor Gas Multicultural Innovator Award and will receive a $25,000 equity and inclusion grant to support further development of its patented technology that converts ambient heat to energy. In addition to the grant, Kazadi leadership will receive 12 months of business mentorship and heightened exposure to investors and customers.
"Evergreen Climate Innovations is proud to continue its work with Nicor Gas and Illinois entrepreneurs to bring environmental innovations to a scalable reality," said Erik Birkerts, CEO of Evergreen Climate Innovations. "Kazadi Enteprises is tackling a sector whose negative environmental impacts often go unrecognized by offering a decarbonized alternative to traditional refrigeration and cooling systems."
It is estimated that commercial refrigeration systems produce the same amount of CO2 emissions as 100 million cars and leak, on average, 25% of their hazardous refrigerants into the atmosphere every year. Kazadi's patented technology leverages thermal energy in air, converting environmental heat into work and plugging into the natural hydrologic cycle, reducing the cost and carbon footprint of refrigeration.
"We are excited to work with Nicor Gas and Evergreen Energy Innovations as we continue to refine our technology that harnesses a free and nearly universal energy sources – environmental thermal energy," said Sanza Kazadi, CEO and founder of Kazadi Enterprises. "By harnessing the energy in the air and replacing conventional refrigerants with just plain water, we can help customers reduce their refrigeration energy usage by 80% while also reducing negative environmental attributes often associated with traditional refrigerants."
To learn more about Kazadi Enterprises, visit www.kazadienterprises.com.
About Nicor Gas
Nicor Gas is one of four natural gas distribution companies of Southern Company Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO). Nicor Gas serves more than 2.2 million customers in a service territory that encompasses most of the northern third of Illinois, excluding the city of Chicago. For more information, visit nicorgas.com.
About Southern Company Gas
Southern Company Gas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO), America's premier energy company. Southern Company Gas serves approximately 4.3 million natural gas utility customers through its regulated distribution companies in four states with approximately 600,000 retail customers through its companies that market natural gas. Other nonutility businesses include investments in interstate pipelines and ownership and operation of natural gas storage facilities. For more information, visit southerncompanygas.com.
About Evergreen Climate Innovations
Evergreen Climate Innovations, formerly Clean Energy Trust, provides catalytic capital and support to entrepreneurs and startups that bring impactful climate technologies to market. The nonprofit pioneered its 501vc® Investment Fund to align philanthropic and corporate contributions to deliver environmental, economic, and social impact. Evergreen advances and expands access to innovation across the Greater Midwest and cultivates an ecosystem of investors, donors, and collaborators. For over a decade, Evergreen Climate Innovations has invested in startups that have raised $41 for every $1 invested. Learn more at evergreeninno.org.
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NACCO Industries® (NYSE: NC) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a regular cash dividend of 20.75 cents per share. The dividend is payable on both the Class A and Class B Common Stock, and will be paid September 15, 2022 to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 31, 2022.
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NACCO Industries® brings natural resources to life by delivering aggregates, minerals, reliable fuels and environmental solutions through its robust portfolio of NACCO Natural Resources businesses. Learn more about our companies at nacco.com or get investor information at ir.nacco.com.
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This Loving resident won $2M Powerball after playing the lottery for over three years
Glenn McDonald had told his wife he'd won lottery millions so many times, that when his $2 million ticket finally came in she didn't believe him.
She said “Oh, you say that all the time," but McDonald is bringing home an oversized check this time to prove it.
After playing lottery for over three years, McDonald's winning numbers were 8, 15, 46, 56 and 68.
His $2 million prize is from the Aug. 6, 2022 draw, and the extra $1 he spent on a Power Play meant he took home an extra million even though he missed the Powerball number.
McDonald claimed his prize in Albuquerque after learning his ticket - which he'd been carrying around without realizing its worth - was a winner.
Born in Malaga, New Mexico and raised on a ranch, McDonald has lived and worked in New Mexico his whole life. He told Powerball officials he planned to use the money to help his community church.
Unclaimed Powerball prizes remain
Other prizes have still gone unclaimed, as Powerball officials said a $1 million ticket from the July 4 draw remains unclaimed after being sold in Deming, New Mexico. The winning numbers for the July 4, 2022 draw were 15, 16, 24, 31, 56 and Powerball number 4.
All drawing game prizes must be claimed within 90 days from the date of the drawing or the first business day after the 90th day if the Lottery is not open for business, according to a news release.
All profits from the sale of New Mexico Lottery games fund an in-state college tuition assistance program.
'Goose bumps':After historic $1.3B Mega Millions lotto win, dozens flock to lucky Illinois gas station
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By CARA ANNA
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A visiting U.S. senator says he has encouraged Kenya’s outgoing president to participate in a “peaceful transition of power” amid the latest election crisis in East Africa’s most stable democracy.
“I’ll let the president speak for himself, but that was certainly a hope I expressed today,” Sen. Chris Coons told The Associated Press after his meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday. He said they discussed ways in which Kenyatta can play a “constructive peacemaking role” after leaving office.
Kenyatta has remained publicly silent since the Aug. 9 vote, adding to the anxiety as Kenya again faces post-election uncertainty and a likely court challenge by the losing candidate, Raila Odinga. Coons, leading a congressional delegation on a five-country Africa visit, was in Kenya in part to meet the key parties and urge that calm continue.
Kenyatta had backed longtime rival and opposition leader Odinga in the close race against his own deputy president, William Ruto, who fell out bitterly with Kenyatta years ago. Ruto on Monday was declared the winner, but not before Kenya’s most peaceful election ever slid into chaos in the final moments.
The electoral commission split in two, each side accusing the other of trying to tinker with the results. It came as a shock to many Kenyans after an election widely seen as the country’s most transparent ever, with results from the more than 46,000 polling stations posted online.
Now Odinga almost certainly will challenge the results in Supreme Court. His campaign has seven days from Monday’s declaration to do so, and the court will have 14 days to rule. Odinga has urged supporters to remain patient instead of taking to the streets in a country with a history of sometimes deadly post-election violence.
After meeting with Kenyatta, Odinga and Ruto, Coons told the AP “I was encouraged that in all three meetings we heard a commitment to a call for calm and tranquility, to respect the legal processes established in the 2010 constitution.” He said the conversations were about the rule of law, the importance of free and fair elections and peaceful transitions.
“Obviously, the United States has had a very difficult experience with these issues for the past few years,” Coons said, referring to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as former President Donald Trump tried to remain in power. “I said in all three meetings we have things to learn from Kenya.”
Kenyatta told Coons that Kenya would uphold “its position of a shining example of democracy in the continent by maintaining peace during this transition period,” according to a statement issued by the president’s office.
Coons said he did not come to Kenya seeking anything like the handshake that Kenyatta and Odinga, after prodding, famously shared to end months of crisis after the 2017 election, whose results were overturned by the Supreme Court over irregularities, a first in Africa. Odinga boycotted the fresh vote and declared himself the “people’s president,” bringing allegations of treason.
This time, with Kenyatta’s backing, the Odinga campaign felt he would win the presidency after a quarter-century of pursuing it.
Kenyatta is stepping down after two terms, itself a notable act in a region where longtime presidents like Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Paul Kagame of Rwanda have been accused of clinging to power through changes in term limits, manipulation of elections and crackdowns on dissenting voices.
The U.S. delegation is also visiting Rwanda, where human rights and violent tensions with neighboring Congo are almost certainly on the agenda following Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit there last week. Coons said he looks forward to visiting again with Kagame.
Kenyatta has played a leading role in efforts to calm the Rwanda-Congo tensions and in trying to mediate in neighboring Ethiopia’s deadly Tigray conflict, with support from the U.S. Coons did not say what kind of peacemaking role he hoped to see Kenyatta play after stepping down.
Ruto’s public comments this week have been on domestic matters, not foreign, but Coons said the president-elect made an “expression of concern and intent in trying to help lead to positive resolutions” in such regional crises.
Coons also has played a role in trying to calm the Ethiopia conflict. But he told the AP the delegation was not having a meeting with Ethiopia’s government or the Tigray forces while in Kenya.
Coons, a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and his delegation have already visited Cape Verde and Mozambique and will visit Tunisia as well.
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Vasquez to balance oil and gas and the environment. Will it get him elected to Congress?
Energy policy debated as Democrat nominee Gabe Vasquez challenges Republican incumbent Yvette Herrell for New Mexico's Second Congressional District.
Oil and gas was a key issue during the race for New Mexico’s Second Congressional District, which covers the rural southeast region of the state containing the Permian Basin oilfields – the most active fossil fuel region in New Mexico and the U.S.
Republican incumbent Rep. Yvette Herrell, a staunch supporter of the oil and gas industry, introduced legislation and argued since taking office in 2020 to restrict government regulation of fossil fuel production.
But her opponent Democrat former Las Cruces City Councilor Gabe Vasquez said he believed a balance could be struck between oil and gas’ economic benefit to the state and government controls on its environmental impact.
More:Will Yvette Herrell's defense of oil and gas in climate change debate mean reelection?
Vasquez won the Democratic Party’s nomination in the June primary election, defeating Lovington physician Darshan Patel, and will run against Herrell in the November midterm election.
A pragmatic approach to regulating oil and gas would ensure the state can continue to benefit from its role as a national energy leader, second in the U.S. in crude oil production, Vasquez said, while also leading the way toward a transition to lower carbon energy sources like wind and solar.
He said industries like hospitality and housing are also support by oil and gas, and that when the market booms and more people are brought into rural areas where fossil fuels are extracted, that means more jobs in a variety of other sectors.
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“I think the oil and gas industry is incredibly important to New Mexico. It’s incredibly important to this district, and I think it supports an economy that’s not only based on fossil fuel extraction, but it’s also based on the small businesses that support this industry.”
Herrell, who was recently appointed ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Environment within the House Oversight Committee said government should get out of the way of industry like oil and gas, which she said could devise methods of reducing environmental impact on its own without restrictive government policy.
“We’re doing great things and great innovation in America,” she said. “That’s why it’s difficult to see our government, to me its deliberate, is slowing things down. It’s going to complicate things. We’re not thinking clear. Some of these policies are taking us backwards, not forwards.”
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She said the U.S. must pursue “energy independence” and not rely on foreign sources of fossil fuels which she said were developed with less attention to environmental impacts than in U.S., pointing to recent goals announced by major oil companies to reduce their emissions.
“We all take for granted the fossil fuel industry, the products that come out of that space,” Herrell said. “Let’s get our energy from where its cleaner and better for the environment. We’re not ready to go all green.”
If he defeats Herrell in November, Vasquez said his focus would be “on the oil and gas workers,” as opposed to past policies he believed served to only prop up the large, multinational companies that do business in New Mexico.
“My approach is that we can’t line the pockets of the corporations and the CEOs at the expense of the health of the communities,” he said. “In Congress, I do want to hold the oil and gas companies accountable for not making some of the investments I believe they should be making in reducing methane emissions.”
More:Where do New Mexico voters stand on oil and gas for November election? Climate change?
He said recently high energy prices, like gas prices paid at the pump, drove up profits for fossil fuel companies, but meant consumers across the state and country wrongly suffered.
A strong market and high profits, Vasquez said, meant the time was right for energy companies to increase their investments in pollution controls and initiatives to reduce their environmental impacts.
“It is completely irresponsible for oil and gas companies not to make these changes,” Vasquez said.
He also pointed to royalty rates companies pay to operate in the state, contending they should be raised to send more oil and gas revenue to the state and federal government to benefit their constituents.
More:GOP nominee Jeremy Gay wants to restore 'mission' of New Mexico attorney general's office
The recently signed into law Inflation Reduction Act increased federal royalty rates from 12.5 percent to 16.6 percent, in a move Vasquez said was needed to ensure taxpayers get a “fair share” of oil profits in their state.
“I want to make sure New Mexico is getting its fair share of revenue from the industry,” he said. “New Mexicans deserve their fair share, that means our workers, our small businesses and those royalty rates that they’re paying to our state and federal government, they need to match what the CEOs and what shareholders are profiting off.
“We can protect our environment and make sure that oil and gas CEOs and the corporation aren’t able to buy this congressional seat to continue to enrich themselves.”
More:'Real frustration': Mark Ronchetti aims to take New Mexico governor post from Lujan Grisham
Protecting the environment and the people of New Mexico, Vasquez said, could also mean scrutinizing other industries like the nuclear sector, as Holtec International proposed building a facility near Carlsbad and Hobbs designed to temporarily hold spent nuclear fuel rods.
The project was supported by local city and county governments in the southeast but was opposed publicly by state leaders and New Mexico’s Democrat congresspeople along with a similar proposal in Andrews, Texas that faced opposition from lawmakers of both parties in that state.
Opponents worried that since the U.S. does not have a permanent repository for this waste, the Holtec site could hold it forever despite not being designed to do so.
Herrell, in a recent interview with the Current-Argus was hesitant to support the Holtec project herself amid the bipartisan opposition.
More:New Mexico officials worry nuclear waste site proposed near Carlsbad could last forever
Vasquez was more definite in his own criticism and was on the Las Cruces City Council when it rejected a resolution to support the project in 2018, and pointed to the state’s history in the nuclear industry and reportedly severe health impacts from radiation mining in the northern region and nuclear weapons testing in south-central New Mexico at the Trinity Test Site.
“I think about this not being a temporary and that this would essentially become the permanent home for high-level radioactive waste from al across the country,” he said. “I’m not sure that we want to do that in New Mexico.
“I don’t think we want to continue on this trajectory of being a nuclear waste dumping ground.”
Adrian Hedden can be reached at 575-628-5516, achedden@currentargus.com or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.
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Union Pacific Railroad and Twin Cities Public Television Partner on Multilingual Rail Safety Campaign
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Pacific Railroad and Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) are teaming up to make rail safety a universal language, launching new English- and Spanish-language safety multi-media materials aimed at families and educators as the "Back to School" season kicks off nationwide.
"With more than 140,000 miles of track and 212,000 rail crossings in the U.S., chances are you and your child will come across at least one on the way to and from school, whether it's on foot or by car," said Union Pacific Assistant Vice President and Chief Safety Officer Connie Roseberry. "Now, is the perfect time to talk about staying safe around the tracks, just as you would remind a child to look both ways when crossing the street. We're proud of our work with TPT to provide families a fun, engaging way to talk about rail safety, and give educators free, downloadable tools for their classroom."
According to data from Safe Kids Worldwide, more than 40% of rail-related injury incidents occur between 3-9 p.m. Sharing three simple rail safety tips with loved ones can help keep students safe around the tracks:
- Limit Technology Use: Phones, watches and games can become a dangerous distraction. Put devices and ear buds away until you safely cross the tracks.
- Wait for Trains to Pass: Never try to race a train, always wait for it to pass. Wait until all warning devices are clear before crossing.
- Always Obey Signs: Only cross railroad tracks at designated crossing areas. Do not walk on or near the tracks, and do not go around warning devices.
New videos and social media infographics that drive home these safety tips are being featured over the next two months on PBS and Univision/Televisa stations in Chicago, Illinois; San Antonio and Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles, California; and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
This is the third year Union Pacific and TPT have worked together to deliver multilingual safety messages through the Community Ties Giving Program, but the first time the message has been expanded nationwide, through a regional partnership grant.
Visit www.UP.com/safety or www.UP.com/seguridad to download English- and Spanish-language learning guides, or dance to the Train Safety Cha Cha jingle.
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) delivers the goods families and businesses use every day with safe, reliable and efficient service. Operating in 23 western states, the company connects its customers and communities to the global economy. Trains are the most environmentally responsible way to move freight, helping Union Pacific protect future generations. More information about Union Pacific is available at www.up.com.
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Rains welcomed in Carlsbad
We had the rainstorm we needed on Tuesday afternoon. A storm from the southeast moved through Carlsbad and provided several inches of rain to most of the area. While there was a flash flood watch in effect, we did not receive any reports of severe damage or flooding.
In addition to providing welcome water, the storm was a great reminder of our goal to add a bridge at the intersection of Boyd and Radio, which is something we’ve been working on for a long time. Last year, a life was lost in a tragic accident near this intersection.
We’re very happy that the City has received $1.1 million in federal RAISE Grant funds to develop a plan for the Dark Canyon Bridge. This is a very important first step in making this important safety improvement to our community.
Speaking of bridges, we sent out a press release on Tuesday providing an update on the Bataan Memorial Bridge effort. Beginning Wednesday, you’ll be seeing some modifications being made which will result in the bridge hopefully being open to single lane east and westbound traffic within just a few days. This does mean that eastbound traffic is only one lane now, and it also means that the turn to Park Drive will be blocked for a few days so modifications to the median can be made. We are pushing as hard as we can for westbound traffic to be restored as quickly as possible. We know this has been extremely difficult for businesses and residences on both sides of the bridge.
Even though Census 2020 efforts have concluded, Census efforts continue during the “off season” to keep track of changes in population. This includes the American Community Survey, which provides information each year about social, economic and housing characteristics. A small sample of addresses are randomly selected each year. As with the Census, this information helps with distribution of resources and community improvement. Private information remains confidential. A population survey also helps track growth during the decade between each Census process. So, there are still official Census processes going on across Carlsbad right now, if you are contacted by a Census official.
You’ll notice some improvement to the train set out along Park Drive. Retired firefighter Buzz Sexton has been donating his time to paint and clean up the train. The train is historically significant to Carlsbad’s potash industry and a great visual for anyone learning about our community. A month or so ago, we even received a call from someone in Michigan wanting to buy the train. We told them we weren’t interested – it’s an important part of our community. Thanks to Buzz for all of his hard work.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Recovery of Louisville, a family-owned drug and alcohol addiction treatment provider, was ranked Kentucky's top addiction treatment center for the second consecutive year by Newsweek.
Landmark Recovery of Louisville, which opened in 2016, was the first of 12 addiction treatment facilities now operated by Landmark Recovery. It includes 64 beds for those in residential treatment and also offers outpatient care and office-based opioid treatment and medical detox. The 32,000-square-foot facility features a gym, basketball court, courtyard along with comfortable accommodations and meeting rooms.
"I am proud to see that Landmark Recovery of Louisville, our first facility, has again been ranked as one of the best addiction treatment centers in the country and the No. 1 in Kentucky," said Matt Boyle, co-founder and CEO of Landmark Recovery. "This ranking is a testament to Landmark's commitment to provide high quality and affordable addiction treatment options. It's also a reflection of our caring staff and the evidence-based programs we've created to help people live beyond addiction."
Newsweek partnered with global market research and data firm Statista to rank the best U.S. treatment facilities focused on addiction. They asked more than 4,000 therapists, counselors, doctors, and administrators who work in addiction treatment to rate the quality of care, service accommodations, amenities, and follow-up care of 330 treatment centers in 25 states. Data provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and nine types of accreditations were considered as well. Landmark Recovery of Louisville was awarded the No. 1 ranking in Kentucky, with an overall score of 89.84%.
Landmark Recovery, founded in 2016, is an evidence-based addiction recovery organization offering passionate, individualized treatment including detox, residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization. Landmark serves communities in Colorado, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Tennessee along with its sister company, Praxis by Landmark Recovery, which serves the Medicaid population. Landmark of Louisville was named the No. 1 Addiction Treatment Center in Kentucky by Newsweek in 2021 and 2022. For more information visit www.landmarkrecovery.com or call 866-504-8545.
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Reversing oil and gas rules threatens the health of Permian families
New Mexico’s groundbreaking rules to improve air quality by limiting air pollution from the oil and gas industry just took effect this month and already the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico (IPANM) has launched a legal attack against them.
Make no mistake – this legal wrangling and foot dragging from IPANM is not only bad for our air, it also wastes time and money that producers should be using to cut pollution. It is also a direct threat to the health of families in the Permian Basin because it could allow oil and gas operators to walk away from their responsibility to clean up after themselves and reduce the impacts on their workers, neighboring communities and all New Mexicans.
When the American Lung Association’s 2021 State of the Air Report gave failing grades for ozone pollution to New Mexico’s Eddy, Lea and San Juan Counties, it was a wake-up call about the need for strong state regulations to tackle air pollution from the oil and gas industry. With the leadership of Governor Lujan Grisham, the state Environment Department responded by developing nation-leading ozone precursor rules with the input of the oil and gas industry and New Mexicans from across the state. Major operators, including Occidental Petroleum support the state’s approach, again highlighting how far out of the mainstream IPANM is on this issue.
Air pollution is especially concerning in a state like New Mexico with high rates of respiratory illness. Ozone acts like a sunburn to the lungs, and can cause breathing issues, asthma attacks, respiratory and cardiovascular attacks.
Oil and gas operations are a significant source of ozone-forming VOCs as well as methane emissions from venting, flaring and leaks. Well site toxins can worsen respiratory diseases and trigger asthma attacks, and smog can also worsen emphysema and impact the cardiovascular system. Methane is one of the key drivers of climate change – a powerful greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term.
Eddy County is one of only two rural counties among the top 25 most polluted for ozone in the nation, underscoring the critical need for strong oil and gas rules. New Mexico took an important step forward last year to hold the oil and gas industry accountable for its waste and pollution when the state instituted a ban on routine venting and flaring, and then followed up that action by requiring all operators to find and fix leaks – without exceptions.
Governor Lujan Grisham understood the public health imperative of reducing oil and gas emissions when she committed to enacting air and methane pollution rules. The final rules allow no exemptions to leak detection and repair requirements and protect those living closest to development with requirements for more frequent inspections to find and fix leaks. IPANM’s lawsuit attempts to reverse those protections and would impact air quality and the health of New Mexicans.
More than 130,000 New Mexicans live within a half-mile of oil and gas development, including communities of color that face disproportionate impacts from climate change and pollution. Across the state rural communities, tribal communities, children and the elderly are especially at risk for adverse health impacts of oil and gas pollution.
IPANM’s legal maneuvers show an insulting disregard for communities like ours that are closest to oil and gas well sites where families experience the greatest impacts of operations. New Mexicans should not accept failing grades when it comes to protecting the state’s air, and the courts should reject this blatant attempt by the industry to dodge accountability for its waste and pollution.
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Partnership to increase the number of nurses graduating from OU
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To help meet the critical demand for nurses in Michigan, Oakland University and BHSH System announced a new partnership focused on increasing the number of nurses graduating from OU. Through this collaboration, BHSH System will provide Oakland University with financial resources totaling more than $20 million over the next five years for the BHSH Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar program.
This investment includes more than $10 million for student grants and more than $10 million for infrastructure investments. To accommodate the influx in students and remain in compliance with state regulations and national accreditation standards, OU will use the infrastructure funding to expand lab and classroom space, purchase instructional equipment and hire faculty to teach additional course sections. Grant recipients will be on a path to become BHSH System team members for at least two years after graduation.
"The nursing shortage in our state is a critical and complex challenge that must be solved with bold and collaborative solutions," said Tina Freese Decker, president & CEO, BHSH System (formerly Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health). "We are proud of our long-standing partnership with Oakland University and to have this amazing opportunity to invest in talented, compassionate people who want to become nurses. We are incredibly excited about the impact the BHSH Beaumont Health Nurse Scholar program will have in health care and for our communities."
"We deeply appreciate BHSH System's partnership and investment into the education of the next generation of health care providers," said Oakland University President Ora Hirsch Pescovitz. "This magnanimous gift directly responds to the need for more highly skilled nurses and the workforce shortage that has become more critical since the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic. We are proud that BHSH System and OU have a shared commitment to improve the quality and delivery of patient care in Michigan."
"This visionary investment by BHSH System strengthens the health of Michigan's residents and the health of our economy, both of which are a major focus of Oakland University's mission," Pescovitz added.
BHSH Beaumont Health President Dr. Benjamin Schwartz said recruitment and retention of the next generation of nurses is one of his top priorities. "Students have so many choices and options about where they can work after graduation. I'm convinced that after these OU students spend some time working with us, they will want to spend their career serving our patients. We have an incredible team," he said.
OU's nursing school educates BSN Pre-Licensure students via two tracks: a Traditional BSN track and an Accelerated Second-Degree track. The university currently admits 96 students into the Traditional BSN program two times per year and 64 students into the Accelerated Second Degree (ASD) BSN program three times per year.
"OU also will add a recruitment specialist to attract diverse students and ensure the success of candidates and graduates. OU Career Services will work in collaboration with the School of Nursing to design a marketing strategy specifically geared toward the recruitment of second-degree students working across industries," added School of Nursing Dean Judy Didion.
OU's School of Nursing has approximately 770 BSN Pre-Licensure students at any time, graduating approximately 350 BSN nurses every year. The graduation rate is approximately 95% and the average NCLEX first-time pass rate during the pandemic is approximately 86%, which is above the Michigan average of 79% and on par with the national average of 87%. Prior to COVID, the OU pass rate was 91%, while the Michigan average was 89%. Overall, 94% of OU's Traditional BSN graduates report being employed in Michigan, while 88% of ASD graduates report they are employed in Michigan.
About Oakland University
Oakland University is a doctoral, Carnegie Classification R2 "High Research Activity" university located in Oakland and Macomb counties, Michigan. The main campus is located on 1,443 acres of scenic land in Rochester Hills and Auburn Hills. Oakland University offers bachelor's degrees, graduate degrees and certificate programs. Oakland University is organized into the College of Arts and Sciences (which includes a School of Music, Theatre and Dance), the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and the Schools of Business Administration, Education and Human Services, Engineering and Computer Science, Health Sciences, Nursing, and The Honors College. This rich campus atmosphere is complete with residence halls, Greek life, Division I athletics and more than 250 student groups that lend to the total college experience. Learn more at www.oakland.edu
About BHSH System
Formed from two leading health systems in Michigan (Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health), BHSH System is a not-for-profit health system that provides care and coverage with an exceptional team of 64,000+ dedicated people—including more than 11,500 physicians and advanced practice providers and more than 15,000 nurses offering services in 22 hospitals, 300+ outpatient locations and several post-acute facilities—and Priority Health, a provider-sponsored health plan serving over 1.2 million members across the state of Michigan. Through experience, innovation and collaboration, we are building a system designed to meet the needs of the people we serve through care and coverage that is simple, affordable, equitable and exceptional.
About Beaumont Health
Beaumont Health is a division of BHSH System. Our mission is to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. With eight hospitals, more than 150 outpatient locations, nearly 5,000 physicians and 33,000 employees, Beaumont's commitment to patient and family-centered care contributes to the health and well-being of residents throughout the communities we serve and beyond.
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University of Wisconsin's lifecycle assessment found greenhouse gas emissions to be 24% lower on organic dairy farms as compared to conventional US dairy averages* due in large part to carbon sequestration benefits of organic pastures.
LA FARGE, Wis., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study in the August issue of the Journal of Cleaner Production reveals that it is possible for farms to sequester carbon and reduce their overall greenhouse gas emissions. A University of Wisconsin Madison research group unveiled a dairy lifecycle assessment conducted on Organic Valley farms that shows small organic dairy farms, which focus on grazing and organic production techniques, are low greenhouse gas champions.
The peer reviewed study uses a breakthrough methodology that includes accounting for the carbon sequestration benefit of grazed pastures. Led by Dr. Horacio Aguirre-Villegas, Scientist III at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the research team conducted a first-of-its-kind study in the U.S. that considered the positive carbon sequestration results of cows spending time out on pasture.
"The study proposes a method to include carbon sequestration not only in organic but all dairy farm-related LCA studies. This method is based on the amount of carbon staying in the soil from above ground residue, below ground residue, and manure," Aguirre-Villegas said. "The effect of management practices affecting the carbon stock are also considered, such as tillage, land use regime, management, and input of organic matter into the soil based on farm and region-specific variables such as the level of activity and temperature."
The modeling assessment was done with farm-specific input provided by Organic Valley and reflects the nature and style of production common within the co-op's dairy membership. Other factors contributing to the low greenhouse gas emission results included the avoidance of synthetic crop inputs and use of organic crop amendments, the longevity of cattle, and prevalent use of manure as a fertilizer source.
"This LCA represents the baseline carbon footprint of our dairy member farms today. The science proves out what we all intuitively knew was the case, when you have pasture-based systems and organic crop production you have a smaller carbon footprint," said Nicole Rakobitsch, director of sustainability at Organic Valley. "We are proud that farms in our cooperative average the lowest known carbon footprint of any U.S. dairy supply, but we are not going to rest on that outcome.
"We are committed to helping our farmers and all of dairy continually lessen our GHG emissions. It's the right thing to do and consumers are looking for food that is good for the planet and their health."
The study of Organic Valley milk is ongoing and the remaining 40% of Organic Valley's milk supply will be assessed by the end of 2023. Organic Valley is also launching a new carbon insetting program which purchases carbon reduction from its farmers and helps producers implement site-specific projects like agroforestry, enhanced manure management, and on-farm renewable energy.
The research team measuring and analyzing the carbon impact at UW-Madison includes Dr. Rebecca Larson, associate professor at UW-Madison; Dr. Erin Silva, UW-Madison associate professor and Extension specialist in Organic Agriculture; Dr. Michel Wattiaux, UW-Madison professor in Dairy Systems Management; and Rakobitsch.
Organic Valley is passionate about doing what's right for people, animals, and earth and is committed to bringing ethically made organic food to families everywhere. Organic Valley is the largest farmer-owned organic cooperative in the U.S. and one of the world's largest organic consumer brands. Founded in 1988 to sustain family farms through organic farming, the cooperative represents nearly 1,800 farmers in 34 U.S. states, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit ov.coop/impact. Organic Valley is also @OrganicValley on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter.
SOURCE: Regional analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from USA dairy farms: A cradle to farm-gate assessment of the American dairy industry circa 2008, International Dairy Journal
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Interactive events will deliver timely new client acquisition and practice growth strategies to financial advisors utilizing retirement plan brokerage windows and in-plan advice.
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pacific Financial Group (TPFG), a wealth management innovator and leader in Self-Directed Brokerage Account Management (SDBA) announced it will be hosting 13 regional financial advisor education and networking events in September and October 2022.
The event series entitled SDBA & In-Plan Advice: A Growth Formula Workshop is designed to demystify and educate financial advisors on Self-Directed Brokerage Account Management and the coming trend toward providing In-Plan advice to retirement plan participants. Brokerage windows are now open in well over 100,000 workplace 401k, 403b, and 457 plans across the country, and the list of open plans grows every day. This provides financial advisors with one of the most innovative and rewarding practice growth opportunities the industry has seen in decades. A dedicated website has been launched at www.GrowWithTPFG.com.
"With recent turmoil affecting the global financial markets, advisors nationwide are once again educating themselves on new ways to deepen their client relationships. Retirement plan brokerage windows, SDBA, In-Plan Advice, and our Strategy PLUS suite of Model Portfolios are a powerful combination which can supercharge an advisory practice," said Cory Kendall, Chief Revenue Officer for TPFG. "Through these workshops, we're bringing our vast expertise and proven SDBA playbook directly to financial advisors who are ready to scale and accelerate their businesses."
Underpinning TPFG's SDBA program is Strategy PLUS, a multi-strategy, multi-manager platform that leverages the intellectual capital of leading investment managers including Capital Group | American Funds®, Fidelity Investments®, BlackRock®, JPMorgan, PIMCO, Janus-Henderson, Invesco, BNY Mellon, MFS, Meeder, and Counterpoint. These relationships allow TPFG to feature the attributes of those managers and incorporate specific strategies that range from Active to Passive and Strategic to Tactical. The strategies are available to advisors inside Strategy PLUS and the result is more product choice that empowers investors to save more, behave better, and improve investment outcomes.
SDBA & In-Plan Advice Growth Formula Workshop locations and dates:
- Scottsdale, AZ – September 27
- Tucson, AZ – September 29
- Santa Clara, CA – October 4
- Troy, MI – October 4
- Houston, TX – October 4
- Dallas, TX – October 5
- Denver, CO – October 6
- Walnut Creek – October 6
- Aventura, FL – October 18
- Roseville, CA – October 18
- Fairfax, VA – October 19
- Portland, OR – October 20
- Oakbrook, IL – October 26
Learn more about your local complimentary TPFG Growth Formula Workshop and register at www.GrowWithTPFG.com. All advisors are welcome, but registration is limited. To request a future workshop in your location, please email marketingteam@tpfg.com.
Founded in 1984, The Pacific Financial Group, Inc. (TPFG) is a SEC registered investment advisory firm and dynamic wealth management innovator that focuses on the group retirement space. The firm was an early pioneer in the evolution of Self-Directed Brokerage Account Management (SDBA) for 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans. Strategy PLUS is the firm's flagship investment platform that offers a unique blend of choice, talent, and sophisticated modeling not found in traditional retirement plans. The firm also offers Separately Managed Accounts, Core Retirement Optimization, and a Variable Annuity Program. See www.tpfg.com.
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Over one million people made their way through the gates to check out the Wisconsin State Fair this year. Fair officials said 1,003,450 people attended the fair from August 4-14.
Last year’s fair which was operating under COVID-19 restrictions, only brought in 841,074 people. The event was canceled in 2020.
Fair officials say that this year’s attendance is back up to pre-pandemic levels, with the 2019 fair also bringing in over a million visitors.
The Wisconsin Bakers Association said they served 320,000 cream puffs to hungry fair-goers. First place Sporkies winner Peno Pretzel Popper Brats by Gertrude’s Pretzels was also popular, with nearly 13,000 sausages sold.
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Padgett president tells Commissioner: "While the IRS must act quickly, it must also move cautiously"
ATHENS, Ga., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roger Harris, president of North American tax and accounting franchise Padgett Business Services, wrote a letter to Commissioner Charles Rettig, urging the IRS to proceed with caution when determining how to use the new funding provided by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022.
The approximately $80 billion provided for the IRS has been a controversial element of the act, but Harris believes this funding can be a major benefit to taxpayers if it is used properly. Padgett and industry experts have been saying for years that the IRS is under-funded, but with the passing of the IRA, the agency now has an opportunity to restore belief in the tax system.
Increasing enforcement has been a primary concern for many taxpayers. Padgett recognizes its necessity, but reminds the IRS that it is crucial to audit only the right people.
"It does no good for the IRS to spend their money on audits that produce no revenue," Harris said in an article published on Padgett's website. "The IRS clearly needs better taxpayer service, better technology, and just enough enforcement to ensure the integrity of the tax system."
In the letter, Harris encourages the IRS to prioritize improvements to taxpayer services before increasing audits and other enforcement activity. He also suggests the IRS include feedback from outside stakeholders when developing their plan. Harris feels that this will address the politically divisive nature of the act.
"Padgett has been on the front lines of tax preparation and helping small businesses and other taxpayers navigate the IRS for over half a century," Harris wrote. "As a result, we understand how crucial it is for the IRS to seize this opportunity for improvement and get this right."
Through a network of hundreds individually-owned firms, Padgett provides tax, accounting, payroll and consulting services to tens of thousands of small businesses across the U.S. and Canada. With an entrepreneurial spirit and more than 50 years of experience, Padgett aims to serve as trusted advisors and empower business owners to pursue their financial and personal goals.
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MILWAUKEE- A Youtube personality made an unexpected discovery last week while shooting a video in Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee Police Department says the Youtuber, identified as Matthew Nunez, found the skeletal remains of a yet-to-be-identified body while filming inside a building at 231 W. Burleigh Street on August 11th. The Medical Examiner’s report says Nunez went to Police District 5 and told officers he located a body inside the building.
The remains, later identified by the ME’s office to belong to an unidentified man, were located on the second floor of the building. According to reports, the man appeared to have been wearing athletic sweatpants and a winter coat. There was no gun nor drugs located on the body.
An investigation into the identity of the remains is ongoing. If you have any tips you’re being asked to contact Milwaukee Police at 414-935-7252.
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—Limiting job offers: 36 percent say their company has restricted hiring—
—Letting staff go: 13 percent say workers have been laid off—
—Restructurings taking place: 19 percent say companies have undertaken a major reorganization—
—Feeling secure: Despite shakeups, 80 percent feel their job isn't in jeopardy—
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid debate about whether the US is in a recession, a new survey reveals 41 percent of workers believe we are.
The Conference Board survey also finds that businesses are already taking precautionary measures. Indeed, 36 percent of survey respondents say their company has already begun to restrict hiring to crucial roles, and 13 percent say layoffs have been conducted. Workers aren't worried, however, with 80 percent feeling secure in their jobs. In fact, workers are more worried about a declining stock market than the possibility of losing their job.
"Amid historically low unemployment in the US, this recession will be significantly different from prior downturns," said Rebecca Ray, PhD, Executive Vice President of Human Capital at The Conference Board. "Businesses should be mindful of the lessons learned from the COVID recession, when those that furloughed or laid off workers saw just how hard it can be to get that talent back. As we face another recession—which The Conference Board projects will begin later this year—leaders should explore alternatives to layoffs and furloughs, such as offering incentives for voluntary separation."
The latest workforce survey from The Conference Board polled more than 1,000 individuals—predominantly professional/office workers—from July 29-August 4. Respondents weighed in on recession expectations and fears, as well as what measures their businesses have taken.
Key findings include:
41 percent of respondents think we are already in a recession.
Given the current economic climate, do you believe we will have an economic slowdown/recession in the US?
- 41 percent of respondents think we are already in a recession.
- 33 percent believe we will be in a recession within six months.
- More white respondents say we are already in a recession than other races/ethnicities:
- More men say we are in a recession than women:
Businesses are already taking cost-cutting measures, including hiring restrictions and restructurings.
Which of the following organization cost reduction measures have you witnessed?
- Restricting and freezing hiring are the top measures taken so far:
Cost-cutting is not yet as severe as early COVID measures.
- Freezing or restricting hiring were also the top measures taken at the start of COVID-19, but to a greater degree:
- In response to COVID, however, businesses were less likely to restructure or conduct layoffs, but more likely to implement furloughs:
Despite cost-cutting measures, most workers feel secure in their jobs.
How secure do you feel about retaining your job?
- 44 percent are secure, and 36 percent are very secure in their jobs.
- The higher the seniority level, the more secure respondents are in their jobs:
For workers, a declining stock market trumps worries of losing their job.
In the event of a significant economic slowdown/recession, what are your greatest fears?
- 60 percent of respondents say a decline in the stock market is among their greatest fears in the event of a recession, the top response.
- Black respondents fear job loss less than other races/ethnicities, but fear delayed home purchase at around two times the rate:
- Asian American/Pacific Islander: 58 percent
- Black: 26 percent
- Hispanic/Latino: 56 percent
- White: 42 percent
- Asian American/Pacific Islander: 11 percent
- Black: 21 percent
- Hispanic/Latino: 9 percent
- White: 8 percent
Recession worries vary by generation.
In the event of a significant economic slowdown/recession, what are your greatest fears?
- Millennials fear job loss at a much higher rate than their generational counterparts:
- Baby Boomers fear a decline in the stock market at a much higher rate than their generational counterparts:
"Different generations have different priorities," said Robin Erickson, PhD, Vice President of Human Capital at The Conference Board. "As Baby Boomers near retirement, they are keeping a close eye on the stock market and their 401ks. Millennials, on the other hand, are earlier in career and thus less established, and understandably fear job loss more."
Most workers believe they can weather an economic storm.
Do you have financial resources to weather an economic slowdown of six months or less? Of more than six months?
- 91 percent say they have the financial resources to withstand a slowdown of 6 months or less.
- 75 percent could endure a recession of more than 6 months.
- White respondents, men, and Baby Boomers report they are able to withstand a longer-term slowdown at a higher rate than their counterparts:
- Asian American/Pacific Islander: 70 percent
- Black: 61 percent
- Hispanic/Latino: 62 percent
- White: 79 percent
- Men: 81 percent
- Women: 71 percent
- Baby Boomers: 84 percent
- Gen X: 75 percent
- Millennials: 60 percent
The top response to a recession? Spend less.
If we have an economic slowdown, how would you respond to it?
- 66 percent of respondents say they will curtail spending if there is an economic slowdown, the top response:
- 40 percent of Baby Boomers say they would delay retirement if there was a recession.
- Black respondents say they would look for a part-time job or side hustle at around two times or more than the rate of other races/ethnicities:
About The Conference Board
The Conference Board is the member-driven think tank that delivers trusted insights for what's ahead. Founded in 1916, we are a non-partisan, not-for-profit entity holding 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States. www.conference-board.org
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Staffing firm celebrates 25th anniversary with an appearance in Inc. 5000 list for the 6th time
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Astyra Corporation, a black-owned staffing and consulting firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, earned a spot on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list. The honor is reserved for the top 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America. Astyra's 179% growth rate landed the company on the list for the 6th time. The Richmond region had 38 companies earn recognition on the 2022 list.
"What better way to usher in our 25th year than to find ourselves in Inc. once again" says CEO and cofounder Ken Ampy. "This achievement proves that the 'Astyra approach' to work and culture resonates with our clients and contract associates."
With resources in 15 states, Astyra has grown rapidly by providing top talent to high-profile clients. Astyra Corporation earned their first Inc. 5000 recognition in 2009. In April 2021, Astyra received Corporate Plus distinction from the National Minority Supplier Development Council for their proficiency in fulfilling extensive national contracts.
"Appearing on the Inc. 5000 for a 6th time is an honor we would have not thought possible when we started in 1997", remarks President and cofounder Sam Young. "It's been a great ride thus far yet there's still more to come."
Astyra specializes in Information Technology, Healthcare, Professional Services, and Call Center staffing. As a solution-based company, Astyra focuses on providing top talent who will help clients build their vision and achieve their goals. Nationally, Astyra has staffed more than 300 people year to date. In the past year, Astyra's internal staff has grown by 30% to support their major expansion.
258 Virginia private companies reported a total revenue of $19.6 billion on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list, a 6% increase from the 2021 list. This substantial increase is a testament to the resilience and innovation private companies shown amid labor shortages and the continued impact of Covid-19.
Results of the 2022 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing list with company profiles, growth rates, criteria, and more can be found at https://www.inc.com/inc5000/2022.
Established in 1997, Astyra Corporation is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm. They are experts in matching high skilled consultants to innovative business solutions. Their high-profile clients range from government agencies and financial institutions to major systems integrators. For more information, visit https://astyra.com/.
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Firm founders earn honors for third consecutive year
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Six lawyers with Houston-based law firm Jordan, Lynch & Cancienne have been named to the list of Best Lawyers in America for 2023, recognition that places them among the top practicing attorneys in the country.
This is the third consecutive year firm partners Kevin Jordan, Walter Lynch, and Michael Cancienne have been recognized. Mr. Jordan and Mr. Cancienne have been honored for their outstanding work in Commercial Litigation, and Mr. Lynch has received recognition as a leading personal injury defense lawyer.
Three Jordan, Lynch & Cancienne attorneys have also been named to the list of Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch," which recognizes professional excellence in lawyers earlier in their careers. Attorneys Caroline Carter, Jeb Golinkin, and Callan B. Edquist have been honored for their work in Commercial Litigation.
"Everything we do in our work and for our clients is based on our core values: building relationships, working collaboratively and going above and beyond," said Mr. Jordan. "This recognition is a testament to those values, and we couldn't be happier knowing our peers see and acknowledge our hard work and commitment to our clients."
One of the most respected peer-review attorney guides in the country, Best Lawyers in America is based on confidential client and peer evaluations, as well as extensive editorial research. To read more about Jordan, Lynch & Cancienne's Best Lawyers, visit: https://www.bestlawyers.com/firms/jordan-lynch-cancienne-pllc/82206/US
Jordan, Lynch & Cancienne PLLC is a Houston-based civil trial law firm whose lawyers have a proven courtroom track record in high-stakes litigation nationwide. They represent clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes, construction matters, products liability, toxic torts, trade secret, and catastrophic personal injury claims. Flexibility in fee structuring is a hallmark of the way the firm does business. To learn more, visit the website at https://www.jlcfirm.com/.
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Premium pet food brand's new creative campaign celebrates the raw, unfiltered love between pet parents and their pets
OAK CREEK, Wis., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stella & Chewy's, the category leader in the raw pet food space, announced today that it is launching the brand's first-ever national ad campaign, "All You Need Is Raw." The new creative embodies the raw, unfiltered love pet parents have for their pets and how food, especially raw and natural food, plays a key role in how pet parents show their love.
Whether it's a cat hanging from a curtain without a care in the world or a dog sleeping on the couch like no one's watching, the creative is a bold and candid celebration of the raw, unfiltered behaviors that make our pets who they are. The campaign also marks the launch of a new tagline for the brand, "All You Need is Raw," which embodies Stella & Chewy's belief that raw is all pets are, and raw is all they need.
"The raw pet food space continues to rapidly expand as more pet parents strive to feed their pets as they would themselves – with real and less processed foods," said David Campbell, CMO of Stella & Chewy's. "With this new campaign, we aim to raise awareness of the Stella & Chewy's brand and portfolio, which offers a range of dog and cat food products to meet varying pet parent needs."
The omni-channel campaign, led by Chicago-based creative agency Highdive Advertising, and directed by Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey of Terri Timely, consists of multiple :15 and :30 second spots and will include cable TV, connective TV/Video, audio, social media, experiential, custom content, mobile rich media and influencer relations.
"We're so excited for this partnership with Stella & Chewy's," said Mark Gross, CCO and co-founder of Highdive Advertising. "As many of us at Highdive are pet parents or lovers ourselves, we appreciate Stella & Chewy's commitment to providing pets with healthier, less processed foods. For their first-ever national brand campaign, we knew we had to go bold and candid with these spots to show exactly how raw pets can be — and why we simply love them for it. We thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with the Stella & Chewy's team to bring this campaign to life and can't wait for what's to come."
The paid media strategy, developed and implemented by the award-winning Exverus Media, employs advanced data and analytics to measure brand awareness, sales performance and online conversions of each media element. The holistic media strategy and approach was designed to rapidly grow household penetration and bring new consumers into Stella & Chewy's family of growing products of raw dog and cat food and treats.
"Our consumer insight is that pet parents want shared experiences with their pets. So the media placements had to support 'co-viewing' opportunities: think Animal Planet and Bravo, pet music playlists on Spotify and pet Reddit communities," said Tasha Day, VP of Media at Exverus Media.
To learn more about Stella & Chewy's range of premium raw and natural pet food for dogs and cats, visit www.allyouneedisraw.com or follow the company on Facebook or Instagram.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Stella & Chewy's strives to provide the highest quality raw and natural pet food with an emphasis on nutrition, palatability, safety and convenience. The company's dog and cat products include frozen patties and morsels, freeze-dried dinners and meal mixers, baked kibble, stews, broths and treats. Stella & Chewy's proudly created Journey Home Fund; a charity that promotes adult and senior pet adoptions. For more information about the company, products and the nearest retailer, visit stellaandchewys.com or call 877-477-8977.
Founded in 2016, Highdive (highdiveus.com) is an independently owned, full-service creative agency headquartered in Chicago. Built for brands that want best-in-class creative but don't want the baggage that usually comes with it, the agency has a singular promise: to create the healthiest client and agency relationships in the world. Led by four seasoned advertising executives who set out to create an agency made up exclusively of top performers across every discipline, Highdive is breaking the traditional agency model to deliver work so powerful it can't be ignored for brands including Jeep, Ram Trucks, Lays, Beam Suntory, NHL, Nike, Boost Mobile, Airheads, Fruit-tella, and Rocket Mortgage. On a rapid growth trajectory, Highdive has been recognized as Advertising Age Small Agency of the Year, Midwest, three times and 2020 Advertising Age National Small Agency of the Year. Highdive also ranked number one on Adweek's 2020 Fastest Growing Agencies List.
Named by Ad Age as a Media Agency of the Year, Los Angeles-based Exverus is a strategic media consultancy that starts with a brand's passions and objectives and translates them for today's media landscape. Designed specifically to meet the needs of culture-creating brands in high-growth mode, Exverus partners with clients to deliver integrated campaigns that get people talking, build brand value and drive sales. For more information, follow @exverus or visit www.exverus.com.
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Betsy Radue
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Stella & Chewy's Credits
David Campbell, CMO
Sudheer Kosaraju, VP, Brand Marketing
Debra Yoo, Senior Brand Manager
Roy Torres, Creative Director
Highdive Credits
Creative
Mark Gross, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer
Chad Broude, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer
Katie Bero, Creative Director
Brian Culp, Creative Director
Rebecca Wilson, Senior Designer
Dave Muhlenfeld, Copywriter
Account
Megan Lally, Managing Partner
Kristin Woodke, Group Account Director
Jamie Lazaroff, Senior Account Executive
Production
Jen Passaniti, Head of Production, Executive Producer
Will St. Clair, Executive Producer
Marianne Newton, Executive Producer
Strategy
Mike Harris, Lead Strategist
Business Affairs
Kelley Beaman, Director of Business Affairs
Annie Paganini, Production Manager
Production Partner Credits
Park Pictures
Directors: Terri Timely
Producer: David Lambert
Executive Producers: Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Anne Bobroff
Head of Production: Chelsea Schwiering
Cutters
Editor: Billy Montrose
Executive Producer: Patrick Casey
Music Credits
Marmoset
Graphics/ Titles Credits
Sarofsky
Erin Sarofsky- Executive Creative Director
Steven Anderson- Executive Producer
Stefan Draht- Creative Director
Duarte Elvas- Creative Director
Will Townsend- Producer
Joel Signer- Producer
Mollie Davis- Animator/Designer
Travis Hawthorne- Animator/Designer
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Teleperformance Earns Great Employer Workplace Status for third Consecutive Year
NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teleperformance, a leading global group in digitally integrated business services, announced that its Malaysia operations received the prestigious Great Place to Work® award. By being certified as a Great Place to Work® in Malaysia, Teleperformance has set a new standard for Malaysian Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry companies.
Teleperformance's Malaysia (TP Malaysia) operations scored strong for overall trust in the company by its over 2,600 Malaysian team members. It operates three facilities in Malaysia and provides work from home services, with 76% of its staff currently utilizing them.
Jose Bezanilla, CEO Great Place to Work® China commented, "In Great Place to Work®, we have special respect and admiration for companies and leadership teams that kept their priorities clear on their people, while navigating the tough times of the pandemic. Teleperformance is a clear example of this, making it again to the top recognition as Best Workplaces™ in Asia keeping Trust as a key element of their working culture. Congratulations!
"This is the third consecutive year that Teleperformance Malaysia is being certified as a great workplace. For a multilingual hub home to many nationalities and cultures such as ours, this is a great achievement," said Sam Chong, CEO Teleperformance Malaysia. "Thank you to our support teams, managers and leadership team for doing your part in ensuring that TP Malaysia remains a diverse and inclusive workplace for employees of all nationalities. This is possible because of all of you, the lifeblood of TP Malaysia."
With a top global priority of people care, over 97% of Teleperformance employees worldwide currently work in independently certified great employer operations.
The company welcomes applicants from across the country to apply for exciting work options. Interested applicants can apply here.
Teleperformance (TEP – ISIN: FR0000051807 – Reuters: TEPRF.PA - Bloomberg: TEP FP), the global leader in outsourced customer and citizen experience management and related digital services, serves as a strategic partner to the world's largest companies in many industries. It offers a One Office support services model including end-to-end digital solutions, which guarantee successful customer interaction and optimized business processes, anchored in a unique, comprehensive high touch, high tech approach. Nearly 420,000 employees, based in 88 countries, support billions of connections every year in over 265 languages and around 170 markets, in a shared commitment to excellence as part of the "Simpler, Faster, Safer" process. This mission is supported by the use of reliable, flexible, intelligent technological solutions and compliance with the industry's highest security and quality standards, based on Corporate Social Responsibility excellence. In 2021, Teleperformance reported consolidated revenue of €7,115 million (US$8.4 billion, based on €1 = $1.18) and net profit of €557 million.
Teleperformance shares are traded on the Euronext Paris market, Compartment A, and are eligible for the deferred settlement service. They are included in the following indices: CAC 40, STOXX 600, S&P Europe 350, MSCI Global Standard and Euronext Tech Leaders. In the area of corporate social responsibility, Teleperformance shares are included in the Euronext Vigeo Euro 120 index since 2015, the EURO STOXX 50 ESG index since 2020, the MSCI Europe ESG Leaders index since 2019, the FTSE4Good index since 2018 and the S&P Global 1200 ESG index since 2017.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical device company Theragen is pleased to announce the issuance of a U.S. Patent acknowledging its innovative approach to the development of the ActaStim-S Spine Fusion Bone Growth Stimulator system.
The first new Spine Fusion Stimulator on the market in decades, ActaStim-S blends clinically proven therapeutic stimulation with modern design and a data-rich digital health platform. The system not only promotes healing, it encourages patient compliance, engagement, and informed dialogue with healthcare providers during the critical — and lengthy — post-operative fusion process.
"Spinal fusion is a healing process, often characterized as a race to achieve solid fusion before failure of the implanted hardware," says co-inventor and Theragen CEO Chris McAuliffe. "Electrical stimulation is a clinically proven, safe and effective post-operative adjunct therapy that can help patients win that race, however its clinical effectiveness requires regular use over several months.
"That's why we've taken a user-centric approach, designing a more wearable device that also offers a digital health component that gives patients the unique opportunity to engage in, follow, and truly impact their own recovery."
COO, VP of R&D, and co-inventor Richard Pearce explains further: "The system includes a remarkably discreet, unobtrusive wearable unit that is very well received by patients. It includes utilization tracking, on-board activity sensing, Bluetooth smartphone connectivity, and an intuitive app that helps patients visualize their progress over time.
"The essence of this new U.S. Patent (#11,394,919) is focused on ensuring that this connectivity does not interfere with ease of use — and that data collection and transfer can happen quickly and effectively." Learn more about Theragen's user-centric approach in Pearce's recent Med Device Online article, 3 Lessons Learned Designing Our Digital Health App.
Theragen, Inc. is a leader in the development and manufacture of non-invasive, electrical stimulation DME products that deliver therapeutic energy for healing and empower patients to play an active role in their recovery. We're committed to continuous innovation and expanding our reach to help improve outcomes for more patients. To learn more, please visit theragen.com.
Contact: Richard Pearce, COO/VP R&D
Phone: 901-634-0544
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A federal magistrate judge has given the Department of Justice one week to provide a redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the unprecedented FBI search of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, saying that he believes the affidavit should be partially released.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled the DOJ must turn over the redacted version by next Thursday at noon. The affidavit will remain sealed during any appeals, he said.
Reinhart also unsealed more minor documents containing general information at the hearing.
The Justice Department argued during a hearing on Thursday afternoon that redacting the affidavit would leave no information of substance to release, and noted that the search itself and release of the warrant last week had created a volatile situation leading to death threats against FBI agents.
Government lawyers also said the investigation is in an early stage.
While the Justice Department asked the court to unseal the warrant, citing intense public interest, it has argued strongly against releasing the affidavit, saying doing so could compromise its investigation, other probes, the possibility of future witness cooperation and the safety of agents and individuals named in the affidavit.
Multiple media organizations had asked the judge to unseal all documents related to the search, notably the affidavit laying out the reasoning and research. At Thursday's hearing, the organizations said they do not want to release any information that would have a chilling effect on current or future witnesses, endanger people involved in the probe or compromise the investigation.
The warrant, released last week, shows that FBI agents retrieved documents labeled classified, secret, top secret and confidential as well potential presidential records. It also reveals that the Justice Department is investigating Trump for violating the Espionage Act and obstructing justice.
The genesis of the investigation comes from an unlikely source: the National Archives. The agency, in charge of cataloging and storing important government documents, earlier retrieved 15 boxes of key presidential records that it said Trump was improperly — and possibly illegally — keeping at home.
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Firm founder honored among the nation's top personal injury attorneys for representation of truck wreck victims
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey founder Steven C. Laird has been named to the Best Lawyers in America list for 2023 as one of the best plaintiffs' personal injury attorneys in the country.
His 2023 selection marks the 12th consecutive year to be honored by the prestigious legal guide.
"I'm very thankful to Best Lawyers for this honor," said Mr. Laird. "Getting justice for my clients and their families has been the most rewarding experience of my career, and these recognitions for the work my firm and I do on a daily basis are an incredible honor."
Mr. Laird has over 40 years of experience representing clients involved in trucking accidents and other personal injury claims. He has long been recognized for his success in securing favorable verdicts in complex personal injury litigation.
A courthouse veteran, Mr. Laird is one of only five trial lawyers in North Texas who are Board Certified in Truck Accident Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He is also Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and in Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Best Lawyers in America is widely considered one of the most reliable and respected sources for legal guidance. The distinguished list was first published in 1983 and is now the U.S. legal industry's oldest peer-review guide for showcasing the country's top attorneys.
About the Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey
The Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey is a Fort Worth, Texas, law firm whose lawyers and staff members are committed to finding justice in every case we handle. For more than 30 years, we have worked responsibly and diligently to represent individuals and families in personal injury cases where corporate and individual negligence has resulted in significant injuries and wrongful death. To learn more about the firm, visit http://texlawyers.com/.
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Streaming platforms have finally done it. For the first time ever, streaming services captured more viewers than cable or broadcast TV, according to new data from Nielsen.
You may be thinking to yourself that your noble contributions of binging critically acclaimed series meant streaming had surely taken the top spot before now. And you're right – at least partially. Streaming has outperformed broadcast in a single month before, but never broadcast and cable in the same month.
In the U.S., streaming captured 34.8% of viewership in July, while cable accounted for 34.4% and broadcast came in third at 21.6%.
Weekly streaming in July passed pandemic highs
Maybe it was the heat, maybe it was a general summer couch potato vibe. Either way, audiences spent an average of 190.9 billion minutes streaming content per week in July. That's compared to an average weekly streaming time of 169.9 billion minutes in April 2020.
July also sees a slowdown in traditional TV, with most shows on pause until their fall premieres, and a break in sports entertainment, following the end of the NBA and NHL seasons.
July included wins for certain streaming platforms
Viewers spent a lot of time with new seasons of fan favorites like Netflix's Stranger Things and Hulu's Only Murders in the Building.
Fans of Stranger Things watched nearly 18 billion minutes of the show in July; consumers spent another nearly 11 billion minutes streaming Virgin River and The Umbrella Academy.
On Hulu, the second season of Only Murders in the Building and a new show, The Bear, brought in a total of 3 billion minutes of viewership for the platform.
Amazon Prime also saw more than 8 billion minutes in viewership with its new series The Terminal List and new episodes of The Boys bringing people in.
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Best Lawyers in America recognizes Nachawati Law Group founder for national leadership in personal injury litigation
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Peer lawyers in Texas and the research staff at Best Lawyers in America have selected veteran trial lawyer Majed Nachawati among the nation's best for high-stakes personal injury litigation.
One of oldest peer-review guides in the nation, Best Lawyers compiles its list from surveys of tens of thousands of attorneys nationwide followed by a rigorous vetting by the magazine's research staff.
Under Mr. Nachawati's leadership, Dallas-based Nachawati Law Group has developed a national reputation for representing individuals injured by dangerous and defective products, including cancer-causing chemicals like Monsanto's glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller, talc-based products including Johnson's Baby Powder, and paraquat-based herbicides.
Mr. Nachawati has been an outspoken voice in these mass torts and multidistrict litigation and many more. He has helped coordinate opposition to a controversial ploy by Johnson & Johnson to shed its liabilities to thousands of women who developed ovarian cancer after using talcum-based products like Johnson's Baby Powder. He currently sits on a committee monitoring the J&J bankruptcy.
Mr. Nachawati also took a stand on behalf of a group of cities and counties in lawsuits against makers, distributors and retailers of highly addictive prescription opioid painkillers. Those efforts resulted in a key appellate ruling earlier this year that allowed plaintiffs to move their lawsuits from federal court back to the state trial courts where they were originally filed. He also led opposition to controversial attempts by Monsanto to settle thousands of Roundup cancer lawsuits.
Earlier this year, Mr. Nachawati was honored by the National Law Journal as a Plaintiffs Trailblazer based on his work in mass torts and multidistrict litigation.
The Nachawati Law Group represents individuals in mass tort litigation, businesses and governmental entities in contingent litigation, and individual victims in complex personal injury litigation. One of the largest and most diverse products liability law firms in the nation, the Nachawati Law Group ranks No. 1 nationally in federal court products liability filings over the past three years, according to Lex Machina. For more information, visit https://www.fnlawfirm.com.
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William & Mary's Raymond A. Mason School of Business has expanded its partnership with Everspring to include a new Online Master of Accounting degree.
CHICAGO, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Everspring, a leading provider of education technology and services to universities seeking to build or expand their online capabilities, announces an expansion of its partnership with William & Mary's Raymond A. Mason School of Business. In this expanded partnership, Everspring will support the build, launch and operation of a new Online Master of Accounting program (MAcc).
The new online MAcc degree is the 12th program Everspring has supported for William & Mary, including the online MBA, which is ranked #2 for academic experience and #11 overall in the Poets&Quants top online MBA programs. The online MAcc, launching in spring 2023, will be open to accounting professionals seeking to advance in their career or meet the requirements of the CPA exam, as well as to career changers without an existing accounting background. With the same faculty and high-quality academic approach as the school's residential, full-time MAcc, the program will provide a solid foundation in accounting and the professional and technical skills needed to excel in careers that include public accountant, corporate accountant, auditor, fraud examiner, financial analyst and related positions.
"Our new Online Master of Accounting degree will provide students an online pathway to advance in the accounting profession with a program that embodies the academic distinction and intellectual rigor of all William & Mary programs. Students will gain the analytic and interpretive expertise to become business leaders in accounting," said Pam Suzadail, associate dean and executive director of the Center for Online Learning at the Mason School of Business.
Since 2014, Everspring has partnered with the Mason School of Business to support the development and growth of a strong portfolio of high-caliber online graduate business programs. This portfolio includes an online MBA, MS in Business Analytics, MS in Marketing, MS in Finance and several certificate offerings. The programs boast a 95% student satisfaction rating.
"We are thrilled to expand our partnership with William & Mary to include their new online Master of Accounting," said Beth Hollenberg, president and co-founder of Everspring. "The Mason School of Business is a leader in online graduate business education, with engaging programs that both provide significant value to students and create a new standard of excellence in online higher education."
William & Mary's Raymond A. Mason School of Business is rebuilding the global economy by training the next generation of revolutionary business leaders. It offers undergraduate and graduate instruction, including full-time, part-time, evening, executive and online MBA degree programs, as well as one-year masters programs in accounting, business analytics, finance and marketing. The school develops successful business leaders by providing world-class instruction and unparalleled opportunities for mentorship and experiential learning. For more information, visit mason.wm.edu.
Everspring is a leading provider of education technology and service solutions for higher education. Our advanced technology, proven marketing approach, and robust faculty support and instructional design services deliver outstanding outcomes for our university partners, powering their success online. Everspring offers a range of full-service turnkey solutions, as well as standalone fee-for-service offerings, and innovative self-service products that enable universities to establish themselves as leaders in the digital delivery of higher education. Based in Chicago, Everspring serves a growing number of colleges and universities, nationwide.
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Six Flags is looking to make changes and raise prices after seeing a decrease in both attendance and revenue this year.
Last week, the amusement park reported quarterly results that fell short of Wall Street's estimates and said attendance fell sharply from a year earlier.
During that earnings call, CEO and President Selim A. Bassoul said the parks have become "a cheap daycare center for teenagers during breaks and the summers."
Bassoul later addressed the company's customers and the demographics when it comes to those who visit its parks, saying "our objective is not to become a park that's not affordable to everyone." He said the company wants to target "middle income" and those who earn "what I call the average income of the U.S."
Still, he went on to say the company is migrating "a little bit from what I call the Kmart, Walmart, to maybe the Target customer."
Year-to-date park attendance through July dropped approximately 35% compared to 2018-2019, according to the earnings call transcript.
According to a recent study, traditional family outings like baseball games, movie theaters and theme parks "increased in cost at 2-3x the rate of inflation."
In addition, the study -- which compared family outings in 1960 to today -- concluded that "American families have to work up to [twice] as many hours as they did 60 years ago."
In the earnings call, Bassoul acknowledged inflation's role in deterring potential park-goers.
"I think many of our customers, even if you kept the pricing the same as last year, their disposable income has been hit pretty hard ... They suffered with gasoline prices. They suffered with their utilities at home. They suffered with their pricing at the supermarket. Those people were not able to come. And hopefully, when inflation comes back to normal, I'm hoping that some of those people come back to our parks and enjoy the new premiumization and beautification," he said.
This news comes days after three people, including a 17-year-old, were injured during a shooting in a Chicago-area Six Flags parking lot.
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Wheat for Sep. declined 31.75 cents at $7.3150 a bushel; Sep. corn rose 4.75 cents at $6.1975 a bushel, Sep. oats fell 19 cents at $4.1275 a bushel; while Sep. soybeans lost 20.25 cents at $14.9550 a bushel.
Beef and pork were lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aug. live cattle was off .48 cent at $1.4127 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle fell 1.73 cents at $1.8152 a pound; while Aug. lean hogs lost 4.75 cents at $.9330 a pound.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who has been central to R. Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades testified Thursday that the R&B singer sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was 15.
Jane — the pseudonym for the now 37-year-old woman at Kelly’s trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges — told jurors that in the late 1990s when she was 13, she asked the Grammy award-winning singer to be her godfather because she saw him as an inspiration and mentor.
She said within weeks, Kelly would call her and say sexual things. She said he first touched her breasts and other parts of her body when she was around 14 at a Chicago recording studio, and that around that time, he “started penetration” at his home at his North Side Chicago home. She told jurors she was 15 when they first had intercourse. Kelly, 55, would have been around 30 years old at the time.
Asked by a prosecutor how she would know what to do sexually, Jane answered, “He would tell me what to do.” Asked how many times they had sex before she turned 18, she answered quietly: “Uncountable times. … Hundreds.”
Kelly, who is serving a 30-year prison sentence for his conviction in a New York this year on federal charges alleging he used his fame to sexually abuse fans, is standing trial in his hometown of Chicago on several other federal charges. Among the most serious is conspiracy to obstruct justice by allegedly rigging a 2008 trial on state child pornography charges stemming from a purported video of him and Jane having sex when she was underage.
Prosecutors say Kelly paid off and threatened Jane to ensure that she didn’t testify at that trial. She didn’t, and he was ultimately acquitted.
Kelly is also standing trial on charges of producing child pornography and enticing minors for sex.
Unlike at the 2008 trial, Jane cooperated with prosecutors leading up to the current trial and is a pivotal witness.
During opening statements Wednesday, prosecutor Jason Julien sought to prepare jurors for the testimony of accusers including Jane, reminding them that a core issue at trial remained the exploitation of often scared and confused children — even though the accusers who would speak to jurors are now grown adults.
Speaking softly and tentatively when she first took the stand Thursday, Jane described her upbringing in a musical family in a Chicago suburb, including that she was home-schooled because she was in a touring musical group that she joined when she was about 12.
Jane first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer who worked with Kelly. Soon after that meeting, Jane told her parents that Kelly was going to be her godfather.
As her testimony continued, Jane sounded calmer and steadier, answering questions matter-of-factly.
Prosecutors have said Kelly shot the video of Jane in a log cabin-themed room at his North Side Chicago home between 1998 and 2000. In it, the girl is heard calling the man “daddy.” Federal prosecutors say that she and Kelly had sex hundreds of times over the years in his homes, recording studios and tour buses.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, knew a conviction in 2008 would effectively end his life as he knew it, and so prosecutors say he conspired to fix that trial.
According to prosecutors, Kelly told the parents and Jane to leave Chicago, paying for them to travel to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico. When they returned, prosecutors say Kelly sought to isolate Jane, moving her around to different hotels. When called before a state grand jury looking into the video, Jane, her father and mother denied it was her in it.
Tears streamed down his faced on June 13, 2008, when he was acquitted on all counts of child pornography. Some of the jurors told reporters after the trial that they weren’t convinced that the female in the video was who state prosecutors said she was.
Before the 2008 trial, Kelly carried a duffle bag full of sex tapes everywhere he went for years, but some tapes later went missing, according to court filings. In the 2000s, bootleg copies of some videos appeared on street corners throughout the U.S.
In the early 2000s, the aunt showed the parents a copy of a video she said depicted their daughter having sex with Kelly. When they confronted Kelly, he told them, “You’re with me or against me,” a government filing says.
The parents took it as a threat.
Kelly, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly."
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Prosecutors told jurors that the evidence includes at least three videos showing Kelly having sex with underage girls.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Woman testifies that R&B singer R. Kelly had sex with her "hundreds" of times before she turned 18 years old.
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Sharks, grizzlies, giant snakes and rampaging apes have traditionally been the go-to choices for animal-kingdom antagonists in survival thrillers. Lions not so much. Maybe the king of the jungle has always been too regal, too majestic — too heroic — to be lowered to the status of mere summer-movie marauder.
But the circle of life also pertains to movies, and it was probably inevitable that the lion's time would come. That's, at least, the nature of “Beast,” a surprisingly agile and nifty B-movie graced by Idris Elba's formidable presence, fluid camerawork and tolerable levels of implausibility.
It's a movie well engineered as a late-summer diversion — a big cat movie for the dog days of August — that Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (“Adrift," “Everest") insures stays well within the paths of man-against-nature films before it. But while the lion is CGI, the South African location is genuine, and Kormákur and cinematographer Philippe Rousselot's long, well-choreographed takes give “Beast” an immersive quality well beyond the genre's usual slapdash cutting.
But how do you make a lion a diabolical hunter? “Beast,” written by Ryan Engle, opens with poachers mowing down a pride of lions. But one — a big one — escapes, and has a preternatural taste for avenging the killings and protecting its territory. The lion's ferocity is easy to empathize with, ever to root for. Having had his family taken from him, he's like the Liam Neeson of lions.
This is what Nate Samuels (Elba) and his two daughters, Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Jeffries), walk into. They've just arrived in South Africa, a trip that Nate hopes will be a healing one for the family. They're still reeling from the death of Nate's wife from cancer, a loss that Mere and Norah partly blame on Nate, a doctor. The pair had also separated a year before her death, adding to the family friction.
But what's better at ailing abandonment issues than a man-hunting lion? After reuniting with an old friend, Martin (Sharlto Copley), a vehemently anti-poacher wildlife biologist, the four set out in a jeep to explore the savanna. It doesn't take long before they stumble across the lion's victims and find themselves fending off his attacks from the vehicle. When Martin radios that the lion is staring right at him, one of the daughters gamely asks, “Is that a little, um, unnatural?”
There's the backdrop of animal treatment, but “Beast” is mostly unburdened by larger meaning. For most of its brisk 93-minute running time, the Samuels tussle with the animal in a game of (big) cat and mouse. The shark in “Jaws” put an entire community under the microscope, but the scope of “Beast” is narrowly fixed on Nate and his girls. There isn't any beast within here, just a beast.
But with lively supporting performances from Halley and Jeffries and a commanding one from Elba, they make a realistic, often bickering family. Elba's commitment to the film gives it more psychological weight than it might deserve. Nothing will surprise you in how “Beasts” unfolds except for how engrossing it manages to be.
“Beast,” a Universal Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for violent content, bloody images and some language. Running time: 93 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Creem, which billed itself as “America's only rock ‘n’ roll magazine” during two decades of existence that ended in 1989, is being revived next month.
The return is a remarkable story of persistence by J.J. Kramer, who was bequeathed the magazine at age 4 upon the death of his father, founder Barry Kramer. It will reappear during far different times, with a marketing plan that the late writer Lester Bangs or makers of the fake “Boy Howdy” beer could hardly conceive of.
The first new issue, a glossy quarterly, is due out in September and only available to people who spend $79 for a subscription.
Founded in Detroit, Creem was the impish, slightly rude younger brother of Rolling Stone. The name was an intentional misspelling of the rock band Cream, one of the first editor's favorites.
Though known best for Motown soul, Detroit was also a rock ‘n’ roll hotbed with artists like MC5, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger. Hard rocking bands, and then the onslaught of punk, provided the magazine's backbone in its 1970s heyday.
Creem was an incubator of writing talent like Dave Marsh, Robert Christgau, Lisa Robinson, Cameron Crowe and Greil Marcus.
Rock stars weren't put on a pedestal in Creem, and its reviews could be nasty — along with sexist and profane. Bangs was the toughest, and his feud with Lou Reed was legendary. Creem poked fun at a stuffy Dewar's scotch profiles ad campaign by picturing artists holding beer cans emblazoned with a “Boy Howdy” logo drawn by cartoonist Robert Crumb.
In a 2019 documentary about the magazine, former R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe recalled first seeing Creem while in high school detention, realizing that he'd found the perfect gang of misfits.
“Buying Creem was a little bit like buying Playboy,” actor Jeff Daniels said in the documentary. “You didn't want your parents seeing either one of them.”
Kramer's death from a drug overdose in 1981 marked the beginning of the end. His son was named in the magazine's masthead as a preschool “chairman of the board.” Barry Kramer's widow, Connie, as publisher and acting on her son's behalf because he was a minor, sold the bankrupt publication in 1985. Creem ceased publishing four years later.
With all the bravado of a 9-year-old, J.J. Kramer remembers telling his mother he would get it back some day.
“I've really spent most of my adult life trying to get to this point,” he told The Associated Press in advance of the revival. “It's something I felt like I had to do. There's a magnet that draws me to Creem. It's almost like it was predetermined in a way that I couldn't fight it.”
Kramer regained control of Creem, although it took several years. It helps that he's an intellectual property attorney.
Now he's chairman, again, and has put together a plan for the revival along with John Martin, a former Vice publisher who is CEO of Creem Entertainment. The idea is to make Creem the centerpiece of a media company that includes podcasts, merchandise and branded entertainment.
“Why is there not a Creemfest?” Martin asked. “That's something that sounds like it should exist and it will exist.”
Yet it's not the 1970s anymore. Rock ‘n’ roll is no longer as influential in culture as it once was; popular music is dominated by rap and pop. The music press is as diffuse as music itself. The well-made rock ‘n’ roll glossies on the market, like Mojo or Uncut, are British-based.
Kramer and Martin believe there's still room for a publication that pulls rock ‘n’ roll fans together, from people who like HAIM to fans of Metallica. The world also needs people who can write about the genre with attitude, Martin said.
“When was the last time you laughed when you read about music?” Martin said.
While Bangs, who died in 1982, is no longer around, there are many new voices important to the current scene, some working on forums like Substack, he said.
The first issue's mix of articles speaks to Creem's intended breadth. For nostalgists, there's an excerpt of a never-published book on the Who, a reevaluation of a 1972 rock album put out by the Osmonds and a revival of the “Stars' Cars” feature with Slash and his wheels. There are stories on newer artists of various popularity levels like Mac DeMarco and Amyl and the Sniffers and personalities from rap and R&B like Lil Aaron and KeiyaA.
Samir Husni, founder and director of the Magazine Media Center, said he's already paid for a subscription and is impressed by the new business plan. Plenty of people remember Creem fondly and would be curious about a reboot, he said.
“They are looking for customers who count, instead of counting customers,” Husni said.
That said, magazine revivals are more likely to fail then succeed, he said. A brand may have value, but not if people think time has passed it by. Husni said Creem may have to rethink its plans not to offer the magazine on newsstands or in bookstores.
The revival has been draining physically, emotionally and mentally, Kramer said. There were a number of times he could have — maybe should have — walked away, he said.
But he and Martin said they are convinced there is a market for the reimagined Creem, and they have the right plan to reach it.
“We're not a cover band,” Kramer said. “We are pulling this magazine and brand forward.”
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