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Houston vs. Miami (FL): Betting Trends, Record ATS, Home/Road Splits - Sweet 16
The No. 5 Miami Hurricanes (27-7) are 6.5-point underdogs for their Sweet 16 matchup against the No. 1 Houston Cougars (33-3) on Friday at 7:15 PM as the NCAA Tournament continues live from T-Mobile Center and airing on CBS. The over/under in the matchup is set at 138.5.
Houston vs. Miami (FL) Odds & Info
- Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
- Time: 7:15 PM ET
- TV: CBS
- Where: Kansas City, Missouri
- Venue: T-Mobile Center
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Houston Betting Records & Stats
- Houston and its opponents have gone over 138.5 combined points in 13 of 33 games this season.
- Houston has had an average of 131.4 points in its games this season, 7.1 fewer than this matchup's total.
- The Cougars are 17-16-0 ATS this season.
- Houston has entered the game as favorites 29 times this season and won 26, or 89.7%, of those games.
- Houston has a record of 24-2, a 92.3% win rate, when it's favored by -300 or more by bookmakers this season.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that Houston has a 75% chance to win.
Houston vs. Miami (FL) Over/Under Stats
Additional Houston Insights & Trends
- Houston is 3-7 against the spread and 9-1 overall over its past 10 contests.
- The Cougars have hit the over in four of their last 10 outings.
- The Cougars put up only 3.3 more points per game (74.9) than the Hurricanes give up (71.6).
- Houston is 14-6 against the spread and 22-0 overall when scoring more than 71.6 points.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Flooding likely worsened by climate change has submerged one-third of Pakistan’s territory and left 33 million of its people scrambling to survive, according to Pakistan’s prime minister, who says he came to the United Nations this year to tell the world that “tomorrow, this tragedy can fall on some other country.”
In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Shahbaz Sharif exhorted world leaders gathered for their annual meeting at the General Assembly to stand together and raise resources “to build resilient infrastructure, to build adaptation, so that our future generations are saved.”
The initial estimate of losses to the economy as a result of the three-month flooding disaster is $30 billion, Sharif said, and he asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday to hold a donors’ conference quickly. The U.N. chief agreed, Sharif said.
“Thousands of kilometers of roads have been smashed, washed away — railway bridges, railway track, communications, underpasses, transport. All this requires funds,” Sharif said. “We need funds to provide livelihood to our people.”
Sharif, the brother of disgraced former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, took office in April after a week of turmoil in Pakistan. He replaced Imran Khan, a cricket star turned politician who was one of the country’s highest-profile leaders of the past generation and retains broad influence. Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote after 3½ years in office.
While climate change likely increased rainfall by up to 50% late last month in two southern Pakistan provinces, global warming wasn’t the biggest cause of the country’s catastrophic flooding, according to a new scientific analysis. Pakistan’s overall vulnerability, including people living in harm’s way, was the chief factor.
But human-caused climate change “also plays a really important role here,” study senior author Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College of London. said earlier this month.
Whatever the case, Sharif said the impact on his country is immense. More than 1,600 people have died, including hundreds of children. Crops on 4 million acres have been washed away. Millions of houses have been damaged or completely destroyed, and life savings have disappeared in the devastating floods triggered by monsoon rains.
Framing Pakistan as a victim of climate change worsened by other nations’ actions, Sharif said Pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of the carbon emissions that cause global warming.
“We are,” the prime minister said, “a victim of something we have nothing to do with.”
MONEY AND FOOD
Even before the floods began in mid-June, Pakistan was facing serious challenges from grain shortages and skyrocketing crude oil prices sparked mainly by Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and the war that has followed. Sharif said skyrocketing prices have put the import of oil “beyond our capacity,” and — with the damage and destruction from the massive flooding — solutions have become “extremely difficult.”
Pakistan may have to import about a million tons of wheat because of the destruction of farmland. He said it could come from Russia, but the country is open to other offers. The country also needs fertilizer because factories involved in their production are closed.
Sharif said the country has “a very robust, transparent mechanism already in place” to ensure that all aid items are delivered to people in need. In addition, he said, “I will ensure third-party audit of every penny through international well-reputed companies.”
The Pakistani leader said he met top officials from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and appealed for a moratorium on loan repayments and deferment of other conditions until the flood situation improves.
“They sounded very supportive,” Sharif said, but he stressed that a delay “can spell huge consequences” — both for the economy and for the Pakistani people.
RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORS
One dimension of grain purchases taps into one of Pakistan’s most existential issues — its relationship with neighboring India.
Would Pakistan consider buying grain from India if needed? Sharif said that notion is impeded by “a legal bottleneck” — Kashmir, the Himalayan territory claimed by both countries but divided between them. It has been at the center of two of the four wars India has fought with Pakistan and China.
“India is a neighbor, and Pakistan would very much like to live like a peaceful neighbor with India,” Sharif said. “But that has certain prerequisites. India has to understand that unless and until the burning issue of Kashmir is resolved through peaceful talks … like peaceful neighbors, with the sincerity of purpose, we will not be able to live in peace.”
“And that is a great shame and embarrassment,” he said. “Because in this day and age, we need our resources to feed our people, to educate them, to provide job opportunities, to provide health opportunities. India can’t afford to spend money on buying ammunition and defense equipment. Nor can Pakistan.”
On the other side of Pakistan, to the west, sits Afghanistan — a place that shares geography, strategic interests and much ethnic heritage with Sharif’s nation. Sharif said its Taliban rulers, who have been in power for a year, have “a golden opportunity to ensure peace and progress” for the people by adhering to the Doha Agreement, which the nation’s previous, more internationally minded government signed in February 2020 with former U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration.
The Taliban should provide equal opportunities including education through college for girls, job opportunities for women, respect for human rights, and for that Afghan assets should be unfrozen, the prime minister said.
The Doha Agreement called for the United States to withdraw its forces, which current President Joe Biden did in a chaotic pullout as the Taliban were taking over the country in August 2021. The pact stipulated commitments the Taliban were expected to make to prevent terrorism, including obligations to renounce al-Qaida and prevent Afghan soil from being used to plot attacks on the U.S. or its allies as it was before 9/11.
If the Taliban signed the agreement, Sharif said, “they must respect it.”
“This is what law-abiding, peace-loving international community, including myself, expect from them,” he said. “And let’s work together in that direction.”
US-PAKISTANI RELATIONS
Relations between Pakistan and the United States have vacillated between strong and tenuous for more than a generation. After 9/11, the two were allies against extremism even as, many asserted, elements within Pakistan’s army and government were encouraging it.
Today, former prime minister Khan’s anti-American rhetoric of recent years has fueled anger at the United States in Pakistan and created some setbacks in ties.
In the interview, Sharif said his government wants “good, warm relations” with the United States and wants to work with Biden to “remove any kind of misunderstanding and confusion.”
In careful language that reflected his efforts to balance international and domestic constituencies, he sought to distance himself from Khan’s approach — and to reaffirm and restore the kind of ties that he said the people he represents would want.
“What the previous government did, in this behalf, was most uncalled for, was detrimental to Pakistan’s sovereign interests,” Sharif said. “It was definitely not in line with what ordinary Pakistanis would believe and expect.”
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Body found during search for missing 4-year-old girl in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) - Memphis Police recovered a body in North Memphis while searching for a missing girl.
The body was found on Caldwell Avenue at 11:50 p.m. Thursday, and police say it is a juvenile girl.
Memphis police have been investigating for 24 hours in the search for a 4-year-old girl Sequoia Samuels.
Officers have not confirmed the found body to be Sequoia.
Police say two people, a man, and a woman are in custody.
Sequoia went missing early Thursday morning.
Police said she was last seen on camera after 3 a.m.
Her parents noticed she was missing after 6 a.m. and called the police.
There was a massive search effort Thursday.
Departments including Memphis police, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations worked together in an effort to locate Sequoia.
There were several concerns with her disappearance because her young age and health issues, as her family said Sequoia had a feeding tube.
The search lasted overnight in the area near Caldwell Avenue.
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Walt Nauta, an aide to Donald Trump, has been indicted on federal criminal charges connected to the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
Nauta was hit with six charges including conspiracy to obstruct, withholding a document or record and scheme to conceal, according to the federal indictment that was unsealed Friday afternoon.
Nauta, Trump's butler and body man — whose legal bills are being paid by a Trump political organization — had come under scrutiny by investigators over his shifting accounts of whether he moved boxes of documents at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida at his urging.
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As a House panel holds its first hearing outlining what took place during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Republicans are pointing the finger at Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The hearing will start at 8 p.m. Thursday, marking an unprecedented prime-time meeting televised on most major news outlets.
Republicans are accusing Pelosi of not working to bolster security at the Capitol complex ahead of the invasion of the building. The insurrection forced members of Congress, Vice President Mike Pence, staff, and media to relocate to a secure location. It also interrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election for several hours.
"If they really believed in getting to the truth, they would have kept Jim Banks and Jim Jordan on the committee to ask those questions and get the truth,” said Rep. Steve Scalise, the House minority whip.
However, part of their argument hinges on accusations that Pelosi waved off National Guard assistance before the insurrection. According to the Associated Press, Pelosi would have had little control over requesting National Guard assistance. The AP reported that the decision to request additional resources comes from the Capitol Police Board, which includes the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol.
“On January 6th, the Speaker, a target of an assassination attempt that day, was no more in charge of Capitol security than Mitch McConnell was. This is a clear attempt to whitewash what happened on January 6th and divert blame,” Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for Pelosi told The Associated Press in an email.
The National Guard arrived at the Capitol hours after the insurrection started. Guard members stayed at the complex for several months.
There is also no evidence that Pelosi, nor McConnell, made any efforts to block additional security at the Capitol.
Republicans also criticized Pelosi for not permitting several Republicans from joining the committee. The panel includes two Republicans, including a former member of House GOP leadership. Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, the committee’s lone Republicans, both voted to impeach President Donald Trump.
While Republicans promised to issue a report of their own highlighting the security failures on Jan. 6, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy refused to say who he think won the 2020 presidential election.
McCarthy himself has become a target of the committee’s investigation. He has reportedly rejected a subpoena. Democrats are interested in McCarthy’s contact with the president around the time of the riot. | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/republicans-point-finger-at-pelosi-ahead-of-jan-6-committee-hearing | 2022-06-09 18:53:30 | 0 | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/republicans-point-finger-at-pelosi-ahead-of-jan-6-committee-hearing |
The gift card for everything in BLUETTI
LAS VEGAS, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BLUETTI E-Gift Card has gone live to boost the website's shopping experience. It's a quicker way to pay and save more while making purchases in BLUETTI online store.
Benefits at a glance
- Gifts for all
- Easy for use
- Valid for life
Customers can purchase it to treat themselves or as a gift to someone special on a special day like a birthday or Christmas by sharing the Gift Code. Use it to buy power stations, power banks, expansion battery packs, solar panels, accessories, and more. There's no need to make a rush deal since BLUETTI E-Gift Card has no expiration date.
How to purchase a BLUETTI E-Gift Card?
BLUETTI E-Gift Card displays in virtual and multiple denominations are available. First-time purchasers will get added bonuses when purchases reach a certain limit.
Another solution to help is that BLUETTI E-Gift Card supports installment payments. So users can buy it anytime they want and pay later.
Double BLUETTI Bucks can also be earned. They will be earned both when the E-Gift Card is purchased and redeemed, which will be updated within 3 days after the purchase.
Though anyone is eligible to buy a BLUETTI E-Gift Card (no additional processing fees will be charged), discounts are exclusive for VIPs and may vary based on VIP tiers. Please refer to the following chart:
Instructions to redeem BLUETTI E-Gift Card online
Step 1
A Gift Code will be delivered via email once the purchase is made. Click "View gift card" to check the value and Gift Code. The card is ready to use.
Step 2
Enter the Gift Code at the checkout page and the value of the E-Gift Card will be deducted from the total order until it reaches zero. If the order amount exceeds the value, the difference can be paid with an additional payment method as the checkout page indicates. If the amount of the order is less than the balance, the rest will remain in the card for future redemption.
Step 3
Current balance will be updated after each purchase. Customers need to buy another E-Gift Card as they can't load the balance.
* Not redeemable at BLUETTI resellers, crowdfunding platforms, or for cash, and no resale, refunds, or exchanges, except as required by law. At this time, the ONLY way to buy and redeem BLUETTI E-Gift Cards is via its online store https://www.bluettipower.com/. BLUETTI reserves the right to change any terms and conditions regarding the E-Gift Card. For assistance, contact vip@bluettipower.com.
James Ray, the marketing director of BLUETTI, said, "When it comes to presents, recently a lot of people prefer to buy a gift card than other conventional gifts. We roll out this new BLUETTI E-Gift Card to ensure the recipients are flexible to buy a gift they'll really treasure while helping to prevent unwanted presents from ending up as landfills."
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Beware of gift card scams. Keep the Gift Code private and never display it to someone unknown in any way since that may result in potential loss or stealing. The value of the E-Gift Card will not be replaced in such cases.
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With over 10 years of industry experience, BLUETTI has tried to stay true to a sustainable future through green energy storage solutions for both indoor and outdoor use while delivering an exceptional eco-friendly experience for everyone and the world. BLUETTI is making its presence in 70+ countries and is trusted by millions of customers across the globe. For more information, please visit BLUETTI online at www.bluettipower.com.
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New study by biosafety company R-Zero yields crucial findings in the fight against virus
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As concern about the spread of Monkeypox heightens, the results of a new study being released today by biosafety company R-Zero find its UV-C tech is 99.996% effective in neutralizing the virus on surfaces.
The study, conducted by a third-party laboratory, measured the impact of R-Zero's Arc device (which delivers hospital-grade disinfection using UV-C) against a Monkeypox virus surrogate, commonly studied in laboratories as a model poxvirus and almost identical to Monkeypox. The study found that at a distance of 8 feet, Arc demonstrated a 99.996% reduction in the surrogate after a single 7-minute cycle.
"While harder to transmit from most surfaces, the Monkeypox virus can still pose a threat, lingering on surfaces for hours to days and can survive in linens, clothing and on environmental surfaces, particularly in dark, cool, and low humidity environments. This study makes it clear that certain UV-C tech can neutralize Monkeypox on most surfaces," said Dr. Richard Wade, Chief Scientist for R-Zero, and a leading expert in toxicology and microbiological contamination.
R-Zero's Arc uses hospital-grade UV-C to disinfect air and surfaces. The technology leverages 254nm UV-C light to destroy microorganisms' DNA/RNA quickly and is currently being used in schools, hospitals, restaurants, senior communities and many industries throughout the United States.
To learn more about how the Monkeypox virus spreads and the role of UV-C technology in containing it, read our FAQ.
About the study: The study was designed to simulate consumer use and was conducted by Microchem, a leading microbiology laboratory, following the modified procedures outlined in the American Society of Test Materials (ASTM) test methods for Standard Practice for Determining Antimicrobial Efficacy of Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Against Microorganisms on Carriers with Simulated Soil (ASTM E3135-18).
About R-Zero:
R-Zero is the first biosafety technology company dedicated to making our shared indoor spaces safer, healthier, and more productive. Backed by Mayo Clinic and the earliest investors in Google, Amazon, Tesla, and SpaceX, R-Zero is dedicated to developing the most effective and innovative disinfection technologies to reduce the spread of microorganisms in the built environment. Combining space utilization sensor technology, AI, ML, and IoT-connected hardware, R-Zero's intelligent biosafety platform enables organizations to create and maintain healthier indoor environments. Today, the company's sustainable, IoT-enabled disinfection technologies enable safer, healthier indoor spaces for hundreds of thousands of people across both public and private sector organizations without using chemicals. R-Zero's system of connected biosafety technologies provides greater visibility, automation, and even smarter risk reduction within the indoor spaces where people spend their time. R-Zero is backed by leading venture capital firms DBL Partners, World Innovation Lab, and SOSV/HAX; Mayo Clinic; and thought leaders from hospitality, sports, commercial real estate, impact, and other industries. For more information, visit www.rzero.com.
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Teacher disarms 12-year-old boy who allegedly fired gun in class
FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (WRAL) - A North Carolina middle school teacher says more needs to be done after she was forced to disarm a 12-year-old student who allegedly shot a gun in her classroom.
It’s a teacher’s worst fear: a student with a gun inside a classroom. For Lynn Guilliams, a language arts teacher at Fuquay-Varina Middle School, that fear became a reality last week.
On Thursday morning, a 12-year-old boy allegedly fired a gun in class, hitting a window.
Guilliams says she never heard the gunshot, just the screams of other teachers telling her to get out of the hall and into her classroom.
“I was shooing the students into the corner, so they could get away from the windows and crouch down. There was one student sitting in his assigned seat, and he was just looking at me. I said, ‘Come on, you need to get in the corner. Let’s go.’ And he bent down and picked up a gun,” she said.
Guilliams says the student never threatened her or pointed the gun at anyone.
“I said to him, ‘What is that?’ knowing full well what it was. But then, he said, ‘A gun.’ And I said, ‘You stay right there. I’m taking it right now.’ And I walked over and took it away from him. He didn’t fight me,” she said.
As the teacher took the gun away, she smelled gunpowder.
“I said, ‘Why does it smell?’ He pointed directly behind him, and he said, ‘I just shot the window,’” she said.
Only then did Guilliams notice the bullet hole and the shattered glass. The gun had been fired just moments before she and her students rushed in.
“I said, ‘Why?’ And he said, ‘Because I hate this school and everything in it,’” she said.
Guilliams says she stayed with the student until police arrived. She thinks the bullet hole in the window was a cry for help.
“I believe if he had truly wanted to harm a person, or persons, he had plenty of opportunity,” she said.
The 12-year-old student was taken into custody and has been served with a juvenile petition.
Seth Lanterman-Schneider, a 39-year-old man, is facing charges for failing to properly store the gun used in the shooting.
Even as others returned to school Monday, Guilliams says she needs more time and therapy before she’s willing to step back into her classroom. She also says more needs to be done to keep incidents like this from happening.
“As a society, as Americans, we need to do better. We need to do better, and we need to do more,” she said.
She also said schools, including counselors, nurses and teachers, are being asked to do more and more with too few resources.
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Agatha becomes a hurricane in the eastern Pacific
By Haley Brink, CNN meteorologist
Agatha has strengthened becoming a hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph, according to the latest update from the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season is forecast to continue strengthening until landfall across the southern Mexican coast on Monday.
Agatha currently has sustained winds of 75 mph and is 200 miles west-southwest of Puerto Angel, Mexico.
A hurricane warning is in effect for Salina Cruz to Lagunas de Chacahua. Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Salina Cruz eastward to Boca de Pijijiapan and Lagunas de Chacahua westward to Punta Maldonado.
Tropical storm conditions are expected to arrive across southern Mexico tonight with hurricane conditions arriving in the warning area tomorrow.
“Storm surge could produce coastal flooding near and to the east of where the center passes the coast in areas of onshore winds,” the National Hurricane Center said. “The surge may be accompanied by large and destructive waves.”
In addition to storm surge, heavy rains from Agatha will hit portions of southern Mexico by Sunday into Tuesday night.
“The heaviest rain is forecast across the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where 10 to 16 inches are expected but isolated totals up to 20 inches is possible,” the hurricane center said.
After crossing land, the remnant low of a dissipated Agatha could reemerge into the southern Gulf of Mexico by the middle of this week.
The National Hurricane Center has highlighted a 30% chance of development over the next five days across the region.
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By TERRY SPENCER
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The judge overseeing jury selection for a man who murdered 17 people at a Florida high school declared that the process will start over Monday, conceding that she should have questioned 11 potential jurors who said they would not follow the law before she dismissed them.
In granting the motion filed by Nikolas Cruz’s prosecutors over the strong objection of his attorneys, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer nullified two weeks of work by prosecution and defense lawyers, forcing them to begin the entire process anew Monday. As a result, almost 250 potential jurors who had said they could sit for a four-month trial will not be called back next month for further questioning. More than 1,200 candidates had been screened.
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Missing California man's body found in Yosemite National Park creek
Hayden Klemenok had reportedly bent down to wet his face on a hot day
The body of a man who went missing in Yosemite National Park before the Fourth of July holiday was found over the weekend.
Hayden T. Klemenok, of Petaluma, California, vanished on July 2 while backpacking with a group at Upper Chilnualna Falls.
The National Park Service said the 24-year-old went missing shortly after entering the fast-moving Chilnualna Creek near the trail junction.
That section of the creek is about a dozen miles south of Yosemite Valley.
Klemenok's body was found on Sunday and recovered on Monday.
The cause of the San Diego State University graduate's death remains under investigation, Yosemite National Park spokesperson Scott Gediman told The Associated Press.
Klemenok's sister, Taylor McKinnie, said in a statement on Facebook that his cause of death is "presumed to be an accidental drowning."
She said while officials had notified the family her brother had been located on Sunday, it took another 24 hours to formally recover him "due ot the complexity of his location."
25-YEAR-OLD RHODE ISLAND MAN DIES AFTER FALLING FROM WATERFALL IN COLORADO
"We will never stop loving our Hayden, and today, are finally able to say we are all leaving Yosemite ‘together,'" McKinnie wrote.
"My beautiful son, you were a light in so many lives," their mother, Michelle Klemenok, wrote on her Facebook page. "I will miss you and love you forever."
Klemenok’s parents told The San Francisco Chronicle that his friends said the day of the accident was hot, and that Hayden had gotten down on all fours to wet his face. However, his hands slipped and he went into the water.
"It’s the worst experience any parent or family should go through," she told the paper.
Authorities have warned that rivers, streams and lakes are extremely hazardous this year due to massive runoff from winter snowpack.
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The water is so cold that a person can reportedly lose muscle control within minutes.
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Creating positive conversations around health with your children can provide a lifetime of benefits. Hy-Vee Kidsfit Fitness Director Daira Driftmeyer shares details about a great program that helps get that going.
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IHSAA Baseball Sectionals Information:
Host schools will announce playing schedules which will then be added to the online brackets at MaxPreps.com the week before the tournament begins.
Sectional games begin Wednesday, May 24, and continue through Memorial Day (Monday, May 29), with regionals on Saturday, June 3.
This year’s state tournament has a different format than in previous years as the regional round and semi-state round have essentially switched.
The four state championship games will be played at Victory Field in Indianapolis, home of the Triple-A franchise Indianapolis Indians, for the 25th year overall. This year’s games will be played in a doubleheader format on Friday, June 16 and Saturday, June 17.
Sectionals Dates: May 24-29, 2023. Admission: $7 per session; $15 all sessions (All session tickets may be provided for tourneys with three or more sessions). Children age 5 and younger admitted free.
Home Team: The second-named team in each pairing is the designated home team except when they advance by virtue of a bye. Exception: In six-team sectionals, the teams drawing the bye will play in the second semifinal game (Game 4) and will be the visitor in the championship game.
IHSAA Baseball Sectional Pairings:
Class 4A
Sectional 7 at Kokomo (6 Teams)
G1: Logansport vs. Kokomo.
G2: Harrison (West Lafayette) vs. Lafayette Jefferson.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: McCutcheon vs. Marion.
Championship: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Class 3A
Sectional 17 at Griffith (8 Teams)
G1: Griffith vs. Hanover Central.
G2: Rensselaer Central vs. Andrean.
G3: River Forest vs. Calumet.
G4: Boone Grove vs. Highland.
G5: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G6: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Championship: G5 winner vs. G6 winner.
Sectional 20 at Northwestern (6 Teams)
G1: Western vs. North Montgomery.
G2: Twin Lakes vs. West Lafayette.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: Northwestern vs. Frankfort.
Championship: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Sectional 25 at Crawfordsville (6 Teams)
G1: Crawfordsville vs. Tri-West Hendricks.
G2: Danville Community vs. Western Boone.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: Lebanon vs. Monrovia.
Championship: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Class 2A
Sectional 35 at Delphi Community (6 Teams)
G1: Seeger vs. Carroll (Flora).
G2: Benton Central vs. Lewis Cass.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: Clinton Prairie vs. Delphi Community.
Championship: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Class 1A
Sectional 52 at Caston (6 Teams)
G1: West Central vs. North White.
G2: Caston vs. Southwood.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: Northfield vs. North Miami.
Championship: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Sectional 53 at Tri-County (6 Teams)
G1: Rossville vs. South Newton.
G2: Frontier vs. Tri-County.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: Clinton Central vs. Faith Christian.
Championship: G3 winner vs. G4 winner.
Sectional 54 at Lafayette Central Catholic (6 Teams)
G1: Lafayette Central Catholic vs. Attica.
G2: North Vermillion vs. Covington.
G3: G1 winner vs. G2 winner.
G4: Riverton Parke vs. Fountain Central.
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Premier lawsuit settlement company says applications are on the rise for individuals presently serving time for crimes they did not commit
NEW YORK, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal-Bay LLC, the Presettlement Funding Company, announced some good news for victims of wrongful imprisonment cases. Last month, a high-profile exoneration was granted to Muhammad Aziz, a man falsely convicted in the murder of human rights leader Malcolm X. Mr. Aziz spent two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit. He has since filed suit against the city of New York to the tune of $40MM, and experts believe the lawsuit will be found in Mr. Aziz's favor.
Numerous plaintiffs with similar cases hope to fare as well. Many claims of wrongful imprisonment are marked by false arrest, excessive force, and coerced confessions. Many of these instances have caused physical as well as lasting psychological harm to the victims. The unscrupulous police, faulted prison systems, and cities that hosted them have already been forced to pay countless millions in damages with many more cases yet to be heard.
Chris Janish, CEO commented, "Legal-Bay has been a pioneer in legal funding for wrongful conviction cases for many years now, particularly in New York and California. Our legal team knows how to evaluate these cases quickly, and in fact have obtained quick funding approvals up to $1MM for individuals who were recently released from prison and wanted to start a new life immediately."
If you or a loved one require an immediate cash advance from your wrongful imprisonment lawsuit, please visit the company's website HERE or call 877.571.0405.
Legal-Bay is currently funding loans for settlements in the following cases: unlawful incarceration, false imprisonment, wrongful conviction, prosecutorial misconduct, police brutality, false arrest, excessive force, prison rape or sexual assault, as well as all personal injury lawsuit claims.
Legal-Bay's loans for lawsuits program is designed to provide immediate cash in advance of a plaintiff's anticipated monetary award. The non-recourse cash funding—sometimes referred to as loan on lawsuit or loan for settlement—is risk-free, as the money doesn't need to be repaid should the recipient lose their case. Therefore, the settlement loan is less of a loan, and more of a cash advance.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green was ejected from a playoff game after stomping on the chest of Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis.
The play happened in the fourth quarter of the Kings’ 114-106 win in Game 2 of the first-round series Monday night after Stephen Curry grabbed a defensive rebound.
With the Warriors pushing the ball up court and Sabonis on the ground, Green took a hard step right on Sabonis’ chest. Sabonis stayed down for a few minutes as officials reviewed the play.
“My leg got grabbed,” said Green, referring to a play in Game 1 with Malik Monk. “Second time in two nights. Referees just watch it. I have to land my foot somewhere. I’m not the most flexible person, so it’s not stretching that far.”
Sabonis was called for a technical foul for grabbing Green’s leg and Green was given a flagrant-2 foul that led to an automatic ejection.
“We’re both fighting for the rebound,” Sabonis said in a postgame interview on TNT. “We fell on each other. Stuff happens. It’s basketball. We’ve got to move on to the next play.”
Kings coach Mike Brown said Sabonis was set to undergo X-rays to check on his ribs and lungs after the game.
“Obviously, we hope our brother is OK,” teammate De’Aaron Fox said. “We hope he’s not injured. Even just outside of basketball, to fracture a rib or puncture a lung, that’s a serious injury. So we just hope for the best right now.”
During the review, fans in Sacramento yelled derogatory chants toward Green, who egged them on by waving his hands, holding a hand to his ear calling for louder cheers and standing on a chair.
“I was just having fun,” Green said. “It’s a fun game and fun atmosphere to play in. It’s fun.”
This isn’t the first playoff infraction for Green, who got suspended for one game during the 2016 NBA Finals after accumulating too many flagrant fouls in the playoffs that season. He was also ejected from a playoff game against Memphis last season.
Green has been called for six flagrant fouls and 27 technical fouls in 147 career playoff games.
Now the question will be whether the play warrants any additional suspension or punishment.
“It’ll be interesting to see with what the NBA does after they review it,” Brown said.
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For decades, American planners have cut neighborhoods in half. And now Richmond, Va., is exploring possible plans for a park to reconnect its most famous Black neighborhood. Jahd Khalil from VPM News reports.
JAHD KHALIL, BYLINE: A park gazebo in the Jackson Ward neighborhood is walking distance to history. America's first Black bank was chartered here, an insurance company, too. Doug Wilder, America's first elected Black governor, went to school here. But Cliff Chambliss and about 30 others weren't going to see those sights.
CLIFF CHAMBLISS: So the goal for today, though, is a prayer vigil.
KHALIL: It's fall, but it's still warm enough for cicadas to buzz. They eventually get drowned out by Interstate 95.
CHAMBLISS: Homes were demolished. Families were displaced. Communities were broken up, businesses destroyed. And this is the cause.
KHALIL: In the 1950s, a highway split the neighborhood in half. Now, with a new grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Richmond is studying how a park built over the interstate could stitch together the neighborhood. Maritza Pechin is Richmond's deputy director for equitable development.
MARITZA PECHIN: So one of the things that I have come to learn when I'm working in Jackson Ward or other communities that have had, like, pretty traumatic history, is constantly talking about the history.
KHALIL: Step by step, residents built. Rosa Bowser developed night classes. Oliver Hill and civil rights lawyers built their practices. It was a wealthy community with everything they needed. Then the interstate destroyed a significant piece of it.
PECHIN: If you don't talk about the history, people assume that you don't know it or that you are kind of skirting it to the side.
KHALIL: Jackson Ward is still a centerpiece for Black entrepreneurship and culture. Successes despite that destruction haven't been evenly distributed though. Today there's twice as much unemployment north of the freeway, and incomes are a third of those south of it. So Pechin says community skepticism of government investments is valid.
PECHIN: Because in the past, those investments have led to them being displaced.
KHALIL: In Richmond, 7,000 people were forced out. Kia Player's family was in 1957.
KIA PLAYER: And then these are the four girls in front of the steps at 904 Turpin Street.
KHALIL: Player has a photo of the little girls on their mother's lap. They're the first of her great grandparents' 13 children.
PLAYER: After church, you know, everyone would come over from church and eat dinner. My grandmother sold fried chicken and buttered rolls.
KHALIL: Player said the family's compensation wasn't even half of the house's value. Today homes in Jackson Ward are rising in value fast.
PLAYER: It's not just about the land that was lost but the communities that were broken up. There's no way to, like, give that back.
KHALIL: Experts say transit funding needs to be backed up with money for affordable housing. Kathryn Howell is a professor of urban planning at Virginia Commonwealth University.
KATHRYN HOWELL: We know from decades of research, frankly, that transit projects really tend to facilitate gentrification. Park projects facilitate gentrification.
KHALIL: At the March last fall, Janis Allen discussed another concern. She's the president of the historic Jackson Ward Neighborhood Association and said reconnecting doesn't equal repair for lost wealth and scattered communities.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
JANIS ALLEN: So if we're going to make amends, it has to go a little bit further than just, quote, "reconnecting" Jackson Ward.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Thank you.
ALLEN: All right. Thank you.
(APPLAUSE)
KHALIL: Forty-five communities were awarded $185 million. Buffalo got money to start construction on an interstate cap. And Kalamazoo's grant is to build more walkable streets. Richmond's money is for more planning. In Jackson Ward, that means continuing to talk to its residents and those who were displaced. For NPR News, I'm Jahd Khalil in Richmond.
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MIAMI, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- World leaders have been honored as Ambassadors of Freedom for their exceptional role in making "Sound of Freedom" the most popular and impactful movie of the year.
This powerful film, based on true events, centers on the rescue of children from the harrowing clutches of child trafficking. Released on July 4th, the movie marks the anniversary of the rescue of one of the children depicted, making it even more poignant in its message.
Thousands of Ambassadors of Freedom played a pivotal role in the astonishing success of "Sound of Freedom," driving the movie to achieve remarkable milestones:
- The #1 Movie in the United States on July 4th, the anniversary of the rescue of one of the children depicted in the movie
- Generated nearly $130 million at the box office
- Seen by over 10 million people
- Earned a perfect audience rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
- Achieved "mission impossible" by beating "Indiana Jones" and "Mission Impossible" at the box office
- Supported a movement that has inspired the rescue of thousands of children
These achievements are a testament to the collective influence of the Ambassadors and the public's fervent response to the urgent issue of child trafficking.
An open letter has been penned to express gratitude and recognition to these courageous leaders who contributed to the movie's triumph and enabled it to fulfill its crucial mission -- to raise awareness about the abhorrent reality of child trafficking. The Ambassadors' unwavering support has galvanized an army of individuals committed to fighting for the liberation of the estimated 2 million children currently enslaved and subjected to multiple daily instances of sexual exploitation.
"Sound of Freedom" is not just a movie; it's a movement to free millions of innocent lives from the clutches of modern-day slavery. Already, this movement has led to the successful rescue of thousands of children from unimaginable suffering and abuse.
The open letter also invites leaders from all walks of life, including U.S. President Joe Biden, Congress members, Supreme Court Justices, global dignitaries, celebrities and influential community leaders worldwide, to join the ranks of the "Ambassadors of Freedom" and stand united against child trafficking. It includes heartfelt videos made by some of the esteemed Ambassadors of Freedom, passionately promoting the life-saving mission of "Sound of Freedom." These videos confirm the film's impact and validate the urgent need to address the global crisis of child trafficking.
Thousands of Ambassadors of Freedom have selflessly engaged in helping to promote this mission. Among them, many have shared their thoughts on this worldwide crisis. Click the links to see their videos and hear what they have to say.
Alejandro Sanz, Alex Sirvent, Carlos Ponce, Chuck Liddell, Dana White, Enrique Santos, Jen Spry, Jewel, Jorge Masvidal, Karolina Kurkova, Luis Fonsi, Maria Elena Salinas, Mel Gibson, Melky Jean, Pamela Silva, Tony Robbins
Download the PDF file to read the full open letter. Other inspiring videos created by Ambassadors of Freedom will continue to be published at ShareFreedom.com.
About Eduardo Verástegui:
Eduardo Verástegui is an investor, filmmaker, philanthropist, and passionate opponent of child trafficking. He gained international recognition with his inaugural film, "Bella," which won TIFF (the biggest international film festival) and received the prestigious Golden Apple award from Rotten Tomatoes.
His most recent film, "Sound of Freedom," opened as the #1 Movie in the U.S. on July 4th, and generated nearly $125M at the box office after the first three weeks in theaters. After 10 million people saw the film, audiences rated it with a perfect score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Through his foundations, Viva Mexico and the Sound of Freedom Foundation, he tirelessly serves and supports the most vulnerable members of society, making a tangible impact in the fight against child trafficking and exploitation. Verastegui received the Presidential Service award for his contributions to making the world a better place.
About Angel Studios:
Angel Studios is the home of stories that amplify light. Through its platform, tens of thousands of "Angel" investors choose which titles the studio will create, fund, and distribute. Angel Studios allows creators and audiences to form passionate communities around their creative projects, making the story behind the story as important as the final project itself. The studio's first projects -- The Chosen and Dry Bar Comedy -- have earned billions of views around the world. Learn more at Angel.com.
About "Sound of Freedom":
"Sound of Freedom" is an inspiring film based on true events, shedding light on the heartbreaking reality of child trafficking and the heroic efforts to rescue innocent lives from the clutches of exploitation. The movie aims to raise awareness about the global crisis of child trafficking and ignite a movement that will put an end to this heinous crime.
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Italy is set to usher in its first far-right government since World War II. Military-age men flee Russia after a partial mobilization is enacted. Later today NASA is going to try to move an asteroid.
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SEATTLE, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a new data dashboard (linked here), the Washington Poison Center (WAPC) notes increasing calls about adolescents who have ingested substances for self-harm or suspected suicide reasons. These trends are a continuation of increases occurring before the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a reinforcement of the pandemic's impact on youth mental health.
When comparing patient data in 2021 to 2019, the WAPC documented substantial increases in self-harm or suspected suicide ingestions among younger ages: the number of patients ages 6-12 years increased 58%, with most patients between the ages of 10 and 12. In the context of all 6-12 year old patients helped in 2021, self-harm or suspected suicide ingestions comprised 10%, or 300 out of 3,089 patients. Unintentional poison exposures, such as accidents with non-pharmaceutical products and medication errors, were far more common. Such a considerable increase in self-harm or suspected suicide, however, highlights the importance of monitoring children and adolescents of all ages for changes in their mood or behavior, engaging in discussion on their lives and mental health, and seeking help if any warning signs appear.
The majority of WAPC's adolescent self-harm or suspected suicide patients are female, and females drive the increasing trend in calls. In 2021, WAPC treated 2,344 female adolescents ages 6-17 years, compared to 431 male adolescents. From 2019 to 2021, the number of females increased 48%, while the number of males increased 3%.
Common over-the-counter and prescription medications comprise the top substances used by adolescents in self-harm or suspected suicide attempts. Safe storage and disposal are accordingly essential prevention and harm reduction strategies that caregivers need to implement in their homes: lock up over-the-counter and prescription medications, and dispose of any unneeded or unwanted medications. Find a secure medicine return location at takebackyourmeds.org.
Warning signs that an adolescent may be thinking of suicide:
- Withdrawing from friends and family
- Increased substance use or other high-risk behaviors
- Talking about feeling empty, hopeless, or being a burden
- Giving away important possessions
- Researching ways to kill themselves
If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Adolescents may also call or text Teen Link at 1-866-TEENLINK (833-6546). Call the WAPC (1-800-222-1222) if someone has ingested a substance for self-harm or suspected suicide reasons. If the individual is unresponsive, call 911.
Media contact: mryuk@wapc.org.
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A Christian U.S. Postal Service worker who requested to not work on Sundays won a unanimous victory at the Supreme Court on Thursday in a decision that makes it easier for employees to seek religious accommodations.
The decision clarifies a decades-old precedent that governed when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires businesses to accommodate their employees’ religious beliefs.
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote that businesses must provide an accommodation unless it would impose “substantial increased costs.”
“We think it is enough to say that an employer must show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business,” Alito wrote.
Gerald Groff, who said working on Sundays violates his religious beliefs to rest during the Sabbath, sued the U.S. Postal Service after being disciplined for missing scheduled Sunday shifts to deliver Amazon packages.
The Postal Service originally did not require Groff to work on Sundays until it contracted with Amazon to deliver packages on that day of the week.
The postmaster accommodated Groff for some time by either skipping him in the Sunday rotation or automatically scheduling an extra person. The agency later ended the accommodation and instead asked for volunteers in Groff’s place. When no one volunteered, Groff received repeated discipline for more than 24 absences over two years.
Groff was expected to soon be fired, so he instead resigned and sued the agency.
The court’s decision effectively revives his attempt, but the justices sent his case back to a lower court for additional consideration based on the clarified standard.
“I am grateful to have had my case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and that they have decided to uphold religious liberty,” Groff said in a statement. “I hope this decision allows others to be able to maintain their convictions without living in fear of losing their jobs because of what they believe.”
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, businesses must reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious observance unless it would impose an “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.”
In 1977, the Supreme Court in Trans World Airlines Inc. v. Hardison defined “undue hardship” as “more than a de minimis burden,” the Latin term for minimal.
Both Groff and the Justice Department agreed the standard shouldn’t be taken literally. But they sparred before the justices on the new verbiage the court should replace it with and whether Hardison should be outright overturned.
After turning away multiple requests to revisit the decades-old standard in the past, the court has now heightened the test — but did not overturn the Hardison decision — adding to a string of decisions that have expanded religious rights under the First Amendment and other laws.
Groff wanted the 1977 decision overturned and replaced with a “significant difficulty or expense” standard. Various religious groups, 10 Republican members of Congress and 22 Republican state attorneys general backed Groff’s appeal before the high court.
The Justice Department urged the court to instead update and reinforce Hardison, warning that explicitly disavowing it would disrupt decades of case law that has relied upon it. The American Postal Workers Union, 11 Democratic state attorneys general and various atheist groups supported the Justice Department.
The sides also sparred over whether businesses can cite burdens on other employees when rejecting an accommodation request. The lower court had ruled that exempting Groff from working on Sundays would have imposed burdens on his coworkers by disrupting the workflow and diminishing employee morale.
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Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates ambitious entrepreneurs who are building a better world
ALLEN, Texas, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Tom Brennan, CEO and CTO of Sol-Ark, was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 Southwest Award winner. The Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards program is one of the preeminent competitive awards for entrepreneurs and leaders of high-growth companies. Tom Brennan was selected by an independent judging panel made up of previous award winners, leading CEOs, investors and other regional business leaders. The candidates were evaluated based on their demonstration of building long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, growth and impact, among other core contributions and attributes.
"I am incredibly honored to be named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 Southwest Award winner, and humbled to be recognized among such an esteemed group of entrepreneurs," said Tom Brennan, CEO and CTO of Sol-Ark. "This award is a testament to the hard work and dedication from my business partner and COO, Bhawna Oberoi, as well as the entire Sol-Ark Team who is committed to transforming energy storage solutions and delivering energy independence to families and businesses."
Sol-Ark is a global leader in energy storage systems. Powered by a vast ecosystem comprising thousands of distributors, installers, EPCs, integrators, and battery manufacturers, Sol-Ark is transforming energy resilience for homes and businesses.
For nearly four decades, EY US has honored entrepreneurs whose ambition, courage and ingenuity have driven their companies' success, transformed their industries and made a positive impact on their communities. Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners become lifetime members of a global, multi-industry community of entrepreneurs, with exclusive, ongoing access to the experience, insight and wisdom of program alumni and other ecosystem members in over 60 countries — all supported by vast EY resources. Since 1986, the Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized more than 11,000 US executives.
As a Southwest award winner, Tom Brennan is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2023 National Awards. The National Award winners including the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will be announced in November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation's most prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies. The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will then move on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in June 2024.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has honored the inspirational leadership of entrepreneurs such as:
- Andreas Bechtolsheim and Jayshree Ullal of Arista Networks
- Daymond John of FUBU
- Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani, Inc.
- Holly Thaggard and Amanda Baldwin of Supergoop!
- Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company
- James Park of Fitbit
- Jodi Berg of Vitamix
- Joe DeSimone of Carbon, Inc.
- Kendra Scott of Kendra Scott LLC
- Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn Corporation
- Sheila Mikhail of AskBio
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards include presenting sponsors PNC Bank, N.A.; SAP America; and the Kauffman Foundation. In the Southwest, sponsors also include Platinum sponsors Colliers International, Donnelly Financial Solutions and Haynes and Boone LLP, Gold sponsor Roach Howard Smith & Barton, and Silver sponsors D CEO, Marquee Events and The Slate.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Entrepreneur Of The Year® is the world's most prestigious business awards program for unstoppable entrepreneurs. These visionary leaders deliver innovation, growth and prosperity that transform our world. The program engages entrepreneurs with insights and experiences that foster growth. It connects them with their peers to strengthen entrepreneurship around the world. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the first and only truly global awards program of its kind. It celebrates entrepreneurs through regional and national awards programs in more than 145 cities in over 60 countries. National Overall Award winners go on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® title. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.
About EY Private
As Advisors to the ambitious™, EY Private professionals possess the experience and passion to support private businesses and their owners in unlocking the full potential of their ambitions. EY Private teams offer distinct insights born from the long EY history of working with business owners and entrepreneurs. These teams support the full spectrum of private enterprises including private capital managers and investors and the portfolio businesses they fund, business owners, family businesses, family offices and entrepreneurs. Visit ey.com/us/private.
About EY
EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
EY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. Information about how EY collects and uses personal data and a description of the rights individuals have under data protection legislation are available via ey.com/privacy. EY member firms do not practice law where prohibited by local laws. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com.
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Amy Hartzer, Director of Marketing, Sol-Ark
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To honor working moms this Mother's Day, the company expands support for employees
DENVER, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - According to the Center of Disease Control (CDC), more than 80% of infants are breastfed across the U.S., and many of those nursing mothers are faced with challenges of around-the-clock pumping sessions and milk storage while traveling for work. To help combat these challenges, PCL Construction delivered positive news to its employees this Mother's Day: complimentary milk shipping for traveling employees who are nursing.
"While some nursing mothers can rely on their breast milk inventory back home to keep their baby fed, many mothers like me produced 'just enough' breast milk to keep up with their baby's daily consumption," said Kate West, PCL legal counsel, U.S. operations. "Knowing that PCL understands the challenges of working mothers by providing dependable breast milk options to ship milk overnight to their child's caregiver shows how much PCL values its employees."
Many mothers are also faced with challenges of air travel with breast milk. Although TSA policies around breast milk have come a long way in the last decade, and is now regarded as 'medically necessary liquids', there are still strict rules around packaging, screening and carry-on policies that can involve opening breast milk and exposing it to potentially unsanitary conditions, not to mention the lengthy time spent at TSA.
"My first day back from all three of my maternity leaves required airline travel. I tried to keep my milk supply cold through ice packs and barely-cold hotel mini-refrigerators but often, the milk would spoil or the way I tried to transport it didn't meet TSA guidelines. I vividly remember being in tears as I had to dump my 'liquid gold,'" said Stephanie McCay, PCL's director of U.S. communications. "I am proud of this new initiative and the work PCL continues to do to support working mothers."
Support for working mothers continues to be a factor that sets PCL apart as a certified Great Place to Work. PCL is also on the 2023 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list. Read more about the company's top-tier benefits, 100% employee ownership model and culture here.
PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and in Australia. These diverse operations in the civil infrastructure, heavy industrial, and buildings markets are supported by a strategic presence in more than 30 major centers. Together, these companies have an annual construction volume of more than $6 billion USD, making PCL one of the largest contracting organizations in North America. Watch us build at www.pcl.com.
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MILWAUKEE, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TKO Miller is pleased to announce the sale of Curtis Learning, LLC, an outsourced scientific education and training provider, to Renovus Capital Partners. Jon Curtis, the Company's founder, and other senior management team members will retain significant ownership in Curtis Learning. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
About Curtis Learning
Founded in 2009, Curtis Learning has established itself as one of the nation's premier scientific training agencies. Headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, Curtis Learning is a scientific education and training provider to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The Company designs and develops customized programs to educate and train sales teams, medical science liaisons, clinical nurse educators, patient services professionals, and pre-commercial teams on the science behind the world's most complex medical treatments across all phases of the product launch continuum, including pre-approval preparation, market introduction, and growth and label expansion. Curtis Learning also develops educational resources for healthcare providers and patients. For more information, please visit www.curtislearning.com
About Renovus Capital Partners
Founded in 2010, Renovus Capital Partners is a lower middle market private equity firm specializing in the Knowledge and Talent industries. From its base in the Philadelphia area, Renovus manages over $1 billion across its three sector focused funds and other strategies. The firm's current portfolio includes over 20 U.S. based businesses specializing in education and training, healthcare services, technology services and professional services. Renovus typically partners with founder-led businesses, leveraging its experience within the industry and access to debt and equity capital to make operational improvements, recruit top talent, pursue add-on acquisitions and oversee strategic growth initiatives. For more information, please visit www.renovuscapital.com
About TKO Miller
TKO Miller, LLC is an independent, advisory-focused, middle-market investment bank. With over 130 years of collective transaction experience, TKO Miller provides merger and acquisition and financial advisory services for privately held and private equity-owned businesses nationwide, with a special focus on family- and founder-held businesses.
TKO Miller aims to bring value to clients by combining outstanding people with a results-oriented, flexible approach to transactions. Our services include company sales, recapitalizations, asset divestitures, and management buyouts. TKO Miller has a generalist focus but has served clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, business services, consumer products, and industrial products and services. For more information, visit our website www.tkomiller.com
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NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Habitas, the rapidly growing, experience-led eco-hospitality brand with homes on three continents, continues its extraordinary trajectory with nine new awards recognizing the brand's excellence in sustainable design, innovation, and a community-based ethos.
Captivating both guests and the travel industry and media, Habitas shines as the recent recipient of prestigious accolades such as Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards for Habitas Tulum, Bacalar, and Namibia; Architectural Digest's 2022 Hotel Awards for Great Design for Habitas Bacalar; and the AHEAD Americas Awards 2022 for Habitas Bacalar as Best Resort. The impressive streak of awards since June 2022 includes:
- Condé Nast Traveler's Bright Ideas in Travel - Habitas brand - 2022 Winner in this year's inaugural awards
- Architectural Digest's 2022 Hotel Awards - Habitas Bacalar Winner of Great Design Awards
- Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards - Habitas Tulum, Bacalar, & Namibia
- National Geographic Traveller UK's 2022 Hotel Awards - Habitas Bacalar runner-up for Castaway Category
- Marie Claire UK Sustainability Awards - Habitas Bacalar; Winner of Spa Category
- AHEAD Americas Awards 2022 - Habitas Bacalar; Winner of Best Resort category
- World Spa Awards 2022 - Habitas AlUla winner
- Hotelier Middle East Awards 2022 - Habitas AlUla for Breakout Property of The Year category
- World Travel Awards 2022 - Habitas AlUla winner for Middle East's Leading New Resort 2022
The wide range of accolades comes quickly on the heels of other prestigious awards bestowed to Habitas properties including multiple Best New Hotel-led awards for Habitas Bacalar and AlUla in both Travel + Leisure's It List and Condé Nast Traveler's Hot List 2022. The brand's first Middle East property, Habitas AlUla, was further named winner of Hospitality Design Awards 2022 for Best Lifestyle Hotel, praised for its spectacular, sustainable-led design in the heart of AlUla's desert valley.
"It is tremendously gratifying to see our Habitas homes recognized by such a distinguished panel of hospitality experts and our guest community," said Oliver Ripley, Habitas Co-Founder & CEO. "The travel world seeks luxury and great service, unparalleled food and wine, but they also seek to leave a minimal footprint on the destinations they visit, and feel part of a community, enriched by their experiences. We do it differently and have proven that there is a better way to build a sustainable property that is both stylish and luxurious."
Co-founded by entrepreneur Oliver Ripley along with his partners Kfir Levy and Eduardo Castillo in 2016, Habitas is a global hospitality group that draws conscious travelers seeking new experiences built around human connection, sustainability and local community empowerment. The highly innovative concept is the reason why the brand was recently recognized in Condé Nast Traveler's 'Bright Ideas in Travel,' and the previous year's recognition as the winner of Travel + Leisure's Global Vision Awards.
The brand's impressive growth includes four additional properties due to open in late 2022 and an additional 25 projects in the pipeline. Habitas' newest property, Caravan Agafay, located 45 minutes from Marrakech, Morocco, opened October 1, as an immersive glamping experience for travelers seeking adventure, discovery, and human connection. Habitas will further launch its newest properties later this year in new locations including Todos Santos and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, as well as a second site in Morocco.
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About Habitas
Habitas is a global hospitality group created by a diverse community of people seeking human connection, authentic experiences and a better future together. Redefining the concept of traditional luxury in hotels, Habitas' mission is to change people's lives through creating deeper human connections and to make a lasting impact on local communities through education, employment and the creation of sustainable micro-economies. With Homes currently located in Mexico, Namibia and Saudi Arabia, Habitas is expanding globally across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia using its technology-driven approach and innovative vertically integrated model.
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WELL is a purpose-driven organization, that is at the "heart of healthcare" and is committed to practitioner enablement, safeguarding patient data, and a healthy place to work!
VANCOUVER, BC, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies (TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) ("WELL" or "the Company"), a digital health company focused on positively impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to announce the release of its inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting the company's ESG practices and performance. The report covers the year ended December 31, 2021, and details WELL's ongoing commitment to empowering practitioners and positively impacting health outcomes while highlighting the company's commitment to improve and enhance its practices around environmentalism, social awareness, and governance.
"We are proud to introduce our inaugural ESG Report that showcases our commitments, efforts, and responsibilities to drive real positive societal change for all of our stakeholders," said Hamed Shahbazi, CEO and Founder. "WELL's outlook remains positive across all aspects of our business, including delivering on our strategic ESG priorities. For 2022, our goals include augmenting our ESG performance indicators, continuing to build a best-in-class employee experience, and continuing to deliver on our purpose to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their patients".
Shane Sabatino, Chief People Officer at WELL, and the executive responsible for WELL's ESG Strategy said, "This report represents a significant step forward in our commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance issues and provides stakeholders clarity on how we will accomplish these goals. People are at the heart of everything we do, ESG will continue to grow as a key focus for WELL, and we look forward to providing future updates and building upon our sustainable strategies".
WELL's 2021 ESG Report is guided by several global ESG standards, including Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Health Care Delivery and Software & IT Services Industry Standards, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The report provides a detailed view of ESG matters that the Company believes are the most relevant to our stakeholders while ensuring there is a foundation of good governance in all that we do, including the following ESG Priorities (highlights and achievements):
- Helping practitioners deliver improved health outcomes, WELL is a tech-enabled healthcare company that empowers physicians with a powerful line-up of digital tools and services we refer to as our practitioner enablement platform.
- Our offering provides all the benefits of a fully managed hybrid environment inclusive of brick and mortar and/or virtual delivery capabilities including online and offline medical office assistant support, billing & back-office management, and referral workflow support. It ensures healthcare providers can optimize their schedules so they can spend more time with their patients and less time doing administrative work.
- WELL's digital offerings reduce wait times, travel times (reducing GHGs), and other traditional socio-economic barriers that are often associated with accessing in-person care.
- Safeguarding the privacy and security of our patients' data while empowering them to proactively leverage their health information is a core element to achieving our mission to positively impact health outcomes.
- Continued investment into WELL's cybersecurity approach to build and improve capabilities
- 100% of WELL's EMR Group is certified in ISO27001, ISO13284 or ISO13485
- WELL had zero reportable data breaches in 2021
- Diversity is highlighted in the ESG report as an invaluable strength at WELL. Currently WELL has 70% of Senior Executive team members representing a visible minority. Furthermore, WELL is committed to achieving at least 33% female representation on its board by the end of 2022.
- Developed a comprehensive COVID-19 response to protect patients and staff in all WELL owned clinics, which resulted in zero COVID-19 outbreaks
- Continued support for a range of well-being initiatives, available to all team members and business units, to help team members stay physically and mentally healthy in a psychologically safe work environment
The full-length report can be found at esg.well.company and on the investor relations section of the company's website.
Per: "Hamed Shahbazi"
Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
WELL is a technology enabled healthcare company whose overarching objective is to positively impact health outcomes to empower and support healthcare practitioners and their patients. WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services. WELL uses this platform to power healthcare practitioners both inside and outside of WELL's own omni-channel patient services offerings. As such, WELL owns and operates Canada's largest network of outpatient medical clinics serving primary and specialized healthcare services and is the provider of a leading multi-national, multi-disciplinary telehealth offering. WELL is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WELL" and on OTCQX under the symbol "WHTCF". To learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.
This news release may contain "Forward-Looking Information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, including, without limitation: information regarding the Company's goals, strategies and growth plans; including but not limited to WELL's diversity target for the board. Forward-Looking Information are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. Forward-Looking Information generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "may", "should", "will", "could", "intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or "continue", or the negative thereof or similar variations. Forward-Looking Information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by those forward-looking and the Forward-Looking Information does not guarantee of future performance. WELL's statements expressed or implied by these Forward-Looking Information are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and conditions, many of which are outside of WELL 's control, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-Looking Information is qualified in its entirety by inherent risks and uncertainties, including: direct and indirect material adverse effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; adverse market conditions; risks inherent in the primary healthcare sector in general; regulatory and legislative changes; that future results may vary from historical results; inability to obtain any requisite future financing on suitable terms; any inability to realize the expected benefits and synergies of acquisitions; that market competition may affect the business, results and financial condition of WELL and other risk factors identified in documents filed by WELL under its profile at www.sedar.com, including its most recent Annual Information Form. Except as required by securities law, WELL does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, events or otherwise.
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US: Federal aid to Florida for Hurricane Ian tops $2B
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal aid to Florida for recovery from Hurricane Ian has topped the $2 billion mark, Biden administration officials announced Monday, one day before the midterm elections.
Most of the money was provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. About $710 million went directly to households, and another $322 million went to the state.
The U.S. Small Business Administration furnished $631 million in disaster loans, and the National Flood Insurance Program has paid out $351 million in claims.
“When I visited Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian, I said we would be there as long as it takes to rebuild,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “That is what we’re doing.”
Biden toured the damage from the hurricane with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last month, a rare moment of detente for the two politicians. The hurricane killed more than 100 people and caused billions of dollars in damage.
The president has also campaigned for DeSantis’ Democratic opponent, Charlie Crist, who is trying to return to the governor’s office.
DeSantis has a solid lead in public polls.
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Police said they were contacted by a resource officer at Springdale Public Schools who was concerned about the teen’s welfare when he showed up at school with a piercing in one ear. He told fellow students his dad had been drunk when he “put him in a choke hold and shoved the piercing in his ear,” police said in a press release.
Police went to the home of Jeremy Sherland, the father of the teen, to question him about what happened. While he admitted piercing his son’s ear, he refused to answer more questions or let police talk to his son, the department said. They left and came back with an arrest warrant.
Officers’ second visit to the home is partially captured on video. When they asked Sherland to step outside, officers said he refused and blocked the doorway.
The video shows an officer push Sherland back into the house. Multiple officers hold him against the wall and place him in handcuffs, as a woman can be heard asking for an explanation. The person recording, who identifies himself on TikTok as the teenage boy in question, asks, “Why are you doing this?”
When officers state the charge, Sherland laughs and says, “Body art without a license!”
The video then shows Sherland being placed into the back of a police car as the woman and the person recording follow officers into the street.
“Piercing his son’s ear without a license takes three cops, four cops?” the woman asks as the officers walk away. “They busted in my front door. This is the boy right here.”
“I wanted my ears pierced,” adds the person recording, whose face isn’t shown.
Tontitown police said Sherland violated the Arkansas law of “performing body art on a person under 16 years of age, regardless of parental consent,” which is a felony.
Sherland is also charged with “Endangering the Welfare of a Minor, Refusal to Submit to Arrest, and Obstructing Governmental Operations.”
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The Boston Celtics keep finding the correct answer for almost any situation.
The Charlotte Hornets are in a different mode, chasing an elusive winning path.
Those trends will collide when the teams meet Saturday night at Charlotte, N.C., with a second meeting set for Monday.
The Celtics carry a five-game winning streak into the game, while the Hornets have lost three in a row and six of their past seven.
The contrast can best be seen in the nearly reverse records of the teams with the Celtics at 31-12 and the Hornets at 11-32.
“This is not a league where you can make a lot of mistakes and win,” Hornets coach Steve Clifford said. “It’s just not.”
The Celtics, who have the best record in the NBA, have shown the ability to make adjustments.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown have been doing the bulk of the hard work for the Celtics, yet Brown (adductor) didn’t play in Thursday night’s 109-98 victory at Brooklyn. Tatum is scoring a team-best 30.6 points per game, fifth best in the NBA, while Brown is at 27.2 points.
Tatum had a team-best 20 points Thursday in a balanced approach, with that total matching his lowest in a span of a month. Tatum’s 31.8-percent shooting night, his lowest since Dec. 2, was not an issue against the Nets.
“You just find the open guy,” guard Marcus Smart said.
With so many options, the Celtics used the night to let others spread their wings as six players scored in double figures.
“I trust those guys,” Celtics interim coach Joe Mazzulla said. “To have a great team, you’ve got to have guys that have the (knowledge) to know when it’s their time to step up.”
Payton Pritchard found the right time to contribute with nine points on 4-of-7 shooting, including some key shots in the second half.
“I think we showed what our team can be with our mindset around our depth and our toughness,” Mazzulla said.
Combined with reserve Malcolm Brogdon, the duo of Derrick White and Pritchard gave the Celtics backcourt a boost. Brogdon is averaging a career-low 23.5 minutes per game in his first season with Boston, but his savvy contributions, which include 13.6 points per game, have been valuable.
The Celtics seem comfortable with numerous player combinations on the court.
“They do a lot of things to help this team win that go unnoticed,” Smart said of the cast of reserves.
Tatum poured in 35 points in a 140-105 romp over the visiting Hornets on Nov. 28.
Brown’s status is questionable for Saturday’s game.
The issues impacting the Hornets are widespread.
“If you want to give yourself a chance to win and build a game where you could eventually be a playoff-type team, there’s things you have to be good at,” Clifford said. “Like for instance, the free-throw game, that’s a big deal. The turnover game, that’s a big deal. The rebounding game, that’s a big deal. Those are things that speak to discipline of play.”
The teams meet again Monday afternoon at Charlotte, where the Hornets have lost eight of their last nine outings. It marks the second consecutive set of games against the same opponent for the Hornets, who were swept this week in Toronto.
Thursday night’s 124-114 setback for the Hornets at Toronto included point guard LaMelo Ball’s season-high 32 points.
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BEIJING, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yiren Digital Ltd. ("Yiren Digital" or the "Company") (NYSE: YRD), a leading digital personal financial management platform in China, today announced that it has received a letter dated December 1, 2022 from the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") informing that the Company has successfully regained compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standard that requires a minimum average closing price of $1.00 per share over a consecutive 30 trading-day period.
On November 7, 2022, the Company was notified by the NYSE that it had fallen below the minimum share price listing requirement in connection with the performance of trading price of its American depositary shares (the "ADSs"), and that the Company had six months following receipt of the notice to regain compliance with the minimum share price requirement.
At the closing of trading on November 30, 2022, the average closing price of the Company's ADSs for the previous consecutive 30 trading-day period was above $1.00 per ADS. Accordingly, the Company has regained compliance with the NYSE minimum share price listing requirement.
About Yiren Digital
Yiren Digital Ltd. is a leading digital personal financial management platform in China. The Company provides customized, asset allocation-based holistic wealth solutions to China's mass affluent population as well as provides retail credit facilitation services to individual borrowers and small business owners.
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Lebanese Central Bank governor no-show in Paris corruption probe
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s embattled Central Bank governor failed to appear before French prosecutors on Tuesday to be questioned on corruption charges, officials said.
A European judicial team from France, Germany and Luxembourg is conducting a corruption probe into an array of financial crimes, including illicit enrichment and alleged laundering of $330 million, implicating the Lebanese governor, Riad Salameh.
Salameh, 72, who has held his post for almost 30 years, has repeatedly denied all allegations against him. He has insisted that his wealth comes from his previous job as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch, inherited properties, and investments.
The three European governments in March 2022 froze over $130 million in assets linked to the probe. During a visit to Lebanon in March, the European delegation questioned Salameh about the Lebanese Central Bank’s assets and investments outside the country, a Paris apartment — which the governor owns— and his brother Raja Salameh’s brokerage firm Forry Associates Ltd.
According to a senior Lebanese judicial official, Riad Salameh never received his summons from Paris despite several attempts to deliver it. The official said a Lebanese judge sent the notice to Salameh several times over the past two weeks, but it was returned each time because the governor was not present at the Central Bank to receive the notice.
Salameh’s whereabouts were not known and the Central Bank did not immediately respond to requests on Salameh’s failure to show up in Paris.
The date for Tuesday’s hearing was set last month and Lebanon lifted a travel ban on Salameh, who is also being investigated at home. In the probe in Lebanon, Beirut’s Public Prosecutor Raja Hamoush in late February charged Salameh, his brother and a close associate with corruption, including embezzling public funds, forgery, illicit enrichment, money-laundering and violation of tax laws.
Once hailed as the guardian of Lebanon’s financial stability, Salameh is being increasingly blamed for the country’s financial meltdown. Many say he precipitated the economic crisis, which has plunged three-quarters of Lebanon’s population of 6 million into poverty.
Salameh’s term ends in July and while there is no apparent successor, the veteran governor has said in television interviews that he plans to step down.
Separately, lawyers representing Salameh, his brother and close associate Marianne Hoayek filed requests this week in Beirut demanding the suspension of the European probe until Lebanon’s own investigation of the governor is completed.
Another Lebanese judicial official said the defense team argued this would ensure proper administration of justice and that a parallel European probe violates Lebanese judiciary’s sovereignty.
Both Lebanese officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation.
According to Nadim Houry, who heads the Paris-based think tank Arab Reform Initiative, Salameh’s latest actions and those of Lebanese political and financial leaders, are attempts to stall the European probe.
Salameh “still enjoys protection from the political class, which is deeply connected to the judiciary in Lebanon,” Houry said. “They know they cannot manipulate the judicial process in France the way they do in Lebanon.”
Paris authorities could still press charges or try to pursue Salameh through Interpol, Houry added.
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Warning that democracy itself is in peril, President Joe Biden called on Americans Wednesday night to use their ballots in next week’s midterm elections to stand up against lies, violence and dangerous “ultra MAGA” election disruptors who are trying to “succeed where they failed” in subverting the 2020 elections.
This is no time to stand aside, he declared. “Silence is complicity.”
After weeks of reassuring talk about America’s economy and inflation, Biden turned to a darker, more urgent message, declaring in the final days of midterm election voting that the nation’s system of governance is under threat from former President Donald Trump’s election-denying lies and the violence Biden said they inspire.
The president singled out “ultra MAGA” Republicans — a reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — calling them a minority but “driving force” of the Republican Party.
Pointing in particular to last Friday’s attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Biden said that Trump’s false claims about a stolen election have “fueled the dangerous rise of political violence and voter intimidation over the past two years.”
“There’s an alarming rise in the number of people in this country condoning political violence or simply remaining silent,” Biden added. “In our bones we know democracy is at risk, but we also know this: It’s in our power to preserve our democracy.”
The president’s speech — focused squarely on the rite of voting and the counting of that vote — amounted to a plea for Americans to step back from the inflamed rhetoric that has heightened fears of political violence and challenges to the integrity of the elections. Biden was straddling two roles, speaking as both a president defending the pillars of democracy and a Democrat trying to boost his party’s prospects against Republicans.
He called out the hundreds of candidates who have denied the 2020 election result and now refuse to commit to accepting the results of the upcoming midterms.
“This driving force is trying to succeed where they failed in 2020 to suppress the rights of voters and subvert the electoral system itself,” Biden said.
“That is the path to chaos in America. It’s unprecedented. It’s unlawful. And it is un-American.”
The speech came days after a man seeking to kidnap House Speaker Pelosi severely injured her husband, Paul Pelosi, in their San Francisco home in the worst recent example of the political violence that burst forth with the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol and has continued with alarming, though less-spectacular incidents.
Election workers nationwide have questioned whether to go back to work following increased intimidation and harassment ahead of Election Day. At least five people have been charged with federal crimes for harassing workers as early voting has gotten underway.
Reports of people watching ballot boxes in Arizona, sometimes armed or wearing ballistic vests, have raised serious concerns about voter intimidation. Election officials nationwide are bracing for confrontations at polling sites. A flood of conspiracy theorists have signed up to work as partisan poll watchers.
Emphasizing that it is the first federal election since the Capitol riot and Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Biden called on voters to reject candidates who have denied the results of the vote, which even Trump’s own administration declared to be free of any widespread fraud or interference.
Biden asked voters to “think long and hard about the moment we are in.”
“In a typical year, we are not often faced with the question of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put it at risk,” he said. “But we are this year.”
“I hope you’ll make the future of our democracy an important part of your decision to vote and how you vote,” Biden added, asking Americans to consider whether the candidates they are supporting would respect the will of the people and accept the outcome of their election.
“The answer to that question is vital and in my opinion it should be decisive,” he said.
Biden also aimed to get ahead of conspiracy theories about the ongoing vote, saying Americans were voting early, by mail and by absentee ballot and it would take time to tally them “in a legal and orderly manner.” Major changes in voting in 2020 because of the pandemic prompted more early voting and mail-in voting and saw record turnout. It took five days before the results of the 2020 presidential election were final.
“It is important for citizens to be patient,” Biden said.
Some Republicans sharply criticized Biden’s remarks. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who stands to be speaker of the House if the GOP retakes control of the chamber, tweeted, “President Biden is trying to divide and deflect at a time when America needs to unite—because he can’t talk about his policies that have driven up the cost of living. The American people aren’t buying it.”
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Biden delivered his remarks from Washington’s Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol, just six days before polls close on Nov. 8 and as more than 27 million Americans have already cast their ballots.
Before the speech, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said he’s reviewed the attack on Pelosi’s husband and believes today’s political climate calls for more resources and better security for members of Congress after a massive increase in threats to lawmakers following the Capitol riot. He also made a rare call to stop the rancorous conspiracy talk that has swirled around the attack.
“Our brave men and women are working around the clock to meet this urgent mission during this divisive time,” he said in a statement. “In the meantime, a significant change that will have an immediate impact will be for people across our country to lower the temperature on political rhetoric before it’s too late.”
Biden last delivered a prime-time speech on what he called the “continued battle for the soul of the nation” on Sept. 1 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in which he condemned the “MAGA forces” of Trump and his adherents as a threat to America’s system of government.
The new remarks come as hundreds of candidates who have falsely denied the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election are on ballots across the country, with many poised to be elected to critical roles overseeing elections.
In contrast to the September remarks, which drew criticism from some corners for being paid for by taxpayers, Biden’s Wednesday night speech was hosted by the Democratic National Committee.
Many Americans remain pessimistic about the state of U.S. democracy. An October poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that just 9% of adults think democracy is working “extremely” or “very well,” while 52% say it’s not working well. | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-joe-biden-2022-election-20221103-ba627tootjfmfljtmhjjk6mpbe-story.html | 2022-11-04 04:16:31 | 1 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-joe-biden-2022-election-20221103-ba627tootjfmfljtmhjjk6mpbe-story.html |
ATLANTA (AP) — The manager for the rapper Ludacris faces a murder charge in Atlanta in connection with a June shooting.
The Atlanta Police Department said Chaka Zulu, whose legal name is Ahmed Obafemi, turned himself in to face charges Tuesday. Atlanta news outlets report that he was released on bail the same day. Police said they also secured warrants charging him with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and simple battery.
Gabe Banks, a lawyer for the longtime music executive, issued a statement expressing disappointment in the decision to bring charges. Banks said evidence clearly shows Zulu — who was injured in the incident — defended himself while being attacked by at least four other people in the June incident.
Zulu was among three people shot in the June 26 gunfire at a parking lot in the Buckhead area. One person died.
Banks’ statement said Zulu defended himself with a firearm he is licensed to carry.
“It is not lost on Mr. Zulu that someone lost his life, but had Mr. Zulu not lawfully defended himself, Mr. Zulu would have been killed that night,” the statement said.
Killed in the June shooting was 23-year-old Artez Benton, whose family described him as ambitious, hard-working and dedicated to his family. “He did everything right,” his father, Artis Benton, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution after the shooting. ” I never thought that this would be the end for him.” | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-hurt-in-june-shooting-ludacris-manager-faces-murder-charge/ | 2022-09-19 01:43:04 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-hurt-in-june-shooting-ludacris-manager-faces-murder-charge/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Agatha, the first tropical storm of the 2022 hurricane season in the Pacific, formed Saturday off Mexico’s southern coast.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Agatha continued to strengthen and is expected to become a hurricane by Sunday and head towards land.
On Saturday evening, the center of the tropical storm was located about 175 miles (280 kilometers) southwest of Puerto Angel, with winds of 60 mph (95 kph).
The storm was moving north-northwest at 5 mph (7 kph), but was expected to take a turn further northward.
A hurricane watch was issued for parts of the coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, where Agatha could make landfall by Monday, perhaps in the area around Puerto Escondido or the resort of Huatulco.
While the storm could pack winds as high as 100 mph (160 kph) at landfall, the center cited the risk of “potentially life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides” as its rains pound the mountainous terrain of Oaxaca.
Mexico’s National Water Commission said in a statement that the storm’s rains “could cause mudslides, a rise in river and stream levels and flooding in low-lying areas.”
Because the storm’s current path would carry it over the narrow waist of Mexico’s Isthmus, the center said there was a chance the storm’s remnants could re-emerge over the Gulf of Mexico.
In northern Guatemala, a woman and her six children died Saturday when a landslide engulfed their home, but the accident did not appear to be related to Agatha. | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/tropical-storm-forms-off-mexicos-pacific-coast/ | 2022-05-29 13:11:16 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/international/ap-international/tropical-storm-forms-off-mexicos-pacific-coast/ |
BEIJING, March 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zhihu Inc. ("Zhihu" or the "Company") (NYSE: ZH; HKEX: 2390), the operator of Zhihu, a leading online content community in China, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 before the U.S. market opens on March 22, 2023.
The Company's management will host a conference call at 7:00 A.M. U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 (7:00 P.M. Beijing/Hong Kong Time on Wednesday, March 22, 2023) to discuss the results.
All participants wishing to join the conference call must pre-register online using the link provided below. Once the pre-registration has been completed, each participant will receive a set of dial-in numbers, a passcode, and a unique registrant ID which can be used to join the conference call. Participants may pre-register at any time, including up to and after the call start time.
Registration Link: https://dpregister.com/sreg/10176364/f620171988
Additionally, a live and archived webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's investor relations website at https://ir.zhihu.com.
A replay of the conference call will be accessible approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live call, until March 29, 2023, by dialing the following telephone numbers:
About Zhihu Inc.
Zhihu Inc. (NYSE: ZH; HKEX: 2390), the operator of Zhihu, a leading online content community in China where people come to find solutions, make decisions, seek inspiration, and have fun. We have been dedicated to expanding our content and service offerings to enable our users to explore and enjoy "fulfilling content" (有获得感的內容) that broadens horizons, provides solutions, and resonates with minds. Since the initial launch in 2010, we have grown from a Q&A community into one of the top five comprehensive online content communities and the largest Q&A-inspired online content community in China, both in terms of average mobile MAUs and revenue in 2019, 2020, and 2021, according to CIC. For more information, please visit https://ir.zhihu.com.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and General Electric are taking steps to design a facility to dispose of PCBs in Lee, Massachusetts. It's part of the cleanup of the Housatonic River. Members of the public have expressed concerns about health and environmental risks.
At a meeting of the Citizen's Coordinating Council on Tuesday, the EPA presented sampling data showing a 99% reduction in PCBs in the sediment of the first two miles of the river south of GE's former plant, since it was cleaned up years ago.
But the focus of the meeting was on cleanup of the rest of the river — and on two reports recently submitted by GE to the EPA. One is a pre-design investigation of the GE property. The other is a conceptual design plan of the PCB disposal project.
Some at the meeting were concerned about the safety of the facility. Monica Ryan, of Lee, asked if the double liner of the proposed dump could leak.
"At what point in the planning process do they say the plan can go ahead without that assurance that this will not leak — that there's a guarantee?" Ryan asked. "My concern is that they still don't have it."
Rich Fisher, of the EPA, said the liner will adhere to the performance standards in the agency's cleanup permit.
Lee resident Clare Lahey said she is concerned about erosion and the impact on a vernal pool.
"It seems to me they are recognizing how dangerous this particular hill is with its sandy nature," Lahey said. "And they recognize that there's vernal pools there and that they will mitigate if there are soils that inadvertently slide down into these vernal pools. And that's so scary."
Dean Tagliaferro, of the EPA, said the vernal pool is not in the part of the property where the disposal facility will be constructed.
"That's not to say it's not very important, but there may be some areas that could be completely avoided," he said.
The EPA is accepting public comment on GE's plans to investigate and design the disposal facility until mid-February.
The Housatonic River Initiative and Housatonic Environmental Action League have filed an appeal of the EPA's cleanup plan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. | https://www.ctpublic.org/2022-12-15/citizens-concerned-about-public-health-environmental-risks-at-proposed-pcb-dump-in-lee | 2022-12-15 16:33:05 | 1 | https://www.ctpublic.org/2022-12-15/citizens-concerned-about-public-health-environmental-risks-at-proposed-pcb-dump-in-lee |
The future of artificial intelligence promises technology with a human touch. But is it human enough to deliver a convincing spiritual message?
Pastors and rabbis have recently discovered that ChatGPT, an AI language learning model that can spit out passable prose with just a few prompts, is not that bad at creating sermons -- a cornerstone of worship services across many religions.
Historically, these orations are based on generations of knowledge, keen textual analysis and scholarship, combined with the unique charisma and experiences of each worship leader. Sermon writing is considered an art. A divine calling, even.
Seeing a computer approximate similar works in mere seconds has led faith leaders to wrestle with an intriguing problem: Can AI replicate a truly human, spiritual message? And if it can, is the computer just that good, or does the human message need some work?
What an AI sermon sounds like
In December 2022, Rabbi Joshua Franklin gave an unusual message during a service at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in East Hampton, New York.
"I'm going to plagiarize a sermon," he told his congregation. "And you have to guess who wrote it."
Franklin then delved into an illumination on the Parashat Vayigash, a portion of the Torah that tells the story of a reconciliation between brothers.
"This is a powerful lesson for all of us, as it shows the importance of being willing to draw near to others even when it's difficult, in order to build intimacy and connection," he went on.
At the end of the roughly two minute sermon, Franklin revealed the real author to murmurs and scattered applause: ChatGPT.
"You're clapping," he said. "But I'm terrified!"
While Franklin added that he gave the language learning model a very specific prompt, and could see details in the work that wouldn't pass muster with a seasoned scholar, the experiment was received with equal parts awe and trepidation. Could the work of a faith leader -- so intimately tied to the human experience -- eventually be eclipsed by a computer?
How AI language modeling works
Popular entertainment does little to quell our human fears of an AI-generated future, one where computers achieve consciousness, ethics, souls, and ultimately humanity. In reality, artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are just convincing mimics.
When CNN asked how it works, ChatGPT supplied the following response:
"ChatGPT works using a deep learning algorithm called a transformer neural network. It was trained on a massive corpus of text data from the internet, books, and other sources. During training, the model learned to identify patterns in the data and use them to generate text that resembles human language."
"The way ChatGPT creates an original response is by using a technique called language modeling," it continued. "Language modeling is a task where the model is trained to predict the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words."
Ultimately, the response may sound human -- maybe even human enough to satisfy a crowd expecting religious enlightenment.
Some experts say it's still evident there's something missing.
"It lacks a soul -- I don't know how else to say it," Hershael York, a pastor and theology professor in Kentucky told the Associated Press.
However, because ChatGPT is "trained on," or essentially fed, innumerable pieces of text, it can do some of the work of a scholar, referencing any sacred text it's trained on in a matter of seconds.
When asked what kinds of texts it would refer to for a Christian sermon, ChatGPT was at first hesitant, stating that as an AI language model, it did not "hold personal beliefs or religious affiliations." With a slightly altered inquiry, it provided the following:
"When a language model like ChatGPT is asked to create a Christian sermon, it would typically rely on its training data and knowledge of Christian theology and practice. This includes a broad range of Christian texts, such as the Bible, commentaries, theological works, and books of sermons by other preachers."
"To create a Christian sermon, the language model would typically be given a specific topic or theme to focus on," it continued. "It would then search through its vast database of knowledge to find relevant information and examples related to that topic. This might involve identifying relevant Bible passages, theological concepts, and historical or cultural contexts that are related to the topic."
How a human sermon comes together
Sermon writing is a core skill for most worship leaders. Effective sermonists follow in the footsteps of celebrated faith leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Ozjasz Thon.
"The sermon has become the climactic element in a lot of denominations' services. A sermon is not simply teaching. It sets a precedent for understanding scripture correctly. And there's also this moment of exhortation, of asking what it says about our own lives," says Stu Strachan, an ordained Presbyterian pastor and founder of The Pastor's Workshop, a resource for Christian sermons and teachings.
"There's also more value added to a sermon as culture becomes more secular. If churches want to grow, they have to connect their teachings to modern life and modern problems," he adds.
In fact, sermons are so important that there is a thriving industry to provide tools to worship leaders to make the craft a little less taxing.
"The reality is, unless you're a pastor you have no idea what it's like to be a pastor," Strachan tells CNN. "It sounds obnoxious, but it's true, and it calls upon every aspect of who you are as a person. You are always on call, and more and more roles are foisted upon pastors. They're not just studying God's word, praying, visiting the congregation, they're expected to be CEO, CFO types who cast vision, manage staff, create strategic partnerships. There is a lot of burnout."
However, some methods of lessening the burdens can stretch the ethics of the position. Sermon ghostwriters aren't uncommon, and things can get dicey when a preacher doesn't disclose where they got their brilliant ideas.
"I think some traditions value originality more than others. That being said, if you get a ghost writer, I think most pastors would heavily frown on it," Strachan says. "However, from a practical money perspective, that's not something a lot of pastors can do. The average church congregation in the US is around 100 people, and the funds simply aren't there to pay someone to do that work for you."
Where AIs -- and humans -- fall short
ChatGPT is free for the public to use, so it's easy to experiment with its possibilities -- and its limitations. Basic inputs like "Write a sermon about X topic" return basic results with very little detail or insight. The model returns more sophisticated results when the requests include detailed themes, specific text markers and the addition of common narrative devices like personal anecdotes, cultural references and quotations.
In other words, the quality of ChatGPT's output is only as good as the prompts it receives. Even then, it has some critical shortcomings: ChatGPT and other language learning models sometimes return inaccurate, incomplete or biased information; a weakness that is stated clearly on ChatGPT's interface.
Ken Sundet Jones, a professor of theology and philosophy at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, summarized the other shortcomings he's seen in an article for the Christian nonprofit 1517.
"Even if Pastor A.I. ChatGPT were able to move beyond the sermon as a dispensation of information, it would still miss the homiletical boat because it could only operate in the realm of a hypothetical audience," he writes. "There's no particularity to what it produces and, thus, no 'for you' -ness to it."
Jones argues that the fact an AI is not human, and is not burdened at its very essence by the weight of life and death, means it cannot predict nor create something to soothe the human soul.
However, spiritual nourishment is the result of preaching at its best. Surely, like any other rhetorical art, sermon writing can be a lazy, inauthentic, and impersonal pursuit even when it's also done by a human.
A Twitter user illustrated this to amusing effect when she asked ChatGPT for a devotional loaded up with Christian-ish buzzwords like "daddy God," "covet your prayers," "hedge of protection," and "instruments of God."
The result was chaotic salad of platitudes and vague advice.
"I know AI is dangerous because this reads like something I absolutely would've heard from a Christian influencer this week," someone jokingly replied.
Exercises like these have led some faith experts through another line of logic: AI sermons lack an essential humanity. If they can produce something that can pass for someone's actual message, perhaps it, too, lacks an essential humanity.
"Creativity requires independence, insight and imagination, all abilities that ChatGPT lacks," writes Chaim Steinmetz of the Jewish Journal. "But ChatGPT is not alone in pushing platitudes and humbug; many humans do so as well. If we find that our own opinions sound a lot like ChatGPT, that is not a flaw in it. Rather, it is the product of our own failings. Like a parrot, ChatGPT forces us to hear what we actually sound like."
Regardless of what it can create, there is one more element of strong religious rhetoric that artificial intelligence knows it will always lack: an actual human to deliver the message.
"It's worth noting that while a language model like ChatGPT can provide an approximation of a sermon, it cannot replicate the full experience of a live sermon delivered by a human preacher," ChatGPT said during a conversation about how it produces sermons. "The human element of preaching, including voice inflection, emotional expression, and audience interaction, is an important part of the preaching experience that a language model cannot replicate."
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Three soldiers were killed and another was injured when two AH-64 Apache helicopters collided Thursday as they were flying back from a military training flight near Haley, Alaska, US Army officials said.
Two of the soldiers died at the scene and the third died while being transported to a hospital, according to a release from the US Army's 11th Airborne Division.
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"This is an incredible loss for these soldiers' families, their fellow soldiers, and for the division," Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, commanding general of the 11th Airborne Division, said in the release. "Our hearts and prayers go out to their families, friends and loved ones, and we are making the full resources of the Army available to support them."
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Longtime Texas Homebuilding Executive to Oversee Region
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA) ("Landsea Homes" or the "Company"), a publicly traded residential homebuilder, announced today that Vince Ruffino has been named the new President for the Texas Division of the company.
"Vince is a longtime veteran of homebuilding in Texas, which will be very beneficial as our plans for this division come to fruition this year," said Mike Forsum, president and chief operating officer, Landsea Homes. "We are fortunate to have Vince's experience and expertise leading the division as we bring our best-in-class homes to the master-planned community in Kyle, where we are developing nearly 60% of the homes available. New homebuyers will have an opportunity to experience the unique lifestyle offered in one of the fastest-growing cities in Texas."
Ruffino brings nearly three decades of homebuilding experience to Landsea Homes, joining the company after most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Operations/Division President for Richmond American Homes. Previously in Texas he served as a Division Manager for Red Door Homes in Houston after spending nearly a decade as the Vice President of Construction Operations for Chesmar Homes LP. He began his career as Director of Construction for Lennar Homes in Houston.
"I am very honored and humbled about the opportunity to lead the Texas division of one of the top public homebuilders in the nation, Landsea Homes," said Ruffino. "We have a lot of exciting work ahead of us this year. With more than 900 lots in Kyle, our homes will be the first in Texas to be equipped with our High Performance Home features, which are sure to resonate well with new homebuyers."
Landsea Homes Corporation (Nasdaq: LSEA) is a publicly traded residential homebuilder based in Newport Beach, CA that designs and builds best-in-class homes and sustainable master-planned communities in some of the nation's most desirable markets. The company has developed homes and communities in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Arizona, Florida, Texas and throughout California in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Orange County. Landsea Homes was named the 2022 winner of the prestigious Builder of the Year award, presented by BUILDER magazine, in recognition of a historical year of transformation.
An award-winning homebuilder that builds suburban, single-family detached and attached homes, mid-and high-rise properties, and master-planned communities, Landsea Homes is known for creating inspired places that reflect modern living and provides homebuyers the opportunity to "Live in Your Element." Our homes allow people to live where they want to live, how they want to live – in a home created especially for them.
Driven by a pioneering commitment to sustainability, Landsea Homes' High Performance Homes are responsibly designed to take advantage of the latest innovations with home automation technology supported by Apple®. Homes include features that make life easier and provide energy savings that allow for more comfortable living at a lower cost through sustainability features that contribute to healthier living for both homeowners and the planet.
Led by a veteran team of industry professionals who boast years of worldwide experience and deep local expertise, Landsea Homes is committed to positively enhancing the lives of our homebuyers, employees, and stakeholders by creating an unparalleled lifestyle experience that is unmatched.
For more information on Landsea Homes, visit: https://landseahomes.com/.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Adani Group vehemently objected Wednesday to allegations by short-selling firm Hindenburg Research that caused shares in its companies to plunge by as much as 8.1%.
Hindenburg issued a report late Tuesday saying it was betting against shares in companies within the Adani empire, founded by Asia’s richest man, coal magnate Gautam Adani. Businesses in the conglomerate span industries including construction, data transmission, media, renewable energy, defense manufacturing and agriculture.
Adani made a vast fortune mining coal as energy hungry India grew swiftly after its economy was liberalized in the 1990s. The market value of his companies has soared in recent years, one of the reasons Hindenburg said it judged the seven key Adani listed companies to have an “85% downside, purely on a fundamental basis owing to sky-high valuations."
Shares in Adani Transmission plunged 8.1% on Wednesday. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. sank 6.1% and other group companies fell between 1.1% to 5%. The lost market capitalization amounted to more than $9 billion, according to the Financial Times.
The Adani Group’s chief financial officer issued a statement expressing shock over Hindenburg’s report, which he called a “malicious combination of misinformation and stale, baseless and discredited allegations that have been tested and rejected by India's highest courts."
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The company is well-known for short-selling. That involves borrowing a stock one expects to lose value and selling it at its current market price with the plan to buy the same number of shares back later at a lower price. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/india-s-adani-group-shares-plunge-hit-by-17740524.php | 2023-01-25 13:22:59 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/india-s-adani-group-shares-plunge-hit-by-17740524.php |
BOSTON, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation of a disaster being declared in Florida due to Subtropical Storm Nicole, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) is expediting access to care for members across all counties.
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(Note: Only members with Blue Cross' telehealth benefit will be able to access Well Connection and only via My Blue)
About Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
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Tanker truck overturns, causing massive fuel spill in Pa.
Published: Nov. 17, 2022 at 10:54 AM MST|Updated: 1 hour ago
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (KYW) - A tanker overturned in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania overnight, causing a major fuel spill.
Officials believe all 6,000 gallons of gasoline and diesel leaked out of the tanker.
The spill forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes.
Cleanup is expected to continue throughout the day.
A middle school is being used as a shelter for displaced families.
The driver was hospitalized with a broken pelvis, clavicle and rib.
Authorities are investigating what led up to the crash.
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Union Pacific now has ratified or tentative agreements with all 13 of its labor unions on important quality-of-life initiative
OMAHA, Neb., July 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Pacific Railroad and the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) reached a tentative agreement to provide up to eight paid sick leave days to around 5,900 railroad employees.
While all Union Pacific employees receive some form of paid leave, the proposed agreement will provide SMART-TD members an additional five paid sick days annually, prorated for 2023. Beginning in 2024, they also will have the ability to convert up to three paid leave days for use as paid sick time.
If ratified by SMART-TD, Union Pacific will have paid sick leave agreements in place with all 13 of its labor unions, becoming the second railroad in the industry to reach this milestone.
"I want to thank SMART-TD leadership for their support as we work together to create an environment where employees feel valued, supported and empowered to deliver exceptional service to our customers," said Union Pacific Chairman, President and CEO Lance Fritz. "We are committed to continued collaboration with our labor partners and employees to further identify opportunities that support our best-in-class workforce."
Union Pacific and SMART-TD look forward to continuing discussions on scheduled rest, which will allow employees to have more predictable schedules and enable the railroad to better manage staffing levels.
ABOUT UNION PACIFIC
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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All-in-one cloud communications and collaboration platform took top honors from channel partners in the award criteria including technology and customer need
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Intermedia Cloud Communications, a leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration solutions to businesses and the partners that serve them, announced today that its all-in-one cloud communications product, Intermedia Unite, has been named the overall winner in CRN's prestigious 2022 Product of the Year Awards for the Enterprise Collaboration Solution category, which was evaluated by channel partners and judges from CRN. Unite was highly recognized for product quality and reliability, richness of product features/functionality, technical innovation, compatibility, and ease of integration; and, for partners themselves, the demonstrated ability to drive new revenue and resulting profit margins.
Unite is the communication and collaboration solution that helps businesses achieve more productive, efficient employee collaboration, and deliver more informed and responsive customer care and support. Users enjoy voice, video conferencing, team chat, file sharing and backup, as well as call queues, active call routing, contact directories, and many more contact center features. All are delivered and experienced on one highly reliable, secure, and deeply integrated platform.
"CRN's Products of the Year Awards are always one of the year's most talked about industry lists. Our 2022 honorees are all leading vendors who set themselves apart by their unflagging commitment to industry excellence for channel partners and their customers," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "It's a distinct honor to recognize Intermedia Unite which sets a very high bar for solution providers looking to expand their portfolio based on technological innovation, financial opportunity, and market need."
The CRN 2022 Products of the Year awards honor the leading partner-friendly products that launched over the last year as selected by the solution providers who bring these products to customers. CRN editors selected finalists in 30 technology categories among products that were launched or updated from September 2021 to September 2022. The survey received more than 5,000 product ratings from solution providers, and the product with the highest overall score in each category was named the winner.
"Intermedia is committed to delivering the tools that enable business users to collaborate and communicate easily, reliably, securely, and affordably with each other and their customers, from wherever work is happening," said Jonathan McCormick, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Revenue Officer for Intermedia. "As a partner-first company, Intermedia goes to work for over 7,300 channel partners by providing the products, programs, resources, and comprehensive support that enable them to maximize their revenue potential, brand our products as their own, and maintain ownership of their customer relationships. It is a tremendous honor to be recognized for our efforts by the partner community which we serve, as well as the team at CRN."
About Intermedia
Intermedia is a cloud communications company that helps over 135,000 businesses connect better – through voice, video conferencing, chat, contact center, business email and productivity, file sharing and backup, security, archiving, and more – from wherever, whenever. We strive to eliminate the need for multiple communications service providers with a seamlessly integrated portfolio of communications and collaboration solutions, including our flagship product Intermedia Unite®, all delivered through one highly reliable and secure platform. With month-to-month contract options, one monthly bill, one intuitive point of administrative control, and six-years running J.D. Power-certified 24/7 technical support, Intermedia is committed to providing enterprise-grade products to businesses of all sizes through a simple, Worry-Free Experience.
As a partner-first company, Intermedia goes to work for over 7,300 channel partners by providing a comprehensive set of programs, resources, and support to help them grow their revenue and maximize their success. Programs include our Customer Ownership Reseller (CORE™) model – which enables partners to resell, package, and manage Intermedia's solutions as if they were their own, while benefiting from highly attractive economic terms and maintaining ownership of their customer relationships – as well as agent models.
Intermedia is also proud to be the exclusive cloud communications platform provider for NEC, a leader in global market share for unified communications with an estimated 80+ million business phone users worldwide.
For more information about Intermedia, visit www.intermedia.com.
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650.241.3025
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MIAMI (AP) — The premier of the British Virgin Islands appeared in federal court in Miami on Friday after his arrest on cocaine-smuggling charges, while Britain’s governor of the Caribbean territory announced that a corruption inquiry found ample reason to suspend the islands’ elected government.
The arrest of Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie, 51, in Florida prompted the U.K.-appointed governor of the British Virgin Islands to release a damning report Friday from a probe into separate wide-ranging allegations of corruption.
The dramatic developments place the immediate future of the British overseas territory into doubt. The string of islands inhabited by 35,000 people east of Puerto Rico is currently under a 2007 constitution giving it limited self-governance under a governor who is the ultimate executive authority as the representative of Queen Elizabeth II.
Fahie was arrested Thursday at a Miami-area airport along with his territory’s director of ports, Oleanvine Maynard, in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency sting. Maynard’s son, Kadeem Maynard, faces the same changes in the alleged scheme.
According to a criminal complaint, Fahie and Maynard had been at the airport to meet Mexican drug traffickers, who in reality were undercover DEA agents.
A DEA confidential source had previously met with Maynard and her son after being introduced by a group of self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah operatives, according to the complaint. They started arranging plans to ship cocaine through the port at Tortola, and they both talked about involving Fahie.
“You see with my premier, he’s a little crook sometimes,” Oleanvine Maynard told the DEA source, according to the complaint.
The day of the arrest, a meeting was called to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash the British territory officials expected to receive to help smuggle cocaine from Colombia to Miami and New York, the complaint said. The money was fake.
The DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a statement these arrests show the “DEA’s resolve to hold corrupt members of government responsible for using their positions of power to provide a safe haven for drug traffickers and money launderers in exchange for their own financial and political gain.”
At a Friday hearing conducted via Zoom, Assistant U.S. Attorney Frederic “Fritz” Shadley asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman to keep both Fahie and Maynard detained prior to their trial.
Shown in a tan prison uniform, Fahie did not speak other than to state his name and date of birth and agree for the hearing to be conducted online. A bond hearing was set for next Wednesday.
Fahie’s attorney Theresa Van Vliet did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In a news conference in the British Virgin Islands capital of Road Town, Gov. John Rankin said the arrests prompted him to release — earlier than originally intended — the report of a commission of inquiry launched in January 2021 over allegations of widespread government fraud.
Rankin said the inquiry’s commissioner recommended suspending the territory’s constitution and locally elected parliamentary government for at least two years, but that a decision on that would be made in consultation with British officials.
The commission had concluded that “unless the most urgent and drastic steps are taken, the current situation with elected officials deliberately ignoring the tenants of good governance will go on indefinitely,” Rankin told the televised news conference.
The deputy premier, Natalio Wheatley, who was named acting premier this week while Fahie was said to be in Miami for a cruise conference, said he does not think it is necessary to suspend the constitution.
He said he supports a cooperation framework between the governor and government “to swiftly implement recommendations under a very tight timetable without resorting to direct rule.”
Meanwhile, Britain’s top diplomat called the arrest and drug charges “extremely concerning” and instructed the minister for overseas territories to travel immediately to the islands.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said there were already significant concerns about the deteriorating state of governance and how that left the British territory vulnerable to organized crime. Truss said the report shows substantial legislative and constitutional change is required.
At Friday’s news conference, Gov. Rankin said the inquiry concluded that millions of dollars were spent on projects that were abandoned or found to be of no public benefit. A series of contracts worth almost $1 million awarded to a former adviser of the premier were not completed, Rankin said.
“Some of them were, on their face, false,” the governor said.
The commissioner also recommended independent vetting of all customs officers and a police investigation into possible corruption in customs. There could be possible criminal prosecution in several cases, the commissioner said.
“He concludes that it’s highly likely serious dishonesty may have taken place across a broad range of government, and that there’s information that a substantial number of elected officials may be involved,” Rankin said.
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Denver’s Nikola Jokic now knows how Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid felt during two previous NBA award seasons.
Second in the MVP race — but only second-team All-NBA.
Embiid — the newly crowned MVP — headlined the All-NBA team unveiled Wednesday night. He was the first-team center, while Jokic was the second-team pick at that position. It was a reversal of the results from 2021 and 2022, when Jokic was MVP over Embiid, who then had to settle for the second-team All-NBA center spot.
And this should be the final time such a quirk happens. Starting next year, the All-NBA team will no longer be broken down by position — meaning the presumed second-best player in the NBA one season, such as Embiid in 2021 and 2022 and Jokic now, will not have to be relegated to second-team anything.
Joining Embiid on the first team were Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo at forward, and Dallas’ Luka Doncic and Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at guard.
On the second team along with Jokic were Miami’s Jimmy Butler and Boston’s Jaylen Brown at forward, and Golden State’s Stephen Curry and Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell at guard.
The third team center was Sacramento’s Domantas Sabonis, with the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James — now a 19-time selection, extending his record — and New York’s Julius Randle getting the forward spots and Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox and Portland’s Damian Lillard the guard selections.
Omitted this year after making it last year: first-teamer Devin Booker; second-teamers Ja Morant, Kevin Durant and DeMar DeRozan; and third-teamers Karl-Anthony Towns, Chris Paul, Trae Young and Pascal Siakam.
James is a 13-time first-team, three-time second-team and now three-time third-team pick. Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were all 15-time selections, tied for the second-most in NBA history.
The picks were made by a panel of 100 reporters and broadcasters who cover the NBA.
Antetokounmpo was the only unanimous selection this season as a first-teamer. Tatum got 92 first-team votes, Embiid got 87, Gilgeous-Alexander got 63 and Doncic got 60.
Gilgeous-Alexander, Mitchell, Brown, Sabonis and Fox all made All-NBA for the first time. Embiid was first-team for the first time, while Butler made the second team for the first time after four appearances on the third team.
The league has utilized the current format of picking three All-NBA teams, by position — two guards, two forwards, one center on each — since 1989. From 1956 through 1988, there were two teams picked by position; from 1947 through 1955 there were two teams picked, but with no regard for position.
More often than not, the system works without a glitch. The top finalists for MVP typically have found their way onto the All-NBA first team.
But there have been notable exceptions — often involving centers, who are vying for just the one All-NBA first-team spot instead of the two that have been available to guards and forwards.
Embiid was second in the MVP race but only second-team All-NBA in the most recent two seasons. Other examples:
— 1994-95, MVP David Robinson got the first-team nod and runner-up Shaquille O’Neal wound up as the second-team center pick.
— 1993-94, Hakeem Olajuwon won MVP and was first-team at center, while Robinson was No. 2 in the MVP race and on the second team.
— 1976-77, Bill Walton was No. 2 in the MVP race, then second-team All-NBA behind MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
— 1975-76, Bob McAdoo was second in the MVP race and didn’t even make All-NBA, with the center spots that season going to MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and third-place finisher Dave Cowens.
There have also been some split votes, albeit none under the current voting methods, where the MVP somehow didn’t make the All-NBA first team. It happened to Bill Russell in 1958, 1961 and 1962, and then to Cowens in 1973.
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This appointment further strengthens Hut 8's blue-chip executive team by adding expertise in corporate governance, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions
TORONTO, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers, supporting open and decentralized systems since 2018, is pleased to announce the appointment of Aniss Amdiss as the company's Chief Legal Officer, effective July 11, 2022. Based in Toronto, Aniss will lead Hut 8's legal and governance portfolios and serve as Corporate Secretary, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Jaime Leverton.
"Aniss is going to be an excellent addition to Hut 8's seasoned, dynamic executive team," said Jaime Leverton, Chief Executive Officer of Hut 8. "Aniss' vast experience and leadership acumen will ensure that Hut 8 continues to operate with integrity and transparency while consistently elevating our governance and compliance processes, which will truly differentiate us in a nascent, rapidly evolving industry."
Aniss brings extensive legal expertise to Hut 8, including significant experience in securities laws matters, leading acquisitions and other corporate transactions, and advising on best practices with respect to corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Hut 8, he served as Vice President, Legal, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at Greenbrook TMS Inc., a TSX and Nasdaq listed healthcare services company.
"The opportunity to move into a relatively new and incredibly exciting industry really attracted me to Hut 8, and I cannot wait to join such a high-performing leadership team," said Aniss. "Leveraging my previous experience at a growth company operating in a highly regulated industry, I look forward to making a meaningful contribution as Hut 8 continues to successfully execute on its strategy and grow as a leader in both the digital asset mining and high-performance computing spaces."
Hut 8 is one of North America's largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of business-building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain, Web 3.0 and bridging the nascent and traditional high performance computing worlds. With two digital asset mining sites located in Southern Alberta and a third site in North Bay, Ontario, all located in Canada, Hut 8 has one of the highest capacity rates in the industry and one of the highest inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any crypto miner or publicly-traded company globally. With 36,000 square feet of geo-diverse data centre space and cloud capacity connected to electrical grids powered by significant renewables and emission-free resources, Hut 8 is revolutionizing conventional assets to create the first hybrid data centre model that serves both the traditional high performance compute (Web 2.0) and nascent digital asset computing sectors, blockchain gaming, and Web 3.0. Hut 8 was the first Canadian digital asset miner to list on the Nasdaq Global Select composite index and the first blockchain company to be added to the S&P/TSX Composite Index in 2021. Through innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 is helping to define the digital asset revolution to create value and positive impacts for its shareholders and generations to come.
This press release includes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian securities laws and United States securities laws, respectively (collectively, "forward-looking information"). All information, other than statements of historical facts, included in this press release that address activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including such things as future business strategy, competitive strengths, goals, expansion and growth of the Company's businesses, operations, plans and other such matters is forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is often identified by the words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "allow", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "predict", "can", "might", "potential", "predict", "is designed to", "likely" or similar expressions. In addition, any statements in this press release that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information and include, among others, statements regarding: the Company's growing and diverse leadership team; the Company's ability retain and attract an ambitious and seasoned executive talent roster; the Company's ability to continue to operate with integrity and transparency; the Company's ability to consistently elevate its governance and compliance processes; and the Company's ability to continue to successfully execute on its strategy and grow as a leader in both the digital asset mining and high-performance computing spaces.
Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts, but instead represent management's expectations, estimates and projections regarding future events based on certain material factors and assumptions at the time the statement was made. While considered reasonable by Hut 8 as of the date of this press release, such statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to security and cybersecurity threats and hacks, malicious actors or botnet obtaining control of processing power on the Bitcoin or Ethereum network, further development and acceptance of Bitcoin and Ethereum networks, changes to Bitcoin or Ethereum mining difficulty, loss or destruction of private keys, increases in fees for recording transactions in the Blockchain, erroneous transactions, reliance on a limited number of key employees, reliance on third party mining pool service providers, regulatory changes, classification and tax changes, momentum pricing risk, fraud and failure related to cryptocurrency exchanges, difficulty in obtaining banking services and financing, difficulty in obtaining insurance, permits and licenses, internet and power disruptions, geopolitical events, uncertainty in the development of cryptographic and algorithmic protocols, uncertainty about the acceptance or widespread use of cryptocurrency, failure to anticipate technology innovations, the COVID19 pandemic, climate change, currency risk, lending risk and recovery of potential losses, litigation risk, business integration risk, changes in market demand, changes in network and infrastructure, system interruption, changes in leasing arrangements, and other risks related to the cryptocurrency and data centre business. For a complete list of the factors that could affect the Company, please see the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 17, 2022, and Hut 8's other continuous disclosure documents which are available on www.sedar.com.
These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the factors that could affect Hut 8; however, these factors should be considered carefully. There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, sought, proposed, estimated, forecasted, expected, projected or targeted and such forward-looking statements included in this press release should not be unduly relied upon. The impact of any one assumption, risk, uncertainty, or other factor on a particular forward-looking statement cannot be determined with certainty because they are interdependent and Hut 8's future decisions and actions will depend on management's assessment of all information at the relevant time. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Hut 8 expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO:
"Review of the second quarter
In the second quarter we saw organic revenue growth above 5%, driven by a general strong demand in most regions, especially within targeted high-growth segments, a somewhat higher automotive sales than anticipated and continued price realization.
Growth in Industrial was 6%, with Automotive delivering growth of 3%. Sales to targeted high-growth segments including railway, automation, agriculture, food and beverage continue to develop at a fast pace, with double-digit organic growth.
Net sales were SEK 23,655 million (20,735), on relatively flat sales volumes.
Our adjusted operating profit fell to SEK 2,473 million (3,118), with an adjusted operating margin of 10.5% (15.0%). The Industrial margin was 13.8% (17.4%) and the Automotive margin was 1.7% (9.1%).
The margin development in the quarter was largely a consequence of exceptionally challenging circumstances in April and May. In these two months, the war in Ukraine and the Chinese lockdown impacted our earnings negatively. As a result of these circumstances, material, utilities and logistics costs increased by approximately SEK 600 million compared to Q1. Market conditions in June were more normalized. This, in combination with further price increase realization, resulted in more stable earnings towards the end of the quarter.
Going forward, we maintain our emphasis on controlling costs and increasing prices, delivering continued stronger price realization quarter by quarter.
Cash flow from operations improved sequentially and was SEK 1,293 million (1,372).
Delivering on our strategy
We continue to focus on creating a more customer centric, profitable, faster growing and leaner SKF. In addition to investing in our targeted growth areas and increasing the pace of automation of our factories, we are also making progress in pruning our portfolio. As an example, within Automotive, we have already decided to exit margin-dilutive business with total sales of over SEK 1,200 million, with further pruning to take place as long-term contracts come up for renewal.
The second quarter saw the launch of the RecondOil Box, making our technology available to a wider market. We have already recorded sales of 400 units, with a fast-growing orderbook, especially within heavy industries and energy.
When it comes to factory consolidation, we have announced a further two site closures during the first half of the year. We also completed our previously announced controlled exit from Russia.
To further strengthen and complement our existing industrial seals offer, we have signed an agreement to acquire Tenute, an Italian seals manufacturer.
As we move to the next phase of executing on our strategy, two changes to Group Management have been announced this morning. Patrick Tong (President, Industrial Sales China and Northeast Asia) and Kent Viitanen (President, Industrial Sales EMEA), both of whom have played significant roles in SKF's development in recent years, will be leaving SKF during the third quarter. On behalf of everyone in SKF, I wish them well in the future.
Outlook
Looking into the third quarter of 2022, we expect a high single-digit organic sales growth, with an expected recovery in Automotive demand compared to the same quarter last year.
We expect that the high level of volatility in the markets continues with the ongoing war in Europe, high inflation, a risk for Covid-19 related restrictions across many geographies, supply chain bottlenecks and a volatile demand. For the full year 2022, we maintain our outlook of an organic sales growth of about 4-8%."
Outlook and guidance
Demand for Q3 2022 compared to Q3 2021
Looking into the third quarter of 2022, we expect a high single-digit organic sales growth, with an expected recovery in Automotive demand compared to the same quarter last year.
We expect that the high level of volatility in the markets continues with the ongoing war in Europe, high inflation, a risk for Covid-19 related restrictions across many geographies, supply chain bottlenecks and a volatile demand.
Guidance for Q3 2022
Currency impact on the operating profit is expected to be around SEK 350 million positive compared with the third quarter 2021, based on exchange rates per 30 June 2022.
Guidance 2022
- For the full year 2022, we expect an organic sales growth of about 4-8%.
- Tax level excluding effects related to divested businesses: around 28%.
- Additions to property, plant and equipment: around SEK 5 billion.
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ST. LOUIS and HOBOKEN, N.J., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NISA Investment Advisors, LLC, an industry leading asset manager of customized strategies for world-leading organizations, has signed a license agreement with HFR, a global leader in indexing and analysis, enabling NISA to deliver an innovative risk parity investment solution.
NISA's proprietary approach will utilize HFR data to identify a centroid of risk parity exposures allowing NISA to design and implement their process in client portfolios. The approach aims to attain a transparent and liquid portfolio at a reduced cost relative to existing alternatives.
David Eichhorn, CEO and Head of Investment Strategies for NISA, says, "Our continuous curiosity and client-first focus often leads us to discover new solutions for clients. In our work to address the inadequacies of traditional risk parity benchmarking, we also found what we believe is an exceptional approach in portfolio design. We are excited to introduce NISA's approach to asset owners seeking this type of solution."
About NISA Investment Advisors, LLC
NISA Investment Advisors, LLC is a registered investment adviser, and manages assets for some of the largest institutional investors in the U.S. The firm is 100% employee-owned and based in St. Louis, Missouri.
In March of 2022, NISA was named a Greenwich Quality Leader for U.S. Institutional Investment Management Services for the eighth straight year, based upon client interviews by a third party. Source: 2021 Rankings announced by Coalition Greenwich on March 2, 2022. Between July and October 2021, Coalition Greenwich conducted interviews with 811 individuals from 661 of the largest tax-exempt funds in the United States. No compensation was paid by NISA in connection with obtaining or using this ranking. NISA was one of four 2021 recipients. Rankings do not represent any one client's experience because they reflect an average of experiences of clients who chose to participate. Visit www.greenwich.com for more details, including past rankings and methodology.
For the past five years, Pensions & Investments (P&I) has ranked NISA as the Largest Overlay Manager in the U.S. The 2021 rankings were based on U.S. institutional, tax-exempt assets managed internally (covered for overlay) as of December 31, 2021; published on June 5, 2022. Some 444 investment management firms responded to the online questionnaire. To qualify, a firm must manage assets for U.S. institutional tax-exempt clients, such as qualified retirement plans, endowments or foundations, and answer the minimum required questions. Other survey participants may have reported overlay strategies on a basis other than notional values and, as such, direct comparison and rankings may not be appropriate. No compensation was paid by NISA in connection with obtaining or using this ranking. Visit www.pionline.com for more details, including past rankings and methodology.
In December of 2021, NISA was named a Best Place to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments, based upon anonymous surveys of employees by the publication. As a thought leader, NISA is known for its Pension Surplus Risk Index (PSRX®), a forward-looking estimate of the funded status volatility of U.S. corporate defined benefit plans, published monthly.
For more information, visit www.nisa.com and follow NISA on LinkedIn. All investments entail risk including loss of principal; derivatives investments could lose more than the amount invested.
HFR has not participated in the creation or formation of any financial product of NISA Investment Advisors, LLC and does not endorse or approve any such financial products.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- King Insurance ("King"), one of the fastest growing full-service insurance brokerage firms in the nation, announced today that Hunt Insurance Group, LLC ("Hunt" or the "Company") has joined the King Insurance team.
Located in Tallahassee, FL, Hunt is a specialty broker founded in 1945, which advises housing authorities, prison systems and municipalities on insuring their unique risks. Specifically, Hunt specializes in self-funded solutions for both property & casualty as well as medical insurance. In addition, the Company has long-standing relationships with many of their customers' industry associations.
"The fit between King & Hunt is perfect. King offers us the additional resources for our team to play at a higher level. We're looking forward to being a part of King Insurance and helping in the future growth," said Scott Hunt, President & CEO of Hunt Insurance Group.
"King insurance was the right partner for us. We couldn't be happier with our decision," said Executive Vice President of Hunt Insurance Group, John E. Hunt, Jr.
"We're excited to welcome the Hunt team to King,", said Chad King, Chief Executive Officer of King Insurance. "Their self-insurance expertise, combined with our resources, capabilities and support, will create new & dynamic opportunities for all."
Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, King is a full-service insurance brokerage firm which provides a broad array of property & casualty and employee benefits solutions. Additional information can be found at www.king-insurance.com.
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A number of exciting space events are expected this weekend, giving you a chance to see a lunar eclipse or maybe even a radiant meteor show. CNN's Space Team has mapped out the best times you should look up in the sky to catch the spectacular celestial sightings.
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1. Ukraine
The head of Wagner, a private military company hired by Russia to advance its war on Ukraine, said his fighters will leave the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut due to insufficient support from Moscow. Yevgeny Prigozhin explained he will withdraw his Wagner units on Wednesday "because without ammunition, they are doomed to a senseless death." The move comes after the Wagner boss unleashed an expletive-laden challenge to Russia's military leadership on Thursday, blaming them for the spike in Wagner casualties. The mercenary group has taken on a growing role in the Ukraine conflict in recent months as Russian forces falter and has been highly visible on the front lines, where Prigozhin has claimed credit for territorial gains.
2. Proud Boys
Four members of the far-right Proud Boys have been found guilty of seditious conspiracy by a jury in Washington, DC, for their roles to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. The guilty verdict marks the third time that prosecutors have secured convictions for seditious conspiracy in the Justice Department's historic prosecution of those who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. A fifth defendant was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy, but all five — including Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio — were convicted of at least one charge that carries a 20-year maximum prison sentence.
3. Serbia
A 21-year-old gunman suspected of killing at least eight people in Serbia on Thursday has been arrested after a massive manhunt overnight involving hundreds of Serbian Special Forces members, a spokesperson for the country's Interior Ministry said. The massacre took place Thursday night in the village of Dubona, about 37 miles southeast of the Serbian capital Belgrade. It was the country's second mass shooting in just two days. The Balkan country was rocked by news Wednesday of a 13-year-old boy opening fire on classmates at a school in Belgrade. That shooting left at least eight children dead, along with a security guard.
4. Supreme Court
Top Senate Democrats are pushing for new ethics rules in the wake of a new ProPublica report that revealed a GOP megadonor paid the school tuition for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' grandnephew. Justice Thomas did not report the financial assistance for the child he helped raise on his annual disclosures, according to the report, in the latest revelation raising ethical questions around the high court. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, however, has rejected calls to subpoena a Supreme Court justice, saying it raises constitutional concerns. He also told CNN he can't move forward with a new ethics bill until Sen. Dianne Feinstein returns from an illness since Republicans would have the votes to block any such legislation in his committee.
5. Kentucky Derby
The 149th Kentucky Derby, the first horse race in the coveted Triple Crown, is set to run Saturday in Louisville. However, officials from the Churchill Downs racetrack, the home of the famed derby, are calling attention to several recent horse deaths within a five-day stretch. Since the start of Kentucky Derby week on April 29, four horses have died at the track, including two from unknown causes, according to officials. Both equines were trained by Saffie Joseph Jr. In response, the company operating the Kentucky Derby indefinitely suspended Joseph on Thursday — but the race remains scheduled as planned. "The safety of our equine and human athletes and integrity of our sport is our highest priority," said Bill Mudd, Churchill Down's president and chief operating officer.
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260
That's the age of the Gold State Coach, which has been used to carry British royals in every coronation since William IV in 1831. The historic carriage will be used this weekend to convey King Charles III and Queen Camilla back to the palace after they are crowned on Saturday at London's Westminster Abbey. Here's how to watch the coronation.
TODAY'S QUOTE
"Grab your popcorn and watch."
— GOP state Rep. Justin Wilmeth, describing Arizona's messy Senate race as "the Wild, Wild West." Though still in the early stages, all eyes are on the battle where a high-profile Democrat is targeting the seat of Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Many liberals were infuriated when Sinema, who was elected to the Senate as a Democrat in 2018, left the party in December — and subsequently stood in the way of Biden's agenda on multiple occasions. Republicans are hoping to seize on those tensions to gain another Senate seat as Democrats try to push forward a candidate who can appeal to the GOP base without alienating the general electorate.
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Dog names revealed: American Kennel Club announces the top canine names in 2022
Is your dog's name on the list? Or maybe you need an idea for that new pet
Decisions, decisions …
Picking a name for a household pet can be a challenge.
If you have a new dog, however, you're in luck. The American Kennel Club (AKC), based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has released its list of the most popular male and female dog names in 2022.
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Over 38% of American households own a dog, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Read on to see if your dog's name made the list – or, get a great idea for a new name for that cute puppy you've just welcomed home.
The AKC revealed 100 of the most popular dog names, separating them by male and female names.
THE MOST POPULAR DOG NAMES AREN'T DOG NAMES AT ALL
Top girl dog names
- Luna
- Bella
- Daisy
- Lucy
- Willow
- Penny
- Sadie
- Maggie
- Rosie
- Ruby
The most popular name on the list — Luna — means "the ancient Roman goddess personifying the moon," according to Dictionary.com.
Luna, Bella and Daisy have been neck-and neck in the AKC ranking for the last few years.
Top boy dog names
- Max
- Milo
- Cooper
- Charlie
- Teddy
- Tucker
- Buddy
- Bear
- Rocky
- Leo
In 2015, the most popular boy dog names were Sawyer, Jack and Hudson, according to the AKC.
However, Bear, Max and Cooper were on the short list years ago as well.
American Kennel Club executive secretary Gina DiNardo said choosing a name for a pet is an important task.
"Dogs are an important part of our families, and people take great care in choosing a name," she said in a media statement.
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"It’s fun to see if a dog’s personality is reflected in its name," she added.
The AKC offers some tips on dog-naming, too.
Choose a name with one or two syllables — something that is easy to say, they advise.
TOP DOG AND CAT NAMES OF 2022 REVEALED: REPORT
They warn against naming your dog something that sounds similar to a command, such as Kit or Poe — these sound similar to "sit" and "no."
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Also, the AKC recommends picking a name you like to say — one that won’t embarrass you as you yell it across the dog park or the neighborhood.
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The renowned Dominican coffee brand had an official float in which Dominican former baseball player Vladimir Guerrero paraded as a special guest
NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Last Sunday, July 31, the renowned brand Café Santo Domingo participated again in the Dominican Parade in the Bronx. There, the executive president of its parent company Industrias Banilejas (Induban), Manuel Pozo Perelló, was named International Grand Marshal.
To the rhythm of merengue and bachata, thousands of Dominicans gathered along Grand Concourse Avenue in the Bronx to enjoy the floats and troupes while celebrating their Dominican identity. Pozo Perelló paraded in the official Café Santo Domingo's float, and was accompanied by his special guest, former Dominican professional baseball player Vladimir Guerrero.
"It gives me great pride to be present, together with Café Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Parade in the Bronx, and to have been selected as Grand Marshal in this great festivity that celebrates Dominican culture," said Pozo Perelló.
Café Santo Domingo began its path to the United States market more than a decade ago in an unassuming way. In 2020, the import effort was expanded with a store on the Amazon e-commerce platform, thus reaching the entire United States. Since last year, the brand has also been expanding its distribution thanks to an agreement with Goya Foods, a partnership that began in the Northeast region of the country, including New York. To date, Café Santo Domingo is available in more than 30 states in the Northeastern and Southeastern United States.
About INDUBAN
Industrias Banilejas S.A.S., (INDUBAN) is the leading coffee producing company in the Dominican Republic. Established in 1945 for the purchase, elaboration, and sales of coffee, it later became an exporter of Dominican gold coffee, highly sought after in the United States and Europe. For more than 75 years, Induban has served Dominicans the aroma and flavor of Café Santo Domingo, the leading and most emblematic brand in the country. Its brands transcend borders, being enjoyed around the world, including The United States, Canada, Spain, Hungary, Russia, Aruba, St. Martin, and Virgin Islands, among others.
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The DealMaker Meter - Summer 2022, The Resiliency of Dealmaking, Spotlights Strategic Change from Growth to Profitability and Due Diligence
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite global inflation, the war in Ukraine, and the threat of a recession and increased regulations, a new survey from Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN), a leading risk and compliance company, predicts strong M&A activity for the next six months. Comprised of a panel of key industry experts, including investment bankers, private equity professionals and attorneys, The DealMaker Meter - Summer 2022, The Resiliency of Dealmaking* report, is designed to help executives understand the drivers of the global economy and make strategic decisions about potential mergers and acquisitions.
According to the report, 73 percent of those surveyed said the record-breaking trends of 2020 and 2021 are likely to continue in 2022. The report also suggests a change in strategy, with 88 percent of respondents indicating that they are prioritizing profitability over growth. Based on that approach, 58 percent believe this will spur larger deals from established organizations; a slightly smaller number (56 percent) expect a shift toward smaller, strategic deals.
Other important insights, include:
- Go privates predicted to rise: Seventy-six percent of respondents believe that in 2022, going private will be the best strategic alternative for more companies—and sponsors will have the upper hand in making these deals
- Geopolitical Impact: Russia's invasion of Ukraine has directly impacted many operations, from supply chains to raw material production, leaving its mark on dealmaking. Thirty-nine percent of respondents say the war has directly impacted their ability to get deals done, while another 31 percent feel an indirect impact
- Politics play into the deal: While 37 percent of respondents noted regulatory and legislative environments can play a factor in getting a deal done, 67 percent said that the upcoming mid-term elections should have no impact on deal making
- Benefits of Remote: While two-thirds of dealmakers believe Wall Street will eventually fully return to the office, many continue to enjoy the benefits of a remote environment, such as no suits or dress shoes, working in socks (28 percent) and protected Saturdays (55 percent)
"The global upheaval we've experienced over the past year because of COVID, the war in the Ukraine, and other socioeconomical and geopolitical factors has led corporate leaders to reexamine and update their M&A strategy," said Craig Clay, president of global capital markets at DFIN. "Our report confirms that dealmakers are resilient, and despite these challenges, hopeful about the future. Companies that leverage the insights in our report will be well-equipped to make faster, better decisions in a very competitive marketplace."
DFIN has deep expertise in M&A, providing relevant advisory services and software solutions — including ActiveDisclosure and Venue® Virtual Data Room**— that help guide dealmakers as they go through the M&A process, allowing for the sharing of sensitive documents in a safe and secure environment.
*Published semiannually by DFIN, the nation's leading compliance company, the DealMaker Meter report provides answers to questions about everything from activities in sectors/industries to geographies and impacts. A blue-ribbon panel made up of top global DFIN dealmakers/partners (advisors, corporate clients, lawyers, and bankers) provide this free global market outlook.
**Venue® by DFIN Virtual Data Room (VDR) is an industry-leading platform designed to facilitate due diligence and eliminate risks that can compromise deals. It is continually optimized for security, productivity, and usability, and leverages AI technology and machine learning to accelerate deal closing.
The complete The DealMaker Meter - Summer 2022, The Resiliency of Dealmaking report is available for download on the DFIN website at https://info.dfinsolutions.com/Q2-22-DMM-Thank-You
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DFIN is a leading global risk and compliance solutions company. We provide domain expertise, enterprise software and data analytics for every stage of our clients' business and investment lifecycles. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, technology advances, and through it all, DFIN delivers confidence with the right solutions in moments that matter. Learn about DFIN's end-to-end risk and compliance solutions online at DFINsolutions.com or you can also follow us on Twitter @DFINSolutions or on LinkedIn.
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PENNINGTON — Bryce Meccage and Ray Heaton combined on a two-hitter to lead the Pennington School varsity baseball team past Morristown-Beard, 5-0, Thursday in the opening round of the New Jersey Independent Schools Athletics Association Prep B Tournament at Heritage Field.
Ronan Hwang homered and drove in two runs, while Meccage, who struck out 15 on the mound, and Landon Hallett provided two hits apiece.
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HR: Hwang (P); RBIs: Hwang 2, Meccage, Leeds (P).
WP — Meccage (4-0); LP — n/a.
RUTGERS PREP 13, PDS 2
SOMERSET — The Argonauts opened a 13-0 lead after two innings, while Joey SDwek pitched a complete game with 10 strikeouts to stop the Panthers in other Prep B Tournament action.
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RutgersPrep(8-8) 940 0x — 13 13 1
2B: Laub, Fronio (RP); HR: Dwek (RP); RBIs: n/a (PDS), Dwek 2, Laub 2, Parisi 2, Jackman 2, Fronio 2, Pizzie 2, Treonze (RP).
WP — Dwek; LP — n/a.
REGULAR SEASON
HAMILTON WEST 4, HIGHTSTOWN 3
HIGHTSTOWN — The Hornets needed 10 innings, but were able to get past the Rams to stop a nine-game losing streak.
Adria Byra singled in winning pitcher A.J. Maddalena in the top of the 10th with the decisive run.
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Hightstown (3-9) 300 000 000 0 — 3 5 1
2B: Valentino (Hi); RBIs: Byra, Maddalena, Meara 2 (HW), Wauters, Werden (Hi).
WP — Maddalena (1-1); LP — Francisco (0-1).
DONOVAN CATHOLIC 1, ALLENTOWN 0
ALLENTOWN — The Redbirds outhit the Griffins, but the visitors pushed across the game’s only run in the fourth inning.
J.D. Alster went the distance for A’town, throwing a four-hitter with two walks and seven strikeouts.
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Allentown (10-6) 000 000 0 — 0 5 0
2B: Maier (DC), Berrien (A); RBI: Maier (DC).
WP — O’Keefe; LP — Alster (1-3); S — Marciano.
BURLINGTON TWP. 1, BORDENTOWN 0
BORDENTOWN — Luke Guire had two singles in going 2-for-3 for the Scotties, who could not produce any more offense in falling to the Falcons.
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Bordentown (5-9) 000 000 0 — 0 2 0
2B: Stewart, Dorety (BT); RBI: Dorety (BT).
WP — Dorety; LP — Tradigo (2-2); S — Stewart.
CINNAMINSON 14, NO. BURLINGTON 4
CINNAMINSON — Cole Marchetti knocked in a pair of runs for the Greyhounds, yet it was not enough to get the visitors past the Pirates.
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Cinnaminson(11-4) 205 214 — 14 10 3
2B: McCloskey, Warner, Kulyk, Angelone (C); RBIs: Caloiaro, Marchetti 2 (NB), McCloskey 2, Kulyk 3, Angelone, Caputo, Harvey 2 (C).
WP — Van Reuter; LP — Caloiaro (1-2).
NEW EGYPT 4, BURLINGTON CITY 1
NEW EGYPT — Shaun Dessel tossed a three-hitter to lift the Warriors over the Blue Devils.
Zachary Jenkins tripled and drove in a run, while Jesse Fernandez doubled and drove in a run for New Egypt, which pulled within a game of .500.
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2B: JFernandez (NE); 3B: Jenkins (NE); RBIs: Jenkins, Stillwell, JFernandez (NE).
WP — Dessel (3-2); LP — Aldridge.
PENNSAUKEN 9, FLORENCE 7
PENNSAUKEN — A five-run bottom of the sixth inning saved the Indians from defeat against the Flashes.
Evan Saintz had three hits and three runs batted in for Florence.
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2B: Saintz, Brunner, Muchowski (F); RBIs: Bernhard, Saintz 3, Brunner, Muchowski 2 (F), LJimenez, Espinal 3, Pena 3 (P).
WP — Ventura; LP — Brunner (0-2); S — KBatista.
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MEDFORD — Rakeem Brooks singled for the Purple Lightning’s lone hit in this shutout against the Jaguars.
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Medford Tech (4-3) 345 0x — 12 6 1
HR: VGiannetto (MT); RBIs: VGiannetto 3, Brenner 2 (MT).
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USM classes canceled due to a Thursday football game. Why some professors express dismay
A mid-semester decision to cancel classes one day later this month at the University of Southern Mississippi has some professors asking why the decision wasn't made earlier.
According to an email sent to faculty, staff and students the university has decided to close offices and cancel classes on Thursday, Oct. 27 due to an evening football game. The date of the contest has been publicly known since March 1.
The home game is scheduled between the Golden Eagles and the Ragin’ Cajuns from the University of Louisiana. Kickoff time is 6:30 p.m. at M.M. Roberts Stadium.
“With increased visitors, media and parking demands throughout the day, maintaining normal class schedules and operations is not possible,” the e-mail stated in part.
Jeremy Scott, who teaches in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and serves as president of the USM chapter of the American Association of University Professors, says the cancellation affects classroom instruction in many different ways.
“I had already scheduled an exam for that day, and I wouldn’t want students to miss an exam for football,” he said.
Other faculty members and classes will be more adversely affected, he said. “For example, in chemistry and physics when you have scheduled lab work you often can’t just shut down a lab for a day. It shuts down the lab for a whole week,” Scott said.
And in other cases, he said professors had already arranged for special speakers and guests to appear before their classes that day — some of whom were being paid through grants.
“I think the overall opinion among faculty is that once the university has made an academic calendar they should stick to it,” Scott said.
Still, Scott acknowledged that having a football game on a weekday could make it difficult for some students living off campus to make it to class on time. “We are already pretty taxed on our parking,” he said.
The Office of the Provost has subsequently pledged to assist faculty whose classes will be adversely affected by the closure in any way they can, Scott said.
A university spokesperson said the decision to cancel classes was not taken "lightly or eagerly," and that all aspects of the Southern Miss experience were taken into account before making the announcement.
"In this case, the ability to safely and successfully execute a highly complex operation for tens of thousands of Southern Miss stakeholders requires the University to deviate from its regular schedule," the spokesperson said via email.
The all-day closure will also affect USM’s Gulf Coast campus.
“All classes will be cancelled and will not meet in person or online. Game day personnel should report to work as normal. All other offices and operations will be closed for the entire day at all University of Southern Mississippi locations in Hattiesburg and on the Gulf Coast,” the announcement reads.
Students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests are invited to take part in a variety of activities to cheer the Golden Eagles on to victory, including tailgating, Eagle Walk and a special performance by Grits and Greens, a local Southern rock band, to be held at Southern Station in Spirit Park prior to the game.
Fans are encouraged to wear black for this designated “Lights Out” game, and the Division of Student Affairs will host special game day activities for students.
The game will be broadcast by ESPN2.
Hattiesburg American sports writer David Eckert contributed to this report. | https://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/2022/10/08/usm-classes-canceled-thursday-football-louisiana-university-of-southern-mississippi/69542642007/ | 2022-10-08 10:49:27 | 0 | https://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/2022/10/08/usm-classes-canceled-thursday-football-louisiana-university-of-southern-mississippi/69542642007/ |
NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Thorne HealthTech, Inc. ("Thorne") (the "Company") (NASDAQ: THRN), a leader in delivering innovative solutions for a personalized approach to health and wellness, announced today that it will participate in TD Cowen's 7th Annual Future of the Consumer Conference in New York City.
On Wednesday, June 7, at 10:45 a.m. (U.S. Eastern Daylight Time), Thorne's Chairman and CEO, Paul Jacobson will participate in a panel discussion. Mr. Jacobson, and the Company's CFO, Saloni Varma, will also conduct one-on-one meetings with investors at the conference.
A live webcast and replay of the panel discussion can be accessed via the investor section of the Company's website at investors.thornehealthtech.com.
About Thorne HealthTech
Thorne HealthTech is a leader in developing innovative solutions for delivering personalized approaches to health and wellness. As a science-driven wellness company that empowers individuals with the support, education, and solutions they need to achieve healthy aging – living healthier longer – Thorne utilizes testing and data to create improved product efficacy and to deliver personalized solutions to consumers, health professionals, and corporations. Predicated on the power of the individual, Thorne leverages artificial intelligence models to provide insights and personalized data, products, and services that help individuals take a proactive and actionable approach to improve and maintain their health over a lifetime. Thorne is the only supplement manufacturer that collaborates with Mayo Clinic on health and wellness research and content, and is trusted by more than five million customers, 47,000+ health-care professionals, thousands of professional athletes, more than 100 professional sports teams, and multiple U.S. National Teams. For more information, visit Thorne.com.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A Rochester staple is gearing up for a big Summer season this year. Seabreeze is getting ready for its 144th season, officially kicking off Thursday, June 23rd. It’s a first for full operations, after having shut down completely in 2020.
“It was definitely more of a challenge this year. It was definitely more challenging than its’ been in previous years, however, we’re sitting pretty good right now. We’ve got a lot of returning staff which is really beneficial to us because we have our core that came back from last year and previous seasons,” said Genevieve Norris-Brown, General Manager of Seabreeze.
Whether you like games, rides, or the water slide, the park is designed for families of all ages, even a Kiddie City for the little ones. And there are some more unique aspects, as well.
“You can bring your own picnic into the park as long as there’s no glass or alcohol or knives you can bring anything into the park; you can have a picnic here or you can buy our food. It’s just a special experience because not a lot of parks let you bring in outside food but we just want to make the families happy and people appreciate that,” Norris-Brown said.
That special factor is evident in its behind-the-scenes operations, too. Genevieve Norris-Brown is the 6th generation in her family to captain the ship.
“It’s been great because I’ve been here since I was a kid so I’ve really seen the park transform from what it was to what it is now and it’s such a beautiful institution and we’re just caretakers — we don’t claim-to-fame anything. We’re just here and we want to make sure that this Rochester gem stays in business and does well in the future,” she said.
That rich history is all detailed in a timeline on the park’s carousel. | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/destination-ny/seabreeze-gearing-up-for-summer-season/ | 2022-06-13 15:57:59 | 1 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/destination-ny/seabreeze-gearing-up-for-summer-season/ |
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A record 50.4 million American adults plan to bet on this year's Super Bowl, wagering a total of $16 billion, the gambling industry's national trade group predicted Tuesday.
The American Gaming Association forecasts that 1 in 5 American adults will place a bet on Sunday's NFL championship game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The estimate includes legal bets, and those placed with illegal bookies or casually among friends or relatives.
The total amount expected to be wagered this year is more than double the amount from last year as the legal U.S. sports betting market continues to grow.
There are three additional states offering legal sports betting this year — Kansas, Ohio and Massachusetts — compared with a year earlier, for a total of 33 states plus Washington, D.C. Maryland also added mobile sports betting in the past year, but it had in-person wagering for last year's Super Bowl.
More than half of all American adults live in a market where sports betting is legal.
“Every year, the Super Bowl serves to highlight the benefits of legal sports betting: Bettors are transitioning to the protections of the regulated market, leagues and sports media are seeing increased engagement, and legal operators are driving needed tax revenue to states across the country,” said Bill Miller, the association's president and CEO.
Hard data is backing up predictions of a record-setting betting market for this year's game. GeoComply, which handles nearly all the online betting traffic for the U.S. sports betting market to verify a customer is in a particular location where such bets are legal, says it has recorded over 550 million geolocation checks during the NFL playoffs from Jan. 14 to 29.
That's up 50% from the same period last year, and the group is predicting record-setting volume for this year's Super Bowl.
Eilers & Krejcik Gaming Research, an independent analytics firm in California, looked solely at legal bets. It predicted a total of just over $1 billion this year, led by Nevada ($155 million); New York ($111 million); Pennsylvania ($91 million); Ohio ($85 million) and New Jersey ($84 million.) Their research was not involved in the AGA predictions.
The company estimated 10 to 15% of that total would be wagered live after the game begins, and that 15 to 20% would come in the form of same-game parlays, or a combination of bets involving the same game, such as betting on the winner, the total points scored and how many passing yards Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts will accumulate.
The AGA survey found bettors evenly split, with 44% backing the Chiefs and an identical percentage betting on the Eagles.
The Eagles were 1.5-point favorites as of Monday night on FanDuel, the official odds provider to The Associated Press.
There is a vast array of bets offered on the big game, from the most basic predictions of which team will win and by how many points, to wagering on the total amount of points scored in the game.
Also popular are so-called proposition or prop bets on individual player performances, like whether Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes will throw two or fewer touchdown passes or how many rushing yards Eagles running back Miles Sanders will accumulate.
For the Super Bowl, these bets encompass outcomes as unusual as whether the opening coin toss will come up heads or tails; whether the final score of the game has ever happened before as the score of a past Super Bowl, and even what color of Gatorade will be dumped on the winning coach. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/super-bowl-betting-record-expected/507-38af6575-8dcb-4215-8be0-a1bb9875a9f6 | 2023-02-07 15:52:02 | 1 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/sports/nfl/superbowl/super-bowl-betting-record-expected/507-38af6575-8dcb-4215-8be0-a1bb9875a9f6 |
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Emmanuel Sanders would rather chase his young kids around now than hunt down any more passes over the middle.
The veteran wide receiver announced his retirement Wednesday after a 12-year NFL career that included six seasons in Denver, where he helped the Broncos win Super Bowl 50.
“The game of football is tough on the body, and you know I lost a close friend in Demaryius Thomas,” who died last December of a seizure, Sanders said. “And for me, it’s about longevity of life now. I had a heck of a career, 12 years, three Super Bowls. I feel like what else do I have to prove?
“I wake up in the morning, drop the kids off at school. I’m making sandwiches for my daughter. I see the beauty in that,” Sanders said. “And I’m happy. So for me, there’s never really a ‘right’ time to hang it up. But I’m happy to hang it up now.”
Sanders said he plans to do some television broadcasting in retirement.
Sanders started his career in Pittsburgh in 2010 as a third-round pick out of SMU and he joined the Broncos as a free agent in 2014 after coming close to signing with the rival Chiefs — he was at their headquarters about to sign with Kansas City when John Elway called him with a better offer.
Teaming up with Thomas and Peyton Manning, he called Denver “wide receiver heaven” upon his arrival in Colorado and over the next three years he’d catch 279 passes for 3,847 yards and 21 touchdowns.
He played in three Super Bowls, with the Steelers as a rookie, the Broncos and the 49ers, who acquired him from Denver midway through the 2019 season.
Sanders, who played for the Saints in 2020 and the Bills in 2021, finished his career with 704 receptions for 9,245 yards and 51 touchdowns in the regular season and another 52 catches for 622 yards and a touchdown in the playoffs.
At 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, Sanders was viewed as a slot receiver coming out of college, but in Denver he successfully lined up outside opposite Thomas.
“Any time I go out in public the first thing somebody tells me is you do not look like an NFL receiver,” Sanders said. “And I’ll tell them, ‘Go look on YouTube. You’ll see me coming across the middle and I’m taking every hit, I’m making every catch.’”
At his retirement news conference Wednesday, the Broncos displayed a photo of Sanders and Thomas doing “snow angels” in the blue and orange confetti after beating Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the AFC championship to reach Super Bowl 50.
Sanders called it one of the highlights of his career.
Another came two weeks later when he helped the Broncos win Super Bowl 50 over the heavily favored Carolina Panthers.
“I gave the game everything that I had,” Sanders said, “and the game gave it back to me.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers are turning to quarterback Baker Mayfield to lead their offense.
Coach Matt Rhule announced Monday that Mayfield will start Carolina’s Sept. 11 regular-season opener against his former team, the Cleveland Browns — a decision that had been anticipated for several weeks.
Mayfield, acquired in a trade with the Browns earlier this offseason, beat out incumbent starter Sam Darnold for the starting quarterback job.
“When we started this process, we were looking at three things,” Rhule said. “Number one, mastery of the offense, number two, situational football excellence, and number three, moving the ball and getting guys involved. That’s been our focus all along. Baker has made a lot of improvement, a lot of growth in all three areas in a short amount of time.”
Mayfield was known as a fiery competitor during his four years with the Browns, and said Monday the chip on his shoulder “is back.”
“I feel extremely healthy, so I’m ready to go,” Mayfield said. “I’m loving football again and a fresh start is great for everyone every once in awhile. I am just going to take this opportunity and make the most of it and not take it for granted.”
Rhule said he’s been impressed with how quickly Mayfield has picked up new coordinator Ben McAdoo’s offense after joining the team on July 6.
“It’s not easy what he did — between the verbiage and the checks and all of the options that we give him. We think he’s a really smart guy,” Rhule said. “As he stays in the offense he will grow and grow and grow and get better and better and better.”
Both Mayfield and Darnold came into the league as the No. 1 and No. 3 overall picks in the 2018 draft, but Mayfield has enjoyed more success.
Mayfield is 29-30 as an NFL starter with 92 touchdown passes and 56 interceptions; Darnold is 17-32 as a starter with 54 TD passes and 52 INTs.
Mayfield led the Browns to an 11-5 record in 2020 and a first-round playoff win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But Mayfield struggled with a shoulder injury last year, and the Browns decided to go in a different direction by trading for controversial quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Cleveland’s pursuit of Watson essentially marked the end of Mayfield’s career in Cleveland.
“Obviously there is a lot of attachment there and I’m not going to sit here and be a robot and say that it doesn’t mean anything. It will,” Mayfield said of the season opener against the Browns. “But right now all that matters is me continuing to improve until the regular season starts.”
Browns coach Kevin Stefanski didn’t know Mayfield had been selected as Carolina’s starter until being informed by a reporter.
“I didn’t see that,” Stefanski said. “I think we’ll wait to talk about Carolina until we get there. I’m still in the Week 3 of the preseason mode.”
Darnold’s future as the starter in Carolina seemed on rocky ground when the Panthers tried to land Watson. When that fell through, the Panthers turned their attention to the disgruntled Mayfield.
A deal was brokered only after Cleveland agreed to pay $10.5 million of Mayfield’s contract this season. The Panthers are paying him $4.8 million.
Rhule said he still has tremendous confidence in Darnold, and added that he handled the news like a professional.
Darnold said he felt as if he was given a fair chance to win the job.
“I really did go out there every day and give it my all, and it just didn’t go my way,” Darnold said.
For Darnold, the decision leaves his career at a crossroads — although he said he’s not going to dwell on that now.
“It’s tough, I’m not going to lie,” Darnold said. “But it is what it is.”
But Darnold went to say, “I’m going to do everything I can to support Baker and get him ready to play a game.”
Rhule originally said the Panthers would keep three quarterbacks on the roster, but that was before rookie third-round draft pick Matt Corral suffered a Lisfranc ligament tear in his left foot in a preseason loss to the New England Patriots.
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AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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Rays fifth. Randy Arozarena singles to shortstop, advances to 2nd. Throwing error by Jorge Mateo. Kevin Kiermaier strikes out swinging. Isaac Paredes walks. Mike Zunino homers to left field. Isaac Paredes scores. Randy Arozarena scores. Brett Phillips strikes out on a foul tip. Yandy Diaz grounds out to shallow infield, Jorge Mateo to Tyler Nevin.
3 runs, 2 hits, 1 error, 0 left on. Rays 3, Orioles 0.
Orioles seventh. Tyler Nevin doubles to deep left field. Ramon Urias singles to center field. Tyler Nevin to third. Ramon Urias to second. Tyler Nevin scores. Robinson Chirinos reaches on error to deep left field, advances to 2nd. Ramon Urias scores. Fielding error by Randy Arozarena. Chris Owings hit by pitch. Cedric Mullins flies out to center field to Kevin Kiermaier. Austin Hays called out on strikes. Trey Mancini singles to center field. Chris Owings to third. Robinson Chirinos scores. Anthony Santander pops out to shallow infield to Yandy Diaz.
3 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Rays 3, Orioles 3.
Rays tenth. Francisco Mejia pinch-hitting for Mike Zunino. Francisco Mejia lines out to center field to Cedric Mullins. Brett Phillips doubles to right field. Taylor Walls scores. Yandy Diaz singles to right center field. Brett Phillips scores. Wander Franco grounds out to shallow infield, Tyler Nevin to Dillon Tate. Yandy Diaz to second. Harold Ramirez grounds out to shallow infield, Ramon Urias to Tyler Nevin.
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Rays 5, Orioles 3.
Orioles tenth. Austin Hays walks. Trey Mancini walks. Austin Hays to second. Cedric Mullins to third. Anthony Santander singles to right field. Ryan McKenna to third. Austin Hays scores. Cedric Mullins scores. Jorge Mateo grounds out to shallow infield, Taylor Walls to Ji-Man Choi. Tyler Nevin reaches on a fielder's choice to shallow infield. Ryan McKenna out at home. Ramon Urias flies out to center field to Kevin Kiermaier.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rays 5, Orioles 5.
Rays eleventh. Ji-Man Choi flies out to left center field to Austin Hays. Randy Arozarena singles to shallow infield. Vidal Brujan to third. Kevin Kiermaier singles to shallow left field. Randy Arozarena to second. Vidal Brujan scores. Taylor Walls flies out to deep left field to Austin Hays. Kevin Kiermaier to second. Randy Arozarena to third. Francisco Mejia grounds out to shallow infield, Cionel Perez to Tyler Nevin.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rays 6, Orioles 5.
Orioles eleventh. Rougned Odor pinch-hitting for Robinson Chirinos. Rougned Odor strikes out swinging. Anthony Bemboom pinch-hitting for Chris Owings. Anthony Bemboom grounds out to shallow infield, Yandy Diaz to Ji-Man Choi. Cedric Mullins is intentionally walked. Austin Hays singles to left field, advances to 2nd. Cedric Mullins to third. Ramon Urias scores. Ryan McKenna grounds out to shallow infield, Ji-Man Choi to Ryan Thompson.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 2 left on. Rays 6, Orioles 6.
Orioles thirteenth. Ramon Urias out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Ji-Man Choi to Taylor Walls. Tyler Nevin to third. Rougned Odor homers to right field. Tyler Nevin scores.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Orioles 8, Rays 6. | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Tampa-Bay-Baltimore-Runs-17188631.php | 2022-05-21 05:09:54 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Tampa-Bay-Baltimore-Runs-17188631.php |
PLAINS TWP. — Lissa Bryan-Smith, a retired administrator for the Geisinger hospital system, has won many awards over the years, but the honor she received Tuesday night stood out as special to her.
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MIAMI, Fla. — Parts of South Florida were experiencing road flooding from heavy rain and wind Saturday as a storm system that battered Mexico moved across the state.
Officials in Miami warned drivers about road conditions as many cars were stuck on flooded streets.
“This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Traveling during these conditions is not recommended. It’s better to wait. Turn around, don’t drown,” the city of Miami tweeted.
The city was towing stranded vehicles from flooder roadways.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said the storm tested the system of drainage pumps the city has recently installed as climate change has increasingly made flooding an issue in the low-lying area.
“We moved the water off pretty quickly, but in some areas, obviously, it was really challenging,” Gelber said. “There were some problems getting through on some streets, one of the main arteries was unpassable, but by and large water is dissipating.”
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm once known as Agatha in the Pacific Ocean will be known as Alex in the Atlantic Ocean basin, if it reaches tropical storm status.
As of about 11 p.m. Saturday, the storm was centered about 145 miles (235 kilometers) east-northeast of Fort Pierce, Florida. It was moving northeast near 20 mph (31 kph). Tropical storm warnings that had been in effect for Florida's east coast and the northwestern Bahamas were discontinued. A tropical storm watch was in effect for Bermuda. Maximum sustained winds were clocked near 45 mph (75 kph) with higher gusts.
The storm was expected to reach tropical storm strength off Florida’s eastern coast Saturday night and strengthen through Monday as it moves away from Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean.
In Cuba, the storm killed three people, damaged dozens of homes in Havana and cut off electricity in some areas, according to authorities. Heavy rainfall continued Saturday, but was diminishing as the weather system moved away from the island.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said most government services, such as bus routes and trains, planned to operate as normal over the weekend. Canal levels in South Florida have been lowered to minimize flooding from heavy rains.
The Atlantic hurricane season officially began Tuesday. This is an unusually early start to the storm season but not unprecedented for Florida.
The National Hurricane Center predicted rainfall up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) was possible in South Florida, including the Florida Keys. The storm was not expected to produce huge winds or major storm surge. But local flooding was likely. | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/heavy-rains-hit-south-florida-flooding-strands-miami-vehicles | 2022-06-05 14:39:52 | 1 | https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/heavy-rains-hit-south-florida-flooding-strands-miami-vehicles |
Confession time! I used to be a nervous flyer.
Despite growing up in a family that nurtured hobbyist and professional pilots — I have fond memories of flights in a little Cessna my uncle and grandfather shared — one bad experience was enough to spook me for years.
A terrifyingly turbulent flight between Toronto and Chicago at age 20 left me so shaken I started having anxiety attacks every time I boarded a plane. A big piece of my recovery was learning from family members about how airplanes and air traffic work.
But what if you’re an anxious passenger without a connection to the industry? Who can you talk to?
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A new service lets you call up a pro pilot and get answers straight from an expert. Fittingly, it’s called Dial A Pilot.
A pilot named Kyle, who has flown for a major airline for more than a decade, came up with the idea after frequent chats with his sister-in-law about her flight fears.
“She would always call me before her flights,” Kyle told Travel and Leisure. “And we would talk about the turbulence. We talked about airplanes and the best times of day to fly. We talked about what the noises were.”
A conversation with a fellow pilot set the service in motion, as Kyle soon realized he wasn’t the only pilot helping family members out in this way.
Here’s how Dial a Pilot works: For $50, you can schedule a 15-minute call with a real pilot and unload your fears. Simply provide your contact information and schedule a time. The pilot will answer whatever questions you have about flying, from the physics of flight to on-the-ground protocols. Kyle says the most common calls involve turbulence and engine failure.
The pilot on the line can also discuss conditions along your individual route, system-wide delays, different plane models and specific fears you may have.
You can also check the company’s TikTok for quick answers to common questions. Here’s one about the definition of “stall”:
@dial_a_pilot The term “stall” is commonly misunderstood. This is a very basic explanation of a stall and how we pilots avoid stalls. #aviophobia #aerophobia #fearofflying #flightanxiety #travel #greenscreen
Like one of my coping methods back in the day (listening to air traffic control on the airline’s free radio system), talking to a pilot demonstrates that these folks are knowledgeable professionals who take their jobs seriously. They don’t want an accident any more than you do.
It’s also reassuring to chat with someone who experiences flight as a routine task, ordinary as a trip to the grocery store.
Take it from me, a former fraidy-flyer: The more you know about flight, the less frightening it is. Learn about those mysterious bumps and weird noises and you’ll soon be cleared for takeoff.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, is buying ad space on El Paso television and digital platforms in a move to seal his reelection bid in a sprawling West Texas congressional district.
“We are not ceding a single county or a single vote in this race. We are going after every single one of them,” said Gonzales campaign manager Evan Albertson.
Meantime, his Democratic opponent John Lira is challenging him to a debate.
“On September 24 my campaign sent two certified letters to Tony Gonzales and (independent) Frank Lopez. We told them this is the people’s seat, and the people deserve to hear from the candidates who want to be their voice and their representatives in Washington, D.C.,” Lira said. “No response from either camp.”
Both party standard-bearers were in El Paso last week. Gonzales visited immigration hotspots in a city that has stretched its resources to house, feed and transport migrants released from federal custody. Lira spent two days meeting and talking with residents of Far East and Northeast El Paso about breaking the partisan logjam at the Capitol.
“I want to talk to him (Gonzales) about his votes on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that promises to bring money to many small communities like Socorro, like San Eli, like Fabens and Tornillo. He voted against bills that are bringing the funding that we need here,” Lira said.
Gonzales is standing by his support of border agents, some of whom are being forced to spend more time processing and caring for migrants than being out on patrol.
He’s also pushing for an end to the partisan logjam that is preventing two bills he coauthored from making a dent on the synthetic opioid epidemic that killed more than 100,000 Americans last year.
“Opioids like fentanyl have claimed the lives of our family members, friends and neighbors at alarming rates. Confronting the opioid epidemic requires us to act on multiple fronts,” Gonzales said in a statement.
There has been no word on whether Gonzales would accept to debate Lira.
Though Texas’ 23rd Congressional District stretches from West Texas to San Antonio, several rural counties in between have lost population or grown very little, according to the last census. That means the candidates will keep pushing for votes in an El Paso County that accounted for more than 8 percent of the congressional ballots cast in that district in 2020. | https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/west-texas-congressional-race-heating-up/ | 2022-10-19 16:26:49 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/border-report/west-texas-congressional-race-heating-up/ |
Haiti, a country long beset by catastrophe and political turmoil, is facing perhaps its steepest challenge in recent decades as its piecemeal government, now lacking any democratically elected officials, struggles to chart a path forward amid gang violence and a cholera outbreak.
The constitutional mandate of Haiti's de facto ruler, Prime Minister Ariel Henry — which some viewed as questionable from the start, as he was never technically sworn in — ended more than a year ago.
The country has had no president since its last one, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in 2021. Its Senate is supposed to have 30 members, and its lower legislative chamber should have 119; all of those seats are unfilled. Haiti's elected mayors were all reappointed or replaced in 2020.
And last week, its 10 remaining senators departed office after their terms ended, leaving behind a nation's worth of elected offices that now sit empty after years of canceled elections.
"The situation is catastrophic," said Robert Fatton, a Haitian-born political scientist at the University of Virginia. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that the current crisis is one of the most severe crises that Haiti has ever confronted."
The country of 12 million people last held national elections in 2016. In the years since, the turmoil — political and otherwise — has been relentless.
Gang violence has displaced more than 150,000 people from their homes and forced aid groups such as Doctors Without Borders to close facilities and relocate staff. A new outbreak of cholera is suspected to have infected nearly 25,000 Haitians since October. In 2021, an earthquake killed 2,000 people and wrought new devastation to a part of the country that had been hit just five years before by a Category 5 hurricane.
Rampant inflation has sent the cost of food and gas spiraling; food insecurity is so widespread that about 40% of the population do not have enough to eat. And the disasters have combined to keep thousands of the country's schools closed, meaning millions of Haitian children have lacked steady education and meals since the beginning of the pandemic.
"I grew up under dictatorship, so I'm not idealizing the Haiti I grew up under. But this is the first time I think we have seen this level of lawlessness, this level of gang violence where people's lives do not matter," said Cécile Accilien, a professor of Haitian studies at Kennesaw State University, in an interview with NPR.
Unending political turmoil
Even before the shocking assassination of President Moïse in July 2021, in which he was killed inside his private residence in Port-au-Prince, Moïse had been ruling by decree. He declined to call elections in 2018, then again in 2019, causing the terms of most of the country's legislators and mayors to expire in January 2020.
That had already made him increasingly unpopular. Then, shortly before the still-unsolved assassination, Moïse appointed Dr. Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon and former government minister, to serve as prime minister.
But lacking a quorum in the legislature to consider his appointment, Henry was never formally sworn in. After Moïse's assassination, Henry emerged from a power struggle as de facto ruler. Even that shaky constitutional backing ended long ago; Haiti's constitution requires elections to be held within 120 days of a presidential vacancy, a period that ended in November 2021.
Now, Henry stands alone at the head of a fractured, weakened government that appears powerless to address the country's many challenges: gang violence, cholera, inflation.
"It's a collapse," said Patrice Dumont, one of the 10 senators who departed office this month.
Speaking to NPR last fall, Dumont said rampant corruption had kept Haiti from making progress. "The situation that we are facing now, it's made because of the bad choices made by Haitian actors, Haitian political leaders," Dumont said.
A small group of elites have long controlled Haiti's ports, customs and government welfare agencies, he said. "And they live almost in paradise," even as millions of Haitians live in poverty, he said. Other key ports and roads are held by gangs, who control an estimated 60% of Port-au-Prince.
Dumont compared Haiti, with its widespread social injustice and wealth inequality, to a pressure cooker always at threat of explosion.
After Moïse's assassination, a group of civil society organizations and political parties convened to chart a different path forward for Haiti. Together, in late 2021, they proposed what's been called the Montana Accord: a two-year interim government, led by a president and prime minister, to provide stability and oversight until new elections could finally be held.
Negotiations between the group and Henry have not yet borne fruit. Meanwhile, the country's myriad humanitarian crises have worsened since the political chaos began.
Last October, amid a fuel crisis set off by the elimination of fuel subsidies and gang control of a key terminal, Henry requested foreign military intervention to help stabilize the situation.
The U.S. and U.N. said they would consider Henry's request. But among Haitians, that call was widely unpopular; much of the population views foreign groups with distrust after years of ineffective — or downright harmful — interventions by international organizations and governments. Haiti's national police regained control of the fuel terminal in November.
Henry has called for elections in 2023, but many are skeptical
Now, all eyes are on Henry, who recently agreed to hold elections this year with the aim of swearing in a new government in early 2024.
On New Year's Day, Henry called for a new round of elections, writing on Twitter that they must be done "without prejudice" and "in transparency."
But Henry has not said when such a vote would happen — instead, he has promised to reestablish a long-disbanded electoral council to plan and propose "a reasonable timetable" for elections.
Henry's pledges have drawn wide skepticism. A similar commitment in 2021 failed to materialize.
"It is highly unlikely that Henry can deliver on any of these new promises," said Fatton of the University of Virginia.
Given the country's terrible security situation and the lack of popular support for Henry's government, the idea of elections in the immediate future is "frankly preposterous," Fatton said. "Having elections after six or seven months would recreate the current mess and the prevailing zero-sum-game politics."
The United Nations said last month it would appeal for $719 million for Haiti in 2023, about double the amount in 2022. Ulrika Richardson, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, said last month that efforts to combat the worsening crises would be ineffective unless the root causes of Haiti's problems are addressed.
"It's going to be very difficult if we don't address this now," she said. "We have corruption. We have impunity. We have governance. And all of that needs to really be at the center of our thinking as we go forward."
Additional reporting by NPR's Eyder Peralta in Port-au-Prince. contributed to this story
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Avocado pulls back the curtain on the Guatemalan farm where they source their GOLS-certified organic latex.
LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In a recent video produced by Business Insider, as part of their "So Expensive" series, they pull back the curtain on Avocado's GOLS-certified organic latex (CU 863637). The show traveled to the organic latex farm in Southern Guatemala, which Avocado co-owns, to show every step of the labor-intensive process of collecting sap and processing the material into durable, supportive mattresses.
"At Avocado, we believe in transparency," said John Davies, Avocado Senior Director of Brand Editorial and Sustainability. "We're proud to share the sustainable process behind our GOLS-certified organic latex — and why the material makes for a superior mattress."
The Business Insider video asks: how does tree sap become a bed? The video shows farmers making small grooves in the rubber trees to collect the renewable sap. The milky white liquid accumulates in buckets, which farmers take to a processing facility that whips the liquid into supportive, sustainable mattress cores.
The farm in Southern Guatemala, called Grupo Fortaleza, is dedicated to sustainable latex and adheres to the strict human rights standards developed by Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). The video also explains the benefits of these certifications.
"Products that carry the label must be made from 95 percent or more certified organic latex," explains the narrator. "These certifications add value to the product."
The video already has more than 3.3 million views and 1,000 comments.
"Gotta be honest, this is the first product that the price is understandable," says one viewer. "Mattresses can last over a decade if treated right so I'm willing to spend money on a good one."
"It's not all that expensive considering how it is made and it being 100% natural," says another.
Avocado uses GOLS-certified organic latex in all of its mattresses, including its top-rated Green Mattress. As part of Avocado's commitment to 1% For the Planet, Avocado donates 1% of all its revenue to vetted nonprofits. And as a Climate Neutral certified brand, Avocado reduces its footprint, offsets all of its scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, and advocates for legislation that will help fight the climate crisis.
From the beginning, Avocado just wanted a new kind of mattress. One that was greener — better for people and the planet — affordable, and comfortable. It was a simple idea rooted in a much bigger vision. Six years later, Avocado continues to expand — from bedding, to furniture, to bath, skin + body, and responsible loungewear. As the company grows, Avocado continues to redefine what it means to be a sustainable, ethical brand. The company is a Certified B Corporation, a Climate Neutral® Certified business, and a member of 1% For the Planet, remaining true to its original purpose: to be one of the most sustainable companies on Earth. Learn more at AvocadoGreenMattress.com.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Thursday released the wording of a referendum question that promises the nation’s Indigenous population a greater say on policies that effect their lives.
Australians will vote sometime between October and December on the referendum that would enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
An emotional Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said such a body promoting Indigenous views to the government and Parliament was needed to overcome Indigenous disadvantage.
“We urgently need better outcomes because it’s not good enough where we’re at in 2023,” Albanese told reporters.
Indigenous Australians from the Torres Strait archipelago off the northeast coast are culturally distinct from the mainland Aboriginal population. The two peoples account for 3.2% of the Australian population and are the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic group.
“On every measure, there is a gap between the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the national average,” Albanese said.
“A 10-year gap in life expectancy, a suicide rate twice as high, tragic levels of child mortality and disease, a massive overrepresentation in the prison population and deaths in custody, in children sent to out-of-home care,” he said.
“And this is not because of a shortage of goodwill or good intentions on any side of politics and it’s not because of a lack of funds. It’s because governments have spent decades trying to impose solutions from Canberra rather than consulting with communities,” he added.
The wording of the referendum question that the Cabinet signed off on Thursday is similar to words proposed by Albanese last year.
The question will be: “A proposed law: To alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
If the referendum succeeds, the constitution would state that the “Voice may make representations” to the Parliament and government “on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.”
The Parliament would make laws relating to the Voice “including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.”
Opinion polls suggest most Australians support the Voice concept, which Albanese announced was a majority priority of his center-left Labor Party government during his election night victory speech in May last year. But deep divisions remain across Australian society.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton said his conservative Liberal Party has yet to decide whether they would support the Voice and required more detail including the government’s own legal advice.
The Nationals party, the junior coalition partner in the former government, announced in November they had decided to oppose the Voice, saying it would divide the nation along racial lines.
Australia is unusual among former British colonies in that no treaty was ever signed with the nation’s Indigenous population. The constitution came into effect in 1901 and has never acknowledged the Indigenous population as the country’s original inhabitants.
The term Great Australian Silence was coined late last century to describe an erasure of Indigenous perspectives and experiences from mainstream Australian history.
Changing Australia’s constitution has never been easy and more than four-in five referendums fail.
Of the 44 referendums held since 1901, only eight have been carried and none since 1977. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/australia-decides-referendum-question-to-create-17855286.php | 2023-03-23 04:56:36 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/australia-decides-referendum-question-to-create-17855286.php |
Industry leaders and experts across financial services, technology and open source will come together for thought-provoking insights and conversations about how to best leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, and co-host the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate adoption of open source software, standards and best practices in financial services, today announced new keynote speakers for Open Source in Finance Forum London 2022 (OSFF). The event takes place July 13 in London, UK. The full schedule can be viewed here.
OSFF promotes deeper collaboration across finance, open source and technology and drives innovation across the industry in order to deliver better code, faster. The event features an agenda covering recent developments and the direction of open source in financial services across a wide range of topics and domains, and this year will be held as part of Fintech Week London, a partnership emphasizing the importance of open source software and open collaboration in the financial services industry.
New keynote speakers include:
- Jennifer Lassiter, Executive Director, The Digital Dollar Project
- Declan O'Gorman, Head of Enterprise Engineering, NatWest
- Francesca Hopwood Road, Centre Head, Bank for International Settlements – BIS
- Keesa C. Schreane, Author of Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance Among Revenues, Reputations, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)
- Anna Wallace, SPO Consumer Protection and RegTech, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Previously announced keynote speakers include Kim Prado, CIO, US Capital Markets, I&CB and Office of the COO at BMO Capital Markets, Gabriele Columbro, Executive Director at FINOS, Hilary Carter, VP of Research at The Linux Foundation, and Jim Zemlin, Executive Director at The Linux Foundation.
Session highlights include:
- An Open Source Approach to Regulatory Reporting - Mosè Tronci & Georgina Bulkeley, Google
- OSPOs in Finance: Ways to Overcome Industry Barriers to Accelerate OS Adoption - Ana Jiménez Santamaría, TODO Group
- Proactive and Polymorphic Adaptation of Multi-cloud Deployments - Alicja Reniewicz, 7bulls.com & Pawel Skrzypek, Omphalos Fund
- An Open Source Architecture for Modernizing Market Risk Management - Aric Rosenbaum & Marius Bogoevici, Red Hat
- Consuming Legend Data Models & Services Using BI, Python/ML & Other Tools - Andrew Ormerod & John Pentelow, Goldman Sachs
- Timebase CE, with Connectivity to Crypto Exchanges - Matthew Gorelik, EPAM Systems
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Parents charged after child found alone in Greensburg apartment with guns, drugs
Police say loaded gun was within child's reach
Police say loaded gun was within child's reach
Police say loaded gun was within child's reach
Two people are facing charges after a 3-year-old girl was found alone in a Greensburg apartment Wednesday.
Greensburg Police charged Shayna Barner, 25, and Patrick Brundidge, 28, with one felony count of endangering the welfare of a child. According to police, the Westmoreland County Children's Bureau contacted police after a neighbor reported a young child was left alone inside an apartment at Eastmont Estates. When they arrived on scene, police said the child could be heard crying.
"The only thing I could hear was a child crying and then eventually screaming," Detective Justin Scalzo said.
Property management provided police with a key to the apartment, and once inside police said they discovered the child alone. According to court documents, marijuana was also found out in the open inside the apartment along with guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Police said one of the guns was found loaded on the bed, well within the child's reach.
"This could have ended differently," Scalzo said. "There were many things inside that could have caused death or serious bodily injuries to the child."
Police also discovered the apartment's smoke detectors were disconnected. Court documents claim Barner told police she disconnected the detectors in order to smoke marijuana inside.
Police said Barner claimed the girl was only left alone for a short period of time while she walked home from work. Police are still investigating exactly how long the child was left alone. The child was not harmed.
Greensburg police issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Brundidge and are asking anyone with information on his whereabouts to contact the department. | https://www.wtae.com/article/greensburg-child-found-alone-apartment/43402811 | 2023-03-23 23:57:25 | 0 | https://www.wtae.com/article/greensburg-child-found-alone-apartment/43402811 |
Baby bottles recalled due to lead levels
Published: Aug. 3, 2022 at 7:42 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(CNN) - A popular baby bottle manufacturer has issued a recall due to high lead levels in some of its products.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the markings on the outside of some of the Nuk’s First Choice glass baby bottles contain lead levels higher than those set by the federal government.
About 100 bottles sold in the United States are affected.
The bottles were designed for newborn to 6-month-old babies and sold exclusively on Amazon.
The bottles have white and gray stars on the outside along with the brand name, Nuk, printed in white.
You can visit Nuk’s website for more information.
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biomodal (formerly known as Cambridge Epigenetix) commercially launches its new duet multiomics solution, revealing the combinatorial power of genetic and epigenetic information from a single low volume sample
- The duet multiomics solution clearly illustrates novel data modalities to empower a range of applications, starting with input from 10ng of cell-free DNA
- biomodal recently published the solution in a peer reviewed article in Nature Biotechnology
- Prof. Dennis Yuk Ming Lo, recent Lasker-DeBakey Award recipient and liquid biopsy pioneer, joins biomodal's Scientific Advisory Board
- Omead Ostadan, genomics industry veteran and former Illumina and Seer executive, joins biomodal Board of Directors
CAMBRIDGE, England, April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The duet multiomics solution is the world's first single-base-resolution sequencing technology that enables the simultaneous phased reading of genetic and epigenetic information in a single sample, with one workflow, using any sequencer. The hardware-agnostic product provides more epigenetic information from a single low input DNA library without complex, resource intensive bioinformatics or harsh chemical treatment. Recently published in Nature Biotechnology, the solution provides a more complete picture of the information stored in genomes availing new insights from applications throughout biomedicine.
"Our novel solution removes the technical barriers that have previously held back our broader understanding of epigenetics. Now, our customers can accelerate their research with a more comprehensive view of regulatory function across the genome, through the interplay of genetics and epigenetics at read level. We believe this opens a new era of discovery and utility within next-generation sequencing by capturing additional biological modalities to reveal the complexity and dynamism of the human genome," said Peter Fromen, biomodal CEO.
The duet multiomics solution empowers applications across numerous fields of disease research, delivering greater biological insights into cancer, neurodegenerative disease, ageing, cell biology and population genetics. Using cell-free DNA via liquid biopsy, duet multiomics can simultaneously detect powerful genetic and methylation biomarkers in an individual's blood to provide unique disease insights. Notably, the use of liquid biopsy in oncology, to profile circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in blood, is a promising minimally invasive approach for early cancer detection and minimal residual disease monitoring.
"duet multiomics solution +modC helps to unlock the full potential of liquid biopsies by breaking down significant barriers in our biomarker discovery research, which relies on gaining accurate, comprehensive genetic and epigenetic data from our valuable samples," said Prof. Sarah-Jane Dawson, clinician-scientist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. "We gain new insight when measuring the interaction of genetics and epigenetics on the same read, allowing us to better understand the biology behind disease development and treatment responses. We look forward to progressing our research with this technology and affecting a paradigm shift in the way that cancer can be treated and monitored in the clinic."
The technology has been designed with accessibility at its core and is compatible with existing sequencers. The first duet multiomics solution, +modC, enables the sequencing of all canonical bases of DNA (A,C,G,T), plus modified cytosine via a single, low input sample (10ng). The plug-and-play software solution combines open source and proprietary tools to form a seamless analysis pipeline that incorporates error suppression, yielding high quality data with base calls in excess of Q40. Sample-level information is then ready for interpretation and insights through our proprietary analytics modules. Customers can therefore integrate the technology into their existing workflows without first having to purchase new hardware or build new bioinformatics tools.
Alongside these technological advancements, a number of high-profile experts in the field have joined biomodal's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) and Board of Directors.
Prof. Dennis Yuk Ming Lo, Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemical Pathology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and winner of the 2022 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, joins the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Prof. Lo brings decades of research experience to the SAB, having personally played an important role in the development of trailblazing diagnostic strategies, particularly in non-invasive prenatal testing for multiple diseases. Prof. Lo has pioneered a number of approaches to cancer liquid biopsy, especially for the detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and genomewide approaches for screening multiple types of cancer.
"biomodal's innovative approach to accessing genetics and epigenetics in a single sample has potential to further our understanding of disease in ways previously unexplored. I'm delighted to work with the team as they continue to evolve the use of this new technology across applications that may eventually impact human health," said Prof. Lo.
The company has also appointed Mr. Omead Ostadan to its Board of Directors. Mr. Ostadan brings a wealth of experience especially in the areas of product development and commercialisation, having held a wide range of executive roles in life sciences over the past 25 years, including at Applied Biosystems, Solexa, Illumina and Seer.
Commenting on his appointment, Mr Ostadan said: "I'm thrilled to join the biomodal Board at what feels like an inflection point for the field of epigenetics. The company has developed a transformative platform solution to accelerate the market, and has assembled a truly outstanding team to execute against its full potential."
biomodal's senior leadership will be attending the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2023 (14-19 April) where the duet multiomics solution +modC will be available for the first time. The team looks forward to seeing interested parties there, for what promises to be a lively series of discussions around recent discoveries in the field.
Notes to editors
biomodal is an omics based life-sciences technology and analytics company delivering products that bring the dynamism of our ever-changing biology into focus. Our duet multiomics solution enables more epigenetic information from a single, low input DNA library without complex, resource intensive bioinformatics or harsh chemical treatment. Our single-base-resolution, phased sequencing approach unlocks the combinatorial power of genetic and epigenetic information in one workflow, elucidating greater biological insight within the fields of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and ageing.
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FARGO, N.D. — Planned Parenthood said Monday it will offer abortion services at its clinic in Moorhead, Minnesota, if North Dakota’s only abortion clinic does not quickly relocate from Fargo should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
“However, if that is not the case, Planned Parenthood will begin offering abortions at our Moorhead facility so that women in the region have no interruption in services,” said Sarah Stoesz, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood North Central States.
The Red River Women’s Clinic has long operated as the only abortion provider in the state. Owner Tammi Kromenaker has said she would cross over to Moorhead if forced to do so, but told The Associated Press in recent interviews that she has been too busy to explore details of such a move.
Kromenaker said Monday “there are too many unknowns to confirm a specific date” for relocation.
“We plan to continue to provide our unique and excellent brand of abortion care in the region and will work tirelessly to ensure there is no disruption in services,” Kromenaker said. “We are here to stay.”
A leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court suggests that a majority of justices support overturning the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision legalizing abortion. Such a move would trigger a law in North Dakota making abortion illegal, giving Kromenaker 30 days to close.
The nearest clinics to the Fargo-Moorhead are both about 240 miles (386.24 kilometers) away, in Minneapolis and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, though the Sioux Falls clinic would also shut down if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Moving to Moorhead, part of a metro area with Fargo that comprises about 250,000 people, likely would not be difficult for Kromenaker’s clinic.
Brenda Huston, Moorhead’s city planner and zoning administrator, said there’s plenty of commercial and mixed-use space available in areas already zoned for medical facilities and a building permit for a new or remodeled abortion clinic would be a formality.
Moorhead Mayor Shelly Carlson all but endorsed the move.
“I cannot speak to the thoughts of Moorhead residents as a whole, but overall Moorhead is a welcoming community that embraces and respects diversity of thought,” Carlson said. “We know that we all do not and will not think alike on every issue, but for the most part our citizens strive to exist as one community.”
A spokesman for Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life declined to comment when asked whether the group would try to discourage or stop the move.
Kromenaker, 50, who began working at an abortion clinic while she was in college, was named director of the Red River facility when it opened in 1998 and bought the clinic in 2016. Patients come mostly from North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota.
In an interview with AP last week, Kromenaker said she was unsure how she would fund relocation, though she said she would welcome donations.
In North Dakota, many donors seeking to support abortion access give to the nonprofit North Dakota WIN Abortion Access Fund, with the money intended to help pay for abortions, transportation and aftercare, including tests and birth control prescriptions.
Destini Spaeth, the volunteer leader of the WIN Fund, said donations have quadrupled since the draft opinion was publicized. Spaeth said the WIN Fund has not done any fundraising for a new clinic but the group is open to that discussion.
Ken Koehler, of West Fargo, a regular protester outside the clinic in downtown Fargo, said if the clinic moves, he and his fellow demonstrators will follow it.
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WFO SACRAMENTO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
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256 PM PST Fri Jan 6 2023
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM SATURDAY TO
4 PM PST TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 1 to 3
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feet expected this weekend with several more feet of
accumulation possible early next. Winds gusting as high as 60
mph.
* WHERE...Western Plumas County/Lassen Park and West Slope
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Northern Sierra Nevada including Interstate 80 over Donner Pass,
Highway 50 over Echo Summit and Highway 88 over Carson Pass.
* WHEN...From 4 AM Saturday to 4 PM PST Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Strong
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winds could cause tree damage. Widespread blowing snow could
significantly reduce visibility resulting in periods of near
whiteout conditions.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow levels will mostly be around 4000 to
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5000 feet, but will gradually rise to 7000 to 8000 feet
beginning Sunday night into Monday before lowering again Monday
night into Tuesday to around 4500 feet. Significant travel
impacts will likely persist at the higher pass levels on Monday.
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Strongest winds will be Saturday through early Sunday morning
and again Monday through Monday night.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
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your vehicle in case of an emergency.
The latest road conditions for the state you are calling from can
be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
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WFO CORPUS CHRISTI Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, April 23, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX
937 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 AM CDT
FOR CENTRAL WEBB COUNTY...
At 937 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Texas A&M, or 8
miles east of Laredo, moving southeast at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Ping pong ball size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect damage
to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles.
Locations impacted include...
Laredo, Texas A&M, Laredo International Airport, Botines, Unitec
Industrial Park, Ranchos Penitas West, United South High School,
Ranchitos Las Lomas, St Augustine High School South Laredo, Doctors
Hospital Of Laredo, Laredo Country Club, Laredo Community College and
Orvil.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 35 between mile markers 1 and 23.
US Highway 59 between mile markers 806 and 824.
US Highway 83 between mile markers 696 and 724.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
The National Weather Service in Corpus Christi has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southeastern Webb County in south central Texas...
* Until 1030 AM CDT.
* At 941 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles southeast
of Texas A&M, or 9 miles east of Laredo, moving southeast at 30
mph.
HAZARD...Half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.
* Locations impacted include...
Laredo, Rio Bravo, El Cenizo, Texas A&M, Laredo International
Airport, Botines, Unitec Industrial Park, Mirando City, Ranchos
Penitas West, Oilton, United South High School, Aguilares,
Ranchitos Las Lomas, St Augustine High School South Laredo, Doctors
Hospital Of Laredo, Laredo Country Club, Laredo Community College
and Orvil.
US Highway 83 between mile markers 696 and 734.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, today published its first quarter fiscal year 2023 financial results in a letter to shareholders, which is now posted to the Investor Relations section of the website.
As previously announced, the company will host a conference call today, August 8, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The dial in numbers for the conference are (U.S.) (646) 307-1963 and (International) (800) 715-9871. Please reference conference ID 7626718.
Participants can also listen to the live webcast from the Investor Relations section of the website. The call will be archived and available on the site for approximately one month immediately following the conference call.
About Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate. Today, the Company is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, secure, affordable, fast connections to impact people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at sea. To learn more about Viasat, visit: www.viasat.com, go to Viasat's Corporate Blog, or follow the Company on social media at: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter or YouTube.
Copyright © 2022 Viasat, Inc. All rights reserved. Viasat, the Viasat logo and the Viasat signal are registered trademarks of Viasat, Inc. All other product or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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NY New York NY Zone Forecast for Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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985 FPUS51 KOKX 130811
ZFPOKX
Zone Forecast Product
National Weather Service New York NY
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
NYZ072-132015-
New York (Manhattan)-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest
after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ073-132015-
Bronx-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northwest winds around 5 mph,
becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest
after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ176-132015-
Northern Queens-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs around 90. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to
20 mph, becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ178-132015-
Southern Queens-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast with gusts up to 20 mph in the
afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ075-132015-
Kings (Brooklyn)-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ074-132015-
Richmond (Staten Island)-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming northwest after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance
of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. West winds around 5 mph, becoming north
after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ177-132015-
Northern Nassau-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northwest
after midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ179-132015-
Southern Nassau-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts
up to 20 mph, becoming west after midnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming
north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ078-132015-
Northwest Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming northeast after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 80s.
North winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds around 5 mph,
becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ080-132015-
Southwest Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest with gusts up to 20 mph this
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Humid with lows around 70. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs in the mid 80s. North winds
around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. West winds around
5 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southeast in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ079-132015-
Northeast Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Humid with highs in the lower
80s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming south around 5 mph in
the afternoon. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered thunderstorms with a
chance of showers in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. West
winds around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. North winds around
5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
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NYZ081-132015-
Southeast Suffolk-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming southwest this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. Humid with lows in the upper 60s. South winds 5 to
10 mph.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Humid with highs around 80. East winds around
5 mph, becoming south in the afternoon. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Scattered thunderstorms with a
chance of showers in the evening. Humid with lows in the upper
60s. West winds around 5 mph, becoming north after midnight.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. North winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming south in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows around 70.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs around 80.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the lower 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.
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NYZ071-132015-
Southern Westchester-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west this afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with
a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows
around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph, becoming north after
midnight. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. North
winds around 5 mph, becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of
rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms with
a chance of showers in the evening, then partly cloudy after
midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to
10 mph, becoming west in the afternoon.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows around 70. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ070-132015-
Northern Westchester-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of dense fog this morning with visibility
one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the upper 80s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ069-132015-
Rockland-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Northwest winds 5 to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
upper 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the mid 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the upper 80s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
NYZ068-132015-
Putnam-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of dense fog this morning with visibility
one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the mid 80s.
Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly
cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the
mid 60s. West winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light
and variable. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 50 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
$$
NYZ067-132015-
Orange-
411 AM EDT Wed Jul 13 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Areas of dense fog this morning with visibility
one quarter mile or less at times. Highs in the mid 80s. West
winds 5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Northwest winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable. Chance of rain
20 percent.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the morning, then scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest
winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with scattered showers and
thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight.
Lows around 60. Northwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain
40 percent.
.FRIDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northwest winds around
5 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming
mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 40 percent.
.MONDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of showers in the morning, then
a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in
the mid 80s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Chance of rain 50 percent.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
$$
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NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge hit his 60th home run Tuesday night, matching Babe Ruth and moving within one of Roger Maris’ American League season record.
The New York Yankees slugger drove a 3-1 sinker from Pittsburgh’s Wil Crowe 430 feet to the left field seats leading off the ninth inning. Judge’s third home run in two games and ninth in September thrilled a screaming crowd at Yankee Stadium. He answered pleas for a curtain call despite New York’s 8-5 deficit.
He equaled Ruth’s total for the 1927 Yankees and has 15 games remaining to match and surpass Maris’ total for New York in 1961.
Judge leads the major leagues with 128 RBIs and is among the AL batting leaders with a .316 average as he tries for the first Triple Crown since Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera in 2012.
Ruth became the first major leaguer to hit 60 homers when he connected off Washington’s Tom Zachary for a two-run drive to right in the eighth inning on Sept. 30, 1927, the next-to-last game of the season.
Roger Maris Jr. and Kevin Maris, sons of the former player, were both on hand.
Fans in the outfield seats stood when Judge came to the plate.
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‘On tour in hell’: Wounded Ukrainian soldiers evacuated
By ELENA BECATOROS
Associated Press
DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Their hands are blackened and grimy from the fight. Some are still wearing their combat boots, small flecks of black soil from the battlefield clinging to their torsos, bare under the emergency blanket.
With bandaged heads and splinted limbs, the wounded soldiers are stretchered into the waiting medical evacuation bus by members of the Hospitallers, a Ukrainian organization of volunteer paramedics who work on the front lines in the war in Ukraine.
The soldiers were all wounded recently in fierce fighting in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have been pressing advances. The battle in Bakhmut, a city now encircled on three sides by Russian troops, has been particularly bloody, with soldiers describing endless days of combat, often at close quarters.
“We’ve been on tour in hell,” said Yura as he lay on a bed in the specially equipped medical bus. Blood stained the heavy bandages around his right forearm, held together by metal rods used to stabilize the shattered bone.
His bicep bore a deepening purple bruise left by the tourniquet applied to staunch the blood and save his life. The time it was put on was still scrawled in marker pen across his right cheek: 19:45.
“They tried to get me with grenades,” said Yura, who like all the soldiers would give only his first name. He was badly wounded in the right arm and leg.
Unlike most of the wounded, Yura is not Ukrainian. He is Russian, but has been fighting on the side of Ukraine in Bakhmut since November. The Moscow native said he moved to Ukraine before the war, as did a friend of his who is also fighting for Ukraine and had spent two-and-a-half years in prison in Russia for reposting a social media post saying Crimea — illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — was Ukrainian.
It was his own countrymen who had wounded him.
He was in Bakhmut for “eight days of almost uninterrupted combat.” But he and his unit managed to repel all the assaults on their position, he said.
“On the fifth day without sleep, I had thoughts that I would go crazy,” he said. “In fact, it’s impossible to sleep there, they shell it in such a way that the earth trembles.”
He showed a video on his mobile phone shot inside Bakhmut: the interior of a devastated building, holes punched through the walls by artillery, rubble strewn across the floor. Beyond the twisted metal remnants of a window, a glimpse of an urban hellscape of shattered buildings and splintered trees.
Yaroslav, 37, was also wounded in Bakhmut. The battle was so close that Russian and Ukrainian forces were fighting room to room inside buildings, he said.
Pale and with an almost imperceptible tremor, his lips nearly white, he propped himself up on an elbow as he waited to be stretchered from an ambulance onto the bus for the trip to a better equipped hospital in a city further west.
An explosion had sent shrapnel through his leg, piercing it below the knee.
“I came to my senses and saw that there is nobody around me, and then I understood that there is blood oozing into my shoe, blood squelching in my shoe,” he said, quietly drawing on a cigarette. “It was totally dark.”
As his unit had attempted to move from its position, the Russian forces began shelling.
“When I left, everything was on fire.” There were dead Russians lying on the ground, and dead Ukrainians too. “People were running in the road and falling down, because mines were exploding, drones were flying.”
He finished his cigarette and lay back on the stretcher. His eyes fixed on some invisible point before him, and he slowly closed his eyelids. The Hospitallers lifted his stretcher and carried it to the waiting bus.
The medically equipped bus — named “Austrian,” the nickname of a Hospitaller paramedic who was killed in a crash of another medical evacuation bus — can carry six severely wounded patients on stretchers, and several more walking wounded.
“We’re doing evacuations as necessary. It could be twice or three times per day,” said the chief paramedic, Kateryna Seliverstova.
Bought with money from donations, the bus is better equipped medically than even some state hospitals, Seliverstova said. It is stocked with monitors, electrocardiographs, ventilators and oxygen tanks and can care for severely ill patients while they are transported to a major hospital.
“This project is really important, because it helps to economize resources,” she said. “We can transport six injured people who are in serious or moderate condition” whereas a normal ambulance can only transport one.
All six places were taken on the trip evacuating Yura and Yaroslav. Across the aisle from Yura, another soldier slipped in and out of consciousness, a brown bandage wrapped around his head. A paramedic checked his vital signs on a monitor, and helped him sip water from a syringe.
Behind him, a man coughed deeply. Only the blackened tip of his nose was visible from his heavily bandaged head. He had suffered extensive burns to his face.
Yura spoke softly to one of the paramedics. Without his expression changing, tears began rolling down the side of his face. The paramedic leaned over and gently wiped them away.
___
Vasilisa Stepanenko and Evgeniy Maloletka contributed from Donetsk region, Ukraine. | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/03/23/on-tour-in-hell-wounded-ukrainian-soldiers-evacuated/ | 2023-03-23 09:40:38 | 0 | https://kion546.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/03/23/on-tour-in-hell-wounded-ukrainian-soldiers-evacuated/ |
To celebrate the 70 years the Morris Lapidus property has stood and Miami's remarkable culture, the iconic hotel will center its Art For Good program on showcasing the talents of local artists across multiple disciplines, including innovative design and dynamic music.
MIAMI, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach - together with hotel ownership from the Ben Josef, Kanavos, and Lowenstein families - is extremely proud to continue its Art For Good program this Miami Art Week 2022 by celebrating 70 years of the landmark Morris Lapidus building as a cornerstone of South Beach. The hotel is a pillar of Miami's iconic history and now celebrates its commitment to the community with the help of brilliant local artists across various disciplines, including innovative design, dynamic music, and contemporary dance.
Taking place on Tuesday, November 29th, the culmination of the Art For Good program includes a spectacular, immersive concert entitled 'Seven Decades and Beyond' featuring the Miami Symphony Orchestra, 3D printed sonic sculptures specially designed for the event by MONAD Studio, and an innovative dance performance from the Miami City Ballet. Through this groundbreaking event, the hotel will celebrate not only the 70 years that the Morris Lapidus-designed Art Deco icon has proudly resided on South Beach, but also the creative, artistic hub that Miami Beach has become during this era.
The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach - a Miami Beach Art Basel 2022 official hotel partner - is hosting this multi-sensory celebration to showcase to Art Week guests from across the globe, why Miami is home to Art Basel and other major fairs. Spotlighting local talents, The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach highlights an expansive interpretation of art including the creative manifestations of architects, designers, musicians, dancers, and more.
"Art is so much more than just paint on canvas, and we are honored to use our Art For Good platform at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach to celebrate the immensely talented and innovative local artists based in Miami who are creating outstanding art outside of traditional mediums," says Ronit Neuman, an owner of The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach and Artistic Director of Sagamore South Beach. "In a week that is usually so focused on international artists, The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach wanted to dedicate Miami Art Week 2022 to championing world-class artists right here in our South Florida community who are breaking down the barriers of what it means to be an artist."
Kicking off the highly anticipated event, together with a roster of acclaimed artists and partners, The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach will roll out the red carpet and offer crisp sparkling wine from Fabio Lamborghini's new, exclusive luxury lifestyle brand FL Fuoriserie as they arrive at the landmark luxury hotel. While sparkling wine flows from a show stopping champagne tower, dancers from the Miami City Ballet will float amongst the guests, delighting the audience with an immersive performance. Guests will then enter the grand concert space in the hotel's ballroom where the world-renowned Miami Symphony Orchestra will perform a specially curated collection of locally significant music, selected by celebrated conductor Eduard Marturet. The song list is set to include iconic hits like Guantanamera by Celia Cruz, Conga by Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine, and Timber by Pitbull, and it will be a moving musical tribute to the last seven decades of Miami's one-of-a-kind history, art, and culture.
Specifically for the show, the prestigious MONAD Studio, cofounded by local artists Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg, will design and 3D print unique sonic sculptures. With the help of the knowledgeable South Florida-based luthier Scott F. Hall, these sonic sculptures will be bright, grandiose instruments that the Miami Symphony Orchestra will play to serenade a crowd of local and regional notables, tastemakers, politicians, art collectors, and artists alike. The instruments will include astounding renditions of a piano, a lap guitar and xenophone, a twin serpent, a zhu, a bichord, a slide guitar, and a segmented bass guitar. When the spectacular pieces are not being played, they will be proudly displayed in the resort's glamorous lobby for all Miami Art Week patrons to admire. Renderings of all instruments linked here.
All art displayed on the property during Art Week - including the inimitable sonic sculptures - will be available for auction beginning Thursday, November 17th through BidAid, an international all-inclusive, silent-auction platform. Proceeds from all purchases will be donated to the Miami City Ballet, the Miami Symphony Orchestra, Young Musicians Unite, and Circle X Green Trillion Club.
"Utilizing our international brand and our local presence, the ownership and Ladies and Gentlemen of the hotel are committed to making a lasting impact on the community by celebrating the arts and the positive effects it has on everyone's lives," says Jacqueline Volkart, Market General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach and The Ritz-Carlton, Bal Harbour. "This is why we are proud to use our Art For Good program during Miami Art Week 2022 to promote the healing power of the arts and how we can use it to benefit meaningful causes."
The Miami Art Week 2022 Art For Good program and the Seven Decades & Beyond concert is made possible by our incredibly generous sponsors including but not limited to BHI, Bilzin Sumberg, Charles Schwab, Deutsche Bank, and Ocean Bank.
To learn more about The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach's Art For Good program and additional Miami Art Week activities, please visit the hotel's website. You can also find more information on the hotel's Instagram page. Images of the hotel are linked here.
About The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., of Chevy Chase, MD., part of Marriott International, Inc., currently operates more than 100 hotels and over 45 residential properties in 30 countries and territories. For more information or reservations, visit the company web site at www.ritzcarlton.com, for the latest company updates, visit news.ritzcarlton.com and to join the live conversation, use #RCMemories and follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAR). The Ritz-Carlton is proud to participate in Marriott Bonvoy, the new name of Marriott's travel program replacing Marriott Rewards®, The Ritz Carlton Rewards®, and Starwood Preferred Guest® (SPG). The program offers members an extraordinary portfolio of global brands, experiences on Marriott Bonvoy Moments and unparalleled benefits including earning points toward free hotel stays and nights toward Elite status recognition. To enroll for free or for more information about the program, visit MarriottBonvoy.marriott.com.
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LOS ANGELES — Armie Hammer has reached a divorce agreement with his wife, Elizabeth Chambers, nearly three years after she filed to end their marriage.
Hammer's attorney filed documents in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday informing a judge that the actor and Chambers have come to terms over child custody, child support, spousal support and division of assets. A judge will need to sign off on the proposed agreement and declare the two divorced.
The settlement comes weeks after Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to charge Hammer in an investigation stemming from a woman's allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 2017. They cited a lack of evidence to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Hammer said on Instagram that after a long public silence that “I look forward to beginning what will be a long, difficult process of putting my life back together now that my name has been cleared.”
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Allegations of sexual violence from women early in 2021 derailed Hammer’s career, and he has not worked in Hollywood since.
Hammer and Chambers separated, and she filed for divorce, in 2020.
The 36-year-old actor is best known for his starring roles in 2017’s “Call Me By Your Name” and 2013’s “The Lone Ranger.”
Chambers, 40, is a television personality who has had shows on the Food Network and the Cooking Channel.
The two began dating in 2007 and married in 2010. They have an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — After finishing a tour in Afghanistan in 2013, Dionne Williamson felt emotionally numb. More warning signs appeared during several years of subsequent overseas postings.
“It’s like I lost me somewhere,” said Williamson, a Navy lieutenant commander who experienced disorientation, depression, memory loss and chronic exhaustion. “I went to my captain and said, ‘Sir, I need help. Something’s wrong.’"
As the Pentagon seeks to confront spiraling suicide rates in the military ranks, Williamson’s experiences shine a light on the realities for service members seeking mental health help. For most, simply acknowledging their difficulties can be intimidating. And what comes next can be frustrating and dispiriting.
Williamson, 46, eventually found stability through a monthlong hospitalization and a therapeutic program that incorporates horseback riding. But she had to fight for years to get the help she needed. “It's a wonder how I made it through,” she said.
In March Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the creation of an independent committee to review the military’s mental health and suicide prevention programs.
According to Defense Department data, suicides among active-duty service members increased by more than 40% between 2015 and 2020. The numbers jumped by 15% in 2020 alone. In longtime suicide hotspot postings such as Alaska – service members and their families contend with extreme isolation and a harsh climate – the rate has doubled.
A 2021 study by the Cost of War Project concluded that since 9/11, four times as many service members and veterans have died by suicide as have perished in combat. The study detailed stress factors particular to military life: “high exposure to trauma — mental, physical, moral, and sexual — stress and burnout, the influence of the military’s hegemonic masculine culture, continued access to guns, and the difficulty of reintegrating into civilian life.”
The Pentagon did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But Austin has publicly acknowledged that the Pentagon’s current mental health offerings — including a Defense Suicide Prevention Office established in 2011 — have proven insufficient.
“It is imperative that we take care of all our teammates and continue to reinforce that mental health and suicide prevention remain a key priority,” Austin wrote in March. “Clearly we have more work to do.”
Last year the Army issued fresh guidelines to its commanders on how to handle mental health issues in the ranks, complete with briefing slides and a script. But daunting long-term challenges remain. Many soldiers fear the stigma of admitting to mental health issues within the internal military culture of self-sufficiency. And those who seek help often find that stigma is not only real, but compounded by bureaucratic obstacles.
Much like the issue of food insecurity in military families, a network of military-adjacent charitable organizations has tried to fill the gaps with a variety of programs and outreach efforts.
Some are purely recreational, such as an annual fishing tournament in Alaska designed to provide fresh air and socialization for service members. Others are more focused on self-care, like an Armed Services YMCA program that offers free childcare so that military parents can attend therapy sessions.
The situation in Alaska is particularly dire. In January, after a string of suicides, Command Sgt. Maj. Phil Blaisdell addressed his soldiers in an emotional Instagram post. “When did suicide become the answer,” he asked. “Please send me a DM if you need something. Please …”
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said that while posting to Alaska can be a dream for some service members, it's a solitary nightmare for others that needs to be addressed.
“You’ve got to be paying attention to this when you see the statistics jump as they are,” Murkowski said. “Right now, you’ve got everybody. You’ve got the Joint Chiefs looking at Alaska and saying, ‘Holy smokes, what’s going on up there?’”
The stresses of an Alaska posting are compounded by a shortage of on-the-ground therapists. During a visit to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska earlier this year, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth heard from base health care workers who say they are understaffed, burned out and can’t see patients on a timely basis. If a soldier seeks help, they often have to wait weeks for an appointment.
“We have people who need our services and we can’t get to them,” one longtime counselor told Wormuth during a meeting. “We need staff and until we get them, we will continue to have soldiers die.”
The annual Combat Fishing Tournament in Seward, Alaska, was formed to "get the kids out of the barracks, get them off the base for the day and get them out of their heads,” said co-founder Keith Manternach.
The tournament, which was begun in 2007 and now involves more than 300 service members, includes a day of deep-water fishing followed by a celebratory banquet with prizes for the largest catch, smallest catch and the person who gets the sickest.
“I think there’s a huge element of mental health to it,” Manternach said.
It's not just in Alaska.
Sgt. Antonio Rivera, an 18-year veteran who completed three tours in Iraq and a year at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, freely acknowledges that he has serious PTSD.
“I know that I need help. There’s signs and I’ve waited long enough,” said Rivera, 48, who is assigned to Fort Hood in Texas. "I don’t want my children to suffer because of me not going to get help.”
He's doing yoga, but says he needs more. He's reluctant to seek help inside the military.
“Personally I’d feel more comfortable being able to talk to someone outside,” he said. “It would allow me to open up a lot more without having to be worried about how it’s going to affect my career.”
Others who speak up say it's a struggle to get assistance.
Despite the on-base presence of "tons of briefings and brochures on suicide and PTSD,” Williamson said she found herself fighting for years to get time off and therapy.
Eventually, she entered a monthlong in-patient program in Arizona. When she returned, a therapist recommended equine-assisted therapy, which proved to be a breakthrough.
Now Williamson is a regular at the Cloverleaf Equine Center in Clifton, Virginia, where riding sessions can be combined with a variety of therapeutic practices and exercises. Working with horses has long been used as a form for therapy for people with physical or mental disabilities and children diagnosed with autism. But in recent years, it has been embraced for helping service members with anxiety and PTSD.
“In order to be able to work with horses, you need to be able to regulate your emotions. They communicate through body language and energy,” said Shelby Morrison, Cloverleaf's communications director. “They respond to energies around them. They respond to negativity, positivity, anxiety, excitement.”
Military clients, Morrison said, come with “a lot of anxiety, depression, PTSD. … We use the horse to get them out of their triggers.”
For Williamson, the regular riding sessions have helped stabilize her. She still struggles, and she said her long campaign for treatment has damaged her relationship with multiple superior officers. She's currently on limited duty and isn't sure if she'll retire when she hits her 20-year anniversary in March.
Nevertheless, she says, the equine therapy has helped her feel optimistic for the first time in recent memory.
“Now even if I can't get out of bed, I make sure to come here,” she said. “If I didn’t come here, I don’t know where I would even be.”
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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.
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The Jan. 6 House select committee wrapped up the last of eight summer hearings Thursday night, in which it sought to demonstrate that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
If one thinks of this investigation as a connect-the-dots puzzle, the outline was already known before the committee began its work. But they put forward many more dots – via hundreds of interviews and 140,000 documents gathered – in an attempt to present a sharper final picture of presidential culpability.
Why We Wrote This
After eight hearings, the basic outline of what took place in the run-up to and on Jan. 6 remains the same. But new details could serve to sharpen a case against the former president.
Over the course of six weeks, the committee sought to prove that Mr. Trump is unfit for public office, and that he willfully deceived his supporters in a desperate bid to stay in power.
Legal scholars disagree on whether the evidence could lead to criminal charges against the former president. Still, many say the hearings have provided a valuable public record.
“These are very disturbing and at times breathtaking accounts,” says Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who has been critical of the committee’s lack of GOP-appointed members and robust questioning. “The evidence ranges from the horrific to the heroic.”
It was the season finale, if not the end of the series. Last night, the Jan. 6 House select committee wrapped up the last of eight summer hearings, in which they sought to demonstrate that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The final hearing focused directly on what Mr. Trump was doing for the 187 minutes between when the Capitol was breached and when he released a video from the Rose Garden urging rioters to go home.
If one thinks of this congressional investigation as a connect-the-dots puzzle, the basic outline was already known before the select committee began its work. But the committee put forward many more dots – via hundreds of witness interviews and 140,000 documents gathered – in an attempt to present a sharper final picture of presidential culpability.
Why We Wrote This
After eight hearings, the basic outline of what took place in the run-up to and on Jan. 6 remains the same. But new details could serve to sharpen a case against the former president.
Over the course of six weeks, the committee sought to prove that Mr. Trump, who is widely expected to announce a 2024 presidential run, is unfit for public office, and that he willfully deceived his supporters about his electoral defeat in a desperate bid to stay in power.
“He is preying on their patriotism,” said Vice Chair Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, in her closing statement of the prime-time hearing. “On Jan. 6, Donald Trump turned their love of country into a weapon against our Capitol and our Constitution.”
The committee also suggested Mr. Trump might bear criminal responsibility, though legal scholars disagree on whether the evidence presented by the panel warrants bringing charges against the former president. Some now see a strong case against Mr. Trump, potentially for multiple crimes, ranging from defrauding the public to assisting an insurrection. Those charges could be further bolstered by the countless hours of depositions not yet released, which may include additional relevant details.
“Either he realized he lost or deliberately hid the truth from himself. And then he proceeded to do everything that he could possibly do without any regard for harm to other people, or to the country, without any regard to the law in order to overturn the election,” says Laurence Tribe, a professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard University. “All of this adds up to very serious federal crimes.”
Others say that while the hearings have exposed reprehensible, even immoral, behavior on the part of the former president, they fell short of establishing criminal culpability.
“A president’s failure to ‘do the right thing,’ – and that’s a direct quote from the committee – is a political rather than criminal judgment,” says Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who has been critical of the committee’s lack of GOP-appointed members and robust questioning.
Still, while he doesn’t see a strong legal case against Mr. Trump, he says the hearings have played a valuable role in creating a comprehensive record of the events leading up to Jan. 6 and the attack on the Capitol.
“The committee has contributed a great deal in making details and accounts public,” says Professor Turley. “These are very disturbing and at times breathtaking accounts. The evidence ranges from the horrific to the heroic.”
Many of the hearings included graphic images of the violence of that day, scenes which were often difficult to watch. Several police officers who had battled the crowds at the Capitol attended the hearings in person and at various times could be seen with their heads in their hands. At the conclusion of most hearings, the committee members would file off the dais to shake hands with – or in many instances embrace – the witnesses, thanking them for sharing their stories.
Last night, Representative Cheney praised the witnesses who had been willing to come forward, including Cassidy Hutchinson, the young aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. “She knew all along that she would be attacked by President Trump and by the 50-, 60-, and 70-year-old men who hide themselves behind executive privilege,” she said. “But like our witnesses today, she has courage, and she did it anyway.”
Outlines now filled in
The broad contours of Mr. Trump’s rhetoric and actions leading up to Jan. 6 have been known for more than a year. Amid a rapid scaling up of mail-in voting during the pandemic, he began questioning the validity of the 2020 election results before voting even started. Then he persisted in falsely claiming that he had won, even after all but one of the 62 lawsuits his team brought had failed or been thrown out. He pressured the Department of Justice to find evidence of fraud, and when Attorney General Bill Barr said there was none on a scale to overturn the election, the president turned to state election officials, who likewise did not find any such evidence.
Then, in what many saw as a last-ditch and unconstitutional attempt, he tried pressuring state legislators to nominate alternative slates of electors. The idea was that when Congress met on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes, a process overseen by Vice President Mike Pence, they could delay or overturn Joe Biden’s victory. When Mr. Pence made clear that morning that he did not believe he had the constitutional authority to unilaterally accept or reject the electoral votes, Mr. Trump encouraged the massive crowd rallying near the White House to march to the Capitol. As rioters breached the building and engaged with law enforcement, he did nothing to stop the violence for hours.
The committee filled in new details within that narrative arc, bringing Republican lawyers, state election officials, and state legislators to testify in person, as well as former White House officials. Together with selected clips of videotaped depositions of former Trump aides, the committee outlined a pattern of behavior that they say demonstrated Mr. Trump willfully deceived his supporters into believing the election was stolen, and deliberately sent angry protesters, some of whom he knew to be armed, to disrupt the proceedings at the Capitol and pressure Mr. Pence and members of Congress as they began counting the Electoral College votes.
Some of the most attention-grabbing details of the eight hearings came from Ms. Hutchinson, the White House aide, who testified that Mr. Trump was told some of the protesters were armed but had nevertheless asked the Secret Service to let them into his rally, saying they weren’t there to hurt him. She also related an account she’d been told by another official, that when Mr. Trump was informed he could not join the protesters at the Capitol, he tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle and lunged for the neck of a Secret Service agent – an account that both Mr. Trump and, reportedly, Secret Service agents have denied. And she testified that when the president was told some rioters were yelling, “Hang Mike Pence,” Mr. Trump said he thought the vice president deserved it – something she pieced together from two conversations she had heard.
Last night’s testimony included an audio clip, distorted for security reasons, of someone identified only as a “White House security official,” who said that Secret Service agents in the Capitol on Jan. 6 became afraid for their lives, relaying goodbyes to their families, and warning that they might need to use lethal force to protect Mr. Pence.
Diverging views
While only two of the committee’s nine members are Republicans, and both are outspoken critics of Mr. Trump, nearly all of the testimony was given by Republicans who had supported or worked for the former president. Still, many Trump supporters have criticized the highly scripted nature of the hearings and lack of cross-examination to explore other possible motives or interpretations, or to evaluate the accuracy of witnesses’ recollections of an intense day more than 18 months ago.
Ms. Cheney addressed those criticisms in her remarks last night. “Do you really think that Bill Barr is such a delicate flower that he would wilt under cross-examination?” she asked, and then went through a list of other members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle who had testified. “Of course not. None of these witnesses are.”
Professor Tribe – who once taught two committee members, Reps. Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, and is friends with both – says the hearings have provided stronger evidence than the impeachment proceedings on whether Mr. Trump incited an insurrection. He says it could now be “quite easily proven” that the former president defrauded the American people and obstructed a congressional proceeding. He even sees a pathway for prosecuting more serious crimes, including engaging in and assisting an insurrection against the authority of the United States, which would render Mr. Trump ineligible to ever hold office again, as well as seditious conspiracy, punishable by 20 years in prison.
Professor Turley disagrees, expressing skepticism that any of the crimes enumerated by Professor Tribe could be proven in court. He notes, for example, that the District of Columbia’s attorney general already investigated Mr. Trump for insurrection and never brought charges.
“The committee members said at the outset that they had uncovered what Representative Schiff called compelling evidence of criminal conduct by President Trump,” he says. “We have yet to see that evidence materialize.”
One question to consider is what else the Jan. 6 committee may have gleaned from witness depositions that it chose not to include in the tightly focused presentations to the nation.
“What was on TV was for the general public – not for a judge or for legal experts. And therefore, it’s understandable that they tried not to spend too much time on details that might matter in court,” says Ilya Somin, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia who researches constitutional law. “I would guess that many of those kinds of things were in fact asked about in the depositions.” | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0722/Jan.-6-summer-hearings-wrap-up-What-did-we-learn | 2022-07-23 07:11:42 | 0 | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0722/Jan.-6-summer-hearings-wrap-up-What-did-we-learn |
Fewer members of Gen-Z want careers in skilled trades: as electricians, construction workers and medical technicians. The online recruiting platform Handshake recently shared data with NPR showing the application rate for young people seeking technical jobs dropped by 49% between 2020 and 2022.
Paul Iversen, a labor educator with the University of Iowa’s Labor Center who helps run a pre-apprenticeship program, joins us.
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WASHINGTON – The top state election official in New Mexico has spoken with federal prosecutors as part of the special counsel’s probe into the 2020 election, the official's spokesman said Friday.
The meeting with New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver occurred sometime in the past few months, according to spokesman Alex Curtas, who declined further comment.
The Justice Department has spent months examining pressure campaigns by Trump associates aimed at getting battleground states won by Democrat Joe Biden to undo the results of their elections. Special counsel Jack Smith and his team have issued subpoenas to election officials in states that Trump disputed, seeking correspondence from Trump associates and campaign aides, and have also lined up interviews in recent months with state officials.
The communications with state officials are one prong of a much bigger probe by Smith and his team into efforts to block the transfer of power from Trump to Biden. It is not clear when Smith’s investigation into the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot might end or whether anyone might be charged.
A spokesman for Smith declined to comment on Friday.
It’s unknown what questions were asked of Toulouse Oliver, a Democrat in her second term, about the 2020 election in New Mexico.
After Biden won the state by nearly 11 percentage points, Trump’s campaign briefly challenged the results in court before dropping the lawsuit. Republicans in the state submitted false Electoral College certificates declaring Trump the winner – though the fake electors added a caveat saying the certificates were submitted in case they were later recognized as duly elected, qualified electors.
Although Democrats control every statewide elected office in New Mexico, with majorities in the Statehouse, false claims of fraud and manipulation of voting machines in 2020 have resonated in some politically conservative communities, including Otero County, where commissioners in June 2022 initially refused to certify election results.
Former Otero County commissioner and Cowboys for Trump cofounder Couy Griffin was barred last year from holding public office for engaging in insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson have also spoken with officials from Smith’s office in recent months, according to their staffs.
Kathy Boockvar, the chief state election official in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election, said Friday she has not been asked for an interview.
It was not currently clear whether state officials overseeing elections in 2020 in Arizona, Nevada and Wisconsin – other states disputed by Trump -- have been interviewed. Claire Woodall-Vogg, the head of Milwaukee’s election commission, said in an email that she met virtually with investigators a month or two ago.
“I’m not sure what if any details I can divulge, so not much more to say,” she said.
Efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his loss in Georgia are also the subject of a separate investigation in Atlanta's Fulton County with local prosecutors saying they expect a decision later this summer on next steps. It was in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call that Trump suggested Raffensperger could help “find” the votes necessary to reverse Biden’s win.
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Couple's memorial statue of granddaughter stolen
A Delray Beach couple has been left devastated after someone stole a memorial the represented their beloved granddaughter who died in 2011.
For the past year, Debbie Arrigo and her husband Joe have lived inside the gated community of Rainberry Bay, a 55-plus neighborhood located just west of Interstate 95. Their home has always been easy to find thanks to a special landmark that sits outside underneath their mailbox.
"You couldn't miss the baby," Debbie Arrigo said. "She was so beautiful, beautiful colors having just been painted and refurbished she was like alive."
The baby statue was a permanent fixture that symbolized their beloved granddaughter Aubrey Rose.
"She was here when we bought our house just about a year ago, so we felt in our hearts it was like an omen she was here waiting for us," she said.
Aubrey died in 2011 at just 3 years old from a rare epilepsy syndrome called Ohtahara.
"The type of disorder that she had did not allow her to walk or talk or anything," Debbie Arrigo added. "She had a feeding tube too, but she was beautiful."
She and her husband are now heartbroken after someone swiped the precious statue right from their front yard, just months after they had it refurbished.
"Unfortunately, it seems to us that whoever did it went out of their way to come when it was total darkness in the middle of the night," Debbie Arrigo said.
Their surveillance cameras and neighborhood security weren't able to catch the theft. Debbie Arrigo also posted on her Nextdoor page asking for help but hasn't been able to come up with any leads. Her only hope now is that her memorial will somehow find its way back home.
"My message out there is this: If you know of anyone that has taken our baby, or you're that person who has taken our baby, there's no questions asked," she said. "Just put the baby back where it belongs, because it means more to us than it does to you."
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Arizona State vs. Nevada Predictions & Picks: Spread, Total - NCAA Tournament First Four
Wednesday's contest at UD Arena has the Nevada Wolf Pack (22-10) squaring off against the Arizona State Sun Devils (22-12) at TBA (on March 15). Our computer prediction projects a close 70-69 victory for Nevada, so it should be a competitive matchup.
There is no line set for the matchup.
Arizona State vs. Nevada Game Info & Odds
- Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2023
- Time: TBD
- Where: Dayton, Ohio
- Venue: UD Arena
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Arizona State vs. Nevada Score Prediction
- Prediction: Nevada 70, Arizona State 69
Spread & Total Prediction for Arizona State vs. Nevada
- Computer Predicted Spread: Nevada (-0.8)
- Computer Predicted Total: 138.6
Arizona State's record against the spread this season is 12-18-0, while Nevada's is 17-11-0. The Sun Devils have hit the over in 14 games, while Wolf Pack games have gone over 16 times. In the past 10 contests, Arizona State has a 5-5 record against the spread while going 6-4 overall. Nevada has gone 6-4 against the spread and 6-4 overall in its last 10 matches.
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Arizona State Performance Insights
- The Sun Devils outscore opponents by 2.6 points per game (scoring 70.3 points per game to rank 204th in college basketball while allowing 67.7 per outing to rank 107th in college basketball) and have a +89 scoring differential overall.
- Arizona State records 33.1 rebounds per game (96th in college basketball) while allowing 34.8 per outing to its opponents. It is outrebounded by 1.7 boards per game.
- Arizona State hits 7.5 three-pointers per game (169th in college basketball), while its opponents have made 7.6 on average.
- The Sun Devils' 88.3 points per 100 possessions on offense rank 300th in college basketball, and the 85.0 points they allow per 100 possessions rank 31st in college basketball.
- Arizona State has typically won the turnover battle this season, committing 11.5 per game (143rd in college basketball play) while forcing 13.7 (62nd in college basketball).
Nevada Performance Insights
- The Wolf Pack outscore opponents by 5.7 points per game (posting 72.6 points per game, 157th in college basketball, and conceding 66.9 per outing, 83rd in college basketball) and have a +184 scoring differential.
- The 30.8 rebounds per game Nevada accumulates rank 240th in college basketball. Their opponents record 31.0.
- Nevada makes 7.1 three-pointers per game (210th in college basketball), while its opponents have made 7.6 on average.
- Nevada has had fewer turnovers than its opponents this season, committing 10.0 per game (24th in college basketball) while forcing 11.7 (196th in college basketball).
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WFO HOUSTON/GALVESTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, August 24, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
508 PM CDT Wed Aug 24 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast Texas, including the following
counties, Austin and Colorado.
* WHEN...Until 700 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
Rises in small streams and normally dry arroyos. Ponding of water
in urban or other areas is occurring or is imminent.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 508 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Columbus.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees on Thursday marked the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh, while the United States, European Union and other Western nations pledged to continue supporting the refugees’ pursuit of justice in international courts.
In a major development on Thursday, the United Kingdom announced a further round of sanctions targeting military-linked businesses in Myanmar.
A statement by the U.K. government said those being sanctioned include Star Sapphire Group of Companies, International Gateways Group, and Sky One Construction in an effort to limit the military’s access to arms and revenue.
Amanda Milling, minister for Asia, also confirmed the U.K.’s intention to intervene in the November 2019 case against Myanmar initiated by The Gambia, seeking justice in The Hague-based International Court of Justice, which is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The case will determine whether Myanmar has violated its obligations under the Genocide Convention in relation to the military’s acts against the Rohingya in 2016 and 2017.
Bangladesh is hosting more than 1 million Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar over decades, including some 740,000 who crossed the border in August 2017 after the Myanmar military launched a “clearance operation” against them following attacks by a rebel group. The safety situation in Myanmar has worsened since a military takeover last year, and attempts to send them back failed.
In March, the United States said the oppression of Rohingya in Myanmar amounts to genocide after authorities confirmed accounts of mass atrocities against civilians by Myanmar’s military in a widespread and systematic campaign against the ethnic minority. Muslim Rohingya face widespread discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most are denied citizenship and many other rights.
Bangladeshi officials have expressed frustration over the repatriation of the refugees to Myanmar after at least two attempts to send them back failed since 2017, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that their repatriation to their own land is the only solution to the crisis.
On the eve of the anniversary, Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said in a statement that his country wants the refugees to return to Myanmar safely.
“Bangladesh wants to ensure that the Rohingya can return home to safe conditions in Myanmar where they will no longer be persecuted and will finally receive citizenship,” he said.
“We urge the international community to work alongside us to provide support to the Rohingya people, by asserting pressure on Myanmar to stop the mass persecution and allow Rohingya safe repatriation to their homes,” Khan said.
The issue of the Rohingya crisis has gone to international courts where Myanmar denied charges of any wrongdoing. But global powers are not satisfied with Myanmar’s position.
In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the U.S. remained “committed to advancing justice and accountability” for Rohingya and all people of Myanmar.
“We continue to support the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, the case under the Genocide Convention that The Gambia has brought against Burma before the International Court of Justice, and credible courts around the world that have jurisdiction in cases involving Burmese military’s atrocity crimes,” Blinken said.
Separately, a joint statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union, and the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States said they remained concerned by the U.N. fact-finding mission’s establishment of consistent patterns of serious human rights violations and abuses, of which many amount to grave crimes under international law.
“We also recognize other initiatives to hold perpetrators accountable, including The Gambia’s efforts before the International Court of Justice, which is currently examining whether the atrocities committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya amounted also to genocide,” the statement reads.
“We reiterate that Myanmar must comply with the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures order,” it said.
Human rights groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch also urged action.
In a statement, Human Rights Watch said the anniversary should prompt concerned governments to do more to hold the Myanmar military to account and secure justice and safety for the Rohingya in Bangladesh, Myanmar and across the region.
“Governments should mark the five-year anniversary of the devastating campaign against the Rohingya with a coordinated international strategy for accountability and justice that draws on Rohingya input,” said Elaine Pearson, acting Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
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(WHNT) – Robocalls are annoying enough, but robotexts? According to the Federal Communications Commission, scammers are adding another tool into their arsenal to annoy Americans.
The FCC tracks complaints as opposed to actual call volume, but the agency’s own stats show complaints about unwanted text messages have risen steadily in recent years. Around 5,700 complaints were filed in 2019, 14,000 in 2020, 15,300 in 2021, and 8,500 through June 30, 2022.
Scammers want you to interact with them when they send you a text message, the FCC explains. They often use believable, but false, claims in an effort to collect your money or personal information, or to ensure your number is active for future scams.
What to Look For
These scam text messages can take many forms, according to the FCC, claiming:
- You have unpaid bills
- There was an issue with a package delivery
- There is an issue with a bank account
- You have an outstanding warrant or another issue with law enforcement
In all these cases, the FCC said these texts may use fear and anxiety, as well as confusing or incomplete information, to get you to engage with the scammer.
Scam texts, also known as “smishing,” often include some or all of the following:
- Comes from an unknown number and/or a number that’s 10 or more digits long
- Contains misleading/incomplete information
- Words that are misspelled to avoid blocking/filtering tools
- Contains mysterious links
- Is a sales pitch
How to Stay Safe
There are ways to protect yourself from these scammers. The FCC recommends that you:
- Don’t respond to suspicious texts (even by texting STOP)
- Don’t click on any links
- Don’t provide any information, whether by replying or through a website in the suspicious message
- File a complaint with the FCC (online or by calling 888-225-5322)
- Forward unwanted texts to SPAM (7726)
- Delete the suspicious texts
- Keep your smart devices (and security apps, if applicable) up to date
- Consider installing anti-malware software (if applicable)
- Carefully review company policies regarding opting out of text alerts and selling/sharing of consumer information
- Review text blocking tools offered on specific mobile phones (such as Apple’s built-in blocking on newer versions of iOS/iPadOS or the phone app on Android), and through third parties
The best rule of thumb is that if a text message is suspicious, don’t respond and instead call the business, organization, or law enforcement agency the message claims to be. Valid phone numbers can be found on a bill, the organization/business/agency’s official website, or official social media pages.
The FCC recently ordered phone companies to block scam robocalls promoting auto warranties. All U.S. voice services providers must “take all necessary steps to avoid carrying this robocall traffic” or regularly report ways they are mitigating the traffic to the FCC, the agency announced in a press release earlier this month. | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/fcc-robotext-scams-on-the-rise-heres-how-you-can-stay-safe/ | 2022-07-31 20:12:43 | 1 | https://www.myarklamiss.com/news/national-news/fcc-robotext-scams-on-the-rise-heres-how-you-can-stay-safe/ |
The US Department of Agriculture is awarding $53 million in grants to beef up outreach efforts, improve technology and enhance the shopping experience for families receiving the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC.
The funding, which comes from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, aims to help state agencies, community groups and other nonprofits test new ways of reaching out to existing and potential WIC participants.
It will also go to state agencies to leverage text messaging, mobile phone support and appointment-scheduling tools, as well as for projects to help participants identify WIC-eligible foods in grocery stores, plan for online shopping with WIC benefits and train grocery workers to provide better services to beneficiaries.
The effort comes as the Biden administration seeks to bolster food assistance and minimize hunger in the US.
WIC provides food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support and health care referrals to low-income children up to age 5 and to pregnant and postpartum women. The American Rescue Plan also expanded access to fruits and vegetables by increasing the benefit amount to $35 a month per person, a provision that was later modified and extended through December of this year.
Some 6.2 million Americans participated in WIC in February, an increase of 1.2% from February 2020, according to a recent report from the Food Research & Action Center, an advocacy group. Participants poured $7 billion in WIC benefits into local economies.
But participation varied widely, increasing in 21 states and the District of Columbia and decreasing or holding steady in the rest in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
North Carolina had the largest increase in participation at 21%, while New Mexico had the greatest drop at 20%, according to the center's report.
Nearly 1.4 million women participated in February, a decline of 5.4% over two years. The number of children in the program jumped 8.7% to nearly 3.4 million, while the number of infants fell 7.7% to 1.4 million.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It would have been something never quite before seen in America — a defeated president, Donald Trump, standing at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with a mob of supporters, some armed, contesting the election outcome.
Trump intended to go there that day. His allies had been planning for the moment, envisioning the president delivering a speech outside the building or even entering the House chamber amid objections to Congress certifying the 2020 election results for Democrat Joe Biden.
“He’s going to look powerful,” mused Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to a young White House aide four days earlier.
But White House lawyers thought it was a “terrible” idea. Counsel Pat Cipollone warned that Trump could be charged with “every crime imaginable” if he joined mob on Capitol Hill trying to interfere with the certification.
In the end, Trump never made it to the Capitol on Jan. 6. His security refused to take him as rioters, some with weapons, laid siege to the building.
Furious, and stuck at the White House, Trump watched the insurrection on television.
The Jan. 6 hearings are providing dramatic new insight about Trump’s intentions as he told loyalists he would join them on a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to “fight like hell” for his presidency. This account is drawn largely from the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Her recollections from her close proximity to the president and his inner circle suggest Trump’s demands were not the brash desires of an impulsive commander in chief but part of his last-ditch plan for stopping Biden’s victory.
Trump and his allies quickly disputed Hutchinson’s account, and the former president conducted his own interview days later disparaging her with derisive commentary and nicknames.
This coming week, the committee is set to focus on Trump’s own actions and those of the extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in allegedly leading the Capitol attack.
A look at what’s known about Trump’s plans to join the mob on Jan. 6:
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JAN. 2
It was a Saturday night. Giuliani had been meeting at the White House with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and others.
The White House and Meadows had placed some 18 calls that day to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, before Trump finally got the elections official on the phone.
Trump had been disputing the election results in Georgia, which he narrowly lost. He was demanding that Raffensperger “find 11,780 votes,” exactly enough to tip the balance from Biden’s victory. The engineer-turned-civil servant declined.
As Giuliani left the White House that night, he walked out with Meadows’ young aide, Hutchinson, a senior adviser.
“Cass, are you excited for the 6th?” Giuliani asked, as Hutchinson recalled in testimony before the Jan. 6 committee. “It’s going to be a great day.”
Hutchinson had heard discussions about Jan. 6 and the rally being planned outside the White House as Congress was set to certify the election results. She also had heard, when Giuliani was around, mentions of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, two extremist groups.
She looked at Giuliani and asked him to explain.
“We’re going to the Capitol,” Giuliani told her. “It’s going to be great. The president’s going to be there. He’s going to look powerful.”
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JAN. 3
On Sunday, Cipollone privately raised concerns to Hutchinson about the president’s planned trip to the Capitol.
Cipollone told her there were “serious legal concerns” if Trump went ahead as Congress was certifying the election. He urged her to relay the concerns to her boss, Meadows.
“We need to make sure that this doesn’t happen,” Cipollone said, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. “This would be a legally a terrible idea for us. We’re — we have serious legal concerns if we go up to the Capitol that day.”
That Sunday was a busy day at the White House.
The leaders of Trump’s Justice Department were threatening to resign if the president replaced the acting attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, with a lower-ranked civil division head, Jeffrey Clark, to pursue the electoral challenge.
And that same day, the U.S. Capitol Police issued a special event assessment, noting that the Proud Boys and other groups planned to be in Washington on Jan. 6.
The police assessment indicated that “unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters… but rather Congress itself is the target on the 6th.”
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JAN. 5
On Tuesday, the eve of Jan. 6, according to Hutchinson, Trump asked Meadows to be in touch with two of the president’s associates — Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.
Stone attended rallies for Trump in Washington and was photographed with multiple members of the Oath Keepers who were allegedly serving as his security detail, according to the committee. Both Stone and Flynn invoked their Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before the committee.
The big “Stop the Steal” rally was planned for the morning of Jan. 6 near the White House. Meadows spoke with both Stone and Flynn that evening, Hutchinson said. Stone has disputed her account.
Meadows also sought to join Giuliani and others who had set up a “war room” at the Willard Hotel close to the White House, she testified.
“I had made it clear to Mr. Meadows that I didn’t believe it was a smart idea for him to go to the Willard Hotel that night,” she said.
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JAN. 6: THE RALLY
The morning of the rally on Wednesday, Jan. 6, Cipollone pleaded once again with Hutchinson to ensure Trump did not head to the Capitol.
“Please,” he said, “make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy,” she recalled. “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen.”
Hutchinson’s desk at the White House was just down the hall from the Oval Office, which was in one corner, and her boss Meadows’ office in the other. But that day she was with the president backstage as he surveyed the crowd of supporters outside the White House.
Trump was furious.
The crowd was not as full as Trump wanted it. Supporters lingered outside the security screening, unwilling to have their weapons confiscated by the Secret Service to join the main rally area.
Trump ordered his security to get rid of the metal detectors, known as magnetometers, insisting the armed supporters were no threat to him.
The police radios crackled with information; a man in the trees with a rifle or another with a handgun at his waist; three men with an AR-15 walking at 14th Street and Independence Avenue.
Trump has disputed Hutchinson’s account. “I didn’t want guns,” he said in an interview with Newsmax that aired two days after the hearing.
But Hutchinson had recounted to the committee what she heard.
“They’re not here to hurt me,” Trump told his staff, Hutchinson recalled. “Let them in. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol after the rally’s over. …. Take the effing mags away. Then they can march to the Capitol.”
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JAN. 6: THE SPEECH
The president took the stage at the “Stop the Steal” rally complaining about the election outcome and the need to stop Biden from becoming president.
“We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you,” Trump said to the thousand of supporters at the grassy Ellipse.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol,” Trump said. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness; you have to show strength.”
Many people had already started peeling off toward the Capitol, and Trump encouraged the crowd to go.
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” he said. “Let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
A White House security log, revealed by the Jan. 6 committee, shows the scramble that was underway for Trump to go to the Capitol as well.
“MilAide has confirmed that he wants to walk,” said one entry on the National Security Council chat.
“They are begging him to reconsider,” reads another.
The next entry was a discussion of the “current route” for Trump’s motorcade to take 15th Street, to F Street, to 6th Street, to Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol.
“So this is happening,” reads another entry.
Hutchinson was still in the tent behind the rally stage when she got a phone call from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California.
McCarthy sounded rushed, frustrated and angry, she said. “You told me this whole week you aren’t coming up here. Why would you lie to me?” he asked Hutchinson, a former House aide.
“I’m not lying. I wasn’t lying to you, sir,” she replied. And McCarthy said, “Well, he just said it on stage, Cassidy. Figure it out. Don’t come up here.”
The mob was breaking past the security fencing around the Capitol.
“Capitol Police are reporting multiple breaches,” the security log reads. “Capitol is now calling for all available to respond.”
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JAN. 6: BEHIND THE WHEEL
Trump climbed into the presidential SUV determined to be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson recalled.
The Secret Service now disputes her account, as does Trump. But Hutchinson testified under oath that she was told later by Anthony Ornato, the deputy chief of staff for White House operations, that Trump was irate.
“The president said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now,’” she recalled.
When the driver, Bobby Engel, responded, “Sir, we have to go back to the West Wing” Trump grabbed at the steering wheel, and lunged at the driver’s “clavicles,” she said.
Trump never made it to the Capitol. His motorcade headed back to the White House.
In the Newsmax interview, Trump dismissed the idea that he tried to “commandeer” the car to go to the Capitol as “totally false.” He marveled at the “incredible size” of the crowd — one of the biggest, he said, he has ever attracted. But he did not dispute wanting to go to the Capitol that day.
“I wanted to go so badly,” he said during an April interview with the Washington Post.
At the hearing, the security log made clear just how close Trump came to creating that unseen image — a defeated president standing with the mob as an armed insurrection was laying siege to the Capitol.
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Winter is coming—and so are higher energy bills for American consumers, thanks to a global shortage of natural gas and ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has cut off multiple NATO countries' access to his country's oil and gas production in recent weeks, worsening already skyrocketing utility bills for small and large businesses throughout Germany and other leading European economies. The shut-off drew condemnation from trans-Atlantic leaders, who said Putin is weaponizing Russia's massive natural resources. Moscow has moved to shut down the Nord Stream 1 gas piped under the Baltic Sea to Europe, while redirecting more oil and gas to neutral or friendly countries in Asia, such as India and China. The Russian redirection of energy to China comes in response to Western economic sanctions. It is also a way for the Kremlin to retaliate for billions of dollars in U.S. and NATO military equipment provided to Ukraine six months into the Russian invasion.
Some forecasts estimate Europeans will see a more than threefold increase in energy bills this winter, including natural gas and electricity, compared with the winter of 2021. At the start of September, U.S. natural gas futures markets were trading up 95% year over year, suggesting consumers could pay double what they forked out just a year ago for their residential gas bills.
Stacker examined residential natural gas price and consumption data from the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration to see how U.S. prices have changed and which states have been most affected.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel made up mostly of methane and is considered a lower-emissions alternative to oil. We use natural gas to generate electricity, heat homes, and fuel stoves. But the fuel is in short supply worldwide, not only driving up costs in Europe but creating a multinational emergency.
Those supply issues have had repercussions (though less significant ones so far) in the U.S. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, natural gas accounts for about 30% of all energy consumption in the country, including serving as a baseload for renewables, such as West Texas's large wind farms. The U.S. doubled the amount of natural gas it exports to Europe over the last year. Gas is shipped across the Atlantic Ocean and other sea routes after being cooled to ultra-low temperatures, then compressed into tankers at liquefied natural gas terminals.
There are currently a dozen operating liquefied natural gas terminals in the eastern U.S., with most concentrated on the Gulf of Mexico. Canada has one active liquefied natural gas terminal that can ship to Europe. The rise of liquefied natural gas over the last two decades has created, for the first time, a global marketplace for gas, linking hitherto separate North American, Asian, and European Union energy markets. That's partly why sky-high prices in Europe are driving up natural gas prices here in the U.S.
So far this year, the average price of residential natural gas nationally is $15.19 per thousand cubic feet. That's the highest price since the U.S. Energy Information Administration began collecting data. The federal agency forecasts U.S. natural gas consumption for 2022 will set a new record. Residents in Hawaii, Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas have paid the highest prices for natural gas so far this year.
Analysts at Goldman Sachs Research warned in an early September 2022 memo that "the market continues to underestimate the depth, breadth, and structural repercussions of the [energy affordability] crisis." Researchers said conditions could grow to be even direr than the oil crisis experienced in the 1970s, when an oil embargo enacted by Mideast oil producers drove down supplies and drove up prices.
Liza Tucker, a consumer advocate with the nonpartisan public interest group Consumer Watchdog, urged consumers to prepare to conserve energy. In states with a deregulated energy market, such as Texas, Tucker recommends shopping around for the best rates. Many energy providers and state governments offer rebates and incentives, and Tucker advises taking advantage of as many as possible. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several states have also set up utility bill assistance programs for low-income consumers.
Where it's financially advantageous, consumers can also consider upgrading to more efficient heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, or installing solar panels to reduce overall energy costs. Lower cost conservation options include installing new weather stripping and adding insulation to your home—especially in older ones.
Changing behaviors, Tucker told Stacker, can also affect usage. "Play with the thermostat and see at what point your body really feels too cold. If you've got a new energy-efficient dishwasher, don't run it half-full and think you are saving energy," she said. "Run it full." | https://pantagraph.com/weather/watch-now-comfy-temps-and-windy-friday-in-central-illinois-what-about-the-weekend/article_9ed77530-5126-11ed-bf1b-b73a23ac015a.html | 2022-10-21 12:59:28 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/weather/watch-now-comfy-temps-and-windy-friday-in-central-illinois-what-about-the-weekend/article_9ed77530-5126-11ed-bf1b-b73a23ac015a.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol interviewed Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday, moving to wrap up depositions ahead of preparing a final report.
Vos had filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a subpoena demanding his testimony about a phone call with Donald Trump in July 2021 during which the former president asked him to overturn Wisconsin’s results for the 2020 election.
Both sides agreed to postpone oral arguments in the lawsuit that were originally scheduled for Oct. 24, and Vos confirmed Wednesday that he had met with the committee.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the panel’s chairman, told reporters the committee wanted to see “if there’s any more information that we can glean” from Trump’s call to Vos.
The committee has spent parts of the past year and a half questioning several state and local lawmakers in seven swing states that Democrat Joe Biden won in 2020. In the days and weeks after the presidential election, Trump and his allies sought to overturn the results in those states to favor the Republican.
Vos, in a brief statement, said that his meeting with the committee “was brief, and I answered their questions regarding Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.”
Trump repeatedly pressured Vos to overturn Biden’s narrow win in Wisconsin, but Vos says he rejected those efforts citing attorneys who said such a move would be illegal and unconstitutional. Vos did hire former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to conduct a review of the election, but fired him three days after Vos won his reelection primary over a Republican opponent Gableman endorsed. Trump also endorsed Vos’s opponent.
In July, Trump called Vos to discuss a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the use of absentee drop boxes was illegal. The ruling applied only to future elections, not the 2020 election conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic when absentee voting and the use of drop boxes soared.
Trump argued that the ruling meant absentee ballots delivered in drop boxes in Wisconsin in 2020 should be invalidated, Vos said.
“It’s very consistent,” Vos told WISN-TV. “He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained it’s not allowed under the Constitution. He has a different opinion.”
The nine-member U.S. House committee indicated Wednesday that its interview with Vos was the last scheduled deposition before turning all of its attention to its report, which is expected to be released by the end of the year.
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Bauer reported from Madison, Wisconsin.
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