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Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune
Persistent COVID cases aside: The pandemic must be over, because look at “The Super Mario Bros. Movie!” It’s made $1.2 billion worldwide. Where babysitter movies point the way to recovery — the movies that serve as babysitters, that is — an entire entertainment industry prays for many more to follow.
The summer of ‘23 may be reliant on the customary franchises and name brands, as you’ll see below. But if a film as lovely and near-perfect as Celine Song’s debut feature “Past Lives” can likewise qualify as a summer picture, going by the June-August calendar, then a summer place sounds pretty good to me.
Here are 10 on the horizon, most not yet screened as of press time. Release dates vary by market.
“Past Lives” (June 2): A beautiful romantic triangle spanning nations (South Korea, America) and three decades, this one’s about a writer (Greta Lee), her childhood sweetheart (Teo Yoo) and her husband (John Magaro). Without wasting a frame or a word, writer-director Celine Song offers a steadily absorbing matter of three hearts in close proximity.
“Asteroid City” (June 16): Set in 1955, Wes Anderson’s latest concocts a fictional, Roswell-esque desert town, where the “Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet” convention experiences a disruption of epic proportions. Anderson has assembled a typically epic star ensemble, including Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Hong Chau, Steve Carell, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Jeff Goldblum — actually it’s easier to list actors not in “Asteroid City.”
“The Blackening” (June 16): A horror film studies seminar, under the gun! When seven Black friends share a remote cabin together, a killer tests their knowledge of horror movie tropes and racial biases in director Tim Story’s thriller comedy. Or comedy thriller. It’s a thromedy!
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (June 30): Many middle-aged tears of gratitude rolled down many cheeks when the trailer for the return of Harrison Ford as Indy came into our world. James Mangold directs and co-wrote this picture, which co-stars Pheobe Waller-Bridge in a fantastical action adventure that traffics, apparently, in time travel and Nazis. Indy has not changed his mind about the latter since “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” four Indys and 42 summers ago.
“Harold and the Purple Crayon” (June 30): The 1955 children’s classic by Crockett Johnson becomes the first live-action spectacle from animation workhorse Carlos Saldanha (of the “Ice Age” and “Rio” franchises). Brady Ryan, Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery and Zooey Deschanel star.
“Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning — Part One” (July 12): The seventh Tom Cruise/Ethan Hunt mission, with the second “Dead Reckoning” due in 2024. That’s a lot of reckoning. In this latest stunt-astic mayhem, the Impossible Mission Force scrambles from Italy to Norway to the U.K. to the UAE, and Cruise does things few if any other megastars would have the nerve to attempt, no matter what the piece of the gross. Christopher McQuarrie directs.
“Barbie” (July 21): Already a legend in release-date-matchup lore, director Greta Gerwig’s retina-splitting beach fantasy of multiple Barbies, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is going up against …
“Oppenheimer” (July 21): Christopher Nolan’s latest stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist whose Manhattan Project led to the creation of the device that will surely someday spell Earth’s demise. (Win some, lose some.) An eagerly awaited drama with a cast including Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek and, no doubt, basically Nolan’s previous cinematic evidence, some truly striking imagery.
“Meg 2: The Trench” (Aug. 4): The delightfully eventful trailer promises a sequel to the prehistoric sea beast thriller “The Meg” that eats the first one for breakfast. Jason Statham returns to remind these digital sea punks who’s in charge.
“Blue Beetle” (Aug. 18): We were running a little low on superhero franchises, so DC (the current keeper of Blue Beetle, who came on the scene in 1939) thought, well, let’s go. Angel Manuel Soto (“Charm City Kings”) directs the origin story of how Jaime Reyes (played by Xolo Maridueña) transforms into the Blue Beetle by way of an “ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab.” I just call it the Scab, but I’m all about syllable removal.
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Croatia knocked Brazil out of the World Cup on Friday, beating the five-time champions 4-2 in a penalty shootout to reach the semifinals for the second straight time.
Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic saved a penalty attempt by Rodrygo and Marquinhos later hit the post.
The match had finished 1-1 after extra time, with both goals coming in the additional 30 minutes. Neymar scored late in the first half of extra time to give Brazil the lead, but Croatia equalized when Bruno Petkovic scored in the 117th.
Neymar’s goal moved him into a tie with Pelé as Brazil’s all-time leading scorer with 77 goals.
Croatia will next face either Argentina or the Netherlands to try to return to the World Cup final four years after losing the title to France.
Five of Croatia's last six matches at World Cups have gone to extra time, including in its penalty shootout win over Japan in the round of 16 in Qatar. The team has been successful in eight of its last 10 knockout matches at the tournament.
Brazil was trying to return to the semifinals for the first time since 2014. The team hadn’t made it to the last four since hosting the tournament eight years ago, when the Selecao was embarrassed by Germany 7-1.
Brazil was trying to defeat a European opponent in the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since the 2002 final against Germany, when the team won for the last time.
Neymar scored with a right-footed shot after getting through the defense and dribbling past the Croatia goalkeeper to match Pelé’s record. He entered the tournament two goals shy of the milestone, and scored his 76th in the round of 16 against South Korea after returning from an ankle injury.
Pelé remained in a hospital in Brazil treating a respiratory infection that was aggravated by COVID-19. The latest medical report said the 82-year-old Pelé, who last year had surgery to remove a colon tumor, was doing OK.
The 30-year-old Neymar scored his 77 goals in 124 matches for Brazil. Pelé’s goals came in 92 appearances with the national team between 1957 and 1971.
Ronaldo, a World Cup winner with Brazil in 2002, is third on the list with 62 goals in 98 matches.
Neymar first played for Brazil as an 18-year-old in 2010. He is trying to win his first major title with the national team. Pelé won three World Cups, including as a 17-year-old in the 1958 tournament. He also helped Brazil win the World Cup in 1962 and 1970.
Neymar is playing in his third World Cup and is the only other Brazil player other than Pelé and Ronaldo to score in three different World Cups. He helped the Seleçao win the 2013 Confederations Cup and its first Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Neymar damaged ligaments in his ankle in Brazil’s opening win against Serbia, and his participation in the rest of the tournament was in doubt because of the injury. He made it back to the starting lineup after missing two group games, and played about 80 minutes in Brazil’s 4-1 win over South Korea on Monday.
He was knocked out of the 2014 World Cup after hurting his back in the quarterfinals against Colombia. Brazil eventually lost to Germany 7-1 in the semifinals.
The right ankle had already caused Neymar problems in the past, being among a series of injuries since the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Another right ankle sprain forced him to miss the 2019 Copa América, which Brazil won. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/brazil-out-of-world-cup-croatia-wins-shooting-2022-quarterfinal/507-34d49355-2983-44e6-8dba-c28a4c343910 | 2022-12-09 21:33:20 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/nation-world/brazil-out-of-world-cup-croatia-wins-shooting-2022-quarterfinal/507-34d49355-2983-44e6-8dba-c28a4c343910 |
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the coronation of King Charles III:
London’s police force says officers made a total of 52 arrests on coronation day, with people being detained for alleged offenses including disrupting public order and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.
The Metropolitan Police has come under criticism for the arrests and for being too draconian with peaceful protesters. The police force has said that its tolerance for any disruption would be low, and that it would deal “robustly” with anyone trying to undermine the celebration.
Commander Karen Findlay acknowledged the concerns, but defended the force’s actions.
“The coronation is a once-in-a-generation event and that is a key consideration in our assessment,” she said. She added that police allowed a protest involving large numbers to go ahead.
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More on the coronation of King Charles III:
— Full coverage of the king’s coronation
— Inside Westminster Abbey for the ceremony
— In photos: who wore what
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LONDON — From Jill Biden’s perch in Westminster Abbey, it was “really surreal to see and experience that moment” when King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned.
“You know, you can’t imagine that moment where you actually see the crown being placed” on their heads, the American first lady said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from London.
“There was such beauty in the pageantry of the ceremony,’’ she said. She was representing the United States at the coronation on Saturday.
The first lady also discussed her conversation from Friday with Princess Kate, the wife of Prince William.
The two mothers talked about shared experiences – having kids in church and “you do anything to keep them quiet.”
The first lady said Kate “didn’t know if her son could sit still for two hours and we just had a good laugh over it. You know, it’s just something, I think, that’s common to a lot of us.”
At the coronation, Jill Biden sat next to Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska.
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LONDON — King Charles III, Queen Camilla and members of the royal family have appeared on Buckingham Palace’s balcony to greet a cheering crowd.
The royal couple were flanked by Charles’ son and first in line to the throne, Prince William, his wife Kate, and their children. Also on the balcony were two of Charles’ siblings, Princess Anne and Prince Edward.
Thousands of well-wishers ran onto the Mall, the grand avenue leading up to Buckingham Palace, to get as close as possible and get a glimpse of the royal appearance.
The crowds appeared jubilant despite the pouring rain, clamoring to get the best spot in front of the palace.
The Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force’s aerobatics team, wowed the crowds as they flew past and left red, white and blue trails in the sky. ——
LONDON — French President Emmanuel Macron, who attended the coronation ceremony with his wife Brigitte, expressed his “congratulations to King Charles III and Queen Camilla, friends of France.” “Proud to be by your side on this historic day,” he posted on Twitter. ——
LONDON — Britain’s Ministry of Defense says a highly-anticipated military fly-past over Buckingham Palace to mark King Charles III’s coronation has been scaled down because of wet weather.
The original plan was for more than 60 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force to stage a colorful display in the air after Charles, Queen Camilla and other key members of the royal family appear on the palace balcony to greet well-wishers.
The fly-past will now be formed of the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force’s aerobatic team, and helicopters. The display will last for two minutes and 30 seconds.
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LONDON — Thousands of military troops that marched through London in King Charles III’s coronation procession saluted their commander in chief on the lawn of Buckingham Palace.
The troops removed their caps and gave three rousing cheers to the newly crowned king and Queen Camilla who watched from a perch looking over the palace gardens.
“Hip, hip, hooray,” the servicemembers shouted three times.
Bagpipers then played a tune written for the occasion called “King Charles III.”
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HONG KONG — The coronation drew a muted response in Hong Kong, a former British colony.
At British-themed pubs in Hong Kong’s bustling Wanchai district, a moderate crowd gathered to watch the live broadcast of the coronation on Saturday night. Many were foreigners.
“It’s really, really good. As I say, the last time I watched it, it was in black and white,” said Mike Davies, who sat at the Queen Victoria pub, referring to the coronation of Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.
The response to Charles is in stark contrast to just eight months ago, when people lined up in front of the British Consulate General to lay flowers and pay tribute to Elizabeth.
The city, which was under British rule for more than a century, was handed back to China in 1997.
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LONDON — The environmental activism group Just Stop Oil says around 20 of its supporters were arrested Saturday for protesting during the coronation celebrations.
The group, which demands no new licenses for any fossil fuel projects in the U.K., said that the protesters were arrested on the Mall outside Buckingham Palace and outside Downing Street.
It said the activists did not carry out disruptive action, and that they were only wearing “Just Stop Oil” T-shirts and holding flags with the slogan.
The group criticized the government for banning legitimate dissent.
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LONDON — Crowds weathering chilly rain waved flags and cheered as the gilded horse-drawn coach carried King Charles III and Queen Camilla back to Buckingham Palace following his coronation ceremony.
The king and queen waved back from the shelter of the Gold State Coach. Mounted troops led the way as 4,000 armed service members marched through central London.
Scarlet sleeves of Welsh Guards and white-gloved hands of Royal Air Force members swung in unison to a steady drumbeat.
It was the largest military procession in the city since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
The procession passed Trafalgar Square and went under Admiralty Arch and then bordered St. James Park on its way to the palace.
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MILAN — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has extended her congratulations to King Charles III, Queen Camilla and the British people in a social media post Saturday featuring a centuries-old mosaic upon which the throne sits for the coronation ceremony inside Westminster Abbey.
In a photograph, Meloni is seen examining the circular mosaic, which “was masterfully realized by Italian artisans about eight centuries ago.” She said it remained testimony of the “historic and deep cooperation between Italy and the United Kingdom.”
Meloni expressed certainty that the king “will further reinforce” the ties.
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LONDON — Newly crowned King Charles III and Queen Camilla have emerged from Westminster Abbey for a grand procession returning to Buckingham Palace after his coronation.
Charles was wearing the Imperial State Crown and a ermine-trimmed purple velvet robe as he paced slowly through the cavernous church to the strains of “God Save the King.” Church bells rang out.
The king’s grandson, Prince George, second-in-line to the throne, was among the honor pages holding up the long train of his robe.
Rain was falling as the king and queen exited the church but they were protected by a see-through tent that led to the Gold State Coach, a gilded carriage that has been used in every coronation since 1831.
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LONDON — King Charles III and Queen Camilla have taken holy communion as their coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey nears its end.
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, led the congregation in saying the Lord’s Prayer, and the choir sang as the royal couple were presented with bread and wine.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is congratulating King Charles III and Queen Camilla on their coronation.
The American leader says in a tweet that “the enduring friendship between the U.S. and the U.K. is a source of strength for both our peoples.”
First lady Jill Biden, who was representing the United States at the ceremony, says it was an honor to be at Westminster Abbey “on this historic day.”
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LONDON — Camilla, the queen consort, has been anointed and crowned with Queen Mary’s Crown.
Clergymen handed her the Queen Consort’s Scepter with Cross, and the Queen Consort’s Rod with Dove.
The choir sang a new song, “Make a joyful noise,” composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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LONDON — Prince William has knelt before his father, King Charles III, to pledge his loyalty to the monarch.
“I will bear unto you, as your liege man of life and limb. So help me God,” William said.
Traditionally royals and lords will also kneel before their new monarch and pay homage, but this time that’s replaced by what officials have called “The People’s Homage” — people watching at home who wish to do so are invited to say “God save King Charles” at the end, or follow the words of the liturgy.
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LONDON — King Charles III has been crowned in his solemn coronation service and the congregation has cheered “God save the king.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury placed the hefty gold and jewel-studded St. Edward’s crown on the head of Charles midway through the two-hour service. The crowning is the centerpiece of the coronation and it’s the only time during his reign that Charles will wear the solid gold crown.
It features a purple velvet cap, ermine band and criss-crossed arches topped by a cross. It’s set with rubies, amethysts, sapphires, garnet, topazes and tourmalines.
After the ceremony, Charles will swap the 2.08-kilogram (4.6-pound) crown for the Imperial State Crown, which weighs about half as much, for the procession back to Buckingham Palace.
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LONDON — King Charles III is preparing for his anointment, the most sacred and intimate part of the coronation rituals.
Charles and Camilla will remove their crimson Robes of State and the king will be dressed in a white linen tunic and the “Supertunica,” a full-length gold coat — garments that symbolize both humility and splendor, meant to reflect the two natures of Jesus Christ.
He will sit in the ancient oak Coronation Chair, which has been part of every coronation since 1308. A screen has been brought into position around the chair by guardsmen.
He will then be presented with items of regalia symbolizing secular and spiritual power. That includes the Orb, which represents the world under Christ, and the Sovereign’s Ring, symbolizing the marriage of a monarch to his people. Charles will wear the Coronation Glove and hold the Scepter with Cross, a symbol of earthly power, in his right hand. In his left hand, he will hold the Scepter with Dove, representing spiritual authority and mercy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will pour holy oil from an eagle-shaped ampulla, or flask, then rub it on the king’s hands, chest and head.
The ceremony has roots in the biblical story of the anointing of King Solomon, and was originally designed to confirm that the sovereign was appointed directly by God.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Monuments in New Zealand are lit purple in honor of the king’s coronation.
In the town of Rangiora, north of Christchurch, people were celebrating on Saturday.
“Regardless of what you believe, what system you think we should have, our current head of state is changing and that’s worth noting,” said the Rangiora town crier.
A cake was made for the occasion and for the revelers to enjoy.
The Australian War Memorial in Canberra was also lit purple on Friday night. In Sydney, a tree was planted at Government House and a smoking ceremony held to mark the occasion.
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LONDON — Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has delivered a reading from the Epistle to the Colossians, from the New Testament of the Bible.
Officials have said that although Sunak is a Hindu, he is reading as prime minister so there is no issue over his personal faith during the Anglican service.
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LONDON — King Charles III has taken the solemn oath to govern the people of the United Kingdom with “justice and mercy” and to foster an environment where people of all faiths and beliefs can live freely.
The oath is the second of five elements of the historic coronation rite that is rooted in more than 1,000 years of tradition.
Charles said he was willing to take the oath and after placing his hand on the Bible, he solemnly promised to do so. He later kissed the holy book.
The service has been modified to acknowledge the change in the religious makeup of the United Kingdom.
For the first time, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh religious leaders are playing a part in the coronation. That reflects Charles’ vow to be “the defender of faiths,” as opposed to the “defender of the faith.”
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LONDON — For his coronation, King Charles III is wearing the crimson velvet Robe of State, which was worn by King George VI at his coronation in 1937. He is also wearing a crimson tunic, cream silk overshirt, and Royal Navy trousers.
Camilla, the queen consort, is also wearing a crimson robe, this one originally made for Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Underneath she is wearing a tailored dress by British designer Bruce Oldfield.
Prince William is wearing the ceremonial uniform of the Welsh Guards, while his wife, Kate, is in an ivory wool crepe dress by British designer house Alexander McQueen. She is not wearing a tiara, but a silver and crystal headpiece.
Their daughter, Princess Charlotte, is also wearing a dress and cape by McQueen.
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LONDON — Shouts of “God save King Charles” and trumpet blasts have echoed in Westminster Abbey as more than 2,000 guests recognized the new monarch.
The medieval tradition began with the Archbishop of Canterbury presenting Charles III to the congregation as the “undoubted king.” He then asked them to show their support with the chant.
The church erupted with the cheer and a trumpet fanfare.
Three other presenters followed the archbishop, repeating the same words. Each time the chorus of voices thundered back their support.
For each of the four cheers, the king turned in a different direction to represent the cardinal points of the compass.
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LONDON — King Charles III has entered Westminster Abbey for the coronation ceremony built on ancient traditions at a time when the monarchy faces a shaky future.
The king entered through the great west door of the abbey as the choir sang Hubert Parry’s, “I was glad,” which was composed for the coronation of King Edward VII.
He wore a long dark red robe as he slowly proceeded through the church behind his wife, Camilla, the queen consort.
Prince William’s eldest son, Prince George, was one of four honor pages carrying the train of his grandfather’s robe.
LONDON — Prince Harry has arrived at Westminster Abbey for his father’s coronation.
The Duke of Sussex was wearing a black three-piece set of tails and military medals on his chest.
His wife, Meghan, stayed behind in California with their young children.
Harry, who quit his official duties with the royal family over intense scrutiny from the British media, is not playing a role in the service.
The prince further alienated himself by publishing his explosive bestselling memoir, “Spare,” in which he spilled family secrets.
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LONDON — Military bands are marching down central London streets and hundreds of servicemen and servicewomen are beginning to take their positions along the procession route ahead of King Charles III’s coronation.
Soldiers in distinctive red tunics and bearskin hats are lining the Mall in front of King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, have started their short ride in the gilded Diamond Jubilee Coach from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, where they will be anointed and crowned in a ceremony steeped in history.
They are being escorted by the Sovereign’s Escort, comprising of about 160 soldiers on horseback. The Household Cavalry Mounted Band is leading the military procession.
It’s a much smaller procession than the one planned for the return route from the abbey, when some 4,000 troops will feature in a spectacular display of pageantry.
The state coach Charles and Camilla are travelling in was created in 2012 to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s 60th year on the throne. The procession will take about half an hour.
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LONDON — Westminster Abbey is abuzz with excitement as the final guests, including world leaders, arrive for the coronation of King Charles III.
U.S. First Lady Jill Biden wore a pale blue outfit with a matching bow in her hair as she walked into the abbey. She was followed by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.
Other heads of state on the guest list include Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Canadian leader Justin Trudeau and eight current and former British prime ministers.
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LONDON — King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, have arrived in a motorcade at Buckingham Palace ahead of their coronation.
Loud cheers erupted among the crowds of wellwishers lining the Mall, the grand avenue leading to the palace, as the line of cars drove by. Charles and Camilla were seen waving at the crowds from within their Bentley.
The couple are expected to depart from the palace in the Diamond Jubilee state coach later this morning to Westminster Abbey, where they will be crowned.
Meanwhile at the abbey, many politicians and celebrities have arrived and taken their seats. Musicians have started warming up ahead of the ceremony, which is due to begin at 11 a.m. local time (1000 GMT).
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LONDON — The anti-monarchy group Republic says several of its members have been arrested as they prepared to protest the coronation of King Charles III.
The group plans to hold placards and chant “Not my king” during the monarch’s procession to Westminster Abbey. It says police were informed in advance of its plans.
But on Saturday morning several of the group’s members were stopped near Trafalgar Square and led to police vans.
Others managed to protest along the route, dressed in yellow and waving placards with slogans including “king parasite” and “abolish the monarchy.”
Police have said they will have have a “low tolerance” for people seeking to disrupt the day, sparking criticism that they are clamping down on free speech.
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LONDON — Crowds are growing outside Buckingham Palace and guests are arriving at Westminster Abbey for the coronation of King Charles III.
People who camped overnight overnight for a view of the royals awoke to cloudy skies that gave way to sun and some light rain.
Fans carrying flags and clad in the colors of the Union Jack were arriving by train in London hours before the ceremony that begins when Charles and Camilla, queen consort, depart from the palace in a gilded horse-drawn carriage.
The royal couple will be chauffeured on the 1.3-mile (2-kilometer) route through central London to Westminster Abbey for the two-hour ceremony.
The church buzzed with excitement and was abloom with fragrant flowers and colorful hats. Invited guests streaming into the abbey including recognizable celebrities such as Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Lionel Richie and Nick Cave, and others including judges in wigs, soldiers with gleaming medals attached to red tunics and members of the House of Lords in their red robes. | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/the-latest-crowds-grow-outside-palace-for-kings-coronation/ | 2023-05-07 00:24:15 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/national-world/ap-international/the-latest-crowds-grow-outside-palace-for-kings-coronation/ |
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The Federal Aviation Administration is pausing all domestic flight departures until 9 a.m. ET after a technology outage reported overnight.
The FAA's system for alerting pilots and airports of real-time hazards, called NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions), went dark around 3:28 a.m. ET.
"THE FAA is experiencing an outage that is impacting the update of NOTAMS. All flights are unable to be released at this time," the FAA said in an advisory announcing the issue.
More than 1,200 flights had been delayed within, into or out of the United States as of 7:15 a.m. ET, shortly before the FAA announced the pause.
The FAA had opened a hotline to address equipment issues by 5:58 a.m. ET, as some NOTAM functions began to come back on line.
Airports and airlines nationwide were warning on Twitter before the ground stop that delays would be expected.
Attention #PHLAirport passengers- an FAA outage is impacting flights across the country. Check with your airline regarding your flight status. https://t.co/VNSa99NJt6
— PHLAirport (@PHLAirport) January 11, 2023
A tweet from American Airlines stated that that "all flights including all carriers" were impacted by the shortage.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians sweated it out amid a record-breaking heat wave entering its 10th day Friday that has helped fuel deadly wildfires and pushed energy supplies to the brink of daily power outages.
Relief is in sight as the remnants of a hurricane approach that will lower temperatures during the weekend but could bring another set of challenges: heavy rains that will be welcomed in the drought-plagued state but might cause flash floods.
Climate change is making the planet warmer, scientists say, and weather-related disasters more extreme. The heat that colored weather maps dark red for more than a week in California is only a preview of coming attractions.
“We’ll see these heat waves continue to get hotter and hotter, longer and longer, more wildfire-plagued,” said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.
California is just the latest casualty in a year of sometimes deadly heat waves that began in Pakistan and India this spring and swept across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including China, Europe and others areas of the U.S.
Climate change also has exacerbated droughts, dried up rivers, made wildfires more intense and — conversely — led to massive flooding around the globe as moisture evaporating from land and water is held in the atmosphere and then redeposited by intense rains.
Scientists are reluctant to attribute any specific weather event to global warming, but say heat waves are exactly the type of changes that will become more common.
The so-called heat dome that cooked California was stuck in place by an exceptional high pressure region over Greenland, of all places, that essentially created a meteorological traffic jam, said Paul Ullrich, a professor of regional climate modeling at the University of California, Davis. That prevented the high-pressure system that was forcing hot air over California from moving along.
Temperatures hit an all-time high in Sacramento of 116 degrees (46.7 C) on Tuesday. Many other locations hit record highs for September and even more set daily high marks.
In the 1970s, Sacramento, the state capital, had five “extreme heat” days per year, Ullrich said. Today, it has about 10 and that will double again by the middle of the century.
“That’s pretty much going to be the story for much of the Central Valley and much of Southern California,” Ullrich said. “This kind of exponential growth in the number of extreme heat days. If you tie those all together, then you end up with heat waves like we’ve experienced.”
For nine days through Thursday, the vast energy network that includes power plants, solar farms and a web of transmission lines strained under record-setting demand driven by air conditioners.
“If we’re going to build a statue to anybody in the West, it will be a Willis Carrier,” said Bill Patzert, retired climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, about the inventor of the air conditioner. “Really large areas of Southern California would essentially be unlivable without air conditioning.”
Air conditioning puts the biggest strain on power sources during a heat wave and operators of the electrical grid called for conservation and warned of the threat of power outages as usage hit an all-time high Tuesday, surpassing a record set in 2006.
The state may have averted a repeat of rolling outages two summers ago by sending a first-ever text alert that blared on 27 million phones urging Californians to “take action” and turn off nonessential power. Enough turned up thermostats, turned off lights or pulled the plug on appliances to avoid power cuts, though thousands of customers did lose power at various times for other reasons.
The West is in the throes of a 23-year megadrought that has nearly drained reservoirs and put water supplies in jeopardy. That, in turn, led to a sharp decrease in hydropower that California relies on when power is in peak demand.
“Part of the country that’s getting hit worst is the Southwest and Western United States,” Overpeck said. “It is a global poster child for the climate crisis. And this year, this summer, it’s really the Northern Hemisphere has been just an unusually hot and wildfire plagued hemisphere.”
The extreme heat helped fuel deadly wildfires at both ends of the state as flames fed on grass, brush and timber already “preconditioned to burn” by drought and then pushed over the edge by the heatwave, Overpeck said.
Firefighters struggled to control major wildfires in Southern California and the Sierra Nevada that exploded in growth, forced thousands to evacuate and produced smoke that could interfere with solar power and further hamper electricity supplies.
Two people were killed in the fire that erupted last Friday in the Northern California community of Weed at the base of Mount Shasta. Two others died trying to flee in their car from a fire in Riverside County that was threatening 18,000 homes.
What remains of Hurricane Kay, now downgraded to a tropical storm, is expected to bring heavy rains and even flash floods to Southern California from Friday night through Saturday. Strong winds could initially make it difficult and dangerous for firefighters trying to corral blazes, Patzert said.
Heavy downpours could also unleash mudslides on mountainsides charred by recent fires. While several inches of rain could fall, much of it will run off the arid landscape and will not make a dent in the drought.
“It comes at you like a firehose and you’re trying to fill your champagne glass,” Patzert said. “Everybody’s sort of excited, but on Saturday night a lot of people will be saying, ‘Yeah, we could have done without that.’” | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-california-drought-record-heat-fires-and-now-maybe-floods/ | 2022-09-09 11:35:13 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-california-drought-record-heat-fires-and-now-maybe-floods/ |
WFO SAN ANGELO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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WIND ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Angelo TX
238 PM CDT Mon Oct 24 2022
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph
expected.
* WHERE...All of West Central Texas.
* WHEN...Until 7 AM CDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects.
Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may
result.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Use extra caution when driving, especially if operating a high
profile vehicle. Secure outdoor objects.
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TX Lake Charles LA Zone Forecast for Saturday, September 17, 2022
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355 FPUS54 KLCH 180807
ZFPLCH
Zone Forecast Product
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
TXZ180-182230-
Tyler-
Including the cities of Town Bluff, Fred, Hillister, Ivanhoe,
Spurger, Warren, and Woodville
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. South winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows around 70.
Highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ201-182230-
Hardin-
Including the cities of Lumberton and Silsbee
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the lower 70s.
Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and
variable.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower
90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows around 70. South winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the upper 90s.
$$
TXZ215-182230-
Jefferson-
Including the cities of Beaumont, Sabine Pass,
and Sea Rim State Park
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms this morning, then a chance of showers and
thunderstorms this afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. East winds
5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid 70s.
Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.MONDAY...Sunny with a slight chance of showers and
thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph,
becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around
5 mph, becoming northwest after midnight.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid
70s. Highs in the lower 90s.
$$
TXZ216-182230-
Orange-
Including the cities of Orange, Vidor, and Bridge City
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs around 90. East winds around 5 mph. Chance of
rain 30 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Humid with
lows in the mid 70s. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower
90s. Northeast winds around 5 mph, becoming southeast in the
afternoon.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around
5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. North winds around
5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ259-182230-
Northern Jasper-
Including the cities of Holly Springs, Jasper, Kirbyville,
Magnolia Springs, Mt. Union, and Roganville
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming
light and variable.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows in the lower
70s. Highs in the upper 90s.
.SATURDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ260-182230-
Northern Newton-
Including the cities of Burkeville, Farrsville, Jamestown,
Newton, Wiergate, Bleakwood, and Call
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming
light and variable.
.MONDAY...Patchy fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
Northeast winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast
winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming northeast around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the mid 90s.
$$
TXZ261-182230-
Southern Jasper-
Including the cities of Gist, Buna, and Evadale
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Humid with
lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the
evening, becoming light and variable.
.MONDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the mid
90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds
around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows
around 70.
$$
TXZ262-182230-
Southern Newton-
Including the city of Deweyville
307 AM CDT Sun Sep 18 2022
.TODAY...Sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph.
Chance of rain 20 percent.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the
lower 70s. Southeast winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming
light and variable.
.MONDAY...Areas of fog in the morning. Sunny. Highs in the lower
90s. East winds around 5 mph.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s. Light and
variable winds.
.TUESDAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s. North winds around 5 mph,
becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...Clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
Highs in the upper 90s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 70s.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY...Clear. Highs in the mid 90s. Lows in
the lower 70s.
$$
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NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama, the 7-foot-plus French player expected to be taken by San Antonio with the first pick in the NBA draft this week, threw out a wild ceremonial first pitch before the New York Yankees played the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.
He wore a pinstriped jersey with “New York” across the chest rather than the traditional interlocking “NY,” and he had Joe DiMaggio's No. 5 on the back. Standing on the rubber, he fired the ball in the dirt, well wide of the plate to the first-base side.
The 19-year-old spent this past season with Metropolitans 92 in the French league. The NBA lists his height as 7-4. He has said 7-3 and some internet sites show 7-5.
The NBA draft is Thursday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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Deal marks fourth investment from Pharos Fund IV, focused on value-based care
DALLAS and NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharos Capital Group, LLC ("Pharos"), a middle-market private equity firm based in Dallas and Nashville, announced today it has made a significant investment in Renal Care 360° (or the "Company"), a comprehensive nephrology practice and chronic care management company founded by accomplished renal care entrepreneur Joe Cashia. Renal Care 360° partners with health systems, physician groups and local communities to provide enhanced community healthcare management services with a primary focus on patients in underserved, rural communities.
Pharos's investment, along with additional equity investment from the Company's founding shareholders, will be used to support continued growth of the Company's RC360° Connected Care Program, geographic expansion through acquisitions, and development of value-based care programs. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Renal Care 360° has developed a unique model centered on early detection of unidentified chronic conditions using proprietary data analytics. Once medical conditions are identified, the Company offers early interventions through its affiliated physician practices with personalized education, real-time engagement, local and virtual clinic options, and dedicated care coordination to slow disease progression and improve outcomes for chronic kidney disease ("CKD"), end stage kidney disease ("ESKD"), and other co-morbidities. Renal Care 360° is also raising awareness and improving education of kidney disease in areas most impacted by inequities in access to care, enabling its health system and physician group partners to proactively engage and care for their patients.
Jim Phillips, a Partner at Pharos, said, "With the nationwide push to reform kidney care through deeper engagement of the population's most vulnerable CKD and ESKD patients, we have observed Renal Care 360°'s use of machine learning to early-identify and intervene with comprehensive, compassionate care to be a uniquely impactful model. Their specialized approach helps to slow disease progression, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, enable physician and health system partners to continuously engage with their patients, and dramatically improve patient experiences and outcomes. We are thrilled to be partnering with a management team whose longstanding dedication to kidney care, physician practice management, home health, and population health is only rivaled by their passion to meaningfully improve and prolong the lives of many thousands of patients who may otherwise slip through the cracks."
Renal Care 360° founder Joe Cashia will continue to lead the Company as Chairman and CEO. Mr. Cashia is a 35-plus-year veteran of the healthcare industry with deep experience across the continuum of kidney care who has partnered with physicians and hospitals across the country and has created, acquired, and managed more than 1,000 healthcare centers. Previously serving as CEO of National Renal Alliance, Vivere Health, and Ascend Health Care Services and in various Board roles, Mr. Cashia has extensive experience in scaling complex healthcare service organizations with a deep appreciation for the importance of partnering with physician leaders and clinicians to drive value-based care initiatives and improve patient outcomes.
Mr. Cashia noted, "We are pleased to bring in such an experienced, healthcare-focused partner to help Renal Care 360° rapidly expand its care model to touch the lives of as many patients as possible. Pharos's dedication to bridging inequities in care, demonstrated by their proven track record guiding value-based healthcare organizations, will be invaluable as we grow our clinic footprint, scale chronic care management infrastructure to meet the overwhelming market need, and work with health systems and payors to align incentives around optimization of patient outcomes to generate transformational cost savings to the system."
This marks the fourth investment from Pharos's latest flagship fund, Pharos Capital Partners IV, L.P., investing alongside its parallel fund, Pharos Capital Partners IV-A, L.P., a licensed Rural Business Investment Company. The funds will continue Pharos's mission of lowering costs, improving outcomes, and expanding access to care, particularly within underserved rural communities.
About Renal Care 360°
Renal Care 360º is a comprehensive nephrology practice and chronic care management company partnering with health systems, physician groups and local communities to provide enhanced community healthcare management services. Renal Care 360°'s Connected Care Program partners with PCPs, nephrologists, and other physician groups to augment existing services by providing patients with a customized care coordination and education program based on the patient's health needs. In addition to contracted chronic care management services, Renal Care 360° intends to acquire nephrology practices that share a passion to transform kidney care through early detection and deep patient engagement with comprehensive care management.
For business development opportunities with Renal Care 360°, please contact Molly Braun at 985-264-4074 or mbraun@renalcare360.com.
About Pharos Capital Group
Based in Dallas and Nashville, Pharos Capital Group (www.pharosfunds.com) is a physician-founded investment firm focused on growing healthcare companies that aim to lower the total cost of care, improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare inequalities in underserved markets, especially within urban and rural communities. Since inception, Pharos has invested in 58 companies and has over $1.2 billion of private equity assets under management as of June 30, 2022. Pharos typically invests $25-$50 million in rapidly growing middle market companies seeking later stage funding for internal growth, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, or recapitalizations across healthcare sectors.
For business development opportunities with Pharos Capital Group, please contact Adam Persiani at 214-740-7003 or apersiani@pharosfunds.com.
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Up to 100,000 people could attend NASCAR’s Chicago street race next year in Grant Park under the contract inked between the Chicago Park District and the racing company.
Since Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the deal between the city and NASCAR to allow stock cars to zoom through the city’s streets in 2023 through 2025, details of the race have been slow to trickle out as the mayor boasted of the economic benefit she secured and three Downtown aldermen complained they were left in the dust and vowed to give the City Council a bigger say in large events. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/nascar-lollapalooza-contracts-city-chicago-revealed-greg-hinz | 2022-08-09 05:18:41 | 1 | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/government/nascar-lollapalooza-contracts-city-chicago-revealed-greg-hinz |
Limited-Edition Single-Barrel Rum Celebrates 45th Anniversary of the Team's First World Championship Win
KALAHEO, Kauai, Hawaii, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In an extraordinary collaboration, Hawaii's award-winning Koloa Rum Company has partnered with the Las Vegas Raiders in creating a limited-edition Kauai Reserve Five-Year Single-Barrel Aged Rum with commemorative bottle and box – honoring the 45th anniversary of the team's historic first World Championship that resulted from a 32-14 win over Minnesota on January 9, 1977. Since 2021, Koloa Rum Company has been "The Official Ultra-Premium Rum of the Las Vegas Raiders."
On Saturday, Jan. 7, a presentation will be held at Allegiant Stadium during pre-game festivities as the Las Vegas Raiders prepare to take on Kansas City. The pre-game presentation will feature Christian Howard, vice president of corporate partnerships for the Las Vegas Raiders, alongside Bob Gunter, Koloa Rum Company president and CEO and Frank Kibbish, regional sales manager of Koloa Rum Company. Together, they will unveil the official commemorative bottle to select Raiders Alumni who played in the championship game and to the thousands of fans in attendance.
Only 300 Single-Barrel bottles and boxes will be sold and are available exclusively in the state of Nevada. Members of the Raider Nation interested in toasting to the legacy of the Silver and Black can purchase the commemorative bottle and box for $159.99 at Lee's Discount Liquor located at 4230 S. Rainbow Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89103 and several bars and restaurants such as Fuhu at Resorts World. A Commemorative Bottle Signing will take place on Sunday, Jan. 8, from 12-3pm. at Lee's Discount Liquor on Rainbow, featuring Raiders Alumni Mike Siani, Henry Lawrence and Mike Rae.
"As the Official Premium Rum of the Las Vegas Raiders, we're honored to partner with this legendary organization in creating this special commemorative bottle, celebrating the 45th anniversary of their historic World Championship win," said Bob Gunter, president and CEO of Koloa Rum Company. "This exciting collaboration marks our first commemorative product release – momentous for Koloa Rum Company – and we're happy that we can bring The Spirit of Aloha to Raiders fans on the ninth island."
"The Raiders thank the Koloa Rum Company for recognizing and honoring our first of three World Championship victories with this commemorative product release," said Raiders President, Sandra Douglass Morgan. "We look forward to continuing to partner with Koloa to celebrate the rich history of the Silver and Black."
The Kauai Reserve Single-Barrel Hawaiian Rum is artfully crafted in single batches and aged for five years. Koloa Rum is distilled from the finest Hawaiian cane sugar, then carefully aged in charred American white oak barrels at Koloa Rum Company's distillery in Kalaheo on the island of Kauai. Bottled at cask strength, Koloa Rum Company ensures its Kauai Reserve Aged Rum is of the highest quality, distinctly different and uniquely Hawaiian.
Established in 2009, Koloa Rum Company produces artisanal, single-batch Hawaiian rum and ready-to-drink cocktails at its distillery in Kalaheo, Kauai and operates the island's first and only distilled spirits Tasting Room and Company Store. The company's award-winning portfolio includes its premium Kauai White, Gold, Dark, Spice, Coconut, Cacao and Coffee rums. Products are available for purchase online, at select retailers nationwide, and in Western Canada, Italy, Germany, Austria, France and Japan. For more information, visit https://koloarum.com
See HERE for high-res images. Courtesy of Koloa Rum Company and the Raiders.
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New episodes of the award-winning public affairs series focus on reproductive rights, global inflation, the education crisis and the Metaverse
NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Launching during a summer of seismic change in the United States, GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer opens its fifth season with a deep dive into the future of reproductive rights in America. Host Ian Bremmer interviews acclaimed journalist Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a senior research fellow at Yale Law School and co-host of the Slate podcast Political Gabfest. Season 5 of the award-winning weekly global affairs series launches nationwide on public television beginning Friday, July 1 (check local listings). Other expert guests this season will include economist and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, American intelligence official Jen Easterly, and data expert and Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. In the New York metro area, GZERO WORLD airs on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN, Saturdays at 6 p.m. on WLIW21, Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. on NJ PBS and is available to stream at thirteen.org/gzeroworld.
Host Ian Bremmer provides insightful commentary and analysis as the world faces converging crises, and the U.S. contends with a highly polarized political environment ahead of the 2022 Midterm elections. This season's themes and topics include cybersecurity, global inflation, the war in Ukraine and its impact globally, climate change and the shift away from fossil fuels, the 2022 UN General Assembly in September, the Metaverse and its implications, U.S. relations in the Middle East as President Biden visits Saudi Arabia, and the worldwide education crisis following more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
GZERO WORLD also features "Puppet Regime," a satirical series that uses puppetry to parody world leaders from Joe Biden, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi to tech titans like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Earlier this year, GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer earned three Telly Awards in the Television – General category for its episodes "The Korean Peninsula from K-Pop to Kim Jong-un," "UN Sec-Gen: Without Trust, Catastrophe Awaits" and "Afghanistan, 2021: Afghan & US Military Perspectives as the Last Soldier Leaves." "Puppet Regime" also earned a Telly Award in the Online – Series: Comedy category. Last season, GZERO WORLD hosted news-making interviews with former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, acclaimed organizational psychologist and bestselling author Adam Grant, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Pakistan Minister of Foreign Affairs Hina Khar, and many others.
GZERO WORLD's host, Ian Bremmer, is the president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm, as well as GZERO Media, a company dedicated to providing intelligent and engaging coverage of international affairs. He also serves as the foreign affairs columnist and editor at large for TIME magazine. Bremmer teaches political risk at Columbia University, and is the author of 11 books, the most recent being "The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats—and Our Response—Will Change the World."
GZERO WORLD is executive produced by Alexsandra Sanford, Tony Maciulis and Ian Bremmer for GZERO Media. Alex Gibson, Sarah Kneezle, and Nolan Ticer are senior producers. Alexander Kliment is director, writer and performer for the "Puppet Regime" feature. Steve Michel and Andrew Ross Rowe are editors, and Ziyu Wu is production assistant. The series is presented by The WNET Group. Neal Shapiro and Stephen Segaller are executives in charge for The WNET Group. Distributed nationally by American Public Television.
The founding funder of GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer is First Republic Bank. Additional support is provided by Jerre & Mary Joy Stead, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Prologis, Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Foundation, James and Merryl Tisch and Margot and Tom Pritzker.
GZERO Media is a company dedicated to providing the public with intelligent and engaging coverage of global affairs. It was created in 2017 as a subsidiary of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk analysis firm. In addition to producing the national public television program GZERO World with Ian Bremmer and its companion podcast, GZERO Media publishes the regular newsletter Signal, and daily text and video stories at gzeromedia.com and across social media channels.
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EAST MEADOW, Long Island (WPIX) – A New York pediatrician is being hailed a hero after he prevented 14 people from potentially being poisoned to death from a carbon monoxide gas leak.
Dr. John Zaso, who doubles as a volunteer firefighter in the Long Island hamlet of East Meadow, used his skills from both jobs to diagnose that the family of one of his young patients was actively suffering carbon monoxide poisoning. He helped to dispatch his own fire department to the family’s home.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless gas produced when a fossil fuel is burned. The CDC says CO “can cause sudden illness and death.”
Zaso said he got an urgent call from the mother of a 3-week-old infant patient of his late Monday night. The mother said her baby appeared sick and mentioned that a number of the family members in their house had started feeling sick within the past several hours. Fourteen people, all related, were living in the home.
“First thing I said immediately was ‘open your windows get out of the house and call 911,’” Zaso recalled.
The mother told him that she would call 911 and evacuate their home, but when Zasso grabbed the dispatch radio he uses as a firefighter, he said he never heard the call for help come through. So he called the mother back immediately.
“I said ‘get out of the house now’ in some colorful language,” Zaso said. “I then called and had the fire department dispatched to the scene.“
Zaso helped dispatch first responders from the East Meadow Fire Department, along with Nassau County’s ambulance bureau and police. He also went to the scene himself. He and his team found deadly levels of carbon monoxide in areas of the family’s home.
“Without any protection, within 30 seconds you’re disoriented and unconscious at that level,” Zaso said, regarding how toxic the basement air had become.
Because of Zaso’s quick response, no one died. Eleven of the 14 people in the home were hospitalized to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning.
Zaso said had he not followed up, the family of 14 likely would have gone to bed and died in their sleep.
“They wouldn’t have woken up in the morning. They would’ve asphyxiated in their sleep,” Zaso said.
The family is doing better and is grateful to him and the other first responders who helped them, Zaso said.
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DETROIT (AP) — A judge had no authority to issue indictments in the Flint water scandal, the Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday in an extraordinary decision that wipes out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and seven other people.
It’s an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel, who took office in 2019, got rid of a special prosecutor and put together a new team to investigate whether crimes were committed when lead contaminated Flint’s water system in 2014-15.
State laws “authorize a judge to investigate, subpoena witnesses, and issue arrest warrants” as a one-person grand jury, the Supreme Court said.
“But they do not authorize the judge to issue indictments,” the court said in a 6-0 opinion.
The challenge was filed by former health director, Nick Lyon, but the decision also applies to Snyder and others who were indicted by Genesee County Judge David Newblatt.
The attorney general’s office was reviewing the opinion and had no immediate comment, spokeswoman Lynsey Mukomel said.
In a money-saving move, Flint managers appointed by Snyder switched the city’s water source to the Flint River. State regulators said the river water didn’t need to be treated to reduce its corrosive qualities. That was a ruinous decision: Lead from old pipes flowed through the system for 18 months in the majority-Black city.
Snyder was charged with two misdemeanor counts of willful neglect of duty. Lyon and Michigan’s former chief medical executive, Dr. Eden Wells, were charged with involuntary manslaughter for nine deaths related to Legionnaires’ disease when Flint’s water system might have lacked enough chlorine to combat bacteria in the river water.
Six others were also indicted on various charges: Snyder’s longtime fixer, Rich Baird; former senior aide Jarrod Agen; former Flint managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley; former Flint public works chief Howard Croft; and Nancy Peeler, a state health department manager.
Nessel assigned Fadwa Hammoud to lead the criminal investigation, along with Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, while the attorney general focused on settling lawsuits against the state.
Hammoud and Worthy turned to a one-judge grand jury in Genesee County — a century-old, rarely used method — to hear evidence in secret and get indictments against Snyder and others.
“There are no velvet ropes in our criminal justice system,” Hammoud proudly declared in 2021 when charges were filed. “Nobody — no matter how powerful or well-connected — is above accountability when they commit a crime.”
But she and her team, acting on Worthy’s recommendation, didn’t follow a traditional process. Hammoud still hasn’t publicly explained why.
Prosecutors in Michigan typically file charges after a police investigation. A one-judge grand jury is extremely rare and is mostly used to protect witnesses, especially in violent crimes, who can testify in secret.
“It seems that the power of a judge conducting an inquiry to issue an indictment was simply an unchallenged assumption, until now,” the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
The Flint water switch and its consequences have been investigated for crimes since 2016 when then-Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, appointed Todd Flood as special prosecutor. Schuette pledged to put people in prison, but the results were different: Seven people pleaded no contest to misdemeanors that were eventually scrubbed from their records.
Flood insisted he was winning cooperation from key witnesses and moving higher toward bigger names. Nonetheless, Nessel, a Democrat, fired him and pledged to start over following her election as attorney general.
Separately, the state has agreed to pay $600 million as part of a $626 million settlement with Flint residents and property owners who were harmed by lead-tainted water. Most of the money is going to children.
Meanwhile, roughly 10,100 lead or steel water lines had been replaced at Flint homes by last December.
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ET has confirmed Ronnie Turner's cause of death. Tina Turner's son died of complications of metastatic colon carcinoma, a form of cancer, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's office. He was 62.
Also listed as a significant condition was atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, which is the build-up of fats, cholesterol, and other substances in and on the artery walls, and his manner of death was confirmed as natural.
Ronnie's wife, French singer Afida Turner, first announced his death in an Instagram post on Friday that referred to him as her "best friend."
"My god Ronnie Turner a true angel hiuge [sic] soul highly spiritual my husband my best friend my baby," she wrote in the caption, also referring to herself as "your nurse."
"I did the best to the end this time I was no able to save you," she continued. "Love you for this 17 years this is very very very bad I am very mad this is a tragedy."
Afida finished the post saying Ronnie is now "with your brother Craig and your father Ike Turner and Aline," telling her late husband to "rest in paradise."
Craig died by suicide in 2018. Ike died in 2007 and Aline, Ronnie's aunt and Tina's sister, died in 2010.
Tina, 83, also posted a tribute to her late son on Friday. "Ronnie, you left the world far too early. In sorrow I close my eyes and think of you, my beloved son," she wrote. The accompanying photo is a black-and-white shot of herself with eyes closed, credited to Alberto Venzago.
Shawn Zanotti, a rep for Ronnie, told ET on Sunday, "It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, Ronnie Turner, son of Tina and Ike Turner and husband to Afida Turner, has died at his Los Angeles, San Fernando residence Thursday morning at the age of 62. The family appreciates the outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended in regards to Ronnie from around the world, and respectfully request privacy in this time of great mourning. There are no further details as to the cause of death at this time. No further details will be released at this moment."
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New product in company's biofuels portfolio helps mitigate production loss due to heat stress in yeast fermentation
DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kemin Industries, a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services, recently launched FermSAVER™, a tea-extract product utilized during yeast fermentation for ethanol production, as part of its growing Kemin Bio Solutions portfolio.
FermSAVER was developed to help reduce stress when yeast is exposed to excess heat generated during the summer months. Supplementation with FermSAVER has been shown to improve ethanol production during periods of heat stress compared to yeast alone.
"Managing heat during ethanol production is critical to any bioethanol facility," said Jason Ackerman, General Manager, Kemin Bio Solutions. "We are thrilled to introduce FermSAVER, which can give ethanol producers peace of mind during high-heat periods by helping to maintain productivity."
During industrial fermentation, yeast generates excessive heat through normal metabolic processes. In the absence of cooling — and during summer months when chiller effectiveness is lower — yeast fermentation is significantly affected, resulting in reduced ethanol production.
Ethanol manufacturing facilities have typically relied on cooling towers to reduce the negative consequences of heat generated during fermentation, but cooling towers may fail or become overwhelmed during periods of high heat. When this occurs, the facility must take action that is costly and may still not correct the production loss. FermSAVER can decrease the stress experienced by yeast during periods of increased temperature, ultimately leading to improved ethanol yield.
Kemin is deeply committed to providing science-backed solutions to the industries it serves and undertook a multi-year project to discover and develop the FermSAVER technology, which resulted in a patent application.
"Kemin is constantly innovating and developing novel solutions for issues prevalent in the ethanol industry and beyond," said Brandon Lewis, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Kemin Bio Solutions. "FermSAVER is yet another example of a Kemin solution directly addressing a customer need."
For more information on the Kemin Bio Solutions portfolio of products, visit www.kemin.com/bio. The Kemin Bio Solutions team will also be available at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit on February 7, 2023, at Booth 17.
About Kemin Industries
Kemin Industries (www.kemin.com) is a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services. The company supplies over 500 specialty ingredients for human and animal health and nutrition, pet food, aquaculture, nutraceutical, food technologies, crop technologies, textile, biofuel and animal vaccine industries.
For over half a century, Kemin has been dedicated to using applied science to address industry challenges and offer product solutions to customers in more than 120 countries. Kemin provides ingredients to feed a growing population with its commitment to the quality, safety and efficacy of food, feed and health-related products.
Established in 1961, Kemin is a privately held, family-owned-and-operated company with more than 3,000 global employees and operations in 90 countries, including manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Italy, San Marino, Singapore, South Africa and the United States.
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Jessica Pegula 2023 Wimbledon Odds
Jessica Pegula plays Lauren Davis to begin play in Wimbledon (in the round of 128). In Viking International Eastbourne (her last tournament), she made it to the quarterfinals before losing to Cori Gauff. Pegula is +4000 to win at AELTC Wimbledon Qualifying and Community Sports Ground.
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- Tournament Dates: June 25 - July 16
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In the round of 128 of Wimbledon, on Monday, July 3 (at 6:00 AM ET), Pegula will face Davis.
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PHILADEPHIA, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced today the 2022 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research.
These early-career scientists will receive four-year grants to explore the complexities underpinning how cancer develops and novel ways to treat it. This is the ninth year the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust has partnered with Pew to advance a legacy of cutting-edge cancer research.
"Cancer remains a leading cause of death and affects millions of lives every year," said Susan K. Urahn, Pew's president and CEO. "We are pleased to support these early-career researchers, who are embarking on pioneering research approaches for one of the most complex diseases of our time."
These six scientists will examine some of the most pressing questions in cancer research, including what drives a rare type of bone cancer, how the nervous system regulates the body's immune response to cancer, and how metabolic processes give way to cancer therapy resistance.
"This new class of scientists brings innovative ideas and approaches to the complex study of cancer," said Peter M. Howley, M.D., chair of the Pew-Stewart national advisory committee. "I look forward to seeing their research accomplishments help in better understanding, preventing, and treating this disease."
The 2022 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research are:
Monther Abu-Remaileh, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Dr. Abu-Remaileh will determine how lysosomes help to orchestrate the rewiring of metabolic processes to fuel tumor growth in KRAS-driven cancers.
Alexander Bick, M.D., Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Bick will develop an algorithm to determine why and how only a small subset of pre-cancerous cells drive the development of blood cancers.
Shasha Chong, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
Dr. Chong will investigate how the expression of a transcription factor in Ewing sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, drives the expression of genes causing cancer development.
Alexander Huang, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Huang will investigate the underlying T cell responses from a new immunotherapy to develop safer and more effective treatments for melanoma.
Chengcheng Jin, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Jin will determine how the nervous system regulates immune responses to lung cancer.
Christina Towers, Ph.D.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Dr. Towers will explore how cancer cells adapt their metabolic processes to resist therapy.
The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. Learn more at pewtrusts.org.
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A Virginia judge has denied Amber Heard's request for a new trial in Johnny Depp's defamation case against her. On Wednesday, Judge Penney Azcarate, tossed the "Aquaman" star's bid for a new trial in court documents obtained by Access Hollywood. The 36-year-old's attorneys filed for a mistrial in the defamation case earlier this month alleging that a juror mix-up prevented her from receiving due process and has entitled her to a new trial. However, the judge shut down her legal teams claims. "The juror was vetted, sat for the entire jury, deliberated, and reached a verdict. The only evidence before this Court is that this juror and all jurors followed their oaths, the Court's instructions, and orders. This Court is bound by the competent decision of the jury," the judge wrote. | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/amber-heards-request-for-new-trial-in-johnny-depp-case-gets-denied-by-judge/ACCN001605640 | 2022-11-03 02:17:15 | 1 | https://www.nbc.com/access/video/amber-heards-request-for-new-trial-in-johnny-depp-case-gets-denied-by-judge/ACCN001605640 |
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Profit Margins on Typical Home Sales Hit Another Record, Rising to 56 Percent;
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IRVINE, Calif., July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, today released its second-quarter 2022 U.S. Home Sales Report, which shows that profit margins on median-priced single-family home and condo sales across the United States hit another new record of 55.5 percent following the largest quarterly gain in a decade.
On the heels of a lackluster first quarter of 2022 that suggested possible weakness in the nation's long-running housing market boom, the latest typical profit margin was up from 48.3 percent in the first quarter of 2022 and 42.9 percent in the second quarter of 2021. It was more than 20 points above the 32 percent figure from the second quarter of 2020.
"Home sellers in the second quarter continued to benefit from the rapid growth in home price appreciation the country has experienced over the past few years," said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence at ATTOM. "While price growth may slow down as higher mortgage rates dampen demand from prospective homebuyers, home sellers should continue to profit from the record $27 trillion in homeowner equity in today's market.
"While profit margins routinely go up during the Spring home-buying season, the latest spike of more than seven percentage points marked the largest quarterly gain since at least 2008. The year-over-year gain of 13 points in the typical return on investment was one of the largest in the past decade.
Gross profits also hit new highs in the second quarter of 2002, after dipping slightly in the early months of the year. The typical single-family home and condo sale across the country generated a gross second-quarter profit of $123,869, up 19 percent from $103,750 in the first quarter of 2022 and up 38 percent from $90,000 a year earlier.
The second-quarter records for gross profits and profit margins came as the national median home price hit a new high of $346,000 in the second quarter of 2022 – the 10th straight quarterly increase. The latest median value was up 8.8 percent from the first quarter of 2022 and 15.3 percent from the second quarter of 2021.
The second quarter profit figures showed how strong the nation's housing market prices remained despite rising economic uncertainty and home-mortgage rates that have surged this year. Average mortgage rates have nearly doubled from a year ago, reaching almost 6 percent for a 30-year fixed rate loan, making affordability a challenge for many potential homebuyers. These higher rates, coupled with rising home prices, the highest U.S. inflation rates in 40 years, and soaring food and fuel prices are all headwinds threatening to slow down what has been a white-hot housing market over the past few years. Still, home prices and seller profits surged anew in the second quarter, after a first quarter that saw a rare dip in investment returns.
Typical profit margins – the percent change between median purchase and resale prices - increased from the first quarter of 2022 to the second quarter of 2022 in 162 (89 percent) of the 183 metro areas around the U.S. with sufficient data to analyze. They were up annually in 174 of those metros (95 percent). Metro areas were included if they had at least 1,000 single-family home and condo sales in the second quarter of 2022 and a population of at least 200,000.
The biggest annual increases in profit margins came in the metro areas of Fort Myers, FL (margin up from 47.1 percent in the second quarter of 2021 to 90.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022); Naples, FL (up from 40.4 percent to 83.1 percent); Ocala, FL (up from 44.4 percent to 85.2 percent); Gulfport, MS (up from a loss of 6.5 percent to a gain of 30.8 percent) and Yuma, AZ (up from 42.7 percent to 77.8 percent).
The biggest annual profit-margin increases in metro areas with a population of at least 1 million in the second quarter of 2022 were in Orlando, FL (margin up from 36.4 percent to 67.6 percent); Tampa, FL (up from 47.4 percent to 76.3 percent); Miami, FL (up from 38.9 percent to 66.8 percent); Cleveland, OH (up from 21.4 percent to 42.1 percent) and Jacksonville, FL (up from 43.4 percent to 63.4 percent).
Profit margins decreased annually in just 20 of the 183 metro areas analyzed (11 percent) and annually in only nine metro areas (5 percent). The biggest annual decreases were in Salem, OR (margin down from 87.5 percent in the second quarter of 2021 to 55 percent in the second quarter of 2022); Hilo, HI (down from 140.8 percent to 110.5 percent); Boise, ID (down from 122.8 percent to 100.1 percent); Salisbury, MD (down from 57.1 percent to 48.6 percent) and Albany, NY (down from 35.4 percent to 28.3 percent).
The largest annual decreases, or smallest gains, in profit margins among metro areas with a population of at least 1 million came in Atlanta, GA (down from 48.9 percent to 42.8 percent); Sacramento, CA (up from 61.5 percent to 62.5 percent); San Francisco, CA (up from 81.5 percent to 83.1 percent); Washington, DC (up from 44.9 percent to 46.7 percent) and Boston, MA (up from 49.8 to 52.9 percent).
Median home prices in the second quarter of 2022 exceeded values from the prior quarter in 181 (96 percent) of the 183 metropolitan statistical areas with enough data to analyze and were up annually in 180 of those metros (96 percent). Nationally, the median price of $346,000 in the second quarter was up from $318,000 in the first quarter of 2022 and $300,000 in the second quarter of last year.
The biggest annual increases in median home prices during the second quarter of 2022 were in Gulfport, MS (up 55.3 percent); Naples, FL (up 36 percent); Lakeland, FL (up 35.7 percent); Fort Myers, FL (up 31.7 percent) and Port St. Lucie, FL (up 29.8 percent).
The largest annual increases in metro areas with a population of at least 1 million in the second quarter of 2022 were in Tampa, FL (up 29.3 percent); Orlando, FL (up 25.5 percent); Phoenix, AZ (up 25.3 percent); Nashville, TN (up 24.3 percent) and Charlotte, NC (up 24.2 percent).
Home prices in the second quarter of 2022 hit or tied all-time highs in 168 percent of the 183 metro areas in the report, including New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX, and Houston, TX.
The largest annual decreases, or smallest increases, in median prices during the second quarter of 2022 were in Toledo, OH (down 3.4 percent); Davenport, IA (down 2.7 percent); Peoria, IL (down 0.8 percent); Rockford, IL (up 2.1 percent) and Trenton, NJ (up 2.2 percent).
The smallest annual increases in metro areas with a population of at least 1 million in the second quarter of 2022 were in Honolulu, HI (up 4.4 percent); Buffalo, NY (up 5.5 percent); Virginia Beach, VA (up 6.3 percent); Rochester, NY (up 6.7 percent) and Baltimore, MD (up 7.4 percent).
Homeowners who sold in the second quarter of 2022 had owned their homes an average of 5.87 years. That was up from 5.71 years in the first quarter of 2022, but down from 6.31 years in the second quarter of 2021. The latest figure was the second-shortest average time between purchase and resale since the first quarter of 2012.
Tenure decreased from the second quarter of 2021 to the same period this year in 88 percent of metro areas with sufficient data. They were led by Lakeland, FL (tenure down 61 percent); Salem, OR (down 51 percent); Yakima, WA (down 30 percent); Provo, UT (down 27 percent) and Eugene, OR (down 24 percent).
Twenty of the 25 longest average tenures among sellers in the second quarter of 2022 were in the Northeast or West regions. They were led by Bellingham, WA (9.6 years); Manchester, NH (9.13 years); Honolulu, HI (7.82 years); Bridgeport, CT (7.76 years) and New Haven, CT (7.52 years).
The smallest average tenures among second-quarter sellers were in Lakeland, FL (1.25 years); Memphis, TN (3.51 years); Tucson, AZ (3.79 years); Knoxville, TN (4.28 years); and Cleveland, OH (4.33 years).
Home sales following foreclosures by banks and other lenders represented just 1 percent of all U.S. single-family home and condo sales in the second quarter of 2022 – the lowest portion since at least the first quarter of 2000.
The latest portion of REO sales was down from 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2022 and 1.5 percent in the second quarter of last year. REO sales represented only one of every 96 sales in the second quarter of 2022, a rate that was less than 1/30th of this century's high point of one in three in first quarter of 2009.
Among metropolitan statistical areas with a population of at least 200,000 and sufficient data, those areas where REO sales represented the largest portion of all sales in the second quarter of 2022 included New Haven, CT (2.7 percent or one in 37 sales); Chicago, IL (2.7 percent); Syracuse, NY (2.7 percent), Mobile, AL (2.5 percent) and St. Louis, MO (2.3 percent).
Nationwide, all-cash purchases accounted for 35.4 percent of all single-family home and condo sales in the second quarter of 2022, the highest level since the first quarter of 2014. The second-quarter-of-2022 number was up from 34.6 percent in the first quarter of 2022 and from 31 percent in the second quarter of last year.
"Cash buyers have continued to account for a higher percentage of home sales than usual, probably due in part to homeowners selling properties in high cost states and using the proceeds to buy a home with cash in lower cost areas," Sharga noted. "With mortgage rates almost doubling over the past year and the cost of financing soaring, cash buyers will be in an even stronger position of competitive advantage for the foreseeable future,"
Among metropolitan areas with a population of at least 200,000 and sufficient cash-sales data, those where cash sales represented the largest share all transactions in the second quarter of 2022 included Naples, FL (57.2 percent); Utica, NY (52.7 percent), Youngstown, OH (52.6 percent); Atlanta, GA (51.3 percent) and Salisbury, MD (51 percent).
Those where cash sales represented the smallest share of all transactions in the second quarter of 2022 included Gainesville, GA (5.1 percent of all sales); Athens, GA (14.4 percent); Lincoln, NE (16.2 percent); San Jose, CA (18 percent) and Des Moines, IA (18.1 percent).
Institutional investors nationwide accounted for just 6.2 percent, or one of every 16 single-family home purchases in the second quarter of 2022. That was the same portion as in the second quarter of 2021, but up from 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022.
Among states with enough data to analyze, those with the largest percentages of sales to institutional investors in the second quarter of 2022 were Arizona (16.7 percent of all sales), Georgia (13.1 percent), Nevada (13 percent), North Carolina (9.9 percent) and Tennessee (8.9 percent).
States with the smallest levels of sales to institutional investors in the second quarter of 2022 included Maine (1 percent), New Hampshire (1 percent), Hawaii (1.2 percent), Louisiana (1.6 percent) and Vermont (1.6 percent).
Nationwide, buyers using Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans comprised only 6.7 percent of all single-family home purchases in the second quarter of 2022 (one of every 15), the smallest portion since the fourth quarter of 2007. The latest figure was down from 7.3 percent in the previous quarter and from 7.9 percent a year earlier.
"FHA borrowers – and borrowers with VA loans – have been at a significant disadvantage in a housing market characterized by historically short sales cycles and near-record levels of cash buyers," Sharga added. "If days on market continue to increase, leveling the playing field a little bit for these borrowers, we could see the volume of homes purchased by FHA and VA borrowers climb back up to more normal levels."
Among metropolitan statistical areas with a population of at least 200,000 and sufficient FHA-buyer data, those with the highest levels of FHA buyers in the second quarter of 2022 included Visalia, CA (18.6 percent); Bakersfield, CA (18.4 percent); Beaumont, TX (16.9 percent); Merced, CA (16.2 percent) and Shreveport, LA (15.6 percent).
The ATTOM U.S. Home Sales Report provides percentages of REO sales and all sales that are sold to institutional investors and cash buyers, at the state and metropolitan statistical area. Data is also available at the county and zip code level, upon request. The data is derived from recorded sales deeds, foreclosure filings and loan data. Statistics for previous quarters are revised when each new report is issued as more deed data becomes available.
All-cash purchase: sale where no loan is recorded at the time of sale and where ATTOM has coverage of loan data.
Homeownership tenure: for a given market and given quarter, the average time between the most recent sale date and the previous sale date, expressed in years.
Home seller price gains: the difference between the median sales price of homes in a given market in a given quarter and the median sales price of the previous sale of those same homes, expressed both in a dollar amount and as a percentage of the previous median sales price.
Institutional investor purchases: residential property sales to non-lending entities that purchased at least 10 properties in a calendar year.
REO sale: a sale of a property that occurs while the property is actively bank owned (REO).
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WFO BROWNSVILLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, August 20, 2022
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TROPICAL CYCLONE STATEMENT
This product covers The Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas
**TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS AND HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED IN
NORTHEASTERN MEXICO AND SOUTHERN TEXAS THIS WEEKEND**
NEW INFORMATION
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* CHANGES TO WATCHES AND WARNINGS:
- A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Southern Hidalgo
* CURRENT WATCHES AND WARNINGS:
- A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Cameron Island,
Coastal Cameron, Coastal Willacy, Inland Cameron, Inland
Willacy, Southern Hidalgo, and Willacy Island
* STORM INFORMATION:
- About 320 miles south-southeast of Brownsville TX or about 320
miles south-southeast of South Padre Island TX
- 21.8N 95.2W
- Storm Intensity 35 mph
- Movement Northwest or 310 degrees at 14 mph
SITUATION OVERVIEW
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Potential Tropical Cyclone 4, currently centered across the southern
Gulf of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche, continues to move
northwestward around 14 mph. It is expected to make landfall along
the northeast Mexican coast, south of the mouth of the Rio Grande on
Saturday evening. The main impacts to Deep South Texas are Tropical
Storm force winds and gusts, heavy rainfall that may lead to localized
flooding, and minor coastal flooding at area beaches. Wave run-up may
push near or into the dunes at South Padre Island and Boca Chica
beaches through Saturday night. Marine conditions will gradually
improve through the day on Sunday.
POTENTIAL IMPACTS
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* WIND:
Protect against hazardous wind having possible limited impacts across
The Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas. Potential impacts include:
- Damage to porches, awnings, carports, sheds, and unanchored
mobile homes. Unsecured lightweight objects blown about.
- Many large tree limbs broken off. A few trees snapped or
uprooted, but with greater numbers in places where trees are
shallow rooted. Some fences and roadway signs blown over.
- A few roads impassable from debris, particularly within urban
or heavily wooded places. Hazardous driving conditions on
bridges and other elevated roadways.
- Scattered power and communications outages.
* FLOODING RAIN:
Protect against locally hazardous rainfall flooding having possible
limited impacts across Kenedy, Willacy, and Cameron Counties.
Potential impacts include:
- Localized rainfall flooding may prompt a few evacuations.
- Arroyos and larger creeks may quickly rise with swift currents.
Small streams, creeks, canals, and ditches may become swollen
and overflow in spots.
- Flood waters can enter a few structures, especially in usually
vulnerable spots. A few places where rapid ponding of water
occurs at underpasses, low-lying spots, and poor drainage
areas. Several storm drains and retention ponds become
near-full and begin to overflow. Some brief road and bridge
closures.
Elsewhere across The Rio Grande Valley and Deep South Texas, little
to no impact is anticipated.
* SURGE:
Protect against locally hazardous surge having possible limited
impacts across South Padre Island and Boca Chica beaches. Potential
impacts in this area include:
- Localized inundation with storm surge flooding mainly along
immediate shorelines and in low-lying spots, or in areas
farther inland near where higher surge waters move ashore.
- Sections of near-shore roads and exposed parking lots could
become covered with some surge water. Driving conditions
dangerous in places where surge water covers the road.
- Moderate beach erosion. Heavy surf also breaching dunes, mainly
in usually vulnerable locations. Strong rip currents.
- Minor damage to marinas, docks, boardwalks, and piers. A few
small craft broken away from moorings.
* TORNADOES:
Little to no impacts are anticipated at this time across The Rio
Grande Valley and Deep South Texas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS
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* EVACUATIONS:
WATCH/WARNING PHASE - Listen to local official for recommended
preparedness actions, including possible evacuation. If ordered to
evacuate, do so immediately.
* OTHER PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION:
Now is the time to complete all preparations to protect life and
property in accordance with your emergency plan. Ensure you are in a
safe location before the onset of strong winds or possible flooding.
If you are a visitor, be sure to know the name of the city or town in
which you are staying and the name of the county in which it resides.
Listen for these locations in local news updates. Pay attention for
instructions from local authorities.
Closely monitor weather.gov, NOAA Weather radio or local news outlets
for official storm information. Be ready to adapt to possible changes
to the forecast. Ensure you have multiple ways to receive weather
warnings.
* ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- For information on appropriate preparations see ready.gov
- For information on creating an emergency plan see getagameplan.org
- For additional disaster preparedness information see redcross.org
NEXT UPDATE
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The next local statement will be issued by the National Weather
Service in Brownsville TX around 5 AM CDT, or sooner if conditions
warrant.
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Facebook parent company Meta threatens to pull news from platform in California if journalism bill passes
The California Journalism Preservation Act requires Big Tech to pay for news content
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said it will stop providing news articles on their platforms for users in California if they are required to pay news outlets a fee under a journalism proposal in the state legislature.
Democratic lawmakers introduced the "California Journalism Preservation Act" in March. It would require large online platforms like Facebook and Google to pay a usage fee to eligible news publishers every month taken from the ad revenue they generate on the platform. News outlets would also be required to spend 70% of that fee on funding journalist and staff salaries and hiring.
Meta communications director Andy Stone said on Wednesday they would be "forced" to pull news from their platforms if the bill passes.
META VOWS TO BOYCOTT US NEWS OUTLETS ON FACEBOOK IF DEM-SPONSORED AD REVENUE BILL IS SIGNED INTO LAW
"If the Journalism Preservation Act passes, we will be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram, rather than pay into a slush fund that primarily benefits big, out-of-state media companies under the guise of aiding California publishers," Stone said in a statement posted to Twitter.
"The bill fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on our platform themselves," Stone continued. Meta argued the bill benefits larger out-of-state publishers rather than local outlets.
The spokesman claimed lawmakers in the state were putting news outlets' priorities above their constituents.
Progressive Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D), who introduced the bill, argued the legislation would help struggling local news outlets.
"These dominant digital ad companies are enriching their own platforms with local news content without adequately compensating the originators. It’s time they start paying market value for the journalism they are aggregating at no cost from local media," Wicks said while introducing the bill.
Wicks slammed Meta's threat on Wednesday as a "scare tactic."
"This threat from Meta is a scare tactic that they’ve tried to deploy, unsuccessfully, in every country that’s attempted this. It is egregious that one of the wealthiest companies in the world would rather silence journalists than face regulation," she tweeted.
Meta also objected last December to a similar bill in Congress, which would give media outlets and publishers "greater power" to acquire a larger share of the platform’s ad revenue.
That bill was introduced in 2021 and has bipartisan support. Media companies that supported the bill claimed that Meta generates huge sums of money from news articles shared on the platform," while many outlets, especially local news, have "struggled during the pandemic," the BBC reported.
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The U.S. Supreme Court granted a request by Republican attorneys general who want to extend those restrictions. The court put a temporary hold on a lower court ruling that found Title 42 unlawful.
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The U.S. Supreme Court granted a request by Republican attorneys general who want to extend those restrictions. The court put a temporary hold on a lower court ruling that found Title 42 unlawful.
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Well, all good things must come to an end, right? We saw sunshine these past few days and now we have some rain and clouds to bring in Valentine's Day.
There is some good news though, that being highs in the mid to upper 40s again! The bad news being rain showers returning. We will see a few slight chances by 9am Tuesday, but most rain showers start by late Tuesday morning and into ...READ MORE. | https://www.wxow.com/weather/forecast/flowers-in-one-hand-and-an-umbrella-in-the-other-for-this-valentines-day-forecast/article_d2f25480-ac60-11ed-b923-cf36bc696f09.html | 2023-02-14 13:57:47 | 0 | https://www.wxow.com/weather/forecast/flowers-in-one-hand-and-an-umbrella-in-the-other-for-this-valentines-day-forecast/article_d2f25480-ac60-11ed-b923-cf36bc696f09.html |
Oak Ridge AMVETS to feature 'American Idol' Janelle Arthur on Friday; 75th anniversary celebration Saturday
Only a few organizations in Oak Ridge have stood the test of time to remain active for 75 years which makes the celebration of the AMVETS 75th Anniversary a special occasion. "American Idol" finalist Janelle Arthur will kick off the celebration Friday with a concert.
AMVETS is an organization of veterans serving veterans and they are proud to announce their 75th Anniversary and Veterans Appreciation Celebration on March 11 at 190 Adams Lane, Oak Ridge. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the official Post Dedication Ceremony at 1 p.m., according to a news release.
Activities will include Summer Knights Car Club Cruise-In, live music by Dynamic Panic, Photo and Tell Us a Story Booths, Kids Coloring Table and Corn Hole.
Lunch can be purchased from Bunnz Food Truck and Noodz Food Truck, as well as smoothies from Drink Smooth.
This event is open to the public and everyone is invited to bring your family to celebrate and show appreciation for your favorite veterans or active-duty service members.
Janelle Arthur performs on Friday to kick off local AMVETS 75th anniversary
To start the celebration weekend off, Oliver Springs native and "American Idol" Top 5 finalist Janelle Arthur will be in concert at the Post on March 10 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at The Garage Bar and Grill or Pro Service Motor Sports in Oliver Springs.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Broadway Exchange today announced that it has raised $2 million in seed funding, led by Christine Schwarzman's Broadway production company, No Guarantees. The Broadway Exchange also announced that it is extending its Seed Round by an additional $1 million, as it continues to build the market for live theatre digital collectibles.
The Broadway Exchange works with theatrical partners to create digital collectibles, based on their intellectual property, and offer them for sale in its marketplace, where they can be bought, traded, and shared by fans. The company, which is owned by MuseWorks Labs Inc, is committed to helping live theatre thrive in a digital economy by partnering with Broadway, off-Broadway, London's West End, and regional productions to build deeper connections with fans. The Broadway Exchange gives fans a new and exciting way to engage with shows, collect and share their favorite moments, receive behind-the-scenes content, and win rewards, such as tickets, merchandise, and exclusive experiences.
The existing and anticipated funding will support the company's continued efforts to grow its active user base and extend its market-leading position in technology, marketing, and content.
"We're grateful to our investors, including leading Broadway producer No Guarantees, for their passion and foresight to truly understand the value of bringing live theatre into the digital and web3 world," said Ron Guirguis, CEO of MuseWorks Labs. "It is clear that digital collectibles represent an exciting and vibrant pathway for connecting with passionate fans, and an essential new revenue stream for theatre productions and creators. And our current and planned funding will give us the resources to build on our amazing early success and continue to be the dominant player in this space."
The Broadway Exchange launched its beta platform in May 2022 and has worked with more than a dozen theatrical partners to date, including Girl from the North Country, 2:22 A Ghost Story, May We All, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Most recently, the company partnered with Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical, Bad Cinderella, in advance of its opening on Broadway in March 2023.
"I'm looking forward to being part of the success of The Broadway Exchange and to join them in this endeavor," said Christine Schwarzman, founder and President of No Guarantees, a three-time Tony Award winning production company. "Broadway, and live theatre in general, continues to evolve and will find new ways to capitalize on technology and create additional sources of income. Digital collectibles are a significant next step in that direction."
About The Broadway Exchange
The Broadway Exchange is a Digital Collectibles marketplace dedicated to helping live theatre thrive in the digital economy so that everyone benefits. We partner with the theatre community to create, promote, and sell compelling Digital Collectibles and amazing experiences that build deeper connections between fans and creators. The Broadway Exchange recently partnered with Dapper Labs to move to the Flow blockchain, where minting collectibles on the chain requires less energy than an Instagram post or Google search.
About No Guarantees
No Guarantees is a Tony Award-winning, theatrical production company led by Christine Schwarzman (President) and Darren Edward Johnston (Executive Vice President). No Guarantees is excited to bring Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bad Cinderella and James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham to Broadway this season. Previously, No Guarantees opened the world premiere of Saheem Ali, Jocelyn Bioh, and Michael Thurber's Goddess at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. No Guarantees executive produced the UK's National Theatre film adaptations of Romeo and Juliet (starring Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley) and Death of England: Face to Face (nominated for a 2022 BAFTA award). Additional No Guarantees productions include Hadestown (Tony Award for Best Musical), The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award for Best Play), Company (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, and, Off-Broadway, David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's Pulitzer Prize finalist Soft Power.
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Japan’s new central bank boss has called for patience — a quality that seems to have deserted close followers of the world’s third-largest economy. Instead of being wedded to the idea that the first new boss in 10 years means a big shift in the price of money, interest-rate hawks would be well advised to absorb the overall message Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda is sending: policy isn’t going anywhere quickly.
Particularly outside Japan, many are still committed to the narrative — which predates Ueda’s nomination — that the BOJ is desperate to abandon the yield-curve control of his predecessor Haruhiko Kuroda, and will drop it at the first opportunity in a shift to higher interest rates.
To maintain this belief requires some reading of tea leaves, given how plainspoken Ueda has been on the need to stick to easy money. In launching a long-term review of policy, he’s further played down the likelihood of change. Nonetheless, markets briefly got excited last week when Ueda said he’ll end yield curve control — but perhaps missed (or ignored) the part of his remarks where he noted this will only happen when the bank has reached its 2% inflation target.
That’s obvious — when the job is done, the toolbox is put away. But the bank patently believes it has much more to do. It’s still committed not just to hitting 2%, but creating an environment in which rising prices are propelled by higher wages rather than imported costs. In a change that went under-reported at last month’s meeting, the bank explicitly linked its goal to increasing salaries, saying it aimed to reach 2% “in a sustainable and stable manner, accompanied by wage increases.” This is borrowed from Kuroda, but had not previously been included in the statement.
The rise of such language to set expectations has been among the more consequential developments in economic policy the past few decades: The idea that officials could produce desired outcomes by conveying their intent months or even years in advance. Ueda himself pioneered the use of forward guidance in Japan during his first term on the board from 1998 to 2005.
It worked best after the Global Financial Crisis, when inflation was very low and borrowing costs could be projected with a degree of confidence over a pretty long horizon. Guidance, which could also describe the economic circumstances that would trigger a shift, succeeded most during the periods of quantitative easing that began in the US and Europe after the 2008 crackup and the euro debt crisis.
Though the policy has taken some hits in the past 18 months as accelerating inflation made pronouncements of weeks or even days ago inoperable, the legacy remains: Almost every word and sentence construction is scrutinized. So when the BOJ deployed “patiently” rather than “persistently” in its English translation, it created a stir among the economists and investors who parse every utterance.
But by zeroing in one tiny aspect, the overall picture is obscured. Pretty much everything Ueda has had to say since being picked as Kuroda’s successor should dispel the idea that a change in personnel means a change in policy. Look to the summary of opinions expressed at Ueda’s first meeting, released last week; while we don’t know which member made what remark, the document itself is edited by the governor.
It includes multiple comments noting the need to watch wage increases into 2024 and beyond. The BOJ is aware, unlike many commentators on the spring shunto pay talks, of the risk that this year’s salary bump was a one-time event to assuage workers hit by inflation. And perhaps the most striking comment was this: “The risk of missing a chance to achieve the 2% target due to a hasty revision to monetary easing is much more significant than the risk of the inflation rate continuing to exceed 2%.”
No one is more aware of that risk than Ueda, who dissented when the BOJ prematurely lifted rates in 2000. He’ll know that fate has handed him a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break Japan of the deflationary mindset that has hung over it for a generation. It might be the last such opportunity. Hence, he chose to kick the can down the road through his policy review.
Visiting Japan last week, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde told broadcaster NHK that Ueda’s examination of past policy was a great idea. Lagarde is no stranger to reviews, nor is Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. During the pandemic, both institutions undertook self-evaluations that allowed for looser policy, not the opposite scenario that many are projecting on Ueda.
Neither talked too much about those adjustments now that elevated prices have been declared public enemy No. 1. They provided the intellectual justification for prolonged easing just as the conditions were developing for an inflation breakout. The BOJ examination will take at least a year. It would be unfortunate if its reflection gave fodder for hawks just when cooling inflation and a global slowdown warranted a return to less restrictive interest rates. We’ll have to patient for, to borrow a word of guidance from the Greenspan Fed, a considerable period.
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Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief.
Daniel Moss is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies. Previously, he was executive editor of Bloomberg News for economics.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is having its 30th anniversary celebration with a week of special events.
The week of special events will include major festivities and the recognition of The Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award Friday evening at Haven in Birmingham’s Lakeview District.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida deputy who was caught on video pointing a gun at a pregnant Black woman during a traffic stop has resigned, authorities tell WFLA.
Deputy Jason Desue left the Bradford County Sheriff’s Office after the incident, which occurred around midnight on Friday, Aug. 12, First Coast News reported.
The mother, Ebony Washington, who is four months pregnant, told WJAX she and her four children were on their way home to Jacksonville from Gainesville when Desue tried to pull her over for speeding. She was going 75 miles per hour in a 55-mph zone, according to reports.
Washington said she was looking for a safe, well-lit place to pull over, and turned on her hazard lights and kept driving until she got to a convenience store.
“It was dark and I was with my kids. I felt uncomfortable, and I didn’t want to be able to not have anyone else around,” she recalled.
Body camera video released by the sheriff’s office shows Desue follow her into the parking lot, get out of his patrol car and immediately point his gun at her van.
“If you make a move that’ll be the last mistake you make. Do not move,” Desue told Washington.
“I didn’t know he had a gun until I told him my seatbelt was still on and he said, ‘Get out. I have my gun. I’m not worried,’” the mother recalled.
After Desue ordered her to step out of the vehicle, Washington exited the van with her hands raised and tried to explain why she didn’t stop in time.
“Your excuse means nothing to me right now,” Desue said.
“I’m trying to tell you the only reason why I didn’t stop,” she told him. “I’m a very educated woman with a master’s degree … It’s dark out and I have three kids with me. I’m pregnant, and I did not want them to feel uncomfortable.”
“Just shut up about the why,” Desue said. “I don’t care about why.”
One of Washington’s children recorded video of the incident. Another could be heard crying as the deputy pointed a gun at their mother, First Coast reported.
“I was scared he was going to either take her to jail or that he might hurt her,” Washington’s daughter, Saige Washington, told WJAX. “Why is he so upset? She wasn’t doing anything.”
“Had I have done any movement outside of what he told me to do that would’ve been the opportunity for him to pull the trigger,” Washington said. “Him having power, the badge, the gun and the authority to do things, I think sometimes officers, like himself, they take advantage.”
The deputy gave Washington a speeding ticket and eventually let her go. When she apologized again, he told her to “apologize to herself for not thinking.”
In a statement provided to WFLA by his spokesman, Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith said he had already accepted Desue’s resignation while “continuing the internal investigation into his conduct.”
“I am disturbed and disheartened how Jacob Desue handled the traffic stop on Ebony Washington. She responded in a manner that was totally understandable in this circumstance,” Smith said. “Jacob Desue should have deescalated the situation but disappointingly was unable to respond in the appropriate manner.”
Smith told First Coast Washington did exactly what he would tell his daughter, wife or anyone else who feels uncomfortable during a traffic stop to do, “You reduce your speed, you turn on your flashing lights, be acknowledged,” he said.
“The whole thing would upset my children, my grandchildren,” the sheriff added. “So a lot of things that should have been done weren’t done. And at the end of the day, we determined that was something that we didn’t need representing us, or protecting our community.”
Although Smith said Washington did things right, she still blames herself for how things unfolded.
“None of this would’ve happened had I not been speeding,” she told First Coast. “My husband always says … ‘Why you so in a rush?’” | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/florida-deputy-resigns-after-pointing-gun-at-pregnant-black-woman/ | 2022-08-23 14:30:00 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/nextstar-news-wire/florida-deputy-resigns-after-pointing-gun-at-pregnant-black-woman/ |
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El Paso Electric christened a new, 120-megawatt solar facility on Wednesday in Otero County, making it the largest solar farm to date to come online in New Mexico.
The facility, located near Chaparral in southern New Mexico, will supply enough electricity to power about 60,000 homes, according to EPE, which serves about 460,000 electricity customers in West Texas and southern New Mexico. It includes a back-up battery storage system that can supply 50 MW per hour of additional power for up to four hours after the sun goes down, according to renewable developer NextEra Energy Resources, which built the facility and will operate it for EPE over the next 30 years.
The facility, dubbed the Buena Vista Energy Center, doubles the amount of solar generation now operating on EPE’s grid from 107 MW previously to 207 MW now. It’s the first of a number of newly-planned solar farms that EPE will inaugurate over the next three years as the company works to replace fossil fuels with renewable resources.
That includes another 150 MW solar system expected to come online next year, followed by more facilities in 2025 to increase total solar generation to 700 MW – or about 40% of EPE’s total electric production – according to company executives.
EPE’s transition to renewables began in 2016, when the company completely withdrew from coal-fired generation, said EPE President and CEO Kelly Tomblin.
“In 2016, we proudly took the step to generate electricity 100% coal-free,” Tomblin said in a statement. “In 2021, we made a bold commitment to our customers to transform the energy landscape by 2023 and that continues today.”
Under the state’s Energy Transition Act, New Mexico’s three public utilities are required to transition their grids to 50% renewables by 2030, 80% by 2040, and 100% carbon-free generation by 2045.
To meet those requirements, the utilities are planning a lot more solar generation, starting with some huge solar additions by Public Service Co. of New Mexico this year.
PNM shut down the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Famington last summer, and it plans to replace that power with at least three solar facilities, beginning with a massive 300 MW plant in McKinley County that will come online in phases starting next month, said PNM Principal Generation Advisor Tom Fallgren.
That facility, dubbed the Arroyo plant, includes a 150 MW per hour battery storage system that will become operational in May, Fallgren said. Then, the first 70 MW of solar generation will come online in June, followed by another 70 MW in August, and the remaining 160 MW in December.
“EPE’s new solar facility is currently the largest single solar farm operating in New Mexico,” Fallgren told the Journal. “But over the coming months, we’ll be installing a system that’s more than three times that size.”
PNM will also bring a 50 MW solar plant with a 20 MW per hour battery storage system online between May and June in Rio Arriba County. And, to round out the San Juan replacement power, it will inaugurate another 200 MW system with 100 MW per hour battery backup in San Juan County in May 2024.
PNM expected those facilities to begin operations last year, but pandemic-induced supply-chain problems and labor shortages significantly delayed deployment, Fallgren said. In fact, those problems led to cancellation of a fourth San Juan replacement project that would have added another 100 MW of solar generation.
Separately, PNM plans to replace power it lost this year from the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona with yet another massive, 300 MW solar plant with 300 MW per hour battery backup that will come online in mid-2024 on the West Mesa in Bernalillo County, Fallgren said.
For now, EPE’s Buena Vista Energy Center is the largest solar facility currently operating in New Mexico. NextEra Energy leased 2,700 acres of state trust land to accommodate the plant, which occupies about 1,200 acres.
The lease will generate about $12 million in revenue for the State Land Office over the 30-year life of the facility, said Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard.
“New Mexico is blessed with amazing sun and wind resources, and we have a great opportunity before us to harness these resources and create new and steady streams of revenue for our public schools and other beneficiaries,” Garcia Richard said in a statement. “The Buena Vista project adds to this rapidly expanding footprint of renewable energy production on state lands and moves us one step forward to a clean energy future.” | https://www.abqjournal.com/2588768/120-mw-system-now-operating-in-otero-county.html | 2023-04-07 15:30:27 | 0 | https://www.abqjournal.com/2588768/120-mw-system-now-operating-in-otero-county.html |
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A grisly riot at a women’s prison in Honduras Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country’s president blamed on “mara” street gangs that often wield broad power inside penitentiaries.
Twenty-six of the victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said Yuri Mora, the spokesman for Honduras’ national police investigation agency. At least seven inmates were being treated at a Tegucigalpa hospital.
“The forensic teams that are removing bodies confirm they have counted 41,” said Mora.
Video clips shown by the government from inside the prison showed several pistols and a heap of machetes and other bladed weapons that were found after the riot.
Honduran President Xiomara Castro said the riot was “planned by maras with the knowledge and acquiescence of security authorities.”
“I am going to take drastic measures!” Castro wrote in her social media accounts.
Prisoners belonging to the feared Barrio 18 gang reportedly burst into a cell block and shot other inmates or set them afire.
Relatives awaiting news about inmates gathered outside the morgue in Tegucigalpa. They confirmed that inmates in the prison had told them they lived in fear of the Barrio 18 gang.
Johanna Paola Soriano Euceda was waiting for news about her mother Maribel Euceda, and sister, Karla Soriano. Both were on trial for drug trafficking, but were held in the same area as convicted prisoners.
Soriano Euceda said they had told her on Sunday that “they (Barrio 18 members) were out of control, they were fighting with them all the time. That was the last time we talked.”
Another group of dozens of anxious, angry relatives gathered outside the prison, located in a rural area about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the capital.
“We are here dying of anguish, of pain … we don’t have any information,” said Salomón García, whose daughter is an inmate at the facility.
Azucena Martinez, whose daughter was also being held at the prison, said “there are a lot of dead, 41 already. We don’t know if our relatives are also in there, dead.”
Julissa Villanueva, head of the country’s prison system, suggested the riot started because of recent attempts by authorities to crack down on illicit activity inside prisons and called Tuesday’s violence a reaction to moves “we are taking against organized crime.”
“We will not back down,” Villanueva said in a televised address after the riot.
Gangs wield broad control inside the country’s prisons, where inmates often set their own rules and sell prohibited goods.
They were also apparently able to smuggle in guns and other weapons, a recurring problem in Honduran prisons.
“The issue is to prevent people from smuggling in drugs, grenades and firearms,” said Honduran human rights expert Joaquin Mejia. “Today’s events show that they have not been able to do that.”
The riot appears to be the worst tragedy at a female detention center in Central America since 2017, when girls at a shelter for troubled youths in Guatemala set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution. The ensuing smoke and fire killed 41 girls.
The worst prison disaster in a century also occurred in Honduras, in 2012 at the Comayagua penitentiary, where 361 inmates died in a fire possibly caused by a match, cigarette or some other open flame.
Tuesday’s riot may increase the pressure on Honduras to emulate the drastic zero-tolerance, no-privileges prisons set in up in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele. While El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs has given rise to rights violations, it has also proved immensely popular in a country long terrorized by street gangs.
—— AP journalists Elmer Martínez in Tamara, Honduras and Maria Verza in Mexico City contributed to this report | https://www.qcnews.com/news/ap-top-headlines/41-inmates-killed-in-riot-at-womens-prison-in-honduras-linked-to-gangs-authorities-say/ | 2023-06-21 11:28:35 | 0 | https://www.qcnews.com/news/ap-top-headlines/41-inmates-killed-in-riot-at-womens-prison-in-honduras-linked-to-gangs-authorities-say/ |
DALLAS COUNTY, Iowa – Another Iowa county could be holding a recount of ballots cast on Election Day after equipment malfunctioned at some of its polling places.
The Dallas County Board of Supervisors is holding a meeting Thursday afternoon to vote on whether the auditor’s request for an administrative recount will be granted. An agenda for the meeting said there were problems with the equipment at four of its precincts.
The Iowa Secretary of State has already called for the Board of Supervisors in Warren and Des Moines counties to approve administrative recounts.
Traci VanderLinden (D), the Warren County Auditor said the correct process for pulling the vote totals from the tabulator machine was not followed at one precinct, and at two others the machines were in “test” mode not “election” mode.
In Des Moines County, Auditor Terri Johnson, (D) said there was an issue with counting absentee ballots. Poll workers counted a box of 355 absentee ballots in “sessions”. On Election Day, once the workers would run the ballots through the voting tabulator machine, some of those sessions would show an inaccurate number of ballots than what was in the box. Johnson contacted Secretary of State Paul Pate to inform him a recount would be needed. | https://who13.com/news/recount-request-in-dallas-county-after-equipment-malfunctions/ | 2022-11-10 14:00:19 | 1 | https://who13.com/news/recount-request-in-dallas-county-after-equipment-malfunctions/ |
The 2023 John Deere Classic Odds & Preview: Stephan Jaeger
The 2023 John Deere Classic at TPC Deere Run will have Stephan Jaeger in the field in Silvis, Illinois from July 6- 9, up against the par-71, 7,289-yard course, with a purse of $7,400,000.00 at stake.
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Stephan Jaeger Insights
- Jaeger has finished below par on 11 occasions, completed his day bogey-free once and finished 13 rounds with a better-than-average score over his last 20 rounds played.
- He has finished with the best score of the day in one of his last 20 rounds, while scoring among the top five in two of those rounds.
- Jaeger has posted a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 20 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day nine times.
- Jaeger has finished in the top 10 once in his past five tournaments.
- In his past five tournaments, Jaeger has finished in the top 10 once.
- Jaeger hopes to make the cut for the ninth straight time.
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John Deere Classic Insights and Stats
- Jaeger placed 30th in his lone recent finish at this event in three trips.
- In his past three appearances at this event, he made it to the weekend once.
- Courses on the Tour have played at an average length of 7,026 yards in the past year. This tournament will be held on a par 71 that registers at 7,289 yards, 263 yards longer than average.
- In the past year, Tour stops have seen an average score of -5, while TPC Deere Run has a recent scoring average of -10.
- The average course Jaeger has played i the last year (7,279 yards) is 10 yards shorter than the course he'll be playing this week (7,289).
- In the past year, the events he has played have had a scoring average of -6 among finishers, higher than the -10 average at this course.
Jaeger's Last Time Out
- Jaeger was in the 75th percentile on par 3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with an average of 2.88 strokes on the 16 par-3 holes.
- He finished in the 90th percentile on par 4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, averaging 3.83 strokes on those 40 holes.
- Jaeger shot better than 65% of the field at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on the tournament's 16 par-5 holes, averaging 4.44 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.51.
- Jaeger carded a birdie or better on three of 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, better than the field average of 1.9.
- On the 16 par-3s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Jaeger carded less bogeys or worse (one) than the field average (1.9).
- Jaeger recorded more birdies or better (nine) than the tournament average of 5.9 on the 40 par-4s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
- At that most recent tournament, Jaeger's par-4 showing (on 40 holes) included a bogey or worse two times (better than the field's average, 4.4).
- Jaeger finished the Rocket Mortgage Classic registering a birdie or better on 10 par-5 holes, while the field averaged 6.2 on the 16 par-5s.
- On the 16 par-5s at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, Jaeger underperformed compared to the field average of 0.8 bogeys or worse on those holes by recording two.
John Deere Classic Time and Date Info
- Date: July 6- 9, 2023
- Course: TPC Deere Run
- Location: Silvis, Illinois
- Par: 71 / 7,289 yards
- Jaeger Odds to Win: +3500 (Bet now with BetMGM!)
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After reaching a record high in 2022, the cost for this year's Fourth of July cookout will be slightly cheaper, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF).
The group reported that this year's expected grocery bill for Independence Day staples is 3% lower than a year ago. The report looks at the cost of hosting a cookout for 10 people.
The list includes hamburger buns, cheese, ground beef, cookies, ice cream, strawberries, chips, chicken breast, pork chops, pork and beans, lemonade and potato salad. All told, the cookout would be expected to cost someone $67.73. Although cheaper than last year, the cost of this hypothetical cookout would still be 14% higher than in 2021.
The slight drop was attributed to items like chicken breasts, lemonade and cookies being cheaper this year.
Ground beef is a bit more expensive this year as drought conditions have reduced the number of available cattle, the AFBF reports.
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Although Fourth of July staples have gone down, overall food costs are still up over last year. The consumer price index reports a 5.8% increase in food at the grocery store in the last year.
"The slight downward direction in the cost of a cookout doesn't counter the dramatic increases we've seen over the past few years. Families are still feeling the pinch of high inflation along with other factors keeping prices high," said AFBF Chief Economist Roger Cryan. "Don’t assume farmers come out as winners from higher prices at the grocery store either. They’re price takers, not price makers, whose share of the retail food dollar is just 14%."
The AFBF breaks down the cost for each Fourth of July staple:
- 2 pounds of ground beef, $11.54 (+4%)
- 2 pounds of chicken breasts, $8.14 (-9%)
- 3 pounds of pork chops, $14.37 (-6%)
- 1 pound of cheese, $3.53 (no change)
- 1 package of hamburger buns, $2.26 (+17%)
- 2 ½ pounds of homemade potato salad, $3.44 (+5%)
- 32 ounces of pork and beans, $2.44 (-3%)
- 16-ounce bag of potato chips, $4.53 (-4%)
- 13-ounce package of chocolate chip cookies, $3.90 (-10%)
- ½ gallon of ice cream, $5.29 (+3%)
- 2 pints of strawberries, $4.56 (+3%)
- 2 ½ quarts of lemonade, $3.73 (-16%)
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WGN Morning News Anchor Larry Potash shares his list of “how to accelerate intimacy.”
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Rose Lavelle believes she’s developed into a smarter player in the four years since becoming a breakout star for the United States in the 2019 Women’s World Cup final against the Netherlands.
The midfielder was 24 and one of the Americans’ younger players when she scored in the 69th minute of the title game in Lyon, France. Megan Rapinoe also scored in the 2-0 victory that earned the United States its second straight World Cup trophy, and fourth overall.
The United States meets the Netherlands again on Thursday, this time in the group stage of the tournament. Both teams have a win in Group E headed into the match in New Zealand’s capital of Wellington.
Lavelle, now a veteran on an American team that has 14 players making their World Cup debuts, reflected on the past four years on the eve of the rematch.
“I feel like obviously I have a lot more experience, so I think just my mentality is a bit is a bit different. Four years ago I was obviously one of the younger players on the team, and I think now I find myself in a different position, which I think just kind of gives me a little more confidence,” she said. “I feel like I’m a smarter player. I think I’ve grown in every realm, which is what I would hope.”
Lavelle injured her knee in an April exhibition match against Ireland and hadn’t played for her club team, OL Reign, in the run-up to the World Cup.
Coach Vlatko Andonovski declared that Lavelle was available before the team’s opener against Vietnam, and she came in the game as a substitute in the 61st minute. The United States won 3-0 on a pair of goals from Sophia Smith and another from Lindsey Horan.
Lavelle was subbed in at the same time as Rapinoe, her Reign teammate who injured her calf in a National Women’s Soccer League match in June.
The win over Vietnam in Auckland wasn’t as lopsided as many expected given the Golden Star Women’s Warriors inexperience on the international stage. The Vietnamese were among eight teams making their first World Cup appearance at the tournament co-hosted by New Zealand and Australia.
The Netherlands will no doubt be a bigger challenge than Vietnam.
The two teams also met in the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics, with the Americans advancing on penalties after a 2-2 draw.
Ranked No. 9 in the world, the Netherlands has won just one of its 10 matches against the United States overall. Only one of those meetings came in a World Cup — that 2019 final. The only Dutch victory in the series came in the first meeting in 1991.
The Netherlands opened the World Cup with a 1-0 victory over Portugal, winning it on Stefanie van der Gragt’s goal. But the team is missing one of its most dynamic players, forward Vivianne Miedema, who ruptured her ACL while playing for her club team, Arsenal, in December.
“I think every time we play them it’s a very physical, intense match. They have a lot of different threats,” Lavelle said. “I think they’re technical, good on set pieces, so I think it’s going to be a tough game. But I think we’re really excited for it.”
Lavelle was introspective when asked Wednesday whether the World Cup championship goal changed her.
“I don’t really feel like it did. It was a goal and it was fun,” she said. “But I feel like I’m still just me.”
Andonovski went a little further in what the goal did for Lavelle.
“If I can add on that, maybe Rose’s life changed, but she hasn’t changed a bit,” the coach said. “She’s still the same humble and good person.”
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Spain, one of the world’s leading markets for sex work, is hoping to crack down on the practice by targeting people who financially exploit sex workers, as well as those who buy their services.
On Tuesday, the lower house of parliament took the first step by admitting for debate a governing Socialist party proposal that would bring in fines for those who pay for sex workers.
The bill would not make sex work illegal but proposes prison terms of between three and six years, as well as fines, for pimps or procurers. It also proposes penalizing those who make money by knowingly providing premises or apartments for the practice of prostitution.
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“In a democracy, women are not for purchase nor for sale,” Adriana Lastra, the Socialist party’s deputy secretary general told Parliament.
Sex work is legal but greatly unregulated in Spain.
Accurate statistics are difficult to come by but a 2011 UN report said the country was the third biggest center for sex work in the world, behind Thailand and Puerto Rico.
The Spanish branch of Médecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) estimates there are some 350,000 women in sex work in Spain and 80 percent percent of them are foreigners without legal papers. The group says that many of their customers come from abroad, either as tourists, business visitors, or truck drivers.
“People who turn to women in a situation of prostitution participate directly in the network that shores up this serious violation of human rights,” the Socialist party said on its parliamentary Twitter account.
Sex workers can be seen on certain city-center streets in most of Spain and roadside brothels, some of enormous size, are common throughout the country. Ads for their services on the internet are also common.
The bill could undergo any number of changes as it passes through parliament and may take many months before it is finally approved.
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The proposal was backed by the leading opposition conservative Popular Party, which indicates that it could be approved relatively fast.
Some political parties and experts have argued that Spain should regulate the industry to protect sex workers rather than try to eliminate it.
The Socialists say the bill is aimed at banning pimping in all its forms. They add that the law does not aim to penalize sex workers but rather offer them protection as victims of a crime.
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The pandemic hit American cities hard, especially their downtowns. Office towers emptied almost overnight as remote work became the norm. Many businesses that relied on office workers couldn’t survive.
But a new report shows some downtowns have fully bounced back, or even exceeded, their pre-pandemic levels of activity. Others — Seattle included — have not come close.
This winter, activity in downtown Seattle was only at 48% of pre-pandemic levels, according to newly released data from the ongoing Urban Displacement Project, a research initiative at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Toronto.
The approach is novel. Most research attempting to measure the vitality of urban centers since the start of the pandemic has looked at factors like the change in office vacancy rates, public transportation ridership, or retail spending. Instead, this study looked at smartphone data.
Among the 63 downtowns in the U.S. and Canada included in the study, Seattle ranked 51st. And Seattle’s downtown was one of just 14 where activity levels this winter were less than half of their pre-pandemic level.
Researchers analyzed data from 18 million smartphone visits to downtown points of interest, comparing current levels of activity (the most recent data covers December 2022 through February of this year) with the pre-pandemic period. Points of interest include many places someone might visit — restaurants, retail shops, grocery stores and so on.
While Seattle’s level of downtown activity this winter was pretty dismal, it does represent a slight improvement from one year earlier. In the winter of 2021-2022, downtown was only at 44% of pre-pandemic activity levels. And from March through May 2022 — when I last looked at this study — downtown hit 52% of its 2019 levels.
The lagging numbers here, surely, are due to the persistence of remote work and relatively few employees returning to downtown. Data shared by the Downtown Seattle Association shows that in February, only 47% of office workers had returned when compared with 2019.
This data, of course, lags by a few months. And there has been some recent good news for downtown recovery: Starting in early May, Amazon workers in Seattle were required to return to the office three days per week. This change could have a significant, positive impact on Seattle’s numbers in future releases of this data.
In five U.S. cities, recovery from the pandemic is complete. Salt Lake City was way ahead of the pack, with cellphone activity at 139% of pre-pandemic levels. The other cities were Bakersfield and Fresno, Calif.; Columbus, Ohio; and El Paso, Texas.
These are all midsized cities, which overall seem to have recovered more quickly than major cities. However, there are some big cities that have recovered much faster than Seattle. For example, San Diego was at 93% of pre-pandemic activity this winter. The nation’s largest city, New York, was at 75%.
But Seattle shines compared with a couple of other West Coast cities. San Francisco came in last among the 63 cities, at a dismal 32%, and Portland was third from the bottom at 40%.
So far, Seattle’s best performance was in the spring of 2022 (when downtown was at 52% of pre-pandemic activity levels).
And the worst? The summer of 2020, when downtown was only at 37%. | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/state-of-downtown-how-seattles-recovery-compares-with-other-big-cities/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2023-05-12 14:06:20 | 1 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/state-of-downtown-how-seattles-recovery-compares-with-other-big-cities/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Borr Drilling Limited (the "Company") (NYSE: BORR) (OSE: BORR) announces today that it has priced its previously announced offering of 69,444,444 shares, at a price of $3.60 per common share for total gross proceeds of $250 million. The Company has also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 6,944,444 common shares at the offering price minus underwriting discounts.
No securities in the NYSE offering will be offered or listed on Oslo Stock Exchange.
The Company plans to use the proceeds from the offering to consummate a refinancing with its lenders under its Syndicated Facility, New Bridge Facility, Hayfin Facility and shipyard delivery financing arrangements with Keppel and PPL, and for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, repayments of its debt obligations, payments to its creditors in return for potential concessions or extensions of current facilities, capital expenditures, including costs in connection with activations and re-activations of rigs being brought into operations, or funding of its working capital.
Closing of the offering is subject to (i) the Company's authorized share capital being increased by 40,000,000 common shares, pursuant to a special general meeting to be held on August 16, 2022, (ii) the Company's authorized share capital being further increased by 35,000,000 common shares pursuant to a second special general meeting to be held on August 25, 2022, and (iii) the Company having entered into binding term sheets or other binding agreements with all applicable lenders (or obtaining written commitments approved by the Company's Board of Directors) under its Syndicated Facility, New Bridge Facility, Hayfin Facility and shipyard delivery financing arrangements with Keppel and PPL for a refinancing of those facilities on the terms previously announced by the Company, no later than the time of the special general meeting to be held on August 16, 2022.
A first settlement of the offering is expected on August 17, 2022, subject to fulfilment of the conditions described in (i) and (iii) above. A second settlement is expected on August 26, 2022, for the remainder of the shares, provided all the conditions described above are satisfied.
DNB Markets, Clarksons Securities, Pareto Securities, ABG Sundal Collier ASA, Arctic Securities AS, Fearnley Securities and SpareBank 1 Markets are the book-running managers for the offering. Cleaves Securities AS is co-manager for the offering.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor will there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
This information is considered to be inside information pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and subject to the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
This stock exchange notice was published by Andreas Lavik Lie, Vice President Treasury & Investor Relations of the Company, on 10 August 2022 at 08:30 CEST
About Borr Drilling Limited
Borr Drilling Limited is an international drilling contractor incorporated in Bermuda in 2016 and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange on August 30, 2017 and on the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2019 under the ticker "BORR". The Company owns and operates jack-up rigs of modern and high specification designs and provides services focused on the shallow water segment to the offshore oil and gas industry worldwide. Please visit the Company's website at: www.borrdrilling.com
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SMArtX Billing Continues to Expand as Billed Assets Approach $10 Billion
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SMArtX Advisory Solutions ("SMArtX"), a leading innovator in unified managed accounts (UMA) technology and architect of the SMArtX turnkey asset management platform ('TAMP'), announced it has added five strategies offered by four asset management firms to its platform, bringing the total to 1,106 strategists from 282 of the world's leading asset managers. Dearborn Partners and Ativo Capital Management are new to SMArtX, while Matrix Asset Advisors, Inc. and Kensington Analytics, LLC, each added new strategies to their existing presence on the platform.
Ativo Capital Management is now supplying its International ADR select strategy, which focuses on the developed and emerging markets ex US, and Dearborn Partners added two strategies designed to reduce vulnerability by investing in firms in strong financial condition with little or no debt. Matrix Asset Advisors added a large cap value equity strategy and Kensington Analytics added a strategy with exposure multiple market segments.
The full list of new strategies includes:
- Ativo Capital Management
- Dearborn Partners
- Kensington Analytics, LLC
- Matrix Asset Advisors, Inc.
"SMArtX is excited to add Ativo Capital Management and Dearborn Partners to our UMA platform," said Evan Rapoport, Founder and CEO of SMArtX Advisory Solutions. "In addition to the expansion of the model marketplace, SMArtX is continuing to see high demand for our billing application, which is providing new levels of flexibility and control while helping firms find lost revenue from inaccurately billed accounts."
SMArtX's continued growth is driven by two main applications of its technology: the off-the-shelf TAMP offering, which is built using SMArtX Advisory Solutions' proprietary UMA technology, and the ability to further deploy that tailored UMA technology through APIs to meet the mandates of large enterprises, RIA platforms, and hybrid broker-dealers.
"The SMArtX billing application is setting a new precedent in functionality that is helping firms to manage their billing cycle more efficiently and accurately," said Jonathan Pincus, President and COO of SMArtX. "The ability to automate and control the process from the firm level down to the individual sleeve is not only helping revenue drop to the bottom line but freeing up resources to focus on other value-add services."
About SMArtX Advisory Solutions
SMArtX Advisory Solutions is an award-winning managed accounts technology provider and manages SMArtX, a turnkey asset management platform ('TAMP'). SMArtX's API-first, cloud-native technology operates within a modular, micro-services architecture, providing clients a tailored solution catered to their unique specifications. SMArtX is available as an off-the-shelf TAMP for advisors seeking wider selection of investment product and ease of use, while automating the investment processes and simplifying the everyday tasks of managing client accounts. SMArtX also licenses its proprietary technology to enterprise firms looking to create, customize, or upgrade their existing managed accounts technology as a standalone or fully integrated solution. SMArtX is the managed account technology and TAMP platform of choice for multiple RIAs, broker-dealers, and asset managers. Learn more at www.smartxadvisory.com
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CAUAYAN, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine search team guided by sniffer dogs on Thursday found the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed on a mountain more than a month ago and confirmed that all six people on board were dead, officials said.
The Cessna 206 plane went missing after taking off Jan. 24 from Cauayan city in northern Isabela province with a pilot and five passengers en route to Maconacon town on what should have been a 45-minute flight.
Rain, winds and rough mountain terrain hampered the weekslong search, and it may take at least three days more to recover the remains of the victims, officials said.
Constante Foronda of Isabela's disaster response office said the families of the victims, who were all Filipinos, have been notified of the discovery of the wreckage. “They're very sad but at least they now have closure,” he told reporters.
The crash was among a series of accidents involving small aircraft in the country in recent months.
An air and sea search by Philippine authorities backed by the United States and Malaysia is continuing for a helicopter carrying five people, including a patient and a nurse, which went missing last week in western Palawan province, officials said.
All those aboard are Filipinos except for the nurse, who is American, said Eric Apolonio, the civil aviation agency's spokesperson, citing a report from a rescue coordination center.
Last month, a plane carrying two Australian energy consultants and two Filipino crew members crashed on the slopes of Mayon volcano after taking off from Albay province on its way to Manila, killing all those aboard, officials said.
The wreckage was found after a high-risk search by authorities and mountaineers on the slope of one of the country's most active volcanos. | https://www.mrt.com/news/world/article/wreckage-of-philippine-plane-found-with-all-6-17829116.php | 2023-03-09 15:53:49 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/world/article/wreckage-of-philippine-plane-found-with-all-6-17829116.php |
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Report Reveals the Latest Cyber Trends and Threats, and Actionable Insights for Managed Service Providers to Better Protect Customers
WILMINGTON, N.C., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SaaS Alerts, the cybersecurity company purpose-built for MSPs to protect and monetize their customers' business SaaS applications, today unveiled the findings of its third annual SaaS Application Security Insights (SASI) Report, which offers a detailed look at the major threat vectors and security gaps that exist in SaaS Application security targeting small businesses.
Based on the analysis of the SaaS application security records of 7,400-plus SMBs and nearly 1 million end-user accounts in 2022, the report assesses key areas of security concern, such as from where attacks are originating, tactics most frequently used by bad actors, common events and alerts, and threat vectors that organizations need to be aware of to proactively protect their business critical assets from an attack and breach. SaaS Alerts' report also examines the inherent issues and complexities regarding the accelerated rate of SaaS Application adoption and concerns with cybersecurity threats and gaps from external threats such as hackers and internal insider threats caused by employee or contractor negligence, misconfiguration of SaaS App security controls, unsafe cybersecurity practices, and human error.
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- 53% of all attempted unauthorized logins originated from China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, and Korea. This year's report saw a notable decline in attempts from Russia, which could be a result of Russia's shifted focus on the war with Ukraine.
- On average, there were approximately 40,000 brute attacks per day against user accounts monitored by SaaS Alerts.
- 2022 saw a 61% increase in the rate of phishing attacks compared with 2021. The study also revealed that cybercriminals shifted their attacks to mobile and personal communication channels to reach users, and showed a 50% increase in attacks on mobile devices, with scams and credential theft at the top of the list of payloads.
- Outside approved locations accounted for over 55% of the most common critical alerts and occurred when there was a successful login to a user account from outside of an approved location or an approved IP address range. While this alert can be a false flag due to misconfiguration of approved locations or unexpected user travel, it is a serious alert, indicating a significant probability that a malicious actor has succeeded in compromising an account.
- Salesforce and Slack generated the most critical alerts on a per-user/per-alert basis. Of all logged Salesforce events, over 8% of those events were critical alerts compared to 3.77% for Slack, 1.82% for Google Workspace, and 1.26% for Office 365.
- Compared to last year's data, the report found a 29% increase in the number of guest user accounts, which can have access to sensitive data and open access points for bad actors. Of the over 979,840 SaaS accounts monitored by SaaS Alerts in 2022, 54% were from guest user accounts versus licensed users.
"By moving from legacy systems to the cloud, businesses can realize increased productivity and quickly scale their operations. While the pandemic accelerated the adoption of SaaS solutions, this trend continues today and is rapidly growing," said Jim Lippie, CEO, of SaaS Alerts. "However, as we're seeing with increasing frequency as threat actors become more sophisticated in their methods and tactics, businesses face new and unprecedented challenges with data theft, data-at-risk, and bad actors when integrating with the most popular SaaS applications and MSP tools. Our report offers an in-depth analysis as businesses of all sizes across the globe face mounting internal and external threats, and provides valuable insights to help organizations preemptively protect themselves from falling victim to the next attack."
To download a free copy of the latest SASI Report by SaaS Alerts, please visit: https://info.saasalerts.com/sasi-report-2023
About SaaS Alerts
SaaS Alerts is the cyber security company purpose-built for MSPs to protect and monetize customer core SaaS business applications. SaaS Alerts offers a unified, real-time monitoring platform for MSPs to protect against: data theft, data-at-risk and bad actors and integrates with the most popular SaaS Applications. Learn more at www.saasalerts.com.
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The Fund launched in June 2012 and has consistently delivered on its objective of positive risk-adjusted returns with less volatility than equity markets
NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AXS Investments, a leading asset manager providing access to alternative investments for growth and income, is proud to celebrate the tenth anniversary since the launch of the AXS Merger Fund (GAKIX).
GAKIX is the best-performing fund year-to-date in Morningstar's Event Driven category (out of 43 funds), generating positive performance amid this year's highly volatile markets, while the category is down an average of -3.49% and the S&P 500 is down -20.33% YTD. The fund's fact sheet provides quarterly returns and related information.
The fund continues to stand out as a source of uncorrelated returns relative to traditional stock and bond assets and highlighting its ability to be a source of diversification in today's challenging market environment.
GAKIX is sub-advised by Kellner Capital, a pioneer in Merger Arbitrage investing, having surpassed 40 years of Merger Arb investing for pensions, endowments and other institutional investors. GAKIX employs a "pure-play" merger arbitrage strategy that invests in a high-conviction portfolio of 25 to 50 publicly announced merger transactions. Since its inception, GAKIX has consistently captured profits from the spread in stock prices between the announcement and close of merger deals.
"We are excited to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of GAKIX in partnership with merger arb groundbreaker Kellner Capital, whose depth of experience and impressive track record is unmatched," said Greg Bassuk, Chief Executive Officer of AXS Investments. "Now more than ever, investors are eager for investments that can act in a complementary way to their traditional stock and bond allocations."
"As we celebrate ten years since the launch of GAKIX, our merger arbitrage strategy continues to deliver on its promises - specifically low correlation to equity and bond markets, low volatility, and diversification," said George Kellner, CEO and founder of Kellner Capital. "Our research process continues to allow us to identify opportunities to deliver the consistent risk-adjusted returns our investors have come to expect."
AXS Investments is a leading alternative investment manager providing a diversified family of alternative investments for growth, income and diversification. The firm empowers investors to diversify their portfolios with investments previously available only to the largest institutional and high net worth investors. The investor-friendly AXS funds are time-tested, liquid, transparent and managed by high pedigreed portfolio managers with long and strong track records. For more information, visit www.axsinvestments.com.
Kellner Capital is one of Wall Street's most seasoned hedge fund managers with a 40-year continuous operating history. Founded in 1981 as a merger arbitrage investment partnership, Kellner Capital is an independently owned alternative investment manager based in New York City. The firm is innovative and solution-minded, offering investors alternative investments in various structures, including hedge funds, mutual funds and separately managed accounts. Through the firm's alternative offerings, Kellner Capital seeks to deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns while limiting downside volatility and correlation to the broader markets. For more information, visit www.kellnercap.com.
There are risks involved with investing including the possible loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Diversification does not ensure profits or prevent losses. Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the fund before investing. To obtain a prospectus containing this and other important information, please click here to view or download a prospectus online. Read the fund's prospectus carefully before you invest.
Investments in companies subject to publicly announced transactions carry the risk that the proposed transaction may not be completed when, or under the terms, initially expected, which may impact its performance. Investments in foreign securities involve greater volatility and political, economic and currency risks and difference in accounting methods. Investments in small and mid-sized companies involve additional risks such as limited liquidity or greater volatility. Derivatives involve special risks including correlation, counterparty, liquidity, operational, accounting and tax risks. These risks may be greater than the risks presented by traditional investments. The Fund may make short sales of securities, which involves the risk that losses may exceed the original amount invested. The Fund may use leverage, which may exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in portfolio securities value or the Net Asset Value of the Fund, and money borrowed will be subject to interest costs. The Fund is non-diversified, meaning it may concentrate its assets in fewer holdings than a diversified fund. Thus, the Fund is more exposed to individual stock volatility than a diversified fund.
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PARIS (AP) — France on Tuesday repatriated another group of women and children from former Islamic State group-controlled areas of Syria, the latest return of French nationals who’d been stranded in camps there, eyed warily by Paris.
The group was made up of 32 minors and 15 adult women, France’s national counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said. It said the women, ranging in age from 19 to 56, were held in custody — some on the basis of arrest warrants previously issued against them. The children were placed in the care of protective services.
The returnees had previously been detained in a sprawling, wretched and lawless camp in northeastern Syria that holds tens of thousands of women and children, according to Kurdish authorities in the region.
Around 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are crowded into tents in the fenced-in al-Hol camp. Nearly 20,000 of them are children; the rest are mostly the wives or widows of IS fighters.
The camp also has a separate, heavily guarded annex holding 2,000 women from 57 other countries and about 8,000 of their children.
Before the latest repatriation, Kurdish authorities Monday met with a French delegation in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli.
France has brought home women and children from camps in northeastern Syria in successive waves since the territorial defeat of IS in 2019.
Many European countries were slow to allow the return of women and children from areas where IS operated for fear they would violently turn on their homelands.
France saw more of its citizens join IS in Syria than any other European country, and has been especially wary about having them back.
Authorities insisted on repatriating citizens and their children on a case-by-case basis, a long and cumbersome procedure that has been repeatedly criticized by human rights groups. French authorities have also insisted that adults, men and women who fought with IS, should be prosecuted in the country where they committed crimes.
French authorities are also wary of IS fighters’ children. Speaking last month to lawmakers, Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti described children coming from Syria as “lion cubs” of the so-called Islamic caliphate that IS declared over the territory it once controlled. The minister’s comments seemed to suggest that some children may not be loyal to France.
“On the one hand, these kids are not responsible for the criminal choices of their parents. On the other hand, absolute vigilance is required,” the minister said.
“Our fear is that these children, in growing up, could be recovered by terrorist groups,” he said.
Speaking before the latest group were brought back, the minister said 270 children had been repatriated — and that nearly three-quarters of them were under the age of 10.
The repatriation to France came days after a Canadian federal judge ordered Ottawa to help bring home four Canadian men held in Syrian camps. Spain this month also announced the repatriation of two women and 13 children from camps in Syria.
Following the rise of IS in 2014 and its declaration of a so-called Islamic caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq, thousands of men and women came from around the world to join the extremist group. IS lost the last sliver of land it once controlled in east Syria in March 2019, but since then its sleeper cells have been blamed for deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq.
Humanitarian agencies and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have urged the international community to repatriate its nationals from al-Hol and other facilities in Syria, as they struggle to maintain security in the camps amid security fears.
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Hogir Al Abdo reported from Qamishli, Syria.
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Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020.
The pills were fake and contained fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as the same amount of heroin. It killed them both.
“Two years ago, I knew nothing about this,” said Holly Groelle, the mother of 19-year-old Alfaro, who lived in Appleton, Wisconsin. “I felt bad because it was something I could not have warned her about, because I didn’t know.”
The drug that killed her daughter was rare a decade ago, but fentanyl and other lab-produced synthetic opioids now are driving an overdose crisis deadlier than any the U.S. has ever seen. Last year, overdoses from all drugs claimed more than 100,000 lives for the first time, and the deaths this year have remained at nearly the same level — more than gun and auto deaths combined.
The federal government counted more accidental overdose deaths in 2021 alone than it did in the 20-year period from 1979 through 1998. Overdoses in recent years have been many times more frequent than they were during the black tar heroin epidemic that led President Richard Nixon to launch his War on Drugs, or during the cocaine crisis in the 1980s.
As fentanyl gains attention, mistaken beliefs persist about the drug, how it is trafficked and why so many people are dying.
Experts believe deaths surged not only because the drugs are so powerful, but also because fentanyl is laced into so many other illicit drugs, and not because of changes in how many people are using. In the late 2010s — the most recent period for which federal data is available — deaths were skyrocketing even as the number of people using opioids was dropping.
Advocates warn that some of the alarms being sounded by politicians and officials are wrong and potentially dangerous. Among those ideas: that tightening control of the U.S.-Mexico border would stop the flow of the drugs, though experts say the key to reining in the crisis is reducing drug demand; that fentanyl might turn up in kids’ trick-or-treat baskets this Halloween; and that merely touching the drug briefly can be fatal — something that researchers found untrue and that advocates worry can make first responders hesitate about giving lifesaving treatment.
All three ideas were brought up this month in an online video billed as a pre-Halloween public service announcement from a dozen Republican U.S. senators.
A report this year from a bipartisan federal commission found that fentanyl and similar drugs are being made mostly in labs in Mexico from chemicals shipped primarily from China.
In New England, fentanyl has largely replaced the supply of heroin. Across the country, it’s being laced into drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine, sometimes with deadly results. And in cases like Alfaro’s, it’s being mixed in Mexico or the U.S. with other substances and pressed into pills meant to look like other drugs.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has warned that fentanyl is being sold in multicolored pills and powders — sometimes referred to as “rainbow fentanyl” — marketed on social media to teens and young adults.
Jon DeLena, the agency’s associate special agent in charge, said at the National Crime Prevention Council summit on fentanyl in Washington this month that there’s “no direct information that Halloween is specifically being targeted or young people are being targeted for Halloween,” but that hasn’t kept that idea from spreading.
Joel Best, an emeritus sociology professor at the University of Delaware, said that idea falls in with a long line of Halloween-related scares. He has examined cases since 1958 and has not found a single instance of a child dying because of something foreign put into Halloween candy — and few instances of that being done at all.
“If you give a dose of fentanyl to kids in elementary school, you have an excellent chance of killing them,” he said. “If you do addict them, what are you going to do, try to take their lunch money? No one is trying to addict little kids to fentanyl.”
In midterm election campaigns, fentanyl is not getting as much attention as issues such as inflation and abortion. But Republicans running for offices including governor and U.S. Senate in Arkansas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania have framed the fentanyl crisis as a result of Democrats being lax about securing the Mexican border or soft on crime as part of a broader campaign assertion that Democrats foster lawlessness.
And when Democrats highlight the overdose crisis in campaigns this year, it has often been to tout their roles in forging settlements to hold drugmakers and distributors responsible.
Relying heavily on catching fentanyl at the border would be futile, experts say, because it’s easy to move in small, hard-to-detect quantities.
“I don’t think that reducing the supply is going to be the answer because it’s so easy to mail,” said Adam Wandt, an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Still, some more efforts are planned on the U.S.-Mexico border, including increasing funding to search more vehicles crossing ports of entry. The bipartisan commission found those crossings are where most fentanyl arrives in the country.
The commission is calling for many of the measures that other advocates want to see, including better coordination of the federal response, targeted enforcement, and measures to prevent overdoses for those who use drugs.
The federal government has been funding efforts along those lines. It also publicizes bigfentanylseizures by law enforcement, though it’s believed that even the largest busts make small dents in the national drug supply.
The commission stopped short of calling for increased penalties for selling fentanyl. Bryce Pardo, associate director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and a commission staff member, said such a measure would not likely deter the drug trade. But, he said, dealers who sell the products most likely to cause death — such as mixing fentanyl into cocaine or pressing it into fake Xanax — could be targeted effectively.
One California father who lost his 20-year-old daughter is pushing for prosecutors to file murder charges against those who supply fatal doses.
Matt Capelouto’s daughter Alexandra died from half a pill she bought from a dealer she found on social media in 2019, while home in Temecula, California, during a college break. She was told the pill was oxycodone, Capelouto said, but it contained fentanyl.
The dealer was charged with distributing fentanyl resulting in death, but he reached a plea deal on a lesser drug charge and will face up to 20 years in prison.
“It’s not that arresting and convicting and putting these guys behind bars doesn’t work,” Capelouto said. “The fact is we don’t do it enough to make a difference.”
While some people killed by fentanyl have no idea they’re taking it, others, particularly those with opioid use disorder, know it is or could be in the mix. But they may not know how much is in their drugs.
That was the case for Susan Ousterman’s son Tyler Cordiero, who died at 24 in 2020 from a mixture that included fentanyl after years of using heroin and other opioids.
For nearly two years, Ousterman avoided going by the gas station near their home in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, where her son fatally overdosed. But in August, she went to leave two things there: naloxone, a drug used to reverse overdoses, and a poster advertising a hotline for people using drugs to call so the operator could call for help if they become unresponsive.
Ousterman is funneling her anger and sorrow into preventing other overdoses.
“Fentanyl is everywhere,” she said. “You don’t know what’s in an unregulated drug supply. You don’t know what you’re taking. You’re always taking the chance of dying every time.”
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AP journalists Lindsay Whitehurst in Washington and Kavish Harjai in Los Angeles contributed. Harjai is a corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Watermelon vendor of 30 years killed during attempted robbery, police say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC/Gray News) – A watermelon vendor who has been selling fruit on a street corner every morning for the past 30 years was shot and killed on the job, police said.
Police in Memphis said that 76-year-old John Materna, affectionately known as “Red the Watermelon Man,” was shot during an armed robbery May 15 and died from his injuries Monday.
On Wednesday morning, police identified a 15-year-old as the suspected shooter. He is charged with first-degree murder, robbery, aggravated robbery, and employment of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony.
Police said on the morning of the shooting, officers responded to the call and found Materna lying on the ground next to his watermelon truck, suffering from a single gunshot wound to his stomach.
According to Memphis police, two armed men shot Materna while trying to rob him. Materna fired a single shot back at his alleged attackers, but both suspects got back into a silver Infiniti and drove off with nothing in hand.
Materna was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He died two weeks after the shooting.
According to his family, Materna has sold watermelons every morning from his truck on the same street corner in Memphis. They said he would use the extra cash to pay for cruises and vacations for himself and his wife of 43 years.
Police are still searching for the other suspect who fled the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-CASH.
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"The West has built a sanctuary for Mr. Putin," retired four-star Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove tells Scripps News. He was NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. He says that the West, forbidding Ukraine from using NATO weapons to strike Russia, is guaranteeing Russia safety. He says the U.S. is falling for Vladimir Putin's war of words.
"Mr. Putin's military has failed him on the ground. But his war of words, his war of intimidation — or as we say in the military parlance, his deterrence — is working wildly. We in the West are afraid of a Ukrainian win. Because Mr. Putin threatens us over and over with what we told him in the beginning of this war we're afraid of. We're afraid of nuclear expansion and we're afraid of this war expanding into Europe," says Gen. Breedlove. "And what does he play back to us almost on a daily basis? Someone highly placed in Russia, almost four to five times a week, is talking about if this happens, it's nukes. If this happens, it's nukes. If we lose, it's nukes."
On a tangible level, he says it means that the West has kept Ukraine in a difficult place. "We are giving Ukraine enough that it is not being defeated on the battlefield. But I believe, it's not stated, but it's very clear from what we see, that we are not giving Ukraine what it needs to win."
In the wake of the U.S. military's major intelligence leak, Ukraine is keeping its plans for a counteroffensive close. And Gen. Breedlove believes the strategy could mean cutting off Crimea as a staging base for Russia's attacks. "I would hope that Ukraine uses their capability to cut the land bridge to Crimea, to retake the water supply to Crimea, to cut the Kerch Strait Bridge, and then to bring all of Crimea under attack. And I don't necessarily mean land attack, but precise long-range fires, push as far south as they can on the continent and then fire into Crimea and bring it at risk."
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Maria Hajic knew her reality — and that of just about everyone else — when she pumped gas Thursday morning at the Maverik station on St. Francis Drive.
“It’s the most I’ve ever paid for gas,” Hajic said.
Maverik actually had “cheap” gas for Santa Fe, at $4.18 per gallon. Prices in town were mostly split between $4.19 per gallon of regular unleaded fuel and $4.29 per gallon. Allsup’s on Cerrillos Road near Siler Road and nearby Murphy Express were cheapest at $4.17 per gallon.
AAA New Mexico listed a Thursday morning average of $4.24 per gallon for Santa Fe, shattering the city’s $4.16 record from March 29. The price increased 15 cents from last week.
The price increase in Santa Fe mirrors spikes throughout the state and nation — and caused even more consternation for those who depend on their cars to get from here to there.
“Everywhere I go is a commute,” said D.J. Garcia, who lives in Cochiti Pueblo. “Prices are getting out of hand. It just cuts out some of the things I can buy for my kids and travel. We have to consolidate trips.”
The AAA New Mexico Weekend Gas Watch released every Thursday morning reported all-time record gas prices for the nation ($4.42), New Mexico’s four metropolitan area and neighboring states Texas ($4.10), Colorado ($4.12), Oklahoma ($3.99) and Arizona ($4.70). The previous marks in many places had mostly been set on March 11.
New Mexico’s average $4.27 price, however, ranks as the 25th least expensive among the states, according to gasprices.aaa.com.
Albuquerque’s price soared week-over-week 24 cents to $4.28 per gallon. Farmington was up 20 cents to $4.57 and Las Cruces rose 13 cents to $4.25.
Colorado is the rare state whose 2008 record stood through the March peaks, but it fell Thursday with an average statewide price at $4.12 per gallon.
AAA New Mexico spokesman Daniel Armbruster attributes record fuel prices to uncertainty in Ukraine; the volatility created by the European Union seeking to wean itself from Russian oil; and increasing gasoline demand from U.S. drivers as the summer travel season nears.
“AAA projects a 120 percent increase in Memorial Day travel over last year,” Armbruster said. “We know a pent-up demand is playing out.”
Armbruster elaborated that record gas prices don’t seem to be affecting American road trips.
“Consumers are taking larger vacations, one bucket list-type trip, instead of two or three smaller trips,” he said. “For most road trips, you only looking at $50 to $70 more in gasoline.”
Armbruster picked two top tips from AAA to lower gasoline consumption.
“Avoid quick accelerations and make sure your vehicle is well maintained, especially tires,” he said. | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/gas-prices-in-santa-fe-across-u-s-hit-record-high/article_0b756868-d1fd-11ec-bba0-9fa999ad7916.html | 2022-05-13 09:21:08 | 0 | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/gas-prices-in-santa-fe-across-u-s-hit-record-high/article_0b756868-d1fd-11ec-bba0-9fa999ad7916.html |
SATURDAY, APRIL 8:
Somewhere in the world, a teenager has probably just slammed the door of their room and started blasting 100 gecs. The duo of Dylan Brady and Laura Les might not have set out to be the official youth-against-everyone band of the early 2020s, but their sound so gleefully mashes up everything anyone born in the past 30 years might’ve been embarrassed to like in middle school (nu-metal, dubstep, Auto-Tuned pop rap) that it creates a cocoon of annoyingness within which its millions of fans can feel safe. Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside St., 503-225-0047, crystalballroompdx.com. 8:30 pm. $30. All ages.
MONDAY, APRIL 10:
Any history of American indie rock in the past 20 years would be incomplete without Screaming Females, the power trio that’s spent the better part of the 21st century blazing through just about every kind of loud guitar rock imaginable—punk, grunge, stoner metal, and even arena rock on their new album, Desire Pathway. Despite their New Jersey origins, the Females’ scuzzy sound is right at home in the rainy Northwest, especially amid a Portland indie scene defined by loud young bands with as much artfulness as attitude. Dante’s, 350 W Burnside St., 866-777-8932, danteslive.com. 8:20 pm. $18. 21+.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12:
If you still have it in your head that “not writing their own songs” is a valid argument to dismiss an artist’s work—well, first of all, I have some bad news for you about Frank Sinatra. Second, check out Jake Xerxes Fussell, who’s established himself as one of the most interesting acoustic guitar troubadours on the touring circuit by drawing on a deep well of public domain folk songs, most of them Southern, some of them over 100 years old. The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., 503-222-2031, theoldchurch.org. 7:30 pm. $20. All ages. | https://www.wweek.com/music/2023/04/04/shows-of-the-week-100-gecs-creates-a-cocoon-of-annoyingness-in-the-best-way-possible/ | 2023-04-05 01:47:31 | 1 | https://www.wweek.com/music/2023/04/04/shows-of-the-week-100-gecs-creates-a-cocoon-of-annoyingness-in-the-best-way-possible/ |
ROME (AP) — European leaders ramped up their push to secure alternative energy supplies Monday as fears escalate of a complete natural gas cutoff by Russia, with the leaders of Italy, France and the European Union sealing deals with their counterparts in Algeria, Azerbaijan and the United Arab Emirates.
With his government’s fate in limbo back home, Italian Premier Mario Draghi visited Algeria’s capital of Algiers, seeking to cement the North African country’s role as a preeminent regional partner. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said a $4 billion deal would be signed Tuesday to supply “a significant quantity of gas.”
“Algeria is a very important partner for Italy, in the energy sector, in the industry and business fields, in the fight against criminality, and in the search for peace and stability in the Mediterranean,” Draghi said.
Also Monday, France and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement on energy cooperation to ensure oil and natural gas supplies from the Gulf country. The French economy ministry didn’t release details on the deal as President Emmanuel Macron hosted Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Paris.
The same day, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was in Azerbaijan to clinch a deal with President Ilham Aliyev on increased gas supplies from the former Soviet republic.
With the tentative agreement, the EU wants to double the gas imports from Azerbaijan within half a decade. The bloc said the agreement also has guarantees for green energy supplies.
“This is good news for our supplies of gas this winter and beyond,” von der Leyen said.
Europe has been scrambling to secure alternative energy sources as Russia’s war in Ukraine and Moscow’s drawdown or cutoff of natural gas flows to a dozen EU countries have triggered soaring energy prices, inflation and growing expectations of a recession. The 27-nation EU now is bracing for the possibility of a complete Russian cutoff of natural gas that powers industry, generates electricity and heats homes in winter.
Leaders have been pushing to fill underground gas storage to try to avert a worsening energy crisis when the cold months arrive. There are fears a major pipeline between Russia and Germany that closed for scheduled maintenance last week will not turn back on in retaliation for sanctions over the war.
In Algeria, several Italian ministers signed a series of memos of understanding in areas ranging from pharmaceuticals, research, anti-corruption efforts, security as well as energy sectors.
“This summit also confirms Algeria as our preferred partner in the energy field. In these (last) months, Algeria has become the leading supplier of gas to our country,” Draghi said.
Tebboune, the Algerian leader, said that signed Tuesday would be “an important agreement between the companies Occidental, Eni and Total for a value of $4 billion which allows the supplying of a significant quantity of gas.”
He stressed his nation’s desire to ensure that Algeria will supply solar and conventional energy to Europe.
When Draghi visited Algeria three months ago, a major agreement was reached between Algerian energy giant Sonatrach and Italian energy company Eni to increase gas exports. A pipeline running through Tunisia and under the Mediterranean to Sicily is a key conduit in this strategy.
Referring to that deal, the Italian premier expressed satisfaction that there has been “an acceleration of what was predicted” for Algerian-Italian energy cooperation.
“That bodes well for more cooperation in the years to come,” Draghi said, adding that the two nations also saw prospects for working together on renewable energy.
Such deals are “fundamental for the European Union as well as Italy,” Draghi said. Italy also has been reaching out to other energy-producing nations to secure alternate sources, including Azerbaijan, Qatar, Congo, Angola and Mozambique.
Draghi had planned to spend two days in Algeria. He reduced the visit to Monday only as his government’s fate hangs in the balance after the defection last week of a key coalition member on an energy costs relief bill.
Prior to the war, Russia provided Italy about 29 billion cubic meters of gas per year, compared with about 23 billion from Algeria. Already this year, Algeria has delivered 13.9 billion cubic meters to Italy via the Trans-Mediterranean pipeline, a 113% rise over forecasts, according to Algerian energy giant Sonatrach.
Algeria on Friday announced a 4 billion cubic-meter increase in planned supplies for the months ahead.
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Adamson reported from Paris. AP reporters Raf Casert in Brussels; Barbara Surk in Nice, France; and Masha Macpherson in Paris contributed. | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/italys-embattled-pm-draghi-visits-algeria-for-gas-talks/ | 2022-07-19 04:27:27 | 1 | https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/italys-embattled-pm-draghi-visits-algeria-for-gas-talks/ |
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a 3-0 win against Bayern Munich on Tuesday, Manchester City looks to be cruising toward the Champions League semifinals for the third year in row.
Even if Pep Guardiola claimed it was a tortuous night watching from the sidelines at Etihad Stadium, it will take a remarkable fightback from Bayern to turn things around in next week’s quarterfinals second leg in Germany.
“It was not comfortable. Emotionally I’m destroyed,” the City manager said. “I have (aged) 10 more years today. It was so demanding (a) game. Now I have to relax.”
While Guardiola is trying to keep minds focused, this was a statement performance from the Premier League champions against one of the giants of European soccer.
Bayern had gone into the game with a 100 percent record in this season’s competition, with eight straight wins, including victories against Inter Milan, Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain — all under former coach Julian Nagelsmann.
But the visitors were blown away by City’s attacking power, with goals from Rodri, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland the difference on the night.
Bayern had chances, too. Leroy Sane forced three saves from Ederson early in the second half, including one when through on goal with only the goalkeeper to beat.
Yet by the time Haaland slid in to convert John Stones’ headed knockdown in the 76th minute, the semifinals looked to be within reach, even with a second leg to come at Allianz Arena.
Both Guardiola and Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel pointed to the chances the German champions failed to convert. City, meanwhile, took the lead through a wonder goal from Rodri in the 27th and capitalized on a mistake from Dayot Upamecano for Bernardo to make it 2-0 in the 70th.
But it was still a performance of maturity that City has lacked when playing in European soccer’s elite competition in the past.
In previous years Guardiola’s team has buckled when under pressure on this stage.
Losses have come against underdogs Monaco, Tottenham and Lyon.
Guardiola, who won the Champions League twice as coach of Barcelona, has so far failed to deliver the trophy to City, despite dominating English soccer during his seven years at the club.
He has won four league titles, one FA Cup and four League Cups but has not been able to transfer that supremacy to Europe.
The closest he came was in 2021 when beaten in the final by a Chelsea team managed by Tuchel.
City was knocked out by Real Madrid in the semifinals last season.
But even with the last four in sight once again, Guardiola, who coached Bayern for three years before taking over at City, is reluctant to look that far ahead.
“Incredible result but I know a little bit what can happen in Munich,” he said. “We have to do something new and a little bit more because we suffered too much with the quality they have.
“To knock out these teams you have to have two good games, not just one.”
In the other quarterfinal first leg on Tuesday, Inter Milan won 2-0 at Benfica.
City took the lead through a stunning strike from Rodri.
Just moments after Ruben Dias had blocked a Jamal Musiala effort at the other end, the Spain international cut onto his left foot and swept a curling shot into the top corner from around 20 meters.
The home team could have doubled the lead shortly after, but Ilkay Gundogan was denied by the feet of Bayern goalkeeper Yann Sommer from close range.
The visitors mounted a fightback in the second half, with Sane the main threat before City scored a second after Upamecano lost possession deep in his own half.
Jack Grealish passed to Haaland, whose cross was headed in by Bernardo.
Haaland then got on the score sheet himself with his 45th goal of the season.
It leaves Tuchel, who only replaced Nagelsmann last month, with a major task to lift his players for the second leg next Wednesday.
“I try to not allow my players to focus on the result,” he said. “I think it is not a deserved result. It does not tell the story of this match and that will be the challenge, to focus on the things we did good. We played with personality, courage a lot of quality.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Evans may have put down Captain America’s shield but he’s got a new badge of honor: he’s been named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.
People’s selection was announced Monday night on Stephen Colbert’s late night show and on the magazine’s website. Evans, who for nearly a decade played Captain America in Marvel’s sprawling superhero films, takes the baton from another Avenger, Paul Rudd.
“My mom will be so happy,” he told the magazine for its cover story, which hits newsstands on Friday. “She’s proud of everything I do but this is something she can really brag about.”
He also knows that he’s likely to be teased by close friends. “Really this will just be a point of bullying,” he joked in an interview. “It’s ripe for harassment.”
Among those likely to heckle him are co-stars and previous Sexiest Man Alive winners like Rudd, Ryan Reynolds and Chris Hemsworth. (Hemsworth, who plays Thor in the Marvel films, was the first Avenger to win People’s annual honor, which was first handed out to Mel Gibson in 1985.)
Other past honorees include John Legend, Dwayne Johnson, Idris Elba, Adam Levine, Richard Gere, Channing Tatum and David Beckham.
People interviewed Evans, 41, at a Georgia farmhouse, where the actor talked about finding a better work-life balance. “The most enjoyable aspect of my career right now is feeling secure enough to take my foot off the gas,” he said.
Evans’ first film role came in 2000’s “The New Comers” and he played superhero Johnny Storm in two “Fantastic Four” films released in 2005 and 2007. But he gained widespread fame in 2011 with the release of “Captain America: The First Avenger.”
Since then, he’s played the wholesome superhero in 10 Marvel films, laying down his shield after saving the universe in “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019.
Evans has become a highly bankable star, voicing the Buzz Lightyear character in Pixar’s “Lightyear” film and playing a sadistic assassin trying to kill Reynolds in Nextflix’s “The Gray Man” — both released this year.
The actor told People he’s thinking about marriage and having a family, saying, “That’s absolutely something I want.”
He said he didn’t expect to talk publicly much about his private life though. “Some things you want just for you, or just for my family and my friends.”
The Boston native also continues his involvement with the civic engagement site A Starting Point, which he co-founded in 2020.
As Evans charts the next part of his life and career, he fully expects People’s honor will be a milestone.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman was winning the outstanding in-person and absentee votes in Philadelphia and in a suburban county.
That meant essentially that most of Dr. Mehmet Oz's votes had been counted and allowed the Associated Press to call the race early Wednesday for Fetterman.
Fetterman’s May stroke and his recovery figured in the final weeks of the race. The stroke’s effects were clear as he used closed captioning to help him process the words he heard, leading to some awkward pauses in their first and only debate. It’s unclear what effect the performance had on the race, if any.
Former daytime TV host Oz sought to cast himself as a moderate even as he said he’d back former President Donald Trump if he runs in 2024.
Trump backed Oz in a crowded GOP primary filed this year.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond man was sentenced today for illegally possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
According to a Department of Justice press release, Quan Nguyen, 29, was found in possession of a firearm and narcotics on October 4, 2019.
A Henrico County police officer pulled over a vehicle driven by Nguyen at a motel, which was known to police as a hotspot for drug trafficking.
A K-9 unit was brought in and proceeded to alert to the odor of narcotics in Nguyen’s vehicle. Officers then searched the car.
In the vehicle, officers found a loaded semi-automatic pistol and cocaine.
Officers then acquired a search warrant for Nguyen’s room at the motel. In the room, they found more cocaine, a digital scale, packaging materials, marijuana and another loaded semi-automatic pistol.
A fingerprint found on the firearm in the motel room matched Nguyen’s.
Nguyen was convicted in 2016 of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and sentenced to 28 months in prison.
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MANILA, Philippines — On a bright stage in a rented-out high school auditorium, Amelia Santos grieves openly before the audience.
Clutching a wireless microphone, the 55-year-old from Caloocan City, an area in Metro Manila's north, recalls the day she returned home from work in September 2016 and was told her husband, Edward Narvarte, had been killed.
"Somebody went to my house and told me, 'Go to your husband because he was killed, he was shot a lot of times by the police,'" she says. "When I arrived, there were police... and I saw the dead bodies of the victims, my husband was one of them."
Her family has not been the same, Santos tells the audience. Her children are scared and depressed and she is alone and afraid. Authorities linked her husband to a notorious Philippine drug lord, she says — a connection Santos denies.
With tears streaming down her face and her voice quivering with a mix of outrage and sadness, Santos recalls asking God, "Why? Why did this happen to us?"
"I will not stop until justice has been served," she says.
Santos is not alone. Almost all of the nearly 20 people onstage in this play, titled EJK Teatro, have lost a loved one to the Philippine government's so-called war on drugs — launched by former President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016.
EJK stands for extrajudicial killing. The play is part of the nonprofit Arnold Janssen Kalinga Foundation's Program Paghilom, which has been helping victims' families since 2016. Performing onstage is a sort of cathartic therapy for those who want to bring attention to critical issues in the Philippines. From inflation woes and environmental issues to the drug war and fears of a takeover by China, this eclectic performance — a nearly hour-long mix of scripted lines, unscripted monologues and lots of music and dancing — pulls no punches.
The day NPR attended, human rights campaigners, victims' family members and their supporters were joined in the audience by a delegation from the European Union, including EU Special Representative on Human Rights Eamon Gilmore.
The performance comes at a time when the slow wheels of justice appear to be starting to turn in the drug war.
Last month, the International Criminal Court denied an appeal by the Philippine government for the court to suspend collecting evidence for its investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed during the seven-year war on drugs.
The denial of this appeal, analysts say, will inevitably bring government officials into the scope of the investigation — putting current President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. in a tough bind politically, as his vice president is Duterte's daughter and she is a political ally who helped him secure the nation's top office last May.
The denial came two months after the ICC declared that the Philippines' own investigation into the drug war — a tactic by Duterte to slow down the ICC investigation — was not sufficient and that the court would resume the probe it attempted to launch in 2021.
Philippine officials say that some 6,200 people have died in anti-drug operations since Duterte launched the war on drugs. Human rights groups and the United Nations estimate the number could be much higher, with most killed by police or vigilantes.
It is these extrajudicial killings that the ICC is looking to investigate, and now the ICC Office of the Prosecutor can move forward in collecting evidence while a second appeal to throw out the investigation entirely is pending, says Aurora Parong, co-chair of the Philippines Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
Evidence, she says, includes information such as interviews and testimony from victims' families. The court will also be able to start asking the government for information, "and after they have collected all that evidence, they should be able to identify a possible suspect who will be charged," she says.
Many human rights campaigners and legal experts say Duterte is the person responsible. However, obtaining evidence — such as communications between officials and police and testimony from officials — will be a challenge, given that President Marcos has said his government will not cooperate with the ICC.
"I do not see what their jurisdiction is," Marcos told reporters in January. "I feel we have our police, in our judiciary a good system. We do not need any assistance from any outside entity."
Analysts say this jurisdiction argument is faulty, because even though Duterte withdrew the Philippines from the ICC in 2018, the alleged human rights abuses of the drug war began earlier — so the ICC can still investigate them.
Still, Marcos has vowed to "disengage with the ICC" and has banned its investigators from entering the country.
This stance puts Marcos in a difficult spot politically as he works to both charm internationally and keep his own house in order, says Jean Encinas-Franco, a political scientist at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Since taking office in May 2022, Marcos, the son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, has traveled abroad in an attempt to secure economic and security agreements – which he hopes will rehabilitate his family name following his father's peaceful 1986 ouster in what's known as the "People Power Revolution."
But his stance on the ICC investigation "brings back the violent history of his father," Encinas-Franco says. That violent history included torture, extrajudicial killings and the targeting of political opponents, journalists and activists.
Domestically, Marcos knows he owes his presidential victory to his alliance with the Duterte family, she says — particularly Vice President Sara Duterte, daughter of the former president. Riding the coattails of her father's popularity, Duterte helped Marcos secure a landslide victory last year.
"I think Marcos Jr. would not want to antagonize Sara Duterte's supporters at this point in his administration," Encinas-Franco says.
Both Rodrigo Duterte and the anti-drug campaign as a policy are still popular — particularly among low-income voters. And it is these ordinary Filipinos that Marcos is probably banking on, Encinas-Franco says: "I think it would be very easy for him to sort of explain in simplistic terms that the ICC is encroaching on the Philippines' sovereignty."
But not all ordinary Filipinos will buy the sovereignty argument from Marcos — especially those who've been deeply affected by the war on drugs.
People like Amelia Santos, who has wrapped up her performance back at the auditorium. This was her first time onstage, she says.
"I wasn't able to express much after my husband died, to say everything that's inside," Santos says. "I am relieved."
Like other victims' loved ones, Santos is waiting to see what justice — if any — the ICC investigation brings.
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Rams can’t stop talking about bringing back Odell Beckham Jr.
Save for a couple of backpacks stored on the cushioned blue bench seat, the locker sits respectfully unused.
The nameplate below the space for a helmet: ODELL BECKHAM JR.
The Rams, in a bit of wishful thinking, have not reassigned the locker — not while Beckham, superstar receiver and current free agent, remains on the market while working his way back from knee surgery.
“It makes you smile every day you come in and see it,” offensive lineman Rob Havenstein said of the locker directly across from his. “It makes me think of my guy. Miss him. Love him.
“Hope he’s back.”
Bill Plaschke thought it was a bad move that the Rams signed Odell Beckham Jr., but a trip to the Super Bowl later, the L.A. Times columnist admits he was wrong. Here’s why.
Last November, a few days before they played the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium on “Monday Night Football,” the Rams signed Beckham to a one-year, incentive-laden contract.
Coach Sean McVay did not waste time incorporating the three-time Pro Bowl player into the offense: On the first play, quarterback Matthew Stafford completed a pass to Beckham.
The Rams lost that game, but Beckham went on to catch five touchdown passes in eight games. During the 23-20 Super Bowl LVI victory over the Cincinnati Bengals, Beckham caught a touchdown pass and had a 35-yard reception before he suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
The Rams (2-1) return to Levi’s Stadium on Monday night to play the 49ers (1-2).
Beckham, who turns 30 in November, is not expected to be ready to play for any team until late October or November at the earliest. And the Rams almost certainly will be challenged for his services by other suitors, especially playoff contenders.
But Beckham never seems far from the Rams’ thoughts.
Last week, star cornerback Jalen Ramsey became the latest to drop a not-so-subliminal hint.
In recounting the Rams’ road victory over the Arizona Cardinals in 2021, Ramsey initially spoke about defensive lineman Aaron Donald’s and former Rams edge rusher Von Miller’s performances.
“Odell had a great game, right,” Ramsey added.
Then he paused for a beat.
“Odell,” he said, “come back.”
Beckham responded on Twitter with emojis of faces with tears of joy. “Forever my brother!” Beckham wrote. “Tell ‘em ion want much.”
Ramsey’s comments continued a series from Rams coaches and players that began during the offseason.
In March, general manager Les Snead said that the Rams “definitely” want Beckham back and were trying “to make him a Ram sooner than later.” Coach Sean McVay said on podcasts and broadcasts that he wanted Beckham — who crashed McVay’s June 4 wedding — to return.
Rams GM Les Snead says they are working on best-possible scenarios to reward Aaron Donald and continue to chase titles. Snead also said they’d like Odell Beckham Jr. to return.
During training camp, McVay told the NFL Network he was hopeful that the Rams would “get Odell back at some point.”
“If you’re out there Odell,” McVay added. “I know you heard that.”
Later, while assessing young receivers on the roster, McVay told reporters: “So we’ll look at those guys and then we’ll continue to see if we can figure out when Odell will come back at some point as well.”
Stafford, when asked about Rams receivers, also chimed in.
“I’m not closing the book on Odell or anybody,” he said.
At the Rams’ season opener against the Buffalo Bills at SoFi Stadium, Beckham was on the field to participate in a pregame ceremony with a youth football team.
The Rams may have beaten the Cardinals in 11 of 12 games, but they have not won at the 49ers since 2018 and coach Sean McVay is 4-7 against NFC West rival.
However, he has not publicly revealed where he plans to land after he fully recovers from knee surgery.
The Rams, who have not performed consistently well on offense through three games, could use Beckham.
Van Jefferson, the Rams’ most effective deep threat last season, has been sidelined since undergoing knee surgery during training camp.
Cooper Kupp, the reigning NFL offensive player of the year, has 28 catches and has scored four touchdowns. New addition Allen Robinson has seven catches, one for a touchdown.
Second-year pro Ben Skowronek caught four passes for a team-best 66 yards against the Cardinals but has of late mainly played fullback. Brandon Powell has five receptions.
Second-year pro Tutu Atwell does not have a catch and has yet to develop into the threat McVay envisioned when the Rams used a 2021 second-round pick to select him.
Meantime, Beckham’s locker serves as a daily reminder of what was and what might be again.
Jimmy Garoppolo stepped up last week to lead the 49ers to a win, but the issues the team had with him before still exist. Can he turn that around?
Offensive lineman Bobby Evans’ locker flanks it to the left, cornerback Troy Hill’s to the right. The players store their backpacks there for now.
“He’s a good guy,” Evans said of Beckham. “Just hilarious as a team guy. Obviously, he’s got that extrovert personality.”
Hill played six seasons for the Rams before signing with the Cleveland Browns — and becoming Beckham’s teammate — before last season. He was traded back to the Rams during the NFL draft.
“It’s just being hopeful,” Hill said of Beckham’s locker. “That’s a good player — you’d love to have a player like that next to you.”
Or anywhere in the locker room, safety Nick Scott said.
“We just keep it out of respect,” Scott said of Beckham’s space. “Hopefully, we get him back.”
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SAN CARLOS, Calif., June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- XP Health, a company dedicated to democratizing vision care with a digital-first vision benefits platform, received the Health Value Award for Vision from Validation Institute.
The Health Value Awards recognize organizations with health, benefits, and/or wellness programs that are implemented by employers with their populations and show significant cost-savings and/or improvements in health outcomes. Validated categories are evaluated by Validation Institute, an independent certifier for performance and methodologies and all categories are then reviewed by a panel of nationally prominent judges for market viability, impact, and innovation. The awards were presented on June 20, 2023 at thINc360 – The Healthcare Innovation Congress.
"We congratulate XP Health and are thrilled to celebrate and recognize the innovative work they are doing in the vision care space. In the Vision category, we award XP Health the 2023 Health Value Award," said Benny DiCecca, CEO, Validation Institute.
"We're honored that XP Health has been awarded with the Health Value Award and recognized by Validation Institute," said Antonio Moraes, CEO and co-founder of XP Health. "XP Health's focus on making vision care more affordable, accessible and a better member experience, is celebrated with this milestone from the Validation Institute."
In early 2023, Validation Institute performed a Validation of XP Health and found that XP Health plans cost less and give employees the same or better benefits than other vision plans. In this evaluation, the Validation Institute certified that using XP Health, member utilization increased by 459 percent with claim costs decreasing by 69 percent, going from $212.86 in their previous plan to $65.37.
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XP Health is a digital-first vision platform focused on eye exams and eyewear that uses customer-centric design and technology to create a more affordable, accessible and better member experience. XP Health was founded to combat the often confusing, expensive, and frustrating experiences common with vision care and vision insurance. XP Health was named to Fast Company's "The World's Most Innovative Companies," and over the past year has expanded from 30 to 1500+ customers, including DocuSign, Navistar, Chegg, Sequoia Consulting, and strategic partner Guardian Life Insurance. To learn more visit xphealth.co.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The person who killed three children and three adults at a Christian school in Nashville legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before the attack, police said Tuesday.
The violence Monday at The Covenant School is the latest school shooting to roil the nation. Three 9-year-old students were killed, as well as the head of the grade school, a custodian and a substitute teacher.
The suspect, Audrey Hale, 28, was a former student at the school. Police said the shooter did not target specific victims.
Authorities said Hale was not on their radar before the attack. Police say Hale was under a doctor's care for an undisclosed emotional disorder.
Police have released videos of the shooting, including edited surveillance footage that shows the shooter's car driving up to the school, glass doors being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of them.
Additional video, from Officer Rex Engelbert's bodycam, shows a woman greeting police outside as they arrive at The Covenant School on Monday. “The kids are all locked down, but we have two kids that we don't know where they are,” she tells police.
“OK, yes, ma'am,” Engelbert replies.
The woman then directs officers to Fellowship Hall and says people inside had just heard gunshots. “Upstairs are a bunch of kids,” she says.
Three officers, including Engelbert, search rooms one by one, holding rifles. “Metro Police,” officers yell.
“Let's go, let's go,” one officer yells.
As alarms are heard going off in the school, one officer says, “It sounds like it's upstairs.”
Officers climb stairs to the second floor and enter a lobby area. “Move in,” an officer yells. Then a barrage of gunfire is heard.
“Get your hands away from the gun," an officer yells twice. Then the shooter is shown motionless on the floor.
Police earlier said Hale had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre, authorities said.
Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny after the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in which 70 minutes passed before law enforcement stormed the classroom. In Nashville, police have said 14 minutes passed from the initial call about a shooter in the school to when the suspect was killed, but they have not said how long it took them to arrive.
Surveillance video of The Covenant School grounds released by police shows a time stamp of just before 10:11 a.m., when the glass doors were shot out by the shooter. Police said they received a call about a shooter at 10:13 a.m. but have not said precisely what time they arrived, and the edited bodycam footage didn’t include time stamps. A police spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an email Tuesday asking when they arrived or whether any version of the video includes time stamps.
The victims were children Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all age 9. The adults were Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.
The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the school since July 2016. Peak was a substitute teacher, and Hill was a custodian, according to investigators.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove Hale but said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe the shooter had “some resentment for having to go to that school.”
Drake provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the targeted attack, the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
“We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,” he told reporters. “We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.”
Authorities said Hale was armed with two “assault-style” weapons, as well as a handgun. At least two of them were believed to have been obtained legally in the Nashville area, according to the chief. Police said a search of Hale’s home turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence.
President Joe Biden said he had spoken to the Nashville chief of police, mayor and senators in Tennessee. He pleaded with Congress to pass stronger gun safety laws, including a ban on assault weapons.
“The Congress has to act," Biden said. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it’s a crazy idea. They’re against that.”
Founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, The Covenant School is in the affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville that is home to the famous Bluebird Cafe, beloved by musicians and songwriters.
The school has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members.
Before Monday’s violence in Nashville, there had been seven mass killings at K-12 schools since 2006 in which four or more people were killed within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. In all of them, the shooters were males.
The database does not include school shootings in which fewer than four people were killed, which have become far more common in recent years. Just last week alone, for example, school shootings happened in Denver and the Dallas area within two days of each other.
At The Covenant School, officers began clearing the first story when they heard gunshots coming from the second level, Aaron said. Police later said the shooter fired at arriving officers from a second-story window.
Police identified Engelbert, a four-year member of the force, and Collazo, a nine-year member, as the officers who fatally shot Hale.
The surveillance video released Monday shows the shooter’s car driving up to the school from multiple angles, including one in which children can be seen playing on swings in the background. Next, an interior view shows glass doors to the school being shot out and the shooter ducking through one of the shattered doors.
More footage from inside shows the shooter walking through a school corridor holding a gun with a long barrel and walking into a room labeled “church office,” then coming back out. In the final part of the footage, the shooter can be seen walking down another long corridor with the gun drawn. The shooter is not seen interacting with anyone else on the video, which has no sound.
Aaron said there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school.
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Kristin Hall in Nashville; Denise Lavoie in Richmond, Virginia; John Raby in Charleston, West Virginia; Stefanie Dazio in Los Angeles; Beatrice Dupuy and Larry Fenn in New York; and Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington; as well as AP researchers Randy Herschaft and Rhonda Shafner in New York. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/nashville-shooter-ex-student/507-cc013aa5-1bd1-44e6-b3c9-2c6d33438566 | 2023-03-28 18:34:23 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/nashville-shooter-ex-student/507-cc013aa5-1bd1-44e6-b3c9-2c6d33438566 |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood actors are joining screenwriters in the first dual strike from the two unions in more than six decades, with huge consequences for the film and television industry. Here is a look at how it has played out, why it’s happening, and what could come next.
More than a month of talks on a new three-year contract between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the studios, streaming services and production companies that employ them led to little progress, and the tone became openly hostile in the days before union leaders voted to begin a strike on Friday. A last minute intervention from a federal mediator didn’t bridge the gap.
Union leaders say the streaming model that has taken over the industry in recent years has cheated actors of their share of income and funneled money to executives, and proposals of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, streamers and production companies in negotiations, did not even begin to meet their needs.
A 12-day extension of the contract and the talks shortly before an initial deadline in late June brought some hope a deal would be reached, but the hostility only grew. “The Nanny” star Fran Drescher, who heads the union said it made them “feel like we’d been duped, like maybe it was just to let studios promote their summer movies for another 12 days.”
Before the talks began, the 65,000 actors who cast ballots voted overwhelmingly for union leaders to send them into a strike, as the Writers Guild of America did when their deal expired more than two months ago.
For decades, an actor who appeared on a popular TV show like “Seinfeld” or “The Office” even once could count on getting royalty checks when the show appeared in reruns, bringing pay even at times they were unable to find work.
The streaming model has largely dried up that income, with residual payments untethered from a show or movie’s popularity. Actors want a long-term share of that revenue.
The issue is one of many the actors have in common with writers. For both scribes and performers, the move to streaming and its ripple effects have also meant shorter seasons of shows with longer gaps between them, and therefore less work. They say inflation is outpacing the scheduled pay bumps in their contracts.
And both writers and actors fear the threat of unregulated use of artificial intelligence. The actors say studios want to be able to use their likenesses without having to hire them, or pay them.
Actors also say they’re contending with the new and increasing burden of self-taped auditions — the cost of which used to be the responsibility of casting and productions.
The AMPTP said it presented actors a generous deal that included the biggest bump in minimum pay in 35 years and “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses.” They say the union has “regrettably chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry.”
Union rules say actors are not to do any part of their jobs, which go far beyond actually shooting films and TV shows.
They are not allowed to make personal appearances or promote their work on podcasts or at premieres. They are barred from doing any production work including auditions, readings, rehearsals, voiceovers or wardrobe fittings.
Newly minted Emmy nominees can’t publicly make their case for votes, nor appear at the ceremony, which is planned for September but is likely to be seriously scaled back or delayed.
They are instead expected to spend their days on picket lines, outside the corporate headquarters and production hubs of studios.
While big names including Matt Damon, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jessica Chastain have spoken out in favor of the strike and are likely to be the face of the picketing, SAG also includes tens of thousands of actors who struggle to find work and maintain income. More serious financial hardship likely lies ahead for them.
Actors joining writers on strike will force nearly every U.S.-based show or film that hasn’t already been shut down into hiatus. Forthcoming seasons of television shows are likely to be delayed indefinitely, and some movie releases will pushed back. (Don’t worry, the July 21 box-office showdown between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” is still on.)
The writers’ strike had an almost instant effect on late-night network talk shows, including NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” ABC’s “ Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and CBS’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” which all went on hiatus immediately. “Saturday Night Live” axed its last three episodes of the season.
In the two months since, many scripted television series have also shut down, including Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” Max’s “Hacks,” Showtime’s “Yellow Jackets,” and Apple TV+’s “Severance.”
It may take longer to notice the actors’ strike on the streaming menus on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, though lovers of those outlets’ original series will eventually have to wait longer than usual for their favorites to return.
Shoots outside the U.S., where different unions and contracts operate, can continue, as the British-based “House of the Dragon” will for HBO, though the strike is likely to have a secondary drag on those too.
And reality shows, game shows and most daytime talk shows will likely be unaffected.
It’s anyone’s guess. After two months, there are no talks planned or imminent for the Writers Guild.
The longest previous writers’ strike, in 1988, lasted five months. The most recent one, in 2007 and 2008, went on for about three months, as did the most recent actors’ strike in 1980.
With both sides on strike together for the first time since 1960, and both facing so many of the same issues, they might find themselves jointly out of work for a long time. | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-hollywoods-actors-are-joining-screenwriters-on-strike-heres-why-and-what-happens-next/ | 2023-07-15 05:22:35 | 1 | https://www.fox16.com/entertainment-news/ap-hollywoods-actors-are-joining-screenwriters-on-strike-heres-why-and-what-happens-next/ |
ZyVersa is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class product candidates for treatment of renal and inflammatory diseases
WESTON, Fla. and BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ZyVersa Therapeutics, Inc. ("ZyVersa"), a clinical stage specialty biopharmaceutical company leveraging advanced proprietary technologies to develop products for patients with renal or inflammatory diseases with high unmet medical needs, and Larkspur Health Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: LSPR or "Larkspur"), a blank-check special purpose acquisition company, are pleased to announce closing of their previously announced business combination.
The business combination and related transactions were approved by Larkspur's stockholders at a special meeting on December 8, 2022. The combined company will operate as ZyVersa Therapeutics, Inc., under ZyVersa's previous management team, led by Stephen C. Glover, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of ZyVersa. Daniel J. O'Connor, who was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Larkspur, will join ZyVersa's Board of Directors. ZyVersa's common stock is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq under ticker symbols "ZVSA" on December 13, 2022. Larkspur's warrants that previously traded under the symbol "LSPRW" will no longer be listed for trading on Nasdaq.
"Today marks an important milestone for ZyVersa. We are thrilled to close our business combination with Larkspur and begin our next chapter as a publicly traded company," stated Mr. Glover. "I would like to thank our partners at Larkspur, our board of directors, and my colleagues at ZyVersa who have contributed to this achievement. Funding from this transaction allows ZyVersa to take steps to advance our clinical program for VAR 200, a cholesterol efflux mediator for patients with renal disease, and to progress IC 100, an inflammasome ASC inhibitor, to Investigational New Drug Application," continued Mr. Glover.
"We are delighted to partner with ZyVersa in this business combination," said Mr. O'Connor. "We believe that ZyVersa has potential to build stockholder value, based on its unique value proposition as discussed in public filings," continued Mr. O'Connor.
The Benchmark Company LLC and Noble Capital Markets, Inc. are serving as financial advisors to ZyVersa, and Lowenstein Sandler LLP is serving as legal advisor to ZyVersa.
A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, to which Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP is serving as legal advisor, is serving as the exclusive financial advisor to Larkspur. Alston & Bird LLP is serving as legal advisor to Larkspur.
Larkspur is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) formed to identify a biopharmaceutical company that can develop and thrive as a newly formed public company, and benefit from Larkspur's operational expertise and a significant infusion of capital. Members of Larkspur's management team and board of directors have participated on former management and executive leadership teams of private and/or public biopharmaceutical companies and they collectively have over 50+ years of aggregate investment and operational experiences. The team strongly believes in the growth opportunities in the biotechnology industry. They are experienced operators who seek to partner with top innovators and thinkers in the biopharmaceutical field. Their entrepreneurial approach supports management teams in making impactful decisions with an eye toward growth and operational excellence. For more information, please visit www.lsprhealth.com.
About ZyVersa Therapeutics, Inc.
ZyVersa is a clinical stage specialty biopharmaceutical company leveraging advanced, proprietary technologies to develop product candidates that address high unmet medical needs in the areas of renal and inflammatory diseases. ZyVersa's development pipeline includes phase 2a ready VAR 200, a cholesterol efflux mediator for treatment of rare kidney disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. ZyVersa believes VAR 200 has potential to treat other glomerular diseases, including Alport syndrome and diabetic kidney disease. ZyVersa's development pipeline also includes IC 100, a novel inflammasome ASC inhibitor being developed to treat a multitude of inflammatory diseases. For more information, please visit www.zyversa.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include statements regarding management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations, or forecasts for the future, and, therefore, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on them. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. ZyVersa Therapeutics, Inc ("ZyVersa") uses words such as "anticipates," "believes," "plans," "expects," "projects," "future," "intends," "may," "will," "should," "could," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," "continue," "guidance," and similar expressions to identify these forward-looking statements that are intended to be covered by the safe-harbor provisions. Such forward-looking statements are based on ZyVersa's expectations and involve risks and uncertainties; consequently, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in the statements due to a number of factors, including ZyVersa's plans to develop and commercialize its product candidates, the timing of initiation of ZyVersa's planned preclinical and clinical trials; the timing of the availability of data from ZyVersa's preclinical and clinical trials; the timing of any planned investigational new drug application or new drug application; ZyVersa's plans to research, develop, and commercialize its current and future product candidates; the clinical utility, potential benefits and market acceptance of ZyVersa's product candidates; ZyVersa's commercialization, marketing and manufacturing capabilities and strategy; ZyVersa's ability to protect its intellectual property position; and ZyVersa's estimates regarding future revenue, expenses, capital requirements and need for additional financing.
New factors emerge from time-to-time, and it is not possible for ZyVersa to predict all such factors, nor can ZyVersa assess the impact of each such factor on the business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to ZyVersa as of the date of this press release. ZyVersa disclaims any obligation to update such forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release, except as required by applicable law.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities.
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April 8, 1951- Feb. 21, 2023
BENTON, Kentucky — Jeffrey L. Crumbaugh, Benton, KY, went to be with the Lord February 21, 2023.
Jeff was born in Bloomington, IL, on April 8, 1951, the son of Frank and Lois (Wrage) Crumbaugh. He married Janey (Sheets) Barling on April 24, 1972, in Bloomington, IL. He then married Susan Willingham in Madisonville, KY, on December 12, 1986.
Jeff is survived by his very special friend and companion of 23 years Carol Shepard; his two sons: Jeff Crumbaugh (Las Vegas, NV) and Ryan Crumbaugh (West Liberty, KY); grandchildren: Maci Rae Crumbaugh (Mayfield, KY) and Kristina Puckett (Vancleave, MS); one brother, Rod Crumbaugh, (Mindy Morgan) of Hudson, IL; niece, Amy Crumbaugh; and nephew, Andrew (Jamie) Crumbaugh, both of Bloomington, IL; aunt, Jean Henry of Bloomington, IL; cousins: Greg Able, Brian (Mary) Able, Jerry (Bonnie) Albert, Terry Sue (Dave) Thompson, Mark, (Terry Lynn) Henry, Kirk (Robbie) Henry, Vicki Henry, and Michele Maubach.
Jeff attended Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Bloomington. Bloomington High School and Austin Peay University in Clarksville, TN.
He was an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Army serving abroad in Germany. Jeff loved the outdoors where he could hunt and fish. He was also a talented artist and enjoyed cooking. He worked in the sheet metal field doing work on well-known country music singers' studios in Nashville including Reba Macintyre.
Jeff was a very caring person and had a strong faith in Jesus Christ. His kind spirit will be missed.
Mr. Crumbaugh will be cremated.
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"The Digital Experience Company: Winning in the Digital Economy With Experience Insights" serves as a UX handbook for business leaders, reminding why UX Insights are the lifeblood of successful and profitable digital experiences – available from August 2nd on Amazon
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- UserZoom, the pioneer of the Digital User Experience (UX) Insights category, today announced that Alfonso de la Nuez - Co-Founder & Co-CEO - is launching his first book: The Digital Experience Company: Winning in the Digital Economy With Experience Insights. The book explains why it is so critical to get UX Design right and how brands can make it a competitive advantage for companies in their digital transformation journeys.
Alfonso argues why, in a post-pandemic world, every company in every sector is a Digital Experience company, and must deliver a premium front-end design that end users and customers will love and recommend. Most importantly, he highlights real-life examples, including Amazon, Zoom, IKEA and PayPal, where delivering great UX is intrinsically linked to business performance.
Business leaders should not just limit themselves to 'being a digital company', or being 'in the software business', investing in Enterprise-grade IT, data management and back-end infrastructure to support their digital channels. These are important, but are simply not enough. The Digital Experience Company shows why world-class front-end UX Design is also required. Step by step, Alfonso explores today's revolutionary way to build software, where businesses are focused on the end user at every stage of the product development life cycle and make decisions based on real user insights. Conducting continuous UX Research and user testing is absolutely critical to being a successful Digital Experience company.
Running UX Research used to be slow and expensive. Fortunately, today product design teams have innovative software solutions that help scale and automate UX Research and are user insights-driven. However, Alfonso also argues that 'getting it right' is not only about technology or tools, but about culture – and leadership buy-in is a key component, as well as cross-functional collaboration from everyone.
"My book, The Digital Experience Company, is about making it clear to today's business leaders that it takes great UX Design to provide superior digital product experiences," said Alfonso de la Nuez, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, UserZoom. "We're the decade of design. In 2022 every company is a Digital Experience company and they need to provide memorable product experiences that users will love and recommend to others. You can accomplish this with a customer centric culture, and those that do are seeing invaluable return on investment and faster growth compared to their competitors."
Digital Experience Heavyweights Applaud "The Digital Experience Company"
- "The world has gone remote, and very often the only way to interact with customers is through a digital channel. Alfonso's book focuses on a topic many leaders have still not fully grasped today: to stay competitive in the digital economy you need to deliver a great experience and focus on the customer. The book helps you understand why it's so important to focus on product design, customer happiness, and user research. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to upgrade their digital footprint." – Eric Yuan, CEO and founder, Zoom
- "All companies are software-driven (at least partly), many customer interactions are digital, and brand is experience. Any of these three is enough to care about user experience, but the combo means that UX is destiny. This book explains all this. More importantly, it explains what to do about it. Read and prosper – or ignore and die." – Jakob Nielsen, PhD, user advocate and principal, Nielsen Norman Group
- "At a time when companies obsess over big data and agile delivery, Alfonso de la Nuez delivers a critical message: How to interweave complementary insights about the digital experience of the customer into modern business practices at scale." –Christian Rohrer, PhD, senior director of design, TD Bank
Published by ForbesBooks, The Digital Experience Company is available to buy in hardcopy format on Amazon.com from August 2nd.
Alfonso de la Nuez is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of UserZoom, the pioneering UX Insights System. An entrepreneur, published author, podcast host and keynote speaker with over two decades of industry experience, Alfonso is a sought-after authority in Digital Experience, Customer Experience, and User Interface Design.
During his time at San Jose State University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, Alfonso discovered his passion for ensuring user-needs were at the core of product development in the emerging digital world. In 2007, that passion led him to launch UserZoom, with the goal of automating the complex and time-consuming process of UX Research. Over the last 15 years, Alfonso has applied the knowledge he's amassed to scale UserZoom into the company it is today, most recently leading to a strategic investment from Thoma Bravo and $800 million valuation, and is now sharing that experience with the broader business community.
UserZoom is the leading Digital User Experience Insights System. Its all-in-one platform, participant recruitment engine and professional services provide the in-depth quantitative and qualitative insights essential to testing, measuring and improving digital product experiences at speed and scale throughout the product development lifecycle. UserZoom helps businesses connect insights to their most important performance metrics, so they can make confident, customer-focused decisions that drive growth and deliver competitive advantage. With operations in North America and Europe, the company helps global brands such as Google, Oracle, Aetna, Santander, Kimberly-Clark, and half of the Fortune 100 raise the bar for an outstanding digital experience. To learn more, visit www.UserZoom.com.
UserZoom press contact: Douglas Keighley - dkeighley@userzoom.com
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Ram’s mid-size Dakota pickup truck (originally a Dodge Dakota) bowed out of production in 2011, and the automaker has now provided the first hint that a modern successor may be in the works.
When asked by Pickup Truck + SUV Talk at last week’s Chicago auto show about the fate of a modern Dakota, Ram CEO Mike Koval said he plans to show something along those lines at a dealer meeting taking place in Las Vegas in late March.
Rumor has it Koval is planning to show a concept of a mid-size pickup with an electrified powertrain.
Koval starts talking about the pickup at the 11:30 mark in the video interview.
Koval also acknowledged that there’s plenty of opportunity in the mid-size segment. The likes of Chevrolet, Ford, Nissan, and Toyota have all found success in recent years with their respective mid-size pickup offerings. Even fellow Stellantis brand Jeep has a mid-size pickup in the form of the Gladiator, but Ram is noticeably missing from the list despite being a dedicated brand for commercial vehicles.
In the same interview, Koval also makes mention of a mystery pickup prototype recently spotted testing in Europe together with a Fiat Toro, a compact pickup offered in South America.
He hinted that the mystery pickup will be a new Ram offering for outside North America.
While a modern Dakota for North America, electrified or not, might be years away, Ram has some new products coming. Key among them is an electric 1500 to be called the 1500 REV. It was shown for the first time during Ram’s Super Bowl LVII spot.
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NEW YORK, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Halper Sadeh LLC, an investor rights law firm, is investigating the following companies for potential violations of the federal securities laws and/or breaches of fiduciary duties to shareholders relating to:
Eneti Inc. (NYSE: NETI)'s sale to Cadeler A/S for 3.409 Cadeler shares for each Eneti share. Upon completion of the transaction, Eneti shareholders will own approximately 40% of the combined company. If you are an Eneti shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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Talaris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TALS)'s merger with Tourmaline Bio, Inc. Talaris shareholders immediately prior to the proposed transaction are expected to own approximately 21.3% of the combined company. If you are a Talaris shareholder, click here to learn more about your rights and options.
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MADRID (AP) — More investment and polices regulating immigration are needed for countries on the southern Mediterranean basin that have been hit hard by the food and energy crisis brought on by Russia’s war in Ukraine, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said Thursday.
Speaking at the 7th regional forum of the Union for the Mediterranean that brought together delegations from 43 countries, Josep Borrell said southern countries need support to narrow the growing economic gap with countries in the north.
Borrell said the war had “aborted the growth that was beginning to take place and it is laying the basis for a financial crisis, more inflation and less growth.”
Delegations from the 27 EU member states and 16 Mediterranean partner countries from North Africa, Western Asia and Southern Europe gathered for the forum in Spain´s northeastern city of Barcelona.
Borrell said it “should worry us all” that the economic gap is growing not only between north and south, but among southern countries themselves “which are enlarging their differences and not resolving their conflicts.”
He said southern countries constitute one of the least economically integrated areas in the world with half of the population in region being under the age of 24.
“It’s a very young population in search of opportunities,” he said adding that there need to be more development and regulated migration. “Opportunities have to be offered.”
The Union for the Mediterranean aims to promote dialogue and cooperation among its member countries despite their economic and political differences.
The meeting announced that North Macedonia was its latest member.
The forum signed an accord to launch the Medusa submarine communications cable project between the southern European countries of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus and the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-eu-med-forum-south-needs-investment-immigration-policies/ | 2022-11-24 20:14:32 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-eu-med-forum-south-needs-investment-immigration-policies/ |
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The mysterious shooting deaths of a prominent South Carolina lawyer's wife and son have spun investigations revealing charges of money laundering, a narcotics ring, a staged attempt on his life and millions of dollars in stolen money.
On Thursday, Alex Murdaugh was charged with murder, the latest in a steep fall that has spanned the past 13 months. Here is a look at the events surrounding his indictments:
June 7, 2021: Murdaugh calls police to report his wife Maggie, 52, and their son Paul, 22, have been fatally shot near a dog kennel on their property.
June 23, 2021: An investigation into the hit-and-run death of Stephen Smith, 19, unsolved for six years, is reopened based on information gathered by agents looking into the shooting deaths. It's not clear what evidence in the Murdaugh case prompted the move.
Sept. 4, 2021: Alex Murdaugh attempts to arrange his own death in a plan to secure his surviving son a $10 million life insurance payment, officials say. The plot fails when the shot — which police said was fired by Murdaugh associate Curtis Edward Smith — only grazes Murdaugh's head. Smith was ultimately charged with assisted suicide, insurance fraud and several other counts.
Oct. 14, 2021: Police arrest Murdaugh at a drug rehab facility in Orlando, Florida, on charges that he stole insurance settlements totaling more than $4 million intended for the sons of his late housekeeper.
Oct. 19, 2021: A judge denies Murdaugh bond, saying his considerable financial resources and mental instability make it too risky to allow him to await trial outside jail.
Nov. 2, 2021: A judge freezes Murdaugh's assets, citing concerns that he and his surviving son might be scheming to hide money.
Nov. 17, 2021: Prosecutors reveal 27 new charges against Murdaugh, saying he stole nearly $5 million in settlement money. Prosecutors allege Murdaugh was hiding money from lawyers who sued him over the death of a teenager killed when authorities say an intoxicated Paul Murdaugh wrecked the boat he was driving.
Jan. 18, 2022: Additional indictments mean Murdaugh now faces 71 charges that he stole nearly $8.5 million in wrongful death and wreck settlements from more than a dozen people.
March 16, 2022: An indictment accuses longtime Murdaugh friend Cory Fleming of working with the disgraced lawyer to defraud the sons of Gloria Satterfield, the family's housekeeper who died after a fall at the Murdaugh home in 2018. Fleming had sued Murdaugh on behalf of Satterfield's family but kept the resulting $3 million insurance payouts for Murdaugh and himself.
May 4, 2022: Russell Laffitte, the former CEO of Palmetto State Bank before his firing earlier this year, is indicted on charges that he conspired with Murdaugh to defraud victims of $1.8 million. One of the victims was the family of a deaf man who became quadriplegic after a car crash.
June 28, 2022: Prosecutors outline an eight-year money laundering and painkiller ring in new indictments. Both Murdaugh and Smith — the friend charged in the once-prominent lawyer's attempted suicide — were charged with possessing, manufacturing or distributing narcotics.
July 12, 2022: Lawyer Jim Griffin says investigators told family members they plan to pursue murder charges against Murdaugh for the deaths of his wife and son. The South Carolina Supreme Court disbars Murdaugh.
July 14, 2022: Murdaugh is charged with murder in the deaths of his wife and son. The indictments handed up by the grand jury contend Murdaugh killed his wife with a rifle and his son with a shotgun
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BERWYN, Pa., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) (the "Company"), a leading provider of intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness, announced today the closing of its offering of $575 million aggregate principal amount of 2.625% convertible notes due 2027 (the "Notes"), which were sold in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The proceeds include the full exercise of the $75 million option to purchase additional Notes granted by the Company to the initial purchasers.
The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company and will be guaranteed on an unsecured basis by Envestnet Asset Management, Inc. (the "Guarantor"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The Notes and the Guarantee will be subordinated in right of payment to the Company's and the Guarantor's obligations, respectively, under the Company's revolving credit facility.
The Notes will mature on December 1, 2027, unless earlier purchased, redeemed or converted. Interest accrues on the Notes at a rate of 2.625% per year and is payable semiannually, in arrears, on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on June 1, 2023.
The Notes are convertible at the option of the holders, prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding June 1, 2027 only under certain circumstances and during certain periods, and thereafter, at any time until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date. The initial conversion rate for the Notes is 13.6304 shares of the Company's common stock for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $73.37 per share of the Company's common stock). Upon conversion, the Notes may be settled, at the Company's election, in cash, shares of the Company's common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of the Company's common stock.
The Company may redeem all or any portion of the Notes for cash, at its option, on or after December 5, 2025, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the redemption date, if the last reported sale price of the Company's common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during any 30 consecutive trading day period (including the last trading day of such period) ending on, and including, any of the five trading days immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption.
The Company received net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, after deducting initial purchasers' discounts and offering expenses, of approximately $558.4 million. The Company used approximately $494.2 million of the net proceeds plus available cash to repurchase for cash $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's outstanding 1.75% convertible notes due 2023 for an aggregate of approximately $312.4 million in cash and $200.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's 0.75% convertible notes due 2025 for an aggregate of approximately $181.8 million (plus additional proceeds to pay accrued interest on the repurchased notes). The Company also used approximately $79.4 million of the net proceeds from the offering to pay the cost of entering into the capped call transactions described below. The Company intends to use the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include selective strategic investments through acquisitions, alliances or other transactions.
In connection with the pricing of the Notes, the Company entered into privately negotiated capped call transactions (the "base capped call transactions") with certain of the initial purchasers or affiliates thereof (the "option counterparties"). On November 15, 2022, in connection with the initial purchasers' exercise of their option to purchase additional Notes, the Company entered into additional capped call transactions with the option counterparties (the "additional capped call transactions" and, together with the base capped call transactions, the "capped call transactions"). Collectively, the capped call transactions cover, initially, the number of shares of the Company's common stock underlying the Notes, subject to anti-dilution adjustments substantially similar to those applicable to the Notes. The cost of the capped call transactions was approximately $79.4 million.
The capped call transactions generally are expected to reduce potential dilution to the Company's common stock upon any conversion of the Notes and/or offset any potential cash payments the Company is required to make in excess of the principal amount of converted Notes, as the case may be, with such reduction and/or offset subject to a cap based on the cap price of the capped call transactions. The cap price of the capped call transactions initially will be $110.7400 per share of the Company's common stock, which represents a premium of 100% over the last reported sale price of $55.37 on the New York Stock Exchange on November 14, 2022, and is subject to certain adjustments under the terms of the capped call transactions. Under certain circumstances, the options underlying the capped call transactions can, at the Company's option, remain outstanding until December 1, 2027, which is the maturity date for the Notes, even if all or a portion of the Notes are repurchased or redeemed prior to such date.
The Notes were offered to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. Neither the Notes nor the shares of the Company's common stock into which the Notes are convertible have been, or will be, registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an applicable exemption from such registration requirements.
This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes (or the shares of the Company's common stock into which the Notes are convertible), nor will there be any offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
Cautionary Statement
Various statements in this release relating to Envestnet's future expectations, plans and prospects, including, without limitation, statements regarding: whether the Company will issue the Notes or consummate the offering; the expected use of proceeds from the offering, which could change as a result of market conditions or for other reasons; expectations regarding the effect of the capped call transactions; expectations regarding actions of the option counterparties and their respective affiliates; and whether the capped call transactions will be effective are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties and the Company's actual results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. More information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause such differences is contained in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
You are cautioned not to unduly rely on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. All information in this release is as of November 14, 2022 and, unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statement to reflect circumstances or events after the date of this release or to report the occurrence of unanticipated events.
About Envestnet
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s central bank lifted its remaining subsidies on fuel on Monday, gas station owners said, ending a year-long process of scaling back on the expensive program.
The Central Bank over a year ago announced it would gradually lift fuel subsidies, to slow down the draining of its foreign exchange reserves. Fuel subsidies once cost the cash-strapped country some $3 billion annually. Last week, it subsidized just 20% of the cost of fuel imports.
Lebanon is in the throes of a crippling economic crisis that has plunged three-quarters of its population into poverty and decimated the value of the Lebanese pound against the dollar by around 90 percent. The World Bank has described the collapse as one of the worst in the world in the last 150 years.
Now, gas station owners will price fuel at the country’s “parallel market rate” — also known as the black market rate, Gas Station Owners’ Syndicate spokesperson George Brax told The Associated Press.
The local currency is still officially pegged at 1,500 Lebanese pounds to the U.S. dollar, but now trades at about 35,250 pounds at the black market rate.
A liter of 95 octane gasoline currently cost just less than a dollar, but topping up the average car costs almost the monthly minimum wage. The black market rate heavily fluctuates with little transparency, possibly risking arbitrary price hikes regardless of global fuel prices.
Under the subsidies program, the Central Bank would allow importers to exchange Lebanese pounds for US dollars to fund imports and keep prices stable. However, with Lebanon’s currency devaluation and skyrocketing inflation, gas station owners claimed the stable pricing was not sustainable, while security agencies struggled to crack down on fuel hoarding in warehouses and gas stations.
Lebanese authorities for years have also been working to replace subsidies on fuel, medicine, and wheat with a targeted cash-assistance program which would cost a small fraction annually. However, it has scrambled to properly implement the program since receiving a World Bank loan to fund it a year ago, targeting hundreds of thousands of families in need and ultimately leaving them without any safety net to soften the blow of price hikes.
Lebanon is scrambling to reform its wasteful and unproductive economy to reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout program, and unlock billions of dollars in loans and aid from the international community. But a tug-of-war between the government, Central Bank, commercial banks, and private businesses has held the country down from making substantial progress with the IMF since negotiations began over two years ago.
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Revenue of $335.9 million generated during the second quarter of 2022, up 14% sequentially from the first quarter of 2022
Net income of $14.6 million & Adjusted EBITDA of $47.7 million during the second quarter of 2022
Improved gross margin before depreciation and amortization across all three segments while maintaining a positive net cash position
HOUSTON, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Select Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: WTTR) ("Select" or the "Company"), a leading provider of sustainable water and chemical solutions to the energy industry, today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
John Schmitz, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, stated, "The second quarter proved to be a significant step forward in the continued fulfillment of our strategy to improve and bolster the base business, advance our technology, sustainability and diversification efforts, and execute on strategic M&A. Supported by 14% sequential revenue growth, we significantly improved our profitability during the second quarter with Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA growing 83% and 48%, respectively, quarter over quarter. Reinforced by a steadily improving activity backdrop and an increasingly tight labor and equipment supply environment, we continue to see pricing improvements across each of our segments.
"We are also making progress on the integration of our recent acquisitions, capturing continued efficiencies and cost synergy realizations, which has contributed to sequential margin improvement across each of our segments. Additionally on the cost synergy front, SG&A costs decreased by 6% sequentially to below 8% of revenue, a threshold we last achieved in 2018.
"We have continued ramping up the buildout supporting the consolidated infrastructure footprint we've assembled through our recent acquisitions as well. During the second quarter of 2022, we signed a 5-year agreement to tie in an operator's existing water distribution and gathering pipeline system in Upton County, Texas, interconnecting with two of our existing recycling facilities. This interconnection will allow us to efficiently gather produced water, transport recycled volumes between our two existing facilities and dispose of water, if necessary, broadening the commercialization opportunities of the systems and allowing for more efficient management of water needs across multiple operators in the area.
"In addition, during the second quarter we commenced operations at our two most recently announced recycling facilities in the Northern Delaware and Rockies regions, adding an incremental 75,000 barrels per day of recycling capacity. With this increased recycling capacity, we are well on our way towards achieving the 2022 recycling targets tied to our sustainability-linked credit facility. We have a strong backlog of additional development opportunities and I look forward to executing on additional projects in the second half of the year. As previously announced, I'm also pleased to have issued our inaugural annual sustainability report during the second quarter. While recycling remains a top priority for us, we are excited about many of our other near-term sustainability initiatives discussed in the sustainability report including additional technology, emissions reduction, and green chemistry R&D investments.
"Ultimately, I am very pleased with our recent financial performance, supported by our recent acquisitions, pricing improvements, organic growth opportunities and our other strategic investments. I look forward to building upon our recent positive results with further improvements to our revenue and profitability, while meaningfully expanding our free cash flow generation in the second half of the year," concluded Schmitz.
Consolidated Financial Information
Revenue for the second quarter of 2022 was $335.9 million as compared to $294.8 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $161.1 million in the second quarter of 2021. Net income for the second quarter of 2022 was $14.6 million as compared to $8.0 million in the first quarter of 2022 and a net loss of $19.6 million in the second quarter of 2021.
For the second quarter of 2022, gross profit was $35.7 million, as compared to $24.7 million in the first quarter of 2022 and a gross loss of $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. Total gross margin was 10.6% in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 8.4% in the first quarter of 2022 and (1.0)% in the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin before depreciation and amortization ("D&A") for the second quarter of 2022 was 19.3% as compared to 17.4% for the first quarter of 2022 and 12.0% for the second quarter of 2021.
SG&A during the second quarter of 2022 was $26.7 million as compared to $28.3 million during the first quarter of 2022 and $15.9 million during the second quarter of 2021. SG&A during the first and second quarters of 2022 was impacted by non-recurring transaction costs of $3.6 million and $0.6 million, respectively.
Adjusted EBITDA was $47.7 million in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to $32.2 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $7.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. Adjusted EBITDA during the first and second quarters of 2022 was impacted by the deduction of $11.4 million and $5.6 million, respectively, of non-recurring bargain purchase price gains that benefited Net Income during the quarters related to the Company's recent acquisition activity. Additionally, Adjusted EBITDA was impacted by $2.9 million of non-recurring transaction costs, $1.0 million of non-cash losses on asset sales, $0.2 million in lease abandonment costs, and $0.2 million in other adjustments during the second quarter of 2022. Non-cash compensation expense accounted for an additional $3.9 million adjustment during the second quarter of 2022. Please refer to the end of this release for reconciliations of gross profit (loss) before D&A (non-GAAP measure) to gross profit (loss) and of Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP measure) to net income (loss).
Business Segment Information
The Water Services segment generated revenues of $196.0 million in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to $163.6 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $76.7 million in the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin before D&A for Water Services was 19.4% in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 16.2% in the first quarter of 2022 and 7.7% in the second quarter of 2021. Revenues for this segment improved 19.8% sequentially, with approximately 70% of the revenue growth from the existing business and approximately 30% of the growth from a full quarter contribution from the recent Nuverra acquisition that closed during the first quarter of 2022. Looking at the third quarter of 2022, the Company expects to see mid- to high-single digit percentage revenue growth with modest continued improvements to gross margins before D&A, supported by continued pricing improvements and market activity.
The Water Infrastructure segment generated revenues of $60.3 million in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to $58.6 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $33.3 million in the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin before D&A for Water Infrastructure was 25.5% in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 24.2% in the first quarter of 2022 and 21.3% in the second quarter of 2021. Revenues improved 3.0% sequentially, with strong incremental margins driven by increased volumes at our recycling facilities and a full quarter contribution from the recent Nuverra acquisition, offset by seasonal volume decreases at our Bakken pipeline facilities. For the third quarter of 2022, the Company anticipates mid-single digit percentage revenue growth, with gross margins before D&A in mid- to high-20 percent range, supported by continued growth in recycled water volumes.
The Oilfield Chemicals segment generated revenues of $79.6 million in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to $72.6 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $51.1 million in the second quarter of 2021. Gross margin before D&A for Oilfield Chemicals was 14.6% in the second quarter of 2022 as compared to 14.4% in the first quarter of 2022 and 12.5% in the second quarter of 2021. Revenues improved 9.7% sequentially, exceeding expectations, driven by strong growth in the Permian and Rockies regions. Supported by the recent strong revenue growth in the first and second quarters of 2022, the Company anticipates relatively stable to modestly improving revenues in this segment during the third quarter of 2022 with gross margins before D&A of at least 15% as operational efficiencies and pricing improvements counteract rising raw materials costs.
Cash Flow and Capital Expenditures
Cash flow from operations for the second quarter of 2022 was $11.1 million as compared to ($18.6) million in the first quarter of 2022 and ($7.6) million in the second quarter of 2021. Cash flow from operations during the second quarter of 2022 was significantly impacted by a $31.5 million use of cash to fund the working capital needs of the business resulting from growing revenues and the ongoing integration efforts of the recent acquisitions.
Net capital expenditures for the second quarter of 2022 were $9.9 million, comprised of $15.5 million of capital expenditures meaningfully offset by $5.6 million of cash proceeds from asset sales, including the divestment of underutilized equipment and real estate from recently acquired businesses. Cash flow from operations less net capital expenditures was $1.1 million during the second quarter of 2022.
Cash flow used in investing activities during the second quarter of 2022 included an outflow of $1.1 million related to working capital settlements for recent acquisitions, while cash flow from financing activities accounted for another $0.9 million of cash outflows.
Balance Sheet and Capital Structure
Total cash and cash equivalents were $25.7 million as of June 30, 2022 as compared to $24.8 million as of March 31, 2022. The Company had no borrowings outstanding under its sustainability-linked credit facility as of June 30, 2022 or March 31, 2022.
As of June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022, the borrowing base under the sustainability-linked credit facility was $216.5 million and $204.1 million, respectively. The Company had available borrowing capacity under its sustainability-linked credit facility as of June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022, of approximately $195.6 million and $188.5 million, respectively, after giving effect to $20.9 million and $15.6 million of outstanding letters of credit as of June 30, 2022 and March 31, 2022.
Total liquidity was $221.3 million as of June 30, 2022, as compared to $213.3 million as of March 31, 2022. The Company had 92,833,593 weighted average Class A shares outstanding and 16,221,101 weighted average Class B shares outstanding during the second quarter of 2022.
2021 Sustainability Report
On April 28, 2022, Select issued its 2021 Sustainability Report, the Company's inaugural release. Select's 2021 Sustainability Report highlights the policies, processes, procedures and performance by which Select establishes and advances Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") goals and criteria, as well as how the Company aims to act as a force for environmental stewardship and promote sustainable development in communities in which it operates. The report reviews the application of Select's business principles and supporting policies across the business. The report includes information based on internal discussions, external stakeholder feedback, and consultations with third-party experts. Select intends to regularly report on our ESG policies, procedures, and performance, both on our website and through our annual Sustainability Report. Readers are encouraged to read the report in its entirety, which is accessible at https://www.selectenergy.com/sustainability/.
Conference Call
Select has scheduled a conference call on Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time / 10:00 a.m. Central time. Please dial 201-389-0872 and ask for the Select Energy Services call at least 10 minutes prior to the start time of the call, or listen to the call live over the Internet by logging on to the website at the address http://investors.selectenergy.com/events-and-presentations. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available through August 17, 2022 and may be accessed by calling 201-612-7415 using passcode 13731255#. A webcast archive will also be available at the link above shortly after the call and will be accessible for approximately 90 days.
About Select Energy Services, Inc.
Select Energy Services, Inc. (collectively, with its consolidated subsidiaries, referred to as "Select" or the "Company") is a leading provider of sustainable water and chemical solutions to the energy industry. Select develops, manufactures and delivers a full suite of chemical products for use in oil and gas well completion and production operations as well as integration into the full water life-cycle. These solutions are supported by the Company's critical water infrastructure assets and water treatment and recycling capabilities. As a leader in sustainable water and chemical solutions, Select places the utmost importance on safe, environmentally responsible management of oilfield water throughout the lifecycle of a well. Additionally, Select believes that responsibly managing water resources throughout its operations to help conserve and protect the environment is paramount to the continued success of the Company. For more information, please visit Select's website, http://www.selectenergy.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
All statements in this communication other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements which contain our current expectations about our future results. We have attempted to identify any forward-looking statements by using words such as "could," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "project," "will," "estimate" and other similar expressions. Although we believe that the expectations reflected, and the assumptions or bases underlying our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results, events or financial positions to differ materially from those included within or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could materially impact such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: the severity and duration of world health events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which had a negative impact on our business; the global macroeconomic uncertainty related to the Russia-Ukraine war; actions by the members of OPEC+ with respect to oil production levels and announcements of potential changes in such levels, including the ability of the OPEC+ countries to agree on and comply with supply limitations; operational challenges relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, including logistical challenges, protecting the health and well-being of our employees, remote work arrangements, performance of contracts and supply chain disruptions; the level of capital spending and access to capital markets by oil and gas companies, trends and volatility in oil and gas prices, and our ability to manage through such volatility; and other factors discussed or referenced in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and those set forth from time to time in our other filings with the SEC. Investors should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which such statement is made, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise, unless required by law.
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Comparison of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, gross profit before depreciation and amortization (D&A) and gross margin before D&A are not financial measures presented in accordance with GAAP. We define EBITDA as net income (loss), plus interest expense, income taxes and depreciation and amortization. We define Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA plus/(minus) loss/(income) from discontinued operations, plus any impairment charges or asset write-offs pursuant to accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. ("GAAP"), plus non-cash losses on the sale of assets or subsidiaries, non-recurring compensation expense, non-cash compensation expense, and non-recurring or unusual expenses or charges, including severance expenses, transaction costs, or facilities-related exit and disposal-related expenditures, plus/(minus) foreign currency losses/(gains) and plus/(minus) losses/(gains) on unconsolidated entities less bargain purchase gains from business combinations. We define gross profit before D&A as revenue less cost of revenue, excluding cost of sales D&A expense. We define gross margin before D&A as gross profit before D&A divided by revenue. EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, gross profit before D&A and gross margin before D&A are supplemental non-GAAP financial measures that we believe provide useful information to external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies because it allows them to compare our operating performance on a consistent basis across periods by removing the effects of our capital structure (such as varying levels of interest expense), asset base (such as depreciation and amortization) and non-recurring items outside the control of our management team. We present EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, gross profit before D&A and gross margin before D&A because we believe they provide useful information regarding the factors and trends affecting our business in addition to measures calculated under GAAP.
Net income (loss) is the GAAP measure most directly comparable to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. Gross profit (loss) is the GAAP measure most directly comparable to gross profit before D&A. Our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as alternatives to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. Each of these non-GAAP financial measures has important limitations as an analytical tool due to exclusion of some but not all items that affect the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. You should not consider EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA or gross profit before D&A in isolation or as substitutes for an analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Because EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and gross profit before D&A may be defined differently by other companies in our industry, our definitions of these non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies, thereby diminishing their utility.
The following table presents a reconciliation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to our net income (loss), which is the most directly comparable GAAP measure for the periods presented:
The following table presents a reconciliation of gross profit before D&A to total gross profit (loss), which is the most directly comparable GAAP measure, and a calculation of gross margin before D&A for the periods presented:
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department are investigating a shooting Wednesday night that left one person dead and another hospitalized. Police say around 10:30 p.m. officers were called to the area of 9201 Central NW to reports of a shooting.
APD says officers arrived on scene and found two people with gunshot wounds. One person died on scene and the other was taken to a hospital. Police say the homicide unit has been dispatched and they are currently investigating the incident. No other information is available. This is a developing story. | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/apd-shooting-leaves-one-dead-one-hospitalized/ | 2023-03-23 14:20:19 | 1 | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/apd-shooting-leaves-one-dead-one-hospitalized/ |
LANSING, MI – The Mega Millions jackpot is closing in on $200 million as there was no winner of the $167 million jackpot for the drawing held on Friday, March 3.
That means the drawing on Tuesday, March 7 will be worth $188 million, with a cash option of $95.7 million.
The Mega Millions numbers for March 3: 8-25-36-39-67
The Gold Mega Ball: 11
The Megaplier: 4
Mega Millions winners for March 3:
· While there was no grand prize winner, one player matched all five white balls drawn to win $1 million in the drawing. That ticket was sold in New York.
· That player also played the Megaplier option, which increased their winnings to $4 million.
· In Michigan, one ticket sold matched four white balls and the Mega Ball while also playing the Megaplier option to win $40,000 in the drawing. That was the largest prize won in the state.
· There were 314,833 tickets sold that won at least $4 in the drawing. In Michigan, 11,634 tickets sold won at least $4 in the drawing.
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Five balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70; the Mega Ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302 million.
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each.
In other Michigan Lottery news:
· The next Powerball drawing is Saturday, March 4 with an estimated jackpot of $161 million and a cash option of $82.2 million.
· The next Lotto 47 drawing is Saturday March 4 at 7:29 p.m. with a jackpot of $2.65 million. Deadline is 7:08 p.m. that day.
· Saturday’s Fantasy 5 jackpot is worth an estimated $213,000. The drawing is at 7:29 p.m. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.
For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
The last players from Michigan to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot is the Wolverine FLL lottery club which claimed a $1.05 billion jackpot in March 2021. With their winnings, the group plans to give back to the community.
And while they were lucky winners, it’s smart for players to check their tickets immediately as a winner worth $1 million sold in Warren 2021 went unclaimed. The money instead went to the state’s School Aid Fund. | https://www.mlive.com/lottery/2023/03/mega-millions-results-for-030323-jackpot-worth-167-million.html | 2023-03-04 16:18:29 | 1 | https://www.mlive.com/lottery/2023/03/mega-millions-results-for-030323-jackpot-worth-167-million.html |
Legal sale of marijuana has been established throughout New Jersey, a longtime dream of cannabis advocates. Now that it’s here, though, consumers are waking up to a possibly less-satisfactory reality for the New Jersey style of the pot business.
Just scoring some marijuana seems to require too much effort. We recently saw more than 20 would-be customers standing outside on a cold, drizzly day waiting to enter a cannabis store. The line didn’t budge for more than 15 minutes.
When they can get some, marijuana users are paying what might be the highest legal prices in nation. A recent Press article said 3.5 grams of the precious weed cost $55 to $60 here in South Jersey. That’s substantially higher than five other states sampled, and more than double the comparable price in Massachusetts of $22.
This sort of luxury cannabis market for the affluent is not what advocates had in mind when pushing legalization. Chris Goldstein, an organizer for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, told the N.J. Cannabis Regulatory Commission people making $14 an hour should be able to afford cannabis.
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The rollout of pot sales in the state has been clumsy and slow. Availability of some forms of cannabis, even popular ones, varies by store and region. The cannabis commission has said more time is needed to get enough authorized sellers to bring prices down.
But New Jersey had a head start on New York and its prices are still higher. About a month after the first shop opened in Manhattan, an eighth ounce of marijuana was available for $40.
The opening of new cannabis stores will continue, probably for some years. The Cannabis Regulatory Commission has received almost 1,500 license applications to sell and/or grow marijuana. While this increase in market supply can only exert downward pressure on prices, they might stay too high for many people due to fixed costs of doing business in New Jersey.
Just securing regulatory approval in this over-regulated and unaffordable state is costly. So is buying or renting commercial property — which brings another large list of regulatory requirements — and equipping a public place of business.
Then there are taxes.
Growers must charge a Social Equity Excise Fee, currently $1.10 for each ounce they distribute. Municipalities can charge a transfer tax of up to 2% on cannabis sales. They may also charge a user tax on top of the transfer tax. Cannabis sales, like much else, are subject to state sales tax, at the current tax rate of 6.625%. Since the drug is expensive, quite a bit of buyer’s money goes up in smoke before any desired psychoactive effects are experienced.
Unauthorized sellers of marijuana don’t pay these costs, and don’t need to charge as much to make a profit. NORML’s Goldstein said cannabis has never been cheaper or more readily available on the black market in New Jersey. Advocates have renamed that the “legacy market.”
This was inevitable, as we pointed out a few years ago. California lowered its pot revenue forecast by 40% due to its thriving black market. Its early legalization had created an elaborate network of unregulated growers and sellers who were less fearful of getting caught once the drug was legal.
Arrests for unauthorized selling of marijuana in New Jersey have nearly stopped, from nearly 3,000 statewide in 2018 to just 44 in 2021. One such arrest in Atlantic City recently charged a Brooklyn man with selling from a car advertising marijuana for sale. His car blocking a crosswalk was hard to miss.
Prices at legal stores may improve as more are opened, but they’re unlikely ever to be competitive with the legacy market serving lower income, more urban consumers. The legal and legacy markets will be separate, but in many ways they won’t be equal. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorial/nj-cannabis-may-stay-costly-at-licensed-shops/article_ad4e6f14-b3ce-11ed-a0ba-5380eaf795d7.html | 2023-02-27 06:33:49 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/opinion/editorial/nj-cannabis-may-stay-costly-at-licensed-shops/article_ad4e6f14-b3ce-11ed-a0ba-5380eaf795d7.html |
Florida - Friday May 219, 2023: Florida Power & Light (FPL) Friday proposed a $256 million rate reduction with the Florida Public Service Commission to take effect in July.
FPL's proposal calls for reducing the fuel portion of customer bills, reflecting continued downward revisions in projected natural gas costs for 2023 after last year's high levels.
This proposed reduction would be in addition to the rate decrease that went into effect at the start of May.
If approved, FPL bills would remain well below the national average and the typical 1,000-kWh residential customer bill in Northwest Florida would be lower in July than it was last year.
Business customer bills would decrease by 2% to 5%, depending on rate class.
"This is more positive news for our customers," said Armando Pimentel, president and CEO of FPL. "We know that every dollar counts for our customers, and we are pleased to propose another rate reduction. At the same time, we continue to encourage our customers to use FPL's tips and free tools to help save energy and money."
The PSC approves a fuel charge on customer bills based on FPL's projection of how much it will spend on fuel for its generating plants. FPL does not earn a profit on fuel and works hard to operate its power plants as fuel-efficiently as possible.
Since FPL projected its 2023 fuel expenditures last year, natural gas prices have declined. FPL has already made downward adjustments, which took effect in April and May, totaling nearly $1.4 billion in its 2023 fuel charges. If the July decrease is approved, it would be the third reduction in the fuel portion of FPL bills in 2023.
FPL offers energy-saving tips to customers
Even with the latest proposed rate reduction, individual bills could increase as customers use more air conditioning during the summer months. FPL is encouraging customers to take steps now to lower their bills by monitoring energy use and making their homes more energy efficient.
For example, customers can:
- Cool their home at 78° or higher; each degree customers increase the temperature on their thermostats can reduce bills by up to 5% a month for cooling costs
- Clean the lint filter in their dryer before each load to minimize drying time
- Turn off ceiling fans and lights in unoccupied rooms
- View daily, weekly and monthly energy use by using the FPL Mobile App, which is available on the Apple App store, Google Play or by texting "App" to MyFPL (69375)
- Activate the free FPL Energy Manager tool to monitor how your home is using energy and identify ways to save
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BALTIMORE, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Transamerica announced today the expansion of its workplace benefits offerings with refreshed supplemental Transamerica Accident InsuranceSM and Transamerica Critical Illness InsuranceSM policies available for employers to offer employees. Inspired by customer feedback, the updated supplemental health insurance policies offer greater benefits when an insured person experiences the challenges of extra costs that occur from a covered event.
Transamerica Accident Insurance is a highly flexible policy that pays the insured a benefit to help cover unexpected medical costs that can add up fast due to a covered accident. The policy offers employers the ability to fully customize plan designs to best meet the needs of a diverse workforce. Employers may match or improve an existing accident insurance plan or select new plan designs, base benefits, and optional riders.
A variety of new benefits are now available with Transamerica Accident Insurance, helping to cover medical or other costs that can arise after an accident. New benefits include:
- An organized sports benefit rider that pays an additional percentage of total benefits, making this policy ideal for active families.
- Acupuncture or chiropractic benefits that allow up to ten annual visits at up to $150 per visit, with one treatment per visit.
- Mental health benefits that allow up to five annual mental health visits with a psychiatrist or psychologist at up to $150 per visit.
- Observation benefits that pay for treatment in a hospital emergency room if the insured person is being held for observation due to a covered accident and is not admitted as an inpatient due to a covered accident.
Transamerica Critical Illness Insurance is a flexible option that pays a lump-sum benefit that can be used to offset costs not covered by major medical insurance. Critical illness insurance is designed to give employees relief from rising healthcare costs. New features include:
- Payments of up to 110% of the benefit amount available on most conditions, including invasive cancer, and 100% for non-invasive cancer.
- Child benefits payable up to 200% for conditions including cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, and Down syndrome.
- Benefits for COVID-19 treatment.
- No waiting periods on recurring conditions.
- Second opinion benefit of up to $1,000.
- Benefits for more covered conditions, including benign tumors, cardiovascular disease, childhood disease, functional loss, and occupational exposure.
Transamerica's Accident Insurance and Critical Illness policies offer a health screening benefit option that encourages employees to use their policy and rewards them for taking care of their health. This benefit pays when the insured has an annual test or exam performed under the supervision or recommendation of a physician. Annual screenings can help give employees the benefit of time if an illness is detected and treated early.
"Transamerica recognizes the need for protection that goes beyond common conditions," said John Stanley, Senior Managing Director of Employee Benefits at Transamerica. "With that in mind, we have designed our accident and critical illness supplemental insurance solutions for a modernized workforce. We enhanced these policies to include benefits that employees want and use."
These newly expanded benefits follow the launch of Transamerica's Group Life, Absence and Disability suite. With nearly 90 years of experience providing employee benefits, Transamerica is committed to helping employers provide more financial security for their employees. The policies are underwritten by Transamerica Life Insurance Company.
To learn more about Transamerica's suite of employee benefit solutions, employers may contact their financial professional.
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With a history that dates back more than 100 years, Transamerica is recognized as a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Recognizing the necessity of health and wellness during peak working life, Transamerica's dedicated professionals work to help people take the steps necessary to live better today so they can worry less about tomorrow. Transamerica serves nearly every customer segment, providing a broad range of quality life insurance and investment products, individual and group pension plans, as well as asset management services. In 2021, Transamerica fulfilled its promises to customers, paying more than $52 billion in insurance, retirement, and annuity claims and benefits, including return of annuity premiums paid by the customer. Transamerica's corporate headquarters is located in Baltimore, Maryland, with other major operations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Denver, Colorado. Transamerica is part of the Aegon group of companies. Based in the Netherlands, Aegon is a diversified financial services group focused on providing investment, protection, and retirement solutions. For the full year of 2021, Aegon managed over $1.1 trillion in revenue generating investments. For more information, visit www.transamerica.com.
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Taco Bell customer angry over missing menu item shoots at nearby Subway
ASHTABULA, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - A fast-food worker in Ohio says a man began shooting after he apparently got angry over a missing menu item.
WOIO reports the customer, later identified as 23-year-old Hamid Majed Al-Ramadan, fired his gun several times at a Subway restaurant after he was angry about a nearby Taco Bell not having any chicken chalupas.
“He was mad over some chicken chalupas at Taco Bell. “They took them off the menu,” said Subway employee Taylor Cunningham.
The 18-year-old employee said she could tell something was off with the man from the moment he walked into the store on Oct. 16.
“He [Al-Ramadan] was just kind of saying that he hated Ohio. He hated living here. He said he hated us and that we shouldn’t even have our jobs because we don’t do anything,” Cunningham said. “He was just mad for no reason.”
According to Cunningham, Al-Ramadan fired one shot outside the store and another into the store, shattering the front glass.
A bullet hit her 17-year-old friend, who was visiting her at work at the time, in the leg.
“I’ve never been so scared in my life,” Cunningham said. “I thought I was going to get shot, but it didn’t hit me; it hit my friend.”
Cunningham said she went to the nearby Taco Bell and employees told her they also had an encounter with the same customer.
“I went to the store [Taco Bell] after work. They said, ‘Yeah, he [Al-Ramadan] was threatening to shoot us up,’” Cunningham said.
Weeks after that incident, Al-Ramadan bonded out of jail.
According to court records, the 23-year-old was released on Monday. He must wear an ankle monitor and is not allowed to have any contact with the Taco Bell or Subway locations involved in the incident.
However, Cunningham said she is afraid now that he is out on the streets.
“What if he comes looking for the people that originally put him under the bus? We went in for questioning,” Cunningham said. “What happens if he sees us on the street? God only knows what he’ll do.”
According to court records, Al-Ramadan is not allowed to have any guns in his house and is required to have a mental assessment and drug screening as part of his release.
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NEW YORK — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday:
The provider of cloud-based software services for the life sciences industry gave investors a disappointing earnings forecast.
Ambarella Inc., up $2.45 to $76.38.
The video-compression chipmaker reported encouraging third-quarter financial results.
Asana Inc., down $1.89 to $16.19.
The work-management app operator’s revenue forecast for its current quarter fell short of analysts’ expectations.
Smartsheet Inc., up $5.39 to $37.90.
The maker of a cloud-based work-management platform gave investors an encouraging financial forecast.
PagerDuty Inc., up $1.15 to $23.67.
The software developer reported encouraging third-quarter earnings.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., down $14.69 to $98.87.
The Tennessee-based restaurant chain’s fiscal first-quarter earnings fell short of analysts’ forecasts. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/marvell-veeva-fall-smartsheet-pagerduty-rise/2022/12/02/cd72e8a8-7286-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html | 2022-12-02 22:23:29 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/marvell-veeva-fall-smartsheet-pagerduty-rise/2022/12/02/cd72e8a8-7286-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html |
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CORDOVA, New Mexico (AP) — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities like Cordova relied on their own resources to keep the faith going.
Thousands of miles from religious and lay seats of power, everything from priests to sculptors to paint pigments was hard to come by. Villagers instituted lay church caretakers called “mayordomos,” and filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap.
Today, threatened by depopulation, dwindling congregations and fading traditions, some of their descendants are fighting to save these historic adobe structures from literally crumbling back to the earth they were built with.
“Our ancestors put blood and sweat in this place for us to have Jesus present. This is the root of my faith,” said Angelo Sandoval on a chilly spring day inside the 1830s church of St. Anthony, where he serves as mayordomo in his native Cordova. “We’re not just a church, we’re not just a religion – we have roots.”
From the local dirt they’re made of to the generations of family memories they hold, these churches anchor a uniquely New Mexican way of life for their communities, many of which no longer have schools or stores, and struggle with chronic poverty and addiction.
An estimated 500 Catholic mission churches remain in northern New Mexico, where the Rocky Mountains taper off into desert mesas to the west and endless plains to the east.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find the necessary investment – hundreds of thousands of dollars, plus specialized conservation skills and families willing to serve as mayordomos – to preserve them, especially since most are used for only a few services each year.
“It’s truly a labor of love,” said the Rev. Rob Yaksich, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows in Las Vegas, New Mexico, which oversees 23 rural churches, most in adobe, spread over a large territory. “When the faithful generation is gone, are they going to be a museum or serve their purpose? This old, deep-rooted Spanish Catholicism is experiencing serious disruption.”
Fidel Trujillo is mayordomo of the pink-stuccoed San José church in the hamlet of Ledoux where he grew up. With his wife and other family members, he keeps it spotless even though only two Masses per year are celebrated here regularly.
“Our ‘antepasados’ (ancestors) did a tremendous job in handing over the faith, and it’s our job now,” Trujillo said in the characteristic mix of Spanish and English that many speak in this region. While he’s also active in the main parish in the nearby town of Mora, he brings his children, 6 and 4, as often as he can to San José.
“This serves as a retreat and grounding for us,” he added. “I much prefer coming to these ‘capillas’ (chapels). It’s a compass that guides where your heart really belongs.”
Each mission church is devoted to a particular saint, for whom the community develops special veneration. When New Mexico’s largest wildfire last spring charred forests close to the San José church, and Trujillo was displaced for a month, he took the statue of St. Joseph with him.
In the small town of Bernalillo, Catholic faithful have kept a vow to St. Lawrence for more than 300 years that includes one family each year setting up an altar with his image in their home – and making it available 24/7 to anyone who wants to pray.
“They have knocked at my door at 2 a.m. and I’ve let them in,” said mayordoma Barbara Finley.
Her home is near the historic adobe Santuario de San Lorenzo, which the community fought to keep even though a larger church was built next door.
“Four hundred years ago, life was very difficult in this part of the world, the remote inland frontier of the Spanish empire,” explained Felix López, a master “santero” – the artists who sculpt, paint and conserve saint figures in New Mexico’s unique devotional style, born of historical isolation. “People needed these ‘santos.’ They were a source of comfort and refuge.”
In intervening centuries, most were stolen, sold or damaged, according to Bernadette Lucero, director, curator and archivist for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, which has inventories of its hundreds of churches since the 1600s.
But how much these expressive sculptures and paintings still matter to local communities is evident where they survive in original form, as they do at the mission churches in Cordova, Truchas and Las Trampas on the mountain road from Santa Fe to Taos.
“Saints are the spiritual go-to; they can be highly powerful,” said Victor Goler, a master santero who just completed conserving the altarpieces, or “reredos,” in Las Trampas’ mid-18th century church. “It’s important for the community to have a connection. Their feeling is a lot deeper and that’s what keeps it going.”
On a recent Sunday at Truchas’ 1760s Holy Rosary church, López pointed out the rich decorative details that centuries of smoke and grime had hidden until he meticulously removed them with the absorbent inside of sourdough bread.
“I’m a devout Catholic, and I do this as meditation, as a form of prayer,” said López, who’s been a santero for five decades and whose family hails from this village perched on a ridge at 7,000 feet (2,100 meters).
A few miles down the valley in Cordova, Jerry Sandoval – another santero and the mayordomo’s uncle — says a prayer to each saint before starting to sculpt their image out of pine, cottonwood or aspen. He then paints them with natural pigments – purple is made of crushed bugs, for example – and varnishes them with the sap of piñon, the stocky pine tree that dots the countryside.
He also helped conserve the colorful, centuries-old reredos at the local church, where many children come back for traditional Christmas and Easter prayers – giving both Sandovals hope that the younger generations will learn to be attached to their church.
“They see all this,” Jerry Sandoval said in front of the richly decorated altarpieces from St. Anthony church. “Lots of people call it tradition, but we call it faith.”
For the Rev. Sebastian Lee, who as administrator of the popular Santuario de Chimayó complex a few miles away also oversees these mission churches, fostering local attachment is a daunting challenge as congregations shrink even faster since the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I want missions to be where people can taste culture and religiosity. They’re very healing, you’re soaked with people’s faith,” Lee said as pilgrims filed past his tiny adobe-walled office into the main sanctuary at Chimayó. “I wonder how to help them, because sooner or later one mission is not going to have enough people.”
The archdiocese’s Catholic Foundation provides small grants, and several organizations have been founded to help conservation efforts.
Frank Graziano hopes his non-profit Nuevo Mexico Profundo, which supported the Cordova conservation, can obtain the necessary permit from the archdiocese to restore the 1840s church of San Geronimo. Deep cracks break apart its adobe walls and bug nests buzz in a gaping hole by one of the windows.
The surrounding village, in a wide valley in the shadow of Hermit Peak, is almost entirely depopulated, making it unlikely that the community will step in for the necessary upkeep. Exposed to rain and snow, adobe needs a fresh replastering of dirt, sand and straw every couple of years lest it dissolve.
That makes local buy-in and some kind of ongoing activity, even just funerals, fundamental to long-term preservation, said Jake Barrow, program director at Cornerstones, which has worked on more than 300 churches and other structures.
When volunteers started fundraising for the mission in Truchas, the community suspected it would be turned into an art gallery, said mayordoma Aggie Vigil. They came around when she shared the dream to make the old adobe church, then unstable and infested with gophers, viable for Mass again.
But with fewer priests and fewer faithful, taking some rural missions off the church’s roster might be inevitable, said the Rev. Andy Pavlak, who serves on the archdiocese’s commission for preservation of historic churches.
“We have two choices: Either return to the community, or back to the earth they came from. We can’t save them all,” said Pavlak, who for nearly a decade ministered to 10 churches in Socorro County, the oldest from 1615. “The adobe is made from the earth. Adam and Eve were made from the earth. We’re all going to the earth. How do we do it with dignity?”
Running his hand over the smooth adobe walls he restored at the 1880s Santo Niño de Atocha chapel in Monte Aplanado, a hamlet nestled in a high mountain valley, Leo Paul Pacheco argued that the answer might hinge on the faith of lay people like him.
He and his son belong to one of the many brotherhoods, known as “penitentes” for their devotion to penance and prayer for souls in purgatory, that historians credit with fulfilling the church’s role of religious and social work when frontier dangers kept priests away.
The brothers still help set a model as their county struggles with unemployment and the drug crisis, Pacheco said. “We lift our community in prayer. What we do is to highlight and share aspects of community that bring bonds.”
Longer term, it will be up to future generations to leverage their faith to save these historic churches.
“They still have access to the same dirt,” Pacheco said as the adobe walls’ sand particles and straw sparkled in the sun. “They will provide.”
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Women’s basketball looks to extend road streak in Starkville
February 19, 2023
The Alabama women’s basketball team has had an excellent season, with its previous contest yielding the 20th win of the regular season — the first time that has happened since 1998. Another ongoing mark for the program is its five straight SEC road wins. Sunday’s game against Mississippi State provides the opportunity to make that six.
The Crimson Tide (20-6, 9-4 SEC) can also win its 10th game of conference play this season with a victory over the Bulldogs (18-8, 7-6 SEC).
Alabama has won four games in a row, defeating Vanderbilt 88-70 on Thursday with a versatile effort featuring five players in double figures. Three straight games have featured four or more Crimson Tide players with 10 points or greater.
Mississippi State had a three-game streak snapped in its most recent outing, dropping a road game to Missouri. The Bulldogs still possess a winning record in league play and have been very good at home. Mississippi State boasts a 12-2 home mark so far this season, including 4-2 in SEC play.
As accomplishments continue to mount, the Crimson Tide has not become complacent.
“We talk a lot about hitting the reset button,” Alabama head coach Kristy Curry said. “I think that’s something our team has done a really good job of, is being able to move forward. … We certainly have our hands full going to Starkville.”
Curry said it’s important that the Crimson Tide carries its road approach into Humphrey Coliseum.
“They do a really good job of rebounding the basketball, and just have versatility throughout their roster — a lot of double digit scorers who can step up on any given night. On the road, the reason we’ve been successful is [defending and rebounding]. It’s going to be really important that we take that same mentality from our previous road games into Starkville.”
Alabama is no stranger to playing on the road, and stringing together success away from home is pivotal to building a resume as the conference and NCAA tournaments draw closer. A win inside Humphrey Coliseum against a squad which has defended its home court against nearly all visitors would be a big addition to the Crimson Tide’s record.
To accomplish this, Alabama needs to maintain its versatile attack while continuing to rebound the ball, play strong defense and limit turnovers. These are things the Crimson Tide has been doing well, and consistency is very important at this point in the season.
Tipoff for the third-to-last league game of Alabama’s regular season will be at 4:30 p.m. CT on Sunday, Feb. 19. Following Sunday’s game, only two contests remain prior to the SEC Tournament.
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Stars vs. Golden Knights Stanley Cup Semifinals Game 6: Odds, total, moneyline and other Vegas lines
The Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights hit the ice Monday in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Semifinals at American Airlines Center, beginning at 8:00 PM ET on ESPN, ESPN+, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS. The Golden Knights are up 3-2 in the series. The Stars are favored (-130) against the Golden Knights (+110).
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Stars vs. Golden Knights Game Info
- When: Monday, May 29, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: ESPN, ESPN+, CBC, SportsNet, and TVAS
- Where: American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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- Dallas and its opponent have gone over 5.5 combined goals in 51 of 100 games this season.
- The Stars are 21-9 this season when favored on the moneyline.
- The Golden Knights have been made the underdog 18 times this season, and upset their opponent 13 times.
- Dallas is 19-8 (victorious in 70.4% of its games) when it has played with moneyline odds of -130 or shorter.
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Police: 13-year-old dies in snowmobile crash on New Year’s Eve
DUNCAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC/Gray News) - Authorities in Michigan are investigating a deadly snowmobile crash on New Year’s Eve.
WLUC reports troopers from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post were called to a trail just before noon in Houghton County regarding a crash involving a snowmobile.
Authorities said first responders found a 13-year-old female snowmobile driver with a serious head injury once at the scene.
According to state police, the girl appeared to be moving over to allow other snowmobiles to pass when she was pulled from the trail by deep snow.
The 13-year-old then lost control of the snowmobile and collided with a tree, police said. She was transported to a hospital but later died.
Authorities said the girl had been operating under the immediate supervision of her father.
State police did not immediately release the name of the driver, but said she was from Missouri along with her father.
The crash remains under investigation.
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A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake shook the southern region of Alaska in July 2021. Scientists believe the quake may have turned up more than 30 new dinosaur footprints from three different species.
They included two unique footprints: one made by an ankylosaur, an armored plant-eating dinosaur, and the other by a carnivorous theropod. Theropods are three-toed predators that include tyrannosaurs. Only two such tracks from a theropod have been recorded by Fiorillo’s team here.
“I’m very excited because it allows us to do a statistical analysis with the robust data,” said a member of Fiorillo’s team, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, a paleontology professor at Japan’s Hokkaido University Museum. “With a few [prints], it’s like you’re sharing a whisper from dinosaurs, but if you have a huge number, it’s like screaming. The dinosaurs are telling us something.”
The team is collecting data to explain how enormous reptiles were able to survive 75 million years ago in a climate that more closely resembled present-day Seattle or Portland, Ore. A wet and rainy climate and relatively temperate weather doesn’t seem ideal for multi-ton reptiles, but dinosaurs thrived here, Fiorillo said.
Fiorillo, the executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, has spent 10 field seasons at Aniakchak. The area has intrigued him since he first discovered a dinosaur footprint here in 2002. “Walking these couple of miles, there’s just a truly remarkable frequency of tracks on the beach and in the cliffs,” Fiorillo said, “And I would be a little hard pressed to think of that kind of density in track abundance” elsewhere.
Most of the footprints from roughly 75 million years ago in the late Cretaceous were made by hadrosaurs, which were duck-billed herbivores. Dinosaur remains and ancient soil samples informed a study published in April in the journal Geosciences. It showed that mean annual precipitation had more to do with structuring habitat selection than mean annual temperature among dinosaurs that roamed in Alaska. The study compared the team’s findings not only from Aniakchak Bay but also from work on Alaska’s North Slope and in Denali National Park and Preserve.
During the late Cretaceous, Aniakchak wasn’t much farther south than it is today, so this team has returned here nearly every year since 2016 to piece together a more comprehensive picture of how dinosaurs were able to survive here.
“We don’t have a lot of high-resolution dating throughout this section” of rocks, said Paul McCarthy, head of the Geosciences Department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, who specializes in ancient soils, or paleosols.
At Aniakchak, the geologist is focusing on a 300-meter-thick (328-yard-thick) section of layered sedimentary rock. “So we know the age of the 300-meter section,” he said, but what’s missing is a layer, or several, within that section that can help provide more details about how and when the climate changed here.
It “is really impossible without knowing exactly how much time each individual segment represents,” McCarthy said.
This outcrop, however, offers other details that allow the team to get specific about dinosaurs and their habitat preferences.
“As you go through time within this section, we can compare who’s walking around to the plants, the soils and whether they’re on a river flood plain or in an estuary” or some other place, McCarthy said.
One end of a roughly three-mile-long stretch of coastline is littered with tracks made by juvenile hadrosaurs. The rocks indicate that area was once an estuary, where a river dumped into a tidal flat. On the other end, the majority of tracks were laid down in an exposed intertidal zone by fully grown adult hadrosaurs.
Nicknamed “the cradle of storms,” Aniakchak Bay offers something new to Fiorillo on each visit. Where piles of kelp had washed up to rot on the beach last year, swaths of black sand took over this summer. Storms here are dramatic enough to move vehicle-size boulders, and the rocks seem to shape shift as thick sheets of rain give way to intermittent sunshine.
Fiorillo and his team will present some of their findings at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. The four-day event begins Oct. 9.
“And then we’ll see what new questions come up as we really start to analyze the data and then think about next year,” Fiorillo said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/10/01/alaska-earthquake-dinosaur-tracks/ | 2022-10-01 12:40:19 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/10/01/alaska-earthquake-dinosaur-tracks/ |
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Despite efforts, barriers remain to accessing Massachusetts' beaches
The weather's getting warmer, which means many of us are thinking about hitting the beach.
But if you don't live on the coast, securing a spot at one of the region's beaches can be tough and expensive.
UMass Boston professor John Duff has been studying the issue, and joined WBUR's Morning Edition host Rupa Shenoy to talk about it.
Highlights from this interview have been lightly edited for clarity.
Interview Highlights
On why people should have access to beaches
"It's always been a right of the public to have at least some basic access to the shoreline. And historically it's been for subsistence or navigation purposes in the 20th and 21st century, if more people were going to the coastline for recreation. So there's a long history of public access. It's just the type of public access. And the reason that people want to go to the coast, that has changed over time.
On the barriers to visiting beaches in Massachusetts and how they differ from other states
"In most states, if you live along the coastline, the property line ends at the high watermark. The Massachusetts original English charter and grants allowed people to actually own the intertidal zone — that is, the land area between the high watermark and the low watermark. New Hampshire private property owners can own to the high tideline, and Rhode Island making their own to the high tide line. Massachusetts and Maine are exceptions to the rule."
On parking costs, resident restrictions and how they're changing
"They are increasing. There are more people these days than there were in the past. The Massachusetts population has doubled or tripled in the last 50 or 60 years. In some places, there is a parking permit that you can purchase to go to, say, a town beach. And in most of those places, a nonresident could buy either a day pass or an annual pass. But they're going to be paying more than the residents of the town are.
And in one recent case, the town of Brewster actually purchased a piece of property that restricted parking to the town residents. And they made an exception for members of the Wampanoag tribe. So the town of Brewster wanted to recognize the existence in the history of the Wampanoags and the area."
On where funding for beach access could come from
"To enhance access, the state legislature passed something called the Community Preservation Act, which allows towns, if they choose to raise funds through a surcharge on property taxes, and those surcharges can be used for acquiring or enhancing open space. And that includes beach space. And a lot of those efforts have been designed to allow more folks of different abilities to actually reach the beach. So a lot of places are using money to put things called mobility mats. Some towns have acquired beach wheelchairs. Some places have restored or built restrooms because with more and more people going to the beach, you certainly need more restroom facilities there."
On how water quality impacts beach access
"I mean, people want to go to the beach, but they want to go to a clean, healthy, safe beach. So I grew up in the Boston area. The water in Boston Harbor was was pretty bad for that reason. If people wanted to go to a clean, safe beach, they actually had to leave the Boston area.
Some of the best beaches in Boston Harbor are the ones on the Boston Harbor Islands. And, you know, they're right off shore. But you've got to take a ferry over there. And those ferries can be costly. A family of four might be looking at close to 100 bucks to get out there. And that's that's pretty pricey."
On what residents who are concerned about beach access can do
"There are a lot of beaches that are public and relatively close by. There are some state run beaches in and around the Boston area. There are some town beaches up and down the coast. So just knowing where they are is quite helpful."
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Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider
WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China.
The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. Ahead of its unveiling Friday at an Air Force facility in Palmdale, California, only artists’ renderings of the warplane have been released. Those few images reveal that the Raider resembles the black nuclear stealth bomber it will eventually replace, the B-2 Spirit.
The bomber is part of the Pentagon’s efforts to modernize all three legs of its nuclear triad, which includes silo-launched nuclear ballistic missiles and submarine-launched warheads, as it shifts from the counterterrorism campaigns of recent decades to meet China’s rapid military modernization.
China is on track to have 1,500 nuclear weapons by 2035, and its gains in hypersonics, cyber warfare, space capabilities and other areas present “the most consequential and systemic challenge to U.S. national security and the free and open international system,” the Pentagon said this week in its annual China report.
“We needed a new bomber for the 21st Century that would allow us to take on much more complicated threats, like the threats that we fear we would one day face from China, Russia,” said Deborah Lee James, the Air Force secretary when the Raider contract was announced in 2015. “The B-21 is more survivable and can take on these much more difficult threats.”
While the Raider may resemble the B-2, once you get inside, the similarities stop, said Kathy Warden, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Corp., which is building the Raider.
“The way it operates internally is extremely advanced compared to the B-2, because the technology has evolved so much in terms of the computing capability that we can now embed in the software of the B-21,” Warden said.
Other changes likely include advanced materials used in coatings to make the bomber harder to detect, new ways to control electronic emissions, so the bomber could spoof adversary radars and disguise itself as another object, and use of new propulsion technologies, several defense analysts said.
In a fact sheet, Northrop Grumman, based in Falls Church, Virginia, said it is using “new manufacturing techniques and materials to ensure the B-21 will defeat the anti-access, area-denial systems it will face.”
Warden could not discuss specifics of those technologies but said the bomber will be more stealthy.
“When we talk about low observability, it is incredibly low observability,” Warden said. “You’ll hear it, but you really won’t see it.”
Six B-21 Raiders are in production; The Air Force plans to build 100 that can deploy either nuclear weapons or conventional bombs and can be used with or without a human crew. Both the Air Force and Northrop also point to the Raider’s relatively quick development: The bomber went from contract award to debut in seven years. Other new fighter and ship programs have taken decades.
The cost of the bombers is unknown. The Air Force previously put the price for a buy of 100 aircraft at an average cost of $550 million each in 2010 dollars -- roughly $753 million today — but it’s unclear how much the Air Force is actually spending.
The fact that the price is not public troubles government watchdogs.
“It might be a big challenge for us to do our normal analysis of a major program like this,” said Dan Grazier, a senior defense policy fellow at the Project on Government Oversight. “It’s easy to say that the B-21 is still on schedule before it actually flies. Because it’s only when one of these programs goes into the actual testing phase when real problems are discovered. And so that’s the point when schedules really start to slip and costs really start to rise.”
The Raider will not make its first flight until 2023. However, using advanced computing, Warden said, Northrop Grumman has been testing the Raider’s performance using a digital twin, a virtual replica of the one being unveiled.
The B-2 was also envisioned to be a fleet of more than 100 aircraft, but the Air Force ultimately built only 21 of them, due to cost overruns and a changed security environment after the Soviet Union fell.
Fewer than that are ready to fly on any given day due to the significant maintenance needs of the aging bomber, said Todd Harrison, an aerospace specialist and managing director at Metrea Strategic Insights.
The B-21 Raider, which takes its name from the 1942 Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, will be slightly smaller than the B-2 to increase its range, Warden said.
In October 2001, B-2 pilots set a record when they flew 44 hours straight to drop the first bombs in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks. But the B-2 often does long round-trip missions, because there are few hangars globally that can accommodate its wingspan. That limits where B-2s can land for needed post-flight maintenance. And the hangars needed to be air-conditioned — because the Spirit’s windows don’t open, hotter climates can cook cockpit electronics.
The new Raider will also get new hangars, to accommodate the size and complexity of the bomber, Warden said.
A last noticeable difference is in the debut itself. While both will have debuted in the Air Force’s Palmdale Plant 42, in 1989 the B-2 was rolled outdoors amid much public fanfare.
Given advances in surveillance satellites and cameras, the Raider will debut very much under wraps and will be viewed inside a hangar. Invited guests including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will witness the hangar doors open to reveal the bomber for its public introduction, then the doors will close again.
“The magic of the platform,” Warden said, “is what you don’t see.”
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When army veteran Rich Fierro realized a gunman was spraying bullets inside the club where he had gathered with friends and family, instincts from his military training immediately kicked in.
First he ducked to avoid any potential incoming fire, then he moved to try to disarm the shooter.
“It’s the reflex. Go! Go to the fire. Stop the action. Stop the activity. Don’t let no one get hurt. I tried to bring everybody back,” he said Monday outside his home in Colorado Springs, where an American flag hung from the porch.
Fierro is one of two people police are crediting with saving lives by subduing a 22-year-old man armed with multiple firearms, including an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, who went on a shooting rampage Saturday night at Club Q, a well-known gathering place for the LGBTQ community in Colorado Springs. Five people were killed and at least 17 wounded.
Fierro was there with his daughter Kassy, her boyfriend and several other friends to see a drag show and celebrate a birthday. He said it was one of the group’s most enjoyable nights. That suddenly changed when the shots rang out and Kassy’s boyfriend, Raymond Green Vance, was fatally shot.
Speaking to reporters at his home, Fierro teared up as he recalled Raymond smiling and dancing before the shooting started.
Fierro could smell the cordite from the ammunition, saw the flashes and dove, pushing his friend down before falling backwards.
Looking up from the floor, Fierro saw the shooter’s body armor and the crowd that had fled to the club’s patio. Moving toward the attacker, Fierro grasped the body armor, yanked the shooter down while yelling at another patron, Thomas James, to move the rifle out of reach.
James is a U.S. Navy information systems technician stationed at the Defense Intelligence Agency base in Colorado Springs, according to a biography released by the Navy. The Navy statement Tuesday said James is in stable condition, without elaborating on the nature of his wounds.
As the shooter was pinned under a barrage of punches from Fierro and kicks to the head from James, he tried to reach for his pistol. Fierro grabbed it and used it as a bludgeon.
“I tried to finish him,” he said.
When a clubgoer ran by in heels, Fierro told her to kick the gunman. She stuffed her high-heeled shoe in the attacker’s face, Fierro said. Del Lusional, a drag queen who performed at Club Q on Saturday night, said on Twitter that the patron who intervened with her heel was a transgender woman.
“I love them,” Fierro said of the city’s LGBTQ community. “I have nothing but love.”
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s new government on Tuesday will propose an economic plan to steer the nation through rising inflation and interest rates while reigning in debt.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his center-left Labor Party’s first annual budget for the fiscal year that began in July.
It will be the first budget by a Labor government in nine years and must contend with unprecedented levels of debt as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chalmers said rising inflation was the primary influence on how he drafted his economic blueprint.
“The budget will be solid, sensible and suited for the times. It will recognize that in a time of extreme global uncertainty, our best defense is a responsible budget at home,” Chalmers told reporters.
“The budget has three objectives: responsible cost-of-living relief, strengthening the economy and beginning the hard yards of budget repair,” he added.
The previous conservative government had forecast in its last budget in March a 78 billion Australian dollar ($49 billion) deficit in the current fiscal year.
The new government’s forecast more than halves that deficit to AU$36.9 billion ($23.3 billion) thanks mainly to higher prices for commodities including iron ore and coal.
However, slowing economic growth was expected to add to the longer-term difficulty of repaying debt.
The March budget forecast that gross debt as a share of the economic growth would peak in mid-2025 at 44.9%, or AU$1.117 trilllion ($709 billion).
The budget will help families by increasing child care subsidies and gradually increasing paid parental leave entitlements from 18 to 26 weeks, the government said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the budget would provide cost-of-living relief for families without fueling inflation.
“The priority will be on measures that boost the economy, that boost productivity. Cheaper child care does just that. So does paid parental leave,” Albanese said.
The government will need to get its budget measures through the Parliament, where compromises may need to be made. | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/australia-to-reveal-economic-plan-for-deteriorating-outlook/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2022-10-25 00:26:08 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/australia-to-reveal-economic-plan-for-deteriorating-outlook/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
2 killed, 4 wounded in overnight New Orleans mass shooting
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE/Gray News) - An early morning shooting killed two 19-year-olds and wounded four others in New Orleans, according to police.
The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. local time Monday in the Lower 9th Ward, the New Orleans Police Department reported.
Investigators said first responders found four victims suffering from gunshot wounds.
A man and a woman, both 19, were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Authorities said two 18-year-old men were taken to the hospital, and two female victims, ages 17 and 18, arrived at a hospital in a private vehicle. The extent of their injuries was not released.
Detectives are working to identify a suspect and motive.
The identities of the deceased victims will be released by the parish coroner.
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Expanded Information Has Potential to Help Create Greater Home Ownership Opportunities For Millions of U.S. First Mortgage Applicants
ATLANTA, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equifax® (NYSE: EFX) is the first to provide certain telecommunications (telco), pay TV and utilities attributes to the mortgage industry to help streamline the mortgage underwriting process and support loans within the secondary mortgage market. The majority of American adults have at least one utility bill in their name. Delivering certain telco, pay TV and utilities attributes to mortgage lenders alongside traditional credit reports can help create greater home ownership opportunities for 191 million U.S. consumers, 80 percent of whom have traditional credit files, but may benefit from additional insights into their financial profile that can make mortgage underwriting faster and easier. The use of these expanded data insights can also provide visibility to millions of credit invisible consumers - those without traditional credit files - and enhance the financial profiles of thin, young and unscorable consumers as they complete first mortgage applications.
For many Americans, the purchase of a home is a critical first step to establishing wealth. However, credit invisible consumers can struggle to take the first step into home ownership. Often, these consumers must go through a time-consuming manual underwriting process of obtaining physical documentation from third parties to show they have credit history when applying for a mortgage loan. By delivering certain attributes, which are based on a consumer's aggregated history with telco, pay TV and utilities, Equifax is able to provide powerful new insights that help to automate, save time and resources, and streamline the first mortgage process for every applicant – creating more potential for consumers to secure a loan.
"At Equifax, we strive to create economically healthy individuals and communities everywhere we do business," said Mark W. Begor, CEO of Equifax. "While traditional credit reports remain a strong indicator of credit history and past financial reliability, we believe that more data drives better decisions. Reviewing traditional credit reports alongside alternative data insights enables the mortgage industry to develop a more complete picture of a consumer's financial profile to drive greater financial inclusion by potentially streamlining the mortgage underwriting processes for many more consumers. This new offering is another way that we are leveraging differentiated data assets to help more consumers to gain access to mainstream financial services and opportunities."
These Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)-compliant insights provide anonymized information to streamline the mortgage application process as consumers seek approval for a home loan. This expanded data cannot be used by lenders to deny applications for credit or other services.
"The pathway to financial wellness and equity often begins with homeownership," said Craig Crabtree, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Equifax Mortgage & Housing Services. "The key to greater financial inclusion lies in greater levels of visibility. By delivering these mainstream and highly structured telco, pay TV and utilities attributes in addition to its traditional mortgage credit reports, Equifax is providing the mortgage industry with the ability to access enhanced data sets that can further facilitate the mortgage lending processes for more consumers. We look forward to working with the mortgage industry so that, together, we can unlock the full potential in helping millions of Americans achieve their goal of home ownership."
These added consumer insights, delivered alongside Equifax traditional mortgage credit report, will be provided at no additional cost to lenders, helping them to simplify the manual underwriting process, improve the customer experience, and reduce lender costs. Equifax will begin making these insights available to customers in the first quarter 2023.
The inclusion of telco, pay TV and utilities attributes to mortgage lenders is just one of several ways Equifax is promoting greater access to credit. Equifax is committed to removing barriers to financial inclusion, supporting a number of industry initiatives designed to provide underserved populations with the same opportunities to succeed and benefit from the nation's financial system as others.
For more information on Equifax Mortgage and Housing Solutions, visit equifax.com/mortgage.
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FHP: 2 killed in crash on Florida Turnpike in Orange County
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Two people were killed in a crash on the Florida Turnpike in Orange County Thursday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Troopers said the crash happened southbound on the Turnpike at mile marker 266.
According to FHP, a tow truck and a trooper's patrol car – that had its emergency lights activated – were parked along the shoulder as the trooper was working a separate crash, when the driver of a pickup truck reportedly lost control and hit the tow truck. The tow truck's driver, who was standing outside his vehicle at the time, died at the scene following the crash.
The pickup truck driver also died at the scene. His passenger was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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The company also ranked #1 as a top provider of customer service among health insurance plans for a second year in a row.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Net has been named by Newsweek to the annual "America's Greatest Workplaces 2023 for Diversity" ranking. The ranking scored 1,000 companies across the United States that employees say respect and value diversity in their workforce. This year, Newsweek conducted interviews and surveys during a period of intense scrutiny and dialogue about how organizations can better foster diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.
Health Net was also named a top provider of customer service, ranking number one for "America's Best Customer Service 2023" among health insurance plans.
"These awards and distinctions demonstrate our commitment to creating a diverse and equitable workplace that delivers best-in-class benefits to our members," said Brian Ternan, President and CEO of Health Net. "We are proud to be recognized for creating an environment where all employees feel respected and valued."
Scorings are based on a large-scale employee study, in cooperation with Plant-A Insights Group, that reviewed publicly available data, interviews with Human Resources professionals and an anonymous online survey of a diverse pool of employees. Respondents were asked questions about corporate culture, working environment and other subjects at both their own companies and others they were familiar with.
"Most companies these days talk a lot about diversity. It is common to hear employers emphasizing their efforts to recruit and promote people of different ages, races, genders, sexuality and abilities," said Nancy Cooper, Global Editor in Chief at Newsweek on Newsweek.com. "It is well-documented that workplaces filled with people with different worldviews are more creative, more innovative and generally make better decisions."
Health Net is committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment for all employees. To further enhance their inclusive workforce culture, the company has cultivated companywide Employee Inclusion Groups (EIGs). Open to all Health Net employees, the EIGs are voluntary, employee-led groups that celebrate diversity, focusing on the LGBTQIA+ community, women and multicultural backgrounds. These groups host discussions and events that provide professional and leadership development opportunities, contribute to community engagement initiatives, and support business innovation and best practices.
Learn more about Health Net's various awards and recognitions for their values and actions.
At Health Net, we believe every person deserves a safety net for their health, regardless of age, income, employment status or current state of health. Founded in California more than 40 years ago, we're dedicated to transforming the health of our community, one person at a time. Today, Health Net's 2,600 employees and 90,000 network providers serve 3 million members. That's nearly 1 in 12 Californians. We provide health plans for individuals, families, businesses of every size and people who qualify for Medi-Cal or Medicare — Coverage for Every Stage of Life™. Health Net also offers access to substance abuse programs, behavioral health services, employee assistance programs and managed health care products related to prescription drugs. We offer these health plans and services through Health Net, LLC and its subsidiaries: Health Net of California, Inc., Health Net Life Insurance Company and Health Net Community Solutions, Inc. These entities are wholly owned subsidiaries of Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC), a Fortune 25 company that offers affordable and high-quality products to nearly 1 in 15 individuals across the nation. For more information, visit www.HealthNet.com.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Finland is poised to join NATO on Tuesday, a historic realignment triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the head of the military alliance said no more troops would be sent to the Nordic country unless it asked for help.
Russia warned that it would be forced to take “retaliatory measures” to address what it called security threats created by Finland’s membership. It had already warned that it would bolster defenses along its border with NATO if the alliance deploys any additional troops or equipment to its new member.
“There will be no NATO troops in Finland without the consent of Finland,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels a few hours before the country joins.
But he refused to rule out the possibility of holding more military exercises there and said that NATO would not allow Russia’s demands to dictate the organization’s decisions.
“We are constantly assessing our posture, our presence. We have more exercises, we have more presence, also in the Nordic area,” he said.
Later Tuesday, Finland is set to officially become the 31st member of NATO and take its place among the ranks of the world’s biggest security alliance.
Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Finland applied to join in May, setting aside years of military non-alignment to seek protection under the organization’s security umbrella. Neighboring Sweden also applied, but its accession process may take a few months longer.
Finland shares a 1,340 kilometer (832 mile) border with Russia, so its entry will more than double the size of NATO’s border with Russia. The move is a strategic and political blow to President Vladimir Putin, who has long complained about NATO’s expansion toward Russia — though the alliance says it poses no threat to Moscow.
“The Russian Federation will be forced to take military-technical and other retaliatory measures to counter the threats to our national security arising from Finland’s accession to NATO,” the Foreign Ministry warned in a statement.
It said Finland’s move marks “a fundamental change in the situation in Northern Europe, which had previously been one of the most stable regions in the world.”
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Finland’s membership reflects the alliance’s anti-Russian course and warned that Moscow will respond depending on what weapons NATO allies place there.
But Peskov also sought to play down the impact, noting that Russia has no territorial disputes with Finland.
It’s not clear what additional military resources Russia could send to the Finnish border. Moscow has deployed the bulk of its most capable military units to Ukraine.
Stoltenberg said that once it joins, Finland will benefit from NATO’s “iron-clad security guarantee,” under which all member countries vow to come to the defense of any ally that comes under attack.
“By (Finland) become a full-fledged member, we are removing the room for miscalculation in Moscow about NATO’s readiness to protect Finland, and that makes Finland safer and stronger, and all of us safer,” Stoltenberg said.
Finland’s entry, to be marked with a flag-raising ceremony at NATO headquarters, falls on the organization’s very own birthday, the 74th anniversary of the signing of its founding Washington Treaty on April 4, 1949. It also coincides with a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers.
Finland’s president, foreign and defense ministers will take part in the ceremony.
Turkey became the last NATO member country to ratify Finland’s membership protocol on Thursday. It will hand over the document officially enshrining that decision to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken before the ceremony.
Finland’s membership becomes official when its own foreign minister hands over documents completing its accession process to Blinken. The U.S. State Department is the repository of NATO texts concerning membership. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/finland-set-to-join-nato-in-blow-to-putin/ | 2023-04-04 11:55:38 | 0 | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/finland-set-to-join-nato-in-blow-to-putin/ |
MALDEN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts charter school where an 8th grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.”
A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School student posted on social media a picture of the “School Uniform Compliance Form” the student received from a teacher for the hijab on Thursday. In the description of the infraction, the headscarf worn by Muslim women was misspelled as “jihab.”
The school said in an emailed statement that it allows students to wear religious attire “as an expression of their sincerely held beliefs,” but asks students to provide a letter “expressing this desire from a member of their clergy.”
School Superintendent Alex Dan said there were no consequences given to the student and that the form sent home was meant to start the conversation with the family about obtaining a religious accommodation. But Dan acknowledged that the situation was mishandled.
“While we would like to reiterate that the well-respected staff member overseeing the process should bear no responsibility for what has transpired, we understand how our handling of the situation came across as insensitive and look forward to using this moment as a learning opportunity to improve our policies and procedures,” the school’s statement said.
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says its lawyers are representing the student’s family and are investigating the situation. The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
CAIR-Massachusetts Executive Director Tahirah Amatul-Wadud said wearing a hijab or other religious attire shouldn’t require families to seek an accommodation.
“I would like never for that student have to justify what she is wearing,” she said Sunday. “I don’t want them to ever have to justify that this requires an accommodation.”
The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School also came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. The parents of then-15-year-olds said their twin daughters, who are Black, were punished for wearing extensions while white students hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations.
After intense criticism, including from Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, the school abandoned the policy.
In July, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law prompted by that incident to ban discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists — in workplaces, school districts and school-related organizations in the state. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/massachusetts-student-receives-uniform-violation-for-hijab/ | 2022-08-22 01:36:04 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national-news/massachusetts-student-receives-uniform-violation-for-hijab/ |
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iran’s president has begun a rare visit to Africa as his country, which is under heavy U.S. economic sanctions, seeks to deepen partnerships around the world.
President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to Kenya on Wednesday is the first to the African continent by an Iranian leader in more than a decade. He is also expected to visit Uganda and Zimbabwe and meet with the presidents there.
Africa is a “continent of opportunities” and a great platform for Iranian products, Raisi told journalists in a briefing. He didn’t take questions. “None of us is satisfied with the current volume of trade,” he said.
Iran’s leader specifically mentioned Africa’s mineral resources and Iran’s petrochemical experience, but the five memoranda of understanding signed on Wednesday by the Islamic Republic and Kenya appeared not to address either one. Instead, they addressed information, communication and technology; fisheries; animal health and livestock production and investment promotion.
Kenyan President William Ruto called Iran a “critical strategic partner” and “global innovation powerhouse.” He expressed interest in expanding Kenya’s agricultural exports to Iran and Central Asia well beyond tea.
Iran also intends to set up a manufacturing plant for Iranian vehicles in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa, Ruto said,
Raisi’s Africa visit is meant to “promote economic diplomacy, strengthen political relations with friendly and aligned countries, and diversify the export destinations,” Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement upon his arrival.
Last month, Iran’s leader made his first visit to Latin America, stopping in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
In March, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties in a major diplomatic breakthrough.
Iran is in a growing standoff with Western nations over its nuclear program, which has made major advances in the five years since then-U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew his country from an international agreement that restricted it. Trump also restored sanctions on Iran that have contributed to a severe economic crisis.
The U.S. last month accused Iran of providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant as Moscow seeks weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Iran has said it provided drones to Russia before the start of the war but not since.
Kenya is East Africa’s economic hub and an ally of the U.S., with President Joe Biden’s wife, Jill, visiting the country early this year. Last year, the U.S. and Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding on “strategic civil nuclear cooperation.” Kenya has expressed interest in using nuclear power for energy production.
Under Ruto, Kenya is struggling with debt and rising cost of living, with more protests expected on Wednesday in the capital, Nairobi, and elsewhere.
Few details have been released about the Iranian leader’s visit to Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a U.S. ally on security matters, has previously voiced support for Iran’s controversial nuclear program. During a 2010 visit by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Museveni asserted that all sovereign countries had a right to pursue peaceful nuclear programs even as he urged the eradication of all nuclear arsenals.
Uganda is trying to set up a nuclear power plant that authorities this year said would be generating electricity by 2031. The plant, which is being developed with the technical support of the China National Nuclear Corporation, would exploit the East African country’s substantial deposits of uranium.
Zimbabwe, like Iran, is under U.S. sanctions. A ministerial delegation from Zimbabwe visited Tehran early this year and agreed to deepen cooperation in areas includiung petroleum trade.
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Associated Press writers Rodney Muhumuza in Kampala, Uganda, and Farai Mutsaka in Harare, Zimbabwe, contributed to this report. | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/ap-irans-president-begins-a-rare-visit-to-africa-to-promote-economic-diplomacy/ | 2023-07-12 13:32:07 | 1 | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/international/ap-irans-president-begins-a-rare-visit-to-africa-to-promote-economic-diplomacy/ |
WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, October 6, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
352 PM PDT Thu Oct 6 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of southeast California, including the following
county, Imperial.
* WHEN...Until 700 PM PDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 352 PM PDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Up to 1 inch of rain has
fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are expected
over the area. This additional rain will result in minor
flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Algodones Dunes and Gordon's Well.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
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NEW YORK — The finalists for the 2023 MLB All-Star ballot have been decided based on fan voting, and as expected, the Mariners didn’t have player among the group despite being the host for the Midsummer Classic.
The announcement was made Thursday afternoon on MLB Network.
Outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Braves and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani of the Angels were the top vote-getters in their respective leagues during the first phase of voting. It earns them an automatic spot in the starting lineup, bypassing the second phase of voting.
Acuña led all of MLB with 3,082,600 total votes. He’s been the top vote-getter in the National League the last three seasons. Ohtani picked up 2,646,307 votes and will start as the DH for the American League for a third straight year.
While the Mariners didn’t have a player with enough votes to be a finalist, which isn’t surprising, there is some local representation for the second phase of voting.
Seattle native and former Lakeside standout Corbin Carroll, who is putting together a brilliant rookie season with the Diamondbacks, is one of six outfield finalists in the NL.
Carroll, who turns 23 in August, was a first-round pick (16th overall) by Arizona in 2018.
In 72 games this season, Carroll has a .298/.381/.581 slash line with 19 doubles, three triples, 16 homers, 40 RBI and 21 stolen bases. Carroll’s 3.7 WAR (Baseball-Reference) is the highest among all NL position players. He’s the early favorite to win the NL rookie of the year award.
The second phase of voting, which begins Monday at 9 a.m. PT, is available exclusively online and via mobile devices at MLB.com/vote, all 30 teams’ websites, the MLB app and the MLB Ballpark app. Fans can vote once per day during a four-day window that ends June 29 at 9 a.m. The winners will be announced at 4 p.m. on ESPN that day. All voting is reset for Phase 2.
The finalists, with Phase 1 vote totals included:
American League
Catcher
- Adley Rutschman, Baltimore Orioles (1,291,399): Bidding for his first career All-Star appearance and attempting to become the first Orioles backstop to win a fan election since Matt Wieters in 2009.
- Jonah Heim, Texas Rangers (969,250): Vying for his first career All-Star appearance; would become the third Rangers catcher to win a fan election, joining Hall of Famer Iván Rodríguez (1993-2001) and Mike Napoli (2012).
First Base
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays (1,632,519): The 2021 Ted Williams All-Star Game MVP is seeking his third All-Star selection and third straight starting assignment; would become first AL first baseman with three consecutive fan elections since Hall of Famer Frank Thomas (1994-96).
- Yandy Díaz, Tampa Bay Rays (1,567,748): Vying for his first career All-Star appearance; would become the first Rays first baseman to win a fan election and just the second infielder in franchise history, joining third baseman Evan Longoria (2009-10).
Second Base
- Marcus Semien, Texas Rangers (1,943,085): Attempting to claim his second fan election in three seasons after making his first All-Star roster with the starting assignment in 2021 while with Toronto; would become the third Rangers second baseman to claim a starting assignment, joining Julio Franco (1989) and Alfonso Soriano (2004).
- Whit Merrifield, Toronto Blue Jays (1,030,308): Bidding for his third career All-Star selection (2019 and 2021) and his first fan-elected starting assignment; would become the second Blue Jays second baseman in three seasons to win a fan election following Semien’s election in 2021.
Third Base
- Josh Jung, Texas Rangers (1,243,366): Vying for first career All-Star appearance; would join Adrián Beltré as the only Rangers third basemen in team history to garner a fan election; would become the first Rangers rookie in history to earn a starting assignment, and just the second Rangers position player to make the All-Star team as a rookie, joining his teammate Adolis García (2021).
- Matt Chapman, Toronto Blue Jays (1,218,397): Seeking his second career All-Star nod (2019) and first start; would become the second Blue Jays third baseman to win a fan election, joining Josh Donaldson during his 2015 AL MVP-winning season.
Shortstop
- Bo Bichette, Toronto Blue Jays (2,101,523): An All-Star in 2021, would become Toronto’s first-ever shortstop to earn a fan-elected starting assignment.
- Corey Seager, Texas Rangers (1,287,023): A three-time All-Star (2016-17, 2022); would be the first Rangers shortstop to win a fan election since Alex Rodriguez claimed three straight (2001-03).
Outfield
- Aaron Judge, New York Yankees (2,095,328): Four-time All-Star bidding for his fifth starting assignment in six seasons; the 2022 overall leading vote-getter across baseball would become just the fourth Yankees player ever with at least five fan elections, joining Hall of Famers Derek Jeter (9) and Dave Winfield (7), as well as Alex Rodriguez (8).
- Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels (1,604,762): Bidding for his 11th All-Star selection and 10th starting assignment; would become just the fourth player in AL history to earn 10 fan elections with one club, joining Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr. (Baltimore, 17), George Brett (Kansas City, 11) and Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle, 10).
- Randy Arozarena, Tampa Bay Rays (1,564,098): Vying for his first career All-Star appearance; would become just the second Rays outfielder ever to receive a fan-elected start, joining Carl Crawford (2010).
- Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros (1,453,698): An All-Star in 2022, aiming for his first career starting assignment; would join former teammates George Springer (2017, 2019) and Michael Brantley (2019) as the only Astros outfielders to earn fan-elected starts since César Cedeño in 1973.
- Kevin Kiermaier, Toronto Blue Jays (960,953): Three-time Gold Glove award winner bidding for his first career All-Star nod.
- Adolis García, Texas Rangers (880,711): An All-Star as a rookie in 2021, competing for his first career starting assignment; would become the first Rangers outfielder to garner an election since Josh Hamilton in 2012.
National League
Catcher
- Sean Murphy, Atlanta Braves (1,930,694): In his first season with the Braves, seeking his first All-Star selection; would be just the third Braves backstop to win a fan election, joining Javy Lopez (2003) and Brian McCann (2011).
- Will Smith, Los Angeles Dodgers (1,139,905): Seeking first career All-Star selection; would become the third Dodgers catcher to earn a fan-elected starting assignment, joining Hall of Famer Mike Piazza (1994-97) and Russell Martin (2007).
First Base
- Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers (2,254,741): Aiming for his seventh All-Star bid overall; earned the start at three straight All-Star Games from 2018-21 (no game in 2020). A Dodgers first baseman has not won a fan election since Steve Garvey won seven straight from 1974-80.
- Matt Olson, Atlanta Braves (994,545): Bidding for his second career All-Star nod (2021) and first in the NL; would join Hall of Famer Hank Aaron (1973), Hall of Fame electee Fred McGriff (1995-96) and Freeman (2018-21) as Braves first basemen to earn a fan-elected start.
Second Base
- Luis Arraez, Miami Marlins (1,464,802): An AL All-Star in 2022 with Minnesota, would become the second straight Marlins player to win a fan election at second base, following teammate Jazz Chisholm Jr. last year. The 2022 AL batting champion is currently leading the majors with a .398 batting average.
- Ozzie Albies, Atlanta Braves (1,345,772): Seeking his third All-Star appearance (also 2018 and 2021) and first start; would join Marcus Giles (2003) and Dan Uggla (2012) as the only Braves second basemen in history to garner a fan election.
Third Base
- Nolan Arenado, St. Louis Cardinals (1,327,255): Trying for his eighth All-Star selection and fifth fan election; earned the start in four straight Midsummer Classics from 2017-21; would match David Wright for the second-most fan elections by an NL third baseman, behind only Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt (9).
- Austin Riley, Atlanta Braves (1,218,573): Seeking his second All-Star appearance (2022) and trying to become the third Braves third baseman to win a fan election, joining Terry Pendleton (1992) and Hall of Famer Chipper Jones (1998, 2000-01, 2008).
Shortstop
- Orlando Arcia, Atlanta Braves (1,675,037): Aiming for his first All-Star nod and to become just the second Atlanta shortstop to draw a fan-elected start, joining Walt Weiss (1998).
- Francisco Lindor, New York Mets (669,597): Four-time All-Star hoping for his first starting assignment and to become the third Mets shortstop to receive it, joining Bud Harrelson (1971) and Jose Reyes (2006-07, 2011).
Designated Hitter
- J.D. Martinez, Los Angeles Dodgers (1,153,927): Five-time All-Star in the AL, drew the start in 2018 at DH with Boston; would become just the second NL fan-elected designated hitter in history after DH voting was introduced in 2022.
- Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies (980,191): Aiming for his eighth All-Star bid and seventh starting assignment; claimed the starting DH spot at the 2022 Midsummer Classic; would join Hall of Famers Ozzie Smith (12), Tony Gwynn (11), Johnny Bench (10), Ryne Sandberg (9), Mike Schmidt (9), Joe Morgan (7) and Mike Piazza (7), as well as Barry Bonds (12) and Steve Garvey (7) as NL players to gain at least seven fan elections.
Outfield
- Mookie Betts, Los Angeles Dodgers (1,904,387): Vying for his seventh All-Star selection and fourth starting assignment, including his second straight with Los Angeles (also 2016 and 2018 in the AL with Boston); would become the first Dodgers outfielder to garner a fan-elected start in consecutive seasons since Matt Kemp in 2011-12.
- Corbin Carroll, Arizona Diamondbacks (1,053,815): Bidding for his first career All-Star appearance; would become the first D-backs rookie in history to earn a fan-elected start and would be just the second D-backs rookie ever, and first position player, to appear in the Midsummer Classic, joining Wade Miley (2012).
- Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Arizona Diamondbacks (844,362): Aiming for his first career All-Star nod, and along with Carroll, attempting to become the first D-backs outfielder to gain a starting assignment since Luis Gonzalez in 2001; either Gurriel Jr. or Carroll would become just the sixth D-backs player ever to earn a fan election, joining Paul Goldschmidt (2014-15), Jay Bell (1999), Gonzalez, Ketel Marte (2019) and Matt Williams (1999).
- Michael Harris II, Atlanta Braves (802,008): 2022 Jackie Robinson NL Rookie of the Year bidding for his first All-Star selection; with a fan election, would give the Braves two fan-elected starting outfielders for the first time since 1970, when Hall of Famer Hank Aaron and Rico Carty both earned fan elections. | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/all-star-game-finalists-set-lakeside-grad-corbin-carroll-voted-nl-finalist/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all | 2023-06-23 01:30:42 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/all-star-game-finalists-set-lakeside-grad-corbin-carroll-voted-nl-finalist/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
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